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PRUZY'S POT.
Eugene, Oregon: Hypatia Press, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 477 copies printed of which this is one of 300 clothbound copies numbered with Arabic numerals signed by introducer Spider Robinson and author of afterword Jayne Tannehill. Humorous (and gross-out) science fiction story first published in National Lampoon in 1972.
THE RARE BREED.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1626. Paperback original. Novelization of the screenplay of the 1966 film.
THE STARS ARE THE STYX.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 18006. Paperback original. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects ten stories.
STARSHINE.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects six stories, including horror and crime fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1564.
STARSHINE.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Octavo, boards. Later edition by the British Science Fiction Book Club. Signed on the front free end paper by Sturgeon. Collects six stories, including horror and crime fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1564.
STURGEON IN ORBIT.
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1970. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects a short story and four novellas.
STURGEON IN ORBIT.
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1970. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Sturgeon on the front free end paper. Collects a short story and four novellas.
STURGEON IN ORBIT.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, cover art by Emsh, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid F974. Paperback original. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects five stories.
STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, illustration by Paul Lehr, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories. "Among the finest short story writers in America, Sturgeon was never very prolific and is now in danger of being forgotten. This collection, one of his best, includes his Hugo- and Nebula Award-winner 'Slow Sculpture,' the earlier classic 'To Here and the Easel,' and a variety of other fine stories." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1101. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1008.
STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, illustration by Paul Lehr, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories. "Among the finest short story writers in America, Sturgeon was never very prolific and is now in danger of being forgotten. This collection, one of his best, includes his Hugo- and Nebula Award-winner 'Slow Sculpture,' the earlier classic 'To Here and the Easel,' and a variety of other fine stories." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1101. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1008.
A TOUCH OF STRANGE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. "Nine SF stories, more long than short, have an added ingredient of philosophy, of the theory that ""never can a sole unit exist alone and unsupplied"", and of the necessity of communication. The title piece tells of the meeting of a couple who have been in love with merpeople; there's a girl who is kept alive with a new skin each day; there's a would be boss of the universe; and there are weird developments in worlds of the far future. Soberer than the standard brand." - Kirkus book review. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-363. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1562.
A TOUCH OF STRANGE.
New York: A Berkley Medallion Book Published by Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Medallion G280. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects seven stories.
A TOUCH OF STURGEON: STORIES BY THEODORE STURGEON. Selected and Introduced by David Pringle.
London: Simon & Schuster, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nine stories.
THE ULTIMATE EGOIST. VOLUME I: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF THEODORE STURGEON. Edited by Paul Williams ...
Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects forty-six stories and a poem, "Look About You." Edited, with story notes, by Paul Williams. Forewords by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe.
VENUS PLUS X.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An average American Joe awakes in a world inhabited by lovely, fluting-voiced hermaphrodites. He is suitably appalled - at first. This utopian novel is a thoughtful speculation on the gender question." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. 1961 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-364. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2370-72.
VISIONS AND VENTURERS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects eight stories, all which first had magazine appearances (1942-65).
A WAY HOME.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pyramid Giant G184. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects nine of the eleven stories from the hardcover edition.
A WAY HOME: STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 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.
WITHOUT SORCERY.
[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.
WITHOUT SORCERY.
[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.
WITHOUT SORCERY.
[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.