GROVE  ANTIQUARIAN

    001: HEAVY LADEN.  Alfred A. Knopf  N  1928

    002a:  BABES AND SUCKLINGS. Alfred A. Knopf  N  1929
    002x: (BABES AND SUCKLINGS) THE PARTY.  Popular Library 1966. Wraps.

    003a: GLADIATOR.  Alfred A. Knopf  N  1930.
    003b: GLADIATOR.  Avon 1949. #216. Wraps.
    003c: GLADIATOR.  Shakespeare House   1951.
    003d: GLADIATOR.  Avon 1957. #T-155. Wraps.
    003e: GLADIATOR.  Lancer 1958.  Wraps.
    003f: GLADIATOR.  Hyperion 1974.   With a new introduction by Sam Moskowitz.
    003g:  GLADIATOR.  Manor  1976. #15210. Wraps.
Made into a movie titled The Gladiator by Columbia Pictures in 1938 starring Joe E. Brown and June Travis.   He becomes a college football star after drinking a special serum.   Jerry Siegel acknowledged that GLADIATOR was the inspiration in 1933 for his Superman character which made its memorable first appearance in June 1938 in Action Comics.

    004: BLONDY'S BOY FRIEND.  Chelsea House N  1930. Written under the pseudoname Leatrice Homesley.

    005a: THE MURDERER INVISIBLE.  Farrar & Rinehart N 1931.
    005x:  THE MURDERER INVISIBLE.   Hyperion Press 1976.

    006: FOOTPRINT OF CINDERELLA.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1931. 
    007: FIVE FATAL WORDS  (with Edwin Balmer).  Ray Long & Richard R. Smith  N  1932.

    008a:  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer)  Serialization in Blue Book Magazine  in six installments: September1932 - February 1933.
    008b:  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  Frederick A. Stokes  N  1933.
    008c:  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  Stanley Paul  L  1933
    008x:  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  Editions for the Armed Forces. # 801. 1945. Wraps.
    008x:   WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  U. of Nebraska 1999. Wraps.
Made into a movie in 1951 produced by George Pal for Paramount Pictures.  The movie won an academy award for its special effects.

    009a:  AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer)  Serialization in Blue Book Magazine  in six installments: November 1933 - April 1934.
    009b:  AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  Frederick A. Stokes  N  1934
    009c:  AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE  (with Edwin Balmer).  Stanley Paul  L  1934

    010: THE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN.  Farrar & Rinehart N 1932.
    011: THE GOLDEN HOARD.  (with Edwin Balmer)  Frederick A. Stokes  N  1934.

    012: FINNLEY WREN:  HIS NOTIONS AND OPINIONS. Farrar & Rinehart  N  1934.

    013:  THE SHIELD OF SILENCE (with Edwin Balmer). 1936.
    014:  THE SMILING CORPSE.  By anonymous (Philip Wylie and Bernard A. Bergman).  Farrar & Rinehart N  1935.  A bibliomystery; subtitled "Wherein G. K. Chesterton, S. S. Van Dine, Sax Rohmer and Dashiell Hammett are surprised to find themselves at a murder".

    015a:  (AS THEY REVELED)  ONE LOVE AT A TIME.  A 50,000 word novel appearing in Redbook,  December 1935.  Expanded and published the next year as AS THEY REVELED.
    015b:  AS THEY REVELED.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1936.

    016a:  TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING.  Appeared in Red Book Magazine in May 1936.
    016b:  TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1936.

    017:  AN APRIL AFTERNOON.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1938

    018a:  THE BIG ONES GET AWAY!.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1940
    018x:  THE BIG ONES GET AWAY!.  Editions for the Armed Forces.  M-11. 1944. Wraps.

    019:  THE ARMY WAY (with William W. Muir).  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1940
    020:  DANGER MANSION.  Bantam Publications,  Los Angeles, 1940. Wraps. 

    021a:  SALT WATER DAFFY.  Farrar & Rinehart N 1941.
    021x:  SALT WATER DAFFY.  Editions for the Armed Forces.  Q-21. 1945. Wraps.

    022:  THE OTHER HORSEMAN.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1942

    023a:  GENERATION OF VIPERS.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1942.  First printing was 4000 copies, it sold out in one week.
    023x:  GENERATION OF VIPERS.  Rinehart  N  1946. Later printing; first edition thus.
    023x:  GENERATION OF VIPERS.  Dalkey Archive Press  1996. Wraps.

    024:  CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1943
    025a:  FISH AND TIN FISH.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1944
    025b:  FISH AND TIN FISH.  Editions for the Armed Forces.  L-19.  1944.  . Wraps.

    026a:  NIGHT UNTO NIGHT.  Farrar & Rinehart  N  1944.
    026b:  NIGHT UNTO NIGHT.  Editions for the Armed Forces.  774. 1945. Wraps.
Made into a movie of the same name by Warner Brothers in 1949 starring Ronald Reagan.

    027:  SELECTED SHORT STORIES.  Editions for the Armed Forces  1945.   # S-8.   Wraps.   Contains nine Crunch and Des stories, three of which were later collected in CRUNCH & DES, STORIES OF FLORIDA FISHING.
    028:  AN ESSAY ON MORALS.   Rinehart N  1947
    029:  CRUNCH AND DES: STORIES OF FLORIDA FISHING.  Rinehart N 1948.
    030:  OPUS 21.  Rinehart N 1949.

    031a:  THE DISAPPEARANCE.   Rinehart  N  1951.
    031x:  THE DISAPPEARANCE.   Gollancz  L  1972.

    032:  THREE TO BE READ.   Rinehart  N  1952.  Contains three novellas, the second one, Sporting Blood, is a Crunch and Des story.
    033:  DENIZENS OF THE DEEP.  Rinehart N 1953.
    034:  TOMORROW !.   Rinehart  N  1954.  Said to have been made into a movie THE DAY AFTER (1983) starring Jason Robards and John Lithgow.  Selected as a Readers' Digest condensed book; Summer 1954.
    035:  THE BEST OF CRUNCH AND DES.  Rinehart  N  1954

    036a:  THE ANSWER.  Rinehart  N  1955

    037:  TREASURE CRUISE AND OTHER CRUNCH AND DES STORIES.  Rinehart  N  1956.
    038:  EXPERIMENT IN CRIME.   Avon N 1956  Wraps.  A novella which first appeared in THREE  TO BE READ.
    039:  SMUGGLED ATOM BOMB.  Avon N 1956.  Wraps.  A novella which first appeared in THREE TO BE READ.

    040a:   INNOCENT AMBASADORS.  Rinehart  N  1957.
    040x:   INNOCENT AMBASADORS.  Greenwood Press 1975.

    041a:   TRIUMPH.  A novel serialized in the Saturday Evening Post beginning February 2, 1963.
    041b:   TRIUMPH.  Doubleday  N  1963

    042:   THEY BOTH WERE NAKED.  Doubleday  N  1965
    043:   AUTUMN ROMANCE.  Lancer Books N 1965.  In wraps.  Stories reprinted from earlier books.
    044.   A RESOURCEFUL LADY.  Popular Library N 1966.  Wraps.
    045:   THE MAGIC ANIMAL.  Doubleday  N  1968
    046:   THE SPY WHO SPOKE PORPOISE.  Doubleday N 1969.
    047:   SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF MOM.  Doubleday N 1971.
    048:   LOS  ANGELES: AD 2017.  Popular Library N 1971.  Wraps.  A novel based on Wylie's teleplay for NBCTV's THE NAME OF THE GAME. ( See below ).
    049:  THE END OF THE DREAM.  Doubleday N 1972

    050b:  CRUNCH & DES; CLASSIC STORIES OF SALTWATER FISHING. Lyons Press  1990.
 

       B ITEMS  Screenplays (a sampling)

    001:  MURDERS IN THE ZOO.  1933.  A Paramount film starring Lionel Atwill and Randolph Scott.  Original story and dialogue continuity by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller.
    002:  KING OF THE JUNGLE.  1932.  A Paramount film starring Buster Crabb.  Screenplay by Philip Wylie, Max Marcin, and Fred Niblo, Jr. 
    003:  THE INVISIBLE MAN.  Based on the novel by H. G. Wells.  1933.  A Universal film starring Claude Rains.  Screenplay by R. C. Sherriff ( and Philip Wylie, uncredited ).
    004:  ISLAND OF LOST SOULS.  Based on H. G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau. 1933.  A Paramount film starring Charles Laughton and Bella Lugosi.  Screenplay by Philip Wylie and Waldemar Young. 
    005:  CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO.  1939.  Twentieth Century-Fox.  Credits: "Story: Philip Wylie". Based on the original story "Death Makes a Decree" by Philip Wylie.
    006:  LOS  ANGELES: AD 2017. 1971.  A feature-length episode from NBCTV's series THE NAME OF THE GAME. Produced by Universal Television starring Gene Barry. This was the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg in a science fiction work.
 

                                Magazines (a sampling to show the diversity of magazines)

    001.  Red Book.  October 1931.  Sued on All Sides  (story).  
    001:  Liberty Magazine.  April 16, 1932. The Pink Chamise. (story).
    001:  The American Magazine.  July 1934. Death Flies East.  Labeled "a short mystery novel".
    001:  The American Magazine.  July 1936.  The Paradise Canyon Mystery.  Labeled "a full-length novel".
    001:  Red Book.  December 1936.  Second Honeymoon (50,000 word novel).  Made into a film by Twentieth Century Fox, released November 12, 1937.  Starring Tyrone Power and Loretta Young.  Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
    001:  Red Book.  November 1937.  Home From the Hills.  Labeled "a full-length novel".
    001:  Saturday Evening Post.  June 10, 1939.  Widow Voyage (story).  First appearance of Crunch Adams and Desperate Smith.
    001:  Saturday Evening Post.  July 19, 1941.  Fish Bites Man (story).
    001:  Field & Stream.  February, 1942.  Blue Sails in the Sunset (article).
    001:  Reader's Digest.  July, 1942. Reports from a Rookie (article). 
    001:  McCalls.  May, 1945. Infidelity (story).
    001:  Colliers' Magazine.  September 29, 1945.  Deliverance or Doom (story).
    001:  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.  January 1948.  Perkins Finds $ 3,400,000 (story).
    001:  Worlds Beyond.  December 1950.  An Epistle to the Thessalonians (story).
    001:  The Atlantic.  February 1951.  A Better Way to Beat the Bomb (article).
    001:  House & Garden.  March, 1952. My Florida House (article).
    001:  Esquire Magazine.  November 1952. Big Game Fishing (article).
    001:  True Magazine.  November 1953. Middleweights of the Sea (article).
    001:  The Saint Detective Magazine.  January 1954.  It Couldn't Be Murder (story).
    001:  Good Housekeeping.  February 1955.  The Crime of Mickey Spillane (article).
    001:  Playboy.  November 1956.  The Abdicating Male (article).
    001:  Playboy.  September 1958. The Womanizing of America (article)
    001:  Saturday Evening Post.  January 17, 1959.  Girl on Bongo Key (story).
    001:  Ford Times.  February 1963. Miami Playground (article).
    001:  Popular Science Magazine.  January 1968. McNamara’s Missile Defense – a Multi-billion Dollar Fiasco ? (article).
    001:  Argosy.  May 1990 and November 1990.  Serialization of THE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN.

                            Anthologies  (a sampling)

    001:   The Bedroom Companion.  Farrar & Rinehart  N 1935.  Three Sonnets, Adult Adultery,  Ode to the Impossibility of Rape,  An Essay on What a Young Girl Ought and Ought Not to Know in These Days. No editor is given for this book. Its style and topographical layout leads some people to believe Wylie might have been the editor.
    001:   The Second Mystery Book.  Farrar & Rinehart  N 1940.  Puzzle in Snow (story). Labeled "a novelette".
    001:   Post Stories of 1939.  Little, Brown,  Boston 1940.  The Visiting Fire-Eater (story).
    001:   This is War.  Edited by Norman McClinton. Dodd, Mead 1942.  You're on Your Own ( a radio play )
    001:   Great Fishing Stories.  Edited by Edwin V. Mitchell. Doubleday N 1946.  Once on a Sunday.
    001:   Strange Ports of Call.  Edited by August Derleth. Pellegrini & Cudahy  N 1948.  Blunder.
    001:   Gamefish of the World.  Nicholson & Watson  L  1949.  Smaller Game Fish of the East Coast  (article).
    001:   Shot in the Dark.  Edited by Judith Merril. Bantam N 1950.  #751. Wraps. Blunder
    001:   The Great Stories From the World of Sports.   Simon & Schuster N 1958.  Lighttackle Fishing  (story).
    001:   Fireside Book of Fishing.  Edited by Raymond R. Camp.   Simon and Schuster N 1959.  The Visiting Fire Eater (story).
    001:   Masterpieces of Science Fiction.  Edited by Sam Moskowitz.  World  N  1966.  The Paradise Crater and Seeing New York by Kiddie Car (stories).
    001:   Ellery Queen's Cops and Capers.  Davis Publications 1977.  Not Easy to Kill (story).
    001:   Armchair Angler.  Edited by Terry Brykczynski and David Reuther.  Scribners N 1986.  The Shipwreck of Crunch and Des (story).
    001:   Baker's Dozen. Edited by Bill Pronzine, etc.  Bonanza 1987.  Puzzle in Snow (story). This book was also published under the title Thirteen Short Detective Novels.
    001:   The One That Got Away.  Edited by Martin H. Greenberg, etc. Bonanza  1989.  Spar the Rod and Once on a Sunday (stories).
    001:   Florida Stories.  Edited by Kevin McCarthy.  University of Florida Press 1989.  Widow Voyage

                            Forewards  (a sampling)

    001:   Aswell, Mary L., editor.  It's a Woman's World; Stories from Harper's Bazaar.  McGraw-Hill N 1944.
    001:   Dean, Abner.  It's a Long Way to Heaven.  Farrar & Rinehart N 1945.
    001:   La Monte, Francesca.   North American Game Fishes.  Doubleday N 1946.
    001:   (anonymous). American Thought - 1947. Gresham Press 1947.
    001:   Farrington, S. Kip. Fishing the Atlantic. Coward-McCann N 1949.
    001:   Fennell, Jr., T. A.  Orchids For Home and Garden. Rinehart N 1956.

                            Misc 

From 1938 to 1941 there was an adventure comic strip running in the daily papers called "Speed Spaulding" credited to Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. It was drawn by the artist Marvin Bradley. It is described in the literature as a comic strip version of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.

                            Biographies  (a sampling)

    001:  Moskowitz, Sam.  Explorers of the Infinite.  World, Cleveland, 1963. Contains biographies of famous science fiction authors. There is a chapter on Philip Wylie.
    001:  Keefer, Truman F.  Philip Wylie.  Twayne, Boston, 1977.
    001:  Barshay, Robert H.  Philip Wylie: The Man and His Work.   University Press of America, Washington, DC, 1979.
    001:  Bendau, Clifford P.  Still Worlds Collide; Philip Wylie and the End of the American Dream.  The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today.  Vol 30; 1980.  63pp.  ISBN 0-89370-1440.  Cloth $ 23.00.
    001:  Reiger, George.  Profiles in Salt Water Angling.   Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1973. Contains biographies of famous fishing personalities including sixteen pages on Philip Wylie.