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Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, [1977]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. Original anthology, contains the novella "Freitzke's Turn." The other authors included are Keith Roberts and James Gunn. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, B104.
THE DYING EARTH.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1976. Octavo, illustrations by George Barr, illustrated cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 111 numbered copies signed by Vance and artist George Barr. Additionally inscribed by publisher Tim Underwood in the title page. "Little noticed at initial publication, this work launched a whole sub-genre of fictional futures in which magic replaces science..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-185. "...Vance was beginning to compose the kind of story that would eventually make him one of the two or three most deeply influential authors in the sf and fantasy genres after World War Two" - Malcolm J. Edwards and John Clute, SFE (online). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-345. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 70. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A1i. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 11. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1066. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 441-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 665-70. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 168-69.
EMPHYRIO.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Charles F. Miller Publisher, 1995. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the Vance. "A young man attempts to free the people of the semi-ruined city of Ambroy on the planet Halma from the benign oppression of the Lords...This is one of his best novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 118. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1163. See Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A34 (this edition issued after the bilbliography was printed).
MORREION: A TALE OF THE DYING EARTH.
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Large octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Promotional card for the book signed by Stephen Fabian laid in. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A62.
PORTS OF CALL.
New York: Tor, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition. Part of the "Gaean Reach" series, set in the same universe as THE NIGHT LAMP.
RHIALTO THE MARVELLOUS.
New York: A Baen Book Distributed by Simon & Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First trade edition. Collects "The Murthe," "Fader's Waft," and "Morreion," three tales of The Dying Earth. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-380. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A72b.
TO LIVE FOREVER.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Charles F. Miller Publisher, 1995. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the Vance. "A young man attempts to free the people of the semi-ruined city of Ambroy on the planet Halma from the benign oppression of the Lords...This is one of his best novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 118. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1163. See Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A34 (this edition issued after the bilbliography was printed).
FOUR MEN CALLED JOHN.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1976. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. This novel was first issued in the U. S. as a paperback original in 1964 as THE FOUR JOHNS. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A14j.
A ROOM TO DIE IN.
London: Kinnell, 1987. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. First published as a paperback original in 1965. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A19i.
TAKE MY FACE.
New York: Mystery House, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Uncommon mystery novel, a murder mystery set in California. One of the author's first two published mysteries, both using pseudonyms. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A7.
THE DEADLY ISLES.
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel set in Tahiti and the South Seas. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A33.
THE DEADLY ISLES.
Roslyn, NY: Published for the Detective Book Club by Walter J. Black, Inc., [1969]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First combined edition. Combined reprint of the Vance title with THE CAMELOT CAPER by Elizabeth Peters, GIRL WATCHER'S FUNERAL by Hugh Pentecost. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A33b.
THE DEADLY ISLES.
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel set in Tahiti and the South Seas. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A33.
THE FOX VALLEY MURDERS.
Indianapolis, New York, Kansas City: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first Joe Bain mystery novel. "This first in the series has its flaws; notably a little fuzziness in the characterization and a couple of slips in California law; but San Rodrigo County is wonderfully real, and so it Bain-as, in a fresh kind of procedural story, he tries to cope at once with a murder and a county election." - Anthony Boucher, from NY Times book review, July 3, 1966. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A24.
THE HOUSE ON LILY STREET: A MURDER MYSTERY.
San Francisco, California/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Signed by Vance on the title page. Mystery set in Oakland in the 1960s. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A55.
THE HOUSE ON LILY STREET: A MURDER MYSTERY.
San Francisco, California/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Mystery set in Oakland in the 1960s. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A55.
THE HOUSE ON LILY STREET: A MURDER MYSTERY.
San Francisco, California/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Mystery set in Oakland in the 1960s. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A55.
THE HOUSE ON LILY STREET: A MURDER MYSTERY.
San Francisco, California/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Mystery set in Oakland in the 1960s. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A55.
THE MAN IN THE CAGE.
New York: Random House, [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of Mystery Writers Edgar Award for best first novel 1960. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A10.
THE MAN IN THE CAGE.
New York: Random House, [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of Mystery Writers Edgar Award for best first novel 1960. "In the Ambler tradition of plunging an innocent bystander into the thick of international finagling, it involves an American engineer in the passage of arms to Algerian rebels. Ingenious in action, vivid in local color, it brings off the rare trick of presenting a hero who is admirably resourceful physically and mentally without any hint of the irritating and incredible superman." - Anthony Boucher, NY Times, April 10, 1960. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A10.
THE MAN IN THE CAGE.
Roslyn, NY: Published for the Detective Book Club by Walter J. Black, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First combined edition. Combined reprint of the Vance title with KEPT WOMEN CAN'T QUIT by A. A. Fair and DEAD ON ARRIVAL by Lee Thayer. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A33b.
THE VIEW FROM CHICKWEED'S WINDOW: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Signed by Vance on the title page. Mystery novel set in San Francisco. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A56.
THE VIEW FROM CHICKWEED'S WINDOW: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Signed by Vance on the title page. Mystery novel set in San Francisco. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A56.
THE VIEW FROM CHICKWEED'S WINDOW: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Mystery novel set in San Francisco. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A56.
THE VIEW FROM CHICKWEED'S WINDOW: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Signed by Vance on the title page. Mystery novel set in San Francisco. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A56.