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2005103602Burton Mi.: Subterranean Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1596060328 . Hardcover. Book and Dust Jacket are in FINE condition in a Very Good Plus condition Tray Case/Clamshell with small bump on corner. 2005. Subterranean Press. 445 pages. SIGNED by Norman Partridge. This is copy "M" of a Lettered Edition of 26 copies. This is one of hundreds of Like-New condition Limited Editions "Mostly Lettered" recently acquired from a major Collector of Fantastic Dark Fantasy and Horror Literature. Presses include Centipede Gauntlet PS Publishing Bloodletting Cargo Cult Biting Dog Night Shade Subterranean Cemetery Dance Delirium Overlook Connection Borderlands Dark Regions Earthling Publications and Charnel House. Inquiries Welcome. ; 9.10 X 6 X 1.60 inches; 445 pages; Signed by Author . Subterranean Press hardcover
1926004932London : Hutchinson & Co Publishers Ltd. 1926. First Edition . Orange Cloth. Very Good. 284 Pp. 24 Pp Catalog At Rear Dated Spring 1926. Dystopian Novel Of The Future. Scarce Only 4 Copies Shown In Worldcat In Institutional Holdings One Of Which Is In The Us. . Slight Wear Beginning To Fray At Upper Left Corner Of Spine 4 Small Spots On Spine Spine And Cover Black Lettering And Design All Strong Some Fading To Spine Cloth Hinges Tight No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> Hutchinson & Co (Publishers), Ltd. hardcover
1952000293New York: Scribner And Sons Scribner's 1952. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good. First Edition. Dust Jacket Is Bright And Attractive Would Be Near Fine Except For A 1/2" Squarish Chip At Upper Left Corner Of Front Panel Not Affecting Text Or Illustration. Dj Is Price Clipped But Appears To Be The Original Dust Jacket For This Book Three Titles On Rear Panel Trail Of The Iron Horse Great Venture And Two And The Town And Dj Has Been With The Book For Many Decades. <br/> <br/> New York: Scribner And Sons (Scribner's) hardcover
1952024118New York: Gnome Press 1952 1952. First Edition stated . Light Green Boards. Fine/Fine DJ. Kelly Freas Dustwrapper. Green Boards Stamped In Darker Green. First Edition. An Exceptional Book And Dj. Book With Tiny Rubs At Bottom Corner Edges Of Spine. Dj With No Wear At All Except A Thin Line Of Rubbing Along Top Front Spine Edge And Tiny Rub At Top And Bottom Of Front Flap Fold Bright And Clean No Names Or Marks Small Area Of Light Foxing In 2" X 1/8" Area On Free Endpapers. <br/> <br/> New York: Gnome Press, 1952 hardcover
1952021240Circa 1952: Unpublished 1952. Mimeographed Paper . Stapled Sheets. Very Good. Three Page Typed Paper By Henry Kuttner For English 591 Dr. Lionel Stevenson Here Reproduced In Mimeo From The Library Of Forrest Ackerman. The Latest Bibliographic Reference Is Dated 1951. Henry Kuttner 1915 - 1958 Was An American Author Of Science Fiction Fantasy And Horror Who Worked With And Was Admired By Many Of The Greatest Early Sf Writers. His Work Is Obscured By His Use Of Many Pseudonyms And That Makes This Graduate School Paper Central To His Work As A Writer. Kuttner Spent The Mid-1950S Getting His Master's Degree But Died Of A Heart Attack In Los Angeles In 1958. Per Wikipedia Arthur Lionel Stevenson Frsl 1902-1973 Was A North American Writer And Lecturer. A Leading Authority On The Literature Of The Victorian Period He Published Biographies Of William Makepeace Thackeray And George Meredith As Well As A Panoramic Study Of The English Novel. At The University Of Southern California He Was Made An Associate Professor In 1941 And Promoted To Professor In 1944. In 1955 He Accepted Appointment As James B. Duke Professor Of English Literature At Duke University Remaining In This Role Until 1972 When Made Professor Emeritus And Serving As Chair Of The University's English Department From 1964 To 1967. Following Retirement From Duke He Became Visiting Professor At The University Of Houston 1973 Having Previously Held Visiting Professorships At The Universities Of Illinois 1952-53 And New York 1967-68 And A Visiting Lectureship At Oxford 1960-61. He Had Also Taught In The Summer Sessions At San Francisco State College And The University Of Colorado <br/> <br/> Unpublished unknown
1939223811939. Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction archive 1939 documents a central moment in American science fiction publishing when pulp magazines helped consolidate the genre's Golden Age through technologically oriented storytelling serialized fiction scientific essays and editorial emphasis on rational problem solving. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science-Fiction in late 1937 and remained associated with the magazine through its later identity as Analog making these 1939 issues part of the editorial period most closely linked to the rise of hard science fiction and the professionalization of modern speculative fiction. The archive supports research into pulp publishing prewar technological imagination serialized genre fiction and the early publication context for writers including Clifford D. Simak L. Sprague de Camp Manly Wade Wellman and Theodore Sturgeon.<br /> <br /> Astounding Science-Fiction. Vols. XXII-XXIV. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. Five issues. Archive of five pulp magazine issues from January March April June and September 1939 with pictorial wrappers serialized novels novelettes short fiction scientific articles cover art and reader-oriented genre material. The issues appear during the magazine's Campbell editorship and show the cultural sphere of late-1930s science fiction through adventure plots scientific speculation alien contact technological conflict planetary engineering future war anxieties humor and experiments in scale that linked pulp entertainment to scientific literacy.<br /> <br /> 1 Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction. Vol. XXII No. 5. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. The January issue includes "The Blue-Men of Yrano" by Warner Van Lorne "Maiden Voyage" by Vic Phillips short fiction by L. Sprague de Camp Malcolm Jameson Arthur J. Burks and Norman L. Knight and a science article comparing photographic and telescopic observation. With cover art by John Frew the issue shows Astounding's mix of adventure fiction technical explanation humor and speculative treatment of contact and invention.<br /> <br /> 2 Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction. Vol. XXIII No. 1. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. The March issue includes "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart Campbell's pseudonym alongside "Children of the 'Betsy B'" by Malcolm Jameson work by H. L. Gold and Part 2 of Clifford D. Simak's "Cosmic Engineers." The issue is useful for tracing Campbell's dual role as editor and writer and for documenting how Astounding combined alien-human tension technologically mediated emotion youth-centered rebellion and large-scale cosmic engineering within a single issue.<br /> <br /> 3 Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction. Vol. XXIII No. 2. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. The April issue features "Worlds Don't Care" by Nat Schachner "Revolt" by A. M. Phillips fiction by Eando Binder and Harry Walton and the concluding installment of Simak's "Cosmic Engineers." The issue's plague exile revolt and working-life motifs place scientific speculation in relation to social strain showing how late-1930s pulp science fiction used adventure forms to process crisis labor and planetary risk.<br /> <br /> 4 Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction. Vol. XXIII No. 4. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. The June issue includes Clifford D. Simak's "Hermit of Mars" Harl Vincent's "The Morons" Nat Schachner's "When the Future Dies" and L. Sprague de Camp's science feature "Design for Life" with cover art by Graves Gladney. Its contents bring together Martian conflict dehumanization future collapse and speculative biology illustrating how Astounding paired fiction with scientific commentary in the same editorial environment.<br /> <br /> 5 Campbell John W. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction. Vol. XXIV No. 1. New York: Street & Smith Publications 1939. The September issue includes "Forces Must Balance" by Manly Wade Wellman "Masson's Secret" by Raymond Z. Gallun "Atmospherics" by Victor Valding and Theodore Sturgeon's "Ether Breather" with cover art by Hubert Rogers. "Ether Breather" is identified by bibliographic sources as Sturgeon's first published science fiction story giving this issue particular importance within the archive as evidence of a major writer's entrance into the field through Campbell's Astounding.<br /> <br /> Typical pulp toning modest edge wear and some spine wear with interiors complete; good to very good overall. Substantive five-issue 1939 run of Astounding Science-Fiction showing Campbell-era editorial direction prewar hard science fiction serialized genre experimentation and an early appearance by Theodore Sturgeon within one of the defining American science fiction magazines of the twentieth century. unknown
1991540440London: HarperCollins Publishers 1991. First UK edition hardcover signed by the author with unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Peter Gudynas in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket page block is somewhat tanned and a few of the upper leading page edges are bumped. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. First Edition UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover
1965609350London: Frederick Muller Limited 1965. First edition hardcover in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Illustrated by John Wood. Jacket is scuffed marked and foxed with some surface colour loss noted. Edges are creased and nicked including a few small tears. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked and page block is tanned and blemished. Boards are clean binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Wood John. Used. Frederick Muller Limited Hardcover
1949028300Reading: Fantasy Press 1949. First Edition . Purple Cloth. Near Fine/Fine Dustjacket. Donnell. First Edition first binding per Currey purple cloth near fine in an as-new bright fine DJ with an inserted limitation plate #5 of 250 copies signed by Campbell one of the scarcer Fantasy Press limited editions; Campbell is said to have refused to sign more than 250 copies and the remainder of the 500 copies were issued with unsigned limitation plates. <br/> <br/> Fantasy Press hardcover
1951029003New York: Scribner And Sons 1951. First Edition . Black Cloth. Very Good/Good Dust Jacket. First Printing With The "A" On Copyright Page First Dj With $2.50 Price On Front Flap. Book Is Clean And Solid No Marks Or Damage Small Area Just Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Of Spine At Two Lower Tips Pages Beginning To Age. Dust Jacket Is Not Price-Clipped $2.50 Is First Issue Only Rocket Ship Galileo Space Cadet Red Planet And Farmer In The Sky On Rear Panel Worn At Folds And At Head And Foot Of Spine With Small Losses At Four Tips And 1 1/4" X 3/4" Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Rear Panel; Spine Panel Is Not Faded; Clear Tape Reinforcement On Inside Of Spine And One Flap Fold With No Show-Through. <br/> <br/> Scribner And Sons hardcover
1953011459Chicago: Shasta Publishers 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. 250 pages. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author. Jacket has a few small chips and tears and some finger smudges. Vertical stain to front endpapers. The jacket price is intact. One of the high spots of '50s SF. <br/> <br/> Shasta Publishers hardcover
1935018863London: Methuen Circa 1940 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good- Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket Designed By Stapledon. Light Blue Boards. First Edition First Impression Later Issue But No Indication Of Later Printing. Shorter Binding 18.3 Cm Tall Blue-Violet Cloth With Black Print Format Different Than First Binding No Ads Using First Impression Sheets. Dustjacket Is Identical To First Issue Priced 7S6p At Lower Front Flap Except It Is Trimmed To 185.6 Mm Considerably Taller Than This Issue Of The Book But Shorter Than The First Issue Dj And Has A Printed Paper Label "Offered At 2'- Net Ex-Libris" At Foot Of Spine Above The Publisher's Name. This Binding And This Labelling Of The Dustjacket Is Not Listed In Satty & Smith's Definitive Bibliography. Satty & Smith's A6.1.1.4 First Edition First Impression Fourth Issue March 1939 555 Copies Has The First Issue Binding And Includes The Later Ads In A Dj With A New Price Of 2'6P Attached To The Front Flap; A6.1.1.5 1941 Is An Issue In Wrappers Without Ads Priced At 2 Shillings; This Issue Probably Occurred Between These Two Issues Perhaps In 1940. A Very Good Tight Copy. Book Lightly Foxed On First Few Pages A Few Tiny Spots Of Foxing In Rest Of Book. Dj With Some Edge Wear Light Chipping At Corners And Front Flap Fold. Dustjacket In Blue Pink White Tan And Black Has What Is Reportedly Stapledon's Own Striking Bust-Length Design For The Eric Fraser Illustration Of The Title Character. <br/> <br/> Methuen, (Circa 1940) hardcover
1973010449London: Jonathan Cape 1973 SCARCE title price clipped DW under plastic sleeve minor chipping to spine ends short tear along the fold of at the bottom of the lower rear joint laminated illustrated upper layer of the DW has a surface split with minor chipping at the head of the upper joint book top edge is slightly dusty and very slight foixing to closed fore edge top 10mm of fep clipped off and a small area towards the corner of the half title has been neatly trimmed off as well about 5mm deep otherwise book and wrapper are tidy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1971A35139New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 039606325X . SIGNED EDITION. First American Trade Edition following a mimeographed stapled limited edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of light sunning to the spine and spine joints. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. "Blish spent 19421944 as a medical technician in the United States Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His writing career progressed until eventually he gave up his job to become a full-time writer. He is credited with coining the term gas giant in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken edited by Judith Merril. The story was originally published in 1941 but that version did not contain the term; Blish is thought to have added it in a rewrite done for the anthology which was first published in 1952. From 1962 to 1968 Blish worked for the Tobacco Institute. Then in 1968 Blish left his native United States and moved to Henley-on-Thames England. From 1967 to 1977 Blish worked on a series of books for the Star Trek franchise. He died before the series was completed and the final volume Star Trek 12 was co-credited to his wife." ; Signed by Author . Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
2003010930NY: Simon and Schuster 2003. Mint in mint jacket. SIGNED and Dated 2003 by Ray Bradbury. <br /><br />RARE thus. Not many have the 2003 date in them. I only have two or three left now from out stock of these. I was friends with Ray Bradbury for 28 years and we had many book signings at our store with him in Ventura. <br /><br />As new. FIRST printing of this 50th Anniversary edition of his best known work. COA comes with the book . The numbering starts with "1". The book is out of print in first edition. I personally presented this book to Ray Bradbury at his home in Los Angeles for his signature. Ray considered this his ONLY science fiction work by the way. Very collectible with the date 2003 in it in Ray Bradbury's hand-marking the 50th anniversary of this important book. A Letter of Assurance comes with the book for the signature. I personally presented this book to my friend of 27 years Ray Bradbury for his signature. VERY LIMITED SUPPLY and shrinking nearly daily of what we do have in stock now of authentic Ray Bradbury signed books which are available from Phantom Bookshop. This is the one signed Bradbury book you should get if you are seeking out a classic work. Look under our facsimile dust jacket section. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition Thus. Hard Back. As New/As New. Simon and Schuster hardcover
197633937West Plains MO: Russ Cochran 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. #1159/2000 of the 3-volume set issued in 1976 1977 and the final volume with slipcase in 1984. Folio full cream cloth with leather gilt stamped title labels and color inset illustrations to front panel of each book. Volumes 1 and 2 each include the cover letter from Cochran explaining various points about the series. Artists include J. Allen St. John Hal Foster Burne Hogarth Frank Schoonover Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta as well as others who illustrated book and comics up through 1975. Light rubbing to gilt numbers at foot of each spine else fine and apparently unread in fine slipcase. Russ Cochran hardcover
1953004930Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. 1953. Book. Illus. by Kenneth Fagg. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Near Fine slight discoloration to light blue cloth in spine gutters and along top edge in a Near Fine dust jacket small chips at the spine tips and front flap clipped top corner with pencilled price of 2.50. Jacket illustration by Kenneth Fagg. Part of the classic Winston Science Fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. This title SCARCE in such lovely collector's condition. John C. Winston Co. Hardcover
193831915London: Published by George Newnes Ltd. 1938-1939. Tanning to text paper covers bright fine copies in a fine binding. 31915. Octavo three issues all covers by S. R. Drigin pictorial wrappers bound in black boards with spine stamped in gold. Fantasy magazine was a combination of reprints and new materials as well as factual articles. Authors included John Beynon John Russell Fearn Eric Frank Russell and others. The magazine was canceled due to the war. "Fantasy 's lifetime was too short to make a value judgment on its position in SF but there is not denying that Sprigg had considerable editorial acumen and that Fantasy would no doubt have developed into a major magazine" - Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 254-56. Published by George Newnes Ltd. unknown
006578Vermont: The Artist Print. Near Fine. No Binding. SIGNED BY ARTIST. 19 3/4" x 24 1/4". No Date circa pre-1976. "Saddleback" lithograph print pencil SIGNED by artist lower right # 159/260 copies printed. Print size 19 3/4" x 24 1/4" image size 13 5/8" x 18" taped in mat at top edge mat size 21" x 25 3/4". Near Fine faint marginal creases visible from verso hidden by mat from the front. Mel Hunter was best known for his science fiction illustrations for Isaac Asimove and Robert A. Heinlein and a successful career in scientific illustration. Hunter moved to Vermont in 1967 and began creating lithographs of the surrounding Vermont countryside. In 1976 after accidental damage to his limestone lithographic drawing Hunter began using mylar as a medium for his lithography. thus dating this print from 1967-1976. The Artist unknown
1897HW03London: Jarrold & Sons 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing 1897. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in red and gilt on front and spine; publsiher's device in blind on rear. Paper has tanned especially end and following pages; bookplate removal; shelf wear wth a lower foredge bump to corner of the boards. Jarrold & Sons Hardcover
189836432London: Digby Long & Co 1898. Hardcover. 1st ed. stated 2nd ptg. on title page. 8vo pictorial blue-gray cloth printed in red orange black and silver publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel top and bottom edges untrimmed light green floral patterned endpapers tanned. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "November 1896" inserted at rear inserted frontispiece with illustration initialed "C.H.S." title page printed in red and black. Period bookplate and sticker for Foyle's Bookstore Charing Cross affixed to front pastedown. Bumps to all corners mild foxing to preliminary pages. Digby Long & Co hardcover
1968021935New York: Trident Press 1968 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Harlan Ellison directly on the title-page. Light bump to upper corner else book is in fine condition; dust jacket with mild edge wear creasing and light soiling else fine. Trident Press hardcover
199721960<p>NY: Putnam 1997. First edition first prnt. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Slate-colored speckled endpages. <em>Signed</em> by Vonnegut on the title page. Trifle corner bump on rear board upper corner with corresponding tiny wrinkles on the dustjacket; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Purportedly there were only a few copies of the first printing issued with the speckled endpages which preceded the second state with plain slate-colored endpages. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's last novel published during his lifetime.</p><p>The images are of the book described and not stock photos.</p> Putnam hardcover
195661176Geoffrey Bles London 1956. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Pauline Baynes. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: 8vo. 199 pp. Binding firm spine cocked. Dust jacket marked creased stretched and chipped with a couple of more substantial tears and slight loss. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrator: Pauline Baynes. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Children. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61176. . Geoffrey Bles hardcover
197432716New York: Doubleday 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. Stated 1st ed. 8vo full brown cloth tiny bump to top front corner remainder spray to bottom edge else fine in near fine unclipped dj with rubbing to top and bottom of spine no previous owner's marks. Doubleday hardcover