Fantasy
ENCHANTMENT.
New York: The Ballantine Publishing Group, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
HEARTFIRE: THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER V.
New York: Tor, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fifth book of "The Tales of Alvin Maker" series.
MAPS IN A MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD.
New York: TOR, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects forty-six stories. Includes the short fiction "Ender's Game" from Analog (1977). A major collection by this award winning author, printing virtually all his short fiction from his pseudonymous debut through 1989. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-218.
MAPS IN A MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD.
New York: TOR, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects forty-six stories. Includes the short fiction "Ender's Game" from Analog (1977). A major collection by this award winning author, printing virtually all his short fiction from his pseudonymous debut through 1989. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-218.
KUSHIEL'S CHOSEN.
New York: TOR, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy novel set in a medieval type world. The second book in the Kushiel series.
KUSHIEL'S JUSTICE.
New York, Boston: Warner Books, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated in the month of publication by Carey. Fantasy novel set in a medieval type world. Second book in the second trilogy of Kushiel books.
KUSHIEL'S MERCY.
New York, Boston: Grand Central Publishing, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy novel set in a medieval type world. Final book in the second trilogy of Kushiel books.
A CHILD ACROSS THE SKY.
London: Century, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. Barron (ed.): Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-67.
A CHILD ACROSS THE SKY.
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition. Barron (ed.): Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-67.
OUTSIDE THE DOG MUSEUM.
London: Macdonald, 1991. Octavo, cover illustration by David McKean, boards. First edition.
OUTSIDE THE DOG MUSEUM.
London: Macdonald, 1991. Octavo, illustration by David McKean, boards. First edition. Signed by the Carroll on the title page.
SLEEPING IN FLAME.
London: Century, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second state of the first edition with pages 240-241 printed in the correct sequence (the first issue has these pages transposed). Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-62.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Ten fantasies including "The Company of Wolves," (filmed in 1984 by Neil Jordan). "The Bloody Chamber is often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist. In fact, these are new stories, not re-tellings. As Angela Carter made clear, "My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories." She knew from the start that she was drawn to "Gothic tales, cruel tales, tales of wonder, tales of terror, fabulous narratives that deal directly with the imagery of the unconscious". "The Bloody Chamber is like a multifaceted glittering diamond reflecting and refracting a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality - heterosexual female sexuality - which, unusually for the time, 1979, are told from a heterosexual female viewpoint." "The stories in The Bloody Chamber reverberate with deep and unmistakable imaginative pleasure. There is an astonishing extravivid materiality to this alternative world she invented..." - New review by Helen Simpson in The Guardian, 24 June, 2006. Barron (ed.) Fantasy Literature 4A-63. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-81.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Ten fantasies including "The Company of Wolves," (filmed in 1984 by Neil Jordan). "The Bloody Chamber is often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist. In fact, these are new stories, not re-tellings. As Angela Carter made clear, "My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories." She knew from the start that she was drawn to "Gothic tales, cruel tales, tales of wonder, tales of terror, fabulous narratives that deal directly with the imagery of the unconscious". "The Bloody Chamber is like a multifaceted glittering diamond reflecting and refracting a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality - heterosexual female sexuality - which, unusually for the time, 1979, are told from a heterosexual female viewpoint." "The stories in The Bloody Chamber reverberate with deep and unmistakable imaginative pleasure. There is an astonishing extravivid materiality to this alternative world she invented..." - New review by Helen Simpson in The Guardian, 24 June, 2006. Barron (ed.) Fantasy Literature 4A-63. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-81.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Ten fantasies including "The Company of Wolves," (filmed in 1984 by Neil Jordan). "The Bloody Chamber is often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist. In fact, these are new stories, not re-tellings. As Angela Carter made clear, "My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories." She knew from the start that she was drawn to "Gothic tales, cruel tales, tales of wonder, tales of terror, fabulous narratives that deal directly with the imagery of the unconscious". "The Bloody Chamber is like a multifaceted glittering diamond reflecting and refracting a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality - heterosexual female sexuality - which, unusually for the time, 1979, are told from a heterosexual female viewpoint." "The stories in The Bloody Chamber reverberate with deep and unmistakable imaginative pleasure. There is an astonishing extravivid materiality to this alternative world she invented..." - New review by Helen Simpson in The Guardian, 24 June, 2006. Barron (ed.) Fantasy Literature 4A-63. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-81.
FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES.
London: Quartet Books, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first collection of fiction. Nine stories, several have horror or fantasy elements. A number of the stories are influenced from the author's time living in Japan. "In Japan I learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised". - Angela Carter, NOTHING SACRED: SELECTED WRITINGS, p. 28.
FIREWORKS: NINE STORIES IN VARIOUS DISGUISES.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.
FIREWORKS: NINE STORIES IN VARIOUS DISGUISES.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.
THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Issued later in the U.S. as THE WAR OF DREAMS (1974). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-223. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-64. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 90. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 52.
THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A gothic black comedy, elaborating and decoding much of the erotic symbolism of fantastic fiction; a disturbing tour de force." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-223. Issued later in the U.S. as THE WAR OF DREAMS (1974). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-64. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 90. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 52.
NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS.
London: Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-65. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 87.
FLASHING SWORDS! #4: BARBARIANS AND BLACK MAGICIANS.
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., [1977]. Octavo, First printing has code "H19" on page 182. First edition. First printing with code "H19" on page 182. Original anthology collecting five novellas by Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, John Jakes, Katherine Kurtz, and Michael Moorcock.
SUMMERLAND.
New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion Books for Children, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Chabon on the title page. Fantasy which takes place in the world of Summerland, the plot based around the game of baseball.
THE MAKER OF MOONS.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-401 [402: blank, 403-404: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Lancelot Speed, light blue cloth, front stamped in white, gold and orange, spine stamped in white, t.e.g. First edition. Collects eight stories of which four are supernatural.
THE MAKER OF MOONS.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-401 [402: blank, 403-404: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Lancelot Speed, light blue cloth, front stamped in white, gold and orange, spine stamped in white, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, t.e.g. First edition. Collects eight stories of which four are supernatural. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 365. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 75. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-51. Bleiler (1978), p. 41. Reginald 02817. Wright (III) 974.