Hyperion by Simmons, Dan - 1989

SIGNED. First Hardcover Edition of revised text version. Stated "First Printing" of Gregg Press (June,1976). The complete text and the revision preferred by Delany. Fine, green full cloth hardcover with distinctive Gregg Press red/gold lettering and design. Signed and place dated by Samuel Delany on title page. The publisher did not issue a jacket. A fresh, sharp copy. Boxed shipping. 12-b

1875 1ed Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon Astronauts SciFi Space Gun Club
Jules Verne's adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. Part of the illustrious 'Voyages Extraordinares' series, his book 'From the Earth to the Moon' is one of the most influential works of science-fiction of the 19th-century. It tells the story of American weapon makers attempting to build an enormous space gun big enough to launch people onto the moon! According to Barron, this book is
"the first interplanetary novel to focus on the technical and organizational preparations for the voyage, using the actual blast-off as a climax…one of the definitive foundation stones of the science fiction genre."
This first Hetzel edition was published in Paris.
Item number: #13554
Price: $599
VERNE, Jules
De la terre a la lune; trajet direct en 97 heures.
Paris : J.Hetzel et Cie, [1875]. 1st edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 169, [3]
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Condition: Very Good; issued without dj. Full red leather boards with vibrant sewn-in gold ribbon marker; gold embossed textblock. B&w and full color illustrations by John Schoenherr; remembrances by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury and more. Faint white smudge marks to gilt fore edge and bottom edge. Faint rub marks to front board. This stunning book includes the Collector's Notes from Easton Press.

First edition. Very good plus copy in very good dust jacket.

[Los Angeles?]: Malcolm Stuart Productions, 1968. Ephemera. Very good. A comic Western screenplay by the writer who would give us The Exorcist a few years later. On the title page, Blatty is credited with the story and the screenplay, but the film was released as based on a novel by Frank O'Rourke. The film starred Zero Mostel and Kim Novak. 150 leaves, including an unnumbered stenographic department cover sheet and the title page, numbered to 144, with a number of combined and added leaves. The original version, dated 8/26/1968 and printed on light green paper, has been revised with sheets printed on varying colors of blue. Very good in goldenrod cardstock covers printed with the title, the producers, and the studio. Someone has written "Steno" on the cover in ink and there is a small number, 83, stamped above the date.

Scholastic Press, 1999 Book. Illus. by GrandPre, Mary. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing and First US Edition. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. The second Harry Potter novel. All First Printing points are present: First printing with full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4, Printed in the U.S.A. 37, First American Edition, June 1999" stated on copyright page and Code "51795" above smaller barcode line on rear jacket panel. The "Year 2" badge IS NOT present on the spine or jacket and silver lettering is raised on the front and spine of the dust jacket. (The "Year 2" badge was added on later printings. If "Year 2" badge appears on the jacket or spine, it IS NOT a first printing.) First printing typo with "ancestor" instead of "decedent" on page 332. The "Also By" list on the ffep also includes the typo "Sorceror's" instead of… Read More

Centreville, VA: Centreville, VA: ShadowLands Press (Shadow Lands) 2000 Limited First Edition 8vo ill. , 2000 Very Fine original charcoal cloth, in Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Number 136 of 500 Signed/Numbered copies. Signed by Lisa Snelling, Edward E. Kramer, Harlan Ellison, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Charles De Lint, Neil Gaiman, Robert J. Sawyer, Chet Williamson, John Shirley, Michael Bishop, Gene Wolfe, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Edward Bryant, S.P. Somtow, Nancy A. Collins, Nina Kiriki Hoffmann, Brad Linaweaver, Fred Olen Ray, Richard Lee Byers, David Niall Wilson, Darrell Schweitzer, & Peter Crowther. Illustrated with 16 plates by Lisa Snellings. Errata slip bound in.

London: St. James Magazine, 1873. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. The Complete Text Of The Louis Mercier-Eleanor King Translation, Extracted From The St. James Magazine Issues Of July Through December 1873, Published Anonymously In 28 Chapters With All Illustrations, Predating The October 1873 First English Hardcover Edition Published By Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. In October ( Reported In The Atheneum #2398 Of October 11, 1873 As A New Book From Them). Pages Have No Titles To Identify The Source, But Page Numbers At Top And Codes At Bottom Of Pages Match Those For The St. James Issues Held At The University Of Illinois At Urbana- Champaign And Reported Thru Hathitrust. Pages Bound In Quarter Leather With All But First Four Chapters Of Verne's "Three Englishmen And Three Russians In South Africa" And All Of "The Fatal Inheritance" And "The Two Brothers" By Other Authors. Binding Worn, Spine Mostly Perished (Spine Label And Some Leather… Read More

Japan: Japan: Kokusho-Kankohkai / Arkham House Publishers, 1984, 1985, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1985. -----------( Japanese Editions of H P LOVECRAFT ) ---9 VOLUMES - hard covers, about 6w x 8.5h inches, all are Near Fine / Fine examples, upper edge of v.3 is speckled/spotted, all issued without dustjackets, all housed in lightly rubbed Very Good to Very Good+ slipcases which sport H R Giger illustrations taken from his edition of The Necronomicon, facsimile of Lovecraft's personal bookplate on verso of front covers ( in Western format this would be the rear cover but Japanese text starts at what we consider the back of the book ), seven of the nine volumes sport the original belly-bands, laid into each volume is some promotional material which might be for these books as that literature is titled ARKHAM ADVERTISER, as well each volume has the Arkham House logo on the front endpaper (again at what we would consider the back of the book ), so these were clearly authorized by AH, all with… Read More

1896 Jules Verne 1ed Facing the Flag Face Drapeau Extraordinary Voyages Hetzel

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
― Jules Verne

Jules Verne published a number of lesser-known science fiction, adventure novels in addition to his high profile works such as 'Twenty Thousand Leagues' and 'Around the World in 80 Days'. One such work was 'Facing the Flag' – one of Verne's numerous books in which the world faced the threat of a weapon of mass destruction!

Note on dating: like many other Verne first editions, the title page included was issued in each edition, including later printings. The dating comes from the ads in the back of the book – note the ads in this volume advertise for the releases in the 1896-1897 print year, making this a true first edition of 'Facing the Flag'!

Item number: #21010
Price: $499

VERNE, Jules

Face au drapeau

Paris : Bibliotheque d'education et de recreation, Hetzel, [1896]. True First edition.

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