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SHATTERDAY.
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Hutchinson, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-377.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED: ESSAYS BY HARLAN ELLISON.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on SF and SF writers.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay. Includes "Chatting With Anubis," Bram Stoker Award for best short story, 1995 and "Mephisto in Onyx," Bram Stoker Award winner for best novella, 1993. The trade edition from Houghton Mifflin drops several pieces from this edition.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED, PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Collects twenty-one pieces of the author's work. Includes "Chatting With Anubis," Bram Stoker Award for best short story, 1995 and "Mephisto in Onyx," Bram Stoker Award winner for best novella, 1993. The book is the winner of the Locus Poll Award for best story collection, 1998. Preceded by a limited signed edition (1997).
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 270 copies, the "collector's edition." A different binding than the trade edition with picture of the author inset into front cover. First published as a paperback original "Rockabilly" in 1961.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 100 copies compromising the limited edition, signed by Ellision. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. First published as a paperback original "Rockabilly" in 1961.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Ellison; of a 126 copy limited edition. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. First published in 1961 as a paperback original titled ROCKABILLY. Text offset from that of a later printing of the 1975 Pyramid Books edition. New introduction by Ellison.
STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories and four essays, many revised and expanded.
STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.
Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories and four essays.
STAR TREK: CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER. [FOTONOVEL #1].
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books:, [1977]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Stills from the original television episode with dialog word balloons. A brief interview with Ellison on the screenplay is included.
A TOUCH OF INFINITY bound with THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double #D-413. Paperback original. A TOUCH OF INFINITY collects five stories, the author's first collection of SF stories. THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES is the author's first published SF novel in book form.
A TOUCH OF INFINITY bound with THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double #D-413. Paperback original. A TOUCH OF INFINITY collects five stories, the author's first collection of SF stories. THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES is the author's first published SF novel in book form.
TROUBLEMAKERS.
New York: An Edgeworks Abbey offering in association with ibooks, [2001]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Sixteen stories selected by the author with notes preceding each. Includes expanded and revised "Never Send To Know For Whom The Lettuce Wilts."
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). 1 page, dated 1 April [19]73, to "Dear Leo & Cylvia" [Leo and Cylvia K. Margulies, editors of Weird Tales Magazine], signed "Harlan." On Ellison's 3484 Coy Drive, Sherman Oaks letterhead.
Cover letter accompanying a short story by Susan Lette which Ellison was recommending for publication in WEIRD TALES. Lette was an amateur writer, but "one of those natural writers whom one spots instantly among the hordes of creative typists and formula hacks who infest out little world." Her first story, Merari," was to be published that summer in COSMOPOLITAN; her second was to be published in Ellison's anthology, LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS. The present story, "Timmy," represented her third. Ellison says reading it raised the nape hairs on the back of his neck and reminded him of Bradbury's "Small Assassin." He notes that she was living in somewhat straitened circumstances and had an autistic child. Leo Margulies was an editor and publisher who had been working in the field since 1932, when he joined the Frank Munsey chain of pulps. Ellison was "... the most controversial and among the finest of those writers associated with sf whose careers began in the 1950s. He was born and raised in Ohio, attending Ohio State University for 18 months before being asked to leave, one of the reasons for his dismissal being rudeness to a creative-writing professor who told him he had no talent." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 376.
"Life Hutch" in IF.
[Buffalo, NY: Quinn Publishing Co., Inc., 1956]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Includes the story "Life Hutch" by Harlan Ellison, his second professional sale Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 329-343.