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TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale. A presentation copy with signed inscriptions to ERB collector William Ross by Lansdale and author of the preface George T. McWhorter, and signed by four of the artists whose illustrations appear in the book and several others associated with its publication.
THE WEIRD PICTURE.
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1905. Octavo, p. [1-10] 1-283 [284: blank] [285-288, adds; 289-90: blank], frontispiece and three other illustrations, original light blue cloth, front stamped in black brown and yellow, spine stamped in gilt. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel centered around a picture depicting the death of Caesar and Pompey. This is also listed in the first Bleiler checklist, however I believe any supernatural element is rationally explained.
THE ELEMENTAL.
[London]: Fontana, [1974]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's third story collection. Collects seven stories, the title story was used as part of the film From Beyond the Grave (1974). Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 135-137.
THE MONSTER CLUB.
[London]: New English Library, [1976]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Linked collection of five stories in which the monsters have their own private club in London. Filmed in 1981 with Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance and John Carradine (playing R. Chetwynd-Hayes). Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 135-137.
HIGH WALL.
New York: Harrision Smith & Robert Haas, 1936. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A scarce title which is the basis for a 1947 film noir of the same name featuring Robert Taylor. "Stylish, representative late forties noir thriller" - Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 167. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 126-127. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p.186.
THE FACE OF FEAR.
Indianapolis/NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed notecard by Koontz laid in; "Strange book. Strange writer. Strange reader?"
THE FACE OF FEAR.
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
COMPLETE DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York, NY: Novel Magazine Corporation, 1928. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
BABEL-17.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. "Clever, colorful, and highly original..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-126.
BABEL-17.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First edition. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. "Clever, colorful, and highly original..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-126.
DHALGREN.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Delany on the title page. This edition contains all textual corrections from the author, including several dropped lines of dialogue (these corrections were not fully made through the first nine printings of the paperback editions). Lengthy introduction by Jean Mark Gawron. "Convoluted and fascinating, it remains on of the key works of avant-garde SF, by an author determined to extend the limits of the genre." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-127. Nominated for the Nebula award for best novel in 1975. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 533-38.
DISTANT STARS ...
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-166.
DRIFTGLASS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. trade hardcover edition. First published in 1971, this is a corrected reprint with new introduction by Robert Thurston. "Ten glittery SF stories, comprising Delany's entire short fiction output up to 1970. Contains two Nebula award-winners: "Aye, and Gomorrah" (1967) and "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (1968). Effective marriages of style and ideative substance, these pieces represent American 1960s New Wave SF at its best." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (Second edition), p. 109. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-166. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 625-28.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by George Zebrowski. "A computer named PHAEDRA orchestrates the bizarre happenings in this fantasy patterned after the myth of Orpheus." - Mowshowitz, p. 304. Winner of the 1967 Nebula award for best novel (tied with FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON). 1968 Hugo nominee. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-316. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 703-7.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A fabulous tour de force of the imagination." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-129. Nebula award winner 1967 (tied with Flowers for Algernon), nominated for the Hugo award, 1968.
NEVERYONA: OR, THE TALE OF SIGNS AND CITIES.
Toronto, New York, Sydney: Bantam Books:, [1983]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-84.
STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. First book of a diptych of novels titled "Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-318. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 421.
TRITON.
Toronto, New York, London: Bantam Books, [1976]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books Y2567. Paperback original. "...Triton is more traditionally structured, but is in some ways more sophisticated. It presents a series of future societies differentiated mainly along sexual lines; the male protagonist, who begins by displaying a rather insensitive, traditional machismo, ultimately chooses to become a woman (see Transgender SF), but remains alienated. Triton (a moon of Neptune) is an "ambiguous heterotopia" with a bewildering variety of available lifestyles. The book poses interesting questions about sexuality, and also about freedom of choice." - SFE online. "In a fantastically rich and varied space-faring future, people can choose their own sexes, identities, whatever. A densely written (some would say turgid) utopian novel of high ambition. Be be warned that it's a difficult book to read." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995), p. 387. Nebula award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-319. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 374.
THE J. M. DENT AND SONS RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS ARCHIVE: A SAMPLER OF LETTERS FROM A WIDE SELECTION OF MAJOR TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LITERARY AND POPULAR FICTION WRITERS.
An extensive archive of correspondence from the files of London publisher J. M. Dent and Sons. Approximately 285 letters, written in the 1920s and 1930s, with a scattering of earlier and later letters, mostly giving (and on occasion denying) permission to reprint literary work in various anthologies of poetry and prose. A considerable portion of the correspondence relates to permissions and payments for work to be included in books published as part of Dent's popular Everyman's Library. Many letters are addressed to Ernest Rhys (1859-1946), the founding editor of Everyman's Library, and to Guy Noel Pocock (1880-1955). Additionally, there are letters addressed to J. M. Dent, Thomas Caldwell, John Hampden (who was compiling a book of ghost stories), and others. Overall, the letters are in excellent condition. Some have indents from paperclips or small holes where once pinned, mostly at the upper left corners. The letters have the expected mailing folds. Several of the letters have rust marks from paperclips and some have minor creases, wrinkles, closed tears or small chips. These defects have been noted. Most of the letters are accompanied by rights and permissions letters, sometimes extensive, from and to J. M. Dent and Sons. Many of the carbons on flimsy paper are wrinkled or creased from decades of storage. Nevertheless, their content adds considerably to the depth and research value of the archive. The archive includes correspondence from (among others): Richard Aldington, Max Beerbohm, Vanessa Bell, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, E. F. Benson, Ernest Bramah, Robert Bridges, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, Walter de la Mare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Alfred Douglas, Lord Dunsany, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Houseman, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, C. S. Lewis, Rose Macaulay, Arthur Machen, John Masefield, A. A. Milne, Henry Newbolt, Ezra Pound, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Rackham, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, James Stephens, J. R. R. Tolkien, Katharine Tynan, Hugh Walpole, Mary Webb, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf (typed signature), W. B. Yeats. J. M. Dent and Sons was sold to Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1986. In 1991 the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, purchased the J. M. Dent and Sons Records, 1834-1986 (150.0 linear feet; approximately 210,000 items) through Bertram Rota, Booksellers, London. Many of the UNC files are incomplete as they had been "pruned," and correspondence with Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, and others had been removed and sold.
THE CHANTRY GUILD.
New York: Ace Books, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Part of the author's "Childe Cycle," as sequel to THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
DICKSON!
Cambridge: NESFA Press, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE FAR CALL.
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, 1978. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A lengthy treatment of the near-future political manoeuverings which attend the first manned flight to Mars" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 131. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-341.
THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
[New York]: TOR, [1984]. First edition. A novel in the "Childe Cycle." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-181.
MUTANTS: A SCIENCE ADVENTURE.
[New York]: The MacMillan Company, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories. Includes "Warrior," part of the "Dorsai" series and "The Immortal," later expanded into the novel THE FOREVER MAN (1986).
NONE BUT MAN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. New colonies in space are threatened by aliens preparing for war, will the old world sacrifice them for peace?