REED, KIT LILLIAN CRAIG REED (12 resultados)

Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. After the death of his mother, a California reporter investigates mysterious deaths in her hometown in Florida. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#160479).

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, very tight copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.

Octavo, boards. First edition. "The ultimate amusement park, it promised visitors everything they desired -- except a way out. In Happy Habitat the old regain their youth, whether or not they want it, and adventurers satisfy their lust for danger with unwilling victims." - publisher's blurb. "In a media-saturated near future, four people struggle to escape from the warm, gooey embrace of the so-called 'Happy Habitat' (a sort of nightmarish extrapolation of Disneyland)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 221. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#175307).

Octavo, boards. First edition. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 431. Faint remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#93099).

Octavo, boards. First edition. "The ultimate amusement park, it promised visitors everything they desired -- except a way out. In Happy Habitat the old regain their youth, whether or not they want it, and adventurers satisfy their lust for danger with unwilling victims." - publisher's blurb. "In a media-saturated near future, four people struggle to escape from the warm, gooey embrace of the so-called 'Happy Habitat' (a sort of nightmarish extrapolation of Disneyland)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 221. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#4251).

Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories, including dark fantasy. Includes "Songs of War," in which a women's commune forms an army and goes to war against men. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#4250).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 142. Original publishers grey boards, lettered blue. ISBN: 0138504873 Very good indeed in slightly rubbed, very good dust jacket.

First U.S. edition. Octavo, cloth backed boards. The author's first SF novel, in the style of "New Wave" fiction. A dystopian future, ".warfare is the one constant thing in the world; and although it seems that only champions fight and die, great numbers of people are killed each year. And instead of trying to end it, the top brass make sure it will go on - forever." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), pp. 770-771. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (204) II-891]. Inked name to front paste down, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a light stain ghost to verso of lower spine with bleed through from glue degradation from a glue tab from a dust jacket protector, mild shelf wear to the spine ends. (31767).

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects seven stories and short novel "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse," latter published separately in trade paperback format by the Fiction Collective Two in 1994. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#72660).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Warfare is institutionalized as a means of social control and a product of technological imperatives . Reed's forte is the production of SF fabulations in which characters struggle to retain and assert their humanity in a mechanized and devalued world ." - Anatomy of Wonder (204) II-891. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-891. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of scuffing to black ink background of front panel and some dust soiling to rear panel. This book is uncommon in nice condition and this copy is superior to most. (#139934).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Warfare is institutionalized as a means of social control and a product of technological imperatives . Reed's forte is the production of SF fabulations in which characters struggle to retain and assert their humanity in a mechanized and devalued world ." - Anatomy of Wonder (204) II-891. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-891. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#139933).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first short story collection. Thirteen tales of science fiction, fantasy, and horror including "Judas Bomb," and "Automatic Tiger." Also, "Golden Acres," old age home as dystopia. A fine copy in fine white dust jacket. (#4252).