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NIGHT VISIONS 5.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with seven stories. The Martin novella "Skin Trade" won a World Fantasy Award (1989).
CARRION COMFORT ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1989. Large octavo, cloth (imitation leather). First edition. One of the copies designated one of 26 signed and lettered copies, this copy not lettered (this copy from a book editor who was an award judge). Signed by Simmons and artist Kathleen McNeil Sherman. The author's second novel, winner of 1990 Bram Stoker Award for best novel.. "... one of the more ambitious modern vampire novels and a successful rendering of the vampire theme from a fresh and original perspective." - Barron, Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-335.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, quarter leather with boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by Simmons, the "deluxe" edition. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition, first printing. "Simmons ... slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena -- in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's -- outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt -- after many, many centuries -- is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for super immunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture ... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons.
DROOD.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2009. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of 526 copies this is one of 500 numbered and signed by Simmons. Novel set in 19th century London featuring Charles Dickens.
ENTROPY'S BED AT MIDNIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies specially bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards signed by Simmons.
ENTROPY'S BED AT MIDNIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Simmons.
THE FIFTH HEART.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press:, 2015. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. In 1893 Henry James and Sherlock Holmes have a chance meeting in Paris. They come to America and get involved in several investigations.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Octavo, blue printed wrappers. Advance readers copy offset from the author's 381-page typescript.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by Simmons. "THE HOLLOW MAN (September 1982 Omni as 'Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams'; much expanded 1992), though pure SF in its rationale, is structured (somewhat stiffly) to reflect the metaphysical journey of Dante Alighieri's protagonist in LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (written circa 1304-1321), containing ample references as well to the poetry of T S Eliot (1888-1965). It deals with a tortured man whose ESP powers are explained in terms of quantum physics and chaos-theory mathematics; a longish horror story is implanted in its midst." - John Clute, SFE (online).
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, quarter leather with boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by Simmons which comprises the "deluxe" edition. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York: Bantam, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "THE HOLLOW MAN (September 1982 Omni as 'Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams'; much expanded 1992), though pure SF in its rationale, is structured (somewhat stiffly) to reflect the metaphysical journey of Dante Alighieri's protagonist in LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (written circa 1304-1321), containing ample references as well to the poetry of T S Eliot (1888-1965). It deals with a tortured man whose ESP powers are explained in terms of quantum physics and chaos-theory mathematics; a longish horror story is implanted in its midst." - John Clute, SFE (online).
HYPERION with FALL OF HYPERION.
New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland: Doubleday, A Foundation Book, [1989],[1990]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth backed boards. First editions. The first two volumes of the HYPERION Cantos. HYPERION is the 1990 Hugo Award winner for best novel. "...one of the most complex space operas ever written." and "...beautifully written and have few equals for sheer, large scale sense of wonder." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1033. Hugo and Nebula award nominee. Winner of the 1992 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel. Recently announced to be getting a film treatment by Bradley Cooper (11/2021).
ILIUM.
[New York]: Eos an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the Locus Award for best novel. Hugo award nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1034].
LOVEDEATH.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects five novellas including "Entropy's Bed at Midnight."
LOVEDEATH: FIVE TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH.
[London]: Headline, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects five novellas including "Entropy's Bed at Midnight."
PHASES OF GRAVITY.
[London]: Headline, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Excellent novel about an ex-astronaut.
PHASES OF GRAVITY.
[London]: Headline, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Excellent novel about an ex-astronaut.
PHASES OF GRAVITY.
[London]: Headline, [1990]. Octavo, leather. First British (and first hardcover) edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Simmons.
PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES.
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of of 550 numbered copies signed by Simmons and the artists Ron & Val Lindahn, this is one of an undetermined number of copies marked PC. Collects thirteen stories by Simmons with introduction by Harlan Ellison (Ellison encouraged Simmons' writing and for him to submit professionally). It includes "Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams," the seed story for THE HOLLOW MAN, "The Death of the Centaur," the earliest story set in what would become his Hyperion Cantos universe, "Remembering Siri" a basis story for HYPERION (and also used as a section in the novel), and "Carrion Comfort," later expanded into the novel of the same name. Winner of the Horror Writer's of America Bram Stoker Award for best collection.