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TALES BEYOND TIME: FROM FANTASY TO SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Adventures in time and space for children.
3000 YEARS OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In the uncommon publisher's library binding. Anthology designed to provide a fictional overview of the devlopment of the SF genre. Includes selections from Homer and Plato through Clarke and Asimov.
WALL OF SERPENTS.
New York: Avalon Books, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Third volume in the "Incomplete Enchanter" series. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 3-106.
WALL OF SERPENTS.
New York: Avalon Books, [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The third volume in the adventures of Harold Shea. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 3-106.
THE INCOMPLETE ENCHANTER.
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-106. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 489.
TALES FROM GAVAGAN'S BAR.
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1342. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 921.
TALES FROM GAVAGAN'S BAR.
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1342. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 921.
TALES FROM GAVAGAN'S BAR.
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the half title page. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1342. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 921.
THE CONAN SWORDBOOK: 27 EXAMINATIONS OF HEROIC FICTION...
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1969. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow and others, cloth. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies (1485). 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
DE CAMP: AN L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood / Miller, 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-2: inserted limitation leaf] [1-11] 12-328 [329: blank] [330: colophon] [331-336: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Comprehensive illustrated bibliography of books, contributions to books, and magazine appearances through mid-1982. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 364.
ANCIENT RUINS AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. Later printing. Non-fiction.
DEMONS AND DINOSAURS.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Poetry collection.
DEMONS AND DINOSAURS.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the title page. Poetry collection.
LEST DARKNESS FALL.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] 1-379 [380: blank], original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book of fiction. An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end of the Roman Empire and makes an unsuccessful attempt to use his modern scientific knowledge to prevent the Dark Ages. "Neat anthropological interpretation of history." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-135. "... de Camp's finest book." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-58. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1198-1203. In 333.
LEST DARKNESS FALL.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] 1-379 [380: blank], original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the title page. The author's first book of fiction. An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end of the Roman Empire and makes an unsuccessful attempt to use his modern scientific knowledge to prevent the Dark Ages. "Neat anthropological interpretation of history." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-135. "... de Camp's finest book." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-58. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1198-1203. In 333.
THE PRISONER OF ZHAMANAK.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition.
SCRIBBLINGS.
Boston: The NESFA Press, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. A miscellany of poetry, articles and short stories, the latter comprising four anecdotes written for "Probability Zero," a department of tall tales in ASTOUNDING, 1942-1944. Some of the items published here for the first time.
THE UNBEHEADED KING.
NY: Ballantine Books, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The the third book of the Novaria series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-83.
THE UNDESIRED PRINCESS.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, salmon end papers and no head bands. First edition, first binding. Collects two fictions, "The Undesired Princess" and "Mr. Arson." Both first published in Unknown Worlds pulp magazine, 1942 and 1941. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-104. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 483.
THE UNDESIRED PRINCESS.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, black boards, spine stamped in green. First edition, later binding with "Gnome Press" stamped at the base of the spine. This copy inscribed to Dirce Archer and signed by De Camp on the front free end paper. Collects two fictions, "The Undesired Princess" and "Mr. Arson." Both first published in Unknown Worlds pulp magazine, 1942 and 1941. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-104. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 483.
DE CAMP: AN L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP BIBLIOGRAPHY.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1983. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of 200 clothbound copies signed by L. Sprague De Camp, Catherine Crook De Camp, Charlotte Laughlin, Daniel J. Levack and Lacy H. Hall. Illustrated bibliography.
GENUS HOMO.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, green cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition. Trade issue.
GENUS HOMO.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, red cloth, spine stamped in balck. First edition. Remainder 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. 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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-133. In 333.
THE HONORABLE BARBARIAN.
Norwalk: Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by De Camp. Introduction by James Gunn. The final book in the Novarian series.Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series.