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Description: A collection of 34 volumes, including:

Condition Note:

Summers, M. The Vampire. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1928, first edition, plates, dust-jacket --Siodmak, C. Donovan's Brain. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1943, first edition, dust-jacket --Campbell, J.W. Who goes there? Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948, first edition, dust-jacket, bookplate of L. Sprague de Camp--Howard, R.E. Conan the Conqueror. New York: Gnome Press, 1950, first edition, dust-jacket --Kornbluth, C.M. Takeoff. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1952, first edition, dust-jacket --Pohl, F. and C.M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953, first edition, dust-jacket , text lightly browned--Asimov, I. Foundation. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953, first english edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, dust-jacket ; Fantastic Voyage. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966, first edition, dust-jacket ; Three Science Fiction Tales. New York: Targ Editions, 1981, first edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, dust-jacket ; Prelude to Foundation. New York: Doubleday, 1988, first edition, number 490 of 500 copies signed by the author, blue morocco, gilt edges, slipcase--Lovecraft, H.P. The Dunwich Horror and others. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1963, first edition, dust-jacket , a few ink brackets on contents page; The Dark Brotherhood and other Pieces. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1966, first edition, plates, dust- j acket, bookplate--Clarke, A.C. The Sands of Mars. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951, first edition, dust-jacket , text browned; Rendevous with Rama. London: Gollancz, 1971, first edition, dust-jacket --Jackson, S. The Haunting of Hill House. New York: Viking, 1959, first edition, dust-jacket --Vonnegut, K. Slaughterhouse-Five. [No place]: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1969, signed by the author on slip pasted onto half-title, fourth printing, dust-jacket ; Hocus Pocus. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, first edition, both one of 250 copies signed by the author, (2 copies), slipcases--Le Guin, U.K. The Tombs of Atuan. New York: Atheneum, 1971, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author, dust-jacket ; The Farthest Shore. New York: Atheneum, 1972, first edition, signed by the author on title, dust-jacket ; Tehanu. New York: Atheneum, 1990, first edition, dust-jacket --Etchison, D. The Complete Masters of Darkness. Novato: Underwood-Miller, 1990, number 252 of 345 copies signed by 39 contributors including Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Bloch and Fritz Lieber, black morocco-backed cloth, original cloth box; all 8vo, original cloth except where noted, most dust-jackets slightly frayed at extremities, a few lightly soiled; and 11 others, including works by L. Ron Hubbard, Douglas Adams, William Gibson and Anthony Burgess (34)

CATALOGUE NOTE

Among the novels here that were adapted for film treatment are Who Goes There?, the basis of John Carpenter's classic The Thing (1982) and R.E. Howard's Conan stories, filmed as Conan the Barbarian (with Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1982). Richard Fleischer's film Fantastic Voyage, apapted from a story by Jerome Bixby and starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welsh, appeared in 1966. The novel by Isaac Asimov--present in this lot--is a novelisation based on the film.