Mark V. Ziesing

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Mark V. Ziesing is a small press publisher and bookseller. Active in publishing from the mid-1980s into the late 1990s, Ziesing specialized in science fiction, horror, and other forms of speculative fiction. Originally based in Willimantic, Connecticut and in partnership with his brother, he published two books by Gene Wolfe under the Ziesing Brothers imprint. He later published books by Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Howard Waldrop, Bruce Sterling, and Lucius Shepard, among others. In 1989 he returned to his home state and was based in Shingletown, California.

[edit] Publications

Unless specified, all editions are hardcover and first publications. For most there was also a signed, numbered, limited edition in a slipcase, and for a very few there was an "ultra-limited" version: The Night of the Cooters ultra-limited came with a martin base statue to hold the book, and the Mefisto in Onyx ultra-limited included an actual cage for the book.

• 1982/??: Gene Wolfe - The Castle of the Otter (nonfiction collection) [Ziesing Brothers]
• 1984/01: Gene Wolfe - The Wolfe Archipelago (novella collection) [Ziesing Brothers]
• 1984/06: Philip K. Dick - The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (hardback and trade paperback)
• 1984/12: Gene Wolfe - Free Live Free
• 1985/01: A. A. Attanasio - Beastmarks (story collection)
• 1985/09: Ian Watson - The Book of Ian Watson (story collection)
• 1986/02: Philip K. Dick - The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (softcover reprint)
• 1986/??: Michael Bishop - To a Chimp Held Captive For Purposes of Research (reprint; poem broadside; illustrated by J. K. Potter)
• 1988/02: Thomas M. Disch - The Silver Pillow (novelette; soft- and hardcover editions)
• 1988/04: Lucius Shepard - The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter (novella)
• 1988/10: James P. Blaylock - The Last Coin (signed/limited edition only; precedes the trade edition)
• 1988/12: Philip K. Dick - The Dark Haired Girl (collection of previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction)
• 1989/04: Howard Waldrop - A Dozen Tough Jobs (novella)
• 1989/04: Howard Waldrop - Them Bones (reprint; first hardcover; the limited edition of this and A Dozen Tough Jobs were sold as a slipcased set)
• 1989/05: Ian M. Banks - The State of the Art (novella)
• 1989/07: John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, editors - The Book of the Dead (anthology)
• 1989/09: Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates (reprint; first US hardcover) [first book published in Shingletown]
• 1989/12: Joe R. Lansdale - By Bizarre Hands (story collection)
• 1989/12: Journal Wired (trade paperback magazine)
• 1990/02: Ray Garton - Trade Secrets
• 1990/05: Kim Stanley Robinson - A Short, Sharp Shock (novella)
• 1990/05: Journal Wired #2 (trade paperback magazine)
• 1990/07: Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season
• 1990/07: Joe R. Lansdale - Cold in July (reprint; first hardcover; the limited edition of this and Savage Season were sold as a slipcased set)
• 1990/08: Gardner Dozois, et. al. - Slow Dancing Through Time (collaborative story collection; co-published with Ursus Imprints)
• 1990/10: Journal Wired #3 (trade paperback magazine)
• 1990/12: Howard Waldrop - Night of the Cooters (story collection; co-published with Ursus Imprints)
• 1991/02: Neal Barrett, Jr. - The Hereafter Gang
• 1991/06: Richard T. Chizmar, editor - Cold Blooded (anthology)
• 1991/09: Ray Garton - Lot Lizards
• 1992/02: John Shirley - Wetbones
• 1992/04: Wayne Allen Sallee - The Holy Terror
• 1992/07: John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, editors - Still Dead (anthology)
• 1992/09: Bruce Sterling - Globalhead (story collection)
• 1993/02: Richard Laymon - Alarms
• 1993/04: Lucius Shepard - The Golden
• 1993/09: Pat Cadigan - Dirty Work (story collection)
• 1993/12: Harlan Ellison - Mefisto in Onyx (expanded reprint; novella)
• 1994/03: Harlan Ellison - Mefisto in Onyx (second printing with slight corrections)
• 1994/07: David J. Schow - Black Leather Required (story collection)
• 1994/07: Lucius Shepard - Sports & Music (chapbook; story collection)
• 1994/08: Stephen King - Insomnia (done in a signe dlimited and unsigned "gift" editions; the true first edition of this King novel, preceding the trade edition)
• 1994/12: Richard T. Chizmar, editor - The Earth Strikes Back (softcover; anthology)
• 1994/12: Connie Willis - Remake (novella)
• 1995/02: Michael Moorcock - Lunching With the Anti-Christ (related story collection)
• 1995/03: Nancy A. Collins - Walking Wolf
• 1996/03: Brian Stableford - The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
• 1996/11: John Shirley - Silicon Embrace
• 1996/11: Michael Whelan - Something in My Eye (art poster book, done in both hardcover and softcover editions)
• 1997/04: Harlan Ellison - Slippage (story collection)
• 1997/09: Kim Newman & Eugene Byrne - Back in the USSA (linked short story collection)
• 1998/05: John Shirley - Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side (softcover; story collection)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• A Handbook of American Prayer, a novella by Lucius Shepard, was originally scheduled for publication by Ziesing circa 1998, but was never published. A novel version appeared in 2004 from Four Walls Eight Windows.
• Alien Graffiti, a collection of selected nonfiction by Michael Bishop was originally scheduled for publication by Ziesing circa 1986/87. A nonfiction collection by Bishop from PS Publishing appeared in 2005 entitled A Reverie for Mister Ray.