A Collector's Guide to First Editions of Michael Bishop

 

The purpose of this page is to provide information on identifying and collecting first editions of Michael Bishop's books.  The quoted price ranges (as of April 2008, for copies in "very good" to "fine" condition) are taken from searches on abebooks.com, which lists offerings from more than 13,000 independent booksellers.  Unless stated, all hardcover books (boards) have dustjackets.  Signed books usually add $10-$20 to the price. 

Format

Book Title
Publisher, Year
Book description
"Edition statement"
Price Range
Notes



Alphabetically Listed


 
Ancient of Days, First Edition / Christopher Zacharow

Ancient of Days
Arbor House, 1985
Blue cloth boards and grey cloth spine with silver lettering
"10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $10-$30
Note: The second printing of this edition has a price range of $5-$15

And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees, First Edition / Jonathan Weld

And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
Harper & Row, 1976
Red-orange paper boards and blue cloth spine with silver lettering
"First Edition
76 77 78 79 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $10-$35

Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana, 1st Ed. Variant / Donna Gordon

Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana
Pulphouse Publishing, 1989
Variant One: Brown leather with gold lettering (no dustjacket) [100 numbered copies]
Variant Two: Cloth boards (with pictorial dustjacket) [300 numbered copies]
Variant Three: Pictorial wrappers [500 unnumbered copies]
No edition statement
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $60-$95 / Variant Two: $25-$50 / Variant Three: $10-$20
Note: All variants were signed by Michael Bishop and Lewis Shiner (the introducer).  There were ten staff copies bound in red leather ($150-$200)

At the City Limits of Fate, First Edition / Rick Berry

At the City Limits of Fate
Edgewood Press, 1996
Pictorial wrappers
No edition statement
Price Range: $10-$20

Blooded on Arachne, First Edition / Ron Walotsky

Blooded on Arachne
Arkham House, 1982
Full black cloth boards with gold lettering; red endpapers [4081 copies printed]
"First Edition"
Price Range: $15-$65

Blue Kansas Sky, First Edition / Ron Walotsky

Blue Kansas Sky
Golden Gryphon, 2000
Slate blue cloth boards with silver lettering
"First Edition"
Price Range: $15-$35

Brighten to Incandescence, First Edition / Jamie Bishop

Brighten to Incandescence
Golden Gryphon, 2003
Red cloth boards with gold lettering [3000 copies printed]
"First Edition"
Price Range: $25-$35

Brittle Innings, First Edition / Michael Dudash

Brittle Innings
Bantam, 1994
Brown paper boards and tan cloth spine with red lettering
"A Bantam Book / May 1994
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $10-$45

[Signed / inscribed copies available from the author]
Catacomb Years, First Edition / Ron Walotsky

Catacomb Years
Berkley/Putnam, 1979
Navy-blue cloth boards with silver lettering
No edition statement
Price Range: $20-$30

[Signed / inscribed copies available from the author]
Changes, First Edition

Changes
Ace, 1983
Pictorial wrappers
"Ace Original/July 1983"
Price Range: $5-$7

Close Encounters With the Deity, First Edition / Ralph P. Masiello

Close Encounters with the Deity
Peachtree Publishers, 1986
Variant One: Brown paper boards and blue cloth spine with gold lettering; brown endpapers
Variant Two: Pictorial wrappers
"1st printing"
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $20-$35 / Variant Two: $10-$20

Count Geiger's Blues, First Edition / Thomas Canty

Count Geiger's Blues
Tor, 1992
Blue paper boards with silver lettering
"First edition: July 1992
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $10-$33

[Signed / inscribed copies available from the author]
A Cross of Centuries, First Edition

A Cross of Centuries
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007
Pictorial wrappers
"First printing, 2007"
Price Range: $5-$20

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, First Edition

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective
Subterranean Press, 2011 [2012]
Red cloth boards with gold lettering, yellow textured endpapers
"First Edition"
Variant One: Tipped-in numbered sheet, signed by the author [250 copies]
Price Range: $50-$100
Variant Two: [500 unsigned copies, not stated]
Price Range: $35-$45

Emphatically Not SF, Almost, First Edition / George Barr

Emphatically Not SF, Almost
Pulphouse Publishing, 1990
Variant One: Leatherbound (no dustjacket) [50 signed and numbered copies]
Variant Two: Grey cloth boards with silver lettering (with pictorial dustjacket) [300 signed and numbered copies]
Variant Three: Pictorial wrappers
"Author's Choice Monthly
Issue Fifteen, December 1990"
No edition statement
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $65-$75 / Variant Two: $25-$40 / Variant Three: $9-$12
Note: There were 10 staff copies bound in red leather ($100)

Eyes of Fire, First Edition / Gene Szafran

Eyes of Fire [First Edition]
Pocket Books, 1980
Pictorial wrappers
"First Pocket Books printing January, 1980
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $5-$10
Note: This edition was later reprinted as a Timescape Book

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, First British Edition / Marshall Mateer

Eyes of Fire [First Hardcover Edition as A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire]
Kerosina Books, 1989
Variant One: Red cloth boards with gold lettering; tipped in page, with an additional illustration, and signed and numbered by the author; boxed in matching red cloth covered box with Variant One of Within the Walls of Tyre [250 copies]
Variant Two: Red paper boards with gold lettering [750 copies]
"First publication in Great Britain / First Hardcover edition"
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $60-$100 / Variant Two: $15-$35

Families Are Murder, First Edition / Oiva Design Group

Families Are Murder
PointBlank Press, 2005
Pictorial wrappers
No edition statement
Price Range: $20-$22

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, First Edition / Gene Szafran

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Ballantine Books, 1975
Pictorial wrappers
"First Printing: February, 1975"
Price Range: $7-$15

Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls, First Edition

Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls
Kudzu Planet Productions / Fairwood Press, 2016
Variant One: Brown cloth boards with silver lettering
"First Edition/June 2016" [300 signed copies]
Price Range: $50-$60
Variant Two: Pictorial wrappers
"First Fairwood/Kudzu Planet Productions Edition: June 2016"
Price Range: $10-$20

Light Years and Dark, First Edition

Light Years and Dark
Berkley, 1984
Pictorial wrappers
"Berkley trade paperback edition/November 1984"
Price Range: $15-$20

A Little Knowledge, First Edition / Dean Ellis

A Little Knowledge
Berkley/Putnam, 1977
Blue cloth boards with silver lettering
No edition statement
Price Range: $20-$30

Muskrat Courage, First Edition / Joseph Daniel Fiedler

Muskrat Courage
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000
Grey paper boards with gold lettering
"First Edition: June 2000
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $15-$25

No Enemy But Time, First Edition / Vincent DiFate

No Enemy But Time
Timescape Books, 1982
Blue paper boards and purple cloth spine with silver lettering
"1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
Price Range: $75-$150
Note: The uncorrected proof of this edition has a price range of $95-$200
The Easton Press leatherbound edition has a price range of $50-$130

One Winter in Eden, First Edition / Raymond Bayless

One Winter in Eden
Arkham House, 1984
Black cloth boards with gold lettering; green endpapers [3596 copies printed]
"First Edition"
Price Range: $25-$50

PKD is Dead, Alas, First British Edition / Luis Rey

Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas [First British, first paperback, and first with author's preferred title] (also see The Secret Ascension)
Grafton, 1987
Pictorial wrappers
No edition statement
Price Range: $10-$20

The Quickening, 1st Edition

The Quickening
Pulphouse Publishing, 1991
Pictorial wrappers
No edition statement
Price Range: $4-$6

A Reverie for Mister Ray, First Edition / Jamie Bishop

A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction
PS Publishing, 2005
Variant One: Brown cloth boards with gold lettering; tipped in numbered page signed by the author, editor and introducer; brown ribbon bookmark; slipcased in matching brown cloth covered box [200 copies]
Variant Two: Brown cloth boards with gold lettering; tipped in numbered page signed by the author [500 copies]
"Published in April 2005 by PS Publishing LLP"
Note: Both variants have a wraparound dustjacket
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $90 / Variant Two: $50

The Secret Ascension, First Edition / Carol Russo

The Secret Ascension
Tor, 1987
Maroon cloth boards with silver lettering
"First printing: November 1987
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $20-$45
Note: The second printing of this edition has a price range of $10-$20

[Signed / inscribed copies available from the author]
Stolen Faces, First Edition / Jonathan Weld

Stolen Faces
Harper & Row, 1977
Light brown paper boards and dark brown cloth spine with gold lettering
"First Edition
77 78 79 80 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Price Range: $15-$35

Time Pieces, First Edition / Jamie Bishop

Time Pieces
Edgewood Press, 1998
Pictorial wrappers
No edition statement
Price Range: $12-$15

Transfigurations, First Edition / Mike Hinge

Transfigurations
Berkley/Putnam, 1979
Blue cloth boards with gold lettering
No edition statement
Price Range: $25-$45

Under Heaven's Bridge, First Edition

Under Heaven's Bridge
Gollancz, 1980
Blue cloth boards with gold lettering
Price Range: $75-$150
Note: First US edition was published in paperback by Ace, 1982 ($4-$7)

Unicorn Mountain, First Edition / Bryn Barnard

Unicorn Mountain
Arbor House, 1988
Dark pink paper boards and maroon cloth spine with gold lettering; light pink endpapers
"First Edition
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
Price Range: $20-$35
Note: The second printing of this edition has a price range of $10-$20

Who Made Stevie Crye, First Edition / Glennray Tutor

Who Made Stevie Crye?
Arkham House, 1984
Black cloth boards with gold lettering; light green endpapers
"First Edition"
Price Range: $20-$45
Note: This edition was reprinted in softcover by Headline, 1987 ($8-$10)

Windows & Mirrors

Windows & Mirrors
The Moravian Press, 1977
Green wrappers; hand-set on laid paper
"Issued in an edition of 150 copies, numbered 1-100; A-E; & i-xlv.  It was printed during the summer of 1977, after which the type was distributed."
Price Range: $40-$60

Within the Walls of Tyre, First Edition

Within the Walls of Tyre
Kerosina Books, 1989
Variant One: Red cloth boards with gold lettering and illustration; boxed in matching red cloth covered box with Variant One of A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire [300 copies]
Variant Two: Brown wrappers (textured card covers) with black lettering and illustration; perfect-bound [350 copies]
"FIRST EDITION"
Price Ranges:
Variant One: $60-$100 / Variant Two: $8-$15

Would It Kill You to Smile?, 1st Edition / David Turner]

Would It Kill You to Smile?
Longstreet Press, 1998
Black paper boards with purple lettering
"1st printing 1998"
Price Range: $7-$35

[Signed / inscribed copies available from half-of-the-author]

 



Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins