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EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS.
New York: Harmony Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Collects five fantasy and SF stories.
TIME'S ARROW OR THE NATURE OF THE OFFENSE.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This novel by a well-known mainstream British novelist "is about a man who lives backwards in time from the present to World War II, thus experiencing the Nazi concentration camps as a benign event in which the dead are resurrected. As has been pointed out frequently, the central conceit of 'life-in-reverse' is an old one in SF, having been used by J. G. Ballard in his story 'Time of Passage' (1964), by Philip K. Dick in his novel COUNTER-CLOCK WORLD, etc. (Amis does in fact acknowledge a passage in Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE as his inspiration.) Nevertheless, a daring and effective book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 378. "Amis's novel of greatest SF interest ... TIME'S ARROW was, inevitably, received as a 'literary' text whose SF structure was embarrassing, a response itself embarrassing to contemporary readers; despite, or because of, its engagement with the engines of SF, the novel reads with all the clarity of the best century reportage." - John Clute.
THE SCIENCE FICTION WEIGHT-LOSS BOOK.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by R. A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Jack Vance, William Tenn, Kit Reed, Stephen King, and others. Includes "Gladys's Gregory" by John Anthony West and other dystopian tales.
100 GREAT FANTASY SHORT SHORT STORIES.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One hundred very short stories, most 2-5 pages, longest 6 pages. Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Jane Yolen, Clark Ashton Smith, Avram Davidson, H.P. Lovecraft, James Sallis, Katherine Maclean, and many others.
KONYETZ.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d., [1924]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-320, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and blind. First edition. Apocalyptic novel of world war, the Black Plague, and the end of the world. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1147. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Clarke, Voice Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Bleiler (1978), p. 105. Reginald 07664.
NEW LEGENDS.
New York: Tor, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Original anthology with sixteen stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, and others.
DEVIL TAKE ALL.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
FOUR CAME BACK...
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1968]. Octavo. First edition. Near future thriller which takes place on a space station in which a mysterious virus affects the crew.
THE LONG NIGHT.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Caidin, "To Ward: / With my hopes / for a few sleepless / nights -- / Martin." Dated in the author's hand January 29. 1956. Author's first science fiction novel. A nuclear holocaust novel. "...a terse and vivid step-by-step portrait of a family and town confronted with an atomic explosion and resultant firestorm..." - Smith (ed.): Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers (1981), pp. 96-97.
WAR FOR THE MOON.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. Octavo, numerous illustration ands photographs, cloth. First edition. Contemporary to the time period of the early race for the moon.
PHILIP K. DICK...
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Critical study with contributions from Thomas M. Disch, Patricia S. Warrick, Darko Suvin, Brian W. Aldiss, Hazel Pierce, Michael Bishop and others.
HARILEK: A ROMANCE. By "Ganpat" [pseudonym].
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv [1-3] 4-336 [337-338: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Ganpat's first novel. A lost race adventure story set in Sakaeland, an unknown region somewhere in the middle of the great deserts north of the Himalayas. "Arcadian utopia realized in Gobi desert." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 148. "Ganpat" wrote a number of adventure novels set in India and vicinity, including several lost race novels. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 198) observes that his work was "more authentic than Talbot Mundy's work, but inferior as fiction." Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 324. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 05750.
INVITATION TO MURDER.
[Arlington Hts., IL: Dark Harvest, 1991.]. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by the editors and contributors. Original anthology collecting eighteen stories by Bill Pronzini, John Lutz, Richard Laymon, Gary Brandner, Andrew Vachss, William F. Nolan, Rex Miller, Loren Estleman and others.
INVITATION TO MURDER.
[Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1991.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by the editors and contributors. Original anthology collecting eighteen stories by Bill Pronzini, John Lutz, Richard Laymon, Gary Brandner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William F. Nolan, Rex Miller, and others.
THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO.
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Alternate history concerning two divergent timelines, one in which the Catholic Church blocked the development of science in the 17th century and in 20th century Africa religion is still the dominate force. The other timeline concerns a post nuclear holocaust world. There is a anti-technological theme. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 381. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, 2nd edition, pp. 113.
ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE ...
New York: Gnome Press Inc. Publishers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects seven stories by Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, Theodore Sturgeon, Frederik Pohl, Malcolm Jameson, Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Edward Wellen, with introductions by Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
JOURNEY TO INFINITY.
New York: Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories, most first published in ASTOUNDING, by Jack Williamson, John D. MacDonald, Edward E. Smith, Fredric Brown, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, and others, arranged as a future history of mankind. Several depict dystopias: "Breakdown" by Jack Williamson and "Overthrow" by Cleve Cartmill. Includes "There Shall be Darkness" by C. L. Moore, abandoned colonies on Venus revert to a culture equivalent to that of Earth's Dark Ages, and "Metamorphosite" by Eric Frank Russell, a story set in the far future, "with its much-borrowed finale of apotheosis or transcendence" (ESF), in which pacifistic telepathic super humans from Earth make first contact with their less evolved human counterparts who migrated to other worlds in the distant past and built a Galactic Empire comprised of 4000 planets (an authoritarian dystopia with "planet wreckers" to keep its subjects under control) to avert a war between the two branches of mankind.
JOURNEY TO INFINITY.
New York: Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by publisher and editor Martin Greenberg on the front free end paper. Collects twelve stories, most first published in ASTOUNDING, by Jack Williamson, John D. MacDonald, Edward E. Smith, Fredric Brown, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, and others, arranged as a future history of mankind. Several depict dystopias: "Breakdown" by Jack Williamson and "Overthrow" by Cleve Cartmill. Includes "There Shall be Darkness" by C. L. Moore, abandoned colonies on Venus revert to a culture equivalent to that of Earth's Dark Ages, and "Metamorphosite" by Eric Frank Russell, a story set in the far future, "with its much-borrowed finale of apotheosis or transcendence" (ESF), in which pacifistic telepathic super humans from Earth make first contact with their less evolved human counterparts who migrated to other worlds in the distant past and built a Galactic Empire comprised of 4000 planets (an authoritarian dystopia with "planet wreckers" to keep its subjects under control) to avert a war between the two branches of mankind.
MEN AGAINST THE STARS.
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by editor/publisher Martin Greenberg. Collects twelve stories with conquest of space themes by Isaac Asimov, Manly Wade Wellman, Lewis Padgett, A. E. van Vogt, Hal Clement, L. Ron Hubbard, and others. The two Asimov stories in this collection are "Trends," his first published story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939 and "Bridle and Saddle," the first publication in hardcover one of the stories that would become FOUDATION.
THE ROBOT AND THE MAN ...
New York: The Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects ten stories by John D. MacDonald, Lewis Padgett, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher), A. E. van Vogt, Lester del Rey, and others. Includes "Robots Return" by Robert Moore Williams, "a parable of machine evolution whose robot protagonists, visiting from their home on Mars, cannot believe that flesh creatures could have created them back on Earth ..." - SFE (online).
TRAVELERS OF SPACE.
New York: Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the front free end paper by editor/publisher Martin Greenberg. Collects fourteen stories by Ray Bradbury, Hal Clement, William Tenn, P. Schuyler Miller, Fredric Brown, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson, and others. Includes 16 full-page color illustrations of aliens by Edd Cartier.
VAMPIRE DETECTIVES.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1995]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW No. 983. Original anthology.
FANTASTIC LIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY NOTABLE SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1981]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xi [xii-xiv] 1-215 [216-218: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], cloth. First edition. Collection of eight autobiographical essays by Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, R. A. Lafferty, Katherine MacLean, Barry N. Malzberg, Mack Reynolds, Margaret St. Clair, Norman Spinard, and A. E. van Vogt. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 10-169.
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: ORIGINAL STORIES BY EMINENT MYSTERY WRITERS.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting fifteen stories by Stephen King ("The Doctor's Case"), John Lutz, Gary Alan Ruse, Edward D. Hoch, Michael Harrison, Edward Wellen, and others.
BOULOGNE. A BASE IN FRANCE. BEING THIRTY-TWO DRAWINGS FROM THE SKETCH BOOK OF CAPT. MARTIN HARDIE.
London: A. & C. Black Limited, [1918]. Octavo, pp. [1-64], original white boards, title with illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. Reproduces 32 illustrations from the originals, 8 in color of various scenes from Boulogne. After the war Captain Hardie worked in the South Kensington Museum (later Victoria and Albert Museum) where he was involved in creating a exhibition of posters from the War in 1920. He later headed departments of painting, engraving, illustration, and design where he helped build a world class graphics collection.