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![FINAL TYPESCRIPT FOR HIS NOVEL "BALOOK"]. Piers ANTHONY](/pictures/thumb/12204.jpg?v=1561471794)
[FINAL TYPESCRIPT FOR HIS NOVEL "BALOOK"]
np: np, 1990. First Edition. 8.5" x 11" typescript (computer word-processor-generated, almost certainly daisy wheel) on perforated printer paper. Minor creasing to some pages. A bit of toning overall. Remnants of a smoky smell (both Anthony and his wife were smokers). Two small corrections to the text, presumably by Anthony.....
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
New York: Gnome Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear and scuffing to jacket, with a few small chips/holes and approximately 1'' losses to head and tail of spine. Bumping and small tears to cloth at spine ends. Toning to endpapers, fainter toning.....
THE TIME WINDER
(New York): The Lenox Hill Press, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket unclipped. Touches of shelfwear, but overall - bright, tight, clean, and sharp. Uncommon sci-fi time-travel novel from Lenox. 192pp.
THE ALIEN ONE
(New York): Arcadia House, (1969). First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pale yellow cloth. Near fine in like jacket with just traces of shelfwear to extremities. DJ unclipped. Bright, clean, and sharp overall. First US edition of this sci-fi novel about a deadly tube of unknown alien substance. Originally published.....
THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA
New York: Ballantine Books, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over light purple boards. In original pictorial dust jacket. A very good plus copy in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Brooks in the month of publication to front free endpaper: "For Jerry / Very Best / Terry Brooks /.....
MAPS IN A MIRROR: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1990). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. Very good plus. Spine shows small surface tear and touch of soil. Rear wrapper lightly curled, soiled. Interior bright and clean throughout. Binding tight. Appears largely unread. 675pp. The "complete collection" of Card's short-fiction work.....
EARTH SEX IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Los Angeles: Eschelon Book Publishers / Impact Library, 1970. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear, touches of soil to cover and spine. Very good plus. 160pp. Essential pulp erotica from a highly prescient author who foresaw the way we live today with remarkable accuracy. "Scenarios" include: Advanced.....
PROFILES OF THE FUTURE: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
New York, Evanston and London: Harper and Row, (1962). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's paper boards in original dust jacket. Very good. Rear panel toned. Edges lightly worn. Interior clean and bright. Tight.
THE FEMINISTS
New York: Pinnacle Books, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Minor edgewear. Near fine. 188pp. A glimpse into the harrowing future of 1992: terrified male outlaws take to the sewers and the underground, while armed Feminists patrol the night in severe grey suits.
SCIENCE FICTION HANDBOOK, REVISED
Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Very near fine in a good-plus to very good DJ. Moderate chips and tears to jacket, several small losses; light edgewear. Book clean, bright, and unmarred throughout, if slightly toned. 220pp. Classic guide to writing sci-fi, with sections.....
FREAKS' AMOUR
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. About very good, with some soil to rear wrapper, and edgewear. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF copy, with letter from publisher laid in. Clean throughout. 277pp. Proof copy of De Haven's first novel, telling the story of a nuclear.....
TROLLS: An Illustrated Price Guide
(Paducah, KY): Collector Books, (1981). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good. Some rubbing and toning to covers. Small stain to a couple pages, unobstrusive. Else clean and sound. 78pp. Trolls! Miniature. Collectible. Hideous. Trolls. A whole book of them. With pictures. And prices. From the era that.....
![Hand-Illustrated Dungeons & Dragons MONSTER MANUAL Printed in Hebrew]. Fandom, Dungeons, Dragons](/pictures/thumb/21855.jpeg?v=1561472972)
[Hand-Illustrated Dungeons & Dragons MONSTER MANUAL Printed in Hebrew]
[Israel]: [ca. 1992]. Hardcover. 4to. Commercial dual-ring binder with paper jacket hand-illustrated to both front and rear, featuring a dragon and a wizard respectively. Contains ca. 150 leaves of commercial D&D rules (THE MONSTER MANUAL, to be precide) printed in Hebrew, most photomachenically copied, but some apparently commercially produced. Frather.....
A SHADOW OF GULLS
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good plus in near fine jacket. Book has faint foxing to top and fore-edges. Hint of a lean. PO tasteful bookplate to ffep. Jacket unclipped, bright and sharp with just a hint of darkening to underside of jacket.....
OUTLAND
(New York): Warner Books, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Moderate toning and soil to wraps. Clean, bright internally. 269pp. Foster's novelization of the screenplay by Peter Hyams (for the 1981 film starring Sean Connery).
LIMERICKS FOR THE MIDNIGHT HOURS: A Compilation of Verses, Lovecrafty, Swordly, Sorcerous, and Assortedly Eldritch
(Philadelphia): Zadok Allen, 1999. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Fine. INSCRIBED by Ganley to title page. Clean throughout. 30pp. Lovecraftian limericks by the editor and publisher of WEIRDBOOK.
ANVIL 14 / Vol. 3 No. 2, January-February 1981
(Birmingham, AL): 1981. Wraps. Side-stapled illustrated wraps. Light edgewear and scuffing to corners. Toning and postal markings to back cover. INSCRIBED by editor: "Grant -- Suncatcher is out. We''ll send your contributor's copy as soon as we repro enough copies. / Jim." Very good plus. 21pp. Clubzine of the Birmingham.....
PLAN FOR CONQUEST
(New York): Arcadia House, (1969). First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pale green cloth. Near fine in like jacket with just traces of shelfwear to extremities. DJ unclipped. Bright, clean, and sharp overall. First US edition of this sci-fi novel. Originally published in the UK. 192pp. [Reginald 6057].
WAR YEAR
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Haldeman to title page. Mild soiling to rear panel of jacket. Tiny chunk of FFEP torn off, at upper-right corner. Interior clean and bright throughout. Binding.....
THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS: A Comedy of Manners
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth over dark gray boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. Mild rubbing, toning to jacket. Price clipped. Pages show a bit of toning with age, but remain crisp, clean and unmarked. Binding sound.....
STF TRENDS FOR FEBRUARY 1953- Issue #11
Napoleon, OH: STF Trends, 1953. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in original wraps. Printed mimeo in black and blue inks. Cover heavily foxed and toned with light edgewear. Interior clean and mildly toned. Good and sound. 20pp. Early science fiction fanzine that developed out of The Little Monsters of America.....
NEVER LET ME GO
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green boards in color photographic dust jacket. Minor bumping to spine ends. Near fine overall. 288pp. Ishiguro's melancholic science fiction novel, short-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize and the basis for a film adaptation starring Kiera Knightley as the.....
LISEY'S STORY
New York: Scribner, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glossy pictorial boards in printed dust jacket. Near fine or better in like DJ. Minimal hint of soil to top edge of pages. Otherwise bright, crisp, clean, and sharp inside and out. Binding tight. 513pp. First edition/printing of this romantic tale.....
THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth in graphic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Trivial edgewear to jacket; mild foxing to top edge. Interiro bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. 312pp. Collects nineteen stories by Kornbluth, selected and introduced by his longtime collaborator/colleague.....
THE HISTORIAN
New York / Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine or better in like jacket. Barest traces of rubbing to jacket. Else a bright, clean, sharp and tight example. DJ unclipped. First edition / printing of this Dracula-themed tale. Something of a surprise bestseller, this.....