Story Collection (single author)
QUICKER THAN THE EYE.
New York: Avon Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories. Afterword by Ray Bradbury.
R IS FOR ROCKET.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper. Collects seventeen stories, two of which, "R is For Rocket" and "Frost and Fire,"are published here for the first time in a book.
R IS FOR ROCKET.
[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Foreword by Ray Harryhausen. Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith. Collects seventeen stories.
S IS FOR SPACE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics. Three stories, "Chrysalis," "Pillar of Fire" and "Time in Thy Flight" appear here for the first time in a book, and "The Screaming Woman" appears here in this format for the first time in a book (a comic book adaptation appeared earlier in THE AUTUMN PEOPLE [1965]).
S IS FOR SPACE.
[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. New introductions to this edition by Arthur C. Clarke and Tim Powers. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics.
THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Octavo, decorated black cloth stamped in blind, top edge gilt. First edition. One of 60 copies of the author's presentation issue with inserted limitation leaf reading: "This first edition of / THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY / is limited to sixty copies, specially bound, / all of which have been signed / by the author. / This is a presentation copy." This copy inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper to a well known fan. Massive collection of 100 of the best stories. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-155. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-46. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-46. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-52.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Collects twenty-three stories, his first collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Bradbury to a well known fan, dated 3/29/89. Collects twenty-three stories, his first collection since 1980.
TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury dated in the year of publication. Combined edition of the two volumes, The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy. Uncommon, more so in condition.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper: "Stanley! / Ray Bradbury / 3/28/83." Stanley is Stanley Simon, long time New York area science fiction book collector. Collects 23 stories.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed and dated by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects 23 stories. Published as a paperback original with a small number of copies done in hardcover.
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS.
[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Introduction by Bradbury. Collects twenty-two stories.
BULLET TRICK.
[Colorado Springs, CO]: Gauntlet Publications, 2009. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. This is copy number 31. Collects unpublished teleplays as well as two short stories adapted by Bradbury for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone but never used.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, cover painting by Ray Bradbury, imitation leather. Limited and expanded edition. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and Clive Barker, author of the afterword. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and by Clive Barker (who writes the afterword). New edition, first limited, of Bradbury's first book. Edited by Donn Albright, nine page new introduction by Bradbury. This edition also includes four stories, contemporary to the rest of the contents but not in the original edition, archival material and an afterword by Clive Barker. Wrap around dust jacket is an original painting by Bradbury. Includes "Time Intervening" by Ray Bradbury, a numbered chapbook and a CD of interviews conducted by Donn Albright, both accompanied some but not all copies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
THE COLD EMBRACE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eighteen stories with "introduction" by Richard Dalby and "Miss Braddon at Home," an article by Mary Angela Dickens first published in WINDSOR MAGAZINE, September 1897. "Whereas the supernatural and weird tales of Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant were published individually in thematic collections during the late Victorian (and Edwardian) era, this never happened with Mary E. Braddon and Amelia B. Edwards, two of the finest ghost story writers of the nineteenth century, whose supernatural work was sprinkled throughout various rare books and magazines, which today are virtually impossible to obtain. This gap is now filled by the present volume, together with its recent companion THE PHANTOM COACH by Amelia Edwards. Thanks to their appearance in THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (edited by Montague Summers in 1931), Mary Braddon's first two ghost stories, 'The Cold Embrace' and 'Eveline's Visitant,' have regularly been reprinted in later anthologies, and remain her best known contributions to the genre. Only four other supernatural tales by Braddon have been revived in the past two decades, a deficiency now remedied here . The stories in the present volume are arranged in strict chronological order from 1860 to 1896 . In addition to all of Braddon's traditional ghost stories, I have added three of her best borderline fantasies . but I have omitted some of the less satisfactory 'dream' stories ." - Dalby.
THE COLD EMBRACE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eighteen stories with "introduction" by Richard Dalby and "Miss Braddon at Home," an article by Mary Angela Dickens first published in WINDSOR MAGAZINE, September 1897. "Whereas the supernatural and weird tales of Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant were published individually in thematic collections during the late Victorian (and Edwardian) era, this never happened with Mary E. Braddon and Amelia B. Edwards, two of the finest ghost story writers of the nineteenth century, whose supernatural work was sprinkled throughout various rare books and magazines, which today are virtually impossible to obtain. This gap is now filled by the present volume, together with its recent companion THE PHANTOM COACH by Amelia Edwards. Thanks to their appearance in THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (edited by Montague Summers in 1931), Mary Braddon's first two ghost stories, 'The Cold Embrace' and 'Eveline's Visitant,' have regularly been reprinted in later anthologies, and remain her best known contributions to the genre. Only four other supernatural tales by Braddon have been revived in the past two decades, a deficiency now remedied here . The stories in the present volume are arranged in strict chronological order from 1860 to 1896 . In addition to all of Braddon's traditional ghost stories, I have added three of her best borderline fantasies . but I have omitted some of the less satisfactory 'dream' stories ." - Dalby.
THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUSES.
London, Sydney, Wellington: Unwin Hyman, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bradfield. The author's first book. A collection of nine stories: six reprints (mostly from INTERZONE) and three, the title story, "The Darling" and "Greetings From Earth," first published here.
KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1923]. Octavo, [i-iv] v-xii [xiv-xvi] 17-333 [334-336, blank], fore-edge untrimmed. cloth backed boards. Later edition. Later printing of the first edition, statement of printing on copyright page. More Kai Lung tales. Preface by Hillare Belloc.
SCREAM AT MIDNIGHT.
New Haven, Connecticut: Macabre House, 1963. Octavo, cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Limited to 250 copies signed by Brennan. Collects nine stories.
STORIES OF DARKNESS AND DREAD.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3472 copies printed. Collection of eighteen stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-46.
STORIES OF DARKNESS AND DREAD.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3472 copies printed. Collection of eighteen stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-46.
STORIES OF DARKNESS AND DREAD.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4138 copies printed. Collects seventeen short stories and a prose poem. "Brennan's forte was the small-town horror story ... New England towns where characters are swallowed up by the gulf separating an antiquarian past from a soullessly modernized present. Many of the stories presciently anticipate the dark fantasy movement of the 1970s through the horrors the arise out of fears and concerns of ordinary lives." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-50. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-50. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-46.
MA QUI AND OTHER PHANTOMS.
Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Brennert. Collects four stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Seventeen.