Science fiction, utopian, fantasy & horror literature (1705-1938)
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, Inc., 1993. Paperback. 119p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Catalogue 94. More
Cat.No: 310165
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, Inc., 1993. Paperback. 119p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Catalogue 94. More
Cat.No: 310165
Sacramento: Westercon 38 Committee, 1977. Staplebound. 48p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, illustrations, maps, charts, membership lists, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. Damon Knight, guest of honor. Kate Wilhelm bibliography. More
Cat.No: 281578
Sacramento: Westercon 38 Committee, 1985. Staplebound. 64p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, illustrations, maps, charts, attendee lists, James P. Hogan checklist, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 142389
San Francisco: TPJA Publishing/Trafford, 2005. Paperback. 279p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, very good second printing trade paperback in original pictorial wraps showing a comix-style fantasy scene. Philippine-American author's self-published sci-fi about Arcturean aliens fraternizing with their creations in Atlantis. More
Cat.No: 133504
no place: no publisher, no date (1977). Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 45 pages, light-green textured paperstock in sewn signatures with eighteen 5x7 inch color plates mounted opposite caption titles, plus nine-pages of Leo Stern's preface set with eccentric typography; softbound, a 7.5-inch-square paperback in coated black and bronze wraps. Covers are..... More
Cat.No: 230491
Valencia CA: artist / School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, [1974]. Spiral_bound. 10p. artist's book, cardstock leaves printed recto only, b&w collaged images under metallic silver wraps comb-bound, 12x11 inches; the black plastic comb is in good shape, the cover card-leaves are edgeworn with a little silver flaked..... More
Cat.No: 218781
Valencia CA: artist / School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, [1974]. Spiral_bound. 10p. artist's book, cardstock leaves printed recto only, b&w collaged images under metallic silver wraps comb-bound, 12x11 inches; the black plastic comb is in good shape, the cover card-leaves are edgeworn with a little silver flaked..... More
Cat.No: 279751
Valencia CA: artist / School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, [1974]. Spiral_bound. 10p. artist's book, cardstock leaves printed recto only, b&w collaged images under metallic silver wraps comb-bound, 12x11 inches; the black plastic comb is in good shape, the cover card-leaves are very good with a tiny bit..... More
Cat.No: 279752
New York: Abbeville Press . Publishers, 1987. 144p., glossy paperstock with color reproductions throughout, and prefatory site and period photography in b&w; 11.5x9 inch color cardstock wraps. Upper corner shows a mild small bump else sound and entirely clean of marks; a very good copy. Lively stuff; makes one want..... More
Cat.No: 179781
Ann Arbor: Edwin M. Aprill Jr. [and] National Newspaper Syndicate, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. Unpaginated, about 200p., two strips on a page reproduced original size in b&w (no colorizing except for dj), hardbound in 9x12 inch bright red buckram boards spine-titled in bronze ink, in dust jacket. The bronze has faded..... More
Cat.No: 236234
London: Blackie & Son, [1889?]. Hardcover. 159, [1], 32p. + 1 plate (frontispiece illustration), boards. 7.25 x 5 in. Bound in publisher's decorated cloth boards, stamped in black, red, blue, and gold on front cover. Prize bookplate on front pastedown, noting presentation by the Plymouth School Board to a student..... More
Cat.No: 320243
Evanston IL [or Chicago]: author / watchmaker sponsor [Elgin], 1922. Paperback. 192p., plus two terminal leaves showcasing modern watchmaking contrasted with that of 200 years ago. Generously illustrated with b&w "historical" views: cave people and Babylon get extensive treatment, and at rear is a multiple-panel fold-out with a very long..... More
Cat.No: 313275
Dixon, CA: Proscenium Press, 1967. 48p., 5.5x8.5 inches, introduction, cast, production history, very good first edition play script in stapled yellow wraps. The "Lost Play" series #4, Robert Hogan, general editor. End of the world fantasy by the author of "Young Man With a Horn" and her husband, a professor..... More
Cat.No: 273406
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1990. Paperback. 175p.. wraps, frontis., black and white illus., very good condition. Lost Utopias / Number One. More
Cat.No: 313131
[Baltimore]: Ruth Berman, 1974. Pamphlet. 23, [1]p., wraps. 8.25 x 5.5 in. Literary criticism. On Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novel, the last published in his lifetime. Berman was a science fiction author, editor and critic. More
Cat.No: 310404
Pasadena CA: Belda, 1947, 1948. Ephemera. Booklet and Illustrated sleeve only, two items of three, lacking the 10" disc that accompanied the first issue. The recording is represented in-text by a song printed on the back-page of booklet, showing music notation and several verses of a Bellem-authored lyric, "Ready for..... More
Cat.No: 313328
San Francisco: Plant Construction Company, Windgate Press, 1995. First issue of this selection of color, colorized, and b&w photography, meticulously reproduced and housed hardbound in cloth portfolio gilt, 11.5x14.5 inches, accompanied (simply laid in) by a 10.5x8 inch stapled pamphlet by the Bonnets with background text, as issued. A lagniappe..... More
Cat.No: 254034
New York: Ace Books, 1972. 124p. & 127p., bound dos a dos in pulp format with color covers, lightly-worn first issue mass market PBO. Ace Double, F-273; .40 [cents]. The author was 19. More
Cat.No: 245872
Colorado Springs, CO: Richard Brandt, 2008. Pamphlet. [12p.], staplebound, 8.5x11 inch zine wraps; illus., cartoons, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 294662
n.p. 1st Books Library, 2003. Paperback. vi, 191p., softbound in 8x5 inch photodecorated wraps, entirely clean, sound and unmarked (except for author's presentation on titlepage), a very good copy. Juvenalia, set in 3458 CE, inscribed by the ten-year-old writer, a resident of Woodside CA; text looks to be fairly well..... More
Cat.No: 132021
Oakland: PM Press, 2010. Hardcover. 43p, 8.5x11 inches, children's book with illustrations/drawings. As new. More
Cat.No: 258299
Chapel Hill, NC: Forbidden Press, 1991. Magazine. Single issue of the bimonthly publication, 8.5x11 inches, staplebound, newsprint mildly toned. More
Cat.No: 211624
Cincinnati, OH: 20th Century Anonymous, c1975. Newsletter. 23p., folded tabloid-style newsletter; illus., minor toning, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302449
npl: npub, nd. Pamphlet. 12p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine-style reprint of Cantine's science fiction/fantasy story "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" along with a new introduction. More
Cat.No: 319916
Barcelona: Editorial Muntanola, S.A., 1920. Paperback. Unpaginated, about a dozen leaves with fine colorwork inside each cover, more fullpage color on every other page plus a fine big doublespread centerpiece, a total of seven cartoon-like paintings reproduced in pastel lithography (beautiful technique). Covers and every page have picked up dust-soil..... More
Cat.No: 287191