London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 281pp, [3]. Touch of softening to spine ends, with light foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly shelfworn, with a few tiny tears; Near..... More
![Cracken at Critical [Signed, Limited]. Brian W. ALDISS](/pictures/medium/52227.jpg?v=1611301683)
Worchester Park: Kerosina, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Includes "The Magic of the Past" hardcover chapbook (1987) also #221 of 650 (300 hardcover) copies; in acetate jacket. First Impression. Signed, Collector's Edition; Limited, #221 of 250 copies; Octavo (22cm.); blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; slipcase; 192pp. Fine..... More
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vl. Orel, n.d., 1931? First Czech Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 280pp. Spine rather heavily cocked, jacket extremities a bit shelf worn, rear panel shows some dustiness, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Near Very Good copy. Exceedingly scarce Czech edition..... More
![To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]. Eleanor ARNASON](/pictures/medium/47817.jpg?v=1592620265)
New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed "To Laurie" on title page; signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Wrappers lightly creased and worn; small abrasion to rear wrapper; Very Good. More
![To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]. Eleanor ARNASON](/pictures/medium/49985.jpg?v=1592620265)
New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed on title page: "For John - Best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Trace of rubbing at base of rear cover, else a tight, Near Fine copy with minimal tanning to the text..... More
Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski. More
New York: The Simons Press, 1934. First Edition. Uncommon lost-race fantasy with a Judaic theme and utopian elements. BLEILER (1979) p.11. Inscribed on verso of frontispiece: "To - Lenard and Elliot M. Baritz. May life be to them a glorious adventure! Sincerely, Uncle Ben Aronin," undated but apparently contemporary with..... More
New York: Beechhurst Press, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 400pp. Jacket upper panel and extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and very shallow chipping to spine ends. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Includes works by Isaac Asimov, Ray..... More
![Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Robots and Aliens Book 5: Maverick [Inscribed]. ASIMOV, Bruce BETHKE](/pictures/medium/49968.jpg?v=1592511426)
New York: Ace Books, 1990. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed and signed by Bethke on title page to Minnesota poet and science-fiction writer John Calvin Rezmerski: "To Rez / ARF!," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass-market paperback; 184,(12)pp. Apparently unread, but with a hint of toning..... More
West Kingston, R.I. Donald M. Grant, 1978. First Trade Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto. Inscribed by Alicia Austin on title page, "To Elisabeth/with love," with small original drawing of a winged heart. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; unpaged; 40 color plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. A tight, Near Fine copy..... More
![The War-God Walks Again [Inscribed and Signed]. F. Britten AUSTIN, intro Major-General Sir Ernest...](/pictures/medium/25845.jpg?v=1529353477)
London: Williams & Norgate, 1926. First U.K. Edition. One of the author's fictional "Future War" works, this a collection of eight short stories dealing with potential wars involving Great Britain. Austin, a former Captain during World War I, was known for detailing the dangers of modern military technology in his..... More
![The Algebraist [Signed]. Iain M. BANKS](/pictures/medium/51330.jpg?v=1604549525)
London: Orbit, 2004. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [x],534pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £17.99). Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2005. More
![Coldheart Canyon [Limited Edition, Signed]. Clive BARKER](/images/noimage.png)
New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 2001. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.24. Octavo; black pictorial cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's die-cut cloth slipcase. Fine, unread copy, still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. More
![Everville [Signed, Limited]. Clive BARKER](/pictures/medium/52182.jpg?v=1611244564)
New York: Collins, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Signed, Limited #253 of 500; Octavo (24cm.); black cloth over tan paper covered boards; embossed with shell on cover; 697pp.; Faint finger soiling to textblock, still a Fine copy in a like slipcase in open shrinkwrap. More
![Weaveworld [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]. Clive BARKER](/pictures/medium/52180.jpg?v=1611244564)
London: Collins, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Nominated in 1988 for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Weaveworld was made into a three-issue comic series in 1991 by Epic Comics. First Impression. Octavo (24cm.); red cloth with gilt on spine; dustjacket; 722pp. Faint nicks to bottom edge, touch of soiling to..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1966]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in olive pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],181pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and creasing; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Paranormal young adult novel twice adapted for television, in 1971 and 1996. More
![Heads [Signed, Limited]. Greg BEAR](/pictures/medium/51976.jpg?v=1609825805)
London: Century Legend, 1990. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed and numbered on title page- #164 of 300; Octavo (22.5); forest green cloth stamped in silver on cover and spine; marble endpapers; publisher's clear plastic jacket; matching green slipcase stamped in silver; black ribbon bookmark; silver gilt on all sides..... More
New York: Global Communications, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Light soil and wear from handling, else Near Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued. More
New York: Global Communications, 1981. Second Printing. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Previous owner has neatly colored in a few illustrations, else Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued. More
![The Kinsman Saga [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]. Ben Bova](/pictures/medium/51952.jpg?v=1609381145)
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1987. First Thus. The Kinsman Saga (1987) (combines Millennium (1976) and Kinsman (1979); includes introduction and narrative by Bova explaining the reworking of these two novels). First Printing. Signed bookplate Laid-in; Octavo. (22cm.); color illustrations; brown leather boards stamped in gilt on cover and spine. 566pp. This..... More
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1958. First Thus. 12mo (16cm.); original plain and tan double wrappers, French flaps, decorative plate printed on grey stock mounted to upper wrapper; unpaged; illus. Fine. "Printed for the Lunar friends of Richard Gimbel" - colophon. Publication of a letter written by Benet to Richard Halliday..... More
New Castle: Cheap Street, 1985. First, Limited Edition. One of 177 signed and numbered copies comprising the Collector's Edition being printed on Chroma text with Tweedweave endpapers, bound in Japanese cloth with a dust wrapper of kinwashitomo from Japan and a Japanese cloth slipcase matching book. First Printing. Signed, Limited..... More
![Aqua Regia [Signed/Inscribed by Author]. F. J. BERGMANN](/pictures/medium/47268.jpg?v=1579735403)
Madison, WI: Fibitz Reality Adjustment, 2003. First Edition. 12mo(14.5cm); blue marbled cloth covered boards, with gold leaf; viii,40pp. Handmade/marbled paper preliminaries; textblock in blue stock; attached gold foil ribbon marker. Spine cocked, bumped on front hinge; trivial wear and soiling to boards, some flaking to gold leaf. Author signature and..... More
London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, [1898]. As one contemporary reviewer describes it, "'The Sword of the Pyramids' has enough adventure and fighting to satisfy any lover of the marvelous. The action... [furnishes] enough wars to accomodate the hero, who is a soldier of fortune" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket printed in single rule; [6],279,[1],[2](ads)pp. Shallow chips and tears along jacket extremities, the whole quite dust-soiled and a bit foxed, cloth spine slightly toned, else a Very Good copy in the..... More
