THE BROKEN SWORD
First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor.
First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor.
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
Signed limited first edition of these three connected Golden Age science fiction novellas by the formative sf editor, originally appearing in AMAZING STORIES and edited for book publication by Lloyd Arthur Eschbach.
First edition of Christopher's collected early SF stories, in the vivid and uncommonly well preserved dust jacket by Eric Mudge-Marriott.
Scarce first US edition of this ghost adventure by the pseudonymous writing team of Adelaide Manning, formerly of the War Office, and her neighbor, British intelligence officer Cyril Coles.
First appearance of this complete romance novel, issued as the special Saturday edition of the Toronto Star Weekly on 28 March 1953.
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
Beautiful first UK and first hardcover edition of Dick's tenth novel, originally published in 1956 as half of an Ace Double.
Uncommon first printing of this Edgar Award-winning first mystery novel by author and architect Douglass, set in the Caribbean and starring police chief Bolivar Manchenil.
First edition of these eleven adventure, mystery, and science fiction stories, selected by Carr in celebration of Doyle's hundredth anniversary, with two Sherlock Homes inclusions: "The Man with the Twisted Lip" and "Silver Blaze."
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
Lovely signed limited first edition of Farmer's Shasta Science-Fiction Prize-winning novel, written in 1952 but not published until some thirty years later due to unscrupulous publisher shenanigans and the vagaries of fate.
Scarce first UK edition of Heard's third murder mystery starring Mr. Mycroft, a loosely disguised Sherlock Holmes, involving the depths to which the overeducated human soul may sink when in possession of no morals and too many opinions about art.
First edition of Hitchens's best-known crime novel, inspiration for one of Godard's greatest films.
First edition of MacLean's first short story collection, including her prescient 1950 classic "Incommunicado," anticipating the modern internet search engine and its many lurking horrors.
First printing of this Western murder mystery, in which the famous Batwing Jones must piece together how his friend's death connects to a story of vengeance and gold.
Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel.
Uncommon Dell paperback reprint of Sloane's eerie 1937 classic, with a new introduction by Basil Davenport on the allure of "the archetypal figure of the Dark Goddess" and a flashy pulp cover painting by William Rose.
First edition of this mid-'50s dystopian novel revealing a secret dictatorship of invisible alien energy vampires by the sometime ghostwriter for The Twilight Zone and eventual writer for Star Trek.
First edition, publisher's file copy, of this unusual Cold War telepathy drama, a study of two men psychically linked by wartime experiments, reunited in the Middle East years later for a final struggle over geopolitical influence and occult corruption.
First printing of Van Vogt's alien-shapeshifter adventure, expanded into a novel from six connected short stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction.
First edition of this adventure story with a dose science fiction – twins Nicky and Judy and their dog Jokey find themselves marooned on an island with the psychic MASTER and his henchmen.
First edition of this sf adventure story – beautifully bound, likely for presentation, with a pencil annotation at the rear noting "From the library of Michael Howard," one of White's editors at Jonathan Cape, who was best known for working with Ian Fleming.
Handsome first printing of this disaster novel set in the far-off future world of 1986, on the menace to Earth hurtling towards us from the far reaches of space.