The Black Flame

WEINBAUM, Stanley G.: The Black Flame. New York, Avon, 1969. Stated First Avon Printing April, 1969. (Originally published in magazine form in 1939 and in book form in 1948.) Avon Book # V2280. Paperback, 223 pp. Subject: Novel / Science Fiction / Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. Condition: Very Good. Light creases to the spine and border adjacent to it. Otherwise a copy… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Tachyon Publication, 1995. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine, fresh copy in fine dust jacket. Book plate on front pastedown. First edition thus. Hardcover. 202 pages. New introduction by Sam Moskowitz. When "The Black Flame" was first published in 1939, its author, Stanley G. Weinbaum, has been dead for three years. By that time, some 18,000… Read more about this item

Fantasy Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover, standard size (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inches). Fine/Near Fine. Used Limited to 3K copies. #133 of 500 signed limited state. Head and foot of jacket showing some wear/tiny chips. Very little/no color fade on the bright green jacket. This is a beautiful copy.

Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by A.J. Bonnell. Octavo. Near fine in rubbed very good dust jacket with some old internally paper repairs.

Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by A.J. Bonnell. Octavo. Slight wear, about fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket.

Reading: Fantasy Press. 1948. First edition. Trade issue. Black cloth with gold gilt spine lettering/decoration, 240 pages, illustrated. A good copy with Staining to top page edges, edges only, light dust soiling, binding tight text clean except as noted in a lightly chipped and lightly worn Dust Wrapper with foxing to the rear panel. See Photos bx 173

New York: Avon Books, 1969. A solid reading copy of this fine novel. Interiors are tightly bound and lightly tanned. Bookstore stamp to the interior front cover. Soft cover wraps show creasing, chipping and rubbing. Spine is creased and rubbed. A solid reading copy and a fine read.. First Avon Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ronald Walotsky… Read more about this item

Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition. Darkening to end papers, slight lean to spine, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shallow losses to flap edges and upper rear panel, tiny hole at base of spine panel, tiny closed tear at head of spine panel, some moderate rubbing. (29336). Octavo, cloth. One of… Read more about this item

Tachyon, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Editor. First Ed Thus. First limited hardcover ed. #60/100. Fine/Fine condition. Signed by the editor, Sam Moskowitz on the title page..

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. A.J. Donnell. Referenced in Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, [1995], 2-134. One corner lightly bumped, else fine in near fine, bright dust jacket, with small light stain to the reverse at the bottom of the front flap fold.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First edition, octavo.1/500 numbered copies. A very good copy in chipped dj.

New York: Avon Books, 1969. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. Wraps rubbed and edgeworn, light foxing to the inside covers and the last several pages, else very good.

Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Endpapers foxed, tiny paper remnant on front board, very good or better in about very good dustwrapper with a large but faint stain on the rear panel.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press. Reading, PA, Fantasy Press, 1948. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A good copy. One of 500 numbered copies, from a total print run of 3000. A good copy, having a few review clipping pasted to the front endpaper, with associated offsetting. Some light foxing to the prelims and edges. Jacket in nice shape, but reinforced to… Read more about this item

Reading, Pennsylvania; Fantasy Press, 1948., 1948. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 240 pp. Frontispiece and two double-page spread plates by A. J. Donnell. Book Condition: Very Good. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine (slightly dulled). A clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions; former retailer's label to front pastedown. Scarce.

THE BLACK FLAME, Fantasy Press, 1948, first edition, a tight vg+ copy. 

Reading: Fantasy Press. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Trade issue. Black cloth with gold gilt spine lettering/decoration, 240 pages, illustrated. Bookplate [of Julius Merle Simmons] to the front paste-down else Very good copy in otherwise generally Very good jacket with shallow chipping to the spine head and rubbing/wear to the front panel. clphE

Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1953. ....# 205, store stamped on front end papers, edge wear, rubbing, glass ring mark on front cover, back cover has a closed 1" tear on left edge, slight soiling, a "15" written in marker on ffep, still tight, and square, "Toward the end of the 20th century, civilization died in a blaze of atomic and bacterial… Read more about this item

Avon, 1968. 1st printing. Civilization had died screaming in a blaze of nuclear and biological warfare. Gradually, during the Dark Centuries that followed, secrets were re-discovered, and new knowledge gained.. Paperback. very good paperback, some spine crease. Ronald Walotsky cover.

Canada: Harlequin 205, 1953. 223 pages. Crease on spine with light edge wear to spine. thin 3 1/2" crease along right edge of front cover. 2" corner crease and 4" crease on back cover. Otherwise a tight square copy with light cover wear. Rubber stamp on first inside page and pages are near white.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.… Read more about this item