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Library Additions for 2023

Monday, February 5th, 2024

Here are all the books I added to my library in 2023. Most (but not all) have been covered in previous posts.

  • Adams, Douglas (edited by Kevin Jon Davies). 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams. Unbound, 2023. First edition hardback (number line ending with 1), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. A compendium of scripts, drafts, notes, sketches etc. from the archives of this Dr. Who and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy writer. I backed this on Kickstarter, and my name can be found on page 315. This book was actually a #1 Sunday Times bestseller. I’m not sure if this Kickstarter edition differs from the trade edition, though I count 320 pages, while Amazon UK says 336 pages, so, maybe? I have a copy of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Aldiss, Brian W. Journey to the Goat Star. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #22. Tiny bit of rubbing along spine. This is the first of a complete run of 61 Pulphouse Short Story paperbacks I bought for $61. All the subsequent listings for Pulphouse titles for this post are part of the Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks line, and all are Fine copies, unless otherwise listed.

  • Aldrin, Buzz, and John Barnes. Encounter With Tiber. Warner Books, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed by Aldrin: “To Michael,/Buzz Aldrin.” Pretty sure Barnes did the overwhelming majority of the writing, but it’s pretty cool to own a book signed by a guy who walked on the moon. Bought for $7.99.

  • Anonymous. In the Future. Arno Press, 1974. First edition hardback thus, a reprint of a book originally published in 1867, a Fine- copy with slight bumps at points, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for $7.99.

  • Antieau, Kim. Blossoms. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #5.
  • Aquilone, James, editor. Dead Detectives Society. Monsterous Books, 2023. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, with extras bag including three cardstock illustrations and a Dead Detective’s Society Membership card. Includes stories by Joe and Kasey Lansdale, Nancy Collins, Kevin J. Anderson, etc. Bought off Kickstarter for $32.

  • Aquilone, James, editor. Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary. Moonstone, 2022. First edition hardback graphic novel, the hardcover variant version (ISBN 978-1-946346-16-2), a Fine- copy with slight bumping to upper points, in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, with illustration card signed on the back by Aquilone laid in. Collection of stories (some graphic novel style some straight prose) based on the legendary Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV show. According to the Kickstarter page, there were 231 of this version backed.

  • Aquilone, James, editor. Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Satanic Panic ’88 + Two Other Uncanny Tales. Moonstone, 2022. First edition comic book, a Fine copy, signed by Aquilone. Bought from Kickstarter as an add-in to the above.

  • Aquilone, James, editor. Shakespeare Unleashed. Monstrous Books, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, with Monstrous Books card laid in. Original anthology of Shakespeare-related horror stories, featuring stories from Joe and Kasey Lansdale, Steve Rasnick Tem, etc. Adding up the various hardware bundles, it looks like there were just over 500 copies of this done. My name can be found on page 356. You can buy the book through Amazon, though no guarantee that you’ll get a first printing, or received it unbumped.

    With:

  • Aquilone, James, editor. Shakespeare Unleashed One Shot. Monstrous Books, 2023. First edition graphic novel chapbook containing additional work.

  • “Author, J.Q.” Issue Zero. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #0, a binding dummy for the entire run of the series, with bank pages. Would never have bought this on it’s own, but since I was buying the entire thing I got this too. This one has a tiny bit of edgewear on rear spine join.
  • Anderson, Poul. Loser’s Night. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #1.

  • Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Water Knife. Knopf, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy with a bound-in signature page, with a Fine dust jacket with a “SIGNED FIRST EDITION” sticker. Bought for $8. (Note: The Scanner does not like the “poly-chromatic on black” effect so I had to adjust it some to make it legible.)

  • Barry, Dave. Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland. Putnam, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Barry. Non-fiction humor book. Bought for $8.

  • Barry, Dave, and Alan Zweibel. Lunatics. Putnum, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Barry. This and the above are my second and third signed Barry firsts. I already had a book signed by Zweibel. Bought for $8.
  • Baxter, Stephen. Xeelee: Endurance. PS Publishing, 2017. First edition hardback, letter D of 26 lettered copies, a Fine copy in a decorated boards and a Fine dust jacket and a Fine decorated slipcase. I collected Baxter for a while until he become too prolific for me to keep up with, but I did like the Xeelee books. Bought from Camelot Books for $50.

  • Beagle, Peter S. The Essential Peter S. Beagle. Tachyon, 2023. First edition hardback, #95 of 474 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in silver decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, with Tachyon sticker and business card laid in. Just what it says, a best of collection of stories for this beloved fantasy writer. This combines what are two volumes for the trade edition (which I have on order but haven’t seen yet). I have a small number of these available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Bear, Greg Killing Titan. Orbit, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bear. Second book in the military SF trilogy started with War Dogs, which I just read. Bought for $18 from a fellow Biblio dealer.
  • Bear, Greg. Sisters. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #43.

  • Beaumont, Charles. The Carnival and Other Stories. Subterranean Press, 2022. First edition hardback, #417 of 1,250 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Short story collection.

  • Bell, M. Shayne. Inuit. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #34.
  • Bernard, Dr. Raymond (pseudonym for Walter Siegmeister). The Hollow Earth. Fieldcrest Publishing, 1964. “New Edition” hardback (I think this amounts to the second printing of the first edition, which was evidently offset, so this might qualify as the first printed edition), a Very Good+ copy in red decorated boards with a few pinhead spots of staining to rear, slight wear at head and heel, slight blunting of points, and slight wear to gold lettering, lacking the dust jacket. Barnard wrote several books promulgating various fringe and pseudoscience beliefs (vegetarianism, parthenogentic reproduction, sexual abstinence, etc.), and this book discusses how UFOs actually come from the hollow earth. He also believed there was a hollow earth opening in Brazil, and tried to start a farming colony somewhere in the general vicinity of the entrance. Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, pages 192-216. Standish, Hollow Earth pages 277-278 (“a distillate of virtually every crackpot theory about the hollow earth that had been accumulating for a hundred years or more”). Though this had many later printings, any Fieldcrest printing seems uncommon.

  • Bishop, Michael. The Quickening. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #12.
  • Blackwood, Algernon (Mark Sieber, editor). A Little Black Book of Bedevilment. Borderlands Press, 2022. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 copies signed by the editor, a Fine copy. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Blaylock, James P. Lord Kelvin’s Machine. Arkham House, 1992. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Blaylock. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 179. Nielsen, Arkham House Books 185. Replaces an unsigned copy.

  • Blaylock, James P. Paper Dragons. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #57. A few small rubs along spine. Supplements a copy of the Axolotl Press hardback (which precedes).

  • Blaylock, James P. Pennies From Heaven. PS Publishing, 2022. First edition hardback, #167 of 200 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket with repricing sticker over UPC, as issued. New novel. The signed edition is the only hardback edition, and the PS edition is the only edition thus far. 200 is a pretty small run for a Blaylock hardback.

  • Blaylock, James P. Winter Tides. Ace, 1997. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, inscribed by Blaylock to the previous owner. Replaces an unsigned copy.

  • Bloch, Robert. The Skull of the Marquis de Sade. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #51.

  • Bloch, Robert. Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #10. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name.
  • (Bloch, Robert) Larson, Russell D. The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated Comprehensive Bibliography. Fandom Unlimited Enterprises, 1986. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with trace of wear at tips, signed by Bloch. Just what it says, an illustrated bibliography of Bloch’s work. Looks useful, though the type is a bit small for my aging eyes. Justice, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference 185. Bought of eBay for $35 plus shipping.

  • Block, Lawrence. The Scoreless Thai. Subterranean Press, 2000. First hardback edition (previously published in a 1970s PBO), a trade edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Block. Novella. Bought for $10, 1/3rd of publication price, and the trade edition wasn’t issued signed by Block.

  • Block, Lawrence. Tanner’s Tiger. Subterranean Press, 2001. First hardback edition (previously published as a 1968 paperback original), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Block. Tanner novel. Bought for $10, 1/3rd of publication price, and the trade edition wasn’t issued signed by Block.
  • Boston, Bruce. All the Clocks are Melting. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #4.

  • Bradbury, Ray (text) and Amanda Blanco (photographs). About Norman Corwin. Santa Susana Press, 1979. First edition traycased portfolio, an “artist’s proof” copy of 60 signed, numbered sets, a Fine- copy (there seem to be a couple of drops of moisture staining to the back of the signature page) in a Fine- traycase with a few small spots of staining to the inner right edge (though the case itself has a bit of an odd outward slant to the top and bottom edges). Loose printed cardstock pages, including a multi-page essay celebrating radio essayist Norman Corwin by Bradbury followed by 11 photographs of Corwin by Blanco. An odd, oversized item, and one that doesn’t fit entirely on my scanner, so either the bottom or top is chopped off. Bought for $250 off eBay after a touch of haggling.

  • Bradbury, Ray (Jonathan R. Eller, editor). The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944. Kent State University Press, 2014. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a tiny bit of wrinkling at heel. Bought from Half Price Books for $37.49, considerably more than the $15 I paid for the first volume, but this one doesn’t seem to have been nearly as widely remaindered.
  • Bradbury, Ray. A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers. Cemetery Dance, 2001. First edition trade hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bradbury. Bought off eBay for $21.50. Replaces an unsigned copy and supplements a slipcased signed/limited edition copy.

  • Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition hardback (Currey (1978) D state/Currey (2002) C state, red boards lettered in yellow, no precedence among hardback states), a Near Fine copy with a few small indentations, very slight glue wrinkling (binding flaw) to bottom of rear cover, slight wear to bottom boards, slight wear at head, heel and points, in a Fine facsimile dust jacket, with a Bradbury signature plate laid in. Currey (1978), page 55, Currey (2002) page 44. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4 3-31. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 39. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pages 749-755. Heritage Rare Books and manuscripts Auction #675, page 87 (“one of the most influential and widely read science fiction tales ever published”). Heritage Americana Auction #658 & 65801, page 32. Heritage The Frank Collection Auctions #7001 and #684, page 58. A key 20th century science fiction novel, and the most difficult of Bradbury’s mainstream publisher hardback firsts by a good measure. Bought for $750 plus tax and shipping from an offer on eBay.

  • Bradbury, Ray. That Son of Richard III: A Birth Announcement. Roy A. Squires, 1974. First edition chapbook original, #332 of 400 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine cloth traycase, inscribed by Bradbury to Lord John Press publisher Herb Yellen: “For Herb -/Good wishes/From/Ray Bradbury/ 9/28/28.” As Yellen later published several Bradbury chapbooks himself, this is an interesting association copy. According to Chalker/Owings, Squires only did 30 traycases, of which 25 were offered to buyers of the “Autograph Edition” (which this is not). Supplements an unsigned copy. Chalker/Owings, page 589. Bought from a PBA Galleries auction for $75 plus shipping and handling.

  • Bradbury, Ray. The Toynbee Convector. Knopf, 1988. First edition hardback, #36 of 350 signed, numbered copies, “printed on special paper and specially bound,” a Fine copy in a Mylar protector and a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. This version is not in the Locus database, but ISFDB says they came out the same month. Most limited editions from mainstream publishers are fairly unimpressive, but this is actually quite a nice production, with patterned boards and an attractive slipcase. Bought for $110.49 off eBay, a considerable discount off the original offering price of $150 (which must have seemed plenty pricey in 1988).

  • (Bradbury, Ray) Eller, Jonathan R. Becoming Ray Bradbury. University of Illinois Press, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head, heel and points. Biography of Bradbury that made use of his personal notes and correspondence. Bought for $17.49.

  • Brin, David. Dr. Pak’s Preschoool. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #45. Supplements a copy of the Cheap Street edition (which precedes).

  • Brin, David. Piecework. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #23.
  • Brin, David and Stephen W. Potts. Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Tor, 2017. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Brin on a signature page. Collection of essays by science fiction writers like Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, Vernor Vinge, etc. It says “Brin Presents” but Potts appears to be the actual editor. This and Lunatics are signed on this gray box in what assume is a tipped-in page, presumably something this particular bookseller does. It’s a bit odd. Bought for $8.

  • Brunner, John. A Case of Painters Ear. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #2.
  • Brunner, John. The Traveler in Black. Ace, 1971. First edition paperback original (no statement of printing and 75¢ as per Currey), a Fine- copy with slight wear at points and a drop of discoloration to bottom page block at heel, otherwise a very nice copy. Celebrated fix-up of linked stories. Currey, page 74. De Bolt, The Happening Worlds of John Brunner, page 57.

  • Bryant, Edward. The Cutter. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #8.
  • Busby, F.M. If This Is Winnetka, You Must be Judy. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #54.
  • Bush, Barbara. A Memoir. Scribner’s, 1994. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at heel and trace of wear at points, inscribed by Bush: “To Chris Hyatt/With best wishes/Barbara Bush/December 1998. Autobiography by First Lady Barbara Bush, wife of 41 and mother of 43, who died in 2018. Not my usual thing, but I stumbled across it checking for signatures in books by 41 and 43. Bought for $14.48 at Half Price Books.

  • Butler, Octavia. The Evening and the Morning and the Night. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #38. Holy moley, the prices on this online are crazy. The prices for the signed hardback I can at least sort of understand, since Butler died young, but the prices for unsigned copies like this are still crazy. I had no idea.

  • Bryant, Edward. The Thermals of August. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #56.
  • Cadigan, Pat. My Brother’s Keeper. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #55.

  • Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. First English language edition, a Near Fine+ copy with small name to front free endpaper, slight bumping at head and heel and uneven fading at top and bottom edges, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with two closed 3/4″ tears at top front cover, shallow chipping at head, crease to front inner flap, slight bumping at points, and traces of wear to reflective silver surfaces along spine board join, front edge-fold and rear cover (slightly exaggerated in the scan). Important slipstream work of European fantasy, or what John Clute would call “Fantastika.” Bought for $45.

  • Campbell, Ramsey. Six Stooges and Counting. PS Publishing, 2023. First edition hardback, #76 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction overview of the work of The Three Stooges, year by year. (A nit: The title refers to all six of the named stooges, but the cover only depicts Moe, Curly and Larry, with nary a glimpse of Shemp or Joe Besser, and just a tiny image of Curly-Joe DeRita from The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at upper left.) I have one copy available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Carter, Lin, editor. The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories. DAW, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with slight wear at points and along spine, otherwise apparently new and unread, with SFBC insert still present. Includes stories from Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith!

  • Caraker, Mary. I Remember, I Remember. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #24.
  • Card, Orson Scott. Unaccompanied Sonata. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #49.

  • Chabon, Michael. Summerland. Hyperion, 2002. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head and heel, signed by Chabon. Bought for $9.99, which, oddly enough, seems to be about market. After he won the Hugo and Nebula for the excellent The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, I though Chabon books were going to head steadily upward in value; the exact opposite seems to have happened. It looks like every single one of Chabon’s novels except The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay can be found in signed first edition hardbacks at or less than cover price. I can’t figure it out, as all three of the Chabon books I’ve read (The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and Gentlemen of the Road) were excellent.
  • Charnes, Suzy McKee. Listening to Brahms. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #19.

  • Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961. First edition hardback, an Ex-Library copy with the usual flaws, including stamps, pocket removal, tape to boards, etc, but with a much better than usual dust jacket, with a couple of short closed tears on flap edges, a small sticker ghost on spine, and slight protector discoloration to edges; call it a G/NF Ex-Lib copy. Currey, page 114. Replaces a less attractive Ex-Library copy. Bought for $20.

  • Clemence, Bruce No Way Street. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #15. Guy had this, and a story in Synergy 3, and that was it…
  • Crowley, John. Great Work of Time. Subterranean, 2023. First edition hardback, #219 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. I have a small number of these available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Davidson, Avram. AD 100: Volume I and AD 100: Volume II. Or All the
    Sea With Oysters Publishing, 2023. First edition trade paperback
    originals (print on demand), as new. The Avram Davidson Society has set these up as Amazon print on demand originals. Together they include 100
    unpublished or uncollected Avram Davidson stories. If you’re interested in picking them up, click the links above.

  • Davidson, Avram. Naples. The Nutmeg Point District Mail/Temporary Culture, 2022. First edition self-wrappers chapbook original, one of 160 copies, a Fine copy, inside a black envelope with Mylar protective wrappers and with a mounted black and white photograph laid in. Bought for $150 (the subscriber price). Story reprinted from Charles L. Grant’s Shadows anthology.

  • DeChancie, John. A Little Gray Book of Alien Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of a 15 book lot.

  • Delany, Samuel R. The American Shore. Dragon Press, 1978. First edition hardback, #77 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Detailed, close-reading non-fiction critical analysis of Thomas Disch’s “Angouleme,” a segment of 334. Weedman, The Starmont Reader’s Guide to Samuel R. Delany, page 22 (“Here Delany exercises himself as the critic’s critic, remaining fairly inaccessible to a general audience.”). Chalker/Owings, page 132. Replaces an unsigned copy.
  • Delany, Samuel R. Babel-17. Ace, 1966. First edition paperback original, a Fine copy, though with slight age darkening to the pages. Nebula Award winner and Hugo nominee. Currey, page 139. Replaces a slightly less attractive copy. Bought for $5 at Recycled Books in Denton.

  • Delany, Samuel R. The Einstein Intersection. Easton Press, 1986 (stated; the Locus database lists this coming out in 1991). First edition thus, a special leatherbound collector’s edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, inscribed by Delany to the previous owner and with an Ex-Libris plate and “Collector’s Notes” laid in. Nebula winner for Best Novel, Hugo finalist. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction pages 703-707. Supplements a signed copy of the Gollancz first hardback edition. Strictly speaking this is just a “nice to have,” but it is signed, and Easton Press makes attractive books.

  • Delany, Samuel R. The Straits of Messina. Serconia Press, 1989. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Delany essays on Delany. Chalker/Owings, page 390 (“these at least are readable”). Replaces a copy with a less attractive dust jacket.

  • Delany, Samuel R. (edited by Kenneth R. James). In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany Volume 1, 1957-1969. Wesleyan University Press, 2017. First edition hardback (“5 4 3 2 1” numberline), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Selections from Delany’s journals when he was first making his mark on the SF field. Bought for $9.95. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • de Lint, Charles. Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #52.
  • de Lint, Charles. Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #17.

  • Donaldson, Stephen R. The Wounded Land. Del Rey, 1980. First edition hardback (“First Edition: June 1980/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10”), a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with faint crease down spine, small closed tear at top frotn, and wear at heel and points, signed and dated (“4/15/82”) by Donaldson, with bookmark for the trilogy laid in.

  • Donaldson, Stephen R. The One Tree. Del Rey, 1982. First edition hardback (“First Edition: April 1982”), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed and dated (“4/15/82”) by Donaldson, with bookmark for the trilogy laid in. Note: While the other two first editions in the trilogy feature numberlines, this one does not. I know that this is not the book club edition (which I also have in hand), there are no pictures of a copyright page with a numberline for this title I can locate, and consensus is that they apparently just left it off.

  • Donaldson, Stephen R. White Gold Wielder. Del Rey, 1983. First edition hardback (“First Edition: April 1983/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10”), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed and dated (“5/6/89”) by Donaldson, with bookmark for the trilogy laid in.

  • Dozois, Gardner. The Peacemaker. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #39. Supplements a copy of the Short Story Hardback edition.
  • Duchamp, L. Timmel. A Case of Mistaken Activity. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #7.
  • Eddy, C.M. and Muriel E. Erased from Exile. Stygian Isle Press, 1976. First edition chapbook original, #234 of 300 copies signed (on stickers) by Muriel E. Eddy and illustrator Gene Day, a Near Fine+ copy with slightly bumped corners and two small black lines near top front outer corner. Stories and poetry by two members of Lovecraft’s circle, with illustrations by Day. Day, who did a lot of work for underground comics and role-playing games, died at the very untimely age of 31.

  • Effinger, George. Schrodinger’s Kitten. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #42. Supplements the hardback version.
  • Eisenstein, Phyllis. The Crystal Palace. Grafton Books, 1991. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Eisenstein. Sequel to Sorceror’s Son. The U.S. paperback precedes, but this was the first hardback. This was part of the last big Zelazny purchase in 2020 and I’ve just now gotten around to cataloging it. As I’ve said before, there are few price points more attractive than “you’ve already paid for it.”

  • Ellison, Harlan. FOE: Friends of Ellison. Edgeworks Abbey, 2019. First edition (stated) trade paperback original (these are Print on Demand books; the POD barcode page states “10 February 2019,” making it possible that these were run off as part of the initial batch run off for the Ellison website sales), a Fine copy. Collection of non-fiction essays, introductions and appreciations of other writers (Jack Vance, Richard Matheson, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, etc.). Bought for $20 (half-off the $40 list price) from the Harlan Ellison Books website.

  • Ellison, Harlan. Why do you call me Ishmael when you know my name is Bernie?. Edgeworks Abbey, 2019. First edition (stated) trade paperback original (these are Print on Demand books; the POD barcode page states “16 June 2019”), a Fine copy. Collection of non-fiction essays on various topics, including one on Lafferty. Bought for $20 (half-off the $40 list price) from the Harlan Ellison Books website. This now shows up as out of print there.

  • Erickson, Steve, Our Ecstatic Days. Simon & Schuster, 2005. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Bought at Recycled Books in Denton for $6.80.
  • Etchison, Dennis. The Dark Country. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #21. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name.

  • Etchison, Dennis. Red Dreams. Scream/Press, 1984. First edition hardback, #192 of 250 numbered hardbacks signed by Etichson and artist J.K. Potter, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket and a Fine- slipcase with a trace of haze rubbing, and additionally signed by Etchison. The second short story collection by this acclaimed horror writer. The third publication of Scream/Press. Chalker/Owings, page 335. Supplements a trade copy. Bought for $30.

    (Surface wear is on the dust jacket protector.)

  • Fowler, Karen Joy. Booth. Putnam, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a trace of edgewear, the signed publisher’s variant with a “Signed Copy” sticker on the cover and a page signed by Fowler bound in. Novel of the theatrical Booth family (including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth) in early 19th century America. Bought for $13.99.

  • Fowler, Karen Joy. The War of the Roses. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #28.

  • Friesner, Esther M. Ecce Hominid. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #6.

  • Gaiman, Neil. A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff. Borderlands Press, 2011. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Mixture of fiction, non-fiction, essays, speeches, poetry, etc. Cool cover illustration by Gahan Wilson. Probably the hardest of the Little Book series to find (followed by the Lansdale, Ligotti and Malerman volumes). Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Gaiman, Neil. Norse Mythology. W. W. Norton, 2017. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $12.99.

  • Gaiman, Neil. Words of Fire. Arte Editions, 2022 (actually 2023). First edition trade paperback original (with self-flaps), #276 of 300 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Poetry collection. There were two different hardback editions (the Portfolio Edition and the Roman edition), both of which were sold out by the time I heard about it. Now out of print from the publisher. I still have one copy left available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Gardner, Craig Shaw. A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Gibson, William. Agency. Berkley, 2020. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Sequel to The Peripheral. Bought for $9.99.
  • Gotthelf, Jeremias (pseudonym for Albert Bitzius). The Black Spider. John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., 1958. First English language edition, a Near Fine+ copy with slight spine lean and former owners name inside front cover under flap, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with 1/4″ chip at head, two pinhead-sized abrasions at heel front join, wear at points, and moderate age darkening to white portion of spine. Nineteenth century allegorical horror story about evil made manifest as a giant black spider. Introduced and translated from the original German by H. M. Waidson. Barron, Horror Literature 2-35. Not in Bleiler’s Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Bought off a fellow Biblio dealer for $21.25.

  • Haldeman, Joe. More Than The Sum of His Parts. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #14.

  • Haldeman, Joe. Worlds Enough and Time. Morrow, 1992. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Haldeman. Third book in the Worlds trilogy.

  • Hand, Elizabeth. Hard Light. Minotaur Books, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bend at heel, signed by Hand. “A Cass Neary Crime Novel.” Bought for $8.

  • Hample, Stuart. Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip. Abrams Comic Arts, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight waviness, slight grubbiness to uncoated stock, and a thin scratch across bottom of spine. Received as a Christmas gift only because, many moons ago, I noted to Dwight my incredulity that this comic strip ever existed at all. Yes, Woody Allen’s neurotic nebbish character was so well known in the 1970s that a comic strip based on it (but written and drawn by someone else) appeared in numerous newspapers from 1976-1964. I am equally incredulous that someone found the strip worth of a prestige retrospective collection. Supplements my copy of Non-Being and Somethingness, which contains selections from the strip.

  • Hample, Stuart. Non-Being and Something-ness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen. Random House, 1974. First edition trade paperback original (numberline beginning with “2”, Random House’s deeply irritating method of identifying a first edition), a Near Fine copy with chip to top rear corner, crease to bottom front corner, nick to middle front edge, and a bit of wear. Dwight bought this for me based on my stumbling across this comic in a newspaper archive looking for something else and expressing surprise that it ever existed at all.

  • Heinlein, Robert A. Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein. Science Fiction Book Club, 2005. First edition hardback (stated “First SFBC Science Fiction Printing, October 2005”; the SFBC is the only edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Short story collection, including three (“My Object All Sublime,” “Pied Piper,” and “A Tenderfoot in Space”) that were previously uncollected. Bought for $5.95.
  • Hill, Doug and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. Beech Tree Books, 1986. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with bumping at head and heel in a Near Fine dust jacket with with one 1/16″ chip at heel, crease to bottom of front flap, slight bumping at head and heel and a bit of pull to top jacket edge. History of Saturday Night Live. Part of a very small collection of books on early SNL. Most people today don’t realize how amazingly funny, daring and groundbreaking the original cast SNL was. Bought for $4.99.

  • Holder, Nancy. The Ghosts of Tivoli. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #44.
  • Hughes, Matthew. Ghost Dreams. PS Publishing, 2022. First edition hardback, #55 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

  • Jeter, K.W. Star Wars: Hard Merchandise. Bantam Spectra, 1999. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with just a trace of wear at points. The third book in the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, and evidently the hardest one to find. Supplements a signed first of the SFBC Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy I bought from the Fred Duarte estate sale. I supposed now I need to find a PBO first of Slave Ship, the second in the trilogy, but it seems the easiest to find of the three. Bought from Half Price Books for $4.49.
  • King, Florence. Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye. St. Martin’s Press, 1989. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with slight bumping at head and heel and thrift store stamp to insider rear cover, in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head, in a Mylar dust jacket protector. Collection of essays. Replaces an Ex-Library copy. Bought for $7.99.

  • Jordan, Will. Dark Harvest. Blackstone Publishing, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Science fiction novel/technothriller Mike bought for me. Jordan is generally better known as YouTube movie reviewer The Critical Drinker.
  • Joshi, S. T. Black Wings VII: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror. PS Publishing, 2023. First edition hardback, one of 200 copies signed by all the contributors, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase. Original anthology, including stories from John Shirley, Ramsey Campbell and Steve Rasnick Tem. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.

  • Keene, Brian. A Little Silver Book of Street Wise Stories. Borderlands Press, 2008. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • King, Stephen. The Long Walk. Centipede Press, 2023. First edition thus and first separate hardback edition (a previous Turtleback library hardback binding appears to be just a rebind of the Signet trade paperback edition), one of 1,400 trade copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Near future SF dystopia, my favorite of the Bachman books, and one of my favorite of King’s books, period. Instantly out of print from the publisher. I have copies available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • King, Stephen, Richard Chizmar, and Stewart O’Nan. A Face in the Crowd b/w The Longest December. Cemetery Dance, 2023. First hardback edition and first edition thus (with King and O’Nan’s “A Face in the Crowd” previously only available in a eBook edition, and Chizmar’s “The Longest December” stating “Expanded Version,” but ISFDB doesn’t show a previous edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Two novellas. Bought off eBay for $20 plus shipping.
  • Kress, Nancy. The Price of Oranges. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #53.

  • Kuttner, Henry. The Best of Henry Kuttner. Nelson Doubleday (SFBC), 1975. First edition hardback (code “01 R” on page 335, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with trace of bumping at points in a Fine- dust jacket with slight edgewear and small fold to tip of bottom front flap. Introduction by ray Bradbury. Currey, page 291. Bought for $6 at the Book Cellar in Temple.

  • Lafferty, R. A. Alaric: The Day The World Ended. United Mythologies Press, 1993. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Reprint of The Fall of Rome, and the last book done by the press. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 931. Think I paid $50 for this.

  • Lafferty, R. A. The Back Door of History. United Mythologies Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, #126 of 150 (according to Chalker/Owings) signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, with errata notice laid in and conclusion of “Phoenic” pasted in after page 34. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928. Supplements a trade edition.

  • Lafferty, R. A. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Seven: Mad Man. Centipede Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #40 of 300 copies signed by introduction author Scott Bradfield, a Fine copy in a Fine dust wrapper, still in shrinkwrap. Yes, I have matching numbers of all the rest. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
  • Lafferty, R. A. Cranky Old Man From Tulsa. United Mythologies Press, 1990. First edition chapbook, trade edition, a Fine copy. Three pieces of biographical non-fiction. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928.

  • Lafferty, R. A. The Elliptical Grave. United Mythologies Press, 1989. First edition trade paperback original, a review copy of 70 signed, numbered copies with an extra story (“The Man Who Lost His Magic”), a Fine- copy with a slight bump at bottom right corner.

  • Lafferty, R. A. The Early Lafferty. United Mythologies Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, #147 of (according to Chalker/Owings) 150 copies, a Fine copy. The first United Mythologies Press item. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928. Supplements an unsigned copy.

  • Lafferty, R. A. Funnyfingers & Cabrito. Pendragon Press, 1976. First edition hardback, letter av of 50 signed, lettered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. This actually completes my R.A. Lafferty in hardback collection (which is to say that every Lafferty first edition that came out in hardback I have, though not every one is signed, and I don’t necessarily have the signed/limited state of every Lafferty book that was issued in one). Chalker/Owings (1991), page 328. I paid $100 for it.

  • Lafferty, R. A. How Many Miles To Babylon. United Mythologies Press, 1989. First edition chapbook original, #94 of (according to Chalker/Owings) 150 copies. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928.

  • Lafferty, R. A. Promontory Goats. United Mythologies Press, 1989. First edition chapbook original, #132 of (according to Chalker/Owings) 150 copies, a Fine copy. The second United Mythologies Press book. Supplements an unsigned copy. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928.

  • Lafferty, R. A. Strange Skies. United Mythologies Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, #182 of 300 copies, a Fine copy. The third United Mythologies Press book. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 928.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Cold in July. Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First hardback edition, #388 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine- slipcase with a bump at bottom rear. Isajenko, World Lansdalean A011.b. With Lansdale, Joe R. Savage Season. Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First edition hardback, #388 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, in the same slipcase. Isajenko, World Lansdalean A013.a. Supplements a PC set (received as part of typing Cold in July into a computer from galley proofs) and a signed “mock” limited set. Bought from a private collector for $50.
  • Lansdale, Joe R. The Donut Legion. Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed to me by Lansdale. Bought from Book People at cover price during a signing. It was good to see Joe again.
  • Lansdale, Joe R. The Drive-In (A B-Movie With Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas). Bantam Spectra, 1988. First edition paperback original, #57 of 100 aftermarket copies from The Overlook Connection with a special limitation page pasted in, a Fine- copy with pinprick of abrasion to bottom rear tip, in a Mylar-bag, in a Fine embossed aftermarket slipcase. Isajenko, World Lansdalean A010.a. With Lansdale, Joe R. The Drive-In 2 (Not Just One Of Them Sequels). Bantam Spectra, 1989. First edition paperback original, #57 of 100 aftermarket copies from The Overlook Connection with a special limitation page pasted in, a Fine copy, in a Mylar-bag, in the same slipcase. Isajenko, World Lansdalean A012.a. Supplements inscribed copies of the ordinary PBOs, plus inscribed hardback firsts of the Kinnell editions, plus The Complete Drive-In from Centipede Press. These Overlook Press aftermarket paperback limiteds were weird things, which is why I didn’t pick these up until I found a set at the right price. Bought from the same private collector for $35.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. The Events Concerning. Subterranean Press, 2022. First edition hardback, #371 of 1,250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Short story collection. Bought from the publisher. I’ll have copies of this available in the next

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Edge of Dark Water. PS Publishing, 2012. First edition hardback, letter D of 26 lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase. Supplements a signed Mullholland Books first and both a signed PS trade edition and a signed, numbered copy. Not really an impressive limited, as it’s identical to a signed, numbered copy, but it was only $75, which is about what the regular numbered edition goes for these days. Isajanko, A044.d.ii (but he doesn’t list this lettered edition).
  • Lansdale, Joe R. (illustrated by Ted DiLucia). Incident On and Off a Mountain Road. Crystal Lake Publishing, 2023. First edition hardback (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” numberline), a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated version of the dark suspense novelette originally published in Night Visions 8 and later adapted as an episode of the Showtime Masters of Horror TV anthology series. Amazon seems to be the main fulfillment avenue for this book, so I provided an Amazon link above.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Shooting Star. Pandi Press, 2023. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy with signed plate (and two bookmarks) laid in. At 43 pages long, it’s somewhere in the novelette/novella range.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. The Steel Valentine. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #11. Isajanko, The World Lansdalean C01.a.i. Supplements another copy and a Short Story Hardback version.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. (as Ray Slater). Texas Night Riders. leisure, 1983. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with tiny loss at very tip of top rear outer corner and some foxing to inside covers, otherwise tight, square and apparently unread. This is far and away the best copy I’ve ever seen. Supplements a less attractive copy of the PBO inscribed to me, the Chivers Press large print (and first hardback edition) inscribed to me, and both the lettered and numbered editions of the Subterranean signed/limited edition. Isajenko, A003.a. Bought for $40 from Half Price Books.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale. Tachyon, 2023. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #46. Isajanko, The World Lansdalean C03.a.i. Supplements a copy of the Short Story hardback version.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. and Kasey Lansdale. Dark Kin. Thunderstorm Books, 2023. First edition hardback, #232 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Collection of collaborative stories, one of which appears here for the first time. Bought from the publisher at a dealer discount. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. and Kasey Lansdale. Terror is Our Business: The Dana Roberts Casebook of Horrors. Short Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2023. First edition hardback, #101 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with tissue paper closure sticker laid in.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. (edited by Christopher Golden and Brain Keene). The Drive-In: Multiplex. Pandi Press, 2023. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. and Keith Lansdale. Prisoner of Violence. Dark Regions Press, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, into which I’ve laid a signature plate by Joe and Keith Lansdale. Graphic novel that was announced several years ago, but only recently came out. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Lansdale, Joe R. (and Andreas Guinaldo). Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In. Avatar, 2005. First edition graphic novel original thus (no additional printings listed, preceded by four individual comic book issues), a Fine copy, signed by Lansdale. Graphic novel adaptation of the novel.

  • (Lansdale, Joe R.) Andrew J. Rausch and Mark Slade, editors. Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Collection of interviews with Lansdale, including the ones Dwight Brown and I did for Nova Express. Bought from the publisher. I’ll have signed copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books catalog.

  • (Lansdale, Joe R.) Andrew J. Rausch and Mark Slade, editors. Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. First edition trade paperback original (simultaneous with the much smaller hardback run), a Fine copy. Sent to me as a contributor’s copy.
  • Lee, Tanith. Into Gold. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #32.Tiny rub on spine.

  • Le Fanu, Sheridan (edited by Eric J. Guignard). A Little Fuchsia Book of Fears. Borderlands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 numbered copies signed by the editor, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

  • Le Guin, Ursula K. Nine Lives. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #50.
  • Ligotti, Thomas. Pictures of Apocalypse. Chiroptera Press, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Also includes a special 24 page Pictures of Apocalypse: Interviews and Sketches chapbook, including new interviews with the author and artist, “Concept to finish” art documentation, outtakes, a thank you card, and a bookmark. A verse cycle. A fairly elaborate small press production for this stylish horror writer. The book is no longer on the publisher’s website, so I assume it is now out of print. But I still have copies through Lame Excuse Books (including the extras bag).

  • Locke, George. Voyages in Space: A Bibliography of Interplanetary Fiction 1801-1914. Ferret Fantasy, 1975. First edition hardback, #17 of 18 signed, numbered hardback copies (plus an additional 10 copies not for sale), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. The definitive bibliography on early space travel fiction. Chalker/Owings, page 527. Tymn/Schlobin/Currey A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies 47. Barron mentions this in Anatomy of Wonder 4 7-7 (on Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors), but does not have a separate listing for it. Not in Justice. Supplements an inscribed copy of the trade paperback.

  • Long, Frank Belknap (S. T. Joshi, editor). Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long. Centipede Press, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Massive 800+ page collection of fiction by this contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft. Bought for $40.

  • Lovecraft, H. P. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Shroud: Publishers, 1955. First edition trade paperback original (Currey A, orange wrapper bound with brown tape) simultaneous with a small hardback run, #1341 of 1,500 copies, a Near Fine copy with former owner’s name on front free endpaper and some evenly-spaced diagonal wrinkles to spine (possibly as issued by Shroud), in a Very Good first state (publisher’s address of 819 Michigan Avenue, Buffalo 3, New York, as per Currey) dust jacket with shallow chipping at head and heel and staining along spine and at top front near edgefold. First edition of this Dunsanean Dreamlands novella, which ties into Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos but is also distinct from it. Shroud was an odd press, and this book displays Shroud’s “amateurish” (to quote Chalker/Ownings) quality. Currey, page 322. Chalker & Owings, The Science Fantasy Publishers, pages 403-404. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography I.31. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1048 (“repetitious, alternately aiming for childishness and horror, maundering and wandering, it has little to offer except a rather pointless integration of the earlier Dunsanean stories”). Magill, Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pages 431-435. Bought from a Potter & Potter auction for $187.50.

  • Lovecraft, H. P. Miskatonic Missives. Helios House, 2022 (actually 2023). First edition hardback, one of 521 Limited Collector’s Edition sets (given the number of kickstarter backers), containing three volumes, plus a fake book that’s actually a traycase to contain the ephemera extras, all Fine copies, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase.

    Each volume contains a reprint of one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most interesting letters, presented alongside related archival material such as contemporary short stories, art, maps, etc., as well as original art and new scholarship.

    Each volume is also packaged with a set of exclusive extras—replicas of related contemporary materials such as photos, maps, ticket stubs, postcards, news clippings, and diary pages. The Collector’s set packages all of these extras in a custom box which nests in the slipcase alongside the three books. Each Limited Edition Collector’s set is supplied with a Certificate of Ownership signed by editors Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and a collectible enamel pin.

    This is just the loose extras; there are additional extras for each volume, in their individual envelopes in the Ephemera traycase.

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  • Lovecraft, H. P. (Sean Branney and Andrew Lman, editors and annotators). The Spirit of Revision: Lovecraft’s Letters to Zeila Brown Reed Bishop. Helios House, 2022. Second Edition hardback (I believe the first edition was trade paperback only), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought with the above as an add-in.

  • (Lovecraft, H. P.) Houllebecq, Michel. H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life. Cernunnos, 2019. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Critical analysis of Lovecraft and his work by the French writer and critic. Introduction by Stephen King. Bought for $9.95.

  • (Lovecraft, H.P.) Day, Gene. Richard Upton Pickman: A Portfolio with Dirk W. Mosig’s H. P. Lovecraft: Psychological Realist. Stellar Z. Publications, 1977. First edition chapbook originals (for each), a Near Fine+ copy of the portfolio, with slight bending at the corners, and a Fine copy of the smaller Mosig critical chapbook. 10 art prints based on Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model,” plus a chapbook from a psychologist who has done a lot of essays on Lovecraft. There’s not a lot of Internet hits on either of these, and the few hits on the portfolio don’t appear to have the Mosig chapbook. I’m not sure what the print run on this was. I even reached out to Mosig himself (who’s still alive and teaching at a university) to ask the print run, but he didn’t know.

    (Though they seem the same size here (the blog image default size), the Mosig chapbook is much smaller, which makes sense given it probably shipped inside the portfolio.)

  • (Lovecraft, H.P., Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith) Jones, Stephen. The Weird Tales Boys. First edition hardback, #92 of 100 signed (by Jones, introduction author Ramsey Campbell, artist Lee Edwards, and facsimile signatures for Lovecraft, Howard and Smith), numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase. A triple biography of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith as the most important writers for Weird Tales. Now sold out from the publisher. A small number of copies of this will be available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

  • Machen, Arthur (attributed). From the London Evening News. The Arthur Machen Society/Four Ducks Press, 1959. First edition chapbook original, #33 of 50 copies printed, a Fine copy, with a letter enclosed presenting the work from J. H. Stewart, Jr. to Joseph Kelly Vodray (who left an archive of Machen papers to Princeton) describing how the book was designed and printed by Bill Jackson. Three stories covering purportedly supernatural events reprinted from the London Evening News tentatively identified as the work of Arthur Machen. This is a remarkably attractive chapbook, crisply designed and printed in multiple colors inside, and really looks like something printed 20 years later. No online listings, though Worldcat does locate 13 copies in various libraries (including UT’s Harry Ransom Center).

  • (Machen, Arthur) Wesley D. Sweeter and Adrian H. Goldstone. Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen Society, 1960. First edition hardback chapbook, one of 200 copies, a Near Fine copy with sports of rubbing to extremities and cover and the decorative bookplate of Paul Jordan Smith (Literary Editor of The Los Angeles Times for 25 years and noted Machen fan) affixed to insider front cover. Reprints two pieces on Machen from The Aylesford Review: Sweeter’s “Machen: A Biographical Study” and Goldstone’s “Men About Machen,” discussing some of the more notable members of the Society (including Vodray and Smith).

  • Maclay, John. A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories. Borderlands Press, 2003. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

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  • MacLeod, Fiona (pseudonym for William Sharp). The Hills of Ruel and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1921. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy in decorated boards (the design matching the dust jacket) with sight bumping at head, heel and points and slight foxing to inside covers and endpapers in a Very Good- dust jacket with a 7/8″ chip at head, 1/2″ chip at heel, smaller losses at top and bottom edges and wear along outer edges. Beliler Checklist (1978) page 131.

  • MacLeod, Ian R. Ragged Maps. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #171 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher’s plastic bag. Short story collection.

  • Martin, George R. R. The Pear-Shaped Man. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #37.

  • Martin, George R. R., editor. Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole. Bantam Books/SFBC, 1989. First hardback edition, the SFBC book club edition, preceded by the PBO, a Fine- copy with bumping at head, heel and top points, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with slight bumping at head, heel and top points, a couple of phantom creases across rear cover, and slight edgewear. Bought for $6 at the Book Cellar in Temple.

  • Martin, George R. R. Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks. Bantam Spectra, 1991. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with mild spine creasing and a trace of wear at points. This completes my Wild Cards paperback collection. Bought for $2.49.

  • Massie, Elizabeth. A Little Magenta Book of Mean Stories. Borderlands Press, 2003. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Matheson. Richard. Duel: Terror Stories By Richard Matheson. Tor, 2003. First edition hardback, a Fine- with slight bend at heel copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a slight wrinkle at rear bottom. Supplements a trade paperback edition. Bought for $12.99.
  • McBride, H. W. A Rifleman Went to War. Small-Arms Tactical Publishing Company, 1935. First edition, second printing (according to Dwight’s bibliography of this press), a Near Fine copy with a slight bit of spine wear and previous owner’s bookplate, in a Very Good- dust jacket with 1 1/2″ wide x 1/2″ deep chip at head, small chip at heel, creasing along front flap fold, and general wear, but no loss of lettering anywhere, in a Mylar dust jacket protector. Memoirs of the experiences of an American rifleman who joined the Canadian expeditionary forces during World War I (my second favorite World War). A Christmas gift from Dwight, who collects this press.

  • McCarthy, Cormac. The Crossing. Knopf, 1994. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with McCarthy signature plate attached to half-title page. Second book in the Border Trilogy, preceded by his breakthrough bestseller and National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses. Supplements an unsigned first. Bought for $400 (with discount) from a fellow dealer.

  • Merritt, A (and Hannes Bok). The Black Wheel. New Collector’s Group, 1947. First edition hardback, in a first state (Currey A) binding, #571 of 1,000 copies, a Near Fine- copy with slight bumping at head and heel, abrasions to title on front cover, inner hinge before title page just starting at top, with copyright correction pasted to copyright page. Novel started by Merritt and finished by Bok, who also illustrates the book. Currey, page 364. Chalker/Owings (2002), pages 608-9. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 308. Kemp, The Anthem Series, pages 384-385.

  • Merritt, A (and Hannes Bok). The Black Wheel. New Collector’s Group, 1947. First edition hardback, in a second state (Currey B) binding, a Very Good+ copy with BB-sized indention to front board (extending to front free endpaper), bumping at head, heel and points, large former owner plate for Robert C. Culp affixed to inside front cover, and foxing to interior gutters, and no number on copyright page, in a Near Fine FFF dust jacket (see Chalker/Owings for details, though they note the yellow jacket had “no illustrations,” which is clearly incorrect) with bumping at head, and a faint, dime-sized damp-staining drop and slight creasing to rear panel. Novel started by Merritt and finished by Bok, who also illustrates the book and the post-publication jacket. Currey, page 364. Chalker/Owings (2002), pages 608-9. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 308. Kemp, The Anthem Series, pages 384-385.

  • Mirrlees, Hope. Lud-In-The-Mist. W. Collins & Sons, 1926. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a couple of abrasion spots on front cover, slight bend and head and heel, and small bookseller sticker to bottom of rear inside cover, otherwise a nice, sharp copy in an immaculate facsimile dust jacket. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), page 141. Magill, Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pages 926-931. Barron, Fantasy Literature 3-250 (“A beautifully written allegory unashamedly celebrating the necessity of enchantment”). Tymn Zahorsky Boyer, Fantasy Literature pages 141-142. Widely considered one of the classic novels of pre-Tolkien fantasy. Bought for $395 plus shipping.

  • Monteleone, Thomas F. A Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Moorcock, Michael, editor (John Brunner, Roger Zelazny, J. G. Ballard, etc.). New Worlds March 1966, Vol. 49, No. 160. Compact SF, 1966. First edition magazine in the form of a paperback original, a Near Fine copy with slight glue ridging to spine, slight wear at points, a faint, thin line of abrasion down rear cover near outer edge, and a few touches of general wear. Right in the middle of Moorcock’s acclaimed run as editor of New Worlds when it became the epicenter of the New Wave, with a murder’s row of writers in this issue. The Zelazny is the first appearance of the classic “For a Breath I Tarry” (Levack, Stories 69a), and this came from the last purchase of books from Bob Pylant’s Zelazny collection.
  • Moore, Ward. Caduceus Wild. Pinnacle Books, 1978. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine- copy with one tiny spine crease near front join, bookstore stamp inside, slight rubbing to rear cover, trace of magic marker left over price on front cover (Bestine took care of the rest), and touch of edgewear. Moore’s last novel. Replaces a slightly less attractive copy. Bought for $1.99.

  • Morlan, A.R. The Cat With The Tulip Face. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #29.
  • Morrell, David. Creepers. CDS Books, 2005. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Morrell. Bought for $8.
  • Mundy, Talbot. Full Moon. D. Appleton-Century, 1935. First edition hardback (“(1)” on page 312), a very Good copy with slight spotting to top and bottom page block edges (and possibly side, but it’s hard to tell with deckled edges), slight concavity at top of spine, slight bend at head and heel, light foxing to inside covers, and a few penciled notes front and back, in a Very Good dust jacket with shallow chipping at head, heel and points, spine faded, top rear flap corner clipped (but front panel and price intact), wear along front fold edge, slight dust staining to white rear panel, one 1/2″ closed tear to top front and one 1/4″ closed tear to rear bottom, and slight foxing to flaps; not pristine, but nice for the age. Oriental adventure with magic set in India. Grant, Talbot Mundy: Messanger of Deastiny, page 184. Day, Talbot Mundy Biblio, page 5. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), page 145. Bought for $40 at Antiquarian Book Mart in San Antonio.

  • Murphy, Pat. Rachel in Love. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #48.
  • Murray, Charles. Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980. Basic Books, 1984. Third printing, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket, with slighting bumping at head and heel, a trace of wear at points, and a touch of surface wear, inscribed by Murray: “To Dr. Harry Schmitt,/with best wishes/Charles Murray/18 July 1986.” (I wonder if this was inscribed to former astronaut and Republican senator Harrison Schmitt.) This is probably the most important book ever written about the American welfare state, in which Murray showed in meticulously researched detail why the welfare state expansions instituted by Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society inflicted lasting economic and social harm to black families in America. Without Losing Ground, the welfare reform act of 1996 never would have happened. It came out back when some Democrats will still willing to look at research and data rather that automatically calling critics of the welfare state racist. Highly recommended. Supplements an unsigned first printing. (I had a second printing inscribed to me that I foolish lent out and never had returned.) Bought for $5.99.

  • Oates, Joyce Carol. The Bingo Master. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #41.
  • Page, Gerald W., editor. The Year’s Best Horror Stories VII. DAW, 1979. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with tiny crease to very tip of bottom front corner and a trace of edgewear. Includes stories from Stephen King, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman and Lisa Tuttle, among others.
  • Piccirilli, Tom A Little Black Book of Noir Stories. Borderlands Press, 2003. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Piper, H. Beam. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Garland Publishing, 1975. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Novel of a modern day state trooper accidentally sucked into an alternate timeline where he uses his knowledge of military tactics and technology (such as the composition of gunpowder) to topple a corrupt theocracy. Part of the Garland Library of Science Fiction, reprinted from slightly blown-up pages from the Ace paperback original. Supplements a PBO first. Bought for £68 plus shipping from a UK seller.

  • Powers, Tim. The Anubis Gates. Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First edition thus, part of the signed, limited edition of 500, but lacking a number and a slipcase, a Fine- copy in a Fine- Mylar-protected dust jacket with slight bend at head. Berlyne, A4h.2, who notes that Ziesing says many slipcases were destroyed in a flood. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 1000, who says Ziesing had an overrun of slipcases. Supplements an inscribed PBO first, an inscribed Chatto & Windus first hardback, a slightly flawed copy of the Centipede Press limited edition, and the holograph manuscript copy included in the ultralimited edition of the Berlyne bibliography.

  • Powers, Tim. Declare. Morrow, 2001. First trade edition hardback (preceded by the Subterranean Press limited edition), a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Powers. Berlyne, A11b. Supplements a copy of the Subterranean Press limited.

  • Powers, Tim. Earthquake Weather. Legend, 1997. First edition hardback, a Fine copy (though with the characteristic page darkening for Legend books of this era) in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Powers. Berlyne, A10a (who notes that reportedly only 800 copies were produced). Replaces an unsigned copy.

  • Powers, Tim. An Epitaph in Rust. Charnel House 2023. First edition hardback thus, #54 of 200 numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.

  • Resnick, Mike. Kirinyaga. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #58. Just the novelette. Kelleghan, Mike Resnick: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to His Work A39.

  • Robinson, Kim Stanley. Black Air. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #20.
  • Robinson, Kim. New York 2040. Orbit, 2017. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head and a trace of edgewear. Bought for $9.99.

  • Romero, George A. and Daniel Kraus. The Living Dead. Short Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2023. First edition hardback, 322 of 400 copies signed by Suzanne Romero, Daniel Kraus, Vincenzo Natali and Francois Vaillancourt, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hefty 736 page original novel set in Romero’s Living Dead universe. Now sold out from the publisher, though I do have one copy available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Russell, Eric Frank. Wasp. Avalon Books, 1957. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of bend at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with one 1/2″ closed tear are top rear head, and tiny bit of wrinkling on bottom front edge near heel, and just the barest traces of dust soiling to an otherwise bright white dust jacket. Military SF adventure novel of a spy sent to a hostile alien planet to bring down the government through psychological and guerilla warfare, like a wasp crashing a car by attacking the driver. Bought from a notable UK dealer for £200 plus shipping.

  • Sagan, Carl. Contact. Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bumping at head, slight dust soiling to outer page block, and slight bunting of points, in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head, slight wear at points, and a trace of staining to blind side. Sagan’s only novel, and the basis of the 1997 film. Bought for $8.49.

  • Saki (H.H. Munro) (edited by Stuart David Schiff). A Little Red Book of Wit & Shudders. Bands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 copies signed by Schiff, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. I have copies available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Sammons, Brian M. Tales From Arkham Sanitarium. Dark Regions Press, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in decorated boards with one tiny bump near bottom front corner, sans dust jacket, as issued. Cthulhu Mythos anthology, featuring a few familiar names (Don Webb, W. H. Pugmire, etc.).

  • Sarrantonio, Al. A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Schow, David J. Sedalia. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #25.

  • Searight, Richard F. The Sealed Casket. The Strange Company, 1975. First edition prose portfolio (wrappers containing loose pages for the story), one of 100 copies, a Fine- copy with a touch of bumping or creasing at the points. Short story from another Lovecraft circle writer, and Hippocampus Press published a volume of their correspondence (combined with Lovecraft correspondence with E. Hoffman Price), one copy of which I have available for sale through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Scholastic Press, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Illustrated young adult novel. Winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal and basis of the 2011 film Hugo, which I also enjoyed.

  • Shatner, William (with Chris Kresski). Star Trek Memories. HarperCollins, 1993. First edition hardback, limited issue, one of 4,500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued, still in shrinkwrap. Non-fiction memoir of his time on the original Star Trek TV series. Bought for $65, less than cover price and less than a fourth of what it lists for these days.

  • Sheckley, Robert. Xolotl. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #3.

  • Shepard, Lucius. The Ends of the Earth. Arkham House, 1991. First edition hardback, #5 of 100 copies signed and numbered by Shepard, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket (with SIGNED sticker on spine). This is a post-first limited that Lucius did himself, much like Greg Bear did his 250 copy limited edition of The Wind From A Burning Woman. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 73 (where he says this edition was sold at $100 a pop). Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 178 (where he doesn’t mention this limited edition). Nielsen, Arkham House Books: A Collector’s Guide 184 (he doesn’t mention this edition either). Supplements an unsigned copy (which I must not have had the last time Lucius came through Austin). Bought for $17.50 plus shipping (which is less than even the original Arkham House cover price).

  • Shiner, Lewis. More Collected Stories. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition perfect bound chapbook, a Fine copy, in publisher’s plastic bag. Six stories Lew has published since Subterranean’s Collected Stories. Bought from the publisher.

  • Shiner, Lewis. Twilight Time. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #30.
  • Silverberg, Robert. Monsters and Things. PS Publishing, 2023. First edition hardback, #100 of 100 signed, numbered copies in decorated boards signed by Silverberg, editor Stephen Jones, and illustrator Randy Brocker, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, with erratum sheet laid in noting that one of these stories (many of them written under pseudonyms) actually was from Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark. Oops! Already sold out from the publisher. I will have a small number of these available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

  • Silva, David B. A Little White Book of Lies. Borderlands Press, 2005. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • (Sime, Sydney H.) Skeeters, Paul W. (introduction by Ray Bradbury). Sidney H. Sime: Master of Fantasy. Ward Ritchie Press, 1978. First edition hardback, #178 of 200 copies signed by Skeeters and Bradbury, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Art book featuring Sime’s illustration work. This was a pleasant surprise, as I thought it was just a trade hardback lacking the dust jacket, but it’s actually the limited edition signed by Ray Bradbury, which alone is worth just shy of what I paid for the entire lot. Chalker/Owings, page 1072 (not a listing for the book, but a description of the post-publication dust jacket for the limited edition that George Locke printed up). Supplements a copy of the unsigned trade paperback edition.

  • Simmons, Dan. Entropy’s Bed at Midnight. Lord John Press, 1990. First edition hardback, #93 of 100 signed, limited copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase. Reginald, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991 33966 (but not this state). Supplements a signed, non-slipcased 1/300 edition.

  • Sloca, Sue Ellen. Candles on the Pond. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #59. As far as I can tell, this is her only publication anywhere.
  • Smith, Clark Ashton. Seer of the Cycles. CASiana Literary Enterprises (i.e., Roy A. Squires), 1976. First edition chapbook, #223 of 325 copies, a Fine copy in a slightly worn printed envelope that’s starting to split at the top fold. Fifth volume in the Second Series of Fugitive Poems (Xiccarph Edition). Joshi/Schultz/Connors, Clark Ashton Smith: A Comprehensive Bibliography, I.A.38 (for the Fugitive Poems: Second Series as a whole). Not in Currey. I also have Titans in Tartarus from this series. Bought off eBay for $35.

  • Smith, Clark Ashton (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, editors). The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith. Night Sahde Books, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. I already had the five volume collected fantasies, but somehow never picked this one up, perhaps because Night Shade was so horrible at fulfillment. Bought for $14.99.

  • Somtow, S. P. Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #47.
  • Stableford, Brian. Slumming in Voodooland. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #26.

  • Straub, Peter. A Little Blue Book of Rose Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Swanwick, Michael. The Best of Michael Swanwick Volume Two. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #204 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher’s plastic bag, with a Subterranean bookmark laid in. Supplements the first volume Subterranean did back in 2008. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Swanwick, Michael. Brief Essays on Genre. Dragonstairs Press, 2023. First edition chapbook original, #10 of 75 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. 25 brief essays on genre fiction. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Swanwick, Michael. Red Fox, Blue Moon. Dragonstairs Press, 2023. First edition chapbook original, #64 of 69 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Vignettes about a fox, inspired by a fox that visited Swanwick’s backyard. “This is the story of how she saved the world. Well, her world.” I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Swanwick, Michael. Transits of Venus. Dragonstairs Press, 2023. First edition chapbook original, #28 of 36 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy with interlocking geometric pattern cover (there were also floral pattern versions). I have one copy this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Swanwick, Michael. The Vinter’s Guide to Remarkable Wines. Dragonstairs Press, 2023. First edition chapbook original, #36 of 55 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Collection of vignettes around wine themes. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Swanwick, Michael. Winter Songs. Dragonstairs Press, 2022 (not offered for sale until 2023). First edition chapbook original, #37 of 115 copies, a Fine copy. I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

  • Tiptree, James Jr. (Alice Sheldon). The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #389 of 1,000 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher’s plastic bag. Includes out of print and previously uncollected work, including the essay “How to Have An Absolutely Hilarious Heart Attack” and the story “Beam Us Home.”

  • Thorburn, Wayne. Red State: An Insiders Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics. University of Texas Press, 2014. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine-dust jacket with just a touch of wear, signed by Thorburn. This is an interesting book that describes (among other things) how leftists deliberately drove conservatives and moderates out of the Texas Democratic Party so they could control it. Of course, they expected voters would simply keep voting for Democrats, but that didn’t happen. Recommended. Bought for $7. Replaces an unsigned copy.

  • Vance, Jack. The Languages of Pao and The Dragon Masters. The Vance Integral Edition, 2002. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. The first edition restoring Vance’s original texts. This was bought from a collector as part of a small Jack Vance lot. I think I could have bought this for $32 at the time, but having paid for the VIE itself (a considerable chunk of change), I didn’t want to spend more for work that would later be included in the complete VIE anyway. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 946, which states there were 500 copies of this volume produced, but it seems a bit rarer than that. Also, I finally had a chance to add the proof dust jacket I bought back in 2020.

  • Vance, Jack. Night Lamp. Tor, 1996. First edition hardback (precedes the Underwood Books edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Vance. Cunningham, 61a. Supplements the Underwood Books limited edition.

  • Vance, Jack. The Space Pirate. Toby Press, 1953. First edition trade paperback original (no statement of printing, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with a bare trace of dust soiling/age darkening to rear cover, plus the usual age darkening to pages; all but perfect, and far and away the nicest copy I’ve seen. Vance’s second novel. Hewett, A2. Cunningham, B.75.a. Currey, page 500. Supplements a signed but less attractive copy. Bought for $12 from Recycled Books in Denton.

  • (Vance, Jack) Hewitt, Jerry, and Daryl F. Mallett. The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide. Borgo Press/Underwood -Miller, 1994. First edition hardback, #121 of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance, introduction author Robert Silverberg, Hewett and Mallett, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine- slipcase with a bump to the top rear that I probably inflicted myself. The definitive Vance bibliography. Supplements a trade copy. Hewitt, M166 (yes, a reference to the book in the book itself). Cunningham E.2. Jerry tells me that Mallett was actually the editor rather than co-compiler, and on my trade copy he’s crossed out “Borgo” and written in “Bozo” on the title page. I sense some tension there…

  • (Vance, Jack) Temianka, Dan. The Jack Vance Lexicon: From Ahuloh to Zipahgote. Underwood-Miller, 1992. First edition hardback, #87 of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance and Temianka, a Fine- copy with a slight bit of bend at heel, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase. Just what it says, a Lexicon of Vancian vocabulary. Supplements a trade copy. Hewitt, M163. Cunningham I.3.
  • (Vance, Jack) Levack, Daniel J. H. and Tim Underwood. Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance. Underwood-Miller, 1978. First edition trade paperback original (simultaneous with a much smaller hardback run), one of 900 copies, a Fine- copy with slight bumping to points, signed by Jack Vance. The first serious, professional bibliography of Vance’s work. Hewett, M47. Cunningham, E1. Stephensen-Payne/Benson, M3.

  • (Vance, Jack) Stephensen-Payne, Phil and Gordon Benson, Jr. Jack Vance: A Fantasmic Imagination (2nd Revised Edition) A Working Bibliography. Galactic Central, no date (but 1990). First edition of one-sided brad-bound sheets, either Fine- (for the condition of the sheets), with a two penciled notes at bottom of front page, or Very Good+ is you count the wrinkled condition of the Duotang thin cardstock brad binder, but it is unreasonable to expect such to last decades in pristine condition. Back before the rise of Internet bibliographies, a number of projects were started to make comprehensive science fiction bibliographies. (Willie Siros was involved in one, until he said he hit the undocumented limit of many-to-many links in the Macintosh 4D database software.) Galactic Central was one project working on an author-by-author basis, this being the 28th in a series that eventually reached 58 before petering out. Hewitt, M152. (He states that Borgo Press even did a hardback of this! I’ve never seen one.) Not in Cunningham.

    (Vance, Jack). Rawlins, Jack. Demon Prince: The Dissonant Worlds of Jack Vance. Borgo Press, 1986. First edition hardback (plasticized boards), a Fine copy with “KATER-BOUND” sticker to rear cover (presumably as issued). Critical companion to the works of Jack Vance. Depending on the title, Borgo either did plasticized boards with the trade paperback encased, or cloth with the cover of the trade paperback pasted to the front; this is one of the former. I can’t recall ever seeing any copy of this title before, much less the hardback variant. Hewett, M.126. Cunningham, F.2.

  • (Vance, Jack) Jean Luc Esteban. Jack Vance: Works published in PULPS magazines 1945-1975. LuLu, 2023. First edition (POD) hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. An odd reference work, showing the full-color cover illustrations, title pages, first few story pages, and interior black and white illustrations, for every story Jack Vance published in pulp magazines for the covered period. (Never mind that by the 1970s, the magazines publishing Jack Vance weren’t pulps and hadn’t been for some time.) Sort of an strange work, with high production values (all the page are slick stock, not just the ones for the color illustrations) and odd editorial choices (the Table of Contents is at the rear, and there are a lot of pages left unnecessarily blank). Also, there is no magazine or illustrator index. But buying this is a whole lot less expensive than tracking down every single issue covered. If this is the sort of reference work you think you need, then you need it, and if you don’t, you don’t. Note also that there are four slightly variant titles this could be known under: the spine says Jack Vance in Pulps 1945-1975, the front cover says Jack Vance in Pulps First issues 1945-1975, the half-title page says Jack Vance Pulps Editions 1945-1975, and the title page says Jack Vance: Works published in PULPS magazines 1945-1975. Yeah, the book could have used an editor…

  • (Vance, Jack) Parmentier, Gregg. The Vance Phile issues 1 through 6. First edition center-stapled fanzine originals, each #5 of 30 copies, signed by Parmentier (and sometimes other contributors), each a Fine copy. Fanzines full of interesting articles from Vance fans, from reprints of rare Vance works to a lot of bibliographic updates (include some from Jerry Hewett to his Vance bibliography). Strangely, I’ve been on a private Vance collector’s list with Gregg for decades now, but I believe I started getting those only after his period of publishing these, so I never heard about it. There was evidently an Issue 7 I’m still trying to track down a print copy of.

  • (Vance, Jack) George L. Mina, editor. Cosmopolis: a nexus for the admirers of of the works of Jack Vance. George L. Mina, 1988. First edition comb-bound with clear plastic covers fanzine original, a Fine copy, with letters from Mina and L.W. Currey laid in. Fanzine miscellanea related to Vance, including Vance’s essay “The Symbol,” which according to Hewett (D20) is its only appearance. Hewett, M140 (which notes a total of 75 copies: 12 copies with hand-colored illustrations for contributors and 63 copies with uncolored illustrations (this edition) for subscribers). Not to be confused with the later newsletter of the same name published by the Vance Integral Edition project.

  • (Vance, Jack) Offut, Robert Jr. The Many World of Jack Vance Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1977. First edition fanzine original, #185 of 300 numbered copies, a Near Fine+ copy with a touch of staining along staple fold edge, signed by Vance. Includes an appreciation by Poul Anderson, a lengthy interview by Tim Underwood, and some bibliographic material. Hewett, M31a.

  • (Vance, Jack) Robert Offutt Jr., editor. The Many Worlds of Jack Vance & The Horns of Elfland. Robert Offutt Jr., 1978. First edition illustrated fanzine, a Fine- copy with a couple of small spots of dust staining to rear, signed by Vance. Features Vance’s “The Secret,” the first chapter of an illustrated adaptation of The Eyes of the Overworld, etc. Second (and last) volume of an illustrated, semiprozine quality publication dedicated to Vance’s work (though the cover illustration, “Boromir’s Fall,” is obviously from The Lord of the Rings). Chock-full of illustrations from Rod Whigham, who later did a great deal of comic book work. Hewett, M31b, who notes there were 1,000 copies of this printed. Replaces an unsigned and less attractive copy.

  • (Vance, Jack) V-Con [7] Program Book. V-Con 7, 1979. First edition program chapbook original (10 3/4″ tall by 8 1/4″ wide), a Fine- copy with just a tiny bit of fading to the stapled spine edge, signed by Vance. Program books for a 1979 convention in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Jack Vance was Guest of Honor (and Frank Herbert Toastmaster).

  • (Vance, Jack) (Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller, unlisted editorsThe Book of the Sixth World Fantasy Convention. Underwood/Miller, 1980. First edition hardback, one of 1000 copies, a Fine- copy, with slight bumping at head and heel, sans dust jacket, as issued, with pocket program and card for the convention laid in. World Fantasy Convention where Jack Vance was Guest of Honor. Hewett, M88.

  • (Vance, Jack) Laws, Robin D. The Kaain Player’s Guide: A Supplement for the Dying Earth RPG. Pelgrane Press, 2002. First edition (“First printing June 2002”) trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Supplement for the Dying Earth RPG. My role-playing game days are long behind me, and I haven’t really made a point of picking up RPG stuff for authors I collect, but this was cheap, and I have some books from the Amber Diceless RPG I haven’t cataloged yet from the last Bob Pylant purchase. Now I just need to find a place to put them…

  • Wagner, Karl Edward. Where the Summer Ends. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #31.

  • Wagner, Karl Edward, and David Drake. Killer. Baen Books, 1985. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine- copy with slight spine creasing, edgewear, and foxing to insider covers. Hunting an alien killer in ancient Rome. Bought for $1.49.

  • Waldrop, Howard (George R. R. Martin and Bradley Denton, editors). H’ard Starts. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #414 of 750 numbered copies signed by Waldrop, Martin and Denton. Collection of early, rare Waldrop stories from a wide variety sources, including a 25 copy self-published story from 1966! (I have a copy and provided George with the text.) Available through Lame Excuse Books. My memorial to Howard can be found here.

  • Wallace, Edgar (Stephen Jones, editor). Kong: An Original Screenplay. PS Publishing/Electric Dreamhouse, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The original screenplay for King Kong, which evidently differs considerably from the final film. Slightly oversized (10 1/2″ high) and profusely illustrated, with a good 90 pages of notes from Jones, who worked from “Wallace’s personal copy of his original draft script with his own corrections and interpolations” plus “a boys’ story-paper adaptation of the film, preliminary production stills and art-work, and a colour portfolio of King Kong posters from around the world.” A couple of production sketches are from the lost spider pit scene.

  • Wells, H. G. The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. Thomas Nelson and Sons, no date (but 1911). First edition hardback (as per Currey), a Very Good copy with a dime-sized, light black dot to center of front cover, slight wear to bottom boards, slight wear at tips, head and heel and small “Fiction ● 1855” written in two different colors of ink (black and blue) at the top of the inside front cover and check-marks and red underlining on table of contents, five lines of penciled bookseller notes on the back of the color frontispiece page, and a few other touches of wear, lacking the rare dust jacket. Short story collection, including five previously uncollected stories. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page XXV, which lists the five stories first published in book form here as “A Vision of Judgment,” “The Empire of the Ants,” “The Door in the Wall,” “The Beautiful Suit,” and “The Country of the Blind.” H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 42. Currey, page 517. Bleiler (1978), page 205. Oddly enough, Locke’s A Spectrum of Fantasy page 225 lists five different editions of The Country of the Blind, but not this true first.

  • Wells, H. G. The First Men in the Moon. George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First UK hardback edition (and first edition with complete text), second state binding (white rather than black endpapers, as per Currey), a Very Good copy with a 1 1/2″ x 3/4″ slight abrasion/rub to front cover, wear at head, heel and points and along spine, with small W.H. Smith blindstamp and inscription “M. G. Walkin-Graves/from K.M.K, J.H.A.H/Jan. 25. 1904” and price and “BL 1705” on front free endpaper, along with a large rectangle of light foxing there and a similar rectangle on rear free endpaper. His novel (possibly the first) of man landing on the moon, plus the Selenite civilization they find there. Filmed at least three times, most famously in 1964. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 18. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiv. Williamson, H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress, pages 111-119. Currey, page 518. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, page 56. Locke, Voyages in Space 208.Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205. 333, page 68. Anatomy of Wonder 4 1-98. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction, pages 782-785.

  • Wells, H. G. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. First edition hardback, first state (Currey A) binding (green cloth with cover lettered in gold, top edge in gilt) in first issue (Currey (1) state (16 page catalog at rear dated 20.7.04)), a Very Good+ copy with wear along bottom boards, at head, heel and points, and just a trace of foxing to insider covers, with PRESENTATION COPY blindstamp on title page and inscribed and initialed by Wells: “Henry Newbolt/ 26 [August? Sept?] 1904/[line]/from H.G.W.” The signature matches examples online of Wells’ signing with just initials. Newbolt was a writer and poet contemporary of Wells, with one fantasy novel, Aladore, to his name. On page 761 of Experiment in Autobiography, Wells stated that Newbolt was a member of his club the “Coefficients,” a Fabien Socialist dining club.

    The exact same copy previously sold in an earlier Heritage Auction for $1,625, coming from the John McLaughlin/Book Sail Collection. They obviously did not check carefully enough to see that it had come back to them in this lot, as there was no indication that any of the books in that lot were signed. And the earlier listing didn’t mention the “Coefficients” connection.

    H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 24. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiv. Williamson, H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress, pages 39-43. Parrinder, H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage, pages 103-109. Currey, page 519. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, page 56. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205. 333, page 68. Anatomy of Wonder 4 1-99. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction, pages 807-812. Heritage Rare Book Auction ##6094 catalog, page 115 (this copy).

  • Wells, H. G. In the Days of the Comet. Macmillan and Company Limited, 1906. First edition hardback, (Currey B) state, with “PRINTED BY/WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED/LONDON AND BECCLES” and publisher’s catalog dated “20.8.06” at rear, which was the first issued edition (only one copy of Currey (A) known to exist, that being the British Library deposit copy, which Locke (see below) believes to be a bound proof rather than a true first printing), a Very Good copy with slight abrasion above title on front cover, slight bumping at head, heel and points, slight wear along bottom boards and along top front spine join and near outer board edges on point, slight foxing to inside covers, and bookseller pencil notices to FFE and inside front cover, with a letter from Bertram Rota, London bookseller, to a Lawrence Davern Esq. of Washington, D.C., discussing the first edition points of the title. Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, pages 56-57 and pages 94-96 (and this is the reference Currey cites). Currey, pages 519-520. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 27. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiv. Parrinder, H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage, pages 133-145. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205.

  • Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. William Heinemann, 1896. First edition hardback (Currey A binding, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on rear cover, with Currey (2) (no priority) catalog state (32 page catalog starting with The Manxman and ending with Out of Due Season)), a Very Good copy with soiling along the spine, top and outer edges and head, and rounded points. Currey, 520. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 8. Williamson, H.G. Wells: Critic of Progress, pages 74-82. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiii. Parrinder, H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage, pages 43-62. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4 1-100. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pages 1079-1083.

  • Wells, H. G. The Plattner Story and Other Stories. Methuem & Co., 1897. First edition hardback (no statement of printing on copyright page, and 40 page catalog (in this case with most of the leaves unopened) dated March 1897 inserted at rear, as per Currey), a Very Good copy with spine significantly darkened, a bit of bumping to tips, and slight spots of dark staining to front boards, with previous owner having written “Ellis Parker/1905” on the front free endpaper (there was a famous American detective by that name, but I can’t find any examples of his signature online to compare), with a sales slip from Nigel Williams Rare Books to Gary Munson laid in (he paid $540 after discount). Wells’ second short story collection. Currey, 522. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 10. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiii. Parrinder, H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage, pages 43-62. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205.

  • Wells, H.G. The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. Methuen & Co., 1902. First edition hardback (red cloth stamped in gold and 40 page catalog dated JULY 1902, as per Currey), a Near Fine- copy with spine slightly darkened and corners slightly bumped, but all gilt lettering present, with 4 1/2″ x 1″ catalog listing slip rectangle from 1979 pasted in just at the very top of the inside front cover, rear gutter starting, tiny bit of separation to front gutter, foxing to second front free endpaper, and trace of foxing to front free endpaper gutter, otherwise a very nice, attractive copy. Novel about a mermaid who comes ashore in England with a desire to join high society. One of Wells’ less reprinted novels. Currey, page 522. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 10. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiii. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205.

  • Wells, H. G. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents. Methuen and Co., 1895. First edition hardback (no statement of printing and publisher’s catalog at rear dated SEPTEMBER 1895, as per Currey), a Very Good copy with bumps to top and bottom boards (most slight, one with a dime-sized bumped area to front boards), bumping and creasing to head and heel, points slightly bumped, and partial cracking to front and rear hinges, with picture postcard of H. G. Wells laid in. His first book of short stories. Wells’ sixth published book and first short story collection. Currey, 523. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 6. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiii. P Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 225 (not a listing, but a mention that he had traded away the only acceptable and affordable copy he had run across). Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1674 for “The Temptation of Harringay” and “The Moth.”

  • Wells, H. G. The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It lasted. George Bell and Sons, 1908. First edition hardback, first issue binding (Currey A, with lettering on front cover in and spine in gilt, GEORGE BELL & SONS at base of spine), a Very Good copy with slight spine creasing, a split at heel, three small splits at head, slight wear to bottom boards, wear along spine edges, trace of wear at points, light foxing blocks to front and rear free endpapers, and frontispiece tissue guard present, with sales slip to Gary Munson laid in. Novel that anticipated aerial warfare. Currey, page 526. Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, page 58 and pages 93-94. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 36 (“two pages of ads,” check). Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiv. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (new edition), pages 88-89. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 227-228. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4 1-104. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pages 2407-2410.

  • Wentworth, Jim. Giants in the Earth: Ray Palmer, Oahspe and the Shaver Mystery. Palmer Publications, 1973. First edition? (no additional printings mentioned) trade paperback original, a Near Fine- copy with one tackhead-sized chip at the end of a crease to top front corner and slight wear at points, otherwise a fairly nice copy. Mishmash of Shaver Mystery, spiritualism, UFOs, Shaver’s “rock books,” and a dozen other fringe ideas, mostly taken from Palmer’s publications. Not in Kafton-Minkel or Standish.

  • White, Edward Lucas. A Little Green Book of Grue. Borderlands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. A shame they didn’t make it a little white book of some sort…

  • Whitehead, Henry S. (Thomas Tessier, editor). A Little Orange Book of Voodoo Tales. Borderlands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 numbered copies signed by the editor, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Five stories, two of which (“Jumbee” and “West India Lights”) were the title stories of his two Arkham House collections. Weirdly, this book has about 130 pages of text, then another 30 numbered but blank pages at the back. I have copies of this available through Lame Excuse Books.

  • Wilhelm, Kate The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #9.

  • Williams, Walter Jon. Dinosaurs. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #18.
  • Williamson, Chet. A Little Blue Book of Bibliomancy. Borderlands Press, 2016. First edition hardback, #456 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought off eBay for $14.06.

  • Willis, Connie. Daisy, in the Sun. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #33. Tiny rub on spine.
  • Wilson, F. Paul. The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium. Necessary Evil Press, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a 3/4″ closed tear to bottom front near spine. Bought for $30 from a Half Price Books location in the Metroplex.

  • Wilson, F. Paul. A Little Beige Book of Nondescript Stories. Borderlands Press, 2004. First edition hardback, #168 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Bought as part of the 15 book lot.

  • Wilson, F. Paul. The Shade of Lo Man Gong. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #35.

  • Wilson, F. Paul. Buckets. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #36.
  • Wolfe, Gene. The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #870 of 1,000 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher’s plastic bag. Now out of print from the publisher.

  • Wolfe, Gene. The Hero as Werewolf. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #40. This is one I did actually need, and I still need the hardback version.

  • Wong, David (pseudonym of Jason Pargin). Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. St. Martin’s, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with one tiny wrinkle at heel and a trace of wear at top points. Bought for $13.49.

  • Wu, William F. Shaunessy Fong. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #60. Has some slight rubbing along front near spine. Last in the Short Story Paperbacks series.

  • Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. The Spider Glass. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #16.
  • Yolan, Jane. The Sword and the Stone. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #27.
  • Zelazny, Roger. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #13. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name. I needed this for my Zelazny collection.

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    Library Additions: Complete Run of Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks

    Thursday, December 14th, 2023

    When Pulphouse first unveiled the short story paperback, I remember thinking “That’s stupid.” For all they bragged about “buying a single story for $1.95,” you could buy an entire issue of Asimov’s (with 5-10 times as much content) for $2.50. And, indeed, they were not swift sellers. Though a few of these (the Wolfe, the Lansdales, etc.) became slightly collectable over the years. (And a few of the companion Short Story hardbacks even more so.)

    But I bough these from that same collector culling his collection for $1 each.

    Almost all of these are paperback originals thus (though some of these have previously shown up as the title stories in collections, like Bloch’s Yours Truly, Jack the Rapper or Zelazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth), though exceptions (like Blaylock’s Paper Dragons) are noted. Some of the early ones (“Loser’s Night,” “Xolotl”) are the first publication anywhere, but most of the stories have appeared somewhere previously. Unlike most Library Addition entries, these will be listed by series order rather than alphabetical by author.

    All of these are Fine copies unless otherwise noted.

  • “Author, J.Q.” Issue Zero. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #0, a binding dummy for the entire run of the series, with bank pages. Would never have bought this on it’s own, but since I was buying the entire thing I got this too. This one has a tiny bit of edgewear on rear spine join.
  • Anderson, Poul. Loser’s Night. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #1.

  • Brunner, John. A Case of Painters Ear. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #2.
  • Sheckley, Robert. Xolotl. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #3.

  • Boston, Bruce. All the Clocks are Melting. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #4.
  • Antieau, Kim. Blossoms. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #5.

  • Friesner, Esther M. Ecce Hominid. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #6.
  • Duchamp, L. Timmel. A Case of Mistaken Activity. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #7.

  • Bryant, Edward. The Cutter. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #8.
  • Wilhelm, Kate The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #9.

  • Bloch, Robert. Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #10. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name.
  • Lansdale, Joe R. The Steel Valentine. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #11. Isajanko, The World Lansdalean C01.a.i. Supplements another copy and a Short Story Hardback version.

  • Bishop, Michael. The Quickening. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #12.
  • Zelazny, Roger. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #13. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name. I needed this for my Zelazny collection.

  • Haldeman, Joe. More Than The Sum of His Parts. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #14.
  • Clemence, Bruce No Way Street. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #15. Guy had this, and a story in Synergy 3, and that was it…

  • Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. The Spider Glass. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #16.
  • de Lint, Charles. Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #17. One of the harder titles to find.

  • Williams, Walter Jon. Dinosaurs. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #18.
  • Charnes, Suzy McKee. Listening to Brahms. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #19.

  • Robinson, Kim Stanley. Black Air. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #20.
  • Etchison, Dennis. The Dark Country. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #21. Not to be confused with the short story collection of the same name.

  • Aldiss, Brian W. Journey to the Goat Star. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #22. Tiny bit of rubbing along spine.
  • Brin, David. Piecework. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #23.

  • Caraker, Mary. I Remember, I Remember. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #24.
  • Schow, David J. Sedalia. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #25.

  • Stableford, Brian. Slumming in Voodooland. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #26.
  • Yolan, Jane. The Sword and the Stone. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #27.

  • Fowler, Karen Joy. The War of the Roses. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #28.
  • Morlan, A.R. The Cat With The Tulip Face. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #29.

  • Shiner, Lewis. Twilight Time. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #30.
  • Wagner, Karl Edward. Where the Summer Ends. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #31.

  • Lee, Tanith. Into Gold. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #32.Tiny rub on spine.
  • Willis, Connie. Daisy, in the Sun. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #33. Tiny rub on spine.

  • Bell, M. Shayne. Inuit. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #34.
  • Wilson, F. Paul. The Shade of Lo Man Gong. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #35.

  • Wilson, F. Paul. Buckets. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #36.
  • Martin, George R. R. The Pear-Shaped Man. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #37.

  • Butler, Octavia. The Evening and the Morning and the Night. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #38. Holy moley, the prices on this online are crazy. The prices for the signed hardback I can at least sort of understand, since Butler died young, but the prices for unsigned copies like this are still crazy. I had no idea.
  • Dozois, Gardner. The Peacemaker. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #39. Supplements a copy of the Short Story Hardback edition.

  • Wolfe, Gene. The Hero as Werewolf. Pulphouse, 1991. Issue #40. This is one I did actually need, and I still need the hardback version. Also, this is the last one from 1991. Pulphouse put out 40 of these in 1991. This is called “channel stuffing.” I wasn’t dealing books at the time, but I’m pretty sure SF/F/H dealers were not thrilled at this tsunami of small press books of dubious sales-worthiness.
  • Oates, Joyce Carol. The Bingo Master. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #41.

  • Effinger, George. Schrodinger’s Kitten. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #42. Supplements the hardback version.
  • Bear, Greg. Sisters. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #43.

  • Holder, Nancy. The Ghosts of Tivoli. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #44.
  • Brin, David. Dr. Pak’s Preschoool. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #45. Supplements a copy of the Cheap Street edition (which precedes).

  • Lansdale, Joe R. Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #46. Isajanko, The World Lansdalean C03.a.i. Supplements a copy of the Short Story hardback version.
  • Somtow, S. P. Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #47.

  • Murphy, Pat. Rachel in Love. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #48.
  • Card, Orson Scott. Unaccompanied Sonata. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #49.

  • Le Guin, Ursula K. Nine Lives. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #50.
  • Bloch, Robert. The Skull of the Marquis de Sade. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #51.

  • de Lint, Charles. Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #52.
  • Kress, Nancy. The Price of Oranges. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #53.

  • Busby, F.M. If This Is Winnetka, You Must be Judy. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #54.
  • Cadigan, Pat. My Brother’s Keeper. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #55.

  • Bryant, Edward. The Thermals of August. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #56.
  • Blaylock, James P. Paper Dragons. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #57. A few small rubs along spine. Supplements a copy of the Axolotl Press hardback (which precedes).

  • Resnick, Mike. Kirinyaga. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #58. Kelleghan, Mike Resnick: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to His Work A39.
  • Sloca, Sue Ellen. Candles on the Pond. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #59. As far as I can tell, this is her only publication anywhere.

  • Wu, William F. Shaunessy Fong. Pulphouse, 1992. Issue #60. Has some slight rubbing along front near spine. Last in the Short Story Paperbacks series.

    • Reference: Jack Chalker and Mark Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History, 2002, page 719 (numbers 1 through 10), page 721 (numbers 11-20), pages 722 (numbers 21-30). This is what Chalker had to say about the Short Story paperback line:

    In January, 1991, Pulphouse continued its expansion with the Short Story Paperbacks and the selected Short Story Hardbacks, although we’re still only half- convinced that these are in any sense legitimate books. What they were, though, was what seemed to be a quick way to make money, and if people bought them, fine. They brought the whole operation as of the start of 1991 at a whopping 80+ titles a year. It should be noted that the paperbacks series was supposed to be originals and reprints, but became, after the initial ones, primarily reprints, a move that, while understandable, seemed to us to take away the one good reason why most people might buy them.

    Money held by SF/F/H collectors is a finite commodity, and Pulphouse in the early 1990s seemed to treat it as a limitless resource. If you’re publishing books by Lansdale, Zelazny, Wagner, De Lint, etc., that’s a license to print a little money. But Antieau, Clemence, Caraker? Not so much. Why they thought collectors were going to shell out money for such items is a mystery.

    The entire set bought for $61.

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    Library Addition: Signed Robert Bloch Bibliography

    Monday, June 5th, 2023

    Another addition to the reference library:

    (Bloch, Robert) Larson, Russell D. The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated Comprehensive Bibliography. Fandom Unlimited Enterprises, 1986. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with trace of wear at tips, signed by Bloch. Just what it says, an illustrated bibliography of Bloch’s work. Looks useful, though the type is a bit small for my aging eyes. Justice, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference 185. Bought of eBay for $35 plus shipping.

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    Library Addition: Four Signed Robert Bloch Firsts

    Monday, December 26th, 2022

    This is the second Heritage Auctions lot I won this year, after the Clark Ashton Smith lot. And like that lot, these were from the Gary Munson Collection.

    Warren Buffet once gave collecting advice to be willing to stretch yourself for desirable items, which is great advice…if you’re worth $110 billion. But I did stretch myself a tiny bit for this one, because I noticed something the auction house hadn’t.

  • Bloch, Robert. Midnight Pleasures. Doubleday, 1987. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed by Bloch: “Yours Truly, Robert Bloch!” Short story collection.

  • Bloch, Robert. The Opener of the Way. Arkham House, 1945. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with slight bumping at head and heel, slight wear in letters of spine, bookstore sticker to bottom of inner front cover, and a few touches of wear to boards, in a Near Fine- dust jacket with abrasion rub down right front fold edge, slight wear at head, slight loss at points, and slight dust soiling to rear cover, with auction sticker laid in, inscribed by Bloch: “To Charles R./Tanner with best wishes,/Robert Bloch, 1948.” What the people doing the Heritage description didn’t note (and possibly didn’t know) was that Charles R. Tanner was a fellow contemporary pulp writer (both had work in Amazing Stories), most famously of “Tumithak of the Corridors,” which appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Before the Golden Age. Flanagan, Robert Bloch: A Bio-Bibliography, page 49. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 10. Currey, page 46. Derleth, Thirty Years of Arkham House 10. Jaffery, Horrors and Unpleasantries 10. Nielsen, Arkham House Books: A Collector’s Guide 10 (also #23 on the Most Valuable list). Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 36. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 209. Chalker/Owings, pages 22-23. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 299-300. I’d been looking for a signed copy of this for quite a while. (In fact, about a decade ago I negotiated with John Pelan for the copy inscribed to him after he needed to pay for unexpected cat surgery, but we couldn’t agree on a price.) As a signed copy it was probably above market, but as an association copy it was cheap. (For an association copy signed to Robert Bloch, see this.)

  • Bloch, Robert. Out Of My Head. NESFA Press, 1986. First edition hardback, #371 of 800 hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bloch. Chalker/Owings, page 303. Replaces an equally perfect unsigned copy in my collection.
  • Bloch, Robert. Psycho II. Whispers Press, 1982. First edition hardback, #516 of 750 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase. Supposedly very different than the movie of the same name. Supplements a trade edition. Chalker/Owings, page 476.

    • Bought for $630, including buyer’s premium.

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    Library Additions: Two Signed Robert Bloch Firsts

    Thursday, December 9th, 2021

    Two signed Bloch firsts, picked up from different sources:

  • Bloch, Robert. Psycho House. Tor, 1990. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed by Bloch: “Best wishes to Dick Wilson.” Bought for $20 at a Houston-area Half Price Books.
  • Bloch, Robert and Andre Norton. The Jekyll Legacy. Tor, 1990. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bloch on the title page and by Norton on a signature plate on the dedication page. Bought off eBay for $24.95.

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    Lawrence Person’s Books Wanted List

    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)
  • 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)
  • Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schulman, 1954)
  • Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade (Doubleday, 1960)
  • Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity (Doubleday, 1955)
  • 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)
  • Peter S. Beagle’s Lila the Werewolf (Capra Press, 1974) (1/75 signed hardbacks)
  • 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 Laughter of a Ghoul/Whatever A Young Ghoul Should Know (Necrominocon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
  • 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’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 Beyond 1984: Remembrances of Things Future (Targ, 1979)
  • Ray Bradbury’s Christmas Greetings broadsides (all years except 1982, 1986, 1989, 1994, 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 Halloween (Shuttlebop Press, 1983)
  • Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree (Gauntlet Press, 2005) (1/52 lettered copies with metal case and popup tree)
  • 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 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 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 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, paperback)
  • (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)
  • 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)
  • Robert Eighteen-Bisang’s A Vampire Bibliography: Volume One, Literature (Transylvania Press, 1996)
  • E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros (Cape, 1922)
  • 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¢ cover price)
  • 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¢ on cover)
  • Harlan Ellison’s Jokes Without Punchlines (White Wolf, 1995) (chapbook)
  • Harlan Ellison’s The Juvies (Ace, 1961) (PBO, 35¢ on the cover)
  • Harlan Ellison’s The Man With Nine Lives b/w A Touch of Infinity (Ace, 1960) (PBO, 35¢ on the cover)
  • 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¢ on cover)
  • Harlan Ellison’s Night of Black Glass (1981) (broadside)
  • Harlan Ellison’s Rockabilly (Fawcett, 1961) (PBO, First Printed October 1961 on copyright page, 35¢ on the cover)
  • 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 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 The Unreasoning Mask (Putnam, 1981) (signed/limited edition)
  • Philip Jose Farmer’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)
  • Jane Gaskell’s The Shiny Narrow Grin (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
  • Neil Gaiman’s The Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (Borderlands, 2011)
  • 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 Always Comes Evening (Arkham House, 1957)
  • Robert E. Howard’s “…and their memory was a bitter tree” (Black Bart, 2008) (1/500 signed slipcased)
  • 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 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 The Grey God Passes (Charles Miller, 1975) (chapbook)
  • Robert E. Howard’s The Grim Land and Others (Stygian Isle Press, 1976, 1/1450)
  • 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 Grim Land and Others (Stygian isle Press, 1976) (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 The Lost Valley of Iskander (FAX Collector’s Edition, 1974)
  • Robert E. Howard’s The Last Cat Book (Dodd Mead, 1984)
  • 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 Shadows of Dreams (Donald M. Grant, 1989)
  • 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 Singers in the Shadows (Donald M. Grant, 1970)
  • Robert E. Howard’s Son of the White Wolf (Fax Collector’s Edition, 1977)
  • Robert E. Howard’s Spears of Clontarf (George T. Hamilton, 1978) (chapbook)
  • 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 Valley of the Lost (Chuck E. Miller, 1975)
  • Robert E. Howard’s Writer of the Dark (Dark Carnival Press, 1986) (trade paperback)(1/500)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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. 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 Suicide Kings (Tor, 2009)
  • George R. R. Martin’s High Stakes (Tor, 2016)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Low Chicago (Tor, 2018)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Knave Over Queens (Tor, 2008)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Three Kings (Tor, 2018)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Joker Moon (Tor, 2021)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Full House (Tor, 2022)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Pairing Up (Tor, 2023)
  • George R. R. Martin’s Sleeper Straddle (Tor, 2024)
  • 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 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)
  • 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 Reynold’s The Prefect (Gollancz, 2007)
  • Alastair Reynold’s Elysium Fire (Gollancz, 2018)
  • Alastair Reynold’s Machine Vendetta (Gollancz, 2024)
  • 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)
  • Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (Gregg Press, 1977)
  • Bob Shaw’s Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975) (No statement of printing on copyright page)
  • 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 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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 The Complete Magnus Ridolph (Underwood Miller, 1984)
  • Jack Vance’s Dream Castles (Subterranean Press, 2012) (signed, lettered edition)
  • 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 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)
  • 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 Machines (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)
  • 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)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) 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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    Library Addition: Signed First of Robert Bloch’s Screams

    Wednesday, February 27th, 2019

    This is an upgrade, replacing an unsigned copy of he trade edition with a signed copy of the trade edition:

    Bloch, Robert. Screams. Underwood -Miller, 1989. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with a $39.95 overprint pricing sticker on flap (as issued). Signed by Bloch. Omnibus edition of The Will To Kill, Firebug, and The Star Stalker, being the first hardback editions of each. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 440. Bought off eBay for $25.

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    Library Addition: Multi-Signed Deluxe Edition of The Undead

    Monday, September 3rd, 2018

    Another odd item for the reference library:

    (Francis, Bruce (uncredited), compiler/editor, with Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Elvira, Rowena, and William F. Nolan.) The Undead (AKA The Book Sail 16th Anniversary Catalogue). McLaughlin Press, 1984. First edition hardback, #326 of 550 copies of the Deluxe (and only hardback) edition, a Near Fine copy with fading to spine, in a Near Fine slipcase, from which the cloth is starting to peel away at the bottom (which I intended to repair), sans dust jacket, as issued. An extremely elaborate affair for a book catalog, including a lenticular image of horror hostess Elvira (who has signed a signature page in the book) embedded in the cover, a Rowena full-page, full-color illustration, “Sorceress,” opposite her signature, which looks like something of a self-portrait, a signed Forward from Ray Bradbury, a signed story (“The Undead”) from Robert Bloch, and a signed William F. Nolan chapbook (“The Dandelion Chronicles”) inserted into a special pocket at the back of the book.

    In addition to all that, there’s also an extensive book and manuscript catalog which makes up the bulk of the book, including a ridiculous amount of Lovecraft material, including amateur press publications, original manuscripts, letters, postcards, etc. It also includes Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft’s passport, which I’ve seen at listed for sale/auction least twice since (from L. W. Currey and later listed by Heritage Auctions). Also includes many non-book rarities, including the first appearance of Siegel and Shuster’s Superman character in a fanzine (where he was a bald villain), an original stop-motion armature of King Kong, and Judy Garland’s contract for The Wizard of Oz.

    I’ve long lusted after a copy of this book, which came out just before I started collecting, but it usually listed in the $350 range. Bought for $75 off eBay.

    Note: The limited, leather-bound presentation state (not seen) evidently included an original, unique Hannes Bok drawing in every copy…

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    Lame Excuse Books December 2016 Catalog

    Thursday, December 15th, 2016

    Welcome once again to another installment of “Lawrence Just Posts The Latest Lame Excuse Books Catalog as a Giant Text File.” If there’s anything here you want to buy, drop me a line at Lawrence Person (lawrenceperson@gmail.com).

    Greetings, and welcome to the Lame Excuse Books catalog for December 2016!

    I’m going to be honest with you: This is a pretty weird catalog. It’s got the usual small press firsts from Subterranean Press, Tachyon, Dragonstairs Press, etc., but it’s also got some William F. Buckley spy thrillers (one signed), some werewolf books (both from some auction lots), and random beat-up reading copies, as well as a big bunch of markdowns to existing stock (including a whole lot of Subterranean Press books). Plus new books by Joe R. Lansdale, James P. Blaylock, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Greg Egan, Robert Silverberg, a new Charnel House Harlan Ellison limited, etc.

    The picks of the list:

    * James P. Blaylock’s The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
    * Joe R. and John L. Lansdale’s Hell’s Bounty and Zombie Gold
    * Alastair Reynold’s Beyond the Aquila Rift
    * Bruce Sterling’s Pirate Utopia

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    Now the books!

    Hardbacks

    LP2382. Abraham, Daniel. Balfour and Meriweather in The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, #124 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Steampunky-looking mystery novella. List price is $45. For you? $20.

    LP2170. (Anderson, Poul) Gardner Dozois and Greg Bear, editors. (Larry Niven, Greg Benford, Tad Williams, etc.) Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds. Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition hardback, one of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase, new and unread. Poul Anderson tribute anthology, including stories using his characters and settings. $70.

    LP2171. (Anderson, Poul) Gardner Dozois and Greg Bear, editors. (Larry Niven, Greg Benford, Tad Williams, etc.) Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds. Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition hardback, one of 1,500 trade copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Poul Anderson tribute anthology, including stories using his characters and settings. $30.

    LP2514. Armstrong, Kelley. Driven. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, one of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with fill-color endpapers and several full color plates, new and unread. Her latest werewolf novel. Half off cover price. $20.

    LP2383. Armstrong, Kelley. Forsaken. Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Otherworld. Werewolves. How about 75% off cover price? $10.

    LP2063. Baker, Kage. Black Projects, White Knights. Golden Gryphon, 2002. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Short stories about The Company. $12.

    LP1621. Baker, Kage. The Empress of Mars. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, one of 500 copies signed by Baker, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread. A full length novel, and not to be confused with the earlier novella from Night Shade. Out of print from the publisher. $45.

    LP1115. Baker, Kage. Mother Aegypt and Other Stories. Night Shade Books, 2004. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread. includes an original, never before published novella. LAST COPY! $15.

    LP2064. Banks, Iain M. Against a Dark Background. Orbit, 1993. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight haze rubbing (which means the glossy black areas seem to have a bit of haze on them if you move them back and forth under a strong light), otherwise new and unread. Banks first “pure” non-Culture SF novel. Banks was a phenomenally talented writer who died way too young. $125.

    LP2065. Banks, Iain M. Consider Phlebas. Macmillan, 1987. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of bend at edge of head and heel, in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Read once, by me. The first Culture novel, and Banks’ first “pure” SF novel. Recommended. I’m not seeing a single unsigned first of the Macmillan Consider Phlebas anywhere online. $300.

    LP2066. Banks, Iain M. Excession. Orbit, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy (though with the characteristic slight page darkening of Orbit books of this era) in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Banks: “To Narayan/-best wishes/Iain M. Banks”. Recommended. A Culture novel. For some reason I can’t find a single signed Excession on Bookfinder. $175.

    LP1622. Banks, Iain M. Matter. Orbit (UK), 2008. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy in a Near FIne dust jacket with bumping at head and heel and associated wrinkles. Culture novel. $12.

    LP2173. Banks, Iain. The Quarry. Little Brown (UK), 2013. Fourth printing of the hardback first edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Banks’ last novel, alas. $8.

    LP1939. Bear, Elizabeth. ad eternum. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, one of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Part of her New Amsterdam series. Also included in this edition is the 9,000 word chapbook Underground. $35.

    LP2118. Bear, Elizabeth. The White City. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Magic alternate history thing. $20.

    LP2386. Benford, Gregory. The Best of Gregory Benford. Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, #123 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Another huge career retrospective collection. $55.

    LP2387. Benford, Gregory. The Best of Gregory Benford. Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, trade edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Another huge career retrospective collection. $35.

    LP2515. Blaylock, James P. The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, one of 200 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Omnibus edition of four Lagdon St. Ives steampunk novellas. “The Here-and-Thereians” plus a short coda (“Earthbound Things”) are original to this volume, so you need this even if you have the previous Subterranean Press Langdon St. Ives volumes. List price: $60. For you: $55.

    LP2516. Blaylock, James P. The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Omnibus edition of four Lagdon St. Ives steampunk novellas. “The Here-and-Thereians” plus a short coda (“Earthbound Things”) are original to this volume, so you need this even if you have the previous Subterranean Press Langdon St. Ives volumes. Trade edition. PICK OF THE LIST. List price: $40. For you: $35.

    LP2013. Blaylock, James P. Zeuglodon. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Set in the same universe as The Digging Leviathan and takes place in the hollow earth. Trade edition is sold out from the publisher. LAST COPY. $35.

    LP2517. Bloch, Robert. Flowers from the Moon. Arkham House, 1998. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with very slight fold to the very top 1/16″ of the front inner flap, otherwise pristine. Collection of early Bloch stories, including the title werewolf story and four Cthulhu Mythos stories. $25.

    LP1625. Bloch, Robert (Gahan Wilson). Skeleton in the Closet, and Other Stories (The Reader’s Bloch Volume 2). Subterranean Press, 2008. First edition hardback, one of only 750 copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dj, as issued, new and unread. More uncollected Bloch. Illustrated by Gahan Wilson. $30.

    LP1626. Bradbury. Ray. Marionettes, Inc. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, one of 2000 copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. A collection of Bradbury’s robot stories, including two previously unpublished works. Now sold out from the publisher. Only have one. $30.

    LP1519. Bradbury, Ray. Moby Dick: A Screenplay. Subterranean Press, 2008. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. The basis of the John Huston movie. No out of print from the publisher, and I only have one. $30.

    LP2068. Bradbury, Ray. Nemo! Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Previously unpublished Ray Bradbury screenplay set in Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip. Now sold out from the publisher, but I still have it at less than cover price. $30.

    LP2518. Buckley, William F., Jr. Brothers No More. Doubleday, 1995. First edition hardback, a Very Good copy with slight dampstaining to last few pages at heel lifting some of the binding dye to the page edges, in a near Fine dust jacket with slight surface wear and slight crease to inner top flap. Thriller that starts in World War II. Earlier this year, I won a Buckley lot at auction quite cheaply, about half of which were signed. The non-signed books in the lot I’m blowing out cheap as reading copies. $3.

    LP2519. Buckley, William F., Jr. Elvis in the Morning. Harcourt, 2001. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of surface wear/soiling (especially along spine join) and slight edge curl. Novel of Elvis in the 50s and 60s. Certainly when I think of Elvis, Buckley is the first novelist that comes to mind. (Actually this did get better reviews than, say, Tender…) $ 3.

    LP2520. Buckley, William F., Jr. High Jinx. Doubleday, 1986. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a few pinpricks of dust staining at head in a Very Good+ dust jacket, with shallow chipping at head, heel and along the top edge of the front. A Blackford Oakes spy thriller. $3.

    LP2521. Buckley, William F., Jr. Marco Polo, if You Can. Doubleday, 1982. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with very slight dust staining at head, in a Near Fine- price-clipped dust jacket with 1/8″ chipping at head and a tiny bit at heel and points. Inscribed by Buckley: “1/14/82 /For Roger Bink/Warm regards/Wm F. Buckley Jr.” $10.

    LP2522. Buckley, William F., Jr. Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton. Harcourt, 2000. First edition hardback, a Very Good with spy concave, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Novel based on Angleton’s real0life hunt for a communist mole in the CIA. $3.

    LP2523. Buckley, William F., Jr. A Very Private Plot . First edition hardback, a Very Good- copy with dampstaining at heel and associated black dye trasnfer from boards, in a Very Good- dust jacket with dampstain warping to front and rear. A Blackford Oakes spy thriller. $3.

    LP477. Chizmar, Richard, editor (Jack Ketchum, John Shirley, David B. Silva). Night Visions 10. Subterranean Press, 2001. First Edition hardback, Fine in a Fine dj, new. All new stories by Jack Ketchum, John Shirley, and David B. Silva done in a uniform format with the Dark Harvest Night Visions series. $12.

    LP755. Crowley, John. Daemonomania. Bantam, 2000. First edition hardback, Fine in Fine dj, new and unread. The third book in the Aegypt sequence. Back in stock. $10.

    LP1683. Crowley, John. Endless Things. Small Beer Press, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Concluding novel of the Aegypt series. CHEAP! $10.

    LP1777. De Lint, Charles. Eyes Like Leaves. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread, signed by De Lint. This last copy has hung around a while, so let’s sell it cheap. $20.

    LP2524. Donaldson, D. J. Blood on the Bayou. St. Martin’s Press, 1991. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacet with a bit of haze rubbing to the rear cover. Werewolf mystery novel set in New Orleans (“An Andy Broussard/Kit Franklin Mystery”). $20.

    LP1686. Egan, Greg. Crystal Nights and Other Stories. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Short story collection. Now sold out from the publisher. $32.

    LP2525. Egan, Greg. The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Hard science fiction novella set on the asteroids of Vesta and Ceres. Only have one. $37.

    LP1527. Egan, Greg. Incandescence. Gollancz, 2008. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dj with a tiny bit of crimping at head, new and unread. Far future SF novel. Precedes the Night Shade edition. Gollancz seems to have cut back drastically on their hardback print runs; this came out May 15, and was already OP in hardback on June 1, and I had to scramble around to find some in the UK. $30.

    LP1836. Egan, Greg. Zendegi. Night Shade Press, 2010. First U.S. edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Novel set in a post-theocracy Iran and a popular virtual reality game. $10.

    LP2542. Ellison, Harlan. Coffin Nails. Charnel House, 2016. First edition oversized hardback, a Fine copy, one of 200 signed, numbered copies, sans dust jacket, as issued. The usual lavish Charnel House production, an attractive brown patterned (“crackle paper”) binding, with embossed silver nails spelling out “HE” on the front cover, and a giant silver nail on the cover. Features 25 uncollected Ellison stories from across his career. Sure to be a lust object for all your bibliophile friends. Only have one. $5 off cover price. $295.

    LP2123. Ellison, Harlan. The Deadly Streets. Subterranean Press, 2013. First hardback edition, one of 750 copies of the trade edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Early Ellison collection now available in hardback. Cover price: $45. Your price: $30.

    LP2306. Gaiman, Neil and Michael Reaves. Interworld and The Silver Dream. Subterranean Press, 2014. First limited hardback edition, each #344 of 500 signed copies, both Fine copies in Fine dust jackets, new and unread. Two young collaborative young adult novels involving parallel worlds. Offered at $20 off cover price, and I only have one set. $100.

    LP1400. Garton, Ray. Night Life. Subterranean Press, 2005. First edition hardback, one of 400 signed and numbered copies bound in leather, in a Fine, Mylar protected dust jacket, new and unread. Garton’s sequel to Live Girls, sold out pre-publication within mere hours of Subterranean announcing the book. $45.

    LP2525. Haining, Peter. The Dracula Centenary Book. Souvenir Press, 1987. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a tiny bit of crimping at points. Illustrated non-fiction book about various Dracula facts, real, fictional and on screen. $10.

    LP2526. Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s. Princeton University Press, 1980. Presumed first edition hardback (no additional printing stated), a Fine copy in a near Fine-, price-clipped dust jacket with spots of rubbing to matte black rear cover. Non-fiction on Victorian sensation novels of the 1860s. $5.

    LP1640. King, Stephen. Stephen King Goes to the Movies. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, one of 2000 copies (and the only hardback edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Includes five stories by King that were made into movies (“1408,” “The Mangler,” “Low Men in Yellow Coats” (made into Hearts in Atlantis), “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” “The Mist” and “Children of the Corn,” each with new introductions by King about how the moves were made and what he thought of them. Illustrations by Vincent Chong. With two color printing and heavier than usual paper, this is a lavish production beyond even the usual high Subterranean Press standards. I haven’t read all the stories in here, but the ones I have are among King’s best. Recommended. $26 off cover price! $49.

    LP2527. Kuznia, Yanni, editor (Jacqueline Carey, Kevin Hearne, Laura Bickle, Aliette De Bodard). A Fantasy Medley 3. Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Trade edition of this short fantasy anthology, now sold out from from the publisher, but I’m still offering it at 50% off cover price. $10.

    LP1846. Lake, Jay. The Sky That Wraps. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 signed copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Short story collection by the author of the Hugo-nominated Mainspring, and a swell guy to boot. $5 off cover price. $29.

    LP1959. Lansdale, Joe R. Act of Love. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback thus, with a new novelette, “A Bone Dead Sadness,” and interview with Lansdale not included in any previous edition, one of 200 signed, numbered slipcased copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase, new and unread. Only have one. $100 List. For you, $90.

    LP1848. Lansdale, Joe R. By Bizarre Hands Rides Again. Morning Star Press, 2010. Expanded edition with new stories and story notes, one of 300 copies signed by Lansdale, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. The original was a great short story collection, and thus new edition has everything in the original and more. Highly recommended. $65.

    LP2482. Lansdale, Joe R. (Pete Von Sholly, illustrator). Christmas Monkeys. PS Publishing, 2015. First edition hardback, one of 300 copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and decorated boards, with bookmark signed by the author and artist laid in (as issued). Illustrated children’s book (for certain values of “children”). LAST COPY! $34.

    LP18840. Lansdale, Joe R. Christmas With the Dead. PS Publishing, 2010. First edition hardback, one of 300 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Now out of print from the publisher. $34.

    LP2195. Lansdale, Joe R. Devil Red. Knopf, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Signed by Lansdale. Hap and Leonard novel. Recommended. $12.

    LP2484. Lansdale, Joe R. Fender Lizards. Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Even though this is the trade edition, I got Joe to sign it at Armadillocon, and it’s sold out from the publisher, but still cover price. $40.

    LP2528. Lansdale, Joe R. and John L. Lansdale. Hell’s Bounty. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Weird western about demons, bounty hunters and the end of the world. Sold out from the publisher, and only have one of this true first edition. However, see the next item… $65.

    LP2529. Lansdale, Joe R. and John L. Lansdale. Hell’s Bounty with Zombie Gold. Short, Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2016. First edition hardback thus for Hell’s Bounty, true first edition for Zombie Gold, one of 200 signed, numbered sets with matching numbers, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hell’s Bounty is by and signed by both Lansdales, while Zombie Gold is by John L. Lansdale solo. Two weird westerns, heavy on the action and bloodshed. For the set: $95. (One dealer has this set at $140.)

    LP2530. Lansdale, John L. Zombie Gold. Short, Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Trade edition of this weird western. $30.

    LP1850. Leiber, Fritz. Strange Wonders. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Collection various work, some previously unpublished or uncollected. 25% off cover price. $30.

    LP2531. Levy, Edward. The Beast Within. Arbor House, 1981. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a bit of curl and head and heel and a trace of dust soiling to back cover, in a near Fine dust jacket with haze rubbing along spine join. “A modern day Jekyll and Hyde in the clothes of a werewolf…a lupine incubus.” $5. Given when this was published, there’s a good chance David Hartwell edited it. $5.

    LP2532. Lupoff, Richard. Lisa Kane. Bobbs-Merrill, 1976. First edition hardback, a Fine- with a few dust marks to front board, in a Near Fine- dust jacket with crinkling at head and heel, slight curl at top front edge, slight creases to inner flaps, and slight darkening to top of rear cover. Werewolf novel. $5.

    LP2533. Mieville, China. This Census-Taker. Subterranean Press, 2016. First limited edition hardback thus (the Del Rey trade edition precedes), #443 of 750 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Now sold out from the publisher, and I only have one. $60.

    LP1853. Niven, Larry. The Best of Larry Niven. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Another huge Subterranean career retrospective collection. LAST COPY. $35.

    LP2534. Novik, Naomi. Blood of Tyrants. Del Rey, 2013. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The eight Temeraire book about the Napoleonic War with dragons. $10.

    LP1968. Powers, Tim. The Bible Repairman and Other Stories. Subterranean Press, 2012. First hardback edition, one of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. $10 off cover price. $65.

    LP2082. Powers, Tim. Salvage and Demolition. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, one of 350 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Powers latest novella, about a rare book dealer. Now sold out from the publisher, but I’m offering it at $5 off cover price. $60.

    LP2083. Powers, Tim. Salvage and Demolition. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. This trade edition is also sold out from the publisher, and also offered at $5 cover price. $22.

    LP2207. Prachett, Terry. Raising Steam. Doubleday, 2014. First American edition, hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread, with review materials laid in. Discworld goes Steampunk. $10.

    LP1642. Resnick, Mike. Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia. Subterranean Press, 2008. First edition hardback, one of 1000 signed copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Companion volume to his Kirinyaga stories, in which the Maasai try to create their own Utopia. Only have one. $28.

    LP2535. Reynolds, Alastair. Beyond the Aquila Rift. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, trade state, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Another huge career retrospective collection, and at 781 pages, I think it’s the largest yet. $42.

    LP2399. Reynolds, Alastair. Slow Bullets. WSFA, 2015. First hardback (and first signed) edition, one of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Produced for CapClave, where Reynolds was Guest of Honor. $35.

    LP1742. Scalzi, John. God Engines. Subterranean Press, 2009 (actually not shipped until 2010). First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Trade edition. $15.

    LP1976. Shepard, Lucius. The Dragon Griaule. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. All Shepard’s Dragon Griaule stories in one volume. $35.

    LP1977. Silverberg, Robert. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Six: Multiples 1983-1987. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. The earlier volumes are gone baby gone… $30.

    LP2136. Silverberg, Robert. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Eight: Hot Times in Magma City: 1990-95. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, new and unread, sans dust jacket, as issued. The latest and greatest volume by the legendary Grandmaster. I sold a lot of the collected Silverberg volumes at Worldcon, and this trade edition is now sold out from the publisher. $30.

    LP2536. Silverberg, Robert. Early Days: More Tales from the Pulp Era. Subterranean Press, 2016. First edition hardback, #168 of 1000 signed, numbered copies. Collection of early Silverberg stories. Only have one, $5 off cover price. $35.

    LP2137. Silverberg, Robert. The Last Song of Orpheus. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Original 30,000 word novella. $10 off cover price. $25.

    LP2209. Simmons, Dan. Muse of Fire. Subterranean Press, 2008. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Original science fiction novella. Out of print from the publisher. $30.

    LP1288. Smith, Clark Ashton (edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger). Star Changes: The Science Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. Darkside Press, 2005. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. $32.

    LP1887. Stephenson, Neal. Zodiac: The Eco Thriller. Subterranean Press, 2011. First hardback edition, one of 500 copies signed by Stephenson, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread, in slipcase. First hardback of Stephenson’s second novel, and the usual quality Subterranean Press production. Now sold out from the publisher, but still $25 off the publisher’s price. $120.

    LP1480. Sterling, Bruce. Islands in the Net. Arbor House, 1988. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with very slight bumping at heel and the ownership stamp of Louis Mackey on FFE, in a Near Fine, price-clipped (but otherwise pristine and Mylar-protected) dj. Signed by Sterling (who has also written “Copyright 1988” and “2007”). Mackey was a well-known professor at the University of Texas and something of a minor celebrity, having played a role in the film Richard Linklater film Slacker (he’s the professor complaining that he missed Charles Whitman’s shooting spree). Since Bruce attended UT, it would have been nice if this had been some sort of association copy, but no, Bruce said he had never heard of him when I had him sign this. So whether the Mackey signature is a plus or a minus depends on the eye of the beholder. $35.

    LP2537. Sterling, Bruce (Warren Ellis, Christopher Brown, Rick Klaw). Pirate Utopia. Tachyon, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Novella in which the Italian Futurists set up their own state after World War I. Includes H.P. Lovecraft and Houdini as characters. Includes an Introduction by Warren Ellis, and interview with Sterling by Rick Klaw, and an afterword by Christopher Brown. $18.

    LP1856. Straub, Peter. The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories. Subterranean Press, 2010. First edition hardback, one of 1,500 trade copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Collection of novellas set in the same world as Koko, Mystery, and The Throat, along with an interview conducted by Bill Sheehan. $22.

    LP1425. Stross, Charles. Missile Gap. Subterranean Press, 2007. First edition hardback, one of 1000 signed, numbered copies, Fine in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. A very alternate Cold War novella. This first printing is now out of print from the publisher. $27.

    LP1981. Stross, Charles. Palimpsest. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. His Hugo-winning, far-future novella. $30.

    LP197. Tepper, Sheri. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. Bantam, 1996. First edition hardback, Fine in a Fine dj, new in dj. Get this off my shelf. $1.

    LP2538. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of The Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King). Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Fifth Printing of this edition (the Second U.S. hardback edition, with all the all the appendices at the back of The Return of the King, and fold out maps of Middle Earth (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers) and Mordor (The Return of the King) present, a Very Good- set, well read, all three spines slightly dull, spine on The Fellowship of the Ring slightly concave, map in The Fellowship of the Ring with one small tear near attachment point reinforced with tape, lacking the dust jackets, in a Very Good- slipcase with significant rubbing at heel, slight wear/abrasion at points and to attached slipcase frontispiece, with about 1/4″ loss to top right corner, affecting very edge of end line of elvish script. A well-worn set that was formerly my father’s. He read these to me and my sister in our youth, and then we read the hell out of them in our teen years. Still, the front cover embossing for all three books (depicting the eye of Sauron, the one ring, and the Tengwar/Black Speech inscription on the ring) is still quite bright and attractive on all three volumes. My father died in January of 2016, and my mother gave these to me as part of downsizing from a house to an apartment. Since I already own a copy of this edition with the dust jackets, I’m offering this up here. Highly recommended as the most important work of fantasy of all time. Sets of this edition in dust jacket tend to go for about $150, so let’s offer this up at 1/5th that. $30.

    LP2539. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of The Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King). Houghton Mifflin/SFBC, 1986 (the ISFDB IDs the 10259 code on the back of The Fellowship of the Ring as belonging to the SFBC edition that year). Book club reprint hardback, Near Fine copies with slight spotting at head, in Near Fine- (The Fellowship of the Ring)/Very Good+ (The Two Towers, The Return of the King) dust jackets with slight spine fading wear at head, heel and points, a 1/2″ tear at head of The Two Towers, and three 1/4″ closed tears and two small black marks on rear cover of The Return of the King. Just sturdy reading copies of the definitive epic fantasy trilogy of the 20th century. Another thing downsized from my mother’s move. $5.

    LP2041. Vance, Jack. Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries Volume 2. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Thick omnibus edition of three Vance mystery novels (The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders, The Dark Ocean), and a companion to Subterranean’s earlier Dangerous Ways volume. Sort of surprised I have two left, as the Vance stuff usually disappears pretty quick. $40.

    LP2540. Varley, John. Demon. Putnam, 1984. First edition hardback, an ex-library copy with all the usual flaw; call it a Very Good- Ex-Lib copy with pages yellowing (as usual), spine concave, wear along bottom boards, plus all the usual stamps, pocket, etc., in a Very Good+ dust jacket with sticker to spine, and spots of wear where Mylar dj protector has been worn through. Third book in the titan trilogy. Space-filler first of a book that reportedly had a smaller print run than the first two volumes. $5.

    LP2144. Varley, John. Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 copies signed numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. $15 off cover. $30.

    LP2541. Varma, Devendra P. The Gothic Flame: Being a History of the Gothic Novel in England: Its Origins Efflorescence, Disintegration and Residuary Influence. The Scarecrow Press, 1987. First edition thus, being the reprint of a work first published in 1957, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction work on the development of the Gothic novel. Includes bibliography at back. $20.

    LP2542. Windsor, Patricia. The Blooding. Scholastic Press, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Werewolf novel. I see precisely one copy listed online, and it’s not as nice as this one. $25.

    LP1988. Willis, Connie. All About Emily. Subterranean Press, 2011. First edition hardback, one of 400 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Sold out from the publisher. Only have one. $40.

    LP1447. Willis, Connie. D. A. Subterranean Press, 2007. First edition hardback, one of only 400 signed/numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread. Sold out from the publisher. Only have one. $34.

    LP2405. Zafon, Carlos Ruiz. The Prisoner of Heaven. Subterranean Press, 2014. First limited edition hardback, #339 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. This edition is sold out from the publisher, and I’m not seeing any copies of it listed online. $125.

    Trade Paperbacks

    LP2543. Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Harper Perennial, 2008. First trade paperback edition, preceded by the hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with 1/8″ white abrasion at heel. Inscribed by Chabon: “For Delois/Happy Mother’s Day/Michael Chabon.” Read once. Hugo and Nebula Winner for Best Novel. Another book from my mother’s household downsizing. $7.

    LP2124. Gunn, James. The Unpublished Gunn Part 2. Chris Drumm Books, 1996. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. $5.

    LP2544. McCammon, Robert. Blue World. Subterranean Press, 2015. Trade paperback reprint, a Fine, unread copy. Short story collection. $5.

    LP2545. Lansdale, Joe R. Hap and Leonard. Tachyon. 2016. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Signed by Lansdale. All the Hap and Leonard short fiction, including three novella’s (Veil’s Visit (with Andrew Vachss), Hyenas, and Dead Aim) previously published as stand-alone novellas. Only have one. $16.

    LP2507. Swanwick, Michael. 5 Seasons. Dragonstairs Press, 2016. First edition chapbook original, one of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Five one page stories about the seasons. All these Dragonstairs press chapbooks tend to disappear pretty quickly, so here’s a chance to pick it up while it’s still cover price. $6.

    LP2508. Swanwick, Michael. Seasons Greetings. Dragonstairs Press, 2015. First edition chapbook original, one of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. The 2015 Swanwick Christmas chapbook, now out of print from the publisher. $10.

    LP2547. Swanwick, Michael. Solstice Spirits. Dragonstairs Press, 2015. First edition chapbook original, one of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy new and unread. Four brief seasonal tales. Though dated 2015, I was only able to order this recently, and it’s already sold out from the press. $15.

    Mass Market Paperbacks

    LP2548. Effinger, George Alec. Planet of the Apes 2: Escape to Tomorrow. Award Books, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Very Good+ copy with creasing and a tackhead-sized abrasion to upper right corner and a stamped “2” at head, two small wrinkles along spine, and general wear. Based on the short-lived CBS TV show, one of four Effinger did. $5.

    LP2549. Farmer, Philip Jose. Tarzan: The Dark Heart of Time. Del Rey, 1999. First edition paperback original, a near Fine copy with slight spine creasing and a touch of edgewear. A surprisingly uncommon PBO, given the author and subject matter. $35.

    LP2550. Kuttner, Henry. Lancer, 1973. Paperback reprint, a Poor copy with the page blocks failing out, held together with two rubber bands, but otherwise intact. All Kuttner’s Gallagher stories, in which an inventor creates robots while blind stinking drunk, and then can’t remember what he made them for. Only reason I’m bothering to sell it is that these are GREAT, HILARIOUS stories and this hasn’t been reprinted nearly often enough. Reading copy only. Highly recommended. $3.

    LP2541. Leiber, Fritz. The Wanderer. Ballantine Books, 1964. First edition paperback original, a Very Good copy with creasing and wear along spine, a long crease along top front corner, and general wear. Hugo Winner for best novel.

    Since Sherri Tepper died recently, I thought I’d list which books of hers I have, all marked down a bit:

    LP1586. Tepper, Sherri S. The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace, 1985. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with just a trace of wear at top outer corner, otherwise new and unread. A really beautiful copy. $20.

    LP2291. Tepper, Sheri S. The Bones. Tor, 1987. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good+ copy with one spine crease, top front corner crease, and touches of edgewear. Believe it or not, there was once a time when science fiction and fantasy novelists looked at switching to horror as a good career move… $4.

    LP2292. Tepper, Sheri S. King’s Blood Four. Ace, 1983. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good+ copy with one spine crease, 1 1/2″ thin crease along bottom front spine join, edgewear, and small abrasion to top rear cover. First book in the True Game series. $4.

    LP1675. Tepper, Sheri S. Jinian Footseer. Tor, 1985. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good+ copy with crease along spine join, partial crease and wrinkle on spine, small crease to lower back corner, and touches of general wear. True Game novel. $4.

    LP1869. Tepper, Sheri S. Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore. Ace, 1985. Third printing, a VG copy with spine creasing, spine line, number stamp at head, and general wear. The Marianne titles are probably the least common of all Tepper’s books. $8.

    LP1618. Tepper, Sheri S. The Revenants. Ace, 1984. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Very Good+ copy with spine-creasing and edgewear, but otherwise square. Standalone fantasy novel involving a Sphinx’s riddles. $4.

    LP1586. Tepper, Sherri S. The Search of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace, 1985. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine- copy with just a trace of edgewear, otherwise new and unread. A really beautiful copy. Third book in the Mavin trilogy. $35.

    LP2293. Tepper, Sherri S. The Song of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace, 1985. Second printing, a Near Fine copy lines at head and heel, a small name on blurb page, and a few touches of edgewear. The first Mavin book. $4.

    LP2294. Tepper, Sheri S. Wizard’s Eleven. Ace, 1984. First edition paperback original (PBO), a Near Fine copy with small date stamp at heel, edgewear, and one tiny wrinkle near base of spine, otherwise tight and square. Third book in the True Game series. Man, Tepper must have been a writing machine in the mid-1980s… $4.

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    Library Addition: Signed First of Robert Bloch’s The King of Terrors

    Thursday, November 17th, 2016

    Another signed first edition I was able to pick up cheap:

    Bloch, Robert. The King of Terrors. Mysterious Press, 1977. First edition hardback, #129 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Near Fine slipcase with a few white marks to black slipcase at heel. Currey A, page 46. Flanagan, Robert Bloch: A Bio-Bibliography, page 49. Won off eBay for $21.50. I also have Bloch’s Out of the Mouths of Graves by the same publisher in the limited edition.

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