Posts Tagged ‘L. Sprague de Camp’
Friday, July 8th, 2022
Four books picked up from a UK book dealer, three of which are signed copies from important Golden Age small presses.
Campbell, John W. Cloak of Aesir. Shasta Publisher, 1952. First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with 2″ x 3/4″ light black staining to back rear cover (appears to be moisture staining from the cover dye), with a tiny bit of transfer to the very bottom outer tips of last few pages as well, with a few slightly light spots to boards, slight bumping at head and heel, and slight foxing along gutters, in a Very Good- dust jacket with light staining down spine, spots of light staining across back cover, shallow edge chipping at head, heel and points, signed by Campbell. Stories written under his Don A. Stuart pen name. Currey, page 97. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 46. Chalker Ownings, page 398. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 166. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for £36.
de Camp, L. Sprague and P. Schuyler Miller. Genus Homo. Fantasy Press, 1950. First edition hardback, first state (Currey A) binding of green cloth lettered in gold, #172 of 500 numbered copies signed by both authors, further inscribed by Miller “To Sylvester Brown, Jr./in the hope that we’ve guessed/all wrong about tomorrow,” a Near Fine- copy with non-authorial judgement of the book written in a neat hand on the inside front cover (hidden by dj flap), gold spine lettering slightly rubbed and bumping at heel, and trace of foxing to inside covers and end-papers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with closed tear creases to the bottom 1/4″ to 1/8″ of the front bottom edge, smaller closed tear and creasing at heed, quarter-sized abrasion to front cover affecting G in “Genus,” edgewear at heel, slight dust soiling to white back cover, and a few other touches of rubbing (slightly exaggerated in scan). Sleeper awakes sort of novel about a busload of humans awakening in a far future world ruled by evolved primates (thirteen years before Pierre Boulle’s La Planète des singes). I had several de Camp signatures already, but not one for Miller. Currey, page 133. Chalker Owings, page 160. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 32. Bought for £45.
(Dick, Philip K.) R.D. Mullin, Istvan Csicsery Rosney, Jr., Arthur B. Evans and veronica Hollinger, editors. On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articleas from Science-Fiction Studies. SF-TH, Inc., 1992. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Collection of critical essays on Dick from a wide variety of authors (Kim Stanley Robinson, Gregg Rickman, Stainislaw Lem, etc.). I was unaware that there was a hardback of this until it showed up in the catalog. Supplements a trade paperback copy. Bought for £112.50.
van Vogt, A. E. The Weapon Makers. Hadley Publishers, 1947. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with wear at head and heel, trace of rubbing to spine, and some dime-sized spots of foxing to inside covers, in a Very Good dust jacket with long wrinkles across back cover, shallow loss at points, spine quite faded, and a few additional touches of wear, inscribed by the author: “To/Fred C. Brown/best wishes,good luck/and cheerio. A. E. van Vogt.” Hadley was one of the earliest SF specialty publishers, and I now have three of their four books (including Campbell’s The Mightiest Machine and L. Ron Hubbard’s Final Blackout, but lacking E.E. “Doc” Smith’s The Skylark of Space, as it was a reprint of the Buffalo Book Company true first edition (which I have)). Currey, page 496. 333, page 65. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 217. Chalker Owings, page 231. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 345-346. Bought for £112.50.
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
Some ten years ago I put up a books wanted list, and since then I’ve obtained a lot of things on it. Now here’s a greatly expanded list.
The vast majority of these are first edition first printings, mostly hardbacks, but I do have more PBOs listed this time around (especially for Michael Moorcock and Jack Vance). Hardback is the default, but other formats are listed where otherwise, as are a occasional first edition points for clarity or to jog my memory.
I don’t buy later printings, copies without dust jackets (when issued with same), copies with price-clipped dust jackets (unless all copies of the true first edition were released that way), copies with facsimile dust jackets, or overly crummy copies. Most of the books I buy are in Fine/Fine condition, but that relaxes a bit the older (and pricier) books become. I have picked up Ex-Library copies in dust jacket when the better copies of the true first can’t be found under a grand. I also only buy first state bindings and dust jackets, unless there’s no priority, or the true first state is insanely rare (such as with Stanley G. Weinbaum’s Dawn of Flame). I prefer signed copies to unsigned copies for most things, especially for dead writers (an ever-growing list). Trade editions of recent books from mainstream publishers are mainly here to jog my own memory when visiting bookstores.
I have a few books here under the writer’s pseudonym, so I can enter them under that name in various search fields.
Some of these are aspirational, as I doubt I’m going to find a first printing of The Hobbit I can afford, but you never know.
If you have nice copies of the below you’re willing to part with at an attractive price, feel free to drop me a line at lawrenceperson at gmail dot com.
Anonymous (actually Dorothy Scarborough)’s The Wind (Harper & Brothers, 1925)
Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Arthur Baker, 1979)
Richard Adams’ Watership Down (Rex Collins, 1972)
Robert Aickman’s Sub Rosa (Gollancz, 1968)
Brian Aldiss’ At the Caligula Hotel (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) (trade paperback)
Brian Aldiss’ Greybeard (Harcourt Brace & World, 1964)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Spring (Cape, 1982)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Summer (Cape, 1983)
Brian Aldiss’ Helliconia Winter (Atheneum, 1985)
Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse (Faber & Faber, 1962)
Brian Aldiss’ A Plutonian Monologue (Frogmore Press, 2002) (chapbook)
Brian Aldiss’ At a Bigger House (Avernus, 2002) (chapbook)
Brian Aldiss’ The Dark Sun Rises (Avernus, 2002) (chapbook)
Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schulman, 1954)
Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade (Doubleday, 1960)
Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity (Doubleday, 1955)
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot (Gnome Press, 1950)
Isaac Asimov’s Liar! (Cambridge University Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Steve Aylett’s Shamanspace (Codex, 2001) (TPO)
Steve Aylett’s Dummyland (Gollancz, 2002) (TPO)
Paul Bailey’s Deliver Me From Eva (Murray & Gee, 1946)
J. G. Ballard’s Crash (Cape, 1973)
J. G. Ballard’s The Day of Forever (Gollancz, 1986)
J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (Gollancz, 1962)
J. G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (Fourth Estate, 2006)
J. G. Ballard’s Low Flying Aircraft (Cape, 1976)
J. G. Ballard’s Rushing to Paradise (Flamingo, 1994)
Bill Barclay’s Somewhere in the Night (Compact PBO, 1966)
Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart (Earthling Publications, 2007)
Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s, 2015)
Stephen Baxter’s The Massacre of Mankind (Gollancz, 2017)
Peter S. Beagle’s Lila the Werewolf (Capra Press, 1974) (1/75 signed hardbacks)
Michael Bishop’s Windows & Mirrors (The Moravian Press, 1977) (poetry chapbook)
Jerome Bixby’s The Devil’s Scrapbooks (Brandon House, 1964) (PBO)
(Blackwood, Algernon) Mike Ashley’s Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1987)
William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (Harper & Row, 1971)
James P. Blaylock’s Doughnuts (ASAP, 1994) (1/26 triptych copies)
James P. Blaylock’s Home Before Dark (Subterranean, 2000) (1/26 signed, lettered hardback copies)
James Blish’s The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971, code L47 on p. 166)
Robert Bloch’s Atoms and Evil (Robert Hale, 1976)
Robert Bloch’s Blood Runs Colds (Simon and Schuster, 1961)
Robert Bloch’s Chamber of Horrors (Award Books, 1966) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s Cold Chills (Doubleday, 1977)
Robert Bloch’s The Dead Beat (Simon and Schuster, 1960)
Robert Bloch’s Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (Award, 1971) (PBO)
Robert Bloch’s The Laughter of a Ghoul/Whatever A Young Ghoul Should Know (Necrominocon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert Bloch’s Once Around the Bloch (Tor, 1993)
Robert Bloch’s The Opener of the Way (Arkham House, 1945)
Robert Bloch’s Pleasant Dreams – Nightmares (Arkham House, 1960)
Robert Bloch’s The Scarf (Dial Press, 1947)
Robert Bloch’s Sea-Kissed (Utopian Publications, 1945)(PBO)
Robert Bloch’s The Skull of the Marquis de Sade and other stories (Robert Hale, 1975)
Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury’s Bloch and Bradbury (Tower, 1969) (PBO)
Pierre Boulle’s Monkey Planet (Secker & Warburg, 1964)
Edward P. Bradbury’s Barbarians of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Edward P. Bradbury’s Blades of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury’s About Norman Corwin (Santa Susana Press, 1979)(boxed art portfolio)
Ray Bradbury’s The Anthem Sprinters (Dial Press, 1963, hardback)
Ray Bradbury’s The April Witch (Creative Education, 1987) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Aqueduct (Roy A. Squires, 1979) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Beyond 1984: Remembrances of Things Future (Targ, 1979)
Ray Bradbury’s Christmas Greetings broadsides (all years except 1982, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 2008)
Ray Bradbury’s Christus Apollo: Cantata Celebrating the Eighth Day of Creation and the Promise of the Ninth (The Gold Stein Press, 1998) (1/50 signed hardback copies in traycase)
Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957)
Ray Bradbury’s Dawn to Dusk (Gauntlet, 2011) (signed numbered or signed lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever. (Rupert Hart Davis, 1959) (Currey state A (navy blue binding))
Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever: A Comedy in One Act (Samuel French, 1966) (play chapbook, 75¢ price)
Ray Bradbury’s A Device Out of Time (Dramatic Publishing, 1986)
Ray Bradbury’s The Engines Drive the Summer With Their Purr (Green Cat Press, 2001) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) (any Currey hardback state (B-E))
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaption (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) (graphic novel)
Ray Bradbury’s Falling Upward (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1989) (play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer (Morrow, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer (Subterranean, 2011) (lettered edition with extra book)
Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn (Creative Education, 1987) (hardback chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Fragments (Gauntlet, 2005)
Ray Bradbury’s Frost and Fire (DC Comics, 1985) (graphic novel)
Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned (Morrow, 2001)
Ray Bradbury’s A Gathering of Authors & Their Admonitions (Castle Press, 1981) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s The God in Science Fiction (Santa Susana Press, 1978)(chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Golden Apples of the Sun (Doubleday, 1953)
Ray Bradbury’s October (Shuttlebop Press, 1983)
Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree (Gauntlet Press, 2005) (1/52 lettered copies with metal case and popup tree)
Ray Bradbury’s Imagine (Lord John, 1981) (broadside, 1/100 signed)
Ray Bradbury’s I Live By The Invisible (Salmon Poetry, 2002) (TPO)
Ray Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric (Knopf, 1969)
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (Dramatic Publishing, 1975)(play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Last Good Kiss (Santa Susana Press, 1984) (art portfolio thing)
Ray Bradbury’s Long After Ecclesiastes (Gold Stein Press, 1985; miniature book)
Ray Bradbury’s The Love Affair (Lord John Press, 1982) (1/300 signed hardbacks)
Ray Bradbury’s Long After Midnight (Knopf, 1976)
Ray Bradbury’s The Machineries of Joy Simon and Schuster, 1964)
Ray Bradbury’s Madrigals for the Space Age (Associated Music Publishers, 1972) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Man Dead? Then God Slain (Santa Susana Press, 1977) (1 of 26 numbered hardback copies in slipcase)
Ray Bradbury’s Match to Flame (Gauntlet, 2006) (Wooden slipcase lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s A Medicine for Melancholy (Doubleday, 1959)
Ray Bradbury’s My Cat Has Swallowed a Bumblebee (Green Cat Press, 2003) (broadsheet)
Ray Bradbury’s 1984 Will Not Arrive: A Prediction for the Greening of Scripps (Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, 1975) (chapbook text lecture)
Ray Bradbury’s No Man Is An Island (Brandeis University, 1952) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s October (Shottlebop Press, 1983) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country (Ballantine Books, 1955; first state with inverted logo on spine)
Ray Bradbury’s One More For The Road (Morrow, 2002)
Ray Bradbury’s One the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few (broadsheet, 2004)
Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian (Roy Squires, 1964) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act (Samuel French, 1966) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (Bantam Books, 1975) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury’s The Poet Considers His Resources (Lord John Press, 1979) (broadside)
Ray Bradbury’s R is for Rocket (Doubleday, 1962)
Ray Bradbury’s Ray Bradbury Chronicles (Volumes 1, 3 and 5) (Byron Preiss/NBM) (signed hardback graphic novels)
Ray Bradbury’s Samurai/Kabuki (Hill House, 2006 hardback)
Ray Bradbury’s S is for Space (Doubleday, 1966)
Ray Bradbury’s Skeletons (Subterranean, 2008) (lettered edition)
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon and Schuster, 1962)
Ray Bradbury’s The Stars (Gold Stein Press, 1/95, 1993, miniature book)
Ray Bradbury’s Sun and Shadow (Quenian Press, 1957) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Switch on The Night (Pantheon, 1955)(first state, no mention of Random House on copyright page)
Ray Bradbury’s That Ghost, That Bride of Time (Roy A. Squires, 1976)
Ray Bradbury’s That Son of Richard III: A Birth Announcement (Roy A. Squires, 1974)
Ray Bradbury’s Tomorrow Midnight (Ballantine Books, 1966) (PBO, ¢50)
Ray Bradbury’s To The Chicago Abyss (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1988) (play chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s The Tonybee Convector (Knopf, 1988) (1/350 signed/numbered)
Ray Bradbury’s Twice 22 (Doubleday, 1966) (book club, code 47G on page 405)
Ray Bradbury’s The Trivial Pursuits Transporter (Hill House, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s The Vintage Bradbury (Vintage Books, 1965)
Ray Bradbury’s Where Everything Ends (Subterranean Press, 2009) (1/26 lettered copies)
Ray Bradbury’s The Wish (Hill House, 2006)
Ray Bradbury’s The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (?, 1985) (chapbook)
Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing (Capra Press/ Joshua Odell Editions, 1973 (1/250 signed, numbered copies)
Ray Bradbury editor’s The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Stories (Bantam Books, 1956) (PBO)
Ray Bradbury editor’s Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (Bantam Books, 1953) (PBO, 35¢)
Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch’s Bloch and Bradbury (PBO, Tower, 1969, Tower 43-246, 60¢)
(Ray Bradbury) Steven Ageliss’ Conversations With Ray Bradbury (University Press of Mississippi, 2004, paperback)
(Ray Bradbury) Jonathan R. Eller & William F. Touponce’s Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press, 2004)
(Ray Bradbury) Joseph Mugnaini: Drawings & Graphics (Scarecrow Press, 1982)
(Ray Bradbury) Joseph Mugnaini: Ten Views of the Moon (Lynton Kistler, 1981) (art portfolio with 10 signed prints)
(Ray Bradbury) Sam Weller’s Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews (Stopsmiling Books/Melville House, 2010) (TPO)
(Ray Bradbury) William F. Nolan’s Ray Bradbury Review (Graham Press, 1988)
Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung: Six (Non-Profit Press, 1974)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s The Adventures of Lucius Leffing (Donald M. Grant, 1990)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s As Evil Advances (Crystal Vision, 1978) (1/400 signed chapbooks)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Creep to Death (Donald M. Grant, 1981)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s The Dark Returners (Macabre House, 1959)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Evil Always Ends (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Nightmare Need (Arkham House, 1964)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Scream at Midnight (Macabre House, 1963)
Joseph Payne Brennan’s Webs of Time (Macabre House, 1979) (1/100 signed chapbooks with picture laid in)
Joseph Payne Brennan and Donald M. Grant’s Act of Providence (Donald M. Grant, 1979)
William S. Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1981)
William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (Grove Press, 1959 (i.e., 1962))
William S. Burroughs’ The Soft Machine (Grove Press, 1966)
John W. Campbell’s Invaders from the infinite (Fantasy Press, 1961) (one of 300 (actually 112) signed, numbered copies)
John W. Campbell’s Islands of Space (Fantasy Press, 1956) (1/50-odd signed copies)
John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? (Shasta Publishers, 1952)
John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet (Harper & Brothers, 1951)
Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (Heinemann, 1969)
Edd Cartier’s The Known and the Unknown (De La Ree, 1977)
Michael Chabon’s Werewolves in Their Youth (Random House, 1999) (Number line ends with 2)
G. K. Chesterton’s Napoleon of Notting Hill (John Lane, 1904)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood Ends (Portentious Press HB, 1996)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Expedition to Earth (Ballantine Books, 1953)
Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sands of Mars (Sidgwick & jackson, 1951)
Arthur C. Clarke’s Tales From the White Heart (Ballantine Books, 1957)
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
James Clavell’s King Rat (Little Brown, 1962)
Hal Clement’s Cycle of Fire (Ballantine, 1957)
Colvin, James. The Deep Fix (Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Avram Davidson’s And Don’t Forget The One Red Rose (Dryad Press, 1986) (1/15 hardbacks)
L. Sprague De Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall (Henry Holt, 1941)
L. Sprague De Camp’s The Tritonian Ring (Twayne, 1953)
L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s The Castle of Iron (Fantasy Press, 1950)
L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s The Incomplete Enchanter (Henry Holt & Co., 1941)
Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren (Gregg Press, 1977)
Samuel R. Delany’s The Einstein Intersection (Ace, 1967) (PBO)
Samuel R. Delany’s The Fall of the Towers (Gregg Press, 1977)
Samuel R. Delany’s Out of the Dead City (Sphere, 1968) (PBO)
(Samuel R. Delany) George Edgar Slusser’s The Delany Intersection (Borgo Press, 1977) (chapbook)
(Samuel R. Delany) James Sallis, editor. Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Writing of Samuel R. Delany (University of Mississippi Press, 1996)
August Derleth’s The Trail of Cthulhu (Arkham House, 1962)
Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney (Gregg Press, 1977)
Philip K. Dick’s Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Library of America, 2008) (in dust jacket with green band)
Philip K. Dick’s Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Library of America, 2008) (without dust jacket, in slipcase)
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and Later Novels (Library of America, 2009) (in dust jacket with pink band)
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS and Later Novels (Library of America, 2009 (without dust jacket, in slipcase)
Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (Doubleday, 1974) (no remainder spray)
Philip K. Dick’s The World Jones Made (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968)
Gordon R. Dickson’s The Dragon and the George (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1976) (book club hardback) (code G24 on page 243)
Thomas M. Disch’s Haikus of an Ampart (Coffee House Press, 1991) (chapbook)
Thomas M. Disch’s Orders of the Retina (Toothpaste Press, 1982) (1/100 signed, numbered hardbacks)
Thomas M. Disch’s Ringtime (Toothpaste Press, 1982, 1/100 signed, numbered hardbacks)
Thomas M. Disch’s Under Compulsion (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Thomas M. Disch, Marilyn Hacker and Charles Platt’s Highway Sandwiches (chapbook, 1970)
Gardner Dozois’s Sunk beneath the Waves (Dragonstairs Press, 2013) (chapbook)
Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volumes 15, 23, 24, 27, 28 (St. Martin’s hardbacks)
Robert Eighteen-Bisang’s A Vampire Bibliography: Volume One, Literature (Transylvania Press, 1996)
E. R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros (Cape, 1922)
Harlan Ellison’s All the Sounds of Fear (Panther, 1973) (PBO)
Harlan Ellison’s Broken Glass (Avenue Victor Hugo, 1981) (broadside)
Harlan Ellison’s The Deadly Streets (Ace, 1958) (PBO)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Under Glass (Charnel House, 2019) (1/100 signed/numbered)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Wonderland (Paperback Library, 1962) (PBO, 50¢ cover price)
Harlan Ellison’s Ellison Wonderland with Pebbles From the Mountain (PS Publishing, 2015)
Harlan Ellison’s Footsteps (Footsteps Press, 1989) (chapbook)
Harlan Ellison’s Gentlemen Junkie (Regency, 1961) (PBO, 50¢ on the cover)
Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat (Charnel House, 2014)
Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (Pyramid, 1967) (PBO, 60¢ on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s Jokes Without Punchlines (White Wolf, 1995) (chapbook)
Harlan Ellison’s The Juvies (Ace, 1961) (PBO, 35¢ on the cover)
Harlan Ellison’s The Man With Nine Lives b/w A Touch of Infinity (Ace, 1960) (PBO, 35¢ on the cover)
Harlan Ellison’s One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (Lance Brown, 1993) (broadside, 1/100 copies)
Harlan Ellison’s Over the Edge (Belmont, 1970) (PBO, May 1970 on copyright page, 75¢ on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s Night of Black Glass (1981) (broadside)
Harlan Ellison’s Rockabilly (Fawcett, 1961) (PBO, First Printed October 1961 on copyright page, 35¢ on the cover)
Harlan Ellison’s Spider Kiss (Pyramid, 1975) (PBO, Pyramid Edition published July 1975 on copyright page, $1.25 on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s The Time of the Eye (Panther, 1974) (PBO, first published in Great Britain in 1974 on copyright page, 35p on cover)
Harlan Ellison’s Web of the City (Pyramid, 1975) (PBO, New Pyramid edition: December 1975 on copyright page, price of $1.50 on cover)
Harlan Ellison (& Steranko)’s “Repent, Harlequin,” Said The Ticktock Man (art Portfolio w/6 prints) (Baronet, 1978)
Harlan Ellison’s Vic and Blood (Edgeworks Abbey, 2003)
(Harlan Ellison) Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe’s Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (Ohio State University Press, 2002)
Philip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz (Phantasia Press S/L, 1982)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Blown or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (Essex House, 1968, PBO)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Flesh (Doubleday, 1968)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes (Meteor House, 2019)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Image of the Beast (Essex House, 1966, PBO)
Philip Jose Farmer’s The Unreasoning Mask (Putnam, 1981) (signed/limited edition)
Philip Jose Farmer’s Strange Relations (Gollancz, 1964)
Gans T. Field’s Romance in Black (Utopian Publications, 1946) (chapbook)
Virgil Finlay’s The Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1975)
Virgil Finlay’s The Third Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Fourth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Fifth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1979)
Virgil Finlay’s The Sixth Book of Virgil Finlay (De La Ree, 1980)
Jack Finney’s Time and Again (Simon & Schuster, 1970) (1st stated, no book club mention on dj or embossed book club square on rear)
John Fowls’ The Magus (Cape, 1966)
Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (Lippincott, 1959)
Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl (Harper, 2009)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s Day (Harper, 2013)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s First Day at the Beach (Harper, 2016)
Neil Gaiman’s Cinnamon (Harper, 2017)
Neil Gaiman’s Chu’s First Day (Harper, 2013)
Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants (HarperCollins, 2009)
Neil Gaiman’s Only the End of the World Again (Dark Horse, 2018)
Jane Gaskell’s The Shiny Narrow Grin (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
Neil Gaiman’s The Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (Borderlands, 2011)
William Golding’s The Inheritors (Faber & Faber, 1955)
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (Faber & Faber, 1954)
William Golding’s Pincher Martin (Faber & Faber, 1956)
Herbert Gorman’s The Place Called Dagon (Doran, 1927)
Charles L. Harness’s Flight Into Yesterday (Bouregy & Curl, 1953)
Roger Harris’ The LSD Dossier (Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Between Planets (Scribner’s, 1951) (First Printing A & seal, unclipped $2.50 dj)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Beyond This Horizon (Fantasy Press, 1948)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Putnam, 1985) (1/350 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy (Scribner’s, 1957) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer (Doubleday, 1957)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold (Putnam, 1964)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky (Scribner’s, 1950)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Friday (Holt Reinhardt & Winston, 1982) (1/500 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Glory Road (Putnam, 1963)(no statement of printing)
Robert A. Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil (Putnam, 1970)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice (Del Rey, 1984, 1/750 signed, numbered copies)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Menace From Earth (Gnome, 1959)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children (Gnome, 1st state binding (black boards), 1st state dj (“New York 3”)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky (Gollancz, 1963)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet (Scribner’s, 1949) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo (Scribner’s, 1947) (First Printing A & seal, unclipped $2.00 dj)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones (Scribner’s, 1952) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Space Cadet (Scribner’s, 1948) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Starman Jones (Scribner’s, 1953) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love (Putnam, 1973)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Time for the Stars (Scribner’s, 1956) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky (Scribner’s, 1955) (First Printing A & seal)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Universe (Dell, 1951) (PBO)
Robert A. Heinlein’s The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Gnome, 1959)
Robert A. Heinlein’s Waldo & Magic Inc. (Doubleday, 1950)
Peter Held’s Take My Face (Mystery House, 1957)
Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983)
Joe Hill’s Basket Full of Heads (Hill House Comics/DC, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s Dying Is Easy (IDW, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s Plunge (Hill House Comics/DC, 2020) (Hardback graphic novel)
Joe Hill’s You Are Released (Lividian Publications, 2022) (chapbook)
Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (Cape, 1980)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Boats of the ‘Glen Garrig’ (Chapman and Hall, 1907) (no statement of printing)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Calling of the Sea (Selwyn & Blount, 1920)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Ghost Pirates (Stanley Paul, 1909) (red cloth binding)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Haunted Pampero (Donald M. Grant, 1991, 1/500 signed copies)
William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland (Chapman and Hall, 1908)
William Hope Hodgson’s Men of Deep Waters (Eveleigh Nash, 1914)
William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (Eveleigh Nash, 1911)
William Hope Hodgson’s Terror of the Seas (Donald M. Grant, 1996, with signed illustration sheet laid in)
William Hope Hodgson’s Voice of the Ocean (Selwyn & Blount, 1921)
(William Hope Hodgson) Ian Bell, editor William Hope Hodgson: Voyages And Visions (Bell, 1987 chapbook)
Nancy Holder’s Dead in the Water (Dell Abyss, 1994) (PBO)
Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984)
Gordon Honeycombe’s Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (Hutchison, 1969)
Geoffrey Household’s Dance of the Dwarfs (Michael Joseph, 1968)
Robert E. Howard’s Always Comes Evening (Arkham House, 1957)
Robert E. Howard’s “…and their memory was a bitter tree” (Black Bart, 2008) (1/500 signed slipcased)
Robert E. Howard’s Black Vulmea’s Vengence (Donald M. Grant, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Blades for France (George T. Hamilton, 1975) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s Bloodstar (Morning Star Press, 1976) (Graphic novel, one of 1,500 signed by artist Corban)
Robert E. Howard’s Echoes From an Iron Harp (Donald M. Grant, 1972)
Robert E. Howard’s Etchings in Ivory (Glenn Lord, 1968) (chapbook)(see Currey for points)
Robert E. Howard’s The Grey God Passes (Charles Miller, 1975) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Grim Land and Others (Stygian Isle Press, 1976, 1/1450)
Robert E. Howard’s A Gent From Bear Creek (Herbert Jenkins, 1937)
Robert E. Howard’s The Ghost Ocean (Gibbelins Gazatte Pubns, 1982, hardback)
Robert E. Howard’s The Grim Land and Others (Stygian isle Press, 1976) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Illustrated Gods of the North (Necronomicon Press, 1977) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan (Fax Collector’s Edition, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s The Iron Man and other tales (Donald M. Grant, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Isle of Pirate’s Doom (George T. Hamilton, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s The King’s Service (George T. Hamilton, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s Kull (Donald M. Grant, 1985)
Robert E. Howard’s The Hyborian Age (Los Angeles-New York Cooperative Publications, 1938)
Robert E. Howard’s The Lost Valley of Iskander (FAX Collector’s Edition, 1974)
Robert E. Howard’s The Last Cat Book (Dodd Mead, 1984)
Robert E. Howard’s The Pride of Bear Creek (Grant, 1966)
Robert E. Howard’s Red Blades of Black Cathay (Grant, 1971)
Robert E. Howard’s Red Shadows (Grant, 1968)
Robert E. Howard’s Shadows of Dreams (Donald M. Grant, 1989)
Robert E. Howard’s The Shadow of the Beast (George T. Hamilton, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s Shadow of the Hun (George T.Hamilton, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s Singers in the Shadows (Donald M. Grant, 1970)
Robert E. Howard’s Son of the White Wolf (Fax Collector’s Edition, 1977)
Robert E. Howard’s Spears of Clontarf (George T. Hamilton, 1978) (chapbook)
Robert E. Howard’s The Sword of Shahrazar (FAX Collector’s Editions, 1976)
Robert E. Howard’s Tigers of the Sea (Donald M. Grant, 1974)
Robert E. Howard’s Two Against Tyre (Dennis McHaney, 1976) (chapbook)(1/600 numbered)
Robert E. Howard’s Valley of the Lost (Chuck E. Miller, 1975)
Robert E. Howard’s Writer of the Dark (Dark Carnival Press, 1986) (trade paperback)(1/500)
Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt and C.L. Moore’s The Challenge From Beyond (Weltschmertz Publications, 1954) (Mimeographed)
(Robert E. Howard) Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert E. Howard
Jan Hudson’s Those Sexy Saucer People (Greenleaf Classics, 1966)
Shirley Jackson’s The Bad Children (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1958)
Shirley Jackson’s The Magic of Shirley Jackson (Farrar Straus, 1966)
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (Doubleday, 1976) (Father Cody and not price-clipped on front flap)
Henry Kuttner’s The Valley of the Flame (Ace, 1964) (PBO)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Audifaxes (2019 chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Alaric: The Day The World Ended (United Mythologies Press, 1994)
R. A. Lafferty’s Anamnesis (United Mythologies Press, 1992) (chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Best of R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz, 2019) (trade paperback)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Best of R.A. Lafferty (Tor, 2021) (hardback)
R. A. Lafferty’s Cranky Old Man From Tulsa (United Mythologies Press, 1990)
R. A. Lafferty’s How Many Miles to Babylon (United Mythologies Press, 1989)
R. A. Lafferty’s Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas (Aegypan, 2007) (hardback chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s The Six Fingers of Time (Aegypan, 2011) (hardback chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Strange Skies (United Mythologies Press, 1988) (chapbook)
R. A. Lafferty’s Funnyfingers & Cabrito (Pendragon Press HB)
(R. A. Lafferty) Boomer Flats Gazette (Volumes 1-4)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Blood and Shadows (volumes 1-4) (DC Vertigo, 1996)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Blood Dance (Subterranean, 2000) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Bubba Ho-Tep (Hail To the King edition DVD with jacket packaging, 2007)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Conan and the Songs of the Dead (Dark Horse, 2007)
Joe R. and Kasey Lansdale’s The Case of the Bleeding Wall (Dead Sky Publishing, 2024) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Crawling Sky (Antarctic Press, 2013) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Dead in the West (Crossroads Press, 1994) (signed/limited)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Dead in the West (Night Shade Books, 2005) (1/150 signed, limited copies)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive In Bus Tour (Subterranean, 2005) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Freezer Burn (Crossroads Press, 1999) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Freezer Burn (Crossroads Press, 1999) (Special Edition, 1 of 5 copies)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (Subterranean Press, 1997) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror (IDW, 2012) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s I Tell You It’s Love (SST Publications, 2014) (hardback graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (DC Vertigo, 1994) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Lone Ranger & Tonto (Topps Comics, 1995) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Long Ones (Necro Publications, 1999) (lettered traycased edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Magic Wagon (Borderlands Press signed/limited hardback, 1991)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners (Dark Harvest, 1987) (signed slipcased edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners (Dark Harvest, 1987) (signed leatherbound “slipcrate” edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s On the Far Side with Dead Folks (Avalon, 2004) (graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Orbit 1 & 2 (Subterranean, 2000) (hardback)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Pigeons From Hell (Dark Horse, 2009) (graphic novel TPO)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Something Lumber This Way Comes (Subterranean, 1999) (1/13 lettered editions)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Steam Man (Dark Horse, 2016) (graphic novel TPO)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot (TimeShifter/ECOF, 2018) (chapbook)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back (Pulphouse hardback)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Thicket (Earthling Publications, 2015) (1/250 signed/limited hardbacks)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Two-Bear Mambo (Cahill Press, 1995) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Waltz of Shadows (Subterranean, 1999) (lettered edition)
Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner’s Private Eye Action As You Like It (Crossroads Press, 1998) (1/26 lettered editions)
Joe R. Lansdale’s The X-Files: Case Files (IDW, 2018) (hardback graphic novel)
Joe R. Lansdale’s Robert Bloch’s Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (IDW, 2010) (graphic novel)
Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (Twayne, 1953) (no statement of printing)
Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness (Pellegrini & Cudhay, 1950)
Fritz Leiber’s The Green Millennium (Abelard, 1953) (no statement of printing, no overprice)
Fritz Leiber’s Night Monsters (Gollancz, 1974)
Fritz Leiber’s Two Sought Adventure (Gnome Press, 1957)
Fritz Leiber’s The Secret Songs (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Cornel Lengyel’s The Atom Clock (FPCI, 1951) (hardback or chapbook)
Doris Lessing’s Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Cape, 1971)
C. S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938)
C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945)
David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen, 1920) (Gilt-stamped spine, undated publisher’s catalog)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth (Hippocampus Press, 2013) (two volumes)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Juvenilia 1895-1905 (Necronomicon Press, 1984) (chapbook)
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider and Others (Arkham House, 1939)
H. P. Lovecraft’s Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House, 1943)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Donald R. Burleson’s Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe (University of Kentucky Press, 1990)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Peter Cannon’s The Chronology Out of Time (Necronomicon Press chapbook, 1986)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) S.T. Joshi’s H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays (Necronomicon Press, 2019)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Joshi/Schultz’s Lovecraft Remembered: An Epicure of the Terrible (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Ave Atque Vale (Necronomicon HB, 2018)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Maurice Levy’s Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (Wayne State University Press, 1988)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Anthony Pearsell’s The Lovecraft Lexicon (New Falcon, 2004) (TPO)
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Robert M. Price’s H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (Starmont, 1990)
George R. R. Martin’s Fevre Dream (Poseidon Press, 1982)
George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks (Bantam Spectra, 1991) (PBO)
George R. R. Martin’s Busted Flush (Tor, 2008)
George R. R. Martin’s Suicide Kings (Tor, 2009)
George R. R. Martin’s High Stakes (Tor, 2016)
George R. R. Martin’s Low Chicago (Tor, 2018)
George R. R. Martin’s Knave Over Queens (Tor, 2008)
George R. R. Martin’s Three Kings (Tor, 2018)
George R. R. Martin’s Joker Moon (Tor, 2021)
George R. R. Martin’s Full House (Tor, 2022)
George R. R. Martin’s Pairing Up (Tor, 2023)
George R. R. Martin’s Sleeper Straddle (Tor, 2024)
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (Random House, 1985) (number line starts with 2)
Richard Matheson’s Bid Time Return (Viking, 1975) (“First published 1975”)
Richard Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes (Lippencott, 1958)
Ian McDonald’s The Best of Ian McDonald w/Floating Dogs (PS Publishing, 2016)(1/100 signed, numbered copies)
Ian McDonald’s Cyberabad Days (Orion, 2009)
Ian McDonald’s Hopeland (Gollancz, 2023)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: Moon Rising (Tor, 2015)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: New Moon (Tor, 2017)
Ian McDonald’s Luna: Wolf Moon (Tor, 2019)
Ian McDonald’s The Menace From Farside (Tor, 2019)
Ian McDonald’s Time Was (Tor, 2018) (chapbook)
Richard McKenna’s The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench (Naval Institute Press, 1986)
Paul Merchant’s Sex Gang (Nightstand Books, 1959) (PBO, 50¢)
Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist (Collins, 1926)
Carlton Miller’s Incest Street (Narcissus, 1970, PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (Quartet, 1975)
Michael Moorcock’s The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger (as John H. Watson, MD) (privately printed hardback, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s An Alien Heat (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
Michael Moorcock’s Behold the Man and Other Stories (Phoenix House, 1994)
Michael Moorcock’s Blood Red Game (Sphere, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Blades of Mars (Compact, 1965)
Michael Moorcock’s Breakfast in the Ruins and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Bull and the Spear (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s City of the Beasts (Lancer, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Count Brass (Mayflower, 1973) (PB0)
Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of Castle Brass (Granada, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Champion of Garathorm (Mayflower, 1973) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Dreaming City (Lancer, 1972) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Dreamthief’s Daughter (American Fantasy, 2001) (signed, limited hardback)
Michael Moorcock’s Earl Aubec and Other Stories (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone (Blue Star, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Swords and Roses (Del Rey, 2010) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Return to Melnibone (Unicorn, 1973) (chapbook)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Revenge of the Rose (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress (Gollancz, 2013) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Del Rey, 2008) (TP0)
Michael Moorcock’s Elric at the End of Time (NEL, 1984)
Michael Moorcock’s The Entropy Tango (NEL, 1981)
Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion (Harper & Row, 1978)
Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Final Programme (Gregg Press, 1976)
Michael Moorcock’s Final Programme (Avon, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Fireclown (Compact, 1965) (PB0)
Michael Moorcock’s The Golden Barge (Savoy, 1979) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Hawkmoon (Millennium, 1992)
Michael Moorcock’s The Ice Schooner (Harper & Row, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s The Ice Schooner (Sphere, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s The Inner Landscape (Allison & Busby, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Jewel in the Skull (White Lion, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Knight of the Swords (Alison Busby, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s Knight of the Swords (Mayflower, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Land Leviathan (Doubleday, 1974)
Michael Moorcock’s Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s London Bone (Scribner/Simon & Schuster UK, 2001) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Lord of the Spiders (Lancer, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Lunching with the Antichrist (Ziesing V. Ziesing, 1994) (Signed/limited edition)
Michael Moorcock’s The Mad God’s Amulet (White Lion, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Masters of the Pit (NEL, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (White Wolf, 1994)
Michael Moorcock’s Michael Moorcock’s Legends of the Multiverse (Black Coat Press, 2017) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories (Gollancz, 2014) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s The New Nature of Catastrophe (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s Nomad of Time (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1982) (Book club HB, gutter code M47 on page 440)
Michael Moorcock’s Nomad of the Time Streams (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s The Oak and the Ram (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Pawn of Chaos (White Wolf, 1996) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s Phoenix In Obsidian (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Queen of the Swords (Berkeley, 1971) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Quest for Tanelorn (Mayflower, 1975) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Real Life Mr. Newman (A.J. Callow, 1979) (1/500 copies, stapled and bound in masking tape (!))
Michael Moorcock’s Retreat from Liberty (Zomba, 1983) (TPO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Road Between Worlds (White Wolf, 1996)
Michael Moorcock’s The Runestaff (Mayflower, 1969) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Russian Intelligence (NEL, 1983)
Michael Moorcock’s Sailing to Utopia (Millennium, 1993)
Michael Moorcock’s The Shores of Death (Sphere, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Singing Citadel (Mayflower, 1970) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Skrayling Tree (Warner Aspect, 2003)
Michael Moorcock’s The Sorcerer’s Amulet (Lancer, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Steel Tsar (Mayflower, 1981) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Sundered Worlds (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Sword and the Stallion (Alison Busby, 1973)
Michael Moorcock’s Sword of the Dawn (Lancer, 1968) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Time Dweller (Rupert Hart Davis, 1969)
Michael Moorcock’s Time of the Hawklords (Star, 1976) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s Time of the Hawklords (Aidan Ellis, 1976)
Michael Moorcock’s The Twilight Man (Roberts & Vinter/Compact, 1966) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Transformation of Mavis Ming (W. H. Allen, 1977)
Michael Moorcock’s The Traps of Time (Rapp & Whiting, 1968)
Michael Moorcock’s Warlord of the Air (NEL, 1971)
Michael Moorcock’s Warrior of Mars (NEL, 1981) (hardback omnibus)
Michael Moorcock’s Warriors of Mars (Compact, 1965) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock’s The Wrecks of Time (b/w Tramontane) (Ace Double, 1967) (PBO)
Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorne’s Fantasy the 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988)
(Moorcock, Michael) Frank Brunner’s Elric Portfolio (Looking Glass, 1979) (art portfolio, 1/1000)
(Moorcock, Michael) Tawn, Brian Dude’s Dream: The Music Of Michael Moorcock (Hawkfan, 1997) (TPO)
Kim Newman’s The Original Dr. Shade (Pocket Books, 1994)(PBO)
Larry Niven’s Inconstant Moon (Gollancz, 1973)
Larry Niven’s Neutron Star (Macdonald, 1969)
Larry Niven’s Protector (Compton Russell, 1976)
Larry Niven’s World of Ptavvs (Macdonald, 1986)
Charles Neutzel’s Queen of Blood (Greenleaf Classic, 1966) (PBO)
Andre Norton’s Witch World (Gregg Press, 1977)
George Orwell’s Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg, 1945, 1st state dust jacket)
Lewis Padgett’s A Gnome There Was (Simon & Schuster, 1950)
Lewis Padgett’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow & The Fairy Chessman (Gnome, 1951)
Edgar Pangborn’s A Mirror for Observers (Doubleday, 1954)
Keith Roberts’s Pavane (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946)
Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959)
H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Garland HB, 1975)
H. Beam Piper’s (and Andre Norton’s) A Planet For Texans (and Star Born) (Ace, 1958) (PBO, 35¢)
H. Beam Piper’s Space Viking (Ace, 1962) (PBO, 40¢)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Gladiator-At-Law (Ballantine Books, 1955)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Presidential Year (Ballantine Books, 1956)
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth’s Search the Sky (Ballantine Books, 1954)
Terry Prachett’s The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
Terry Prachett’s The Light Fantastic (Colin Smythe, 1986)
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (Viking, 1973) (First issue dj with ISBN lettered in white over red on rear panel, date code 0273 on lower front flap)
Ellery Queen’s And On the Eighth Day (Random House, 1964)
Ellery Queen’s The Fourth Side of the Triangle (Random House, 1965)
Ellery Queen’s The Player on The Other Side (Random House, 1963)
Alastair Reynolds’ Bone Silence (Gollancz, 2020)
Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire (Gollancz, 2018)
Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion (Gollancz, 2022)
Alastair Reynolds’ Inhibitor Phase (Gollancz, 2024)
Alastair Reynolds’ Machine Vendetta (Gollancz, 2024)
Alastair Reynolds’ The Prefect (Gollancz, 2007)
Alastair Reynolds’ Shadow Captain (Gollancz, 2019)
Alastair Reynolds’ understanding Space and Time (BSFG, 2005) (chapbook)
Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter’s The Medusa Chronicles (Gollancz, 2016)
Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country. (Harper, 2016)
Salman Rushdie’s Grimus (Gollancz, 1975)
Eric Frank Russell’s Far Stars (Dobson, 1961)
Eric Frank Russell’s The Great Explosion (Dobson, 1962)
Eric Frank Russell’s Wasp (Avalon, 1957)
Clifford D. Simak’s Ring Around the Sun (Simon & Schuster, 1953)
Clifford D. Simak’s Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (Gregg Press, 1977)
Bob Shaw’s Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975) (No statement of printing on copyright page)
Robert Sheckley’s Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz, 1964)
Lucius Shepard’s Cantata Of Death, Weakmind & Generation (Lillabulero Press, 1967) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Abominations of Yondo (Arkham House, 1960)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Cycles (Roy A. Squires, 1963) (broadside)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Dark Chateau (Arkham House, 1951)
Clark Ashton Smith’s From the Crypts of Memory (Roy A. Squires, 1963)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Grotesques and Fantastiques (De La Ree, 1973) (1/50 signed hardback copies)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Ghoul and the Sereph (Gargoyle Press, 1950) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Genius Loci and Other Tales (Arkham House, 1948)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Hesperian Fall (Clyde Beck, 1961) (chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Hills of Dionysus (Roy A. Squires, 1962) (1/175 black hardback copies and/or 1/40 green hardback copies))
Clark Ashton Smith’s Klarkash-Ton and Monstro Ligriv (Gerry de la Ree, 1974) (1/50 hardback copies)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Mortuary (Roy Squires chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Nero and Other Poems (Futile Press, 1937)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Spells and Philtres (Arkham House, 1958)
Clark Ashton Smith’s Sandalwood (The Auburn Journal Press, 1925)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The Titans in Tartarus (Roy Squires)(chapbook)
Clark Ashton Smith’s The White Sybil (with David H. Keller’s Men of Avalon) (Fantasy Publications, no date (1934)) (chapbook)
(Clark Ashton Smith) Jack L. Chalker’s In Memorium: Clark Ashton Smith (Mirage Press, 1963) (1/10 hardback copies)
Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (Gregg Press, 1977)
Brian Stableford’s The Walking Shadow (Fontana, 1979) (PBO)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Aliens 4 (Avon, 1959) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Baby is Three/…And My Fear Is Great (Galaxy, 1965) (PBO)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Caviar (Ballantine Books, 1955)
Theodore Sturgeon’s The Cosmic Rape (Dell, 1958) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s The Cosmic Rape (Gregg Press, 1977)
Theodore Sturgeon’s E. Pluribus Unicorn (Abelard-Schuman, 1953)
Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X (Pyramid, 1960) (PBO, 35¢)
Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X (Gollancz, 1969)
Theodore Sturgeon’s A Way Home (Funk and Wagnalls, 1955)
Patrick Suskind’s Perfume (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)
Michael Swanwick’s American Cigarettes (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s The Brain Baron (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s A Midwinter’s Tale (Dragonstairs, 2010) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Millie’s Recipes (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s One Mile Below (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Song of the Lorelei (Dragonstairs, 2011) (chapbook)
Michael Swanwick’s Valentine Moon (Dragonstairs, 2020) (chapbook)
William Tenn’s Of All Possible Worlds (Ballantine Books HB, 1955)
William Tenn’s Time In Advance (Gollancz, 1963)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit (George Allen & Unwin, 1937) (First printed 1937, “Dodgeson” on back dj flap)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Fellowship of the Ring (George Allen & Unwin, 1954) (no later date on copyright page)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Two Towers (George Allen & Unwin, 1954) (no later date on copyright page)
J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Return of the King (George Allen & Unwin, 1955) (no later date on copyright page)
Henry Treece’s The Golden Strangers (The Bodley Head, 1956)
Henry Treece’s The Great Captains (The Bodley Head, 1956)
Jack Vance’s The Complete Magnus Ridolph (Underwood Miller, 1984)
Jack Vance’s Dream Castles (Subterranean Press, 2012) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1947)(PBO)
Jack Vance’s Future Tense (Ballantine, 1964)(PBO)
Jack Vance’s Grand Crusades (Subterranean, 2015) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s Hard Luck Diggings (Subterranean, 2010) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Jack Vance Reader (Subterranean Press, 2008) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Jack Vance Treasury (Subterranean Press, 2007) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Languages of Pao and The Dragon Masters (Vance Integral Edition, 2002)
Jack Vance’s Magic Highways (Subterranean, 2013) (signed, lettered edition)
Jack Vance’s The Man in the Cage (Random House, 1960)
Jack Vance’s Wild Thyme, Green Magic (Subterranean, 2009) (signed, lettered edition)
(Jack Vance) The Many Worlds of Jack Vance (fanzine, 1/300)
(Jack Vance) Songs of the Dying Earth (Subterranean, 2009) (signed, lettered edition)
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (Holt, Reinhardt & Winston, 1963)
Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan (Houghton-Mifflin, 1961)
Alan Wade’s Isle of Peril (Mystery House, 1957))
Peter Watts’ Echopraxia (Tor, 2014)
Ian Watson’s The Embedding (Gollancz, 1973)
H. G. Wells’ The Time Machines (Henry Holt, 1895) (true first edition with his name misspelled “H. S. Wells” on the title page)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Carolina Pirate (Washburn, 1968)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Gray Riders (Aladdin, 1954)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Haunts of Drowning Creek (Holiday House, 1951)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Jamestown Adventure (Washburn, 1967)
Manly Wade Wellman’s Mystery at Bear Paw Gap (Washburn, 1965)
Manly Wade Wellman’s The Specter of Bear Paw Gap (Washburn, 1966)
Gary Westfahl’s The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders (three volume hardcover set)
J. X. Williams’ ESP Orgy (Greenleaf Classics adult PBO)
Jack Williamson’s The Collected Stories of jack Williamson Volume Five: The Crucible of Power (Haffner Press, 2006)
Jack Williamson’s The Collected Stories of jack Williamson Volume Six: Gateway to Paradise (Haffner Press, 2008)
Gene Wolfe’s The Grave Secret (Portentous Press) (chapbook)
Gene Wolfe’s The Land Across (Tor, 2013)
Gene Wolfe’s The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Was the Sun (Cheap Street, 1991) (chapbook)
Gene Wolfe’s The Death of Doctor Island and John M. Ford’s Fugue State (Tor, 1990) (PBO)
(Gene Wolfe)Michael Andre-Driussi’s A Quick and Dirty Guide To The Long Sun Whorl (Sirius Fiction) (chapbook)
John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes (Michael Joseph, 1953)
John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
Cheslea Quin Yarboro’s Aristo (Pocket, 1980) (PBO)
Collier Young’s The Todd Dossier (Delacorte Press, 1969)
Roger Zelazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (Pulphouse, 1991) (hardback of just that story)
Roger Zelazny’s The Magic: (October 1961-October 1967) Ten Tales (Positronic Publishing, 2018)
Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light. (Easton Press, 1994) (tan leather)
Roger Zelazny’s Shadows & Reflections Stories From The World Of Roger Zelazny (1/25 signed copies)
(Roger Zelazny) Jane Lindskold’s Roger Zelazny (Twayne, 1992)
(Roger Zelazny) Joseph L. Sanders’ Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1982)
(Roger Zelazny) Karl B. Yoke’s Roger Zelazny: Starmont Reader’s Guide (Borgo Press, 1979) (Library binding hardback)
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Monday, October 12th, 2020
Non-Zelazny (mostly) hardbacks from my most recent Bob Pylant purchase.
de Camp, L. Sprague. Warlocks and Warriors. Putnam, 1970. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with five tiny ink “x”s next to stories on the copyright page and a trace of bend at head and heel, in a Fine- dust jacket with traces of edgewear along flap folds. Signed by de Camp. Includes Zelazny’s “The Bells of Shoredan.” The Zelazny and others include maps for their stories that I’m not sure I’ve seen anywhere else.
Greenberg, Martin H. Dragons: The Greatest Stories. MJF Books, 1997. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Anthology. A few mysteries about this copy: Has a numberline ending in one (which would typically indicate a first edition rather than a book club edition), but no price on the dust jacket (which would typically indicate the opposite), and has a red binding along the spine. The ISFDB lists two editions, one at a price of $19.95, and the other at a price of $7.98, the latter of which it indicates is taken from the Locus database, which also lists only one edition of the book and that as an instant remainder (which would explain the lack of a price). The Don Maitz cover appears to be a cropped example of the fuller dust jacket illustration that originally appeared on Kathleen Sky’s Witchdame in 1985; copies of this anthology with green spine and the fuller illustration (still with no price on the dust jacket) appear to be second printings. Still another mystery is the not-quite-right Zelazny signatures on the title page and at his story “The George Business,” which would be a neat trick since Zelazny died in 1995. No idea if Bob or someone else created the spurious signatures. It would seem that this instant remainder edition was done first and the pricier retail edition (if it even exists) may have been done later.
Ipcar, Dahlov. A Dark Horn Blowing. Viking Press, 1978. First edition hardback, a near Fine copy with slight bend at head and heel, a short, thin line of rust-colored staining at very bottom of front free endpaper, and a trace of age-darkening to pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a vertical crease running along the edge of the rear flap. Fantasy novel of a woman kidnapped to elfland to nurse a newborn elf prince. Never heard of it, but Bob said it was a good novel. In the Encyclopedia of fantasy, John Clute calls her work “atmospheric and densely conceived.”
Lee, Tanith. Sometimes, After Sunset. Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1980. First edition hardback, an omnibus edition of Sabella, or The Blood Stone and Kill the Dead (neither of which had any other hardback editions), a Fine copy in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with slight wear at points, a thin 1/2″ scratch at top front spine join, a trace of rubbing along front flap join bend edge, and slight age darkening to white flaps. Nice early Maitz cover.
Le Guin, Ursula K., editor. Nebula Award Stories 11. Gollancz, 1976. First edition hardback (precedes the U.S. edition by a year), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel, traces of foxing to front free endpaper, and slight dust soiling at head, in a Near Fine copy with spine fading and a trace of edgewear at points. Includes the Nebula-winning Zelazny novella “Home is the Hangman.”
Meacham, Beth. Terry’s Universe. Tor, 1988. Uncorrected bound proof (trade paperback format) of the hardback first edition, a Fine copy. Tribute anthology to the late Terry Carr. Includes Zelazny’s “Deadstone Donner and the Flintstone Cup.”
Schiff, Stuart David, editor. The Best of Whispers. Borderlands Press, 1994. First edition hardback, #375 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase. Signed by all the then-living contributors (Fritz Leiber died in 1992), including Zelazny, Ray Bradbury, Karl Edward Wagner, Russell Kirk, Hugh B. Cave, Lucius Shepard, Jerry Sohl and Alan Ryan. Includes Zelazny’s “The Horses of Lir.”
Tags:Bob Pylant, dragons, Fantasy, Horror, L. Sprague de Camp, Roger Zelazny, Science Fiction, SFBC, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Friday, August 31st, 2018
No theme, just four random, interesting books that came in.
De Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook. Spirits Stars And Spells: The Perils and Profits of Magic. Canaveral Press, 1966. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped (but otherwise mint) dust jacket; Chalker/Owings says Owlswick obtained extra stock and printed a dust jacket “overprinted in red,” which matches this one. Signed by both authors. Non-fiction. Laughlin/Levack, de Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography, 82a. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 84. Bought for £12 plus shipping.
Hunter, Stephen. I, Sniper. Simon & Schuster, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, with bookstore event slip laid in. Signed and dated (“Jan 17, 2010”) by Hunter. Bought at auction for $6.15 plus shipping.
McDevitt, Jack. A Voice in the Night. Subterranean, 2018. First edition hardback, one of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Purchased at the usual dealer discount from the publisher. Copies will be available through Lame Excuse Books.
Smith, Clark Ashton (David E. Schultz and Scott Conners, editors). Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, 2003. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Conners. Bought for $30 off eBay.
Tags:Arkham House, Books, Canaveral Press, Clark Ashton Smith, Fantasy, Horror, Jack McDevitt, L. Sprague de Camp, magic, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Stephen Hunter, Subterranean Press, Thriller
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Monday, July 21st, 2014
Just another random roundup of signed books, three from L.W. Currey’s $10 sale (more about which Real Soon), and one from eBay.
Bova, Ben. Viewpoint. NESFA Press, 1977. First edition hardback, #126 of 800 signed, numbered hardbacks, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought from Currey for $10.
Cowper, Richard. The Unhappy Princess with The Missing Heart. Cheap Street, 1982. First edition chapbook originals, #54 of 75 slipcased copies, Fine copies in a Fine slipcase. Chalker & Owings, 1991, page 106. Note: I store my slipcased chapbooks with the hardbacks. Bought from Currey for $10.
(De Camp, L. Sprague) Laughlin, Charlotte and Daniel J. H. Levack. De Camp: An L. Sprague De Camp Bibliography. Underwood/Miller, 1983. First edition hardback, one of 200 copies signed by De Camp and others, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Supplements a copy of the trade edition. Bought from Currey for $10.
Leiber, Fritz. The Leiber Chronicles. Dark Harvest, 1990. First edition hardback, #7 of 500 signed, numbered hardbacks, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. Bought for $38 off eBay, which is roughly half the original publication price of $65.
Why both De Camp and Leiber seem thoroughly out of fashion these days is an essay for another day…
Tags:Ben Bova, Fantasy, First Edition, Fritz Leiber, Horror, L. Sprague de Camp, Richard Cowper, Science Fiction, signed
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Thursday, June 20th, 2013
Time for another roundup of the books I’ve bought over the lat (roughly) half year. (Why June 13 rather than the end of the month? Because I’ve just purchased a large Roger Zelazny collection I have yet to catalog, and I want to get all this out of the way and posted before I start cataloging that.)
As always, all books listed here are Fine first edition hardbacks in Fine dust jackets unless otherwise noted.
Anderson, Poul. Homebrew. NESFA Press, 1976. First edition hardback, one of 500 copies signed by Anderson (Currey B, no priority), a Fine- copy with slight bumping at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with a tiny bit of dust patterning to rear dust jacket. Currey (1978), pages 10-11. Three short stories plus miscellany.
Ashley, Mike, editor. Steampunk. Fall River Press, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Anthology.
Asimov, Isaac. Foundations Edge. Whispers Press, 1982. First limited edition (consensus seems to be that the Doubleday trade edition precedes by about a month), #282 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in quarter-bound leather over embossed cloth boards, top edge gilded in real gold, sans dust jacket, as issued. Hugo winner and Nebula Finalist. Chalker/Owings, p. 476. Bought off the Internet for $160.
Asimov, Isaac and Theodosius Dobzhansky. The Genetic Effects of Radiation. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1966. Presumed first edition chapbook (no additional printings listed), a Near Fine copy with slight dust soiling and age darkening to covers, and phantom crease to bottom corner. Non-fiction pamphlet. Marjorie M. Miller, Asimov: A Checklist, page 48.
Baker, Kage and Kathleen Bartholomew. Nell Gwynnes’s At Land and At Sea. Subterranean Press, 2013.
Baxter, Stephen. Gravity Dreams. PS Publishing, 2011. First edition hardback, #17 of 100 signed, numbered copies, Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
Benford, Gregory. At the Double Solstice. Cheap Street, 1986. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy, in original mailing envelope. Chalker/Owings, page 108, which lists this copy (with publisher’s greetings on (unnumbered) page 23) as one of 60 copies thus, one of apparently four states.
Benford, Gregory. Time’s Rub. Cheap Street, 1984. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy, in original mailing envelope. Chalker/Owings, page 107, which lists this copy (with publisher’s greetings on (unnumbered) page 19) as one of 73 copies thus, one of apparently four states.
Bishop, Michael and Steven Utley, editors. Passing for Human. PS Publishing, 2009. First edition hardback, #189 of 200 numbered copies signed by all the contributors, supposedly in a slipcase, but this copy actually came in a traycase, Fine in a Fine dust jacket and traycase.
Bok, Hannes. Bok 1. Glenn Nigra, 1975. Portfolio with 12 loose Hannes Bok illustration sheets, portfolio folder Fine- with bumping to corners, all illustrations Fine. Uneven shading in pic is a scanner artifact, as the portfolio folder is actually slightly too large to fit on the scanner.
Bradbury, Ray. Nemo! Subterranean Press, 2013.
Buekes, Lauren. The Shining Girls. Umuzi (South Africa), 2013. First edition hardback, #224 of 1000 copies signed and numbered by the author, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Precedes both UK and U.S. editions.
Dann. Jack. Insinuations. PS Publishing, 2010. First edition hardback, one of 100 signed, numbered copies (my number could either be 04, 14, or 64), Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Autobiography (non-fiction).
Davidson, Avram. The Beasts of the Elysian Fields by Conrad Amber. The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2001. First edition chapbook, Fine.
Davidson, Avram. The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2013. Perfect-bound chapbook first edition, one of 200 copies in heavy cardstock with self-wrapper flaps and errata sheet pasted inside, a Fine copy. I’ll have copies for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
De Camp, L. Sprague, and Fletcher Pratt. The Carnelian Cube. Gnome Press, 1948. First edition hardback, a Very Good+ copy with bumping at head and heel and wear at heel and tips, and slight dust soiling at head, in a Very Good- dust jacket with 1/4″ loss at head, and slightly less loss at heel and tips, significant fading to red ink on spine (the cube is barely carnelian anymore), partial stamp on rear flap, top front (non-price) flap trimmed at very tip, and general wear. The first Gnome Press book. Chalker & Owings, page 197. Earl Terry Kemp, The Anthem Series (see below), page 191. Currey (1978), page 132.
Really only a placeholder copy, and I wouldn’t even have picked it up if it hadn’t been part of a lot with:
De Camp, L. Sprague, and Fletcher Pratt. Land of Unreason. Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ plus copy, with slight bumping at head and heel and slight dust soiling to page block at heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with age darkening to rear cover. A very nice copy, and a splendid example of the Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket. Bought for $34 for this and the above (plus shipping and buyers premium) off Heritage Auctions.
DeVore, Chuck. The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America. Texas Public Policy Foundation, 2012. Trade Paperback Original, Fine. Inscribed by the author. Non-fiction.
Dick, Philip K. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick volume 3: On the Dull Earth. Subterranean, 2012.
Dick, Philip K./Howard L. Cory. The Unteleported Man/The Mind Monsters. Ace, 1966. First edition paperback original (PBO) (Ace Double G-602, 50¢ price on cover), a Near Fine copy with faint spine crease, touches of edgewear, a few dog-eared pages, and slighting foxing. Levack, PKD, 43a. Currey, page 159.
Dick, Philip K. The Unteleported Man. Berkley, 1983. First edition paperback original thus, with previously unpublished original ending, VG+ with spine creasing.
Di Filippo, Paul. Roadside Bodhisattva. PS Publishing, 2010. First edition hardback, one of 100 signed copies in traycase.
Ellis, Novalyne Price. One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard: The Final Years. Donald M. Grant, 1986. Non-fiction. Basis of the movie The Whole Wide World.
Ellison, Harlan. The Deadly Streets. Edgeworks Abbey/Subterranean Press, 2013. First hardback edition. One of 750 trade copies.
Ellison, Harlan. Gentlemen Junkie. Edgeworks Abbey/Subterranean Press, 2013. First hardback edition. One of 750 trade copies.
Fanthorpe, R. L. (as Pel Torro). Galaxy 666. Tower Books, 1968. First American paperback edition, a Fine- copy with a touch of edgewear and a penciled letter at head. Reported to be the worst science fiction novel ever professionally published.
Gaiman, Neil. Day of the Dead: An Annotated Babylon 5 Script. DreamHaven Book, 1998. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. Bought for $1.
Gingrich, Newt. To Renew America. Harper Collins, 1995. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with crease to front inner flap. Inscribed to me by the author. Non-fiction.
Haldeman, Joe. The Best of Joe Haldeman. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, #147 of 250 signed, numbered copies.
Haldeman, Joe. The Best of Joe Haldeman. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, trade edition.
Howard, Robert E. Lord of the Dead. Donald M. Grant, 1981.
Kemp, Earl Terry. The Anthem Series: A Guide to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Weird Specialty Publisher’s of the Golden Age. The Last Stand, 2012. First edition trade paperback edition, oversized, a Fine copy (or it was before I started reading it). Non-fiction. I’ll try to finish a review of this in the near future.
Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with a trace of spine lean and faint dust soiling at heel in a Fine- dust jacket with a thin line of very slight discoloration at the very top. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy Three, page 49.
Klaw, Rick, editor. The Apes of Wrath. Tachyon, 2013. Trade paperback original, Fine. Inscribed to me by the author.
Lake, Jay (with illustrations by Frank Wu). Greetings From Lake Wu. Traife Buffet, 2006. First hardback edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author and illustrator, a Fine copy in decorated boards and cut-out slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. Contents differ considerably from 2003 trade edition. When this originally came out I thought “$150 for 250 signed, numbered copies? That’s a reasonable price point…for a Neil Gaiman limited.” (Sorry, Jay.) I picked this up for $30.
Lansdale, Joe R. Dead Aim. Subterranean Press, 2013. One of 400 signed, numbered copies.
Lansdale, Joe R. Dead Aim. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade edition.
Lansdale, Joe R. (writing as Ray Slater). Texas Night Riders. Chivers Press/Curley Publishing, 1991. First hardback edition (preceded by the 1983 Leisure Books paperback original), an ex-library copy with minimal markings (a stamp on front free endpaper), otherwise VG in decorated boards with bumping along extremities, sans dust jacket, as issued. Part of the Large Print Atlantic Western line. Hankow, A Checklist of Joe R. Lansdale, A3b.
(Lansdale, Joe R.) Michael Blaine, Dennis Etchison, James Kisner, Dean R. Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, William F. Nolan, Alan Rodgers, David B. Silva, J. N. Williamson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. The Monitors of Providence. World Fantasy Convention, 1986. First edition chapbook original, one of 1000 copies given out at the 1986 World fantasy Convention in Providence, RI, a Fine copy.
Leiber, Fritz. In the Beginning. Cheap Street, 1983. First edition hardback, #67 of 128 copies of the “Collectors’ Edition” signed by both Leiber and illustrator Alicia Austin (there were also 10 lettered collector’s copies, and 7 lettered and 32 number publisher’s copies), a Fine copy, in full cloth with title labels pasted on front and spine, sans dust jacket, as issued, with prospectus laid in. Chalker/Ownings, pages 106-107.
Ligotti, Thomas. The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein & Other Gothic Tales. Silver Salamander Press, 1994. First edition hardback, number 116 of 125 hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with small black and white art plate laid in. Bought for $200, marked down from $400, from the Half Price Books on 183 with their 50% off coupon (I showed up when the door opened). Probably the rarest Ligotti hardback. (Evidently the hardback state of The Silver Scarab Press edition of Songs From a Dead Dreamer is spurious; proof yet again you can’t completely trust Chalker & Ownings.)
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Burleson, Donald R. H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study. Greenwood Press, 1983. Non-fiction.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Price, Robert M., editor. Worlds of Cthulhu. Fedogan & Breamer, 2012. Cthulhu Mythos anthology. Good to see Fedogan & Breamer wake from their deathless slumbers. I’ll have copies of this for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
MacLeod, Ian R. Wake Up and Dream. PS Publishing, 2011. First edition hardback, #38 of 100 signed, numbered copies, Fine in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase.
McKillip, Patricia A. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. Atheneum, 1974. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with bend at head and heel in a Near Fine- dust jacket with crimping at head and heel, edgewear and a closed 1/4″ tear at top front cover. The very first winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Pringle, Modern Fantasy 100, #54. Bought for $26 off the Internet.
Martin, George R. R. (and Roger Zelazny). The Last Defender of Camelot. Subterranean Press, 2003. First edition chapbook, a Fine copy, new and unread. Includes Martin’s teleplay for the revived Twilight Zone as well as Zelazny’s original story. Evidently done as part of the slipcased edition of Martin’s GRRM career retrospective collection.
McCammon, Robert. I Travel By Night. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade edition.
McCammon, Robert. I Travel By Night. Subterranean Press, 2013. #306 of 474 signed, numbered copies. The trade edition precedes by about 8 weeks.
Moorcock, Michael. Epic Pooh. British Fantasy Society, 1978. First edition chapbook, Fine- with tiny bit of creasing to bottom outer corner tip. Non-fiction.
Moorcock, Michael. Wizardry and Wild Romance. Gollancz, 1987. Non-fiction.
Novik, Naomi. Empire of Ivory. Harper Voyager, 2007. First hardback edition; the U.S. edition, which I have, is a PBO that precedes by a month. The fourth Temeraire, and since I have the rest in hardback, and just read the third one, I thought it was high time to pick this up…
Potter, J. K. (William Schafer and Bill Sheehan, editors). Embrace the Mutation. Subterranean Press, 2002. First edition hardback, one of 250 copies signed by the artist and editors. Anthology of stories based on Potter’s work.
Powers, Tim. Salvage and Demolition. Subterranean Press, 2013. One of 350 signed, numbered copies.
Powers, Tim. Salvage and Demolition. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade edition.
Resnick, Mike. Lucifer Jones. Warner Questar, 1992. First edition paperback original this, a Fine- copy with just a trace of wear at tips.
Russell, Eric frank. The Space Willies b/w Six Worlds Yonder. Ace Books, 1958. Paperback reprint, VG with spine creasing and wear.
Scalzi, John. Redshirts. Tor, 2012. Bought for half cover price at Half Price Books.
Simmons, Dan. The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz. Subterranean Press, 2013. First separate hardback edition, #179 of 250 signed, numbered copies.
Simmons, Dan. The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz. Subterranean Press, 2013. First separate hardback edition. Trade edition.
Smith, Clark Ashton. The Tartarus of the Suns. Roy A. Squires, 1970. First edition thread-bound chapbook, a Fine copy in envelope. The Fugitive Poems, First Fascicle, Zothique Edition. This is copy 105. Donald Sydney-Fryer, Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography, P. 140. Chalker Owings, P. 588.
Smith, Clark Ashton. The Titans in Tartarus. Roy A. Squires, 1974. First edition thread-bound chapbook, a Fine copy in envelope. The Fugitive Poems, Second Series, First Volume, Xigarph edition. This is copy 30 of the “small” edition (as opposed to the “manuscript” sized edition). Donald Sydney-Fryer, Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography, P. 140. Chalker Owings, P. 589.
(Smith, Clark Ashton) Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs. Tsathoggua Press, 1997. First edition chapbook, Fine-. A critical miscellany, plus one poem by Smith.
(Smith, Clark Ashton). The Tales of Clark Ashton Smith: A Bibliography. Thomas C. L. Cockcoft, 1951. First edition chapbook, one of 500 copies, Near Fine- with a few small spots of soiling, phantom crease to rear dust jacket, and age darkening. Non-fiction. Currey (1978), P. 455. Tymn Schlobin Currey, A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies, 323. A very early Clark Ashton Smith bibliography. Not as useful as I hoped it would be.
Smith, Michael Marshall (translation and re-translation by Benoît Domis and Nicholas Royle). The Gist. Subterranean Press, 2013. One of 300 signed, numbered copies. Literary experiment in which a story by Smith is translated into French, and then translated back.
Smith, Michael Marshall (translation and re-translation by Benoît Domis and Nicholas Royle). The Gist. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade edition.
Smith, Reginald. Weird Tales in the Thirties. Self published, no date (but 1966). First edition, 8 1/2″ x 11″ side-stapled, mimeographed from typewritten copy, Near Fine- copy with small abrasion at top front, and slight bend to front and rear self-covers. Long essay about the magazine. Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft: An Annotated Bibliography, III-D-574.
Stableford, Brian. Optiman. DAW, 1980. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with a few pinpoint rubs.
Swanwick, Michael. It Came Upon a Midnight. Dragonstairs Press, 2011. First edition chapbook original, #81 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with one faint stray mark to front.
Swanwick, Michael. Midwinter Elves. Dragonstairs Press, 2012. First edition chapbook original, #15 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with small stain on rear.
Vance, Jack. The Avatar’s Apprentice. Sadlark Press, 2011. First edition chapbook, one of 30 copies printed from photopolymer plates, a Fine copy, new and unread. According to the publisher “I collected all the excerpts from the five Demon Princes novels that dealt with the Avatar’s Apprentice: Scroll from the Ninth Dimension, and put them into one book. I letterpress printed, illustrated, and hand bound an edition of thirty-five. I used photopolymer to print all the text and images in this book.” I’ve comfirmed with the publisher via email that the edition is actually the 30 stated on the limitation page at back.
Vance, Jack. The Eyes of the Overworld. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Sequel to The Dying Earth featuring Cugel the Clever. Precedes the Underwood/Miller edition. Hewett, A26g. Currey (1978), page 498.
Vance, Jack (writing as Ellery Queen). Four Men Called John. Gollancz Detection, 1976. First hardback edition a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a tiny bit of crimping at head, and a few faint invisible, non-breaking surface scratches. Hewett, A14j. Actually, Jerry Hewett was the one who picked this up for me, since he knew I was looking for it…
Vance, Jack. Magic Highways. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback. Omnibus.
Vance, Jack. Strange Notions with The Dark Ocean. Underwood/Miller, 1985. First edition hardbacks, number 47 of 500 signed (Strange Notions only, as issued), numbered sets in slipcase, Fine, sans dust jackets, as issued. Mystery novels. Hewett, A75 and A76.
Vance, Jack. To Live Forever. Ballantine books, 1956. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Near Fine- dust jacket with slight spine fading and tiny (1/32″) chipping at head and heel. Signed by Vance. Currey (1978), page 500, A1 (dark blue) binding. Hewett, A4ab.
Varley, John. Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories. Subterranean Press, 2013. First edition hardback, #146 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies.
Vinge, Vernor. Children of the Sky. Tor, 2011
Waldrop, Howard. Strange Things in Closeup. Legend, 1989. Trade paperback original, Near Fine- with slight spine crease and the usual age darkening to the paper (ubiquitous for Orbit/Legend books of this era).
Wellman, Manly Wade. The Complete John Thunstone. Haffner Press, 2012.
(Wells, H. G.) William J. Scheick and J. Randolph Cox. H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide. G. L. Hall & Co., 1988. Fine-, with tiny crimps at head and heel, sans dust jacket, as issued.
Williams, Tad. Diary of a Dragon. Subterranean Press, 2013. Trade paperback chapbook first edition, #86 of 750 signed, numbered copies.
Wilson, Robert Charles. Vortex. Tor, 2011.
Wolfe, Gary K. American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s. The Library of America, 2012. First Edition hardback thus, being a two volume compilation of some of the best American SF novels of the 1950s: Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants, Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human, Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow, Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star, Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, James Blish’s A Case of Conscience, Algis Budrys’ Who?, and Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time, both volumes Fine in Fine dust jackets, new and unread, in a Fine slipcase. This is an example of book collecting madness, since I either have first editions of, or have already read, all the books here except Who?, but I thought this was a handsome set when it came out, and snapped this up when it showed up at Half Price Books.
(Wolfe, Gene) Andre-Driussi, Michael. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk. Sirius Press, 2012. Non-fiction.
(Wolfe, Gene) Fawcett, Bill and J.E. Mooney, editors. Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe. Tor, 2013. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format) of the first edition, Fine.
Wyly, Sam and Andrew. Texas Got It Right! Melcher Media, 2012. Trade Paperback Original, Fine. Non-fiction.
Zelazny, Roger. Damnation Alley. Putnam, 1969. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a tiny bit of edgewear along top front. Levack, Amber Dreams, 9a. Currey (1978), page 570.
Zelazny, Roger and Robert Sheckley. If At Faust You Don’t Succeed. Bantam, 1993. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format) of the trade paperback original first edition, Fine, new and unread.
Zivkovic, Zoran. The Ghostwriter. PS Publishing, 2012. #44 of 100 signed, numbered copies. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Monday, June 17th, 2013
Books and related items, and no particular theme, other than interesting firsts I picked up. Been dawdling about getting this documented, and now I need to put it up so I can catalog a major acquisition of books I made Friday…
Bok, Hannes. Bok 1. Glenn Nigra, 1975. Portfolio with 12 loose Hannes Bok illustration sheets, portfolio folder Fine- with bumping to corners, all illustrations Fine. Uneven shading in pic is a scanner artifact, as the portfolio folder is actually slightly too large to fit on the scanner.
De Camp, L. Sprague, and Fletcher Pratt. The Carnelian Cube. Gnome Press, 1948. First edition hardback, a Very Good+ copy with bumping at head and heel and wear at heel and tips, and slight dust soiling at head, in a Very Good- dust jacket with 1/4″ loss at head, and slightly less loss at heel and tips, significant fading to red ink on spine (the cube is barely carnelian anymore), partial stamp on rear flap, top front (non-price) flap trimmed at very tip, and general wear. The first Gnome Press book. Chalker & Owings, page 197. Earl Terry Kemp, The Anthem Series*, page 191. Currey (1978), page 132.
Really only a placeholder copy, and I wouldn’t even have picked it up if it hadn’t been part of a lot with:
De Camp, L. Sprague, and Fletcher Pratt. Land of Unreason. Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ plus copy, with slight bumping at head and heel and slight dust soiling to page block at heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with age darkening to rear cover. A very nice copy, and a splendid example of the Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket. Bought for $34 for this and the above (plus shipping and buyers premium) off Heritage Auctions.
McKillip, Patricia A. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. Atheneum, 1974. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with bend at head and heel in a Near Fine- dust jacket with crimping at head and heel, edgewear and a closed 1/4″ tear at top front cover. The very first winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Pringle, Modern Fantasy 100, #54. Bought for $26 off the Internet.
Swanwick, Michael. It Came Upon a Midnight. Dragonstairs Press, 2011. First edition chapbook original, #81 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with one faint stray mark to front.
Swanwick, Michael. Midwinter Elves. Dragonstairs Press, 2012. First edition chapbook original, #15 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with small stain on rear.
Vance, Jack. The Eyes of the Overworld. Gregg Press, 1977. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Sequel to The Dying earth featuring Cugel the Clever. Precedes the Underwood/Miller edition. Hewett, A26g. Currey (1978), page 498.
Wolfe, Gary K. American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s. The Library of America, 2012. First Edition hardback thus, being a two volume compilation of some of the best American SF novels of the 1950s: Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants, Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human, Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow, Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star, Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, James Blish’s A Case of Conscience, Algis Budrys’ Who?, and Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time, both volumes Fine in Fine dust jackets, new and unread, in a Fine slipcase. This is an example of book collecting madness, since I either have first editions of, or have already read, all the books here except Who?, but I thought this was a handsome set when it came out, and snapped this up when it showed up at Half Price Books.
*This is a newly published reference work on SF specialty publishers. I hope to finish a review of it Real Soon Now, and I’ll have copies for sale through Lame Excuse Books.
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Don Webb once said that “If you are obsessed with a writer, you own more in print about him than the total number of words in print by him.” In which case I guess I’m obsessed by H. P. Lovecraft (who is also who Don was talking about). However, while I do like Lovecraft, it’s really only because I’m obsessed about books in general, part of which is obtaining reference books about authors I like. Is it my fault there are just so many books on Lovecraft out there? I don’t have all of them, but I do have a goodly number.
For In-print items, I’ve provided links to either the Lame Excuse Books page for things I have in stock, or Amazon links for those I don’t.
Here’s a long view of everything that would fit laid out on a single tabletop:
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Bell, Joseph. Les Bibliotheques Volumes 1-8. Soft Books, 1984-1987. Eight side-stapled A4-sized chapbooks, featuring a miscellaneous selection of Lovecraft material (including fiction, poems, letters, etc. from Lovecraft), the bulk of which is taken up by a chronology of his publications.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Migliore, Andrew, and John Strysik. The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft. Night Shade Press, 2010. First printing trade paperback original of this enlarged and updated edition. Normally sits among my film reference works.
Next comes a few Arkham House-related books I’m including here. (I already covered S. T. Joshi’s Sixty Years of Arkham House during my first reference book roundup.)
Jaffery, Sheldon. Horrors and Unpleasantries: A Bibliographical History and Collectors Price Guide to Arkham House. Popular Press, 1982. First edition hardback. Largely superseded by Joshi’s Sixty Years, it still has information not replicated there, including how the secret reprint edition of August Derleth’s own Someone in the Dark came to pass.
Nielsen, Leon. Arkham House Books: A Collector’s Guide. McFarland & Company, 2004. Trade paperback original. Goes a little farther than Joshi. Mostly superfluous if you have Joshi and Jaffrey, but useful if you don’t.
Derleth, August. Thirty Years of Arkham House: 1939-1969. Arkham House, 1970. First edition hardback. The official history up to that date. (I do not own a copy of Derleth’s Arkham House: The First 20 Years; it’s pretty pricey for a superseded paperback reference work, and insanely pricey for one of the 80 hardback copies…)
Finally, we get to the actual Lovecraft section, which starts off with several titles by HPL himself:
Lovecraft, H. P. Supernatural Horror in Literature. Ben Abramson, 1945. First separate edition, hardback (Currey A), sans dust jacket, as issued. His famous essay.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz) Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. Hardback first edition. What the title says: chronological autobiographical information culled from Lovecraft’s voluminous correspondence.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi) Collected Essay Volume 1: Amateur Journalism. Hippocampus Press, 2004. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi) Collected Essay Volume 2: Literary Criticism. Hippocampus Press, 2004. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi) Collected Essay Volume 3: Science. Hippocampus Press, 2005. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi) Collected Essay Volume 4: Travel. Hippocampus Press, 2005. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi) Collected Essay Volume 5: Philosophy, Autobiography & Miscellany. Hippocampus Press, 2006. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei) Selected Letters I. Arkham House, 1965. Hardback first edition. Many later Lovecratt scholars have criticized the way the letters in these and subsequent volumes have been edited.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei) Selected Letters II. Arkham House, 1968. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei) Selected Letters IIII. Arkham House, 1971. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by August Derleth and James Turner) Selected Letters IV. Arkham House, 1976. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by August Derleth and James Turner) Selected Letters V. Arkham House, 1976. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. and Donald Wandrei (edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz) Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei. Night Shade Books, 2002. Hardback first edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz) Letters from New York. Night Shade Books, 2005. Hardback first edition.
Howard, Robert E. and H. P. Lovecraft. A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hippocampus Press, 2009. First edition hardbacks, two volumes. Shelved in my Robert E. Howard section.
Lovecraft, H. P. (edited by L. Sprague de Camp) To Quebec and the Stars. Donald M. Grant, 1976. Hardback first edition. (Out of order in the pictures because it’s oversized and shelved one shelf down from where it should be.)
Next comes books about Lovecraft by other authors.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Joshi, S. T. H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. Kent State University Press, 1981. Hardback first edition, sans dust jacket, as issued. If you haven’t figured out already by the number of times his name has already appeared on this list, Joshi is the Lovecraft obsessive that puts all the other Lovecraft obsessives in the shade. I have several criticisms of his Sixty Years of Arkham House, and disagree with significant bits and pieces of his critical approach to Lovecraft’s. But when comes to excessive knowledge of Lovecraft’s life and work, he has no equal, and this bibliography is ridiculously comprehensive up through the period covered. There were 14 Lovecraft books (including some chapbooks, pamphlets, etc.) printed before The Outsider and Others, each of which is either insanely expensive or simply not available anywhere at any price.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Joshi, S. T. I Am Providence: the Life and Times of H P Lovecraft. Hippocampus Press, 2010. First edition hardback, two volumes. Back in 1996, Necronomicon Press published Joshi’s H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, a definitive biography which was about 700 pages long, with very small margins, in a hardback edition of 250 copies which went out of print before just about anyone knew about it. (You can still get the trade paperback edition.) Well, guess what? Joshi had to leave out about 150,000 words of material for space constraints. That, plus everything he’s learned since 1996, is packed into these two volumse. (I see some people online are asking $550 for this set. I have sets available for $95, which is half-off cover price. [Sorry, sold out. – LP])
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Joshi, S. T. and David E. Schultz. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2001. Hardback first edition, in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Includes things both in Lovecraft’s fiction and his life.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) de Camp, L. Sprague Lovecraft: A Life. Doubleday, 1975. Hardback first edition, inscribed by de Camp, remainder speckling at heel, otherwise Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Considered the standard biography before Joshi went to work; not so much anymore.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Long, Frank Belknap. Howard Philips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side Arkham House, 1975. Hardback first edition. Biography of Lovecraft by a close friend and fellow writer.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Cannon, Peter, editor. Lovecraft Remembered. Arkham House, 1998. Hardback first edition with review slip laid in. Collection of remembrances of both Lovecraft and his writing by numerous contemporaries, much of it original published in very obscure journals or small-run pamphlets.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Carter, Lin. Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos. Starmont House/Borgo Press, [1992]. First hardback edition, Fine in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Cannon, Peter. H. P. Lovecraft. Twayne, 1989. Hardback first edition (a reasonably clean ex-library copy). Part of the Twayn’s United States Authors Series.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Joshi, S. T. H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism. Ohio University Press, 1980. Hardback first edition. Variety of essays on Lovecraft’s work.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Mark Owings and Irving Binkin, catalogers. A Catalog of Lovecraftiana: The Grill Binkin Collection. Mirage Press, 1975. Hardback first edition, Fine sans dust jacket, as issued. Catalog of perhaps the most extensive Lovecraft collection ever in existence.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) St. Armand, Barton Levi. The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. Dragon Press, 1977. Hardback first edition, Fine sans dust jacket, as issued. Critical work.
And a few works on the Cthulhu Mythos more generally:
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Jarocha-Ernst, Chris. A Cthulhu Mythos Bibliography and Concordance. Armitage House, 1999. First edition trade paperback original.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Harms, Daniel. Encyclopedia Cthulhuiana. Chaosium, 1994. Trade paperback original.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Harms, Daniel. The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia. Elder Signs Press, 2008. First edition hardback, one of 200 signed, numbered copies. “Updated and Expanded Third Edition,” and the first hardback edition.
And here are some chapbook that you can’t tell what they are from the spine. I pick up those Necronomicon Press chapbooks when I find them cheap, but usually not otherwise.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) St. Armand, Barton Levi. H. P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent. Silver Scarab Press, 1979. Perfect-bound chapbook.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Barlow, R. H. On Lovecraft and Life. Necronomicon Press, 1992. First edition chapbook.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Cook, W. Paul. In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Necronomicon Press, 1991. Chapbook, second edition.
Lovecraft, H. P. A History of the Necronomicon. Necronomicon Press, 1992. Chapbook, sixth printing.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Barrass, Glynn. A Cthulhu Mythos Bibliography & Checklist: Second Edition. Blackgoat Books, 1996. An extremely barebones checklist (title, publisher, and whether it was issued in hardback). Probably the last thing you would reach for, but it does have a few obscure listings.
Lovecraft, H. P. and Anthony Raven. The Occult Lovecraft. Gerry de la Ree, 1975. First edition chapbook.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium. The Los Angeles Science Fiction Society/The Riverside Quarterly, [1964]. First edition chapbook, with Errata sheet laid in.
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
The book-buying continues apace here at Stately Person Manor since the last roundup. Many were bought from a notable SF book dealer having a sale. And some weren’t even bought, as there’s a large number of unclaimed Nova Express proofs and ARCs that were integrated into my own library after I cleaned my office. All of these are Fine hardback first editions in Fine dust jackets, unless otherwise noted. Signed book are noted, except for recent titles where the entire run was signed (like several Subterranean Press books).
Books that I have available for sale through Lame Excuse Books are marked LEB (though some of those titles won’t appear on the stock page until after I send out my next book catalog, which will probably be late this month or early next; email me if you’d like to get on the mailing list to received it).
And if perchance you’re new to my mad bibliomania, the most comprehensive post on my library can be found here.
Now the books:
Aldiss, Brian. Brothers of the Head Pierrot Publishing Ltd., 1977. First edition hardback (simultaneous with the much more common trade paperback edition), oversized and illustrated, a Fine copy in a VG+ dust jacket with light wrinkling, wear to extremities, and some age toning to white flaps of the dust jacket. Signed by both Aldiss and illustrator Ian Pollock. The hardback edition was already uncommon, but became more so after an art house movie based on it came out a few years ago. Bought this from a dealer in France, of all places.
Aldiss, Brian. Cultural Breaks. Tachyon, 2005. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format, with packet of review material.
Aldiss, Brian. This World and Nearer Ones. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979. Signed by Adliss. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer. Non-fiction.
Aylett, Steve. Lint. Thunder Mouth Press, 2005. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Baker, Kage. The Graveyard Game. Tor, 2005. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Baker, Kage. The Life of the World to Come. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Baker, Kage. The Machine’s Child. Tor, 2006. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Baker, Kage. The Sons of Heaven. Tor, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Barker, Clive. Weaveworld. Poseidon Press, 1987. One of signed, 500 numbered copies, in unprinted Mylar dust jacket, in slipcase, as issued. Bought from a notable SF dealer for less than half original publisher’s price.
Barnes, John. The Armies of Memory. Tor, 2006.
Bear, Greg. The Collected Stories of Greg Bear. September, 2002. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Bear, Greg. Heads. One of 300 signed, numbered copies, in slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Binder, Eando. Lords of Creation. Prime Press, 1949. One of 112 copies with plate signed by Binder affixed, Near Fine, sans dust jacket, with uncut pages, as issued. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Bisson, Terry. Greetings & Other Stories. Tachyon, 2005. Trade paperback original.
Bisson, Terry. Numbers Don’t Lie. Tachyon, 2005. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Boyett, Steven R. Mortality Bridge. Subterranean Press, 2011.
Boyle, T.C. The Human Fly and Other Stores. Speak, 2005. Advanced uncorrected proof, trade paperback format, with packet of review material.
Brin, David. Dr. Pak’s Preschool. Cheap Street, 1989. One of 117 signed, numbered copies of the “Collector’s Edition,” in Fine handmade dust jacket and slipcase. Bought from a notable SF book dealer at a considerable discount off the original offered price.
Broderick, Damien. Godplayers. Thunder Mouth Press, 2005. Trade paperback original.
Broderick, Damien. K-Machines. Thunder Mouth Press, 2006. Trade paperback original.
Brotherton, Mike. Star Dragon. Tor, 2003. Advanced uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Buckner, M. M. Wintermind. Tor, 2008.
Burks, Arthur J. Black Medicine. Arkham House, 1966.
Canon, Peter. Forever Azathoth. Subterranean Press, 2011. One of 350 signed/numbered copies.
Charnes, Suzy McKee. Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms. Tachyon, 2004. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Clarke, Arthur C. and Stephen Baxter. Firstborn. Del Rey, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Constantine, Storm. The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure. Tor. 2003. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Crowther, Peter & Nick Gevers, editors. Postscripts #24/25: The New and Perfect Man. PS Publishing, 2011. Signed, traycased edition. Contributor copy, with my story “The Dog Parade” inside. For more information, see here.
De Camp, L. Sprague & Catherine Crook. Footprints in Sand: A Literary Sampler. Advent, 1981. One of 500 signed, numbered copies. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
De Camp, L. Sprague. Heroes & Hobgoblins Donald M. Grant, 1981. One of 1,250 copies signed by de Camp, a Fine copy in a price clipped (but otherwise Fine) dust jacket.
De Camp, L. Sprague. The Prisoner of Zhamanak. Phantasia Press, 1982. One of 500 signed, numbered copies, in slipcase. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Di Filippo, Paul. The Emperor of Gondwanaland. Thunder Mouth Press, 2005. Trade paperback original.
Di Filippo, Paul. A Princess of the Linear City. PS Publishing, 2010. Fine in decorated boards, sans dj, as issued. LEB
Doctorow, Cory. A Place So Foreign and 8 More. Four Walls and Eight Windows, 2003. Trade paperback original. Signed by Doctorow.
Egan. Greg. The Clockwork Rocket. Night Shade Press, 2011. LEB
Emshwiller, Carol. I Live With You. Tachyon, 2005. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Farris, John. Fiends. Dark Harvest, 1990. One of 500 signed, numbered copies, in slipcase. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Finch, Sheila. Reading the Bones. Tachyon, 2003. Trade paperback original.
Gaskell, Jane. Atlan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
Gunn, Eileen. Stable Strategies and others. Tachyon, 2004. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Gunn, James. The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels. Scribner’s, 1975. Inscribed by Gunn. Review materials laid in. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Gunn, James. The Magicians. Scribner’s, 1976. Inscribed by Gunn. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Haldeman, Joe, Stephen Giron, Edo van Belkom. Chapbook Seven. Buffalo Fantasy League, 2008. First edition hardback chapbook, one of only 20 copies bound in hardback, signed by Haldeman and Giron, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Haldeman’s section is hand-written and -illustrated.
Halpern, Marty and Claude Lalumiere. Witpunk. Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003.
Heinlein, Robert A. Assignment in Eternity. Fantasy Press, 1953. First edition hardback, first state Currey A binding (brick red cloth, with six gilt bands on spine, and with “Heinlein” 3mm high), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Details here.
Heinlein, Robert A. Have Space Suit–Will Travel. Scribner’s, 1958. Details here.
Heinlein, Robert A. A Heinlein Triad. Gollancz, 1966. Details here.
Heinlein, Robert A. The Man Who Sold the Moon. Shasta Publishers, 1950. Details here.
Hughes, Matthew. Black Brillion. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Jablokov, Alexander. Brain Thief Tor, 2010. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Adventure of Cobbler’s Rune. Cheap Street, 1982. One of 250 signed, numbered hardback copies, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Solomon Leviathan’s Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World. Cheap Street, 1984. One of 250 signed, numbered hardback copies, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Water is Wide. Pendragon Press, 1976. Chapbook, one of 200 signed copies, a Fine copy.
Leiber, Fritz. The Change War. Gregg Press, 1978. Fine sans dj, as issued.
Link, Kelly and Gavin J. Grant. The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Del Rey, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Link, Kelly and Gavin J. Grant. The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Del Rey, 2007. Trade paperback original.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) Leiber, Fritz, etc. H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium. Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society/Riverside Quarterly, 1964. Chapbook, a Fine copy, with errata sheet laid in. Non-fiction.
MacLeod, Ken. The Night Sessions. Orbit, 2008.
Marusek, David. Mind Over Ship. Tor, 2009. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Marusek, David. Mind Over Ship. Tor, 2009.
McDevitt, Jack. The Law of Gravity Isn’t Working on Rainbow Bridge. Buffalo fantasy League, 2003. First edition hardback chapbook, #16 of a very small number bound into hardback, signed by McDevitt, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The first of the Eeriecon chapbooks.
McMullin, Sean. Voyage of the Shadowmoon. Tor, 2002. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Melko, Paul. Singularity Ring. Tor, 2008.
Mieville, China. Embassytown. Macmillan (UK), 2011. Signed.
Moorcock, Michael/Joe R. Lansdale. Sojan the Swordsman/Under the Warrior Star. Planet Stories/Paizo, 2010. Trade paperback.
Morrow, James. The Cat’s Pajamas & Other Stories. Tachyon, 2004. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Nagata, Linda. Memory. Tor, 2003.
Nasir, Jamil. The Houses of Time. Tor, 2008. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Niven, Larry. A Gift From Earth. Macdonald, 1969. First hardback edition. Signed. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Niven, Larry/Derwin Mak. Eeriecon Chapbook Ten: Doubling Rate/Willpower. Buffalo Fantasy League, 2011. First edition hardback chapbook, one of only 15(!) hardback copies, signed by both authors, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. LEB
Niven, Larry/Derwin Mak. Eeriecon Chapbook Ten: Doubling Rate/Willpower. Buffalo Fantasy League, 2011. Wraps edition.
Priest, Cherrie. Fathom. Tor, 2008.
Reed, Robert. Sister Alice. Tor, 2003.
Resnick, Mike. The Science Fiction Professional: Seven Years of “Ask Bwana” Columns. Farthest Star Science Fiction, 2002. Trade paperback original.
Resnick, Mike, et. al. With a Little Help From My Friends. Farthest Star Science Fiction, 2002. Trade paperback original.
Reynolds, Alastair. Troika. Subterranean Press, 2011. One of 350 signed, numbered copies with a different cover.
Reynolds, Alastair. Troika. Subterranean Press, 2011. Trade edition. LEB
Robson, Justina. Natural History. Macmillan (UK), 2003. Trade paperback original (simultaneous with the hardback edition), signed by Robson, with additional signed note on a Post-It square laid in.
Rossi, Matthew. Things That Never Were. MonkeyBrain Books, 2003.
Rucker, Rudy. Frek and The Elixer. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Rucker, Rudy. Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007. Trade paperback original.
Rucker, Rudy. Mathematicians in Love. Tor, 2006. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Rucker, Rudy. Postsingular. Tor, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Schroeder, Karl. Sun of Suns. Tor, 2006. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Schroeder, Karl. The Queen of Candesce. Tor, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Schroeder, Karl. Pirate Sun. Tor, 2008. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Schroeder, Karl. The Sunless Countries. Tor, 2009. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Shiner, Lewis. Dark Tangos. Subterranean Press, 2011.
Shunn, William. An Alternate History of the 21st Century. Spilt Milk Press, 2007. Chapbook.
Silverberg, Robert. Homefaring. Phantasia Press, 1983. One of 450 signed, numbered copies, in slipcase. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Silverberg, Robert. Sunrise on Mercury and Other Science Fiction Stories. Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. Signed on affixed label by Silverberg. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Spector, Craig. Underground. Tor, 2005.
Stewart, Ian and jack Cohen. Heaven. Warner Books, 2004.
Stross, Charles. The Family Trade. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Stross, Charles. The Clan Corporate. Tor, 2006. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Stross, Charles. The Merchant’s War. Tor, 2007. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Stross, Charles. The Revolution Business. Tor, 2009. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Stross, Charles. Trade of Queens. Tor, 2010. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Stross, Charles. Rule 34. Ace, 2011.
(Sturgeon, Theodore) Diskin, Lahna F. Theodore Sturgeon: a primary and secondary bibliography. G.K. Hall & Co., 1980. Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction.
Swanwick, Michael. Bones of the Earth. Eos, 2001. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Swanwick, Michael. The Dragons of Bable. Tor, 2007. Advanced reading copy, trade paperback format.
Totten, Michael. The Road to Fatima Gate. Encounter Books, 2011. Signed. Non-fiction.
Tregillis, Ian. Bitter Seeds. Tor, 2010.
Vance, Jack. Dangerous Ways. Subterranean Press, 2011. Traycased edition, signed by Vance. See here for more details.
(Vance, Jack) Tiedman, Richard. Jack Vance: Science Fiction Stylist. Mimeographed from typewritten copy on yellow paper stock, self wrappers, stapled, one of only 225 copies, Fine, with additional correspondence laid in.
Vinge, Vernor, and John-Allen Price. Chapbook Eight. Buffalo Fantasy League, 2002. First edition hardback chapbook, one of a very small number hardbound, signed by Vinge and Price, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Watts, Peter. Behemoth: ß-Max. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Devils Planet. World Distributors, 1951. First edition, pulp paperback format, Very Good with slight rubbing and internal tape reinforcement, and spine creasing, otherwise bright.
Westerfield, Scott. Peeps. Razorbill, 2005.
Westerfield, Scott. The Risen Empire. Tor, 2003. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Westerfield, Scott. The Killing of Worlds. Tor, 2003. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Westfahl, Gary, George Slusser and David Leiby, editors. Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Greenwood Press, 2002. Fine first edition hardback, sans dj, as issued, with review slip laid in. Non-fiction.
What, Leslie. Olympic Games. Tachyon, 2004. Advanced review copy, trade paperback format.
Wilhelm, Kate. Listen, Listen. Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Signed by Wilhelm. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Wilhelm, Kate. A Sense of Shadow. Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Inscribed by Wilhelm. Bought for $8 from a notable SF book dealer.
Wilson, F. Paul. Gateways. Tor, 2003. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wilson, F. Paul. Ground Zero. Tor, 2009. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wolfe. Gary K. Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001. Beccon, 2010. Trade paperback. Non-fiction.
Wolfe. Gary K. Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006. Beccon, 2011. Trade paperback. Non-fiction.
Wolfe, Gene. The Best of Gene Wolfe. Tor, 2009. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wolfe, Gene. Innocents Aboard. Tor, 2004. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wolfe, Gene. An Evil Guest. Tor, 2008. Uncorrected proof, trade paperback format.
Wright, John C. Orphans of Chaos. Tor, 2005.
Zivkovic, Zoran. The Book. Polaris, 2003.
Zivkovic, Zoran. Hidden Camera. Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.
Zivkovic, Zoran. Steps Through the Mist. Polaris, 2003.
Previous posts on my book collection:
Library Additions: November 15, 2010—January 14, 2011
Library Additions, July 12—November 14, 2010
Library Additions, January 25, 2010—July 11, 2010
Library Additions: December 1, 2009—January 14, 2010.
My Book-Hunting Trip to Archer City and Points East (and New Acquisitions Found There)
Items in Evidence of a Case of Bibliomania (or, How I Spent $1,000 in One Week and All I Got Were These Cool Books)
Lawrence Person’s Library: Reference Books (Part 1)
Lawrence Person’s Library: Reference Books (Part 2: Oversized Books)
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