SPACE TUG.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163538)
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THE ROBERT AND PHYLLIS WEINBERG COLLECTION
By Boyd White
Recently, Lloyd Currey showed me a copy of the classic science fantasy collection A Gnome There Was (1950) inscribed by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, the wonderful husband-and-wife team who often wrote under the pseudonym “Lewis Padgett.” Lloyd was discussing the provenance of the book, how he had sold it to Robert Weinberg many years ago only to have it come into his hands again now that Bob is no longer with us. As I was reading the inscription, Lloyd remarked, “I think this copy might be unique. I have never seen another inscribed copy.” We could easily apply this same sentiment to Bob himself. He was one of a kind, a unique individual whose like we won’t see again.
As a teenager growing up in rural Tennessee in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I loved receiving catalogs from Weinberg Books in the mail. When I would come home from middle school and one of Bob’s catalogs was waiting for me on the kitchen table, I would race to my room and read it from cover to cover. I had already developed a love for the pulps from reading Bantam paperback reprints of Doc Savage. Likewise, the Ballantine two-volume paperback edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1973) with its marvelous cover artwork by John Holmes had introduced me to H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Frank Belknap Long. Unsurprisingly, Bob’s catalogs always increased my appetite for such fare tenfold. Who was the Spider? The Phantom Detective? What were “shudder pulps”? Would I enjoy Leigh Brackett or Cornell Woolrich?
Being the son of factory workers, I had very little money those days, only what I could earn from running errands and mowing neighbors’ lawns. The first collectible books I ever purchased were in-print Arkham House titles featured in Bob’s catalogs—Joseph Payne Brennan’s Stories of Darkness and Dread (1973), Gerald W. Page’s Nameless Places (1975), and Mary Elizabeth Counselman’s Half in Shadow (1978). These works formed the basis for my love of weird fiction, and I dreamed about books that I knew I could never hope to afford like Lovecraft’s The Outsider and Others (1939) or a first edition of Ray Bradbury’s The October Country (1955). After I earned my driver’s license and began operating a forklift part time at a local K-Mart, I soon found myself placing a telephone order for Manly Wade Wellman’s Worse Things Waiting (1973) for the outrageous price of $75 from a somewhat intimidating—or so it seemed to me at the time—New York bookseller named L. W. Currey, who had also started sending me catalogs in the mail.
Bob Weinberg’s 40+ year career as a collector, editor, author, bookseller, and publisher is widely known. A complete list of his accomplishments could easily fill a substantial volume. Anyone who visits his official website can’t help but be astounded by the breadth and depth of his interests as a collector—Robert E. Howard, H. Rider Haggard, Nero Wolfe, Frank R. Paul, Virgil Finlay, Kelly Freas, EC comics, Uncle Scrooge, and anything related to the pulps. As a publisher, Bob reprinted numerous pulp classics, often rare or obscure titles like The Octopus, The Scorpion, or Dr. Death, in addition to issuing key reference works such as Mike Ashley’s The Complete Index to Astounding/Analog (1981). As a bibliographer, Bob made significant scholarly contributions, most notably The Weird Tales Story (1977), The Louis L’Amour Companion (1993), and his masterwork, A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (1988), which remains an essential resource for the field and which, like The Weird Tales Story, won the World Fantasy Award.
In Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Granger, the leader of a group of exiles who have literally become living books by memorizing entire works to preserve their contents from the firemen, tells Montag, “’Grandfather’s been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you’d find the big ridges of his thumbprint.” I never met or spoke with Bob Weinberg, but he did start a lifelong conversation with me about books through his catalogs during my formative years. I am certain he holds a similar place in the lives of many other collectors and readers. The closest we come to eternity is through what leave behind, our families and our children, the stories and anecdotes that loved ones recite about us. Bob’s life and work reminds us that books last forever. I still haven’t bought a copy of The Outsider and Others or a first edition of The October Country, but I have all the books I purchased from Bob’s catalogs. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163538)
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London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-30 [31] [32: blank], original decorated gray boards printed in green, edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers. First edition. (#163017)
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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163480)
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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163485)
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[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. (#162492)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162640)
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Paris: Editions de l'Herne, 1969 (number 12). Large octavo, single issue, pp. [1-14] 15-379 [380: colophon] [381-382: ads] [383-384: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], illustrations, pictorial wrappers. (#163693)
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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162619)
More Details about THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162614)
More Details about THE DARK BROTHERHOOD AND OTHER PIECES
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. (#162620)
More Details about THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162612)
More Details about MARGINALIA ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
Athol, Mass. Published by Paul Cook The Recluse Press, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-58 [59] [60: blank], cloth. First edition. (#161227)
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New York: Tor, [2002]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163318)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162682)
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[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162675)
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Pinson, AL: Robert Offutt, Jr., January 1978 (number 2). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, stapled. (#163700)
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San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Brandywyne Books, 1984. Octavo, imitation white leather. First edition. (#163411)
More Details about STITCH IN SNOW: AN ADULT MAKE-BELIEVE TALE
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#163422)
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London: Kinnell, 1990. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. (#163050)
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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] 9-310 [311-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, front panel stamped in red and gold, spine panel stamped in red, top edge stained red. First edition. First printing with "B&L" monogram on copyright page and no statement of printing. (#163209)
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Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-301 [302: blank], original decorated black cloth, spine panel stamped in green, top edge stained green, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. (#163204)
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New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi 1 [2] 3-326 [327-328: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. (#163208)
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-296 [note: title leaf is a tipped in single leaf], title page printed in green and black, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained yellow green. First U.S. edition. (#162292)
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Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163653)
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[New York]: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162540)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163261)
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[New York]: New Collector's, 1948. Octavo, illustrations by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. (#163707)
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xvi [1-2] 3-275 [276: blank], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), cloth. First edition. (#163404)
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162246)
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New York: The Viking Press, [1965]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. (#162506)
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162511)
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New York: Lee Furman, Inc., [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 11-199 [200-202: blank] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination; final leaf is a blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, all edges trimmed. First edition. (#163511)
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. (#161243)
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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. (#163276)
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New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162405)
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Boston, Toronto: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#161252)
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London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#162287)
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London: Chatto & Windus, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First British and first trade hardcover edition. (#162288)
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London: Philip Allan, n.d. [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 7-240, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#161240)
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1942]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162345)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162705)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, illustrations by Virgil Finlay, cloth. First trade (and first hardcover) edition. (#162704)
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New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, [1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-282 [283-288: ads], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Photoplay edition. (#161257)
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London: Dennis Dobson, [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162308)
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Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163654)
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Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163655)
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London: Dennis Dobson, [1961]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162309)
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London: Dennis Dobson, [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162310)
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London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163117)
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London: Dennis Dobson, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162265)
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Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first binding of light blue boards, spine panel stamped in gold. (#162549)
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Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162253)
More Details about THE WITCHES OF KARRES
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162395)
More Details about CITIZEN IN SPACE
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1983]. Large octavo, illustrations by Berni Wrightson, cloth. First printing of this edition. (#162275)
More Details about FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162545)
More Details about THE SHROUDED PLANET [by] Robert Randall [pseudonym
New York: Avalon Books, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163263)
More Details about ALIENS FROM SPACE by David Osborne [pseudonym
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162628)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162623)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162625)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162627)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162626)
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Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163640)
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Reading, Pa. Fantasy Press, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition, limited issue. (#162247)
More Details about THE VORTEX BLASTER
New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation, n.d. [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 1-93 [94: blank], original gray decorated wrappers printed in black, side stapled. First edition. (#163703)
More Details about BETWEEN WORLDS
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162587)
More Details about THE PATH OF UNREASON
Philadelphia: Warren Publishing Company, 1961-1964. Octavo, nine issues, pictorial wrappers. (#163730)
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, boards. Second printing. (#163365)
More Details about I, THE JURY
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1935]. Octavo, original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained green, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. (#163277)
More Details about THE ENDLESS FURROW
New York: Ace Books, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163385)
More Details about SATURN'S CHILDREN: A SPACE OPERA
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162394)
More Details about CAVIAR
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1950]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-217 [218-220: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front panel stamped in purple and silver, spine panel stamped in black and silver. First edition. (#163602)
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Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-247 [248: blank], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in yellow. First edition. (#161264)
More Details about BEFORE THE DAWN
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163657)
More Details about THE CRYSTAL HORDE
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi] [1-3] 4-258 [259-264: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. (#163194)
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-357 [358-360: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. (#163196)
More Details about THE IRON STAR
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162393)
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London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd., n.d. [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-251 [252-256: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, original brick red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. (#163467)
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163114)
More Details about CHILDREN OF TOMORROW
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, [1999]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163091)
More Details about FUTURES PAST
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163571)
More Details about THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES
London: Dennis Dobson, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#162349)
More Details about THE PLAYERS OF NULL-A
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163030)
More Details about SUPERMIND
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition (and first British and first hardcover edition). (#162420)
More Details about THE UNIVERSE MAKER AND THE PROXY INTELLIGENCE
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. (#163115)
More Details about A VAN VOGT OMNIBUS: PLANETS FOR SALE ..., THE BEAST, THE BOOK OF PTATH
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. (#163083)
More Details about THE LANGUAGES OF PAO
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Octavo, two volumes in one, cloth. First edition. (#162501)
More Details about THE SEVENTEEN VIRGINS [and] THE BAGFUL OF DREAMS: THE ADVENTURES OF CUGEL THE CLEVER [cover title
London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1948. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1] 2-234, illustrations by John Parsons, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#162735)
More Details about THE RETURN OF FURSEY
London: The Pilot Press Limited, 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-241 [242-244: blank] [note: last leaf used as rear paste-down], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. (#162734)
More Details about THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162696)
More Details about THE EYE AND THE FINGER
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [1] 2-301 [302: printer's imprint [303-304: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank; half title and title leaves are a conjugate pair and are inserted] + 40-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1897" inserted at rear, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#163225)
More Details about THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xii [1-3] 4-394 [395: colophon] [396: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. (#162653)
More Details about JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163164)
More Details about BRIGHT NEW UNIVERSE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163150)
More Details about THE EARLY WILLIAMSON
Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, [1987]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-242, boards. First edition. (#163389)
More Details about HOW TO WRITE TALES OF HORROR, FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162340)
More Details about FLIGHT INTO SPACE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162295)
More Details about THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162442)
More Details about CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS
[London]: A Rapp and Whiting Book / Andre Deutsch, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163247)
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San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163381)
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