ASIMOV'S (CONNIE WILLIS; WALTER JON WILLIAMS; KIM STANLEY ROBINSON; GARDNER DOZOIS; RICHARD WADHOLM; MIKE RESNICK; TONY DANIEL; NELSON BOND; MICHAEL SWANWICK)

Asimov's Science Fiction: October, Oct. / November, Nov. 1999

NY, Dell Magazines. 1999. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 10 (whole no. 285). Cover art by Jim Burns. Includes "The Winds of Marble Arch" (novella) by Connie Willis; "Argonautica" (novella) by Walter Jon Williams; "A Martian Romance" (novelette) by Kim Stanley Robinson; "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (novelette) by Gardner Dozois; "Green Tea" (novelette) by Richard Wadholm; "Hothouse Flowers" by Mike Resnick; "In from the Commons" by Tony Daniel; "Proof of the Pudding" by Nelson Bond; "Riding the Giganotosaur" by Michael Swanwick. Poetry: "When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body" by Laurel Winter; "The Dream Wave of John Scott Russell" by Howard V. Hendrix; "Down in Your Bones Only You Alone Know", "Beware the Werecanaryl", "Another Short Horror Story", & "Curse of the Reaper's Wife" by Bruce Boston. Departments: "Reflections: Autographs" by Robert Silverberg; "Guest Editorial: Survival, A Brief Reflection on a Life in Science Fiction" by Jack Williamson; "On Books: Closure" by Norman Spinrad; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss. Ilustrated by Alan Giana, Laurie Harden, Mark Evans, David Beck, Shirley Chan, and Daryll Elliott. Label pulls; creasingl; minor soiling. Good+ to Very Good-.

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[DEFOE, Daniel (1660-1731); BOND, William (c. 1675-1735)]

The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman, Who Tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes Down Any Stranger's Name at First Sight: With Their Future Contingencies of Fortune. Now Living in Exeter-Court over-Against the Savoy in the Strand

London, printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy without Temple Bar, W. Meadows in Cornhill, A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row, W. Lewis in Covent Garden, and W. Graves in St. James's Street, 1720. Paneled Calf. First Edition of this purported autobiography of the notorous London fraud, a deaf and mute fortune teller, once thought to be by Defoe (Moore) but more often attributed to William Bond, a Grub Street writer. 8vo (191 x 116mm): xix,[5],320pp, with copper-engraved engraved frontispiece portrait (signed "Hill pinx. Price sculp') and three plates, including a sign language chart. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf, book plate of Thomas Symonds of Pengethly, presumably Thomas Powell Symonds (1762-1819), member of Parliament, or a descendant. A superb survival, tightly bound and free of foxing, clean and bright throughout (quires O and P lightly toned), with rich impressions of the plates. Furbank & Owens 432. Moore 432. McBurney 111. Subsequent editions appeared later in 1720 and in 1728, 1732, and 1739. The text describes Campbell's supposed remarkable feats, and includes discussions of sign language, second sight, and the existence of spirits. William Bond, according to ODNB, "lodged for a while with the deaf mute fortune-teller Duncan Campbell (d. 1730) and wrote the well-known anonymous Life of Campbell (1720). Reissued as The Supernatural Philosopher, in 1728, under Bond's name." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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