Blish James: Signed (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Mild wear to dustjacket. Now protected in a clear mylar cover. International orders may require additional postage.; Simply signed by cover artist Janny Wurtz. SFBC Catalog ID: 1757 published in 1982, also confirmed by gutter code M38 on page 183.; 8.40 X 5.75 X 0.6 inche…

First Edition. STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES #2, Ballantine, 1953, first edition, small crease to lower fore edge corner tip of the front cover, else fine in wraps. An original anthology with stories by Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Hal Clement, Ted Sturgeon, Jack Williamson, et.al. Signed by editor/author Fred Poh…

Hardcover. dj. Reprinted. Octavo, ix, 204 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial black with white lettering. Exterior has slight plus wear including mild age toning with previous bookshop's tiny price sticker to the front flap. Boards have ve…

First Edition. THE ASCENT OF WONDER, Tor, 1994, first edition, (scarce first issue), fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Contributions by Ursula Leguin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Gene Wolfe, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Isaac Asimov, Robert Forward, Edgar Allan Poe, Greg Benford, Kate Wilhelm, J. G. Ballard, A…

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Limited Edition. A beautiful set of the four books that make up the After Such Knowledge Quartet. 1. A Case of Conscience 2. Doctor Mirabilis 3. Black Easter, and 4. The Day After Judgment Each book is #149 of a limitation of 300, and each volume is signed by Blish (facsim…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. SIGNED EDITION. First American Trade Edition ( following a mimeographed, stapled limited edition). This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published for the "Beyond this Horizon" Festival this soft cover is in overall Very Good or better condition with some evidence of handling (which you will see why in a moment). Total print run of only 180 signed and numbered copies. This is the so-called Limited Edition "D", one of…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, very good/very good. The book is inscribed to Damon, and the inscription leads me to believe it is to Damon Knight, as the inscription reads "For Damon, whose issue is visible inside on every hand. Best Wishes, Jim Blish, New York, 196…

First Edition. STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES #2, Ballantine, 1953, first edition, vg/vg+ in an attractive dust-wrapper with some chipping and some rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel. An original anthology with stories by Bester, Blish, Boucher, Clement, Sturgeon, Williamson, etc. Signed by the author/editor Fred Pohl. Among t…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed 8th (1974) printing, Bantam small hardcover, 1971. Clean, tight, unmarked. Signed by James Doohan (Scotty), Star Trek novelist Myrna Culbreath and a third I can't make out. Includes program signed by George Takei (Lt. Sulu) from a 1978 Star Trek convention in Oklahoma where all…

First Edition. *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***A TORRENT OF FACES, Doubleday, 1967, first edition, t.p.e.'s dusty, else near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light tanning to the dust-wrapper spine. Complimentary card laid in and SIGNED in an unknown hand, "The Authors". Formerly HUGO winning author John Brunner's copy with his book-p…

Condition: Fair. SIGNED! n.p., 1905. Sm 4to Hardcover. 366pp. B/W plates. Limited edition, number 22 out of 52 copies. Signed by author on verso title page. Poor book. Lacking boards. Preliminary and last pages detached, but present. Pages age toned. With typical period foxing throughout. In polypropylene bag. (genealogy, blish…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. (1957) 156 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Few creases to spine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JAMES BLISH ON FIRST LEAF, w/ author's name and address in pencil to bottom corner of first leaf. Approx. 1/2" tear to outer margin of title page. Edges of l…

*** ASSOCIATION COPY ***A MIDSUMMER CENTURY, Doubleday / SFBC, 1972, fine in like dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow SF author and good friend Brian Aldiss. Wonderful association thus. Books SIGNED or INSCRIBED by Blish are most uncommon. Along with MIDSUMMER CENTURY in the April, 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fanta…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 287pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. The gold lettering on the spine sparkles. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Pages bright and clean, unmarked. Dust jacket faintly sunned but otherwise in crisp condition, with original 25s net price on lower front flap. S…

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription dated 1962 by Blish to SF author and fan Jack L. Chalker on the front free endpaper. Issued later in Britain as THE FALLEN STAR (1957). A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with rubbing along top and bottom edges and three short tears at top edge…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition first impression in near fine condition, signed dated and located 'Birmingham 1971' by author to front endpage, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has a mark from tape removal to top of rear flap, no other ma…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. Book club edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper (on Sept. 1, 1956, likely at the 14th World Science Fiction Convention at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City). Dust jacket shows minor to moderate wear, tear, chipping and rubbing. Pages are lightly…

Hardcover. First editions thus. All four volumes in the After Such Knowledge sf series: A Case Of Conscience, Doctor Mirabilis, and Black Easter (1968) and The Day After Judgment; the author regarded the last two books as one novel - hence his use of the term ''trilogy''. LIMITED EDITIONS: 300 numbered sets signed by the the var…

Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Blish signed "Jim Blish" on the front free endpaper. The author's third book. Chronologically, the third book of the "Cities in Flight" tetralogy. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-137. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 358-62. Boards lightly rubbe…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. The Other Lovecraft (Manuscript) by James Blish Signed Original typed manuscript for an article on Howard P. Lovecraft by James Blish, with the author's penned corrections. With a signed letter by the author to George Zebrowski (24 March 1971). And a signed note (19 June 92) by Zebrowsk…

First Edition. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, Doubleday, 1971, first edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. This book contains works chosen for their scientific content with introductions and commentary by Dr. Asimov. Contains works by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Hal Clement, James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, H. Beam Pip…

xiii, 239 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. xiii, 239 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first published book, and third in the chronological sequence, of Blish's Okie or Cities in Flight cycle, assembled from stories published in Astounding and elsewhere: "Okie", "Bindlestiff", "Sargasso of Lost Cities", and "Earthman, Come…