Science Fiction
THE WINDS OF CHANGE.
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first sf story by L. Ron Hubbard, "The Dangerous Dimension" appears. Stories by Clifford Simak, Ross Rocklyne, Ray Cummings, Raymond Z. Gallun, conclusion of the serial novel The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Gilmore, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "If This Goes On..." (conclusion) by Robert Heinlein. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Harl Vincent, Hugh B. Cave and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, L.A. Eshbach and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, L.A. Eshbach and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES: THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, 3 volumes, full leather, a.e.g. First editions. A three volume retrospective collection of fiction by Heinlein, Leinster, Lovecraft, Hamilton, Schachner, Stuart (J. W. Campbell), de Camp, van Vogt, Asimov, Sturgeon, Clement, Williamson, Padgett, Schmitz, Blish, Russell, Brown, Anderson and Simak. The stories cover the period of 1931-1958, with reproductions of the issue covers.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell, Jr.), John Taine and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Ray Cummings, Robert H. Wilson, Murray Leinster and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE MOON'S WIFE.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
RADIX.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, trade paperback issue. Both trade and hardcover editions issued simultaneously. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons ... After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute, SFE (online). 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-55.
SOLIS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Adams. Introduction by James Gunn. Dystopian novel. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.
RADIX.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first book. 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-22.
HANDMAID'S TALE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "Dystopian novel of a world ruled by militaristic fundamentalism in which sexual pleasure is forbidden. Conception and childbirth have become difficult, and the handmaid of the title belongs to a special breeding stock." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-57. Made into a feature film in 1990, recently made into a television series. Winner, 1985 Governor General's Award; 1986 Nebula nominee. First winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 426.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition, first printing with code "V 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on copyright page. "Dystopian novel of a world ruled by militaristic fundamentalism in which sexual pleasure is forbidden." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-57. Made into a film in 1990. Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award. 1986 Nebula nominee. First winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 426.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER.
New York: Avon Novels, Inc., 1951-1952. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. All published. Short lived digest which relied mainly on reprints from older magazines which was unable to compete with Galaxy and F & SF. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 134-35.
THE WINDUP GIRL.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2011. Octavo, imitation leather. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Bacigalupi. This is copy 183, one of the first 200 copies with color artwork, bound in imitation leather in slipcase. The author's first novel. Dystopian future novel. This edition also includes the stories "The Calorie Man" and "The Yellow Card Man." Winner of the 2010 Hugo award (tied with Miéville's THE CITY & THE CITY) and the 2009 Nebula award for best novel. The novel also won the Locus, Campbell, and Compton Crook awards. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #96.
A KEY TO FREDRIC BROWN'S WONDERLAND: A STUDY AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent).
KONYETZ.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d., [1924]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-320, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and blind. First edition. Apocalyptic novel of world war, the Black Plague, and the end of the world. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1147. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Clarke, Voice Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Bleiler (1978), p. 105. Reginald 07664.
CONCRETE ISLAND.
Niew York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-15. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268.
CONCRETE ISLAND.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-15. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268.
CRASH.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed bookplate by the author laid in. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-16.
CRASH.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. "Perhaps Ballard's darkest, most unsettling book". Barron (ed.) Horror Literature, 4-16. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-64. Winter list, p. 268.
THE CRYSTAL WORLD.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-26.