Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy in printed yellow wrappers (paper covers), issued prior to the first edition. A sequel to The Desert Rose. 461 pages. Near fine. Minor bend to lower front cover, tea (?) stain on top edge. Signed by McMurtry on the first blank.

First Edition. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but.....

First Thus. Crews' fourth novel about an outlaw band of karate fanatics. This is a paperback reissue. 218 pages. First printing of this paperback edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy, inscribed on the half-title page, "Tom—back off and re-think the whole thing—all best, Harry Crews."

First Thus. A science fiction space opera, the first volume in the Hyperion Cantos, and the winner of both the Hugo and Locus awards in 1990. One of the standout SF novels of the last quarter of the 20th century. This is the massmarket paperback edition. 482 pages, plus an.....

First Edition. A short story. 32 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in illustrated boards (no dust jacket). This is copy T of 26 lettered copies, signed by Denton on a limitation page.

First Edition. A full-length biography of the great science fiction author. 384 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket bumped at the top of the spine. Signed on the title page by Ray Bradbury.

First Thus. A revised edition of the author's first book. First edition thus (states "First published 1933" on the copyright page). Red cloth covers darkened; lacking the dust jacket. This copy is, however, nicely inscribed, "To Nora Sherwood whose face should launch a thousand ships. I think I'll be taking.....

Pre-Vatican II Catholic rites in English. Written with Rev. Francis Augustine Walsh and Rev. William R. Kelly. 1852 pages. 41/4 by 6-5/8 inches. Early printing, without a date on the title page, but dated 1937 on the copyright page. A very good copy in the original leatherette binding.

First Edition. The first book with Arthur Rackham credited as the sole illustrator. xii, 188 pages. 17 full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations, all in black and white; title-page printed in red and black. First edition (foot of spine stamped J. M. Dent & Co.). Original publisher's.....

One of 20 copies quarter-bound in leather and issued in a folding clamshell box of the reissue of this cult novel, signed by Hjortsberg. This is the smallest limitation indicated on the colophon. The insides of the box are lined with the printed covers of the paperback version. With an.....

First Edition. Tales of terror and the macabre, first published in 2005 and here issued in an illustrated edition of 52 signed and lettered copies. Among the contributors are Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Ramsey Campbell, Gahan Wilson, and Clive Barker. Glenn Chadbourne.....

First Edition. Introduction by film director Roger Corman, who helmed the production of a cycle of Poe films based on scripts written by Matheson. This volume reprints Matheson's scripts for the film House of User (originally titled The Fall of the House of Usher) and The Pit and the Pendulum.....

First US edition. A collection of ghost stories, including the title story about a circus run by vampires. First published in the UK in 1932; both editions are scarce. "Capable, interesting stories"—Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1490. 11 stories, 329 pages. First US edition (stated). A very good copy in.....