New York: Gnome Press Publishers, later Gnome Press, Inc., [1951-1953]. Octavo, three volumes, first volume bound in cloth, others in boards. First editions, first printings, bindings, and dust jackets where required. The first three volumes of the Foundation series, awarded a special Hugo in 1966 for best all-time series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 819-31.  Item #19169

[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. "...is a complex tale told at a scherzo pace, conflating several plotlines – one a bravura narration in dyslexic English – into a neatly planned climax during which the purpose of a terrestrial Macrostructure is revealed, a Far Future world is saved, folk are reunited, the dead walk as do the Uploaded, and every living being is sling-shot into a new paradigm at the end of things." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.  Item #23158

[London]: Orbit, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel of the "Culture" universe, setting of earlier books CONSIDER PHLEBAS (1987) and THE PLAYER OF GAMES (1988). "A female agent of the peace-loving, star-spanning Culture travels the planets to find an old warrior who may help save a world. Alternating flashback chapters tell us of the warrior's violent history." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 397. "Iain M Banks's novel Use of Weapons has a narrative structure that, if it were not a work of science fiction, would qualify it as the most "literary" of literary fiction." - Guardian review, 20 July, 2012 by John Mullan. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #17.  Item #23156

New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-vi 1 [2] 3-307 [308], fly leaf front and rear, ten inserted plates of film stills, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. The 1928 silent thriller Spies (Spione), a UFA production, was directed by Fritz Lang, his first film after Metropolis. An under appreciated film production which was adapted by his wife from her story. The film starred Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus.  Item #23153

New York: The Viking Press, [1960]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. "...the novel stands out for Beagle's use of character and dialogue, ranging here from humans to animals to ghosts." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-26. Book review/reader's report material laid in. Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature 4A-22. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #24. Barron (ed.), Horror Literature 4-25. Tymm (et. al.), Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection (pg. 50). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 74.  Item #23150

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1972]. First edition. Collects twenty-four stories by Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Brian Aldiss, Fritz Leiber and others as well as two novels, Bester's The Demolished Man and Sturgeon's More Than Human. "The short fiction, largely drawn from the three American SF magazines is of high quality..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-444.  Item #23147

New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Planetary colonists damage natives and their habitat. Winner of the 1973 Hugo Award for best Novella when it was first published in the anthology AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS (Harlan Ellison, ed.). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-646. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 341. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2492-96.  Item #23145

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-401 [402: blank, 403-404: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Lancelot Speed, light blue cloth, front stamped in white, gold and orange, spine stamped in white, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, t.e.g. First edition. Collects eight stories of which four are supernatural. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 365. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 75. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-51. Bleiler (1978), p. 41. Reginald 02817. Wright (III) 974.  Item #23143

New York, London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-343 [344: blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by Robert A. Graef,. original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore edge untrimmed. First edition. Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel translated into English. WUNDERERWELTEN (1911) is a boys' book that "takes its spaceship crew to Mars and finally, at several times the speed of light, to Alpa Centauri, where they explore an Eden-like planet. Its content is quite advanced for 1911, but it is ill written." – Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 762. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1428. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 149. Bleiler (1978), p. 132. Reginald 09541. See Bloch (2002) 2021.  Item #23139

London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [1931]. Small octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-252 [253-254: ads] [255-256: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original maroon boards with gold lettering and decorative motif on front and spine panels. First printing of this British film tie-in edition. Movie tie-in edition with photograph of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster from the 1931 Universal film directed by James Whale printed on the front panel of the jacket. This was number 364 of the Readers Library, a series of cheap books which were sold in chain stores like Woolworth as well as book stores.  Item #23137

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Man born in 1940 dies in 1865 attempting to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-314. Reginald 12447.  Item #23134

New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In 2142 a circus which has fallen on hard times gets permission to go on a galactic tour.  Item #23132

New York: TOR, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Large (700 page) original anthology that collects eleven long stories by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan and others. All fit into stories of worlds they have established. King's contribution is the first publication of "The Little Sisters of Eluria," George Martin's story is in his "Song of Fire and Ice" series, Le Guin contribution is an Earthsea story, Robert Jordan's contributes a "Wheel of Time" story and so on.  Item #23130