Rare books from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, no DJ, 1857. From the library of American artist and illustrator Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000), with his personal bookplate to front pastedown (see The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raissone 1948 - 1983, Fern & O'Sullivan, Little Brown & Co, 1984; pg 37, image 79). Also includes small circular sticker on front pastedown, with image of a porcupine printed in red; this is also an image by Baskin. Full bound red cloth boards, blindstamped designs to front and rear boards, gilt stamped lettering and design to spine. 1/16th inch loss of fabric at top of spine, corner rounding with tiny spots of wear through to underlying board. Binding is solid. Pencilled note on front free endpaper: "From Leonard Baskin library". On the second blank page is another pencil inscription: "1856 / A Present to Oliver Kendall / By J A Bruce / Boylston, Mass". A scarce collection of five stories for… Read More

Science Fiction Book Club, Various. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. To commemorate its 50th anniversary in 2003, the Science Fiction Book Club began publishing a series of reprints of classic works. Eight representative titles were selected from each of the five previous decades (1950s through 1990s), with publication beginning in February 2003 and ending in December 2007. One artist was commissioned to create the cover art for each of the eight volumes in a specific decade: 1950s Donato Giancarlo, 1960s Bob Eggleton, 1970s Bruce Jensen, 1980s Jim Burns, and 1990s Stephan Martiniere. Thus, this is a forty volume uniform set - or perhaps more precisely, five uniform sets of eight volumes each. Extremely scarce to find as a complete set of all forty volumes. 39 of the books are in NF to Fine condition in VG to Fine dust jackets. The last book (A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge) would be Fine/Fine, except for a printing error that caused some wrinkles in dust jacket. Please see photos for details. Offered as… Read More