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HARVEST HOME.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...is the best of the 'fertility cult' novels by a wide margin." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-305. Basis for a television production "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home." Barron (ed), Fantasy & Horror (1999) 6-375. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 690-94. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-210. Winter list, p. 271.
THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1968]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The final book of a trilogy preceded by THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (1967) and THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD (1967). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1967]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The second book of a trilogy preceded by THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (1967) and followed by THE POOL OF FIRE (1968). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1967]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The first book of a trilogy followed by THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD (1967) and THE POOL OF FIRE (1968). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
HOLDING WONDER.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories including two with "The People."
THE WANDERER.
Walker and Company, Dennis Dobson, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. The Wanderer, a planet-sized starship, makes a sudden appearance near Earth's moon. It causes flooding, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth, and millions of the planet's inhabitants die. After breaking up the Moon for fuel and a battle with the Stranger, a much larger police planet, the Wanderer disappears into hyperspace, its quest unresolved, its ultimate fate unknown. "Long, talky and enduring -- possibly Leiber's best SF work." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 408. Winner of the 1965 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-654. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 156. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 45. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2396-2401.
AMERICAN GODS.
[London: Headline Book Publishing, 2001]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Signed by Gaiman on the title page. "The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them (a type of thoughtform). Immigrants to the United States brought with them spirits and gods. The power of these mythological beings has diminished as people's beliefs wane. New gods have arisen, reflecting America's obsessions with media, celebrity, technology, and drugs, among other things." - Wikipedia. Nominated for virtually all the major genre awards it won the 2002 Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Bram Stoker awards. Now a major cable television serial.
A HANDFUL OF DARKNESS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed by Dick and also signed by Richard Lupoff, who wrote the introduction, on the title page. Text offset from that of the 1955 Rich and Cowan edition. New introduction by Richard A. Lupoff.
STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS.
New York: Tor, 2002. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Chiang on the title page. The author's first book. Collects eight stories, including "Liking What You See: A Documentary," a story original to this collection. Two of these stories, the title story and "Tower of Babylon" (his first published story) won Nebula awards and "Hell Is the Absence of God" won both Hugo and Nebula awards. "Story of Your Life," inspired the hit film Arrival, considered one of the best films of 2016, and winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. "...one of the most remarkable single collections to have been published in the sf field. Chiang received the John W Campbell Award for best new writer in 1992." - SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-239.
THE EYE OF HERON.
New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First separate U.S. edition. Inscribed and signed by Le Guin on the title page. First published in the original anthology MILLENNIAL WOMEN.
SHATTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Ellison on the title page. Publisher's two page promotional letter laid in. Collects sixteen stories. Includes "Jeffty is Five," Nebula Award winner, 1977 and Hugo Award winner, 1978 for best short story. The story also won the 1999 online Locus poll as best short story of all time. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-206.
STARDUST.
[New York: Spike / Avon Books, Inc., 1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Gaiman on the title page. This is the novel without the Vess illustrations. Basis for the 2007 film with Claire Danes and Charlie Cox.
NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.
CONSIDER PHLEBAS.
London: Macmillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-72.
AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS ...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First printing with code "N7" on page 760. Signed by Ellison on the half title page. Major original anthology with forty-six fictions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. A sequel to Ellison's classic DANGEROUS VISIONS (1967). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1335.
THE INCOMPLETE ENCHANTER.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. Octavo, jacket art by Boris Artzybasheff, cloth. First edition. The first volume in the adventures of Harold Shea. "His exploits are a perfect admixture of comedy and adventure, delightful to read." Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature 3-106. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-134. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature and Horror 5-79. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 489. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 768-72. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1031-36. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 58. Reginald 03995. See: Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, #7.
THE EARLY ASIMOV OR, ELEVEN YEARS OF TRYING.
Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Ross. Long time fan, professional editor, researcher and recipient of the First Fandom Hall of Fame (2016). Signed by Asimov to Joe Wrzos on the title half title page. Joseph Wrzos (1929-2023) was a long time fan, professional editor, researcher and recipient of the First Fandom Hall of Fame (2016). Collects twenty-seven stories (1939-1949) with autobiographical commentary by Asimov. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-45.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JACK VANCE: The Virtual Integral Edition (V.I.E.).
Oakland, CA: The Vance Integral Edition, 2002, 2005, 2006. Octavo, 47 volumes, full leather, top edge in gilt, marbled end papers, ribbon markers. First edition, first printings (save for COUP DE GRACE). Of a total of 600 (?) sets produced this is one of an unknown number of the leather bound "The Deluxe Edition." This set has no tipped in limitation page to volume 44 but does include the adhesive label signed by Vance with his image which was produced for the set. (The first 26 have a signed limitation page, stamped A-Z.) This set totals forty-seven volumes with the complete forty- four book set plus the two preview volumes: COUP DE GRACE AND OTHER STORIES (second printing, 2002) and THE LANGUAGES OF PAO with THE DRAGON MASTERS, and the final additional final volume with three Vance mystery novels written as Ellery Queen: STRANGE SHE HASN'T WRITTEN (THE FOUR JOHNS), DEATH OF A SOLITARY CHESS PLAYER (A ROOM TO DIE IN) and THE MAN WHO WALKS BEHIND (THE MADMAN THEORY). A massive multi year project which has produced the definitive edition of the works of Jack Vance. The publication has been arranged by dates of when the works were originally written. Original manuscripts were consulted for corrections, including title preferences. List of titles: 1. MAZARIAN THE MAGICIAN 2. THE WORLD THINKER AND OTHER STORIES 3. GADGET STORIES 4. THE RAPPAREE, BIG PLANET, VANDALS OF THE VOID 5. SON OF THE TREE AND OTHER STORIES 6. GOLDEN GIRL AND OTHER STORIES 7. GOLD AND IRON, CLARGES, THE LANGUAGES OF PAO 8. THE HOUSES OF ISZM AND OTHER STORIES 9. THE MIRACLE WORKERS, THE DRAGON MASTERS, THE LAST CASTLE 10. THE FLESH MASK, STRANGE PEOPLE, QUEER NOTIONS, BIRD ISLAND 11. THE HOUSE ON LILY STREET, THE VIEW FROM CHICKWEED'S WINDOW 12. BAD RONALD, THE DARK OCEAN 13. THE FOX VALLEY MURDERS, THE PLEASANT GROVE MURDERS 14. THE MAN IN THE CAGE, THE DEADLY ISLES 15. CUGEL THE CLEVER 16. THE BLUE WORLD 17. THE MOON MOTH AND OTHER STORIES 18. SPACE OPERA 19. THE MAGNIFICENT SHOWBOAT OF THE LOWER VISSEL RIVER, LUNE XXIII SOUTH, BIG PLANET 20. EMPHYRIO 21. TSCHAI 22. THE STAR KING 23. THE KILLING MACHINE 24. THE PALACE OF LOVE 25. THE FACE 26. THE BOOK OF DREAMS 27. DURDANE 28. THE DOMAINS OF KORYPHON 29. TRULLION: ALASTOR 2262 30. MARUNE: ALASTOR 993 31. WYST: ALASTOR 1716 32. THE DOGTOWN TOURIST AGENCY and FREITZKE'S TURN 33. MASKE: THAERY 34. RHIALTO THE MARVELOUS 35. CUGEL: THE SKYBREAK SPATTERLIGHT 36. SULDREN'S GARDEN 37. THE GREEN PEARL 38. MADOUC 39. ARAMINTA STATION 40. ECCE AND OLD EARTH 41. THROY 42. THE NIGHT LAMP 43. PORTS OF CALL, LURULU 44. WILD THYME AND VIOLETS, OTHER UNPUBLISHED WORKS and ADDENDA.
A ROSE FOR ECCLESIASTES.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The author's third book and first short story collection, issued earlier as a paperback original in the U.S. as Four For Tomorrow (1967). See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-514.
GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed by Herbert on the title page. Fourth Dune novel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 407. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-524.
THE ALIENS OF EARTH.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eighteen stories. "Slickly written, outwardly conventional sf and fantasy stories, but there's a certain slyness of tone which gives an additional value to many of them. - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 8. "As in her novels Kress proves to be a highly subversive writer, a burrower from within" - John Clute.
THE RAVINE: GREENTOWN ILLINOIS. A WALK ALONG THE RAVINE IN RAY BRADBURY'S DANDELION WINE, AS IT APPEARS IN 1976.
Chicago, IL: Bernard K. Kordell, 1976. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies, this is copy number 1 (copies 1-5 were sent to Bradbury). Booklet. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the front cover to a well known fan.0.
ZEN AND THE ART OF WRITING AND THE JOY OF WRITING: TWO ESSAYS.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. Small octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Inscribed and signed label by Bradbury to a well know fan affixed to leaf opposite the colophon page.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, cover painting by Ray Bradbury, imitation leather. Limited and expanded edition. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and Clive Barker, author of the afterword. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and by Clive Barker (who writes the afterword). New edition, first limited, of Bradbury's first book. Edited by Donn Albright, nine page new introduction by Bradbury. This edition also includes four stories, contemporary to the rest of the contents but not in the original edition, archival material and an afterword by Clive Barker. Wrap around dust jacket is an original painting by Bradbury. Includes "Time Intervening" by Ray Bradbury, a numbered chapbook and a CD of interviews conducted by Donn Albright, both accompanied some but not all copies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST: BOOK TWO OF THE NIGHT'S DAWN TRILOGY.
[London]: Macmillan, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Hamilton on the title page. Modern space opera on an epic scale. Book two of "The Night's Dawn Trilogy." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-489.