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NEBULA AWARD STORIES TWO.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories by Richard McKenna, Bob Shaw, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
FOUR FUTURES: FOUR ORIGINAL NOVELLAS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of four stories based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov.
THE LIFESHIP.
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A sabotaged space ship is destroyed and the few survivors make it to the only lifeship, designed to get to the nearest planet.
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (SEQUEL TO FRANKENSTEIN).
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-252 [253-256] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original decorated blue-green boards, spine and front cover stamped in gold. First edition. Copies bound in cloth with the Queensway Press imprint were intended for the library market while this simultaneous cheaper issue with the Readers Library imprint were sold in Woolworth's for 6d. Novel based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. From George Locke's introduction to the American edition from Bookfinger, he provides the following information: After the movie was completed it was realized that no book existed for a tie-in. The Hutchinson (U. K.) publishing group which owned the Readers Library imprint commissioned author Michael Harrison to produce a novel. Mr. Harrison was given three weeks to produce a finished work. Harrison started working from a shooting script for the film which contained not only the dialog but the shooting details also. After getting bogged down following the script and working under deadline Harrison decided to ignore the script (but not the story). "...the remaining work represented so radical a departure from the script that the finished book was to all intents and purposes original fiction." Harrison took his pseudonym from a public house, "The Egremont Arms." Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 53-4. Bleiler (1978), p. 68. Reginald 04717.
PRINCESS SAYRANE: A ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OF PRESTER JOHN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-313 [314] [315-316: blank], four inserted plates with color illustrations by Harold H. Betts, printed throughout in red and black, original decorated red-brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, decorated endpapers. First edition. Romance novel set in ancient Egypt. Bleiler (1948), p. 142. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-297.
THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL ANTHOLOGY.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects thirteen stories by Poul Anderson, Isaa Asimaov, Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, and others. Includes "Black Sheep Astray" by Mack Reynolds.
NOVA 2.
New York: Walker and Company, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting fourteen stories by Robert Sheckley, Frank M. Robinson, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, John Sladek, Brian Aldiss, and others. Includes "The Old Folks" by James Gunn and "East Wind, West Wind" by Frank M. Robinson.
SF: AUTHORS' CHOICE 4.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas M. Disch, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, and others with an introduction by each author.
THE DALETH EFFECT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1970]. First edition. "The scientist who discovers antigravity is forced to flee from Israel in order to stop his invention becoming a weapon of war. One of Harrison's more effective SF thrillers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [85]. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-199.
THE ETHICAL ENGINEER.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. First published in the U.S. as a paperback, titled DEATHWORLD 2. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-83.
INVASION: EARTH.
New York: Ace Books, [1982]. pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. With an alien spacecraft crash landing into Central Park the Earth is now in the middle of an interstellar war.
THE MEN FROM P.I.G. AND R.O.B.O.T.
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Two humorous stories of two divisions of the Patrol, a protective organization for Earth colonies. The involve the Porcine Interstellar Guard and the Robot Obstrusion Battalion-Omega Three.
PLANET OF NO RETURN.
New York: A Wallaby Book Published by Simon & Schuster, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Sequel to PLANET OF THE DAMNED. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 407.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S REVENGE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel by a writer better known for his science fiction work. The U.S. edition precedes the U.K. hardcover.
RETURN TO EDEN.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1988]. Ocatavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The third novel in the "West of Eden" trilogy. Writing of WEST OF EDEN: "An epic alternate world scenario: Harrison posits a time-line in which the dinosaurs did not die out but instead survived to develop saurian civilization. In time, this advance dinosaur culture comes into conflict with an emergent human race." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 415. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-501.
SENSE OF OBLIGATION.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "A very dark planetary romance whose harsh dystopian culture is revealed to be under the sway of an alien parasite." - Malcolm J. Edwards and John Clute, SFE (online). Issued earlier in the U.S. as PLANET OF THE DAMNED (1962). The sequel is PLANET OF NO RETURN (1981). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-192. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 155. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 283.
SKYFALL.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition.
SPACESHIP MEDIC.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. A spaceship transiting the moon to mars is hit by a meteor. The senior ship's staff are killed and a junior medical officer becomes in charge.
THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT GETS DRAFTED.
Toronto, New York, London... Bantam Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
A STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN.
London: Titan Books Ltd., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Harrison. Young Jim DiGriz starts his career in crime. He purposely robs a bank on the planet Bit O'Heaven in order to go to jail to learn from master criminals, only to discover master criminals tend not to get caught. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-193.
STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1973]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A parodic space opera which goes way over the top -- sexually and otherwise." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 346.
THE TECHNICOLOR TIME MACHINE.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. First edition. "Movie producers get hold of a time machine, and decide to shoot a Viking epic on location - in the 11th century AD. A thoroughly madcap romp in its author's best vein." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 366.
WEST OF EDEN.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1984]. Ocatavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first novel in the "West of Eden" trilogy. "An epic alternate world scenario: Harrison posits a time-line in which the dinosaurs did not die out but instead survived to develop saurian civilization. In time, this advance dinosaur culture comes into conflict with an emergent human race." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 415. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-501.
WINTER IN EDEN.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1986]. Ocatavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The second novel in the "West of Eden" trilogy. "An epic alternate world scenario: Harrison posits a time-line in which the dinosaurs did not die out but instead survived to develop saurian civilization. In time, this advance dinosaur culture comes into conflict with an emergent human race." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 415. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-501.
THE EXPLOITS OF THE CHEVALIER DUPIN.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection featuring pastiches of Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin.