A short, one-page letter to Ward Botsford, a producer at Caedmon Records, transmitting the liner notes for the album, "The Mayors from Foundation Read by the Author" (Caedmon TC 1527, 1977). Asimov writes that he is delivering the text (not present) ahead of schedule and then concludes by reminding Botsford.....

Ray Bradbury was, above all, a short-story writer, and in the 1960s Playboy was one of his most lucrative publication venues, earning him $2,000 to $3,000 each time they published something (according to the US Census, the median family income in 1965 was $6,900). These letters, written to and from.....

First Edition. A collection of short stories that had mostly appeared in magazines, each presented with a short introduction written for this volume. In addition to a regular trade paperback issue, there were 300 hardcover copies and an issue of 50 leather-bound numbered copies. This set, assembled by the collector.....

First Edition. Lansdale's first hardcover book and something of a cult classic, published in the Double D Western series. Present here a photocopied typescript with corrections and queries from the copyeditor in various colors of pencil and Lansdale's handwritten responses in red ink. Accompanying the typescript is an explanation from.....

First Edition. The corrected typescript plus three editions of the book, the Bantam Books paperback original (1989), the Mark Zeising hardcover (1990), and the Mysterious Press paperback (1995). The typescript consists of 336 ribbon-copy sheets, with Wite-Out and handwritten corrections on most every page. The typescript pages are numbered to.....

First Edition. A short bibliography and short biography of Bernhardt Wall, a commercial artist who designed thousands of postcards and published limited edition books composed almost entirely of his own etchings. This is a much expanded (both in word-count and size) of a miniature book with a similar name published.....

The heavily revised manuscript of this novelization of three episodes of the animated Return to the Planet of the Apes TV series which ran on NBC for a few months in 1975. Rostler, Hugo Award-winning fan artist, found periodic work writing novelizations, including two tie-in books to the 1970s cartoon.....

This autograph was obtained by a young boy in the 1970s who shared a dermatologist with KISS drummer Peter Criss. The autograph reads, "KISS Peter Criss 3" (Criss usually adds his lucky number 3 to his signatures). The original recipient believes that Criss had to see a dermatologist because of.....

A short, 100-word review of Simon Ortiz's collection of short stories about Navajos and Okies in the Southwest, in both the original, handwritten version and a carbon-copy typescript. Both are signed by Clark. Clark (1941–2018) was the poetry editor of The Paris Review for most of the 1960s; he later.....

A 1-1/2-page manuscript document arranging the sale of the Road Estate (also known as the Road or Cades Bay Plantation) in Antigua for £6,200. This original document is signed by the seller, Valentine Morris, and the buyer, Dr. John Brooks. The Roads Plantation is not described in this document, but.....

Five notes from the Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale and winner of two Booker Prizes addressed to an autograph collector in France. 1) 24 November 1987. "Grimm's fairytales had an influence on me. Otherwise I am an eclectic reader and work my way through a variety of.....

The editor of the Nation responds to a reader who suggested articles on I. F. Stone and on the Sobel case (Morton Sobel was a Soviet spy during the Second World War; he was released from prison in 1969, two years after these letters were written). Both notes are on.....

A half-page typed letter addressed "Dear Robert" and signed "Wilbert Awdry" discussing Awdry's research in the archives of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ("B'ham & Glos. Rly"). "The Birmingham (Working) Committee Minutes are fascinating, full of almost day to day incidents in the running of the railway, and plenty about.....