New York: Gnome Press, 1952. First Edition. Second 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
London: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd., 1952. First U.K. Edition. Asimov's best-known work, a collection of "Nine "postironic" robot stories, originally published 1940-1950, with new material added for continuity. Contains Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics and involves the history of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., and the strong-willed "robopsychologist"..... 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
London: Jonathan Cape, [1985-1986]. First U.K. Edition. Atwood's chilling dystopian novel, set in "a world ruled by militaristic fundamentalists in which sexual pleasure is forbidden. Conception and childbirth have become difficult and the handmaid of the title belongs to a special breeding stock. The story is annotated by a historian..... More
London: New English Library, 1980-1983. First U.K. Editions. An attractive set of the first four books written under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym, originally issued as paperback originals by Signet between 1977-1982. With exception to Rage, nice copies of the UK editions appear with less frequency than their American counterparts. Brooks..... 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: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-309,[1]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $16.95), with a few pinpoint rubbed spots to extremities, and a single, tiny tear to base..... 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
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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
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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. The author's second novel, "a bucolic evocation of of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre..... More
[Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1971]. First Edition. Distinguished copy of this Melville-inspired poem, inscribed to Bradbury's long-time editor and literary agent Don Congdon. Bradbury was one of Congdon's first clients, after he left his job at Simon & Schuster in 1947 to set up his own agency. It was..... 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: 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
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: 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
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. This issue contains Burroughs's John Carter novel Black Pirates of Barsoom, James Norman's "Lost Treasure of Ankgor," McGivern's "The Quandary of Quintus Quaggle," and Reed's "The Girl From Venus." Front cover by J. Allen St. John. Quarto (25cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 146pp; illus. Three-digit ink..... More
New York: Signet / New American Library, 1971. First Edition. An important anthology of speculative fiction, comprised of work by the faculty and students of Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm's Clarion Workshop for aspiring writers in the genre. Established in 1968, the contributors here were part of the third and..... More
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
New York: TOR, 1986. First Edition. Attractive copy of Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning sequel to Ender's Game, taking place nearly 3,000 years after the events in the previous book. It finds an adult Ender (now traveling under his real name, Andrew) traveling the galaxy with the egg of one..... More