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Lizzie Borden. A Study in Conjecture.
LOWNDES, Mrs. Belloc
New York Longmans, Green and Co. 1939 First edition / First printing. A wonderful psychological study with speculation about the motives behind the infamous murders. Author's original signature, written in vintage fountain pen ink on...
Night Shift (Signed).
KING, Stephen
Garden City, NY Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1978 First edition / First printing. The author's first anthology of short stories, collects twenty terrifying tales, almost half of which (nine of the twenty) went on to...
Salem's Lot (Signed).
KING, Stephen
Garden City Doubleday 1975 First edition / First printing. The author's second published and now-classic vampire novel (after "Carrie"). Filmed in 1979 for television, directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul. Filmed again for...
Hannibal (Signed).
HARRIS, Thomas
New York Delacorte Press 1999 First edition / First printing. The author's fourth novel, and the third in the four-book "Hannibal" series, about a sociopathic, cannibal psychiatrist. Basis for the 2001 film, directed by Ridley...
The Talisman (Signed).
KING, Stephen & Peter Straub.
New York Viking 1984 First edition / First printing. This 1984 collaboration between King and Straub charts the adventures of twelve year old, Jack Sawyer. SIGNED by King on a tipped-in bookplate decal and inscribed...
"The Reaper's Image" in Startling Mystery Stories, Spring...
KING, Stephen
New York Health Knowledge, Inc. 1969 First edition / First printing. Contains King's second professional sale and commercially published story, "The Reaper's Image" - and his first professional appearance on a magazine cover. Wrappers a...
Cujo (Signed Lettered Edition).
KING, Stephen
New York Mysterious Press 1981 First limited edition. The limited edition. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by the author. The lettered edition is not noted on the colophon, but instead is indicated by the...
A Journey to the World Under-Ground. By Nicholas...
HOLBERG, Ludvig [Nicholas Klimius, pseudonym]
London Printed for T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and B. Collins, Bookseller, in Salisbury 1742 First edition in English. A fantasy classic satire using the hollow earth setting. Anatomy of Wonder,...
Carrie (Signed).
KING, Stephen
New York Doubleday 1974 First edition / First printing. The author's first published novel, and to this day, one of his most horrifying, about a young girl with telekinetic powers. Basis for the 1976 film...
Genius Loci and Other Tales.
SMITH, Clark Ashton.
Sauk City Arkham House 1948 First edition / First printing. Jacket art by Frank Wakefield. Jaffery, Horrors and Unpleasantries #35. Black cloth marked, spine stamping dull. Front panel of jacket bright and clean, spine a...
Typescript.
LE CARRE, John
[c. 1968] Original typescript. Undated. Four pages of typescript, with extensive holograph corrections, given to a host of Le Carre's on Prince Edward Island in 1968. Apparently early draft pages of A Small Town in...
Travellers in Darkness: The Souvenir Book of the...
JONES, Stephen (ed.)
Wembley, Middx England World Horror Convention 2007 2007 Limited edition. One of a limited edition of 600 copies published. Each copy of the book has blank pages in the rear to allow the attendee to...
A Hornbook For Witches.
DRAKE, Leah Bodine
Sauk City, WI Arkham House 1950 First edition / First printing. One of 553 copies printed (of which 300 were purportedly given to the author), making this one of the rarest of books published by...
The Lost Get-Back Boogie (Signed).
BURKE, James Lee
Baton Rouge & London LSU Press 1986 First edition / First printing. SIGNED by Burke on the title page.
The Face (Signed).
KOONTZ, Dean
New York Bantam Books 2003 First edition / First printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "May the face always shine upon you! Dean Koontz, 5-1-07". Also includes a TLS from...
Who Goes There? (Signed)
CAMPBELL, John W.
Chicago Shasta Publishers 1948 First edition / First printing. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper and therefore presumably one of an unknown number of subscriber's copies signed by the author in this...
Interview With the Vampire.
RICE, Anne
New York Knopf 1976 First edition / First printing. The author's first book, and first entry in "The Vampire Chronicles" series. A cult vampire tale and modern horror classic. Basis for the 1994 film of...
The Wolfen.
STRIEBER, Whitley
New York William Morrow & Co. 1978 First edition / First printing. The author's first book and one of the best werewolf novels ever written. Basis for the terrifying 1981 film of the same name,...
The Shrinking Man (Signed).
MATHESON, Richard
London David Bruce and Watson 1973 First edition / First printing. Classic science fiction with elements of horror from one of the masters of the craft. Number 18 on Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best...
Dead Names. The Dark History of the Necronomicon...
SIMON
Burton, MI Subterranean Press 2006 First limited edition. Special, signed edition limited to 350 numbered and 13 lettered copies, this being LETTER J. SIGNED and inscribed on a special limitation page: "Mind the gate! Simon."...
Psycho II (Signed Limited Edition).
BLOCH, Robert
Binghamton, NY Whispers Press 1982 First limited edition. One of 750 special edition numbered copies, this being number 32. SIGNED by the author and designer, Stuart Schiff, on a special limitation page inserted at the...
Thinner (Signed).
KING, Stephen [as BACHMAN, Richard]
New York New American Library 1984 First edition / First printing. A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight. The first hardcover book by Stephen King under the Bachman pseudonym, after four paperback...
"The Glass Floor" in Startling Mystery Stories, Fall...
KING, Stephen
New York Health Knowledge, Inc. 1967 First edition / First printing. Contain's King's first professional sale and commercially published story, "The Glass Floor," a story sold when he was just out of high school and...
Frankenstein. The Original Screenplay. (Signed Lettered Edition).
KOONTZ, Dean
Catskill, NY Charnel House 2005 First limited edition. Dean Koontz' vision of a modern day Frankenstein. This being the author's original screenplay for the two-hour pilot episode of the USA Network television series. Also includes...
Red Dragon.
HARRIS, Thomas
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1981 First edition / First printing. The author's second novel, and the first in the four-book "Hannibal" series, about a sociopathic, cannibal psychiatrist. Filmed twice, first in 1986 by Michael...
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ORWELL, George
New York Harcourt Brace 1949 First American edition. The first American edition of his classic dystopia, a chilling extrapolation of the political tendencies in postwar Great Britain and one of the most influential works of...
Dark Carnival (Signed).
BRADBURY, Ray
Sauk City, WI Arkham House 1947 First edition / First printing. First printing of the first edition of the author's first book. One of 3,112 copies printed. Collects twenty-seven classic short stories. SIGNED by Bradbury...
Planet of the Apes.
BOULLE, Pierre
New York Vanguard 1963 First American edition. First edition in English, translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Originally published in France (1963) as La Planete des Singes. Basis for the imaginative and very successful...
The Shining (Signed).
KING, Stephen
Garden City, NY Doubleday 1977 First edition / First printing. The author's third published novel, and first best-selling hardcover. Basis for the 1980 classic horror film of the same name, directed by Stanley Kubrick and...
Black Sunday.
HARRIS, Thomas
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1975 First edition / First printing. The author's scarce first book and a prescient thriller about a Middle Eastern terrorist group planning to inflict carnage at the Superbowl with the...
The View From the Stars (Signed).
MILLER, Walter M., Jr.
New York Ballantine 1965 First edition / First printing. SIGNED and inscribed by Miller on the title page: "For Dan - Regards, Walter Miller Jr., 4-11-88." True, first Ballantine printing in very good overall condition,...
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
LEWIS, C. S.
New York The Macmillan Company 1950 First American edition. Stated "First Printing" of the First American edition of this classic story for children. A custom designed binding, finely bound in full leather by Green Dragon...
Survivor.
BUTLER, Octavia E
Garden City, NY Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1978 First edition / First printing. Butler's third novel, an installment in her Patternmaster series that details a secret history of the world involving telepathy, shape-shifting, and a...
Antiquities (Signed).
CROWLEY, John
Seattle Incunabula 1993 First limited edition. The limited edition of this collection of stories, one of only 77 numbered copies in Japanese cloth and Egyptian papyrus signed by the author.
The Shunned House.
LOVECRAFT, H.P.
Athol, Massachusetts W. Paul Cook - The Recluse Press 1928 First edition / First printing. First edition printing of Lovecraft's first book. This is one of approximately 50 sets of unbound sheets, from a total...
The House on the Borderland and Other Novels.
HODGSON, William Hope
Sauk City, WI Arkham House 1946 First [combined] edition. One of 3,014 copies printed. Dust jacket art by Hannes Bok. Foreword by H. C. Koenig. Includes A. Langley Searles' complete Hodgson Bibliography. This is the...
The Swarm (Signed).
HERZOG, Arthur
New York Simon & Schuster 1974 First edition / First printing. SIGNED by Herzog on the front free endpaper: "ZZZZZZZ, Bee Wise. Arthur Herzog." A mint, unread copy in pristine jacket. Basis for the 1978...
Hawthorne.
JAMES, Henry
New York Harper & Brothers 1880 First American edition. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's copy with his signature and date, 1880, on the title page. From the "English Men of Letters" series, edited by John Morley. Bound...
The Stand (Signed).
KING, Stephen
Garden City, NY Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1978 First edition / First printing. The author's fourth published novel, widely hailed by critics and fans as one of his best, superbly weaves elements of horror and...
Eragon (Privately Published Edition, Signed).
PAOLINI, Christopher
Livingston, Montana Paolini International, LLC 2002 First edition / First printing. The very rare, privately self-published true first edition of the author's first book. Set in the mythical world of Alagaesia, "Eragon" is the first...
Patternmaster.
BUTLER, Octavia
Garden City, NY Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1976 First edition / First printing. A review copy of the first novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, who was also the first science fiction writer...
The Executioner's Song (Signed).
MAILER, Norman
Boston Little, Brown & Co. 1979 First edition / First printing. Meticulous and exhaustive examination of the events leading up to and surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder...
Elephant Bangs Train.
KOTZWINKLE, William
New York Pantheon 1971 First edition / First printing. The author's first work of adult fiction. A collection of 16 short stories. A pristine copy.
The Haunting of Hill House.
JACKSON, Shirley
New York Viking Press 1959 First edition / First printing. Considered one of the finest literary ghost stories ever published. Basis for two film adapations titled "The Haunting" - the 1963 Robert Wise film starring...
Dark Carnival (Signed Lettered Edition).
BRADBURY, Ray
Springfield, PA Gauntlet Press 2001 First limited edition. Collects the twenty-seven short stories that comprised the original 1947 Arkham House release. With an Afterword by Clive Barker. Includes a new introduction by Bradbury, two short...
Carrie (Special Advance Proof).
KING, Stephen
New York Doubleday 1974 Special advance proof. The author's first published novel, and to this day, one of his most horrifying, about a young girl with telekinetic powers. Basis for the 1976 film of the...
The Face of Fear.
KOONTZ, Dean R. (Brian Coffey)
New York Bobbs Merrill 1977 First edition / First printing. Dean R. Koontz writing as Brian Coffey. A superior copy. Scarce.
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.
HODGSON, William Hope
London White Lion Publishers Limited 1975 First printing of this edition. Issued as one of the volumes in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult, with an introduction by Wheatley. Originally published in 1913, this...
Death Wish (Signed).
GARFIELD, Brian
New York David McKay Company, Inc. 1972 First edition / First printing. SIGNED letter (ALS) by Garfield, three paragraphs, typed on his own stationary, laid-in, mentioning 'Death WIsh' and the forthcoming release (at the time)...
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Signed).
KING, Stephen
New York Scribner 1999 First edition / First printing. The author's imaginative work about a young girl who strays from the path, while on a hike in the woods. SIGNED by the author in blue...
Slaughterhouse-Five.
VONNEGUT, Kurt
New York Delacorte 1969 First edition / First printing. His masterwork, a powerful fictional memoir of his experiences during the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany. Vonnegut's philosophical reflections on the tragic absurdity of humankind are...
The Sundial.
JACKSON, Shirley
New York Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 1958 First edition / First printing. The author's macabre and satirical end-of-the-world novel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy of a book that is...
Stacked Deck. The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told...
O'Neil, Dennis (Foreward) and Mike Gold (Introduction)
Stamford, CT Longmeadow Press 1990 First limited edition. Boldly SIGNED by Jack Nicholson in blue marker on the half-title page, who expertly played The Joker in the 1989 (first) Batman movie, directed by Tim Burton...
The Glass Cat of OZ (One of 25...
HULAN, David
New York Emerald City Press 1995 First edition / First printing. Part of a limited edition of 350 numbered/signed copies and 25 copies numbered I-XXV, of which this is number VI [ 6 ] of...
Dolores Claiborne (Signed).
KING, Stephen
New York Viking 1993 First edition / First printing. Narrated by the title character, this unique King novel reads as one continuous narrative, with no chapters or section breaks. A mesmerizing crime novel with elements...
Flowers in the Attic.
ANDREWS, V[irginia] C.
New York Simon & Schuster 1979 First edition / First printing. The author's first novel and first book in the Dollanganger series, in which she expertly entwines gothic horror and family saga. Basis for the...
The Boys From Brazil (Signed).
LEVIN, Ira
New York Random House 1976 First edition / First printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Jacket flap price of $8.95 intact as is 3/76 date...
Dance Hall of the Dead.
HILLERMAN, Tony
New York Harper & Row 1973 First edition / First printing. Hillerman's third novel, and second mystery featuring Navajo tribal detective Joe Leaphorn. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel of the Year...
Petals On the Wind.
ANDREWS, V[irginia] C.
New York Simon & Schuster 1980 First edition / First printing. The scarce second novel by the author of "Flowers in the Attic" and the second book in the Dollanganger series, in which Ms. Andrews...
Egil's Saga (Signed).
EDDISON, E.R.
London Cambridge University Press 1930 First edition / First printing. A retelling of the Icelandic saga by one of the preeminent fantasy novelists of his time, the author of The Worm Ouroboros and Styrbiorn the...
Magic (Signed).
GOLDMAN, William
New York Delacorte Press 1974 Second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by Goldman on the title page: "18 Nov 76 / For Dr Joe / who is where I got 'schmucko' from. One of my sources...
The World of The Dark Crystal.
FROUD, Brian
New York Knopf 1982 First edition / First printing. Scarce hardcover issue, tough to find. Outstanding work by Froud. Exceptional copy, unread.
I Am Legend.
MATHESON, Richard
New York Walker and Company 1970 First hardcover edition. Classic science fiction by one of the masters, about the lone survivor of a bacterial pandemic living among "vampires" in futuristic Los Angeles. A unique blend...
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