Shepard, Leslie (editor)
Secaucus, N. J., 1983
Secaucus, N. J.: The Citadel Press, 1983. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Collects fourteen stories by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Lytton, William Hope Hodgson, L. P. Hartley, Algernon Blackwood and others. Trade paperback priced $6.95. Copyright 1981 and perhaps preceded by a hardbound edition. A fine copy. (#168906)
Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1978
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First printing of the unabridged text. One of 111 numbered copies with bookplate signed by Vance and artist Steve Hickman affixed to the limitation leaf. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168894)
Atwood, Margaret
Boston, 1986
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition, first printing with code "V 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on copyright page. "Dystopian novel of a world ruled by militaristic fundamentalism in which sexual pleasure is forbidden." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-57. Made into a film in 1990. Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award. 1986 Nebula nominee. First winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 426. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. The publisher's "bookcard" for THE HANDMAID'S TALE is laid in. (#168891)
Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1976
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. "Cycle of stories set in a decadent far future when civilization has virtually disappeared and magic has reclaimed the world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 5-296a. "Little noticed at initial publication, this work launched a whole subgenre of fictional futures in which magic replaces science ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-185. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1162. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-345. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 70. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 11. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1066. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 441-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 665-70. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 168-69. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168893)
Martin, George R. R.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland, 1996
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1996. Octavo, five volumes, boards. First U.S. editions, all books with number lines ending with "1." First five books of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. A fine set in fine dust jackets. Accompanied by the 2005 teaser for A FEAST FOR CROWS. A lovely set. (#168884)
Lafferty, R[aphael] A[loysius]
London, 1975
London: Dennis Dobson, 1975. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Also has a robot AI story, "All the People," and "What's the Name of That Town?," an Eipktistes story. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. (#168885)
Willis, Connie
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1998
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1998. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1999 Hugo award for best novel. 1998 Nebula award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1268. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168892)
Simak, Clifford D[onald]
New York, 1977
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Octavo, orange wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. An important collection of Simak's fiction. "Ten stories ranging from 'Huddling Place' (1944) to 'The Ghost of a Model T' (1975). High point is the Hugo-winning novelette 'The Big Front Yard' (1958), about inter-dimensional trading. Charming stuff, and contains only three overlaps with the nearly contemporary British-published volume THE BEST OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK (1975)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 330. Simak is acclaimed for his fiction featuring robots, most of which are benign servants of mankind. "Skirmish" is a darker tale that reveals a plot by malevolent aliens from a machine civilization who are bent on liberating the machines of Earth. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. A fine copy. A scarce proof. (#168908)
Dozois, Gardner and others (editors)
New York, 1991
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Octavo, pp. viii, 264, boards. First edition. Twenty original and reprint articles and essays by Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, John Barnes, Norman Spinrad, Dozois, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 14-16. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168911)
Wolfe, Gene
Willimantic, Connecticut, 1982
Willimantic, Connecticut: Ziesing Brothers, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 520 copies of which this is one of 420 trade copies. A book about The Book of the New Sun. Includes essays, lexicon, self interview and a bibliography, the latter compiled by Gordon Benson, Jr. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168896)
Banks, Iain
London, 1986
London: Macmillan, 1986. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Banks. "THE BRIDGE (1986), perhaps his finest early work, once again conflates the literal with 'metaphorical' displacements treated with a knowing literalness characteristic of the work of late twentieth-century writers of significance, regardless of their marketing 'identity;' in this tale, a comatose man relives (or anticipates) his own life, which is represented in matrix form as an enormous bridge; among the interstices of this potent Icon he engages in a rather hilarious parody of sword-and-sorcery conventions." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). The author's third book. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-17. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 95. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168902)
Willis, Connie
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland, 1987
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1987. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's first solo novel. Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-269. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168886)
Haldeman, Joe
London, 1975
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. Octavo, boards. First British edition. "Tough, slick narrative of an interstellar war which lasts [over] 1000 years. To the soldier hero, it seems to last about ten years, thanks to the time-dilation effect of faster-than-light travel. Good, realistic, military SF which actually subverts many of the clichés of that category ... (he was a Vietnam veteran, which helped). Initially rejected by 18 publishers, it has since sold over a million copies." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 141-2. Haldeman's first SF novel. Winner of the 1975 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-479. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 360. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 813-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Uncommon thus. (#168888)
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