SF Bookworm: Collecting Science Fiction Books

This from the official Donald M. Grant Publisher Newsletter:
Donald Metcalf Grant died August 19, 2009 in North Port, Florida. He was 82 years old.
Don founded DONALD M. GRANT, PUBLISHER in 1964. For many years he operated it from his home in West Kingston, Rhode Island. I became his partner in 1981.
In 1945, when Don was [...]

The late 1940s and early 1050s saw the rapid decline of the old pulp magazines. Formerly the largest outlet by far for short fiction, these cheaply produced magazines suffered from the paper shortages of the Second World War era becoming increasingly more expensive to produce. Many publishers began either to close their doors outright or [...]

A noteworthy update to my recent discussion on Fantasy Press was kindly provided by Fred Reynolds. It’s an amazing six-volume boxed set of E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books titled The History of Civilization. Limited to only 75 copies, the set includes Triplantary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, and Children of [...]

Fantasy Press was one of the very earliest of the small presses specializing in the science fiction genre. Created in 1946 by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Fantasy Press specialized in reprinting novels and short stories originally published in the early pulp magazines. Many of these were the first hardcover printings of works by A. E. [...]