United States of America: Vintage Books, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. 336pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Blue illustrated wraps. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2015. First Vintage Books edition. Paperback. 472pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany’s long and illustrious career. 'The Jewels of Aptor' is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a...... More
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 281pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped spine. Near fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with very subtly rubbed edges. Signed by Derleth on the title page: "Canonically, August Derleth"..... More
New York: Continental Publishing Co, 1900. B. Martin Justice. First edition. Hardcover. 350pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Gray cloth over boards, with pictorial stamping on the front board. Front hinge going. A lost race novel and pseudo-historical fantasy set in 7th century North Africa. More
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 2017. Del Rey Trade Paperback Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. 224pp. Small Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to "retire" them. But when cornered, androids tended to fight back, with..... More
Mariner Books, 2012. First Mariner Books edition: later printing. Paperback. 278pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. "The writing is humorous, painful, awesome in its effect on both mind and heart . . . There are few modern novels to match it."-- Rolling Stone On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with..... More
New York: Mariner Books, 2012. First Mariner Books Edition: later printing. Paperback. 232pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. "Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."-- Rolling Stone..... More
Cauheegan: Payseur & Schmidt, 2005. Tim Kirk. First edition. Hardcover. Signed. Small octavo [13.5 cm by 18.5 cm]. Hardcover in dust jacket. 102pp. Book is near fine in near fine dust jacket, with some slight rubbing to rear panel of jacket. Edition limited to 300 copies; this is an out..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2008. Signed First Edition. Leather bound. SIGNED. 350pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full blue leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and elaborate gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Fine condition. #845 of 900. Signed..... More
Riverdale, NY: Baen Publishing Enterprises, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 323pp. Octavo [24cm]. Black boards with title stamped in metallic fuschia on spine. Very light soiling to boards. A military science fiction novel in which a disaffected lieutenant and a dissident's daughter team up to prevent a neutral planet from invasion..... More
United States of America: AK Press, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. 296pp. [20.5 cm] Octavo. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and..... More
London: Ernest Nister, [Circa 1900]. Stanley L. Wood. Early printing. Hardcover. 416pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with pictorial stamping. The extremities are a bit shelfworn, and the title page is detached, but present. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. Illustrations by..... More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1896. First American edition. Hardcover. 194pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and white ink stamped ornamental floral designs on the backstrip and front board. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and there is a brief contemporary iscription on..... More
London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 345pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with black ink stamped titles and a black and yellow ink stamped portrait sketch on the front cover. Untrimmed edges. Good. The spine and covers are mildly faded and..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928. Early printing. Hardcover. 155pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black paper over boards. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped; cloth at the head of the spine slightly frayed; text block beginning to crack at the center. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 245pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Tan cloth over boards, with light rubbing, bumping, and soiling to the extremities. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle, with his notes in pencil on the front free endsheet..... More
New York: Harper, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 491 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. New. From Publisher: The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First American edition. Hardcover. 322pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Pictorial bluish-gray cloth over boards. Spine rolled. Extremities moderately rubbed and bumped. Two ink stamps to the text block edges. Two ink stamps on the front pastedown. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 330pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Dark green cloth over boards with a decorative gilt stamped floral backstrip. There is a spot, measuring just under 1" in diameter, to the bottom edge of the front board, the spine is lightly rolled, and the top..... More
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 250pp. Octavo [20 cm] Red cloth over boards, with dampstaining to the lower third of the backstrip. Bleiler checklist. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. A juvenile lost race adventure. More
Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2019. Hardcover. 200pp. Folio [36cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. "Nearly 200 stunningly realistic paintings and drawings bring the greatest fantasy epic of all time to life. Donato has made it his life's work to translate Tolkien's words into compelling visuals, with..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935. First American edition. Hardcover. 312pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with gray lettering and gilt designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine is faded, and the edges of the covers are subtly faded. About 1/4 of the..... More
London: Jarrolds Publishers, [1931]. First edition. Hardcover. 254pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with black ink stamped titles and decorative designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine and the edges of the covers are rubbed. Extremities bumped. The spine is sunned. There are three tiny stains..... More
