Collection: All Books

First edition of the debut book by American writer Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019), a collection of short fiction blending formal experimentation with science-fiction and feminist themes. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First edition (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. Tan textured-paper boards backed with olive... More

A lightning bolt of feminist rage and a subversive riposte to the intellectual and social misogyny of the 1960s; here in its first UK edition. Somewhat more uncommon than the 1968 American first, whose Paul Krassner commentary is here replaced with an introduction by Vivian... More

First edition of the American science fiction writer's second book, a collection of short stories. With an introduction by Robert Silverberg, who opines at length as to Tiptree's identity, never suspecting that it was in fact the pen-name of a woman writer. NY: Ballantine Books,... More

Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix + 359pp, indexed. Full purple cloth, no jacket, presumably as issued. Some faint yellowish discolorations near base of rear board, splash mark to base of textblock, with some related (fairly minor) moisture-wavering to a handful... More

First edition of this landmark work of feminist and utopian science fiction, a novel frequently credited as one of the key influences for the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo (6 x 8.5 in.); 369pp.; black boards backed with red... More

A signed and inscribed copy of this fiercely feminist artist's book, which articulates, through a series of black-and-white images, a critical stance towards the "subordinate and unclarified" portrayal of women's genitalia in art from classical to contemporary times. Santoro's book generated some controvery when it... More

First edition of this landmark work of lesbian separatism: a collection of essays, many adapted/reprinted from Johnston's Village Voice column. First printing. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in.); 283pp., with bibliography; green cloth boards, stamped in silver on front board and spine. Light sunfading to cloth... More

NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. First printing, with full number line present on copyright page. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in. 410pp. Black cloth boards, gold spine lettering; in first-state dust jacket (see below for full explication). Scuffing and some light scratches to boards. Minor... More