Reference
THE MAN WHO WROTE DRACULA: A BIOGRAPHY OF BRAM STOKER.
London: Michael Joseph, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Written by Stoker's great nephew.
THE MIT SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY'S INDEX TO THE S-F MAGAZINES 1951-1965.
[Cambridge, MA: MIT Science Fiction Society, 1966]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Index and checklist of stories published in the S.F. magazines 1951-65. All English language editions with the exception of Australian magazines. It does not include Weird Fiction magazines.
THE MIT SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY'S INDEX TO THE S-F MAGAZINES 1951-1965.
[Cambridge, MA: MIT Science Fiction Society, 1966]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Index and checklist of stories published in the S.F. magazines 1951-65. All English language editions with the exception of Australian magazines. It does not include Weird Fiction magazines.
THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE BOOK OF LISTS.
New York: The Armchair Detective, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Includes Queen's Quorum, Mystery Writers of America awards (Edgars), H.R.F. Keating's 100 best, Haycraft-Queen list, and much more.
THE PENGUIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
[New York]: Viking, [1986]. Large octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first attempt to produce a true encyclopedia of the literature of fear: supernatural and psychological. Provides about 650 entries written by 65 contributors (including Sullivan) that, with a few exceptions, fall into three categories: Authors (writers, artists and illustrators, composers and others); films (131 entries for individual films, plus several more combined in an essay "Dracula on Film"); and themes (54 essays on architecture, mad doctors, special effects and other topics). The encyclopedia has been criticized for lack of editorial balance, but deficiencies are offset by excellent critical essays by E. F. Bleiler and others and entries (e.g. Richard Dalby on Arthur R. Ropes) that provide information not found elsewhere. "Unlike too many fantasy-horror reference works, this encyclopedia gives considerable coverage to poetry themes, as well as to individual poets." - Steve Eng. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-31. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-31. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 17.
THOMAS BURNETT SWANN: A BRIEF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Boca Raton, Florida: The Thomas Burnett Swann Fund, College of Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A bio-critical essay and useful annotated bibliography of Swann's works. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 8-84. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 426.
THE POST MODERN ARCHIPELAGO.
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, [1997]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collects two essays. The first, Swanwick's controversial essay on new writers of science fiction - "A Users Guide to the Post Moderns" first published in Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine (1986). The second is an essay on fantasy writers, "In the Tradition..." first published in Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1994.
JIM THOMPSON: THE KILLERS INSIDE HIM.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Fedora Press, 1983. Wrappers. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies. Fine in wrappers as issued. Biographical information by Collins, an interview with Thompson's widow Alberta and first publication of the novella "This World, Then The Fireworks."
JACK VANCE: SCIENCE FICTION STYLIST.
Wabash, Indiana: Robert and Juanita Coulson, 1965. Wrappers. First edition. Printed wrappers (8 1/2 x 11 format). Bibliography compiled by Robert Briney.
THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS PART ONE. (THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH VOLUME VI).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Provides insight into the evolution of the sequel to the Hobbit-The Fellowship of the Ring.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY (THROUGH 1968). VOLUMES 1 - 3.
Chicago: Advent: Publisher, Inc., 1974-1982. Large octavo, three volumes, cloth. First edition. Volumes one and two, "Who's Who and Works, A-Z," provide short biographical sketches of authors, editors, and other prominent figures in the science fiction and fantasy genres and briefly annotated checklists of their works. Book listings include first and subsequent editions in English and non-English language translations. Contents of single author collections and anthologies, as well as series descriptions are provided. Volume three, "Miscellaneous," provides checklists of magazines and paperbacks, pseudonym list, and other material. In his introduction Tuck stresses that "Who's Who and Works" compliments the 1948 Bleiler checklist and "can be considered as a sort of continuation of that book." The scope of Tuck's book is immense and, although the checklists are now several decades out of date, it is still a useful research tool. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-7. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 18.
HORROR LITERATURE: A CORE COLLECTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE.
New York & London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1981. Octavo, illustrated boards. First edition. Part one of the book is five annotated checklists of horror fiction: "The Gothic Romance 1762-1820" by Frederick S. Frank (422 entries); "The Residual Gothic Impulse 1824-1873" by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (101 entries); "Psychological, Antiquarian, and Cosmic Horror 1872-1919" by Jack Sullivan (260 entries); "The Modern Masters 1920-1980" by Gary William Crawford (311 entries); and "The Horror Pulps 1933-1940" by Robert Weinberg (15 entries). Part two of is "Supernatural Verse in English" by Steve Eng (64 entries). Part three, pages 455-520, comprise "reference sources,"largely complied by Mike Ashley. The reference section is dated; Crawford's contribution is poor, Weinberg's superseded, the remainder are excellent, especially Eng on supernatural verse. "...while Tymn's book undeniably has been supplanted as a reader's guide by Barron [Horror Literature... (1990)], ironically his material still retains enormous worth and validity as a synthesis of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century horror and Gothic literature, and should be retained by both libraries and scholars for that purpose. Many of the books covered in the earlier sections by Tymn are analyzed in no other source." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 78. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-33. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 102.
THE SCIENCE FICTION REFERENCE BOOK: A COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK AND GUIDE TO THE HISTORY, LITERATURE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FIELDS.
[Mercer Island, WA]: Starmont House, [1981]. Octavo, black leather with pictorial front wrapper from paperbound issue laid down on front panel. First edition. This work provides fourteen historical and critical overviews, bibliographical checklists, and resource lists grouped in three catagories: Backgrounds, fandom, and academe, plus four appendixes. Includes two annotated bibliographical surveys: "Masterpieces of Modern Fantasy: An Annotated Core List" by Roger C. Schlobin, pages 246-290, that provides an annotated checklist of approximately 280 novels, single author story collections, and anthologies, and "Outstanding Science Fiction Books: 1927-1979" by Joe de Bolt and John R. Pfeiffer, pages 291-377, that provides an annotated checklist of about 300 novels, single author story collections and anthologies arranged chronologically by year of publication. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 103.
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND WEIRD FICTION MAGAZINES.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The basic reference tool for all genre magazines as of 1984. Critical/historical essays for each magazine, including details of publication history..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 12-46.
FANTASY LITERATURE: A CORE COLLECTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE.
New York & London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1979. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The core of this book is an annotated checklist of 208 novels and single author story collections and sixteen anthologies from MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) through the early 1970s. The core list is preceded by an introductory essay, pages 3-38, by Zahorski and Boyer, and is followed by "reseach aids," pages 199-239, compiled by Tymn. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-32. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 101.
JACK VANCE.
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects eight essays on Vance's fantasy and science fiction by Norman Spinrad, Don Herron, Robert Silverberg, Richard Tiedman, and others. "Of particular interest are Robert Silverberg on the two 'Dying Earth' books then available and Richard Tiedman on Vance as a stylist." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 8-103. Includes a short biographical note and a fine checklist of writings by and about Vance compiled by Marshall B. Tymn.
THE WORK OF JACK VANCE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY & GUIDE.
San Bernadino, CA; Penn Valley, CA & Lancaster, PA: R. Reginald, The Borgo Press; Underwood-Miller, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition, trade issue. Foreward by Robert Silverberg. Bibliography of books, short fiction, verse, non-fiction and other material with annotations. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, M166.
THE WORK OF JACK VANCE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY & GUIDE.
San Bernadino, CA; Penn Valley, CA & Lancaster, PA: R. Reginald, The Borgo Press; Underwood-Miller, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 1, signed by Vance, Robert Silverberg (introduction), Jerry Hewett and Daryl F. Mallett. Foreward by Robert Silverberg. Bibliography of books, short fiction, verse, non-fiction and other material with annotations. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, M166.
FANTASMS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LITERATURE OF JACK VANCE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1978. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 1000 copies printed. This is one of the 900 copies in wrappers.
FANTASMS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LITERATURE OF JACK VANCE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1978. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 1000 copies printed. This is one of the 900 copies in wrappers.
FANTASMS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LITERATURE OF JACK VANCE.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1978. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 1000 copies printed. This is one of the 900 copies in wrappers.
KURT VONNEGUT: FANTASIST OF FIRE AND ICE.
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1972]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. First printing with price $1.00 on front cover. Brief study of Vonnegut's themes and literary technique through the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
THE MOVIE TIE-IN BOOK: A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO PAPERBACK MOVIE EDITIONS.
Coralville, Iowa: Nostalgia Books, 1994. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Trade paperback format. Comprehensive listing of books with publisher data and market price estimates.
THE HILLS OF FARAWAY: A GUIDE TO FANTASY.
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Waggoner on the front free end paper. A guide to the study of modern fantasy fiction with 996 annotated entries of which about three-fourths are fiction and the remainder are biographical and critical works. In addition to the checklist, the main focus of the book, there are lengthy chapters defining fantasy and establishing subgenres, along lines suggested by Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories" and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957), and a historical overview from George MacDonald to the 1970s. Appendixes include a fantasy chronology 1858-1975, illustrated essay on fantasy illustration, a list of fantasy fiction by subgenre keyed to the main listing, and a list of fantasy award winners. "The annotations are vigorously and clearly written, often acerbic, and effectively blend plot summary and intelligent evaluation. There are some bibliographic inaccuracies and omissions, but these are more than offset by the work's scope, clarity and forceful writing. A first-rate guide..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-34 and Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-34. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-53. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 104.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM IN THE FORTIES.
Chicago: Advent:Publishers, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Warner was an influential member of American sf fandom and historian of fanish activities during the 1940s and 1950s. This book supplements Moskowitz's THE IMMORTAL STORM for the 1940s. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-142.