Non-Fiction
THE EDGE OF TOMORROW.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories and twelve articles with activities of scientists as the common theme.
OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 100.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of fiction and nonfiction selected from previously published books.
OPUS 200.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Some fiction is present, including "Good Taste."
SEE NO EVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF A GROUND SOLDIER IN THE CIA'S WAR ON TERRORISM.
New York: Crown Publishers, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Career CIA field officer's memoirs. Basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.
J. G. BALLARD: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS.
[Hayes, Middlesex]: Bran's Head Books Ltd., [1976.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Interview with Ballard, bibliography (through 1975) and critical articles and reviews. Contributors include Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, Ian Watson, David Pringle and others.
THE SILENT ISLE.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1910. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii]] viii-x [1] 2-391 [392: printer] [393-404 publisher's catalog], original olive green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collection of essays.
WHERE NO FEAR WAS: A BOOK ABOUT FEAR.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi] [1] 2-239 [240] [241-246: ads], original olive green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects twenty essays and sketches, some autobiographical.
THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, [1977]. First edition. A survey of typography in America from the earliest days. Also covers great private and special presses. Sections are The Colonial Period, The Nineteenth and Into the Twentieth Century, The Renaissance of American Printing, The Twentieth Century. With 70 plates.
BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WAR.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The story of U.S. Special Forces in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. Made into a successful film in 2001 directed by Ridley Scott.
ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Octavo, cloth. Later printing of the third edition, revised. Useful reference to book collecting with guide to abbreviations used in the trade and definitions of terminology with over 450 entries concerning book collecting and bibliography.
THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE.
London: Temple Press, 1951. Octavo, color and black and white illustrations, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Clarke on the title page. Clarke's second book on rocketry and space travel. "... this book by the charman of the British Interplanetary Society is written for a wider public" (Ley). International Fantasy Award, 1952 winner for non-fiction.
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ...
London: Temple Press Limited, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
ANCIENT RUINS AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. Later printing. Non-fiction.
V-2 ... Translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday. Introduction by Willy Ley.
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xviii [1-2] 3-281 [282-286: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations from photographs on plate paper, one map in text, original green cloth stamped in silver and blind, top edge stained red. First edition in English. A translation of V2 -- DER SCHUSS INS WELTALL ... (1952). "The story of the Peenemünde research institute and the development of the V-2" (Ley). "Popularly written history of the V-2; very few technical details but absorbingly interesting as an overall picture of the technical and political problems faced" (Humphries). Ciancone 60c. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 15. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, pp. 491, 506.
THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi [1] 2-274 [275-280: ads], sixteen inserted plates (reproducing portraits of various authors), original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A series of literary essays based on some of Doyle's favorite books, with reminiscences of his buying them in his impecunious student days, when buying a book meant skipping a lunch. Green and Gibson B7a.
THE BOOK OF ELLISON ... Edited by Andrew Porter.
[New York]: Algol Press, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Signed by Ellison on the title page. Material by and about Ellison, edited by Andrew Porter. Includes fiction and nonfiction by Ellison, including an autobiography, memoirs by Ted White, Robert Silverberg, David Gerrold, and Lee Hoffman, an essay on Ellison's fiction by Joseph Patrouch, Jr., and a checklist of Ellison's nonfiction by Leslie Kay Swigart. 2000 copies printed of which this is one of 1800 paperbound copies.
AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.
Norfolk / Virginia Beach: The Donning Company / Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation label signed by Ellison laid in. Collects essays first printed in FUTURE LIFE, L.A. WEEKLY and THE COMICS JOURNAL.
AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.
Norfolk / Virginia Beach: The Donning Company / Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects essays first printed in FUTURE LIFE, L.A. WEEKLY and THE COMICS JOURNAL.
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EDGEWORKS 1: OVER THE EDGE [and] AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.
[Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1996.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this combination. Collects OVER THE EDGE (1970), a collection of short fiction, and AN EDGE IN MY VOICE (1985), a collection of essays.
THE HARLAN ELLISON HORNBOOK.
New York: Penzler Books, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Over fifty previously uncollected essays, several revised for this book, one published here for the first time.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED: ESSAYS BY HARLAN ELLISON.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on SF and SF writers.
LORD JOHN TEN: A CELEBRATION.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies bound in cloth and boards signed by Etchison and the other contributors. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, James Crumley, Gerald R. Ford, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.
LORD JOHN TEN: A CELEBRATION.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies specially bound in quarter leather and boards signed by Etchison and the other contributors comprising the "deluxe" issue. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, James Crumley, Gerald R. Ford, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.