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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MEN AGAINST THE STARS.
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed to Joe Wrzos by artist Edd Cartier. 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 FOUNDATION.
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.
THE DEAN KOONTZ COMPANION.
London: Headline, 1994. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Material by and about Dean Koontz and his writing. Includes a lenghty interview, information about film and television work, reprints his first published short story, etc.
BASEBALL 3000.
New York: Elsevier/Nelson Books, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of SF stories exploring baseball.
LADY ON THE CASE.
New York: Bonanza, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anthology starring the world's greatest female sleuths.
URBAN HORRORS.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
URBAN HORRORS.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Story collection featuring Bradbury, Matheson, Leiber, Dick, Beaumont, etc.
THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: STORIES IN HONOR OF RAY BRADBURY.
[New York]: Roc, [1991]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Mostly original anthology collecting twenty-two stories utilizing Bradbury's fictional settings by Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, Charles Beaumont, Gregory Benford, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Orson Scott Card, and others.
URBAN HORRORS ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Number 8 of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Collects eighteen stories by Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
URBAN HORRORS ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Collects eighteen stories by Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL ...
New York: Arbor House, [1981]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects forty-one stories by Stephen King, Thomas M. Disch, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Sheckley, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, and others, with 9-page introduction by Stephen King.