Young Adult
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Henry Sharp, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Henry Sharp, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
WARLOCK AT THE WHEEL AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Greenwillow Books, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Young adult fantasy story collection.
A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1978]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This children's fantasy, the third of the Meg Murry novels, preceded by A WRINKLE IN TIME and A WIND IN THE DOOR. "L'Engle seems to have arrived at a happy synthesis of science, metaphysics, universal politics, and individual responsibility. She is one of the handful of science fiction writers whose work consistently rings true." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, pp. 569-570. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-662.
A WIND IN THE DOOR.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This children's fantasy, the second of the Meg Murry novels, preceded by A WRINKLE IN TIME. "L'Engle seems to have arrived at a happy synthesis of science, metaphysics, universal politics, and individual responsibility. She is one of the handful of science fiction writers whose work consistently rings true." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, pp. 569-570. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-662.
COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD AND THE WINTER PLAYERS: TWO NOVELLAS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. and First combined editions. Two fantasy novellas aimed toward the youger audience. "Lee's books for children, in fact, have a clarity and directness which make them among the very best of her works"- Pringle (ed.): St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 351-53.
COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD AND THE WINTER PLAYERS: TWO NOVELLAS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. and First combined editions. Two fantasy novellas aimed toward the younger audience. "Lee's books for children, in fact, have a clarity and directness which make them among the very best of her works" - Pringle (ed.): St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 351-53.
GIFTWISH.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Review slip laid in. Young adult fantasy novel in the Tolkien tradition.
DRAGONDRUMS.
New York: Atheneum, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The third volume in the Harper Hall trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-109.
DRAGONSINGER.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second volume in the Harper Hall trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-109.
DRAGONSONG.
New York: Atheneum, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first volume in the Harper Hall trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-109.
THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD.
New York: Atheneum, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Winner of the 1975 World Fantasy Award. "...a deceptively simple novel, stylistically lyrical, often surprising, and wonderfully consistent. Presented as a fairy tale, thought with great and involving emotion, it shows absolute power, the bitterness of revenge, great love and the search for a heart's desire." - Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 398-399. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-257. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 54. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 566-70. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 136-7.
MEL OLIVER AND SPACE ROVER ON MARS.
[New York]: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The author's first SF book. Young adult story involving in interplanetary circus.
QUEST CROSSTIME.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In the publisher's trade binding. Sequel to THE CROSSROADS OF TIME (1956). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-817.
THE DEFIANT AGENTS.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Third book of the "Time Traders" series.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance copy. This is the Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof of the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, first published in the U.K. as His Dark Materials 1: Northern Lights. This is an interesting edition as the number line on the copyright page starts with 2 and ends with 10 and has no first printing statement (the hardcover edition has the number line start with 10 and descend to 1 and states first printing. The pagination between the proof and the hardcover is also different, the first text page is 3 ending with 397, the hardcover edition has the text start with page 3 and end with 399. Barron (ed): Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-311.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE ...
[London]: Bloomsbury, [2000]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition, first printing with "First published in Great Britain in 2000 / ... / First Edition" on copyright page. Signed on the dedication page by Rowling. Fourth of the very popular Harry Potter books.
WATCHSTAR.
New York: Pocket Books, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's author's fourth book, a YA novel, first of a trilogy. "The heroines of the Watchstar trilogy ... live on a far future Earth inhabited by technologically primitive villagers who possess telepathic and telekinetic powers. Daiya, Lydee, and Anra question the conservative world views of their culture and seek to discover the secrets of their world and of the Comet Dwellers, the descendants of humans who long ago left Earth. The fate of the planet is in the hands of these young visionaries." - Thomas J. Morrissey, Watson and Schellinger (editors), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, third edition, p. 690. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 402.
SECRET OF THE MARAUDER SATELLITE.
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Reginald 15264.
THE DEVIL IN A FOREST.
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. In the publisher's trade binding. The author's fourth book and third novel. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1136.
MIKE MARS ASTRONAUT.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first volume in the Mike Mars series. Science fiction adventure story for juvenile audience with emphasis on advanced aircraft.