DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1987]. Gilt cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. A little dusty, else a nice copy in dust jacket.
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THE HAUNTING OF LAMB HOUSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. Boards. First U.S. edition. Three ghostly, interconnected novellas, featuring Henry James and E.F. Benson as characters. About fine in dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the tips.
DECADE THE 1940s [with:] DECADE THE 1950s.
New York: St. Martins, [ 1978]. Two volumes. Gilt cloth. First U.S. editions. Fine in good dust jackets (creased tear in jacket of second volume, rubbing and sticker marks on both). Appearances by Van Vogt, Asimov, Simak, Russell, Clement, Bradbury, Clarke, Farmer, Matheson, Kuttner, et al.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE ANOTHER EUROPEAN FANTASIA.
[Hammersmith]: Flamingo / HarperCollins, [1994]. Large, thick octavo. Gilt lettered cloth- textured boards. Usual tanning to text block, some dust along top edge, very good in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed to two long-time friends: "For ... - Once more into the breach dear friends! Love Brian 1st.....
A IS FOR BRIAN. A 65TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR BRIAN W. ALDISS FROM HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND ADMIRERS.
[London]: Avernus, [1990]. Quarto. Pictorial stiff glossy wrappers (with pictorial vignette by Joseph Reed). Fine. First edition of this festschrift, including contributions by Amis, Ballard, Harrison, Lessing, Moorcock, Pohl, Priest, Joe and Kit Reed, Silverberg, and many others. Issued in an unspecified "limited edition."
THE FOUNDLING AND OTHER TALES OF PRYDAIN.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1973]. Loose narrow folio sheets, printed on rectos only. Horizontal fold, crease and short edge snag to terminal leaf, otherwise very near fine. Scarce format. Original long galleys of the first edition of this supplement to the author's award-winning fantasy cycle, in this state.....
EIGHTEEN VISITS TO MARS.
New York: Vantage Press, [1956]. [14],439pp. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Portraits and plates. Slight dulling along top edges of boards, but a very good copy in shelfworn dust jacket. "First edition." Inscribed and signed by the "editor." A curious production, in large part indebted to (if not literally copied from).....
GHOST LETTERS.
[New York]: Bloomsbury, [2008]. Boards. Top edge faintly dusty, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First US edition of the multi-gaited writer's second book for young adults, a supernatural thriller, affectionately inscribed and signed ("Steve") by him on the half-title to two friends, on 31 December 2007. Due to his frequent.....
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. Boards. Critic or reviewer's intelligent ink notes on rear endsheet, otherwise a bright, clean copy, in very good dust jacket with a few small edge tears and a tiny chip at lower edge of the front panel. First edition in book form, preceded by periodical publication as.....
THE BRASS BOTTLE.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. [8],312,[8]pp. Gray cloth, printed in maroon. Frontis. Endsheets a bit darkened, old crease to front free endsheet, but a very good copy. First edition of one of Guthrie's most popular works, a fantasy that enjoyed success in his own adaptation to the stage, saw.....
A FALLEN IDOL.
London: Smith, Elder, 1897. Cloth. Top edge dusty, edges foxed, spine quite faded, light wear to extremities, but a good copy. "New edition." First published in 1886. With a presentation inscription from Guthrie on the half-title: "J. Caroline Pym from affectionate friend Anstey Guthrie Jan: 1899." The recipient was a......
THE TIME BARGAIN.
Bristol & London: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. / Simpkin Marshall [etc], [1920]. 12mo. Original printed boards. Spine torn and mended, inner front hinge cracked, textblock clean and fresh; a poorly bound book, not often seen intact. Third edition, originally published in 1891 under the title, TOURMALIN'S TIME CHEQUES. Inscribed by the.....
THE SATYR'S CHILDREN A FABLE.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1939. Sewn decorated wrappers. Small crease at lower forecorner of upper wrapper, otherwise fine. First edition in book form of this prose fantasy by the early staff member of POETRY and Chicago-based social activist. OCLC locates a dozen copies.
THE SATYR'S CHILDREN A FABLE.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1939. Sewn decorated wrappers. Spine a bit chafed, wrappers tanned at edges; a good copy. First edition in book form of this prose fantasy by the early staff member of POETRY and Chicago-based social activist. OCLC locates a dozen copies.
THE ARKHAM COLLECTOR.
Sauk City: Arkham House, Summer 1967 through Winter 1971. Whole numbers one through eight (of 10 published). Eight issues. Small octavo. Printed self- wrappers. Illustrated. About fine. Edited by August Derleth and staff. The first eight numbers of this short-lived Arkham House periodical, combining promotional efforts with original contributions in.....
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
London & Calcutta: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890. Slate blue pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in green, dark blue and dark gray. Spine slightly cocked, some modest rubbing to cloth, front inner hinge cracking at crown, still, a good, sound copy. First edition of this collection of.....
THE BLACK CAP NEW STORIES OF MURDER & MYSTERY...
London: Hutchinson, [nd. but 1927]. Large octavo. Pictorial blue cloth. First edition. Spine sunned (and with a 3cm scratch), fore-tips bumped, boards rubbed and marked, scattered light foxing throughout, but a sound copy (without dw). Contributors include L.P. Hartley, Walpole, Edgar Wallace, Lawrence, Maugham, et al....
THE GHOST BOOK SIXTEEN NEW STORIES OF THE UNCANNY.
London: Hutchinson, [ca. 1926]. Large octavo. Navy blue cloth, lettered and decorated in green. Inevitable tanning to endsheets, pencil name, one corner abraded, covers faintly soiled, but a good, tight copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. First edition. Justly famous as one of the great ghost story collections, with material.....
MISS HARGREAVES SCREENPLAY BY ....
[ Culver City]: Vanguard Films, 15 May 1946. [1],180 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers. Upper wrapper chipped at brads and detached, otherwise very good. An unspecified draft of this fully developed adaptation to the screen of Baker's 1940 supernatural fantasy. Baker wrote.....
MISS HARGREAVES SCREENPLAY BY ....
[ Culver City]: Vanguard Films, 15 May 1946 but noted as "Re-run June 3, 1947." [1],180 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers with rubber-stamped script number. About fine. A rerun from original stencils of an unspecified draft (dated 15 May 1946) of this.....
MISS HARGREAVES SCREENPLAY BY ....
[ Culver City]: Vanguard Films, 15 May 1946. [1],180 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers. Upper wrapper chipped at brads and detached, with several tears at edges, else very good. An unspecified draft of this fully developed adaptation to the screen of Baker's.....
THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: Berkeley Medallion, April 1966. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers by Richard Powers. First edition, a paperback original (F1204). Very minimal tanning to margins of wrapper versos, read once (perhaps), near fine.
THE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, [1979]. Cloth and boards. First US edition. A Burgess 99 novel. Fine dust jacket with tiny nick.
WAR FEVER.
New York: Farrar, Straus, [1991]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First US edition. About fine, in a near fine dust jacket with a slight flare at the top edge of the upper panel.
GHOSTS I HAVE MET AND SOME OTHERS.
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1898. Small octavo. Black cloth, lettered in gilt, stamped in red and white. Frontis and plates by Newell, Frost, et al. First edition. Skiff and Doheny bookplates, else near fine.