The Avatars.
London: Macmillan, 1933. A Futurist Fantasy. 8vo, blue cloth (one corner bumped; fore-edge foxed), d.w. London: MacMillan, 1933. First Edition. In a bright, price-clipped dust wrapper. More
London: Macmillan, 1933. A Futurist Fantasy. 8vo, blue cloth (one corner bumped; fore-edge foxed), d.w. London: MacMillan, 1933. First Edition. In a bright, price-clipped dust wrapper. More
Philadelphia: Winston, 1952. Endpaper design by Alex Schomburg. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Philadelphia: Winston, (1952). First Edition. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Paul Orban, has a bright front cover, but a triangular chip on the bottom edge of the back cover; bookplate. More
Profusely illus. 4 color plates. Tall thin 8vo, d.w. N.p., (1974). More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. 356 pages. 8vo, full maroon simulated leather all edge gilt, in matching slipcase. Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. Limited First edition. Fine. One of 300 specially bound, autographed copies, commemorating Asimov's 100th book published by Doubleday. More
London: michael Joseph, 1958. 8vo, black cloth, spine lettered in white, d.w. London: Michael Joseph (1958). First English Edition. The book is foxed on the front & back flyleaves as well as the fore-edge. The dust wrapper is mended with tape on the verso, price-clipped and edge-chipped. Ownership signature. More
New York: Doubleday, 1983. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Doubleday, 1983. First Edition. Fine. More
New York: Street & Smith, 1954. 2 consecutive volumes with serial story "Sucker Bait" by Asimov, among others. 12mo, pictorial wrappers with color cover art by Kelly Freas. New York: Street & Smith, 1954. First edition. Minor bumping at head of first volume, still a very good(+) copy. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. 8vo, green tweed cloth, d.w. Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Edition. The end-leaves have light offset. The dust wrapper, with the original price has minor closed tears & is foxed on the verso. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. Illus., 732pp., thick 8vo, cloth, d.w. Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. More
Chicago: Advent, 1964. Edited with an Introduction by James Blish. 2 vols., 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Chicago: Advent, 1964; 1970. First Editions. Most of these essays originally appeared in science fiction fan magazines. More
New York: Harper Collins/Joanna Cottler, 2002. Illustrated by the author. 8vo, colored pictorial wrappers; (one corner bent, otherwise fine). New York: Harper Collins/Joanna Cottler, (2002). First Edition. Advance Reading Copy. The illustrations, unlike in the final book are not in color. Presentation copy, signed "Clive" on the title page, and a full page ink drawing, signed in full, on the blank page facing the title, of character from the book. More
14p., 32mo, wrappers, printed label. New Haven: Privately Printed, 1958. Fine. Unpublished sketch for a moving picture scenario. Printed in an edition of 250 copies "for the Lunar friend of Richard Gimbel". Autographed by Gimbel. Sketch for a movie picture scenario. More
Paris: Mille et Une Nuits, 1998. Illustre par Chris Lane.92pp Square 8vo, printed wrappers. Paris" Editions Mille et Une Nuits, 1998. First French edition. French translation of Ahmed ant the Oblivion Machine. Presentation copy, sighed in full, "....Head for the shore!/ but where is the dam thing?/ Love," More
New York: Doubleday, 1953. Illustrations. 8vo, grey cloth, spine lettered in yellow. New York: Doubleday, (1953). First Edition. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket deigned by Joe Mugnaini, with the original $3.00 price. More
New York: Doubleday, 1950. 8vo, pale green cloth, spine & edges lightly sunned under the dust wrapper, as is typical of this book; very faint staining on the front board; bright jacket with the original $2.50 price. New York: Doubleday, 1950. First edition. A collectible copy of Bradbury's first major work and a science fiction landmark. More
1993. Original oversize Doubleday Books Marketing postcard, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, distributed to promote the 41st anniversary of the release of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles." To commemorate the event, Doubleday released a collector's edition volume featuring a new foreword by Bradbury and an additional story, "The Fire Balloons," which was removed from the original book. The front features a fantasy illustration depicting Martians on an alien landscape, in a style reminiscent of Frank Frazetta, signed: "Good Wishes to Howard..... More
New York: Abrams, 2000. Many color and b/w Illus. 96pp. 4to, pictorial wrappers. (New York): Abrams, (2000). Near Fine. More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1991. Color plate by John Berkey. Introduction by James Gunn. viii + 393 pages, 8vo, gilt-decorated blue leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: The Easton Press, (1991). First edition. A fine copy, signed by John Brunner. Easton Press, signed first edition. More
505pp., illus. by Vincent DiFate. Thick 4to, gilt stamped brown leather, a.e.g. Easton Press, (1987). Fine. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1907. 8vo, olive green cloth stamped in white & light green; spine dulled; oval pictorial label, small brown spot on flyleaf, some tape repairs on pages. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1907). First Edition. Uncommon science fiction story. More
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1953. 8vo, purple cloth lettered in gilt; author's name on the spine. d.w. Reading: Fantasy Press, (1953). First Edition. Fine, in a price clipped dust wrapper. More
Chicago: Shasta, 1952. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (lightly edge-rubbed & dust soiled). Chicago: Shasta, (1952). First Edition. Autographed by Campbell. More
Providence: Hadley, 1935. Illustrated by Robert Pailthorpe. 8vo, blue pebbled cloth, d.w. Providence: Hadley Publilshing Co., (1935). First Edition. The dust wrapper is edge-chipped and browned at the folds, but is not price-clipped. More
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Howdy and Happy Fourth of July. Just want to let you know that the Dick Grace book came. A nice copy, as promised. Grace was quite a fellow: the only person I ever heard of who crashed planes for a living and died of old age. I was in The Argosy once, years ago, 1997 or so. Hope to get in again one of these days, but NYC is a long way from here. Thanks again for helping me out with this. Best