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November 29, 2023: New SF in time for the Holidays
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. - Rod Serling
Lucky for us, collectible SF books are no fantasy, and today's list focuses on some Science Fiction and Fantasy titles newly cataloged. We understand how challenging it can be to find the right gift for the holidays, and we are happy to help your search if you are looking for something special to give or even for yourself. As usual, more new stock can be seen on the website.
 | TAU ZERO.
Anderson, Poul.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Anderson on the front free end paper. 1971 Hugo award nominee. "An archetypal example of... (#30709)
Price: $450.00 | | | 
|  | DR. NIKOLA'S EXPERIMENT.
Boothby, Guy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-vi [vii-viii 1-340 [341-342: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], twenty inserted illustrations by Sydney Cowell, original pictorial green cloth, front... (#31112)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | THE SWORD OF SHANNARA.
Brooks, Terry.
New York: Random House, [1977]. Octavo, illustrated by the Hildebrandt brothers, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first book in the Shannara fantasy series. Fantasy series with a reluctant hero... (#30882)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |
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|  | CHILDHOOD'S END.
Clarke, Arthur C.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An enormously popular novel presaging Clarke's major thematic statements in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Aired as a miniseries on the SyFy... (#30677)
Price: $3,750.00 | | |
|  | COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
COSMOS [1933-1935] by Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances.
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST... (#30700)
Price: $3,000.00 | | |
|  | THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE.
Dick, Philip K[indred].
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Alternate history novel in which Germany and Japan won World War II. Hugo Award winner for best novel, 1963... (#30824)
Price: $3,500.00 | | |
|  | MAGICIAN.
Feist, Raymond E.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1982]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. First volume in the Riftwar saga. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-101... (#30881)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | THE BODY SNATCHERS.
Finney, Jack (pseudonym of Walter Braden Finney).
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Seed-pod aliens take over a small American town, replacing people with will-less simulacra. A memorable piece of paranoia, similar to Heinlein's... (#31250)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | THE PEACEMAKER.
Forester, C. S. (pseudonym for Cecil Louis Troughton Smith).
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1934]. Octavo. [i-viii] 1-341 [342-344, blank], original green boards, spine stamped in gold. First edition. One of the major SF novels of the 1930's. "A bitterly... (#30753)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | NEUROMANCER.
Gibson, William.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Flashy first novel which deals in 'cyberspace' -- the realm where computerized information takes on visible, three-dimensional... (#25345)
Price: $5,000.00 | | |
|  | TRAVELERS OF SPACE.
Greenberg, Martin (editor).
New York: Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the front free end paper by editor/publisher Martin Greenberg. Collects fourteen stories by... (#30682)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | SHIP OF MAGIC.
Hobb, Robin.
New York, Toronto, Sydney, London, Toronto, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Book one of "The Liveship Traders." (#31320)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | CONAN THE CONQUEROR.
Howard, Robert E.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company, Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel-length story first published as a five-part serial in WEIRD TALES, December 1935 through April 1936 as... (#31115)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | CONJURE WIFE.
Leiber, Fritz.
New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First separate edition. Inscribed and signed by Leiber on the front free end paper. First published in book form the preceding year... (#30664)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | I AM LEGEND.
Matheson, Richard.
New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. On a label affixed to the front free end paper this copy is inscribed and signed by Matheson to... (#31232)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | A GNOME THERE WAS AND OTHER TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.
Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucile Moore).
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. Presentation copy warmly inscribed and signed... (#31234)
Price: $3,500.00 | | |
|  | FLASH GORDON IN THE CAVERNS OF MONGO.
Raymond, Alex.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-iv 1-218 [219] [220: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Robb Beebe, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped... (#31253)
Price: $450.00 | | |  | I'LL GRIND THEIR BONES.
Roscoe, Theodore.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-323 [324: blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in blue. First edition. A newspaper reporter tries to... (#30880)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE.
Sanderson, Brandon.
New York: Tor, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Sanderson on the half title page. Fantasy novel, the first book in Mistborn series. The author's second novel... (#31321)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | CITY.
Simak, Clifford.
[New York]: Gnome Press, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Simak on the front free end paper, "With all good wishes / Clifford D. Simak." Winner of 1953 International... (#30662)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | THE SKYLARK OF SPACE.
Smith, Edward E. and Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby.
[Providence, RI: The Buffalo Book Company, 1946]. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-303 [304: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Wonderful association copy with a.... (#30722)
Price: $7,500.00 | | |
|  | SNOW CRASH.
Stephenson, Neal.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson... (#31286)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |  | UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLD.
Tiptree, James, Jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon).
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1978]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. The author's first novel. 1979 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004)... (#31336)
Price: $100.00 | | |
|  | THE CHRYSALIDS.
Wyndham, John (pseudonym of John Beynon Harris).
London: Michael Joseph, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. edition. Published earlier in the U.S. with textual differences as RE-BIRTH (1955). Post nuclear war novel. "In the aftermath of a great... (#31280)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |
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