SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE ANNUAL.
ERB Book Co: NY nd. Drawings, 7.5 x 5.25", pict stapled warps, 130 double-col pp, covers soiled with minor edge fray. Includes "Gangstera are Here Again" by J. Edgar Hoover. More
LITERATURE
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE MONTHLY, March, 1930.
Technicraft Publishing: Mount Morris, IL, 1930. Illustr, ads, 12 x 8.5, pict wraps, pp 193-286, spine and back cover missing, front cover rubbed, dull and chipped at edges, contents browned and brittle. Includes the last part of S.S. Van Dine's The Bishop Murder Case; sold mostly for the great cover..... More
THE SECRET 6, A New Detective Magazine
Pulp Classics #17. (Robert Weinberg: Chicago 1977). Drawings, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps, 113 double-col pp, covers yellowed from cigarette smoke. More
SECRET AGENT "X", The Man of a Thousand Faces.
Odyssey Publications: Greenwood, MA 1977. Drawings, 8 x 5.5", pict wraps, 127 double-col pp, yellowed from cigarette smoke else ok. More
SEEDS, The Biannual Journal of the Sisters of Color. Detroit. Vol. 4, fall 1996.
8.5 x 5.5, pict stapled wraps, 46 pp, covers a bit soiled. More
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY By Mr. Yorick [2 vols.]
T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt: NY, 1885. Hardcover. Facsimile of the first edition. 7 x 4", boards, 203; 208pp, spine labels defective, covers heavily worn and chipped, hinges splitting. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES. More
THE SHELBOURNE HOTEL, Dublin 1904.
Dublin, 1904. Folding map, illustr, ads, 5.75 x 4.5, color litho covers, 100 pp, covers soiled and worn with bottom of spine torn (and partially tape repaired), old price sticker adhesion mark inside front cover, contents toned but still good. Follow Leopold Bloom around Dublin on June 16, 1904. More
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED CARD FROM PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER MATTED WITH ORIGINAL PENCIL PORTRAIT OF MILLER.
np, nd. Signature is on 3.5 x 2 card, affixed to mat surrounding a 13 x 10 image by Detroit artist George Haessler. Card is browned from glue, inscription to Haessler, portrait nice. Would look nice framed. More
THE SIN EATERS.
Lost Fantasies #9. (Robert Weinberg: Chicago 1979). Drawings, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps, 96 double-col pp, covers yellowed from cigarette smoke. More
SINCE MAN BEGAN TO EAT HIMSELF. Four Poems, Two Stories: Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Kenneth Bernard; Allen Ginsberg; Toby Olson; Jerome Rothenberg and Joel Oppenheimer.
The Perishable Press, 1986. "Six etched illuminations and one composite drawing provisioned by Warrington Colescott," 11 x 7.25, 3/4 cloth, unpag, vg with original prospectus. ONE OF 113 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE CONTRIBUTORS AND WALTER HAMADY, THE BOOK'S DESIGNER. More
THE SKIPPER. Pulp Classics 16.
(Robert Weinberg: Chicago 1977). Drawings, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps, 91 double-col pp, covers yellowed from smoking. More
Small Press Kit for the movie "What Happened to Kerouac?" with a typed letter signed by producer Richard Lerner.
11 x 8.5, four page folder with photos, reviews (incl from Allen Ginsberg), synopsis, etc., w/ real and photocopied press clippings, etc. Letter is on Richard Lerner Productions letterhead, Jul 28, 1986, to a Detroit-area recipient regarding film. Mentions including " . . . some additional San Francisco reviews for..... More
SOME REMARKS ON THE BARRIER TREATY, Between Her Majesty and the States-General. By the Author of the Conduct of the Allies. To which are added, The said Barrier-Treaty.
London 1712. 7.5x4.75", removed, 48pp, title and last page heavily soiled. 2nd edition. More
SONG OF ROLAND, The Horn and The Death, two excerpts.
(Beverly Susan Kruger: Rhode Island School of Design: Providence, R.I. 1965). Illus by Kruger, 11x7", boards, unpaged, top of spine cracked, corners worn, slight insect hole at inner back gutter else ok. SIGNED BY KRUGER. More
"Sonny, An Introduction" the cover article on JD Salinger in Time Magazine, Sept. 15, 1961 [whole issue present].
Time Inc.: NY, 1961. Photos, ads, 11 x 8.5, pict wraps, 110 pp, covers well worn, contents toned and worn, with subscriber's address label on front cover else a decent, complete issue. Early article on JD Salinger. More
SOPHOCLIS TRAGOEDIAE SEPTEM; Cum versione Latina, notis et deperditorum dramatum fragmentis. Ex editione Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck. 2 Vols.
Oxford 1812. 8.5x5.5", full calf, 465; 384+index, bookplates, hinges cracked with some worming, some browning and foxing, ink inscriptions, minor stain to both f.e.ps. More
"Souvenir of Macbeth Produced at the Lyceum Theatre by Henry Irving Dec. 29th 1888 [cover title]
Cassell & Co.: London, (1888). Illus. by Charles Cattermole and J. Bernard Partridge, oblong 6.75 x 9.25", pict wraps, unpaginated, covers a bit worn and soiled, spine cello-tape reinforced, contents with some minor finger soiling; in reality, a cast list plus about 24pp of illustrations; the cast list includes Henry..... More
THE SPECTATOR. 8 Vols.
V.and R. Tonson: London 1765. Frontis, 6.5x4", mottled calf, bookplates, ink inscriptions, worn set, hinges cracked, spines chipped, few labels chipped, 1 lacking, still an age mellowed set. More
STARWARD BOUND, The Fantasy Issue
The Starward Bound, Inc.: np (Dayton, OH), 1989. Paperback. Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", pict stapled wraps, 78pp, covers a little rubbed else a nice copy of this fanzine published in the Dayton, OH area. More
"Stephen King: "I Like to Go For the Jugular", an Interview with Stephen King in the April 1981 issue of ROD STERLING'S THE TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE.
TZ Publications: NY, 1981. Paperback. Photos, illus; ads, 11 x 8", pict stapled wraps, 104pp, covers rubbed, edge-worn and creased, contents toned and used with some spotting; whole issue present. Also, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Gahan Wilson, George R.R. Martin, etc. With the teleplay of Sterling's TZ..... More
STORIES OF SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE, VOLUME 1, No. 1, Spring, 1951.
Read Adventures Publ Co: NY, 1951. Illustr, ads, 10 x 7, pict wraps, 96 pp, edge chipped, worn and pencil scratched darkened covers, spine taped, rear hinge torn at top, contents brown and brittle but intact. Three stories by James Anson Buck, and one by John Starr. Scarce pulp! Only..... More
STRAND MAGAZINE. Bound Volumes, each containing Arthur Conan Doyle stories, in highly attractive, custom made, recent, gilt-dec, leather-backed slipcases with gilt profile of Sherlock Holmes on spine.
London v.d. Illus, 9.5x6.5", half leather; cloth, most just ok, slipcases in v.g. condition. The following: a) Vol. III, July-Dec. 1891. Ilcludes "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "A Case of Idenity", The Boscombe Valley Mystery", The Five Orange Pips", and "The Man With The Twisted Lip". B) Vol..... More
THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. . .
Privately printed: np (J.G. Thieme: Holland), nd (c 1920). Illustr by William Strang and J.B. Clark, 9 x 6, half red leather, marbled boards, teg, 299 pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities beginning to fray, small stain at top of front board, top edge of rear board abraded, hinges a...... More
TALES FROM THE CRYPT
Ballantine Books: NY, (1964). Paperback. All illustrated, 7 x 4", color pict wraps by Frank Frazetta, 192pp with publisher's ad, covers worn, lightly soiled and creased, the "Y" in the title is filled-in with blue ballpoint pen, bottom of spine a little torn, contents toned and used. FIRST BALLANTINE PRINTING..... More
TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED, A Magazine of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society. #2 (Spring 1987) through #5 (Spring/Summer 1989).
4 issues. Minneapolis, MN. Illus, 11 x 8.5", pict stapled wraps, approx 48-56pp each, covers unevenly toned, edges worn, slight cigarette smoke odor else vg. More