New York: Bantam Books, 1996-2011. First American Editions. Handsome set of Martin's best-selling Song of Ice and Fire series, basis for HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Game of Thrones. Each volume inscribed to Martin's long-time friends Mike and Mary Fitzsimmons, who together with Mike's first wife, Barbara, founded and ran Archon..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Swift's satirical masterpiece, the first to be illustrated by English painter and line-artist Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938). Part of the wildly popular Cranford Series, published by Macmillan from 1876 (Old Christmas) to 1907 (Silas Marner). Scarce in dustjacket. Not..... More
Chicago & New York: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher, 1895. First Edition. Attractive copy of this key work of late-19th century weird and supernatural fiction, an influence on author's as wide-ranging as H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, and Stephen King. A group of interrelated short stories, "running through many of them, though..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1975. First U.K. Edition. "An affectionate parody of fairy tales, swashbuckling yarns and traditional fantasy clichés framed as a story within a story. Always knowing and full of intended anachronisms, this Ruritanian romance works equally well for adults and children..." (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 4A-117). A beloved..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1980-1992. First American Editions. Attractive set of Adams's comedic science fiction series, originally created as a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Basis for the 1981 TV series on BBC, and the 2005 film adaptation by Garth Jennings, starring Martin Freeman. First Printings. Five octavo..... More
N.p. S.i., [1962]. First Edition. Screenplay for this adaptaion of Bradbury's short story, which first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1956, and collected a decade later in S is for Space. The story is centered around the first manned rocket flight to the moon, relayed..... More
London: George Newnes, [1936]. First Edition. Presentable copy of the author's third book, an adventure story about an interplanetary flight to Mars by rocket, set 70 years in the future. A serialization in The Passing Show followed in 1937, under the title Stowaway to Mars, and re-written again in Modern..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Attractive copy of this hard science fiction classic, nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971. "A malfunctioning starship continues to accelerate as it nears light speed, and its crew observe relativistic effects, ultimately being carried beyond the..... More