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GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
SF: '57: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-220].
SF: '58: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1958]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eleven short stories which includes "The Fly" by George Langelaan, this is its first book publication and the basis for two horror films. Other authors include Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Avram Davidson, Zenna Henderson, and others; plus nonfiction essays on science fact. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1394].
SF: '58: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1958]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eleven short stories which includes "The Fly" by George Langelaan, this is its first book publication and the basis for two horror films. Other authors include Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Avram Davidson, Zenna Henderson, and others; plus nonfiction essays on science fact. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1394].
SF: '58: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1958]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition, probable first binding. Collects eleven short stories which includes "The Fly" by George Langelaan, this is its first book publication and the basis for two horror films. Other authors include Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Avram Davidson, Zenna Henderson, and others; plus nonfiction essays on science fact. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1394].
SF: '59: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1959]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition, probable first binding. Collects fifteen stories, including a first publication in hardcover of the John Steinbeck story "The Short Story of Mankind" (first published in Playboy), others authors included are Brian Aldiss, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon Avram Davidson, Gerald Kersh, and others. Also included are four non-fiction features. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder 3-220].
S-F: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., Publishers, [1956]. Octavo, red cloth with spine panel lettered in black. First edition, probable first binding. Collects eighteen stories by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, Zenna Henderson, Shirley Jackson, Jack Finney, Isaac Asimov and others. First volume in this important series of anthologies, Merril made a mark by choosing fiction from not only traditional sources but also from non-genre sources. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1394].
HUMAN?
New York: A Lion Book, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books 205. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories by John D. MacDonald, Chad Oliver, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Walter M. Miller, Jr., and others. Introduction by Frederic Brown.
THE 8TH ANNUAL OF THE YEAR'S BEST SF.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by two of the contributors: Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison. Collects 28 stories, authors include: Gerald Kersh, Jack Finney, John Brunner, J.G. Ballard, Zenna Henderson and others.
DAUGHTERS OF EARTH.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970]. pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 1705. Collects "Project Nursemaid," "Daughters of Earth" and Homecoming," three long stories from the 1950s. "All concern space travel, and all are (in different ways) about mothers and daughters. Proto-feminist SF from the genre's pre-feminist era." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 89.
SHADOW ON THE HEARTH.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, black boards, spine stamped in silver. First edition. Post nuclear war story of a mother coping in the family setting. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995): 3-124].