THE SCIENCE FICTION REFERENCE BOOK: A COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK AND GUIDE TO THE HISTORY, LITERATURE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FIELDS.
[Mercer Island, WA]: Starmont House, [1981]. Octavo, black leather with pictorial front wrapper from paperbound issue laid down on front panel. First edition. This work provides fourteen historical and critical overviews, bibliographical checklists, and resource lists grouped in three catagories: Backgrounds, fandom, and academe, plus four appendixes. Includes two annotated bibliographical surveys: "Masterpieces of Modern Fantasy: An Annotated Core List" by Roger C. Schlobin, pages 246-290, that provides an annotated checklist of approximately 280 novels, single author story collections, and anthologies, and "Outstanding Science Fiction Books: 1927-1979" by Joe de Bolt and John R. Pfeiffer, pages 291-377, that provides an annotated checklist of about 300 novels, single author story collections and anthologies arranged chronologically by year of publication. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 103]. A fine copy. This leatherbound edtion is uncommon. (30954). Item #30954
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