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FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: A WINTRY TALE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-103 [104-106: blank]. cloth. First U.S. edition, later printing. Later printing of the first U.S. edition, Scribner's colophon is present on the copyright page, but no "A". Supernatural story with hint of vampirism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction # 1752.
ANATOMY OF WONDER: A CRITICAL GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION-Third edition.
New York & London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third edition. The first part of the 1987 edition is six annotated checklists of science fiction: "The Emergence of Science Fiction: The Beginnings to the 1920s" by Thomas D. Clareson (108 entries); "Science Fiction Between the Wars: 1918-1938" by Brian Stableford (147 entries); "The Early Modern Period: 1938-1963" by Joe De Bolt and John Pfeiffer (461 entries); The Modern Period: 1964-1986" by Brian Stableford (673 entries); "Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction by Francis J. Molson (180 entries); and "Foreign-Language Science Fiction" (476 entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction). The second part, pages 585-786, comprise ten sections of "research aids" including seven annotated checklists of secondary sources (a total of 552 entries) and other material, one section compiled by Muriel Rogow Becker, two by Hal W. Hall (one in collaboration with Barron), the remainder by Barron. This is the best edition for foreign language fiction, which was dropped from later editions. "Barron's Anatomy has generally been accepted as the standard reader's guide to science fiction literature." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 62.
ANATOMY OF WONDER: A CRITICAL GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION. Second Edition.
NY & London: R.R. Bowker, 1981. Octavo, boards. First printing of the second edition. The first part of the 1981 edition is five annotated checklists of science fiction: "The Emergence of Science Fiction: The Beginnings to the 1920s" by Thomas D. Clareson (182 entries); "Science Fiction Between the Wars: 1918-1938" by Brian Stableford (131 entries); "The Modern Period: 1938-1980" by Joe De Bolt and John R. Pfeiffer (913 entries); "Children's Science Fiction" by Francis J. Molson (166 entries); and "Foreign Language Science Fiction" (263 entries for German, French, Russian, Italian, and Japanese science fiction and a survey article on Chinese science fiction). The second part, pages 509-645, comprise ten sections of "research aids" including seven annotated checklists of secondary sources (a total of 293 entries) and other material, one section complied by Marshall B. Tymn, two by Hal W. Hall, the remainder by Barron. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 62.
FANTASY LITERATURE: A READER'S GUIDE.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The first part of this major reference book is annotated checklists of fantasy literature; "Development of the Fantastic Tradition Through 1811" by Dennis M. Kratz (94 entries); "The Nineteenth Century, 1812-99" by Brian Stableford (160 entries); "From Baum to Tolkien, 1900-56" by Brian Stableford (386 entries); "Modern Fantasy for Adults, 1957-88" by Maxim Jakubowski [with Brian Stableford] (305 entries); and "Modern Fantasy for Young Adults, 1950-88" by Francis J. Molson and Susan G. Miles (184 entries). The second part of the book, pages 351-534, comprises "research aids." The core collection list, pages 489-507, includes titles recommended by various genre authorities, including some that do not appear in the body of annotated entries. Includes title listings from Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books, and Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, Tymn, Zahorski and Boyer, Fantasy Literature, and other sources. Intended as a companion volume to Barron (ed), Horror Literature (1990) that should be consulted for overlapping genre fiction, especially the pre-1956 period. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 52.
FANTASY LITERATURE: A READER'S GUIDE.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The first part of this major reference book is annotated checklists of fantasy literature; "Development of the Fantastic Tradition Through 1811" by Dennis M. Kratz (94 entries); "The Nineteenth Century, 1812-99" by Brian Stableford (160 entries); "From Baum to Tolkien, 1900-56" by Brian Stableford (386 entries); "Modern Fantasy for Adults, 1957-88" by Maxim Jakubowski [with Brian Stableford] (305 entries); and "Modern Fantasy for Young Adults, 1950-88" by Francis J. Molson and Susan G. Miles (184 entries). The second part of the book, pages 351-534, comprises "research aids." The core collection list, pages 489-507, includes titles recommended by various genre authorities, including some that do not appear in the body of annotated entries. Includes title listings from Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books, and Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, Tymn, Zahorski and Boyer, Fantasy Literature, and other sources. Intended as a companion volume to Barron (ed), Horror Literature (1990) that should be consulted for overlapping genre fiction, especially the pre-1956 period. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 64.
HORROR LITERATURE: A READER'S GUIDE.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The first part of this major reference book is annotated checklists of horror literature; "The Early Gothic, 1762-1824" by Frederick S. Frank (112 entries); "The Later Gothic Tradition, 1825-96" by Brian Stableford (99 entries); "Early Modern Horror Fiction, 1897-1949" by Brian Stableford (218 entries); and "Contemporary Horror Fiction, 1950-88" by Keith Neilson [with Mike Ashley, Bentley Little and Brian Stableford] (363 entries). The second part of the book, pages 327-551, comprises "research aids" including "Horror on Film and Television" by Michael Klossner and "Fantasy and Horror Magazines" by Mike Ashley. Overall, a more balanced selection than Tymn (ed), Horror Literature (Bowker 1981), especially for the period from 1897 to the 1980s. The core collection list, pages 520-532, includes titles recommended by various genre authorities, including some that do not appear in the body of annotated entries. Includes title listings from Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books, Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, and other sources. Intended as a companion volume to Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature (1990) that should be consulted for overlapping genre fiction, especially the pre-1956 period. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 65.
KISS AND KILL bound with ON THE HOOK.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-47. Paperback original of the Barry novel. The Powell is a reprint, originally published as SHARK RIVER. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 21-22.
SABBATICAL: A ROMANCE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE DELIGHTS OF DETECTION.
New York: Criterion Books, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects seventeen stories presented in three sections; Classic Tales, Modern Tales and Historic Tales. Authors include Dorothy Sayers, R. Austin Freeman, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout and others.
THE BIG STEAL.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The $400,000 ransom on a kidnapping case leaves Steve Conway, a copper, holding the bag- the empty suitcase in which the money was once hidden. Bounced off the force, deserted by his wife, Conway alone has to prove his innocence to his enemies as well as the police, while narcotics needlemark the solution through which he redeems himself and his new girl... Under the spell of ""Spillane who insisted"" there is the familiar contusion of flesh and violence." - Kirkus review, 6/1/55. Basinsky was a wartime friend of Mickey Spillane's who encouraged his writing. This is the first of his two novels.
A PARADE OF COCKEYED CREATURES, OR DID SOMEONE MURDER OUR WANDERING BOY?
New York: Random House, 1967. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Detective Max Van Larsen/Sylvia Plotkin thriller. An Edgar nominee for best novel.
TRAIN'S TRUST: A WESTERN STORY.
New York: Chelsea House, 1926. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
ANTI-ICE.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's third novel.
ANTI-ICE.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's third novel. Signed by Baxter on the title page.
CHIRON.
Birmingham: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1993. Small octavao, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 400 copies done for Novacon 23. Signed by Baxter. A 12 page story in chapbook format.
MOONSEED.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter.
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.
RING.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. The fourth book in the "Xeelee" sequence.
RING.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. The fourth book in the "Xeelee" sequence.
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Baxter. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Baxter. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TIMELIKE INFINITY.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a way for humans to avoid this fate via time travel. An incredibly complex time-and-space opera, bumptious, merry, scientifically well informed, and all-round fun to read (though, as is usual with this kind of fiction, the characterization leaves something to be desired)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Neat aliens, good plot-reversals, much hand-waving with physics and a pretty damn cosmic ending. I didn't think they were writing them like this any more." - Mary Gentle, Interzone. The sequels are FLUX (1993) and RING (1994). "The sequence –- as centrally narrated here and in RING -– follows humanity into the fraught arena of interstellar space, already dominated by the complex and enigmatic Alien Xeelee, who soon prove to be highly inimical to the fragile expansionist hopes of humanity. The long epic ends darkly, aeons hence, giving with strong hints that the universe, and the Intelligences capable of comprehending it, may become coterminous. Though the incessant fertility of Baxter's imagination makes it appropriate to think of his larger-scale effects in terms of space opera, the Xeelee sequence, like most of his later fiction, is dense with thought experiments; along with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he is perhaps the most successful of all modern SF writers in marrying space opera and hard SF.
TITAN.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed.
TRACES.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter. Story collection.