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First edition, paperback original, of this Victorian historical romance, in which a Russian prince abducts the Lady Katherine — with a Duillo cover featuring an apparently nude hero in the tradition of the McGinnis/Lindsey covers.
First edition, paperback original, of this Victorian historical romance, in which a Russian prince abducts the Lady Katherine — with a Duillo cover featuring an apparently nude hero in the tradition of the McGinnis/Lindsey covers.
First edition, paperback original, of Lindsey's first science-fiction romance.
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.
First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
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.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
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 paperback edition of this classic Heinlein novel, combining two novellas ("Universe" and "Common Sense") first published separately by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941.
First US edition of Watson's first short story collection, whose title story was nominated for a Hugo Award.
Signed first edition of Barnes's SF noir novel, the first in a trilogy starring Black martial artist Aubry Knight.
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 Anderson's retelling of Norse legend, reconstructed from sagas and historical chronicles, published as part of Lin Carter's Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and nominated for a British Fantasy Award.
First paperback edition of Delany's mythic cyborg space opera, nominated for a Hugo Award and rich with allusions to Melville's MOBY DICK, Arthurian legend, and Tarot lore.
First Ace edition of Wolfe's early historical mystery, set in a medieval village where remnants of paganism persist after the coming of Christianity.
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 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 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 Ford's visionary early novel about a mystico-technical computerized communications Web traversed by knights, paladins, and outlaw Webspinners.
First edition of Moorcock's thematic collection of short stories about Jimi Hendrix, Alexander the Great, Jesus Christ, and others who lived fast and died young for one reason or another.
First edition of MacLean's first short story collection, including her prescient 1950 classic "Incommunicado," anticipating the modern internet search engine and its many lurking horrors.
Uncommon Dell paperback reprint of Sloane's eerie 1937 classic, with a new introduction by Basil Davenport on the allure of "the archetypal figure of the Dark Goddess" and a flashy pulp cover painting by William Rose.
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 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 hardcover edition of this "Native American" romance (featuring a Comanche hero), in which the main characters journey from 19th-century Kansas territory to Texas.