DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1987]. Gilt cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. A little dusty, else a nice copy in dust jacket.
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THE HAUNTING OF LAMB HOUSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. Boards. First U.S. edition. Three ghostly, interconnected novellas, featuring Henry James and E.F. Benson as characters. About fine in dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the tips.
DECADE THE 1940s [with:] DECADE THE 1950s.
New York: St. Martins, [ 1978]. Two volumes. Gilt cloth. First U.S. editions. Fine in good dust jackets (creased tear in jacket of second volume, rubbing and sticker marks on both). Appearances by Van Vogt, Asimov, Simak, Russell, Clement, Bradbury, Clarke, Farmer, Matheson, Kuttner, et al.
HELL'S CARTOGRAPHERS SOME PERSONAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS....
[London]: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]. Cloth textured boards. Nice copy, near fine, in very good, slightly edgeworn dust jacket with two small internal mends to edge-tears. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Aldiss ("Brian") in the year of publication to two friends, with "lots of love & thanks to you.....
ART AFTER APOGEE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AN IDEA, A STORY AND PAINTING.
[Oxford]: Avernus, [2000]. Quarto. Black cloth, with canary yellow printed wrappers bound in. Color plates by Phipps, b&w plates by Aldiss. Fine. First edition. In addition to 100 numbered copies divided between wrappers and cloth, this is one of an unknown quantity of unnumbered copies, signed by Aldiss ('Brian'), and.....
BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF ....
London: Faber & Faber, [1971]. Cloth-textured boards. Top edge faintly dust- dimmed, but near fine, in very good, lightly foxed and soiled white dust jacket with tiny edge tear. First revised edition, the selection from the 1965 edition altered by the deletion of six stories, the addition of eight different.....
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND.
London: Cape, [1973]. Black boards, lettered in gilt. Patches of light foxing at gutters of endleaves, otherwise about fine in lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed: "Dear Joe - Since this novel poaches on the fringes of Eng. Lit., I think you'd better have a look at it!.....
SCIENCE FICTION BLUES ....
[London]: Avernus, [1988]. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Very slightly bowed, top edge faintly dust-marked, otherwise about fine. First edition of this paperback original, edited by Frank Hatherley, and with an Introduction by Robert Holdstock. Inscribed by the author: To ... Wot To Do Wen Authorship Fails. Much love & admiration Brian.....
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE ANOTHER EUROPEAN FANTASIA.
[Hammersmith]: Flamingo / HarperCollins, [1994]. Large, thick octavo. Gilt lettered cloth- textured boards. Usual tanning to text block, some dust along top edge, very good in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed to two long-time friends: "For ... - Once more into the breach dear friends! Love Brian 1st.....
A TUPOLEV TOO FAR AND OTHER STORIES.
[Hammersmith]: HarperCollins, [1993]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth-textured boards. Top edge a bit dust marked, else near fine, in lightly soiled dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Aldiss on the front free endsheet to a long-time friend and fellow writer: "Dearest ... - What would Kafka think? Is this a case.....
A IS FOR BRIAN. A 65TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR BRIAN W. ALDISS FROM HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND ADMIRERS.
[London]: Avernus, [1990]. Quarto. Pictorial stiff glossy wrappers (with pictorial vignette by Joseph Reed). Wrapper corners creased, but very good or better. First edition of this festschrift, including contributions by Amis, Ballard, Harrison, Lessing, Moorcock, Pohl, Priest, Joe and Kit Reed, Silverberg, and many others. Issued in an unspecified "limited.....
A IS FOR BRIAN. A 65TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR BRIAN W. ALDISS FROM HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND ADMIRERS.
[London]: Avernus, [1990]. Quarto. Pictorial stiff glossy wrappers (with pictorial vignette by Joseph Reed). Fine. First edition of this festschrift, including contributions by Amis, Ballard, Harrison, Lessing, Moorcock, Pohl, Priest, Joe and Kit Reed, Silverberg, and many others. Issued in an unspecified "limited edition."
YOU'RE GETTING TERRIBLY BLONDE LATELY SOME POEMS SEASONABLE, SAD, SAUCY AND JUST PLAIN SILLY WITH SOME PICTURES.
[Oxford: Published by the Author], Christmas 2009. 56pp. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Color illustrations. Foretips slightly bumped, wrapper slightly bowed, near fine. First edition. One of 100 copies printed for the author’s private distribution as a holiday greeting. This copy is inscribed on the colophon: "To dear Kit & Joe warmest.....
THE FOUNDLING AND OTHER TALES OF PRYDAIN.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1973]. Loose narrow folio sheets, printed on rectos only. Horizontal fold, crease and short edge snag to terminal leaf, otherwise very near fine. Scarce format. Original long galleys of the first edition of this supplement to the author's award-winning fantasy cycle, in this state.....
EIGHTEEN VISITS TO MARS.
New York: Vantage Press, [1956]. [14],439pp. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Portraits and plates. Slight dulling along top edges of boards, but a very good copy in shelfworn dust jacket. "First edition." Inscribed and signed by the "editor." A curious production, in large part indebted to (if not literally copied from).....
GHOST LETTERS.
[New York]: Bloomsbury, [2008]. Boards. Top edge faintly dusty, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First US edition of the multi-gaited writer's second book for young adults, a supernatural thriller, affectionately inscribed and signed ("Steve") by him on the half-title to two friends, on 31 December 2007. Due to his frequent.....
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. Boards. Critic or reviewer's intelligent ink notes on rear endsheet, otherwise a bright, clean copy, in very good dust jacket with a few small edge tears and a tiny chip at lower edge of the front panel. First edition in book form, preceded by periodical publication as.....
THE BRASS BOTTLE.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. [8],312,[8]pp. Gray cloth, printed in maroon. Frontis. Endsheets a bit darkened, old crease to front free endsheet, but a very good copy. First edition of one of Guthrie's most popular works, a fantasy that enjoyed success in his own adaptation to the stage, saw.....
A FALLEN IDOL.
London: Smith, Elder, 1897. Cloth. Top edge dusty, edges foxed, spine quite faded, light wear to extremities, but a good copy. "New edition." First published in 1886. With a presentation inscription from Guthrie on the half-title: "J. Caroline Pym from affectionate friend Anstey Guthrie Jan: 1899." The recipient was a......
THE TIME BARGAIN.
Bristol & London: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. / Simpkin Marshall [etc], [1920]. 12mo. Original printed boards. Spine torn and mended, inner front hinge cracked, textblock clean and fresh; a poorly bound book, not often seen intact. Third edition, originally published in 1891 under the title, TOURMALIN'S TIME CHEQUES. Inscribed by the.....
THE SATYR'S CHILDREN A FABLE.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1939. Sewn decorated wrappers. Small crease at lower forecorner of upper wrapper, otherwise fine. First edition in book form of this prose fantasy by the early staff member of POETRY and Chicago-based social activist. OCLC locates a dozen copies.
THE SATYR'S CHILDREN A FABLE.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1939. Sewn decorated wrappers. Spine a bit chafed, wrappers tanned at edges; a good copy. First edition in book form of this prose fantasy by the early staff member of POETRY and Chicago-based social activist. OCLC locates a dozen copies.
THE ARKHAM COLLECTOR.
Sauk City: Arkham House, Summer 1967 through Winter 1971. Whole numbers one through eight (of 10 published). Eight issues. Small octavo. Printed self- wrappers. Illustrated. About fine. Edited by August Derleth and staff. The first eight numbers of this short-lived Arkham House periodical, combining promotional efforts with original contributions in.....
MAN'S MORTALITY.
London: Heinemann, 1933. Gilt cloth. First edition of this futuristic novel about the fight for liberty against an international monopolistic trust. Typical light foxing, otherwise an attractive copy in dust jacket.
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
London & Calcutta: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890. Slate blue pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in green, dark blue and dark gray. Spine slightly cocked, some modest rubbing to cloth, front inner hinge cracking at crown, still, a good, sound copy. First edition of this collection of.....