Story Collection (single author)
MISS BRACEGIRDLE AND OTHERS.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-332 [333-334: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects thirteen stories, several crime, two of which were used as film sources. Aumonier was a highly regarded short fiction writer, praised by John Galsworthy and James Hilton. Hubin, p. 37. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 7.
ALL GOOD AMERICANS ... With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xii] [1-2] 3-373 [274: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. The Wisconsin-born writer's first book, a collection of twelve stories of small town life in the American Midwest, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway praising "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness."
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.
THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby and John Pelan.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints nine stories from the scarce 1895 edition and one additional that was unpublished.
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1970]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. "Fifteen avant-garde pieces which may or may not constitute a marginally sf "novel." Ranging from "You and Me and the Continuum" (1966) to "Tolerances of the Human Face" (1969), they deal with the contemporary media landscape, a world of motorways, multi-story car parks, TV screens and glossy advertising. The central character's name changes from segment to segment, but he appears to be a doctor who is suffering from a mental breakdown. The author's most difficult book, but some readers regard it as his masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [23]. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-24.
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1970]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Fifteen avant-garde pieces which may or may not constitute a marginally sf "novel." Ranging from "You and Me and the Continuum" (1966) to "Tolerances of the Human Face" (1969), they deal with the contemporary media landscape, a world of motorways, multi-story car parks, TV screens and glossy advertising. The central character's name changes from segment to segment, but he appears to be a doctor who is suffering from a mental breakdown. The author's most difficult book, but some readers regard it as his masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [23]. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-24.
DISASTER AREA.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1967]. Octavo, decorated wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Ballard on the title page. Collects nine stories including "The Subliminal Man" and "The Impossible Man." Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-55.
THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL NIGHTMARE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first short story collection. Collects eight stories including "The Voices of Time," "Prima Belladonna," and "Chronopolis."
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald.
A BOOK OF GHOSTS. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 400 copies. Collects the twenty-one stories published in the 1904 Methuen edition and adds two other supernatural tales by Baring- Gould, "A Dead Man's Teeth" and "The Old Woman of Wesel," and a new 13- page introduction by Richard Dalby. "Collection of ghost stories, some dating back to the 1850s. Most are slight tales of apparitions; the most interesting are 'Pomps and Vanities,' a tale of possession; and 'The Merewigs,' a farce in which persons who made no spiritual progress in their last incarnation must now haunt the British Museum." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-6. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 26-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 97. Bleiler (1978), p. 15. Reginald 00865.
BOOKS OF BLOOD V.
Santa Cruz: Scream/Press, 1989. Octavo, imitation leather. First thus. One of 333 numbered copies signed by Barker and artist Harry O. Morris.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 4-6 (three books).
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1985]. Small octavo, three books, pictorial wrappers. First editions. Paperback originals. Each volume signed by Barker to "Tim [Underwood]" and date 30th July 1985. The second set of three volumes of short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-21.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Signed by the author. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51.
TRACES.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Story collection.
VACUUM DIAGRAMS: STORIES OF THE XEELEE SEQUENCE.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Short stories written between 1987-1995 which have been revised and placed in novel format, with a new timeline and references to the novels in the 'Xeelee Sequence' (RAFT, TIMELIKE INFINITY, FLUX and RING). Winner of the 1999 Philip K. Dick award for the U.S. publication.
EARLY HARVEST.
Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of a limitation of 800 copies this is one of 225 numbered copies signed by Bear and artist David Mattingly. Anthology of work, fiction and non-fiction, specially prepared for the Boston science fiction convention (Boskone 25).
EARLY HARVEST.
Cambridge: The NESFA Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of 800 numbered copies this is one of 575 unsigned. Anthology of work, fiction and non-fiction, specially prepared for the Boston science fiction convention (Boskone 25).