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 about RED LAVA
London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition. "A group of immortals survive the sinking of Atlantis and live until the present day, witnessing many significant events in world history" (Barron 3-142. Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide). An elusive lost-race novel, particularly in dustjacket. OCLC notes a scant 12 holdings -... More about THE LOST GARDEN
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 about THE AZTEC TREASURE-HOUSE
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 about THE PARADISE OF THE NORTH: A STORY OF ADVENTURE AROUND THE POLE
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1932. First Edition. The eleventh book in the author's Captain Kettle series, a lost race novel set in an ancient Mayan city. Provenance: From the collection of Spectrum of Fantasy author George Locke. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black... More about CAPTAIN KETTLE, AMBASSADOR
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, 1910. First Edition. Lost-race adventure novel by this disciple of H. Rider Haggard, set on a hidden Caribbean island ruled by Voodoo. The castaways eventually escape to the United States, and the novel concludes with a volcano beneath the island blowing it to pieces. Locke... More about THE HOUSE ON STILTS: A NOVEL
![THE SERPENT, ATLAN, THE CITY [ATLAN SAGA - BOOKS 1-3]. Jane Gaskell](/pictures/thumb/4062.jpg?v=1563426586)
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1963-1966. First Editions. First three volumes in Gaskell's Atlan saga, "a sprawling popular romance series set in old Atlantis, full of sex, human-animal couplings, chases galore, mad scientists and a whole farrago of clichés" (Barron 4A-115, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide). Locke (A Spectrum of..... More about THE SERPENT, ATLAN, THE CITY [ATLAN SAGA - BOOKS 1-3
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. First Paperback Edition. Co-authored novel set in an Earth mostly destroyed by atomic war, caused by one Carleton Lufteufel, the God of Wrath. "His church is in the ascendant among the survivors. Tibor McMasters, legless and armless but still the best painter of... More about DEUS IRAE
New York: Bantam Books, 1977. First Bantam Edition. Callenbach's self-published first novel, and ecological utopia now referred to as "the novel that predicted Portland." "Callenbach could not find a publisher for his book in 1974, and was told that it was neither a novel or a tract. "Somebody said the... More about ECOTOPIA: THE NOTEBOOKS AND REPORTS OF WILLIAM WESTON
Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books, 1975. First Edition. Callenbach's self-published first novel, and ecological utopia now referred to as "the novel that predicted Portland." "Callenbach could not find a publisher for his book in 1974, and was told that it was neither a novel or a tract. "Somebody said the ecology... More about ECOTOPIA: THE NOTEBOOKS AND REPORTS OF WILLIAM WESTON
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1963. First Edition. "Frozen sleep seems like a humane way to end unemployment and overpopulation pressures: Send the excess citizens to the future. The government warehouses are filled with bibs when a political fight erupts over whether or not to dispose of them through a.... More about THE CRACK IN SPACE - SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1965. First Edition. "A post-nuclear war society struggles to reconstruct itself in an isolated setting. Kept in contact with the outside world by an orbiting disc-jockey, the group's members include Bill, an encysted telepathic twin; Bruno Bluthgeld, the weapons expert responsible for the war; and... More about DR. BLOODMONEY, OR HOW WE GOT ALONG AFTER THE BOMB - SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1957. First Edition. The author's sixth book, a revision of his 1956 story A Glass of Darkness. "Ted Barton returns to the isolated town of his youth. He finds it subtly different. Places and people have been added and taken away. Some inhabitants have strange... More about THE COSMIC PUPPETS / SARGASSO OF SPACE - SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1956. First Printing. Dick's fourth novel, set in the year 2114, after a limited nuclear war on earth. "Earth is in the repressive grip of Morec - Moral Reclamation - a spying, hereditary government. The only alternatives to its strict control are emigration or psychotherapy... More about THE MAN WHO JAPED / THE SPACE-BORN - SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Sharp copy of Dick's third book and second published novel. "Fed-gov is reconstructing the post-war world according to the precepts of relativism. Jones, a former carnival fortune-teller and preacher who can see a year into the future, says the alien drifters, origin... More about THE WORLD JONES MADE / AGENT OF THE UNKNOWN - SIGNED
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. First American Edition. The first volume in Rowling's beloved children's series - a unique copy in an attractive artisan binding. Errington A4(a). First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); design binding by Patricia & George Sargeant of the Dragonfly Bindery; full burgundy leather... More about HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE