During a world-wide crisis, we all need to escape. Fantasy, crime fiction, ghost stories, and science fiction are all elements we love to turn to in order to escape painful reality. Our Netflix queues prove it! James Cummins is ready and able with a list of titles that should appeal to everyone's appetite. Highlights include a first edition Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, inscribed to his brother-in-law; the original creator of nonsense fiction's titular work, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense; a first edition copy of Tolkien's Return of the King; and a first edition of one of the most important science fiction works ever, Frank Herbert's Dune.
San Francisco; Columbia., Pa: Underwood/Miller, 1981. First edition, one of 200 hardcover copies signed by Philip K. Dick, Levack and Godersky. Signed by PKD. Read More about PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography. Compiled by … with annotations by Steven Owen Godersky
Price: $1,250
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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...
Price: $7,500
Amherst, MA: 2 October 1992. Samuel Delany on science fiction criticism, with overdue apologies. An interesting and digressive letter: “Dear Tom, “At long last I’m getting a manuscript back to you — with a long and unhappy tale. “In 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press sent me the enclosed manuscript of..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing...
Price: $1,500
London & New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1922. Sime, Sidney H. First edition, no. 478 of 500 copies signed by the author. Signed by Dunsany in his characteristically bold hand with a nice flourish at the “y”. Dedicated to William Beebe. Read More about The Chronicles of Rodriguez
Price: $450
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First London edition. Handsomely bound copy of the first London edition of Hammett’s witty detective novel, published the same year as the New York edition. Read More about The Thin Man
Price: $1,250
New York: Longmans, Green & Co. London: Edward Arnold, 1920. First edition, Third Impression. The first American edition of M. R. James' third ghost story collection. Read More about A Thin Ghost and Others
Price: $600
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. First edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More about The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces. [Compiled by August Derleth
Price: $150
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. First edition. Source for The Sting. Read More about The Big Con. The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game
Price: $1,750
Fall River: Press of J. D. Munroe, 1893. First edition. Contemporary account of the events surrounding the murder of Andrew and Abbie Borden and the trial of their daughter Lizzie, by the police reporter of the Fall River Globe. At the end of the trial “she returned guiltless to her..... Read More about The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders. A Plain Statement of the Material Facts...
Price: $1,000
London: William Heinemann, 1910. Rackham, Arthur. First edition thus, no. 124 of 1150 copies. With 35 Mounted Color Plates. Read More about The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by...
Price: $1,850
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First American edition. Read More about The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Price: $100
New York: Dell, 1959. First edition, paperback original. First edition of Vonnegut's second book. The paperback original first edition of Vonnegut's second novel, published 7 years after his first. It was nominated for the 1960 Hugo Award and was included in David Pringle's list of 100 best science fiction works..... Read More about The Sirens of Titan
Price: $250
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First edition. Read More about Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
Price: $125