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1978540349London: New English Library 1978. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Gordon C. Davies in very good condition. Erratum slip tipped in at FEP. Jacket interior is foxed and edges are slightly creased. Page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. New English Library Hardcover
1980009133New York: Doubleday 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page in year of publication -"To Frank Hoffmann best wishes Isaac Asimov Jan. '80" Near Fine tiny rubs at corners and spine ends in Near Fine dust jacket light wear at edges. A Doubleday Crime Club selection. Doubleday Hardcover
1987021898New York: Doubleday 1987 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed and dated by Isaac Asimov directly on the title page along with an inscription turned into an original rhimed poem by Asimov: "There's a certain young doctor named Art / whom people have thought of as smart / And handsome and sporty. / He's now turning forty--- / As an oldster he'll make a new start / Isaac Asimov / 1988." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing/rubbing and wear to corners/spine ends else fine. Doubleday hardcover
1991233307Douubleday 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. Douubleday Hardcover
1951006743New York: Gnome Press 1951. Book. Illus. by David Kyle Edd Carter and Ric Binkley. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Editions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An exceptional and RARE set all three books having been SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Isaac Asimov to the same lady in the most intriguing and charming manner - "Foundation" SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "For Laura Jean a passionate Southern gal Isaac Asimov" "Foundation and Empire" SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "For Laura Jean a persistent Southern gal Isaac Asimov" and "Second Foundation " SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "For Laura Jean a married Southern gal Isaac Asimov". Ah to have been a witness to THAT book signing where the sparks were obviously flying ! All three books stated Gnome Press First Editions "Foundation" in dark blue boards with red lettering at spine thinner and narrower paper and with dust jacket too large for this thinner book although stating First Edition 1951 on CP is actually the 1954 2nd Edition. Book is Very Good pages browning slight toning to edges of end pages top edge dusty in a Very Good dust jacket priced $2.75 front flap small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips. "Foundation and Empire" 1952 is First Edition First State in original red cloth in Second Issue dust jacket in blue tones. Book is Very Good pages uniformly browning. In Near Fine dust jacket small chips top and bottom edges rear panel at spine. "Second Foundation" 1953. is First Edition First State in original light blue boards spine stamped in brown Very Good cloth a bit rubbed at spine ends light toning to end pages at edges top edge soiled in a Very Good dust jacket 1/2" chip top edge front panel at spine light edge wear and soiling. Overall a Very Good set with unique Asimov inscriptions of this towering classic of the science fiction genre that continues to remain fresh and current. Gnome Press Hardcover
1980549414New York: Taplinger Publishing Company Inc. 1980. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is scuffed and edges are creased and nicked with a dog-ear at the upper edge of the front inner flap. Page block is lightly blemished and page block face is rough cut. Boards are clean binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. Taplinger Publishing Company, Inc. Hardcover
1951005444New York: Doubleday 1951. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing 1951 title page 1950 copyright page. Price of $2.50 front flap. His 1st book. Very Good small tear to cloth bottom edge of spine slight spine lean in a Good dust jacket large chip at head of spine affecting title smaller chips at base of spine and edges of rear panel. The same dust jacket art as the First Edition. NOT the Young Moderns edition nor a Book Club most likely a 2nd printing of the First Edition. Doubleday Hardcover
19790021675Daw 1979. 3 book boxed set DAW Collector's books #594 and #636 yellowing pages pictorial covers with white ltrs yellow printers ink on edges cornrs/edges/and head-heel of spine are nicked clean & tight. Slipcase is worn scrunched/ and scruffed but intact. . Stories by Arthur C. Clarke Ray Bradbury Fritz Lieber A. E. Van Vogt Jack Williamson Don A. Stuart Lester Del Rey C. L. Moore Henry Kuttner and L. Sprague de Camp etc. Extra postage for multiple books included in price. 1st Printing Thus. Mass Market Paperback. G. Illus. by Reggiani Cesare cover art. Daw Paperback
1986021300Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1986 First printing of the stated first edition review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket octavo 320 pages. Light shelf wear else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Doubleday & Company hardcover
1977623176St Albans: Panther Books 1977. Three paperbacks within a card slipcase all in very good condition. Original sales ticket adhered to slipcase head. General shelf and handling wear including tanning to slipcase edges and to the head and foot of the paperback's textblock minor tanning to paperback spines. Within pages are firmly bound content unmarked. Coloured illustrations to both slipcase and paperbacks remains bright. CN. Paperback. Very Good. Panther Books Paperback
1972004501London: Victor Gollancz 1972 First printing of the British edition. Book with faint toning to top edge of boards slight crimping to spine ends and a tiny bump/crimp to upper front corner else in fine condition; dust jacket with minor creasing primarily at spine ends and upper corner else fine. A Lovely copy! Victor Gollancz hardcover
1957005462New York: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1957. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Yellow boards with red lettering on spine 187 pp. Slight spine slant slight edge wear a little darkening along top edge of boards small spot to top edge boards just a little bowed. Jacket shows some darkening and edge wear a little more so along spine. A little chipping at top and base of spine and along lower part of the fold for front flap. 3/4" dampstain on spine. Overall an attractive copy. <p> Sequel to "The Caves of Steel". Back cover of the jacket has a photo of the Good Doctor looking quite young. <br> "Elijah Baley had never had a tougher assignment. One of New York's ablest plainclothes detectives he had been sent to the planet Solaria to investigate a murder and also to uncover the weakness in Solarian society that would be Earth's weapon on the inevitable day when the Solarians attacked. The hardest part was just being on Solaria: to an Earthman brought up in the underground Cities there was nothing more horrifying than empty space under the naked sun. Baley needed help desperately - and got it in the 'person' of R. Daneel Olivaw a fantastically advanced and complex robot. Together they pitched into the thorny job of tracking down a murderer in a community where social transactions were carried on by means of television viewing. Solarians accepted nudity as proper but shrank in horror from the idea of actually 'seeing' one another under any circumstances. As the teammates frantically narrowed down the number of suspects Baley fought his terror and groped for Earth's salvation."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall . Doubleday & Company hardcover
1951231133Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. 1951. First edition of Asimov's second science fiction novel. Blue boards bumped and rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends and a tear most of the way up the front spine fold. Binding cracked at page 30 but still pretty solid. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Doubleday & Co. Hardcover
1983009228New York: Doubleday & Co. 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket old tape mend bottom edge of spine rear panel uniformly toned light wear at edges. 30 mystery short stories not previously collected in a book. Doubleday & Co. Hardcover
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
1982540221London: W.H. Allen 1982. Hardcover with colourfully printed boards no dust jacket in very good condition. Board edges and spine ends are slightly bumped and page block is tanned. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. W.H. Allen Hardcover
1980001064New York: Crown 1980. Book. About Fine. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. First Edition. Top edge lightly foxed Else Fine. Her 1st book. Crown Paperback
1976I107Philadelphia & NY: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing 1976. Green cloth 298pp. Fine in Near Fine dj showing slight wear. J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover
1965009731New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs 1965 unclipped DW has sunned spine handling soiling shows to rear white panel small split at top corner on fold book clean and tidy " A sudden and violent explosion deep in the wastes of Antarctica hurls high into the stratosphere a vast cloud of red dust which sweeps across the world." Brings a strange plague that kills most Rare New Zealand science fiction post apocalyptic novel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by C. W. Bacon. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Whitcombe & Tombs hardcover
1943003867Grangeville Idaho Circa 1943 1943. Manuscript . No Binding. Very Good. 18 Pp. Original Typewritten Manuscript From The Archives Of The Ackerman Agency. Baldwin Was Active In The Early Stages Of Science Fiction Fandom; See His Obituary In Locus Magazine May 1988. Per Terry Carr In Entropy: "Along With The Regular Magazine I'm Launching A Series Of Entropy Booklets The First Of Which Is Crime Stalks The Fan World By F. Lee Baldwin. This Consists Of Two Stories From The Burbee Shangri-L'affaires Of 1945 And 46: "Crime Stalks The Fan World" And Its Sequel "The Girl With The Muddy Eyes" The Latter Of Which Was So Long That Burbee Had To Serialize It. The Stories Are Excellent Satires On Tough-Guy Private-Eye Stories With Authentic Fannish Themes; Milt Rothman Called The Latter Story "The Best Piece Of Fan Fiction That Ever Smashed Me In The Teeth Like A Breath Of Air Laden With The Fragrance Of Orange Blossoms" So You Can See That It's High-Class Stuff. In Addition There's An Introduction Written Specially For The Volume By Bob Tucker And Cover And Illustrations By Ray Nelson. Copies Are Now Available From The Publisher Me At 25¢ Each. <br/> <br/> unknown
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
197100004190New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1971 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 6 7-319 1 pp. Black cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A bit of wrinkling to the top corner of the final three leaves; jacket with a few hints of edge wear. G. P. Putnam's Sons [1971] hardcover
1992545849London: HarperCollins 1992. Limited edition softback in good condition numbered 170/250. Possibly an advanced review copy with typed summary and copy signature in front end page. Light shelf and handling wear including minor creasing and wear to cover edges and corners. Illustrated cover colours are vivid pages are tightly bound and text and illustrations within are bright and unmarked. CN. Limited Edition. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Barker Clive. Used. HarperCollins Paperback
1991000070Shingletown California: Mark V. Zeising 1991. Signed first edition limited to 500 copies not numbered. This copy is SIGNED by both the AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR on the special limitation page. Fine condition in a Fine Brodart-protected bright shiny dust jacket. NOT price clipped $60.00. No chips or tears. Clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. Dust Jacket painting and lettering by Don Ivan Punchatz. "First Edition" is so stated. Not a book club edition. Not a remainder. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. . Signed by Author and Illustrator. 1st ed. Signed limited to 500 copies. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Punchatz Don Ivan . 8vo. 348pp. Mark V. Zeising Hardcover
1920DC1559NY: Doubleday Page & Co. 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing 1920. Red cloth; orange lettering on front and spine; 245pp.; frontis. "Lost Race adventure novel set in the American South-West"; Locke Spectrum I; p. 29. See also Clareson; Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s & Crawford Donahue Grant; 333 p. 10. Front hinge starting; small contemporary sticker with #13 on lower spine. Else nice. Association copy - Oswald Train's bookplate on front pastedown. Doubleday Page & Co. Hardcover
