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NEBULA AWARD STORIES FOUR.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories by Richard Wilson, Terry Carr, Kate Wilhelm, H.H. Hollis, James Gunn and Anne McCaffrey. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364].
WEST BY ONE AND BY ONE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF IRREGULAR WRITINGS BY THE SCOWRERS AND MOLLY MAGUIRES OF SAN FRANCISCO AND THE TRAINED CORMORANTS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An uncommon title. Contributors include: Anthony Boucher, Edgar W. Smith, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber and many others.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first binding of light blue boards with spine panel lettered in dark blue. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Signed on the title page by both Dickson and Anderson. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9].
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9].
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of light blue boards with spine panel lettered in dark blue. Signed front free end paper by both Dickson and Anderson. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9].
BRAIN WAVE.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "BRAIN WAVE, perhaps his most famous single novel, remains very nearly his finest. Its premise is simple: for millions of years the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field whose effect has been to inhibit "certain electromagnetic and electrochemical processes", and thus certain neuronic functions; it is a concept Vernor Vinge would exploit and expand in his A FIRE UPON THE DEEP (1992). When Earth escapes the inhibiting field, synapse-speed immediately increases, causing a rise in intelligence; after the book has traced various absorbing consequences of this transformation, a transfigured humanity reaches for the stars, leaving behind (it is a conclusion evocative of Clifford D Simak at his best) former mental defectives and bright animals to inherit the planet." - John Clute, SFE (online). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-22].
BRAIN WAVE.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Anderson on the title page. "BRAIN WAVE, perhaps his most famous single novel, remains very nearly his finest. Its premise is simple: for millions of years the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field whose effect has been to inhibit "certain electromagnetic and electrochemical processes", and thus certain neuronic functions; it is a concept Vernor Vinge would exploit and expand in his A FIRE UPON THE DEEP (1992). When Earth escapes the inhibiting field, synapse-speed immediately increases, causing a rise in intelligence; after the book has traced various absorbing consequences of this transformation, a transfigured humanity reaches for the stars, leaving behind (it is a conclusion evocative of Clifford D Simak at his best) former mental defectives and bright animals to inherit the planet." - John Clute, SFE (online). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-22].
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...this is Anderson at his tragic-heroic best, blending meticulous astrophysics with brooding romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-6. Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959.
ENSIGN FLANDRY.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
FLANDRY OF TERRA.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, "The Game of Glory" and "A Message in Secret," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as MAYDAY ORBIT, and "The Plague of Masters," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as EARTHMAN, GO HOME!
THE NIGHT FACE AND OTHER STORIES.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects four stories. The title story "The Night Face" was first published LET THE SPACEMEN BEWARE! (1963).
ORION SHALL RISE.
Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1983. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Anderson. "A long, complex novel set in the world of Anderson's Maurai stories, centuries after the devastating war known variously as 'The Doom War,' 'The Downfall,' and the 'Death Time.' Among other matters this work details a plot by the Northwest Union (the northwestern portion of the former United States) to develop spacecraft powered by nuclear explosives to challenge the domination of their benevolent rulers who have restricted the development of technology ... A superior political thriller ..." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 117. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-16. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 416.
PERISH BY THE SWORD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first Trygve Yamamura novel.
THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Collects six stories including the title fiction, winner of the 1971 Nebula and 1972 Hugo awards.
THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed photograph of Poul Anderson laid in. Sword and sorcery adventure novel set in a magical parallel world of faery where a battle for world domination is being waged by the forces of law and the forces of chaos. [Reference: Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 3-3 and 4A-6. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #18. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #73. Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #25].
ASTOUNDING STORIES: THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, 3 volumes, full leather, a.e.g. First editions. A three volume retrospective collection of fiction by Heinlein, Leinster, Lovecraft, Hamilton, Schachner, Stuart (J. W. Campbell), de Camp, van Vogt, Asimov, Sturgeon, Clement, Williamson, Padgett, Schmitz, Blish, Russell, Brown, Anderson and Simak. The stories cover the period of 1931-1958, with reproductions of the issue covers.