New York: Harmony Books, 1992. First American Edition. Concluding volume in the author's Hitchhiker's "trilogy." First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 green paper over navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in pale green on spine; dustjacket; 277pp, [3]. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with only a hint of shelfwear. More
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 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
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue, blue topstain; xv,[3],120pp.; title page printed in red and black within typographically decorative border; color frontispiece, 6 plates with printed tissue guards. A few very short closed tears to... More
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1985. First Edition. Late collection of 24 short stories by the Hugo Award-winning author, culled mostly from the pages of science fiction digests and magazines. Cover artwork by Boris Vallejo. First Printing. Octavo; navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on... 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
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 Swinton.](/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
![Abarat - Book 1 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Clive BARKER.](/pictures/medium/39883.jpg?v=1542150317)
[New Orleans]: B.E. Trice, 2002. First Edition. Handsome edition of the first installment in Barker's young adult fantasy series. Limited Issue, one of 175 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.119. Octavo; royal blue vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and illustrated plate mounted... More
![Abarat - Book 2 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Clive BARKER.](/pictures/medium/39884.jpg?v=1542150317)
[New Orleans]: B.E. Trice, 2004. First Edition. Handsome edition of the second installment in Barker's young adult fantasy series. Limited Issue, one of 175 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.119. Octavo; hunter green vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and illustrated plate mounted... More
Los Angeles: Futura Press, 1960 [but ca. 1965]. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers; [1],31 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only. Wrappers rather dust-soiled with shadow from previously removed label to upper cover, old tape repair at spine ends, else Near Very Good and sound. Date based on... 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
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
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 York: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. A semi-fantastic romance (Bleiler-listed) of Christian Science and opium addiction, set among the British upper-crust. Includes four attractive plates after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm, including the much-admired female fly-fishing plate. Extremely attractive copy in the pictorial trade binding, which... 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
![Monkey Planet [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Pierre BOULLE, Xan FIELDING, novel, translation.](/images/noimage.png)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First U.K. Edition. One of the French author's most enduring works, and the source for a host of related film adaptations since 1968. First Impression. Octavo; dark green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 223pp. Bookplate signed by Boulle loosely laid... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1971]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],247pp. Price-clipped dust jacket with later price cancel (£1.50); old Strand price sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine. Third title in the author's Watchmen series, originally published in the U.S. in 1969. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1975]. Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by H. Lawrence Hoffman; [8],214pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, shallow crease to rear jacket flap; Fine in Very Good jacket. Third title in the author's Exiles trilogy. More
![1984 Will Not Arrive: A Prediction for the Greening of Scripps [Signed]. Ray BRADBURY.](/pictures/medium/39893.jpg?v=1529353969)
[Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press], 1975. First Edition. An elegant edition, containing the text of a lecture Bradbury presented at Scripps College in Claremon, CA. Bradbury would deliver variations of the lecture several more times between 1975-1977, and it was included in a 2002 fine press edition (27... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. Yellow cloth boards, lettered in blue and gold on spine; dustjacket; yellow top-stain; 281pp. Bookplate signed by Bradbury loosely laid in. A clean, straight, unmarked copy with clean, even top-stain, Near Fine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly rubbed at... More
![The Day It Rained Forever [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Ray BRADBURY.](/pictures/medium/24533.jpg?v=1529353428)
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First U.K. Edition. Collects most of A Medicine for Melancholy, omitting four stories and adding four new ones. First Impression. Octavo; presumed first binding (per Currey) in navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver; dustjacket; 254pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine... More
![The Flying Machine [Signed]. Ray BRADBURY.](/pictures/medium/39898.jpg?v=1544748267)
Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1981. First Edition Thus. Stage play based on Bradbury's 1953 short story set in ancient China. Slim octavo (18.5cm); stapled card wrappers; 22,[2]pp. Signed by the author (in ink) on the title page. A few faint creases to wrappers, else Near Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First American Edition. Volume of Bradbury's short fiction, collecting 18 stories previously published in the pages of pulp magazines and science fiction digests. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 305pp, [3]. Signed... More
