Everett L Bleiler (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. Richard Powers Painted Cover. (illustrator). First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 172 pages; Berkley Medallion Book #G233 ; >> Cover creasing; spine slant; pen to title page.; wear to paper spine; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus (Berkley Books G-233) of a collection of sci-fi stories from the late 1940s and early 1950s. "Let yourself go! Turn your imagination loose -- think of the vast possibilities of the future." Edge wear with small scrapes and creases. Small loss at the bottom of the fore edge of the front cover. Celo tape and the top & bottom of the spine. The binding is solid and the book is holding together well. Small damp stain at the upper fore edge of the pages through page 9. Book store stamps inside the front cover and on the FFEP. Moderate browning to the pages. A decent reading copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Richard Powers (front cover) (illustrator). ----------vintage paperback, Canadian printing. A 172-page science fiction anthology, selecting some stories from the longer 1952 hardcover edition. Some edgewear, a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Second printing. EU4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edgard Cirlin (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition with cream colored cloth under green paper quarter boards, spine stamped in black, jacket art by Edgard Cirlin. Edited by Bleiler and Dikty, Introduction by Dikty. Anthology of 13 stories drawing upon scientific fields. Stories by Sturgeon, Bradbury, de Camp, and more. New York; Farrar, Strauss & Young (1952), 430 pps. A fine unmarked copy with minor shelf wear and toning along bottom edge. Good unclipped ($3.50) jacket with overall wear and sun fading, and a dampstain.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mudge-Marriott, Eric (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 14 of the 18 stories in the US edition which was published in 1951 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1951' by Frederick Fell. Boards have very slight bumping to the corners. Page edges are lightly browned with some brown spotting to the top edges and a tiny dark mark to the bottom edges. Endpapers are browned but pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has slight edge wear and discolouration to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Eric Mudge-Marriott. First printing.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 8 of the 13 stories in the US edition which was published in 1950 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1950' by Frederick Fell. Boards have a little bumping to the spine and corners. Page edges are browned with quite heavy spotting. Endpapers are browned with previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has one small closed edge tear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine and the corners. The rear panel has some discolouration and light staining. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Farrar, Strauss & Young 1952 `1st ed. 430pp Contents include Mathematics and Philosophy, The Physical Sciences, The Biological Sciences, The Social Sciences. Collects 13 stories. Very good with light wear, minor foxing to endpapers and page edges, dust soiling to pag edges, in jacket with wear, rubbing and toning. See photos clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Edgard Cirlin (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition with cream colored cloth under green paper quarter boards, spine stamped in black, jacket art by Edgard Cirlin. Edited by Bleiler and Dikty, Introduction by Dikty. Anthology of 13 stories drawing upon scientific fields. Stories by Sturgeon, Bradbury, de Camp, and more. New York; Farrar, Strauss & Young (1952), 430 pps. A handsome superior fine unmarked copy in matching fine protected unclipped ($3.50) jacket. Rear flap fold and page edges show some foxing.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, spine lettered in black, green buckram. A few dints, pushing to spine ends. Edges gently toned, a little musty, nick to half-title. Else, clean and tight. In the wonderful Edgard Cirlin-designed dust jacket: wear and chipping to spine ends, amateur taping to reverse, some soiling. Very good/ very good A very good copy of Bleiler and Dikty's short story anthology, including contributions by Ray Bradbury, John Berryman and L. Sprague de Camp. Comprising thirteen stories, each of its four sections is introduced by an essay by Bleiler and Dikty, 'Mathematics and Philosophy,' The Physical Sciences, 'The Biological Sciences' and 'The Social Sciences'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Everett L. Bleiler(Editor) T. E. Dikty(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. Year's Best Science Fiction Novels 1952 (First Edition) Erle Korshak's copy A tight square copy with Shast Publishers bookplate to front flyleaf. A sharp bright dust jacket. Original $3.50 price intact on flap. First printing April 1952, stated. Blue-grey cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, and others. Introduction by Bleiler and Dikty. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Everett L. Bleiler(Editor) T. E. Dikty(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. Year's Best Science Fiction Novels 1953 by Bleiler & Dikty Firm copy with minor rubbing to corners. Bright dust jacket with minor wear to edges and spine ends. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover.` First Printing March 1953 (stated). Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Everett L. Bleiler(Editor) T. E. Dikty(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. Year's Best Science Fiction Novels 1953 by Bleiler & Dikty Erle Korshak's Copy A tight bright copy with sharp corners. A bright jacket with minor dust-soiling. Not price-clipped. First Printing March 1953 (stated). Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Everett L. Bleiler(Editor) T. E. Dikty(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. Year's Best Science Fiction Novels 1953 by Bleiler & Dikty Firm square copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine end. Bright dust jacket with minor wear to edges and spine ends. Tape along edges for structural support. Not price-clipped. First Printing March 1953 (stated). Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. BOOK.

First Edition. YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954, Fell, 1954, first edition, fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper with the slightest of wear. Contributions Murray Leinster, Frank M. Robinson, Kendal Foster Crossen, H. L. Gold & Philip K. Dick.

First Edition. YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954, Fell, 1954, first edition, fine in near fine color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Contributions by H. L. Gold & Robert Krepps "The Enormous Room," Kendell Foster Crossen "Assignment in Aldebaran," Frank M. Robinson "The Oceans Are Wide," Murray Leinster "The Sentimentalists," and Philip K. Dick "Second Variety." This last contribution is Dick's first appearance in a hard-cover book and filmed in 1995 as SCREAMERS. At the time humorously but now chauvinistically INSCRIBED by co-editor Ditky thusly: "For David, who resolved his problem by marrying her! All the luck in the world from his friend Ted Ditky.".