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199119061THE COMPLETE MASTERS OF DARKNESS Underwood & Miller 1991 first edition as new in like full color full wrap-around pictorial dust-wrapper and clamshell box. Edited by Dennis Etchison with contributions by Stephen King Dean R Koontz James Herbert Clive Barker Robert Bloch Ray Bradbury Fritz Leiber Manly Wade Wellman Jack Vance Richard Matheson Brian Lumley Chelsea Quinn Yarbro William F Nolan Karl Edust-wrapper ard Wagner Edust-wrapper ard Bryant Avram Davidson George R. R. Martin L. Sprague de Camp Jack Williamson Ramsey Campbell Joe Haldeman David Morrell Frank Belknap Long William Nolan Kate Wilhelm Whitley Strieber Joyce Caol Oates et.al. 1/350 copies SIGNED by the contributors. Underwood & Miller unknown
196211684THE HUGO WINNERS Doubleday 1962 first edition fine in like dust-wrapper. Contributions by Poul Anderson Eric Frank Russell Robert Bloch Walter M. Miller Daniel Keyes Arthur C. Clarke Murray Leinster Clifford Simak & Avram Davidson. A curiously uncommon book to locate in first edition. Doubleday unknown
1934mon0000214174Victor Gollancz London 1934-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex library book usual markings and first non text page removed. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable. Victor Gollancz London paperback
1962ABE-9488819608Odhams London 1962 A superb three volume set in its original slipcase. This is a most satisfying set with the great man's life work and paintings given due coverage. Inimitable prose style which reveals the qualities that earned him the Nobel Prize. Each volume has been beautifully looked after. A handsome set and a fitting reminder of a great historical figure. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Odhams London hardcover
195983284Portland: Portland Art Museum 1959. First editions. Eight flyers each folded three times vertically 10 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches closed. All near fine or better with a bit of discoloration to the upper corner of the Kizer volume and some toning to Stafford. The eight poets are John Haislip Carol Hall Kenneth O. Hanson Robert Huff Richard Hugo Carolyn Kizer William Stafford and David Wagoner each contributing a selection of poems with a cover image by a visual artist in the show “Paintings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.†For the collection: Portland: Portland Art Museum unknown
195014082ASSOCIATION COPY 1/11 SUCH MEN AGAINST THE STARS Gnome Press 1950 first edition some soiling / age toning to the t.p.e.'s and fore edge else vg/near fine in very fine Edd Cartier pictorial dust-wrapper. Contains contributions by Isaac Asimov Hal Clement L. Ron Hubbard Murray Leinster E. Mayne Hull Lewis Padgett A. E. Van Vogt Manly Wade Wellman et.al. as well as the first appearance in print of any portion of THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY in book form by Isaac Asimov. Formerly science fiction writer Hal Clements copy who here supplies one of the contributions: COLD FRONT. 1/11 such copies association copes. Gnome Press unknown
1930ARC92936Country Life Ltd. London 1930. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by both the editor and illustrator this being #24. 4to. xix 168pp. White buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with an ornate gilt-stamped border. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and twenty-three delightful plates each with tissue guards present this deluxe issue included an additional signed etching but alas that is not present here. A penny-sized area of light staining to the backstrip and just a touch of marking to the cloth at the rear board. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper called for but lacking the original solander box and of course the additional etching. A handsome anthology of angling extracts featuring works by William Barnes Edmund Blunden George Borrow Rupert Brooke Robert Browning John Buchan W.H.Davies Walter de la Mare George Eliot Sir J.W.Fortescue Thomas Hardy W.H.Hudson Richard Jefferies James Joyce Charles Kingsley Andrew Lang Robert Nichols Francis Thompson Henry David Thoreau Izaak Walton and many others. Country Life Ltd., London Hardcover
195519050SCIENCE FICTION TERROR TALES Gnome Press 1955 first edition save for tanning to the text block as is the case in every copy fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Contributions by Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Phil Dick Robert Heinlein Fredric Brown Richard Matheson Theodore Sturgeon Anthony Boucher Murray Leinster Chad Oliver Robert Sheckley et.al. Among the most difficult Gnome Press titles to locate. Gnome Press unknown
193514743TERROR BY NIGHT Selwyn & Blount 1935 first edition vg in near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. #10 of the Not At Night Series and allegedly the scarcest. Contains work by: Robert E. Howard first book appearance of a Conan tale "Rogues in the House" August Derleth Marie Elizabeth Counselman Hugh Cave et.al. Selwyn & Blount unknown
193414744POWERS OF DARKNESS Philip Allan 1934 first edition vg in bright attractive first issue dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and inner rein-forcement. Contains the first book appearance of Dunsany's Queens Quorum classic TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH as well as the works of Thorndyke Turner et.al. #6 in the Creeps series. Philip Allan unknown
195118267TRAVELERS OF SPACE Gnome Press 1951 first edition corner tips with very very tiny bumps else fine in just about fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with just a bit of rubbing to the front cover and dust-wrapper spine and a quite tiny chip to the base of the spine. Inscribed by Greenberg. The wonderful 16 pages of full color Cartier aliens appear without any wear whatsoever. Gnome Press unknown
1997636505Michigan State University Press 1997. Limited Edition. Leather Binding. Fine. One of 25 Author Copies 'hors commerce' this being #8 and is signed by Harrison Gerber and Bednarik. Quarter brown leather over green paper boards with gilt titles and decorations. A Fine copy. Contributions by: Charles Simic Paul Blackburn Hayden Carruth Ezra Pound Jim Harrison Adrienne Rich Galway Kinnell Gary Snyder James Tate Gabriel Garcia Lorca Tim Welch Rothenberg Gerber Diane Wakowski Denise Levertov William Kittredge et.al. Michigan State University Press unknown
1972ANTHOLOG008477The Globe Playhouse Trust Publications London. 1972. First edition. Octavo. 63 pages. Quarter leather decorated gilt cloth. Three page Introduction by Christopher Hampton. W.H. Auden Bob Cobbing Robert Graves Jeni Couzyn Stephen Spender Peter Redgrove Norman MacCaig Vernon Scannell C. Day Lewis George Barker Dannie Abse Adrian Mitchell and Peter Porter each contribute one poem. Each contribution is preceded by a black and white photograph of the respective author together with short biographical details. All edges gilt.Contributor's copy: one of 100 numbered and specially bound copies signed by the contributors but not by the editor. This is Dannie Abse's copy with loosely inserted a short typed letter from the publisher presenting the book to him.Slight rubbing at head of spine otherwise fine in very good indeed partially faded cloth slipcase. The Globe Playhouse Trust Publications, London. hardcover
199712074SUMAC READER MSU Press 1997 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/26 lettered copies bound in half leather and SIGNED by Jim Harrison Dan Gerber & Joseph Bednarik. Contributions by: Charles Simic Paul Blackburn Hayden Carruth Ezra Pound Jim Harrison Adrienne Rich Galway Kinnell Gary Snyder James Tate Gabriel Garcia Lorca Tim Welch Rothenberg Gerber Diane Wakowski Denise Levertov William Kittredge et.al. MSU Press hardcover
1925GAM286William Heinemann London 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. This copy signed by Betjeman twice once on the front free endpaper alongside a note of his correction and again at the base of his contribution on page 26 this leaf also exhibits a single minor correction in his hand. 8vo. viii 40pp. Paper-covered boards with a tanned and lightly chipped paper spine label. The boards rubbed at the corner tips and extremities and a little blemished in places. Some spotting throughout mostly confined to the margins and one text leaf detached and laid-in. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown above which is a contemporary former owner name and date. A good copy most uncommon with Betjeman's signature. No dust wrapper almost certainly as issued. Betjeman contributes his poem 'The Song of a Cold Wind' which was originally printed anonymously in 'The Marlburian' a year earlier and here marks the poet's very first appearance in bookform. The fifth volume of this Public School Verse anthology series here featuring twenty-nine poems by seventeen authors. William Heinemann, London Hardcover
1901355490716449London: Methuen 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Includes stories by H.D. Lowry W. Clark Russell W.E. Norris Grant Allen W. Beer L.Cope Cornford Beatrice O'Connor Martin Ross Frank Hird Lettice Galbraith Mrs Fleming F.C. Philips H.B. Marriott-Watson Hamlin Garland Francis Prevost Clara Savile-Clarke. 309 pages. plus publisher's catalogue dated March 1901. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettering in gilt a series of fine borders to spine and front cover in red top edge trimmed fore and lower edges uncut light rubbing to top/lower spine edges corners of boards rubbed slight mark to rear cover end-papers very lightly tanned else a Very Good copy. An Edwardian collection of short stories which includes weird and mystery stories. Very scarce. From the collection of the late and greatly-missed Bob Adey. Methuen hardcover
196822798<p>Patchen Homage Anthology. The Outsider 4 & 5: Embracing a 46-Page Homage to Patchen. With pressed flower from near Geronimo's grave. Tucson: Loujon Press 1968/69. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Very Good plus example of the uncommon dust jacket with foxing to spine. This is one of only 500 copies issued. The Loujon Press was an avant-garde publisher operating during the 1960s in New Orleans. Combining art prose and poetry and using a labor-intensive old-fashioned letter press Jon and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb published the now-famous literary journal The Outsider as well as books. The Outsider was a critical success almost from the very start making a remarkable impact in the literary landscape of the twentieth century and helping to usher in a whole new style and energy of modern writing. Outsider 4&5 was the last issue of the unique magaine Loujon Press issued. </p> Loujon Press, hardcover
196703379DANGEROUS VISIONS Doubleday 1967 first edition some lightening to the gutters between the end-papers and paste-downs as is often the case with this volume else just about fine and bright in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. The major original '60's anthology with contributions by Isaac Asimov Robert Silverberg Frederik Pohl Philip Farmer Robert Bloch Harlan Ellison Brian Aldiss Philip K. Dick Larry Niven Fritz Leiber Damon Knight Theodore Sturgeon John Sladek R.A. Lafferty James Ballard John Brunner Roger Zelazny Samuel Delany et.al. Inscribed by the editor/ author to esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn. Doubleday unknown
195616081SPACE POLICE World 1956 first edition a bright tight fine copy in like bright 4 color Virgil Finlay dust-wrapper with some light wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Contributions by: H. Beam Piper Jack Vance James Schmitz L. Ron Hubbard James Blish et.al. World unknown
193125043London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. n.d. 1931. First collected edition. Small bookstore label affixed to lower front paste down penciled name and address to verso of front free end paper pages age darkening with some foxing to first few leaves a very good or better copy in a good pictorial dust jacket with chipping to corners chip to lower front panel and lower left front corner head of spine chipped at corners affecting the GH in GHOST cut out to center of spine panel where the price was printed. An uncommon book the jacket is scarce. 25043. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-256 original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in orange. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES 1916 and MORE UNCANNY STORIES 1918 which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also a death premonition story by Theo. Douglas Mrs. H. D. Everett. Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. Reference: Bleiler 1978 p. 7. Reginald 05932. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d. unknown
19983394LIBRARY OF AMERICA. NY 1998. Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Two volumes. Fine in plain tan printed wrappers. B . LIBRARY OF AMERICA. NY 1998 paperback
192412076ET CETERA -A COLLECTORS SCRAP-BOOK Pascal Covici 1924 first edition fine in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Previous uncollected works by such luminaries as: Richard Aldington W.C. Bryant Stephen Crane Floyd Dell Ernest Dowson Lord Dunsany Lafcadio Hearn Joseph Hergesheimer Martin Hewlett Laurence Housman Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lang Arthur Machen Gustav Meyrink Richard Middleton George Moore W. C. Russell Edgar Saltus Carl Van Vechten Walt Whitman & others. 1/625 copies. Pascal Covici unknown
195015129MEN AGAINST THE STARS Gnome Press 1950 first edition upper front fore edge corner tip ever so slightly bumped some light dust-soil to the t.p.e.'s else fine in a very fine Edd Cartier pictorial dust-wrapper. Contains contributions by Isaac Asimov Hal Clement L. Ron Hubbard Murray Leinster E. Mayne Hull Lewis Padgett A. E. Van Vogt Manly Wade Wellman et.al. as well as the first appearance in print of any portion of THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY in book form by Isaac Asimov. Gnome Press unknown
195016105THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION Crown 1950 first edition just about fine in like dust-wrapper with a faded dust-wrapper spine with easily readable text Contributions by Miles Breuer Lewis Padgett Murray Leinster Mack Reynolds Ted Sturgeon Eric Frank Russell Fletcher Pratt Lester Del Rey Clifford Simak Fred Brown Jules Verne H. L. Gold Ray Bradbury John D. MacDonald Fritz Leiber Cyril Kornbluth Damon Knight et.al. Crown unknown
192714763THE GHOST BOOK Scribners 1927 first American edition a bright vg/near fine copy in pictorial cloth in a near vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear chipping and dust-soiling the latter mostly to the dust-wrapper spine. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. Contributions by Hugh Walpole May Sinclair Walter De La Mare Mrs. Belloc Lowndes D. H. Lawrence L. P. Hartley Enid Bagnold Algernon Blackwood Oliver Onions Arthur Machen Mary Webb et.al. Scribners hardcover
