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Item 235814PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography. Compiled by … with annotations by Steven Owen Godersky.

(Dick, Philip K) Levack, Daniel J. H.

Price: $1,250

San Francisco; Columbia., Pa: Underwood/Miller, 1981. First edition, one of 200 hardcover copies signed by Philip K. Dick, Levack and Godersky. Signed by PKD. Read More Item Details for PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography. Compiled by … with annotations by Steven Owen Godersky Add to Wish List

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Item 315289Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on anamnesis and identity, the events of March...

Dick, Philip K.

Price: $7,500

Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on anamnesis and identity, the events of March 1974, and his novel Valis Add to Wish List

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Item 228464Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing science fiction criticism and offering excuses and...

(Disch, Thomas M) Delany, Samuel R.

Price: $1,500

Amherst, MA: 2 October 1992. Samuel Delany on science fiction criticism, with overdue apologies. An interesting and digressive letter: “Dear Tom, “At long last I’m getting a manuscript back to you — with a long and unhappy tale. “In 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press sent me the enclosed manuscript of..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing science fiction criticism and offering excuses and abject apologies for his delay in returning the typescript of a book of collected criticism (“The Village Alien”, not present) sent to him by Johns Hopkins U.P. for evaluation, which Delany had neglected for almost two years Add to Wish List

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Item 248684The Chronicles of Rodriguez.

Dunsany, Lord.

Price: $450

London & New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1922. Sime, Sidney H. First edition, no. 478 of 500 copies signed by the author. Signed by Dunsany in his characteristically bold hand with a nice flourish at the “y”. Dedicated to William Beebe. Read More Item Details for The Chronicles of Rodriguez Add to Wish List

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Item 263551A Thin Ghost and Others.

James, Montague Rhodes.

Price: $600

New York: Longmans, Green & Co. London: Edward Arnold, 1920. First edition, Third Impression. The first American edition of M. R. James' third ghost story collection. Read More Item Details for A Thin Ghost and Others Add to Wish List

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Item 59587The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces. [Compiled by August Derleth].

Lovecraft, H.P. & Divers hands.

Price: $150

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. First edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More Item Details for The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces. [Compiled by August Derleth] Add to Wish List

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Item 315074The Big Con. The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game.

Maurer, David W.

Price: $1,750

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. First edition. Source for The Sting. Read More Item Details for The Big Con. The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game Add to Wish List

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Item 17714A group of items from Carroll A. Wilson including his autograph manuscript for “Poe as Detective” which is about 23...

(Poe, Edgar Allan) Wilson, Carroll A.

Price: $900

N. P: circa 1940's. “Poe as a Detective”. Accompanied by a photograph of Wilson. Also there is a small group of items relating to Poe including a four page pamphlet by Heartman entitled “Concerning a Poe Bibliography” dated by Wilson 10 Feb., 1941, the “Index to Early American Periodical Literture..... Read More Item Details for A group of items from Carroll A. Wilson including his autograph manuscript for “Poe as Detective” which is about 23 pages, several paste-ons and notations, apparently for a speech Add to Wish List

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Item 256824The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders. A Plain Statement of the Material Facts Pertaining to the...

Porter, Edwin W.

Price: $1,000

Fall River: Press of J. D. Munroe, 1893. First edition. Contemporary account of the events surrounding the murder of Andrew and Abbie Borden and the trial of their daughter Lizzie, by the police reporter of the Fall River Globe. At the end of the trial “she returned guiltless to her..... Read More Item Details for The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders. A Plain Statement of the Material Facts Pertaining to the Most Famous Crime of the Century … Add to Wish List

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