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NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.
NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.
POWERS OF DARKNESS.
London: Collins, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second solo collection of macabre stories with six stories. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-7.
SUB ROSA.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64.
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64.
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64.
TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seven stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-9. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-6. Winter list, p. 267.
NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Aiken to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Two brief notes signed by the author laid in. A collection of stories which appeared in previous collections of the author's work. No equivalent U.K.edition of this book.
A TOUCH OF CHILL: STORIES OF HORROR, SUSPENSE & FANTASY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of fifteen stories of horror, mainly aimed at young readers. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11.
A TOUCH OF CHILL: TALES FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed inscription by Aiken to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Collection of fifteen stories. The contents of this book differ from the U.K. title of the same name, (nearly half the stories differ). Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11.
THE WINDSCREEN WEEPERS AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR SUSPENSE AND FANTASY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed presentation copy by Aiken to her brother and sister-in-law. This collection of twenty-four stories is the major repository of Aiken's tales of horror and suspense for adult readers.
AIR STORIES.
New York, NY: Flying Stories, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover art by George Gross, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Science fiction cover.
BURNING MARCH.
New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the Albert. Third novel in the series.
BURNING MARCH.
New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Third novel in the series.
THE FEBRUARY TROUBLE.
New York: Walker, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Albert. The second P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
THE JANUARY CORPSE.
New York: Walker, [1991]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the Albert. The first P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
THE JANUARY CORPSE.
New York: Walker, [1991]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
BEST SF STORIES OF BRIAN W. ALDISS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories, only nine of which appeared in earlier "best of" collections. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-6.
THE BRIGHTFOUNT DIARIES.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book.
CRACKEN AT CRITICAL: A NOVEL IN THREE ACTS.
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Aldiss. Text revised from that of the earlier U.S. edition published as The Year Before Yesterday.
DRACULA UNBOUND.
[New York]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Time travelers connect with Bram Stoker to fight Dracula from a future where the human race is enslaved.
EARTHWORKS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. "An overpopulated world drifts towards nuclear Armageddon as the only 'solution' to its problems." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 115.
HOTHOUSE.
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
INTANGIBLES INC. AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five novellas. The American edition title NEANDERTHAL PLANET (1970) has slightly different contents.
NON-STOP.
London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. The author's first sf novel. Issued later with textual differences in the U.S. as STARSHIP (1959). "... a brilliant treatment of the generation starship and also the theme of conceptual breakthrough in a kind of spacegoing ruined-Earth society; it has become a classic of the field and in 2008 was awarded a retrospective British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of 1958." - John Clute / David Pringle, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-4. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #25. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160.