Colombo, Ceylon: 24 Sept 1959. "All education and experience is important to a writer ... " Written in response to Hartley's TLS asking: "How important ... was [your] high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Hartley had cited the biographical sketch in MODERN SF, and Clarke..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Arthur C. Clarke") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the...

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1901. First edition, second issue with dedication reading "To Borys and Christina" instead of "To Boys and Christina" Read More about The Inheritors. An Extravagant Story

London: Gollancz, [1982]. First London edition and the first edition in hardcover (originally published by Bantam in trade paperback format in 1981). Winner of the World Fantasy award.“the best fantasy novel I’ve ever read. Period.” — Thomas M. Disch. Read More about Little, Big

London: James Kidd, 1831. First edition. Read More about The Gentleman in Black

London: Faber & Faber Limited. 24 Russell Square, 1930. First edition, Number 103 of 300 copies, signed by the author. Read More about On the Edge. Short Stories

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [co. 1948]. First edition. Includes works ofDavid Keller, Donald Wandrei, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Fritz Leiber, Jr., H. G. Wells and others. Read More about Strange Ports of Call. Selected and with an Introduction by Derleth

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1973]. First edition thus, bound from the sheets of A Murray Leinster Omnibus (1968) and A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (1970), with an added title page. First hardcover publication for the following three novels by Murray Leinster: Operation Terror (1962), Invaders of Space (1964), and Checkpoint..... Read More about Science Fiction Special (7). Murray Leinster Omnibus and Philip K. Dick Omnibus

Barcelona: Acervo, 1976. First edition in Spanish. Novel of identity loss in a claustrophobic police-state, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Uncommon in the Spanish edition. Read More about Fluyan Mis Lagrimas, Dijo el Policia. [Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Spanish edition]....

Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on...

New York: 4 June 1998. Samuel Delany on science fiction criticism, Ursula Le Guin, and Michel Foucault. Interesting and substantial letter“Dear Tom,“Two nights back I finished The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of and — as they say — thoroughly enjoyed it. … I was, of course, delighted to see..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing...

New York: Beech Tree Books. William Morrow, 1987; 1988. First edition, advance copy with inserted review slip. Disch on Strieber’s ‘Communion’. Horror novelist Whitley Strieber (The Hunger, The Wolfen, etc.) published the controversial best seller Communion in early 1987, as a true account of his encounters with intelligent humanoids in..... Read More about Communion. A True Story [And:] Transformation. The Breakthrough

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition, limited edition of 50 SIGNED copies (38 in half leather and 12 in full), this being one of two (?) author's copies, lettered ("AC2") on the limitation page. Author's Copy. The longest of Disch’s Supernatural Minnesota novels. Billy Michaels grows up to..... Read More about The M.D. A Horror Story