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STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second volume in this original anthology series. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3- 222].
STAR SHORT NOVELS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 89. Original anthology that collects three short novels by Jessamyn West, Lester del Rey and Theodore Sturgeon.
BEYOND THE END OF TIME.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P145. Paperback original. Collects nineteen stories by John D. MacDonald, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, Arthur C. Clarke, and others.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES FOURTEEN.
New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, S o Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects seven stories by John Varley, Edward Bryant, Charles L. Grant, Vonda N. McIntyre, L. Sprague DeCamp, C.J. Cherryh and Gene Wolfe. Also two articles by Isaac Asimov and Norman Spinrad. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364].
THE SCIENCE FICTION ROLL OF HONOR.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects sixteen stories and essays by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, and others.
SHADOW OF TOMORROW: 17 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P236. Collects seventeen stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, John Wyndham, C. M. Kornbluth, and others.
STAR OF STARS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ballantine Books U2171. Collects fourteen stories selected from the Ballantine Star Science Fiction Stories series by C. M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, and others. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-222].
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 55. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life," a story Bleiler (1983) terms "a modern classic." Also, "The Purple Fields," Robert Crane's first published story, a tale of a post-World War III future in which the United States is an authoritarian dystopia controlled by the "Program." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1319].
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 5.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1959]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 308K. Fifth of the six volumes in this pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects nine stories by Richard Matheson, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Daniel F. Galouye, and others. There was no hardcover issue of this volume in the series. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398].
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 16. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fifteen stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, and others. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1318].
SEARCH THE SKY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Pohl to Forrest J. Ackerman on front free end paper: "For 4e / With gratitude for / a fine time / Frederik Pohl."
THE SPACE MERCHANTS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. "The ad-men run this overpopulated America of the future, a crassly materialist society which is challenged only by a weak underground movement of conservationists. Brilliantly detailed satire and exciting narrative: a joy, despite its grim theme." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 337. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-864. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #12. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2127-31].
THE REEFS OF SPACE.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first volume in the Starchild Trilogy.
THE STARCHILD TRILOGY: THE REEFS OF SPACE, STARCHILD, ROGUE STAR.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., nd. [1977]. Octavo, boards. Later printing of the first combined (and first U.S. hardcover) edition. Code I20 on page 435. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Collects THE REEFS OF SPACE (1964), STARCHILD (1965), and ROGUE STAR (1969). "Authoritarian dystopia" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 288; 296.
STARCHILD.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second volume in the Starchild Trilogy. "Authoritarian dystopia" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 296.
UNDERSEA CITY.
Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Wallace Wood, black boards with spine lettered in red. First edition, first binding. Third volume in the Undersea trilogy. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1264].
BLACK STAR RISING.
New York: Del Rey, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE CASE AGAINST TOMORROW.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 206. Paperback original. Collects six stories. Includes "My Lady Green Sleeves," a dystopia in which place in society is based on occupation, and "The Midas Plague," a consumer dystopia.
THE COOL WAR.
New York: A Del Rey Book, Ballantine Books, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel of a future with energy shortages.
THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1988]. Octavo, illustrations by A. C. Farley, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Pohl. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series.
DRUNKARD'S WALK.
Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1961]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "An apparently suicidal mathematics teacher discovers that he is being driven to self-destruction by evil telepaths ... A slim but quite effective tale of paranoia." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 110. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-859. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions].
THE EARLY POHL.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Pohl. Collects eight stories first published between 1940 and 1944 and Pohl's first sale, a poem published in AMAZING STORIES in 1937, along with his autobiographical commentary on his early writing career and his friends, enemies and associates.
EDGE OF THE CITY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 199. Crime novel. Novelization of the film screenplay by Robert Alan Authur (adapted from his television drama "A Man is Ten Feet Tall"). The film was released in 1957 starring Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes. [Reference: Hubin, p. 649].
GATEWAY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, Illustration by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Collector's edition signed by Pohl on a special leaf. New introduction by Algis Budrys. First book of the Heechee series. Winner of the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards for best novel. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-860. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 858-64].
GATEWAY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First book of the Heechee series. Winner of the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-860. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 858-64].