CONTINUOUS FLOWS IN THE PLANE (GRUNDLEHREN DER MATHEMATISCHEN WISSENSCHAFTEN)
Springer, 1975. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. This copy is Signed with a personal inscription by Anatole Beck. More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
THE ALLEGED HAUNTING OF B- HOUSE. INCLUDING A JOURNAL KEPT DURING THE TENANCY OF COLONEL LEMESURIER TAYLOR.
London: George Redway, 1899. Hard Cover. First Edition. Namestamp on the front endpaper, previous owner’s name and notes on the verso of the front endpaper and on the verso of the two page plan of the house, facing the title..... More
SOME GHOST STORIES.
Forty-Nine Chandos Street, W.C. Cecil Palmer, 1927. Hard Cover. First Edition. Burrage’s first collection of horror fiction; he is best remembered for weird tales such as these, and is now known as a classic author of British ghost stories; Bleiler..... More
STAR MAN’S SON, 2250 A.D.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Hard Cover. A reprint edition of Andre Norton’s first science fiction novel. A clean copy of this printing by the Gregg Press, with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket has some rubbed spots. It is..... More
Stephen King Companion
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1995. Hard Cover. Signed. Signed limited edtion; numbered as a presentation copy with several signatures. No pencil or ink markings in text. Hardcover boards are wrapped in Rainbow Sandstone C paper with Desert Tan..... More
THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hard Cover. First US Edition. The story of a young man’s involvement in a plot to revive the ancient Egyptian Queen Tera, whom Stoker modeled after Queen Hatshepsut. An enjoyable novel in..... More
THE PEACEMAKER.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. Hard Cover. First US Edition. First American Edition of the only science fiction work by the acclaimed author C. S. Forester. Following the attempt of a pacifist schoolteacher to blackmail world leaders into world..... More
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET. PERELANDRA. THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH. (THREE VOLUMES)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Hard Cover. With an early printing of Out of the Silent Planet, second printing of Perelandra, and the first printing of That Hideous Strength. The complete set of the so-called ‘Space Trilogy,’ one of..... More
A PAD IN THE STRAW.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, [1952]. Hard Cover. First Edition. A collection of supernatural stories written by an Anglican priest. A few in text illustrations. Foxing to the endpapers. Sunning to the spine. Green cloth with gilt lettering on..... More
A BLADE FOR SALE: THE ADVENTURES OF MONSIEUR DE MAILLY
New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1927. Hard Cover. First Edition. The First American Edition, published the year before in England with the title The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly. One of a handful of works by this Scottish..... More
STRANGE CONFLICT.
London: Hutchinson, [1952]. Hard Cover. Reprint Edition. Binding somewhat cocked. Foxing to the endpapers, and toning to the text. Wear and tears to the edges and folds of the dustjacket, and a few spots of loss to the covers and..... More
THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
New York: Harmony Books, [1980]. Hard Cover. First Printing. Signed. First Edition, first printing, of the second novel in Douglas Adams’ acclaimed Hitchhiker’s ‘trilogy in five parts.’ Signed by the author with a brief inscription on the front endpaper. With..... More
STYRBIORN THE STRONG
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Hard Cover. First Edition. A clean copy of the First American Edition with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket has modest chipping and shelfwear at the extremities as well as a small..... More
THE ANT MEN
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 51952. First Edition. A clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket -- while still portraying some splendid ants -- is compromised with a nearly two inch piece missing from the..... More
THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Frank Belknap Long’s first published work, a collection of supernatural and science fiction short stories. Belknap’s work “often has the quality of giving bizarre and horrible twists..... More
THIRTY STRANGE STORIES.
New York: Edward Arnold, 1897. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition thus, preceded by the similar UK collection of stories, titled The Plattner Story and Others (Methuen, 1897). The third collection of uncanny tales by the acclaimed writer of Science..... More
SHE. A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE.
New York: 1887. Hard Cover. First American Edition. “One of the great fantastic romances ... a work of mythic significance.” Early American Edition, with 1887 publication year on the title page; the so-called first American edition, which was preceded by..... More
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940. Hard Cover. First Edition. The First Edition of this collection of ghostly tales by one of the masters of the genre. In the publisher’s black cloth, with a previous owner bookplate on the pastedown, but..... More
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Hard Cover. First American Edition. The uncommon First American Edition of Wakefield’s collection of supernatural short stories, Imagine a Man in a Box. Bleiler describes Wakefield as “a very competent writer of supernatural..... More
NIGHTMARE TALES.
London: Theosophical Publishing House, n.d. Hard Cover. Early Printing. “Posthumous collection of ghost stories by the celebrated charlatan. The most notable is ‘The Ensouled Violin,’ in which a music teacher commits suicide to provide his protégé with strings made from..... More
SORAK AND THE SULTAN’S ANKUS. OR HOW A PERILOUS JOURNEY LEADS TO A KINGDOM OF GIANTS
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1934. Hard Cover. A child’s name pencilled in the ownership box on the front endpaper; no other marks in the book. The dustjacket has modest shelfwear, with a bit of loss to the spine extremities..... More
BOOK OF STONE: A Novel
Bethel, NC: Kosmos Books, 2001. Soft Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Covers clean; binding sound; NOT Ex-Library. More