Lloyd Currey
Lloyd Currey was born in
San Francisco, California on 26 September 1942. He
commenced working in the antiquarian book trade at
age fifteen as an employee of the late William P.
Wreden of Palo Alto, California. Lloyd worked for
Wreden from 1958 to 1965 while attending high
school in Palo Alto and San Jose State College in
San Jose, California. In 1965 he was hired by J. S.
Canner and Company, Boston, Massachusetts to manage
the literature department of their book division.
In 1967 Lloyd co-founded Literary Heritage of
Sharon, Massachusetts. In 1968 he established his
own antiquarian book business, L.W. Currey, Inc in
Mattapan, Massachusetts, moved to current location
in Elizabethtown, New York in summer 1969. Currey
is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers of
America, Inc. and a current member and past officer
of the Science Fiction Research
Association.
In 1973 L. W. Currey
co-founded, with David G. Hartwell, Dragon Press, a
science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing
company.
From 1975 to 1979 Currey was co-editor with David G. Hartwell of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series and the G. K. Hall Reference Publications in Science Fiction and from 1979 to 1984 was editor of G. K. Hall's Masters of Science Fiction Series.
In addition to his full-time operation of a mail order antiquarian bookstore, Currey has engaged in many research projects and written or edited a number of books. Book credits include:
A RESEARCH GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES FOR FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, compiled and edited by Marshall B. Tymn, Roger C. Schlobin and L. W. Currey. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. ix, 165pp.
INDEX TO STORIES IN THEMATIC ANTHOLOGIES OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by Marshall B. Tymn, Martin H. Greenberg, L. W. Currey and Joseph D. Olander. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., [1978]. xiii, 193pp.
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY AUTHORS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST PRINTINGS OF THEIR FICTION AND SELECTED NONFICTION by L. W. Currey with the editorial assistance of David G. Hartwell. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., [1979]. xxix, 571pp.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF YOSEMITE,
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HIGH SIERRA, AND THE BIG
TREES 1839-1900 by Lloyd W. Currey & Dennis G.
Kruska. Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop. Palo Alto:
William P. Wreden, 1992. 223pp.
Robert Eldridge
Robert Eldridge came to work for L. W. Currey Inc. in 2001
as a cataloguer and subsequently became involved in
additional aspects of the business.
Born in Boston in 1951, he graduated from California
State University Northridge with a major in English and minor in
Classics. He has been studying fantastic literature since the 1980s
and began dealing in it (as Eldritch Books) in the 1990s, transferring
his stock to LWC when he came to work here. In 2007 he co-edited and
-published a new expanded edition of Emma Frances Dawson’s
supernatural fiction (AN ITINERANT HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES.
Portland, Maine: Thomas Loring & Co., 2007. [lxiv], 266 pp.), for
which he wrote a lengthy introduction. He has contributed essays on
antiquarian supernatural fiction to The New York Review of Science
Fiction and Wormwood.
CONTACT US
P.O. Box 187 - 203 Water Street - Elizabethtown - NY 12932
Phone (518) 873-6477 - Fax (518) 873-9105
Email: lloyd@lwcurrey.com