Ensign’s Prize Sets and Books

Sets are numbered 2-26. THS kept #1 for historical purposes.  Sets contain 8 hardcover books recovered in the lawsuit. The novels Methuselah’s Children, Stranger in a Strange Land, Sixth Column; short story collections, The Green Hills of Earth, Lifeline, Menace from Earth, Ordeal in Space and the above mentioned The Notebooks of Lazarus Long. Methuselah’s Children is only available in a set.

Sets are offered for a donation of $425 plus $15 S&H.





 

Ordeal in Space (17 copies) $60.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled Amereon House, the publishing division of Amereon Ltd., PO Box 1200, Mattituck, NY. Covered in pale blue buckram (stiffened cloth).

  1. “The Black Pits of Luna”
  2. “ It’s Great To Be Back”
  3. “-We Also Walk Dogs”
  4. “Searchlight”
  5. “Ordeal in Space”
  6. “Logic of Empire”
  7. “If This Goes On-“




Life Line (19 copies) $60.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled Aeonian Press, PO Box 1200, Mattituck NY. Covered in light gray buckram

  1. “ Introduction by [unnamed]” (Damon Knight, from The Past Through Tomorrow)
  2. “Life-line”
  3. “The Roads Must Roll”
  4. “Blowups Happen”
  5. “The Man Who Sold the Moon
  6. “Delilah and the Space-Rigger”
  7. “Space Jockey”
  8. “Requiem”
  9. “The Long Watch”
  10. “Gentleman, Be Seated”




Sixth Column (30 copies) $60.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled Amereon House, the publishing division of Amereon, Ltd., PO Box 1200, Mattituck, NY.  Cover is bright red buckram.





The Green Hills of Earth (37 copies) $60.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled Rivercity Press, a division of the American Reprint Company, Republished 1978, by special arrangement with Gnome Press, Mattituck, NY. Cover in green buckram.

Stories included are:

  1. “Delilah and the Space-Rigger”
  2. “Space Jockey”
  3. “The Long Watch”
  4. “Gentleman, Be Seated”
  5. “The Black Pits of Luna”
  6. “It’s Great To Be Back”
  7. “–We Also Walk Dogs”
  8. “Ordeal in Space”
  9. “The Green Hills of Earth”
  10. “Logic of Empire”




The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (42 copies) $75.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled 1973 ed. D.F. Vassallo lettering, Amereon House, the publishing division of Amereon Ltd., PO Box 1200, Mattituck, NY. Covered in yellow buckram. Fugitive ink on some copies. Books were stored stacked together and you may find faint imprint of cover on the back on your copy.





The Menace From Earth (110 copies) $60.00 donation plus $6.00 S&H

Labeled republished 1976 by arrangement with Gnome Press, Inc. and Aeonian Press, PO Box 1200, Mattituck, NY. Covered in dark brown buckram.

  1. “The Year of the Jackpot”
  2. “By His Bootstraps”
  3. “Columbus Was a Dope”
  4. “The Menace From Earth”
  5. “Sky Lift”
  6. “Goldfish Bowl”
  7. “Project Nightmare”
  8. “Water is for Washing”