Story Collection (single author)
I, ROBOT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, illustrated by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated in the year of publication by Asimov on the front free end paper. Influential collection of short fiction about robots with first postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics," a concept used for plots in numerous tales by other writers in subsequent years. Includes "The Evitable Conflict." in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future, moving it "toward an unknown and happy destiny." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 36-7. Loose basis for the recent film of the same title. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-49. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 995-99.
I, ROBOT.
[New York]: A Signet Book Published by The New American Library, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Signet S1282. Influential collection of short fiction about robots with first postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics," a concept used for plots in numerous tales by other writers in subsequent years.
THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Asimov's first collection of short fiction. Collects "The Martian Way," "Youth," a first contact story, "The Deep," an amusing Earth invaded by aliens satire, and "Sucker Bait," all written between 1952 and 1954. "Good traditional SF of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21. Most of the best of his short stories ... were initially assembled in a series of impressive volumes, including THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES (1955), EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET (1957) and NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE (1959). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21.
NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes the title story and nineteen others. Asimov provides an introduction to each story. "Nightfall" is one of the classic stories of Science Fiction, "his most famous story and probably the single most famous US sf story of all time." - John Clute and Malcolm Edwards, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-50.
OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 200.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Some fiction is present, including "Good Taste."
OPUS 300.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
PUZZLES OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth collection of Black Widower tales which is a 'best of' from the previous volumes and two new stories previously uncollected.
ROBOT DREAMS: MASTERWORKS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...
NY: Berkley Books, [1986]. Octavo, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Asimov. Collection of the twenty-one robot stories all from previous collections with the exception of "Robot Dreams", first published here. Introduction by Asimov.
THE UNION CLUB MYSTERIES.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed presentation inscription by Asimov on the title page to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Review slip laid in. Story collection.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories, all but two first published between 1976 and 1982. "Belief" and "Ideas Die Hard," both first published in the 1950s, somehow escaped publication in an earlier Asimov single-author story collection, so he included them here. The stories are "something of a return to Asimov's older style. Whimsical, clever, liberal, and the stories tend to feature absent-minded academics and to end with punch lines." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 423.
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.
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.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Starblaze Editions SB 04. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-13.
THIS MORTAL COIL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-245 [246: colophon], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 2609 copies printed. Collection of seven stories and two novelettes. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-5. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 54. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-10. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00597.
BEAST MARKS.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories, including a Sherlock Holmes story.
BEAST MARKS.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories.
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 FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Welsh author Denys Val Baker (1917-1984) was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, reminiscences, and articles, much of whose work was regional writing about Cornwall where he resided permanently after 1948. This selection of twelve stories is his major collection of weird fiction. "These unusual fantasy and macabre stories are among Baker's best work in the genre ... 'The Face in the Mirror' and 'Passage to Liverpool' are remarkable pieces." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11. The author of "many weird and bizarre stories," this collection includes "his best weird tales. Seldom supernatural, his tales stress the psychological effects of the inexplicable upon people." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 24-5.