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ISAAC ASIMOV: A CHECKLIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES, MARCH 1939-MAY 1972.
[Kent]: The Kent State University Press, [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists fiction and nonfiction by Asimov published in books and magazines, plus selected secondary material on Asimov and his writings. Brief introductory note by Asimov. [Reference: Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 273].
COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, seventeen parts plus preliminaries, the parts and the two preliminary leaves professionally bound in black cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933–January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. [Reference: Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19].
GENUS HOMO.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, green cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition, trade issue, first binding. "A mixed group of men and women are plunged a million years into the future and find themselves on an Earth where humanity is extinct. Luckily, the find some intelligent gorillas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154.
GENUS HOMO.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, light blue boards, spine stamped in dark blue. First edition. Remainder binding. Inscribed and signed by jacket artist Edd Cartier. "A mixed group of men and women are plunged a million years into the future and find themselves on an Earth where humanity is extinct. Luckily, the find some intelligent gorillas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-133. In 333].
GENUS HOMO.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue, first binding. "A mixed group of men and women are plunged a million years into the future and find themselves on an Earth where humanity is extinct. Luckily, the find some intelligent gorillas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-133. In 333].
FEAR ITSELF: THE HORROR FICTION OF STEPHEN KING ...
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-255 [256: colophon]. cloth. First edition, trade issue. Foreword by King, introduction by Peter Straub, afterword by George Romero, nine essays by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fritz Leiber, Charles L. Grant and others, plus a bibliographical checklist. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-86. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-43].
FEAR ITSELF.
SF/Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 8-43].
STEPHEN KING GOES TO HOLLYWOOD.
New York and Scarborough, Ont. A Plume Book / New American Library, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Tim Underwood.
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel about a deranged kidnapper. Source for the film noir "A Cry in the Night" (1956, Warner Brothers) with Edmund O'Brien and Raymond Burr. [Reference: Hubin, p. 561. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, p. 139. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 106].
BADGE OF EVIL.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Filmed as the memorable film noir; Touch of Evil by Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh.
300.
[Milwaukee, OR]: Dark Horse Comics, [1999]. Pictorial boards. First hardcover edition. This is the first hardcover edition of the work which first appeared as individual comics. Story and art by Frank Miller, color by Lynn Varley. Basis for the 2007 film about ancient Greece and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. [Reference: ].
ALICIA IN BLUNDERLAND.
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. The science fictional Alice, published originally in the fanzine Science Fiction Digest (later Fantasy Magazine) under the pseudonym "Nilhil", as a serial starting in 1933. Satire full of characters and allusions to science fiction of the period.
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A CANTICLE FOR P. SCHUYLER MILLER [caption title].
Newark, N.J. Sam Moskowitz, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-11 [12: blank], mimeographed from typewritten copy, pictorial front wrapper (no back wrapper as issued), stapled. First edition. Limited printing of "not over 300 copies." This copy is signed by Moskowitz. Tribute and brief biography.
THE TITAN.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, jacket art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies inscribed and signed by Miller. This is copy 48. Collects the title novella and seven short stories, including "Old Man Mulligan." "The title novella, featuring vampiric Martians and a human visitor imprisoned in their zoo was considered too graphic for the SF pulps of the early thirties..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-765.
ICEMAN.
[New York]: An Onyx Book, [1990]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. "Miller is horror, raw and simple: no punches are pulled in his work. While reading the word 'raw' springs to mind almost constantly." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 407-409.
SLICE.
[New York]: An Onyx Book, [1990]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Onyx JE 194. Paperback original. Features his serial killer character Daniel Bunkowski, aka Chaingang. "Miller is horror, raw and simple: no punches are pulled in his work. While reading the word 'raw' springs to mind almost constantly." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 407-409.
SLOB.
New York: A Signet Book, New American Library, [1987]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet AE5005. Paperback original. The author's first novel which introduces his character Daniel Bunkowski, aka Chaingang. "Miller is horror, raw and simple: no punches are pulled in his work. While reading the word 'raw' springs to mind almost constantly." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 407-409. Nominated for the Bram Stoker award for best first novel.
SLOB.
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, [2009]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Ray Garton (introduction) and Harry O. Morris (artist). Introduction by Ray Garton. Includes the first publication of an essay by the author "Dreams of Sex and Death." The author's first novel which introduces his character Daniel Bunkowski, aka Chaingang. "Miller is horror, raw and simple: no punches are pulled in his work. While reading the word 'raw' springs to mind almost constantly." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 407-409. Nominated for the Bram Stoker award for best first novel.
SNAIL.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Review slip laid in.
THE VIEW FROM THE STARS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1965. Octavo, boards. First edition. Story collection. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-126].
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ ...
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-287. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-125 and (2004) II-766. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 288-93].
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ ...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1960 Lippincott edition. New introduction by Norman Spinrad. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-287. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-125 and (2004) II-766. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 288-93].
CONDITIONALLY HUMAN.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects three short novels including the Hugo winner "The Darfsteller." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-126].
THE ULTIMATE FRANKENSTEIN.
[London]: Headline, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Original anthology collecting nineteen stories by Katherine Dunn, Brian Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Kurt Vonnegut and others.
JACK VANCE.
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects eight essays on Vance's fantasy and science fiction by Norman Spinrad, Don Herron, Robert Silverberg, Richard Tiedman, and others. "Of particular interest are Robert Silverberg on the two 'Dying Earth' books then available and Richard Tiedman on Vance as a stylist." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 8-103. Includes a short biographical note and a fine checklist of writings by and about Vance compiled by Marshall B. Tymn.