1887ref. L0271xii144 pages Illustrated throughout. Quarto 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" bound in original pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket in a custom slipcase. First edition first state with the De Vinne Press seal immediately below the copyright notice. The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox based on names and elements from English traditional mythology and Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children The Brownies was published in magazines and books during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Not unlike fairies and goblins Brownies are imaginary little sprites who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. Never allowing themselves to be seen by mortal eyes they are male drawn to represent many professions and nationalities all mischievous members of the fairy world whose principal attribute is helping with chores while a family sleeps. The Brownie characters became famous in their day and at the peak of their popularity were a pioneering name brand within merchandising. The first appearances of Brownie characters in a print publication took place in 1879 but not until the February 1881 issue of Wide Awake magazine were the creatures printed in their final form. The first proper story The Brownies' Ride appeared in the February 1883 issue of the children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine. Published in 1899 The Brownies Abroad is considered the first Brownie comic strip though it didn't utilize speech balloons until the publication The Brownie Clown of Brownie Town of 1908. From 1903 The Brownies appeared as a newspaper Sunday strip for several years. The first compilation The Brownies Their Book was published in 1887 followed by 16 books in the series until the last in 1918. Condition: Rubbing to boards and spine extremities; marginal damp-staining through majority of leaves ownership inscription. Dust jacket damp-stained some wrinkling and creasing few small chips a better than good copy in scarce like jacket. The Century Company hardcover books
1997ref. 120767NY: Putnam 1997. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vonnegut on the title page. Slate-colored speckled endpages. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Purportedly there were few copies of the first printing issued with the speckled endpages preceding the second state with plain slate-colored endpages. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's last novel published during his lifetime. Putnam hardcover books
1938ref. 31915London: Published by George Newnes Ltd. 1938-1939. Tanning to text paper covers bright fine copies in a fine binding. 31915. Octavo three issues all covers by S. R. Drigin pictorial wrappers bound in black boards with spine stamped in gold. Fantasy magazine was a combination of reprints and new materials as well as factual articles. Authors included John Beynon John Russell Fearn Eric Frank Russell and others. The magazine was canceled due to the war. "Fantasy 's lifetime was too short to make a value judgment on its position in SF but there is not denying that Sprigg had considerable editorial acumen and that Fantasy would no doubt have developed into a major magazine" - Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 254-56. Published by George Newnes Ltd. unknown
1887ref. L0271xii144 pages Illustrated throughout. Quarto 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" bound in original pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket in a custom slipcase. First edition first state with the De Vinne Press seal immediately below the copyright notice. The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox based on names and elements from English traditional mythology and Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children The Brownies was published in magazines and books during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Not unlike fairies and goblins Brownies are imaginary little sprites who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. Never allowing themselves to be seen by mortal eyes they are male drawn to represent many professions and nationalities all mischievous members of the fairy world whose principal attribute is helping with chores while a family sleeps. The Brownie characters became famous in their day and at the peak of their popularity were a pioneering name brand within merchandising. The first appearances of Brownie characters in a print publication took place in 1879 but not until the February 1881 issue of Wide Awake magazine were the creatures printed in their final form. The first proper story The Brownies' Ride appeared in the February 1883 issue of the children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine. Published in 1899 The Brownies Abroad is considered the first Brownie comic strip though it didn't utilize speech balloons until the publication The Brownie Clown of Brownie Town of 1908. From 1903 The Brownies appeared as a newspaper Sunday strip for several years. The first compilation The Brownies Their Book was published in 1887 followed by 16 books in the series until the last in 1918. Condition: Rubbing to boards and spine extremities; marginal damp-staining through majority of leaves ownership inscription. Dust jacket damp-stained some wrinkling and creasing few small chips a better than good copy in scarce like jacket. The Century Company hardcover
1997ref. 120767NY: Putnam 1997. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vonnegut on the title page. Slate-colored speckled endpages. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Purportedly there were few copies of the first printing issued with the speckled endpages preceding the second state with plain slate-colored endpages. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's last novel published during his lifetime. Putnam hardcover
2011Huge book: 15" w x 22" h, in Near Fine condition with a bumped lower back corner, small tear at front lower corner, small impact mark at bottom spine with very small tear, some light scuffing. Otherwise Fine. Contents include: stories from Weird Fantasy #12, 13, 17; Weird Science #13, (two stories) 16, 18, 22, Weird Science-Fantasy, #23, 24,, 27 with three previously unpublished works from Spawn of Venus, one a "splash page pencil rough." Shock and War Stories (pp. 98 -- 133): Shock Suspenstories, Frontline Combat, #15, Two-Fisted Tales #13, 33, 34, 41, with (13) full page cover art prints from other editions of the above publications. 152 pages. This is a very large object and will require special shipping to be arranged by seller at time of purchase.
20153 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured plates, double-page plan in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth heightened in gilt, backstrips lettered in brown and gilt, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. The FS edition of this classic fantasy comprises A Wizard of Earthsea (2015), The Tombs of Atuan (2022), The Farthest Shore (2022). COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE.
19888vo., First Edition; yellow cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The fifth Discworld novel, with striking dustwrapper artwork by Josh Kirby. A near fine copy, with no trace of the usual fading at backstrip. 7200 copies were printed. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.
2000ref. 016337Springfield: Gauntlet 2000. Book. Illus. by Harry O. Morris. Fine. Hardcover. Signed Copy. First Edition/First Printing. A collection of more then 60 short stories by the authorsome written especially for this edition. The book features full color illustrations by Harry O. Morrisa forward by the author's father and an afterword by Peter Straub. This being copy #51 of 250 slipcased copies that were produced . This copy is signed by the authorhis father Richard MathesonPeter Straub who added an afterword and Morris. This copy is further signed by 26 other authors that contributed comments about Matheson and about stories that he wrote that affected them them in some way. Among others this copy was signed by Clive BarkerJoe R. LansdaleDean KoontzRamsey CampbellRay GartonDennis EtchisonF.Paul Wilson and others. Stephen King and Ray Bradbury also contributed but did not sign this edition. The purchase of this book also includes a video tape of the movie "Arousal" that was written and directed by Matheson. This copy of the moviewhich is still shrink-wrappedwas issued with this book and I believe that there were only 500 copies manufactured. Gauntlet Hardcover
2006ref. 019436Colorado Springs: Gauntlet 2006. Book. Illus. by Clive Barker. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By All Contributors. First Edition/First Printing. An as new copy with a very light crease to the front flap and veryyyyyy light rubbing/edgewear to the slipcase. Last anthology to be edited by Williamson who died during production. Original fiction by Poppy Z. Brite Richard Matheson Ray Garton Thomas F. Monteleone Richard Christian Matheson Ray Bradbury and many others. This is the lettered editionthis being #FF of 52 copies. Original cover art endpaper illustrations and an original color print that was produced for this edition only by Clive Barker. This copy has been signed by ALL contributors except Ray Russell. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Gauntlet Hardcover
1959ref. 237081959. Science fiction and fantasy zine "Moonshine" archive 1959 to 1973. With content by sci-fi writers and readers discussing books authors publishing conventions and the organizations that supported the field. Produced for circulation through the Fantasy Amateur Press Association the four issues of Moonshine include work by Rick Sneary Len and June Moffatt and Stan Woolston. Their essays and reports cover FAPA the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Westercon the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund European science fiction groups amateur printing and the preservation of earlier publications. Moonshine. California: published by the editors for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association 1959 to 1973. Four illustrated side stapled mimeographed issues. Archive includes: 1 Rick Sneary ed. Moonshine. No. 27. May 1959. Sneary writes on the International Science Fiction Society Pierre Versins European publishing FAPA administration conventions and the exchange of books and periodicals between American and European readers. 2 Rick Sneary Len Moffatt and Stan Woolston. Moonshine. No. 38. August 1969. Issued during planning for Westercon XXIII with material on the Santa Barbara bid convention committees LASFS and FAPA correspondence. The issue records the practical work behind regional science fiction and fantasy conventions including voting publicity finances and program planning. 3 Rick Sneary Len Moffatt Stan Woolston and June Moffatt. Moonshine. No. 43. May 1972. Cover and lettering by June Moffatt. Len Moffatt's "Partial Recall: The FANlife of Len Moffatt" begins a serialized autobiography with his Pennsylvania childhood and his discovery of science fiction publications and correspondence in 1939. Sneary's "Thot's While Typing" discusses FAPA mailings LASFS conventions copyright publishing and the fate of printed archives. Woolston's "One Fan's Outlook" considers amateur writing the British Science Fiction Association writing contests professional publication Ray Bradbury Fred Pohl and zine production. 4 Len and June Moffatt Rick Sneary and Stan Woolston. Moonshine. No. 44. August 1973. Moffatt's "Len's Den" records the 1973 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund campaign and preparations for travel to Britain. It also covers LASFS the Petards the Sherlock Holmes Society of Los Angeles mystery publishing and plans for a later travel account. Woolston writes on the Best of FAPA poll Anthony Boucher Ray Bradbury collecting correspondence conventions and the work of editing and duplicating publications. Moonshine presents science fiction and fantasy as fields shaped in large part by fan interaction and participation in small print networks unique to genre fiction in mid-century American and English literature. Moderate toning and edge wear; scattered handling creases and minor staple oxidation; text and illustrations remain clear and complete in the photographed copies. Overall good condition. A thirteen year record of science fiction and fantasy writing debate and publishing outside the commercial press. unknown books
1959ref. 237081959. Science fiction and fantasy zine "Moonshine" archive 1959 to 1973. With content by sci-fi writers and readers discussing books authors publishing conventions and the organizations that supported the field. Produced for circulation through the Fantasy Amateur Press Association the four issues of Moonshine include work by Rick Sneary Len and June Moffatt and Stan Woolston. Their essays and reports cover FAPA the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Westercon the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund European science fiction groups amateur printing and the preservation of earlier publications. Moonshine. California: published by the editors for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association 1959 to 1973. Four illustrated side stapled mimeographed issues. Archive includes: 1 Rick Sneary ed. Moonshine. No. 27. May 1959. Sneary writes on the International Science Fiction Society Pierre Versins European publishing FAPA administration conventions and the exchange of books and periodicals between American and European readers. 2 Rick Sneary Len Moffatt and Stan Woolston. Moonshine. No. 38. August 1969. Issued during planning for Westercon XXIII with material on the Santa Barbara bid convention committees LASFS and FAPA correspondence. The issue records the practical work behind regional science fiction and fantasy conventions including voting publicity finances and program planning. 3 Rick Sneary Len Moffatt Stan Woolston and June Moffatt. Moonshine. No. 43. May 1972. Cover and lettering by June Moffatt. Len Moffatt's "Partial Recall: The FANlife of Len Moffatt" begins a serialized autobiography with his Pennsylvania childhood and his discovery of science fiction publications and correspondence in 1939. Sneary's "Thot's While Typing" discusses FAPA mailings LASFS conventions copyright publishing and the fate of printed archives. Woolston's "One Fan's Outlook" considers amateur writing the British Science Fiction Association writing contests professional publication Ray Bradbury Fred Pohl and zine production. 4 Len and June Moffatt Rick Sneary and Stan Woolston. Moonshine. No. 44. August 1973. Moffatt's "Len's Den" records the 1973 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund campaign and preparations for travel to Britain. It also covers LASFS the Petards the Sherlock Holmes Society of Los Angeles mystery publishing and plans for a later travel account. Woolston writes on the Best of FAPA poll Anthony Boucher Ray Bradbury collecting correspondence conventions and the work of editing and duplicating publications. Moonshine presents science fiction and fantasy as fields shaped in large part by fan interaction and participation in small print networks unique to genre fiction in mid-century American and English literature. Moderate toning and edge wear; scattered handling creases and minor staple oxidation; text and illustrations remain clear and complete in the photographed copies. Overall good condition. A thirteen year record of science fiction and fantasy writing debate and publishing outside the commercial press. unknown
19658vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; purple cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at headband and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The author's third book for children and EXTREMELY SCARCE IN SIGNED FORM.
1970Very Good Armenian Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Armenian (Western Armenian). 136 p. No ills. Small chippings on the upper corners of front and back covers. Otherwise a good copy. First Armenian edition of Carroll's legendary book "Alice in Wonderland". "This is the first Armenian translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is in the Western Armenian dialect.". (Source: The University of Maryland Alice in Wonderland Early Editions Catalogue). Yervand Kopelian, (1923-2010), was an Armenian translator and writer among Istanbul Armenians. He has worked for the diaspora newspapers like "Luys, Ayg, Jamanak, Kulis and Marmara". He also translated Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago" published in "Marmara" newspaper as an appendix and a serialization. OCLC 974926802. Very scarce.
1970ref. 000594Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1970. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Octavo. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press 1970. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title. Octavo 117 pp. Slate blue boards and pictorial slate-blue jacket. Near fine book in a VG price-clipped jacket with a faint small sticker shadow and very minimal peripheral wear. See scan which is taken with the book protected by mylar somewhat compromising color vividness. Under his much more familiar pseudonym John Norman Lange wrote the entire Gor series of Science Fiction titles which because of the richness of its concept of sexual and other slavery as a contextually beautiful thing spawned an entire branch of the BDSM community that being Gorean BDSM. The Cognitivity Paradox is the only title authored by Lange alone under his given name and this copy was the first one he signed as per his statement to the original owner provenance to purchase. The book itself is non-fiction a sort of general criticism of philosophy in fact as it turns out of a particular form of rigorous classical philosophy. The main thrust of his criticism is that despite centuries of struggle within philosophy to make its endeavor a cognitive one - i.e. one which yields objective knowledge - philosophy philosophers has itself made that impossible by defining itself in a way which precludes by that definition its being cognitive. Despite statements to the contrary in jacket blurbs Lange's own reasoning here is pretty much presented with the same uncomfortably stiff-sounding strictures jargon and mental pigeon-holing of which formal philosophy is often guilty - if you define "formal philosophy" as an averaging-out of what full-time professional general-purpose philosophers have done over the last two hundred or so years. But he probably felt he had to do that at the time. It was 1970. His more natural philosophizing done as John Norman and couched largely as objective correlatives in the adventures of Gor is much more fun to read. But this book is interesting in its own way and certainly is unique as his first signature ever in a copy of the only work he ever authored alone under his given name. l-44 n Princeton University Press hardcover
2003ref. 10522NY: Knopf 2003. First trade edition first prnt. 1st issue dustjacket. Preceded by a self-published paperback edition. Signed and dated "'03" by Paolini on the title page. A 4 x 6 inch color digital photograph of Paolini at the booksigning laid in. One dustjacket corner just touched not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Volume 1 in Paolini's Inheritance trilogy. Paolini's first novel. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
2003ref. 10522NY: Knopf 2003. First trade edition first prnt. 1st issue dustjacket. Preceded by a self-published paperback edition. Signed and dated "'03" by Paolini on the title page. A 4 x 6 inch color digital photograph of Paolini at the booksigning laid in. One dustjacket corner just touched not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Volume 1 in Paolini's Inheritance trilogy. Paolini's first novel. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover
20023 vols., 8vo., New Reset Edition, with coloured frontispieces, full-page coloured illustrations in the text, smaller line drawings, and endpaper maps in red and black; red cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt with 'JRRT' monogram, gilt backs, a fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case. Lee's classic illustrations were first published in Harper Collins' 'New' [single-volume] edition of 1991. This is their first appearance in the work in its original three-volume form. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
1987Roy. 8vo., First Edition, blind crease across top corner of front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The fourth Discworld novel, with striking dustwrapper artwork by Josh Kirby.
20072 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
1889ref. 039483London: Cassell & Company Limited 1889 8vo. original red pictorial cloth rubbed & marked slight nicking to spine ends some toning & sunning spine dulled bookplate to upper pastedown prev. owner's details to early leaves some toning & spotting; pp. 236 last colophon 14 pubs. cat. dated 3.89. A very good copy. Scarce lost world fantasy set in Tibet. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG. Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
1908ref. 66882Niedersedlitz-Dresden : H. G. Münchmeyer [1908]. 748 S. + 766 Seiten, Schrift: Fraktur / Altdeutsche Schrift. nachgebundene Ausgabe
1981ref. 237351981. Fantasy Newsletter near consecutive nine issue run May 1981 to February 1982 documenting the publication's transfer from Paul and Susan Allen's independently produced news magazine to Robert A. Collins and Florida Atlantic University during the early institutional development of fantasy and science fiction studies. Paul C. Allen had founded Fantasy Newsletter in 1978 and received the 1980 World Fantasy Award in the Special Non Professional category for the publication; Robert A. Collins who assumed the editorship during this run received the same award for Fantasy Newsletter in 1982. Whole Nos. 37 through 45 preserve the transition without a break in monthly sequence. The editorial transfer placed a publication built within science fiction and fantasy fandom into the university environment where Collins had founded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in 1980 connecting the periodical's established network of writers critics collectors reviewers and artists with an emerging academic infrastructure for the study of the fantastic. Fantasy Newsletter. The Monthly News Magazine of the Fantasy and Science Fiction Field. Vol. 4 Nos. 4 and 5 through 12 and Vol. 5 Nos. 1 through 2. Rochester New York and Boca Raton Florida: Paul and Susan Allen; Florida Atlantic University May 1981 to February 1982. Nine almost consecutive stapled issues the first seven comprising 36 pages each and the final two 40 pages each. 1 Vol. 4 No. 5 Whole No. 36. May 1981. Fritz Leiber's recurring "On Fantasy" column considers Stephen King's Danse Macabre and the relationship between literary and cinematic horror while Mike Ashley contributes "The British Scene" Charles L. Grant supplies the fiction "The Residents" and Bill Warren writes "Warren's News & Reviews." The issue credits Real Musgrave's "Spellbound" as cover art and includes work by Cora Lee Nealy Michael Morrison R. Garcia Capella and Stephen Fabian. 2 Vol. 4 No. 7 Whole No. 38. July 1981. Karl Edward Wagner contributes "On Fantasy" and is interviewed by Jeffrey M. Elliot; Mike Ashley's "The British Scene" and Douglas E. Winter's "Shadowings" extend the issue's combination of author commentary genre criticism and publishing coverage. The contents page credits Sabrina Jarema with the cover "Cyn Laya by the Silver Lake" and "Victory at the Armageddon" on the back cover. 3 Vol. 4 No. 8 Whole No. 39. August 1981. Fritz Leiber returns to "On Fantasy" Jeffrey M. Elliot continues his interview with Karl Edward Wagner Bill Warren contributes "Warren's News & Reviews" and Mike Ashley reports on British fantasy publishing. The issue's Randy Broecker cover "The Sacrifice" accompanies interior work credited to Allen Koszowski Susan Dexter Carl Sherrell and John Mayer. 4 Vol. 4 No. 9 Whole No. 40. September 1981. Jessica Amanda Salmonson contributes the guest editorial Douglas E. Winter writes "Shadowings" Robert Weinberg discusses "Collecting Fantasy" Bill Warren supplies his news and reviews column Mike Ashley covers "The British Scene" and Neil Barron contributes "Secrets from the Vault." Stephen Fabian provides the cover illustration with additional art by Karen Kuykendall Michael Morrison Carl Sherrell and R. Garcia Capella. 5 Vol. 4 No. 10 Whole No. 41. October 1981. The final issue in the group still identifying Paul and Susan Allen as publishers includes Leiber's "On Fantasy" Weinberg's "Collecting Fantasy" Ashley's "The British Scene" and Jeffrey Elliot's interview with Juanita Coulson. Robert Arrington's "Whitestone" appears as the cover illustration with interior work credited to Raul Garcia Capella and Allen Koszowski. 6 Vol. 4 No. 11 Whole No. 42. November 1981. The masthead now states that Fantasy Newsletter is published monthly by Florida Atlantic University through its Division of Continuing Education and identifies Robert A. Collins as editor. Contents include Karl Edward Wagner's "Celluloid S&S: Boon or Menace" Douglas E. Winter on Stephen King's Cujo under the heading "Nope nothing wrong here" and Darrell Schweitzer's interview with Tanith Lee while Raul Garcia Capella supplies the cover. 7 Vol. 4 No. 12 Whole No. 43. December 1981. Fritz Leiber contributes "On Fantasy" Roger Schlobin writes "The Fool and the Fantastic" Jeffrey Elliot interviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Somtow Sucharitkul contributes "A Certain Slant of 'I'." The contents also include J. Ward Barnes's poem "Return Orbit" with Hank Jankus credited for the cover and Charles Vess for the back cover. 8 Vol. 5 No. 1 Whole No. 44. January 1982. Robert A. Collins is named editor with Jan Hokenson as assistant editor and Joy M. Schwab as business manager. Somtow Sucharitkul contributes "The Horror.The Horror." James Gunn writes "Inner Concerns in Outer Space" Karl Edward Wagner memorializes artist Lee Brown Coye Douglas E. Winter interviews Charles L. Grant and reports on the Seventh World Fantasy Convention and Joan Digby discusses "The Fantastic Collages of John Digby." 9 Vol. 5 No. 2 Whole No. 45. February 1982. Mark Siegel contributes "The Pornography of Violence" Fritz Leiber writes "On Fantasy: The Chess Connection" Bill Warren contributes "Stealing a Little Time For Kids" Somtow Sucharitkul continues "The Horror.Part 2" Timothy R. Sullivan supplies the fiction "The Army of the Woods" Mike Ashley reports on the British scene and Douglas E. Winter concludes his interview with Charles L. Grant. The issue lists Robert A. Collins as editor and credits Sabrina P. Jarema with "Army of the Woods" on the cover and additional illustrations inside. The ten month sequence records a point at which distinctions among fan publishing professional genre journalism literary criticism and academic fantasy studies were becoming increasingly permeable. Under the Allens Fantasy Newsletter already combined trade reporting and book reviewing with sustained critical columns by working writers including Leiber and Wagner coverage of the British field by Mike Ashley collecting history by Robert Weinberg and interviews conducted by Jeffrey M. Elliot. Collins's accession did not discard that structure. The first Florida Atlantic University issues retain many of the same contributors while adding the university's institutional imprint and placing writers including Tanith Lee Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Charles L. Grant James Gunn and Somtow Sucharitkul within a publication increasingly positioned between fandom and formal literary study. Collins had founded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts at Florida Atlantic University in 1980 and the organization developed around the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts as a scholarly forum for science fiction and fantasy. The World Fantasy Awards trace the same transfer unusually clearly: Allen won for Fantasy Newsletter in 1980 while Collins won for the same publication in 1982. Light toning and minor edge wear with scattered light handling marks and occasional soiling; wrappers and staples generally intact. Overall very good condition. A near consecutive record of Fantasy Newsletter at the moment an independently produced fantasy newszine entered a university setting while retaining the writers artists reviewers and critical practices that connected organized fandom to the developing academic study of speculative literature. unknown books
1995ref. 6431New York: Bantam Books 1995. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. First printing of each of the three novels that comprise the original "Shadow" Trilogy from George Lucas and Chris Claremont X-Men. This original trilogy was the testing ground for future stories involving Willow Ufgood and Princess Elora Danan. While the tale told in this original trilogy is not the final storyline of the new Disney television series it obviously aided in the original development and interest in the Willow series in general. First printing copies of each of these works has become very scarce with collectible condition copies being near impossible to find. Trilogy includes: Shadow Moon 1995 Shadow Dawn 1997 and Shadow Star 1999. Each volume with original price intact on front flap and complete number line to the "1" on the title-page. Hint of wear to gutters. Bantam Books hardcover
1981ref. 237351981. Fantasy Newsletter near consecutive nine issue run May 1981 to February 1982 documenting the publication's transfer from Paul and Susan Allen's independently produced news magazine to Robert A. Collins and Florida Atlantic University during the early institutional development of fantasy and science fiction studies. Paul C. Allen had founded Fantasy Newsletter in 1978 and received the 1980 World Fantasy Award in the Special Non Professional category for the publication; Robert A. Collins who assumed the editorship during this run received the same award for Fantasy Newsletter in 1982. Whole Nos. 37 through 45 preserve the transition without a break in monthly sequence. The editorial transfer placed a publication built within science fiction and fantasy fandom into the university environment where Collins had founded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in 1980 connecting the periodical's established network of writers critics collectors reviewers and artists with an emerging academic infrastructure for the study of the fantastic. Fantasy Newsletter. The Monthly News Magazine of the Fantasy and Science Fiction Field. Vol. 4 Nos. 4 and 5 through 12 and Vol. 5 Nos. 1 through 2. Rochester New York and Boca Raton Florida: Paul and Susan Allen; Florida Atlantic University May 1981 to February 1982. Nine almost consecutive stapled issues the first seven comprising 36 pages each and the final two 40 pages each. 1 Vol. 4 No. 5 Whole No. 36. May 1981. Fritz Leiber's recurring "On Fantasy" column considers Stephen King's Danse Macabre and the relationship between literary and cinematic horror while Mike Ashley contributes "The British Scene" Charles L. Grant supplies the fiction "The Residents" and Bill Warren writes "Warren's News & Reviews." The issue credits Real Musgrave's "Spellbound" as cover art and includes work by Cora Lee Nealy Michael Morrison R. Garcia Capella and Stephen Fabian. 2 Vol. 4 No. 7 Whole No. 38. July 1981. Karl Edward Wagner contributes "On Fantasy" and is interviewed by Jeffrey M. Elliot; Mike Ashley's "The British Scene" and Douglas E. Winter's "Shadowings" extend the issue's combination of author commentary genre criticism and publishing coverage. The contents page credits Sabrina Jarema with the cover "Cyn Laya by the Silver Lake" and "Victory at the Armageddon" on the back cover. 3 Vol. 4 No. 8 Whole No. 39. August 1981. Fritz Leiber returns to "On Fantasy" Jeffrey M. Elliot continues his interview with Karl Edward Wagner Bill Warren contributes "Warren's News & Reviews" and Mike Ashley reports on British fantasy publishing. The issue's Randy Broecker cover "The Sacrifice" accompanies interior work credited to Allen Koszowski Susan Dexter Carl Sherrell and John Mayer. 4 Vol. 4 No. 9 Whole No. 40. September 1981. Jessica Amanda Salmonson contributes the guest editorial Douglas E. Winter writes "Shadowings" Robert Weinberg discusses "Collecting Fantasy" Bill Warren supplies his news and reviews column Mike Ashley covers "The British Scene" and Neil Barron contributes "Secrets from the Vault." Stephen Fabian provides the cover illustration with additional art by Karen Kuykendall Michael Morrison Carl Sherrell and R. Garcia Capella. 5 Vol. 4 No. 10 Whole No. 41. October 1981. The final issue in the group still identifying Paul and Susan Allen as publishers includes Leiber's "On Fantasy" Weinberg's "Collecting Fantasy" Ashley's "The British Scene" and Jeffrey Elliot's interview with Juanita Coulson. Robert Arrington's "Whitestone" appears as the cover illustration with interior work credited to Raul Garcia Capella and Allen Koszowski. 6 Vol. 4 No. 11 Whole No. 42. November 1981. The masthead now states that Fantasy Newsletter is published monthly by Florida Atlantic University through its Division of Continuing Education and identifies Robert A. Collins as editor. Contents include Karl Edward Wagner's "Celluloid S&S: Boon or Menace" Douglas E. Winter on Stephen King's Cujo under the heading "Nope nothing wrong here" and Darrell Schweitzer's interview with Tanith Lee while Raul Garcia Capella supplies the cover. 7 Vol. 4 No. 12 Whole No. 43. December 1981. Fritz Leiber contributes "On Fantasy" Roger Schlobin writes "The Fool and the Fantastic" Jeffrey Elliot interviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Somtow Sucharitkul contributes "A Certain Slant of 'I'." The contents also include J. Ward Barnes's poem "Return Orbit" with Hank Jankus credited for the cover and Charles Vess for the back cover. 8 Vol. 5 No. 1 Whole No. 44. January 1982. Robert A. Collins is named editor with Jan Hokenson as assistant editor and Joy M. Schwab as business manager. Somtow Sucharitkul contributes "The Horror.The Horror." James Gunn writes "Inner Concerns in Outer Space" Karl Edward Wagner memorializes artist Lee Brown Coye Douglas E. Winter interviews Charles L. Grant and reports on the Seventh World Fantasy Convention and Joan Digby discusses "The Fantastic Collages of John Digby." 9 Vol. 5 No. 2 Whole No. 45. February 1982. Mark Siegel contributes "The Pornography of Violence" Fritz Leiber writes "On Fantasy: The Chess Connection" Bill Warren contributes "Stealing a Little Time For Kids" Somtow Sucharitkul continues "The Horror.Part 2" Timothy R. Sullivan supplies the fiction "The Army of the Woods" Mike Ashley reports on the British scene and Douglas E. Winter concludes his interview with Charles L. Grant. The issue lists Robert A. Collins as editor and credits Sabrina P. Jarema with "Army of the Woods" on the cover and additional illustrations inside. The ten month sequence records a point at which distinctions among fan publishing professional genre journalism literary criticism and academic fantasy studies were becoming increasingly permeable. Under the Allens Fantasy Newsletter already combined trade reporting and book reviewing with sustained critical columns by working writers including Leiber and Wagner coverage of the British field by Mike Ashley collecting history by Robert Weinberg and interviews conducted by Jeffrey M. Elliot. Collins's accession did not discard that structure. The first Florida Atlantic University issues retain many of the same contributors while adding the university's institutional imprint and placing writers including Tanith Lee Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Charles L. Grant James Gunn and Somtow Sucharitkul within a publication increasingly positioned between fandom and formal literary study. Collins had founded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts at Florida Atlantic University in 1980 and the organization developed around the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts as a scholarly forum for science fiction and fantasy. The World Fantasy Awards trace the same transfer unusually clearly: Allen won for Fantasy Newsletter in 1980 while Collins won for the same publication in 1982. Light toning and minor edge wear with scattered light handling marks and occasional soiling; wrappers and staples generally intact. Overall very good condition. A near consecutive record of Fantasy Newsletter at the moment an independently produced fantasy newszine entered a university setting while retaining the writers artists reviewers and critical practices that connected organized fandom to the developing academic study of speculative literature. unknown
