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PORTRAITS OF HIS CHILDREN ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed by Martin and artists Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn. Copy 269, NOT SIGNED by introducer Roger Zelazny, although it is called for. Collects eleven SF and dark fantasy stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-214.
SANDKINGS.
New York: A Timescape Book Published by Pocket Books, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Collects seven stories including the title story, winner of the 1980 Hugo award for best novelette, "a memorable account of insectile 'pets' learning to see their 'owners' in a new light." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-712. One of the classic story collections of the 1980s.
A SONG FOR LYA AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: Avon, [1976]. First edition. Avon Books 27581. Paperback original. The author's first book. Collects the Hugo award winning title novella and nine short stories. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-281.
SONGS OF STARS AND SHADOWS.
New York: A Kangaroo Book Published by Pocket Books, [1977]. First edition. Pocket Books 81277. Paperback original. Collects nine stories. The author's second story collection.
SONGS THE DEAD MEN SING.
Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Number 137 of 500 numbered copies signed by Martin. Collects nine stories including "Sandkings" (a Nebula Award winner), "Nightflyers," and "In the House of the Worm." "Nightflyers" is a variation on the old-dark-house theme featuring a psychotic sentient interstellar spaceship systematically murdering it crew; "Meathouse Man," is set on a planet where cybernetic zombies are used for slave labor and entertainment. "The Needle Men" is a medial horror story involving black market organ harvesters. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-254. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-215.
A STORM OF SWORDS ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. The third book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
TUF VOYAGING.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The episodic adventures of Haviland Tuf, space-faring ecologist who creates genetically engineered life-forms to suit various planets." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 388. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-599.
TUF VOYAGING.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The episodic adventures of Haviland Tuf, space-faring ecologist who creates genetically engineered life-forms to suit various planets." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 388. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-599.
TUF VOYAGING.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The episodic adventures of Haviland Tuf, space-faring ecologist who creates genetically engineered life-forms to suit various planets." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 388.
WINDHAVEN.
New York: Timescape Books, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Planetary romance. "...set on a lost colony planet that has reverted to feudalism." - Clute, SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-713.
WINDHAVEN.
New York: Timescape Books, [1980]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Planetary romance. "...set on a lost colony planet that has reverted to feudalism." - Clute, SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-713.
QUARTET: FOUR TALES FROM THE CROSSROADS ...
Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, [2001]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy signed by Martin and artist Charles Vess on the title page. Collects three novellas, including the Hugo award winning (and Nebula nominee)"Blood of the Dragon," which is an excerpt from A Game of Thrones turned into a novella for magazine publication. The book also includes a television screenplay as well as new introductions by Martin to the selections.
A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE: A GAME OF THRONES, A CLASH OF KINGS, A STORM OF SWORDS and A FEAST FOR CROWS.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996, 1999, 2000 & 2005]. Octavo, four volumes, boards. First U. S. editions. The first four books of A Song of Fire and Ice. "The quality of Martin's style here is also a few steps above most genre fantasies." - Barron (ed.) Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-251. Basis for the long running HBO series.
ABEL, BAKER, CHARLEY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first book. Psychological thriller novel.
BETHANY'S SIN.
London: Kinnell, 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition.
BETHANY'S SIN.
London: Kinnell, 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The author's second horror novel. First published as a paperback original.
BLUE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
London: London, Glasgow, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland:, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, several published here for the first time, contain elements of fantasy and horror, and they are some of McCammon's best work. Two stories, "Makeup" and "Nightcrawlers" have been filmed for television. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-265.
BOY'S LIFE.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Pocket Books, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Coming of age story of a young boy growing up in the South in the 1960s. "Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury and every bit their equal: a cornucopia of bittersweet fantasy storytelling that is by far McCammon's finest book." - Kirkus review, 1 June, 1991. World Fantasy Award winner for best novel 1992 and the Horror Writer's of America Bram Stoker Award for best novel 1991.
MINE.
New York: Pocket, 1990. Small octavo, wrappers. First edition. Advance reading copy. Winner of the Bram Stoker award 1990.
MYSTERY WALK.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover. A novel of good and evil involving two protagonists, one a evangelist faith healer and and the other one who communes with the dead. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-223.
STINGER.
London: Kinnell, 1988. Octavo, boards. First British and first trade hardcover edition (preceded by a U. S. book club edition). An alien bounty hunter searches for its prey in a small Texas town.
THEY THIRST.
London: Kinnell, 1990. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "Epic tale of a vampire takeover of Los Angeles that self-conciously recycles clichés from Gothic horror fiction and films into a fast-paced, panoramic narrative." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-79.
THEY THIRST.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Pocket Books, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. New edition. Pocket 66481. Signed by McCammon on an inserted limitation page. This first Pocket Books edition has a limitation page tipped in from the Overlook Connection bookstore stating one hundred numbered copies signed by McCammon, this is an extra copy, marked P/C. "Epic tale of a vampire takeover of Los Angeles that self-consciously recycles clichés from Gothic horror fiction and films into a fast-paced, panoramic narrative." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-79.
USHER'S PASSING.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-226.
THE SHERIFF AND THE FOLSOM MAN MURDERS.
New York: Walker, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The third in the Sheriff Matthews series.