[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1989]. First Edition. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Short, closed tear along right margin, else Near Fine. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family; the poem, "The Bread..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1988]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 12/12/88" above the title. Light wear and handling to extremities..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1987]. First Edition. The holiday broadside, an annual tradition, was sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. The text, titled "On the night before diring up into Deep Space, a future robot priest offers this sermon to the far-traveling astronauts," is an..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1985]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in dark brown on thick beige stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 1/1/86" in silver pen along upper margin. Light..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1982]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, letterpress printed in dark brown on thick peach stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury '82" in pen along upper margin. Small..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950 [but ca.1970]. Attractive copy of Asimov's best-known work, a trade edition first issued for the Science Fiction Book Club in 1963. Octavo (21.5cm); black boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [14],15-218,[6]pp. Pinpoint wear to spine ends, else Fine in..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. First Edition. Winner of the Newberry Medal, the Hugo Award (2009), and the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Literature. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue and black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[8],9-312pp; illus. Fine in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Chronicle of Bradbury's seven month trip to Ireland, where he wrote the screenplay to John Huston's adaptation of Moby Dick. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, Bradbury and Safire were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired..... More
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1992. First Separate Edition. First illustrated edition of Bradbury's time-travel story, first published in the pages of Playboy in 1984. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K. Edition. An association copy of the highest quality, inscribed to Bradbury's long-time friend, mentor, and literary agent Forrest Ackerman. It was Ackerman who introduced a teenage Bradbury to the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, published Bradbury's first story in his fanzine Imagination, and who..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Lengthy anthology of short fiction from the golden age of science fiction (1920-1938), edited by Isaac Asimov. Contributors include Asimov, Edmond Hamilton, Neil R. Jones, S.P. Meek, P. Schuyler Miller, Clifford Simak, Charles Tanner, Jack Williamson, Laurence Manning, Donald Wandrei, Murray..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996-2000. First Editions. Attractive set of Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy for young adults. Basis for Chris Weitz's 2007 film The Golden Compass, and the forthcoming TV adaptation by HBO. First Printings. Three octavo volumes (21.5cm); navy blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Attractive association copy of this early collection of Bradbury's space-themed poetry. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, Safire reviewed Bradbury's Zen and the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity for his New York Times column "On Language," and frequently cited Bradbury's work..... More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. First Tauchnitz Edition. Wells's ninth novel, narrating a journey to the moon by a businessman and an eccentric scientist, who encounter a sophisticated civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites," who take them captive underground. A distinguished copy, from the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American Edition. First installment in Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy for young adults. Basis for Chris Weitz's 2007 film The Golden Compass, and the forthcoming TV adaptation by HBO. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); navy cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition. Collection of short stories on different themes (religion, anti-semitism, civil rights, crime, war, etc). First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; vi,298pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $8.95), with a few..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition. The fourth novel in Asimov's Foundation series. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue and tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,366pp. spine ends gently nudged, else Near Fine, and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $14.95), lightly..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1931. First Edition. Pseudonymous adventure novel with fantastic and lost race elements, set in Rwanda and Burundi, and centered around a tribe of pygmies who worship a group of volcanoes - one of which erupts. Unaccountably scarce, not mentioned by Barron, Bleiler, or Locke;..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1898. Attractive copy of this lost race adventure novel about the discovery of an Aztec remnant in Mexico. Locke (A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1), p.122; Bleiler (1978 ed.), p.109. Early printing. Octavo (19cm); red vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt..... More
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1894]. First Illustrated Edition. First illustrated edition (following the first edition in 1890) of Johnstone's lost race adventure novel of the discovery of a nation of Norse descent in the Arctic regions. Locke (A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1), p.124; Bleiler (1978 ed.), p.110. Octavo..... More