Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

The Rain Will Stop (signed/limited).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £150.00

Publisher: The Pretentious Press: Rochester, MI. : 2000.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 50862

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy in original mailing envelope.

20-page booklet, featuring the ''author's earliest surviving literay work including his own illustrations reproduced from his original notebook in 1942''. A very attractive item with a tipped-in b/w photo of Aldiss (aged 12) at the front and four further tipped-in colour plates. LIMITED EDITION: 85 copies printed all signed by the author. The 14th title from The Pretentious Press. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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My Country 'Tis Not Only Of Thee: A Story Of The World After The Vietnam War.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Privately printed by the author. : 1986.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 12438

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

28 page short story, printed for the Aldiss Appreciation Society. LIMITED EDITION: 100 signed copiesprinted (though this copy - like most - has not been signed).
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The Exposure of Pamela (75 numbered copies).

By: Benson, E. F.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hermitage Books: Norfolk, UK. : 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46056

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

16 page short story reprinted from The Storyteller, August, 1924. LIMITED EDITION: ''reprinted by Hermitage Books in an edition of 75 numbered copies'' stated on copyright page. This is no 16. Very uncommon item.
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The Cancer Machine.

By: Binder, Eando

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Bizarre Series: Millheim, PA. : 1940.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 08726

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

32 page booklet. SF story. Bizarre Series no 3 - the last of three sf small-sized (15cm x 11cm) booklets published by Richard Frank 1937-1940.
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A Letter To Judith: A Work Of Poetry.

By: Carter, Lin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Privately printed by the author. : 1959.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 23357

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

500 copies printed for private distribution. The author's third book to be published in so far as this 16-page booklet can be so termed.
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Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1939-1959: A History And Bibliography (signed by August Derleth)..

By: Derleth, August (ed.)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1959.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 12959

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Digest-sized (17.5cm x 11cm) 54-page booklet. 815 copies printed of which this is one of 735 paperbound copies (there was also an 80-copy hardcover edition). SIGNED BY DERLETH/''Sincerely, August Derleth''.
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The Future of Canadian Literature (limited/numbered).

By: Doyle, Adrian Conan

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Arthur Conan Doyle Society: Chester, UK. : 1994.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46075

ISBN-13: 9781899060016

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

12 page booklet: contains the five page essay by Doyle plus a three page introduction by publisher/editors Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden. LIMITED EDITION: 125 copies printed. This is no 116.
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Waterspout Up.

By: Etkin, Anne

Price: £50.00

Publisher: T-K Graphics: Baltimore. : 1975.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46411

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

50 page (almost certainly unauthorised) parody of Richard Adams' WATERSHIP DOWN. A very uncommon item.
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Footsteps: Tales Of Quiet Horror no 1.

By: FOOTSTEPS, (ed. Ian Hunter)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Huntiegouke Press: Carluke, Scotland. : 1995.

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 50537

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Staples a little rusty, else a fine copy.

No 1 (October, 1995). The first of at least four issues 1995-1997 of Scottish small-press horror A5 magazine. Not to be confused with the Bill Munster edited magazine (ten issues) of the same title published in the USA 1983-1993. This issue includes stories by D. F. Lewis, William Meikle, Peter Tennant and Peter Valentine Timlett.
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Footsteps: Tales Of Quiet Horror no 2.

By: FOOTSTEPS, (ed. Ian Hunter)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Huntiegouke Press: Carluke, Scotland. : 1996.

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 50538

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 2 (March, 1996). The first of at least four issues 1995-1997 of Scottish small-press horror A5 magazine. Not to be confused with the Bill Munster edited magazine (ten issues) of the same title published in the USA 1983-1993. This issue includes stories by D. F. Lewis and William Meikle.
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Footsteps: Tales Of Quiet Horror no 4.

By: FOOTSTEPS, (ed. Ian Hunter)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Huntiegouke Press: Carluke, Scotland. : 1997.

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 50540

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 4 (Spring/Summer, 1997). The first of at least four issues 1995-1997 of Scottish small-press horror A5 magazine. Not to be confused with the Bill Munster edited magazine (ten issues) of the same title published in the USA 1983-1993. This issue includes stories by Peter Tennant and D. F. Lewis.
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Rhode Island On Lovecraft (signed by Donald M. Grant).

By: Grant, Donald M. (& Thomas P. Hadley, eds.)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Grant-Hadley: Providence, RI. : 1945.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19007

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Green covers are considerably faded/browned along the edges, page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

28 page booklet: collects five essays on Lovecraft by friends/colleagues he knew him in Rhode Island. See L. W. Currey: SF & Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography Of First Printings Of Their Fiction p. 334. SIGNED BY DONALD M. GRANT.
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The Final War (+ ten separate postcards)

By: Keller, David H.

Price: £750.00

Publisher: Perri Press: Portland, OR. : 1949.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46119

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: A near fine (NF) copy.

SF story - part Cthulhu Mythos (one of the postcards is captioned 'GREAT CTHULHU And His World'). A very unusual item and a very unusual idea. To quote from the author's foreword/''following a contest for art supremacy, ten drawings were selected by the members of the Portland Science Fiction Society to be reproduced on postcards. Each artist worked independently: there was no attempt at any central thought. On receiving a set of these cards, Dr. Keller thought a story could be told they would amply illustrate''. This booklet consists of ten mimeographed single page chapters, each based...
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A Natural Body And A Spiritual Body: Some Worcestershire Encounters With The Supernatural.

By: Leatherbarrow, J. S.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Privately printed by the author. : 1983.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46064

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

56 page booklet: contains twelve supernatural stories with a short introduction from the author (in which he states that ''four of these stories have appeared in ''Berrow's Worcester Journal as Christmas features''). Ash-Tree Press brought out a hardcover in 2007 but this booklet, privately printed by the author in 1983, is the true first edition.''a ghostly goat; the strange inmates of a country nursing home; the oddly dressed inhabitants of an unusual village; the vengeful guardian of a family horoscope; the evil possessing a church carving; the horror of a visit to a stately home: these ar...
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Further Criticism Of Poetry.

By: Lovecraft, H. P.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Eric Carlson: Duluth, Minnesota. : 1976.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 50885

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with light browning along edges of covers and several light splash stains on rear cover.

16-page booklet reprinting Lovecraft's non-fiction piece originally published (as a separate - rare - booklet) in 1932. 150 copies printed (as stated on inside back cover''One Hundred And Fifty Copies of This Publication Have Been Printed in November 1976 For The Fourth Mailing of The Necronomicon by Eric Carlson''.
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The Lovecraft Collector.

By: Lovecraft, H. P.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Necronomicon Press: USA. : 1977.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 22839

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

16 page booklet. Reprints the three issues of THE LOVECRAFT COLLECTOR originally published in 1949 ''and the first magazine to be devoted to the collecting of H. P. Lovecraft''. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies printed. This is 123, numbered in red ink.
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The Providence Amateur no 1, June 1915 (and) the Providence Amateur no 2, February 1916 [all published].

By: Lovecraft, H. P.

Price: £1,950.00

Publisher: Providence Amateur Press Club. : 1915-1916.

Edition: First editions.

Seller ID: 51388

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Issue 2 has mailing crease, else both are fine copies.

Two issues in total published 1915-1916 of the small (18.5cm x 13cm) fanzine ''Official Organ of the Providence Amateur Press Club''. Lovecraft, the club's ''Literary Director'', edited both issues, with a poem to the first issue, and four contributions to the second issue - an editorial, an editorial note and two poems (both written under the pseudonym ''Lewis Theobald, Jr.''). Very rare fanzines.
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Michael Moorcock: A Bibliography.

By: Moorcock, Michael

Price: £15.00

Publisher: T-K Graphics: Baltimore. : 1976.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 08886

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a little browning along the spine edges.

By Andrew Harper & George McAulay. Partially annotated bibliographical checklist plus biographical notes, series listing, and map of Melnibone.
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The First Editions Of Andre Norton.

By: Norton, Andre

Price: £10.00

Publisher: David G. Turner: CA. : 1974.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 52690

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

12-pages, including covers, by David G. Turner. Science Fiction Bibliographies 1.
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Love Among The Xoids (signed/limited).

By: Sladek, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Chris Drumm: Polk City. : 1984.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 02813

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Short story: 16 page chapbook. Drumm Booklet no 15. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 15.
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The Lost Nose: A Programmed Book.

By: Sladek, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Big Engine: Abingdon, Oxon. : 2001.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 52983

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

20-page booklet, a short story by Sladek with alternative plot lines depending on which pages you turn to. Not issued for sale, but as a promotional item for Big Engine's MAPS: THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF JOHN SLADEK (2002) from which this short story is taken.
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Dream Dealers And Other Shadows (inscribed to Joseph Payne Brennan).

By: Troyanovich, Steve

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Triton Press: Boulder Creek, CA. : 1978.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 46410

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Poetry collection. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, SIGNED TO JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN/''for Joseph Payne Brennan, with appreciation and special wishes, Steve''.
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The English Leopard: An Heraldic Dialogue (signed by the author).

By: Valentine, Mark

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Mark Valentine: Publisher. : 2023.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 53030

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Eight-page booklet, first published by the author in 2005, this new limited/signed edition is revised by the author. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies signed by the author.
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Xenos no 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 [7 issues].

By: XENOS, (ed. Stephen Copestake)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: : 1997-1998.

Edition: First editions.

Seller ID: 50714

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copies.

UK small-press sf/fantasy A5 magazine. These later issues were subtitled 'The Premier International Short Story Magazine' but up to no 42 (or 43, 44, not sure) it had been subtitled 'Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum Magazine'. In the editorial for no 49 (June 1998), the editor states that the magazine has been nominated in four categories for that years British Fantasy Society awards - one for best small-press magazine, one for best editor, and two for best short story (both by David L. Stone). I think (but am not certain) that no 51 was the final issue.
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Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

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