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THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Sixteenth (16th) Annual Collection
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by FIVE authors: by Dozois on the title page and by Cory Doctorow, Robert Reed, Michael Swanwick and Ian MacDonald at their stories. Included in this volume are stories by Steven Baxter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Charles Wilson, Greg Egan, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Browing Spencer, Bruce Sterling, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1998 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lix 609 pp. ISBN: 0-312209630.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (light overall edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 46120More details Price: $40.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Sixteenth (16th) Annual Collection
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by Michael Swanwick at his story 'The Very Pulse of the Machine.' One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. Also included in this volume are stories by Greg Egan, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, William Browing Spencer, Bruce Sterling, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1998 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lix 609 pp. ISBN: 0-312209630.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42332More details Price: $28.00 -
GALILEO'S CHILDREN: Tales of Science vs. Supersitition.
Edition: First printing.
Amherst, NY: PYR / Prometheus Books, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Mike Resnick at his story "When the Old Gods Die." Preface by Dozois and stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Egan, George R. R. Martin, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, Keith Roberts, Edgar Pangborn, Chris Lawson, Brendan DuBois, James Alan Gardner, Paul Park, James Tiptree Jr. From the dust jacket "Science fiction provides one of the few places in modern letters where the battle between science and superstition is openly discussed and debated" 346 pp. ISBN: 1591023157.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 53900More details Price: $35.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Ninth (9th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62831More details Price: $60.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Eighteenth (18th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by SIX authors: on the title page by Dozois and by Susan Palwick, Michael Swanwick, Ian MacDonald and Alastair Reynolds and INSCRIBED by Nancy Kress at their stories. Also included in this volume are stories by Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul J. McAuley, Ursula Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Brian Stableford, Steven Utley, Tananarrive Due, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 2000 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lv, 744 pp. ISBN: 0-312-274653.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (short tears with associated creasing to dj.).
Book ID: 51449More details Price: $40.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Eighteenth (18th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by FIVE authors: on the title page by Dozois and by Nancy Kress, John Kessel, Alastair Reynolds and Robert Charles Wilson at their stories. Also included in this volume are stories by Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul J. McAuley, Ursula Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Brian Stableford, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Tananarrive Due, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 2000 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lv, 744 pp. ISBN: 0-312-274653.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49776More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Sixteenth (16th) Annual Collection
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Steven Baxter and Ian McDonald. Also included in this volume are stories by Greg Egan, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, William Browing Spencer, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1998 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lix 609 pp. ISBN: 0-312204450.
Condition: Very good condition (some crinkling to the lower edges of the first quarter of the textblock.)
Book ID: 38908More details Price: $29.50 -
MCSWEENEY'S 15.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: McSweeney's, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Number fifteen in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a hardcover series of books which rank among the most creatively designed and published of the early 21st century. Stories by Steve Milhouser, Roddy Doyle, Jimmy Hen, Eric Hanson, Padgett Powell Benjain Rosenbaum and more. Includes a special section on Icelandic Fiction with contributions from Birna Anna Bjornsdottir, Sjon, Gyroir Eliasson, Bragi Olafsson, Einar Marguomundsson, Hallgrimur Helgason, Porarinn Eldjorn, Guobergur Brgsson, Oddny Sturludottir, Silj Hauksdotir, Andri Snoer Magnason. SIGNED by Eggers at the bottom of the copyright page. Notes on contributors. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-932416145.
Condition: Very near fine in gold and illustrated boards (does not have the bonus map).
Book ID: 86860More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2009.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Mariner Books, 2009. SIGNED first edition - An anthology which highlights the "very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more." Introduction by Marjane Satrapi. Contributors include Denis Johnson, Nathan Englander, Eula Bliss, Yannick Murphy, Matthew Power, Jonathan Franzen, Philip Connors, Rebecca Makkai and more. Illustrated. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions - Makkai at "The Briefcase" and Philip Connors at "Diary of a Fire Lookout." (preceded his first book on being a fire lookout) Notes on contributors. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-0547241609.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68945More details Price: $30.00 -
MCSWEENEY'S 15.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: McSweeney's, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Number fifteen in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a hardcover series of books which rank among the most creatively designed and published of the early 21st century. Stories by Steve Milhouser, Roddy Doyle, Jimmy Hen, Eric Hansonm, Padgett Powell Benjain Rosenbaum and more. Includes a special section on Icelandic Fiction with contributions from Birna Anna Bjornsdottir, Sjon, Gyroir Eliasson, Bragi Olafsson, Einar Marguomundsson, Hallgrimur Helgason, Porarinn Eldjorn, Guobergur Brgsson, Oddny Sturludottir, Silj Hauksdotir, Andri Snoer Magnason. SIGNED by TWO authors - by Eggers at the bottom of the copyright page and Sjon at "Fridrick and the Eejit." Notes on contributors. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-932416145.
Condition: Very near fine in gold and illustrated boards (does not have the bonus map).
Book ID: 72610More details Price: $60.00 -
SEX FOR AMERICA: Politically Inspired Erotica.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: inscribed by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72380More details Price: $40.00 -
SEX FOR AMERICA: Politically Inspired Erotica.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (stray ink line on outside edge of textblock).
Book ID: 74996More details Price: $38.50 -
SHOWCASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original science fiction stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Raylyn Moore, Bruce McAllister, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Siverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Joseph A. Howell, Joseph L. Green, Joe Haldeman, and Gene Wolfe. Introduction by Jack Dann. SIGNED by Joe Haldeman at his story "John's Other Life." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0111771.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, pocket remnant, slight spine slant in a very good unmarket dust jacket.
Book ID: 51491More details Price: $19.50 -
SHOWCASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original science fiction stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Raylyn Moore, Bruce McAllister, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Siverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Joseph A. Howell, Joseph L. Green, Joe Haldeman, and Gene Wolfe. Introduction by Jack Dann. SIGNED by FIVE authors at their stories: Raphael. A. Lafferty, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman and Ben Bova (INSCRIBED by Bova at Torcon 2 - that is, in 1973 - 4 of the signatures were from Torcon2 where Lafferty and Bova received Hugo awards; Haldeman's was later) Both Joanna Russ and R. A. Laferty's signatures are fairly uncommon. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0111771.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (upper corner of half title page clipped, some small and very neat notations on table of contents) Rather scarce with a great group of signatures like this copy.
Book ID: 73228More details Price: $150.00 -
THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 23rd Series.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes stories by Damon Knight, Joanna Russ, Edward Bryant, Jane Yolen and more. SIGNED by Samuel R. Delany at his story "Prismatica." 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-152256.
Condition: Very good in very near fine dust jacket (light remainder spray, some foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 86894More details Price: $45.00 -
THE WORLD'S FINEST MYSTERY AND CRIME STORIES: Fourth Annual Collection.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the front cover of the dust jacket:"More than 200,000 words of the best Mystery and Suspense fiction from around the world by Doug Allyn, Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Bill Pronzini and many others." Other contributors include Val McDermid, Susan Isaacs, Bill Crider and many others. Introductory essays on the year in crime fiction and reports from Canada, Great Britain and Germany. SIGNED on the title page by Carole Nelson Douglas. 638 pp. ISBN: 0-765308487.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74219More details Price: $35.00 -
MURDER, MY DEAR WATSON: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 10 original Sherlock Holmes stories and three essays on Holmes, including Sherlock on the internet and a Sherlockian library. Foreword by Jon Lellenberg. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Ann Perry and Carolyn Wheat. Also includes stories by Loren D Estleman, Sharon McCrumb, Bill Crider, Daniel Stasower and others. Notes on contributors. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-786710810.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 80971More details Price: $50.00 -
BENDING THE LANDSCAPE: Science Fiction, Volume One.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new series of original gay and lesbian writing, a "groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable and daring writers - gay and straight - creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment." Among the contributors are Keith Hartman, Ellen Klages, Jim Grimsley, Rebecca Ore, Stephen Baxter and more. SIGNED by Nancy Kress at her story "State of Nature." Notes on authors. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-879517328.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88824More details Price: $18.50 -
FULL SPECTRUM 5.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - Contains 28 cutting edge original stories. SIGNED by THREE authors twice - each author signed the title page and also signed at their stories: Karen Joy Fowler, Doug Beason and Howard V. Hendrix. Also includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, Patricia McKillip, Lawrence Watt-Evans and many others. 478 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 67212More details Price: $45.00 -
THE AUNT LUTE ANTHOLOGY OF U. S. WOMEN WRITERS, VOLUME 2: THE 20TH CENTURY.
Edition: First printing, a very thick trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 55350More details Price: $60.00 -
NEW CRIMES 2.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes stories by the best modern American and British crime writers - including Ed Gorman, H. R. F.Keating, Bill Pronzini, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Richard Lupoff and more. The vintage corner contains stories by Ed McBain and Charles Williford and features on the Black Dahlia case and noir writer Jim Thompson. SIGNED by Richard Lupoff at his story "Triptych." 243 pp plus a 1 p Jim Thompson bibliography. ISBN: 0-881846341.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 69065More details Price: $30.00 -
INTERSECTIONS: The Sycamore Hill Anthology.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original short stories by members of the 1994 Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference. INSCRIBED by James Patrick Kelly at his story "The First Law of Thermodynamics. Also includes "Sex Education" by Nancy Kress; "T Hardened Criminals" by Jonathan Lethem; "The Marianas Islands" by Karen Joy Fowler and other stories by Richard Butner, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Frazier, Gregory Frost, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Maureen F. McHugh, Michaela Roessner, Bruce Sterling, and Mark L. Van 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-860900.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73458More details Price: $35.00 -
INTERSECTIONS: The Sycamore Hill Anthology.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original short stories by members of the 1994 Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference. SIGNED by THREE authors: Nancy Kress at "Sex Education"; Jonathan Lethem at "T Hardened Criminals" and Karen Joy Fowler at her story "The Marianas Islands." Includes stories by Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Richard Butner, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert Frazier, Gregory Frost, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, Maureen F. McHugh, Michaela Roessner, Bruce Sterling, and Mark L. Van Name. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-860900.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 57785More details Price: $35.00 -
INTERSECTIONS: The Sycamore Hill Anthology.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original short stories by members of the 1994 Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: Nancy Kress, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Joy Fowler and James Patrick Kelly, Also includes stories by Richard Butner, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Frazier, Gregory Frost, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Maureen F. McHugh, Michaela Roessner, Bruce Sterling, and Mark L. Van Name. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-860900.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51554More details Price: $40.00 -
QUALITERIA 1996: The QPB Literary Journal.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The second (and last) issue of Qualiteria. Contains fiction by James Ellroy, Kim Stafford, Rebecca Ryan, Shirley Jackson and others, and an interview with David Foster Wallace. Includes articles on the New York Writer, the Hollywood Rat Race, being arrested at the ABA and Investigating Sex (A Surrealistic Sex Survey). A portfolio of prints by Paul Bowen and illustrations by Beatrice Coron . SIGNED by Walter Mosley at an excerpt from "Gone Fishin." 211 p
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64757More details Price: $25.00 -
ORBIT 10 (Ten): An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, (1972.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the most respected continuing series of original science fiction stories. Collects 11 original stories by Gene Wolfe (the novella "The Fifth Head of Cerebus"), Kate Wilhelm, Edward Bryant, Gardner Dozois and others. SIGNED by Dozois at his story 'A Kingdom by the Sea.' Index to the first ten volumes in the series. 215 pp. Cover art by Paul Lehr. ISBN: 0-399-109811.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (lower corner of dj flap clipped.)
Book ID: 53561More details Price: $20.00 -
ORBIT 19 (Nineteen).
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Harper & Row, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - At the time of its publication this one was one of the oldest and most respected continuing series of original science fictions stories. Collects 13 original stories by John Varley, Gene Wolfe, Kate Wilhelm, R. A. Laferty, Eleanor Arnason and others. SIGNED by Kim Stanley Robinson at his story 'The Disguise.' 217 pp. ISBN: 0-399-109811.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (lower corner of dj flap clipped.)
Book ID: 53866More details Price: $21.50 -
SPEAKING OF GREED: Stories of Envious Desire.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the The Seven Deadly Sins Series. Includes a new novella, 'Speaking of Greed', by Block and 19 stories by other contributors: F. Paul Wilson, Doug Allyn, Gabrielle Kraft, Jack Ritchie, Jeremiah Healy, David Morrell, Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Matt Coward, John F. Suter, Peter Robinson, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Ed Gorman, Marcia Muller, Helen Nielsen, Gillian Roberts, Sue Dunlap and Brendan DuBois. INSCRIBED on the title page by Block and dated in the year of publication and also SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories - David Morrell and Brendan DuBois. Authors' biographies. 360 pp. ISBN: 1581822219.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74129More details Price: $65.00 -
SPEAKING OF GREED: Stories of Envious Desire.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the The Seven Deadly Sins Series. Includes a new novella, 'Speaking of Greed', by Block and 19 stories by other contributors: F. Paul Wilson, Doug Allyn, Gabrielle Kraft, Jack Ritchie, Jeremiah Healy, David Morrell, Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Matt Coward, John F. Suter, Peter Robinson, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Ed Gorman, Marcia Muller, Helen Nielsen, Gillian Roberts, Sue Dunlap and Brendan DuBois. INSCRIBED on the title page by Block and dated in the year of publication and SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories - Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini, David Morrell and Jeremiah Healy. Authors' biographies. 360 pp. ISBN: 1581822219.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59132More details Price: $75.00 -
MCSWEENEY'S NO. 8.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated yellow boards with a black cloth spine, no dust jacket as issued (a bit of rubbing to the corners of the boards)
Book ID: 71793More details Price: $75.00