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EXPERIMENT PERILOUS: THREE ESSAYS ON SCIENCE FICTION...
[New York]: Algol Press, [1976]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Collects three essays by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norman Spinard, and Alfred Bester. The Bester essay is "Writing and The Demolished Man."
POWERS: SECRET HISTORIES...
[Hornsea, England]: PS Publishing, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Powers. Illustrated bibliography of Powers works, includes story notes, commentary from Powers, articles and essays from Dean Koontz, James P. Blaylock China Miéville, Karen Joy Fowler and others.
KLARKASH-TON: THE JOURNAL OF SMITH STUDIES. Number One.
Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications, 1988. Small octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Thirty-six page booklet with material on Smith by Donald Wandrei, Donald Sydney-Fryer, Richard Stockton, Clark Ashton Smith, Marjorie Farber, Douglas Anderson and editorial by Price. Also includes the conclusion to "Return of the Sorcerer" by Smith.
MODERN FANTASY: THE HUNDRED BEST NOVELS.
New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
MODERN FANTASY: THE HUNDRED BEST NOVELS. AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SELECTION, 1946-1987.
New York: Peter Bedrick Books, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition, trade paperback issue. Presents critical essays with a focus on novels written post WW II. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-23 and 7-46. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-23. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002)95.
SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS. AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SELECTION, 1949-1984.
[New York]: Carroll & Graf, [1986]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition, trade paperback format. Critical essays on 100 SF novels from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) to Gibson's Neuromancer (1984). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-109. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 73.
IN THE QUEEN'S PARLOR: AND OTHER LEAVES FROM THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK.
New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Fifty pieces on the aspects of mystery fiction.
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: AN EXHIBITION... JANUARY–APRIL 1975.
Bloomington: The Lilly Library / Indiana University, 1975. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A fine exhibit catalogue describing 211 items selected to present a history of the emergence and growth of SF and fantasy literature illustrated with photographs of title pages, book jackets, manuscripts, and original art work.
THE CASE FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SPECKLED BAND.
Ashcroft, B.C. Calabash Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second volume in this series. Articles centered on the Doyle story.
GALAXY MAGAZINE: THE DARK AND THE LIGHT YEARS.
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., 1986. Octavo, illustrated, cloth. First edition. Issue-by-issue survey of Galaxy (1950-1980) with some publishing history. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 12-43.
THE LAST BOOKMAN.
New York: The Candlelight Press, 1968. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 2500 copies. One of 2500 copies. Tribute to Starrett, includes a biography and bibliography.
THE NIGHT MASTER.
Chicago: Pulp Press, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Study and survey of The Shadow.
THE LITERATURE OF FANTASY: A COMPREHENSIVE, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN FANTASY FICTION.
New York: Garland, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...the first and thus far the only attempt to compile a complete bibliography of modern adult fantasy..." - Burgess and Bartle, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 2nd edition. Barron (ed), FANTASY LITERATURE 6-5.
A GUIDE TO THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE.
New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of the second edition, revised and expanded. Trade paperback original.Numerous definitions cross referenced to many printed sources, including novels, novelizations, reference books, guides, games, etc.
BRIDGES TO FANTASY.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1982]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiv] [1] 2-231 [232-234: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen original essays, written specifically for the second annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, examining the structures, contexts and themes of the literature of fantasy, the goal of each being to "investigate particular ways in which these categories ultimately interact to produce a work of fantasy." Contributors include Harold Bloom, Roger Sale, and David Ketterer. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 11-84. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 7-54.
BRIDGES TO SCIENCE FICTION.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Inc., [1980]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1-2] 3-168, cloth. First edition. Collects ten original essays, all written specifically for the first J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature held 24-25 February 1979 at the University of California, Riverside, by Gregory Benford, Eric S. Rabkin, Patrick Parrinder, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-221.
CLARK ASHTON SMITH: THE SORCERER DEPARTS.
[West Hills, CA]: Tsathoggua Press, [1997]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Biography and criticism by fellow California poet Donald Sidney-Fryer.
PLANETS AND DIMENSIONS: THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH.
Baltimore: The Mirage Press, 1973. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Of approximately 1250 copies printed, this is one of 750 paperbound copies.
SELECTED LETTERS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 276 letters spanning the author's life.
SELECTED LETTERS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects 276 letters spanning the author's life.
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE-FICTION WRITERS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1981]. Large octavo, First edition. This first volume in this series which has gone through several editors (and publishers). All volumes are of interest as contents have changed from edition to edition. Concise bio-bibliographical and critical guide to 532 English-language writers of science fiction. Each entry provides biography, bibliographical checklist (including nonfiction), short critical essay, and, in some cases, the author's comments on his or her work. Two appendixes provide entries for thirty-five foreign-language science fiction writers and for five "major" fantasy writers. Fifty-one of the writers included here were deleted from the 1986 second edition. "...a number of historical figures were dropped from the revised edition to make room for newer authors, so both books should be retained by libraries and researchers." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 58. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-30.
THE BAKER STREET JOURNAL: AN IRREGULAR QUARTERLY OF SHERLOCKIANA.
New York: Ben Abrahamson, 1946. Octavo, four issues, printed wrappers. Volume 1, numbers 1-4. First four issues of the original series. Includes articles, essays, pastiches, and other informative material. Authors included are Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Manly Wade Wellman, August Derleth, and others.
THE BAKER STREET JOURNAL: AN IRREGULAR QUARTERLY OF SHERLOCKIANA.
New York: Ben Abrahamson, 1947. Octavo, four issues, printed wrappers. Volume 2, numbers 1-4. The second four issues of the original series. Includes articles, essays, pastiches, and other informative material. Authors included are Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley, Anthony Boucher, Manly Wade Wellman, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.
THE PRIVATE PRESS OF ROY A. SQUIRES: A DESCRIPTIVE LISTING OF PUBLICATIONS 1962-1987.
[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires], 1987. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. One of 80 numbered "larger copies", this being copy number 51, no speciman leaves. Listing of titles produced by the press.
BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
New York: Argus Books, Inc., 1947. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Starrett's commentary on the world of books and bookmen. Includes sections on Sherlock Holmes.