Fantasy
LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES.
New York: Ace Books, [1981]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace 49141-3. Paperback original. Collects four Lord Darcy stories, three first published in Analog.
MURDER AND MAGIC.
New York: Ace Books, [1979]. Octavo, cover art by Bob Adragna, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace 54540-8. Paperback original. Collects four Lord Darcy stories, three first published in Analog.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
ATLAN.
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Cija book and second of the Atlan series.
THE SERPENT.
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [1963]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first Cija book and first of the Atlan series. Barron: Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #81.
THE FIRST CHRONICLES OF DRUSS THE LEGEND.
[London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg]: Legen, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four Drenai tales. Clute, Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 393. Pringle, St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 227-28.
THE KING BEYOND THE GATE.
London: Century Publishing, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel and first hardcover book. The second title in the Drenai series, following LEGEND. "His strengths as a fantasy author are immediately evident: a technical ability to press ahead with revelation and action at a pace whose intensity can seem at times almost surreal; an interest in depicting Heroes who are weathered, seemingly past their prime, reluctantly but profoundly charismatic; and a focus on bands of Companions..." "He is one of the central entertainers of the genre." - Clute, Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 393. See Pringle: St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 227-28.
QUEST FOR LOST HEROES.
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fourth book in the Drenai series. Clute, Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 393.
ASH: A SECRET HISTORY.
London: Gollancz, 2000. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Signed and dated 6 July 2000 by Gentle on the title page. An 1100 page volume that was published earlier in the U.S. as four separate paperbacks. Novel set in the 15th century Europe concerning a female mercenary and an alternate history. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 2001. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-429.
RATS AND GARGOYLES.
[New York]: Viking/A Roc Book, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. First volume in the "White Crow" sequence. A fantasy novel set in a alternate 17th century history with magic and alchemy.
ROD SERLING'S TWILIGHT ZONE. Adapted by Walter B. Gibson.
New York: Bonanza Books, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Combines ROD SERLING'S THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1963) and ROD SERLING'S TWILIGHT ZONE REVISITED (1964). Reginald 23876.
JASON, SON OF JASON.
New York: Avalon, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Originally published in Argosy in 1921. Early Science-Fantasy. Third book in a trilogy.
JASON, SON OF JASON.
New York: Avalon, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Originally published in Argosy in 1921. Early Science-Fantasy. Third book in a trilogy, sequel to Palos of the Dog Star Pack and The Mouthpiece of Zitu.
A TRUCE WITH TIME (A LOVE STORY WITH OCCASIONAL GHOSTS).
New York: Bantam, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE DREAM YEARS.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's second novel. A time travel work. 1986 World Fantasy Award nominee.
THE RED MAGICIAN.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The author's first novel, first published in 1982 as a paperback original. A "remarkably powerful" fantasy set during the Holocaust that won the 1982 National Book Award. "... nourishment for the mind and the soul ..." - Philip K. Dick. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-141.
SUMMER KING WINTER FOOL.
New York: Tor, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy novel with a medieval type setting in which the gods that control the seasons come to the world. One god will not return to heaven, the seasons do not change, war among monarchies.
TRAVELLERS IN MAGIC.
New York: Tor, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories.
FAITH OF THE FALLEN.
New York: TOR: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Sword of Truth. This is book six in The Sword of Truth series.
SOUL OF THE FIRE.
New York: TOR: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Sword of Truth. This is book five in The Sword of Truth series.
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS ...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-350 [351] [352: blank], ten inserted plates with color illustrations by Paul Bransom, title page printed in light yellow and black, publisher's pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped brown, green, white and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. First printing of this edition with "Published October, 1913" on copyright page and Scribner seal on page [351]. "Classic animal fantasy in which the irrepressible Mr. Toad creates havoc wherever he goes..." "The perfect expression of English rural nostalgia, which laughs at itself in order to emphasize how utterly seriously it must be taken." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-123. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), pp. 476-77. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2132-35. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 433. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 431. Bleiler (1948), p. 130. Not in Bleiler (1978). Reginald 15812. NCBEL IV 593.
LANARK: A LIFE IN 4 BOOKS.
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first U.S. edition was published by Lippincott & Crowell in trade paperback format only in February 1981, the same month as the Scottish edition published by Canongate. Braziller's edition was printed in the UK from the plates of the Canongate edition. The author's first book (first published by Canongate in 1981) and a major twentieth-century fantasy. Bizarre after death fantasy in which the protagonist is transported to the regimented underground dystopia Unthank, a kind of lightless Limbo where people die of "metaphorical diseases including one known as dragonhide, which leads to explosive disintegration through excess of bottled-up internal heat or emotion, and others whose victims' remains are exploited by the state for munitions and food." - John Clute, SFE (online). "A big and original novel ... a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom." - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. 126. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-460. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-121. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 77. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 406.
VALDAR THE OFT-BORN: A SAGA OF SEVEN AGES ...
London: London:C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1895. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-416, sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Harold Piffard, original pictorial maroon cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first binding. "Fantasy saga of a son of Odin who, upsetting the laws of his polar country and bringing about ragnarok, is doomed to many reincarnations through the ages; basically a series of bloodthirsty historical adventures in a similar vein to [Arnold's] PHRA THE PHOENICIAN." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-70. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 717. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 370. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06387. Wolff 2799.