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1904135945London: John F. Shaw & Co. 1904. Large octavo pp. 3-4 5-160; 5-96 note: complete despite gap in pagination inserted chromolithograph frontispiece other illustrations some full-page in the text original pictorial bevel-edged red cloth stamped in green blue black and silver chromolithograph mounted on front cover endpaper ads. First edition. A collection of patriotic adventure fiction for boys mostly military exploits on land and at sea set in various parts of the British Empire. Authors include Gordon Stables Harold Bindloss Frank Savile and others. COPAC reports 3 copies. Mild damp stains to rear cover a bright very good copy. #135945 John F. Shaw & Co. unknown books
196388559New York: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation 1963. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Collects nine stories by Ray Bradbury Frederik Pohl Jerome Bixby Algis Budrys and others. Neat owner's name at upper right corner of first leaf touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips a near fine bright copy. #88559 A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation unknown books
196574595London: Corgi Books A Division of Transworld Publishers 1965. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corgi Books GN7272. Collects six stories by Matthew Gregory Lewis Ambrose Bierce Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne and Richard Middleton. Reginald 01359. Text block a trifle age-darkened cover edges lightly rubbed a near fine copy. #74595 Corgi Books A Division of Transworld Publishers unknown books
1956127596London: William Heinemann 1956. Octavo cloth. First edition. The first book in this series of anthologies. A collection of fifteen short stories. Some rubbing and staining along front hinge a very good copy in very good dust jacket with short closed tear at upper edge front panel and moderate soiling. #127596 William Heinemann unknown books
1991104220New York: Tor 1991. Octavo boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104220 Tor unknown books
19919535New York: Tor 1991. Octavo boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #9535 Tor unknown books
196488070New York: Belmont Books 1964. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 92-606. Collects seven stories by Philip K. Dick Frank Russell Poul Anderson and others. Reginald 09795. Touch of dust soiling to rear cover a bright nearly fine copy. #88070 Belmont Books unknown books
196594477New York: Belmont Books 1965. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick Lester del Rey Eric Frank Russell two selections Robert Silverberg M. C. Pease Frederik Pohl and George H. Smith. A fine copy. #94477 Belmont Books unknown books
196886530New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. Collects eight stories by the Strugatskys G. Gor Anatoly Dneprov and others. The U.S. edition adds an introduction by Judith Merril not present in the earlier 1966 British edition published by Macgibbon & Kee. Reginald 11215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #86530 Delacorte Press unknown books
1910113762London: Truth" Office 1910. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-244 original pictorial gray wrappers printed in red. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Paper wrappers dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #113762 Truth" Office unknown books
1927113763London: Truth Office 1927. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-164 165: ad 166: blank note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black pasted over stiff boards. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Covers dusty a very good copy. #113763 Truth Office unknown books
1901133470New York: McClure 1901. Small octavo pp. 1-10 11-164 165-168: blank note: last two leaves are blanks inserted frontispiece. title leaf and extra title leaf printed in orange and black original red cloth stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories by Marion Hill two contributions George Madden Martin G. K. Turner Ellisworth Kelley Louise Herrick Wall and Annie Webster. Smith Y-51. A very good copy. #133470 McClure unknown books
1924159645New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press 1924. Small octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-330 original cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of fifteen stories by Sherwood Anderson D. H. Lawrence Conrad Aiken Mary Butts A. E. Coppard Thomas Mann and others. Includes "The Gentleman from San Francisco" buy Ivan Bunin. A few leaves a bit wrinkled at lower front corner tips a very good copy. #159645 Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press unknown books
1901113147London: The Religious Tract Society 1901. Octavo pp. 1-4 56 7 8 9-332 note: title leaf is an inserted leaf conjugate with frontispiece both of which are included in the publisher's pagination 23 inserted plates including frontispiece original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gray black and gold. First edition. Nineteen short stories most with historical settings. "The Crimson Chamber" and "A Night in the Old Oak Chamber" are rationalized ghost stories. "The Forlorn Shop" is a novelette of crime. Free endpapers tanned preliminaries and fore-edge of text block foxed else a fine copy of a handsome book. #113147 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1908108335New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1908. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-ii iii-v vi-viii ix-x xi-xii 1-2 3-237 238 239-242: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks eight inserted plates original green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black color illustration affixed to front panel. First edition. The first half of this anthology prints short fiction extrapolating future naval battles fought with advanced weapons: "The Battle for the Pacific: Sorakichi-Prometheus" by Rowan Stevens "The Bombardment of the Golden Gate: How the Attack on San Francisco was Repulsed" by Yates Stirling Jr. "A Fight in the Fog: A Hard-won Victory" by Stirling "The Battle Off the Hook: How the North Atlantic Squadron Met the Enemy" by Stirling "Harry Borden's Naval Monster: A Ship of the Air" by William J. Henderson and "The Cruise of a Commerce Destroyer: How the 'Calabria' was Captured" by Stirling. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2092. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 724. Clarke Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 1992 p. 233. Bleiler 1978 p. 186. Reginald 00940. Smith American Fiction 1901-1908 B-357. Several stains to cloth mostly along top edges a very good copy in very good printed dust jacket with some shallow chipping at edges mostly spine ends and corner tips and some staining along top edges mostly rear panel. Rare in jacket. #108335 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
1916135947London: Jarrold & Sons 1916. Large octavo pp. 1-4 1-2 3-10 11-12 13-235 236 six inserted plates with color illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo other black & white illustrations in the text. original pictorial gray boards printed in red and black. First edition. A literary miscellany published for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. A very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket with chips from edges and large chip from rear panel. #135947 Jarrold & Sons unknown books
1928156896London: Published by Illustrated Newspapers 1928. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-192 original red cloth front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind. First edition. Brief accounts of mysterious and occult "happenings" selected from a series of "weird" narratives submitted by "responsible people in good faith" published in the TATLER. Bleiler 1948 p. 30. Owner's name and date "Xmas 1930" on front free endpaper. A bright very good or better copy. #156896 Published by Illustrated Newspapers unknown books
1936154891New York: The Telegraph Press 1936. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-224 note: first leaf is a blank original gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as MY GRIMMEST NIGHTMARE 1935. Original anthology with twenty-two stories by Cynthia Asquith Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen H. de Vere Stacpoole Noel Langley Theodora Benson and others. The stories in this collection were originally broadcast in 1934 on the BBC program "Nightmares" produced by Cecil Madden. The compilation of the volume is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Cynthia Asquith. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-1. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 59. Bleiler 1978 p. 12. Reginald 10548. A bright nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with mild rubbing at edges and just a touch of dust soiling. #154891 The Telegraph Press unknown books
1931151120London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1931. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-256 original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in red. First collected edition. 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 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. Bleiler 1978 p. 7. Reginald 05932. A clean very good copy. A scarce book. #151120 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. unknown books
1956104891London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1956. Octavo boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding science fiction set in the ancient world "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan. Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY 1958. According the Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 196-8 Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented" is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-78. Reginald 13447. Gekoski and Grogan B1a. Very slight spine lean mild dust soiling to top edge of text block else a fine copy in bright very good plus dust jacket with light edge wear light age-darkening to spine panel and extremities of flaps mostly internal but with some show through on flaps and dust soiling to rear panel. An elusive book. #104891 Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books
196813368Paris L'Avant Scene 1966-1968. 1968. First editions. Small 8vo. Text in French. Profusely illustrated. Dust jackets few small chips. Very good. 3 volumes. Essays on such personalities as Eisenstein Griffith Korda Laurel and Hardy Cocteau Melies Disney Sennett Stroheim etc. F. Hardcover. Paris, L'Avant Scene [1966-1968]. hardcover books
1973110004Carpinteria: Painted Cave 1973. First. hardcover. fine. Edited by Lee Mallory. With a Foreword by Kenneth Rextroth. 8vo linen. Painted Cave Books 1973. One of 85 numbered copies signed by Mallory and Rexroth.<br/><br/> Painted Cave unknown books
1942WRCLIT59189Norfolk: Poet of the Month/New Directions 1942. Boards. First edition issue in wrappers. Eliot Patchen Rilke Rossetti et al. Poet of the Month/New Directions hardcover books
1942WRCLIT20340Norfolk: Poet of the Month/New Directions 1942. Boards. First edition the less common issue in boards. Extremities quite faded as usual top edge dusty; redeemed by the publisher's dated review stamp "Dec 4 1942". Eliot Patchen Rilke Rossetti et al. $25. Poet of the Month/New Directions hardcover books
19851902Washington DC: NGS 1985. 1st ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/G 1" triangular piece msg fm lower edge of frnt panel - text no effected/soiling to back white panel. 199 pp Filled w/ colour illustrations Sm. 4to. <br/><br/> NGS hardcover books