Rocketship Books - Titles For Sale

#1502. (SCIENCE FICTION) Dynamic Science Stories. Volume 1, Issue 2. April 1939. Cover by Norman Saunders. Very short-lived SF Pulp w/ stories by Eando Binder, L. Sprague de Camp, Manley Wade Wellman, et al. VG+. $22.00

#1512. (SCIENCE FICTION) Adams, Douglas & Jones, Terry. Starship Titanic. Harmony (UK). 1997. First edition signed by both Adams and Jones. Fine/Fine. very clean. Monty Python meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. $95.00

#1520. (CHILDREN'S/SPANISH) Anderson, Hans Christian. Cuentos de Anderson. Editorial Juventud. Barcelona (SPAIN). translated by Alfonso Nadal. illustrated by Arthur Rackham (3 color plates, 55 b&w illustrations). 303 pages. 4th edition, Sept. 1947. VG+ condition / (no dust jacket). Spine slightly cocked, and edges rubbed, paper is toned. No dust jacket. Otherwise clean and sound. Scarce title. No copies listed on WorldCat, ABE, Bookfinder, Amazon, Alibris, etc. $185.

#1515. (POETRY/RAFTING) Bell, Lydia S. The Truckee River Experience. High Wheeler Press, Tahoe City (CA), 1975. Photos and free verse recollections of the author's experiences rafting on the Truckee River, which flows from the mountains south of Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin. With photo contributions by Roderick Nash, Shad Meshad, Bob Franco and Bob Ponce. 45 pages w/ a black and white map of the river on pages 44 & 45. 7.5" x 9" blue-printed wraps. Minor faults - slight bend to lower right corner, small crease and ink stamp for "MOUNTAIN AIR SPORTS RAFTING" on back cover. No copies listed in Worldcat or Library of Congress. $46.

#1503. (FANTASY/HORROR) Derleth, August (ed.). Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy & the Macabre. Arkham House. 1947. 1st edition, 1st issue jacket (green titles). VG/VG (price-clipped). Selected poems by Allingham (Wm), Blake, Burns, Poe, Scott, Coleridge, et al. $95.00

#1505. (COMPUTERS) Engineering Research Associates, Inc. High-Speed Computing Devices. McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1950. 1st edition (so stated). Discusses, among many other things, 'new' components like the transistor and "punched-card computing systems." Previously delivered as a report to the Office of Naval Research. Owners name stamp on front flyleaf and page ends. Near Fine in VG jacket (unclipped). $450.00

#1510. (MYSTERY) Hamilton, Henrietta. The Two Hundred Ghost. Hodder & Stoughton. 1957.1st edition. VG- condition. ex lib W. H. Smith & Son's Library. bookplate - spine cocked. no pockets or tape. some smudges & bumps to covers. scarce - 1st mystery in the Sally & Johnny Heldar series of bibliophile mysteries. $65.00

#1501. (HORROR) King, Stephen (writing as Richard Bachman). Thinner. New American Library. 1984. 4th Printing.Fine/NF. $35.00

#1504. (SCIENCE FICTION) Lethem, Jonathan. Gun with Occasional Music. Harcourt, Brace & Co.1994. 1st edition, first printing (designated by line A B C D E and 'First edition' on copyright page). Fine in Fine crisp unclipped jacket. Author's first book. Pulp-era hard boiled detective fiction meets genetic engineering science fiction in this surreal not-so-distant future. $40.00

#1523. (POETRY) Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627). The Ghost of Lucrece. 'Reproduced in facsimile from the unique copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library, with an Introduction and an Edited Text/BY/JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS'. FOR THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1937. First Edition. A sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece, This 'complaint' poem, like Lucrece, was written in 7-line rhyme royal stanzas (ABABBCC), though Middleton's poem is quite brief by comparison, at 77 stanzas, compared to Shakespeare's original, at 265. Octavo red cloth w/ gold titles on spine and embossed framework on front and back covers. VG+ due to discoloration in the gutter of the endpapers and small price in red ink on the front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and sound. No dust jacket. An uncommon title. $34.00

#1507. (OHIO) Sasse, Cynthia S. & Widder, Peggy M. Kirtland Massacre. Donald Fine. 1991. 1st edition, signed by both authors on front free endpaper. Mormon extremist 'cult' murders in Kirtland, Ohio. Fine in Fine, unclipped jacket.$25.00

#1512. (UFOs) Stringfield, Leonard H. Inside Saucer Post . . . 3-0 BLUE.CRIFO (Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects). 1957. 1st printing, author's first title, SIGNED after Foreword. The director of CRIFO, author of "Situation Red, UFO Siege" (1977), "UFO Crash" (1980) and 5 other 'Status Reports', also editor of ORBIT magazine (now defunct) recounts some of the evidence presented to support the claims of UFOs, related correspondence and cover-ups. VG in textured paper wraps - soiling to covers. SCARCE. OHIO AUTHOR.$65.00

#1511. (AMERICAN HISTORY/LINCOLN) Weckesser, Elden C. His Name Was Mudd. McFarland. 1991. 1st edition. Fine condition. No jacket (as issued). Black cloth with silver titles. The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Who Treated the Fleeing John Wilkes Booth. 242 pp including index. $55.00

#1508. (SCIENCE FICTION) Willis, Connie. Remake. Mark Ziesing. 1995. 1st edition (limited & signed, #445/2000) in slipcase. Fine/Fine/Fine. book, jacket & slipcase all clean and flawless. Willis has been awarded 8 Hugos, 9 Locus Poll Awards and 6 Nebula Awards. Among our favorite books are Doomsday Book, Bellwether, and To Say Nothing of the Dog. $35.00


Catalog Revised 07/15/2009