Story Collection (single author)
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.
NEW ARRIVALS, OLD ENCOUNTERS: TWELVE STORIES.
New York, Cambridge, London, Hagerstown, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1978]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Includes "New Arrivals, Old Encounters," which depicts a eutopia, and "Three Ways," which depicts a dystopia. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 379-80; 384.
GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. A collection of eight short stories with a significant amount of new material added to form a history from the near to the far future, issued earlier in the UK in a different format as THE CANOPY OF TIME (1959). Includes "All the World's Tears," a post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Text offset from the 1960 Signet paperback edition. New introduction by Norman Spinrad. Anatomy of Wonder (2114) II-8. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264.
THE MOMENT OF THE ECLIPSE.
London: Faber and Faber:, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fourteen stories. Includes "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long," basis for the 2001 Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. "Fourteen subtle tales, some comic, some sombre, all highly original. Some of these are late-60s New Wave SF at its best." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 242-243. Winner of a 1972 British Science Fiction Association Award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-3.
THE SALIVA TREE: AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS
London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.
THE SALIVA TREE: AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS
London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. With compliments slip from the publisher laid in. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.
THE SALIVA TREE: AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Offset from the 1966 Faber and Faber edition. Introduction by Peter Nichols. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11.
NO LOVE LOST: TWO STORIES OF SUSPENSE...
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Two stories of murder.
WANTED: SOMEONE INNOCENT AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Stamford House, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pony Book 56. Collects the title story and three others, "The Sexton's Wife," "'Tis Not Hereafter," and "He Was Asking After You."
WAITING FOR ORDERS: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERIC AMBLER.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the Amber. The 26 copy lettered edition is the only signed limited of this title. Ambler would not sign a numbered edition. Introduction by Ambler. Includes eight stories, six feature Dr. Czissar, a refugee Czech detective written during World War II.
EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS.
New York: Harmony Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Collects five fantasy and SF stories.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Signed on the title page by both Dickson and Anderson. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9.
FLANDRY OF TERRA.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, "The Game of Glory" and "A Message in Secret," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as MAYDAY ORBIT, and "The Plague of Masters," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as EARTHMAN, GO HOME!
THE NIGHT FACE AND OTHER STORIES.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects four stories. The title story "The Night Face" was first published LET THE SPACEMEN BEWARE! (1963).
THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Collects six stories including the title fiction, winner of the 1971 Nebula and 1972 Hugo awards.
THE TROUBLE TWISTERS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects "The Three-Cornered Wheel," "A Sun Invisible" and "The Trouble Twisters," three novelettes featuring David Falkayn. Part of the Technic history series, a far future era in which Earth is the center of a vast system of interplanetary commerce.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
London: John Murray, [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
ANTHONOLOGY.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories including the unpleasant meat-is-murder story "In the Barn," first published in AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS edited by Harlan Ellison (1972).
COGS TYRANNIC.
[London]: Metheun, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four novellas: "Slow Journey, Swift Writing," "The Little Old Woman and Her Two Big Books," "Uses of Iron," and "'Like the Dream of a Gun ...'"
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Story collection with some supernatural content.
THE EERIE BOOK.
London: J. Shiells & Co., 1898. Tall octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-211 [212: colophon] [note: inserted plates are included as part of publisher's pagination], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. B. Macdougall, title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial white buckram, front and spine panels stamped in black, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue. Collects sixteen stories and extracts from longer works by Edgar Allan Poe, Catherine Crowe, Mary Shelley, and others. "The three stories by Mrs. Crowe ... come from her GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS (1858), which is almost impossible to find." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 41. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00490.
PHANTOM PERFUMES AND OTHER SHADES: MEMORIES OF GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE. Introduction by Mike Ashley.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of seventeen supernatural stories from the pulp, GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE (1926-1931). Foreword by Hugh Cave, checklist and index to the magazine by Ashley.