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PULPFEST 2023 JOECK’S ESTATE AUCTION CATALOG

 

 

 

 

Abbreviations

DJ = dust jacket dmg = damage
ed = edition
1st = first edition HC = hardcover RP = reprint edition SC = softcover

SF = science fiction

Grades

F = fine
G = good
NF = near fine VG = very good

Lot #1 — 2 Poul Anderson HCs

  • 7 Conquests—stories from 1955 - 1969, 1969 MacMillan 1st, VG, NF

    DJ, ex-library, signed

  • Vault of the Ages—1952 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, VG+ Paul Orban DJ, Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #2 — 7 Isaac Asimov books

  • Foundation & Earth—1952

    Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ,

    signed

  • Foundation & Empire—1986

    Doubleday 1st, F, G DJ

  • Foundation’s Edge—1982

    Doubleday 1st, F, NF DJ

  • I, Robot—Grosset & Dunlap RP,

    G+, no DJ.

  • Lucky Starr & the Moons of

    Jupiter (as Paul French)—1957

    Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Pebble in the Sky—1950 Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters—1995 Doubleday 1st SC, F

    Lot #3 — Jack Bechdolt’s The Torch (RESERVE)

1948 Prime Press 1st, NF, VG DJ.

Originally serialized by Argosy. Lot #4 — 6 Early Sanctum Books

Doc Savage Doubles, all VG-NF + The Fantastic Pulps

  • #8—Sea Magician & Living-Fire

    Menace

  • #9—The Majii & The Golden Man

  • #10—Dust of Death & Stone Man

  • #12—Squeaking Goblin & Evil

    Gnome

#13—Brand of the Werewolf & Fear Cay

#15—Red Spider & “Other Cold War Thrillers,” Bob Larkin cover

The Fantastic Pulps—edited by Peter Haining—remaindered SC, hole punch in cover, otherwise VG

Lot #5 — 3 Golden Press Doc Savage Juveniles — all Western Pub., G-VG HC, pictorial wraps #2—Death In Silver

#3—The Ghost Legion #6—Secret In the Sky

Lot #6 — 3 Armed Services Editions paperbacks

  • The Education of T. C. Mits by

    Hugh Gray & Lillian R. Lieber,

    modern mathematics, #Q-4, G

  • Jumper by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

    —horse story, #1062, G+

  • One Day at Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar—animal stories, #1061,

    about VG

    Lot #7 — 2 HC SF Memoirs

  • The Futurians by Damon Knight—

    1977 John Day 1st, NF, VG DJ

  • The Way the Future Was by

    Frederik Pohl—1978 Del Rey 1st, VG, VG+ DJ

    Lot #8 — 2 SC SF Magazine Histories by Mike Ashley

  • The Time Machines: The Story

    of the Science-Fiction Pulp

    Magazines to 1950

  • Gateways to Forever: The Story

    of the SF Magazines from 1970 - 1980—both are 2007 Liverpool University 1st SC ed, NF

    Lot #9 — The Big Swingers by Robert Fenton

First full-scale biography of Edgar

Rice Burroughs, 1967 Prentice- Hall 1st, VG, G DJ

Lot #10 — 2 James Blish HCs

  • The Duplicated Man (co-written

    with Robert Lowndes)—1959

    Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ

  • Earthman Come Home—1955

    Putnam 1st, F, VG DJ

    Lot #11 — 3 John W. Campbell HCs

  • The Atomic Story—1947 Henry

    Holt 1st, VG, VG DJ

  • Invaders from the Infinite—1961

    Gnome Press 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Mightiest Machine—1947

Hadley Publishing 1st, G, fair DJ, illustrations by R. Pailthorpe

Lot #12 — 3 Arthur C. Clarke HCs Prelude to Space—1954 Gnome

Press 1st, G, G DJ
The Songs of Distant Earth

1986 Del Rey 1st, F, VG DJ
3001: The Final Odyssey—1997

Del Rey 1st, F, NF DJ

Lot #13 —6 Jules Verne Items
Jules Verne: The Biography of

an Imagination by George Waltz,

1943 Henry Holt 1st, VG, no DJ Jules Verne Bibliographies—a

compilation of webpage printouts The Mysterious Island—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG, no DJ

The Space Novels of Jules Verne

— SC Dover RP, includes “To the

Sun” and “Off On a Comet”
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea— Grosset & Dunlap RP, G-VG, no DJ

Underground City or The Child of the Cavern—Alta Edition, Porter & Coates, c. 1880-85, illustrated, G, no DJ

Lot #14 — 3 HC Future War Novels The Long Night—Martin Caidin’s

1st novel concerns a nuclear attack on a US city; 1956 Dodd, Mead, 1st, G, G DJ, signed

The Conquered Place—Robert Shafer novel about a totalitarian takeover of the USA; 1954 Putnam 1st, VG, VG DJ

Invasion—Nazis invade the US in Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s novel; Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, no DJ

Lot #15 — G. I. Revues — 10 Package Shows (reserve)
At Ease, Volume XVI—created by

the Special Services Division of the American Service Forces, this paperback was published in 1944 by Street & Smith. Anthology of musical sketches to entertain US troops & sailors. Foreword by Richard Rogers

Lot #16 — 3 Winston Juveniles
Earthbound by Milton Lesser—

1952 1st, VG, VG DJ
Stadium Beyond the Stars by

Milton Lesser—1960 1st, VG, G-

VG DJ
Vandals of the Void by Jack

Vance—1953 1st, F, no DJ

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Lot #17 — 8 Boys Aviation Adventure Juveniles

  • Air Monster by Edwin Green—

    the world’s largest dirigible, 1932

    Goldsmith, VG, no DJ

  • A Lucky Terrell Flying Story: The Flying Wing—1946 Grosset & Dunlap, F, NF DJ

  • Red Randall in Burma by Robert Sidney Bowen—1945 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Red Randall Over Tokyo by Robert Sidney Bowen—1944 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Secret Pilot by George E. Rochester—an atomic-powered flying suit—1954 Epworth Press (British) VG, VG DJ

  • Skycruiser by Howard M. Brier— 1948 Comet Books, 2nd printing, G-VG SC

  • The Sky Detectives by Ambrose Newcomb—1939 Goldsmith, G, G DJ

  • Ted Scott Flying Stories #2: Rescued In the Clouds—1927 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #18 — 3 Fantasy Press 1st editions in HC (RESERVE)

  • The Crystal Horde by John Taine,

    illustrated by Hannes Bok—1952,

    F, NF DJ, signed

  • The Forbidden Garden by John

    Taine—1947, VG+, no DJ, signed

    (as Eric Temple Bell)

  • Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank

    Russell, illustrated by Edd Cartier —1948, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #19 — 3 Sam Moskowitz Studies (RESERVE)

  • Explorers of the Infinite:

    Shapers of SF—1963 Meridian

    Books 1st, SC, G-VG

  • Strange Horizons: The Spectrum of SF—1976 Scribner’s 1st, G-VG, VG DJ, ex-library

  • Under the Moons of Mars— history & anthology of scientific romances. 1970 Holt, Rinehart, & Winston 1st, NF, VG DJ

    Lot #20 — The Steranko History of Comics 2 by James Steranko

1972 Supergraphics, 1st, G-VG,

oversized SC

Lot #21 — 3 Hal Clement HCs

  • Iceworld—1954 Gnome Pres 1st,

    VG, G-VG DJ

  • Needle—1950 Doubleday 1st, fair,

no DJ
Small Changes—collects stories

from 1944 - 1966; 1969 Doubleday 1st, VG, VG DJ, signed

Lot #22 — 5 L. Sprague de Camp HCs
The Glory That Was—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ
The Hand of Zei—1963 Avalon

Books 1st, VG, NF DJ
The Hand of Zei—1981 Owlswick

Press RP, VG, pictorial boards cover by Edd Cartier & Kelly Freas, illustrated by Edd Cartier

Tales from Gavagan’s Bar (with Fletcher Pratt), 1953 Twayne 1st, NF, NF DJ

Wall of Serpents (with Fletcher Pratt), 1960 Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #23 — Robert A. Heinlein’s Assignment in Eternity (RESERVE) a collection of four long stories —

1953 Fantasy Press1st, F, NF Ric Binkley DJ

Lot #24 — Donald Westlake’s

Tomorrow’s Crimes

10 SF-crime stories from 1961 to 1984 — 1989 Mysterious Press 1st, F, G DJ

Lot #25 — 7 SC SF Studies from Advent Publishers, all about VG Heinlein in Dimension by Alexi

Panshin (1968)
In Search of Wonder by Damon

Knight (1960)
The Issue at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1964)
More Issues at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1970)
A Requiem for Astounding by

Alva Rogers (1964)
The SF Novel—Earl Kemp edited

anthology of essays by A. Bester, R. Bloch, B. Davenport, R. A. Heinlein, & C. M. Kornbluth (1959)

The Universes of E. E. Smith by Ron Ellis & Bill Evans (1966)

Lot #26 — 6 Classic SF Anthologies in HC
Flight Into Space—edited by

Donald A. Wollheim, 1951

Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ
My Best SF Story—edited by Leo Margulies & Oscar J. Friend, 1950

Merlin Press, 2nd printing, G-VG, no DJ

9 Tales of Space and Time— edited by Raymond J. Healy, 1954 Henry Holt 1st, VG - NF, VG DJ

Portals of Tomorrow—edited by August Derleth, 1954 Rinehart 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

SF 59—“Best of 1959,” edited by Judith Merrill, 1959 Gnome Press 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

World of Wonder—edited by Fletcher Pratt, 1951 Twayne, 2nd printing, VG, G-VG DJ

Lot #27 — Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1 - 8, Grosset & Dunlap HC — all 8 are VG, VG DJ
#1—Stand By for Mars!
#2—Danger In Deep Space
#3—On the Trail of the Space

Pirates
#4—The Space Pioneers
#5—The Revolt on Venus
#6—Treachery in Outer Space #7—Sabotage in Space
#8—The Robot Rocket

Lot #28 — 3 Armed Services Editions historical paperbacks
The Bitter Tea of General Yen by

Grace Zaring Stone’s novel of the

Chinese civil war, #1125, G+
Freedom Road by Howard Fast,

Southern Reconstruction, #T-26, G Saints and Strangers by George

Wilson on the Pilgrims, #1052, VG

Lot #29 — Men’s Adventure Magazines (RESERVE)
Max Allan Collins & George

Hagenauer history, with images from The Rich Oberg Collection— 2008 Taschen 1st, NF, NF DJ

Lot #30 — 2 Books about SF Fans & Pros
Futurespeak: A Fan’s Guide to

the Language of SF by Roberta Rogow, 1991 Paragon House 1st, F, VG+ DJ, signed

SF Handbook, Revised by L. Sprague & Catherine deCamp, 1975 Owlslick Press, F, no DJ, ex- library

Lot #31 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
Citizen of the Galaxy—1957

Scribner’s 1st, 1st printing, VG-NF,

VG DJ
Double Star—early SF book club

ed of 1956 1st ed
Rocket Ship Galileo—1947

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Scribner’s 1st, later printing, VG, no DJ (Heinlein’s 1st HC)

Lot #32 — 5 Lester del Rey HCs

  • Attack from Atlantis—1953

    Winston Juvenile, NF, VG Paul

    Orban DJ

  • Day of the Giants—1959 Avalon

    Books 1st, F, no DJ, signed

  • Mission to the Moon—1956 Winston Juvenile, NF, NF DJ,

    signed

  • The Mysterious Sky—1964

    Chilton 1st, VG, G-VG DJ, signed

  • Step to the Stars—1954 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, no DJ, signed

    All 3 Winston Juvenile feature Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #33 — 4 Edmond Hamilton HCs

  • City at World’s End—1951 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, fair, no DJ

  • The Star Kings—1951 Bergendahls Forlag 1st German ed, G-VG, no DJ (in German)

    Lot #34 — 4 Edgar Allan Poe Items

  • Complete Works—P. F. Collier HC

    RP, G-VG, no DJ

  • Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers—1917

    B. W. Huebsch, scarce HC, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • The SF of Edgar Allan Poe—read

    by Paul Scofield, 1986 Dove, 2

    cassette recordings

  • Tales of Mystery & Imagination

    —1971 Everyman’s Library British RP, VG, near VG Mervyn Peake DJ

    Lot #35 — 2 SF HCs by Leading Women Writers of the 1950s

  • Children of the Atom by Wilmar

    Shiras—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

    VG, G+ Frank Kelly Freas DJ

  • Shadow on the Hearth by Judith

    Merrill—1950 Doubleday 1st, G- VG, fair-good DJ

    Lot #36 — 12 Avalon First Editions in HC

  • Alien World by Adam Lukens,

    1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ,

    ex-library

  • Collision Course by Robert

    Silverberg, 1961, VG, no DJ

  • The Dark Planet by J. Hunter

The Drums of Tapajos by Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Encounter by J. Hunter Holly, 1959, F, no DJ

The Gray Aliens by J. Hunter Holly, 1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ, ex-library

Immortality Delivered by Robert Sheckley, 1958, VG, VG DJ

Island in the Sky by Manly Wade Wellman, 1961, F, no DJ

Lost in Space by George O. Smith, 1959, NF, no DJ

The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler, 1961, VG, no DJ

The Time Chariot by Earl Hickey, 1966, VG, VG Gray Morrow DJ, ex-library

Troyanaby Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Lot #37 — 2 Armed Services Editions in VG+ Condition
Gold and Guns on Halfaday

Creek by James B. Hendryx, #1073, 4th book in series from Argosy & Short Stories

I’ll Try Anything Twice by Fred Russell, #101, sports humor and anecdotes by the longtime sports editor for the Nashville Banner

Lot #38 — 3 Alfred Hitchcock Juvenile Anthologies + One Other Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly

Gallery—1962 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, VG DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted

Houseful—1961 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, no DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders

in Suspense—1967 Random

House, VG pictorial wraps, G DJ

Spooks Deluxe: Excursions Into the Supernatural by Franklin Watts, 1st printing, VG, G DJ

Lot #39 — 2 SF Oddities in HC Serve It Forth: Cooking with

Anne McCaffrey—recipes from leading SF and fantasy writers, NF, pictorial wraps

The Space Child’s Mother Goose: Verses by Frederick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry, 1958 Simon & Schuster 1st, VG, VG DJ

Lot #40 — 2 Books Related to Sherlock Holmes (RESERVE)
The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana

by Jack Tracy, 1979 Avon SC, 1st

printing, remaindered, G-VG
Uncollected Stories by Arthur

Conan Doyle—1982 Doubleday 1st US ed, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #41 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
The Cat Who Walks Through

Walls—1985 Putnam 1st, NF, VG

Michael Whelan DJ
Farmer in the Sky— 1st printing,

1950 Scribner’s 1st, VG-NF, no DJ Space Cadet—1949 Scribners RP

of 1948 1st, G, VG- DJ

Lot #42 — 2 Lewis Padgett (C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) HCs
A Gnome There Was—stories

from 1941 - 49, 1950 Simon and

Schuster, 1st, G, fair DJ
Mutant—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

VG, VG - NF DJ

Lot #43 — Murray Leinster’s

Sidewise in Time

6 pulp stories from 1934-1946; 1950 Shasta 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #44 — 6 Scientific Romances in HC by ERB and Otis A. Kline
At the Earth’s Core—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
Jungle Tales of Tarzan—Grosset

& Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Warlord of Mars—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Outlaws of Mars—1961

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ Planet of Peril—1961 Avalon

Books 1st, F, no DJ
The Swordsman of Mars—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #45 — 1st Authorized U. S. Edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, “Wrecked in the Air” (RESERVE)
1874 Scribner, Armstrong, & Co.,

includes 48 illustrations & map, gold-stamped, VG, no DJ

Lot #46 — 3 Armed Services Editions literary paperbacks
The Best Plays of 1943 - 1944

six plays by Lillian Hellman, Moss

Hart, and others, #T-25, G

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg—front cover half-loose, #N-6, G

A Wartime Whitman—Walt Whitman poems, #S-1, VG

Holly, 1962, F, no DJ

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Lot #47 — 7 Gnome Press First Editions, all in HC

  • Agent of Vega by James H.

    Schmitz, 1960, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Bird of Time by Wallace West

    1959, G, insect damage, no DJ

  • The Dawning Light by Robert

    Silverberg & Randall Garrett, 1959,

    G-VG, no DJ

  • Five SF Novels by A. E. van Vogt,

    Fritz Leiber, Jack Williamson, Norvell W. Page, & Norman Knight 1952, VG, G-VG DJ

  • The Path of Unreason by George O. Smith, 1958, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Starmen by Leigh Brackett, 1952, VG in VG DJ

  • Typewriter In the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard, fair, water dmg, no DJ

    Lot #48 — 5 Grosset & Dunlap HC Tom Swift Adventures

  • #4—Tom Swift & His Submarine

    Boat, 1910, G, no DJ

  • #22—Tom Swift & His Air Scout,

    1919, VG, no DJ

  • #2—Tom Swift Jr. & His Jetmarine,

    1954, VG, VG DJ

  • #9—Tom Swift Jr. on the Phantom

    Satellite, 1956, VG, VG DJ

  • #19—Tom Swift Jr. & His

    Triphibian Atomicar, 1962, VG, pictorial wraps

    Lot #49 — 4 Whitman HC Newspaper Comic Strip Juveniles

  • Boots & the Mystery of the

    Unlucky Vase, based on “Boots &

    Her Buddies,” 1943, VG, no DJ

  • Dick Tracy, based on Chester

    Gould’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

  • Red Ryder and Gun-Smoke Gold

    based on Fred Harmon’s strip,

    1954, VG, no DJ, pictorial wraps

  • Tillie the Toiler: Masquerading Duchess from Russ Westover’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #50 — History of the SF Magazines, V. 1 - 3 by Mike Ashley

  • Vol. 1 (1926 - 1935)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 2 (1936 - 1945)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 3 (1946 - 1955)—1977

    Contemporary Books 1st US ed, G, G-VG DJ

    Lot #51 — 4 SC Books about SF

  • The Science in SF by Peter

    Nichols, 1983 Knopf 1st US, VG

  • SF Art by Chris Foss, 1976 Hart-

Davis, MacGibbon 1st, G-VG
The SF Book of Lists by Maxim

Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards,

1983 Berkley 1st, VG+
Wasn’t the Future Wonderful by

Tim Onosko, 1979 E. P. Dutton 1st, G-VG

Lot #52 — 3 Raymond F. Jones HCs
The Cybernetic Brains—1962

Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ
Renaissance—1951 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG DJ
Son of the Stars—1952 Winston

Juvenile, G, water damage, G DJ

Lot #53 — 3 Clifford Simak HCs
Cosmic Engineers—1950 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG Edd Cartier DJ Out of Their Minds—1970 Putnam 1st, VG, G Richard

Powers DJ
Worlds of Clifford Simak—1954 -

1960 stories—1960 Simon and Schuster 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #54 — 3 A. E. van Vogt First Edition HCs (RESERVE)
Masters of Time—1950 Fantasy

Press 1st, G, G Edd Cartier DJ
Slan—1946 Arkham 1st, G, G DJ The Voyage of the Space Beagle

—1950 Simon and Schuster 1st, VG, near VG Lew Glansman DJ

Lot #55 — Arch Oboler’s House on Fire + Jim Harmon’s The Great Radio Heroes
House on Fire—1st novel by cre-

ator of Lights Out, 1969 Barthol-

emew House 1st, NF, VG DJ
The Great Radio Heroes—classic

history of old-time-radio, G-VG Ace Books 30255, 2nd printing

Lot #56 — 5 Convention Limited Edition HCs in white DJ, all NF, + 2 SC Chapbooks (RESERVE)
Better Than One by Damon

Knight & Kate Wilhelm, Noreascon

II, 1980

Frankenstein: A Play in Two Acts

adapted by Victor Gialanella, 1982

NF SC
Homebrew by Poul Anderson,

Boskone, 1976, signed
A Time When by Anne McCaffrey,

1975 NESFA Press, signed

Tomorrow May Be Even Worse: An alphabet of SF cliches—verse by John Brunner, drawings by

“ATom," blue SC in F, Boskone,

1978, signed by Brunner
Viewpoint—Ben Bova, Boskone,

1977, signed

Would Could Should: The SF Society Anthology, 1988 SC chapbook, NF

Lot #57 — 5 SF Magazine Anthologies
Astounding SF Anthology edited

by John W. Campbell, 1952 Simon

& Schuster 1st, NF, no DJ

The Best from Fantasy & SF, 3rd Series edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas, 1964 Doubleday 1st, G-VG, no DJ

The Best from Startling Stories edited by Samuel Mines, 1953 Henry Holt 1st, NF, VG DJ

Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt & Martin H. Greenberg, 1993 Bristol Park, VG SC

Worlds of If edited by Frederick Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, & Joseph D. Olander, 1986 Bluejay Books 1st printing, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #58 — 8 Juvenile SF & Space Adventures
The Forgotten Star by Joseph

Greene, 1959 Western Pub, G-VG,

VG DJ
The Magic Ball from Mars by

Carl L. Biemiller, 1953 William

Morrow & Co. 1st, VG, VG DJ
Mike Mars at Cape Canaveral by Donald Wollheim, 1961 Doubleday

1st, NF, NF DJ
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by

Ellen MacGregor, 1965 Scholastic

Book Services, VG SC
Miss Pickerell On the Moon by

Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell, 1965 McGraw-Hill, VG, pictorial wraps

Mr. Wizard’s Science Secrets by Don Herbert, 1953 Popular Mechanics Press, 2nd printing, G- VG, G DJ

Teen-Age SF Stories by Richard M. Elam, Jr., Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, NF DJ

Tom Corbett Space Cadet #2— Danger In Deep Space—1953 Grosset & Dunlap, G, fair DJ

Lot #59 — 3 larger Armed Services Editions related to World War II
The Best from Yank—stories,

cartoons, & more from the editors

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of the US Army weekly, #934, G+

  • A History of the War by Rudolf

    Motley, details the first four years

    of WWII, #S-216, about VG

  • While You Were Gone, Jack

    Goodman on wartime life in the USA, #1178, about VG

    Lot #60 — 8 Studies of SF and Horror Films
    The Horror Film by Ivan Butler,

    1967 A. S. Barnes, 1st SC ed, VG

  • An Illustrated History of the Horror Film by Carlos Clarens, 1968 Capricorn Books, VG SC

  • Movie Monsters by Denis Gifford, 1969 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • SF in the Cinema by John Baxter, 1970 A. S. Barnes 1st SC ed, G+

  • SF Film by Denis Gifford, 1971 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, VG

  • SF: Studies in Film by Frederik Pohl & Frederik Pohl IV, 1981 Ace Books 1st SC ed, VG

  • They’re Here: Invasion of the Body Snatchers—tribute to film & Finney novel, edited by Ed Gorman and Kevin McCarthy, 1999 Berkley Boulevard 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • The War of the Worlds—collects the novel, radio script, & a CD of the 1938 broadcast, Sourcebooks, 2nd printing, 2005, NF SC

    Lot #61 — 9 E. E Smith HCs

    • First Lensman—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Grey Lensman—1951 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, VG Hubert Rogers

      DJ

    • Second Stage Lensman—1953

      Fantasy Press 1st, G-VG, no DJ

    • The Skylark of Space—1950 F. F. F. Pub. 3rd ed, G-VG, fair-good DJ

    • Skylark of Valeron—1949 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Skylark Three—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, VG DJ

    • Spacehounds of IPC—1947 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Triplanetary—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • The Vortex Blaster—1960 Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ

      Lot #62 — 4 Jack Williamson HCs

    • The Cometeers—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, NF, G-VG DJ, illustrated

      by Edd Cartier

    • The Legion of Space—1947

      Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ

    • The Legion of Time—1952

Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ
Mazeway—1990 Del Rey 1st, F,

VG-NF DJ

Lot #63 — 2 Wilson Tucker HCs Ice and Iron—1974 Doubleday

1st, NF, VG DJ
The Science-Fiction Subtreasury

—ten stories from 1942 - 1954, 1954 Rinehart 1st, F, F DJ

Lot #64 — 4 Horror & SF books
The Necronomicon: The Book of

Dead Names—1996 water dmg,

Skoob Books SC, 3rd printing, G Best Ghost Stories of M. R.

James—1946 Tower Books, 4th

printing, G, VG DJ
Tales from Underwood by David

H. Keller—stories from Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, etc., 1952 Arkham House, about VG, no DJ

The Watchers Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth— 2008 Del Rey SC, NF, price sticker on the back cover

Lot #65 — 5 Books about Lost Worlds
Another Look at Atlantis by Willy

Ley, 1969 Bell Publishing 1st, NF,

G-VG DJ
Lands Beyond by L. Sprague de

Camp & Willy Ley, 1952 Rinehart &

Co. 1st, G, VG DJ

Lost Cities & Vanished Civilizations, 1962 Chilton 1st, VG, G+ DJ

Lost Continents by L. Sprague de Camp, 1954 Gnome Press 1st, VG, VG DJ

Strangest of All—edited by Frank Edwards, 1962 Ace Star K-144 paperback, 1st printing, G

Lot #66 — 6 Sax Rohmer HCs without dust jackets
Bat Wing—A. L. Burt RP, G
Brood of the Witch Queen

1924 Doubleday 1st, G - VG
The Hand of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, VG
The Mask of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG
Tales of Chinatown— A. L. Burt

RP, VG
Yellow Shadows—A. L. Burt, RP,

G-VG

Lot #67 — 4 British SF Novels The Giant Stumbles by John Lymington, 1960 Hodder &

Stoughton 1st, NF, VG DJ
Man of Metal by R. L. Fanthorpe

(as Pel Torro), 1970 Lenox Hill

Press 1st US ed, F, NF DJ
The Midwich Cuckoos by John

Wyndham, 1969 Walker & Co 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1958 U.S. 1st, F, VG+ Jack Gaughan DJ

Re-Birth (AKA The Chrysalids) by John Wyndham, 1970 Walker & Co, 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1955 U.S. 1st, VG in VG Jack Gaughan DJ

Lot #68 — 10 SF Criticisms and Studies
Bridges to SF, edited by George

Slusser, et al, essays anthology, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, F, VG DJ

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of by Thomas M. Disch, 2000 Simon & Schuster 1st SC ed, NF

Modern SF: Its Meaning & Its Future, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays by SF pros, 1953 Coward-McCann 1st, G, G DJ

New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis, SF utopias, 1960 Harcourt, Brace, & Co. 1st, G, G DJ

Of Worlds Beyond, edited by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, essays by SF pros, 1965 Dennis Dobson 1st British ed, NF, VG DJ

Robert A. Heinlein: America as SF by H. Bruce Franklin, 1980 Oxford University 1st, G+ SC

SF in the Real World by Norman Spinrad, essays, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, G+ SC

SF Today and Tomorrow, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays, 1974 Harper & Row 1st, G, VG DJ

SF Voices No. 2 by Jeffrey M. Elliott, interviews with Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, and A. E. van Vogt, 1979 Borgo Press 1st, VG, no DJ

Voyages to the Moon by Marjorie Nicolson, history of imaginary space travel, 1948 Macmillan 1st, G, fair-G DJ

Lot #69 — 3 Armed Services Editions pop fiction paperbacks
Dual in the Sun by Niven Busch,

#N-17, G, front cover substantially rubbed; later adapted as a film starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, & Gregory Peck film

God’s Little Acre by Erskine

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Caldwell, #945, G; decline of a

poor white family in rural Georgia Young Man with a Horn by

Dorothy Baker, #S-10, G+; 1st jazz novel, inspired by Bix Beiderbecke

Lot #70 — 9 H. G. Wells Books

  • The Croquet Player—1937 Viking

    Press 1st US ed, VG, G-VG DJ

  • Experiment in Autobiography

    1934 Macmillan 1st US ed, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • Italy, France, and Britain at War

    —1917 Macmillan 1st US ed, 6th

    or 7th printing, VG, no DJ

  • The Outline of History, Volume II

    —Garden City Books RP, G, no DJ

  • The SF of H. G. Wells by Frank

    McConnell, critique of Wells’ work; 1981 Oxford University Press 1st, NF SC

  • 7 SF Novels of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, G+, no DJ

  • The Shape of Things to Come— 1933 Macmillan 1st US, VG, no DJ

  • Things to Come—1935 Cresset Press 1st, G - VG, no DJ; described as a film story based on material contained in his history of the future, The Shape of Things to Come

  • 28 SF Stories of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, VG, no DJ

    Lot #71 — Bobbsey Twins & Happy Hollisters Juveniles

  • The Bobbsey Twins In the Land

    of Cotton—1957 Grossett &

    Dunlap, VG, G DJ

  • The Happy Hollisters & the Mystery of Missile Town (two copies)—1961 Doubleday, both VG, VG DJ

  • Happy Hollisters & the Secret of the Lucky Coins—1962 Doubleday, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #72 — 8 Vintage HCs by Popular Writers of the Past

  • The Bell Street Murders by S.

    Fowler Wright—1931 Macaulay

    Co. 1st, about VG, no DJ

  • Hunchback House by Donald

    Bayne Hobart, originally serialized in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1928 —1929 Whitman 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Leopard Woman by Stewart Lucas White, originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916 —1916 Doubleday, Page & Co. 1st, G-VG, no DJ

  • Mr. Chang’s Crime Ray by A. E.

Apple, originally published in Detective Story Magazine in 1927; 1928 Chelsea House, G, no DJ

Mr. Mirakel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Grosset & Dunlap RP, VG, G DJ

Om—The Secret of Ahbor Valley

by Talbot Mundy, first serialized in Adventure in 1924; 1924 Bobbs- Merrill 1st, G-VG, fair DJ

The Slayer of Souls by Robert W. Chambers, originally serialized in Hearst’s Magazine, later reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries— undated, probably 1920 George H. Doran 1st, VG, no DJ

The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah, originally published in Land and Water in 1917—undated, probably 1923 George H. Doran 2nd US ed, VG, G DJ

Lot #73 — 8 Book Collecting & Related Guidebooks
Collecting SF, Fantasy, & Horror

Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, 2002

Gryphon Books 1st, VG SC

Double Your Pleasure: The Ace SF Double by James A. Carrick, 1989 Gryphon Books 1st, NF SC

Grading & Caring for Big Little Books—bound computer printout

Official Guide to the Fantastics

by Michael Resnick, 1976 House

of Collectibles 1st, VG- SC

The Official Price Guide to Paperbacks by Jon Warren, 1991 House of Collectibles 1st, G SC

Paperback Primer by Thomas L. Bonn, 1981 Paperback Quarterly Publications 1st, NF SC

The Paperback Price Guide #2

by Kevin Hancer, 1982 Harmony

Books 2nd ed, VG SC
Space Adventure Collectibles by

T. N. Tumbusch, 1990 Wallace- Homestead 1st, G-VG SC

Lot #74 — 14 SF, Film, and Comic Fanzines & Semi-Prozines
Bookman’s Weekly, Oct 26, 1987

special SF & fantasy issue, VG+ En Garde #6, 1969—fanzine for

fans of TV’s The Avengers, The

Prisoner, etc., VG+
The Fans of Central Jersey #14,

Apr 1977—John Byrne interview,

more, VG+ to NF
Filmfax #37, Feb/Mar 1993

focus on The Creature from the

Black Lagoon, NF
Filmfax #56, May, June 1996

articles on American International Pictures, Roger Corman, prison films, and more, NF

QRM, dated Oct 1967 on the cover (actually Feb 1968) — Frederik Pohl, etc., VG, back cover partially loose

The next 6 books are SF Review— edited by Richard Geis—the 1st 4 listed have Stephen Fabian covers #29, Jan-Feb 1979—John

Brunner, Michael Moorcock, &

Hank Stine interviews, VG
#34, Feb 1980—Donald Wollheim

& Charles Sheffield interviews,

Harlan Ellison profile, NF
#39, Summer 1981—Gene Wolfe

interview, Barry Malzberg on 80s

SF, NF
#44, Summer 1982—Anne

McCaffrey interview, Norman

Spinrad on SF, VG
#45, Winter 1982—Terry Carr

interview, Keith Laumer profile,

Aldis Budrys on pulps, NF
#48, Fall 1983—unpublished work

of Cordwainer Smith, more, VG+

Spockalania #2, April 1968 (3rd printing), VG, Star Trek fanzine
Towards a Theory of SF (1971)

essay be John J. Pierce that attempts to define SF (based on a 1968 essay that was published by Sam Moskowitz)

Lot #75—4 SF Convention Program Books
Discon 21974 program book for

the 32nd World SF Convention in Washington, DC, featuring Roger Zelazny and Andrew J. Offutt, VG+

Inguanacon—1978 program book for the 36th World SF Convention in Phoenix, AZ, featuring Harlan Ellison & F. M. Busby, VG+

NESFA Hymnal—produced for Boskone 11, March 1974, by the New England SF Association; limited to 500 copies; words to 38 filk songs, VG

Noreascon TwoProject Report Two, May 1979, for the 38th World SF Convention, Boston, MA featuring Kate Wilhelm & Damon Knight & Robert Silverberg; cover art by Stephen Fabian, VG+

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Abbreviations

DJ = dust jacket dmg = damage
ed = edition
1st = first edition HC = hardcover RP = reprint edition SC = softcover

SF = science fiction

Grades

F = fine
G = good
NF = near fine VG = very good

Lot #1 — 2 Poul Anderson HCs

  • 7 Conquests—stories from 1955 - 1969, 1969 MacMillan 1st, VG, NF

    DJ, ex-library, signed

  • Vault of the Ages—1952 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, VG+ Paul Orban DJ, Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #2 — 7 Isaac Asimov books

  • Foundation & Earth—1952

    Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ,

    signed

  • Foundation & Empire—1986

    Doubleday 1st, F, G DJ

  • Foundation’s Edge—1982

    Doubleday 1st, F, NF DJ

  • I, Robot—Grosset & Dunlap RP,

    G+, no DJ.

  • Lucky Starr & the Moons of

    Jupiter (as Paul French)—1957

    Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Pebble in the Sky—1950 Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters—1995 Doubleday 1st SC, F

    Lot #3 — Jack Bechdolt’s The Torch (RESERVE)

1948 Prime Press 1st, NF, VG DJ.

Originally serialized by Argosy. Lot #4 — 6 Early Sanctum Books

Doc Savage Doubles, all VG-NF + The Fantastic Pulps

  • #8—Sea Magician & Living-Fire

    Menace

  • #9—The Majii & The Golden Man

  • #10—Dust of Death & Stone Man

  • #12—Squeaking Goblin & Evil

    Gnome

#13—Brand of the Werewolf & Fear Cay

#15—Red Spider & “Other Cold War Thrillers,” Bob Larkin cover

The Fantastic Pulps—edited by Peter Haining—remaindered SC, hole punch in cover, otherwise VG

Lot #5 — 3 Golden Press Doc Savage Juveniles — all Western Pub., G-VG HC, pictorial wraps #2—Death In Silver

#3—The Ghost Legion #6—Secret In the Sky

Lot #6 — 3 Armed Services Editions paperbacks

  • The Education of T. C. Mits by

    Hugh Gray & Lillian R. Lieber,

    modern mathematics, #Q-4, G

  • Jumper by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

    —horse story, #1062, G+

  • One Day at Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar—animal stories, #1061,

    about VG

    Lot #7 — 2 HC SF Memoirs

  • The Futurians by Damon Knight—

    1977 John Day 1st, NF, VG DJ

  • The Way the Future Was by

    Frederik Pohl—1978 Del Rey 1st, VG, VG+ DJ

    Lot #8 — 2 SC SF Magazine Histories by Mike Ashley

  • The Time Machines: The Story

    of the Science-Fiction Pulp

    Magazines to 1950

  • Gateways to Forever: The Story

    of the SF Magazines from 1970 - 1980—both are 2007 Liverpool University 1st SC ed, NF

    Lot #9 — The Big Swingers by Robert Fenton

First full-scale biography of Edgar

Rice Burroughs, 1967 Prentice- Hall 1st, VG, G DJ

Lot #10 — 2 James Blish HCs

  • The Duplicated Man (co-written

    with Robert Lowndes)—1959

    Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ

  • Earthman Come Home—1955

    Putnam 1st, F, VG DJ

    Lot #11 — 3 John W. Campbell HCs

  • The Atomic Story—1947 Henry

    Holt 1st, VG, VG DJ

  • Invaders from the Infinite—1961

    Gnome Press 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Mightiest Machine—1947

Hadley Publishing 1st, G, fair DJ, illustrations by R. Pailthorpe

Lot #12 — 3 Arthur C. Clarke HCs Prelude to Space—1954 Gnome

Press 1st, G, G DJ
The Songs of Distant Earth

1986 Del Rey 1st, F, VG DJ
3001: The Final Odyssey—1997

Del Rey 1st, F, NF DJ

Lot #13 —6 Jules Verne Items
Jules Verne: The Biography of

an Imagination by George Waltz,

1943 Henry Holt 1st, VG, no DJ Jules Verne Bibliographies—a

compilation of webpage printouts The Mysterious Island—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG, no DJ

The Space Novels of Jules Verne

— SC Dover RP, includes “To the

Sun” and “Off On a Comet”
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea— Grosset & Dunlap RP, G-VG, no DJ

Underground City or The Child of the Cavern—Alta Edition, Porter & Coates, c. 1880-85, illustrated, G, no DJ

Lot #14 — 3 HC Future War Novels The Long Night—Martin Caidin’s

1st novel concerns a nuclear attack on a US city; 1956 Dodd, Mead, 1st, G, G DJ, signed

The Conquered Place—Robert Shafer novel about a totalitarian takeover of the USA; 1954 Putnam 1st, VG, VG DJ

Invasion—Nazis invade the US in Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s novel; Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, no DJ

Lot #15 — G. I. Revues — 10 Package Shows (reserve)
At Ease, Volume XVI—created by

the Special Services Division of the American Service Forces, this paperback was published in 1944 by Street & Smith. Anthology of musical sketches to entertain US troops & sailors. Foreword by Richard Rogers

Lot #16 — 3 Winston Juveniles
Earthbound by Milton Lesser—

1952 1st, VG, VG DJ
Stadium Beyond the Stars by

Milton Lesser—1960 1st, VG, G-

VG DJ
Vandals of the Void by Jack

Vance—1953 1st, F, no DJ

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Lot #17 — 8 Boys Aviation Adventure Juveniles

  • Air Monster by Edwin Green—

    the world’s largest dirigible, 1932

    Goldsmith, VG, no DJ

  • A Lucky Terrell Flying Story: The Flying Wing—1946 Grosset & Dunlap, F, NF DJ

  • Red Randall in Burma by Robert Sidney Bowen—1945 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Red Randall Over Tokyo by Robert Sidney Bowen—1944 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Secret Pilot by George E. Rochester—an atomic-powered flying suit—1954 Epworth Press (British) VG, VG DJ

  • Skycruiser by Howard M. Brier— 1948 Comet Books, 2nd printing, G-VG SC

  • The Sky Detectives by Ambrose Newcomb—1939 Goldsmith, G, G DJ

  • Ted Scott Flying Stories #2: Rescued In the Clouds—1927 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #18 — 3 Fantasy Press 1st editions in HC (RESERVE)

  • The Crystal Horde by John Taine,

    illustrated by Hannes Bok—1952,

    F, NF DJ, signed

  • The Forbidden Garden by John

    Taine—1947, VG+, no DJ, signed

    (as Eric Temple Bell)

  • Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank

    Russell, illustrated by Edd Cartier —1948, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #19 — 3 Sam Moskowitz Studies (RESERVE)

  • Explorers of the Infinite:

    Shapers of SF—1963 Meridian

    Books 1st, SC, G-VG

  • Strange Horizons: The Spectrum of SF—1976 Scribner’s 1st, G-VG, VG DJ, ex-library

  • Under the Moons of Mars— history & anthology of scientific romances. 1970 Holt, Rinehart, & Winston 1st, NF, VG DJ

    Lot #20 — The Steranko History of Comics 2 by James Steranko

1972 Supergraphics, 1st, G-VG,

oversized SC

Lot #21 — 3 Hal Clement HCs

  • Iceworld—1954 Gnome Pres 1st,

    VG, G-VG DJ

  • Needle—1950 Doubleday 1st, fair,

no DJ
Small Changes—collects stories

from 1944 - 1966; 1969 Doubleday 1st, VG, VG DJ, signed

Lot #22 — 5 L. Sprague de Camp HCs
The Glory That Was—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ
The Hand of Zei—1963 Avalon

Books 1st, VG, NF DJ
The Hand of Zei—1981 Owlswick

Press RP, VG, pictorial boards cover by Edd Cartier & Kelly Freas, illustrated by Edd Cartier

Tales from Gavagan’s Bar (with Fletcher Pratt), 1953 Twayne 1st, NF, NF DJ

Wall of Serpents (with Fletcher Pratt), 1960 Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #23 — Robert A. Heinlein’s Assignment in Eternity (RESERVE) a collection of four long stories —

1953 Fantasy Press1st, F, NF Ric Binkley DJ

Lot #24 — Donald Westlake’s

Tomorrow’s Crimes

10 SF-crime stories from 1961 to 1984 — 1989 Mysterious Press 1st, F, G DJ

Lot #25 — 7 SC SF Studies from Advent Publishers, all about VG Heinlein in Dimension by Alexi

Panshin (1968)
In Search of Wonder by Damon

Knight (1960)
The Issue at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1964)
More Issues at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1970)
A Requiem for Astounding by

Alva Rogers (1964)
The SF Novel—Earl Kemp edited

anthology of essays by A. Bester, R. Bloch, B. Davenport, R. A. Heinlein, & C. M. Kornbluth (1959)

The Universes of E. E. Smith by Ron Ellis & Bill Evans (1966)

Lot #26 — 6 Classic SF Anthologies in HC
Flight Into Space—edited by

Donald A. Wollheim, 1951

Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ
My Best SF Story—edited by Leo Margulies & Oscar J. Friend, 1950

Merlin Press, 2nd printing, G-VG, no DJ

9 Tales of Space and Time— edited by Raymond J. Healy, 1954 Henry Holt 1st, VG - NF, VG DJ

Portals of Tomorrow—edited by August Derleth, 1954 Rinehart 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

SF 59—“Best of 1959,” edited by Judith Merrill, 1959 Gnome Press 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

World of Wonder—edited by Fletcher Pratt, 1951 Twayne, 2nd printing, VG, G-VG DJ

Lot #27 — Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1 - 8, Grosset & Dunlap HC — all 8 are VG, VG DJ
#1—Stand By for Mars!
#2—Danger In Deep Space
#3—On the Trail of the Space

Pirates
#4—The Space Pioneers
#5—The Revolt on Venus
#6—Treachery in Outer Space #7—Sabotage in Space
#8—The Robot Rocket

Lot #28 — 3 Armed Services Editions historical paperbacks
The Bitter Tea of General Yen by

Grace Zaring Stone’s novel of the

Chinese civil war, #1125, G+
Freedom Road by Howard Fast,

Southern Reconstruction, #T-26, G Saints and Strangers by George

Wilson on the Pilgrims, #1052, VG

Lot #29 — Men’s Adventure Magazines (RESERVE)
Max Allan Collins & George

Hagenauer history, with images from The Rich Oberg Collection— 2008 Taschen 1st, NF, NF DJ

Lot #30 — 2 Books about SF Fans & Pros
Futurespeak: A Fan’s Guide to

the Language of SF by Roberta Rogow, 1991 Paragon House 1st, F, VG+ DJ, signed

SF Handbook, Revised by L. Sprague & Catherine deCamp, 1975 Owlslick Press, F, no DJ, ex- library

Lot #31 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
Citizen of the Galaxy—1957

Scribner’s 1st, 1st printing, VG-NF,

VG DJ
Double Star—early SF book club

ed of 1956 1st ed
Rocket Ship Galileo—1947

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Scribner’s 1st, later printing, VG, no DJ (Heinlein’s 1st HC)

Lot #32 — 5 Lester del Rey HCs

  • Attack from Atlantis—1953

    Winston Juvenile, NF, VG Paul

    Orban DJ

  • Day of the Giants—1959 Avalon

    Books 1st, F, no DJ, signed

  • Mission to the Moon—1956 Winston Juvenile, NF, NF DJ,

    signed

  • The Mysterious Sky—1964

    Chilton 1st, VG, G-VG DJ, signed

  • Step to the Stars—1954 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, no DJ, signed

    All 3 Winston Juvenile feature Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #33 — 4 Edmond Hamilton HCs

  • City at World’s End—1951 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, fair, no DJ

  • The Star Kings—1951 Bergendahls Forlag 1st German ed, G-VG, no DJ (in German)

    Lot #34 — 4 Edgar Allan Poe Items

  • Complete Works—P. F. Collier HC

    RP, G-VG, no DJ

  • Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers—1917

    B. W. Huebsch, scarce HC, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • The SF of Edgar Allan Poe—read

    by Paul Scofield, 1986 Dove, 2

    cassette recordings

  • Tales of Mystery & Imagination

    —1971 Everyman’s Library British RP, VG, near VG Mervyn Peake DJ

    Lot #35 — 2 SF HCs by Leading Women Writers of the 1950s

  • Children of the Atom by Wilmar

    Shiras—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

    VG, G+ Frank Kelly Freas DJ

  • Shadow on the Hearth by Judith

    Merrill—1950 Doubleday 1st, G- VG, fair-good DJ

    Lot #36 — 12 Avalon First Editions in HC

  • Alien World by Adam Lukens,

    1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ,

    ex-library

  • Collision Course by Robert

    Silverberg, 1961, VG, no DJ

  • The Dark Planet by J. Hunter

The Drums of Tapajos by Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Encounter by J. Hunter Holly, 1959, F, no DJ

The Gray Aliens by J. Hunter Holly, 1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ, ex-library

Immortality Delivered by Robert Sheckley, 1958, VG, VG DJ

Island in the Sky by Manly Wade Wellman, 1961, F, no DJ

Lost in Space by George O. Smith, 1959, NF, no DJ

The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler, 1961, VG, no DJ

The Time Chariot by Earl Hickey, 1966, VG, VG Gray Morrow DJ, ex-library

Troyanaby Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Lot #37 — 2 Armed Services Editions in VG+ Condition
Gold and Guns on Halfaday

Creek by James B. Hendryx, #1073, 4th book in series from Argosy & Short Stories

I’ll Try Anything Twice by Fred Russell, #101, sports humor and anecdotes by the longtime sports editor for the Nashville Banner

Lot #38 — 3 Alfred Hitchcock Juvenile Anthologies + One Other Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly

Gallery—1962 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, VG DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted

Houseful—1961 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, no DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders

in Suspense—1967 Random

House, VG pictorial wraps, G DJ

Spooks Deluxe: Excursions Into the Supernatural by Franklin Watts, 1st printing, VG, G DJ

Lot #39 — 2 SF Oddities in HC Serve It Forth: Cooking with

Anne McCaffrey—recipes from leading SF and fantasy writers, NF, pictorial wraps

The Space Child’s Mother Goose: Verses by Frederick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry, 1958 Simon & Schuster 1st, VG, VG DJ

Lot #40 — 2 Books Related to Sherlock Holmes (RESERVE)
The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana

by Jack Tracy, 1979 Avon SC, 1st

printing, remaindered, G-VG
Uncollected Stories by Arthur

Conan Doyle—1982 Doubleday 1st US ed, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #41 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
The Cat Who Walks Through

Walls—1985 Putnam 1st, NF, VG

Michael Whelan DJ
Farmer in the Sky— 1st printing,

1950 Scribner’s 1st, VG-NF, no DJ Space Cadet—1949 Scribners RP

of 1948 1st, G, VG- DJ

Lot #42 — 2 Lewis Padgett (C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) HCs
A Gnome There Was—stories

from 1941 - 49, 1950 Simon and

Schuster, 1st, G, fair DJ
Mutant—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

VG, VG - NF DJ

Lot #43 — Murray Leinster’s

Sidewise in Time

6 pulp stories from 1934-1946; 1950 Shasta 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #44 — 6 Scientific Romances in HC by ERB and Otis A. Kline
At the Earth’s Core—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
Jungle Tales of Tarzan—Grosset

& Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Warlord of Mars—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Outlaws of Mars—1961

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ Planet of Peril—1961 Avalon

Books 1st, F, no DJ
The Swordsman of Mars—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #45 — 1st Authorized U. S. Edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, “Wrecked in the Air” (RESERVE)
1874 Scribner, Armstrong, & Co.,

includes 48 illustrations & map, gold-stamped, VG, no DJ

Lot #46 — 3 Armed Services Editions literary paperbacks
The Best Plays of 1943 - 1944

six plays by Lillian Hellman, Moss

Hart, and others, #T-25, G

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg—front cover half-loose, #N-6, G

A Wartime Whitman—Walt Whitman poems, #S-1, VG

Holly, 1962, F, no DJ

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Lot #47 — 7 Gnome Press First Editions, all in HC

  • Agent of Vega by James H.

    Schmitz, 1960, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Bird of Time by Wallace West

    1959, G, insect damage, no DJ

  • The Dawning Light by Robert

    Silverberg & Randall Garrett, 1959,

    G-VG, no DJ

  • Five SF Novels by A. E. van Vogt,

    Fritz Leiber, Jack Williamson, Norvell W. Page, & Norman Knight 1952, VG, G-VG DJ

  • The Path of Unreason by George O. Smith, 1958, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Starmen by Leigh Brackett, 1952, VG in VG DJ

  • Typewriter In the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard, fair, water dmg, no DJ

    Lot #48 — 5 Grosset & Dunlap HC Tom Swift Adventures

  • #4—Tom Swift & His Submarine

    Boat, 1910, G, no DJ

  • #22—Tom Swift & His Air Scout,

    1919, VG, no DJ

  • #2—Tom Swift Jr. & His Jetmarine,

    1954, VG, VG DJ

  • #9—Tom Swift Jr. on the Phantom

    Satellite, 1956, VG, VG DJ

  • #19—Tom Swift Jr. & His

    Triphibian Atomicar, 1962, VG, pictorial wraps

    Lot #49 — 4 Whitman HC Newspaper Comic Strip Juveniles

  • Boots & the Mystery of the

    Unlucky Vase, based on “Boots &

    Her Buddies,” 1943, VG, no DJ

  • Dick Tracy, based on Chester

    Gould’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

  • Red Ryder and Gun-Smoke Gold

    based on Fred Harmon’s strip,

    1954, VG, no DJ, pictorial wraps

  • Tillie the Toiler: Masquerading Duchess from Russ Westover’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #50 — History of the SF Magazines, V. 1 - 3 by Mike Ashley

  • Vol. 1 (1926 - 1935)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 2 (1936 - 1945)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 3 (1946 - 1955)—1977

    Contemporary Books 1st US ed, G, G-VG DJ

    Lot #51 — 4 SC Books about SF

  • The Science in SF by Peter

    Nichols, 1983 Knopf 1st US, VG

  • SF Art by Chris Foss, 1976 Hart-

Davis, MacGibbon 1st, G-VG
The SF Book of Lists by Maxim

Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards,

1983 Berkley 1st, VG+
Wasn’t the Future Wonderful by

Tim Onosko, 1979 E. P. Dutton 1st, G-VG

Lot #52 — 3 Raymond F. Jones HCs
The Cybernetic Brains—1962

Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ
Renaissance—1951 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG DJ
Son of the Stars—1952 Winston

Juvenile, G, water damage, G DJ

Lot #53 — 3 Clifford Simak HCs
Cosmic Engineers—1950 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG Edd Cartier DJ Out of Their Minds—1970 Putnam 1st, VG, G Richard

Powers DJ
Worlds of Clifford Simak—1954 -

1960 stories—1960 Simon and Schuster 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #54 — 3 A. E. van Vogt First Edition HCs (RESERVE)
Masters of Time—1950 Fantasy

Press 1st, G, G Edd Cartier DJ
Slan—1946 Arkham 1st, G, G DJ The Voyage of the Space Beagle

—1950 Simon and Schuster 1st, VG, near VG Lew Glansman DJ

Lot #55 — Arch Oboler’s House on Fire + Jim Harmon’s The Great Radio Heroes
House on Fire—1st novel by cre-

ator of Lights Out, 1969 Barthol-

emew House 1st, NF, VG DJ
The Great Radio Heroes—classic

history of old-time-radio, G-VG Ace Books 30255, 2nd printing

Lot #56 — 5 Convention Limited Edition HCs in white DJ, all NF, + 2 SC Chapbooks (RESERVE)
Better Than One by Damon

Knight & Kate Wilhelm, Noreascon

II, 1980

Frankenstein: A Play in Two Acts

adapted by Victor Gialanella, 1982

NF SC
Homebrew by Poul Anderson,

Boskone, 1976, signed
A Time When by Anne McCaffrey,

1975 NESFA Press, signed

Tomorrow May Be Even Worse: An alphabet of SF cliches—verse by John Brunner, drawings by

“ATom," blue SC in F, Boskone,

1978, signed by Brunner
Viewpoint—Ben Bova, Boskone,

1977, signed

Would Could Should: The SF Society Anthology, 1988 SC chapbook, NF

Lot #57 — 5 SF Magazine Anthologies
Astounding SF Anthology edited

by John W. Campbell, 1952 Simon

& Schuster 1st, NF, no DJ

The Best from Fantasy & SF, 3rd Series edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas, 1964 Doubleday 1st, G-VG, no DJ

The Best from Startling Stories edited by Samuel Mines, 1953 Henry Holt 1st, NF, VG DJ

Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt & Martin H. Greenberg, 1993 Bristol Park, VG SC

Worlds of If edited by Frederick Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, & Joseph D. Olander, 1986 Bluejay Books 1st printing, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #58 — 8 Juvenile SF & Space Adventures
The Forgotten Star by Joseph

Greene, 1959 Western Pub, G-VG,

VG DJ
The Magic Ball from Mars by

Carl L. Biemiller, 1953 William

Morrow & Co. 1st, VG, VG DJ
Mike Mars at Cape Canaveral by Donald Wollheim, 1961 Doubleday

1st, NF, NF DJ
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by

Ellen MacGregor, 1965 Scholastic

Book Services, VG SC
Miss Pickerell On the Moon by

Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell, 1965 McGraw-Hill, VG, pictorial wraps

Mr. Wizard’s Science Secrets by Don Herbert, 1953 Popular Mechanics Press, 2nd printing, G- VG, G DJ

Teen-Age SF Stories by Richard M. Elam, Jr., Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, NF DJ

Tom Corbett Space Cadet #2— Danger In Deep Space—1953 Grosset & Dunlap, G, fair DJ

Lot #59 — 3 larger Armed Services Editions related to World War II
The Best from Yank—stories,

cartoons, & more from the editors

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of the US Army weekly, #934, G+

  • A History of the War by Rudolf

    Motley, details the first four years

    of WWII, #S-216, about VG

  • While You Were Gone, Jack

    Goodman on wartime life in the USA, #1178, about VG

    Lot #60 — 8 Studies of SF and Horror Films
    The Horror Film by Ivan Butler,

    1967 A. S. Barnes, 1st SC ed, VG

  • An Illustrated History of the Horror Film by Carlos Clarens, 1968 Capricorn Books, VG SC

  • Movie Monsters by Denis Gifford, 1969 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • SF in the Cinema by John Baxter, 1970 A. S. Barnes 1st SC ed, G+

  • SF Film by Denis Gifford, 1971 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, VG

  • SF: Studies in Film by Frederik Pohl & Frederik Pohl IV, 1981 Ace Books 1st SC ed, VG

  • They’re Here: Invasion of the Body Snatchers—tribute to film & Finney novel, edited by Ed Gorman and Kevin McCarthy, 1999 Berkley Boulevard 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • The War of the Worlds—collects the novel, radio script, & a CD of the 1938 broadcast, Sourcebooks, 2nd printing, 2005, NF SC

    Lot #61 — 9 E. E Smith HCs

    • First Lensman—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Grey Lensman—1951 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, VG Hubert Rogers

      DJ

    • Second Stage Lensman—1953

      Fantasy Press 1st, G-VG, no DJ

    • The Skylark of Space—1950 F. F. F. Pub. 3rd ed, G-VG, fair-good DJ

    • Skylark of Valeron—1949 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Skylark Three—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, VG DJ

    • Spacehounds of IPC—1947 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Triplanetary—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • The Vortex Blaster—1960 Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ

      Lot #62 — 4 Jack Williamson HCs

    • The Cometeers—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, NF, G-VG DJ, illustrated

      by Edd Cartier

    • The Legion of Space—1947

      Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ

    • The Legion of Time—1952

Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ
Mazeway—1990 Del Rey 1st, F,

VG-NF DJ

Lot #63 — 2 Wilson Tucker HCs Ice and Iron—1974 Doubleday

1st, NF, VG DJ
The Science-Fiction Subtreasury

—ten stories from 1942 - 1954, 1954 Rinehart 1st, F, F DJ

Lot #64 — 4 Horror & SF books
The Necronomicon: The Book of

Dead Names—1996 water dmg,

Skoob Books SC, 3rd printing, G Best Ghost Stories of M. R.

James—1946 Tower Books, 4th

printing, G, VG DJ
Tales from Underwood by David

H. Keller—stories from Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, etc., 1952 Arkham House, about VG, no DJ

The Watchers Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth— 2008 Del Rey SC, NF, price sticker on the back cover

Lot #65 — 5 Books about Lost Worlds
Another Look at Atlantis by Willy

Ley, 1969 Bell Publishing 1st, NF,

G-VG DJ
Lands Beyond by L. Sprague de

Camp & Willy Ley, 1952 Rinehart &

Co. 1st, G, VG DJ

Lost Cities & Vanished Civilizations, 1962 Chilton 1st, VG, G+ DJ

Lost Continents by L. Sprague de Camp, 1954 Gnome Press 1st, VG, VG DJ

Strangest of All—edited by Frank Edwards, 1962 Ace Star K-144 paperback, 1st printing, G

Lot #66 — 6 Sax Rohmer HCs without dust jackets
Bat Wing—A. L. Burt RP, G
Brood of the Witch Queen

1924 Doubleday 1st, G - VG
The Hand of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, VG
The Mask of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG
Tales of Chinatown— A. L. Burt

RP, VG
Yellow Shadows—A. L. Burt, RP,

G-VG

Lot #67 — 4 British SF Novels The Giant Stumbles by John Lymington, 1960 Hodder &

Stoughton 1st, NF, VG DJ
Man of Metal by R. L. Fanthorpe

(as Pel Torro), 1970 Lenox Hill

Press 1st US ed, F, NF DJ
The Midwich Cuckoos by John

Wyndham, 1969 Walker & Co 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1958 U.S. 1st, F, VG+ Jack Gaughan DJ

Re-Birth (AKA The Chrysalids) by John Wyndham, 1970 Walker & Co, 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1955 U.S. 1st, VG in VG Jack Gaughan DJ

Lot #68 — 10 SF Criticisms and Studies
Bridges to SF, edited by George

Slusser, et al, essays anthology, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, F, VG DJ

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of by Thomas M. Disch, 2000 Simon & Schuster 1st SC ed, NF

Modern SF: Its Meaning & Its Future, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays by SF pros, 1953 Coward-McCann 1st, G, G DJ

New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis, SF utopias, 1960 Harcourt, Brace, & Co. 1st, G, G DJ

Of Worlds Beyond, edited by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, essays by SF pros, 1965 Dennis Dobson 1st British ed, NF, VG DJ

Robert A. Heinlein: America as SF by H. Bruce Franklin, 1980 Oxford University 1st, G+ SC

SF in the Real World by Norman Spinrad, essays, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, G+ SC

SF Today and Tomorrow, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays, 1974 Harper & Row 1st, G, VG DJ

SF Voices No. 2 by Jeffrey M. Elliott, interviews with Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, and A. E. van Vogt, 1979 Borgo Press 1st, VG, no DJ

Voyages to the Moon by Marjorie Nicolson, history of imaginary space travel, 1948 Macmillan 1st, G, fair-G DJ

Lot #69 — 3 Armed Services Editions pop fiction paperbacks
Dual in the Sun by Niven Busch,

#N-17, G, front cover substantially rubbed; later adapted as a film starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, & Gregory Peck film

God’s Little Acre by Erskine

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Caldwell, #945, G; decline of a

poor white family in rural Georgia Young Man with a Horn by

Dorothy Baker, #S-10, G+; 1st jazz novel, inspired by Bix Beiderbecke

Lot #70 — 9 H. G. Wells Books

  • The Croquet Player—1937 Viking

    Press 1st US ed, VG, G-VG DJ

  • Experiment in Autobiography

    1934 Macmillan 1st US ed, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • Italy, France, and Britain at War

    —1917 Macmillan 1st US ed, 6th

    or 7th printing, VG, no DJ

  • The Outline of History, Volume II

    —Garden City Books RP, G, no DJ

  • The SF of H. G. Wells by Frank

    McConnell, critique of Wells’ work; 1981 Oxford University Press 1st, NF SC

  • 7 SF Novels of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, G+, no DJ

  • The Shape of Things to Come— 1933 Macmillan 1st US, VG, no DJ

  • Things to Come—1935 Cresset Press 1st, G - VG, no DJ; described as a film story based on material contained in his history of the future, The Shape of Things to Come

  • 28 SF Stories of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, VG, no DJ

    Lot #71 — Bobbsey Twins & Happy Hollisters Juveniles

  • The Bobbsey Twins In the Land

    of Cotton—1957 Grossett &

    Dunlap, VG, G DJ

  • The Happy Hollisters & the Mystery of Missile Town (two copies)—1961 Doubleday, both VG, VG DJ

  • Happy Hollisters & the Secret of the Lucky Coins—1962 Doubleday, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #72 — 8 Vintage HCs by Popular Writers of the Past

  • The Bell Street Murders by S.

    Fowler Wright—1931 Macaulay

    Co. 1st, about VG, no DJ

  • Hunchback House by Donald

    Bayne Hobart, originally serialized in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1928 —1929 Whitman 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Leopard Woman by Stewart Lucas White, originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916 —1916 Doubleday, Page & Co. 1st, G-VG, no DJ

  • Mr. Chang’s Crime Ray by A. E.

Apple, originally published in Detective Story Magazine in 1927; 1928 Chelsea House, G, no DJ

Mr. Mirakel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Grosset & Dunlap RP, VG, G DJ

Om—The Secret of Ahbor Valley

by Talbot Mundy, first serialized in Adventure in 1924; 1924 Bobbs- Merrill 1st, G-VG, fair DJ

The Slayer of Souls by Robert W. Chambers, originally serialized in Hearst’s Magazine, later reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries— undated, probably 1920 George H. Doran 1st, VG, no DJ

The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah, originally published in Land and Water in 1917—undated, probably 1923 George H. Doran 2nd US ed, VG, G DJ

Lot #73 — 8 Book Collecting & Related Guidebooks
Collecting SF, Fantasy, & Horror

Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, 2002

Gryphon Books 1st, VG SC

Double Your Pleasure: The Ace SF Double by James A. Carrick, 1989 Gryphon Books 1st, NF SC

Grading & Caring for Big Little Books—bound computer printout

Official Guide to the Fantastics

by Michael Resnick, 1976 House

of Collectibles 1st, VG- SC

The Official Price Guide to Paperbacks by Jon Warren, 1991 House of Collectibles 1st, G SC

Paperback Primer by Thomas L. Bonn, 1981 Paperback Quarterly Publications 1st, NF SC

The Paperback Price Guide #2

by Kevin Hancer, 1982 Harmony

Books 2nd ed, VG SC
Space Adventure Collectibles by

T. N. Tumbusch, 1990 Wallace- Homestead 1st, G-VG SC

Lot #74 — 14 SF, Film, and Comic Fanzines & Semi-Prozines
Bookman’s Weekly, Oct 26, 1987

special SF & fantasy issue, VG+ En Garde #6, 1969—fanzine for

fans of TV’s The Avengers, The

Prisoner, etc., VG+
The Fans of Central Jersey #14,

Apr 1977—John Byrne interview,

more, VG+ to NF
Filmfax #37, Feb/Mar 1993

focus on The Creature from the

Black Lagoon, NF
Filmfax #56, May, June 1996

articles on American International Pictures, Roger Corman, prison films, and more, NF

QRM, dated Oct 1967 on the cover (actually Feb 1968) — Frederik Pohl, etc., VG, back cover partially loose

The next 6 books are SF Review— edited by Richard Geis—the 1st 4 listed have Stephen Fabian covers #29, Jan-Feb 1979—John

Brunner, Michael Moorcock, &

Hank Stine interviews, VG
#34, Feb 1980—Donald Wollheim

& Charles Sheffield interviews,

Harlan Ellison profile, NF
#39, Summer 1981—Gene Wolfe

interview, Barry Malzberg on 80s

SF, NF
#44, Summer 1982—Anne

McCaffrey interview, Norman

Spinrad on SF, VG
#45, Winter 1982—Terry Carr

interview, Keith Laumer profile,

Aldis Budrys on pulps, NF
#48, Fall 1983—unpublished work

of Cordwainer Smith, more, VG+

Spockalania #2, April 1968 (3rd printing), VG, Star Trek fanzine
Towards a Theory of SF (1971)

essay be John J. Pierce that attempts to define SF (based on a 1968 essay that was published by Sam Moskowitz)

Lot #75—4 SF Convention Program Books
Discon 21974 program book for

the 32nd World SF Convention in Washington, DC, featuring Roger Zelazny and Andrew J. Offutt, VG+

Inguanacon—1978 program book for the 36th World SF Convention in Phoenix, AZ, featuring Harlan Ellison & F. M. Busby, VG+

NESFA Hymnal—produced for Boskone 11, March 1974, by the New England SF Association; limited to 500 copies; words to 38 filk songs, VG

Noreascon TwoProject Report Two, May 1979, for the 38th World SF Convention, Boston, MA featuring Kate Wilhelm & Damon Knight & Robert Silverberg; cover art by Stephen Fabian, VG+

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Abbreviations

DJ = dust jacket dmg = damage
ed = edition
1st = first edition HC = hardcover RP = reprint edition SC = softcover

SF = science fiction

Grades

F = fine
G = good
NF = near fine VG = very good

Lot #1 — 2 Poul Anderson HCs

  • 7 Conquests—stories from 1955 - 1969, 1969 MacMillan 1st, VG, NF

    DJ, ex-library, signed

  • Vault of the Ages—1952 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, VG+ Paul Orban DJ, Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #2 — 7 Isaac Asimov books

  • Foundation & Earth—1952

    Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ,

    signed

  • Foundation & Empire—1986

    Doubleday 1st, F, G DJ

  • Foundation’s Edge—1982

    Doubleday 1st, F, NF DJ

  • I, Robot—Grosset & Dunlap RP,

    G+, no DJ.

  • Lucky Starr & the Moons of

    Jupiter (as Paul French)—1957

    Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Pebble in the Sky—1950 Doubleday 1st, VG, no DJ

  • Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters—1995 Doubleday 1st SC, F

    Lot #3 — Jack Bechdolt’s The Torch (RESERVE)

1948 Prime Press 1st, NF, VG DJ.

Originally serialized by Argosy. Lot #4 — 6 Early Sanctum Books

Doc Savage Doubles, all VG-NF + The Fantastic Pulps

  • #8—Sea Magician & Living-Fire

    Menace

  • #9—The Majii & The Golden Man

  • #10—Dust of Death & Stone Man

  • #12—Squeaking Goblin & Evil

    Gnome

#13—Brand of the Werewolf & Fear Cay

#15—Red Spider & “Other Cold War Thrillers,” Bob Larkin cover

The Fantastic Pulps—edited by Peter Haining—remaindered SC, hole punch in cover, otherwise VG

Lot #5 — 3 Golden Press Doc Savage Juveniles — all Western Pub., G-VG HC, pictorial wraps #2—Death In Silver

#3—The Ghost Legion #6—Secret In the Sky

Lot #6 — 3 Armed Services Editions paperbacks

  • The Education of T. C. Mits by

    Hugh Gray & Lillian R. Lieber,

    modern mathematics, #Q-4, G

  • Jumper by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

    —horse story, #1062, G+

  • One Day at Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar—animal stories, #1061,

    about VG

    Lot #7 — 2 HC SF Memoirs

  • The Futurians by Damon Knight—

    1977 John Day 1st, NF, VG DJ

  • The Way the Future Was by

    Frederik Pohl—1978 Del Rey 1st, VG, VG+ DJ

    Lot #8 — 2 SC SF Magazine Histories by Mike Ashley

  • The Time Machines: The Story

    of the Science-Fiction Pulp

    Magazines to 1950

  • Gateways to Forever: The Story

    of the SF Magazines from 1970 - 1980—both are 2007 Liverpool University 1st SC ed, NF

    Lot #9 — The Big Swingers by Robert Fenton

First full-scale biography of Edgar

Rice Burroughs, 1967 Prentice- Hall 1st, VG, G DJ

Lot #10 — 2 James Blish HCs

  • The Duplicated Man (co-written

    with Robert Lowndes)—1959

    Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ

  • Earthman Come Home—1955

    Putnam 1st, F, VG DJ

    Lot #11 — 3 John W. Campbell HCs

  • The Atomic Story—1947 Henry

    Holt 1st, VG, VG DJ

  • Invaders from the Infinite—1961

    Gnome Press 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Mightiest Machine—1947

Hadley Publishing 1st, G, fair DJ, illustrations by R. Pailthorpe

Lot #12 — 3 Arthur C. Clarke HCs Prelude to Space—1954 Gnome

Press 1st, G, G DJ
The Songs of Distant Earth

1986 Del Rey 1st, F, VG DJ
3001: The Final Odyssey—1997

Del Rey 1st, F, NF DJ

Lot #13 —6 Jules Verne Items
Jules Verne: The Biography of

an Imagination by George Waltz,

1943 Henry Holt 1st, VG, no DJ Jules Verne Bibliographies—a

compilation of webpage printouts The Mysterious Island—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG, no DJ

The Space Novels of Jules Verne

— SC Dover RP, includes “To the

Sun” and “Off On a Comet”
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea— Grosset & Dunlap RP, G-VG, no DJ

Underground City or The Child of the Cavern—Alta Edition, Porter & Coates, c. 1880-85, illustrated, G, no DJ

Lot #14 — 3 HC Future War Novels The Long Night—Martin Caidin’s

1st novel concerns a nuclear attack on a US city; 1956 Dodd, Mead, 1st, G, G DJ, signed

The Conquered Place—Robert Shafer novel about a totalitarian takeover of the USA; 1954 Putnam 1st, VG, VG DJ

Invasion—Nazis invade the US in Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s novel; Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, no DJ

Lot #15 — G. I. Revues — 10 Package Shows (reserve)
At Ease, Volume XVI—created by

the Special Services Division of the American Service Forces, this paperback was published in 1944 by Street & Smith. Anthology of musical sketches to entertain US troops & sailors. Foreword by Richard Rogers

Lot #16 — 3 Winston Juveniles
Earthbound by Milton Lesser—

1952 1st, VG, VG DJ
Stadium Beyond the Stars by

Milton Lesser—1960 1st, VG, G-

VG DJ
Vandals of the Void by Jack

Vance—1953 1st, F, no DJ

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Lot #17 — 8 Boys Aviation Adventure Juveniles

  • Air Monster by Edwin Green—

    the world’s largest dirigible, 1932

    Goldsmith, VG, no DJ

  • A Lucky Terrell Flying Story: The Flying Wing—1946 Grosset & Dunlap, F, NF DJ

  • Red Randall in Burma by Robert Sidney Bowen—1945 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Red Randall Over Tokyo by Robert Sidney Bowen—1944 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

  • Secret Pilot by George E. Rochester—an atomic-powered flying suit—1954 Epworth Press (British) VG, VG DJ

  • Skycruiser by Howard M. Brier— 1948 Comet Books, 2nd printing, G-VG SC

  • The Sky Detectives by Ambrose Newcomb—1939 Goldsmith, G, G DJ

  • Ted Scott Flying Stories #2: Rescued In the Clouds—1927 Grosset & Dunlap, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #18 — 3 Fantasy Press 1st editions in HC (RESERVE)

  • The Crystal Horde by John Taine,

    illustrated by Hannes Bok—1952,

    F, NF DJ, signed

  • The Forbidden Garden by John

    Taine—1947, VG+, no DJ, signed

    (as Eric Temple Bell)

  • Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank

    Russell, illustrated by Edd Cartier —1948, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #19 — 3 Sam Moskowitz Studies (RESERVE)

  • Explorers of the Infinite:

    Shapers of SF—1963 Meridian

    Books 1st, SC, G-VG

  • Strange Horizons: The Spectrum of SF—1976 Scribner’s 1st, G-VG, VG DJ, ex-library

  • Under the Moons of Mars— history & anthology of scientific romances. 1970 Holt, Rinehart, & Winston 1st, NF, VG DJ

    Lot #20 — The Steranko History of Comics 2 by James Steranko

1972 Supergraphics, 1st, G-VG,

oversized SC

Lot #21 — 3 Hal Clement HCs

  • Iceworld—1954 Gnome Pres 1st,

    VG, G-VG DJ

  • Needle—1950 Doubleday 1st, fair,

no DJ
Small Changes—collects stories

from 1944 - 1966; 1969 Doubleday 1st, VG, VG DJ, signed

Lot #22 — 5 L. Sprague de Camp HCs
The Glory That Was—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ
The Hand of Zei—1963 Avalon

Books 1st, VG, NF DJ
The Hand of Zei—1981 Owlswick

Press RP, VG, pictorial boards cover by Edd Cartier & Kelly Freas, illustrated by Edd Cartier

Tales from Gavagan’s Bar (with Fletcher Pratt), 1953 Twayne 1st, NF, NF DJ

Wall of Serpents (with Fletcher Pratt), 1960 Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #23 — Robert A. Heinlein’s Assignment in Eternity (RESERVE) a collection of four long stories —

1953 Fantasy Press1st, F, NF Ric Binkley DJ

Lot #24 — Donald Westlake’s

Tomorrow’s Crimes

10 SF-crime stories from 1961 to 1984 — 1989 Mysterious Press 1st, F, G DJ

Lot #25 — 7 SC SF Studies from Advent Publishers, all about VG Heinlein in Dimension by Alexi

Panshin (1968)
In Search of Wonder by Damon

Knight (1960)
The Issue at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1964)
More Issues at Hand by William

Atheling, Jr. (1970)
A Requiem for Astounding by

Alva Rogers (1964)
The SF Novel—Earl Kemp edited

anthology of essays by A. Bester, R. Bloch, B. Davenport, R. A. Heinlein, & C. M. Kornbluth (1959)

The Universes of E. E. Smith by Ron Ellis & Bill Evans (1966)

Lot #26 — 6 Classic SF Anthologies in HC
Flight Into Space—edited by

Donald A. Wollheim, 1951

Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ
My Best SF Story—edited by Leo Margulies & Oscar J. Friend, 1950

Merlin Press, 2nd printing, G-VG, no DJ

9 Tales of Space and Time— edited by Raymond J. Healy, 1954 Henry Holt 1st, VG - NF, VG DJ

Portals of Tomorrow—edited by August Derleth, 1954 Rinehart 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

SF 59—“Best of 1959,” edited by Judith Merrill, 1959 Gnome Press 1st, VG, G-VG DJ

World of Wonder—edited by Fletcher Pratt, 1951 Twayne, 2nd printing, VG, G-VG DJ

Lot #27 — Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1 - 8, Grosset & Dunlap HC — all 8 are VG, VG DJ
#1—Stand By for Mars!
#2—Danger In Deep Space
#3—On the Trail of the Space

Pirates
#4—The Space Pioneers
#5—The Revolt on Venus
#6—Treachery in Outer Space #7—Sabotage in Space
#8—The Robot Rocket

Lot #28 — 3 Armed Services Editions historical paperbacks
The Bitter Tea of General Yen by

Grace Zaring Stone’s novel of the

Chinese civil war, #1125, G+
Freedom Road by Howard Fast,

Southern Reconstruction, #T-26, G Saints and Strangers by George

Wilson on the Pilgrims, #1052, VG

Lot #29 — Men’s Adventure Magazines (RESERVE)
Max Allan Collins & George

Hagenauer history, with images from The Rich Oberg Collection— 2008 Taschen 1st, NF, NF DJ

Lot #30 — 2 Books about SF Fans & Pros
Futurespeak: A Fan’s Guide to

the Language of SF by Roberta Rogow, 1991 Paragon House 1st, F, VG+ DJ, signed

SF Handbook, Revised by L. Sprague & Catherine deCamp, 1975 Owlslick Press, F, no DJ, ex- library

Lot #31 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
Citizen of the Galaxy—1957

Scribner’s 1st, 1st printing, VG-NF,

VG DJ
Double Star—early SF book club

ed of 1956 1st ed
Rocket Ship Galileo—1947

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Scribner’s 1st, later printing, VG, no DJ (Heinlein’s 1st HC)

Lot #32 — 5 Lester del Rey HCs

  • Attack from Atlantis—1953

    Winston Juvenile, NF, VG Paul

    Orban DJ

  • Day of the Giants—1959 Avalon

    Books 1st, F, no DJ, signed

  • Mission to the Moon—1956 Winston Juvenile, NF, NF DJ,

    signed

  • The Mysterious Sky—1964

    Chilton 1st, VG, G-VG DJ, signed

  • Step to the Stars—1954 Winston

    Juvenile, VG, no DJ, signed

    All 3 Winston Juvenile feature Alex Schomburg endpapers

    Lot #33 — 4 Edmond Hamilton HCs

  • City at World’s End—1951 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, G, VG DJ

  • The Star Kings—1949 Frederick Fell 1st, fair, no DJ

  • The Star Kings—1951 Bergendahls Forlag 1st German ed, G-VG, no DJ (in German)

    Lot #34 — 4 Edgar Allan Poe Items

  • Complete Works—P. F. Collier HC

    RP, G-VG, no DJ

  • Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers—1917

    B. W. Huebsch, scarce HC, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • The SF of Edgar Allan Poe—read

    by Paul Scofield, 1986 Dove, 2

    cassette recordings

  • Tales of Mystery & Imagination

    —1971 Everyman’s Library British RP, VG, near VG Mervyn Peake DJ

    Lot #35 — 2 SF HCs by Leading Women Writers of the 1950s

  • Children of the Atom by Wilmar

    Shiras—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

    VG, G+ Frank Kelly Freas DJ

  • Shadow on the Hearth by Judith

    Merrill—1950 Doubleday 1st, G- VG, fair-good DJ

    Lot #36 — 12 Avalon First Editions in HC

  • Alien World by Adam Lukens,

    1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ,

    ex-library

  • Collision Course by Robert

    Silverberg, 1961, VG, no DJ

  • The Dark Planet by J. Hunter

The Drums of Tapajos by Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Encounter by J. Hunter Holly, 1959, F, no DJ

The Gray Aliens by J. Hunter Holly, 1963, VG, VG Ed Emshwiller DJ, ex-library

Immortality Delivered by Robert Sheckley, 1958, VG, VG DJ

Island in the Sky by Manly Wade Wellman, 1961, F, no DJ

Lost in Space by George O. Smith, 1959, NF, no DJ

The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler, 1961, VG, no DJ

The Time Chariot by Earl Hickey, 1966, VG, VG Gray Morrow DJ, ex-library

Troyanaby Colonel S. P. Meek, 1961, F, no DJ

Lot #37 — 2 Armed Services Editions in VG+ Condition
Gold and Guns on Halfaday

Creek by James B. Hendryx, #1073, 4th book in series from Argosy & Short Stories

I’ll Try Anything Twice by Fred Russell, #101, sports humor and anecdotes by the longtime sports editor for the Nashville Banner

Lot #38 — 3 Alfred Hitchcock Juvenile Anthologies + One Other Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly

Gallery—1962 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, VG DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted

Houseful—1961 Random House,

VG pictorial wraps, no DJ
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders

in Suspense—1967 Random

House, VG pictorial wraps, G DJ

Spooks Deluxe: Excursions Into the Supernatural by Franklin Watts, 1st printing, VG, G DJ

Lot #39 — 2 SF Oddities in HC Serve It Forth: Cooking with

Anne McCaffrey—recipes from leading SF and fantasy writers, NF, pictorial wraps

The Space Child’s Mother Goose: Verses by Frederick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry, 1958 Simon & Schuster 1st, VG, VG DJ

Lot #40 — 2 Books Related to Sherlock Holmes (RESERVE)
The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana

by Jack Tracy, 1979 Avon SC, 1st

printing, remaindered, G-VG
Uncollected Stories by Arthur

Conan Doyle—1982 Doubleday 1st US ed, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #41 — 3 Robert A. Heinlein HCs (RESERVE)
The Cat Who Walks Through

Walls—1985 Putnam 1st, NF, VG

Michael Whelan DJ
Farmer in the Sky— 1st printing,

1950 Scribner’s 1st, VG-NF, no DJ Space Cadet—1949 Scribners RP

of 1948 1st, G, VG- DJ

Lot #42 — 2 Lewis Padgett (C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) HCs
A Gnome There Was—stories

from 1941 - 49, 1950 Simon and

Schuster, 1st, G, fair DJ
Mutant—1953 Gnome Press 1st,

VG, VG - NF DJ

Lot #43 — Murray Leinster’s

Sidewise in Time

6 pulp stories from 1934-1946; 1950 Shasta 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #44 — 6 Scientific Romances in HC by ERB and Otis A. Kline
At the Earth’s Core—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
Jungle Tales of Tarzan—Grosset

& Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Warlord of Mars—Grosset &

Dunlap RP, G, no DJ
The Outlaws of Mars—1961

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ Planet of Peril—1961 Avalon

Books 1st, F, no DJ
The Swordsman of Mars—1960

Avalon Books 1st, NF, no DJ

Lot #45 — 1st Authorized U. S. Edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, “Wrecked in the Air” (RESERVE)
1874 Scribner, Armstrong, & Co.,

includes 48 illustrations & map, gold-stamped, VG, no DJ

Lot #46 — 3 Armed Services Editions literary paperbacks
The Best Plays of 1943 - 1944

six plays by Lillian Hellman, Moss

Hart, and others, #T-25, G

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg—front cover half-loose, #N-6, G

A Wartime Whitman—Walt Whitman poems, #S-1, VG

Holly, 1962, F, no DJ

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Lot #47 — 7 Gnome Press First Editions, all in HC

  • Agent of Vega by James H.

    Schmitz, 1960, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Bird of Time by Wallace West

    1959, G, insect damage, no DJ

  • The Dawning Light by Robert

    Silverberg & Randall Garrett, 1959,

    G-VG, no DJ

  • Five SF Novels by A. E. van Vogt,

    Fritz Leiber, Jack Williamson, Norvell W. Page, & Norman Knight 1952, VG, G-VG DJ

  • The Path of Unreason by George O. Smith, 1958, G-VG, no DJ

  • The Starmen by Leigh Brackett, 1952, VG in VG DJ

  • Typewriter In the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard, fair, water dmg, no DJ

    Lot #48 — 5 Grosset & Dunlap HC Tom Swift Adventures

  • #4—Tom Swift & His Submarine

    Boat, 1910, G, no DJ

  • #22—Tom Swift & His Air Scout,

    1919, VG, no DJ

  • #2—Tom Swift Jr. & His Jetmarine,

    1954, VG, VG DJ

  • #9—Tom Swift Jr. on the Phantom

    Satellite, 1956, VG, VG DJ

  • #19—Tom Swift Jr. & His

    Triphibian Atomicar, 1962, VG, pictorial wraps

    Lot #49 — 4 Whitman HC Newspaper Comic Strip Juveniles

  • Boots & the Mystery of the

    Unlucky Vase, based on “Boots &

    Her Buddies,” 1943, VG, no DJ

  • Dick Tracy, based on Chester

    Gould’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

  • Red Ryder and Gun-Smoke Gold

    based on Fred Harmon’s strip,

    1954, VG, no DJ, pictorial wraps

  • Tillie the Toiler: Masquerading Duchess from Russ Westover’s strip, 1943, G-VG, no DJ

    Lot #50 — History of the SF Magazines, V. 1 - 3 by Mike Ashley

  • Vol. 1 (1926 - 1935)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 2 (1936 - 1945)—1976 Henry

    Regnery 1st US SC ed, VG - NF

  • Vol. 3 (1946 - 1955)—1977

    Contemporary Books 1st US ed, G, G-VG DJ

    Lot #51 — 4 SC Books about SF

  • The Science in SF by Peter

    Nichols, 1983 Knopf 1st US, VG

  • SF Art by Chris Foss, 1976 Hart-

Davis, MacGibbon 1st, G-VG
The SF Book of Lists by Maxim

Jakubowski & Malcolm Edwards,

1983 Berkley 1st, VG+
Wasn’t the Future Wonderful by

Tim Onosko, 1979 E. P. Dutton 1st, G-VG

Lot #52 — 3 Raymond F. Jones HCs
The Cybernetic Brains—1962

Avalon Books 1st, F, no DJ
Renaissance—1951 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG DJ
Son of the Stars—1952 Winston

Juvenile, G, water damage, G DJ

Lot #53 — 3 Clifford Simak HCs
Cosmic Engineers—1950 Gnome

Press 1st, VG, VG Edd Cartier DJ Out of Their Minds—1970 Putnam 1st, VG, G Richard

Powers DJ
Worlds of Clifford Simak—1954 -

1960 stories—1960 Simon and Schuster 1st, G, G DJ

Lot #54 — 3 A. E. van Vogt First Edition HCs (RESERVE)
Masters of Time—1950 Fantasy

Press 1st, G, G Edd Cartier DJ
Slan—1946 Arkham 1st, G, G DJ The Voyage of the Space Beagle

—1950 Simon and Schuster 1st, VG, near VG Lew Glansman DJ

Lot #55 — Arch Oboler’s House on Fire + Jim Harmon’s The Great Radio Heroes
House on Fire—1st novel by cre-

ator of Lights Out, 1969 Barthol-

emew House 1st, NF, VG DJ
The Great Radio Heroes—classic

history of old-time-radio, G-VG Ace Books 30255, 2nd printing

Lot #56 — 5 Convention Limited Edition HCs in white DJ, all NF, + 2 SC Chapbooks (RESERVE)
Better Than One by Damon

Knight & Kate Wilhelm, Noreascon

II, 1980

Frankenstein: A Play in Two Acts

adapted by Victor Gialanella, 1982

NF SC
Homebrew by Poul Anderson,

Boskone, 1976, signed
A Time When by Anne McCaffrey,

1975 NESFA Press, signed

Tomorrow May Be Even Worse: An alphabet of SF cliches—verse by John Brunner, drawings by

“ATom," blue SC in F, Boskone,

1978, signed by Brunner
Viewpoint—Ben Bova, Boskone,

1977, signed

Would Could Should: The SF Society Anthology, 1988 SC chapbook, NF

Lot #57 — 5 SF Magazine Anthologies
Astounding SF Anthology edited

by John W. Campbell, 1952 Simon

& Schuster 1st, NF, no DJ

The Best from Fantasy & SF, 3rd Series edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas, 1964 Doubleday 1st, G-VG, no DJ

The Best from Startling Stories edited by Samuel Mines, 1953 Henry Holt 1st, NF, VG DJ

Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt & Martin H. Greenberg, 1993 Bristol Park, VG SC

Worlds of If edited by Frederick Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, & Joseph D. Olander, 1986 Bluejay Books 1st printing, F, VG+ DJ

Lot #58 — 8 Juvenile SF & Space Adventures
The Forgotten Star by Joseph

Greene, 1959 Western Pub, G-VG,

VG DJ
The Magic Ball from Mars by

Carl L. Biemiller, 1953 William

Morrow & Co. 1st, VG, VG DJ
Mike Mars at Cape Canaveral by Donald Wollheim, 1961 Doubleday

1st, NF, NF DJ
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by

Ellen MacGregor, 1965 Scholastic

Book Services, VG SC
Miss Pickerell On the Moon by

Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell, 1965 McGraw-Hill, VG, pictorial wraps

Mr. Wizard’s Science Secrets by Don Herbert, 1953 Popular Mechanics Press, 2nd printing, G- VG, G DJ

Teen-Age SF Stories by Richard M. Elam, Jr., Grosset & Dunlap RP, NF, NF DJ

Tom Corbett Space Cadet #2— Danger In Deep Space—1953 Grosset & Dunlap, G, fair DJ

Lot #59 — 3 larger Armed Services Editions related to World War II
The Best from Yank—stories,

cartoons, & more from the editors

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of the US Army weekly, #934, G+

  • A History of the War by Rudolf

    Motley, details the first four years

    of WWII, #S-216, about VG

  • While You Were Gone, Jack

    Goodman on wartime life in the USA, #1178, about VG

    Lot #60 — 8 Studies of SF and Horror Films
    The Horror Film by Ivan Butler,

    1967 A. S. Barnes, 1st SC ed, VG

  • An Illustrated History of the Horror Film by Carlos Clarens, 1968 Capricorn Books, VG SC

  • Movie Monsters by Denis Gifford, 1969 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • SF in the Cinema by John Baxter, 1970 A. S. Barnes 1st SC ed, G+

  • SF Film by Denis Gifford, 1971 Studio Vista 1st SC ed, VG

  • SF: Studies in Film by Frederik Pohl & Frederik Pohl IV, 1981 Ace Books 1st SC ed, VG

  • They’re Here: Invasion of the Body Snatchers—tribute to film & Finney novel, edited by Ed Gorman and Kevin McCarthy, 1999 Berkley Boulevard 1st SC ed, G-VG

  • The War of the Worlds—collects the novel, radio script, & a CD of the 1938 broadcast, Sourcebooks, 2nd printing, 2005, NF SC

    Lot #61 — 9 E. E Smith HCs

    • First Lensman—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Grey Lensman—1951 Fantasy

      Press 1st, G, VG Hubert Rogers

      DJ

    • Second Stage Lensman—1953

      Fantasy Press 1st, G-VG, no DJ

    • The Skylark of Space—1950 F. F. F. Pub. 3rd ed, G-VG, fair-good DJ

    • Skylark of Valeron—1949 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Skylark Three—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, VG DJ

    • Spacehounds of IPC—1947 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • Triplanetary—1948 Fantasy Press 1st, G, G DJ

    • The Vortex Blaster—1960 Gnome Press 1st, VG, no DJ

      Lot #62 — 4 Jack Williamson HCs

    • The Cometeers—1950 Fantasy

      Press 1st, NF, G-VG DJ, illustrated

      by Edd Cartier

    • The Legion of Space—1947

      Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ

    • The Legion of Time—1952

Fantasy Press 1st, NF, VG DJ
Mazeway—1990 Del Rey 1st, F,

VG-NF DJ

Lot #63 — 2 Wilson Tucker HCs Ice and Iron—1974 Doubleday

1st, NF, VG DJ
The Science-Fiction Subtreasury

—ten stories from 1942 - 1954, 1954 Rinehart 1st, F, F DJ

Lot #64 — 4 Horror & SF books
The Necronomicon: The Book of

Dead Names—1996 water dmg,

Skoob Books SC, 3rd printing, G Best Ghost Stories of M. R.

James—1946 Tower Books, 4th

printing, G, VG DJ
Tales from Underwood by David

H. Keller—stories from Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, etc., 1952 Arkham House, about VG, no DJ

The Watchers Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth— 2008 Del Rey SC, NF, price sticker on the back cover

Lot #65 — 5 Books about Lost Worlds
Another Look at Atlantis by Willy

Ley, 1969 Bell Publishing 1st, NF,

G-VG DJ
Lands Beyond by L. Sprague de

Camp & Willy Ley, 1952 Rinehart &

Co. 1st, G, VG DJ

Lost Cities & Vanished Civilizations, 1962 Chilton 1st, VG, G+ DJ

Lost Continents by L. Sprague de Camp, 1954 Gnome Press 1st, VG, VG DJ

Strangest of All—edited by Frank Edwards, 1962 Ace Star K-144 paperback, 1st printing, G

Lot #66 — 6 Sax Rohmer HCs without dust jackets
Bat Wing—A. L. Burt RP, G
Brood of the Witch Queen

1924 Doubleday 1st, G - VG
The Hand of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, VG
The Mask of Fu Manchu—A. L.

Burt RP, G-VG
Tales of Chinatown— A. L. Burt

RP, VG
Yellow Shadows—A. L. Burt, RP,

G-VG

Lot #67 — 4 British SF Novels The Giant Stumbles by John Lymington, 1960 Hodder &

Stoughton 1st, NF, VG DJ
Man of Metal by R. L. Fanthorpe

(as Pel Torro), 1970 Lenox Hill

Press 1st US ed, F, NF DJ
The Midwich Cuckoos by John

Wyndham, 1969 Walker & Co 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1958 U.S. 1st, F, VG+ Jack Gaughan DJ

Re-Birth (AKA The Chrysalids) by John Wyndham, 1970 Walker & Co, 1st HC printing after Ballantine 1955 U.S. 1st, VG in VG Jack Gaughan DJ

Lot #68 — 10 SF Criticisms and Studies
Bridges to SF, edited by George

Slusser, et al, essays anthology, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, F, VG DJ

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of by Thomas M. Disch, 2000 Simon & Schuster 1st SC ed, NF

Modern SF: Its Meaning & Its Future, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays by SF pros, 1953 Coward-McCann 1st, G, G DJ

New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis, SF utopias, 1960 Harcourt, Brace, & Co. 1st, G, G DJ

Of Worlds Beyond, edited by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, essays by SF pros, 1965 Dennis Dobson 1st British ed, NF, VG DJ

Robert A. Heinlein: America as SF by H. Bruce Franklin, 1980 Oxford University 1st, G+ SC

SF in the Real World by Norman Spinrad, essays, 1980 Southern Illinois University 1st, G+ SC

SF Today and Tomorrow, edited by Reginald Bretnor, essays, 1974 Harper & Row 1st, G, VG DJ

SF Voices No. 2 by Jeffrey M. Elliott, interviews with Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, and A. E. van Vogt, 1979 Borgo Press 1st, VG, no DJ

Voyages to the Moon by Marjorie Nicolson, history of imaginary space travel, 1948 Macmillan 1st, G, fair-G DJ

Lot #69 — 3 Armed Services Editions pop fiction paperbacks
Dual in the Sun by Niven Busch,

#N-17, G, front cover substantially rubbed; later adapted as a film starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, & Gregory Peck film

God’s Little Acre by Erskine

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Caldwell, #945, G; decline of a

poor white family in rural Georgia Young Man with a Horn by

Dorothy Baker, #S-10, G+; 1st jazz novel, inspired by Bix Beiderbecke

Lot #70 — 9 H. G. Wells Books

  • The Croquet Player—1937 Viking

    Press 1st US ed, VG, G-VG DJ

  • Experiment in Autobiography

    1934 Macmillan 1st US ed, G-VG,

    no DJ

  • Italy, France, and Britain at War

    —1917 Macmillan 1st US ed, 6th

    or 7th printing, VG, no DJ

  • The Outline of History, Volume II

    —Garden City Books RP, G, no DJ

  • The SF of H. G. Wells by Frank

    McConnell, critique of Wells’ work; 1981 Oxford University Press 1st, NF SC

  • 7 SF Novels of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, G+, no DJ

  • The Shape of Things to Come— 1933 Macmillan 1st US, VG, no DJ

  • Things to Come—1935 Cresset Press 1st, G - VG, no DJ; described as a film story based on material contained in his history of the future, The Shape of Things to Come

  • 28 SF Stories of H. G. Wells— Dover RP, VG, no DJ

    Lot #71 — Bobbsey Twins & Happy Hollisters Juveniles

  • The Bobbsey Twins In the Land

    of Cotton—1957 Grossett &

    Dunlap, VG, G DJ

  • The Happy Hollisters & the Mystery of Missile Town (two copies)—1961 Doubleday, both VG, VG DJ

  • Happy Hollisters & the Secret of the Lucky Coins—1962 Doubleday, VG, VG DJ

    Lot #72 — 8 Vintage HCs by Popular Writers of the Past

  • The Bell Street Murders by S.

    Fowler Wright—1931 Macaulay

    Co. 1st, about VG, no DJ

  • Hunchback House by Donald

    Bayne Hobart, originally serialized in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1928 —1929 Whitman 1st, G+, no DJ

  • The Leopard Woman by Stewart Lucas White, originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916 —1916 Doubleday, Page & Co. 1st, G-VG, no DJ

  • Mr. Chang’s Crime Ray by A. E.

Apple, originally published in Detective Story Magazine in 1927; 1928 Chelsea House, G, no DJ

Mr. Mirakel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Grosset & Dunlap RP, VG, G DJ

Om—The Secret of Ahbor Valley

by Talbot Mundy, first serialized in Adventure in 1924; 1924 Bobbs- Merrill 1st, G-VG, fair DJ

The Slayer of Souls by Robert W. Chambers, originally serialized in Hearst’s Magazine, later reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries— undated, probably 1920 George H. Doran 1st, VG, no DJ

The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah, originally published in Land and Water in 1917—undated, probably 1923 George H. Doran 2nd US ed, VG, G DJ

Lot #73 — 8 Book Collecting & Related Guidebooks
Collecting SF, Fantasy, & Horror

Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, 2002

Gryphon Books 1st, VG SC

Double Your Pleasure: The Ace SF Double by James A. Carrick, 1989 Gryphon Books 1st, NF SC

Grading & Caring for Big Little Books—bound computer printout

Official Guide to the Fantastics

by Michael Resnick, 1976 House

of Collectibles 1st, VG- SC

The Official Price Guide to Paperbacks by Jon Warren, 1991 House of Collectibles 1st, G SC

Paperback Primer by Thomas L. Bonn, 1981 Paperback Quarterly Publications 1st, NF SC

The Paperback Price Guide #2

by Kevin Hancer, 1982 Harmony

Books 2nd ed, VG SC
Space Adventure Collectibles by

T. N. Tumbusch, 1990 Wallace- Homestead 1st, G-VG SC

Lot #74 — 14 SF, Film, and Comic Fanzines & Semi-Prozines
Bookman’s Weekly, Oct 26, 1987

special SF & fantasy issue, VG+ En Garde #6, 1969—fanzine for

fans of TV’s The Avengers, The

Prisoner, etc., VG+
The Fans of Central Jersey #14,

Apr 1977—John Byrne interview,

more, VG+ to NF
Filmfax #37, Feb/Mar 1993

focus on The Creature from the

Black Lagoon, NF
Filmfax #56, May, June 1996

articles on American International Pictures, Roger Corman, prison films, and more, NF

QRM, dated Oct 1967 on the cover (actually Feb 1968) — Frederik Pohl, etc., VG, back cover partially loose

The next 6 books are SF Review— edited by Richard Geis—the 1st 4 listed have Stephen Fabian covers #29, Jan-Feb 1979—John

Brunner, Michael Moorcock, &

Hank Stine interviews, VG
#34, Feb 1980—Donald Wollheim

& Charles Sheffield interviews,

Harlan Ellison profile, NF
#39, Summer 1981—Gene Wolfe

interview, Barry Malzberg on 80s

SF, NF
#44, Summer 1982—Anne

McCaffrey interview, Norman

Spinrad on SF, VG
#45, Winter 1982—Terry Carr

interview, Keith Laumer profile,

Aldis Budrys on pulps, NF
#48, Fall 1983—unpublished work

of Cordwainer Smith, more, VG+

Spockalania #2, April 1968 (3rd printing), VG, Star Trek fanzine
Towards a Theory of SF (1971)

essay be John J. Pierce that attempts to define SF (based on a 1968 essay that was published by Sam Moskowitz)

Lot #75—4 SF Convention Program Books
Discon 21974 program book for

the 32nd World SF Convention in Washington, DC, featuring Roger Zelazny and Andrew J. Offutt, VG+

Inguanacon—1978 program book for the 36th World SF Convention in Phoenix, AZ, featuring Harlan Ellison & F. M. Busby, VG+

NESFA Hymnal—produced for Boskone 11, March 1974, by the New England SF Association; limited to 500 copies; words to 38 filk songs, VG

Noreascon TwoProject Report Two, May 1979, for the 38th World SF Convention, Boston, MA featuring Kate Wilhelm & Damon Knight & Robert Silverberg; cover art by Stephen Fabian, VG+

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