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1948réf. 024263Chicago : Shasta Press 1948. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. Viii 222 Pp Author Biography At End. Tan Cloth Stamped In Black. Stated First Edition. Near Fine Book No Names Or Marks Inscribed To A Fan "Best Regards To ------- L Sprague De Camp" Not A Subscriber Copy But A Personal Inscription By The Author. Dj Lightly Used Minute Losses At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips Some Of The Usual Browning To White Areas At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Edges And Flaps. Shasta Press hardcover
1979réf. 024887Glendale: Roy A. Squires 1979. First Edition . Wrappers. Fine. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4. Chapbook One Of The Last From Squires. #30 Of A Stated 230 Copies Printed From Post Roman And Hadrian Stone Cut Types On Specially Made Paper By Twinrocler With Covers Of Regina Katusha Made By Barcham Greene In England The Wrappers Of French Marble Numbered And Signed By Bradbury On The Colophon. With An Original Typed Four Line Letter Requesting A Review Dated March 29 1980 Signed By Roy Squires. Also With The Enclosed Photocopy Of The Full Page Publicity "Announcement" Including A Full Explanation Of How It Is Considered A Martian Chronicle Describing How The Manuscript Was Stored By Bradbury In A Manila Folder Upon Which Was Written "A Martian Chronicle"; At The Bottom Of The Announcement Is A Note In Marker "Looks Fine To Me! Ray Bradbury 9/1/79" All Photocopied No Original Signature On The Announcement. Roy A. Squires unknown
1956réf. 000416London: Jonathan Cape 1956 1956. First Edition . Purple Boards. Fine/Fine. 282 Pp. Purple Boards White Lettering. Dj Priced 15S. Net. A Fine Copy In Dust Jacket. No Fading Not Price-Clipped No Wear No Foxing. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956 hardcover
1935réf. 017182New York: Science Fiction Digest Company 1935. Teacher's Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Description: Printed Wrappers. Near Fine Book. First Edition. Important early SF fanzine noted for some original stories including the SF satire by Bloch in this issue. Movie reviews also. A near-fine example. Science Fiction Digest Company unknown
1873réf. 007276Boston: Roberts Brothers 1873. First American Edition . Green Cloth. Good. 287 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt Brown Endpapers. First English Language Printing. A Bright Clean Copy Showing Wear At Edges With Fraying At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips. Gilt Lettering And Design All Still Bright And Clear. Green Cloth Split Or Worn Through In A Thin Line Along Much Of Rear Spine Edge Which Could Be Repaired. Internally Tight But Somewhat Foxed Pages. Previous Owner's Name. Hinges And Rear Board Cracked. Two Front Endpapers Detached But Present. An Important Collection Of Early Science Fiction Stories Scarce In Any Early Edition. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1937réf. 017223New York: Street & Smith 1937. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good . First issue under editorship of John W Campbell. Street & Smith paperback
1953réf. 022227Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. Fpci 1953. First Edition First Issue . No Binding. No Book Included/Fine Dustjacket. As new unusued DJ never on a book never folded. uncut margins 20 3/8" x 9" suitable for framing. Only 300 copies of the book were bound by FPCI and it is quite scarce. Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. ( Fpci) unknown
réf. 023946Unpublished. Original Typescript . No Binding. Very Good. 4 Pp A Short Typewritten Sf Story Earth Visitors To A Possibly Habitable Plant Turning Back After Seeing Nothing But Desolation And Danger Ending With The Leaders Of The Inhabitants Congratulating Themselves On The Operation Of Their New Imaginative Apparatus. Dedicated To Forrest Ackerman Anf Frpm Ackerman's Library. Unpublished unknown
1949réf. 015238New York: Standard Magazines 1949. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. A bright front cover a few 1/8" closed tears along top and foredge cover overhang two 1/4" closed tears and a 1/4" V-chip on rear cover. Check in table of contents. Standard Magazines paperback
1962réf. 024495Pacific Grove / Glendale: Roy A Squires and Clyde Beck 1962. First Edition . Quarter Cloth / Boards. Near Fine. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8. 48 Pp. Quarter Black Cloth Author's Name In Gilt On Spine Plain Buff Paper Covered Boards. A Collection Of All The Uncollected Poems That Smith Wanted Published; Later Collected In Arkham's Collected Poems. Chalker & Owings State That The Actual Limitation Was 65 In Trade Paper 100 In Half-Cloth Actually Quarter Cloth As Here And 15 In Full Cloth. Scarce; 24 Copies In Worldcat But Seldom Offered In The Trade. This Example Unworn No Wear To Cloth Or Paper But With A Few Tiny Irregular Losses Of The Surface Of The Paper On The Front Cover. Roy A Squires and Clyde Beck hardcover
1933réf. 016045London 1933: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1933. First Edition . Paper Boards. Fair. 70 Pp. Orange Boards Stamped In Green. Inscribed By The Author And Dated In The Year Of Issue "After A Lovely Summer.". Printed Quote On Cover From Lord Baden-Powell: "Any Youngsters Who Are Sensible And Not Little Gumpts Will Read This Book With Real Enjoyment." Paper Backstrip Worn Away Front And Rear Cover Very Clean And Bright And With Little To No Wear But Binding Repaired Internally With Cellotape At Two Margins With One Illustration Taped In Before The Title As A Frontispiece. Only A Few Copies In Worldcat. Dorothy Field Dudley Short Was Active As A British Writer Reviewer And Editor Circa 1922-1960. This Example From Her Granddaughter's Library.Very Scarce One Of The Burns Oates' Nature And Science Series For Children. The Author Notes In Her Personal Papers That "1933. Burns Gates Bombed And Also Their Printing Works At Plymouth. Lost Half The Edition". Burns Oates & Washbourne hardcover
1960réf. 003796Los Angeles Circa 1960: E. Everett Evans / Forrest Ackrman 1960. Original Manuscript . No Binding. Near Fine. Two typewritten manuscript sets of carbons with handwritten original changes in blue ink 157 pp 262 pp. Two versions of an unpublished novel of youth by Science Fiction author/editor E. Everett Evans. From the author's agent Forrest Ackerman in his archive box. E. Everett Evans / Forrest Ackrman unknown
1992réf. 024694Shingletown: Mark V. Ziesing 1992. First Edition 1st Printing. Black Boards. Fine/Fine DJ and Slipcase. 301 pp. #111 of 350 copies of the signed limited edition as new in as new slipcase Mark V. Ziesing hardcover
1935réf. 017356Jamaica New York: Fantasy Magazine 1934 1935. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Important early SF fanzine noted for some original stories Movie reviews also. A near-fine copy. Signed in blue ink by "Scientifilm Editor" Forrest Ackerman; this was one of his personal copies. Note that the magazine was printed with incorrect date 1934 on front cover this being hand-corrected in pencil to 1935. Fantasy Magazine (1934) unknown
1935réf. 025146New York: Simon & Schuster 1935. First American Edition First Printing . Black Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 196 Pp. First American Edition First Printing. Black Cloth With Paper Spine And Cover Labels. Book With No Wear Original Paper Labels Bright And Clean And Undamaged Toning To Endpapers As Usual Small Personal Name Label At Top Of Title Page. Dj Complete Not Price Clipped No Chips Light Rubbing With Minute Losses At Bottom Of Spine And Rear Tips 3/16" Tear At Bottom Flap Fold All Panels A Little Dusty Browning To White Spine Lettering. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1949réf. 021677Los Angeles: Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society 1949. First Edition 1st Printing. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Original Program Red Covers With Black Printing. This Example With "E. E. E. " At The Top Apparently E. Everett Evans' Copy As He Participated In The Organization Of This Second Annual Convention With "Th' Ol' Foo" Added Below By Forrest Ackerman And This Being His Copy. Signed By Ray Bradbury And With His Own Caricature Marguerite Bradbury A E Van Vogt Arthur Joquel R. Dewitt Miller Eph Konigsberg Forrest Ackerman Bryce Walton William Rotsler Also With His Caricature Roy A Squires Kris Neville Henry Eichner Len Moffat Rick Sneary Walt Daugherty Jean Cox. And Several Dozen Other Members. With An Extra Cover Sheet. Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society unknown
1953réf. 009572Reading Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press 1953. First Edition First Binding State . Dark Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine Jacket. Jacket By Mel Hunter. 222 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. 1 Of 3558 Copies In The First Binding Of Dark Blue Cloth With Gilt Lettering 540 Copies Were Subsequently Issued By Grant In Lighter Blue Cloth With Titling In Black. Inscribed By The Author At Length To Science Fiction Writer Bob Tucker And Inscribed Again At Some Length To His Wife. A Clean Copy Some Foxing To End Papers As Is Often Found. In A Bright Immaculate And Near New Dj With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Fantasy Press hardcover
1930réf. 015038New York 1930. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Science Fiction. Spine torn with some small chips two faint cover creases still an attractive copy. paperback
1955réf. 022882New York: Ballantine Books 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Jacket. 186 Pp. Yellow-Brown Cloth With Spine Lettering In Blue. There Are Several Variants Of The Cloth Color No Known Priority. The Publisher's Personal Copy Direct From The Publisher's Library. Handwritten "Production Dept" On Front Pastedown As Is Sometimes Found In The Publisher's Copies. Book Fine Clean No Wear Spine Lettering As New Pages Aged As Usual. Dj Complete Not Price-Clipped. Tiny Rub At Top Of Front Spine Edge Small Damp Spots At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Adjacent Area Of Rear Panel Some Foxing Along Spine Folds And Rear Panel A Little Fading To Green Color On Spine Panel And Very Faint Foxing To Spine Panel. Ballantine Books hardcover
1954réf. 020887Emporia / Dallas: Orville W. Mosher / CRIFANAC 1954. First Edition . Stapled Wrappers. Very Good. Unpaginated but complete. From the collection of Forrest Ackerman and with a two page article about the opening of the new offices of the Ackerman Science Fiction Agency including notices of two paries there attended by Van Vogt Bradbury Beaumont oliver Neville Harryhausen E. Everett Evans Rocklynne etc. and telephone calls from George Pal etc. Orville W. Mosher / CRIFANAC unknown
1950réf. 024147Reading: Fantasy Press 1950. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue-green Cloth. Fine/Fine. 310 Pp. Blue-Green Cloth Spine Stamped In Gold. #194 Of 500 Subscribers' Copies With An Inserted Numbered Limitation Leaf Signed By The Author This One Also Inscribed By Williamson "Most Cordially". Fantasy Press hardcover
1946réf. 021294Los Angeles: Pathfinder / Forrest Ackerman 1946. Original Typescript . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Single Typed Sheet On Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Stationary A 24 Line Press Release In Carbon Copy Mentioning His Guest Of Honor Speech At The World Science Fiction Convention Summarizing His Novels And Quoting Aevv Regarding Coming Atomic War "Because Human Beings Have Not Yet Learned To Understand Themselves" The Central Concern Of Van Vogt Leading To His Work On The Development Of Dianetics With L Ron Hubbard And His Own Later Founding And Proprietorship Of The International Dianetic Society. With Typed Note At Top From Forrest Ackerman "28 July 46 - Van: Thank For Your Quick Cooperation On The Pic. As A Result The Article Is Already On Its Way To American Magazine. Fja". The American Did Not Pick It Up Van Vogt Replying With A Handwritten Note On The Back "Dear Forry: I Thought That Was Splendid - Could Hardly Believe It Was About Me Though. Sorry American Said "Nix!" Be Seeing You. Good Luck. /A Written By Van Vogt With A Wilted "Null"." A Handwritten Annotation From Ackerman Indicates This Was Eventually Published In Pathfinder On November 4. Handwritten Material From Van Vogt In 1946 Or Earlier Prior To The Book Publication Of "Slan" Is Quite Scarce And Is Almost Entirely Absent From His Personal Archives. Pathfinder / Forrest Ackerman unknown
1955réf. 024127New York: Ballantine Books 1955. First Edition 1st Printing. Grey-Green Cloth. Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Powers Dust Jacket Art. 167 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Black. First Edition. A Fine Book No Wear No Names Or Marks Usual Aging Of Pages. Dj With Just A Touch Of Wear At A Few Points 3/16" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Flap Fold And Another At Top Of Rear Panel Small Bruise No Tears Or Creases Near Center Of Spine Not Price-Clipped. Small Bump To Upper Tip Of Front Board And Front Panel Of Dj. Ballantine Books hardcover
1959réf. 022762Columbia Publications 1959. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 15 Issues Most Near Fine Slight Wear Losses On Ends Of A Few Spines. Columbia Publications paperback
1950réf. 024799Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1950. First Edition . Staples. Very Good. 11" x 8 1/2. 8 Pp Large Format Sf Magazine With Title Etc At Top Of First Page Publisher's Info At Bottom Of Last Page Containing Just This One Story. The Copy Of Forrest Ackerman But No Marks. Ziff-Davis unknown