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A TASTE OF TREASURE.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
THE TOFF AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA.
New York: Walker and Company, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
BORDERS OF INFINITY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, frontispiece by Ray Miller, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Bujold on a special limitation page. New introduction by James Gunn. A Miles Vorkosigan adventure. A section of this novel comprises "The Mountains of Mourning," winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-186.
THE VOR GAME.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, frontispiece by Jeff Fisher, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Bujold on a special limitation page. New introduction by James Gunn. Winner of 1991 Hugo award for best novel. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Issued the same month as the Science Fiction Book Club edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-186.
ELVISSEY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. First U. S. hardcover edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Womack on a special limitation page. Introduction by James Gunn. Time travelers kidnap Elvis Presley. Part of the author's "Dryco" series. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2002]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction James Gunn. Second book in the Ender saga, sequel to ENDER'S GAME. Winner of the 1986 Nebula award and 1987 Hugo award for best novel. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-217.
GATEWAY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, Illustration by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Collector's edition signed by Pohl on a special leaf. New introduction by Algis Budrys. First book of the Heechee series. Winner of the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards for best novel. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-860. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 858-64.
THE HUMANOIDS.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2003]. Octavo, illustrations by David G. Klein, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by F. M. Busby. Sequel to "With Folded Hands" (ASF, 1947), this was first published in ASF in 1948 as "...And Searching Mind." "Intelligent robots, instructed to let no come to harm, serve their masters so well that they institute a new tyranny of kindness which provokes rebellion." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 178. "...early in the genre's timetable of speculative insights, the [Humanoids] series confronted the near impossibility of assessing the pluses and minuses of a humanoid (i.e., AI-driven) hegemony over the world, however benevolent." - SFE online. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1257. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 34-6. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 981-85. In 333.
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2012]. Octavo, illustration by Larry Schwinger, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Basis for the film starring David Bowie. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-378.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2003]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by David Brin. "Mammoth attempt to picture the world as it may well be in the early twenty-first century -- overpopulated, over automated, and torn by riots and muggings. The pop sociologist Chad C. Mulligan comments wryly on it all, and he is the nearest thing to a hero in this densely peopled book. Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows surface bravura from John Dos Passos's social realist USA trilogy (1930-1936)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 343. Winner of the 1969 Hugo award for best novel. 1968 Nebula nominee. Winner of the 1970 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel and the French Prix Apollo. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-175. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
WAY STATION.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2002]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Hugo award winner 1964. New introduction by Jack Williamson. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1032. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 39. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2429-32.
THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Barry Malzberg. 1955 Hugo Award winner. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series.
CITY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Winner of the 1953 International Fantasy Award. New introduction by Robert Silverberg. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1029. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 369-73.
THE DISPOSSESSED: AN AMBIGUOUS UTOPIA.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, two color illustrations by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Fred Pohl. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary ... [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Introduction by George Zebrowski. "A computer named PHAEDRA orchestrates the bizarre happenings in this fantasy patterned after the myth of Orpheus." - Mowshowitz, p. 304. Winner of the 1967 Nebula award for best novel (tied with FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON). 1968 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-316. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 703-7.
LITTLE, BIG.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1997]. Octavo, frontispiece by Alan Clark, full leather, a.e.g. First U. S. hardcover edition. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts ..." "A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. Part of the "Masterpieces of Fantasy" series. This edition precedes the SFBC edition of the same year. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-85. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels #76.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by James Gunn. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2001]. Octavo, frontispiece by Kent Bash, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by James Gunn. Winner of the Nebula award for best novel, 1995 (first published as a paperback original). The book was also a finalist for the Hugo award. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series.
FALLING FREE.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2001]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Winner of the 1988 Nebula award for best novel. First published as a paperback original, also this is not the first hardcover edition, it was preceded by the Science Fiction Book Club edition published in 1994. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-185.
ENDER'S GAME.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Signed by Card on a special page. New introduction by George Slusser. Winner of the 1985 Nebula and 1986 Hugo awards for best novel. Made into a feature film (2013). Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-217. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #2.
GREEN MARS.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2000]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Signed by Robinson and Pamela Sargent (introduction) on the title page. Signed label by the artist Ron Walotsky affixed to title page. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Second volume of the Mars trilogy. Hugo award winner, Nebula award nominee.
ALTERNATE WORLDS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J. Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1975]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Large oversize (coffee-table book) volume, profusely illustrated history of science fiction from the earliest days. Gunn, award-winning SF author and respected literary scholar, devoted many years to collecting the often rare photographs that compliment the highly readable text. "A readable and concise popular history..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-62. Winner of a special Hugo Award in 1976.
THE SKYLARK OF SPACE.
Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. Second edition. "The archetypal pulp space opera, first published in AMAZING STORIES in 1928." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-114. "This was the story that revealed the potential of the galaxy as a vast playground for action-adventure fiction." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1053. 500 copies printed. Smith's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech.
FIRST LENSMAN.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second book of the Lensman series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1051. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87. In 333.
GALACTIC PATROL.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. Part of the limited issue, but one of the very few copies with inserted printed limitation leaf with white circle for limitation number blacked out to be used by Smith as personal author's copies. This copy is warmly inscribed to Al Hodgas. The third book in the Lensman series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1051. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87. In 333.