Anthology
THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL ANTHOLOGY.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects thirteen stories by Poul Anderson, Isaa Asimaov, Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, and others. Includes "Black Sheep Astray" by Mack Reynolds.
NOVA 2.
New York: Walker and Company, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting fourteen stories by Robert Sheckley, Frank M. Robinson, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, John Sladek, Brian Aldiss, and others. Includes "The Old Folks" by James Gunn and "East Wind, West Wind" by Frank M. Robinson.
SF: AUTHORS' CHOICE 4.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas M. Disch, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, and others with an introduction by each author.
MASTERPIECES OF FANTASY AND WONDER.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Contains 38 selections from the last two centuries.
THE ASCENT OF WONDER: THE EVOLUTION OF HARD SF.
New York: Tor, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects sixty-six short stories. Introductions by Gregory Benford, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. "... not only a collection of many of science fiction's landmark works, it also provides a brilliant critical analysis of the origins and meaning of hard science fiction -- when unbridled imagination meets hard scientific reality. The authors represented range from the genre's earliest pioneers, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, and its modern masters, including Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein, to its most visionary innovators, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin and Gene Wolfe, and its most outstanding younger talents, including Greg Bear, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling." -- dj flap copy. "Hartwell is arguably the most influential SF book editor of the 1970s and 1980s ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-66. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1319.
THE BOYS' SECOND BOOK OF GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of detective stories by some of the great English authors. Includes works by E.C. Bentley (Philip Trent), Agatha Christie (Poirot), Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) John Rhode (Dr. Priestley) and others. Each story has a brief introduction about the author and the story.
9 TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of nine original stories. Author's include John W. Campbell, Jr., Kris Neville, Anthony Boucher and others.
9 TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of nine original stories. Author's include John W. Campbell, Jr., Kris Neville, Anthony Boucher and others.
NEW TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology of ten stories, authors include Bradbury, Asimov, Van Vogt and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-215.
TOMORROW, THE STARS: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology compiled by Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl (not Heinlein, although he received credit as "editor" and was one of the five "editors" [i.e. readers] credited in the preface). Stories by Jack Finney, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber and ten others.
FEAR AND TREMBLING: SHIVERY STORIES...
New York: Dell Publishing Company, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell No. 264. Paperback original. Collects thirteen stories. Authors include Ray Bradbury, John Collier, M.R. James, John Buchan, William Irish, H.R. Wakefield and others.
FIRST STEP OUTWARD.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 2549. Paperback original. Collects thirteen stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster and others.
ESCAPE TO EARTH.
New York: Belmont Books, [1963]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont L92-571. Paperback original. Collects six stories by Robert Sheckley, Judith Merrill, Raymond F. Jones, and others.
NOW AND BEYOND.
New York: Belmont Books, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Paperback original. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl and others.
TIME UNTAMED.
New York: Belmont Books, [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-781. Paperback original. Collects eight stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and others.
THE WEIRD ONES.
New York: Belmont Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont L92-541. Paperback original. The first of a series of anthologies edited by Howard, this one anonymously. Collects seven stories by Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Macl Reynolds and others.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 26th ANNUAL COLLECTION.
New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of sixteen stories. Includes "The Most Powerful Tailor in the World" by Michael Crichton and the first book appearance of "Duel" by Richard Matheson which is the basis for the well regarded 1971 made for television film (which was Steven Spielberg's first film).
SENSUOUS SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE WEIRD AND SPICY PULPS.
[Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seven stories from TERROR TALES, SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES, MARVEL TALES and other pulps by Wayne Robbins, Richard Tooker, Lew Merrill and others.
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES.
London: Robinson Publishing, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Anthology of 29 vampire stories by mostly modern authors with a few classic tales included. Some of the authors: Clive Barker, F. Marion Crawford, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell.
THE BEST HORROR FROM FANTASY TALES.
London: Robinson, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Collection with Lumley, Barker, Etchinson, Ligotti, etc.
AND THE DARKNESS FALLS.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Lee Manso, two-part cloth. First edition. One of the largest, most extensive anthologies of horror and supernatural fiction published in the 1940s. Collects seventy-two stories and poems by John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson and many others, with informative and often quite extensive headnotes by Karloff. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 932. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 49. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-276. Bleiler (1978), p. 111. Reginald 08067.
BLOOD ON MY HANDS: A COLLECTION OF NEW PIECES BY MEMBERS OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION...
[London]: Macmillan, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology. "A collection of studies of real-life crimes mostly by authors who write crime fiction..." - jacket flap.
INTERSECTIONS: THE SYCAMORE HILL ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Tor, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting fourteen stories by Bruce Sterling, Karen Joy Fowler, Nancy Kress, Jonathan Lethem, and others.
TEMPORARY WALLS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MORAL FANTASY INSPIRED BY JOHN GARDNER'S 'ON MORAL FICTION'.
Minneapolis: World Fantasy Convention & Dreamhaven Books, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Book issued by the 1993 World Fantasy Convention. Anthology of stories by Kathe Koja and Barry Malzberg, Charles de Lint, John M. Ford, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary Frances Zambreno, and Patricia McKillip.
BEST STORIES FROM ORBIT VOLUMES 1-10.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-eight stories by R. A. Lafferty, Joanna Russ, Philip Jose Farmer, Kate Wilhelm, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin and others, selected from the first ten volumes of Orbit. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1374.