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First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
First editions of all three volumes in Amory's Loon Songs trilogy, the classic gay pastoral romance once described as a cross between Andre Gide and Louis L'Amour.
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
A superlative and scarce Avon Satanic Gothic by the legendarily accomplished Banis as "Lynn Benedict".
Lurid and diabolical Avon paperback original, an early hybrid of '70s occult exploitation pulp and traditional paperback gothic signifiers.
Scarce first edition of Saunders's groundbreaking first novel, set in a heavily researched alternate Africa and starring one of the first Black heroes in the grimly Eurocentric genre of contemporary sword & sorcery.
First printing of the most adorable of all the Avon Satanic Gothics.
First printing of the first US paperback edition of the Hugo Award-winning futuristic political fable, in which a lunar colony revolts through the beneficent assistance of a powerful computer that develops AI.
Lurid novelization of the Hammer Horror film based on the life of Elizabeth Bathory.
First edition of this sleaze exposé of polygamous Mormon prophet Jesse James Strang, his beautiful cross-dressing wife Elvira, and his leadership of the Strangites as Revelator and King of Michigan's Beaver Island.
Signed first edition of Barnes's SF noir novel, the first in a trilogy starring Black martial artist Aubry Knight.
First printing of the first US paperback edition, a bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
First edition of Ford's visionary early novel about a mystico-technical computerized communications Web traversed by knights, paladins, and outlaw Webspinners.
First printing of this Playboy Press paperback, in which the heroine is a surgeon at the Navy's Center for Medical Aerospace Research — riffing in its packaging on the genre of the medical romance, but decidedly not one itself.
First hardcover edition of this regency romance featuring a Scottish heiress, the second in the Malory-Anderson Families series.
First paperback edition of Crowley's subtle and lovely post-apocalyptic narrative — nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the National Book Award.
First edition thus, the first collected edition of three of Delany's earliest novels: CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
First hardcover edition of this "Native American" romance (featuring a Comanche hero), in which the main characters journey from 19th-century Kansas territory to Texas.
First US edition of the first New Worlds SF anthology under the editorship of Michael Moorcock, showcasing new-wave and avant garde work from J.G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, David I. Masson, Langdon Jones, and Thomas M. Disch.
First edition of the first novel by "fine, fine, superfine Sterling," published as no. 4 in the Harlan Ellison Discovery Series and introduced by Ellison with characteristically fulsome effusions.
First edition of this first short story collection by Cover, a contributor to the legendarily unpublished LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS and an early discovery of Harlan Ellison, for better and worse.
First paperback edition of this classic Heinlein novel, combining two novellas ("Universe" and "Common Sense") first published separately by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941.
Inscribed first edition paperback original of this sf tale, by the Nebula- and Hugo-award winning author.
First US edition of this Victorian historical romance, featuring a cross-dressing heroine working to keep a Marquis safe as he tries to visit Mecca, from Cartland's one-woman category line: the Camfield Novel of Love series.