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Fun with Your New Head: Available Copies

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.

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

Prompt Shipment, in Boxes, Tracking First Editions are First Printings. . Good or Better hardcover with good dust jacket, book club edition, ex library book with stamp and protective sleeve, 8vo, 216 pages

Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are clear from notations. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.7

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

Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

First US edition. A tight, square copy with light wear, slight discoloring of the end papers and a scuff on the front flyleaf. The dust jacket has some rubbing at the spine ends and light age-related darkening around the edges.

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)

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. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-186]. Remainder spray to bottom edge, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (15569)

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

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.

Signed by Thomas Disch at the title page. First American edition, remaindered, with remainder spray to bottom of textblock and affecting a thin margin along bottom edges of cloth. (Previously published in the UK with the title 'Under Compulsion'). First printing, with gutter code L51 on page 207 indicating a printing in December of 1970. Married to a SFBC dust jacket, with no price at top of front inner flap and the bottom of the front flap clipped, and '3263' code at bottom of the rear flap. Beige cloth with black spine titling, bumped to spine foot. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket scuffed, lightly toned, with light edgewear. Pages clean and unmarked.

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

First edition hardcover stated. Signed by Disch to the title page. Remainder spray, hint shelf bump. Tight and square, appears unread. The DJ in mylar is slightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

fine book, fine jacket, like new, remainder specals, signed inscribed,

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)