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DETOUR TO OTHERNESS.
Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Silverberg (introduction) and Frederik Pohl (afterword). Collects the sixteen short stories from BYPASS TO OTHERNESS (Ballantine, 1961) and RETURN TO OTHERNESS (Ballantine, 1962). In addition eight more stories are included under the heading of "Detour to Otherness." Introduction by Robert Silverberg, afterword by Frederik Pohl. A bonus chapbook is included with this edition which collects three more stories, two by Kuttner and one by Kuttner and Moore.
NO BOUNDARIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Collects five stories, including "Vintage Season," in which time traveling thrill-seekers from the future accidentally annihilate modern man with a fatal plague virus, and "Two-Handed Engine," which depicts a dystopian future society dominated by machines. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 256-7].
NO BOUNDARIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 122. Collects five stories, including "Vintage Season," in which time traveling thrill-seekers from the future accidentally annihilate modern man with a fatal plague virus, and "Two-Handed Engine," which depicts a dystopian future society dominated by machines. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 256-7].
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. Collects ten stories including "Home is the Hunter."
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover illustration by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. Collection of ten stories. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 972].
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover illustration by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by C. L. Moore on the title page, to "Joe" - Joseph Wrzos (1929-2023) was a long time fan, professional editor, researcher and recipient of the First Fandom Hall of Fame (2016). Collection of ten stories one original to this collection, "Year Day" and one revised for this collection "De Profundis" (first published as "The Visitor"). Reviewers Boucher and McComas, described Kuttner as "one of s.f.'s most literate and intelligent storytellers" and found the collection to be "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get." - F & SF, October 1953. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 972].
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover illustration by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. Collection of ten stories one original to this collection, "Year Day" and one revised for this collection "De Profundis" (first published as "The Visitor"). Reviewers Boucher and McComas, described Kuttner as "one of s.f.'s most literate and intelligent storytellers" and found the collection to be "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get." - F & SF, October 1953. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 972].
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover illustration by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. Collection of ten stories one original to this collection, "Year Day" and one revised for this collection "De Profundis" (first published as "The Visitor"). Reviewers Boucher and McComas, described Kuttner as "one of s.f.'s most literate and intelligent storytellers" and found the collection to be "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get." - F & SF, October 1953. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 972].
AHEAD OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 30. Collection of ten stories one original to this collection, "Year Day" and one revised for this collection "De Profundis" (first published as "The Visitor"). Reviewers Boucher and McComas, described Kuttner as "one of s.f.'s most literate and intelligent storytellers" and found the collection to be "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get." - F & SF, October 1953. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 972].
MURDER OF A MISTRESS.
New York: Permabooks, 1957. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
MUTANT.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Linked post nuclear holocaust stories of mutant telepaths, the "Baldies." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618].
MUTANT.
New York: Ballantine Books, n.d., [1963]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Ballantine F 724. First published in hardcover using the Lewis Padgett pseudonym.
TERROR IN THE HOUSE: THE EARLY KUTTNER. VOLUME ONE...edited by Stephen Haffner.
Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects forty of the author's stories, starting with his first, from the period 1936-1939 which appeared in the pulp magazines Weird Tales, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spicy Mystery, Mystery Tales, Marvel Science Stories, Astounding, and Strange Stories. Introduction by Richard Matheson and long essay on Kuttner's early work by Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D.
THUNDER IN THE VOID...edited by Stephen Haffner.
Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2012. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories of interplanetary adventure from pulp magazines, many reprinted here for the first time. Also includes an unpublished story that Kuttner wrote when he was a teenager.
THE BRASS RING.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946]. Octavo, illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. The authors first book and first mystery novel. Hard boiled.
THE DAY HE DIED.
New York: Bantam Books, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 306. Mystery novel, one of two using the Padgett pseudonym.
THE DAY HE DIED.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1947]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. Mystery novel, one of two using the Padgett pseudonym. [Reference: Hubin, p. 623].
A GNOME THERE WAS AND OTHER TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. Presentation copy warmly inscribed and signed by Kuttner as "Hank ("Lewis Padgett")" to Virgil Finlay and his family. Kuttner and Moore's first collection of short fiction. Collects eleven short stories, including several classics: "The Twonky" and "Mimsy Were the Borogroves." All but two stories are reprinted from 1940s issues of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION and UNKNOWN where Kuttner was a major star of the time under his own name and as "Lewis Padgett," often in collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. "Today ... Kuttner's reputation rests primarily on the literate and sophisticated stories he and Moore wrote for John W. Campbell's ASTOUNDING STORIES during the 1940s ..." - Gunn (ed), The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 261. A major collection of 1940s fantastic fiction. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1273].
LINE TO TOMORROW.
New York: Bantam Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1251. Paperback original. Collects seven stories.
MUTANT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Linked post nuclear holocaust stories of mutant telepaths, the "Baldies." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618].
MUTANT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust story of mutant telepaths. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-107.
MUTANT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Linked post nuclear holocaust stories of mutant telepaths, the "Baldies." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618].
MUTANT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Linked post nuclear holocaust stories of mutant telepaths, the "Baldies." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618].
MUTANT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Linked post nuclear holocaust stories of mutant telepaths, the "Baldies." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-618].
ROBOTS HAVE NO TAILS.
New York: Gnome Press Inc., [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Moore on the title page. A collection of five linked stories featuring Gallegher, an alcoholic inventor, first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION in the 1940s. "Amusing adventures of Gallegher, who is capable of inventing fantastic devices only when he is drunk. He has a robot sidekick. All very silly, but they were regarded as among the best humorous SF of their day." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 309. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-245].