Reference
CLUES.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980-1983. Octavo, 8 issues, printed wrappers. The first eight numbers of this scholarly journal devoted to mystery and detective fiction. The first number includes a large section devoted to John D. MacDonald, focused on paper presented at conference on MacDonald at the University of South Florida. There is also introduction and comments by MacDonald. The issues devote articles to classic and modern authors and their characters. Books, pulps and media are covered.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. Octavo, boards. Second edition (revised and expanded). The updated and enlarged second edition with over 4300 entries, 1500 more than the original 1979 edition. Still the most comprehensive science fiction encyclopedia with over 4330 entries (largely written by Clute, Nicholls, and contributing editor Brian Stableford) and about 2100 cross-references. Scope is immense with some 1,300,000 words devoted to authors (more than 2900 entries), themes (212 entries), terminology (65 entries), films, filmmakers, and television (674 entries), magazines and original anthologies (249 entries), and other categories; the aggregate intended as "more than merely an encyclopedia of SF; it is a comprehensive history and analysis of the genre." An essential work. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-22.
SCIENCE FICTION: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA.
London, New York, Stuttgart: Dorling Kindersely, [1995]. Large octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Covers the history of the genre in all forms, books, film, magazine, comics, etc. Many illustrations, biographies, timelines. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book.
SCIENCE FICTION: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA.
London, New York, Stuttgart: Dorling Kindersely, [1995]. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, boards. First U. S. edition. Covers the history of the genre in all forms, books, film, magazine, comics, etc. Many illustrations, biographies, timelines. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book.
INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS.
Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., [1978]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. A comprehensive listing of English-language science fiction anthologies and single author collections published through June 1977. Lists contents of more than 1900 books containing over 12,000 stories by approximately 2500 authors. Organized in three alphabetical sections: By author (including pseudonym cross-references), by story title, and by book title, the latter with full contents listing. Contento also provides a checklist of all indexed books with book author or editor, type of book, publishing data, and other information. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-14. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 117.
THE WEREWOLF IN LEGEND, FACT AND ART.
New York: St. Martin's Press. London: Robert Hale Limited, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First edition, U. S. issue. Typed letter from Copper signed by him thanking the writer for providing information on lycanthropy.
JACK VANCE: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Boston Spa & London: The British Library, 2000. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Vance. Foreword by Harlan Ellison. Biographical sketch by Vance. Other contributions by Terry Dowling, Paul Rhoads, Tom Shippey, Gene Wolfe, David Langford, Dan Simmons, David Mathew, A. E. Cunningham and Chuck Miller. The limited edition includes 16 pages of photographs not included in the trade edition.
JACK VANCE: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Boston Spa & London: The British Library, 2000. Octavo, boards. First edition. Trade edition. Foreword by Harlan Ellison. Biographical sketch by Vance. Other contributions by Terry Dowling, Paul Rhoads, Tom Shippey, Gene Wolfe, David Langford, Dan Simmons, David Mathew, A. E. Cunningham and Chuck Miller. The limited edition includes 16 pages of photographs not included in the trade edition.
JACK VANCE: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Boston Spa & London: The British Library, 2000. Octavo, boards. First edition. Trade edition. Foreword by Harlan Ellison. Biographical sketch by Vance. Other contributions by Terry Dowling, Paul Rhoads, Tom Shippey, Gene Wolfe, David Langford, Dan Simmons, David Mathew, A. E. Cunningham and Chuck Miller. The limited edition includes 16 pages of photographs not included in the trade edition.
BOOK CATALOGS: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR, MYSTERY & ADVENTURE FICTION. Numbers 111-113.
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, 1997-1998. Octavo, 3 volumes, pictorial wrappers. Collection of three catalogs which total nearly one thousand pages with nearly eleven thousand entries. All books cataloged by Mr. Currey have excellent bibliographic descriptions.
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY AUTHORS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST PRINTINGS OF THEIR FICTION AND SELECTED NONFICTION. Revised Edition.
Olathe, KS: RB Publishing, [2002]. Searchable CD-ROM. Revised and corrected edition. On Compact Disc. Quasi-descriptive bibliography compiled to meet the need for a single volume bibliography providing comprehensive and accurate checklists of all book fiction by major authors identified with the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres from the late nineteenth-century through the 1970s. This work, loosely modeled on Merle Johnson's classic American First Editions, provides the first comprehensive listing of book fiction by 215 authors highly regarded for their writings in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields. The bibliography is intended for those who wish to identify first and significant later printings and editions of books by these authors. The checklists are designed to provide listings of all book fiction for each author through 1977 in a compact, but comprehensive and coherent format and to provide descriptions that will enable the reader to identify first and other significant printings and editions. To aid researchers and collectors, in addition to describing the first printing, the hardcover printing of any book preceded by a paperback printing (or printings) is described. Later printings or editions with title changes or revised texts and reprint collections with rearranged contents, abridgments, or enlargements are included as well. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-7. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-2. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 210.
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY AUTHORS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST PRINTINGS OF THEIR FICTION AND SELECTED NON-FICTION.
Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This copy signed by Currey on the title page. Invaluable reference tool. Quasi-descriptive bibliography compiled to meet the need for a single volume bibliography providing comprehensive and accurate checklists of all book fiction by major authors identified with the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres from the late nineteenth-century through the 1970s. This work, loosely modeled on Merle Johnson's classic American First Editions, provides the first comprehensive listing of book fiction by 215 authors highly regarded for their writings in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields. The bibliography is intended for those who wish to identify first and significant later printings and editions of books by these authors. The checklists are designed to provide listings of all book fiction for each author through 1977 in a compact, but comprehensive and coherent format and to provide descriptions that will enable the reader to identify first and other significant printings and editions. To aid researchers and collectors, in addition to describing the first printing, the hardcover printing of any book preceded by a paperback printing (or printings) is described Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-7. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-2. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 210.
THE CHECKLIST OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE IN PAPERBOUND BOOKS.
Denver, New York: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications, 1965. Wrappers. First edition. Listing by author, title date and publisher of paperback fiction of "paper-covered books with a sufficient tinge of the super-natural, or, the super-scientific as to warrant placement in the science-fantasy field" (from the information page). Includes U.S. and U.K. editions, from the early 1940s to 1964. Meant to a companion volume to his Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1963) (which was for hardcovers), and ultimately to supplement Bleiler's checklist. A pioneering effort for paperback material.
THE CHECKLIST OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE IN PAPERBOUND BOOKS.
New York: Arno Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1965 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications edition. "Day intended this book as a companion volume to his Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1963), which included only cloth volumes, and ultimately as a supplement to Bleiler's Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948), and it is organized very similarly to both... Day includes materials largely from the period 1948-64, although some earlier original paperbacks missed by Bleiler in his 1948 Checklist have been added. Now largely superseded by Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (1979)." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 221. Briney and Wood, SF Bibliographies, p. 31.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL CHECKLIST OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE.
Denver, New York: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications, [1963]. Wrappers. First edition. Meant as a supplement to Bleiler's 1948 Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Extends Bleiler's then listings to 1963 and includes titles that Bleiler missed.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
THE CONAN SWORDBOOK: 27 EXAMINATIONS OF HEROIC FICTION...
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1969. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow and others, cloth. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies (1485). 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
DE CAMP: AN L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP BIBLIOGRAPHY.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1983. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of 200 clothbound copies signed by L. Sprague De Camp, Catherine Crook De Camp, Charlotte Laughlin, Daniel J. Levack and Lacy H. Hall. Illustrated bibliography.
DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE LIFE OF ROBERT E. HOWARD.
[New York]: Bluejay Books, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Biography of Robert E. Howard.
THE WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON.
Boston: The New York Graphic Society, 1974. Large octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE DELANY INTERSECTION: CONSIDERED AS A WRITER OF SEMI-PRECIOUS WORDS.
San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1977. Octavo, wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948-1949(volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. Eight numbers, all published. A complete file of this important magazine from Arkham House. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER. Winter 1948 - Autumn 1949 (volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4).
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948-1949(volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. All published. A short lived, but important periodical. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt and many others, the magazine published essays, criticism, memoirs and book reviews. One issue was devoted to science fiction. The final issue included an index. All issues were limited to 1200 copies except the "All Science-Fiction Issue" that had a 2000-copy print run.