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NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304.
ACT OF LOVE.
London: Kinnell, 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition.
COLD IN JULY.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Crime novel. Made into a feature film.
THE DRIVE IN 2: (NOT JUST ONE OF THEM SEQUELS).
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1989]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. "...involve[s] teenagers attending a gigantic horror-movie marathon, which is taken over by extra-terrestrials, who produce ghouls, dinosaurs, etc., and massacre most of the audience." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 346-347.
THE DRIVE-IN: (A 'B' MOVIE WITH BLOOD AND POPCORN, MADE IN TEXAS.
London: Kinnell, 1989. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.
ELECTRIC GUMBO: A LANSDALE READER.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. An early and important collection of Lansdale's early fiction: Includes the novel THE DRIVE-IN, a novel extract (from THE MAGIC WAGON), fourteen short stories and novelettes, and two nonfiction articles. Trade paperback format. Not published in hardcover.
THE MAGIC WAGON.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE NIGHTRUNNERS ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Lansdale, introducer Dean R. Koontz, and artist Gregory Manchess. "A powerful blend of hard-boiled crime and supernatural horror that owes a considerable debt to Sam Peckinpah's movie Straw Dogs. Lansdale's depiction of teenage juvenile delinquents as evil incarnate is convincing and thoroughly chilling." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-266.
THE NIGHTRUNNERS.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A powerful blend of hard-boiled crime and supernatural horror that owes a considerable debt to Sam Peckinpah's movie Straw Dogs. Lansdale's depiction of teenage juvenile delinquents as evil incarnate is convincing and thoroughly chilling." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-266.
RAZORED SADDLES ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Number 132 of 600 numbered copies signed by all the contributors. Original anthology collecting seventeen stories by Robert R. McCammon, Scott Cupp, Lewis Shiner, F. Paul Wilson, David J. Schow, Ardath Mayhar, Al Sarrantonio, Richard Laymon, Melissa Mia Hall, Robert Petitt, Gary Raisor, Neal Barrett, Jr., Howard Waldrop, Lenore Carroll, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, and Chet Williamson.
RAZORED SADDLES.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The signed and limited issue, one of the publishers copies, labeled P/C on the limitation page.
PLANET RUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
LOVECRAFT: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE.
[Lexingtion, KY]: The University Press of Kentucky, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON.
Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. Octavo, leather. First hardcover edition. One of 250 leather bound copies numbered with roman numerals, signed by "Bertie" MacAvoy, introducer Anne McCaffrey, and artist Leslie Newcomer. The author's first book. 1984 World Fantasy Award nominee. Runner up for the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-172. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 82.
TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON.
Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. Octavo, leather. First edition. One of 250 leather bound copies numbered with roman numerals, signed by "Bertie" MacAvoy, introducer Anne McCaffrey, and artist Leslie Newcomer. The author's first book. 1984 World Fantasy Award nominee. Runner up for the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-172. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 82.
THE THIRD EAGLE.
New York: Doubleday/Foundation, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE LIGHT OF AGES.
New York: Ace Books, [2003]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.
VOYAGES BY STARLIGHT.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories. The author's first book. "MacLeod is a self-consciously and deliberately literary author. His prose is crafted with far more care than that of most sf authors, and to the extent that he depicts conceptual Novums or scientific advances, they are most often the background for exploration of character. Along with Robert Silverberg he is perhaps sf's greatest chronicler of inwardness." SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-696.
THE ARMAGEDDON RAG.
New York: Poseidon Press, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A powerful parable about the dark side of the counterculture full of thinly disguised personalities and performers from the 1960s and written with the authority of an active member of the Woodstock generation. The best rock-and-roll horror novel, written years before the advent of splatterpunk." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-252. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-212.
A CLASH OF KINGS.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Sequel to A GAME OF THRONES (1996).
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS ...
New York: Bantam Books, [2011]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fifth book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
DYING OF THE LIGHT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1978. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Signed by Martin on the title page. The author's first novel. 1978 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-711.
A FEAST FOR CROWS ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. The fourth book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
A GAME OF THRONES [with] A CLASH OF KINGS [with] A STORM OF SWORDS [with] A FEAST FOR CROWS ...
[London]; [London]; New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland; [London]: Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers; Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers; Bantam Books; Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers, [1996; 1998; 200; 2005]. Octavo, four volumes, boards. First U.K. editions of first, second and fourth book; first U.S. edition of the third. First four books of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The correct first edition, first printings of each book. The last three of the four books have been signed on the title pages by Martin. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-251.
GRRM: A RRETROSPECTIVE.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, [2003]. Octavo, cloth. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Martin to David G. Hartwell, a friend and one of his editors on the title page: "To Dave, / Who was / there at the / first TorCon / With warm / Regards / George R. R. Martin / TorCon 3." "This massive collection brings together nearly 1,300 pages of Martin's short fiction and covers his entire career ... A superb collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-712.