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FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). Collects seventeen stories. Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186.
FUNDAMENTAL DISCH.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects eighteen stories. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186.
THE GENOCIDES.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. The author's first book. 1965 Nebula Award nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-185.
GETTING INTO DEATH AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Good collection of stories from late 1960s-early 1970s. Content differs quite a bit from that of the 1973 British collection of the same title, many consider this a better body of work. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-99. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2060-4.
GETTING INTO DEATH AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Good collection of stories from late 1960s-early 1970s. Content differs quite a bit from that of the 1973 British collection of the same title, many consider this a better body of work. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-99. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2060-4.
THE MAN WHO HAD NO IDEA: A COLLECTION OF STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Disch on the title page to British poet Gavin Ewart (1916-1995). Ewart was a poet, editor and critic and had praise for Disch's poetry. Collects seventeen stories. The title story was a Hugo Award nominee and the story "Understanding Human Behavior" was a Nebula Award nominee. There is no American hardcover edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-344.
ON WINGS OF SONG.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Disch on the title page to British poet Gavin Ewart (1916-1995). Ewart was a poet, editor and critic and had praise for Disch's poetry. "A young couple escape the repressive "Farm Belt" states of twenty-first century Middle America. However, their experiments with machine-assisted out-of-body flight come to a tragic conclusion. A marvelous novel, richly entertaining." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 265. 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo nominee. Winner of the 1980 John W. Campbell Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-345. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-89. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 87. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 392.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWO H-BOMBS.
New York: Berkley Publishing, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Paperback original. Story collection. First published in England by Compact in 1966. The contents of this edition differ slightly, drops two stories from the English and adds two not published in the English edition.
THE PRIEST: A GOTHIC ROMANCE.
London: Millennium, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
RINGTIME.
West Branch, Iowa: Published by the Toothpaste Press, [1983]. Wrappers. First edition. One of 875 numbered copies.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.
THE GENOCIDES.
London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The author's first book, first published as a paperback original in 1965. "Indifferent aliens turn the Earth into a vegetable patch. Humans become scurrying vermin, surviving among the roots of vast otherworldly plants. A blackly humorous debut book by a brilliant writer." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 153-4. A 1965 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-185.
THE GENOCIDES.
London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Disch on the front free end paper. The author's first book, first published as a paperback original in 1965. "Indifferent aliens turn the Earth into a vegetable patch. Humans become scurrying vermin, surviving among the roots of vast otherworldly plants. A blackly humorous debut book by a brilliant writer." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 153-4. A 1965 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-185.
BLACK SUNDAY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Filmed in 1977 by John Frankenheimer starring Bruce Dern, Robert Shaw and Marthe Keller. A terrorist plot to blow up the super bowl.
RED DRAGON.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed twice, the first by Michael Mann in 1986 titled Manhunter and again in 2002 titled Red Dragon. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-135. Jones and Newman (eds.): Horror: 100 Best Books #84.
INTRIGUE ON THE UPPER LEVEL ... A STORY OF CRIME, LOVE, ADVENTURE AND REVOLT IN 2050 A. D.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. Publishers, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 11-292 [293-294: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank; text complete despite gap in pagination], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First edition. Dystopian novel of a class struggle in Chicago of 2050. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-26; (1981) 2-42; and (1987) 2-45. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 118. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 203. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 104. Reginald 07514. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1787.
SCHINDLER'S LIST.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. This book (first published as Schindler's Ark) won the Booker Prize and was made into a moving Oscar award winning picture by Stephen Spielberg; the story of Oskar Schindler and how he saved numerous Jewish lives during the holocaust of WWII.
BLOOD OF VINTAGE.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second mystery novel, featuring detective Sam Phelan. After a "blue-blood" is murdered a detective, not known for his etiquette is sent to investigate. "Naturally this annoys the bluebloods, or most of them, but it does not prevent Sam from doing a thoroughly good job of detecting." - NY Times book review 2 March, 1947. Hubin, p. 479.
THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN & OTHER GOTHIC TALES.
Eugene, Seattle, Woodinville, WA: Silver Salamander Press, 1994. Octavo, leather. First edition. One of 40 copies bound in leather, this is copy BB, signed by Ligotti and Michael Shea who writes the introduction. Collects nineteen Gothic vignettes.
GRIMSCRIBE: HIS LIVES AND WORKS.
London: Robinson Publishing, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of linked stories. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-241.
THE SPECTRE BULLET by Thomas Mack and THE AVENGING NOTE by Alfred Sprissler ... [cover title].
New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation, n.d., [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2-24, printed self wrappers, stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 17. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 13474.
THE SPECTRE BULLET AND THE AVENGING NOTE.
New York: Stellar Publishing Co., 1932. Wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Series #17. Printed wrappers, a 24 page booklet. A Gernsback publication. Two stories.
THREE THOUSAND YEARS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by McClary on an inserted plate. Originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction. A novel of the future.