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CARRION COMFORT ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1989. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed by Simmons and artist Kathleen McNeil Sherman. The author's second novel. "... one of the more ambitious modern vampire novels and a successful rendering of the vampire theme from a fresh and original perspective." - Barron, Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-335.
CARRION COMFORT.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed on the limitation page by the author Simmons and the artist Kathleen McNeil Sherman. Winner of 1990 Bram Stoker Award for best novel. The author's second novel. "... one of the more ambitious modern vampire novels and a successful rendering of the vampire theme from a fresh and original perspective." - Barron, Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-335.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, quarter leather with boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by Simmons, the "deluxe" edition. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition, first printing. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, etc.) slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly-covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena--in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's--outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt--after many, many centuries--is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for superimmunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture.... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition, first printing. "Simmons ... slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. It seems that the late dictator Ceauescu and his wonderful wife Elena -- in the pay of Romania's strigoi, the vampire family haunting Romania since the 1400's -- outlawed birth control so that orphanages could burgeon as living blood banks for needy vamps. Vampire ruler Vernor Deacon Trent (Lord Dracula), who has had Castle Dracula rebuilt -- after many, many centuries -- is tired of life, wishes to die and to invest his title in his offspring, the infant Joshua. However, Joshua, now being kept in an orphanage, is adopted by American research hematologist Kate Newman, who takes him to America. Using marvelous equipment, she discovers that Joshua has both an extraordinary, all-encompassing blood type and an organ in his stomach for digesting blood and rebuilding it as a vehicle for super immunity. Clearly, Joshua's blood, once the chemists can break it down, will supply agents that can lick AIDS, cancer, and you name it. (Simmons's strongest ploy is the superb panache of his immense and endless pedantry about blood types, which he treats as if Jesus were being reborn in this amazing blood gift.) But the strigoi chase down Kate and Joshua in the States, trash Kate's lab and research, and kidnap Joshua. Kate takes off for Romania in the company of a soon-to-resign Catholic priest (don't miss the bathtub scene as he breaks 18 years of celibacy), and once there fights her way to Castle Dracula on the eve of Joshua's investiture ... Toothsomely well written." - Kirkus review, May 1992.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons.
THE CROOK FACTORY.
New York: Avon Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A fictionalized version of the real life counter espionage and spy ring, known as the Crook Factory, that was set up by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba during World War II.
ENDYMION.
New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996, i.e. 1995]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to HYPERION (1989) and FALL OF HYPERION (1990). "...set more than 1,000 years from now, in an interstellar society that has already seen the rise and fall of a galaxy-spanning government known as the Hegemony. [In this novel] The protagonist, a good-hearted soldier named Raul Endymion, sets off on a quest with historic consequences: he must keep from harm a young girl who holds the key to a rebirth of human civilization. Arrayed against him is the power of the Pax, a militarized Catholic Church..." - New York Times Book Review, 28 January, 1996.
ENTROPY'S BED AT MIDNIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies specially bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards signed by Simmons.
ENTROPY'S BED AT MIDNIGHT.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Simmons.
THE FALL OF HYPERION.
New York: Doubleday / A Foundation Book, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to HYPERION. "...beautifully written and have few equals for sheer, large scale sense of wonder." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1033. Hugo and Nebula award nominee. Winner of the 1992 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel. Errata slip laid in.
FIRES OF EDEN.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy thriller involving the history and mythology of Hawaii told in two different time periods. Samuel Clemens is a featured character.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991. blue printed wrappers. Advance readers copy offset from the author's 381-page typescript.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York: Bantam, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. "THE HOLLOW MAN (September 1982 Omni as 'Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams'; much expanded 1992), though pure SF in its rationale, is structured (somewhat stiffly) to reflect the metaphysical journey of Dante Alighieri's protagonist in LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (written circa 1304-1321), containing ample references as well to the poetry of T S Eliot (1888-1965). It deals with a tortured man whose ESP powers are explained in terms of quantum physics and chaos-theory mathematics; a longish horror story is implanted in its midst." - John Clute, SFE (online).
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, quarter leather with boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by Simmons which comprises the "deluxe" edition. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
New York: Bantam, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. Science fiction thriller involving telepathy.
THE HOLLOW MAN.
[London]: Headline, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First British edition.
HYPERION with FALL OF HYPERION
New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland: Doubleday, A Foundation Book, [1989],[1990]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first two volumes of the HYPERION Cantos. HYPERION is the 1990 Hugo Award winner for best novel. "...one of the most complex space operas ever written." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1033. FALL OF HYPERION is signed and dated by Simmons on the title page. "...beautifully written and have few equals for sheer, large scale sense of wonder." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1033. Hugo and Nebula award nominee. Winner of the 1992 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel. Recently announced to be getting a film treatment by Bradley Cooper (11/2021).
ILIUM.
[New York]: Eos an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of an unknown number of copies of the publisher's limited edition, signed by Simmons on a bound in limitation page. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1034.
ILIUM.
[New York]: Eos an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the Locus Award for best novel. Hugo award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1034.
LOVEDEATH.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects five novellas including "Entropy's Bed at Midnight."