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FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prior to publication of THE JOHN COLLIER READER (1972), this was the author's major collection of short fiction, fifty stories including seventeen tales first collected here in book form. Winner of the 1951 International Fantasy Award. "One of the modern masters of the short story and certainly the preeminent writer of short fantasies." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 117. "Collier's brilliant wit and verbal cleverness make his best short fantasies incomparable." Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 3-83.
GREEN THOUGHTS & OTHER STORIES.
[Leyburn, North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2016]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories. Limited to 300 copies.
PRESENTING MOONSHINE.
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-327 [328: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. Collects twenty-four stories. "A very fine collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 398. [Reference: Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 232. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-83].
TOM'S A-COLD ...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-320, original green cloth, black paper label stamped in gold affixed at head of spine panel, "Macmillan" imprint stamped in gold at tail of spine panel. First edition. Issued later in the U.S. as FULL CIRCLE (1933). "... a mordant story of civilization in a society struggling to rebuild after a catastrophic war. Set in England, this book set the tone for countless post-atomic holocaust stories ... Well written and literate, it still retains great interest." - Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-13. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-23. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 175. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 63. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 35. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 197. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03192].
WITCH'S MONEY.
New York: The Viking Press Publishers, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-30 [31-32: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold. First edition. Limited to 350 copies signed by Collier. Privately distributed to friends of the author and the publisher. The story was first published in The New Yorker magazine in 1939, later collected in PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941). [Reference: Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 234].
WITCH'S MONEY.
New York: The Viking Press Publishers, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-30 [31-32: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold. First edition. Limited to 350 copies signed by Collier. Short story. Privately distributed to friends of the author and the publisher. Later collected in PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941). [Reference: Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 234].