Fantasy
LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with variant titles from original publications. Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy Award for best collection.
LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury to "Dan" --- dated 11 November 1979 on the front free endpaper. Collects twenty-two short stories.
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Octavo, illustrated by Joseph Mugniani, boards. First edition. Collects the title story and 21 others, including "The Dragon," "Fever Dream," "A Scent of Sarsaparilla," "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed," and "The Day It Rained Forever." Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #260.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B2, probable second state with publisher's logo printed correctly at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
QUICKER THAN THE EYE.
New York: Avon Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of twenty-one stories. Nine original to this collection.
S IS FOR SPACE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics. Three stories, "Chrysalis," "Pillar of Fire" and "Time in Thy Flight" appear here for the first time in a book, and "The Screaming Woman" appears here in this format for the first time in a book (a comic book adaptation appeared earlier in THE AUTUMN PEOPLE [1965]).
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
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TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury dated in the year of publication. Combined edition of the two volumes, The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy. Uncommon, more so in condition.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper: "Stanley! / Ray Bradbury / 3/28/83." Stanley is Stanley Simon, long time New York area science fiction book collector. Collects 23 stories.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed and dated by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects 23 stories. Published as a paperback original with a small number of copies done in hardcover.
THE MISTS OF AVALON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. The legend of King Arthur from the viewpoint of the women characters. Made into a television mini-series. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-48.
THE RUINS OF ISIS.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions / Donning, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Starblaze Editions SB 05 Trade paperback format. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 385.
STAR OF DANGER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. A Darkover novel.
THE KNIGHT OF THE SILVER STAR: OR THE FORTRESS OF YADASARA. A NARRATIVE PREPARED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF CLINTON VERRALL, ESQ.
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., [n.d.]. Octavo, [i-vi] vii [viii] 9-342 [last leaf blank]. cloth. Later edition. Inserted frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Lost race, adventure novel. First published under the pseudonym Christian Lys.
HIGH DRUID OF SHANNARA: JARKA RUUS.
New York: Ballantine Books / Del Rey, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first book in the High Druid trilogy.
THE WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS.
New York: Macmillan, 1920. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Spiritualism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #283.
UNIVERSAL STATION.
New York: Regent House Publishers, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An afterlife fantasy with religious overtones. Bleiler (1978). Reginald 01962.
AND THE GODS LAUGHED: A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ...
West Bloomfield, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the sixty-eight stories from HONEYMOON IN HELL (1958) and NIGHTMARES AND GEEZENSTACKS (1961), also includes "The Star-Mouse" and "Mitkey Rides Again" (first book publication), plus three collaborations with Mack Reynolds, "Six-legged Svengali," "The Switcheroo" and "The Gamblers," first printed here in book form. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 285 and 286.
WARRIOR OF THE DAWN: THE ADVENTURES OF THARN.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1943]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER IN BLACK.
New York: Bluejay Books, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the enlarged edition. Collects all five Traveller in Black novelettes. Illustrations by Martin Springett. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-53. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1963-65. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 55-6.
THE CURSE OF THE CHALION.
[New York]: Eos An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bujold on the title page. Epic fantasy, first book in the "World of the Five Gods" series. Nominated for the Hugo award and World Fantasy award for best novel. The series that this book starts won a Hugo award for best series in 2018.