Science Fiction & Fantasy

In the antiquarian book trade, science fiction and fantasy form a territory of anticipation and imagination where first editions, pioneering periodicals, visionary illustrations and authors’ correspondence converge — authors who, ahead of their time, divined the worlds to come or peopled the reverse side of reality.

The bibliophilic interest here often lies in the original print run, the rarity of first publications in periodical or volume form, and the illustrations accompanying these texts, whose narrative invention sometimes precedes by several decades the realities it foretells.