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CHECKLIST OF BOOKS BY AVRAM DAVIDSON

Latest revision : May 2023

Shelf of Books by Avram Davidson

NOVELS

Joyleg (with Ward Moore)
New York : Pyramid Books, 1962 (paperback F-805)
New York : Walker and Company, 1971
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1973 (Berkley Medallion paperback)
Mutiny in Space
New York : Pyramid Books, 1964 (paperback R-1069)
London and New York : White Lion Publishers, 1973
Masters of the Maze
New York : Pyramid, 1965 (paperback R-1208)
London and New York : White Lion Publishers, 1974
Rork!
New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965 (Berkley Medallion paperback F1146)
London : Rapp & Whiting, 1968
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1969
The Enemy of My Enemy
New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1966 (Berkley Medallion paperback X1341)
Rogue Dragon
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1965 (paperback F-353)
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1979 (reprinted with The Kar-Chee Reign)
The Kar-Chee Reign
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1966 (paperback double G-574, with Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin)
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1979 (reprinted with Rogue Dragon)
Clash of Star-Kings
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1966 (paperback double G-576, with Danger from Vega by John Rackham)
The Island Under the Earth
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1969 (paperback 37425)
The Phoenix and the Mirror
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969
Reviewed by Joanna Russ in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1970
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1970 (paperback 66100) (with added subtitle : or, The Enigmatic Speculum)
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1978 (paperback 66155)
London : Gollancz, 2013 (ISBN 13 978-0-575-13038-8) (Fantasy Masterworks series, with an introduction by Adam Roberts)
Peregrine : Primus
New York : Walker and Company, 1971
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1977 (paperback 65950)
Ursus of Ultima Thule
New York : Avon, 1973 (Avon Science Fiction paperback 17657)
Peregrine : Secundus
New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1981 (paperback)
Vergil in Averno
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987
Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly, November 28, 1986
Reviewed by Gregory Feeley in The Washington Post, 1987
Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (with Grania Davis)
[New York :] Baen, 1987 (paperback)
Reviewed in Booklist 04/15/88
The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil
A Short Novel by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
With introductions by Peter Beagle & Michael Swanwick
San Francisco : Tachyon Publications, 1998 (ISBN 0-9648320-9-7)
Reviewed by Henry Wessells in The Nutmeg Point District Mail, July 1998
The Scarlet Fig ; or, Slowly through a Land of Stone
Edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells
A Note on the Text by Henry Wessells. Afterword by Grania Davis.
London : The Rose Press, 2005 (ISBN 0-9548277-1-6)
Beer! Beer! Beer!
[Novato, California : Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing, 2021] (ISBN13 978-1-955676-02-1)
Pictorial wrappers with a cover drawing by Avi Katz.

ELLERY QUEEN NOVELS

Avram Davidson wrote these books from outlines prepared by Frederic Dannay.
Manuscripts were then revised by Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay.
And on the Eighth Day
New York : Random House, 1964
New York : Pocket Books, 1966 (paperback 50209)
New York : Harper Collins, 1994 (Perennial Library paperback, ISBN 0-06-97603-9)
The Fourth Side of the Triangle
New York : Random House, 1965
New York : Pocket Books, 1966 (paperback 50508)

COLLECTIONS & CHAPBOOKS

Crimes & Chaos
Evanston, Illinois : Regency Books, 1962 (paperback RB308)
Or All the Seas with Oysters
New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1962 (Berkley Medallion paperback F639)
London, New York, Sydney and Toronto : White Lion Publishers Limited, 1976
New York : Pocket Books, 1976 (paperback)
What Strange Stars and Skies
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1965 (paperback F-330)
Strange Seas and Shores
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971
New York : Ace Books, 1981 (paperback)
The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy
New York : Warner Books, 1975 (paperback 76-98)
World Fantasy Award Winner
Polly Charms, The Sleeping Woman
[Williamsburg, Virginia : The English Department of the College of William and Mary, 1977]
The Redward Edward Papers
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978
The Best of Avram Davidson
Edited by Michael Kurland
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979
Avram Davidson : Collected Fantasies
Edited by John W. Silbersack
New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1982 (paperback)
And Don't Forget the One Red Rose
Seattle : Dryad Press, 1986
Weird Tales, special Avram Davidson issue, no.293, Winter 1988-1989
Philadelphia : Terminus Publications, 1988
The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
Philadelphia : Owlswick Press, 1990 (ISBN 0913896-28-4)
Adventures in Unhistory : Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
Philadelphia : Owlswick Press, 1993 (ISBN 0913896-29-2)
Reviewed by Don Webb in The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1993
Discussed by Reno Odlin in The Antigonish Review, Number 93-94
New York : Tor Books, 2006 (ISBN 076530760-X)
The Avram Davidson Treasury : A Tribute Collection
Edited by Robert Silverberg and Grania Davis
New York : Tor, [October, 1998] (ISBN 0-312-86729-8). 447 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post, 11 October 1998
New York : Tor, [1999] (trade paperback, ISBN 0-312-86731-X)
[Novato, California : Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing, 2022] (trade paperback, ISBN13 978-1-955676-19-9) as : The Avram Davidson Treasury. [xii], 638, [14] pp.
The Investigations of Avram Davidson
Edited by Richard Lupoff & Grania Davis
New York : St. Martin's Press, [February, 1999] (ISBN 0-312-19931-7)
Avram Davidson : The Last Wizard with A Letter of Explanation
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number one
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 1999
The Beach at Rosarito. Being a Selection from the AdVenures in AutoBiography
Privately Printed, 2000
El Vilvoy de las Islas
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number two
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2000
With preface by Joanna Russ, introduction by Don Webb, and afterword by Gregory Feeley.
Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven : Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit
Edited by Jack Dann and Grania Davidson Davis
[Jerusalem and New York : ] Devora Publishing, October 2000 (ISBN 1-930143-10-9)
The Beasts of the Elysian Fields by Conrad Amber
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number three
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2001
The Other Nineteenth Century : A Story Collection by Avram Davidson. Containing
Startling Revelations of the Lives of Literary Persons ; also, Truthful Accounts of Living
Fossils, Montavarde's Camera, The Irradiodiffusion Machine, and El Vilvoy de las Islas ;
with Heinous Crimes, Noble Ladies in Adversity, Brilliant Detections, Imperial Eunuchs,
Political Machinations, etc., etc.
Edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells.
New York : Tor Books, 2001 (ISBN 0-312-84874-9)
New York : Tor Books, 2002 (trade paperback, ISBN 0-312-87492-8)
Reviewed by Paul Di Filippo in SciFi Weekly
Reviewed by Nick Gevers in Locus
Limekiller
Edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells.
Introductions by Lucius Shepard and Peter S. Beagle.
Baltimore : Old Earth Books, 2003 (ISBN 1-882968-28-3)
Reviewed by Jonathan Strahan in Locus, November 2003
The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number four
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, [8 May] 2013
At head of title : Adventures in Unhistory.
With a preface by Eileen Gunn.
Chance Meeting. Avram Davidson & Philip K. Dick
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number five
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, [9 July] 2018
Naples
Publications of the Avram Davidson Society : number six
[Passaggio Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli & Upper Montclair, New Jersey : ] The Nutmeg Point District Mail, [11 September] 2022
AD100. 100 years of Avram Davidson. 100 Unpublished or Uncollected Stories. Volume I [II].
[Or All the Seas With Oysters, 2023] (trade paperbacks: vol. I ISBN13 978-1-955676-37-9; vol. II ISBN13 978-1-955676-45-8). [xii], 635, [9]; [xii], 548, [8] pp.

ANTHOLOGIES edited by Avram Davidson

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Twelfth Series
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963
New York : Ace, 1966? (paperback G-611)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thirteenth Series
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964
New York : Ace, 1967 (paperback H-26)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourteenth Series
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965
Magic for Sale
New York : Ace Books, Inc., 1983 (paperback 51535)

Pseudonymous Works

Incest Street by Carlton G. Miller
[San Diego, Calif. : Publisher's Export Co., Inc., 1970]
Narcissus Novel (paperback N-187)

 

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