The Valley of Fear
by Spare, Austin Osman
London: Fulgur Limited, 2008. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 800 copies. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped (£40.00), a scuff at the head of the spine. Green cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first publication of Spare's sketchbook from a tumultous time in his life, with an analytical essay about the development of Spare's magico-aesthetic.
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The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green
by Sparkes, Boyden; Moore, Samuel Taylor
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faded at the spine and with a small chip at the head. Green cloth, thin bands of fading at the edges. Square and firmly bound with a purple top stain, clean internally. An early biography of "America's richest woman" and who the Guiness Book of World Records dubbed "the greatest miser.
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Beyond Worlds: My Fantastic Journey to Our Tenth Planet, Decem!
by Oldest Spears
East Chicago: Zapadores Publication, 2004. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good. 34p. Very Good. Card covers with some stains on the back. Firmly bound with three staples, some wavering to the pages, clean otherwise. A work in the Space Brothers tradition in which Oldest Spears recounts his trip to and experiences on Decem, a planet in our solar system beyond Pluto. Two holdings located in OCLC, but neither for this edition. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson. ... Read More
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The Voice at the Back Door
by Spencer, Elizabeth
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Spencer on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly rubbed at the edges, a few small stains. Black and grey buckram on the boards, minimal rubbing at the edges and corners, with white and orange ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the top edge, rear endpaper clipped at the top corner.... Read More
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Hide This Book
by Spencer, Jim
Milwaukee: Vanity Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Limited to 200 copies signed by Spencer. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps lightly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound with two staples. A collection of pithy, word-play one-liners.
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The Generous Days
by Spender, Stephen
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is number 118. Fine in the linen and marbled paper binding. A collection of ten poems, including "To W.H. Auden on His Sixtieth Birthday," "The Generous Days," "Voice From a Skull," and others.
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Weird Fantasy EC Archives Volumes 1-4 Box Set
by Spicer, Bill; Benson, John; Evanier, Mark; Menville, Doug
West Plains: Russ Cochran, Publisher, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, bumped and with some rubbing. Pictorial cloth on the boards, lightly bumped, some scuffing at the spines. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus of numbers 1 through 22.
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The Vault of Horror EC Archives Volumes 1-5 Box Set
by Spicer, Bill; Benson, John
West Plains: Russ Cochran, Publisher, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, bumped and with some rubbing. Pictorial cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus of numbers 12 through 40.
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Weird Science EC Archives Volumes 1-4 Box Set
by Spicer, Bill; Benson, John; Evanier, Mark; Menville, Doug
West Plains: Russ Cochran, Publisher, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, bumped and with some rubbing. Pictorial cloth on the boards, lightly bumped, some scuffing at the spines. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus of numbers 1 through 22.
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Weird Science-Fantasy and Incredible Science Fiction EC Archives Volumes 1-2 Box Set
by Spicer, Bill; Mason, Bill; Stewart, Bhob
West Plains: Russ Cochran, Publisher, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, bumped and with some rubbing. Pictorial cloth on the boards, lightly bumped, some scuffing at the spines. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus of numbers 23 through 33.
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The Stool Pigeon and the Open Shop Movement
by Spielman, Jean E.
Minneapolis: The American Publishing Company, 1923. Paperback. Good. Good in wraps. General soiling and dampstaining, bumped and rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound with lightly toned pages. Spielman's defense of labor unions centered on demonizing the "stool pigeon" and the open shop movement. Among the eight chapters are titles such as "The Open Shop Movement and Its Allies," "The Labor Crushing Detective Agency Modus Operandi," "The Agent Provocateur in Action," "The Intrigant," and "The... Read More
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Postcard Book
by [Spielberg, Steven]
New York: Prime Press, 1978. First Edition. Staplebound. Near Fine. Near Fine. Covers lightly toned and bumped at the corners. Firmly bound, all postcards present and unmarked. A collection of postcards illustrated with stills from the classic sci-fi film.
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[ALS] Dear Elliot
by Spillane, Mickey
1951. Very Good. Very Good. One sheet, toned at the edges, two creases running horizontally, and with some minor handling wear. A typed letter signed by Spillane and with a few pencil manuscript additions in the margins. Here Spillane writes to Elliot [?] about his ambivalence regarding appearing in Newsweek. In the second paragraph, Spillane voices his dissatisfaction with his agent, who apparently never forwards Spillane his mail. Spillane then closes the letter with a reference to working... Read More
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ET Experiencers: From Planetary Persons to Cosmic Citizens
by Sprinkle, R. Leo
Fort Collins: Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations, 2009. Staplebound. Very Good. 29p., rectos only. Very Good. Pages firmly bound with one staple, some light creases and handling wear, a few instances of marginalia. Sprinkle's lecture with the thesis that experiencers are more scientifically minded than scientists, support with his explanations of "Old Science" and "New Science." One copy located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Grub Street Nights Entertainments
by Squire, J.C.
New York: George H. Horan Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black cloth, toned, rubbed at the edges, faded gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, clean internally.
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The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000
by Stableford, Brian; Langford, David
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges, some creases at the corners. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the half-title, clean otherwise. Stableford and Langford's predictive history written as a narrative from the year 3000 looking back on the "past" 1,000 years.
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The Angel of Pain
by Stableford, Brian
New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($21.00). Quarter red cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second novel in Stableford's historical horror featuring David Lydyard.
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Complete Novels: Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion, The Catherine Wheel
by Stafford, Jean
New York: Library of America, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. #324. Edited by Kathryn Davis. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($40.00 on the back panel), lightly bumped. Red cloth. Square and firmly bound with a sewn-in bookmark, a few pages bumped at the corners, clean otherwise.
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A Glass Face in the Rain; New Poems
by Stafford, William
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Stafford on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95). Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Writing the World
by Stafford, William
Baltimore: Alembic Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Nea Fine. Near Fine. Purple wraps faded near the spine. Firmly bound with string, clean internally. A collection of fourteen poems by the prolific poem and poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.
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Plumes
by Stallings, Laurence
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the spine, a few chips at the edges. Blue buckram, pushed at the corners and with some stains on the panels, black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, a small indent to some pages at the top edge, clean internally. Stallings's autobiographical post-war novel about "the intimate personal... Read More
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Stone Dogfall Vol. 1 No. 1
by Stamey, Dennis
Asheville: Dennis Stamey, 1971. First Edition. Staplebound. Good. 6p. Good. Bound with one staple, pages folded, presumably from mailing, with some faint stains and handling wear, underlining to the final article about the "Death of ufology." A collection of short articles in the Fortean vein, with one discussing a Mothman sighting in North Carolina. In the final article, Stamey predicts the death of ufology with the ultraterrestrial hypothesis, criticizing John A. Keel's conclusions in Operation Trojan Horse by... Read More
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Socorro 'Saucer' in a Pentagon Pantry
by Stanford, Ray
Austin: Blue Apple Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Stanford. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), lightly soiled at the back panel. Blue cloth, some uneven discoloration, with gilt lettering on the spine, blue gilt design on the front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Stanford's book about the Socorro sighting, drawing heavily from his interviews with witnesses beyond Lonnie Zamora. From... Read More
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Look Up
by Stanford, Ray and Rex
[n.p.]: Ray Stanford, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. With a disclaimer stamp and signature of Ray Stanford on the first page. About Very Good. Wraps unevenly toned, rubbed and bumped at the edgs. Square, firmly bound with two staples, foxed at the edges. Written by the Stanfords in their teen years, this work puts forth an "Adamanskian" explanation of UFOs later rejected by the authors. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Ossibiss: A Mystical Science Fiction Trilogy
by Stanloz, Dragan
[n.p.]: The Classic Print, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed on the half-title by Stanloz. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed, unevenly toned. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Stanloz's trilogy about the time voyages of Arthur as he battles "to liberate the spirit from the mundane humanity," featuring The Serpent's Tail, And Then the Night Fell, and The Gilderthorn.
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