The Windup Girl
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Night Shade Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine in like jacket. Beautiful copy. Hugely successful first novel. Signed on title page. First state - no dedication page. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
Fantasy
Migrants of the Stars: Being an Account of the Discovery of the Marvelous land of Niames, and of the Secret of its Inhabitants
New York: The Classic Press, 1931. First edition. 8vo, [iv]; xi; 406pp. Blind ruled, blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, silver and black illustrated jacket. Bumped corners, wear to foredge of boards else nearly fine, with former ownership stamp to front pastedown else clean internally. Jacket very good with flap.....
The Openers of the Gate: Stories of the Occult
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce in jacket. Very good with some shelf wear to boards and discoloration due to the dust jacket being trimmed about 1/4" from bottom and top. Jacket is good, and though trimmed, presents well. It is also reinforced (some large tears closed as.....
The Face in the Frost
New York: Macmillan, 1969. Fitschen, Marilyn. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing of this adult fantasy novel from Bellairs, who was most famous for his juvenile books with Edward Gorey art. Signed by Bellairs on the title page, and uncommon thus. Near fine book with light bumping to bottom edge.....
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. Memorial edition. 8vo, 337pp. Introduction by Sylvester Baxter. Publisher's blind and black stamped, green cloth in plain printed jacket. A nearly fine copy with light wear at spine ends and corner tips in very good jacket with some edge chipping and.....
Weird Tales Vol. 41, No. 1, November, 1948
New York: Weird Tales, 1948. 4to, pulp magazine, stapled wraps, 96, [2]pp. Very good with sunned spine, some small edge tears and chipping. Contains "The Indian Spirit Guide," by Bloch, "The Perfect Host," by Theodore Sturgeon, and stories from Seabury Quinn, Stephen Grendon, Carl Jacobi, and others.
The Black Unicorn
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. First edition. 8vo, 286pp., 1/4 blue cloth over paper boards in illustrated jacket. Near fine in like jacket with minimal wear. First printing of this second Magic Kingdom of Landover novel, signed and inscribed by Brooks to the former owner "with magic" on the title.....
Wizard At Large
New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. First Edition. 8vo, 291pp., 1/4 black cloth over paper boards in illustrated jacket. Fine in fine jacket. First printing of the third book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, signed and inscribed by Brooks to the former owner, "some more wizard magic," on the.....
Red Rising
New York: Del Rey, 2014. First edition. 8vo, 382pp. Signed by Pierce Brown on the title page. Publisher's black paper boards, spine lettered in red, in illustrated jacket. A near fine copy, boards lightly bumped in like jacket with some black offsetting to the bottom edge of the underside likely.....
"The Fallen Goddess" from "The Aviatrix," Tarzan Sunday story in Los Angeles Times Comics, April 7, 1935
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Times, United Feature Syndicate, 1935. 8 of the advertised 16 pages of the Los Angeles Times Sunday comics, in full color, 23x15.5." Moderate chipping to edges and wear along horizontal fold, mainly at ends. Good condition. Full-page Sunday strip from the series "The Aviatrix," with.....
"Fire!" from "The Lost Vikings" Tarzan Sunday story in Los Angeles Times Comics, September 15, 1935
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Times, United Feature Syndicate, 1935. Complete comics section from the Los Angeles Times, 16 pages in full color, 23x15.5." Very good with some smudging, edge chipping, and folded horizontally down the middle. Full-page Sunday strip from the series "The Lost Vikings," with artwork by Rex.....
Tarzan the Lost Adventure
Milwaukie, Oregon, U.S.A. Dark Horse Comics, 1996. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket, signed by Lansdale on the half title page. Fine condition. 1st printing of the trade edition. Signed by Lansdale. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
The Death Watch
London: Robert Holden, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very curious book by Michael Cape-Meadows, pseudonym of Michael Weldon Champneys, brother of British novelist, Adelaide Mary (A. M.) Champneys. Novel containing elements of fantasy and horror published by Holden in 1927. First edition. Good only in blue buckram with spine and back.....
Bílá Nemoc (The White Plague)
Praha: Fr. Borový, 1937. Otakar Mrkvicka. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, 12mo, [8], 121pp., [5]. Publisher's printed wrappers with illustrated jacket by Otakar Mrkvicka depicting an apocalyptic skeleton soldier on horseback. Very good with some wear at spine ends in good jacket with some rubbing and a bit of.....
Krakatit
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. Kenneth Romney Towndrow. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English of this important science fiction work from the Czech writer, Kapek. Prophetic in detailing the study of an immense power, some have likened to the atomic bomb. Listed in Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy, Anatomy of Wonder.....
Krakatit
Praha: Aventinum, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this classic work of science fiction, originally published in Capek's native Czech, and then translated the next year and published in English by Geoffrey Bles in 1925. The novel deals with themes of power and guilt in the abuse of science.....
Řeč a literatura : chvála řeči české
Jaroměř: Jan Loužil, 1927. First edition, limited to 300 copies, this being #200. 16mo, 16x11cm, [4], 20, [1]pp. Printed in red and black throughout. Red paper wrappers, french flaps, with printed paper label, sewn binding. Nearly fine with light wear and toning. Scarce publication from the influential Czech author and.....
The Red Gods (Les Dieux Rouges)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 365pp. Red cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, some dulling to spine, neat owner's name in pencil on ffep else nearly fine. First edition in English, translated from the original French by Moreby Acklom. A lost race.....
Fantastic Adventures Quarterly Volume 1 Number 3, Summer, 1942
Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1942. Thick 4to, paginated in sections. Blue and orange illustrated paper wrappers. Very good with chipping and wear to edges, some tearing to covers at the joints, and former owner's name to rear cover. Collects "The Living Dead," by Edgar Rice Burroughs among other stories published in the.....
Spider Kiss
Sherman Oaks, Milwaukie: Edgeworks Abbey in association with M Press, 2006. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo, 223, [9]pp. Plain white wraps. Near fine with light wear and a single correction in sharpie to rear wrapper. Proof of this reissue of the novel originally titled "Rockabilly," (1961).
The Rainbow-Hued Trail Around the World
Dallas: Cosette-Faust Newton, 1932. First (only) limited, deluxe, autograph edition. 24x17cm, xxiii, 310, [1]pp. Photographs by the author, illustrations by Margaret Ann Scruggs. Illustrated map endpapers, fold out chart, bibliography, index, glossary at rear. Signed by Newton and Scruggs on the hand-embellished, gold leaf decorated, at least 5 color printed.....
Amok invites you to the opening of a new selection of work by John Wayne Gacy: Paintings
Los Angeles: Amok, [1989]. Broadside advertisement, 28x22cm. Yellow paper printed in blue. Light horizontal crease, some wrinkling. Very good. Uncommon advertising sheet for an art show featuring the infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy's paintings of self-portrait clowns and the Seven Dwarves. The show was in in-store event in the.....
The Ocean at the End of the lane
London: Headline, 2013. First edition. 8vo, 248pp. Signed by Gaiman on the title page. Purple boards lettered and decorated in silver. Fine, unread copy with a light mark to foredge of page block in fine jacket. Signed first printing. .
The Fireman
London: Gollancz, 2016. First UK edition. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, red sprayed edges, illustrated endpapers, in illustrated jacket. Signed by Hill twice, once on the half title page, and additionally signed and dated in the year of publication in London on the title page in red. Boards bumped.....
Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1919. First edition. 8vo, [viii], 93, [1]pp. Illustrated gray paper boards, matching dust jacket. Illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington. Very good with some wear and bumping to edges. Foxing to preliminaries and scattered throughout. Ownership signature of A. E. Glover on ffep. Jacket scuffed.....