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KEEPING TIME.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Private eye sf novel set in the near future with a dystopian setting. "Shamus Jack Hughes, ex-lawyer and gloomy widower, is hired to find out who stole five time-storage cassettes from a new experimental ""time deposit bank"" (posh clients can put away bits of their own time and draw on it later)." - Kirkus review 1 November, 1979.
HEART OF THE COMET.
New York: Bantam Books, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-47].
THE 25TH HOUR.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Contemporary crime novel, filmed in 2002 by Spike Lee.
LET THE DOG DRIVE.
New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signedby Bowman. The author's first novel.
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THE PARROT WHO MET PAPA [and] THE PARROT WHO MET PAPA (CONCLUDED). (bound dos-a-dos).
Rochester, MI: Published by The Pretentious Press, 1991. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Limited to 126 copies for private distribution by the author and publisher, signed by Ray Bradbury and David Aronovitz. This is one of the 100 copies in wrappers. Short story.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1955.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Evan Hunter, Ellery Queen, Ray Bradbury, John D. MacDonald, Richard Marsten and others.
BRIGHTNESS REEF.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1995]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Book One of a new "Uplift Trilogy." 1996 Hugo nominee.
BRIGHTNESS REEF.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Book Two of a new "Uplift Trilogy."
EARTH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster." - from the David Brin website. Hugo award nominee for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-158].
EARTH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster." - from the David Brin website. Hugo award nominee for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-158].
GLORY SEASON.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. "The planet Stratos was founded centuries ago by feminist separatists who set up a matriarchal civilization based on families of female clones. A limited number of noncloned females, called vars, provide genetic variety, and a small number of men are used both to impregnate clonal women with vars to "spark" clonal reproduction itself."- Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159. 1994 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159].
GLORY SEASON.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "The planet Stratos was founded centuries ago by feminist separatists who set up a matriarchal civilization based on families of female clones. A limited number of noncloned females, called vars, provide genetic variety, and a small number of men are used both to impregnate clonal women with vars to "spark" clonal reproduction itself."- Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159. 1994 Hugo nominee.
GLORY SEASON.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, frontispiece by Jill Bauman, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Brin. "The planet Stratos was founded centuries ago by feminist separatists who set up a matriarchal civilization based on families of female clones. A limited number of noncloned females, called vars, provide genetic variety, and a small number of men are used both to impregnate clonal women with vars to "spark" clonal reproduction itself."- Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159. 1994 Hugo nominee. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159].
INFINITY'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brin on the title page. Book two of a new "Uplift Trilogy."
INFINITY'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brin on the title page. Book three of a new "Uplift Trilogy."
THE POSTMAN.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1985]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy. A post-holocaust story set in America's Pacific Northwest after a destructive nuclear war about a man who transforms himself into a postman, a teller of tales and a carrier of news between scattered communities. "A piously scientistic moral tale which proved popular but was excoriated by some critics." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 285. "I refuse to accept delivery of any of THE POSTMAN'S messages." - Lee Montgomerie, Interzone. Winner of the 1986 John W. Campbell Award for best novel. 1986 Hugo nominee. The novel was the basis for a 1997 film starring Kevin Costner. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-161. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 146].
THE RIVER OF TIME.
Niles, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade edition. The author's first short story collection, eleven stories including "The Crystal Spheres," which was the winner of the 1985 Hugo Award for best short story.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Inscribed and signed on the title page in the year of publication. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin, this is copy #86. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
THE UPLIFT WAR.
[New York: Bantam Books, 1987.]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first paperback edition. Sequel to STARTIDE RISING (1983). Winner of the 1988 Hugo award for best novel. This proof precedes the Phantasia Press editions. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-163].
THE READER'S GUIDE TO BARSOOM AND AMTOR.
[New York: Richard Lupoff, 1963]. 8 1/2 x 11", pp. [1-2] 3-84, illustration by Roy G. Krenkel, Al Williamson and fold out chart of Barsoom, Printed cover sheet over printed green wrappers, stapled. Second edition. Articles by Donald A. Wollheim, Richard A. Lupoff, David G. Van Arnam, and Larry Ivie.
WHISPERS.
Binhampton, NY: Stuart David Schiff, 1982. Octavo, single issue, cloth. Of 276 hardbound copies this is one of 250 numbered copies signed by Ramsey Campbell and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Ramsey Campbell issue. Contributors include Campbell, Ray Russell, Michael Shea, William F. Nolan, Gerald W. Page, Karl Edward Wagner and others.
BROTHERLY LOVE AND OTHER TALES OF TRUST AND KNOWLEDGE.
Nottingham: Pumpkin Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Case.
THE CELL: THREE TALES OF HORROR.
New York: Hill and Wang, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book, a collection of "three chilling, evocative, thought-provoking novellas told with great precision, economy and intensity." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-75. "The Cell" is a werewolf tale. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 51. Reginald 02752].
THE CELL: THREE TALES OF HORROR.
London: Macdonald, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book, a collection of "three chilling, evocative, thought-provoking novellas told with great precision, economy and intensity." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-75. "The Cell" is a werewolf tale. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 51. Reginald 02752].