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ROGUE SHIP.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The discovery of faster than light travel defuses a mutiny on the long interstellar voyage of a generation starship traveling from a ruined Earth to the planetary system of Centaurus.
THE BOOK OF PTATH.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1947. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Van Vogt on an inserted plate. Story was first published in Unknown Worlds. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-348. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 62. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 2. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1064. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 146-48. In 333].
THE BOOK OF PTATH.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1947. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies inscribed and signed by Van Vogt. This is copy 133. Additionally inscribed and signed by Van Vogt to Bob Madle (Robert A. Madle), noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. "On a super-continent, some 200 million years in the Earth's future, the godlike but amnesiac hero Ptath struggles with a beautiful female antagonist." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 46. The story was first published in Unknown Worlds. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-348. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 62. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 2. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1064. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 146-48. In 333].
THE BATTLE OF FOREVER.
[Franklin, Tennessee]: Authors' Co-op Publishing Co., [1978]. Octavo, First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by van Vogt. "A human adventurer discovers that most of his future world is inhabited by genetically enhanced beast-men. Of course, as in most of Van Vogt's work, it turns out the hero himself has super-powers. After a gap of 20 years, this was the second, and in some critics' opinion, best of van Vogt's "comeback" novels..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 27.
COSMIC ENCOUNTER.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An astonishing farrago which involves "time-collapse," an 18th-century setting complete with pirates, and a futuristic battle-cruiser ejected from its own era. It makes no sense, but it's possibly the best late novel by this energetic spinner of pulp fantasies. "Sheer panache" - Brian Stableford." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), p. 78. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-567].
EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Van Vogt on the title page. A mutant boy rises to power in a barbaric post-nuclear war "culture where radioactive elements are worshiped as gods and scientist-priests monopolize atomic power" (Brians). "A space opera of courtly intrigue which is modeled on Robert Graves's historical novels about the emperor Claudius" (Pringle). A novelization of a series of five stories published in ASTOUNDING between May 1946 and December 1947. The sequel is THE WIZARD OF LINN (1950; 1962).
EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A mutant boy rises to power in a barbaric post-nuclear war "culture where radioactive elements are worshiped as gods and scientist-priests monopolize atomic power" (Brians). "A space opera of courtly intrigue which is modeled on Robert Graves's historical novels about the emperor Claudius" (Pringle). A novelization of a series of five stories published in ASTOUNDING between May 1946 and December 1947. The sequel is THE WIZARD OF LINN (1950; 1962).
FUTURE GLITTER.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt on the title page. In a future society some scientists attempt to overthrow a dictatorship.
MASTERS OF TIME.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition, first binding. Collects two short novels, "The Masters of Time" and "The Changeling."
THE MIXED MEN.
New York: Gnome Press, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Probable first binding of blue boards with spine panel lettered in orange. Currey binding 'A', blue boards. Fix up novel from stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction.
THE MIXED MEN.
New York: Gnome Press, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Probable first binding of blue boards with spine panel lettered in orange. Inscribed and signed by Van Vogt to Bob Madle (Robert A. Madle), noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. Fix up novel from stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction.
SLAN.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-180].
SLAN.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, illustration by Robert F. Hubbell, cloth. First edition. The author's first and perhaps best book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1155. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2096-2100. In 333.
SLAN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First printing of the revised edition. The author's first, and perhaps best, book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1155. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2096-2100. In 333].
THE WEAPON MAKERS.
Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-224, frontispiece illustration by Allan W. Halladay, cloth. First edition. The author's second book. First published as a serial in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (1943). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05. In 333].
THE WEAPON MAKERS.
Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-224, frontispiece illustration by Allan W. Halladay, cloth. First edition. The author's second book. First published as a serial in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (1943). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05. In 333].
THE WEAPON MAKERS.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1952]. Octavo, boards. New edition (first printing of this text). Inscribed and signed to Bob (Robert A.) Madle, noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. Rewritten to form a sequel to THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER (1951). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-385. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333].
THE WEAPON MAKERS.
Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-224, frontispiece illustration by Allan W. Halladay, cloth. First edition. Label affixed to front free end paper with inscription and signature of Van Vogt to a well known early fan. The author's second book. First published as a serial in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (1943). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05. In 333].
THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by Van Vogt of long time fan Dick Wald. In the far future the empire of Isher, a decadent dictatorship rules the universe. The sequel is THE WEAPON MAKERS. It is "in the two Weapon Shops time operas ... that van Vogt's mixture of hard-SF dreams, enormities of complication, and transcendent superheroes was most hypnotically presented. The main protagonist of the two books, the immortal Robert Hedrock has not only in the dim past created the Weapon Shops as a Libertarian force to counterbalance the imperial world government long dominant on Earth, but also turns out eventually to have literally begotten the race of emperors and empresses who rule that government in traditional opposition to the mysterious Shops, which are invulnerable and sell weapons to anyone (van Vogt himself never seemed closer to sounding American than in this presentation of the inalienable right to own guns). En passant, as revealed at the very end of the second book, Hedrock unwittingly passes a galactic initiation test designed by forerunners to select the next rulers of the 'sevagram.' The word 'sevagram' appears only, as the very last word of THE WEAPON MAKERS; this resonantly mysterious slingshot ending, which seems to open universes to the reader's gaze, may well stand as the best working demonstration in the whole of genre SF of how to impart a sense of wonder." - SFE (online). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1157. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2442-46].
THE WEAPONS MAKERS.
Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-224, frontispiece illustration by Allan W. Halladay, cloth. First edition. Author's second book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05. In 333].
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THE WORLD OF [NULL] A.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, illustration by Lee Manso, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt - "My very best wishes / A. E. Van Vogt." "A space-operatic mystery story in its author's best vein, with a hero who seemingly can die and be reborn endlessly (thanks to his 'non-Aristotelian' mental powers). It's dreadful old garbage by any reasonable critical standard, and yet it has a dreamlike conviction which has endeared it to generations of readers. The works of van Vogt, which have provided so much escapist joy, are among the great embarrassments of modern SF." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 427. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05].
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THE WORLD OF [NULL] A.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, illustration by Lee Manso, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt on the front free end paper: "With all good / wishes / A. E. Van Vogt." Also affixed to the front paste down is a label with a nice inscription signed by Van Vogt to a well known early fan. "A space-operatic mystery story in its author's best vein, with a hero who seemingly can die and be reborn endlessly (thanks to his 'non-Aristotelian' mental powers). It's dreadful old garbage by any reasonable critical standard, and yet it has a dreamlike conviction which has endeared it to generations of readers. The works of van Vogt, which have provided so much escapist joy, are among the great embarrassments of modern SF." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 427. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05].
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THE WORLD OF [NULL] A.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, illustration by Lee Manso, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed to long time fan Richard (Dick) Wald, "For Richard Wald / The first of two Null-A / stories, with a third in the / works! Best- A E Van Vogt." "A space-operatic mystery story in its author's best vein, with a hero who seemingly can die and be reborn endlessly (thanks to his 'non-Aristotelian' mental powers). It's dreadful old garbage by any reasonable critical standard, and yet it has a dreamlike conviction which has endeared it to generations of readers. The works of van Vogt, which have provided so much escapist joy, are among the great embarrassments of modern SF." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 427. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1158. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2501-05].