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A CANTICLE FOR P. SCHUYLER MILLER [caption title].
Newark, N.J. Sam Moskowitz, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-11 [12: blank], mimeographed from typewritten copy, pictorial front wrapper (no back wrapper as issued), stapled. First edition. Limited printing of "not over 300 copies." This copy is signed by Moskowitz. Tribute and brief biography.
SCIENCE FICTION BY GASLIGHT: A HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION IN THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, 1891-1911.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty-six selections from American and British periodicals arranged by motif. The 36-page introduction, one of Moskowitz's most important contributions to the study of the history of SF, surveys the early history of the mass-circulation, general interest English-language magazine and examines themes and extent of a popular literary form of the period. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-70.
UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A history and anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey magazines 1912-1920.
EXPLORING OTHER WORLDS.
New York: Collier Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. AS 551. Paperback original. Collects eight stories, most first published in pulp magazines, by Poul Anderson, Eando Binder, Fredric Brown and others.
MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories with emphasis on golden-age SF by Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, John W. Campbell, John Wyndham, Henry Kuttner, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Includes fiction by many of the writers profiled in Moskowitz's critical study, SEEKERS OF TOMORROW (1966). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-450.
MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Additionally signed by contributors: John W. Campbell, Jr., Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague de Camp, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Philip Jose Farmer. Collects twenty-one stories with emphasis on golden-age SF by Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, John W. Campbell, John Wyndham, Henry Kuttner, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Includes fiction by many of the writers profiled in Moskowitz's critical study, SEEKERS OF TOMORROW (1966). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-450.
UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS: A HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF "THE SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE" IN THE MUNSEY MAGAZINES, 1912-1920.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] 1-433 [434: blank], cloth. First edition. The valuable 143-page historical introduction is a continuation of Moskowitz's examination of SF in popular magazines begun in SCIENCE FICTION BY GASLIGHT (1968), though the survey here is restricted to American periodicals with emphasis on the Munsey group. Fiction selections include the original magazine texts of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, A. Merritt and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-71.
THE VORTEX BLASTERS.
[New York]: A Macfadden-Bartell Book, [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Macfadden Books 60-325. Selection of stories from MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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SCIENCE FICTION IN OLD SAN FRANCISCO: HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FROM 1854 TO 1890 [and] INTO THE SUN & OTHER STORIES.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1980. Octavo, two volumes: [1-12] 13-16 [17-18] 19-255 [256: blank]; [1-8] 9-13 [14-16] 17-253 [254-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations, cloth. First editions. Volume I is the HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FROM 1854 TO 1890 by Moskowitz; volume II is INTO THE SUN & OTHER STORIES, a collection of short fiction by Robert Duncan Milne, edited by Moskowitz. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-769 and 9-132. Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 568.
EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE: SHAPERS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Collection of articles on the early science fiction writers, Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells, Doyle, Burroughs, Lovecraft, Weinbaum, Wylie and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-191.
THE IMMORTAL STORM: A HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM ...
Atlanta: The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Preceded by a 1951 paperbound mimeographed edition limited to 150 copies. A very personal view of fandom, but still the best portrayal of this small, but influential group of SF activists. Contains information on fanzines published in the 1930s and 1940s not available elsewhere. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 9-61.