Fantasy
BEAST MARKS.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories.
THE MOON'S WIFE.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
WYVERN.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A pirate-punk historical, with little fantasy content.
THE DEVIL TREE OF EL DORADO.
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, [1897]. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in gold and bronze to front cover and spine. First edition. Lost race novel. "Youthful explorers find a lost city in Venezuela on Mount Raraima, the same site Conan Doyle was to use in The Lost World." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-5.
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR.
New York: Crown, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. First volume in the Earth's Children series.
THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE.
New York: Crown, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; David H. Keller, Philip M. Fisher, Jr., Guy Endore, Robert E. Howard, Robert W. Chambers, S. Fowler Wright, and Laurance Manning and Fletcher Pratt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; A. Merritt, Frank Owen, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, C. L. Moore, Donald A. Wolllheim, Stephen Grendon, John Collier and Ray Bradbury. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; P. Schuyler Miller, Thomas Burke, Nelson Bond, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, M. R. James, and A. E. Van Vogt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; C. L. Moore, William Fryer Harvey, Robert Bloch, Carl Jacobi, Stephen Vincent Benet, Clare Winger Harris, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Owen and C. M. Kornbluth. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; Murray Leinster, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, H. G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Russell Wakefield and Lord Dunsany. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, Stephen Marlowe, Jack Vance and others. Tymm and Ashley note in both issues many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, and others. Tymm and Ashley note many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
FLAMEWEAVER.
New York: Baen Books, 1991. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
THE BRIDGE.
London: Macmillan, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Banks. "THE BRIDGE (1986), perhaps his finest early work, once again conflates the literal with 'metaphorical' displacements treated with a knowing literalness characteristic of the work of late twentieth-century writers of significance, regardless of their marketing 'identity;' in this tale, a comatose man relives (or anticipates) his own life, which is represented in matrix form as an enormous bridge; among the interstices of this potent Icon he engages in a rather hilarious parody of sword-and-sorcery conventions." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). The author's third book. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-17. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 95.
WALKING ON GLASS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: A WINTRY TALE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-103 [104-106: blank]. cloth. First U.S. edition, later printing. Later printing of the first U.S. edition, Scribner's colophon is present on the copyright page, but no "A". Supernatural story with hint of vampirism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction # 1752.
THE FOLK OF THE AIR.
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Beagle on the title page. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 4A-23.
THE FOLK OF THE AIR.
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and dated (1987) by Beagle in the front free paste-down. A novel set in late twentieth-century California, in a twilight zone where time and space are telescoped and the world is imperiled by dark forces summoned by black magic. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 4A-23.
THE INNKEEPER'S SONG.
[New York]: ROC, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-27.
THE FOLK OF THE AIR.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1986]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A novel set in late twentieth-century California, in a twilight zone where time and space are telescoped and the world is imperiled by dark forces summoned by black magic. "Thinly plotted, but humorous and enjoyable." - Maxim Jakubowski. Its "tone is ultimately darker than in his earlier books." - Darrell Schweitzer. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-23.
THE SERPENT MAGE.
London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1988]. Octavo, "First published in Great Britain in 1988 / (simultaneously in paperback and hardcover)..." on copyright page. First hardcover edition. Signed by Bear on the title page. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-25.
THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Six short novels and stories, two of which were Nebula nominees.