New York: Gnome Press, 1951. First Edition. First volume in Asimov's epic series inspired by the fall of Rome, portraying "the destruction of a human galactic empire and the efforts of psychohistorians to shorten the coming dark ages. To do this, they set up the hidden Foundation to guide humans..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American Edition. An early collection of short fiction by the Argentine author, collecting 19 stories translated by Anthony Kerrigan, Alastair Reid, Anthony Bonner, Helen Temple, and others. First published by Editorial Sur in 1944, the collection remains a towering work of Latin American literature..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Attractive copy of the third and final volume in Gibson's Bridge Trilogy, set in a postmodern, dystopian, post-cyberpunk future. First Printing, a review copy, with three pages of publisher's publicity sheets folded and laid in. Octavo (cm); goldenrod and black paper-covered boards..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1984. Second Edition. "The Gunslinger begins the quest by Roland, the gunslinger, to track and confront the "man in black," who knows, perhaps, the secret of the "Dark Tower." As he travels across the barren landscape of King's alternate world, sometimes alone, sometimes with..... More
London: Ted Smart / The Book People Ltd., 1998. First Ted Smart Edition. The earliest available edition of the first Harry Potter book, following the first impression in pictorial boards and illustrated wrappers by Bloomsbury. Published in May 1998 by The Book People, an independent bookselling company founded in 1988..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. The pioneering Afrofuturist author's second book, and the second volume in her Patternist series, "developing ideas about the linking of minds via telepathy, first used in the earlier Patternmaster (1976) to described a whole society, one a more intimate scale..... More
Garden City & New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / St. Martin's Press, 1976-1984. First Editions. Sharp set of this cornerstone work by by Butler (1947-2006), hailed by many as the "Mother of Afrofuturism." Butler began crafting the Patternist narrative when she first began writing science-fiction at the age of..... More
New York: Avon Books, 1979. First Paperback Edition. Butler's first book, and the first volume (though last, chronologically) in her Patternist series. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [6],7-160pp. Inscribed by the author to Homer Lusk, a long-time professor at Grossmont College, who taught courses in mythology..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First U.K. Edition. "Neither a novel nor a collection of self-contained short stories, the book owes more to the hallucinatory "cut-up" technique of American Beat writer William S. Burroughs than any other influence. The book is composed of fractured vignettes in which a psychiatrist is being..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. First US hardcover edition of Ballard's first two novels, published by Berkley Publishing Corp. in 1962 as paperback originals. In The Wind From Nowhere, "catacylismic winds ground all air travel and then grow stronger, capsizing huge ocean-going tankers. Eventually, the..... More
![BROADCASTING CONTRACT FOR MARIONETTES, INC. [SIGNED]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/4739.jpg?v=1603842724)
New York: National Broadcasting Company, 1955. Contract for the X Minus One broadcast of Bradbury's story Marionettes, Inc., originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949), and later included in his 1951 collection The Illustrated Man. Among Bradbury's most popular and unsettling stories, centered around the company Marionettes, Inc., which creates..... 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