Fantasy
SOMEWHERE A BAND IS PLAYING.
[Colorado Springs, CO]: Gauntlet Publications, 2007. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Introduction by William F. Nolan. This features the title novella which Bradbury had started 50 years prior. It also includes the genesis and various permutations, as well as a teleplay outline and an unfinished screenplay. "Set in paradisiacal Summerton, Ariz., a small town not on any map where endless sunflowers blossom in front yards and every meal is like the ""feasting of summer gods,"" this Bradbury novella tackles some weighty themes, namely the struggle to fully appreciate the human experience, grow old gracefully and embrace mortality." - Publisher's Weekly review, 30 July 2007.
SOMEWHERE A BAND IS PLAYING.
[Colorado Springs, CO]: Gauntlet Publications, 2007. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 52 lettered copies signed by Bradbury and introducer William F. Nolan, this is copy "P". Introduction by William F. Nolan. This features the title novella which Bradbury had started 50 years prior. It also includes the genesis and various permutations, as well as a teleplay outline and an unfinished screenplay. "Set in paradisiacal Summerton, Ariz., a small town not on any map where endless sunflowers blossom in front yards and every meal is like the ""feasting of summer gods,"" this Bradbury novella tackles some weighty themes, namely the struggle to fully appreciate the human experience, grow old gracefully and embrace mortality." - Publisher's Weekly review, 30 July 2007.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, cover painting by Ray Bradbury, imitation leather. Limited and expanded edition. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and Clive Barker, author of the afterword. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and by Clive Barker (who writes the afterword). New edition, first limited, of Bradbury's first book. Edited by Donn Albright, nine page new introduction by Bradbury. This edition also includes four stories, contemporary to the rest of the contents but not in the original edition, archival material and an afterword by Clive Barker. Wrap around dust jacket is an original painting by Bradbury. Includes "Time Intervening" by Ray Bradbury, a numbered chapbook and a CD of interviews conducted by Donn Albright, both accompanied some but not all copies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
THE HALLOWEEN TREE.
[Colorado Springs, CO]: Gauntlet Publications, 2005. Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini and Ray Bradbury, boards. New edition, substantially enlarged. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Preface and introduction by Jon Eller. This volume includes: in facsimile the first revised screenplay dated 1967 which preceded the novel, reprint of a conversation with Ray Bradbury and Chuck Jones, the novel in progress reproduced in facsimile from 1971, the novel-which is a reset version which contains all revisions made by Bradbury and his editors. However the original final version made many line cuts and the editors of this version have chosen not to include these unless they correct errors of content (see preface p. 10), galley changes for the 1972 first edition, notes to the text for the final submission, teleplay from 1992, a Bradbury interview from 2004, related correspondence in facsimile, and some other material. A comprehensive look at this work. While trick or treating, a group of boys travel through time to save a friend and learn the origins of Halloween.
THE MISTS OF AVALON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. The legend of King Arthur from the viewpoint of the women characters. Made into a television mini-series. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-48.
THE RUINS OF ISIS.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions / Donning, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Starblaze Editions SB 05 Trade paperback format. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 385.
STAR OF DANGER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. A Darkover novel.
THE KNIGHT OF THE SILVER STAR: OR THE FORTRESS OF YADASARA. A NARRATIVE PREPARED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF CLINTON VERRALL, ESQ.
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., [n.d.]. Octavo, [i-vi] vii [viii] 9-342 [last leaf blank]. cloth. Later edition. Inserted frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Lost race, adventure novel. First published under the pseudonym Christian Lys.
HIGH DRUID OF SHANNARA: JARKA RUUS.
New York: Ballantine Books / Del Rey, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first book in the High Druid trilogy.
THE SWORD OF SHANNARA.
New York: Random House, [1977]. Octavo, illustrated by the Hildebrandt brothers, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first book in the Shannara fantasy series. Fantasy series with a reluctant hero against the forces of evil set in a future world after a nuclear holocaust in civilization has developed along the lines of faery folk. Now a television series. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-52.
THE WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS.
New York: Macmillan, 1920. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Spiritualism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #283.
UNIVERSAL STATION.
New York: Regent House Publishers, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An afterlife fantasy with religious overtones. Bleiler (1978). Reginald 01962.
AND THE GODS LAUGHED: A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ...
West Bloomfield, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the sixty-eight stories from HONEYMOON IN HELL (1958) and NIGHTMARES AND GEEZENSTACKS (1961), also includes "The Star-Mouse" and "Mitkey Rides Again" (first book publication), plus three collaborations with Mack Reynolds, "Six-legged Svengali," "The Switcheroo" and "The Gamblers," first printed here in book form. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 285 and 286.
RETURN OF THARN.
Providence, RI: The Grandon Company Publishers, 1956. Octavo, boards. First edition. First binding of two-part green boards with gold stamping on spine panel. Inscribed and signed by Browne on the front free end paper. Sequel to Warrior of the Dawn. First published in Amazing Stories October - December 1948.
WARRIOR OF THE DAWN: THE ADVENTURES OF THARN.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1943]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
WARRIOR OF THE DAWN: THE ADVENTURES OF THARN.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1943]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prehistoric adventure with a Tarzan like character. First published as a serial in Amazing Stories (December -January 1942-43).
THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER IN BLACK.
New York: Bluejay Books, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the enlarged edition. Collects all five Traveller in Black novelettes. Illustrations by Martin Springett. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-53. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1963-65. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 55-6.
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.
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.
THE SPIRIT RING.
[Riverdale, NY]: Baen, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Dark fantasy novel set in Renaissance Italy.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS BIBLIO: MATERIALS TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS.
New York: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications, 1956. Wrappers. First edition. Bibliographic material for Burroughs, includes books and magazine appearances.
AT THE EARTH'S CORE ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-277 [278: blank] [279-282: ads], nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original gray-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Prehistoric men and beasts are discovered in the earth's hollow interior. The first of the six novels comprising the Pellucidar series, first published as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 4 April through 25 April, 1914. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-25; (1981) 1-29; (1987) 1-15; (1995) 1-15; and (2004) II-191. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 311. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 104. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 93-6. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02269. Heins AEC-1.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd, 1918. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Third in the Tarzan series.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-336 [337] [338-344: ads], inserted plate illustrated by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Third of the Tarzan series. Heins BTa-4. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints BTa-5. Jacket variant 1d.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-336 [337] [338-340] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 19,500 copies printed. The third Tarzan novel. Tarzan searches for Jane and his kidnapped son. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 317. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 105. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02272. Heins BTa-1. Zeuschner 43.