Research Guides: SciFi BLAST-OFF 2023: Science Fiction Special Collections

Rare Science Fiction Books @ UNM

Tribal Force by Jon Proudstar
Call Number: PN6727.P768 T75 2016 c.1
Publication Date: 2016
"America's first all Indian Super Hero comic"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1308 A1 1889b c.1
Publication Date: 1889
First edition
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
Call Number: PR5774 .F5 1901 c.1
Publication Date: 1901
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells
Call Number: PR5774 C6 1915 c.1
Publication Date: 1915
The Vanguard of Venus by Landell Bartlett
Call Number: PS3503 A7265 V3 c.1
Publication Date: 1928
Millennium 1 by W. A. Dwiggins
Call Number: PS3507 W5 M5 c.1
Publication Date: 1945
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal, and of the new isle called Utopia by Thomas More
Call Number: HX811 1516 M61x 1808 c.1
Publication Date: 1808
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Call Number: PS2605 .W67 v.9 c.1
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9
Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. by Jonathan Swift
Call Number: PR3724 .G7 1726 (vols 1 and 2)
Publication Date: 1726
First edition of Gulliver’s Travels
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Call Number: PR6015.I53 L6 1933 c.1
Publication Date: 1933
The steam man of the plains, or, The terror of the West by Harry Eaton
Call Number: PS374 D5 F55 v.1 no.541 c.1
Publication Date: 1883
The Aztec treasure-house: a romance of contemporaneous antiquity by Thomas A Janvier, illustrated by Frederic Remington
Call Number: PS2129 J5 A98 1890 c.1
Publication Date: 1890

Seder Dime Novel Collection

ca. 1879-1912, MSS 312 BC.

Collection of more than 2,000 dime novels, including fantasy and science fiction. Includes titles such as “Jack Wright and His Deep Sea Monster”, “The Seven Headed Monster” and “Madge Morle's Ghost”.

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Day Science Fiction Collection

1926-1950, MSS 318 BC.

This collection includes Donald B. Day's personal collection of science fiction magazines published in the United States (as well as some from England) from 1926 to 1950.

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First Issue Periodicals Collection

MSS 148 BC

Includes early periodicals on astrology, hypnosis, metaphysics.

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