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COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933–January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19.
OF WORLDS BEYOND: THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE FICTION WRITING.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. This edition includes a useful index and adds a two-page "foreword" by John Carnell. Seven essays by Robert A. Heinlein, John Taine, Jack Williamson, A. E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Edward E. Smith, and John W. Campbell, Jr. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-54.
OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA ...
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 9-417 [418: blank] [note: complete despite gap in pagination], illustrations, cloth. First edition. An informal history of the SF book field in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, then almost totally the providence of the amateur specialist publisher, set against the activities of an early fan, writer and SF specialty publisher (Eshbach was founder and publisher of Fantasy Press). Chapter 14, "The Books They Published," pages 343-388, provides a valuable bibliographical checklist (with print runs where known) for selected specialty presses that commenced operation prior to 1970. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-54.
TYRANT OF TIME.
Reading: Fantasy Press, Inc., [1955]. Octavo, cover art Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Story collection.
TYRANT OF TIME.
Reading: Fantasy Press, Inc., [1955]. Octavo, cover art Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Story collection.