Anthology
A SCIENCE FICTION ARGOSY.
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.
THE SHAPE OF THINGS.
New York: Popular Library, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library SP352. Collection of eleven stories, mostly from pulp magazines. Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, C.M. Kornbluth and others.
TOMORROW X 4.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal dl428. Collection of four short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, R.M. McKenna, Avram Davidson and C.L. Moore.
THE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS.
Garden City: Hanover House, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories by Poe, Wells, Doyle, Verne, Stapledon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sydney Fowler Wright, Capek, E. M. Forster, Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie, H. P. Lovecraft and others, as well as the script for the Orson Welles radio play, "The Invasion From Mars." An excellent introduction to classic pre-1940 SF.
THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3-848, 62 black and white illustrations, fifteen full-page, by Lynd Ward, original flexible blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light green. First edition. An excellent anthology collecting 42 weird and supernatural tales by W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, May Sinclair, Ambrose Bierce, John Collier, Edith Wharton, and many others. Stunning illustrations by Lynd Ward. Ward's "most outstanding achievement was a series of sixty [i.e. 62] illustrations for THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS in 1937, one of the major ghost story collections published before World War II." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 450. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 978. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08538.
FORGOTTEN TALES OF TERROR.
[London]: Eyre Methuen, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Lamb on the title page. The scarce hardbound issue, a bind-up in boards of paperback sheets, produced for the British library market. Collects twelve stories by Frederick Cowles, Barry Pain, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes, E. F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson, and others.
FORGOTTEN GHOSTS: THE SUPERNATURAL ANTHOLOGIES OF HUGH LAMB. Introduction by Mike Ashley.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, wrappers. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Original wraps. Collection of stories culled from anthologies edited by Hugh Lamb. Introduction by Mike Ashley, some new comments on the stories by Lamb.
RAZORED SADDLES ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Number 132 of 600 numbered copies signed by all the contributors. Original anthology collecting seventeen stories by Robert R. McCammon, Scott Cupp, Lewis Shiner, F. Paul Wilson, David J. Schow, Ardath Mayhar, Al Sarrantonio, Richard Laymon, Melissa Mia Hall, Robert Petitt, Gary Raisor, Neal Barrett, Jr., Howard Waldrop, Lenore Carroll, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, and Chet Williamson.
RAZORED SADDLES.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The signed and limited issue, one of the publishers copies, labeled P/C on the limitation page.
THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990.
New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-seven stories spanning a thirty year period representing most if not all the major figures active at this time. Includes a twenty-seven page introduction by Le Guin and brief notes on the authors. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1373 & 14-24.
THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990.
New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-seven stories spanning a thirty year period representing most if not all the major figures active at this time. Includes a twenty-seven page introduction by Le Guin and brief notes on the authors. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1373 & 14-24.
INTERFACES.
New York: Ace Books, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Original anthology of eighteen stories. Author's include John Crowley, Avram Davidson and Grania Davis, Michael Bishop, Vonda McIntyre, Ed Bryant, James Tiptree, Jr. and others.
THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING.
New York: Baronet Publishing Company, [1978]. Octavo, cover illustration by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Collects seven stories, authors include Fred Brown, Kris Neville, Lewis Padgett, John Pierce, H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak and Theodore Sturgeon. All first published in the 1940s.
MINK IS FOR A MINX.
New York: Dell, 1964. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. First annual edition of the best from Mike Shayne's mystery magazine. Includes stories by Hal Ellson and Dennis Lynds.
3 FROM OUT THERE.
Greenwich, CT. Crest Book Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of this edition. Fawcett Crest Book S282. Three short novels, "Mother Earth" by Isaac Asimov, "Double Meaning" by Damon Knight, and "Son of Two Worlds" by Edmond Hamilton.
THREE TIMES INFINITY.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal Giant s726. Collects three novelettes. Ray Bradbury & Leigh Brackett, "Lorelei of the Red Mist", Theodore Sturgeon, "The Golden Helix" and Robert A. Heinlein "Destination Moon." First book publication for all three stories.
ISAAC ASIMOV'S FANTASY!
New York: Dial, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anthology including stories by Lucius Shepard, Connie Willis, and others.
ISAAC ASIMOV'S SPACE OF HER OWN.
New York: Davis Publications, Inc., [1983]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback format. Science Ficton Anthology No. 8, Fall/Winter 1983. Digest sized magazine format. Collects twenty-two science fiction stories by women writers. Authors include: Ursula K. Le Guin, Pamela Sargent, Connie Willis, Joan Vinge, Pat Cadigan and others.
DARK FORCES: NEW STORIES OF SUSPENSE AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
London: Macdonald, 1980. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Original anthology collecting short novel, "The Mist," by Stephen King (Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1040-43) and twenty-two short stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert Aickman, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Gorey, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. "A landmark volume..." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-346. Winner of the 1981 World Fantasy award for best anthology.
FRIGHTS.
New York: St. Martin's, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of 1977 World Fantasy award for best anthology. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-349.
BASEBALL 3000.
New York: Elsevier/Nelson Books, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of SF stories exploring baseball.
TERRY'S UNIVERSE.
[New York]: Tor, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting twelve stories by Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Carter Scholz, Michael Swanwick, R. A. Lafferty, Kim Stanley Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe, Gregory Benford, and others. "This volume was published to honor the memory of SF editor Terry Carr, who died in 1987. Although it contains original stories by an impressive lineup of 'names' ... the results are disappointing." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 367. "Practically an insult ... Only Carter Scholz and Kate Wilhelm have produced work that does Carr's memory justice." - Paul Kincaid, Vector.
THE BLOODHOUND ANTHOLOGY.
London, New York: T. V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hard boiled crime anthology. Expansion of the paperback original anthology THE BEST OF MANHUNT (1958), adding three stories. Author's include Evan Hunter, Jack Ritchie, Henry Kane, Frank Kane, Richard Prather and others.
SF: '57: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-220.
SF: '58: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., [1958]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eleven short stories which includes "The Fly" by George Langelaan, which is the first book publication and the basis for two horror films. Other authors include Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Avram Davidson, Zenna Henderson, and others; plus nonfiction essays on science fact. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1394.