CONAN DOYLE'S BEST BOOKS
[circa 1904]
Uncommon complete three-volume set of this attractive illustrated "Sherlock Holmes Edition," with a straight pipe-smoking Holmes pictorial cloth binding design.
Adventure Fiction
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ETIDORHPA
(1978)
Rare paperback edition of Lloyd's once-beloved crackpot utopia, an alchemical conspiratorial pharmacological mystical subterranean adventure classic of fungus forestry and erotic longings beneath the caves of Kentucky.
TARZAN OF THE APES
1914
Twice inscribed first edition, first state of the first Tarzan novel, warmly presented from Burroughs to his niece.
GREAT STORIES
(1959)
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."
Complete Collection of Tarzan Novels
1914-1965
First edition run of all 24 novels in the Tarzan series, including TARZAN OF THE APES in the rare original dust jacket and five inscribed books — along with Burroughs's rare 1917 AUTO-BIOGRAPHY and two further Tarzan titles.
THE GLEEMAIDEN
(2004)
Signed first edition of Hamilton's third historical adventure featuring ex-crusader Richard Straccan.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER
1974
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
MOTHER WAS A LOVELY BEAST
(1974)
Signed first printing of this anthology of "fiction and fact" (largely fiction) regarding men raised by wolves, apes, tigers, and the like, from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan to Gene Wolfe's and Farmer's own pastiche tributes.
LUNARCHIA: That Strange World Beneath the Moon's Crust
(1937)
First printing of the first volume in a tragically uncompleted six-book saga of the hollow Moon, this inexplicably endearing Golden Age lunar adventure was written by (per his jacket bio) a "marked INTROVERT," autodidact, and successful telepath.
THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
(1981)
Inscribed first printing of the second Amelia Peabody mystery, set in Egypt during the 1890s and famously written by a trained Egyptologist.
THE LUCK OF BLIND GULCH
1925
First edition of this popular western, in which a Missouri farmer migrates to California during the gold rush, by a pseudonymous J. Allan Dunn, prolific and genre-crossing king of the early pulps.
THE MASTER
(1957)
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.
THE MASTER
(1957)
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.
MISTS OF DAWN
1979
Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel.
THE ABYSS OF WONDERS
1953
Limited first edition in book form of Sheehan's dream-journey fantasy, with a rare trial jacket in a different shade of orange than the final production.
HER DOUBLE LIFE
(1888)
First edition in book form of this suspenseful romance with an active, adventurous heroine, the Gilded-Age drama turning on questions of power and property.
The Sharpe Series [including SHARPE'S EAGLE, SHARPE'S GOLD, SHARPE's COMPANY, and more]
1981-1990; (1992-2006)
Complete set of first printings of all 21 books in the Sharpe series, each volume signed on the title page by Cornwell.
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