Donovan's Brain by Siodmak, Curt - 1942: A Science Fiction Cornerstone

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873. First edition. signed by the author along with a personalized inscription to Parker Pillsbury, dated April 14, 1875. Scarce Victorian era lost world fantasy by this Chicago author and artist - the story of a lost race of spindly giants living on an island at the North Pole. Illustrated by the author with twelve engravings plus an engraved title printed in black and gilt on blue paper. The story is presented as a true event by an Alabama slave whose master sets him free when he finishes the narrative. Parker Pillsbury, to whom the book is inscribed, was a radical preacher and advocate of nonresistance whose strong abolitionist views resulted in his ejection from the Congregational Church. Brown cloth with lettering and a depiction of the giants in gilt, [12], 9-323, [2] pages. Considerable insect tracking and spotting to the covers, with cover gilt intact but spine no longer readable, spine head scuffed, spine foot lightly frayed, good hinges, sound text block, very… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Aqua blue boards stamped in green with blue-green endpapers. Both boards and pastedown endpapers show some discoloration, J. C. Tibbetts' bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with a slightly darkened spine panel. The fourth volume in the Chronicles of Prydain. An appealing copy. ; Octavo.

2010. Soft cover. As New. De Felipe, Jun. 2010 original art by the widely appreciated pin-up and comic book artist Jun De Felipe, this being his vision of "Red Sonja" (see below). Fine, As New. Mixed media pastel painting on US master illustration board. 15" x 10", image occupies entire board. Signed and dated, lower right. See scans. Red Sonja is a fictional sword-and-sorcery warrior maiden originally approximately based on a character in Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow of the Vulture", a 1934 short story, but popularized in "Conan the Barbarian #23" of Marvel Comics. L308

London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. First Edition . Blue Wrappers. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 253 Pp. Advance Uncorrected Proof In Light Blue Wrappers, Slight Wear And Fading To Covers, Tiny Losses Of Paper At Spine Corners.

Ultramarine Press, 1988. First. Hardbound. A fine bright copy. here offered is letter "C". of an edition of 150, this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Wolfe. the edition is finely bound in full leather by Denis Gouey. 313 pp.

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873. First edition. signed by the author along with a personalized inscription to Parker Pillsbury, dated April 14, 1875. Scarce Victorian era lost world fantasy by this Chicago author and artist - the story of a lost race of spindly giants living on an island at the North Pole. Illustrated by the author with twelve engravings plus an engraved title printed in black and gilt on blue paper. The story is presented as a true event by an Alabama slave whose master sets him free when he finishes the narrative. Parker Pillsbury, to whom the book is inscribed, was a radical preacher and advocate of nonresistance whose strong abolitionist views resulted in his ejection from the Congregational Church. Brown cloth with lettering and a depiction of the giants in gilt, [12], 9-323, [2] pages. Considerable insect tracking and spotting to the covers, with cover gilt intact but spine no longer readable, spine head scuffed, spine foot lightly frayed, good hinges, sound text block, very… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Aqua blue boards stamped in green with blue-green endpapers. Both boards and pastedown endpapers show some discoloration, J. C. Tibbetts' bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with a slightly darkened spine panel. The fourth volume in the Chronicles of Prydain. An appealing copy. ; Octavo.

2010. Soft cover. As New. De Felipe, Jun. 2010 original art by the widely appreciated pin-up and comic book artist Jun De Felipe, this being his vision of "Red Sonja" (see below). Fine, As New. Mixed media pastel painting on US master illustration board. 15" x 10", image occupies entire board. Signed and dated, lower right. See scans. Red Sonja is a fictional sword-and-sorcery warrior maiden originally approximately based on a character in Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow of the Vulture", a 1934 short story, but popularized in "Conan the Barbarian #23" of Marvel Comics. L308

London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 1962. First Edition . Blue Wrappers. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 253 Pp. Advance Uncorrected Proof In Light Blue Wrappers, Slight Wear And Fading To Covers, Tiny Losses Of Paper At Spine Corners.

Ultramarine Press, 1988. First. Hardbound. A fine bright copy. here offered is letter "C". of an edition of 150, this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Wolfe. the edition is finely bound in full leather by Denis Gouey. 313 pp.