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    1984: Selected Letters by Samuel R. Delany (Voyant Publishing, June 2000, 0-9665998-1-0, $17.95, 351pp, tp, nf)
        Non-fiction collection of 57 letters and documents from the year 1984, a combination of autobiographical portrait and picture of the times in the early years of AIDS. There is a fair amount of material on SF publishing and portraits of several SF writers. Introduction by Kenneth R. James.




    The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—Angouleme by Samuel R. Delany (Dragon Press, August 1978, $12.50, v+243pp, hc, nf)
        Book-length study of Disch’s short story.



    Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R. Delany (Incunabula, June 1995, 0-9633637-4-3, $60.00, 219pp, hc, co, cover: The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, 1920-22: The White Way I by Joseph Stella)
        Collection of three stories, plus “Microflorilegium”, a selection (exclusive to this edition) of excerpts from the author’s correspondence and early drafts. A signed, limited edition of 334.





    Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel R. Delany (Juno, March 1999, 1-89045-102-9, $14.99, 58pp, tp, n., cover by Mia Wolff)
        Autobiographical erotic graphic novel about the gay relationship between a professor and a homeless man selling books on the street. Illustrated by Mia Wolff. Introduction by Alan Moore.


    The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel R. Delany (Arbor House, November 1987, 0-87795-931-5, $17.95, 310pp, hc, co) [Nevèrÿon]
        Collection of 2 original stories and one extensively revised piece, in the “Nevèrÿon” fantasy series, plus an appendix by the author’s alter ego, K. Leslie Steiner.





    Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany (Carroll & Graf, May 2007, 978-0-78671-947-1, $15.95, 295pp, tp, n.)
        Novel about the life of a gay African-American poet in New York City.









    Equinox by Samuel R. Delany (Masquerade/Rhinoceros, January 1994, 1-56333-157-8, $6.95, 174pp, pb, n., cover by Kurt Griffith)
        Reprint (Lancer 1973 as Tides of Lust) erotic novel, with Delany’s original title restored, textual corrections, and a new bibliographical note.



    Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany (Bantam, May 1985, 0-553-24856-1, $3.95, 385pp, pb, oc) [Nevèrÿon]
        Fantasy novel—or collection of related pieces; conclusion of the “Nevèrÿon” trilogy.




    from Phallos by Samuel R. Delany (Voyant Publishing, 2000, no ISBN, 48pp, ph, na)
        Mock academic study of nonexistent 1969 Essex House paperback called Phallos by Delany despite the absence of any such book. Distributed free with 1984.


    Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love by Samuel R. Delany (Bantam, September 1979, 0-553-12796-9, $1.95, xi+128pp, pb, nf)
        Memoir of the time Delany spent living in a commune in New York City during the winter of 1967-1968.


    Hogg by Samuel R. Delany (Black Ice Books, March 1995, 0-932511-91-0, $24.95, 219pp, hc, n., cover by Dave LaFleur)
        Associational pornographic novel. Previously considered “unpublishable” due to its “vivid portrait of the profane.”


    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969 by Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press, February 2017, 978-0-8195-7089-5, $40.00, 660pp, hc, nf)
        Non-fiction, biographical/critical. Twelve years of journals cover a period from Delany’s high school days to his years in San Francisco. Edited and annotated by Kenneth R. James, who adds biographical synopses, story outlines, poetry, fragments of novels and essays, and more. This has two eight-page unpaginated sections, one with photos of Delany and one showing journal pages. An index is included.





    Longer Views by Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press, December 1996, 0-8195-6293-9, $22.00, 342pp, tp, oc)
        Non-fiction, criticism. A collection of six “Expanded Essays” (one as an appendix) mostly not directly about SF, three previously unpublished. A hardcover edition (-5281-X, $50.00) was announced.


    The Mad Man by Samuel R. Delany (Masquerade/Richard Kasak Books, June 1994, 1-56333-193-4, $23.95, 501pp, hc, n., cover by Mia Wolff)
        Psychological thriller about a graduate student researching the life of a murdered gay writer/philosopher qho gradually finds himself following the pattern of the dead man’s life.


    The Motion of Light in Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing: 1960-1965 (var. 1) by Samuel R. Delany (Paladin, May 31, 1990, 0-586-08910-1, £6.99, 581pp, tp, nf)
        Autobiography, greatly expanded and revised from the original (Arbor House, 1988) edition. This version also contains a 60-page written interview, “The Column at the Market’s Edge”, originally published in Camera Obscura.


    The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 by Samuel R. Delany (Arbor House, March 1988, 0-87795-947-1, $17.95, 302pp, hc, nf)
        Non-fiction, autobiography.


    Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities by Samuel R. Delany (Bantam Books, April 1983, 0-553-01434-X, $6.95, ix+385pp, pb, n.) [Nevèrÿon]
        Subtitled “Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, Part Four”.



    Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany (Sphere, September 1968, 28835, 5/-, 143pp, pb, n.) [Fall of the Towers]
        Reprint (Ace 1963 as Captives of the Flame) SF novel. This version is slightly expanded.


    Phallos by Samuel R. Delany (Bamberger Books, October 2004, 0-917453-41-7, $14.00, 95pp, tp, na, cover by John Del Gaizo & Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
        Reprint (Voyant Publishing 2000 as from Phallos) philosophical novella with homoerotic and fantasy elements, in the form of a modern critical essay looking at an anonymous gay porn novel about the search for an ancient deity’s jeweled phallus in ancient Rome. This version is slightly revised and expanded from the Voyant edition, which was itself much revised and expanded from a previous version appearing in the magazine Callaloo.


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