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ANATOMY OF WONDER: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, Third Edition.
Edition: First printing of the 3rd edition, greatly expanded, revised and updated from the previous editions.
New York: Bowker, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive and important work on science fiction: covers the emergence of sf (to 1920), between the wars (1918-1938), the early modern period (1938-1963), the modern period (1964-1986) by Brian Stapleford, children's and young adult sf, an extensive checklist on science fiction in languages other than English (numerous entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction) as well as a core collection checklist, author, subject and title indexes, and much more. Introduction by Brian Aldiss. 874 pp. ISBN: 0-835-223124.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 11497More details Price: $50.00 -
ANATOMY OF WONDER: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, Fourth Edition.
Edition: First printing of the 4th edition, completely revised and updated from the previous editions.
New York: Bowker, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive and important work on science fiction: covers the emergence of sf (to 1920), between the wars (1918-1938), the early modern period (1938-1963), the modern period (1964-1986) by Brian Stapleford, children's and young adult sf, an extensive checklist on science fiction in languages other than English (numerous entries for German, French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Romanian, and Yugoslav science fiction and foreign-language secondary material and a survey of Hebrew science fiction) as well as a core collection checklist, author, subject and title indexes, and much more. Introduction by James Gunn. xxiv, 912 pp. ISBN: 0-8352-32883.
Condition: Fine in glossy boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 52581More details Price: $50.00 -
STEINBECK'S GHOST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "ItÕs been two months since TravisÕs family moved to a development so new that it seems totally unreal. His parents are working harder now, to pay for it all, and Travis is left to fend for himself.ThereÕs one place, though, where Travis can still connect with his old life: the Salinas library. . . . a mystery that delves deeply into the ways that books take us, one at a time, out into the vast world." SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-312-37328-7.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45684More details Price: $25.00 -
STEINBECK'S GHOST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "ItÕs been two months since TravisÕs family moved to a development so new that it seems totally unreal. His parents are working harder now, to pay for it all, and Travis is left to fend for himself.ThereÕs one place, though, where Travis can still connect with his old life: the Salinas library. . . . a mystery that delves deeply into the ways that books take us, one at a time, out into the vast world." Bibliography. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-312-37328-7.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46781More details Price: $15.00 -
![GPH: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and his Era in the Bancroft Library. by [Hammond, George P.] Morgan, Dale L.; Agapito Rey, Charles L. Camp, Robert Becker, Warren R. Howell, Susanna Bryant Dakin, J. S. Holliday and others, contributors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/33813---200.jpg?v=1727122925)
GPH: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and his Era in the Bancroft Library.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1965. Hardcover first edition - Published to as a celebration of Hammond's nineteen-year tenure as Director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Contributors include Dale L. Morgan, Agapito Rey, Charles L Camp, Robert H. Becker, Warren R. Howell, Robert E. Burke, J. S. Holliday and others..Includes a bibliography of George P. Hammond's writings and as well as reprinting his first published work. Frontispiece portrait, 10 additional sepia-toned pages of reproductions, plates and portraits. Keepsake Number 13, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. xiii, 119 pp.
Condition: Fine in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and a facsimile of GPH's initials on the front cover (some pages still unopened.)
Book ID: 33813More details Price: $25.00 -
DREAMERS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 80274More details Price: $40.00 -
SONADORES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 91161More details Price: $21.50
![GPH: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and his Era in the Bancroft Library. by [Hammond, George P.] Morgan, Dale L.; Agapito Rey, Charles L. Camp, Robert Becker, Warren R. Howell, Susanna Bryant Dakin, J. S. Holliday and others, contributors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/33813---800.jpg?v=1727122925)
