Young Adult
FIRST BOY ON THE MOON.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. Juvenile science fiction novel by the then Associate Editor of Popular Mechanics magazine. Two young boys get caught on the first space rocket to the moon. The author went on the write the Alvin Fernald children's mystery books.
DAY OF THE STARWIND.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. Octavo, cloth. Second U.S. printing. The third volume in the "Last Legionary" series. "One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
DEATHWING OVER VEYNAA.
New York: Atheneum, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The second volume in the "Last Legionary" series. "One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
THE HUNTSMAN.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The first volume in the "The Huntsman" series. Well regarded SF for youngsters.
PLANET OF THE WARLORD.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth volume in the "Last Legionary" series. Well reg"One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
YOUNG LEGIONARY.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fifth and final volume in the "Last Legionary" series. Well regarded SF for youngsters."One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by the author on the half title page. 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.
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.
THE SILVER KISS.
New York: Delacorte, 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Klause on the title page. Well received young adult vampire novel. Author's first book.
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.
THE DRAGON HOARD.
New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Author's first book.
THE DRAGON HOARD.
New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Author's first book.
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.
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.