Science Fiction
QUICKER THAN THE EYE.
New York: Avon Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories. Afterword by Ray Bradbury.
R IS FOR ROCKET.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper. Collects seventeen stories, two of which, "R is For Rocket" and "Frost and Fire,"are published here for the first time in a book.
R IS FOR ROCKET.
[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Foreword by Ray Harryhausen. Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith. Collects seventeen stories.
S IS FOR SPACE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics. Three stories, "Chrysalis," "Pillar of Fire" and "Time in Thy Flight" appear here for the first time in a book, and "The Screaming Woman" appears here in this format for the first time in a book (a comic book adaptation appeared earlier in THE AUTUMN PEOPLE [1965]).
S IS FOR SPACE.
[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. New introductions to this edition by Arthur C. Clarke and Tim Powers. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics.
THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Octavo, decorated black cloth stamped in blind, top edge gilt. First edition. One of 60 copies of the author's presentation issue with inserted limitation leaf reading: "This first edition of / THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY / is limited to sixty copies, specially bound, / all of which have been signed / by the author. / This is a presentation copy." This copy inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper to a well known fan. Massive collection of 100 of the best stories. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-155. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-46. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-46. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-52.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Collects twenty-three stories, his first collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Bradbury to a well known fan, dated 3/29/89. Collects twenty-three stories, his first collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, [1992]. Octavo, illustrations by Anita Kunz, pictorial boards. First separate edition. Collects the one story.
TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Label signed by Bradbury affixed to front free end papers. Collects the contents of THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN and A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS.
[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Introduction by Bradbury. Collects twenty-two stories.
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 FIREMAN (Novella) in GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, February, 1951.
[New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Chesley Bonestell, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. First appearance of the novella The Fireman which would be expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 290-309.
THE FIREMAN (Novella) in GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, February, 1951.
[New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Chesley Bonestell, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized magazine. First appearance of the novella The Fireman which would be expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 290-309.
THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUSES.
London, Sydney, Wellington: Unwin Hyman, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bradfield. The author's first book. A collection of nine stories: six reprints (mostly from INTERZONE) and three, the title story, "The Darling" and "Greetings From Earth," first published here.
EVEN A WORM.
London: Arthur Barker Ltd, [1936]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The animal kingdom declares war on man.
THE FORBIDDEN TOWER.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1977 DAW Books edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92. Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71.
THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1975 DAW Books edition. New introduction by Susan Wood. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92. Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71.
THE PLANET SAVERS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1962 Ace edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. This is the first published Darkover novel which first appeared in Amazing Stories (1958). "The Darkover series has a science-fictional rationale, but much of it has a fantasy feel." Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92.
THE RUINS OF ISIS.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. SF story concerning a world dominated by a Matriarchal society.
THE SHATTERED CHAIN.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1976 DAW Books edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92. Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71.
THE SPELL SWORD.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1974 DAW Books edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92. Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71.
STAR OF DANGER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. A Darkover novel.