Campbell, John W., Jr., Ed. (Lee Correy, Frank M. Robinson, Philip K. Dick, Wallace West, Hal Clement, P. Schuyler Miller). Cover Art By Correy. Listings

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	1 Campbell, John W., Jr., ed. (Lee Correy, Frank M. Robinson, Philip K. Dick, Wallace West, Hal Clement, P. Schuyler Miller). Cover art by Correy. ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. JUNE 1953. VOLUME LI, NUMBER 4. Street & Smith, New York, 1953.  170 pp, soft cover (digest size), stapled inside wraps. B&w illustrations by Dreany, Pawelka and van Dongen. Contents: "...And A Star to Steer Her By" by Lee Correy; Quizz Game by Frank M. Robinson; Impostor by Philip K. Dick; In Case of Fire (ar ticle) by Wallace West; Whirligig (article) by Hal Clement; Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (Part Three of Four Parts); The Editors's Page; The Analytical Laboratory; The Reference Library by P. Schuyler Miller, Brass Tacks. Interior - light br o w ning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - mainly on spine, light rubbing and small faint date stamp on rear cover, slight curling to fore-edge of front cover and pages. VG-  Price: 7.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Davidson, Avram/Asimov, Isaac, eds. (Philip K. Dick, Robert F. Young, Theodore L. Thomas, Gahan Wilson, Toni Heller Lamb, C.S. Lewis, Roger Zelazny, Leah Bodine Drake, Isaac Asimov, John Sutherland, Ron Webb, Jane Beauclerk.) Cover art by Ed Emsh. THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. INCLUDING VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION. VOLUME 27, NO. 1, WHOLE NO. 158. JULY 1964. Mercury Press, Concord, N.H., 1964.  130 pp, soft cover (digest size). Contents: Cantata 140 by Philip K. Dick; The Second Philadelphia Experiment by Robert F. Young; Balloon Astronomy by Theodore L. Thomas; The Scientist and the Monster by Gahan Wilson; The Happy Place by Toni Helle r Lamb; Book (department) by Avram Davidson; The End of the Wine (verse) by Leah Bodine Drake; Science: Nothing Counts by Isaac Asimov; The Struldbrugg Reaction by John Sutherland; The Girl With the 100 Proof Eyes by Ron Webb; We Serve The Star o f F reedom by Jane Beauclerk; F&SF Marketplace. Interior - pages browning lightly, 1/2" dia medium brown stain to pages 23-26 (does not effect legibility of text) with migration into adjoining pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous owne rs h ip marks. Exterior - very light edge wear - a little more on spines, tiny chip at bottom of front hinge, light browning to spine and edges of covers, spine wrinkled at top. VG-  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Dick, Philip K. Cover art by Chris Moore. THE MAN WHO JAPED. Eyre Methuen, London, 1978, first British hard cover edition.  158 pp, 7 1/4" H, hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0413392902 "War and famine had been abolished through Morec, Moral Reclamation; peace and prosperity were the rule - they were, in fact, compulsory. Block committees, robot informers and youthful goon squads made sure everyone 'enjoyed' Morec. Allen Purcell, the new director of Entertainment and Propaganda, had always been happy in his world. At least he thought he was until he joined the world-wide hunt for the mad japer who was playing i nsulting pranks on the government. For in the search for the heretical prankster, Purcell found evidence pointing to himself as the culprit. If it was true - how did he do it? and how could he face the full force of an outraged society if he was d iscovered?" Light browning to pages - moderate at the beginning and at the end of the book, light browning to edges of textblock, very minor dint to top edge of front board, minor wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor edge rubbing. Dust jacket ha s v ery minor edge wear, minor rubbing, very light edge wrinkling, small crease at top corner of rear flap, areas of surface paper loss at parts of top inside edge - possibly due to insects (does not show through to outside surface). Very Good-/Ve ry Go od-  Price: 175.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Dick, Philip K. THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH. Vintage, New York, (1991), 3rd printing.  230 pp, Trade paperback. "Hell is a future in space. A future where at any time you can be deported to colonize alien planets. Unless you're spaced out... The only way to survive on the colony worlds is with the Can-D - the drug that blows you m ind back home for an hour of total bliss. On a trip beyond any human experience... Now Chew-Z is here. The new narcotic that makes that brief hour an eternity . Where past, present and future belong to the most diabolical pusher you've ever m e t - Palmer Eldritch." "Hell is a future in space. A future where at any time you can be deported to colonize alien planets. Unless you're spaced out... The only way to survive on the colony worlds is with the Can-D - the drug that blows you mi nd b a ck home for an hour of total bliss. On a trip beyond any human experience... Now Chew-Z is here. The new narcotic that makes that brief hour an eternity . Where past, present and future belong to the most diabolical pusher you've eve r me t - Pa lm er Eldritch." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small crease at top of rear cover, very soft crease at top corner of front cover, minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG  Price: 8.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy. (Margaret Weis, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Roger Zelazny, Patricia McKillip, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jennifer Roberson, Philip K. Dick, Jane Yolen, et al.) TREASURES OF FANTASY. (MARGARET WEIS & TRACY HICKMAN PRESENT:) HarperPrism, (New York, 1999).  559 pp, mass market paperback. Collection of 27 short stories. "Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume - the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most exciting and popular genre in all literature...Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have brought together their own personal favorites (and contributed a new story each themselves) - the immortal treasures of fantasy that inspired them - into an authoratative collection of imaginativ e excellence that is an essential addition to every bookshelf..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear at top/bottom of spine, one tiny corner crease, flat spine with one faint crease. VG  Price: 7.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 Ferman, Edward L. and Mills, Robert P. eds. (Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Larry Niven, Philip MacDonald, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Will Stanton, Charles Runyon, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Frtiz Leiber, Gahan Wilson, Richard Matheson, et al TWENTY YEARS OF THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1970).  264 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "...twenty stories which appeared in the magazine during its first two decades - stories with a wide range of mood and technique, but all meeting a consistent standard of excellence. The stars of SF are here - Ray B radbury, Isaac Asimov...Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick - along with memorably individual stories by writers less famous. Carefully avoiding the overanthologized story, the editors have made a fresh s e l e ction which will be a delight to all readers of imaginative fiction." Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light edgewear/wrinkling/soiling, a few tiny scuffs to spine. VG/VG  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart