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New York:: Facts On File, Inc.,, 1995.. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight, some creasing to front wrapper.. First printing in wrappers. A large format trade paperback. A reference to the creatures of science fiction. The ultimate encyclopedia of the unimaginable, featuring over 100 illustrations and a user-friendly format. Includes accounts of superheroes and spacecraft from places and times unknown. Introduction, Guide for the Reader, 5 Appendices, Index. 372 pgs.

New York & London:: Norton,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. . First printing. A well-researched look at vampires in American life - whether considered as entertainment or taken seriously - by this folklorist - a scholarly book but one written with humor. Illustrated, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, 255 pp.

New York:: Bowker, , 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in glossy boards, no dj as issued.. First printing of the 3rd edition, greatly expanded, revised and updated from the previous editions. A comprehensive and important work on science fiction: covers the emergence of sf (to 1920), between the wars (1918-1938), the early modern period (1938-1963), the modern period (1964-1986) by Brian Stapleford, children's and young adult sf, an extensive checklist on science fiction in languages other than English (numerous entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction) as well as a core collection checklist, author, subject and title indexes, and much more. Introduction by Brian Aldiss. 874 pp.

San Diego, CA: Bloody Dagger Books, 1998. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing, large format trade paperback, spiral bound.in stiff laminated wrappers. No hardcover edition. There's 311 pages of entries, plus 10 intro pages. Most titles have between 1 and 3 listings, except the biggies, such as King, Koontz, Asimov, etc. 20 dealer contributors, some of who are; Almark in Toronto, Barry Levin, Black & White, Gerry Kleier, John Knott, Michael John Thompson, Nick Certo, Ralph Kristiansen. Includes important pulps, paperbacks and digest magazines.

Cincinnati:: Writer's Digest Books,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no jacket as issued.. First printing. In addition to discussion on characters, plots, background, etc. each section includes a short story that illustrates the points Bova is making. Index. 218 pp.

Cincinnati:: Writer's Digest Books,, (1994.). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards, no jacket as issued (name).. 4th printing. In addition to discussion on characters, plots, background, etc. each section includes a short story that illustrates the points Bova is making. SIGNED by Bova on the title page, and uncommon thus. Index. 218 pp.

New York:: Frederick Ungar Publishing,, 1978.. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

London:: MIT Press,, 1980.. VG (prev owner's name). Trade paperback. A history of science fiction's treatment of artificial intelligence

New York & London:: Methuen,, (1986). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A study of utopian literature which focuses on four American science fiction novels - Joanna Russ "The Female Man"; Ursula Le Guin "The Dispossessed"; Marge Piercy "Woman on the Edge of Time" and Samuel Delany "Triton" - three by women and one by an African American. One review commented that "This is a book for our time. In an age of individual self-enhancement schemes and neo-liberal apologies for unjust and unequal structures, it urges us to imagine a world of justice, freedom, and dignity for people and living things." (Angelika Bammer) and Kim Stanley Robinson noted that "This book has iconic standing as a foundational text in understanding utopias, and in seeing how the critical utopias of the 1970s were major innovations in the way literature speaks to the social… Read More

London:: Routledge & Kegan Paul, , (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The first critical assessment of the literary movement known as "New Wave" science fiction. Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973. and in it, he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing - the essential paradox of the writing lay in its fascination with the concept of "entropy" - the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder. The New Worlds writers were not concerned with the far future and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of the modern world. As Ballard put it, "the only truly alien planet is earth." This study gives detailed attention to of the three main contributors to the New Worlds magazine - Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard. SIGNED on the title page by Moorcock and uncommon thus. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 244 pp.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (1992.). SIGNED first edition -. SIGNED by SEVEN authors at their photographs: George R. R. Martin, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Peter Straub, Diane Paxson. Peter Beagle and Charles de Lint. Very good in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of photographs of more than one hundred of today's top fantasy writers, accompanied by personal statements from the authors themselves. Included are Lynn Abbey, Joan Aiken, Lloyd Alexander, Peter S. Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Terry Brooks, Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Suzy McKee Charnas, C. J. Cherryh, Louise Cooper, Susan Cooper, John Crowley, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon R. Dicksokn, J. P. Donleavy, Raymond E. Feist, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Goldstein, Terry Goodkind, Barbara Hambly, Harry Harrison, Tracy Hickman, Robert Jordan, William Kotzwinkle, Katherine Kurtz, Mercedes Lackey, Stephen R. Lawhead, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L'Engle,… Read More

San Bernadino, CA:: Borgo Press,, 1976.. First edition -. Near fine (a bit of sunning to the covers). First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. An early monograph on Le Guin. Volume 3 in the Milford Series on Popular Writers of Today. Brief bibliography. 60 pgs in stapled wrappers.

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1966.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, some spine slant, but overall clean, in a dust jacket with a spine label, not price-clipped... First printing. A book which combines both fiction - starting with stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - and literary criticism. Among the topics are automata, medicine men, space travel, time travel and more. xiii, 412 pp.

New York:: Paragon House, , (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Contains over 1,000 entries in alphabetical order plus several appendices and a bibliography. SIGNED on the title page by TWO authors: Rogow and C.J. Cherryh who wrote the foreword to this book. Uncommon thus. Illustrated with small drawings by Leah Rosenthal. 408 pp.

New York:: Paragon House, , (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a few additional words have been neatly added in the upper margins of the appropriate pages). First printing. Contains over 1,000 entries in alphabetical order plus several appendices and a bibliography. SIGNED on the title page by TWO authors: Rogow and C.J. Cherryh who wrote the foreword to this book. Uncommon thus. Illustrated with small drawings by Leah Rosenthal. 408 pp.

Boston:: G.K. Hall , 1984. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in original cloth, no dust jacket as issued.. First printing. Large 503 page index of 1017 science fiction anthologies published July 1977 to December 1983. Over 10,000 story titles and articles by 2890 authors searchable by story or author, and by book title or author/editor. Also excellent reference for finding original magazine publication info for any anthologised SF story . Followup to 1978 INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS. Author indicated fewer of this followup printed than the original .

New York:: Frederick Ungar Publishing,, 1985.. First edition -. Very good (some notations on last blank page - a "story idea"). First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Other contributors include Lloyd Biggle, Jr, Ron Goulart, Parke Godwin and others.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, some rubbing and fading to the dj, price-clipped) . First printing. A study which traces "the tradition of science fiction from its beginnings in English through the period of H. G. Wells' great achievements in the genre. The author deals not only with relatively well-known works such as 'Gulliver's Travels,' 'Frankenstein,' 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' and 'The Time Machine,' but also with obscure or neglected fantasies such as those of Robert Cromie, whose 'Crack of Doom' (1895) narrates the fate of a scientist who proposes to destroy the world with an atom bomb." Selective bibliography, index. ix, 174 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC:: University of North Carolina Press,, (1993.). First edition -. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Discusses the works of such writers as Anne McCaffrey, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Jessica Amanda Salmanson, Kate Wilhelm, Tiptree and Octavia Butler, among others. Notes, references, index. 233 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC:: University of North Carolina Press,, (1993.). First edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover.) . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Discusses the works of such writers as Anne McCaffrey, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Jessica Amanda Salmanson, Kate Wilhelm, Tiptree and Octavia Butler, among others. Notes, references, index. 233 pp.