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THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Campbell on an inserted limitation leaf. Space opera. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Campbell on an inserted limitation leaf. Space opera. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the "Don A. Stuart pseudonym". "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13. "The Machine" is an early AI story. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of an undetermined number of signed subscriber copies with Campbell's signature on the front free end paper. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the Don A. Stuart pseudonym. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the Don A. Stuart pseudonym. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13.
THE INCREDIBLE PLANET.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, purple cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition. One of 500 copies with inserted limitation leaf, this being one of 250 numbered copies actually signed by Campbell (he only signed 250 of the 500 with the limitation sheet). A continuation of adventures chronicled in The Mightiest Machine (1947). See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7. In 333.
THE INCREDIBLE PLANET.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, purple cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition. One of 500 copies with inserted limitation leaf, this being one of 250 numbered copies not signed by Campbell (he only signed 250 of the 500 with the limitation sheet). A continuation of adventures chronicled in The Mightiest Machine (1947). See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7. In 333.
INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 112 copies signed by Campbell. This issue, prepared for Fantasy Press subscribers, has the standard Fantasy Press limitation notice "... limited to 3000 copies of which 300 are numbered and autographed," which here is erroneous. These copies were not numbered by the publisher. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-12.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 50 copies signed by Campbell on an inserted plate. The limitation leaf calls for 500 autographed copies, but only fifty were actually signed. An Arcot, Wade and Morley space adventure. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2- 12.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in gold. Space opera, an Arcot, Wade and Morley adventure. The novel first appeared in AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, Spring 1931. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years 189. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in gold. Space opera, an Arcot, Wade and Morley adventure. The novel first appeared in AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, Spring 1931. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years 189. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE.
Providence, R.I. Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, original red pebbled cloth (no priority), spine stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first SF book. Early science fiction novel of with a galactic sweep, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1934. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7.
THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE.
Providence, R.I. Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, original blue pebbled cloth (no priority), spine stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first SF book. Early science fiction novel of with a galactic sweep, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1934. "Intrepid space-farers are plunged into an alternative universe, where they discover ancient Earth-peoples and become embroiled in interplanetary war. Extravagant entertainment in the same rather juvenile vein as E. E. 'Doc' Smith's space epics of the period -- though it displays a better grasp of science and engineering. Campbell's first novel in book form, and perhaps the best of his early space operas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 237. This space epic remains "not only historically instructive and important, but fascinating to read as well." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1396-1400. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7.
WHO GOES THERE?: SEVEN TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, original tan cloth with green lettering to the spine, top edge stained green. Second edition. Signed by Campbell on the front free end paper. The second edition (so stated on the copyright page) with the 1951 movie tie-in dust jacket. Classic collection of stories first published under Campbell's pseudonym, Don A. Stuart, in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION between 1934 and 1938. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13. The title story has been filmed twice, the first in 1951 as "The Thing From Another World", one of the classic Science Fiction films of the 1950s (with James Arness in the title role), and by John Carpenter in 1982 as "The Thing." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-211. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 2003-07.
MEN, WOMEN AND RATTLESNAKES.
New York: William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-248, original greenish-gray cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. While not a horror novel per se, Collier’s first novel is a bizarre, grotesque account of small-town life, calling it strange book is an understatement. Written in carefully crafted, matter-of-fact prose, Collier’s novel is account of everyday life in the isolated rural community of Menham. The primary occupations of the farmers and their wives are drinking and having illicit sex. The chapter titles themselves highlight the book’s lurid content, such as “A Man’s Best Friend is His Whiskey Glass,” “A Secret Sexual Pleasure,” “Arthur Moore Improves on Beating One’s Wife,” and “Alice’s Secret for Fondling.” The book is oddly humorous at times, and to be sure, some of the narrative situations are about as sophisticated as a typical shaggy dog story. Other aspects of the book however, are genuinely jarring in the context of Collier’s relaxed prose style and overall light-touch. Helen Hummer, a middle-aged virgin spinster who hates men, adopts a male infant from an orphanage, names him Henrietta, and raises him as a girl, beating him so severely that the child grows into an idiot youth whose only friend is a tree. Arthur Moore, a farmer who sees women as nothing more than “living latrines,” raises a brood of rattlesnakes in secret and dispatches them to kill neighbors whom he finds offensive. Collier’s characters are definitely comedic rustics, but much of the book’s dry humor is rooted in cruelty and rampant misogyny. As one might imagine, when Helen Hummer finally runs afoul of Arthur Moore, the resulting climax scene is straight out of a Jim Thompson novel. This is a novel that does not fit exactly into the horror genre or a straight noir (or it seems any other), it reads like a gonzo cross between television's Twin Peaks and Anderson's WINESBERG, OHIO.
THE DIARY OF A RAPIST.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
GANGLAND'S DOOM: THE SHADOW OF THE PULPS.
N.p. Robert Weinberg Publisher, 1974. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, original paperbound booklet. Signed inscription on the front cover by Walter Gibson, author the Shadow novels (also signed as Maxwell Grant).
YOUNG VISITOR TO MARS.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (1950's). Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. A "Young Hero's Library" volume.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover and illustrations by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover and illustrations by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover and illustrations by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
TWO TYPEWRITTEN LETTERS SIGNED (TLsS), two pages, dated 23 March 1961 and one page, dated 26 November 1961, both written on his Colorado Springs, Colorado stationery, from Heinlein to "Dear Harold" [Wooster], both signed "Bob," 1 TYPEWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED (TLS), one page, dated 12 July 1963, on ANALOG letterhead, from Campbell to "Dear Mr. Wooster," signed John W. Campbell, plus carbons of Wooster's letters to Heinlein and Graham DuShane, editor of SCIENCE.
The correspondence relates to an article Dr. Wooster wrote on the coining of the word "xenobiology" (the study of the biology of alien life-forms) generally credited to Heinlein for use in "Star Lummox" (F&SF, May-July 1954; STAR BEAST, Scribner's 1954), which incorporates his correspondence with Heinlein, published in SCIENCE 134: 3473 (July 1961) 223-225. Harold Abbott Wooster (1919-2005) was the chief of the information sciences division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the 1960s, a computer pioneer "whose decades-long career in information science influenced the development of computer technology and medical television ... He left the Air Force's scientific research office, which considered him a pioneer in the information science field, in 1970. From 1970 to 1984, Dr. Wooster worked at the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications. He supervised experiments using television to connect patients in remote areas to doctors" (Washington Post obit 3 June 2005). Dr. Wooster published a single SF story, "Y + Sin X," ASTOUNDING (September 1943). See Patterson, William H., Robert A. Heinlein, Volume 2, p. 211.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "New Bodies For Old" by Jack Vance, a Chateau d'If story, "Battling Bolto" by L. Ron Hubbard, "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke, and "As You Were" by Henry Kuttner. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
STARTLING STORIES.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Hard Luck Diggings" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, Edmond Hamilton, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.