Steele Robert G D (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 13 pieces of writing including a novella, a novelette, short stories and poetry. Featured are: Under the Flag of Night by Ian McDowell (novella), A Plague of Life by Robert Reed (novelette), Pulp Cover by Gene Wolfe (short story), What She Left Behind by Sarah A Hoyt (short story), Jagganath by Richard Flood (short story), Tammy Pendant by Chris Beckett (short story), Thompson's Ferry by Allen M Steele (short story), The Saint by Phillip C Jennings (short story), Sunday at the Virtual Beach by GO Clark (poetry), A Poem Reminding Schoolchildren of the Wonders of Astronomy by Timons Esaias (poetry), Knot by Timon Esaias (poetry), An Unfortunate Side Effect by Timons Esaias (poetry) and Unpublicized! by Timons Esaias (poetry). Slight glue residue on front cover where address label was removed. In Near Fine Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this double issue of 18 pieces of writing including a serial, novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are Galaxy Blues (part one of four) Down and Out on Coyote by Allen M Steele (serial), Dark Integers by Greg Egan (novelette), Night Calls by Robert Reed (novelette), Nightfall by Isaac Asimov (novelette), Dark Rooms by Lisa Goldstein (novelette), At Sixes and Sevens by Carol Emshwiller (short story), Paid in Full by Susan Forest (short story), Leonid Skies by Carl Frederick (short story), Debatable Lands by Liz Williams (short stories), Skull Valley by Michael Cassutt (short story), The Turn by Chris Butler (short story), Modern Constellations by Pat Tompkins (poetry), Star People by Bruce Boston (poetry), Little Red Robot by GO Clark (poetry), Into the Deep by Michael Meyerhofer (poetry), Endangered by PMF Johnson (poetry), The Angel who Writes by Ruth Berman (poetry) and Staying the Course by Mark Rich (poetry). In Fine Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this double issue of 14 pieces of writing including a serial, novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are The Longest Way Home (part one of three) by Robert Silverberg (serial), Troubadour by Charles Stross (novelette), The Boy by Robert Reed (novelette), When This World is All on Fire by William Sanders (novelette), Bad Asteroid Night by Steve Martinez (novelette), Lincoln in Frogmore by Andy Duncan (novelette), Liberty Journals by Allen M Steele (novelette), Menage by Simon Ings (novelette), Aotearoa by Cherry Wilder (short story), Nitrogen Plus by Jack Williamson (short story), The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick (short story), Ten Things Not to Say when You Meet a Famous SF Writer by Bruce Boston (poetry), Freakish Confirmation by Bruce Boston (poetry) and How to Detect a Ghost by GO Clark. Slight sticker residue (bottom of front cover) from removed address label. In Near Fine Condition.

hardcover, Condition: fair, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1960, 15th.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 481pp., front free ep removed, cracked at 1/2-title & index, ow sound, fair $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ward, John (panel art and color frontispiece) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition faux navy blue leather boards with a color illustrated front cover paste-down, with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Note by The Editors; Acknowledgments; and About the Authors. The volume also features gilt page edges on all three sides, a traditional 3-hubbed spine, and acid-free paper for permanence and durability. Illustrated with a double-page color frontispiece painting and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Great American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century presents an impressive array of writers. These literary sleuths - American writers who hail from all over the United States and even abroad - offer stories that reflect the varied experiences of a vast and culturally diverse country. The authors in this collection have garnered innumerable honors, from myriad awards conferred by their own mystery-writing colleagues to the Nobel Prize in Literature; they all share the writer's greatest reward, however, the broad readership and popular acclaim that can only come from creating superb, entertaining tales. Some of these mystery masters have left an indelible mark on the reading public by creating characters that have entered the national consciousness. The Saint, Lew Archer, Travis McGee, Uncle Abner - these names are real to mystery aficionados who know them well and have learned much about life from them. Other writers have given birth to characters who live only in one brief tale, making readers regret that they won't meet them again. Although the modern American mystery story has only recently gained respectability as the subject of academic study, the genre is an integral part of this country's literature. In fact, it stands at the very center of a markedly American literary offering, the short story. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the short story form, based the world's first mystery tale on the crime story, a style of fiction that originally appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He enhanced the elements in these negligible stories with such genius that he lifted his own tales to the level of art. Poe's "The Murder in the Rue Morgue," first published in 1841, has been called by one critic "the single most important story in the history of the genre." Subsequent literary detectives may have occasionally felt daunted by following the mystery story's inimitable forefather; still, they have made their own distinctive contributions to this uniquely American literary form. Among them, the twenty-three writers in this anthology of American mystery masterpieces have written hundreds of memorable stories. Choosing the writers - not to mention the stories - from a national treasure of literary excellence was indeed difficult. The sheer number of outstanding American mystery stories offers endless hours of reading pleasure. To this day, superlative writers apply their varied skills to the genre first explored by Edgar Allan Poe. Readers new to this literary terrain will enjoy finding their way to some of mystery's hidden corners - as well as its landmarks. - The Editors" - from the Preliminary Page.