Signed titles
THE TOWER OF ZANID.
New York: Avalon Books, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the title page. Part of the Krishna series.
THE WHEELS OF IF: AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the half title page. Collects seven stories.
ASCIAN IN ROSE.
Seattle: The Axolotl Press, [1986]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by De Lint and James Blaylock who wrote the introduction. Ascian in Rose is a novella which along with Westlin Wind, Ghostwood, and Merlin Dreams in the Moondream Wood form the contents of SPIRITWALK, the sequel to the novel MOONHEART.
BERLIN.
[Ottowa]. Fourth Avenue Press, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by De Lint, the trade edition. A story set in the "Borderland series," a dystopian urban fantasy.
GHOSTWOOD.
Eugene: Axolotl Press/Pulphouse, 1990. Octavo, leather. First edition. Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of 75 numbered leatherbound "deluxe" copies signed by de Lint.
THE LITTLE COUNTRY.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Review slip laid in.
THE RIDDLE OF THE WREN.
Seattle: M.D. Hargreaves, 1994. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 500 copies signed by the author and also the artist Charles Vess. New afterword by De Lint.
"... AND SOME WERE HUMAN" -- A DOZEN ...
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first issue with hand-lettered title page dated 1948. Signed by the Del Rey on the front free end paper. The author's first science fiction book collecting twelve stories which includes the "Nerves" and "Helen O'Loy." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-138. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-306. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 512.
"... AND SOME WERE HUMAN" -- A DOZEN ...
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first issue with hand-lettered title page dated 1948. Inscribed and signed by the Del Rey on the front free end paper. The author's first science fiction book collecting twelve stories which includes the "Nerves" and "Helen O'Loy." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-138. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-306. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 512.
"...AND SOME WERE HUMAN."
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First issue with the hand lettered title page dated 1948. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. The author's first science fiction book, a story collection which includes the story "Nerves". Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-138.
"...AND SOME WERE HUMAN."
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First issue with the hand lettered title page dated 1948. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. The author's first science fiction book, a story collection which includes the story "Nerves." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-138.
DAY OF THE GIANTS.
New York: Avalon Books, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the front free end paper by author. Science fiction novel involving Norse legends.
DHALGREN.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Delany on the title page. This edition contains all textual corrections from the author, including several dropped lines of dialogue (these corrections were not fully made through the first nine printings of the paperback editions). Lengthy introduction by Jean Mark Gawron. "Convoluted and fascinating, it remains on of the key works of avant-garde SF, by an author determined to extend the limits of the genre." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-127. Nominated for the Nebula award for best novel in 1975. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 533-38.
BUDDY HOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL ON GANYMEDE.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Kent Bash, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Bash. The author's second book. Winner of the 1991 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.
DARK OF THE MOON: POEMS OF FANTASY AND THE MACABRE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to Robert Briney on the front free endpaper. 2634 copies printed. "The single most vital volume in any collection of supernatural verse. Lengthy, rich, and representative; 64 poets, 210 poems ... A milestone volume ... an influence upon the emerging Small Press poets (late 1960s-1980s)." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-15.
THE OUTER REACHES: FAVORITE SCIENCE FICTION TALES CHOSEN BY THEIR AUTHORS.
[New York]: Pellegrini & Cudahy, Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper. Collects seventeen stories selected and introduced by their authors. Includes Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon and others.
COUNTRY GROWTH.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-14] 1-322, original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue and yellow. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to author and anthologist Phil Stong: "To Phil Stong / With admiration and regard. / Cordially / August Derleth." A collection of short stories, part of his "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2067 copies printed. Signed inscription by Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Allen Hess / A book of trifles / Sincerely, / August Derleth." A collection of thirty-two stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, plus a foreword by Derleth who calls this book "a kind of catchall, made up of stories for the most part rejected for inclusion in SOMEONE IN THE DARK and SOMETHING NEAR, plus certain more recent stories which have been added to this group of early stories primarily to set off the contrast." Derleth's third collection of weird fiction. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 520. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-96.
PLACE OF HAWKS.
New York: Loring & Mussey Publishers, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7 [8-12] 13-250 [251-254: blank], five wood engravings by George Barford, original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in silver, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper to William C. Weber, an editor at Scribner's. Weber was also a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and a book reviewer, sometimes using the byline "Judge Lynch." Derleth's third book and first collection of short fiction. Collects four linked novelettes: "Five Alone," "Faraway House," "Nine Strands in a Web" and "Place of Hawks." Dark, somber stories of madness, death and decay; Midwestern Gothic. "The emphasis is on the dark, brooding, and tragic in this study of twisted lives." - Wilson. Part of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga. Wilson 541.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1974 ...
Novato, California, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, pp. [1-32] 1-311 [312: blank] [313-314: index] [315-320: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer William Gibson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 10-53.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1938-1971. Introduction by James Blaylock.
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, [1996]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer James P. Blaylock. Chronologically Volume 1 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1975-1976. Edited by Don Herron. Introduction by Tim Powers.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Tim Powers, this being copy number 1. Chronologically Volume 4 in the series of six books.
VALIS and COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY.
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1987. Octavo, red cloth with quarter black leather spine panel, spine and side stamped in gold, marbled endpapers. First hardcover edition. 1801 copies printed of which this is copy "R" of 26 lettered copies signed by author of the afterword Kim Stanley Robinson and with a Philip K. Dick signature clipped from a check pasted onto an inserted leaf preceding the limitation leaf. The author's first book of the Valis trilogy, a personal novel, "...the finest book of Dick's last years, VALIS (written 1978; 1981), a fragile but deeply valiant self-analysis – the two protagonists of the novel, a man who is mad and a man who is not, are clearly meant to comprise a double portrait of the author himself – conducted within the framework of a longing search for the structure of meaning, the Vast Active Living Intelligence System." - SFE online. Also included is COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY with an introduction by Paul Williams. This a publication of an integral section of the Dick's EXEGESIS concerning his religious epiphany. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-337.
WORLD OF CHANCE.
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Bombay, Johannesburg, New York, Toronto: Rich and Cowan, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Dick. The author's first book. Issued earlier in the U.S. as a paperback original by Ace Books as SOLAR LOTTERY (1955). Texts differ considerably, "Ace wanted revisions and Rich & Cowan wanted revisions, both different, so the author satisfied them both." - Levack 38. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-67.
DEUS IRAE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Dick. A quest novel set in America after World War III. A stalled Dick novel completed by Zelazny.