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An Infinite Summer: Available Copies

First US edition. eu.

A former college library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

Readers Union edition, published in same year as the UK 1st Edition from Faber. A very respectable copy of this 208pp collection of 5 stories with a 3pp introduction by the author. The interior is unmarked and there is no wear to binding. Just light age-tanning to text block edges. The blue cloth boards have a trace of wear to front top corner tip else pleasing all round. The dust wrapper has some browning to surfaces and only light hints of surface wear - overall highly presentable/Very Good+. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.

Small octavo hardcover with green boards; 208 pp.; gilt title to spine. Tight binding, clean throughout. Light edge wear; previous owner's name to FFEP. Very Good. DJ: Jacket in Mylar. Small 3/4 inch sticker ghost on Mylar of front wrap and head of spine. Very Good.

Signed by Author(s). The book has light soiling to the edges of the page block. The dust jacket has light wear, soiling to the white back ground and is unclipped ($8.95).1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 number line. Signed by the author on the title page.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Priest. The author's second collection of short fiction, including two Hugo nominees. "Five delicate sf/fantasy stories about time and perception. Most notable are the title piece, 'Palely Loitering' and 'The Watched.' Priest is not really a stylist, but these tales are poetically conceived: he manages to evoke a curious, haunting atmosphere by dogged attention to detail and his characters' unusual states of mind." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 186. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-880. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168657)

Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Priest to "David" on the title page. The author's second collection of short fiction, including two Hugo nominees. "Five delicate sf/fantasy stories about time and perception. Most notable are the title piece, 'Palely Loitering' and 'The Watched.' Priest is not really a stylist, but these tales are poetically conceived: he manages to evoke a curious, haunting atmosphere by dogged attention to detail and his characters' unusual states of mind." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 186. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-880. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#153968)

Octavo, boards. Signed on the title page by Priest. The author's second collection of short fiction, including two Hugo nominees. "Five delicate sf/fantasy stories about time and perception. Most notable are the title piece, 'Palely Loitering' and 'The Watched.' Priest is not really a stylist, but these tales are poetically conceived: he manages to evoke a curious, haunting atmosphere by dogged attention to detail and his characters' unusual states of mind." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 186. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-880]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168657) (29480)

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Signed by Priest, and with an autograph letter signed by Priest to John Fowles laid in, saying Faber was intending to send him a copy but Priest feared it would be misconstrued as a review solicitation, given the strong review Fowles had given a previous book [A Dream of Wessex], so Priest was sending a copy along himself so that it be received only as "inadequate appreciation for a lot of kind encouragement. You do not even have to read it! (However, if you have the time to glance through "The Negation" you might discover a fingerprint I put in for you.)" One may infer Priest means a metaphorical fingerprint, as no actual fingerprint is in evidence. An Infinite Summer is a collection of stories, including the first of his stories to feature the Dream Archipelago, which appears in a number of his works. Priest won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Science Fiction Association's award for Best Novel four times. The book is fine in a fine dust jacket, with Fowles' blindstamp on the front flyleaf; the letter is folded to fit in the book, else fine. Fowles, in his A Dream of Wessex review, had called Priest "one of our most gifted young writers of science fiction.I think not only H.G. Wells but Thomas Hardy himself would have enjoyed and approved of it." A nice literary association copy. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

London, Faber, 1979. First Edition. First Impression. Manuscript of Priest's novelette, gathered together in An Infinite Summer (for which the proof is included). 31 typed sheets. The story was first anthologised in Andromeda 1 in 1976, and subsequently in Trips in Time (Silverberg, 1977) and The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 (Carr, 1977). This is the author's top-copy fair-copy of the manuscript, with a handful of minor corrections. Comparison to the proof shows considerable alterations. Manuscript in very good condition, coffee stain to first sheet, general edgewear and some markings from staples and paperclip. Proof is in good condition with some splitting at the spine and a little foxing. General wear. [5969, Hyraxia Books].