The Ship Who Sang by McCaffrey, Anne - 1969

London: Methuen, (Circa 1940), 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good Book/Good- Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket Designed By Stapledon. Light Blue Boards. First Edition, First Impression, Later Issue But No Indication Of Later Printing. Shorter Binding (18.3 Cm Tall), Blue-Violet Cloth With Black Print (Format Different Than First Binding), No Ads, Using First Impression Sheets. Dustjacket Is Identical To First Issue, Priced 7S6p At Lower Front Flap, Except It Is Trimmed To 185.6 Mm (Considerably Taller Than This Issue Of The Book, But Shorter Than The First Issue Dj), And Has A Printed Paper Label "Offered At 2'- Net Ex-Libris" At Foot Of Spine, Above The Publisher's Name. This Binding And This Labelling Of The Dustjacket Is Not Listed In Satty & Smith's Definitive Bibliography. Satty & Smith's A6.1.1.4, First Edition, First Impression, Fourth Issue (March 1939, 555 Copies), Has The First Issue Binding, And Includes The Later Ads, In A Dj With A… Read More

(Glendale): Roy A. Squires, 1979. First Edition . Wrappers. Fine. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4. Chapbook, One Of The Last From Squires. #30 Of A Stated 230 Copies Printed From Post Roman And Hadrian Stone Cut Types, On Specially Made Paper By Twinrocler, With Covers Of Regina Katusha Made By Barcham Greene In England, The Wrappers Of French Marble, Numbered And Signed By Bradbury On The Colophon. With An Original Typed Four Line Letter Requesting A Review, Dated March 29, 1980, Signed By Roy Squires. Also With (The Enclosed) Photocopy Of The Full Page Publicity "Announcement" Including A Full Explanation Of How It Is Considered A Martian Chronicle, Describing How The Manuscript Was Stored By Bradbury In A Manila Folder Upon Which Was Written "A Martian Chronicle"; At The Bottom Of The Announcement Is A Note In Marker "Looks Fine To Me! Ray Bradbury 9/1/79", All Photocopied, No Original Signature On The Announcement.

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. ( Fpci), 1953. First Edition, First Issue . No Binding. No Book Included/Fine Dustjacket. As new, unusued DJ, never on a book, never folded. uncut margins [20 3/8" x 9"], suitable for framing. Only 300 copies of the book were bound by FPCI and it is quite scarce.

New York: Doubleday, 1951. First American Edition 1st Printing. Grey Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good + DJ. 222 Pp. Grey Blue Cloth Stamped In Green. Stated First Edition; Preceding The British Edition And With Textual Differences. Book Is Bright, Clean, No Marks, Tight, No Fraying, No Wear. Triangular Green Armorial Bookplate Of Sf And Non-Fiction Writer L. Sprague De Camp, On Front Pastedown Mostly Under Front Flap, With Later Signature Of A Fan Dated October 1955. Dj Not Price Clipped, Clean, Lightly Rubbed At Corners, Slight Fading To Blues On Spine Panel, Closed 1/2" Tear And Closed 3/8" Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Would Still Be Near Fine Except For A Triangular Chip In Lower Center Of Spine, 3/8" Wide And 5/8" Long ( Possibly From Removal Of A Price Label).

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. 257 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. One Of 2008 Copies Of The First Printing (With 1947 Date And All Interior Illustrations Present, "First Edition" Stated On Copyright Page), Of Which 300 Had An Inserted Numbered Plate (This One Being #58). The First Book From Fantasy Press. This First Issue Copy In The Proper First Issue Dust Jacket With Only Four Titles On Back. Book With Light Rubbing To Spine, All Gilt Present And Bright But Not As Brilliant As When New. Dj With Light Wear At Corners, Wear And 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel, Minute Losses At Ends Of Spine And At Tips, Two 1/8" Deep Tears At Top Of Spine. (The Bibliography Of This Book Is Complex: A Reprint Of 1000 Copies In 1947 Dropped The Interior Illustrations But Not The Date, And A Later 1949 Reprint Of 2510 Copies Also Lacked The Interiors, Except For 985 Bound With Only The Frontispiece. All Later Issue Dust Wrappers List… Read More

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

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 169, [3]
o… Read More

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.

312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and 5 and white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge, illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. (Currey p. 87; Heins CV–1 (V3); Zeuschner 70) First edition. This is third novel in the Venus series. The Amtor or Venus Series is a science fantasy series consisting of four novels and one novelette written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus Series, after its main character, Carson Napier. Napier attempted a solo voyage to Mars, but, because of mistaken navigational calculations, he finds himself heading toward the planet Venus instead. The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus,… Read More

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

1876 1ed Jules Verne Indes-Noires + Chancellor Extraordinary Voyages SciFi 2in1

"In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age."
― Frank Borman, Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 1969.

Jules Verne's adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. OF course, he is best known for books such as '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', and 'Around the World in 80 Days', he also wrote lesser-known books like 'Underground City'.

This book, also known as 'The Child of the Cavern', is a story about the good fortunes that come from mining in Scotland; however, Verne opens up a world of mysteries and bizarre goblin encounters in the mine! This work is the 16th part of 'Voyages Extraordinaires', Verne's largest collection of fantasy novels and stories.

In addition to 'Les Indes-noires', this book contains Verne's 'Wreck of the Chancellor' – the story of the final voyage of British sailing ship the Chancellor, told from the perspective of the… Read More