Reference
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, (trade paperback issue). This is the trade paperback issue. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
LOVECRAFT: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE.
[Lexingtion, KY]: The University Press of Kentucky, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE GREAT DETECTIVE IN PAPERBACK.
Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Publications, 1990. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bilbliography, checklist and index of Sherlock Holmes in U.S. and British paperback editions. Illustrated.
THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT: SCIENCE FICTION IN THE EIGHTIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xi] xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-198 [199] [200-202: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], boards. First edition. Thirty-six essays focusing on the current state of the genre with analyses of the factors that caused its decline. Malzberg argues that the decade of the 1950s was the "golden age" of American SF and its decline during the last two decades was largely due to restricted market, lazy authors, and commercial practices of editors and publishers. Many of Malzberg's charges were and are still on target. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-83.
THE DICTIONARY OF IMAGINARY PLACES. EXPANDED EDITION ...
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1987]. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second edition, enlarged, U. S. issue. "An interesting, inevitably incomplete compilation which rewards casual browsing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-39. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-39. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 18.
THEODORE STURGEON.
New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981. Octavo, Wrappers. First edition. Paperback issue. Study of the works of Theodore Sturgeon.
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A CANTICLE FOR P. SCHUYLER MILLER [caption title].
Newark, N.J. Sam Moskowitz, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-11 [12: blank], mimeographed from typewritten copy, pictorial front wrapper (no back wrapper as issued), stapled. First edition. Limited printing of "not over 300 copies." This copy is signed by Moskowitz. Tribute and brief biography.
MISSISSIPPI REVIEW.
Hattiesburg: Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Special issue guest-edited by Larry McCaffery devoted to cyberpunk fiction including "Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium" with comments by Gregory Benford, David Brin, Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley and others, fiction by Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson and others, essays by Tom Maddox, George Slusser and others, an interview with William Gibson, and other material. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-127.
SCIENCE FICTION BY GASLIGHT: A HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION IN THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, 1891-1911.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty-six selections from American and British periodicals arranged by motif. The 36-page introduction, one of Moskowitz's most important contributions to the study of the history of SF, surveys the early history of the mass-circulation, general interest English-language magazine and examines themes and extent of a popular literary form of the period. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-70.
UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A history and anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey magazines 1912-1920.
UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS: A HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF "THE SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE" IN THE MUNSEY MAGAZINES, 1912-1920.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] 1-433 [434: blank], cloth. First edition. The valuable 143-page historical introduction is a continuation of Moskowitz's examination of SF in popular magazines begun in SCIENCE FICTION BY GASLIGHT (1968), though the survey here is restricted to American periodicals with emphasis on the Munsey group. Fiction selections include the original magazine texts of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, A. Merritt and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-71.
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SCIENCE FICTION IN OLD SAN FRANCISCO: HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FROM 1854 TO 1890 [and] INTO THE SUN & OTHER STORIES.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1980. Octavo, two volumes: [1-12] 13-16 [17-18] 19-255 [256: blank]; [1-8] 9-13 [14-16] 17-253 [254-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations, cloth. First editions. Volume I is the HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FROM 1854 TO 1890 by Moskowitz; volume II is INTO THE SUN & OTHER STORIES, a collection of short fiction by Robert Duncan Milne, edited by Moskowitz. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-769 and 9-132. Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 568.
EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE: SHAPERS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Collection of articles on the early science fiction writers, Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells, Doyle, Burroughs, Lovecraft, Weinbaum, Wylie and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-191.
THE IMMORTAL STORM: A HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM ...
Atlanta: The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Preceded by a 1951 paperbound mimeographed edition limited to 150 copies. A very personal view of fandom, but still the best portrayal of this small, but influential group of SF activists. Contains information on fanzines published in the 1930s and 1940s not available elsewhere. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 9-61.
TALBOT MUNDY: MESSENGER OF DESTINY.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1983. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Grant on title page. Bio-bibliography with comprehensive illustrated checklist of Mundy's books and magazine appearances, an autobiography, biography by Peter Berresford Ellis, memoir by Mundy's wife, Dawn Mundy Provost, essays by Darrel Crombie and Fritz Leiber, an article on Mundy's writings published in Adventure, and other material.
DOC SAVAGE: REFLECTIONS IN BRONZE.
Greenwood, MA: Odyssey Publications, Inc., 1978. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Booklet which reprints two articles by Will Murray, "Reflections In a Flake-Gold Eye" and "The Girl Who Loved Doc Savage." Both were originally published in the mimeographed fanzine THE DOC SAVAGE READER prior to 1975, which is an uncommon fanzine. Both articles are revised for this publication and are one of the earliest examinations of the character.
SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS... ABOUT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SCIENCE FICTION AND REALITY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1976. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-224, boards. First edition. Eleven papers delivered (with one exception) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1975. Contributors include Ursula K. Le Guin, John Brunner, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-139.
VOYAGES TO THE MOON.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] xv [xvi] xvii [xviii] 1-297 [298-302: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. An influential early study of fictional accounts of travel to the moon. An annotated checklist, "Bibliography: Primary Material. The History of Flight," pages 260-284, provides a list of fiction and nonfiction published from 1493 to 1784. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-97. Ciancone 174.
EQMM 350: AN AUTHOR TITLE INDEX TO ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE FALL 1941 THROUGH JANUARY 1973.
White Bear Lake, MN: The Armchair Detective Press, 1974. Wrappers. First edition. Printed wrappers. Reference to story titles and authors.
VILLAINS GALORE: THE HEYDAY OF THE POPULAR STORY WEEKLY.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. History of the Story Paper Weeklies.
THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE.
[New York]: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Examination of the author's works with historical perspective. Includes a large number of photographs.
TRANSMUTATIONS: A BOOK OF PERSONAL ALCHEMY.
Elephant, Pennsylvania: Elephant Books, [1982]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-214, cloth. First edition. The harbound issue, limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Panshin. This copy personalized to "George." A miscellany collecting eleven short stories, poetry, essays and articles (the subject of some being science fiction and fantasy), and other material.
MONTHLY TERRORS: AN INDEX TO THE WEIRD FANTASY MAGAZINES PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.
Westport, CT, London, England: Greenwood Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A comprehensive analytical checklist of 168 English-language professional and important amateur fantasy and horror magazines, most published in the United States and Great Britain, from 1919 through 1983. Indexed alphabetically by magazine (with chronological issue by issue content listing), by author (with biographical information when available), by artist, and by editor. Four appendixes provide an index to series and connected stories, an annotated selected list of magazines that published a "fair percentage of weird fantasy" and "came closest to being included in the main index," a chronological listing of magazines, and a geographical listing of magazines. The major index to fantasy and weird fiction magazines. "...particularly important for its coverage of small press publications and rare titles not normally included in the standard indexes." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 11-68 and Barron (ed), Horror Literature 11-68. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 130.
MERVYN PEAKE: WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS.
London, New York: Academy Editions, St. Martin's Press, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition, U.S. issue. Simultaneous publication in England and the U.S. Done by the author's widow, with varied selections from the author's career with some analysis.