First editions, signed copies, and rare variants in dystopian and speculative fiction. A collection assembled over years of carefully and obsessively seeking the literature of the inevitable.
I’ve been collecting first editions in dystopian and speculative fiction for years now. These books are not investments. They are a way of seeing, or at least trying to. A private record of literature that imagined the world we seem to inhabit.
Read the collecting statement →- 1826 The Last Man — Mary Shelley
- 1871 The Coming Race — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- 1872 Erewhon: or, Over the Range — Samuel Butler
- 1895 The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
- 1918 What Not: A Prophetic Comedy — Rose Macaulay
- 1924 We — Eugene Zamiatin
- 1930 The Castle — Franz Kafka
- 1932 Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- 1937 Swastika Night — Murray Constantine
- 1937 The Trial — Franz Kafka
- 1938 Anthem — Ayn Rand
- 1939 The Death Guard — Philip George Chadwick
- 1940 Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
- 1945 Animal Farm — George Orwell
- 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
- 1952 Player Piano — Kurt Vonnegut
- 1953 Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
- 1954 Lord of the Flies — William Golding
- 1960 A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr.
- 1962 A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
- 1962 The Drowned World — J. G. Ballard
- 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
- 1975 High-Rise — J. G. Ballard
- 1977 A Scanner Darkly — Philip K. Dick
- 1984 Neuromancer — William Gibson
One novel seen through every possible lens. The most personal book Dick ever wrote, reimagined by various artists who each saw something distinct in the darkness.
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Philip George Chadwick’s The Death Guard (1939)
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