New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [11],12-173,[3]pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, lower right corner of front board gently tapped (though still sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1980. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); dark blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-174,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £4.95 net). A novel set in the early months of 1996, where a space capsule returning from..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); brown paper-covered boards and royal blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[10],11-157,[1]pp. Small splash mark affecting part of the lower edge of the textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped..... 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
Bridgeport & New York: Co-Operative Publishing Co., Inc., 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],463,[1]pp. Hint of offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with base of spine gently nudged; Near Fine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd, 1973. First Edition. Ballard's sixth and best-known novel, a postmodern dystopia centered around sexual fetishism involving car crashes. "After the narrator, named "Ballard," survives a serious automobile accident, he becomes fascinated and excited by car crashes, especially after he meets Vaughan, a fanatical "hoodlum scientist," whose..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-471,[1]pp. Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $18.95). Sharp copy of the first volume in Banks's ten-volume Culture series. "Horza..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited / Orbit, 1987-2012. First Editions. Complete set of the Scottish author's sprawling ten-volume Culture series. "The books focus on the titular Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society that is humanoid in nature but did not originate on Earth. The stories revolve around how the Culture wields..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bellamy's sequel to his best-selling utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000-1887. Bellamy "argues that economic equality is the cornerstone on which the complete life of an industrial democracy rests – political, intellectual, ethical" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1-7). "Bellamy's..... More
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Fredric Brown (What Mad Universe), John D. MacDonald (Shenadun), Jack Vance, P. Schuyler Miller, R.L. Farnsworth, and Dorothy & John de Courcy. Cover art by Earle Bergey. Quarto (23.5cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 145,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, gentle..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Edition. Second volume in Bova's Grand Tour series, centered around the exploration and colonization of the solar system, inscribed to his long-time friend and fellow science fiction author Dean Ing. The accompanying letter discusses the possibilities of the Ing's visiting Bova in Connecticut ("Got..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); maroon paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-183,[1]pp. With a contemporary inscription to Forrest J. Ackerman on the front endpaper: "For Forry! Merry Christmas 1957! From his friend Ray Bradbury!" Faint scratch to upper edge..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and light blue on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [10],11-281,[5]pp. Inscribed by the author to his fine press publisher Herb Yellin on the front endpaper: "For Herb - This "Dandelion..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [11],12-240pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, the month after publication, to August Derleth: "For August Derleth –..... More
[Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1971]. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 485 copies (this being copy no.102). Slim octavo (25cm); letterpress printed string-tied wrappers, a variant tied with goldenrod string and title printed in dark brown on front wrapper; [16]pp. Inscribed by the author on the first..... More
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1973. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],145,[1]pp; illus. Signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini on the title page. Eight tiny spots to lower edge of textblock, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. First Edition. Collection of short stories – 14 of them extensively revised from their original appearance in Dark Carinval (1947) – with the addition of five new stories never before appearing in book form. The jacket and illustrations were done by Joseph Anthony Mugnaini (1912-1992)..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First American Edition. The author's fourth book, a collection of 22 stories culled from the pages of various pulp magazines. First Printing. Octavo; dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; 250pp; illus. Signed and dated in ballpoint pen by..... More
[New York]: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1955. First Edition. First Printing, with the correct title page points (per Currey) and the printed dedication to Bradbury's daughters on the opposing page. Octavo (22cm); light grey printed paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [52]pp; illus. Signed by Bradbury on the front endpaper, beneath a full-page drawing..... 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
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Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc., 1954. First Editions. Three slim quarto volumes (28.25cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 52pp per issue; illus. The March issue has a faint vertical crease at center of front wrapper, with a thin 3" abraded spot along the center of the spine-fold; complete, and Very Good..... 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
New York: Del Rey, 2017-2020. First Editions. A tetralogy that concludes Brooks's best-selling Shannara series. An extraordinary set of association copies, inscribed to Brooks's childhood best friend. Brooks and Farnham were both born in 1944 in Sterling, Illinois, met in elementary school, and grew up together. While their education and..... More
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 1985. First Edition. The concluding volume in Brooks's best-selling Sword of Shannara Trilogy. "One of the most commercially successful Tolkien retreads, Brooks's saga substitutes a magic sword for the eponymous ring and elves for hobbits, but retains all the essential tragi-comic elements of..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1943]. Madison Square edition of the thirteenth Tarzan novel, the final Grosset edition with the dustjacket art designed by J. Allen St. John. "Battling Arab slavers, Tarzan and an American discover two lost cities of 12th century knights." Heins T13.8. Octavo (19.25cm); brick red paper-covered..... More