Signed titles
ANGRY CANDY.
Norwalk: Easton Press, [1988]. Octavo, illustrated by Kent Bash, full leather, a.e.g. First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Ellison. Signed edition which precedes the Houghton Mifflin trade edition by about a week. Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Paladin of the Lost Hour," Hugo Award winner for best novelette, 1974. This same story's teleplay won Ellison a Writer's Guild of America Award (for the Twilight Zone episode in 1987). Also includes "Soft Monkey" an Edgar Award winning short story, 1988. This volume also won the World Fantasy Award for best collection. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-374.
APPROACHING OBLIVION: ROAD SIGNS ON THE TREADMILL TOWARD TOMORROW.
[London]: Millington, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. Collects eleven stories. Foreword by Michael Crichton. "Typically top-of-the-voice tales-some sf, some fantasy-by one of the fields leading performers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 17. "[Ellison's stories] are terrifying and vicious, immersive and gut-wrenching, and span from baroque far future speculations to near future warnings. Above all, they are well-written and intelligent. Many are infused with (pseudo) autobiographical content and lament the societal ills that Ellison sees as most pervasive and dangerous and most of the time he believes it’s futile to do anything about it." - book review by Joachim Boaz, August, 2013 at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations (blog).
COFFIN NAILS.
Catskill, NY: Charnel House, 2016. Large octavo, boards. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by introducer Tim Powers, label signed by Ellison affixed to front paste down. Collects twenty two stories first published in digest magazines from the period 1957-1958. An additional two stories from 1969 are published here for the first time.
DEATHBIRD STORIES ...
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, leather. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Ellison. Introduction by Terry Dowling. Note from the publisher states "All previous editions had been set from outdated, imperfect, versions of manuscripts. This edition has been extensively revised by the Author...This edition culls all mistakes, restores missing material, and is as close to a Preferred Text as the Author and The Easton Press can offer." Collects nineteen stories. Includes the Hugo Award winning stories "The Deathbird" (1973) and "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans..." (1974). "Extravagant, highly emotional, sometimes shrill, this has some claim to being Ellison's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 93. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-375. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 73. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
DEATHBIRD STORIES ...
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1975]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The correct first printing with "1" in printing code at bottom of page [336]. Signed by Ellison on the front free end paper. Collects nineteen stories. Includes the Hugo Award winning stories "The Deathbird" (1973) and "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans..." (1974). "Extravagant, highly emotional, sometimes shrill, this has some claim to being Ellison's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 93. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-375. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 73. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
DEATHBIRD STORIES.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1976]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell 1737. Signed by Ellison on the title page. Collects nineteen stories. Includes the Hugo Award winning stories "The Deathbird" (1973) and "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans..." (1974). "Extravagant, highly emotional, sometimes shrill, this has some claim to being Ellison's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 93. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-375. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 73. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.
Norfolk / Virginia Beach: The Donning Company / Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation label signed by Ellison laid in. Collects essays first printed in FUTURE LIFE, L.A. WEEKLY and THE COMICS JOURNAL.
ELLISON WONDERLAND.
[London]: Millington, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First trade hardcover edition. Preceded by the British Science Fiction Book Club edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories from magazine sources. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 608.
FOOTSTEPS...
Round Top, New York: Footsteps Press, [1989]. Octavo, illustrations by Ken Snyder, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 582 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Ellison. This short story was collected earlier in Ellison's Angry Candy (1988). This edition includes Ellison's "1980 Introduction" to the story which was first published in Gallery, December 1980, and "Author's Footnote to This Edition," first published here.
THE HARLAN ELLISON HORNBOOK.
Westminster, Maryland: The Mirage Press, Ltd., 1990. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi-viii] ix-xi [xii-xiv] xv-xxiii [xxiv] xxv-xxviii [xxix-xxx] 1-417 [418], cloth. First edition. Limited to 776 copies, this being one of 750 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Previously uncollected essays, several revised for this book, one published here for the first time. This issue accompanied by a companion volume, HARLAN ELLISON'S MOVIE: AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, one of 750 numbered copies signed by Ellison.
HARLAN ELLISON'S WATCHING.
LA/Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 signed copies.
HARLAN ELLISON'S WATCHING.
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, pp. [1-2: inserted limitation leaf] [1-18] i-iii [iv] v-xxxvii [xxxviii-xl] 1-514 [515-518: blank] [note last two leaves are blanks], full black leather with gold stamped spine. First edition. Letter "W" of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Ellison.
LOVE AIN'T NOTHING BUT SEX MISSPELLED: TWENTY-TWO STORIES ...
New York: Trident Press, [1968]. Octavo, jacket by Diane and Leon Dillon, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Ellison to fellow author Tom Disch: "For Tim Disch-- / with awe. / Harlan Ellison / 22 Jan 76 / NYC." A fine association. Twenty-two stories, some non-genre. "There is racial madness, abortion and death, desperate loneliness here as the author presents All the Sounds of Fear.Ellison writes with an earnest vitality. Not a flabby sentence in the lot, as he pursues lost gods and ever present demons. Good." - Kirkus review, 5/1/68.
MEFISTO IN ONYX.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1993. Oblong octavo, imitation leather. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Ellison and introducer Frank Miller. Edgar Award nominee.
NO DOORS, NO WINDOWS.
Baltimore: Borderlands Press, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Contents as per 1975 Pyramid Books edition; introduction (here revised and expanded) and sixteen stories.
"REPENT HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997. Quarto, Illustrated by Rick Berry, cloth. First printing of this illustrated edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the Ellison and the artist Rick Berry.
SHATTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Ellison on the title page. Publisher's two page promotional letter laid in. Collects sixteen stories. Includes "Jeffty is Five," Nebula Award winner, 1977 and Hugo Award winner, 1978 for best short story. The story also won the 1999 online Locus poll as best short story of all time. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-206.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED: ESSAYS BY HARLAN ELLISON.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on SF and SF writers.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay. Includes "Chatting With Anubis," Bram Stoker Award for best short story, 1995 and "Mephisto in Onyx," Bram Stoker Award winner for best novella, 1993. The trade edition from Houghton Mifflin drops several pieces from this edition.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 100 copies compromising the limited edition, signed by Ellision. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Ellison; of a 126 copy limited edition. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. First published in 1961 as a paperback original titled ROCKABILLY. Text offset from that of a later printing of the 1975 Pyramid Books edition. New introduction by Ellison.
STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.
Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories and four essays.
STAR TREK: CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER. [FOTONOVEL #1].
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books:, [1977]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Stills from the original television episode with dialog word balloons. A brief interview with Ellison on the screenplay is included.