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Fun with Your New Head: Available Copies

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1

DJ is in very good condition. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Later printing. Foxing in hinges, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good dustwrapper with spine tanned.

This is a fine first Signet paperback copy T4913, first printing Feb 1972, white spine. Looks like an unread copy.

Octavo, cloth. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). Collects seventeen stories. Collects seventeen stories. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186. Remainder spray to bottom edge, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (15569)

First U.S. edition, first printing. Faint traces of stain to lower edges of covers, glue-reaction darkening at inner hinges, else fresh, fine, in beige cloth with black stamping; in a lightly worn, mildly age-toned, near fine dust jacket, also showing dots of remainder spray to lower edges. Collection of seventeen short stories originally published as UNDER COMPULSION by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1968. "His originality of theme and intensity of language are a delight to jaded palates."--Edmund Cooper. Jacket collage by Anita Siegel.

Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). "Seventeen sly, highly intelligent SF and fantasy stories by an extremely talented young writer (only 28 at the time of this book's publication). Standouts include 'The Roaches,' about a woman's perfect horror of cockroaches, and 'Casablanca,' about the fate of American tourists in North Africa when World War III breaks out." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 394. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2059-60. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-344. Mild tanning along gutters of endpapers, else a fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with touch of wear at upper spine end and some tanning spine panel and along flap folds, mostly internal. (#169166)

1st US edition. 1st printing. NF-/NF-.

BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age, Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Collection of Short Stories. BOOK NUMBER: 3263. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Diane Galef. CONTENTS: The Roaches; Come to Venus Melancholy; Linda and Daniel and Spike; Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit; Descending; Nada; Now Is Forever; The Contest; The Empty Room; The Squirrel Cage; The Number You Have Reached; 1-A; Fun With Your New Head; The City of Penetrating Light; Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism; Thesis on Social Forms and Social Controls in the U.S.A.; Casablanca. SYNOPSIS: This exceptional collection of short stories should positively establish the reputation of its young author as one of the finest science fiction writers of today. These highly imaginative stories are a joy for both the science fiction buff and the connoisseur of flawless craftsmanship, memorable characters and the unexpected in the short story. Ordinary and oftentimes hackneyed ideas and subjects are expanded and embellished into unforgettable tales of wit, suspense and at times frightening gloom. The young man in Descending is a modern Sisyphus caught on an unending escalator. Fun With Your New Head is merely an advertisement, but one as frightening as it is amusing. The ugly little cockroach becomes a devastating creature in The Roaches. In Come to Venus Melancholy and Nada, alien life take on freakish and tragic aspects. Twelve stories complete this anthology and not one of them is below the standard of excellence Mr. Disch seems to have set for himself in his art. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good or Better hardcover with good dust jacket, book club edition, ex library book with stamp and protective sleeve, 8vo, 216 pages

Very mild shelfwear. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!

FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. BOOK HAS REMAINDER SPRAY ON THE BOTTOM EDGE. D.J. HAS A SHORT TEAR WITH SURFACE LOSS AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL. A NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Book is slightly dampened on back end sheets.

First Edition. First thus in hardcover. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows light tanning. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Bit of the inevitable darkening of endpapers in the gutters else fine in a fine dust wrapper, not remainder marked as often found.

Zustand: GUTER Zustand. Deutsch 109g

Zustand: GUTER Zustand. Deutsch 109g

New York, Doubleday, 1971. 8vo. Original pale cloth, titled in black to spine, with printed dust wrapper; pp. [viii], 207; very good, jacket a bit faded in places, signed by author to title page. First US Edition. A collection of short horror stories by Hugo Award winning author, poet and satirist Thomas M. Disch. Signed by author to title page.

Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Issued in Britain as UNDER COMPULSION (1968). "Seventeen sly, highly intelligent SF and fantasy stories by an extremely talented young writer (only 28 at the time of this book's publication). Standouts include 'The Roaches,' about a woman's perfect horror of cockroaches, and 'Casablanca,' about the fate of American tourists in North Africa when World War III breaks out." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 394. Includes "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." which portrays "schizophrenia as a form of social organization." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2059-60. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-344. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#62392)

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