Science Fiction from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some light wear at spine and front fore-edge, covers a bit faded. A very good copy. Small 8vo. 64 pages, plus ads. Original purple pictorial wrappers. First separate edition of perhaps the single most influential future war story: "Before Chesney there had been little effective method in… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slightest wear to jacket at top of spine and fore-corner tips, light spotting on front, upper corner of front inside flap price clipped, essentially a fine copy. 8vo, Original black cloth, lettered in red; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the author's Hugo Award… Read more about this item

New York: Timescape Books, 1981. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Minor production fault affecting blank portion of verso of last leaf; in very good condition. Small, narrow folio (10 3/4 x 6 inches), original printed yellow wrappers. Advance uncorrected galley proofs for the first edition, printed on both sides, perfect bound, entirely different in format from the published… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A few small stains and some light discoloration to covers, otherwise a very good copy without the dust jacket. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication ("To Caradoc Evans"): "From Con O'Leary Aug. 4, 1928." Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was… Read more about this item

Ultramarine Press, 1987. Fine as issued. 8vo. 310 pages. 7 illustrations by Gregory W. Frux [the Arbor House edition is not illustrated]. Specially bound in morocco-backed marbled boards by Denis Gouey. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 12 of 50 copies signed by Delany.

Cheap Street, 1991. First. 8vo. 76pp. Illustrations by Judy J. King. Original cloth; folding case; cloth folding case. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 51 numbered copies signed of the "Publisher's Edition" from an edition of 177.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 8vo. 174pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near-fine copy with fading as usual to spine panel of jacket. FIRST EDITION, review copy, with slip laid-in.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. The original typed manuscript: the setting copy with all the editor's and proof-reader's marks. Complete book: 400 pages, 4to. Predominantly mechanically reproduced leaves, with some original typescript insertions. Original typed insertion leaves include those for the Dedication to David Hartwell; the leaf listing other books by Spinrad; and the About the Author leaf.… Read more about this item

New York: Cheap Street, 1991. 8vo. 68pp. Illustrations by Judy J. King-Rieniets. Original cloth; dust jacket; slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, letter 'K" of nine lettered copies signed of the "Collector's Edition" from an edition of 177. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the colophon.