Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books and issued many of the best known science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn.
Title: Speed Demon Author: Jim Bosworth Imprint & Number: Ace D-267 Cover price: .35 Publication date: 1958 Cover artist: uncredited A paperback original first edition. From the back cover: What was it in auto racing that Martin Janis was looking … Continue reading
Enigma From Tantalus This Million-Headed Monster Had A Single-Minded Mission Originally serialized in the October & November, 1964 issues of Amazing Stories. The Repairmen Of The Cyclops The Body-Snatchers From Beyond Originally serialized in the January & February, 1965 issues … Continue reading
Carson Napier, Earth’s first astronaut, found more trouble than he’d bargained for when he helped Duare, princess of Vepaja, escape her captors on the unmapped, cloud-shrouded planet of Venus. They found Mypos, the country of the amphibians; they found the … Continue reading
A Yank At Valhalla Only A Mortal Could Escape The Twilight Of The Gods! While on an Arctic expedition, a pilot discovers beings of Norse mythology aren’t mythological at all. A paperback original first edition by Hamilton, originally … Continue reading
Great Stories of interplanetary adventure The millions of readers who have discovered in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs the fascination of sword-and-wonder adventures on distant planets among exotic peoples have called forth an insistent demand for more! It is … Continue reading
In 1954 in New York City, Harlan Ellison gave himself a pseudonym and joined a Brooklyn street gang called the Barons. This is the story of what happened. You might think that the most important character of the novel would … Continue reading
The Communipaths by Suzette Haden Elgin. Cover by Josh Kirby. First in the Coyote Jones series. Author’s first novel. The Noblest Experiment In The Galaxy by Louis Trimble. Cover by Jack Gaughan.
The finest stories from a whole year of the foremost fantasy magazine in the world. Cover by Panos Koutrouboussis. A paperback original first edition. Edited by Edward L Ferman. Contributors include Isaac Asimov Fritz Leiber Roger Zelazny Richard Wilson Zenna … Continue reading
Crime d’Amour French Masterpiece Of “Sensual Jealousy” Germinie Called the “real origin” of Zola’s NANA *Get it at Amazon.com* Title: Crime d’Amour / Germinie Author: Paul Bourget / Edmond & Jules De Goncourt Imprint & Number: Ace D-16 Cover price: … Continue reading
Dr. Futurity Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an … Continue reading
