Signed titles
NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE.
New York: Avon Publications, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon T-80. Signed inscription by Bond on the title page. Collects twelve stories.
WATER HAZARD.
[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Signed inscription by Borg to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Psychological thiller. "Sexual debauchery and twisted identities reign in an intricately descriptive first novel, a thriller that reads like North by Northwest re-scripted by Joe Eszterhas and Franz Kafka." - Kirkus Review, 1/1/95.
VIEWPOINT.
Cambridge: The NESFA Press, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. One of 800 signed and numbered copies. Volume issued for the annual Boskone SF convention. Collections of editorials from Analog.
LET THE DOG DRIVE.
New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signedby Bowman. The author's first novel.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3112 copies printed. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in year of publication by Bradbury: "FOR / A. Langley Searles / WITH MY VERY BEST WISHES / FROM / RAY BRADBUY / MAY 15, 1947" Searles was a member of first fandom and founded the noted amateur magazine Fantasy Commentator, considered on the earliest fan based academic journals. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with a fine inscription by Bradbury dated the month of publication: For Stan --- / With my best / wishes; and hopes / for our upcoming / book -- / best from / Ray Bradbury / March, 1953." "Stan" is almost certainly Stanley Kauffmann, his editor at Ballantine Books, and the "upcoming" book is FAHRENHEIT 451, published by Ballantine in October 1953. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258.
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Brief signed inscription by Bradbury on the title page. Bradbury's second and most famous book, a collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 255. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 3. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1348-52.
OCTOBER.
Los Angeles: [Shottlebop Press], 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-12] (not paginated), pictorial wrappers. First edition. Inscribed on the front cover by Bradbury, dated 1984. First printing of a long, early Bradbury poem completed in 1940. The poem was originally recorded in 1940, Daugherty rescued the recording from the Ackerman Archives and transcribed it for this publication. Privately printed by Walt Daugherty and Mary Ellen Rabogliatti. Reportedly limited to 150 copies.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...remains the quintessential Bradbury fiction." – Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1769-73. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-51.
THAT SON OF RICHARD III: A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT...
[Glendale, California]: Roy A. Squires, 1974. Octavo, printed wrappers with marbled paper overlay. First edition. Limited to 485 copies of which this is one of 85 numbered copies in roman numerals (I-LXXXV) signed by Bradbury comprising the “Autograph Edition.”.
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TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury dated in the year of publication. Combined edition of the two volumes, The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy. Uncommon, more so in condition.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper: "Stanley! / Ray Bradbury / 3/28/83." Stanley is Stanley Simon, long time New York area science fiction book collector. Collects 23 stories.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed and dated by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects 23 stories. Published as a paperback original with a small number of copies done in hardcover.
ACT OF PROVIDENCE.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 signed by Brennan and Grant. Lucius Leffing investigates at the First World Fantasy Convention. Also includes a Lucius Leffing bibliography.
SCREAM AT MIDNIGHT.
New Haven, Connecticut: Macabre House, 1963. Octavo, cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Limited to 250 copies signed by Brennan. Collects nine stories.
THE DETECTION COLLECTION: STORIES AND ESSAYS BY THE DETECTION CLUB.
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, [2005]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First limited edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the editor and all authors (except Akunin and Johnson, authors of the lead essay). Original anthology of stories celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Detection Club which also includes the essay "A Tribute to the Detection Club" by Boris Akunin and Michael Johnson, which is special to this edition.
MAKING LOVE: A CONSPIRACY OF THE HEART.
London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, Doubleday, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brill on the title page.
EARTH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster." - from the David Brin website. Hugo award nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-158.
EARTH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster." - from the David Brin website. Hugo award nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-158.
GLORY SEASON.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, frontispiece by Jill Bauman, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Brin. Novel set on another planet in which the feminist colonists establish a matriarchal society. 1994 Hugo nominee. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159.
INFINITY'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brin on the title page. Book two of a new "Uplift Trilogy."
INFINITY'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brin on the title page. Book three of a new "Uplift Trilogy."
THE POSTMAN.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Brin on the title page. A post-holocaust story set in America's Pacific Northwest after a destructive nuclear war about a man who transforms himself into a postman, a teller of tales and a carrier of news between scattered communities. "A piously scientistic moral tale which proved popular but was excoriated by some critics." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 285. "I refuse to accept delivery of any of THE POSTMAN'S messages." - Lee Montgomerie, Interzone. Winner of the 1986 John W. Campbell Award for best novel. 1986 Hugo nominee. The novel was the basis for a 1997 film starring Kevin Costner. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-161. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 146.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel. This book includes textual revisions by the author for this edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162.