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
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
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
Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First American Edition. Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and dustjacket designer, this being copy no.92. Octavo (22.25cm); purple cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; publisher's..... More
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Murray Leinster, Manly Wadw Wellman, Margaret St. Clair, and John Barrett. Quarto (23cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 113,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with numerous short tears and a few creases along lower wrapper edges; faint..... More
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Keith Hammond, Stanley Weinbaum, Ray Cummings, and Carl Jacobi. Cover art by Earle Bergey. Quarto (23.5cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 113,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, short tears and a few creases to lower wrapper edges, with a faint vertical..... More
Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Ray Bradbury (Purpose), Leigh Brackett (The Truants), Frank Belknap Long, Jack Vance, Walt Sheldon, Edward E. Smith, Edmond Hamilton, and William Morrison. Cover art by Earle Bergey. Quarto (24.5cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 161,[1]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine..... 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
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1982]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, letterpress printed in dark brown on thick peach stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury '82" in pen along upper margin. Small..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1985]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in dark brown on thick beige stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 1/1/86" in silver pen along upper margin. Light..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1988]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 12/12/88" above the title. Light wear and handling to extremities..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1987]. First Edition. The holiday broadside, an annual tradition, was sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. The text, titled "On the night before diring up into Deep Space, a future robot priest offers this sermon to the far-traveling astronauts," is an..... 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
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Bradbury's fourth novel, in which a "carnival comes to a sleepy, peaceful, provincial American town and with it come quirky forces of evil and magic. An often macabre tale of an adolescent's rite of passage, this is Bradbury's most accomplished fantasy novel" (Barron, Fantasy..... More
N.p. S.i., [1972]. Superb original illustration by Joseph Anthony Mugnaini (1912-1992), distinguished Italian-American artist and illustrator, and a friend and collaborator of Ray Bradbury's since the early 1950's. A key illustration from The Halloween Tree, a beloved work which has transcended the children's book genre since it was first published..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. An attractive copy of the author's beloved Halloween classic, in which the characters travel through time to visit Halloween's past. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in orange and silver on spine and front cover;..... 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
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