THE BROKEN SWORD
First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor.
First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor.
First paperback edition of the first ever Hugo award-winning novel set in a future society with telepaths, "a masterful compounding of science and detective fiction" (Boucher and McComas).
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First printing of this uncommon mid-'50s anthology of British science fiction, with stories by J.T. McIntosh, Alan Barclay, John Christopher, Gene Lees, John Beynon, James White, Peter Hawkins, E.C. Tubb, and Lan Wright.
First edition of Christopher's collected early SF stories, in the vivid and uncommonly well preserved dust jacket by Eric Mudge-Marriott.
Scarce first US edition of this ghost adventure by the pseudonymous writing team of Adelaide Manning, formerly of the War Office, and her neighbor, British intelligence officer Cyril Coles.
First appearance of this complete romance novel, issued as the special Saturday edition of the Toronto Star Weekly on 28 March 1953.
Inscribed association copy of this vibrant post-war Mills & Boon contemporary romance, gifted by the author to her mother.
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
First edition of this fourth collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
Uncommon first printing of this Edgar Award-winning first mystery novel by author and architect Douglass, set in the Caribbean and starring police chief Bolivar Manchenil.
Lovely signed limited first edition of Farmer's Shasta Science-Fiction Prize-winning novel, written in 1952 but not published until some thirty years later due to unscrupulous publisher shenanigans and the vagaries of fate.
First printing of this determinedly optimistic early '50s anthology of previously unpublished stories by Bradbury, Asimov, A.E. van Vogt, Anthony Boucher, Gerald Heard, and others.
Scarce first UK edition of Heard's third murder mystery starring Mr. Mycroft, a loosely disguised Sherlock Holmes, involving the depths to which the overeducated human soul may sink when in possession of no morals and too many opinions about art.
First edition of Hitchens's best-known crime novel, inspiration for one of Godard's greatest films.
First printing of this Western murder mystery, in which the famous Batwing Jones must piece together how his friend's death connects to a story of vengeance and gold.
First edition of this early '50s science fiction anthology, edited by the great Judith Merril and introduced by Fletcher Pratt.
Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel.
First printing of this classic '50s science fiction novel of Venusian colonists and ad copywriters, an eerily prescient future vision of a society in which corporate power eclipses that of governments.
Third edition of the landmark first space opera, a collaborative novel whose female co-author is acknowledged on the title page (and in Smith's foreword) but excluded from mention on the cover of this otherwise handsome edition.
First edition of this mid-'50s dystopian novel revealing a secret dictatorship of invisible alien energy vampires by the sometime ghostwriter for The Twilight Zone and eventual writer for Star Trek.
First printing of Van Vogt's alien-shapeshifter adventure, expanded into a novel from six connected short stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction.
First paperback edition of Vonnegut's first novel, first published in hardcover as PLAYER PIANO (1952), about a dystopian society that dramatizes the dehumanizing effects of an advanced world reliant upon machines.
First edition of these collected midcentury science fiction adventure stories, including "Space Woman," "Rebellion on Venus," "Martyr from Mars," and others.
First edition of this adventure story with a dose science fiction – twins Nicky and Judy and their dog Jokey find themselves marooned on an island with the psychic MASTER and his henchmen.