AGENT OF THE TERRAN EMPIRE.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163158)
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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.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163158)
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Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163370)
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New York: Avalon Books, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162378)
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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163476)
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New York: Walker and Company, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163146)
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London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d. [1937]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv-xvi] 17-1021 [1022-1023: ads] [1024: blank], original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. (#163450)
More Details about THE EVENING STANDARD SECOND BOOK OF STRANGE STORIES
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1926]. Octavo, inserted frontispiece, pictorial cloth. First edition. (#163685)
More Details about TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIRLINE EXPRESS OR FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN BY DAYLIGHT
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1928]. Octavo, inserted frontispiece, pictorial cloth. Later printing, circa 1929. (#163686)
More Details about TOM SWIFT AND HIS TALKING PICTURES OR THE GREATEST INVENTION ON RECORD
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1 - volume 2, number 4). Octavo, eight numbers, printed wrappers. (#162606)
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Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162452)
More Details about CASEBOOK OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163371)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, full brown leather. First edition. (#162491)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition, third printing with code "M44" on page 365. (#163587)
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163033)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#162486)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. (#163132)
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London: Neville Spearman, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163061)
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162672)
More Details about THE FACE IN THE MIRROR
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. (#162281)
More Details about THE PLAYER OF GAMES
New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162539)
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[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163174)
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London: Robert Hale & Company, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#163137)
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New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1946. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-309 [310-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pebbled black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained gray. First edition. (#162336)
More Details about THE LAST CIRCLE: STORIES AND POEMS
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-274 [275-278: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original navy blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained light blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. First printing with "F&R" monogram on copyright page. (#161259)
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New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-274 [275-278: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original navy blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained light blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. First printing with "F&R" monogram on copyright page. (#162335)
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New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-305 [306-312: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original light blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge rough trimmed. First edition. First printing with publisher's "FR" monogram on copyright page. (#161258)
More Details about THIRTEEN O'CLOCK: STORIES OF SEVERAL WORLDS
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d. [1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-251 [252] [253: ad] [254-256: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], four inserted plates with eight film stills, original decorated maroon boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition in English. (#163748)
More Details about THE MYSTERY OF THE LOUVRE ... Illustrated with Scenes from the Photo-Play, a Universal Production
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163253)
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Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#162229)
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London: Eyre Methuen, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. (#163301)
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New York: Published by Baronet Publishing Company, [1979]. Large octavo, boards. First edition. (#163400)
More Details about THE STARS MY DESTINATION: THE GRAPHIC STORY ADAPTATION. VOLUME ONE [all published
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163016)
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Philadelphia: The Prime Press, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163549)
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Philadelphia: The Prime Press, [1949]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-232, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#163630)
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London: Philip Allan, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-249 [250-256: ads], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#161230)
More Details about MONSTERS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES
London: Philip Allan, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: ad], original dark blue cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#161231)
More Details about NIGHTMARES: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES
London: Philip Allan, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-243 [244: blank] [245-256: ads], original green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#161232)
More Details about POWERS OF DARKNESS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162634)
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New York: Ace Books, [1991]. Octavo, light blue wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. (#163290)
More Details about THE PAPER GRAIL
Seattle, Washington: The Axolotl Press, [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163010)
More Details about TWO VIEWS OF A CAVE PAINTING & THE IDOL'S EYE ... ESCAPE FROM KATHMANDU
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162387)
More Details about THE FROZEN YEAR
N[ew] Y[ork]: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162533)
More Details about THE SEEDLING STARS
Canberra City, Australia: Graeme Flanagan, July 1979. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-62 [63-64], illustrations, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. First edition. (#163711)
More Details about ROBERT BLOCH: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY ... [caption title
[London]: Macmillan [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. (#162284)
More Details about THE TODD DOSSIER, [by] Collier Young [pseudonym
Baltimore, Maryland: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162290)
More Details about DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES: FOUR SHORT NOVELS
Los Angeles: Utopia Publications, n.d. [1948]. Large octavo, title leaf and ten plates, laid into pictorial paper portfolio. First edition. (#162474)
More Details about A PORTFOLIO OF DRAWINGS BY HANNES BOK
New York: Gnome Press, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162537)
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New York: Gnome Press, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162538)
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New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162382)
More Details about FAR AND AWAY
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163488)
More Details about THE STAR CONQUERORS
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162543)
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Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, [2010]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163390)
More Details about THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY: A CRITICAL EDITION. VOLUME I: 1938-1943. William F....
Sauk City, Wis. Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162715)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162371)
More Details about THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#162372)
More Details about THE MACHINERIES OF JOY: SHORT STORIES
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162373)
More Details about THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Probable earliest state of the hardcover trade binding with publisher's monogram stamped upside down on spine panel (Currey binding B1). (#162374)
More Details about THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162375)
More Details about SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163424)
More Details about THE CHRONICLES OF LUCIUS LEFFING
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162707)
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Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#163528)
More Details about SCIENCE FICTION CARNIVAL: FUN IN SCIENCE-FICTION
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162498)
More Details about THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162230)
More Details about SPACE ON MY HANDS
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#163011)
More Details about WHAT MAD UNIVERSE
[New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1984]. Octavo, boards. Limited edition. (#163408)
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Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163336)
More Details about SOMEONE IN THE ROOM: STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW. Edited by Jack Adrian
Phoenix: Wonderful Publishing Company, 1974. Large octavo, twelve plates in pictorial paper envelope. First edition. (#163699)
More Details about JUNGLE LOVE: A PORTFOLIO OF DRAWINGS BY ROY G. KRENKEL BACKED WITH 12 RARE STILLS FROM THE...
New York: Canaveral Press, 1963. Octavo, illustrations by J. Allen St. John, cloth. First edition. (#163134)
More Details about SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), Ltd., [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163079)
More Details about BEYOND THE VISIBLE
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162232)
More Details about THE INCREDIBLE PLANET
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162234)
More Details about ISLANDS OF SPACE
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162236)
More Details about WHO GOES THERE? SEVEN TALES OF SCIENCE-FICTION
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162677)
More Details about DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162681)
More Details about THE HEIGHT OF THE SCREAM
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162684)
More Details about THE INHABITANT OF THE LAKE AND LESS WELCOME TENANTS
London: Science Fiction Club [Museum Press Limited], [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162476)
More Details about GATEWAY TO THE STARS
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163644)
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Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, light yellow-green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition, first binding. (#163364)
More Details about THE RAT RACE [by] Jay Franklin [pseudonym
Chicago, New York: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher, 1895. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-9] 10-316 [317: ad] [318: blank], original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First edition. (#162322)
More Details about THE KING IN YELLOW
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-308 [309-312: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, pictorial endpapers. First edition. (#162460)
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New York: Simon and Schuster, [1956]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. (#163047)
More Details about NO BLADE OF GRASS
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162238)
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[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. (#162553)
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New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162386)
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Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1999; 2000; 2000. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. First editions. (#163334)
More Details about THE ESSENTIAL HAL CLEMENT. VOLUME 1: TRIO FOR SLIDE RULE AND TYPEWRITER [with] THE ESSENTIAL HAL...
[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#162566)
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[Flagstaff, Arizona];: Northland Press, [1973]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] ix-xi [xii] 1-255 [256: blank], illustrations, cloth. (#163067)
More Details about WALT COBURN, WESTERN WORD WRANGLER AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162412)
More Details about THE SUPERNATURAL READER
London: Brown, Watson, Ltd, [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#162732)
More Details about THE GRIP OF THE STRANGLER (THE HAUNTED STRANGLER) by John C. Cooper. Adapted from the Screenplay...
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162523)
More Details about SILVER ON THE TREE
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163138)
More Details about FROM EVIL'S PILLOW
London: A Four Square Book, [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#163736)
More Details about NOT AFTER NIGHTFALL: STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND TERRIBLE
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. Publishers, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-386 [388-392: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#161268)
More Details about BRIGANDS OF THE MOON
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-341 [342: blank], original light yellow-brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Code "I-X" on copyright page. First binding of light yellow-brown cloth stamped in black. (#161267)
More Details about THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-351 [352-358: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. (#161270)
More Details about THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-302 [303-304: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original yellow-orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. (#161269)
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London: Gerald G. Swan, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#162273)
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Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-345 [346-348: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original light orange cloth, front panel stamped in brown and blind, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. (#163191)
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New York: Twayne Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#163199)
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