Rocketship Books Titles For Sale - Fall/Winter 2006
#1502. 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+. $35.00
#1512. Adams, Douglas & Jones, Terry. Starship Titanic. Harmony. 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
#1503. Derleth, August (ed.). Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy & the Macabre. Arkham House. 1947. 1st edition, 1st state (green titles). VG/VG (price-clipped). Selected poems by Allingham (Wm), Blake, Burns, Poe, Scott, Coleridge, et al. $125.00
#1505. 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. Fine in VG jacket (unclipped) Very scarce in this condition with jacket. $650.00
#1513. Fisher, M. F. K. Serve it Forth. World Book Co (Duell, Sloan and Pearce). circa 1943 reprint. Ms. Fisher's writing draws one in for its very sensual appreciation of food. The first in her series "The Art of Eating," this book explores food past and present, from Papazi Riganiers' exquisite preparations for escargot to her own secret pleasure of ripe tangerine segments baked on the radiator in the cold of winter. It is an inviting appreciation of textures and flavors in honest and heart-felt language. Near Fine in Fine, unclipped jacket w/ protective glassine intact - small bump to bottom of front board and small (2 cm) sticker on the front paste-down, under the jacket.$75.00
#1510. Hamilton, Henrietta. The Two Hundred Ghost. Hoddor & 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. very scarce - 1st mystery in the Sally & Johnny Heldar series of bibliophile mysteries. $185.00
#1501. King, Stephen (writing as Richard Bachman). Thinner. New American Library. 1984. 1st Edition, 4th Printing.Fine/NF. $65.00
#1504. Lethem, Jonathan. Gun with Occasional Music. Harcourt, Brace & Co.1994. 1st edition, first printing (designated by line A B C D E on copyright page). Fine in Fine crisp unclipped jacket. Author's first book. Pulp-era hard boiled detective fiction meets science fiction in this surreal not-so-distant future. $50.00
#1507. Sasse, Cynthia Stalter & Widder. 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. 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. VERY SCARCE. OHIO AUTHOR.$65.00
#1511. Weckesser, Elden C. His Name Was Mudd. McFarland. 1991. 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. Scarce. $95.00
#1508. 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 her best books are Doomsday Book, Bellwether, and To Say Nothing of the Dog. $35.00
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