Dozois SF&F Book Collection For Sale

Dozois Years Best SF 23rd coverGardner Dozois is downsizing and selling his book collection on Craigslist.

The listing reads:

Science Fiction & Fantasy books for sale. Personal Science Fiction & Fantasy collection of Philadelphia’s own 15 time Hugo award winner, Editor, and Science Fiction Writer Gardner Dozois. This collection was compiled over 40 years and contains more than 200 titles.

[Thanks to Soon Lee for the story.]

15 thoughts on “Dozois SF&F Book Collection For Sale

  1. Ack! Gargle-blargle, flail, tantrum, WAAAAH! If only I were rich. WANT.

    I weep bitter, bitter tears.

  2. I am with you mintwitch. I am desperately fighting the urge to click on the link and browse, browse, browse the day away.

  3. I am with you mintwitch. I am desperately fighting the urge to click on the link and browse, browse, browse the day away.

    As far as I can tell, there’s nothing in the link that isn’t in this description. Maybe I missed it, but I can’t see any description of what is actually in the lot to be sold other than “200 titles”.

  4. There is a bit more detail at Gardner’s Facebook page.

    Basically it’s estimated to be two hundred to three hundred books:

    “This is a collection of all the science fiction and fantasy anthologies, short-story collections, and novels I’ve managed to assemble over the last forty years (NOT copies of books that I’ve edited or written myself; other people’s books).”

    And in a recent update:

    “People have asked for a list of the book collection I’m selling (see below). I haven’t had time to put a complete list together yet, but it includes the Nebula Award volumes, the Hugo Award volumes, Best of the Year volumes by Terry Carr, Art Saha, Don Wollheim, David Hartwell, Ellen Datlow, Carr/Wollheim, the Treasury of SF, the SFWA Hall of Fame volumes, Best from F&SF, Best from Galaxy, Damon Knight’s Orbit, Terry Carr’s Universe, Robert Siverberg’s New Dimensions, Delany & Hacker’s Quark, and others, plus many individual anthologies by Damon Knight, Robert Silverberg, Ellen Datlow, Brian Aldiss, Jack Dann, David Hartwell, and many others. Plus short-story collections by James Tiptree, Jr., Cordwainer Smith, Damon Knight, Robert Silverberg, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson, Howard Waldrop, Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Egan, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Plus novels by Kage Baker, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, and many others. Plus a complete run of ASIMOV’S magazine from the years of my editorship, from the beginning of 1986 to the end of 2004.”

    I am saddened by the necessity, but it would be great if these books found a good home.

  5. Sigh. No inventory, or indication of signed or unsigned, but this

    Plus short-story collections by James Tiptree, Jr., Cordwainer Smith, Damon Knight, Robert Silverberg, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson, Howard Waldrop, Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Egan, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Plus novels by Kage Baker, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, and many others.

    would still be very very nice.

  6. I have more than 300 SFF books; I believe my brother has even more. I am not impressed by the Dozois collection.

  7. My thought: only 200? Maybe that’s what he is getting rid of. Keeping is another matter.
    I bought only one title at the recent Balticon. I realized I had more books in my house than were being offered for sale in the dealer’s room.. I have been downsizing for a while.

  8. I assume that many of the books are rarities now, especially the single-run collections.

    Part of my interest is in what books someone like Mr Dozois would have kept for 40 years. I mean, my basement/library is frankly ridiculous (I could open a fair sized bookstore), but that is because I find it nearly impossible to part with a book once acquired. I don’t even sell my ARCs-I’m just that OCD. I’m sure Mr Dozois has sold, traded, or given away more books than I will ever own.

  9. I’ll add here that I started to Goodwill many titles because I was given many by my parents (100 Star Trek novels, many best sellers and a lot of other material, including two sets of Encyclopedia Britanica) and duplicates and very rare books. I also wanted better access. And I don’t want the look of a hoarder.
    I guess Gardner doesn’t want to fall over a pile or have one fall on him.

  10. Update from Gardner’s Facebook:

    “I may have underestimated the size of the collection at 200. Somebody looked at it yesterday and guessed that it was closer to a thousand.”

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