06/24/05 FRI:
---Here today from Wheatland Press:

Shepard, Lucius WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION: Film Reviews and Other Ravings, Wheatland ('05), (all about the Media's 21st-cemtury shuck and jive; mostly from F&SF and Electric Story), new 19.95

Utley, Steven THE BEASTS OF LOVE, Wheatland ('05), (stories; Lisa Tuttle intro), new 19.95

---And from Hippocampus:

Shiel, M.P. THE HOUSE OF SOUNDS and Others, Hippocampus ('05), 1st edn, (in Lovecraft's Library series; includes The Purple Cloud; Joshi [ed & intro]; 299 pages), new 15.00

06/23/05 THU:
---Here today from Gryphon Books (as opposed to Golden Gryphon), if I have it all straight:

Fearn, John Russell THE COSMIC CRUSADERS, Gryphon, 12/02, 1st US edn, (Golden Amazon #14), new 15.00
---DUEL WITH COLOSSUS, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #23), new $15
---DWELLERS IN DARKNESS, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st, (Golden Amazon #20), new 15.00
---KINGPIN PLANET, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #18), new 15.00
---LORDS OF CREATION, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #22), new 15.00
---PARASITE PLANET, Gryphon, 12/02, 1st US, (Golden Amazon #15), new 15.00
---WORLD IN DUPLICATE, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st US edn, (Golden Amazon #21), new 15.00
---WORLD IN REVERSE, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st edn, (Goldon Amazon #19), new 15.00

HARDBOILED #27/28, 12/01, Gryphon, (the hardest-hitting little magazine in the world!), new 20.00

James, Roy G. FROM THE PULPS INTO PAPERBACKS: A Reference Document, Gryphon, 2nd(1/95), (functional reference for the novice or avid collector), new 15.00

Thomas, Frank SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY TALES, Gryphon, 3/01, 1st edn, (all new adventures; author's 11th Holmes book), new 16.00

Whittington, Harry MARRIED TO MURDER, Gryphon Crime Classic #23, 5/05, (orig: Phantom, 1951; a long-lost crime-classic), new 16.00
---ONE GOT AWAY, Gryphon Crime Classic #22, 5/05, (orig: Ace1955), new 16.00
---SATAN'S WIDOW, Gryphon Crime Classic #24, 5/05, (orig: Phantom '51), new $16
---VENGEFUL SINNER, Gryphon Crime Classic #25, 5/05, (orig: 1953), new 16.00

---Back in stock:

Fearn, John Russell EMPEROR OF MARS, Gryphon, 1/95, 1st US edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #1), new 15.00
---THE GENIAL DINOSAUR, Gryphon, 1/03, 1st US, (Dinosaur #2), new 15.00
---GODDESS OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #4), new 15.00
---THE GOLD OF AKADA, Gryphon, 1/98, 1st US edn, (Jungle Novel #1), new 15.00
---RED MEN OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #3), new 15.00
---A THING OF THE PAST, Gryphon, 1/03, 1st US, (Dinosaur #1), new 15.00
---WARRIOR OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st US edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #2), new 15.00

GRYPHON DOUBLE NOVEL #7, 1/94, (HYPERPRISM & THE DIGITAL WRISTWATCH OF PHILIP K. DICK by Richard A. Lupoff) • ---#19, 1/99, (Doc Atlas in THE SATAN PLAGUE by Michael A. Black & The Nemesis in SATAN PLAGUE II by Gary Lovisi ), new each, 12.00

Kurland, Michael IMAGES CONCEITS & LOLLYGAGS: A Motley of Stories, Gryphon, 3/03, 1st edn, (stories; introduction by Richard A. Lupoff), new 20.00

Vaughan, Ralph E. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TERROR OUT OF TIME, Gryphon, 1/02, 1st edn, (mix of Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft), new 15.00
---SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE ADVENTURE OF THE ANCIENT GODS, Gryphon, 2nd(10/92), (Great Detective meets H.P. Lovecraft in America), new 5.95

---A few that were not available: Golden Amazon’s Diamond Quest, Lord of Atlantis & Twin of the Amazon by Fearn; Gryphon Double #13; and Science Fiction Detective Tales by Gary Lovisi.

06/21/05 TUE:
---Here today from Consortium, kind of a heterogeneous assortment:

Alcalay, Ammiel MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE: Selected Essays 1982-1999, City Lights ('99), 1st, (forges unique intellectual and political path; mix of personal narrative, political commentary and literary criticism; surveys such diverse subjects as Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia), new 17.95

DeMarinis, Rick APOCALYPSE THEN: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (unforgettable addition to author's growing body of work), new in dj 22.95

Dinh, Linh BLOOD AND SOAP: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (breakthrough collection of modern-day fables; on the vanguard of American fiction), new 16.00

Dorfman, Ariel MASCARA, Seven Stories '04, 1st pb edn, (taut, eerie novel; a postmodern version of Jekyll and Hyde; new afterword by J.M. Coetzee), new 8.95

Fowler, Christopher DEMONIZED, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (stories; situations that become increasingly disturbing), new 15.00

Gifford, Barry AMERICAN FALLS: The Collected Short Stories, Seven Stories, 5/03, (a summer road-trip of a book: steamy, deiverse and a wild ride), new 12.95

Lewis, Heather NOTICE, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (unrelenting meditatioin on psychic entrapment, chaos and pain; author’s last novel; Gurganus postscript), new 14.00

Plate, Peter FOGTOWN, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (San Francisco novel; muckraking, gritty take on the fellahin-strewn streets of Fogtown), new $13

Sennitt, Stephen CREATURES OF CLAY and Other Stories of the Macabre, Diagonal/Headpress '03, (author's best work exhumed from the small press underground), new 12.99

Thornburg, Newton CUTTER AND BONE, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (a whacking good thriller), new 14.00
---DREAMLAND, Serpent’s Tail '04, (murder, intrigue, sexual shenanigans, thrills), new $14
---TO DIE IN CALIFORNIA, Serpent’s Tail '02, (taut thriller; the dark side of the American dream, etched with pathos and a deep understanding of the infallibility of human nature), new 14.00

Toop, David EXOTICA: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, Serpent’s Tail '99, (music/popular culture; brings together the words, images and sounds of an extraordinary moment in the culture; changes the way we hear), new 19.99
---HAUNTED WEATHER: Music, Silence and Memory, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (maps 21st century sound), new 20.00
---RAP ATTACK 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (the one classic standout), new 22.00

---Discount I can give on these is 30%.

---Email rec'd:

Dear Chris,
I have a query concerning the book THE BEST FROM UNIVERSE,
edited by Terry Carr. Does that collection include a story by Harlan
Ellison? I will look forward to your reply. Thanks.

---My reply:

The Best from Universe ed. Terry Carr (Doubleday 0-385-17512-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $11.95, 209pp, hc); Anthology of 9 stories from the “Universe” series, plus an index to vol.s 1-10.
• vii • Introduction • Terry Carr • in
• 1 • Good News from the Vatican • Robert Silverberg • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 10 • Nor Limestone Islands • R. A. Lafferty • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 23 • On the Downhill Side • Harlan Ellison • ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972
• 39 • Schrödinger’s Cat • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 47 • The Death of Dr. Island • Gene Wolfe • na Universe 3, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1973
• 101 • The Night Wind • Edgar Pangborn • nv Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 118 • A Rite of Spring • Fritz Leiber • nv Universe 7, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1977
• 153 • Options • John Varley • nv Universe 9, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1979
• 181 • The Ugly Chickens • Howard Waldrop • nv Universe 10, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1980
• 204 • An Index to Universe Volumes 1-10 • Misc. Material • ix

(copied from http://www.locusmag.com/index/t3.html)

06/20/05 MON:
---Finally seem to have gotten past one particular obsession--making digital-photo covershots--at least for one particular bunch of books from the cellar--the ones that had been boxed away for at least twenty years and were located in one particular area of neglect. There are plenty more I want to get to, but at least I can slow it down a little bit now--and get to doing some things that a more responsible person than myself would not have to be told not to shirk. As it stands now Covershots 1 (on CD-R available by request) contains 1101 images. The Catalog Data CD-R has 932 and Covershots 2--in progress--1077. Covershots 2 contains some folders with catalogued books--outtakes from Catalog Data to make room for new arrivals there. I am still trying to work up a systematic approach but I can’t always keep track of every wrinkle in the fabric. I’m hoping this will give me a way to at least know what I have and where to find it--even if it’s not so great and maybe I shouldn’t be keeping it anyway. I would prefer to have it all out on open shelves rather than enclosed back inside boxes, but I’m glad I at least had the chance to check up on it again now. Maybe when I get everything under control (fat chance!) I can go back and embellish the information on the books rather than merely list the titles and where to find them.

06/19/05 SUN:
---Some used books catalogued today:
hardcovers:

Cadigan, Pat DIRTY WORK, Ziesing '93, 1st edn, (stories), f in dj $25
Carr, Terry (ed) THE BEST FROM UNIVERSE, Doubleday '84, 1st edn, remainder speckling, vg-f in dj with small cover tear on back panel $10
Dozois, Gardner GEODESIC DREAMS: The Best Short Fiction of..., St. Martin's, 10/92, 1st edn, f in dj 20.00
Gregory, Stephen THE CORMORANT, Heinemann '86, 1st, (author’s first novel), vg-f in dj 25.00
Haldeman, Joe THE HEMINGWAY HOAX, Morrow '90, 1st edn, (novella), f in dj 10.00
Kress, Nancy BEGGARS IN SPAIN, AvoNova, 4/93, 1st, (Beggars #1; exp of Nebula Award winning novella), vg in dj 18.00
Kress, Nancy BRAIN ROSE, Morrow '90, 1st edn, vg-f in dj $20
Lee, Tanith DREAMS OF DARK AND LIGHT: The Great Short Fiction of..., Arkham House ('86), 1st edn, vg-f in dj 49.00
Resnick, Mike IVORY, Tor, 9/88, 1st edn, (A Legend of Past and Future), f in dj 15.00
Rice, Anne THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED, Knopf '88, 2nd printing before publication, (The Vampire Chronicles #3), vg-f in dj 6.00
Roberts, Keith WINTERWOOD and Other Hauntings, Morrigan '89, 1st trade edn, (one story first published here; introduction by Robert Holdstock), f in dj 12.00
Sheckley, Robert THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION: Books 1-5, Pulphouse ('91), #96 of 300 sets SIGNED by author as well as introducers (Zelazny, Resnick, Ellison, & Knight, but not Jeter--that I could find), BOXED, f no djs 275.00
Wolfe, Gene ENDANGERED SPECIES, Tor, 3/89, 1st edn, SIGNED, (stories), vg-f in dj 30.00
Wolfe, Gene NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN, Tor, 4/93, 1st edn, (The Book of the Long Sun #1; epic in the world of The Book of the New Sun), vg-f in dj 12.00
Wolfe, Gene SOLDIER OF ARETE, Tor, 8/89, 1st edn, SIGNED, (sequel to Soldier of the Mist), vg-f in dj $20

misc. softcovers:

AMAZING STORIES, 5/88, (Goulart, Finch, Miesel, Bethke, Friesner), f 2.00
ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, 4/84 to 9/98, 60 selected issues, (veritable who's who of collectable authors represented; not a complete run, but the pick of issues), no subscription labels, vg-f to f the set, 115.00
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 1/86 to 10/96, set of 51 selected issues, (includes anniversary, double issues, Stephen King issue, etc.), in especially nice condition, vg-f to f the set, 95.00

---You can see the covershots of these on my Catalog Data CD-R in the folders for F&SF and IASFM sets. The books can be seen in the folder Catalogued 6-20-05.

06/16/05 THU:
---Finally got orders to Wheatland Press, Earthling and Consortium--mentioned earlier--actually sent out. Another, to PenguinPutnam, I still haven’t pulled together yet, partly because I heard the Lovecraft Library of America volume--which a few people wanted--was already into a reprinting. I know there are lots of other titles from there I need to get, but I probably ought to hold off a bit longer on that one. A couple other publishers I should get to first.

06/13/05 MON:
---Since I seem to be taking a sabbatical of sorts on ordering new books from publishers (among other things), I better get some of the used books that have been sitting around here for cataloguing taken care of:
misc. softcovers:

ALGOL/STARSHIP #24 to #36, sum/75 to fall/79, 11 of 12 straight issues (missing #31), (The Magazine About Science Fiction; slick semiprozine edited by Andrew Porter; lots of name authors), vg the set, $30
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 2/80 to 6/82, 28 of 29 issues (missing only 11/80), (includes several issues with Stephen King stories), vg or better (difficult-to-remove address labels on most) the set, 50.00
FANTASY MONGERS 1, Ganley ('79), (Potter covers, Bloch interviewed by Schweitzer, de Camp on Lovecraft & Edmund Wilson; but mostly ads), vg 2.50
GALILEO, set of seven issues, #1 to #5 and nos. 9 & 10, '76 to 9/78, generally g-vg the set, 15.00
HEAVY METAL, 5, 6 &7/77, three issues, (illustrated fantasy magazine), g the set, $7
NICKELODEON #1 & #2, ('75-6), (both of the two exotic issues published; Tom Reamy-edited fanzine; includes photos of naked neo-pros and neo-fans; Cold Tonnage lists these at £20 each), vg+ as a pair, 25.00
RUNE, aut/74, (Ohio State University-published fanzine; Asimov interview), vg 4.00
TOADSTOOL WINE: A Collection of Fantasy and Horror From Six Independent Magazines, Ganley ('75), (sampler of material from Fantasy & Terror, Moonbroth, Space & Time, Weirdbook, Whispers and Wyrd; also: Ganley editorial; Leiber article; Jim Garrison art, etc.), vg 4.00
TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE, collection of eight issues, 5/81 to 10/81 & 5 & 6/82, fr to vg (one or two have loose covers) the set, 20.00
WEIRDBOOK #13, (Tenth-Year Anniversary Issue; Cole, Bishop, Munn, Page, Bertin),g 2.50

---And:
hardcovers:

Lafferty, R.A., Harry Harrison, Alexei Panshin & Robert Silverberg FOUR FUTURES: Four Original Novellas of SF, Hawthorn ('71), 1st, (based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov), vg+ in dj 18.00
McAleer, Neil ARTHUR C. CLARKE: The Authorized Biography, Contemporary Books ('92), (fascinating portrait; Bradbury foreword), vg-f in dj 18.00

misc. softcovers:

Geis, Richard RICHARD E. GEIS 2, ('72), (accumulated 44 pages of notes, letters), mimeod & side-stapled, vg 5.00
Geis, Richard STAR WHORES, self-mimeo, 1/80, one of 470 copies, vg 15.00
Geis, Richard THE CORPORATION STRIKES BACK!, self-mimeo, 1/81, vg+ 15.00
Morrow, James THE ETERNAL FOOTMAN, Harvest '00, (3rd in God's demise trilogy), vg-f 8.00
NICKELODEON #1, ('75), (fanzine editied by Tom Reamy; "the exotic sf & fantasy quarterly"; Anderson, Anthony, Gunn, Lafferty, Waldrop; nudes), vg-f 15.00

---Digital-photo covershots of the above have been taken and will be in the images folder on my Catalog Data CD-R (as “catalogued 6-13-05”)

06/10/05 FRI:
---Here today from Ash-Tree:

Ludlam, Harry THE COMING OF JONATHAN SMITH, Ash-Tree Classic Macabre '05, (1964 supernatural/detective novel; David G. Rowlands intro), new 24.00

Wakefield, H.R.THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A Collection of Ghost Stories, Ash-Tree, 2nd('05). (reprint of 1995 edition), new in dj 47.50

06/06/05 MON:
---Alluded to earlier, this augmentation of listing added to new arrivals list:

Drumm, Chris (compiler) COVERSHOTS 1, CD-R, (1100+ JPEG images of not-(yet)-catalogued books; also contains a directory folder with text files sorted by title and by place found), free with order by request--or separately for 3.00 postage & handling

---And with that CD-R I will also send the latest Catalog Data CD-R, which currently contains another 845 covershots, as well as a music compilation CD-R (if you wish). Not only that but I will give you a $3 credit toward a book order.

06/03/05 FRI:
---Here today from Stark House:

Packer, Vin DAMNATION OF ADAM BLESSING/ ALONE AT NIGHT: Two Complete Novels, Stark House, 5/05, 1st thus, (early 60s PB originals; Fawcett Gold Medal memoir & Jon L. Breen afterword--both reprints), new 19.95

---And from Necro:

Lee, Edward & John Pelan SHIFTERS, Necro, 4/05, SIGNED, (full of fun time gore...and monsters; reprint: Obsidian, '98), new 19.95

06/02/05 THU:
---Here today from PS Publishing:

POSTSCRIPTS #3, spr/05, PS, (Chaz Brenchley, Gene Wolfe, Jack Dann, Garry Kilworth, etc.), as new 10.00