Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. An illustrated collection of thrilling tales from science fiction masters such as Bradbury, Asimov, and Vinge focuses on life in space habitats and includes essays by scientists that discuss the potential realities of space stations and homes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 on flap with the number 8021 underneath it, and the number 0369 on the bottom rear flap, indicating a true first edition jacket. Stated fifth printing June 1969. Light blue boards, gold and red titles on spine, gold facsimile signature on front board. There is tanning and light soil to the dust jacket. No markings. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.
Softcover. NY, Harper Prism, ist proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with black type. This is a Uncorrected Proof of the author's 14th book in the Discworld Series. The Discworld, a rich and evolving fantasy land comprised of interlinking sub-series of novels, is Pratchett's legacy. Like new, no markings. The first US hardcover trade edition was published in 1995. Rear cover with small wrinkle near spine. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. West Kingston, RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Roy G. Krenkel ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket shows heavy rubbing and wear with tears, chipping and rips. Currently covered in plastic brodart. Internally clean.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2nd pr., 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages in color. Basil Wolverton is one of the greatest, most idiosyncratic talents in comic book history. Though he is best known for his humorous grotesqueries in MAD magazine, it is his science-fiction character Spacehawk that Wolverton fans have most often demanded be collected. The wait is over: Spacehawk features every story from Spacehawk's intergalactic debut in 1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942. Spacehawk is the closest thing to a colorfully-costumed, conventional action hero Wolverton ever created, yet the strip is infused with Wolverton's quintessential weirdness: controlled, organic artwork of strangely repulsive aliens and monsters and bizarre planets, and stories of gruesome retribution that bring to mind Wolverton's peer, Fletcher Hanks. Spacehawk had no secret identity, no fixed base of operations beyond his spaceship, and no sidekicks or love interests. He had but one mission in life: to protect the innocent throughout the Solar System, and to punish the guilty. Clean copy.
Softcover. Monterey Park, O.S.P. Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with 8 pages of film stills. Small wrinkle/tear on front cover window. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Schwartz. This amusing picture book features Darlene, a relatively svelte hippo, and a cast of other dressed animals in three connected stories. With stars in her eyes, Darlene signs up for theater class and lands a role as "the Flood" in Noah's ark. On opening night she enters, entangles her feet in her long gown, and missing her target, flings a basin of water onto the critic in the first row. His review? "?a drenching, yet refreshing experience. Miss Darlene's performance was especially exciting." Two more plays follow, a science fiction drama in which Darlene flubs her lines, and Sleeping Beauty, which finds the hippo falling asleep onstage. The critic raves "A STAR IS BORN," and the story ends with Darlene's contented smile. Brightened with delicate washes, the fine, clean ink drawings create a series of charming, often droll scenes.
Softcover. Canberra, ANU Press/Australian National University, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, low public health, lack of social cohesion, crime, fear and insecurity. A further very visible problem is the attacks on men and women who are accused of being practitioners of witchcraft or sorcery, which can lead to serious bodily harm, banishment and sometimes death. Today, many communities, individuals, church organisations and policymakers in Melanesia and internationally are exploring ways to overcome the negative social outcomes associated with witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs. This book brings together a collection of chapters written by a diverse range of authors, both Melanesian and non-Melanesian, providing crucial insights both into how these practices and beliefs are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and also the types of interventions that are being trialled or debated to address the problems associated with them. Some light marking to several pages.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine. 408 pages with b&w illustrations. Classic work by the famed science fiction author and engineer, providing a fascinating account of pyramids, aqueducts, catapults, fortifications, ships, and technology from the ancient world to the Renaissance. No First Edition indicated on copyright page so assumed early reprint.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 424 pages, color throughout. After becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was well-regarded enough as a Western and science-fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff roster - the absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field. From 1955-60, Williamson would draw 99 stories for Atlas (both solo and with help by "Fleagle Gang" studio cohorts Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel, plus Gray Morrow and Ralph Mayo) in mostly western and fantasy genres, with a smattering of war, romance and "jungle girl adventure". He flourished on Westerns, freely and loosely rendered four-page morality plays, many scripted economically by Stan Lee. With his extensive oeuvre subsequently based mostly in newspaper strips (including Flash Gordon, Secret Agent Corrigan, and the syndicated Star Wars, at George Lucas' own request), or working largely as an inker, his Atlas stories collectively are the largest single body of work Williamson would ever do as a primary creator for one company. Fantagraphics is proud to present this Al Williamson Artist Edition to finally showcase this distinct period of his remarkable career. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, pictorial boards, 290 pages in color. In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess Venus taking a job on Earth at a beauty magazine. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus' dating adventures into a straight-out horror anthology. Collected here, 70 years later and for the first time ever, is that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run. Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Everett in particular is given free rein and seizes the opportunity: writing, drawing, and lettering twenty ghoulish and goofy masterpieces, including classics like "Hangman's House," "The Day Venus Vanished," "The House of Terror," "The Sealed Spectors," Tidal Wave of Terror," and the phantasmagorical "Cartoonist's Calamity!" These stories showcase the brilliant draftsmanship and storytelling of Everett, one of the giants of the 1940s and '50's comic book industry. His slick, fluid line rendered at Timely/Atlas, from his seminal god-child Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, to the atomic age Marvel Boy, is some of the finest pre-Code horror this side of E.C.'s Graham Ingels. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Barre MA, The Imprint Society, Ltd. Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue and beige cloth covered boards with gilt vignette of telescope on cover and gilt titled spine. 80 pages, wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Limited edition, one of 1,950, this unnumbered and unsigned. A science fiction tale set in Boston, a tasty satire. Book is bright, clean, housed in a lightly worn slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. Second book of the "Homecoming" series. On the planet Harmony survivors from a ruined Earth live in a utopia maintained by a computer, which is failing. The only repair lies light-years distant on Earth and the only way to get there is to teach forbidden technology to a few select people. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers , BC Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Contains a collection of early science-fiction short stories by popular author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Hardcover Very Good+ Two volume set in a slipcase. Volumes entitled: Weird Science-Fantasy No. 23-29 and Incredible Science Fiction No. 30-33. Black and white reproductions of the comics with color reproductions of the covers. Featuring tales by Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, and Joe Orlando.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Brookings Institution Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages. Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In this path-breaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "The Constitution of Knowledge" our social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do it, and how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 282 pages. In the year 2020, the Reverend Hornswell Hake is drafted into the Team--the successor to the CIA--and thrust into the front line of the cool war of intrigue and sabotage which has replaced armed conflict. Dj with short closed tears, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkeley Publishing/Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 389 pages. Collects twelve stories that make up the final volume of Anderson's future history series. Includes a "Chronology of Technic Civilization." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkeley Publishing, Book Club Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate."Behold these animals from the discovery on through the World-Taking. They are garnered from different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the same sun. Yet they do."This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk the Earth..." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, SFBC (Science Fiction Book Club), BC Ed., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 422 pages, 3 novels in one book. An attractive book club edition. Jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Flame Tree Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. From classic Star Wars, Blade Runner and Matrix all the way back to The Day the Earth Stood Still sf movie posters have lurked and flickered across our subways, streets and bedroom walls since the early 1950s. From the kitsch of the Attack of the 50ft Woman, through to the many versions of Time Machine or War of the Worlds the 1980s hailed a more sophisticated filmic appeal for our sf dollar, with the onset of green screen and cgi. The films may change, but somehow the posters remain the same: geeky, powerful, escapist fantasy, and we love them all! The book features an arguable, quirky selection of what we think are the best.
 "Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science by: Gregory Benford, George Zebrowski (Editors)")
 "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.")
 "Sowers of the Thunder, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR) by: Howard, Robert E.")
 "Spacehawk by: Basil Wolverton")
 "Star Trek III - The Search for Spock - Original Movie Script Collector's Edition by: Bennett, Harve")
 "Starring Miss Darlene by: Schwartz, Amy")
 "Stress of Her Regard, The by: Powers, Tim")
 "Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature by: Day Bradford M. (Ed.)")
 "Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia by: Forsyth, Miranda; Eves, Richard")
 "The Ancient Engineers by: L. Sprague De Camp")
 "The Atlas Artist Edition No. 2: Al Williamson the City That Time Forgot and Other Stories by: Al Williamson /Dr Vassallo (Editor)")
 "The Atlas Comics Library 2: Venus; Strange Stories of the Supernatural by: Everett, Bill/ Vassallo, Michael J. (Editor)")
 "The Blue Hawk by: Peter Dickinson")
 "The Brick Moon by: Hale, Edward Everett; Michael McCurdy (Illust.)")
 "The Call of Earth (Homecoming Vol. 2) by: Orson Scott Card")
 "The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964 by: Philip José Farmer")
 "The Complete Weird Science Fantasy-Incredible Science Fiction Two folio volumes with Slipcase (EC an Entertaining Comic, 23-33) by: EC Library")
 "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by: Jonathan Rauch")
 "The Cool War by: Frederik Pohl")
 "The Earth Book of Stormgate by: Poul Anderson")
 "The Earth Book of Stormgate by: Poul Anderson")
 "The Earthsea Trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) by: Ursula K. Le Guin")
 "The Fantastic Chronicle of Movie Posters (Movie Poster Masterpieces) by: Dave Golder (Author), Derek Johnson (Foreword)")