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THE COMPUTER CONNECTION.
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bester.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. One of the subscriber's copies signed by Bester on the front free endpaper. A classic science-fiction novel based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1866), "in which the obsessed villain ultimately fails to avoid detection by a telepathic policeman, but finds the prospect of punitive 'demolition' less terrible than its name implies." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 275. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. One of the subscriber's copies signed by Bester on the front free endpaper. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
[New York]: A Signet Book/The New American Libary, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Stanley Meltzoff, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Kurt Vonnegut. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
THE STARS MY DESTINATION.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. Offset from the 1957 Signet edition (revised and slightly expanded from the British hardcover edition, published as TIGER, TIGER, 1956). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-19. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #20.
TENDER LOVING RAGE.
Houston: Tafford Publishing, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Posthumously published novel written and set the late 50s. A suspense novel.
TIGER!, TIGER!.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Twenty-fourth century spaceman, Gully Foyle, discovers the ability to 'jaunt' (Teleport) and seeks revenge on the owner of the spacecraft which left him to die in the void. Neurotically driven but ultimately humane, with amazing backdrops, brilliant detail, tremendous narrative energy: the finest novel of its kind." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 350. This precedes the publication of the U.S. edition (a paperback original) titled "The Stars My Destination" (1958). There are textual differences between the two editions. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-19. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #20.