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NO BOUNDARIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition.
NO BOUNDARIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 122. Collects five stories, including "Vintage Season," in which time traveling thrill-seekers from the future accidentally annihilate modern man with a fatal plague virus, and "Two-Handed Engine," which depicts a dystopian future society dominated by machines. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 256-7.
BLACK GOD'S SHADOW.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Alicia Austin, cloth. First hardcover edition. Collects five Jirel of Joiry stories from Weird Tales magazine. First published as a paperback original in 1969 as JIREL OF JOIRY. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-252. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 805-07.
BLACK GOD'S SHADOW.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Alicia Austin, cloth. First edition. Signed by Moore on the title page. Collects five Jirel of Joiry stories from Weird Tales magazine. First published as a paperback original in 1969 as JIREL OF JOIRY. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-252. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 805-07.
JUDGMENT NIGHT.
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding. Story collection, all first appeared in Astounding magazine. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-130.
NORTHWEST OF EARTH.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Moore on front free endpaper: "For Jean & Julie Schwartz / with the best wishes of / C.L. Moore." Very nice association from a fine writer to an important editor, agent and fan in the field of science fiction. Julie Schwartz was a fanzine publisher (along with close friend Mort Weisinger), opened the first literary agency to specialize in SF authors (also with Weisinger) and later became an editor at DC comics and played a major role in the revival of their super-hero line in the late 1950s. Collects seven stories, five featuring Northwest Smith and two with Jirel of Joiry. All first published in Weird Tales magazine. The Jirel stories are notable as being pulp fiction's first sword-and-sorcery Amazonian warrior. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1191. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 793.
SHAMBLEAU AND OTHERS.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects three Jirel of Joiry and four Northwest Smith stories. Jirel of Joiry introduces a female lead character into the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre. The Northwest Smith are science fiction stories set in the future, Smith is a space pilot and a oft time smuggler. All the stories here were first published in Weird Tales magazine. Concerning the Jirel stories, Schlobin in The Literature of Fantasy (p. 179) writes "Jirel's admirable courage in the face of horror and helplessness make her an exciting and dynamic figure, and Moore's descriptions, settings and dark devices are striking and original." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1191. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 794.
SHAMBLEAU AND OTHERS.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects three Jirel of Joiry and four Northwest Smith stories. Jirel of Joiry introduces a female lead character into the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre. The Northwest Smith are science fiction stories set in the future, Smith is a space pilot and a oft time smuggler. All the stories here were first published in Weird Tales magazine. Concerning the Jirel stories, Schlobin in The Literature of Fantasy (p. 179) writes "Jirel's admirable courage in the face of horror and helplessness make her an exciting and dynamic figure, and Moore's descriptions, settings and dark devices are striking and original." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1191. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 794.
THE CHALLENGE FROM BEYOND.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. New edition. In 1935 Fantasy Magazine asked 5 weird fiction writers and 5 science fiction writers to write two collaborative stories around the title The Challenge From Beyond. Presented here is both versions. (Necronomincon Press previously published this in an illustrated edition in 1978).
JUDGMENT NIGHT: A SELECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Gnome Press Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition, second binding of blue boards with spine panel lettered in dark blue. Space opera assembled from five novellas, "Judgment Night," "Paradise Street," "Promised Land," "The Code," and "Heir Apparent." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-784.
JUDGMENT NIGHT: A SELECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Gnome Press Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition, second binding of blue boards with spine panel lettered in dark blue. Space opera assembled from five novellas, "Judgment Night," "Paradise Street," "Promised Land," "The Code," and "Heir Apparent." All first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-784.
THE BRASS RING.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946]. Octavo, illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. The authors first book and first mystery novel. Hard boiled.
THE DAY HE DIED.
New York: Bantam Books, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 306. Mystery novel, one of two using the Padgett pseudonym.