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THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. First printing with no code on page 181. Jacket painting by Richard Corben.
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...this is Anderson at his tragic-heroic best, blending meticulous astrophysics with brooding romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-6. Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959.
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...this is Anderson at his tragic-heroic best, blending meticulous astrophysics with brooding romanticism." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-6. Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959.
ENSIGN FLANDRY.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
FLANDRY OF TERRA.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, "The Game of Glory" and "A Message in Secret," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as MAYDAY ORBIT, and "The Plague of Masters," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as EARTHMAN, GO HOME!
GUARDIANS OF TIME.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1960]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 422K. Collects four novellas.
HARVEST OF STARS.
New York: Tor, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE HIGH CRUSADE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "An alien starship lands in medieval England, and carries a group of knights off into space. These rough-and-ready chaps eventually succeed in conquering the interstellar empire. A fondly remembered romp which celebrates the violent human spirit, it has not worn particularly well." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 173. 1961 Hugo nominee. 1961 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-11. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 977-80.
THE HORN OF TIME.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Story collection.
LET THE SPACEMEN BEWARE!
London: Dennis Dobson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.
THE MAKESHIFT ROCKET.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Spaceship built with beer kegs.
OPERATION CHAOS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Parallel world, the main character is a werewolf. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 21. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1160-63.
ORBIT UNLIMITED.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition.
ORION SHALL RISE.
Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1983. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Anderson. "A long, complex novel set in the world of Anderson's Maurai stories, centuries after the devastating war known variously as 'The Doom War,' 'The Downfall,' and the 'Death Time.' Among other matters this work details a plot by the Northwest Union (the northwestern portion of the former United States) to develop spacecraft powered by nuclear explosives to challenge the domination of their benevolent rulers who have restricted the development of technology ... A superior political thriller ..." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 117. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-16. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 416.
ORION SHALL RISE.
Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. 2000 copies printed. "A long, complex novel set in the world of Anderson's Maurai stories, centuries after the devastating war known variously as 'The Doom War,' 'The Downfall,' and the 'Death Time.' Among other matters this work details a plot by the Northwest Union (the northwestern portion of the former United States) to develop spacecraft powered by nuclear explosives to challenge the domination of their benevolent rulers who have restricted the development of technology ... A superior political thriller ..." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 117. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-16. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 416.
PERISH BY THE SWORD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first Trygve Yamamura novel.
PERISH BY THE SWORD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Review materials laid in. The first Trygve Yamamura novel. Winner of the first annual Macmillan Cock Robin Mystery Award.
PLANET OF NO RETURN.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.
SHIELD.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.
THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed photograph of Poul Anderson laid in. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 3-3 and 4A-6. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #18. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #73. Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #25.
THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Anderson on the title page. Sword and sorcery adventure novel set in a magical parallel world of faery where a battle for world domination is being waged by the forces of law and the forces of chaos. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 3-3 and 4A-6. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #18. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #73. Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #25.
THE VAULT OF AGES.
Philadelphia, Toronto: John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Orban, cloth. First edition. The author’s first book. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. "Brisk adventure, well written..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-4. The author's first book.
VIRGIN PLANET.
New York: Avalon Books, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A male space explorer finds a matriarchal society of women on a planet a thousand light-years from Earth. Part of the Psychotechnic League sequence of Anderson's Future History series. Indexed in Sargent (1988), but omitted in error from the bibliography itself.
TRAIL OF MURDER.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Edgar award nominee for best first novel.
GARDEN OF SHADOWS.
New York, London, Toronto.. Poseidon Press, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A prequel to FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC.