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19130041571913 Paris, Hachette, sans date [1913]. Grand in-quarto (242 X 298 mm) vélin ivoire relié à la Bradel, dos lisse orné d'un fleuron et d'un fer doré représentant un chat d'après Rackham, titre doré, nom de l'éditeur en queue, titre doré sur le premier plat avec un grand fer doré représentant un pélican stylisé d'après Rackham, tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (1) f. blanc, frontispice, 38 pages, (1) f., 43 planches, (1) f., (1) f. blanc. Lacets de fermeture manquants.
1936007846Novara Italy: Officine Dell'istituto Geografico De Agostini 1936. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. Small 4to. RARE. First and only edition of this children's alphabet book published specifically for Italian children living abroad intended to indoctrinate them in the strength and glories of Mussolini's Fascist government. Very Good foxing to blank paste downs boards rubbed at edges. Foreword by Piero Parini director for the Fascist flagship newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and coordinator of Fascist organizations of the Italian diaspora. 88 pp. With striking modernist and cubist-inspired full-color illustrations every page by the poster artist C.V. Testi and poems by Vincenzo Fraschetti. RARE given the intended audience and the postwar drive to eliminate Fascist material especially from librairies. Worldcat shows 3 institutional holdings 2 in the US and 1 in Germany. Officine Dell'istituto Geografico De Agostini, Hardcover
195015817ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY & BEYOND THIS HORIZON CORRESPONDENCE FILE being 4 Fantasy Press checks SIGNED by Lloyd Eshbasch to Lurton Blassingame Heinlein's agent 2 each for ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY & BEYOND THIS HORIZON; a TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated 6/27/1983 being about 140 words from Eshbach to Heinlein concerning permission to quote from OF WORLDS BEYOND the purchasing and/or reading of EXPANDED UNIVERSE & FRIDAY the sending of a copy of "Doc" Smiths SUBSPACE EXPLORER for Heinlein's comments etc.; a typed letter carbon dated 6/29/1979 being about 130 words from Eshbach to Heinlein concerning the sending of a Heinlein genealogy the marvelous development of science fiction stating that both he and Asimov "are sitting on top of the world" that his Eshbach's wife died and that he has started writing SF again "studying Heinlein of course to see how it should be done"; a typed letter carbon dated 12/19/1955 being about 110 words from Eshbach to Heinlein's agent Lurton Blassingame regarding royalty payments for ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY; a typed letter carbon dated 11/22/1954 being about 200 words from Eshbach to Truman Talley of New American Library apologizing for not providing publicity material and reviews for ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY because he did not have any of the former while the latter were not any good mentioning that the sales figures show that NAL's sales of this title appear to be fine without his help that now the paperback is out he expects to hear from Heinlein shortly regarding additional royalty payments asking if he Talley is interested in seeing a terrific manuscript he just received from George O. Smith tentatively entitled DESIGN FOR DOOM etc.; a TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated 10/12/1953 being about 90 words from Truman Talley of New American Library to Eshbach asking about the receipt of copies of the Fantasy Press edition of ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY as well as looking forward to seeing the manuscript for Murray Leinster's OPERATION: OUTER SPACE; a TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated 4/13/1974 being about 100 words from Virginia Heinlein to Eshbach on her husband's stationary thanking him for payment covering sales of OF WORLDS BEYOND mentioning that they are looking forward to seeing the Dobson edition that they have had to sue Dobson several times in English court to collect royalties due that her husband is happy to know that he Eshbach enjoyed reading CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY; 3 typed letters SIGNED dated 11/14/1955 3/7/1966 & 10/23/1976 respectively each being about 80 words from Lurton Blassingame to Lloyd Eshbach concerning royalty payments of both ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY & BEYOND THIS HORIZON; a royalty statement dated 6/30/1955 from New American Library detailing payment to Fantasy Press of 1¢ a copy for their paperback publication of ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY; 2 typed letters SIGNED dated 10/29/1954 & 11/23/1954 respectively each being about 40 words from Neenah Burgess & Richard Koenig of New American Library regarding the sending of 12 copies of their paperback edition of ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY as well as forwarding a payment of $1000 to cover the royalty advance; 2 other minor pieces. FANTASY PRESS paperback
9 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); original olive buckram, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips faded (but gilt just legible) else a very good, bright, clean, crisp set. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED SETS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN FIRST VOLUME . A further 500 numbered sets were produced for sale in the US. The definitive edition of Machen's works. The set comprises Vol. I: The Great God Pan, The Inmost Light, The Red Hand; Vol. II: The Three Imposters; Vol. III: The Hill of Dreams; Vol. IV: The Secret Glory; Vol. V: Hieroglyphics; Vol. VI: A Fragment of Life, The White People; Vol. VII: The Terror, The Bowmen, The Great Return; Vol. VIII: Far Off Things; Vol. IX: Things Near and Far. NCBEL IV, p.645.
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, 35 fine coloured plates and grey endpapers; pictorial boards, buckram backs lettered in silver, a fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. One of the best-loved and most highly regarded children's sequences of the late twentieth century, Susan Cooper's pentalogy was first published between 1965 and 1977. Here each volume benefits from a new preface by the author. COMPLETE SETS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
1870008770Boston: Roberts Brothers 1870. 341 pages with 10 pages publisher's ads price for the 2 volume Little Women set at terminal page $3.00. Title page states "with iIllustrations" and dated 1870 copyright page dated 1868. In terra cotta cloth with gilt vignette front cover and spine. dark brown end papers. Frontispiece illustration and 3 illustrations in text. Good cloth torn at rear hinge cloth worn at corners and edges end papers chipped at cotners and small edge tears scattered toning throughout faint prior owner name in pencil front brown end page dated 1871. Nonetheless a complete early printing of part I of this enduring and endearing classic. . Later Printing. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Roberts Brothers Hardcover books
197016203JLos Angeles circa 1970s. Original Saturn Award Statue from the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films. Made of heavy cast metal in the design of the planet Saturn with its rings the award also has a resemblance to a flying saucer. This is an early anonymous Saturn Award with an aged and flaked gold finish which has a nice vintage look. It is about 10 inches tall and 6 1/2 inches wide at the ring. The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films is an American non-profit organization established in 1972 dedicated to the advancement of science fiction fantasy and horror in film television and home video. The Academy is headquartered in Los Angeles California and was founded by Dr. Donald A. Reed. The Academy distributes its Saturn Awards annually to the best films of the genres. The list of winners and honorees is extensive with Saturn Awards having been presented to such figures as Ray Bradbury Gene Roddenberry Fritz Lang Gloria Swanson Steven Spielberg George Lucas Vincent Price Nichelle Nichols Bryan Cranston J.J. Abrams Christopher Nolan Ryan Coogler John Barrowman Jeff Ross James Cameron David Lynch Billy Wilder Christopher Lee Guillermo del Toro Burgess Meredith William Shatner John Williams George Burns Dean Devlin Gale Anne Hurd William Katt Richard Donner Michael Biehn Dino DeLaurentiis Arnold Schwarzenneger Bryan Fuller Yvette Nichole Brown Vincent Price Elsa Lanchester Peter Jackson Dario Argento Jeff Bridges Patrick Stewart Bruce Campbell KJ Apa Chloe Grace Moretz Mark Hamill Sarah Michelle Gellar Timothee Chalamet Andrew Lincoln Kirsten Dunst Mel Brooks Billy Dee Williams David Hedison Leonard Nimoy etc. unknown books
199838962New York New York U.S.A.: Scholastic Press 1998. 1st US . Hardcover. As New/As New. Grandpre Mary. 1st US Larger book fine green cloth spine dark blue boards with diamond pattern bright silver lettering on spine red inside covers and adjacent end papers 341 pages. DJ heavy paper colorful illustration of Harry with phoenix. DJ beneath mylar and book both As New. <br/> <br/> Scholastic Press hardcover
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary bdg. covered a special jade paper branded "siguntin". Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [2], 239 p. Decorated title page with traditional motives, framed text, slight foxing on pages, and bumped backboard. Overall a very good copy. Very early edition (second) of this exceedingly rare "unique work of fiction blending personal and fantastic themes, well in the current of the traditional Ottoman prose, but also exhibiting influences from Western literature". This book has been described by some literary historians as the first Turkish fantastic work in the Western sense. Consisting of three parts and written in a laconic style contrasting with its content, where djinns and fairies surge from within contexts drawn from ordinary real-life situations, Ali Aziz Efendi often pursues by pulling the reader towards the description of magic and extraordinary occurrences. Inspired by a much older story written both in Arabic and Assyrian, the author also displays in his work his deep knowledge of Sufism, Hurufism, and Bektashi traditions. Muhayyelât is considered to be an early precursor of the new Turkish literature to emerge in the Tanzimat period of the 19th century. It also influenced Tanzimat [i.e. Reform] literature directly when the manuscript was printed in 1867 and became a very popular book of the time. His work is re-discovered by Turkey's reading public rather recently and is increasingly admitted as a classic. Ali Aziz Efendi also wrote further and shorter works of prose, which present as complementary extensions to Muhayyelât, as well as some poetry, and kept a correspondence with a number of notable figures of his time, both Ottoman and Western. He is also cited for a short sefâretnâme [i.e. book of the embassy] he wrote relating his introduction to his mission as the ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Prussia. Giridî [or Giritli] Aziz Efendi was born in Kandiye (Crete) as the son of Tahmisçi Mehmed Efendi, who was the defterdar of the Crete Eyalet, in 1749. The details of his life are rather sparse and scattered. He rose through the Ottoman hierarchy and was sent as ambassador to Prussia in 1796 and he died in Berlin in 1798. His burial marked also the opening of the first Turkish or Muslim cemetery in Berlin. Özege 14148/2.; TBTK 3054.; OCLC locates three copies of this edition, only one of them in the US libraries (McGill University).
1970653301970. Very Good. Barr's rendering of the monument by Torleif S. Knaphus. 17 inches by 11 inches. Drawn on paper mounted to thick card stock. Signed by George Barr in the bottom right corner. Small stain along with some barely perceptible damp staining to bottom edge; corners gently bumped. On the reverse: light soiling; tape residue along the edges; a previous owner's inscription and dedication. George Barr's rendering of the Mormon Handcart Pioneers.<br /> <br /> George Barr born in 1937 is a sci-fi & fantasy artist from Utah. He began his art career in 1960 and by the 1970s was producing hundreds of pieces of art for sci-fi & fantasy digests and fanzines. Barr along with Tim Kirk and Alicia Austin was an artistic darling of the sci-fi & fantasy fandom of the 1970s. He was heavily influenced by Hannes Bok and Maxfield Parrish. unknown
1911008492Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1911. Six Volumes 32mo 4" h x 3" w. The Night Before Christmas dated 1905 the rest 1911. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial paste downs to front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White end papers each book with numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set lacking the original slipcase spines a bit rubbed contents clean and unmarked hinges solid. SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. . First Edition Thus. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Reilly & Britton, Hardcover books
1939010180New York: Simon & Schuster 1939. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. True First Edition with 1939 date at bottom of title page and "They went home and broke their bread" illustration. Very Good Christmas gift inscription dated 1939 in pencil at illustrated front end page browning at front and rear gutters light rubbing at edges. In a Very Good minus dust jacket bottom corner front flap price-clipped large chips at bottom edge front panel and top edge rear panel smaller chip at bottom edge front flap and two long closed tears front panel. Internally clean and bright a presentable copy of Bemelman's enduring childrens classic. Basis for the 1989-2001 TV series with Christopher Plummer and Tracey Lee Smythe. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
1950008952New York: McCall Corporation 1950. Seven of the first nine Redbook Magazines from 1950-51 1.3.4.5.6.7 and 9 that each contained an original Dr. Seuss story overall Very Good wear with paper loss at spine ends some with tears at spine folds toning some pages with small corner creases. Jun. 1950 Vol. 95 No.2 "Gustav the Goldfish" p. 48-51; Aug. 1950 Vol.95 No.4 "Tad and Todd" p.56-58; Sep. 1950 Vol. 95 No. 5 "Marco Comes Late" p.58-59 Oct. 1950 Vol. 95 No.6 "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town"; p.46-48; Nov. 1950 Vol. 96 No.1 "Steak for Supper" p. 44-46; Dec.1950 Vol.96 No.2 "The Big Brag" p.46-47; Feb. 1951 Vol. 96 No.4 "The Rabbit the Bear and the Zinniga-Zanniga" p.46-47. Between June 1950 and December 1957 Seuss had 23 original stories first published in Redbook Magazine. At least 3 of the 23 predated the first book publications of the same titles. "Gustav the Goldfish" was the basis for the book A FISH OUT OF WATER by Helen Palmer Seuss' first wife. The 2 stories are identical in plot while Helen's book does not rhyme and is illustrated by P.D. Eastman. Six of the seven stories were featured in two Random House books of "lost" Seuss stories The Bippolo Seed and Other Stories 2011 and Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories 2014 both with forewords by Charles D Cohen. Individually and collectively these magazines are SCARCE in current commerce with few individual copies ever showing up at auction. A RARE opportunity for the dedicated Dr. Seuss collector. . First Printings. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. McCall Corporation Paperback books
195016455Science -Fantasy 1950 thru 1958 / Nova Publications THE FIRST 28 CONSECUTIVE VOLUMES first editions vg to near fine copies in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains issues 44 & 45 from 1960 & 1961. The companion volume to New Worlds. Edited soon by John Carnell it featured the usual stable of British writers: Arthur C. Clarke John Brunner Ken Bulmer Brian Aldiss John Christopher William Temple et.al. Nova Publications paperback
19130042811913 Paris, Hachette, sans date [1913]. Grand in-quarto (236 X 296 mm) vélin ivoire relié à la Bradel, dos lisse orné d'un fleuron et d'un fer doré représentant un chat d'après Rackham, titre doré, nom de l'éditeur en queue, titre doré sur le premier plat avec un grand fer doré représentant un pélican stylisé d'après Rackham, tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (1) f. blanc, frontispice, 38 pages, (1) f., 43 planches, (1) f., (1) f. blanc. Lacets de fermeture manquants, quelques rousseurs en marge du plat supérieur.
194734546New York: Avon Book Company later Avon Book Company Inc. Avon Publishing Co. Inc. and Avon Novels Inc. 1947-52. Mild toning to cream pages some lamination separation from front cover of first issue no peeling nicks at corners of a number of issues tape to several issues at rear corners a bright nearly fine to fine set. Above average. House in clamshell boxes. 34546. Small octavo 18 issues pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. A complete set of the Avon Fantasy Reader which consists of 18 issues. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisherJoseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine an anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. The story selection came from a wide range of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales All-Story and Argosy Thrill Book Astounding and Amazing as well as stories from hardcover book publications. Authors included William Hope Hodgson Lord Dunsany Clark Ashton Smith H. P. Lovecraft Robert E. Howard M. R. James Ambrose Bierce A. Merritt Algernon Blackwood C. L. Moore Fritz Leiber and many more. A few original stories were printed including A. E. Van Vogt Carl Jacobi A. Merritt Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard and most notably "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines p. 124-132. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 124-132. Avon Book Company (later Avon Book Company, Inc., Avon Publishing Co., Inc., and Avon Novels, Inc.) unknown
rja31588<p>UKthick 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn. Children's edition. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean colour pictorial artwork by Jason Cockcroft illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Topfore-edges with some slight toning and blemishes; contents bright tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Dw/dj design/artwork repeated to boards and immaculate plain white endpapers. UKthick 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn10-607pp paginated includes 37 chapters; plus unpaginated half-title title pages and a dedication. Harry has been burdened with a dark dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him. . . . . In this final seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series J. K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding richly woven narrative which plunges twists and turns at a breathtaking pace confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling whose books will be read reread and read again. Want more ROWLING Joanne Kathleen titles For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and/or CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note stocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded AFTER order's receipt and BEFORE the order's despatch especially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now in some cases cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.</p> LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2007. hardcover
1929009098Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. 1929. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Spanish born American novelist's first book a book for children. Felipe Alfau's novels are Locos: A Comedy of Gestures 1936 and Chromos written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990 the latter being nominated for the National Book Award in 1990. RARE in dust jacket Near Fine tiny bump top corner in a Very Good dust jacket soiling small chips particularly at spine ends and edges and first two words in title at head of spine a bit rubbed yet still legible. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. Hardcover
1911008492Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printings. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Six Volumes 32mo 4" h x 3" w. The Night Before Christmas dated 1905 the rest 1911. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial paste downs to front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White end papers each book with numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set lacking the original slipcase spines a bit rubbed contents clean and unmarked hinges solid. SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. Reilly & Britton, Hardcover
1950008952New York: McCall Corporation 1950. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. First Printings. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seven of the first nine Redbook Magazines from 1950-51 1.3.4.5.6.7 and 9 that each contained an original Dr. Seuss story overall Very Good wear with paper loss at spine ends some with tears at spine folds toning some pages with small corner creases. Jun. 1950 Vol. 95 No.2 "Gustav the Goldfish" p. 48-51; Aug. 1950 Vol.95 No.4 "Tad and Todd" p.56-58; Sep. 1950 Vol. 95 No. 5 "Marco Comes Late" p.58-59 Oct. 1950 Vol. 95 No.6 "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town"; p.46-48; Nov. 1950 Vol. 96 No.1 "Steak for Supper" p. 44-46; Dec.1950 Vol.96 No.2 "The Big Brag" p.46-47; Feb. 1951 Vol. 96 No.4 "The Rabbit the Bear and the Zinniga-Zanniga" p.46-47. Between June 1950 and December 1957 Seuss had 23 original stories first published in Redbook Magazine. At least 3 of the 23 predated the first book publications of the same titles. "Gustav the Goldfish" was the basis for the book A FISH OUT OF WATER by Helen Palmer Seuss' first wife. The 2 stories are identical in plot while Helen's book does not rhyme and is illustrated by P.D. Eastman. Six of the seven stories were featured in two Random House books of "lost" Seuss stories The Bippolo Seed and Other Stories 2011 and Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories 2014 both with forewords by Charles D Cohen. Individually and collectively these magazines are SCARCE in current commerce with few individual copies ever showing up at auction. A RARE opportunity for the dedicated Dr. Seuss collector. McCall Corporation Paperback
1945008505New York: The Macmillan Co 1945. SCARCE SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR Maud and Miska Petersham at front end page. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1946. A Good copy lacking the dust jacket front end page loose chips and small tears at edges of front end page text block completely free with old internal tape mend shadows in gutters front and back dampstain top corners of text in margins not affecting text or illustrations. A copy in need of and deserving restoration as SIGNED copies of this award winner are SCARCE. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover books
8vo., with frontispiece [by Du Maurier]; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, hand-made endpapers, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled else a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. This classic collection of sixteen short stories was first published in 1884. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bleiler 13; Tymn 3-2 (both recording the first edition).
188647471London [u.a.] : Macmillan 1886. VIII, 95 S. : "With thirty-seven illustrations by the Author", ; octavo, Eigentümersignatur auf Vorsatzblatt ("Christmas Greetings 1887) roter Kaliko - Einband, , gebundene Ausgabe, Goldschnitt, goldgeprägter Deckel und Rücken, Seiten alters- und papierbedingt gebräunt, sonst guter Zustand
194716686AVON FANTASY READER Avon Books 1947 thru 1952 first edition 18 volumes complete near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard Gelett Burgess William Hope Hodgson Hugh Cave Algernon Blackwood Edust-wrapper ard Lucas White James Francis Dwyer G. K. Chesterton Frank Owen Ray Bradbury Anthony Boucher Nelson Bond E. Hoffman Price H. P. Lovecraft Sax Rohmer Manly Wade Wellman M. R. James Lord Dunsany Clark Ashton Smith Seabury Quinn Francis Flagg Doanld Wollheim Malcolm Jameson Amelia Reynolds Long Fritz Leiber Robert Bloch Donald Wandrei Ambrose Bierce C. L. Moore Abraham Merritt Frank Belknap Long David Keller Jack Williamson Edmond Hamilton Henry S. Whitehead Carl Jacobi William F. Harvey C. M. Kornbluth S. Fowler Wright Murray Leinster August Derleth H. G. Wells H. R. Wakefield et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER all 3 volumes near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Avon Books paperback
8vo., First Edition, endpapers moderately browned; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrip slightly browned (but all gilt bright and entirely legible), a very good, bright, firm copy. With the small neat contemporary signature of Claude Sisley [second cousin of the artist] on front paste-down. One of the finest 'homo-superior' novels and a classic of Edwardian fantasy. Very scarce.
