GAYWYCK
(1980)
First edition of the first conscientiously gay gothic romance: meditative, otherworldly, intimate, and allusive.
US American
HAREM ISLAND
(1961)
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.
INDIGO SLAM
(1997)
Signed first edition of Crais's seventh Elvis Cole mystery, nominated for the Shamus Award for best private investigator novel.
ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD
(1993)
First edition of the author's second mystery novel, set in contemporary Kenya and featuring several expatriate Americans.
ESCAPADE
(1995)
Signed first edition of this comic historical mystery, in which Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve a crime.
UNDER THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
(1986)
First printing of the first book in acclaimed Woodrell's Bayou Trilogy of crime novels taking place in the fictional Southern neighborhood of Frogtown.
CUT TO: MURDER
(1995)
Signed first edition of the second installment in the Queenie Davilov mystery series, in which Q must find a missing screenwriter — and finish his script.
THE LOTTERY
1949
First printing of Jackson's spectacular first collection of short fiction.
THE FEMALE MAN
(1975)
First edition, first printing of Russ's New Wave masterpiece, a kaleidoscopic feminist vision of a woman's alternate lives on and off Earth, in the stifling present and possible futures.
THE FALL OF THE TOWERS
(1970)
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.
BINARY STAR #5: Nightflyers / True Names
(1981)
Illustrated double edition of these two massively influential SF novellas from the dawning age of the personal computer, published to considerable acclaim years before Vinge and Martin would enjoy the mass popular successes of A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and A GAME OF THRONES, respectively.
ETIDORHPA
(1978)
Rare paperback edition of Lloyd's once-beloved crackpot utopia, an alchemical conspiratorial pharmacological mystical subterranean adventure classic of fungus forestry and erotic longings beneath the caves of Kentucky.
A SCANNER DARKLY
1977
First printing of Dick's late-period masterpiece of paranoia and personal disintegration.
Collection of Stephanie Plum Books
1994-2007
Signed first editions of the first 15 titles in Evanovich's popular series about a woman bounty hunter, from ONE FOR THE MONEY through LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN, and with the first two holiday novellas.
DEADLINE
(1981)
Signed first edition of this mystery novel that finds newspaperman and reluctant sleuth Dalton Walker comes face to face with conspiracy, corruption, and murder as he chases down the story of the death of an anonymous little girl.
BALTIMORE BLUES
(1997)
Signed first edition of the first Tess Monaghan book, in which the recently unemployed journalist and rower must take on some sleuthing jobs in Charm City to pay the bills.
ORPHANS OF THE SKY
(1965)
First paperback edition of this classic Heinlein novel, combining two novellas ("Universe" and "Common Sense") first published separately by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941.
THE SHAPE OF SPACE
(1969)
First edition of this collection of Niven's short stories, originally published in a variety of science fiction magazines between 1966 and 1969.
NEUTRON STAR
1968
First edition of Niven's collection, whose title story won a Hugo Award following its initial publication in WORLDS OF IF.
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
(1976)
First paperback edition of Piercy's feminist utopia, an early contribution to what would later be termed cyberpunk, the story of a Mexican American woman from Spanish Harlem.
STREETLETHAL
(1983)
Signed first edition of Barnes's SF noir novel, the first in a trilogy starring Black martial artist Aubry Knight.
INVOLUTION OCEAN
(1977)
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.
NOVA
(1969)
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.
I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM
(1967)
First printing of this classic mid-'60s collection, a paperback original with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon, with the Hugo Award-winning title story that is perhaps Ellison's most famous single work.
BLACK EASTER: Or, Faust Aleph-Null
(1977)
First Equinox printing of Blish's short novel on the cosmic consequences of Californian political demonology, first published in shorter form as Faust Aleph-Null in Galaxy magazine and issued here as no. 27 in the SF Rediscovery Series.
