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PHILIP K. DICK: ELECTRIC SHEPHERD.
Melbourne: The Norstralia Press, 1975. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Introduction by Roger Zelazny. Essays and articles about Dick and his work, includes text of a speech. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-54.
PHILIP K. DICK...
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Critical study with contributions from Thomas M. Disch, Patricia S. Warrick, Darko Suvin, Brian W. Aldiss, Hazel Pierce, Michael Bishop and others.
PHILIP K. DICK: STARMONT READER'S GUIDE 12.
[Mercer Island: Starmont House, 1982]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
DIVINE INVASIONS: A LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK.
New York: Harmony Books, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Biography of Philip K. Dick.
MIND IN MOTION: THE FICTION OF PHILIP K. DICK.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Literary study of eight of Dick's novels.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. The Definitive Doyle bibliography.
WRITING SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1991]. Octavo, pp. viii, 264, boards. First edition. Twenty original and reprint articles and essays by Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, John Barnes, Norman Spinrad, Dozois, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 14-16.
WRITING SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Twenty original and reprint articles and essays by Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, John Barnes, Norman Spinrad, Dozois, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 14-16.
GANGLAND'S DOOM: THE SHADOW OF THE PULPS.
N.p. Robert Weinberg Publisher, 1974. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, original paperbound booklet. Signed inscription on the front cover by Walter Gibson, author the Shadow novels (also signed as Maxwell Grant).
THE UNIVERSES OF E.E. SMITH.
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1000 copies printed. Summary and detailed concordance for the Lensman and Skylark series. Introduction by James H. Schmitz and comprehensive bibliography by Al Lewis.
HARLAN ELLISON: UNREPENTANT HARLEQUIN.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1977. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Volume six of The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today.
THE BOOK OF ELLISON ... Edited by Andrew Porter.
[New York]: Algol Press, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Signed by Ellison on the title page. Material by and about Ellison, edited by Andrew Porter. Includes fiction and nonfiction by Ellison, including an autobiography, memoirs by Ted White, Robert Silverberg, David Gerrold, and Lee Hoffman, an essay on Ellison's fiction by Joseph Patrouch, Jr., and a checklist of Ellison's nonfiction by Leslie Kay Swigart. 2000 copies printed of which this is one of 1800 paperbound copies.
EDGEWORKS 1: OVER THE EDGE [and] AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.
[Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1996.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this combination. Collects OVER THE EDGE (1970), a collection of short fiction, and AN EDGE IN MY VOICE (1985), a collection of essays.
THE HARLAN ELLISON HORNBOOK.
Westminster, Maryland: The Mirage Press, Ltd., 1990. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi-viii] ix-xi [xii-xiv] xv-xxiii [xxiv] xxv-xxviii [xxix-xxx] 1-417 [418], cloth. First edition. Limited to 776 copies, this being one of 750 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Previously uncollected essays, several revised for this book, one published here for the first time. This issue accompanied by a companion volume, HARLAN ELLISON'S MOVIE: AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, one of 750 numbered copies signed by Ellison.
HARLAN ELLISON'S WATCHING.
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, pp. [1-2: inserted limitation leaf] [1-18] i-iii [iv] v-xxxvii [xxxviii-xl] 1-514 [515-518: blank] [note last two leaves are blanks], full black leather with gold stamped spine. First edition. Letter "W" of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Ellison.
OF WORLDS BEYOND: THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE FICTION WRITING.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. This edition includes a useful index and adds a two-page "foreword" by John Carnell. Seven essays by Robert A. Heinlein, John Taine, Jack Williamson, A. E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Edward E. Smith, and John W. Campbell, Jr. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-54.
OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA ...
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 9-417 [418: blank] [note: complete despite gap in pagination], illustrations, cloth. First edition. An informal history of the SF book field in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, then almost totally the providence of the amateur specialist publisher, set against the activities of an early fan, writer and SF specialty publisher (Eshbach was founder and publisher of Fantasy Press). Chapter 14, "The Books They Published," pages 343-388, provides a valuable bibliographical checklist (with print runs where known) for selected specialty presses that commenced operation prior to 1970. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-54.
THE HORNBLOWER COMPANION: AN ATLAS AND PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON THE WRITING OF THE HORNBLOWER SAGA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS BY SAMUEL BRYANT.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. "...a valuable guide to the wanderings of Forester's indomitable hero, and an indispensable adjunct to any Hornblower collection." (From jacket copy).
FEMINISM IN THE WORLDS OF NEIL GAIMAN: ESSAYS ON THE COMICS, POETRY AND PROSE.
Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2012]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A collection of essays.
THE NEIL GAIMAN READER.
[Rockville, MD]: Wildside Press, [2007]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Signed on half title page by Gaiman. Also signed by contributor Peter D. Rawlik. Critical essays on Gaiman and his works, also includes two interviews and "An Incomplete Bibliography."
ARTHUR RACKHAM.
New York: Macmillan, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Profusely illustrated. Study of Rackham's work in an art context.
FANTASTIC LIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY NOTABLE SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1981]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xi [xii-xiv] 1-215 [216-218: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], cloth. First edition. Collection of eight autobiographical essays by Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, R. A. Lafferty, Katherine MacLean, Barry N. Malzberg, Mack Reynolds, Margaret St. Clair, Norman Spinard, and A. E. van Vogt. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 10-169.
WHO'S WHODUNIT.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1969. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pseudonym index for writers of detective, mystery and crime fiction.
ALTERNATE WORLDS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J. Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1975]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Large oversize (coffee-table book) volume, profusely illustrated history of science fiction from the earliest days. "A readable and concise popular history..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-62. Winner of a special Hugo Award in 1976.
SCIENCE FICTION BOOK REVIEW INDEX 1974-1979.
Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Volume two in Hall's series, the first covering the years 1923-1973. Research aid listing sources of book reviews.