The first list of books from the collection of James Strand, most of whose collection was stolen after he died in August 2023. Many of these books are crime fiction he bought new in the last 1950s and 1960s. Most weren't stolen; a few were seized by law enforcement from the thieves and come with the evidence tags.
First Edition. One of just 107 numbered copies of this privately printed book reproducing 18 Beardsley illustrations for Poe's poems and stories. Most of these full page black-and-white images were previously unpublished. Introduction by Justin McCarthy. [ii], [45], [1:blank] pages. 7-5/8 by 10-1/2 inches. First (and only) edition. A very.....
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First Edition. The author's second book, a novel of murder and blackmail. Filmed as Worse Than Murder, the third episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller TV show. Uncommon in hardcover; it was retitled in paperback with the TV title. The Red Badge Mystery for August 1955. 212 pages. First edition (first.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A suspense novel about a writer who becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder. It was adapted for an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled Captive Audience, starring James Mason and Angie Dickinson. Published in the UK as Marion. 211 pages. First American edition (first printing.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #366012 The Tender Poisoner [Five Roundabouts to Heaven]. John Bingham](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366012.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768001634)
First US edition. A scarce 1950s novel, first published in the United Kingdom as Five Roundabouts to Heaven, that became the basis of an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode in 1962 and the 2007 film Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, and Patricia Clarkson. Avis DeVoto, the editor who saw.....
Price: $300
First US edition. A novel of reincarnation; an Englishman realizes he was part of a tragic love triangle in ancient Egypt. 380 pages. First American edition? There is no date on the title page, which would be the publisher's usual practice but American editions of British books sometimes don't follow.....
Price: $75
First US edition. The first Nigel Strangeways spy thriller, centering on the character's wife Georgia's discovery of a fascist plot to overthrow the British government. Uncommon in any edition. Orson Welles stopped work on an adaptation of Heart of Darkness to produce a film version of The Smiler with the.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #366040 Strange Eons [Signed, Numbered]. Robert Bloch](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366040.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768001565)
First Edition. The author of Psycho, who corresponded with Lovecraft as a teenager, writes Lovecraftian novel—a "wholehearted futuristic fantasy"—Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Published in an edition of 3500 copies; this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch, the publisher Stuart David Schiff, and the illustrators.....
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First Edition. A collection of occult detective stories. Foreword by Frank Belknap Long. 253 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket that has very slight tanning to the spine and a tiny nick along the bottom edge. Provenance: James Strand; stolen.....
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![Item No: #170631 Act of Providence [Signed, Numbered]. Joseph Payne Brennan,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/170631.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768001594)
First Edition. A Lucius Leffing mystery set at the first World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, which was focused on H. P. Lovecraft. This is one of 250 unnumbered (as issued), signed copies. 122, [4:blank] pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust.....
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First Edition. A stand-alone noir mystery about a man who moves to Taos, New Mexico, and becomes obsessed with solving a cold-case murder of a young woman. In Dutton's Guilt Edged Mystery series. 222 pages. First edition (stated). A very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket.....
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First Edition. Part of the Witch-Woman sequence in the long mystical fantasy series, the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Music from Behind the Moon was the first book published by the John Day Company. Illustrated with eight wood engravings by Leon Underwood. [viii], 52, [2] pages. An edition of.....
Price: $85
First US edition. The American edition of The Death of Grass, an apocalyptic science fiction novel about what happens when a virus appears in China that kills off all forms of grass, including most grain plants. The book appeared in the UK in 1956, which is the date on the.....
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First Edition. Six fantasy stories. Frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Published in an edition of 1000 signed, numbered copies. First edition (first printing). A very good copy, with bent corners. Lacking the scarce acetate dust jacket. Copy 174. From the collection of James Strand, with his posthumous bookplate on the front.....
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First Edition. A science fiction novella in which the protagonist accidentally causes all animals to die. Published in an edition of 210 numbered and signed copies. 62 pages. A near fine copy bound in velvet-covered boards. This is copy 102. This copy is from the library of the Lovecraft collector.....
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First Edition. "Twenty-four astonishing and memorable accounts of the ways in which the normal individual may run afoul of the bizarre, the occult, and the openly fiendish"—dust jacket. 327 pages. First edition (states "Published in January 1941" with no indication of later printings on the copyright page). A very good.....
Price: $100
First US edition. An Inspector West mystery about a murder in a printing plant, making this a sort of bibliomystery. Originally published in the UK. 192 pages. First American edition (first printing with an "A" code on the copyright page). A fine, tight copy in a very near dust jacket.....
Price: $75
First US edition. An Inspector West mystery set in Milan about a dwarf assassin who poses as a child. Titled A Prince for Inspector West in the UK. 223 pages. First American edition (first printing with an "A" code on the copyright page). A fine, tight copy in a near.....
Price: $75
First US edition. A mystery orginally published in the UK as Two for Inspector West. 183 pages. First American edition (first printing with an "A" code on the copyright page). A fine, tight copy in a very near dust jacket with a couple of short tears. From the collection of.....
Price: $75
First US edition. An Inspector West mystery about a jeweler who turns to theft and murder. Originally published in the UK. 192 pages. First American edition (first printing with an "A" code on the copyright page). A fine, tight copy in a very near dust jacket with a short tear.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A collection of short stories with an introduction by Ellery Queen. xvii, 237, [1:blank] pages. First edition (first printing stated). A fine, tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket with minor bumping to the top of the spine. This copy comes from the collection of James.....
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First Edition. An Asian fantasy, about the sole survivor of a plane crash who wanders about mysterious places "where surreal ways of living expose themselves" (quoting Clute and Grant's Encyclopedia of Fantasy). Finney's first book, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards. 168 pages.....
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First Edition. A collection of seven novellas, each a sort of religious fantasy. In one, Hecht imagines a soul imprisoned in a steel girder; in another, he considers the fate of an angel come down from heaven. His story, The Little Candle, predicts the Holocaust, opening "on that dreadful July.....
Price: $85
First Edition. The continuing story of an artist's descent into madness. In this sequel, "the disparate fragments of Mallare's shattered personality prepare a temple for the god Synthemus"—Clute and Grant, Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Hecht won two Academy Awards for his film writing. Published in an edition of 2000 copies with.....
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First Edition. Three Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories, illustrated by Stephan Peregrine. This is one of 1300 copies, signed by Lieber and Peregrine on a separate illustrated sheet. 127 pages. 9-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches. First edition (first and only printing). A fine copy in a very good to near fine.....
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![Item No: #250961 Rime Isle [Signed, Numbered]. Fritz Leiber](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/250961.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768001570)
First Edition. A novel, published in an edition of 2500 copies. This is one of 250 signed, numbered copies, signed by Leiber, the publisher (Stuard David Schiff), and the illustrator Tim Kirk. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with wear at the bottom.....
Price: $100
