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Six Science Fiction Collections, including: ... (Total: 6 Items)
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Six Science Fiction Collections, including: Laurence Housman. Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales of This World and the Next. London: Jonathan Cape, [1948]. Octavo. 189 pages. Publisher's cream cloth covers with the front cover and spine lettered in brown. Orange dust jacket with lettering in white and black. Slight rubbing to the covers and the jacket, some very minor closed tears to the edges. Altogether a very good copy. Laurence Housman (1865 - 1959), best known as a playwright, was also an author of fantasy. In this work he collects many of his works that focus upon the powers of various spiritual worlds. [and:] Arthur Neale, editor. The Great Weird Stories. Edited by Arthur Neale. New York: Duffield & Company, 1929. Octavo. 409 pages. Publisher's dark yellow textured cloth covers with the spine lettered in black. Very minor rubbing to the covers, some discoloration to the spine. Altogether a very good copy. This collection includes such works as "The Red Room" by H. G. Wells; "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling; "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe; and "The Tapestried Chamber" Sir Walter Scott. [and:] Edmund Crispin. Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories. Edited with an introduction by Edmund Crispin. London: Faber and Faber, [1956]. Paper cover edition. Octavo. 295 pages. [1, publisher's ad on the inner and outer side of the back cover]. Publisher's purple paper covers with lettering in black and white. Small "Transatlantic Arts" sticker affixed to the front cover. Tiny "145" sticker affixed to the inside of the front cover. Some rubbing, discoloration, and staining to the covers. Altogether a very good copy. Edmund Crispin, pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921 - 1978), edited seven volumes of Best Science Fiction, this particular copy being the second. Among the authors included are: Alfred Bester, Edgar Pangborn, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. [and:] Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp, editors. The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Edited by Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp. Introduction by Isaac Asimov. New York, Washington, London: Praeger Publishers. [1971]. Octavo. xx, 230 pages. Nine full page black and white illustrations, including the frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Alan Peckolick. Slight rubbing to the jacket, slightly discolored spine, some bumping to the edges of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Featured in this collection are fascinating stories engendered by human's curiosity with the moon. Nine authors who find creative inspiration in the moon are featured in this collection, including John Wilkins, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Adams Locke. [and:] Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination. [London]: [Octopus Books Limited], [1983]. Octavo. 288 pages. Several line drawing illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper over board covers with lettering in white. Light orange endpapers. Very light toning to the preliminary pages, otherwise near fine copy. Featured pieces include "The Truth About Pyecraft" by H. G. Wells; "Riddles in the Dark" by J. R. R. Tolkien; "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving; and "The Lion and the Unicorn" by Lewis Carroll. [and:] Charles Henri Ford. A Night with Jupiter: and Other Fantastic Stories. Edited by Charles Henri Ford. [London]: Dennis Dobson Limited Publishers, [1947]. Octavo. 128 pages. Various illustrations particular to each story throughout the text, including the frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth covers with a small eye in silver on the front cover, and the spine lettered in gilt. The back cover features a blind-stamped device. Illustrated dust jacket designed by L. Villaincour. Very minor rubbing to the covers and jacket, two tiny closed tears to the head and spine of the jacket, some bumping to the corners, price clipped from the front inner flap of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Charles Henri Ford (1913 - 2002), renowned editor of the surrealist magazine View in the 1940s, utilized his extraordinary editorial skills to compile this rather wide ranging anthology. Featured authors include Henry Miller, Clay Perry, Leo Poch, Alva N. Turner, and Leonora Carrington.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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