Science Fiction
'FAREWELL, NIKOLA.'
London, New York and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1901. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-315 [316: printer's imprint] [317-320: ads], eight inserted illustrations by Sydney Cowell, original dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and white, spine panel stamped in black, white, and gold, pictorial paper inlay on front panel. First edition. The final novel with Doctor Nikola, this one featuring him. Doctor Nikola has a continuing quest for immortality and world domination. Among his attributes are, great wealth, strong deductive powers, a dedicated scientist, hypnotic powers, a master of disguise and familiarity with the occult. In this novel, the series wraps up and the origins of Doctor Nikola are revealed. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 40. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 243. Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 222. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 47. Bleiler (1978), p. 27. Reginald 01627. Hubin (1994), p. 87.
THE LUST OF HATE.
London, New York and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-283 [284: printer's imprint] + 12-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, six inserted illustrations by Stanley L. Wood, original bevel-edged blue cloth, spine and front panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. The third novel with the villain Doctor Nikola, however he is not the central character. Reginald 01628. Hubin (1994), p. 87.
SPURIOUS SUN.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Apocalyptic novel in which an experimental station in Scotland blows up causing an uncontrolled atomic chain reaction, the stratosphere ignites. "...the world suffers an explosion of insane wars, including a nuclear attack on Canada by the U.S. The ensuing panic prompts mass suicides, death cults, sadism, torture and plagues caused by mutated bacteria."-Brians: Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984. pp. 140.
THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: EIGHTH SERIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE COMPLEAT WEREWOLF: AND OTHER STORIES OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1969]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Posthumous collection of ten stories. "As the sub-title indicates, only some of these magazine pieces from the 40s are sf proper, but all are witty and enjoyable tales of the fantastic." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 75. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-44. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 232. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 66. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1119.
FAR AND AWAY: ELEVEN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Story collection. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-24. Richard Powers jacket art.
LA PLANETE DES SINGES: ROMAN.
[Paris]: Le Cercle du Nouveau Livre, [1963]. gold and blind stamped green cloth. First edition. Number 507 of an unstated limitation. Published in English as PLANET OF THE APES (1963). Basis for two films and numerous sequels. "Boulle made the Earth astronauts' visit to a far planet where apes are the dominant species and humans a despised under class a parable of racial and other social failings on Earth..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-26. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1692-96.
10,000 YEARS IN A BLOCK OF ICE. Translated From the French ... by John Paret.
London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, [1898]. Octavo, pp. [3-5] 6-256 [257-258: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original olive-green ribbed cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver and red. First edition in English. A translation of DIX MILLE ANS DANS UN BLOC DE GLACE (1889). A sequel of sorts to LES SECRETS DE MONSIEUR SYNTHESE (1888-9). This same monsieur, the sole survivor of a polar expedition, is resuscitated, after having been in suspended animation for 10,000 years, by the Cerebrals, an advanced race of tiny humanoids (a cross of Chinese and Negroes) possessing tremendous mental powers which enable them, among other things, to fly and to communicate with Mars. Versins notes that the book is remarkable for its lack of the sort of racism that characterizes most adventure fiction of this period. It is also, for a sleeper-awakes-in-the-distant-utopian-future SF tale, unusually short. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-21 and (1981) 1-25. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 246. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 087. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 24. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 38. Locke, Voyages in Space 41. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 71. Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction, (1972), pp. 126-27. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Reginald 01674.
ANALOG YEARBOOK.
New York: Baronet Publishing Company, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Collects of fiction and non-fiction, authors include Kate Wilhelm, Spider Robinson, Robert Bloch, Gregory Benford and others.
THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME: VOLUME TWO A and B. The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America (in two volumes).
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1973]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-two novellas chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America. The works encompass the period prior to 1965, the year SFWA was established. Author's include John W. Campbell, Jr., Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, H. G. Wells, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1391.
THE KINSMAN SAGA.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, illustrations by A. C. Farley, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Spider Robinson. A rewrite of MILLENNIUM (1976) and its prequel, KINSMAN (1979). Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series.
MARS.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-146.
MAXWELL'S DEMONS.
New York: Baronet Publishing Company, [1988]. Octavo, cover illustration by Ken Barr, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Collection of novellas, short fiction and essays.
MOONRISE.
New York: Avon Books, 1996. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
MOONWAR.
New York: Avon, 1998. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof. Sequel to MOONRISE.
THE STAR CONQUERORS.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
THE STAR CONQUERORS.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, red textured end papers, pebbled red leather, spine stamped in gold, all edges stained red. First edition. A unique, special copy presented as a Christmas gift from the publisher to Bova. The author's first book. The Terran Confederation, at war with the Masters, a mysterious alien race that rules the Milky Way galaxy, fights for its existence, perhaps against the Others, an ancient enemy that destroyed Terran civilization more than a million years earlier. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
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.
THE WEATHERMAKERS.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In the publisher's trade binding.
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR141. Book 3 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. The author of this series was a flyer with the R.A.F. in the latter stages of WWI, he wrote numerous aviation stories starting in the 1930s. The Dusty Ayres series was set in the near future. The world with the exception of the United States has been conquered by an Asiatic dictator. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 194-196.
THE POLLINATORS OF EDEN.
New York: Weybright and Talley, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1705-09. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-74.
THE LONG TOMORROW.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust novel. "After nuclear war, the U.S. Constitution has been amended to limit the size of cities, and the predominant religiously conservative culture persecutes would-be scientific researchers as witches." - ANATOMY OF WONDER (2004) II-152. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-30.
THE LONG TOMORROW.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust novel. "After nuclear war, the U.S. Constitution has been amended to limit the size of cities, and the predominant religiously conservative culture persecutes would-be scientific researchers as witches." - ANATOMY OF WONDER (2004) II-152. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-30.
THE STARMEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Space opera.
THE STARMEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Space opera, first published as "The Starmen of Llyrdis" in Startling Stories in March, 1951.