Gibson Walter P Editor (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good Only. First Edition. 80 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear with some tearing on the spine and a chip from the lower left of the front cover; no interior markings. This issue contains: FICTION: Troubled Waters by Alan C. Jenkins; The Case of the Missing International by Leonard Gribble; In the Straight by Eric Leyland; Biggles at School - part two of a serial by Capt. W. E. Johns. ARTICLES: The Boy Magician by Walter B. Gibson; Celestial Salvoes by Martin Thornhill; Barnstorming by David Roberts; The Bar as a Career by a Barrister-at-Law; Let's Make Something by W. P. Mathew; Swedish Boy by Olle Cronsjo; Ballistics Is a Science by Justin Atholl; Milestones by Reece Winstone; Acting the Part by Frank Newman; Is British Sport Too Commercialized by Lionel Gamlin; and Gone with the Wind by John Davies; along with all the usual features. Size: 12mo. Redmill; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. General wear. Cover art by Walter Popp. This issue contains: Shadow on the Moon - a novel by Joe Gibson; The Innkeeper of Mars - a short story by Dex R. Moore; Deadly Dust - a novelette by Gerald Vance (house name); He Played with Dolls - a short story by William P. McGivern; The Blessed Assassins - a short novel by Ivar Jorgensen (house name); Master of the Universe - a short story by an unknown author; and Idiot Command - a short story by John Jakes; along with the usual features. Size: 8vo. Walter Popp; Ed Emshwiller; David Stone; Ed Valigursky; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, Volume 1 No. 1 to Volume 1. No. 5, comprising a complete run. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter black leather-textured cloth with yellow titling to spine. Boards covered in blue cloth. Boards have a slight bow to them, with the front board slightly separated from the text block. All five issues are untrimmed, all covers and pages are intact in very good condition. Pages are very supple, with light toning and light bumping at corners. Top edge of text block stained red. No. 1's front cover is separated from the pulp as part of the front board separation. No. 2's front cover has a tear repaired by white tape. No. 3's front cover has a small edge of soiling at top and has an owners stamp in the border of the second table of contents page. No. 4's front cover has a fold across the upper right, the rear cover has a 3" x 1/4" piece torn out of the edge and an owners purple stamp on the first page. No. 5 is missing the rear cover. Tales of Magic and Mystery was edited by famed magician and then future author of The Shadow, Walter Gibson. Containing a mixture of articles about both magic and fantasy/mystery, it only lasted the 5 issues. Magic articles included ones about famed magician/escape artist Harry Houdini. The title is mostly famous for the first publication of H. P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air" in the March 1928 issue, a story that was initially rejected by Weird Tales. It also published short stories by pulp writer Frank Owen (like Lovecraft, a frequent contributor to Weird Tales), and by science fiction writer Miriam Allen deFord. Howard Thurston and Walter Gibson authored many of the articles, and all issues were illustrated by Earle Bergey. MA Consignment. 1392109. Special Collections - Downstairs.…