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MOTHER WAS A LOVELY BEAST: A FERAL MAN ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION AND FACT ABOUT HUMANS RAISED BY ANIMALS.
Radnor, Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company, [1974]. cloth. First edition. Collection of fiction by Gene Wolfe, Mack Reynolds, William L. Chester and others, with introductory essay on feral man by Farmer and extracts from his memoirs of "Lord Greystoke."
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER...
Boulder, CO: The Aspen Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Tarzan-Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER...
Boulder, CO: The Aspen Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Tarzan-Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Review slip and promotional card laid in.
THE BOOK OF PHILIP JOSE FARMER.
Morley, West Yorkshire: The Elmfield Press, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Offset from the DAW paperback edition (1973). Story collection.
THE CLASSIC PHILIP JOSE FARMER 1952-1964 ...
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Small octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories.
DAYWORLD.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel based on Farmer's short story, "The-Sliced-Crosswise-Only-On-Tuesday-World." "In an overpopulated world of the thirty-fifth century, citizens are allowed to live a normal life just one day a week: the other six days are spent in suspended animation. Our hero is an illegal 'daybreaker,' a man with seven different identities." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, pp. 91-2. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-208. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 428.
THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second book of the "Riverworld" series, sequel to To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-210.
THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed label by Farmer laid in. Second book of the "Riverworld" series, sequel to TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO (1971). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-393. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1809-16.
A FEAST UNKNOWN...
North Hollywood, Calif. An Essex House Original, [1969]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Essex House 0121. Paperback original. Signed by Farmer. A Tarzan pastiche with adult content. Postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-389. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-99. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 44.
FLESH.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Nice three-quarter page signed inscription by Farmer to "Jean" on front free end paper. First printing of the revised text.
THE GREEN ODYSSEY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback issue. Ballantine Books 210. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-390.
LORD TYGER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lengthy inscription by Farmer on the front free end paper. A Tarzan pastiche.
THE MAGIC LABYRINTH...
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fourth "Riverworld" novel. Precedes the Phantasia Press limited edition. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-393. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1809-16.
NOTHING BURNS IN HELL.
New York: Forge, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Violent detective novel, with some humor by Farmer, in the vein of Tarantino.
TARZAN ALIVE: A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GREYSTOKE...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Farmer on the half title page. Fictional biography of Tarzan, Lord Greystoke and his familial lineage to many other characters.
TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First book of the "Riverworld" series. Winner of the 1972 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165.
TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First book of the "Riverworld" series. Winner of the 1972 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165.
TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First book of the "Riverworld" series. Winner of the 1972 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1809-16.
TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Roger Zelazny. First book of the "Riverworld" series. Winner of the 1972 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-165. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1809-16.
THE UNREASONING MASK.
New York: Putnam's, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First trade edition.
THE UNREASONING MASK.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Farmer. "Phil is at top form here with his spaceship captain Ramstan, the bionic [partially], spacer al-Buraq, a wide variety of life-forms, civilizations, planets, menaces... He has conceived of the universe as a kind of biological entity, and intelligent, advanced-civilization life as a disease. Thus when an automatic life-killer begins attacking human-occupied worlds... This wild, mind-blowing novel will give you different viewpoints from a variety of angles. Space adventure of the best kind." - from a review by Richard Geis in Science Fiction Review #41, November, 1981. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-394. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 96.
THE WORLD OF TIERS Volume One: THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES, THE GATES OF CREATION, [with] THE WORLD OF TIERS Volume Two: A PRIVATE COSMOS, BEHIND THE WALLS OF TERRA, and THE LAVALITE WORLD.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., n.d., [1981]. Octavo, two volumes, jacket art by Boris Vallejo, boards. First combined edition and first hardcover editions of last two titles of volume two. First printing with code "L 44" on pages 311 and 531. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Volume two has an introduction by Roger Zelazny. "These books deal with a decadent race who once mastered all science. Each Lord, as he calls himself, can now literally build himself a private universe -- a pocket universe, as it is called -- to his own design and with its own laws of physics ... The books are totally lacking in significance, relevance, or symbolism -- and they are just pure fun to read." - Lester del Rey, review in Analog, December, 1977.
STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. With "Noise" by Jack Vance and "The Lovers" by Philip Jose Farmer. This is Farmer's first published science fiction story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.