Posts Tagged ‘Isaac Asimov’
Thursday, August 19th, 2021
Some ten years ago I put up a books wanted list, and since then I’ve obtained a lot of things on it. Now here’s a greatly expanded list.
The vast majority of these are first edition first printings, mostly hardbacks, but I do have more PBOs listed this time around (especially for Michael Moorcock and Jack Vance). Hardback is the default, but other formats are listed where otherwise, as are a occasional first edition points for clarity or to jog my memory.
I don’t buy later printings, copies without dust jackets (when issued with same), copies with price-clipped dust jackets (unless all copies of the true first edition were released that way), copies with facsimile dust jackets, or overly crummy copies. Most of the books I buy are in Fine/Fine condition, but that relaxes a bit the older (and pricier) books become. I have picked up Ex-Library copies in dust jacket when the better copies of the true first can’t be found under a grand. I also only buy first state bindings and dust jackets, unless there’s no priority, or the true first state is insanely rare (such as with Stanley G. Weinbaum’s Dawn of Flame). I prefer signed copies to unsigned copies for most things, especially for dead writers (an ever-growing list). Trade editions of recent books from mainstream publishers are mainly here to jog my own memory when visiting bookstores.
I have a few books here under the writer’s pseudonym, so I can enter them under that name in various search fields.
Some of these are aspirational, as I doubt I’m going to find a first printing of The Hobbit I can afford, but you never know.
If you have nice copies of the below you’re willing to part with at an attractive price, feel free to drop me a line at lawrenceperson at gmail dot com.
Anonymous (actually Dorothy Scarborough)’s The Wind (Harper & Brothers, 1925)
Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Arthur Baker, 1979) (first state “Capricorn One” on dj rear)
Richard Adams’ Watership Down (Rex Collins, 1972)
Robert Aickman’s Sub Rosa (Gollancz, 1968)
Brian Aldiss’ At the Caligula Hotel (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) (trade paperback)
Brian Aldiss’ Greybeard (Harcourt Brace & World, 1964)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Spring (Cape, 1982)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Summer (Cape, 1983)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Winter (Atheneum, 1985)
Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse (Faber & Faber, 1962)
Brian Aldiss’ A Plutonian Monologue (Frogmore Press, 2002) (chapbook)
Brian Aldiss’ At a Bigger House (Avernus, 2002) (chapbook)
Brian Aldiss’ The Dark Sun Rises (Avernus, 2002) (chapbook)
Kingsley Amis’s New Maps of Hell (Gollancz, 1961)
Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schulman, 1954)
Poul Anderson’s The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson Volume 5: Door to Anywhere (NESFA Press, 2013)
Poul Anderson’s The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson Volume 7: Question and Answer (NESFA Press, 2017)
Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade (Doubleday, 1960)
Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity (Doubleday, 1955)
Isaac Asimov’s Good Taste (Apocalypse Press, 1976) (chapbook, 1/500 signed in blue on page 33)
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot (Gnome Press, 1950)
Isaac Asimov’s Liar! (Cambridge University Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Steve Aylett’s Shamanspace (Codex, 2001) (TPO)
Steve Aylett’s Dummyland (Gollancz, 2002) (TPO)
Paul Bailey’s Deliver Me From Eva (Murray & Gee, 1946)
J. G. Ballard’s Crash (Cape, 1973)
J. G. Ballard’s The Day of Forever (Gollancz, 1986)
J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (Gollancz, 1962)
J. G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (Fourth Estate, 2006)
J. G. Ballard’s Low Flying Aircraft (Cape, 1976)
J. G. Ballard’s Rushing to Paradise (Flamingo, 1994)
Bill Barclay’s Somewhere in the Night (Compact PBO, 1966)
Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart (Earthling Publications, 2007)
Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s, 2015)
Stephen Baxter’s The Massacre of Mankind (Gollancz, 2017)
Peter S. Beagle’s Lila the Werewolf (Capra Press, 1974) (1/75 signed hardbacks)
Robert Jackson Bennett’s Foundryside (Crown, 2014)
Robert Jackson Bennett’s Shorefall (Del Rey, 2020)
Robert Jackson Bennett’s Locklands (Jo Fletcher Books, 2022)
Michael Bishop’s Windows & Mirrors (The Moravian Press, 1977) (poetry chapbook)
Jerome Bixby’s The Devil’s Scrapbooks (Brandon House, 1964) (PBO)
(Blackwood, Algernon) Mike Ashley’s Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1987)
William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (Harper & Row, 1971)
James P. Blaylock’s Doughnuts (ASAP, 1994) (1/26 triptych copies)
James P. Blaylock’s Home Before Dark (Subterranean, 2000) (1/26 signed, lettered hardback copies)
James Blish’s The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971, code L47 on p. 166)
Robert Bloch’s Atoms and Evil (Robert Hale, 1976)
Robert Bloch’s Blood Runs Colds (Simon and Schuster, 1961)
Robert Bloch’s Chamber of Horrors (Award Books, 1966) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s Cold Chills (Doubleday, 1977)
Robert Bloch’s The Dead Beat (Simon and Schuster, 1960)
Robert Bloch’s Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (Award, 1971) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s The Kidnaper (Lion, 1954) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s The Laughter of a Ghoul/Whatever A Young Ghoul Should Know (Necrominocon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert Bloch’s The Living Demons (Belmont, 1967) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s Once Around the Bloch (Tor, 1993)
Robert Bloch’s The Opener of the Way (Arkham House, 1945)
Robert Bloch’s Pleasant Dreams – Nightmares (Arkham House, 1960)
Robert Bloch (as Sarcophagus T. Dribble)’s (Comet Publications, no date) (mimeographed)
Robert Bloch’s The Scarf (Dial Press, 1947)
Robert Bloch’s Sea-Kissed (Utopian Publications, 1945)(PBO)
Robert Bloch’s The Skull of the Marquis de Sade and other stories (Robert Hale, 1975)
Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury’s Bloch and Bradbury (Tower, 1969) (PBO)
Pierre Boulle’s Monkey Planet (Secker & Warburg, 1964)
Edward P. Bradbury’s Barbarians of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Edward P. Bradbury’s Blades of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury’s About Norman Corwin (Santa Susana Press, 1979)(boxed art portfolio)
Ray Bradbury’s The Anthem Sprinters (Dial Press, 1963, hardback)
Ray Bradbury’s The April Witch (Creative Education, 1987) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Aqueduct (Roy A. Squires, 1979) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Beyond 1984: Remembrances of Things Future (Targ, 1979)
Ray Bradbury’s Christmas Greetings broadsides (all years except 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997 and 2008)
Ray Bradbury’s Christus Apollo: Cantata Celebrating the Eighth Day of Creation and the Promise of the Ninth (The Gold Stein Press, 1998) (1/50 signed hardback copies in traycase)
Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957)
Ray Bradbury’s Dawn to Dusk (Gauntlet, 2011) (signed numbered or signed lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever. (Rupert Hart Davis, 1959) (Currey state A (navy blue binding))
Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever: A Comedy in One Act (Samuel French, 1966) (play chapbook, 75¢ price)
Ray Bradbury’s A Device Out of Time (Dramatic Publishing, 1986)
Ray Bradbury’s The Engines Drive the Summer With Their Purr (Green Cat Press, 2001) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) (any Currey hardback state (B-E))
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaption (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) (graphic novel)
Ray Bradbury’s Falling Upward (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1989) (play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer (Morrow, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer (Subterranean, 2011) (lettered edition with extra book)
Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn (Creative Education, 1987) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Fragments (Gauntlet, 2005)
Ray Bradbury’s Frost and Fire (DC Comics, 1985) (graphic novel)
Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned (Morrow, 2001)
Ray Bradbury’s A Gathering of Authors & Their Admonitions (Castle Press, 1981) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s The God in Science Fiction (Santa Susana Press, 1978)(chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Golden Apples of the Sun (Doubleday, 1953)
Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree (Gauntlet Press, 2005) (1/52 lettered copies with metal case and popup tree)
Ray Bradbury’s How I Wrote My Book (Hill House/PS Publishing, 2009) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Imagine (Lord John, 1981) (broadside, 1/100 signed)
Ray Bradbury’s I Live By The Invisible (Salmon Poetry, 2002) (TPO)
Ray Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric (Knopf, 1969)
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (Dramatic Publishing, 1975)(play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Last Good Kiss (Santa Susana Press, 1984) (art portfolio thing)
Ray Bradbury’s Long After Ecclesiastes (Gold Stein Press, 1985; miniature book)
Ray Bradbury’s The Love Affair (Lord John Press, 1982) (1/300 signed hardbacks)
Ray Bradbury’s Long After Midnight (Knopf, 1976)
Ray Bradbury’s The Machineries of Joy Simon and Schuster, 1964)
Ray Bradbury’s Madrigals for the Space Age (Associated Music Publishers, 1972) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Man Dead? Then God Slain (Santa Susana Press, 1977) (1 of 26 numbered hardback copies in slipcase)
Ray Bradbury’s Match to Flame (Gauntlet, 2006) (Wooden slipcase lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s A Medicine for Melancholy (Doubleday, 1959)
Ray Bradbury’s My Cat Has Swallowed a Bumblebee (Green Cat Press, 2003) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s 1984 Will Not Arrive: A Prediction for the Greening of Scripps (Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, 1975) (chapbook text lecture)
Ray Bradbury’s No Man Is An Island (Brandeis University, 1952) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s October (Shottlebop Press, 1983) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country (Ballantine Books, 1955; first state with inverted logo on spine)
Ray Bradbury’s One More For The Road (Morrow, 2002)
Ray Bradbury’s One the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few (broadsheet, 2004)
Ray Bradbury’s The Other Foot (Creative Education, 1993)
Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian (Roy Squires, 1964) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act (Samuel French, 1966) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (Bantam Books, 1975) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury’s The Poet Considers His Resources (Lord John Press, 1979) (broadside)
Ray Bradbury’s R is for Rocket (Doubleday, 1962)
Ray Bradbury’s Ray Bradbury Chronicles (Volumes 1, 3 and 5) (Byron Preiss/NBM) (signed hardback graphic novels)
Ray Bradbury’s Samurai/Kabuki (Hill House, 2006 hardback)
Ray Bradbury’s S is for Space (Doubleday, 1966)
Ray Bradbury’s Skeletons (Subterranean, 2008) (lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon and Schuster, 1962)
Ray Bradbury’s The Stars (Gold Stein Press, 1/95, 1993, miniature book)
Ray Bradbury’s Sun and Shadow (Quenian Press, 1957) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Switch on The Night (Pantheon, 1955)(first state, no mention of Random House on copyright page)
Ray Bradbury’s That Ghost, That Bride of Time (Roy A. Squires, 1976)
Ray Bradbury’s That Son of Richard III: A Birth Announcement (Roy A. Squires, 1974)
Ray Bradbury’s Tomorrow Midnight (Ballantine Books, 1966) (PBO, 50¢)
Ray Bradbury’s To Sing Strange Songs (A. Wheaton & Co., 1979)
Ray Bradbury’s To The Chicago Abyss (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1988) (play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Tonybee Convector (Knopf, 1988) (1/350 signed/numbered)
Ray Bradbury’s Twice 22 (Doubleday, 1966) (book club, code 47G on page 405)
Ray Bradbury’s The Trivial Pursuits Transporter (Hill House, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s The Vintage Bradbury (Vintage Books, 1965)
Ray Bradbury’s Where Everything Ends (Subterranean Press, 2009) (1/26 lettered copies)
Ray Bradbury’s The Wish (Hill House, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (?, 1985) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing (Capra Press/Joshua Odell Editions, 1973) (1/250 signed, numbered copies)
Ray Bradbury editor’s The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Stories (Bantam Books, 1956) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury editor’s Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (Bantam Books, 1953) (PBO, 35¢)
Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch’s Bloch and Bradbury (PBO, Tower, 1969, Tower 43-246, 60¢)
(Ray Bradbury) Steven Ageliss’ Conversations With Ray Bradbury (University Press of Mississippi, 2004)
(Ray Bradbury) Gene Beley. Ray Bradbury: Uncensored! The Unauthorized Biography. (iUniverse, 2006)
(Ray Bradbury) Jonathan R. Eller & William F. Touponce’s Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press, 2004)
(Ray Bradbury) Joseph Mugnaini: Drawings & Graphics (Scarecrow Press, 1982)
(Ray Bradbury) Joseph Mugnaini: Ten Views of the Moon (Lynton Kistler, 1981) (art portfolio with 10 signed prints)
(Ray Bradbury) Sam Weller’s Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews (Stopsmiling Books/Melville House, 2010) (TPO)
(Ray Bradbury) William F. Nolan’s Ray Bradbury Review (Graham Press, 1988)
Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung: Six (Non-Profit Press, 1974)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s The Adventures of Lucius Leffing (Donald M. Grant, 1990)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s As Evil Advances (Crystal Vision, 1978) (1/400 signed chapbooks)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Creep to Death (Donald M. Grant, 1981)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s The Dark Returners (Macabre House, 1959)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Evil Always Ends (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Nightmare Need (Arkham House, 1964)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Scream at Midnight (Macabre House, 1963)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Webs of Time (Macabre House, 1979) (1/100 signed chapbooks with picture laid in)
Joseph Payne Brennan and Donald M. Grant’s Act of Providence (Donald M. Grant, 1979)
William S. Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1981)
William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (Grove Press, 1959 (i.e., 1962))
William S. Burroughs’ The Soft Machine (Grove Press, 1966)
John W. Campbell’s Invaders from the infinite (Fantasy Press, 1961) (one of 300 (actually 112) signed, numbered copies)
John W. Campbell’s Islands of Space (Fantasy Press, 1956) (1/50-odd signed copies)
John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? (Shasta Publishers, 1952)
John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet (Harper & Brothers, 1951)
Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (Heinemann, 1969)
Edd Cartier’s The Known and the Unknown (De La Ree, 1977)
Michael Chabon’s Werewolves in Their Youth (Random House, 1999) (Number line ends with 2)
G. K. Chesterton’s Napoleon of Notting Hill (John Lane, 1904)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood Ends (Portentious Press HB, 1996)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Expedition to Earth (Ballantine Books, 1953)
Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sands of Mars (Sidgwick & jackson, 1951)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Tales From the White Heart (Ballantine Books, 1957)
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
James Clavell’s King Rat (Little Brown, 1962)
Hal Clement’s Cycle of Fire (Ballantine, 1957)
Colvin, James. The Deep Fix (Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Avram Davidson’s And Don’t Forget The One Red Rose (Dryad Press, 1986) (1/15 hardbacks)
L. Sprague De Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall (Henry Holt, 1941)
L. Sprague De Camp’s The Tritonian Ring (Twayne, 1953)
L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s The Castle of Iron (Fantasy Press, 1950)
L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s The Incomplete Enchanter (Henry Holt & Co., 1941)
Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren (Gregg Press, 1977)
Samuel R. Delany’s The Einstein Intersection (Ace, 1967) (PBO)
Samuel R. Delany’s The Fall of the Towers (Gregg Press, 1977)
Samuel R. Delany’s Out of the Dead City (Sphere, 1968) (PBO)
(Samuel R. Delany) George Edgar Slusser’s The Delany Intersection (Borgo Press, 1977) (chapbook)
(Samuel R. Delany) James Sallis, editor. Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Writing of Samuel R. Delany (University of Mississippi Press, 1996)
August Derleth’s The Trail of Cthulhu (Arkham House, 1962)
Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney (Gregg Press, 1977)
Philip K. Dick’s Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Library of America, 2008) (in dust jacket with green band)
Philip K. Dick’s Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Library of America, 2008) (without dust jacket, in slipcase)
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and Later Novels (Library of America, 2009) (in dust jacket with pink band)
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and Later Novels (Library of America, 2009 (without dust jacket, in slipcase)
Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (Doubleday, 1974) (no remainder spray)
Philip K. Dick’s The World Jones Made (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968)
Gordon R. Dickson’s The Dragon and the George (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1976) (book club hardback) (code G24 on page 243)
Thomas M. Disch’s Haikus of an Ampart (Coffee House Press, 1991) (chapbook)
Thomas M. Disch’s Orders of the Retina (Toothpaste Press, 1982) (1/100 signed, numbered hardbacks)
Thomas M. Disch’s Ringtime (Toothpaste Press, 1982, 1/100 signed, numbered hardbacks)
Thomas M. Disch’s Under Compulsion (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Thomas M. Disch, Marilyn Hacker and Charles Platt’s Highway Sandwiches (chapbook, 1970)
Gardner Dozois’s Sunk Beneath the Waves (Dragonstairs Press, 2013) (chapbook)
Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volumes 15, 23, 24, 27, 28 (St. Martin’s hardbacks)
E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros (Cape, 1922)
Greg Egan’s Oceanic (Gollancz, 2009)
Robert Eighteen-Bisang’s A Vampire Bibliography: Volume One, Literature (Transylvania Press, 1996)
Harlan Ellison’s All the Sounds of Fear (Panther, 1973) (PBO)
Harlan Ellison’s Broken Glass (Avenue Victor Hugo, 1981) (broadside)
Harlan Ellison’s The Deadly Streets (Ace, 1958) (PBO)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Under Glass (Charnel House, 2019) (1/100 signed/numbered)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Wonderland (Paperback Library, 1962) (PBO, 50¢)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Wonderland with Pebbles From the Mountain (PS Publishing, 2015)
Harlan Ellison’s Footsteps (Footsteps Press, 1989) (chapbook)
Harlan Ellison’s Gentlemen Junkie (Regency, 1961) (PBO, 50¢ on the cover)
Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat (Charnel House, 2014)
Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (Pyramid, 1967) (PBO, 60¢)
Harlan Ellison’s Jokes Without Punchlines (White Wolf, 1995) (chapbook)
Harlan Ellison’s The Juvies (Ace, 1961) (PBO, 35¢)
Harlan Ellison’s The Man With Nine Lives b/w A Touch of Infinity (Ace, 1960) (PBO, 35¢)
Harlan Ellison’s One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (Lance Brown, 1993) (broadside, 1/100 copies)
Harlan Ellison’s Over the Edge (Belmont, 1970) (PBO, May 1970 on copyright page, 75¢)
Harlan Ellison’s Night of Black Glass (1981) (broadside)
Harlan Ellison’s Rockabilly (Fawcett, 1961) (PBO, First Printed October 1961 on copyright page, 35¢)
Harlan Ellison’s Rough Beast (Edgeworks Abby, 2012) (TPO)
Harlan Ellison’s Spider Kiss (Pyramid, 1975) (PBO, Pyramid Edition published July 1975 on copyright page, $1.25 on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s The Time of the Eye (Panther, 1974) (PBO, first published in Great Britain in 1974 on copyright page, 35p on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s Web of the City (Pyramid, 1975) (PBO, New Pyramid edition: December 1975 on copyright page, price of $1.50 on cover)
Harlan Ellison (& Steranko)’s “Repent, Harlequin,” Said The Ticktock Man (art Portfolio w/6 prints) (Baronet, 1978)
Harlan Ellison’s Vic and Blood (Edgeworks Abbey, 2003)
(Harlan Ellison) Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe’s Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (Ohio State University Press, 2002)
Philip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz (Phantasia Press S/L, 1982)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Blown or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (Essex House, 1968, PBO)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Dare (Gregg Press, 1980)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Flesh (Doubleday, 1968)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes (Meteor House, 2019)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Image of the Beast (Essex House, 1966, PBO)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Night of Light (Garland, 1975)
Philip Jose Farmer’s The Unreasoning Mask (Putnam, 1981) (signed/limited edition)
Philip Jose Farmer editor’s Strange Relations (Gollancz, 1964)
Gans T. Field’s Romance in Black (Utopian Publications, 1946) (chapbook)
Virgil Finlay’s The Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1975)
Virgil Finlay’s The Third Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Fourth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Fifth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Sixth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1980)
Jack Finney’s Time and Again (Simon & Schuster, 1970) (1st stated, no book club mention on dj or embossed book club square on rear)
John Fowls’ The Magus (Cape, 1966)
Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (Lippincott, 1959)
Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl (Harper, 2009)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s Day (Harper, 2013)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s First Day at the Beach (Harper, 2016)
Neil Gaiman’s Cinnamon (Harper, 2017)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s First Day at School (Harper, 2013)
Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants (HarperCollins, 2009)
Neil Gaiman’s Only the End of the World Again (Dark Horse, 2018)
Jane Gaskell’s The Shiny Narrow Grin (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
Neil Gaiman’s The Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (Borderlands, 2011)
(Gibson, William) Patrick A. Smith. Conversations with William Gibson (University of Mississippi Press, 2014)
William Golding’s The Inheritors (Faber & Faber, 1955)
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (Faber & Faber, 1954)
William Golding’s Pincher Martin (Faber & Faber, 1956)
Herbert Gorman’s The Place Called Dagon (Doran, 1927)
Charles L. Harness’s Flight Into Yesterday (Bouregy & Curl, 1953)
Roger Harris’ The LSD Dossier (Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Between Planets (Scribner’s, 1951) (First Printing A & seal, unclipped $2.50 dj)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Beyond This Horizon (Fantasy Press, 1948)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Putnam, 1985) (1/350 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy (Scribner’s, 1957) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer (Doubleday, 1957)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold (Putnam, 1964)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky (Scribner’s, 1950)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Friday (Holt Reinhardt & Winston, 1982) (1/500 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Glory Road (Putnam, 1963)(no statement of printing)
Robert A. Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil (Putnam, 1970)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice (Del Rey, 1984, 1/750 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Menace From Earth (Gnome, 1959)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children (Gnome, 1st state binding (black boards), 1st state dj (“New York 3”)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky (Gollancz, 1963)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet (Scribner’s, 1949) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo (Scribner’s, 1947) (First Printing A & seal, unclipped $2.00 dj)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones (Scribner’s, 1952) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Space Cadet (Scribner’s, 1948) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Starman Jones (Scribner’s, 1953) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love (Putnam, 1973)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Time for the Stars (Scribner’s, 1956) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky (Scribner’s, 1955) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Universe (Dell, 1951) (PBO)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Gnome, 1959)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Waldo & Magic Inc. (Doubleday, 1950)
Peter Held’s Take My Face (Mystery House, 1957)
Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983)
Joe Hill’s Basket Full of Heads (Hill House Comics/DC, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s Dying Is Easy (IDW, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s Plunge (Hill House Comics/DC, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s You Are Released (Lividian Publications, 2022) (chapbook)
Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (Cape, 1980)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Boats of the ‘Glen Garrig’ (Chapman and Hall, 1907) (no statement of printing)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Calling of the Sea (Selwyn & Blount, 1920)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Ghost Pirates (Stanley Paul, 1909) (red cloth binding)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Haunted Pampero (Donald M. Grant, 1991, 1/500 signed copies)
William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland (Chapman and Hall, 1908)
William Hope Hodgson’s Men of Deep Waters (Eveleigh Nash, 1914)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (Eveleigh Nash, 1911)
William Hope Hodgson’s Terror of the Seas (Donald M. Grant, 1996, with signed illustration sheet laid in)
William Hope Hodgson’s Voice of the Ocean (Selwyn & Blount, 1921)
(William Hope Hodgson) Ian Bell, editor William Hope Hodgson: Voyages And Visions (Bell, 1987 chapbook)
Nancy Holder’s Dead in the Water (Dell Abyss, 1994) (PBO)
Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984)
Gordon Honeycombe’s Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (Hutchison, 1969)
Geoffrey Household’s Dance of the Dwarfs (Michael Joseph, 1968)
Robert E. Howard’s Adventures of Lal Singh (Cryptic Publications, 1985) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Altars and Jesters (Roy A. Squires, 1974) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Always Comes Evening (Arkham House, 1957)
Robert E. Howard’s Almuric (Ace, 1964) (PBO, 40¢)
Robert E. Howard’s “…and their memory was a bitter tree” (Black Bart, 2008) (1/500 signed slipcased)
Robert E. Howard’s Black Colossus (Donald M. Grant, 1979)
Robert E. Howard’s Black Dawn (Roy A. Squires, 1974) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Black Vulmea’s Vengence (Donald M. Grant, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Blades for France (George T. Hamilton, 1975) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Bloodstar (Morning Star Press, 1976) (Graphic novel, one of 1,500 signed by artist Corban)
Robert E. Howard’s The Saga of Faring Town (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2009) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2009)
Robert E. Howard’s The Coming of El Borak (Cryptic Publications, 1987) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Complete Yellow Jacket (Paul Herman, 1999) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Adventurer (Lancer, 1966) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Warrior (Lancer, 1967) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Usurper (Lancer, 1967) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard’s The Early Adventures of El Borak (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2010)
Robert E. Howard’s Echoes From an Iron Harp (Donald M. Grant, 1972)
Robert E. Howard’s Etchings in Ivory (Glenn Lord, 1968) (chapbook)(see Currey for points)
Robert E. Howard’s A Gent From Bear Creek (Herbert Jenkins, 1937)
Robert E. Howard’s The Ghost Ocean (Gibbelins Gazatte Pubns, 1982, hardback)
Robert E. Howard’s The Gold and the Grey (Roy A. Squires, 1974) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s “Golden Hope” Christmas (Dennis McHaney, 2002) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Grey God Passes (Charles Miller, 1975) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Grim Land and Others (Stygian isle Press, 1976) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Hand of Kane (Centaur Press, 1970) (PBO, 75¢)
Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon (Donald M. Grant, 1989)
Robert E. Howard’s The Hyborain Age (LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Illustrated Gods of the North (Necronomicon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan (Fax Collector’s Edition, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s The Iron Man and other tales (Donald M. Grant, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Isle of Pirate’s Doom (George T. Hamilton, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s The King’s Service (George T. Hamilton, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s Kull (Donald M. Grant, 1985)
Robert E. Howard’s The Hyborian Age (Los Angeles-New York Cooperative Publications, 1938)
Robert E. Howard’s Jewels of Gwahlur (Donald M. Grant, 1979)
Robert E. Howard’s Lewd Tales (Cryptic Publications, 1987) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Lost Valley of Iskander (FAX Collector’s Edition, 1974)
Robert E. Howard’s The Last Cat Book (Dodd Mead, 1984) (trade paperback)
Robert E. Howard’s A Man Eating Jeopard (Alla Ray Morris, 1994) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Moon of Skulls (Centaur Press, 1969) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard’s Neolithic Love Song (Thomas Kovacs, 1987) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s North of Khyber (Cryptic Publications, 1987) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Pay Day (Cryptic Publications, 1986) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Pictures in the Fire (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2018)
Robert E. Howard’s Pool of the Black One (Donald M. Grant, 1986)
Robert E. Howard’s Post Oaks & Sand Roughs (Donald M. Grant, 1989)
Robert E. Howard’s The Pride of Bear Creek (Grant, 1966)
Robert E. Howard’s Red Blades of Black Cathay (Grant, 1971)
Robert E. Howard’s Red Shadows (Grant, 1968)
Robert E. Howard’s The Return of the Seafarer (Thomas Kovacs, 1988) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Road to Rome (Roy A. Squires, 1972) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Rhyme of the Three Slavers (Thomas Kovacs, 1983) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Sentiment: An Olio of Rarer Works (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2009)
Robert E. Howard’s The Shadow of the Beast (George T. Hamilton, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s Shadow of the Hun (George T.Hamilton, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s Shadows of Dreams (Donald M. Grant, 1989)
Robert E. Howard’s Singers in the Shadows (Donald M. Grant, 1970)
Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane (Centaur Press, 1969) (PBO, 75¢)
Robert E. Howard’s A Song of the Naked Lands (Roy A. Squires, 1972) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Son of the White Wolf (Fax Collector’s Edition, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, 1988) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Spears of Clontarf (George T. Hamilton, 1978) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Spicy Adventure Stories (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2011)
Robert E. Howard’s Swords of the North (Robert E. Howard Foundation, 2014)
Robert E. Howard’s The Sword of Shahrazar (FAX Collector’s Editions, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Tigers of the Sea (Donald M. Grant, 1974)
Robert E. Howard’s Two Against Tyre (Dennis McHaney, 1976) (chapbook)(1/600 numbered)
Robert E. Howard’s Two-Fisted Detective Stories (Cryptic Publications, 1984) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Up, John Kane! (Roy A. Squires, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Valley of the Lost (Chuck E. Miller, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s Voices of the Lost (Necronomicon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Wolfshead (Lancer, 1968) (PBO)
Robert E. Howard’s Writer of the Dark (Dark Carnival Press, 1986) (trade paperback)(1/500)
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp’s Tales of Conan (Gnome Press, 1955)
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp’s Conan the Freebooter (Lancer, 1968) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s Conan (Lancer, 1968) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer, 1968) (PBO, 95¢)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s Conan the Wanderer (Lancer, 1968) (PBO, 60¢)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Bjorn Nyburg’s Conan the Avenger (Lancer, 1968) (PBO, 95¢)
Robert E. Howard and Tevis Clyde Smiths’s Red Blades of Black Cathay (Real Free Press, 1975) (graphic novel chapbook)
Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt and C.L. Moore’s The Challenge From Beyond (Weltschmertz Publications, 1954) (Mimeographed)
(Robert E. Howard) Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert E. Howard
(Robert E. Howard) Willard M. Oliver’s Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
(Robert E. Howard) Patrice Louinet’s The Robert E. Howard Guide (Skelos, 2018) (1/50 hardback copies)
Jan Hudson’s Those Sexy Saucer People (Greenleaf Classics, 1966)
Shirley Jackson’s The Bad Children (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958)
Shirley Jackson’s The Magic of Shirley Jackson (Farrar Straus, 1966)
Diana Wynne Jones’ The Tough Guide to fantasyland (DAW/SFBC, 1996 (stated)) (book club and first hardback)
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (Doubleday, 1976) (Father Cody and not price-clipped on front flap)
Henry Kuttner’s The Valley of the Flame (Ace, 1964) (PBO)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Audifaxes (2019 chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Alaric: The Day The World Ended (United Mythologies Press, 1994)
R. A. Lafferty’s Anamnesis (United Mythologies Press, 1992) (chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Best of R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz, 2019) (trade paperback)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Best of R.A. Lafferty (Tor, 2021) (hardback)
R. A. Lafferty’s Cranky Old Man From Tulsa (United Mythologies Press, 1990)
R. A. Lafferty’s How Many Miles to Babylon (United Mythologies Press, 1989)
R. A. Lafferty’s Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas (Aegypan, 2007) (hardback chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Six Fingers of Time (Aegypan, 2011) (hardback chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Strange Skies (United Mythologies Press, 1988) (chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Funnyfingers & Cabrito (Pendragon Press HB)
(R. A. Lafferty) Boomer Flats Gazette (Volumes 1-4)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Blood and Shadows (Volumes 1-4) (DC Vertigo, 1996)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Blood Dance (Subterranean, 2000) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Bubba Ho-Tep (Hail To the King edition DVD with jacket packaging, 2007)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Conan and the Songs of the Dead (Dark Horse, 2007)
Joe R. and Kasey Lansdale’s The Case of the Bleeding Wall (Dead Sky Publishing, 2024) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Crawling Sky (Antarctic Press, 2013) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Dead in the West (Crossroads Press, 1994) (signed/limited)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Dead in the West (Night Shade Books, 2005) (1/150 signed, limited copies)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive In Bus Tour (Subterranean, 2005) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Freezer Burn (Crossroads Press, 1999) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Freezer Burn (Crossroads Press, 1999) (Special Edition, 1 of 5 copies)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (Subterranean Press, 1997) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror (IDW, 2012) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s I Tell You It’s Love (SST Publications, 2014) (hardback graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (DC Vertigo, 1994) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Lone Ranger & Tonto (Topps Comics, 1995) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Long Ones (Necro Publications, 1999) (lettered traycased edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Magic Wagon (Borderlands Press signed/limited hardback, 1991)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners (Dark Harvest, 1987) (signed slipcased edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners (Dark Harvest, 1987) (signed leatherbound “slipcrate” edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s On the Far Side with Dead Folks (Avalon, 2004) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Orbit 1 & 2 (Subterranean, 2000) (hardback)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Pigeons From Hell (Dark Horse, 2009) (graphic novel TPO)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Something Lumber This Way Comes (Subterranean, 1999) (1/13 lettered editions)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Steam Man (Dark Horse, 2016) (graphic novel TPO)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot (TimeShifter/ECOF, 2018) (chapbook)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back (Pulphouse hardback)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Thicket (Earthling Publications, 2015) (1/250 signed/limited hardbacks)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Two-Bear Mambo (Cahill Press, 1995) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Waltz of Shadows (Subterranean, 1999) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner’s Private Eye Action As You Like It (Crossroads Press, 1998) (1/26 lettered editions)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The X-Files: Case Files (IDW, 2018) (hardback graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Robert Bloch’s Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (IDW, 2010) (graphic novel)
Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (Twayne, 1953) (no statement of printing)
Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness (Pellegrini & Cudhay, 1950)
Fritz Leiber’s The Green Millennium (Abelard, 1953) (no statement of printing, no overprice)
Fritz Leiber’s Night Monsters (Gollancz, 1974)
Fritz Leiber’s Two Sought Adventure (Gnome Press, 1957)
Fritz Leiber’s The Secret Songs (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Cornel Lengyel’s The Atom Clock (FPCI, 1951) (hardback or chapbook)
Doris Lessing’s Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Cape, 1971)
C. S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938)
C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945)
David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen, 1920) (Gilt-stamped spine, undated publisher’s catalog)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth (Hippocampus Press, 2013) (two volumes)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Juvenilia 1895-1905 (Necronomicon Press, 1984) (chapbook)
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider and Others (Arkham House, 1939)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House, 1943)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Donald R. Burleson’s Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe (University of Kentucky Press, 1990)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Peter Cannon’s The Chronology Out of Time (Necronomicon Press chapbook, 1986)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) S.T. Joshi’s H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays (Necronomicon Press, 2019)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Joshi/Schultz’s Lovecraft Remembered: An Epicure of the Terrible (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Ave Atque Vale (Necronomicon HB, 2018)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Maurice Levy’s Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (Wayne State University Press, 1988)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Anthony Pearsell’s The Lovecraft Lexicon (New Falcon, 2004) (TPO)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Robert M. Price’s H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (Starmont, 1990)
George R. R. Martin’s Fevre Dream (Poseidon Press, 1982)
George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks (Bantam Spectra, 1991) (PBO)
George R. R. Martin’s Busted Flush (Tor, 2008)
George R. R. Martin’s Full House (Tor, 2022)
George R. R. Martin’s High Stakes (Tor, 2016)
George R. R. Martin’s Joker Moon (Tor, 2021)
George R. R. Martin’s Knave Over Queens (Tor, 2008)
George R. R. Martin’s Low Chicago (Tor, 2018)
George R. R. Martin’s Pairing Up (Tor, 2023)
George R. R. Martin’s Sleeper Straddle (Tor, 2024)
George R. R. Martin’s Suicide Kings (Tor, 2009)
George R. R. Martin’s Three Kings (Tor, 2018)
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (Random House, 1985) (number line starts with 2)
Richard Matheson’s Bid Time Return (Viking, 1975) (“First published 1975”)
Richard Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes (Lippencott, 1958)
Ian McDonald’s The Best of Ian McDonald w/Floating Dogs (PS Publishing, 2016)(1/100 signed, numbered copies)
Ian McDonald’s Cyberabad Days (Orion, 2009)
Ian McDonald’s Hopeland (Gollancz, 2023)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: Moon Rising (Tor, 2015)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: New Moon (Tor, 2017)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: Wolf Moon (Tor, 2019)
Ian McDonald’s The Menace From Farside (Tor, 2019)
Ian McDonald’s Time Was (Tor, 2018) (chapbook)
Richard McKenna’s The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench (Naval Institute Press, 1986)
Paul Merchant’s Sex Gang (Nightstand Books, 1959) (PBO, 50¢)
Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist (Collins, 1926)
Carlton Miller’s Incest Street (Narcissus, 1970, PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (Quartet, 1975)
Michael Moorcock’s The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger (as John H. Watson, MD) (privately printed hardback, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s An Alien Heat (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
Michael Moorcock’s Behold the Man and Other Stories (Phoenix House, 1994)
Michael Moorcock’s Blood Red Game (Sphere, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Blades of Mars (Compact, 1965)
Michael Moorcock’s Breakfast in the Ruins and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Bull and the Spear (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s City of the Beasts (Lancer, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Count Brass (Mayflower, 1973) (PB0)
Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of Castle Brass (Granada, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Champion of Garathorm (Mayflower, 1973) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Dreaming City (Lancer, 1972) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Dreamthief’s Daughter (American Fantasy, 2001) (signed, limited hardback)
Michael Moorcock’s Earl Aubec and Other Stories (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone (Blue Star, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Swords and Roses (Del Rey, 2010) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Return to Melnibone (Unicorn, 1973) (chapbook)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Revenge of the Rose (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Del Rey, 2008) (TP0)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric at the End of Time (NEL, 1984)
Michael Moorcock’s The Entropy Tango (NEL, 1981)
Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion (Harper & Row, 1978)
Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Final Programme (Gregg Press, 1976)
Michael Moorcock’s Final Programme (Avon, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Fireclown (Compact, 1965) (PB0)
Michael Moorcock’s The Golden Barge (Savoy, 1979) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Hawkmoon (Millennium, 1992)
Michael Moorcock’s The Ice Schooner (Harper & Row, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s The Ice Schooner (Sphere, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s The Inner Landscape (Allison & Busby, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Jewel in the Skull (White Lion, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Knight of the Swords (Alison Busby, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Knight of the Swords (Mayflower, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Land Leviathan (Doubleday, 1974)
Michael Moorcock’s Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s London Bone (Scribner/Simon & Schuster UK, 2001) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Lord of the Spiders (Lancer, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Lunching with the Antichrist (Ziesing V. Ziesing, 1994) (Signed/limited edition)
Michael Moorcock’s The Mad God’s Amulet (White Lion, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Masters of the Pit (NEL, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (White Wolf, 1994)
Michael Moorcock’s Michael Moorcock’s Legends of the Multiverse (Black Coat Press, 2017) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s The New Nature of Catastrophe (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s Nomad of Time (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1982) (Book club HB, gutter code M47 on page 440)
Michael Moorcock’s Nomad of the Time Streams (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s The Oak and the Ram (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Pawn of Chaos (White Wolf, 1996) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Phoenix In Obsidian (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Queen of the Swords (Berkeley, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Quest for Tanelorn (Mayflower, 1975) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Real Life Mr. Newman (A.J. Callow, 1979) (1/500 copies, stapled and bound in masking tape (!))
Michael Moorcock’s Retreat from Liberty (Zomba, 1983) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Road Between Worlds (White Wolf, 1996)
Michael Moorcock’s The Runestaff (Mayflower, 1969) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Russian Intelligence (NEL, 1983)
Michael Moorcock’s Sailing to Utopia (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s The Shores of Death (Sphere, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Singing Citadel (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Skrayling Tree (Warner Aspect, 2003)
Michael Moorcock’s The Sorcerer’s Amulet (Lancer, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Steel Tsar (Mayflower, 1981) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Sundered Worlds (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Sword and the Stallion (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Sword of the Dawn (Lancer, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Time Dweller (Rupert Hart Davis, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s Time of the Hawklords (Star, 1976) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Time of the Hawklords (Aidan Ellis, 1976)
Michael Moorcock’s The Twilight Man (Roberts & Vinter/Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Transformation of Mavis Ming (W. H. Allen, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s The Traps of Time (Rapp & Whiting, 1968)
Michael Moorcock’s Warlord of the Air (NEL, 1971)
Michael Moorcock’s Warrior of Mars (NEL, 1981) (hardback omnibus)
Michael Moorcock’s Warriors of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Wrecks of Time (b/w Tramontane) (Ace Double, 1967) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorne’s Fantasy the 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988)
(Moorcock, Michael) Frank Brunner’s Elric Portfolio (Looking Glass, 1979) (art portfolio, 1/1000)
(Moorcock, Michael) Tawn, Brian Dude’s Dream: The Music Of Michael Moorcock (Hawkfan, 1997) (TPO)
Kim Newman’s The Original Dr. Shade (Pocket Books, 1994)(PBO)
Larry Niven’s Inconstant Moon (Gollancz, 1973)
Larry Niven’s Neutron Star (Macdonald, 1969)
Larry Niven’s Protector (Compton Russell, 1976)
Larry Niven’s World of Ptavvs (Macdonald, 1986)
Charles Neutzel’s Queen of Blood (Greenleaf Classic, 1966) (PBO)
Andre Norton’s Witch World (Gregg Press, 1977)
George Orwell’s Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg, 1945, 1st state dust jacket)
Lewis Padgett’s A Gnome There Was (Simon & Schuster, 1950)
Lewis Padgett’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow & The Fairy Chessman (Gnome, 1951)
Edgar Pangborn’s A Mirror for Observers (Doubleday, 1954)
Keith Roberts’s Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946)
Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959)
H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Garland HB, 1975)
H. Beam Piper’s (and Andre Norton’s) A Planet For Texans (and Star Born) (Ace, 1958) (PBO, 35¢)
H. Beam Piper’s Space Viking (Ace, 1962) (PBO, 40¢)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Gladiator-At-Law (Ballantine Books, 1955)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Presidential Year (Ballantine Books, 1956)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Search the Sky (Ballantine Books, 1954)
Richard Powers’ The Overstory (Norton, 2019)
(Powers, Tim and James P. Blaylock) (edited by Silver Smith) A Comprehensive Dual Bibliography Of James P. Blaylock And Tim Powers (Argent Leaf Press, 2011) (signed, leather-bound edition)
Terry Prachett’s The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
Terry Prachett’s The Light Fantastic (Colin Smythe, 1986)
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (Viking, 1973) (First issue dj with ISBN lettered in white over red on rear panel, date code 0273 on lower front flap)
Ellery Queen’s And On the Eighth Day (Random House, 1964)
Ellery Queen’s The Fourth Side of the Triangle (Random House, 1965)
Ellery Queen’s The Player on The Other Side (Random House, 1963)
Alastair Reynolds’ Bone Silence (Gollancz, 2020)
Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire (Gollancz, 2018)
Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion (Gollancz, 2022)
Alastair Reynolds’ Inhibitor Phase (Gollancz, 2024)
Alastair Reynolds’ Machine Vendetta (Gollancz, 2024)
Alastair Reynolds’ The Prefect (Gollancz, 2007)
Alastair Reynolds’ Shadow Captain (Gollancz, 2019)
Alastair Reynolds’ Understanding Space and Time (BSFG, 2005) (chapbook)
Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter’s The Medusa Chronicles (Gollancz, 2016)
Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country. (Harper, 2016)
Salman Rushdie’s Grimus (Gollancz, 1975)
Eric Frank Russell’s Far Stars (Dobson, 1961)
Eric Frank Russell’s The Great Explosion (Dobson, 1962)
Eric Frank Russell’s Wasp (Avalon, 1957)
Clifford D. Simak’s Ring Around the Sun (Simon & Schuster, 1953)
Clifford D. Simak’s Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
Bob Shaw’s Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975) (No statement of printing on copyright page)
Robert Sheckley’s The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton (Michael Joseph, 1978)
Robert Sheckley’s Dimension of Miracles (Gollancz, 1969)
Robert Sheckley’s Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz, 1964)
Lucius Shepard’s Cantata Of Death, Weakmind & Generation (Lillabulero Press, 1967) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Abominations of Yondo (Arkham House, 1960)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Cycles (Roy A. Squires, 1963) (broadside)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Dark Chateau (Arkham House, 1951)
Clark Ashton Smith’s From the Crypts of Memory (Roy A. Squires, 1963)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Grotesques and Fantastiques (De La Ree, 1973) (1/50 signed hardback copies)
Clark Ashton Smith’s In the Line of the Grotesque and Monstrous (The Bancroft Library, 2004) (chapbook, 1/50)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Ghoul and the Sereph (Gargoyle Press, 1950) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Genius Loci and Other Tales (Arkham House, 1948)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Hesperian Fall (Clyde Beck, 1961) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Hills of Dionysus (Roy A. Squires, 1962) (1/175 black hardback copies and/or 1/40 green hardback copies))
Clark Ashton Smith’s Klarkash-Ton and Monstro Ligriv (Gerry de la Ree, 1974) (1/50 hardback copies)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Mortuary (Roy Squires chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Nero and Other Poems (Futile Press, 1937)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Spells and Philtres (Arkham House, 1958)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Sandalwood (The Auburn Journal Press, 1925)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Titans in Tartarus (Roy Squires)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The White Sybil (with David H. Keller’s Men of Avalon) (Fantasy Publications, no date (1934)) (chapbook)
(Clark Ashton Smith) Jack L. Chalker’s In Memorium: Clark Ashton Smith (Mirage Press, 1963) (1/10 hardback copies)
Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (Gregg Press, 1977)
Brian Stableford’s The Walking Shadow (Fontana, 1979) (PBO)
Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium (Knopf, 1923) (first binding state with the red, yellow, blue and white checkered paper-covered boards)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Aliens 4 (Avon, 1959) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Baby is Three/…And My Fear Is Great (Galaxy, 1965) (PBO)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Caviar (Ballantine Books, 1955)
Theodore Sturgeon’s The Cosmic Rape (Dell, 1958) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s The Cosmic Rape (Gregg Press, 1977)
Theodore Sturgeon’s E. Pluribus Unicorn (Abelard-Schuman, 1953)
Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X (Pyramid, 1960) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X (Gollancz, 1969)
Theodore Sturgeon’s A Way Home (Funk and Wagnalls, 1955)
Patrick Suskind’s Perfume (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)
Michael Swanwick’s American Cigarettes (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s The Brain Baron (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Chasing the Phoenix (Tor, 2015)
Michael Swanwick’s A Midwinter’s Tale (Dragonstairs, 2010) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Millie’s Recipes (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s One Mile Below (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Song of the Lorelei (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Valentine Moon (Dragonstairs, 2020) (chapbook)
William Tenn’s Of All Possible Worlds (Ballantine Books HB, 1955)
William Tenn’s Time In Advance (Gollancz, 1963)
James Tiptree, Jr.’s Ten Thousand Light Years From Home (Eyre Methuen, 1975)
James Tiptree Jr.’s Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Ballantine, 1975) (PBO)
Richard L. Tierney’s Dreams and Damnations (The Strange Company, 1975)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit (George Allen & Unwin, 1937) (First printed 1937, “Dodgeson” on back dj flap)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Fellowship of the Ring (George Allen & Unwin, 1954) (no later date on copyright page)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Two Towers (George Allen & Unwin, 1954) (no later date on copyright page)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Return of the King (George Allen & Unwin, 1955) (no later date on copyright page)
Henry Treece’s The Golden Strangers (The Bodley Head, 1956)
Henry Treece’s The Great Captains (The Bodley Head, 1956)
Jack Vance’s Bad Ronald (Ballantine Books, 1973) (PBO)
Jack Vance’s Bad Ronald (Underwood Miller, 1982)
Jack Vance’s The Complete Magnus Ridolph (Underwood Miller, 1984)
Jack Vance’s Dream Castles (Subterranean Press, 2012) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s Dust of Far Suns (DAW, 1981) (PBO)
Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1947)(PBO)
Jack Vance’s Future Tense (Ballantine, 1964)(PBO)
Jack Vance’s Grand Crusades (Subterranean, 2015) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s Hard Luck Diggings (Subterranean, 2010) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Jack Vance Reader (Subterranean Press, 2008) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Jack Vance Treasury (Subterranean Press, 2007) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Languages of Pao and The Dragon Masters (Vance Integral Edition, 2002)
Jack Vance’s Magic Highways (Subterranean, 2013) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Man in the Cage (Random House, 1960)
Jack Vance’s Nopalgarth (DAW, 1980) (PBO)
Jack Vance’s The Narrow Land (DAW, 1982) (PBO)
Jack Vance’s Wild Thyme, Green Magic (Subterranean, 2009) (signed, lettered edition)
(Jack Vance) The Many Worlds of Jack Vance (fanzine, 1/300)
(Jack Vance) Songs of the Dying Earth (Subterranean, 2009) (signed, lettered edition)
(Jack Vance) An Encyclopedia of Jack Vance, 20th Century Science Fiction Writer (threee volumes)(Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (Holt, Reinhardt & Winston, 1963)
Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan (Houghton-Mifflin, 1961)
Alan Wade’s Isle of Peril (Mystery House, 1957))
Peter Watts’ Echopraxia (Tor, 2014)
Ian Watson’s The Embedding (Gollancz, 1973)
H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895) (true first edition with his name misspelled “H. S. Wells” on the title page)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Carolina Pirate (Washburn, 1968)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Gray Riders (Aladdin, 1954)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Haunts of Drowning Creek (Holiday House, 1951)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Jamestown Adventure (Washburn, 1967)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Mystery at Bear Paw Gap (Washburn, 1965)
Manly Wade Wellman’s The Specter of Bear Paw Gap (Washburn, 1966)
Gary Westfahl’s The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders (three volume hardcover set)
Whatley, Joseph L. Purgatory of the Conquered (Greenwich Book Publishers, 1956)
J. X. Williams’ ESP Orgy (Greenleaf Classics adult PBO)
Jack Williamson’s The Collected Stories of jack Williamson Volume Five: The Crucible of Power (Haffner Press, 2006)
Jack Williamson’s The Collected Stories of jack Williamson Volume Six: Gateway to Paradise (Haffner Press, 2008)
Gene Wolfe’s The Grave Secret (Portentous Press) (chapbook)
Gene Wolfe’s The Land Across (Tor, 2013)
Gene Wolfe’s The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Was the Sun (Cheap Street, 1991) (chapbook)
Gene Wolfe’s The Wolfe at the Door (Tor, 2023)
Gene Wolfe’s The Death of Doctor Island and John M. Ford’s Fugue State (Tor, 1990) (PBO)
(Gene Wolfe) Michael Andre-Driussi’s A Quick and Dirty Guide To The Long Sun Whorl (Sirius Fiction) (chapbook)
John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes (Michael Joseph, 1953)
John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
Cheslea Quin Yarboro’s Aristo (Pocket, 1980) (PBO)
Collier Young’s The Todd Dossier (Delacorte Press, 1969)
Roger Zelazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (Pulphouse, 1991) (hardback of just that story)
Roger Zelazny’s The Magic: (October 1961-October 1967) Ten Tales (Positronic Publishing, 2018)
Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light. (Easton Press, 1994) (tan leather)
Roger Zelazny’s Shadows & Reflections Stories From The World Of Roger Zelazny (1/25 signed copies)
(Roger Zelazny) Jane Lindskold’s Roger Zelazny (Twayne, 1992)
(Roger Zelazny) Joseph L. Sanders’ Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1982)
(Roger Zelazny) Karl B. Yoke’s Roger Zelazny: Starmont Reader’s Guide (Borgo Press, 1979) (Library binding hardback)
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Monday, July 2nd, 2018
I doubt there’s anyone alive who’s read everything Isaac Asimov wrote (there’sw simply too much of it), but a goodly number SF fans probably think they read all of Asimov’s science fiction, or at least up through about Foundation’s Edge and Robots of Dawn, at which point it became obvious that the good doctor’s novel-writing career was running on fumes. But I suspect that many are unaware of this YA science fiction novel (really more like an illustrated novelette) that came out in 1975.
Asimov, Isaac. The Heavenly Host. Walker, 1975. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a trace of wear to boards, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a couple of 1/4″ closed tears at top edge, a few traces of dust soiling, and slight sun-yellowing around the perimeter (greatly exaggerated in the scan). Young adult novel set on another planet. Currey (1979), page 17. Bought from an online dealer for $20 plus shipping.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
I’m not an Isaac Asimov completist because I’m not completely insane. But I have been picking up firsts of the science fiction he did before Foundation’s Edge when I can find them at reasonable prices. This one is an odd little item, a scholastic chapbook of one of his robot stories done in “simplified language” for “upper intermediate” students, so not really Asimov when you get right down to it, but it’s not terribly common.
Asimov, Isaac. Little Lost Robot. The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1977. First edition chapbook original thus, a Fine- copy with the barest traces of wear at points. “This edition first published 1977” on copyright page at rear of book, as per Currey (1979), page 18. Bought off Biblio for $42 plus shipping.
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Monday, November 7th, 2016
Here’s another chapbook I had been looking for a long time that, like Moorcock’s Caribbean Crisis, popped up on an ABE Books want search at a bargain price:
Asimov, Isaac. Little Brothers. The Pretentious Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, one of 126 copies signed by Asimov (the only edition), a Fine copy, with two photos (of Isaac and Stanley Asimov) tipped into front, as issued. Reprints Asimov’s first published work, an essay about how much he hated his little brother, from the Boys High Recorder in 1934. Bought for $35 plus shipping from a well-known literary dealer.
Pretentious Press chapbooks were done by bookseller David Aronovitz in very small runs, most of which were given away as freebies to his best customers. I now have the Zelazny and Asimov chapbooks (both very hard to find), but still need to track down the rest…
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
Here’s a list of all the books I picked up between July 1 and December 31 of 2015.
Many of the paperback originals here were bought for approximately 25¢ each from Houston bookstore Twice Told Tale’s going out of business sale in November, where prices were $15 a paper grocery sack full of books.
For some reason, the last half year of book purchases has been heavy on Normans. Go figure…
Anderson, Poul. The Unicorn Trade. Tor, 1984. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Near Fine- copy with light crease along front spine join. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Armstrong, Anthony. Wine of Death. Stanley Paul & Co. (London), no date [1925]. First edition hardback, a Very Good copy with moderate bend at head and heel at head and slight spotting to page block edges and first few pages, and slight foxing to front and rear free endpapers, with 32 page catalog dated 1924-1825 at rear, lacking the dust jacket. Tietler & Locke, By the Book World Remembered, pages 37 and 119. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 22. Tietler, By the World Forgot, 55 (where it’s compared to Robert E. Howard’s Conan tales). Not in either edition of the Bleiler Checklist. Bought for $32.04 plus transatlantic shipping. Last year Lloyd Currey listed a better (but not perfect) copy, still lacking the dust jacket, for $1,250, and noted it was “Rare.”
Asimov, Isaac. Gold. HarperPrism. One of 1226 copies (though, despite the statement of the limitation page, this one is not numbered), Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. Posthumous short story collection.
Asimov, Isaac. Three By Asimov. Targ Editions, 1981. First edition hardback, one of 250 signed copies, a Fine copy in a Near Fine- tissue paper dust jacket with a 7/8″ semi-closed tear on the top right front cover, with associated wrinkles (the white streaks at left and top are reflection glare from the dust jacket protector). All the pages seem to be made of hand-made paper with ragged edges. Bought for $107.79 off eBay.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Drowned Cities. Little Brown, 2012. Signed by Bacigalupi.
Baker, Denys Val. The Face in the Mirror. Arkham House, 1971. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a trace of wear at bottom edge (probably do to an old fold-around dj protector that doesn’t encase the edges). Joshi, 60 Years of Arkham House, 112. Jaffery, Horrors and Unpleasantries, 118. Nielsen, Arkham House Books: A Collector’s Guide, 118. Chalker & Owings (1991), page 39. Not in Bleiler’s Guide to Supernatural Fiction (an odd omission). Bought for $12.50
Ballard, J. G. Super-Cannes. Flamingo, 2000. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with bumping at points, a 1/8″ closed tear at bottom rear fold point, and very slight haze rubbing to reflective silver dust jacket. Inscribed by Ballard: “To Jane,/J.G. Ballard”. Bought for £24 plus shipping.
Beagle, Peter S. The Innkeeper’s Song. Roc, 1993. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Benford, Gregory. The Best of Gregory Benford. Subterranean Press, 2015. #124 of 250 signed, numbered copies.
Benford, Gregory. The Best of Gregory Benford. Subterranean Press, 2015. Trade edition.
Bishop, Michael. Eyes of Fire. Pocket Books, 1980. First edition paperback original (PBO) this, a revision of A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, a Fine copy. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Bradbury, Ray. The Cat’s Pajamas: Stories +5. Hill House Publishers, 2004. First limited edition and first edition thus (containing five stories not in the trade edition), #352 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine die-cut cloth slipcase with an extraction ribbon to pull out the book. Contains five stories not found in the William Morrow trade edition. Bought for $35 off eBay.
Bradbury, Ray (illustrated by Gary Gianni). The Nefertiti-Tut Express. The RAS Press, 2012. First edition oversized oblong (9″ x 12″ long) chapbook edition, a Fine copy, new and unread. Oversized illustrated edition of a longish poem. Signed by Gianni. Bought for £12.
Bradbury, Ray, editor. Futuria Fantasia. Graham Publishing/Blood and Guts Press, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Bradbury, and containing a picture of him signing copies laid in. Reprints four issues of the fanzine of the title Bradbury produced just after graduating high school. Includes contributions from Robert A. Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Hannes Bok, Damon Knight, Forrest J. Ackerman, etc. A fascinating glimpse into Bradbury’s early life, and the beginnings of several illustrious science fiction careers. Bought off eBay for $30. Replaces an unsigned copy.
Breen, Walter. The Darkover Concordance: A Reader’s Guide. Pennyfarthing Press, 1979. A Fine copy, in decorated boards, as issued. Non-fiction reference guide to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover books. Despite the fact that this used to go for several hundred dollars, I bought this for $1 (plus buyer’s premium and shipping) off Heritage Auctions. Funny how accusations of (Bradley) and convictions for (Breen) pedophilia will drive down the value of a book…
Brunner, John. Times Without Number. The Elmsfield Press, 1974. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Brunner in 1987, with his usual peace symbol. Currey (1979), page 24. Bought for £18.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Memory. Baen, 1996. Bought for $5.99 at a Half Price Books in Houston.
Clarke, I. F. Voices Prophesying War. Oxford University Press, 1990. First edition hardback (of this new expanded and updated edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket with slight wear on rear points. Non-fiction. The standard reference on future war fiction. Bought for £10.8.
Davidson, Avram and Grania Davis. Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty. Baen, 1988. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good copy with spine wrinkly and slight front cover creasing. Twice Told Tales purchase.
De Vet, Charles V. Special Feature. Avon, 1975. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Near Fine- copy with small bottom front corner crease. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Dick, Philip K. World of Chance. Rich and Cowan, 1956. First hardback edition and first thus under this title (the first hardback edition of Dick’s first published novel, published earlier in the U.S. as the paperback original Solar Lottery), an Ex-Library copy with tape ghosts to inside covers, slight signs of pocket removal from FFE, inner front hinge half-cracked, slight dust staining to page block edges, in a dust jacket that has about 1/8″ trimmed from top and bottom, and a larger amount (possibly 1/4″ to 1/2″) trimmed from inner flaps, not removing any text, but trimming the flap edges right to the edge of the text block, plus tape ghosts and a touch of edgewear; call it a Very Good-/Good+ Ex-Library copy, though it presents much better than that list of flaws would lead you to believe. Currey (1979), page 159. Levack, 38b. One of the rarest Dick hardcovers.
(Dick, Philip K.) Williams, Paul. Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick. Arbor House, 1986. First edition trade paperback original, a Near Fine+ copy with some non-breaking indentations on the cover, as the book were used underneath a piece of paper someone wrote or scribbled on, otherwise apparently unread. Signed by Williams (the signature matches those found online for the limited edition of Ubik: A Screenplay). The biography of Dick by his close friend and designated literary executor. Supplements a Fine unsigned copy. Bought for $3.98 at a Half Price Books in Houston.
(Dick, Philip K.) Wintz, Henry and David Hyde. Precious Artifacts: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: United States of America and United Kingdom Editions 1955-2012. Wide Books, 2012. First edition hardback, #77 of 100 signed, hardback copies, a Fine- copy with slight delamination lift along top front spine join gutter, in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, with errata slip and related postcards laid in. Bought off eBay for $26.
Di Filippo, Paul (illustrated by Jim Woodrung). Cosmocopia. Payseur & Schmidt, 2008. First edition hardback, one of 500 copies with a band signed by Di Filippo and Jim Woodrung around the box, in a decorated cardboard box with a cardstock illustration and a Jigsaw puzzle in the case as well as the book, sans dust jacket, as issued. Paul Di Filippo alerted me to the fact that Fantagraphics bookstore had copies on hand for Jim Woodrung’s signing there at $30 a pop and I managed to call and snag the last copy.
Disch, Thomas and Charles Naylor. Neighboring Lives. Scribner’s, 1981, First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bumoing at head in a Near Fine- dust jacket with one 1/8″ by 1/4″ triangular chip at top front cover ner head and wear at points. Signed by both Disch and Naylor. Bought for £18.
Dozois, Gardner, editor. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection. St. Martin’s, 2015.
Engh, M. J. Arslan. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine- copy with a touch of glue bunching and age darkening. I already owned a first edition of the later hardback edition.
Ellison, Harlan. Angry Candy. Easton Press, 1988. First edition hardback (at least Barry Levin, relying on information from Ellison, has stated; other sources list the trade edition as first), one of 3,500 copies signed by Ellison, a Fine leatherbound copy, sans dust jacket, as issued.
Ellison, Harlan. Can & Can’tankerous. Subterranean Press, 2015. Short story collection.
(Ellison, Harlan) Priest, Christopher. The Book on the Edge of Forever. Fantagraphics Books, 1994. First edition trade paperback format (perfect-bound with the look and feel of a short graphic novel, which is Fantagraphics primary line), a Fine- copy. Non-fiction. An inquiry into the non-appearance of Harlan Ellison’s massive, long-delayed anthology The Last Dangerous Visions, expanded from an earlier fanzine titled The Last Deadloss Visions. Hugo Award nominee for best Non-Fiction. Bought for £15. Not particularly a Priest fan (I had lunch with two of his ex-wives at the 2014 London Worldcon), but when you’re right…
Etchison, Dennis. The Dark Country. Scream Press, 1982. Supplements a signed copy with a poorer dust jacket.
Gardner, James Finn. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Macmillan, 1994. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with wrinkle to back cover. Formerly my father’s copy, which I bought for him as a gift many years ago.
Haldeman, Joe. Work Done for Hire. Ace, 2014. A Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with 1/4″ tear at top rear point. Bought for $1 at a Half Price Books in Houston.
Harrison, Harry. Stainless Steel Visions. Tor, 1993. Something of a best of Harrison short story collection (not just Stainless Steel Rat stories). Twice Told Tales purchase.
(Heinlein, Robert A.) Olander, Joseph and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors. Robert A. Heinlein (Writers of the 21st Century Series). Taplinger, 1978. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction. Bought for £12.
Jablokov, Alexander. Brain Thief. Tor, 2009. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Jeter, K.W. Death Arms. Morrigan Publications, 1987. First edition hardback, #99 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Contains an Afterword, “The Young Man Comes to The City,” not found in the trade edition. Supplements a signed trade edition.
Jones, Stephen and Newman, Kim. Horror: 100 Best Books. Xanadu Publications, Ltd., 1988. First edition hardback, #214 of 300 numbered copies signed by both the editors and almost every living one of the 100 (!) contributors, including Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Basil Copper, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack Williamson, etc. etc etc. (though not by Stephen King), a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for £30 off Cold Tonnage, marked down from £50.
Joyce, Graham. The Limits of Enchantment. Gollancz, 2005. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Joyce. Bought for £9.
Kuttner, Henry. Murder of a Wife. Garland, 1983. First hardback edition (originally a PBO by Permabooks in 1958), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel, sans dust jacket, as issued. Number 26 of Garland’s 50 Classics of Crime Fiction: 1950—1975 series. I’m not sure what the print run was, but if they were anything like Garland’s 50 Classics of Science Fiction runs, it was probably quite small. Hubin, Crime Fiction, 1749—1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography, page 236 (for the PBO). Bought for $30 online.
Lansdale, Joe R. Fender Lizards. Subterranean Press, 2015. #235 of 400 signed, numbered copies.
Lansdale, Joe R. and Stephen Mertz. M.I.A. Hunter. Subterranean Press, 2015. First hardback edition and first edition thus, an omnibus of three paperback original M.I.A. Hunter men’s adventure novels (Hanoi Deathgrip, Mountain Massacre, and Saigon Slaughter) Lansdale wrote under the pseudonym of Jack Buchanan, #376 of 500 signed, numbered copies.
Le Guin, Ursula K. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie. Pendragon Press, 1973. First edition paperback chapbook original, #49 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Non-fiction. Currey (1979), page 306. Bought for £18.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi). H. P. Lovecraft’s Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition, a three volume set consisting of Volume 1: 1905—1925, Volume 2: 1926—1930, and Volume 3: 1931—1936. Hippocampus Press, 2015. First edition hardbacks, one of only 750 sets, all Fine copies in Fine dust jackets. “For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story—manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. Along the way, Joshi has made small but significant revisions to his earlier corrected texts. He has determined, for example, that Lovecraft slightly revised some stories when a reprint of them was scheduled in Weird Tales, and he has altered some readings in light of a better understanding of Lovecraft’s customary linguistic usages.”
Lupoff, Richard. Space War Blues. Dell, 1978. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Near Fine- copy with slight creasing. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Martin, George R. R. The John W. Campbell Awards Volume 6. Bluejay Books, 1986. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format, of the never-published hardback first edition, a Very Good- copy, being well-read with creasing along front and back spine joins, bottom of front spine join starting to split, a few spots of staining (including one to the edge of side/bottom page block), and general wear, with note on front cover stating “To/Shelia/Williams/Isaac/Asimov” and a note on the table of contents saying the Orson Scott Card story listed was going to be replaced with another Card story. Never produced because Bluejay Books went out of business in 1986. Copy on the back covers states the book was to be produced in both hardback and trade paperback formats. Includes two never-published Bruce Sterling stories. Bought for $100 from an editor who was downsizing his library as part of moving. Now signed by Sterling.
McDonald, Ian. The Broken Land. Bantam Spectra, 1992. First U.S. edition hardback and first edition thus, re-titled from UK hardback first Hearts, Hand and Voices (which I also have). Twice Told Tales purchase.
O’Leary, Patrick. The Black Heart. PS Publishing, 2009. Unnumbered copy of 100 copy limited edition signed by O’Leary and introduction author James Morrow, in standard blue PS Publishing traycase. Bought for $4.99 at a Half Price Books in Houston.
Oliver, Chad. Shadows in the Sun. Ballantine Books, 1954. First edition hardback (Currey state A, tan cloth lettered in black, no priority), a Near Fine+ copy with slight bumping at head and heel and usual age-darkening to pages), in a Near Fine- dust jacket with a 1 1/2″ closed tear to rear dust jacket flap, slight spotting to top of white rear cover, and a few small rubs. Hall, Hal W., The Work of Chad Oliver: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide, A2. Currey (1979), page 397. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 169 (an ex-library copy; his description of the dust jacket matches (down to the H-91 code on the front flap), but his description of the book itself as “gray cloth in dark blue lettering” doesn’t match either this copy or the Currey B state (blue cloth lettered in black); Locke’s copy was possibly a library rebind or another binding variant). Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-138. Bought for $3 from the Half Price Books in Cedar Park. A conservative estimate of value is probably $2,000
Pangborn, Edgar. The Company of Glory. Pyramid, 1975. First edition paperback original (as per Currey, page 398), a Fine- copy. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Partridge, Norman. Dark Harvest. Cemetery Dance, 2006. One of 2,000 signed, numbered copies.
Partridge, Norman. Johnny Halloween. Cemetery Dance, 2010. One of 1,500 signed, numbered copies.
Partridge, Norman. Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales. Subterranean Press, 2005. Inscribed by Partridge: “For [Joe?]/Hope you enjoy these old/short stories & tales from/the writing trenches!/All the best to/a guy with /[major pain?] of his own!/Norman Partridge.” Additionally signed as a PC copy of 750 signed, numbered copies. Can scan the inscription is someone is really interested…
Randall, Marta. A City in the North. Warner Books, 1976. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good copy with black marks at head and heel.
Reynolds, Alastair. Poseidon’s Wake. Gollancz, 2015.
Reynolds, Alastair. Slow Bullets. Tacyhon, 2015. Trade paperback original. Bought for $7.49.
Reynolds, Alastair. Slow Bullets. WSFA, 2015. First hardback edition (and first signed edition), #37 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies. Copies available through Lame Excuse Books.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, editor. Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Eight: Summer 1990. Hardback first edition, #50 of 250 numbered copies signed by all the contributors, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase. Signed by Greg Egan at the title page for his story “The Moral Virologist.” Also signed by George Alec Effinger, Jack McDevitt, Jonathan Lethem, etc. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 364. Supplements an unsigned copy (I have the entire 12 issue run in the regular edition.) Bought off eBay for $39.95.
(Shaver, Richard) W. Michael Moore. This Tragic Earth: The Art and World of Richard Sharpe Shaver. Grave Distractions Publications, 2006. Trade paperback original. Shaver Mystery non-fiction.
Sheckley, Robert. Shards of Space. Bantam, 1962. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good+ copy with slight spine creasing and wear. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Silverberg, Robert. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Nine: The Millennium Express. Subterranean Press, 2014. Sans dust jacket, as issued.
Smith, Michael Marshall. More Tomorrow & Other Stories. Earthling, 2003. #174 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies.
Shaw, Bob. The Palace of Eternity. Gollancz, 1970. First hardback edition, a Near Fine copy with one small spot to page block edge and bumping to bottom points, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with with small dust blemish to spine near Gollancz “SF” logo, a few tiny dust spots elsewhere, and a slight bumping at bottom tips. Inscribed by the author: “To Brian,/with best wishes/Bob Shaw.” Currey (1979), page 431. Pringle SF 100, 61. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4, 4-391. Bought for £120, marked down from £200.
Spinrad, Norman. Russian Spring. Bantam, 1991. Bookplate signed by Spinrad affixed to half title page, with a copy of a letter from Spinrad to bookdealers laid in. Reportedly a good novel depicting the fall of the Soviet Union which had the misfortune to come out as it was already dissolving.
Spinrad, Norman, editor. Modern Science Fiction. Gregg Press, 1976. First hardback edition, a Near Fine copy with two small, dust spots on bottom of side page block and rubbing to bottom rear edge of boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Anthology. Not a particularly important book, but it does seem to be one of the more uncommon Gregg press titles these days. Bought off eBay for $35.
Straub, Peter. Ghost Story. Cowan, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1979. First hardback edition, a Near Fine copy with slight discoloration at the very top edge of the boards and slight bumping at points, in a Near Fine dust jacket with wear at points.
Straub, Peter. Perdido: A Fragment. Subterranean Press, 2014. #207 of 400 signed, numbered copies.
Swanwick, Michael, and Christophe Morley. Meditations on Meditations on Oysters (Swanwick) b/w Meditations on Oysters (Morley). Dragonstairs Press, 2015. First edition sewn chapbook with decorative cultured pearl, #24 of 50 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Swanwick’s observations on a 1917 free-form rumination on oysters.
Tenn, William. Time in Advance. Bantam, 1958. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good copy with spine creasing. Twice Told Tales purchase
Tidhar, Lavie. A Man Lies Dreaming. Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Novel featuring Adolf Hitler as a hardboiled PI by this Israeli-born/UK-resident writer.
Vance, Jack. The Dragon Masters. Dennis Dobson, 1965. First hardback edition, a Fine- copy with usual page darkening, in a Fine, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by Vance. Bought for $120 from L. W. Currey.
Vance, Jack. Grand Crusades. Subterranean Press, 2015.
Vance, Jack. Lurulu. Tor, 2004. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with a small remainder mark at heel in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Jack Vance. Bought off eBay for $25. Vance’s last novel.
VanderMeer, Jeff. Secret Lives. Prime Books, 2008. #299 of 1000 signed copies.
VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann. The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Tachyon, 2010.
Wagner, Karl Edward. Why Not You and I? Dark Harvest, 1987. First edition hardback, #252 of 300 copies signed by Wagner, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with waviness to dust jacket rear, in a Near Fine paper slipcase. I also have a copy of the trade edition inscribed to me by Wagner at the 1988 Worldcon in New Orleans. Bought for $32.50.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty. Planet Stories, 2011. Trade paperback original, Fine. Twice Told Tales purchase.
Wellman, Manly Wade. The South Fork Rangers. Ives Washburn, 1963. Ex-Library copy, with usual flaws, otherwise nice and square, with complete dust jacket. Juvenile historical novel.
Wells, Martha. Emilie & The Hollow World. Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry, 2013. Trade paperback original. I’m a sucker for Hollow Earth novels…
Wells, Martha. Emilie & The Sky World. Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry, 2014. Trade paperback original. Sequel.
Williamson, Jack. Manseed. Del Rey, 1982. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Williamson. Bought for £9.
Zelazny, Roger. Trumps of Doom. G. K. Hall & Co., 2000. Large print edition, a Fine copy in a near Fine- with faint scratches to rear cover and slight crimping at head and heel. I’m not fanatical about collecting every edition of every Zelazny book, but it was only $3…
Zelazny, Roger, editor. The Williamson Effect. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a trace of haze rubbing. Bought off Amazon for $8.75 plus shipping.
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Thursday, November 12th, 2015
This is one of the many things on my want list, since I always thought it was a neat little book, and I finally found a copy I could afford.
Asimov, Isaac. Three By Asimov. Targ Editions, 1981. First edition hardback, one of 250 signed copies, a Fine copy in a Near Fine- tissue paper dust jacket with a 7/8″ semi-closed tear on the top right front cover, with associated wrinkles (the white streaks at left and top are reflection glare from the dust jacket protector). All the pages seem to be made of hand-made paper with ragged edges. Bought for $107.79 off eBay.
William Targ was a former editor at Putnam who ran a one-man small press in his retirement. This and the Ray Bradbury book Beyond 1984 were, as far as I know, the only SF Targ Editions published.
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Monday, June 1st, 2015
This is a deck-clearing post, since I just made another major purchase of Zelazny manuscripts and first editions that it’s going to take me some time to catalog…
Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920—1954. Doubleday, 1979. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight sun darkening to the very tops of inside flaps. Non-fiction. The first volume of Asimov’s massive two volume autobiography (I already had a first edition of the second volume, In Joy Still Felt).
Brunner, John. Tomorrow May be Even Worse. NESFA Press, 1978. First edition trade paperback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of bumping at points. Signed by Brunner. Small book of verse (one SF topic for every letter, arranged from A to Z), illustrated by fan artist ATom.
Honan, William H. Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That lead to Pearl Harbor. St. Martin’s Press, 1991. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Fellow collector Chris Skillings sent this to me after reading about how I picked up E. H. Fitzpatrick’s The Coming Conflict of Nations, or the Japanese American War. Bywater sounds like he was a very interesting guy…
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Monday, January 6th, 2014
It’s been another landmark year for adding books to my library of science fiction first editions. This post documents everything I bought after my big Zelazny acquisition on June 13, including some books that have been covered in posts since, and many that haven’t. (What I bought earlier in the year before the big Zelazny purchase can be found here.) All are first edition hardbacks, Fine copies in Fine dust jackets, unless otherwise noted.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Harmony Books, 1979. First U.S. edition.
(Adams, Douglas) Gaiman, Neil. Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Titan Books, 2003. First hardback edition and first edition thus (revised and updated), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction reference work.
Aldiss, Brian. Moreau’s Other Island. Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Aldiss on the front free endpaper.
Aldiss, Brian. This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar. Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1979. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
(Aldiss, Brian) Aldiss, Margaret. Item Eighty-Three: Brian W. Aldiss: A Bibliography: 1954—1972. SF Horizons, (1973). Chapbook, Fine. Non-fiction.
Asimov, Isaac. Nemesis. Doubleday, 1989. First edition hardback, number 485 out of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. This was a serendipitous find. I wasn’t looking for it (since I’m not generally a big fan of Asimov’s later work), but merely entered “signed limited edition” in Amazon’s books section just to see what I would find and this came up at $80. Given that it was originally issued at $125, and given that copies on Bookfinder start at $150, I thought it was a good price. Asimov isn’t actually a hard signature (especially compared to verified Philip K. Dick or Robert A. Heinlein signatures), but he has become fairly pricey one for his first editions.
Asimov, Isaac, edited by Stanley Asimov. Yours, Isaac Asimov. Doubleday, 1995. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with one tiny black remainder mark I missed, otherwise apparently new and unread, in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction collection of Asimov’s letters.
Ballard, J. G. Myths of the Near Future. Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Ballard, J. G. The Disaster Area. Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with edgewear and a few tiny spots of rubbing to dust jacket rear. Replaces a copy with a far more worn dust jacket. Bought for $100 at Half Price Books during a coupon sale.
Ballard, J. G. The Drought. Jonathan Cape, 1965. First hardback edition and first complete edition, a Near Fine+ copy, with spine of book itself slightly discolored and small sticker for London bookseller Foyles on inside cover, in a Fine dust jacket. Currey, page 22. Goddard and Pringle, J. G. Ballard: The First Twenty Years, item 59. Bought for $212.50, marked down from $425.
Ballingrud, Nathan, and Eileen Gunn. North American Monster Stories. Small Beer Press, 2013. Paperback chapbook original, Fine.
Banks, Iain. The Quarry. Little Brown, 2013.
Bear, Elizabeth. Book of Iron. Subterranean Press, 2013. Number 65 of 250 signed, numbered copies.
Bear, Elizabeth. Book of Iron. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade edition.
Bear, Greg. Early Harvest. NESFA Press, 1988. First edition hardback, #173 of 250 signed, numbered copies (800 print run total), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Supplements a signed trade copy. Bought off the Internet for $37.50.
Beaumont, Charles. The Intruder. Centipede Press, 2013. First edition thus, one of 200 copies signed by editor Roger Anker, William F. Nolan, and J.K. Potter. Basis of the Roger Corman film starring William Shatner.
Beaumont, Charles and John Tormerlin. Run From the Hunter. Centipede Press, 2013. First edition thus and first edition under authors’ actual names, one of 200 copies signed by John Tomerlin and J.K. Potter.
Beyer, William Gray. Minions of the Moon. Gnome Press, 1950. First edition hardback, a Very Good+ copy with small spotting to front and rear boards and wear at top and bottom boards, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with wear along spine and front panel join and slight edgewear elsewhere; a really nice example of the Edd Cartier dust jacket. The eighth Gnome Press book. Chalker/Ownings (1991), page 198. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 197. Trying to collect the entire Gnome Press line…
Blaylock, James P. with Kim Stanley Robinson. Two Views of a Cave Painting b/w Escape From Kathmandu. Axolotl Press, 1986. First edition hardback, #43 of 300 signed, numbered hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Bleiler, Richard. Supernatural Fiction Writers. Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson/Gale, 2003. First edition hardbacks of the Second Edition (stated inside, not on the cover), a two volume set, Fine- copies with slight dust soiling at heel in decorated boards with slight haze rubbing, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction reference work. Bought for $40, including dealer discount, which I though was a pretty good price, since non-Ex-Library copies list in the multiple hundreds. Note that the first edition was edited by the late E. F. Bleiler, while this second edition is edited by his son (who I’ve sold many a book to over the years…)
(Blish, James) Stableford, Brian M. A Clash of Symbols: The Triumph of James Blish. Borgo Press, 1979. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket (somewhat uncommon for Borgo, who usually went for plasticized decorated boards for their hardbacks), #17 of 62 signed/numbered copies signed by Stableford. Bought for $28. Non-fiction critical work, part of the Milford series, which I pick up in hardback when I chance across them for authors I’m interested in.
Brackett, Leigh. The Sword of Rhiannon. Boardman, 1955. First hardback edition (“First published in Great Britain, 1955″, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel and foxing to interior gutters, in a Very Good dust jacket with 1/4” of wear rubbing/chipping (dust jacket is present, but image has been worn away) at head, a similar, smaller amount of wear at heel, a shallow chip with associated wear at top rear, and crease along front cover spine join running the entire length of the jacket, and wear along extremities; despite all that, the rest of the jacket is quite bright and attractive. Currey, page 53. Cawthorn & Moorocock, Fantasy: The Hundred Best Books 75. A fairly uncommon book these days.
Bradbury, Ray. Collected Short Stories. Petersen Publishing Company (The Great Author Series), 2002. Presumed first edition hardback (no additional printings listed), a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, presumably as issued.
Bradbury, Ray. The Dragon. Footsteps Press, 1988. First edition chapbook, #72 of 300 signed, numbered copies, Fine. Has affixed wrappers with a transparent blue Mylar window (there were evidently also red and yellow window variants).
Bradbury, Ray. Driving Blind Avon Books, 1997. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Bradbury: “Marilyn! /Onward!/Ray Bradbury/Oct. 18, ’97”. Bought for $20 off eBay.
Bradbury, Ray. The Homecoming. Collins Design, 2006. First edition hardback in decorated boards, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bradbury. Illustrated by Dave McKean. Short story done as a short illustrated book. Bought for $30.51 off eBay.
Bradbury, Ray. The Veldt. The Perfection Form Company, 1982. (Possible) First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy in stapled wraps, inscribed by Bradbury on the cover. Reading comprehension questions at the back.
Bradbury, Ray. With Cat for Comforter. Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1997. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bradbury. Illustrated by Louise Reinoehl Max. Short poem turned into an illustrated children’s book. Replaces an unsigned copy in my library. Bought for $16.66 off eBay.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Sword of Aldonis. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, Fine- with a trace of wear at tips, sans dust jacket, as issued. Darkover novel. Currey (1978), page 61.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Heritage of Hastur. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, Fine- with a trace of wear at tips, sans dust jacket, as issued. Darkover novel. Currey (1978), page 62. Bought more as part of my long-term goal of collecting all the Gregg Press first editions…
Bramah, Earnest. The Moon of Much Gladness. Cassell & Company, 1932. First edition hardback (Berro A17), a Fine- copy with slight bends at head and heel in a VG+ dust jacket with a 1/8″ chip at rear head join, slight cracking at top edge of front cover, and dust soiling to rear, otherwise a fairly bright and attractive copy of a book seldom offered in dust jacket. Bought for $300 off the Internet from a major SF book dealer. (What appear to be tiny spots of white rubbing to the black dj are in fact scanner artifacts.)
Brundage, Margaret (edited by Stephen D. Korshak and J. David Spurlock). The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art. Vanguard Productions/Shasta Phoenix, 2013. First edition hardback, slipcased limited edition with 16 additional pages of art, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Brundage was the woman who did all those great “damsel in distress” covers for Weird Tales in the 1930s, and it’s great to finally have a book of her art.
Brunner, John. The Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories. Ramble House/Dancing Tuatara Press, 2013. First edition POD hardback, Fine/Fine.
Budrys, Algis. Cerberus. Pulphouse, 1989. First edition hardback, #53 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Part of the “Pulphouse Convention Series.” Fourth book Pulphouse did, and the first one that wasn’t an issue of their namesake hardback magazine.
Campbell, Ramsey. Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death. Scream Press, 1987. First edition hardback, #130 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase. Bought for $20. I’m sort of collecting a complete Scream Press collection, but it’s fairly low on my list of priorities…
Carriger, Gail (pen name of Tofa Borregaard). Heartless. Orbit, 2011. Paperback original, a Fine- copy. Parasol Protectorate #4.
Chabon, Michael. Fountain City: A Novel Wrecked. McSweeney’s, 2010. First edition paperback original, a small, slightly oblong format, roughly 5 1/4″ high, by 6 1/4″ long, a Fine- copy in Fine- fold over wrappers (which fold out into a sort of map picture), with a tiny, 1/16″ cut to top font cover. The opening chapters of a novel Chabon abandoned. Bought for $22.50, down from $45.
Clarke, Arthur C. Imperial Earth. Gollancz, 1975.
Clement, Hal (writing name of Harry C. Stubbs). Fossil. DAW, 1993. First edition paperback original, Fine- with a tiny bit of edgewear.
Clement, Hal. Small Changes. Doubleday, 1969. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with blindstamp on title page and crimping at head and heel, in a Near Fine- dust jacket with dust soiling to white background and a small closed tear and associated wrinkle to top front flap. Signed “”Hal Clement” (Harry C. Stubbs)”. Not overly common these days. Bought for $28.
Dick, Philip K. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4: Minority Report. Subterranean Press, 2013. First thus.
Dick, Philip K. A Handful of Darkness. Rich & Cowan, 1955. First edition hardback, Currey binding A (blue boards lettered in silver) in a first state dust jacket (no mention of World of Chance), an Ex-Library copy with most of the usual flaws, including protected dust jacket flaps taped to boards (and inner cardboard sleeve additionally taped) and stamp for Eeeling Science Fiction Postal Library on inner cover; dust jacket is completely intact, the only flaws being “D11/2” written in white on bottom spine just above publisher, and slight dust staining to white rear cover; call it a VG/NF Ex-Lib copy. Levack, 21a. Currey (1978), page 157. Dick’s first short story collection and first hardback book. (Hairline crack on left is a scanner artifact.)
(Dick, Philip K.) Peake, Anthony. A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future. Arcturus, 2013. Non-fiction.
Di Filippo, Paul. Time’s Black Lagoon. DH Press, 2006. Paperback original, a Fine, unread copy. Sequel to the movie The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
Dozois, Gardner and George R. R. Martin, editors. Songs of Love & Death. Gallery Books, 2010.
Egan, Greg. The Eternal Flame (Orthogonal Book 2). Night Shade Books, 2012.
Ellison, Harlan. All the Lies That Are My Life. Underwood/Miller, 1980. First edition hardback, one of 400 unsigned trade hardcover copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Chalker/Owings, page 432.
Ellison, Harlan. Harlan Ellison is Watching. Underwood/Miller, 1989. First edition hardback, #46 of 600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Chalker/Owings, page 440.
Ellison, Harlan. Stalking the Nightmare. Phantasia Press, 1982. First edition hardback, #240 of 700 signed hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Supplements a copy of the trade edition. Chalker/Owings, page 340.
Farmer, Philip Jose. Lord Tyger. Doubleday, 1970. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight crimping at head and heel and trace of foxing along gutters, in a Fine- dust jacket with slight darkening to spine and a few traces of dust soiling. Signed by Farmer. Farmer’s SF take on Tarzan. Currey (1979), page 153. Bought for $60.
Gaiman, Neil. Fortunately the Milk…. HarperCollins (UK), 2013. First edition hardback (the UK and U.S. edition were evidently simultaneous), slipcased limited edition (“with exclusive bookmark”) sold by UK bookstore chain Foyle’s signed by Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddle, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, still in shrinkwrap. I think this state came out about a month after the trade edition. Young adult novella. Bought for £19.99 plus shipping off eBay.
Gaiman, Neil, with David McKean. Mythological Creatures. The Royal Mail, 2009. First edition folded broadside, legal-paper sized printed cardstock, two-sided, with six stamps in attached Mylar pouches, Fine. Collectable stamp folder with six mini-stories by Gaiman, one for each mythological creature on the stamps, with Dave McKean art. An odd item I only recently became aware of, and one that may frustrate Gaiman completists a few years hence…
Gibson, William. Zero History. Putnum, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Gibson. Bought for $12 (marked down from $20) at a Half Price Books during a coupon sale.
Haldeman, Joe. A Separate War and Other Stories. Ace, 2006.
Harrison, Harry. Skyfall. Faber & Faber, 1976. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed and dated (“82”) by Harrison. Bought for $20.
Heinlein, Robert A. The Number of the Beast. New English Library, 1980. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Reportedly Heinlein’s worst novel, but if you’re collecting the whole set…
Heinlein, Robert A. The Puppet Masters. Doubleday, 1951. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight foxing to endpapers and tiny touches of wear at heel in a in a Near Fine- dust jacket with extremely shallow surface chipping at head and slight fading of purple coloring on spine. A very nice copy of one of Heinlein’s most important early novels. Currey (1978), page 233. Pringle, SF 100 4.
(Heinlein, Robert A.) Patterson, William H. Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue With His Century Volume 1: Learning Curve: 1907-1948. Tor, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction biography.
Hill, Joe. Locke & Key 3: Crown of Shadows. Subterranean Press, 2013. #31 of 250 signed, numbered copies, in slipcase. Graphic novel.
Howard, Robert E. Cormac MacArt Baen, 1995. First edition paperback original, Fine- with a tiny bit of edgewear, foxing inside covers, and a phantom crease along rear cover. Mostly reprints Howard stories from Tigers of the Sea, but adds a new Cormac MacArt story by David Drake.
Howard, Robert E. Kull Baen, 1995. First edition paperback original thus (“First Complete Edition”), a Fine copy.
Howard, Robert E. Kull: Exile of Atlantis. Subterranean Press, 2013. Hardback first edition thus, #305 of 1,500 copies signed by artist Justin Sweet, a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket and slipcase.
Howard, Robert E. The Sower of Thunder. Donald M. Grant, 1975. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by illustrator Roy G. Krenkel. Currey (1978), page 252.
Howard, Robert E. (edited by Robert M. Price). Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard. Chaosium, 2001. Trade paperback original, Fine. Includes four Howard story fragments finished by others.
Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography with 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland, 1984/1988. First edition hardbacks, Near Fine copies with dust staining at head and traces of wear at points and heel, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought from Half Price Books for $5 for the set (marked down from an original price of $60). I’m a sucker for comprehensive bibliographies…
(Jeter, K. W. and Ferret, as Dr. Adder and Mink Mole). Alligator Alley. Morrigan Books, 1989. First edition hardback, copy #104 of 210 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase, as well as a cassette tape of material related to the novel. Does not include the T-shirt that was sold with some of the slipcased copies. Supplements my trade edition. Jeter told me he actually had very little to do with the novel…
Jones, Sergent Morgan, and Damien Lewis. The Embassy House. Threshold Editions, 2013. Non-fiction on Benghazi embassy attack. Withdrawn by the publisher under political pressure.
Jones, Stephen, Editor. Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth. Fedogan & Breamer, 2005. Cthulhu Mythos anthology.
Jones, Stephen, Editor. Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth. Fedogan & Breamer, 2013. Cthulhu Mythos anthology.
Klaw, Rick, editor. Rayguns Over Texas. Fandom Association of Central Texas, 2013. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, new and unread, signed by 13 of the contributors. Anthology of SF stories from Texas writers published for the 2013 Worldcon in San Antonio. I have a story in here, “Novel Properties of Certain Complex Alkaloids,” that’s like a Greg Egan story by way of H. P. Lovecraft and Timothy Leary. Introduction by Bruce Sterling. This copy signed by myself, editor Rick Klaw, cover artist Rocky Kelly, Don Webb, Chris Brown, Matthew Bay, Stina Leicht, Nicky Drayden, Rhonda Eudaly, Derek Austin Johnson, Marshall Maresca, Sanford Allen, and Josh Roundtree. I also have an additional copy inscribed to me by several of the contributors in my contributor copy library.
(Koontz, Dean R.) Kotker, Joan G. Dean Koontz: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press, 1996 (stated; probably more recent). Reprint hardback, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction.
Lake, Jay. Dogs in the Moonlight. Prime Books, 2004. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a bit of wear at the tips. Signed by Lake. Missed this when it came out, mainly because Prime was still part of Wildside. Bought for $24 off the Internet.
Lake, Jay. Endurance. Tor, 2011. Signed by Lake. Bought for 20% off cover at the San Antonio Worldcon.
Lansdale, Joe R. Bleeding Shadows. Subterranean, 2013. Short story collection.
Lansdale, Kasey, editor. Impossible Monsters. Subterranean Press, 2013.
Leiber, Fritz. The Moon is Green and Other Tales. Armchair Fiction, 2013. First edition trade paperback original (POD), a Fine copy, new and unread.
(Leiber, Fritz) Morgan, Chris. Fritz Leiber: a bibliography, 1934—1979. Morgenstern, 1979. Chapbook original, one of 1000 copies, a Near Fine+ copy with spots of age darkening to cover.
Leinster, Murray and Charles L. Fontenay. Planet of Dread b/w Twice Upon a Time. Armchair Fiction, 2010. First edition trade paperback original (POD), a Fine copy, new and unread. Honestly, I just picked this up for the cool, retro giant spider cover.
Lem, Stainslaw. A Perfect Vacuum. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First English language edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with small closed tear at bottom front and a few touches of wear. Reviews of imaginary books. Replaces an Ex-Library copy in my library.
Lethem, Jonathan. Chronic City. Doubleday, 2009.
Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones. Harper, 2009. First U.S. edition of a book original published in French as Les Bienveillantes, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a few touches of wear at edges. In 1989 Littell published a 3rd-generation cyberpunk PBO called Bad Voltage, then slipped from public view until he published Les Bienveillantes, a novel about the Holocaust, in France in 2006 (he’s a dual U.S. French citizen), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt literary award.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Lockhart, Ross E., editor. The Book of Cthulhu II. Night Shade Press, 2012. Trade paperback original. Anthology.
Martin, George R. R. and John J. Miller. Wild Cards Volume VII: Dead Man’s Hand. Bantam Spectra, 19990. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with a trace of edgewear.
(Martin, George R. R.) Samuelson, Todd, Editor. Deeper Than Swords: Celebrating the Work of George R. R. Martin. Texas A&M University Cushing memorial Library and Archives, 2013. Oversized trade paperback, a Fine copy. Illustrated critical companion to Martin’s work, published as part of an event at the library with Martin on March 22, 2013.
Matheson, Richard. The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickock. Jove, 1996. Paperback original, VG with creasing.
Matheson, Richard. The Shrinking Man. Gregg Press, 1979. First Gregg Press edition, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued.
Mieville, China. London’s Overthrow. The Westbourne Press, 2012. First edition trade paperback original, Fine, new and unread. Non-fiction. Appears to be a political rant with pictures.
McDevitt, Jack. Echo. Ace, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a tiny bit of wrinkling at top edge.
Moorcock, Michael. Sailor on the Seas of Fate. Quartet Books, 1976. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with a chip out of the corner of the front free endpaper, in a Fine dust jacket. Currey, page 372.
Moore, C.L. Judgment Night. Gnome Press, 1952. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with slight crimping at head and heel, mild foxing to inner gutters, and a few tiny spots of wear to bottom boards, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with 1/4″ closed tear at heel, slight wrinkling at rear head, and a touch of edgewear. A truly superb, bright example of the dust jacket. Collection of five longer stories. Currey (1978), Page 377. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 199. Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-130. Another notable book from the golden age of the genre small press. Bought for $65 off eBay.
Picacio, John. John Picacio 2014 Calendar. Lone Boy, 2013. First edition, Fine, signed by the artist, with Kickstarter specials, including six oversized loteria cards, a sketcbook, and a signed pencil.
Pohl, Frederik, with Jack Williamson. The Saga of Cuckoo. Nelson Doubleday (SFBC), 1983. First edition thus and first hardback (a book club omnibus edition of Farthest Star and A World Around a Star, both previously published only in paperback), code “N34” on page 433 (as per ISFDB), a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of crimping at head and heel, in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by both Pohl and Williamson. Bought for $22.50 off eBay.
Powers, Tim/James P. Blaylock. The Way Down the Hill/The Pink of Fading Neon. Axoltl Press, 1986. First Edition hardback, #178 of 300 hardback copies by both authors and introducers Ed Bryant and Charles De Lint, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $30 plus shipping from Heritage Auctions. One of those books I wasn’t sure whether I owned or not, since I had the other Axolotl Press Powers and Blaylock books…
Rainey, Stephen Mark. Song of Cthulhu. Chaosium, 2001. Trade paperback original, Fine. Anthology.
Reynolds, Alastair. Dr. Who: Harvest of Time. BBC Books, 2013. Signed by Reynolds at the 2013 San Antonio Worldcon.
Roberts, Adam (as A. R. R. R. Roberts). The Soddit, or Let’s Cash In Again. Gollancz, 2003. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Roberts. Parody of The Hobbit.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. 2312. Orbit, 2012. First UK edition (I think the U.S. precedes by two days), a Fine- copy with slight wrinkling to top of dust jacket.
Schweitzer, Darrell. Cthulhu’s Reign. DAW, 2010. paperback original, Fine. Anthology.
Sennholz, Mary. On Freedom and Free Enterprise. Von Nostrand, 1956. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with slight dust-staining to head and crimping at head and heel in a very Good+ dust jacket with 1/4″ tears at head and heel. Collection of free market essays, published in honor of the 50th anniversary of Ludvig von Mises’ receiving his doctorate. Bought for $5 at Half Price Books.
Shaver, Richard S. The Shaver Mystery, Book One. Armchair Fiction, 2011. First edition trade paperback original, Fine, new.
Shaver, Richard S. The Shaver Mystery, Book Two. Armchair Fiction, 2011. First edition trade paperback original, Fine, new.
Shaver, Richard S. The Shaver Mystery, Book Three. Armchair Fiction, 2012. First edition trade paperback original, Fine, new.
Shaver, Richard S. The Shaver Mystery, Book Four. Armchair Fiction, 2013. First edition trade paperback original, Fine, new. The four volumes collect stories and ancillary material from the “Shaver Mystery,” Shaver’s weird, strangely compelling conspiracy theory/alternate reality in which a hateful race of “deros” (“detrimental robots”) lived inside he earth, beaming mind-control rays at surface dwellers (and occasionally kidnapping them for torture, food, or sport). Shaver’s elaborate, unhinged vision brought a vast legion of cranks out of the shadows and onto the subscriber ranks of Amazing, whose editor Ray Palmer started publishing Shaver’s stories in the 1940s, which was to have a considerable impact on SF fandom. I doubt much of this has seen print since it’s original appearance in Amazing, or in Palmer’s subsequent The Hidden World. If you’re a connoisseur of crank literature, Shaver is up there with the whackiest.
Shea, Michael. Assault on Sunrise. Tor, 2013. Sequel to The Extra.
Shea, Michael. The Incomplete Nifft. Baen, 2000. First edition paperback original thus, an omnibus edition of Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behemoth, a NF copy, with a crease on the bottom back cover.
Silverberg, Robert. Capricorn Games. Random House, 1976. Signed by Silverberg. Currey (1979), page 436.
Silverberg, Robert. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 8: Hot Times in Magma City: 1990-1995. Subterranean Press, 2013. Fine, sands dust jacket, as issued.
(Simak, Clifford D.) Becker, Muriel R. Clifford D. Simak: a primary and secondary bibliography. G. K. Hall, 1980. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction. I do wish the books were separated from the short fiction listings…
Smith, Clark Ashton. Lost Worlds. Arkham House, 1944. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with slight crimping at head and heel, bump to top front corner, usual age darkening to pages, and a trace of foxing to gutters, in a Near Fine dust jacket with age darkening to light-colored portion of spine, short closed tear and associated 1/2″ wrinkle crease at head, a tiny bit of rubbing at heel, and age darkening around edges and crease folds. Smith’s second prose collection and the seventh Arkham House book published. Currey (1978), page 453. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy One, page 200. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1485. Tymn, 4-202. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 7. Derleth, 30 Years of Arkham House, 7. Jaffery (1982), 7. Nielsen, 7. Bought for $172 off the Internet.
Smith, Edward E., Ph.D. Skylark Three. Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition hardback, one of 500 subscriber copies with a signature page inscribed by Smith bound in: “To Hugh F. Henry—/Three in a row — Hot dog!/And thanks a million for/the compliment./Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.” (Doc Smith had marvelously clear handwriting), a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of crimping at head and heel and faint foxing to gutters, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to top 1/2″ of front, slight edgewear at head, and slight dust soiling to rear cover. E. E. “Doc” Smith is someone I only pick up as a target of opportunity, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to pick up a very attractive example of one of the Fantasy Press subscriber copies for one of their most popular writers for approximately $150 after sale discount.
Smith, George O. The Brain Machine. Garland Press, 1975. First hardback edition, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued. Originally a paperback original under the title The Fourth “R”. Currey (1979), page 458. Garland, like Gregg Press, usually did interesting hardback reprints.
Smith, George O. Hellflower. Abelard Press, 1953. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with slight spine fade to red portions and tiny traces of wear, otherwise a complete, bright and attractive dust jacket. Currey (1979), page 458.
Stephenson, Neal. Some Remarks. Atlantic Books, 2012. First UK edition. Non-fiction.
Sturgeon, Theodore. A Touch of Sturgeon. Simon & Schuster (UK), 1987. Fine-/Fine- with sight crimping at head.
Swainston, Steph. The Modern World. Inscribed by the author: “S. Swainston/12.05.07/’All things from eternity are of like forms/And come round in a circle.’ — Marcus Aurelius”. With photograph of the author laid in. Bought for $24. I should really get around to reading The Year of Our War some day…
Swanwick, Michael. Moon Dogs. NESFA Press, 2000. First edition hardback, one of 175 signed slipcased copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Supplements an inscribed trade copy.
Swanwick, Michael. Tumbling. Dragonstairs Press, 2013. First edition micro-chapbook original, 3″ x 2 3/4″ inches, #10 of 50 signed, numbered copies, Fine, new and unread.
Taine, John. The Time Stream. Buffalo Book Company, 1946. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with foxing to inside covers and a few faint pinpoint spots on boards, in a VG- dust jacket with uneven loss to top edge, mostly 1/16″ but occasionally as much as 1/4″. According to Chalker/Owings (1991), page 78, only 500 copies were ever bound, and half of those were lost in a rainstorm. Currey (1979), page 29. Bleiler Checklist, 1978, page 191. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy One, page 211. 333, page 63. An important early SF specialty book.
Tucker, Wilson. Ice and Iron. Doubleday, 1974. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with edgewear at head and heel, with review slip laid in. Inscribed by Tucker: “For Dave, at Nashville,/Wilson Bob Tucker/May 19, 1979”. Tucker was famous both as a writer and as a noted fan. Bought for $20.
Turner, Gary, and Marty Halpern. The Silver Griffith. Golden Gryphon, 2003. First edition hardback, #34 of 100 numbered copies signed by all the contributors, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, in slipcase.
Utley, Steven. Silurian Tales — Volume 1: The 400-Million-Year-Itch. Ticonderoga, 2012.
Utley, Steven. Silurian Tales — Volume 2: Invisible Kingdoms. Ticonderoga, 2012.
Vance, Jack. Araminta Station. Underwood Miller, 1987. First edition hardback, #443 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. First book of the Caldwell Chronicles. Precedes both the NEL and Tor editions by six months. Hewett, A79. Chalker/Owings (1991), pages 437-438. Bought for $120.
Vance, Jack (as John Holbrook Vance). The Deadly Isles. Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of crimping at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with a few bare traces of dust soiling and a tiny bit of rubbing at extremities. Overall a beautiful copy of this Vance mystery. Currey, p. 497. Hewett, A33.
Vance, Jack. Gold and Iron. Underwood/Miller, 1982. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a slight wrinkle at rear heel. Previously published in paperback as Slaves of the Klau. Hewett, A9e.
Vance, Jack. Lyonesse: Suldrun’s Garden. Underwood/Miller, 1983. First hardback edition, #78 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. (Note: Unlike the signed, numbered edition of Lyonesse: The Green Pearl, this was not issued in a slipcase.) Hewett, A70b. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 436. Supplements my copy of the unsigned library edition in decorated boards issued without a dust jacket. Bought for $100.
Vinge, Joan D. World’s End. Bluejay Books, 1984. First edition hardback, #127 of 750 signed numbered copies in slipcase, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy has been additionally inscribed by Vinge: “To Marcia Adams/-with all my best wishes-!/Joan D. Vinge/2005.” There was a PBS cooking show host and cook book author by that name who died in 2011; not sure if that’s who it’s inscribed to or not. I do wonder how many of these slipcased hardcovers Bluejay Books did. I have their slipcased edition of K. W. Jeter’s Dr. Adder, and I know they did a few others, but there does not appear to be a list online. I’ll write Jim Frenkel and ask…
Waldrop, Howard. The Horse of a Different Color. Small Beer Press, 2013. Inscribed to me to by the author.
Webb, Don. The War With The Belatrin/A Velvet of Vamphyres. Wildside, 2012. Trade paperback original, a Fine copy, inscribed by Webb.
Webb, Don & Gary Lovisi. Do the Weird Crime, Do The Weird Time/Gargoyle Nights. Wildside, 2012. Trade paperback original, a Fine copy, inscribed by Webb.
Weinbaum, Stanley G. Dawn of Flame. Ruppert Printing Service (for The Milwaukee Fictioneers), 1936. One of only 245 copies of the Currey B state (with the Lawrence A. Keating introduction), a Near Fine+ copy with very faint spine creasing and slight gray staining to bottom page block (or possibly where the red page block staining has worn away), sans dust jacket, as issued. Currey, page 510. Chalker/Owings, page 279. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), page 204. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy (I), page 224. Bought at the San Antonio Worldcon for $1,200 (negotiated down from $1,500) from Erle Melvin Korshak. And if I’m remembering correctly, it was on consignment from Sam Moskowitz’s widow through Robert Weinberg to Korshak.
Wellman, Manly Wade. The Ghost Battalion. Ives Washburn, 1958. First edition hardback, most likely a repaired Ex-Library copy, Very Good with tape ghosts on boards, front free endpaper excised and another attached in it’s place, slight wear at heel, dust soiling at head, and slight crimping at head and heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with edgewear and about 1/16″ inch of color loss at heel, and possible spine fading (hard to tell, since it’s a different color than the front and back covers). Second book in the Iron Scouts Civil War YA trilogy. Bought for $18 off eBay.
Wellman, Manly Wade. What Dreams May Come. Doubleday, 1983. First Edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with signature plate signed by Wellman attached to front free endpaper. Features supernatural detective John Thundstone. Replaces an Ex-Library copy in my collection. Bought for $20 from a major SF book dealer.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Worse Things Waiting. Carcosa, 1973. First edition hardback, Trade Edition issue, a Fine- copy with a couple of pinpricks of wear, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed to fellow horror writer Dennis Etchison: “Better Things Waiting/for/Dennis Etchison/Manly Wade Wellman/Dec 7, 1979”. Being a Wellman collector, I could hardly pass up an associational copy of this, his best and most important collection, inscribed to another top horror writer. (This is the second Wellman-inscribed association copy I own along with Third String Center inscribed to Wellman’s own brother, western writer Paul I. Wellman.) Currey (1979), page 515. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 87. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1672. Jones/Newman, Horror 100, 70. Bought for $100.
Wells, H. G. (edited by Robert Philmus and David y. Hughes). Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction by H. G. Wells. University of California Press, 1975. Presumed first edition hardback (no additional printings listed), a Fine- copy with slight crimping at head and heel and trace of foxing to inside front covers, in a VG- dust jacket with a 1/2″ square chip missing from bottom front cover and a 3/8″ chunk tapering to a point over 3″ missing at top rear. Not in Currey. Reginald, 1975-1991, 36697. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 178: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I, page 242. Not a great dust jacket, but it was only $8, and copies online are somewhat pricey…
Wilson, Gahan. Everybody’s Favorite Duck. Mysterious Press, 1988.
Wolfe, Gene. Home Fires. Tor, 2010. Already read it in ARC.
Wolfe, Gene. A Wolfe Family Album. United Mythologies Press, 1991. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Signed by Gene Wolfe. Chapbook of mostly Wolfe family photos, evidently issued with the hardback edition of Letters Home (which I’ve owned for some time, but which didn’t come with the chapbooks when I bought it).
Wolfe, Gene (Mooney, J. E. and Bill Fawcett, editors. Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe. Tor, 2013. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. A tribute anthology.
Zelazny, Roger. Home is the Hangman. SFBC, 1996. First separate hardback edition. Kovacs, VI-7-a.
Zelazny, Roger. Knight of Shadows. Ultramarine Press, 1989. First limited hardback edition, #20 of 40 signed, numbered copies, bound in quarter leather, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Kovacs, 27-d-i. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 612. Proof that being a collector drives you slightly insane. (“Slightly?” asks the peanut gallery.) Ultramarine Press would take the sheets of the trade edition, then add a signed limitation page and leather binding. Honestly, I’m less than impressed with both their business model and most of the books produced, and I’m not too wild about post-first edition limiteds, but this edition seems nicer than many, 40 is a pretty low limitation for a Zelazny limited, and since I have such an extensive Zelazny collection, I decided to pony up for it. Bought for $240.
Zelazny, Roger, and Thomas T. Thomas. Flare. Baen, 1992. First edition paperback original, Fine.
(Zelazny, Roger) Kovacs, Christopher, compiler. The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny. NESFA Press/Camelot Books, 2011. First hardback edition, letter M of 21 lettered copies with a Zelazny signature sheet (taken from unused Ultramarine press Zelazny books), a Fine copy in three-quarters bound leather, in a Fine patterned traycase with the pictorial cover from the trade paperback edition, sans dust jacket, as issued. An elaborate aftermarket edition of this Zelazny incorporating unbound NESFA sheets obtained by the compiler. I paid $191 for it, considerably less than the $500 list price it was offered at.
(Zelazny, Roger) Yoke, Karl. Roger Zelazny/Andre Norton: Proponents of Individualism State library of Ohio, 1979. First edition chapbook original, Near Fine+ with some age toning. Non-fiction.
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
And here’s the second set of books, following yesterday’s list of exceptional volumes from the same trip. All are first edition hardbacks, Fine copies in Fine dust jackets, unless otherwise noted.
Asimov, Isaac, edited by Stanley Asimov. Yours, Isaac Asimov. Doubleday, 1995. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with one tiny black remainder mark I missed, otherwise apparently new and unread, in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction collection of Asimov’s letters.
Ballard, J. G. Myths of the Near Future. Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Beyer, William Gray. Minions of the Moon. Gnome Press, 1950. First edition hardback, a Very Good+ copy with small spotting to front and rear boards and wear at top and bottom boards, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with wear along spine and front panel join and slight edgewear elsewhere; a really nice example of the Edd Cartier dust jacket. The eighth Gnome Press book. Chalker/Ownings (1991), page 198. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 197. Trying to collect the entire Gnome Press run as well…
Blaylock, James P. with Kim Stanley Robinson. Two Views of a Cave Painting b/w Escape From Kathmandu. Axolotl Press, 1986. First edition hardback, #43 of 300 signed, numbered hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Bleiler, Richard. Supernatural Fiction Writers. Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson/Gale, 2003. First edition hardbacks of the Second Edition (stated inside, not on the cover), a two volume set, Fine- copies with slight dust soiling at heel in decorated boards with slight haze rubbing, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction reference work. Bought for $40, including dealer discount, which I though was a pretty good price, since non-Ex-Library copies list in the multiple hundreds. Note that the first edition was edited by the late E. F. Bleiler, while this second edition is edited by his son (who I’ve sold many a book to over the years…)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Sword of Aldonis. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, Fine- with a trace of wear at tips, sans dust jacket, as issued. Darkover novel. Currey (1978), page 61.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Heritage of Hastur. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, Fine- with a trace of wear at tips, sans dust jacket, as issued. Darkover novel. Currey (1978), page 62. Bought more as part of my long-term goal of collecting all the Gregg Press first editions…
Budrys, Algis. Cerberus. Pulphouse, 1989. First edition hardback, #53 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Part of the “Pulphouse Convention Series.” Fourth book Pulphouse did, and the first one that wasn’t an issue of their namesake hardback magazine.
Di Filippo, Paul. More Plumage From Pegasus. PS Publishing, 2013. Short humorous fictional vignettes from F&SF.
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Monday, October 21st, 2013
Picked up another book for my collection:
Asimov, Isaac. Nemesis. Doubleday, 1989. First edition hardback, number 485 out of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued.
This was a serendipitous find. I wasn’t looking for it (since I’m not generally a big fan of Asimov’s later work), but merely entered “signed limited edition” in Amazon’s books section just to see what I would find and this came up at $80. Given that it was originally issued at $125, and given that copies on Bookfinder start at $150, I thought it was a good price. Asimov isn’t actually a hard signature (especially compared to verified Philip K. Dick or Robert A. Heinlein signatures), but he has become fairly pricey one for his first editions.
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