Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
Red, Eric.
The Wolves of El Diablo. [Signed Limited edition]. Birmingham: Short Scary Tales, 2017. First edition. Publishers cloth gilt title to spine about as new near fine. Signed and inscribed ‘Good Deeds Can Be A Bad Habit’ by author numbered 58 of only 150 copies printed. Illustrated dust jacket near fine in new protective mylar. Scarce book. DP29105 $50.00 Werewolf. Werewolves. Western. Horror. Horror books. Horror literature.
Ross, Malcolm.
The Man Who Lived Backwards. New York: Farra, Strauss, & Co., 1950. First edition. 461p. Publishers red cloth, title to spine, very minor shelf wear at edges & corners, spine caps slightly bumped, last few pages with tiny flat crease at top corner, still an excellent copy. Illustrated dust jacket, minor wear to edges and corners with some rubbing and minor chipping, minor loss at top of back cover. Still a very good copy of a very rare book. At time of description we only locate one other copy for sale. In protective mylar. Fiction. Science fiction. Fantasy. Time travel. DP26039 $40.00
Pratt, Fletcher.
Double in Space. Two Novels. New York: Doubleday, 1951. First edition. 8vo. Publishers grain cloth, title gilt to spine, fine. Illustrated dust jacket with minor wear to top edge, faint dampstain at top hinge, inside flap edges trimmed (price still remains), better than very good (see photos). In protective mylar. Includes two novels, Project Excelsior and The Wanderer’s Return. Science fiction. Exploration. DP25290 $40.00
Resnick, Michael.
Goddess of Ganymede. West Kingston: Donal M. Grant, 1967. First edition. Only 750 copies printed. 8vo. 246p. Publishers blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, with some light rubbing on cover, no real affect (see pictures). A fine copy in very good plus/near fine jacket.
Fantasy. Science fiction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. DP25215 $50.00
Reed, Joseph Verner.
The Curtain Falls. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Publishers cloth, minor shelf wear, light dampstain to lower edge, no affect to text, paper label title to spine, overall inside clean and crisp, fully illustrated with b&w photos. Pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to edges, few small clean tears at top edge, inside flap corners with small clip, price still intact, overall still presents better than very good, in new protective mylar. Scarce book. First edition, stated. DP26626 $75.00 Theatre. Theater. Broadway. Plays. Drama. Memoirs. Biography. Stage.
Pare, Ambroise.
The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare. Birmingham" Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. Hardcover. Full gilt decorated leather gold on black all edges gilt bookmark ribbon bound in. A fine copy. Facsimile of the London 1951 Falcon edition. Priced to go. A beautiful copy. Ambroise Pare. Medicine. Surgery. Science. DP29617 $35.00
Russell, Eric Frank.
Deep Space. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 249p. Publishers cloth, gilt title to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy, in about fine jacket. Novella and eight short stories. Science fiction. Fantasy. Space. Mythology. DP25186 $100.00
Ricciuti, Edward R.
The Devils Garden: Facts and Folklore of Perilous Plants. New York: Walker & Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 172p. Publishers red cloth minor shelf wear bit of foxing to outer top text block no affect. Fully illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Tiny ink price to top of first endpaper no affect. Illustrated dust jacket very good with some minor edge tears at front bottom and back top edge few repairs. Overall a nice copy of a scarce and important book on poisonous and hallucinogenic plants, drugs, sex, food and more. First edition. In new protective mylar. “Examining everything from mushrooms to marijuana, orchids to oleander, monkshood to mandrake, & poppies to posion ivy, Ricciuti gives and absorbing account of the perverse fascination plants have held for man - leading to such excesses as human sacrifice, torture & murder...” Plants. Poison. Botany. Medicine. Occult. Drugs. Poisons. Herbs. Marjuana. Heroin. Cocaine. Mushrooms. LSD. Witchcraft. Supernatural. Folklore. Sex. Aphrodisiac. Mythology. Fruits. Vegetables. Food. Garden. DP30445 $60.00
Quinn, Seabury.
Roads. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. First edition. Publishers black cloth gilt title to spine about near fine an excellent copy with illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Illustrated dust jacket with very minor rubbing to edges still presents about near fine in new protective mylar. 2137 copies printed. The first book to be illustrated in Arkham House limited series. Weird fiction novella expanded on a 1938 issue of Weird Tales. Tymn Horror Lit: 4-192. Barron Fantasy Lit: 3-309.
DP29367 $150.00
Rice, Anne.
Violin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Advanced Reader's Copy. 8vo. 289p. Publishers illustrated paper wraps. A near fine copy.
Horror. Ghosts. Apparitions. Occult. Vampires. Romance. DP25150 $35.00
Raisor, Gary. [Editor]. Dean R. Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Dan Simmons, Charles L Grant, et al.
Obsessions. Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1991. First Edition. Signed by all contributors. 8vo. 317p. Publishers cloth gilt title to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Fine/Fine. With publishers slipcase. Signed by all 32 contributors on four tipped in signature pages. In protective mylar. Illustrated by Rodger Gerberding. Limited edition, numbered 22 of 500 copies printed and signed by all contributors. 30 stories that probe the dark recesses of the human soul, thirty obsessions... Horror. Thriller. Suspense. Fantasy. Science fiction. Murder. Supernatural. Anthology. Short stories.
DP25086 $100.00
Rice, Anne.
The Queen Of The Damned. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. 448p. Publishers quarter cloth, white, with title in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Minor dusting to top edge of text block, no affect, near fine with a fine jacket. The third book in the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice. Horror. Vampires. Dracula. Monsters. New Orleans. Romance. Film. DP25090 $50.00
Podmore, Frank.
The Newer Spiritualism. New York: Henry Holt, 1911. First US Edition. 8vo. 320p. Publisher's gilt cloth, old owner's name of front paste-down, t.e.g., minor edge wear on spine ends. Podmore (1856-1910) "Podmore's interest in psychical research began when he was a student at Oxford...With the exposure as frauds of several famous mediums in whom he had believed, however, his attitude rapidly changed to one of extreme skepticism, and remained thus until shortly before his death. His contributions to psychical research were of the highest value."[-Biog. Dict. of Parapsychology]. NSTC 0606043 (UK ed). Occult. Spirits. Palladino. Ghosts. Spiritualism. DP20059 $75.00