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A WAY HOME: STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Sturgeon on the front free end paper. Sturgeon's third collection of short fiction. Eleven stories selected, with introduction, by Groff Conklin. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-365. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1561.
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[Philadelphia]: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is one of the limited edition copies produced, this copy corresponds to Currey's variant (b), it is signed by Sturgeon and the illustrator L. Robet Tschirky on the front free end paper, no number statement. The author's first book. Collection of 13 stories including the classics "It" and "Microcosmic God". Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-173. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-192.
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[Philadelphia]: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, original red buckram. First edition. According to Prime Press partner Oswald Train, 100 copies of this limited issue signed by Sturgeon and artist L. Robert Tschirky were produced. This is one of the copies with the publisher's holograph statement on front paste-down reading "The publisher certifies that / this is one of an edition /of eighty copies only. This / is copy # twenty-two. / The Prime Press." The author's first book, preceded by a promotional pamphlet containing a single story from this book. Collection of 13 stories including the classics "It" and "Microcosmic God". Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-173. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-192.
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[Philadelphia]: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sturgeon's first book, preceded by a promotional pamphlet containing a single story from this book. A collection of thirteen stories with introduction by Ray Bradbury. Sturgeon is "one of modern SF's prime originator's of non-technologically oriented SF of superior literary merit. Outstanding stories include 'Bianca's Hands,' a tale of horror and love in which a young man becomes obsessed with the beautiful hands of an ugly imbecilic girl, and 'Microcosmic God,' in which a scientist creates a race of tiny, time-accelerated beings whom he tortures into developing fantastic inventions. Also noteworthy are 'Ether Breather,' the author's first published story, 'It,' and 'Shottle Bop.'" - Joe De Bolt and John Pfeiffer, "Outstanding SF Books, 1927-1979." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1102. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-148. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-192. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1558.