Anthology
THE FANTASTIC UNIVERSE OMNIBUS.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nineteen stories by Isaac Asimov, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1440. Reginald 12678.
THE FANTASTIC UNIVERSE OMNIBUS.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed by editor Santesson on the front free end paper. Collects nineteen stories by Isaac Asimov, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1440. Reginald 12678.
REDSHIFT: EXTREME VISIONS OF SPECULATIVE FICTION.
[New York]: A Roc Book, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology with thirty stories by Dan Simmons, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Thomas M. Disch, Stephen Baxter, Joe Haldeman, Larry Niven, Gene Wolfe, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1383.
GREAT SHORT STORIES OF DETECTION, MYSTERY AND HORROR.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-8 [9] 10-1229 [1230: blank] [1231: appendix] [1232: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange. First edition, first printing. A 1231-page anthology collecting sixty-six stories. "Gigantic, very well chosen collection of stories dealing with crime and the supernatural. An excellent historical introduction on the evolution of the detective story." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1443. "Splendid anthology ... Sayers's introduction has become a classic in its own right, being the best short sketch of a general nature on the subject of mystery-detective fiction." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-85. "A cornerstone volume ..." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2778. This Gollancz edition includes four more stories than its American counterpart published in 1929 by Payson and Clarke Ltd as THE OMNIBUS OF CRIME.
WHISPERS III.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, illustration by Tim Kirk, boards. First edition. Anthology with Dennis Etchison, Hugh Cave, Roger Zelazny, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.
WHISPERS II.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Lengthy presentation copy with signed inscription by Schiff to Dick Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, on front free endpaper. Collects twenty -one stories stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Avram Davidson, Richard Christian Matheson, Russell Kirk, Joseph Payne Brennan, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-361.
WHISPERS III.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Schiff to Dick Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, on front free endpaper. Collects fourteen stories by Ramsey Campbell, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner and others. "The quality of Schiff's editorial selections was high, and it is arguable that the critical and popular success of this series paved the way for Charles Grant's SHADOWS and other important modern horror anthologies." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-451. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-361.
WHISPERS III.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, boards. First edition. A partially original anthology collecting fourteen stories by Ramsey Campbell, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-361.
THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS, VOL. 2.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. Stories by King, Ellison, Etchison, etc.
ANALOG'S CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE.
New York: The Dial Press / Davis Publications, Inc., [1982]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects ten stories first published in Astounding / Analog between 1943 and 1981 by Lewis Padgett, Theodore Sturgeon, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, David R. Palmer ("Emergence"), and others.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.
New York: Random House, [1972]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects nineteen stories by Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip Jose Farmer, and others. "Groundbreaking reprint anthology of nineteen SF stories which deal with sex as their central idea." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-903.
THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE ENGLISH SHORT STORY.
London: Bernard Hanison Limited, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Large 480 page anthology with twenty-one stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, W. F. Harvey, D. H. Lawrence, Roger Pater, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1457.
THE DRACULA BOOK OF GREAT HORROR STORIES.
Secaucus, N. J. The Citadel Press, n.d., [1983?]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Collects fourteen stories by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Lytton, William Hope Hodgson, L. P. Hartley, Algernon Blackwood and others. Trade paperback priced $6.95. Copyright 1981 and perhaps preceded by a hardbound edition.
THE OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects thirty stories published between 1903 and 1990 by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, John W. Campbell, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, and others.
TRIAX.
Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, [1977]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. Original anthology, contains the novella "Freitzke's Turn." The other authors included are Keith Roberts and James Gunn. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, B104.
THE ENDS OF TIME: EIGHT STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. Publishers, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Label affixed to front free end paper signed by Silverberg. Collects eight stories by Cordwainer Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, and others.
EXPLORERS OF SPACE: EIGHT STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Nashville, New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eight stories by Clifford D. Simak, Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.
FAR HORIZONS: ALL NEW TALES FROM THE GREATEST WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
[New York]: Avon Eos, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology with eleven stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Haldeman, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Dan Simmons, Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Gregory Benford, Anne McCaffrey, and Greg Bear which are set in various universes/worlds of the author's writings. Includes “A Separate War" by Joe Haldeman, a sequel to THE FOREVER WAR (1974), and “Old Music and the Slave Women" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "A continuation of the story of the planet Werel in her 1995 FOUR WAYS TO FORGIVENESS. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
MURASAKI: A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collaborative novel by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy Kress, and Frederik Pohl.
THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME: VOLUME ONE. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-six short stories and novelettes chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America. The works encompass the period prior to 1965, the year SFWA was established. Author's include John W. Campbell, Jr., Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, Ray Bradbury, C. M. Kornbluth, Arthur C. Clarke and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-455.
THREADS OF TIME: THREE ORIGINAL NOVELLAS OF SCIENCE FICTION ...
Nashville, Camden, New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting three novellas, "Threads of Time" by Gregory Benford, "The Marathon Photograph" by Clifford D. Simak and "Riding the Torch," by Norman Spinrad, the last a 1974 Nebula nominee.
THE TIME TRAVELERS: A SCIENCE FICTION QUARTET.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects four classic novellas, "The Ugly Little Boy" by Isaac Asimov, "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham, and "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES SIX.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seven stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison and Joanna Russ, and essay by Thomas D. Clareson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
STILL DEAD.
Shingleton, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. boards. First edition. Sequel original anthology to THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. Original stories inspired by the film "Night of the Living Dead." Includes fiction by Nancy Collins, K. W. Jeter, Dan Simmons, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite and others.
WOMEN'S WILES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERY STORIES BY THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.