Reference
NEW MAPS OF HELL: A SURVEY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1961]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. "Instrumental in gaining SF a wider and more thoughtful critical acceptance, this is one of the best of the earlier critical studies." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 8-4. This study "was the first serious treatment of SF by a reputable mainstream novelist and, thanks to [this] Ballantine mass-market paperback,... the first critical work on SF to reach a wide audience... Though there are clear gaps in his knowledge of the field, Amis does not look down on genre writers, his style remains sharp and acerbic, and his book is justifiably cited as one of the landmarks in gaining broad recognition for the genre." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-7.
A KEY TO FREDRIC BROWN'S WONDERLAND: A STUDY AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent).
PRIVATE EYES: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE KNIGHTS. A SURVEY OF AMERICAN DETECTIVE FICTION 1922-1984.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Critical survey of the private eye in U. S. popular fiction. The well known and the not so well known.
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.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance review copy of the first edition. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance review copy of the first edition. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Barker, this being copy number 1. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Barker on the title page. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Barker on the title page. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
THE GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION.
Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. A survey of approximately 7200 novels and short stories with supernatural content, ghost stories, weird fiction, supernatural horror, fantasy, Gothics, and occult fiction, culled from 1775 books (including approximately 250 anthologies) published in the English language (including translations) from 1750 to the 1970s (cut-off date for surveyed fiction is 1960 but books published after this date containing fiction published prior to 1961 are included). Each entry provides bibliography, author biography, analysis of fantastic content, plot summary, and critical / historical commentary. Indexed by title, and by motif (the latter containing over 40,000 entries). A major research tool. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-34. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-19. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-19. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 54.
THE GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION.
Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bleiler on the front free end paper to Samual A. Peeples. A survey of approximately 7200 novels and short stories with supernatural content, ghost stories, weird fiction, supernatural horror, fantasy, Gothics, and occult fiction, culled from 1775 books (including approximately 250 anthologies) published in the English language (including translations) from 1750 to the 1970s (cut-off date for surveyed fiction is 1960 but books published after this date containing fiction published prior to 1961 are included). Each entry provides bibliography, author biography, analysis of fantastic content, plot summary, and critical / historical commentary. Indexed by title, and by motif (the latter containing over 40,000 entries). A major research tool. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-34. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-19. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-19. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 54.
THE ISSUE AT HAND: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION by William Atheling, Jr. [pseudonym].
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., 1964 [i.e. 1970]. Octavo, cloth. Second cloth edition. Entertaining essays on American pulp SF 1952-1963. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-13.
THE TALE THAT WAGS THE GOD.
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine essays, "A Science Fiction Coming of Age," an unfinished autobiography, and Blish's interview with Brian W. Aldiss. Pages [193]-290 comprise "Bibliography of the Works of James Blish," compiled by Judith Lawrence Blish. Edited by Cy Chauvin with introduction by John Foyster. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-27. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 283.
UNDERCOVER: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AMERICAN MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS.
New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. A short history of the American paperback, includes a number of cover reproductions including several color sections.
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 DARKOVER CONCORDANCE: A READER'S GUIDE.
Berkeley, CA: Pennyfarthing Press, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback issue.
RAYMOND CHANDLER: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Definitive bibliography of the works of Chandler.
ROSS MACDONALD/KENNETH MILLAR: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Definitive bibliography of the works of Macdonald/Millar.
ROSS MACDONALD/KENNETH MILLAR: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
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.
THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A splendid biography, at once sympathetic and detached, skillful and thorough, as well as strong on the natural gifts Doyle possessed for detective investigation and its transfusion into fictional plots." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 4265.
FANTASY: THE 100 BEST BOOKS.
London: Xanadu, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Chronological selection from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS to the present.
DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MAN MUST GO: RAYMOND CHANDLER'S KNIGHT.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Study of Chandler and his writings.
RAYMOND CHANDLER AND FILM.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1982]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Study that covers Chandler's work in Hollywood and the films that were made from his work.