Signed titles
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Brin on the title page, dated in the year of publication. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin, this is copy #5. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
THE UPLIFT WAR.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 numbered copies signed by Brin. Sequel to STARTIDE RISING (1983). Winner of the 1988 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-163.
THE UPLIFT WAR.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 numbered copies signed by Brin. Sequel to STARTIDE RISING (1983). Winner of the 1988 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-163.
THE RIGHT WRONG THING.
San Francisco: The Beaune Press, 1966. Wrappers. First edition. One of 222 numbered copies. Signed inscription by the editor, Dickentsheet. Pamphlet format, hand set and printed. Separate publication of an article that first appeared in the The Bookman (London), 1930.
THE SWORD OF SHANNARA.
New York: Random House, [1977]. Octavo, illustrated by the Hildebrandt brothers, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription dated by Brooks on the title page. The first book in the Shannara fantasy series. Now a television series. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-52.
THE LOST SYMBOL.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The third volume to feature Robert Langdon.
SPACE ON MY HANDS.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of an unknown number of subscriber copies, signed by Brown on the front free end paper. The author's second SF book and first collection of SF short stories. Includes "Daymare," his classic SF detective story. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169.
THE TASTE OF ASHES.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne to a mystery bookseller; "For--- / whom I tolerate only because / he's a bookseller / Howard Browne / 4/16/88." Signed again on the title page by Browne. Also a short typed note dated 1982 from Browne is laid in, declining an invitation to the BoucherCon and saying he is working on a new book to be titled Pork City (St. Martin's, 1988). The next to last Paul Pine novel, this one published under his own name, thought by some the best of the series. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 96-97. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th edition), 116-117.
THIN AIR.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne, a presentation copy signed by Browne in the year of publication; "For Elaine / ... and the champagne cocktails / were a buck a throw..."/ Love / Howard Browne/ 8/26/54." Well received non-series mystery novel.
THE SHEEP LOOK UP.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1972]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Brunner on the title page. 1972 Nebula nominee. "The most elaborate alarmist novel about industrial pollution." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-72. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 69. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1913-16.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brunner. "Mammoth attempt to picture the world as it may well be in the early twenty-first century -- overpopulated, over automated, and torn by riots and muggings. The pop sociologist Chad C. Mulligan comments wryly on it all, and he is the nearest thing to a hero in this densely peopled book. Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows surface bravura from John Dos Passos's social realist USA trilogy (1930-1936)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 343. Winner of the 1969 Hugo award for best novel. 1968 Nebula nominee. Winner of the 1970 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel and the French Prix Apollo. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-175. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
AMONG THE DEAD AND OTHER EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE APOCALYPSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Bryant. Author's first book.
WHO?
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. This copy signed by Budry's on the front free endpaper. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now virtually a cyborg and no one can be sure of his identity. A clever cold-war thriller which established this young writer's reputation." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 419. "A strong indictment of the idiocies dignified at that time (and to a great extent still today) as 'security,' but a parable also of estrangement and alienation more generally." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-183. "Perhaps as fine a study of dehumanization and alienation as SF will ever produce." - Gene Wolfe. 1959 Hugo nominee. Filmed in 1973 with Elliott Gould and Trevor Howard, it is faithful to the concept of the novel. Retitled for the video release as Roboman, apparently to cash in on the Robocop craze. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2474-77.
BARRAYAR.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. This copy signed and dated by Bujold (Orlando, 1992-at the Wordcon) on the title page. Winner of 1992 Hugo Award for best novel. 1991 Nebula nominee. "Traditional space opera at its very best with a mild feminist tone and twist." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-184. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #19.
BORDERS OF INFINITY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, frontispiece by Ray Miller, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Bujold on a special limitation page. New introduction by James Gunn. A Miles Vorkosigan adventure. A section of this novel comprises "The Mountains of Mourning," winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-186.
THE CURSE OF THE CHALION.
[New York]: Eos An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bujold on the title page. Epic fantasy, first book in the "World of the Five Gods" series. Nominated for the Hugo award and World Fantasy award for best novel. The series that this book starts won a Hugo award for best series in 2018.
MIRROR DANCE.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Bujold. Winner of the 1995 Hugo award for best novel. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
PALADIN OF SOULS.
[New York]: Eos An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance copy, uncorrected proof, of the first edition. Signed by Bujold on the title page. Epic fantasy, a sequel to THE CURSE OF CHALION. Winner of the Hugo award, Nebula award and Locus award for best novel, 2004.
PALADIN OF SOULS.
[New York]: Eos An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bujold on the title page. Epic fantasy, a sequel to THE CURSE OF CHALION. Winner of the Hugo award, Nebula award and Locus award for best novel, 2004.
HIGH SIERRA.
New York [and] London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-292 [293: blank] [294: printer's information] [295-296: blank], original dark orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in gray, top edge stained red, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Signed inscription by Burnett on the verso of the half title page: "For / Jean / sincere best / W R Burnett." This classic novel is "...in effect, the biography of Roy Earle, a fictional creation who reflects the lives of several eminent American outlaws of the 1920s and 1930s...Far from the myths created by J. Edgar Hoover's biased attitude toward the criminals of the 1930s, Burnett gives us a sad, sometimes surreal look at a true outlaw." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 100-101. Filmed in 1941 by Raoul Walsh from a screenplay by Burnett and John Huston, starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Filmed as a Western in 1949, Colorado Territory and again in 1955 with Jack Palance as Roy Earle asI Died A Thousand Times. Hubin, pp. 119-120.
TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale. A presentation copy with signed inscriptions to ERB collector William Ross by Lansdale and author of the preface George T. McWhorter, and signed by four of the artists whose illustrations appear in the book and several others associated with its publication.
A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS.
West Kingston, RI: Published by Donald M. Grant, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Heins to Forest J. Ackerman and dated 9/9/64 which Heins has noted as publication day.