Fantasy
THE UNBEHEADED KING.
NY: Ballantine Books, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The the third book of the Novaria series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-83.
THE UNDESIRED PRINCESS.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, salmon end papers and no head bands. First edition, first binding. Collects two fictions, "The Undesired Princess" and "Mr. Arson." Both first published in Unknown Worlds pulp magazine, 1942 and 1941. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-104. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 483.
THE UNDESIRED PRINCESS.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, black boards, spine stamped in green. First edition, later binding with "Gnome Press" stamped at the base of the spine. This copy inscribed to Dirce Archer and signed by De Camp on the front free end paper. Collects two fictions, "The Undesired Princess" and "Mr. Arson." Both first published in Unknown Worlds pulp magazine, 1942 and 1941. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-104. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 483.
THE HONORABLE BARBARIAN.
Norwalk: Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by De Camp. Introduction by James Gunn. The final book in the Novarian series.Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series.
THE CASTLE OF IRON.
New York: Gnome Press, [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to THE INCOMPLETE ENCHANTER and followed by WALL OF SERPENTS. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-106. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 491. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 7. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 279. In 333.
THE CASTLE OF IRON.
New York: Gnome Press, [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to THE INCOMPLETE ENCHANTER and followed by WALL OF SERPENTS. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-106. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 491. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 7. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 279. In 333.
DIVIDE AND RULE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. Collects two short novels, "Divide and Rule" (UNKNOWN, April-May 1939) and "The Stolen Dormouse" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, April-May 1941). "The Stolen Dormouse" is set in a "future dystopia -- feudalism based on corporations." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 221. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-132. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-101.
DIVIDE AND RULE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. Collects two short novels, "Divide and Rule" (UNKNOWN, April-May 1939) and "The Stolen Dormouse" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, April-May 1941). "The Stolen Dormouse" is set in a "future dystopia -- feudalism based on corporations." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 221. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-132. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-101.
DIVIDE AND RULE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by De Camp. This is copy number 282. Collects two short novels, "Divide and Rule" (UNKNOWN, April-May 1939) and "The Stolen Dormouse" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, April-May 1941). "The Stolen Dormouse" is set in a "future dystopia -- feudalism based on corporations." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 221. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-132. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-101.
THE GLORY THAT WAS.
New York: Avalon Books, [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Eccentric archeologist recreates ancient Greece and attempts to prevent it's fatal war with Sparta.
A GUN FOR DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects fourteen stories. Includes "New Arcadia" which depicts "various utopias failing as a result of 'human nature.'" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260. Also includes "Internal Combustion," an artificial intelligence story.
THE SEARCH FOR ZEI.
New York: Avalon Books, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First part of THE HAND OF ZEI, the second book of the Krishna series, here expanded from the version published in ASTOUNDING.
THE CONNOISSEUR AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Collins, 1926. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine fictions.
BERLIN.
[Ottowa]. Fourth Avenue Press, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by De Lint, the trade edition. A story set in the "Borderland series," a dystopian urban fantasy.
GHOSTWOOD.
Eugene: Axolotl Press/Pulphouse, 1990. Octavo, leather. First edition. Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of 75 numbered leatherbound "deluxe" copies signed by de Lint.
GREENMANTLE.
New York: Ace Books, [1988]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Fantasy set in modern Ontario. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-92. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 153-155.
THE LITTLE COUNTRY.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Review slip laid in.
THE LITTLE COUNTRY.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A contemporary fantasy novel which involves a magic book.
THE RIDDLE OF THE WREN.
Seattle: M.D. Hargreaves, 1994. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 500 copies signed by the author and also the artist Charles Vess. New afterword by De Lint.
YARROW: AN AUTUMN TALE.
New York: Ace Fantasy Books, [1986]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Contemporary fantasy writer is attacked by a psychic vampire. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-95. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 153-155.
YARROW: AN AUTUMN TALE.
New York: Ace Books, [1986]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Contemporary fantasy writer is attacked by a psychic vampire. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-95. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 153-155.
NEVERYONA: OR, THE TALE OF SIGNS AND CITIES.
Toronto, New York, Sydney: Bantam Books:, [1983]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-84.
FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed on the title page by Disch. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). "Seventeen sly, highly intelligent SF and fantasy stories by an extremely talented young writer (only 28 at the time of this book's publication). Standouts include 'The Roaches,' about a woman's perfect horror of cockroaches, and 'Casablanca,' about the fate of American tourists in North Africa when World War III breaks out." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 394. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. "Disch is one of the best contemporary American short story writers; a new collection of his work is long overdue" - Brian Stableford/Michael M. Levy. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2059-60. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-344.
RINGTIME.
West Branch, Iowa: Published by the Toothpaste Press, [1983]. Wrappers. First edition. One of 875 numbered copies.
DAUGHTER OF REGALS AND OTHER TALES.
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, [1984]. Octavo, illustration by Michael Whelan, cloth backed boards. First edition. Story collection, which includes two novellas written for this book.