Selected New Arrivals January 2015
This selection of new arrivals for January represents about of half of the titles added, all in very nice shape with many award winners and signed books.
HOTHOUSE.
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
TIMESCAPE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Nebula Award winner, 1980. John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 1981. Scientists in the future try to send a warning message to scientists of the past. "Unusual for the realism of its depiction of scientists at work; admirably serious in handling the implications of its theme." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-46. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-109.
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.
THE STARMEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Space opera.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF novel. A novel about the campaign to secure funding from Congress for the stalled American space program, money to send a manned spacecraft to Jupiter in 2001. "A powerful, poignant plea for spaceflight and a study of a man obsessed by it."- Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-68. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1217-20.
THE WORLD IN WINTER.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. Catastrophe novel in which a new ice age descends on England. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-93.
A GUN FOR DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects fourteen stories. Includes "New Arcadia" which depicts "various utopias failing as a result of 'human nature.'" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260. Also includes "Internal Combustion," an artificial intelligence story.
AXIOMATIC.
London: Millennium An Orion Book, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first story collection.
THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed label by Farmer laid in. Second book of the "Riverworld" series, sequel to TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO (1971). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-393. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1809-16.
GRENDEL.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-255. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-112. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 67. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 48. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 675-79. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 87.
TOO MANY MAGICIANS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1967 Hugo nominee. SF locked room mystery. "Sherlockianly brilliant." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-332. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 793.
ORPHANS OF THE SKY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-513. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1653-64.
REVOLT IN 2100...
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustrated by Hubert Rogers, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of the signed subscriber copies on inserted blank leaf. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645-54.
SPACE CADET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Heinlein's second young adult SF novel. Influenced by the author's experience at the U.S. Naval Academy.
THE STAR BEAST.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A young adult science-fiction novel about a high school senior and an extraterrestrial pet.
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
New York: An Ace/Putnam Book Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1962 Hugo award for best novel. This edition restores the full text of the novel. "Of all Heinlein's works this is the best known. It reached large audiences farther away from his science fiction roots than anything else he wrote... Stranger's cultural impact on an entire generation is, nonetheless, undeniable." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-91. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-518. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2195-2200.
TIME FOR THE STARS
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520.
TUNNEL IN THE SKY.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by P.A. Hutchison (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. "A provocative book, especially in its portrait of adults who fail to discern the maturity of young people." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-65.
THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG.
Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the title story (a short novel) and five shorter tales, including "All You Zombies, " "They, " and "And He Built a Crooked House." "Robert Heinlein's 'They' is, I believe, the most comprehensive of all mind-invasion stories...[it] is the consummate story of invasion and isolation."-Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 110-11. "They" is "perhaps the ultimate solipsist fantasy (a man is convinced the world is a puppet show)."-Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 460. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-84. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #793. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #21, (listed for the title novella).
THE PEOPLE: NO DIFFERENT FLESH.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Author's third book. Sequel to Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-93. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1682-86.
BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN: TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...
Philadelphia: The Chamberlain Press, Inc., 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Matheson on the title page. The author's first book, a collection of seventeen stories with introduction by Robert Bloch. "...the best of this author's early work..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-119. Approximately 650 copies of this book were distributed prior to a flood that destroyed most of the unsold bound copies and later warehouse fire that destroyed the remaining unbound sheets. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-719. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1125.
DRAGONSONG.
New York: Atheneum, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first volume in the Harper Hall trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-109.
BRASYL.
London: Victor Gollancz, 2007. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 2008. 2008 Hugo Award nominee. "Brazil in three times, past, present, and future. All three are dystopian. Northern Ireland author." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.