Signed titles
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.
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.
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.
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.
VISIBLE LIGHT.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Cherryh. Collects seven stories including the Hugo winner "Cassandra." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-133.
COLD BLOOD.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Chizmar, introducer Douglas E. Winter, and the twenty-five contributors. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard Laymon, F.P. Wilson, Joe Lansdale and 22 others.
THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.
[London]: Grayson & Grayson Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Christopher on the title page. The author's first SF book. A collection of twenty stories. "At this stage in his career Christopher's narrative craft was nearly mature." "He told stories with pace, suspense, sanity and clarity." - Pederson (ed.): The St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), pp. 185-87. Many of these stories preview the themes of his later novels.
A CRY IN THE NIGHT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1992.
STILLWATCH.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1987.
2010: ODYSSEY TWO.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, leather. First edition. Copy "Y" of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Clarke bound in full blue crushed morocco with front and spine panels stamped in gold. Sequel to 2001, made into a film in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-110.