Glendale, CA: Science Fiction Advertiser, 1952. Small Octavo. Each issue was planned by Roy A. Squires and was composed of 42-46 pages of articles, sf for sale. The important article is "Deus ex Machina, A Study of A.E. Van Vogt" by Arthur J. Cox. March, 1952 issue 46(1) pages and..... More
Kansas City; (1998): Andrews McMeel Publishing. First Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 400 copies signed on a tipped in photograph of a tomestone by the author. The present copy is #398. 253 pages. A very valuable guide to many aspects of Stephen King's life from background such as King's desire..... More
New Castle, Virginia; (1991): Cheap Street. Limited Edition. Octavo. Publisher's edition limited to 177 copies. The present copy is not numbered but is signed by the author and by the illustrator Judy J. King. Bound in half-light purple and half dark purple, lettered in brown, decorated in blind. A fine..... More
(Comma Press, London, 2014). 1st Edition. Octavo. Signed by the Author on the title page 137 pages. Translated by Jonathan Wright. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds himself blackmailed by an insurgent into the ultimate act of terror. From legends of the desert to the horrors..... More
Northridge, Ca: Lord John Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 300 copies signed by Ray Bradbury and William Nolan. xx, 29 pages. William F. Nolan's introduction discusses Bradbury's early fascination with carnivals and circuses as they would stop in Waukegan on their way to Chicago. He identified with the..... More
Northridge, Ca: Lord John Press, 1982. Joe Mugnaini. Limited Edition. Octavo. 25 pages. limited to 300 signed copies of which this is #191 Includes his poem: "How I Became a Writer". Bound in 1/4 olive cloth over pictorial paper covered boards lettered and decorated in black, a fine bright copy..... More
New York; (1979): Targ Editions. Limited Edition. Octavo. 21 pages, signed by Ray Bradbury, limited to 375 copies of which this is #40. This is book number three of the Targ editions and designed Ronald Gordon. Dedication page: For Donald Harkins, who helped me trap W.C. Fields in his lair..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1923. Octavo. Volume 2. cxi, 351 pages. Illustrated with 73 plates. Budge's summarized introduction shows that practically every nation from China to Ireland and from Mongolia to Abyssinia had loved to read the stories, credible, semi-mythical, and fabulous, which have sprung up round the name of..... More
Citrus Heigths, California, (2000): Nitrosyncretic Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 282pp. An annotated bibliography, which includes not only all titles published but full bibliographic information of "serializations and revisions", the awards and award nominations, reprints were printed which are essential not only to Heinlein enthusiasts but to scholars of..... More
(New York, 2011): Dutton. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Signed by the author. 401pp. The immortal story of Cleopatra. This is a great fantasy novel about Cleopatra selling her soul to an Egyptian goddess to try and resurrect Mark Antony. She in turn becomes an immortal vampiric creature bent on..... More
New York; (1941) but[1958]: Gnome Press, 1958. Octavo. A later printing with a very bright unclipped dust jacket omitting the address of Gnome Press, with two old tape mends to underside and in a later state binding of light green paper covered boards, spine lettering black, page before title page..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Originally printed in 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction, he lengthened it in 1958 for the American edition. Gollancz published this edition in a small print run since it was central to his five-volume imaginative History of the Future. A very..... More
New York; (1959): Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. . 256pp. In this case, a routine private-eye investigation unfolds into an inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality with similarly unsettling discoveries about who runs the show. Heinlein's genius allows the reader to think about the ambiguities of a world that..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 411 pages. Fourth book in the Dune series. God Emperor of Dune moves us some 3,500 years on from Leto's ascension to the throne and concerns events near the end of his reign. The novel has a dual perspective. Most of..... More
Hampton Falls, NH: Donald Grant, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Limited and signed by both Stephen King and the illustrator Darrel Anderson. This is copy number 798 of 1400 copies. 427 (2) pages. A hautning story of a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a...... More
San Franciso; (1994): Pomegranate Art Books. First Edition. Small Quarto. 79 pages. Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin to Philomena (Guillebaud) "with Christmas cheer" and signed by Susan Seddon Boulet, the illustrator, whose paintings deal with primitive man and creatures often with a Native American sensitivity. A beautiful work and Karla..... More
Roanoke, Virginia, (1980): Cheap Street. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited edition signed. First book published by Cheap Street. Prepared for distribution at the Sixth World Fantasy Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, October, 1980. The present copy is #48 of 200 copies signed by the author. Printed on Classic Laid Baronial Ivory with..... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 237 pages. The author's first book limited to 3000 copies. Jaffrey #29 states 3084 copies were actually printed. After selling some of his early articles in Unknown--Weird Tales, Ballantine books brought out Tales from Night's Black Agents, the reprint edition..... More
New York; (1968): Macmillan Co, Octavo. 15th printing. This is the first story for children written by this author, illustrated by Paline Bayne. The story of fairies, witches, spells, and magic. A very good copy with only one major flaw: It had been bound upside-down in gray cloth, decorated in..... More
Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1976. First Edition. Large Octavo. . 416 pages illustrated with several photographic images of Howard growing up in Texas and images of the several magazines that presented Howard's work. This remarkable book is far more than a biography or bibliography. There are several autobiographical..... More
London: Published By Gollancz in Association with Goldsboro Books225.0, 2020. First Edition. Octavo. 596 [3] pages. A very nice inscription by the author: "We're all selfish monsters--the difference is some of us are more honest about it than others." Nick Martell. Brandon Sanderson writes: "an excellent fantasy debut". The theme..... More
London; (1995): Victor Gollancz. First UK Edition. Octavo. 413 pages. The book was released in the US under the title Evolution's Shore. The book is about a meteorite that crashes in Tanzania and begins to create an alien spread zone outwards from the crash site, where people, wildlife and objects..... More
(New York 1986): TOR/ Tom Daherty Associates. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 287 pages. This book is about an archaeologist who has a paranormal ability to see visions of the long, gone people whose sites she excavates. On a dig of Mayan ruins, one of these people from the past..... More
Philadelphia; (1952): John C. Winston Company. First Edition. Octavo. Chad Oliver's first book, marvelous classic with jacket and endpaper designs by Alex Schomburg. "Collision with the controls of a space time machine traps a twentieth century youth in the terrifying days at the dawn of civilization, when half human Neanderthals..... More
(New York; 2019): Redhook. First Edition. Octavo. 456 pages. A rare signed first edition of one of the authors about literary characters drawn into a mad world. For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the..... More