Fantasy
STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.
Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories and four essays.
LORD JOHN TEN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.
LORD JOHN TEN: A CELEBRATION.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies specially bound in quarter leather and boards signed by Etchison and the other contributors comprising the "deluxe" issue. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, James Crumley, Gerald R. Ford, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.
JUNGLE BORN.
New York & London: The Century Co., [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] xiii-xiv [1-2] 3-294 [295-296], 23 illustrations by Mary Sherwood Wright, original olive green cloth front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Set in India, a baby boy's parents are killed by a man-eating tiger and the child is adopted by a mother-ape. Shades of Rudyard Kipling and Tarzan. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 289. Bleiler (1978), p. 70. Reginald 04984.
FANTASY FICTION later FANTASY STORIES. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Magabook Inc., 1950. Octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Contains mostly reprints with title changes, most culled from Argosy from the 1930s. Authors include Theodore Roscoe, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Sale, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 266 - 267.
FANTASY MAGAZINE [later] FANTASY FICTION. (Four issues, all published).
New York: Future Publications, 1953. Small octavo, four issues, cover illustrations by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. All four issues of this short lived magazine and all signed by editor Lester del Rey (the final issue he used the pseudonym Cameron Hall). Includes two posthumous Conan stories by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. Other authors include, Poul Anderson, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, David Alexander, Clark Ashton Smith and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 268-269.
FANTASY: THE MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE FICTION. (Three issues, all published).
London: Temple Bar Publishing Co., London, Ltd., 1946-1947. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Digest magazine. All three issues of Britain's first digest size science fiction magazine. Some highlights are first printings of "Last Conflict" by John Russell Fearn and Technical Error" by Arthur C. Clarke (issue one), "Relic" by Eric Frank Russell and "Castaway" by Arthur C. Clarke writing as Charles Willis (issue two), and "The Fires Within" by Arthur C. Clarke writing as "E. G. O'Brien" (issue three). A short lived magazine that could not hang on due to the paper shortages after WWII, reportedly only 6,000 copies were printed and all sold out. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 256-57.
FAERIE TALE.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance reader's copy of the first edition.
FAERIE TALE.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Fantasy/horror novel.
FAERIE TALE.
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A dark fantasy horror novel with a contemporary setting. A family moves into a house next to an enchanted woods.
KRONDOR THE BETRAYAL: BOOK ONE OF THE RIFTWAR LEGACY.
New York: Avon, 1998. pictorial wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition.
SERVANT OF THE EMPIRE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday / A Foundation Book, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to DAUGHTER OF THE EMPIRE. A novel set in the universe of the Rift. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-120.
PRINCE OF THE BLOOD.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday / A Foundation Book, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fourth Riftwar book. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-120.
THE EYRE AFFAIR.
[New York]: Viking, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The author's first novel and first Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection.
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton:, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Fforde as is his custom - "Jasper" on the title page. The author's second novel, with Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection.
THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS.
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton:, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection novel.
FROM TIME TO TIME.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Simon & Schuster, [1995]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Sequel to TIME AND AGAIN (1970).
TIME AND AGAIN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first printing. Excellent novel of time travel-to New York of the 1880's. "Excellent historical detail and a compelling plot make this the outstanding work of the [time travel] sub-genre." -Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-167. "...it's a classic modern timeslip romance, detailed and moving...(the) author's best book." - Pringle (ed.)-The Ultimate Guide To Science Fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-403. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-105. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 47. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2283-86. King list, p. 390.
THE WOODROW WILSON DIME.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantasy novel of a parallel world.
A SHADOW OF GULLS.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Historical adventure novel set in 2nd Century Ireland with some fantasy elements. the author's debut novel.
THE WINGED BULL.
London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935. Octavo, brown cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Occult romance.
THE DAY OF DISSONANCE.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Foster. Sequel to SPELLSINGER AT THE GATE (1983).
MOTHER OF PEARL.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head/NY: John Lane Company, 1908. Octavo, cloth. First edition thus. Translated by Frederic Chapman. This volume is from The Works of Anatole France in an English Translation. First publication of some of these tales appeared in the volume Tales From A Mother-Of-Pearl Casket (NY: 1896). Story collection, includes some supernatural and fantasy. See Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #657, Barron: Fantasy Literature 2-62.
THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-237 [238-240] [note: last leaf is a blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by Peter Newell, original pictorial light green cloth, front panel stamped in dark green, red, white and gold, spine panel stamped in dark green and gold. First edition. "New England regionalist writer, highly regarded for cameolike, naturalistic pictures of domestic life and for supernatural stories... The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903), Freeman's only supernatural collection, is of greater critical and historical importance than its uniqueness might suggest. It is one of the very few bodies of work that combine domestic realism with supernaturalism, and it has been the founding document of a minor school within supernatural fiction (notably August Derleth and his followers). The individual stories are also excellent." – Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 163. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-71. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 662.
MIRRORMASK: THE ILLUSTRATED FILM SCRIPT OF THE MOTION PICTURE FROM THE JIM HENSON COMPANY.
[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2005]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. The storyboarded script and scenes from the film with additional material. Story by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, screenplay by Neil Gaiman, storyboards by Dave McKean.