First softcover edition of this pictorial checklist of SF, warmly inscribed by subject and contributor Philip José Farmer.

First Signet paperback edition of one of the most influential science fiction books of the 20th century.

First edition of this high society contemporary romance from the Edwardian golden age of the genre, "daringly, about the problems of Jews entering London society" (Rachel Anderson).

Inscribed first printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.

First printing of the first book in the Anna Pigeon series of mysteries revolving around United States national parks.

First printing of Block's first hardcover publication, a revenge thriller he wrote because he couldn't shake the plot idea suggested by another writer.

First printing of the ne plus ultra of the Avon Satanic Gothic.

First edition in book form of this "man on the run" spy novel, in which Richard Hannay escapes to Scotland just ahead of accusations he has murdered a secret agent.

Bound galley (stated) of the first edition of Butler's post-apocalyptic novel, sent by the publisher to James Sallis, who was one of Butler's instructors "where Octavia got her start" (Carl Brandon Society) — at the 1970 Clarion Writers Workshop.

Association first edition of Cartland's fourth novel — and one of only a handful of her 728 published books without a happy ending — inscribed by the Cartland to her uncle.

Association first edition of Cartland's second novel — inscribed before publication by the Cartland to her uncle.

First printing of the second novel by the master of the hard-boiled, a worthy follow-up to THE BIG SLEEP (1939).