Signed titles
THE MEMORY OF EARTH.
New York: TOR, [1992]. Octavo, leather. First edition. Limited to 325 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by Card. First book of the "Homecoming" series. On the planet Harmony survivors from a ruined Earth live in a eutopia maintained by a computer, which is failing. The only repair lies light-years distant on Earth and the only way to get there is to teach forbidden technology to a few select people. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
RED PROPHET.
[New York]: TOR, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. "Tales of Alvin Maker" volume 1.
SAINTS: A NOVEL...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, leather backed cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 111 numbered copies signed by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.
SAINTS: A NOVEL...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade hardcover edition. Signed and dated by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.
UNACCOMPANIED SONATA.
[Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., 1992]. Small octavo, imitation leather. First separate edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Card. Short Story Hardback #29. The story was a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.
KUSHIEL'S JUSTICE.
New York, Boston: Warner Books, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated in the month of publication by Carey. Fantasy novel set in a medieval type world. Second book in the second trilogy of Kushiel books.
BEYOND INFINITY.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Carr. This is copy number 188. Collects four novellas. Two of them, concerning interactions with alien cultures, first appeared in the SATURDAY EVENING POST. A third story, "Mutation," is about a family that survived a nuclear and bacteriological holocaust that killed most of the human race. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-89. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 154.
OUTSIDE THE DOG MUSEUM.
London: Macdonald, 1991. Octavo, illustration by David McKean, boards. First edition. Signed by the Carroll on the title page.
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW.
New York: The Viking Press, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Author's second book.
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW.
New York: The Viking Press, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Author's second book.
BLACK VENUS.
London: Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Carter. Collects eight stories.
BROTHERLY LOVE AND OTHER TALES OF TRUST AND KNOWLEDGE.
Nottingham: Pumpkin Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Case.
THE AVENGING PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1955. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Second novel in the Picaroon series. Signed inscription by Cassells to the dedicatee Leo Margulies. Hubin, p. 146.
ENTER THE PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1954. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first novel in this series, introducing Ludovic Saxon, The Picaroon "gay and swashbuckling buccaneer of crime." Signed inscription by Cassells, an association copy: "To Leo-...Bill Duncan [John Cassells], October 14/54." The Leo is editor and publisher Leo Margulies, who was involved in anthologies, magazines and pulps from the '30s onward. Not in Hubin (1994).
MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS.
Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of the subscriber's copies with tipped in plate signed by Cave and artist Lee Brown Coye. Omnibus collection of twenty-six horror stories selected from the pulps. Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award for best collection. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-48. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 74. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-63. Winter list, page 268.
MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS.
Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Cave on the front free end paper. Omnibus collection of twenty-six horror stories selected from the pulps. Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award for best collection. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-48. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 74. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-63. Winter list, page 268.
SUMMERLAND.
New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion Books for Children, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Chabon on the title page. Fantasy which takes place in the world of Summerland, the plot based around the game of baseball.
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Chabon on the title page. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer Landsman investigates murder in the Federal District of Sitka with world wide religious implications. Winner of the Nebula (2008), Hugo (2008), Locus (2008) and Sidewise Alternative History (2007) SF awards and a finalist for crime fiction's Edgar. Also winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for fiction (2007). Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #88.
BACKFIRE: STORY FOR THE SCREEN. Preface by Robert B. Parker.
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1984. Octavo, illustrated cloth. First edition. One of 126 hand bound copies signed by Robert B. Parker. Proposal for an original screenplay which went unsold.
A DRINK OF DEADLY WINE.
New York: The Mysterious Press, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Author's first mystery novel. Signed by the author on the title page.
MOONSTONE AND TIGER-EYE.
Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies in cloth signed by Charnas. Collects two stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Twenty-nine.
CHERNEVOG.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, frontispiece by Keith Parkinson, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Cherryh. Introduction by James Gunn. Second book of a fantasy series set in ancient Russia, preceded by Rusalka (1989). Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series.
GLASS AND AMBER.
Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of a limitation of 1000 copies this is one of 225 numbered copies signed by Cherryh and artist Barclay Shaw of from a limited edition of 1000. Commemorative book for Boskone 24. Collects seven stories and five essays (several from speeches). At least one story is revised for this collection.
GLASS AND AMBER.
Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of a limitation of 1000 copies this is one of 225 numbered copies signed by Cherryh and artist Barclay Shaw of from a limited edition of 1000. Commemorative book for Boskone 24. Collects seven stories and five essays (several from speeches). At least one story is revised for this collection.
HEAVY TIME.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Cherryh. SF novel set in the "Merchanter" universe. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.