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192731650Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1927. Text paper mildly tanned and supple light edge wear with tiny tears to yapp edges small tear to mid right front edge with tape repair to verso a very good to nearly fine copy. 31650. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Ray Cummings Seabury Quinn Marc R. Schorer and August Derleth Oscar Schisgall Robert E. Howard verse and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192931662Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge wear with covers trimmed a nearly fine copy. 31662. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn E. F. Benson Edmond Hamilton Robert E. Howard verse and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193632069Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1936. Slight tanning to text paper touch of wear to head of spine panel small closed tear to spine small crease to upper right front a bright fine copy. 32069. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by C. L. Moore Robert E. Howard "The Hour Dragon p. 3 - Conan Paul Ernst Theodore Tinsley and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193632272Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1936. Mild tanning to text paper mild rubbing to spine nick at lower spine small loss at base of spine clear tape around edges of verso of front panel which has darkened. A nearly fine copy. 32272. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard "Red Nails" p. 2 - Conan Edmond Hamilton G. G. Pendarves August Derleth and Mark Schorer Paul Ernst Doctor Satan and others. The announcement of Robert E. Howard's death is in this issue in "The Eyrie." Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192627639Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1926. Text paper tanned but supple edge wear chipped at upper right front corner now patched in upper 30 mm of spine missing with clear tape over entire spine clear tape to verso of front cover right edge some trimming to lower rear cover. A good to very good copy. 27639. Octavo single issue cover art by C. Barker Petrie Jr. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn E. Hoffman Price H. P. Lovecraft "The Cats of Ulthar" Eli Colter and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
189631358London: Dent 1896. 1st ed. Hardcover. Rackham Arthur. 1st ptg. 8vo full green pebbled cloth with pictorial gilt titling. The earliest book showing Rackham identified as illustrator on the title page and the first to display his classic style of fantastical illustration. Toning to endpapers else a fine bright interior. Dent hardcover
1930011104<p>New York: Coward McCann 1930 Orange cloth pictorially stamped in blue a few minuscule nicks from board edges previous owner's name else Fine and clean; color pictorial dust jacket with some darkening and tiny losses original price intact $3.50. An early printing bound in orange instead of blue but retaining the original design originally issued at $2.50. One of the Hader's most desirable titles. Their Picture Book of Mother Goose is illustrated on every page either in b&w or full color and printed on thick stock. First and early printings of this title are notoriously difficult to find in nice condition and almost never with a dust jacket and /or signed!. Signed by Illustrators. Early Edition. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Berta and Elmer Hader. Large Square 8vo.</p> Coward McCann hardcover
1847011072<p>Leipzig: Chez Baumgaertner 1847 1847 per institutional copies Gumuchian dates it at 1835. 6.5 x 4 inches 16.5 x 10 cm. 16 pgs. Yellow paper over boards titled in black ink some cover soil occasional light foxing offsetting opposite artwork. One in a series of books meant to teach young Germans how to read French. An abbreviated version of Perrault's tale in French with explanations of French idioms in German. Illustrated with brightly colored engravings. Some of the scenes depicted are quite violent and gruesome. Rare. Gumuchian 4454. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 16mo.</p> Chez Baumgaertner hardcover
193529036Chicago: Popular Publications 1935. Pages browning still supple mild wear along lower edge small chip to lower left corner small rub marks to front cover a very good copy. 29036. Octavo cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Arthur Leo Zagat Arthur J. Burks E. Hoffman Price and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 660-661. Popular Publications unknown
192831659Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1928. Text paper tanned but supple lower right corner chipped a nearly fine to fine copy. 31659. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by H. Warner Munn Edmond Hamilton August Derleth and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193332039Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1933. Mild tanning to text paper mild edge rubbing a fine copy. 32039. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Jack Williamson Carl Jacobi August Derleth and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192932054Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Mild tanning to text paper edge trimmed loss to lower quarter of spine paper and small loss to upper spine bright cover and spine a nearly fine copy. 32054. Octavo single issue cover art by Hugh Rankin pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Robert E. Howard "Skull-Face" conclusion Clark Ashton Smith verse E. F. Benson Gaston Leroux August Derleth and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193032267Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1930. Cream pages some tiny tears and minor creases to edges very strong color a nearly fine to fine copy. 32267. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by H. P. Lovecraft "The Fungi From Yoggoth" 1 & 2 - verse Frank Belknap Long Clark Ashton Smith Robert E. Howard verse Paul Ernst Ralph Milne Farley and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
182634041Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman Rees et al. 1826. 3 volumes. First Edition. With fine Scottish provenance being Ex-libris of the Bellfield Library Kilmarnock and James Buchanan merchant of Glencoe. With half-titles in each volume. 8vo handsomely bound in vellum over blue paper-covered boards with the publisher's original printed paper labels on the spines top edge gilt others untrimmed xvi 315; 332; 370 pp. A set in beautiful condition the text fresh and as pristine but for a bit of the typical mellowing or occasional age evidence. The bindings are sturdy and strong and show little wear or use a little bit of spotting from age to the bindings publisher's printed labels are fresh and very legible. Ownership signature of James Buchanan unobtrusively at top of the titlepage and stamp of the Bellfield Library on each title-page and occasionally at chapter openings no other markings within hard-to-see evidence of small circular shelf labels once being on the spine tops. FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE AND EXCELLENT WORK THIS SET IN UNCOMMONLY FINE AND WELL-PRESERVED CONDITION and with all half-titles as is often not the case. Sir Walter Scott was considered to be the inventor of the historical novel and the success of his Waverley series was immediate and long lasting throughout the English speaking world.<br> Set shortly after the English Civil War WOODSTOCK was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652 during the Commonwealth and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. David Hume's HISTORY OF ENGLAND gave Scott most of the historical background.<br> As with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 WOODSTOCK was published anonymously. Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Rees, et al. hardcover
193632072Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1936. Slight tanning to text paper clear tape to verso of edges of front cover with some darkening along the top edge. A bright just about fine copy with nice color. 32072. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard "The Hour Dragon conclusion - Conan Jack Williamson Carl Jacobi Robert Bloch and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193632075Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1936. Text paper tanned but supple slight edge wear a fine copy. 32075. Octavo single issue cover art by J. Allen St. John pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" H. P. Lovecraft "The Haunter of the Dark' Robert Bloch Amelia Reynolds Long Manly Wade Wellman Henry Kuttner and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
1982235301982. Four Transvestite Fiction Booklets containing reflections on gender trans identity self expression from 1982-1994 including story titles such as "Sissy in Satin" "Living Doll" "Jim into Jamie" "Trapped in Panties" and "My Husband Married Me To be a Woman." A first-person passage states that a transvestite needs "feedback from others" to understand "gait" "voice" and "other mannerisms" while "perfecting a gender role" placing social performance and self-assessment inside the language of everyday presentation. The group emerged during a period when queer and trans communities faced AIDS-era stigma homophobic public discourse and the lingering legal and social memory of anti-crossdressing enforcement in American cities. By 1980 defendants had challenged cross-dressing arrests in at least sixteen cities while the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic began in 1981 and intensified public hostility toward already stigmatized queer communities. These booklets preserve small-press fiction created for readers seeking transvestite crossdressing and transfeminine narratives outside mainstream publishing with fantasy plots gender transformation motifs and direct language about feminine identity appearing within the same print culture.<br /> <br /> Crossdressing and Transvestite Fiction Booklets. Seattle and s.l.: Empathy Press and unidentified publishers 1982 to 1994 and undated. Four staple-bound booklets each approximately 50 pages including two Empathy Press titles and two related transvestite or crossdressing fiction titles.<br /> 1 Slavik Charles. Skirted Men: Tales of Transvestism. Book 2. Seattle: Empathy Press 1982. The contents page lists "Sissy in Satin" beginning on page 4 with copyright credited to Charles Slavik and the publisher given as Empathy Press P.O. Box 12466 Seattle Washington 98111. Princeton cataloging identifies Charles Slavik as creator of another Empathy Press Skirted Men issue confirming the publisher's place within late twentieth-century LGBTQIA periodical and ephemera collecting.<br /> 2 TV Queens Fiction Digest. Number 23. Seattle: Empathy Press 1990. The contents page lists "Living Doll" "Jim into Jamie" and "Trapped in Panties" and the imprint invites readers to send material if they "enjoy writing and would like to see your fantasies in print." That solicitation places the digest within a participatory reader-writer circuit where fantasy manuscripts could move from private desire into small-run printed circulation.<br /> 3 Secret Pleasures: The Crossdressing Experience. Book 16. Seattle: Empathy Press 1994. The contents page gives the story title "My Husband Married Me To be a Woman" and the front cover identifies the work as "A Transvestite Fiction Fantasy." Gerber/Hart's transgender periodicals exhibit describes Cathy Charles Slavik's Empathy Press enterprise as evolving by the early 1970s into several concurrent trans-oriented magazines giving this later booklet a connection to a publisher with a longer transvestite and trans readership history.<br /> 4 Silky Slip-Ups. S.l.: s.n. undated. The cover caption reads "Coming out. Caught out. Found out. BUT EVENTUAL ECSTACY" using discovery exposure and eventual pleasure as the narrative promise. The cover art and title align the booklet with forced-feminization and crossdressing fiction conventions described in trans small-press fiction where many plots turn on coerced dressing transformation or power exchange.<br /> <br /> The booklets use the historical vocabulary of "transvestism" "crossdressing" "feminine identity" and "gender role" before "transgender" became the dominant umbrella term in many public and archival contexts. Their contents connect erotic fantasy to questions of passing social recognition voice gait coming out exposure and reader participation making the group especially useful for tracing how trans and crossdressing readers articulated identity through small-format fiction during the 1980s and 1990s. All four booklets are in very good condition with intact spines minor price-sticker residue light discoloration and handling wear to the covers. The group preserves an early small-press record of transvestite and crossdressing fiction made around the desires anxieties vocabulary and self-fashioning practices of its own readership. unknown
1954232401954. African American Comics The first Black hero in Marvel Comics publishing history in Jungle Tales nos. 1 5 and 7. These issues date from a 1954-1955 run in which Atlas Comics the label that developed into Marvel Comics featuring one of the earliest Black lead features in American mainstream comics Waku: Prince of the Bantu. Marvel has identified Waku as the first regular Black lead character in its publishing history and these issues give the character cover billing and stories including "Fire Spirit" "Blood Brother to the Lions!" and "Trial by Fire!" alongside recurring Jann of the Jungle features such as "Rampage!" "Jungle Fangs!" and "Swamp Fever!". Jungle Tales ran for seven issues from September 1954 to September 1955 with numbering then continuing as Jann of the Jungle no. 8. <br /> Jungle Tales. New York: Classic Syndicate Inc. for Atlas Comics 1954-1955. Group of 3 issues: vol. 1 no. 1 September 1954; vol. 1 no. 5 May 1955; vol. 1 no. 7 September 1955. Each issue retains its original pictorial wrappers with full-color covers and newsprint interiors; contents across the group include Waku Prince of the Bantu Jann of the Jungle Cliff Mason White Hunter and The Unknown Jungle.<br /> 1 Jungle Tales. Vol. 1 no. 1. New York: Classic Syndicate Inc. September 1954. First issue of the series with a red cover introducing the title and cover panels for Cliff Mason Jann of the Jungle Waku Prince of the Bantu and The Unknown Jungle. The Waku feature is titled "Fire Spirit." His story opens with the death of Chief Kaba whose final command binds his son to the jungle's fire spirit and forces Waku into exile rather than immediate succession. Waku kills the wild bull marauding the village learns that the hunter Mabu has profited by sending white hunters after elephant herds and returns when Kaba's spirit releases him from his vow ending with Waku restored as leader of the Bantu beside Lalei.<br /> 2 Jungle Tales. Vol. 1 no. 5. New York: Classic Syndicate Inc. May 1955. Yellow cover with five-panel layout and the Comics Code Authority seal naming Jann of the Jungle Cliff Mason White Hunter Waku Prince of the Bantu and The Unknown Jungle. The Waku feature "Blood Brother to the Lions!" begins with h is defeat of Naru for leadership but the dispute continues when Kom drives Waku into the jungle and Lalei follows him into danger. Waku enters a lion enclosure to save Naru fights through fire gorilla attack and jungle beasts and returns on the backs of lions prompting Naru to yield leadership and call him "blood brother to all things of the jungle."<br /> <br /> 3 Jungle Tales. Vol. 1 no. 7. New York: Classic Syndicate Inc. September 1955. Final issue of the title before continuation as Jann of the Jungle no. 8 with a yellow cover again foregrounding the anthology's principal features. The Waku story "Trial by Fire!" centers on Kojii's challenge to his rule: Kojii seizes Lalei demands that Waku surrender the Bantu throne and draws him into the mountain sanctuary of the monkey people. Waku escapes captivity survives the monkey assault defeats Kojii in the trial by fire and the story closes with Lalei and the great bird carrying the Bantu out of the flames while Kojii acknowledges that Waku remains the true ruler.<br /> These issues preserve a short-lived title in which a Black hero regarded by some as a direct predecessor to the later Marvel superhero Black Panther carried a recurring feature and cover representation in a mainstream American comic. Front and back wrappers on vol. 1 no. 1 fully detached; some light toning and edge wear consistent with age and handling across the group otherwise good. Overall fair to good condition. A three-issue group of Jungle Tales featuring the earliest appearance of Waku Prince of the Bantu the first Black hero in Marvel's publishing history. unknown
1895830091895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. FABLES CHOISES DE FLORIAN. The first volume only. Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion; Tokyo: Shueisha Meiji 28 1895. Fukuro toji cord-bound in printed paper covers. This first volume is 26.6 X 19.8 cm with 14 full page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu and Kajita Hanko. #167 of 200 from a deluxe edition on Japanese hosho paper. Covers soiled and a bit edgeworn one cvorner chipped. The contents are very good and the impressions and colors are quite lovely. This work despite its French text may be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese ehon and it shares many characteristics of the revival of picture book printing in mid to late Meiji demonstrated by other works: an emerging Nihonga style skilled printed increasingly restrained coloration etc. In that context the large scale of its illustrations renders it particularly interesting. The first volume only of two. unknown
190861Tokyo: late-19th century. A colourful Meiji-period edition depicting a traditional fairy tale of a villainous tanuki racoon dog being defeated by a heroic rabbit. The story originated in the 16th century and remains popular to this day. It became especially widespread in the late 19th century as a moral tale targeted at young children. Kachi-kachi yama opens with an old man capturing a tanuki a well-known trickster. The animal is released by the old man's wife but then goes on to kill her. In revenge a friendly rabbit plays three increasingly violent pranks on the tanuki including setting fire to a bundle of sticks it was carrying while climbing a mountain. The story ends with the rabbit returning to the old man who is grateful for the help. Duodecimo concertina-style 118 x 89 mm. With 12 colour woodblock prints; text in classical Japanese. Original light brown cloth boards manuscript paper label on front board black speckled front panels. Housed in modern blue cloth folding case. Remains of old shelf label on rear board. Contents bright: a fine copy. hardcover
18992221708<p>ORIGINAL 14 PARTS</p><p>First edition in the original 14 parts. 11" x 8 1/2" circa 400 b/w illustrations by Lemercier and Helen Stratton who gets sole credit on the title page. Original stitched green pictorial wrappers. Part 14 with half title title page contents and list of illustrations 320 pages. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing; signs of handling and some light foxing. Scarce.</p><p>Printed by Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works.</p><p>Some illustrations in first two parts are signed "Lemercier" in the plate.</p> George Newnes paperback
120902Odesa 'Ukrains'ka knyzhka' 1919. . First edition 16mo 17.7 x 11 cm; contemporary ink ownership inscription to p.3; original printed wrappers ink inscriptions to upper and lower wrappers stain to spine and guttersmore so to preliminary leaves a good copy.<br /> A scarce collection of seven Ukrainian folk tales published in independent Ukraine.<br /><br />The publisher 'Ukrains'ka Knyzhka' was based in Lviv and was active during 1917-1922. Founded by Antin Krushel'nyts'kyi 1878 - 1937 editor publisher teacher short-term minister of education and as many Ukrainian officials executed by Bolsheviks. They produced books in a number of cities printing literature and textbooks in Ukrainian for primary schools and children. There was a huge demand for learning material in Ukrainian after decades of prohibition and the number of books published in the native language far outweighed those in Russian in 1918. Not found in WorldCat.<br /> Odesa, 'Ukrains'ka knyzhka', 1919. unknown
1904010920<p>Boston: Old Corner Book Store 1904 464 pgs. Beige cloth pictorially stamped in color on all panels mild surface rubbing light shelf wear overall a lovely clean copy. Originally published in this format in 1900 but this edition replaces the pictorial endpapers with plain all else is identical. Illustrated with a color frontis & title page the balance in b&w as full- and partial-page plus chapter heads and decorations. All iterations of Rackham's Grimm fairy tales are elusive. This one is made even more special by an autograph letter signed by Rackham addressed to Canadian author Howard Angus Kennedy declining an invite to a party held by the Candian Author's Association. Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Thick 8vo.</p> Old Corner Book Store hardcover
192732053Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1927. Mild tanning to text paper crease to lower edge slight edge wear and some edge trims a fine copy. 32053. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn H. P. Lovecraft "The White Ship" Edmond Hamilton Eli Colter and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192419001TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated March 28th 1924 on RURAL PUBLISHING CORP. stationery to author and famous member of the Lovecraftian Circle Frank Belknap Long about 375 words stating that Long's story THE DESERT LICH has unfortuantely been delayed as it was decided that one man namely Edust-wrapper in Baird could not possibly have the time to be editor for WEIRD TALES DETECTIVE TALES and their new venture GHOST STORIES and thus he "will assume the editorial helm of WEIRD TALES & GHOST STORIES" that he has "read several thousand manuscripts when he was a reader for Baird and that he knows the thrill that comes of discovering a distinctively written story" that he "wishes to use DESERT LICH Long's accepted tale in the combination summer issue for June July & August which we are making triple size and putting out to clear the deck for the issuance of GHOST STORIES" "that their rates are not yet as high he would like them to be and that by summer he hopes we can pay on a pay on acceptance basis" and that "Our rates at present are one cent a word". He finishes with these plaudits for Lovecraft: "Please thank Mr. Lovecraft for me for turning THE DESET LlICH our way. And I want to thank you also for telling me of other Lovecraft stories that I have not yet seen. I would as soon think of changing a line or a word or a title of Mr. Lovecrat's work as I would rewriting an Edgar Allen Poe story. He is to my way of thinking the supreme master of weird tales whose mastery is not accidental but the result of careful and directed thought. So far I have seen Mr. Lovecraft's works only in print for I have not had the thrill of reading them in manuscript. I have not even read HYPNOS but I am looking forward to reading the page proofs of the May Weird Tales which contains the story. But those that I have read in the magazine-----THE HOUND THE RATS IN THE WALL DAGON----are marvels of writercraft." Letters from Wright the acknowledged foremost editor of Weird Tales are notoriously scarce and I know of none earlier. They rarely surface on the market place. Indeed letters with a full strong signature of Wright are rarer still as he was virtually unable to sign anything due to Parkinsons disease by 1930. So here's your chance to snatch a piece of history from one major player in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and Weird Tales specifically to another. The earliest letter I have seen by Farnsworth Wright. N.p. unknown
