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London: MacGibbon & Kee, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control" - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-188. "Six interweaving tales set in twenty-first century New York, a scene of high unemployment and heartless 'welfareism.' The book deals convincingly (and unusually) with the marginalized members of a future society. The result is moving and at times harrowing: a masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 372, "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control. The most eloquent display of the pessimism that became newly acceptable in New Wave SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-346. 1974 Nebula nominee. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #66. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2774-77.
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London: MacGibbon & Kee, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Disch to writer Mike Dickenson on the front free end paper while at the Ted Hughes writing center in Yorkshire in 1978 ."Six interweaving tales set in twenty-first century New York, a scene of high unemployment and heartless 'welfareism.' The book deals convincingly (and unusually) with the marginalized members of a future society. The result is moving and at times harrowing: a masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 372, "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control. The most eloquent display of the pessimism that became newly acceptable in New Wave SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-346. 1974 Nebula nominee. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #66. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2774-77.
THE BUSINESSMAN: A TALE OF TERROR.
New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "First of an informal trilogy of satirical horror novels, all set in Minneapolis. In THE BUSINESSMAN, middle-aged middle-management drone Bob Glandier is haunted by absurd manifestations of the ghost of his murdered wife, her mother, and the poet John Berryman, all of who have met in the afterlife ... a slapstick spoof of modern horror fiction and the trend toward using the most banal aspects of ordinary life as springboards for supernatural experience." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-116. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-88. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-98. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 98. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 88.
CAMP CONCENTRATION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. In a near future American authoritarian dystopia "the hero, a poet, is inducted into a secret military experiment to maximize soldiers' intelligence. Infected with a syphilis-type bug he becomes a genius as his body begins to fall apart. There is a clever solution to his predicament. Erudite and witty, this is a very impressive modern recension of the Faust legend." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second series, p. 57. "A key work of avant-garde SF ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-343. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 162. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 56. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 309. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 277-82.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
New York: Berkley Publishing, 1967. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Science fiction novel involving matter transmission and multiple realities.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Disch on the title page. "A Mars-bound matter transmitter creates doppelgangers of everyone who passes through it -- though at first its users don't realize this. An amusing SF 'ghost' story, with some lovely moments. Lightweight, early Disch, but impeccably written." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 115.
FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). Collects seventeen stories. Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186.
FUNDAMENTAL DISCH.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects eighteen stories. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186.
THE GENOCIDES.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. The author's first book. 1965 Nebula Award nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-185.
GETTING INTO DEATH AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Good collection of stories from late 1960s-early 1970s. Content differs quite a bit from that of the 1973 British collection of the same title, many consider this a better body of work. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-99. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2060-4.
GETTING INTO DEATH AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Good collection of stories from late 1960s-early 1970s. Content differs quite a bit from that of the 1973 British collection of the same title, many consider this a better body of work. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-99. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 154. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2060-4.
THE MAN WHO HAD NO IDEA: A COLLECTION OF STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Disch on the title page to British poet Gavin Ewart (1916-1995). Ewart was a poet, editor and critic and had praise for Disch's poetry. Collects seventeen stories. The title story was a Hugo Award nominee and the story "Understanding Human Behavior" was a Nebula Award nominee. There is no American hardcover edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-344.
ON WINGS OF SONG.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Disch on the title page to British poet Gavin Ewart (1916-1995). Ewart was a poet, editor and critic and had praise for Disch's poetry. "A young couple escape the repressive "Farm Belt" states of twenty-first century Middle America. However, their experiments with machine-assisted out-of-body flight come to a tragic conclusion. A marvelous novel, richly entertaining." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 265. 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo nominee. Winner of the 1980 John W. Campbell Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-345. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-89. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 87. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 392.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWO H-BOMBS.
New York: Berkley Publishing, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Paperback original. Story collection. First published in England by Compact in 1966. The contents of this edition differ slightly, drops two stories from the English and adds two not published in the English edition.
THE PRIEST: A GOTHIC ROMANCE.
London: Millennium, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
RINGTIME.
West Branch, Iowa: Published by the Toothpaste Press, [1983]. Wrappers. First edition. One of 875 numbered copies.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.
UNDER COMPULSION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short fiction issued later in the U.S. as FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD (1971). Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers." - see Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-145.