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"Ingulphus" (Arthur Gray),: Tedious Brief Tales Of Granta And Gramarye. 22948
Ash-Tree Press. 2008.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Arthur Gray (1852 - 1940) was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1912 - 40, and it is Jesus College that acts as the backdrop for the series of stories collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye, many of which first appeared in The Cambridge Review. Here are gathered the true history of the godless and dissolute Everlasting Club, whose members swore to meet annually on All Souls' Day, be they alive or dead, until the ghastly events of their final meeting; the story of the alchemist Anthony Ffryar, last survivor of the plague of 1551; the mystery of the death in 1643 of the mathematician and alleged necromancer Thomas Allen (who may have doubled as the first Jesus College cat); the tale of the theologian Matthew Makepeace who, disappointed in his academic career, discovered in 1604 the secret of how to transfer his soul into the body of a promising undergraduate; and many more. First published in 1919, this new edition from Ash-Tree Press includes all of the illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales from the original edition, and also presents additional material, including two fascinating papers presented by Arthur Gray to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. New introduction by Rosemary Pardoe and Mark Valentine. 400 copies printed.
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Abe, Shana: The Dream Thief. 19455
Bantam Books: NY. 2006.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Shape-shifting fantasy novel.
''in the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drakon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn - changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear hypnotic songs of beauty and wonder. But there is one stone they fear....buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drakon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clan's Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift....Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamond - along with the fate of the drakon - rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds. Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through London's criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Lia's mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clan and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly. Zane's hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drakkon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumr and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zane's, to the one man capable of stealing her future and destroying her heart''.
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Abe, Shana: The Smoke Thief. 26590
Bantam Dell: NY. 2005.
First edition (& 1st printing).
The first book in the Drakon fantasy series.
''for centuries they've lived in secret among northern England's green and misted hills. Creatures of extraordinary beauty, power, and sensuality, they possess the ability to shape-shift from human to dragon and back again. Now their secret-and their survival-is threatened by a temptation that will break every boundary. Dubbed the Smoke Thief, a daring jewel thief is confounding the London police. His wealthy victims claim the master burglar can walk through walls and vanish into thin air. But Christoff, the charismatic Marquess of Langford, knows the truth: the thief is no ordinary human but a ''runner'' who's fled Darkfrith without permission. As Alpha leader of the draŽkon, it's Kit's duty to capture the fugitive before the secrets of the tribe are revealed to mortals. But not even Kit suspects that the Smoke Thief could be a woman. Clarissa Rue Hawthorne knew her dangerous exploits would attract the attention of the draŽkon. But she didn't expect Christoff himself to come to London, dangling the tribe's most valuable jewel-the Langford Diamond-as bait. For as long as she could remember, Rue had lived the life of a halfling-half draŽkon, half mortal-and an outcast in both worlds. She'd always loved the handsome and willful Kit from the only place it was safe: from afar. But now she was no longer the shy, timid girl she'd once been. She was the first woman capable of making the Turn in four generations. So why did she still feel the same dizzying sense of vulnerability whenever he was near? From the moment he saw her, Kit knew that the alluring and powerful beauty was every bit his Alpha equal and destined to be his bride. And by the harsh laws of the draŽkon, Rue knew that she was the property of the marquess. But they will risk banishment and worse for a chance at something greater. For now Rue is his prisoner, the diamond has disappeared, and she's made the kind of dangerous proposition a man like Kit cannot resist''.
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Aberly, Rachel: The Making Of Godzilla. 03536
HarperPrism: NY. 1998.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Oversize wraps.
128 pages, full colour throughout.
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Ableman, Paul: Vac. 16079
Victor Gollancz: London. 1968.
First edition (& 1st printing).
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Abner, Ken (ed.): Terminal Frights: Volume One. 00788
Terminal Fright Press: NY. 1997.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Original horror anthology of 22 stories: 342 pages.
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Abraham, Albert S.: Jack Jacobs And The Doomsday Time Machine. 11251
Rutledge Books: CT. 2003.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Juvenile sf novel. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Absire, Alain: Lazarus. 16083
Faber & Faber: London. 1985.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Translated from the French.
''what happened to Lazarus, once he was brought back from the dead by Jesus of Nazareth?''
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Acker, Kathy: Empire Of The Senseless. 16080
Picador: London. 1988.
First edition (& 1st printing).
BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
''which features the not-quite terminal coupling of fleshly beings and robots: her use of sf icons and decor in this book resembles that of William S. Burroughs, especially in the homage to cyberpunk it contains, conveyed by cut-ups of text by William Gibson.'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Ackroyd, Peter: First Light. 00262
Hamish Hamilton: London. 1989.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''is not the darkest of Peter Ackroyd's novels (Hawksmoor has that honor), but fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels, in a humorous suspense story as cleverly paced as a Hitchcock thriller. The story is that the excavation of a neolithic, astronomically aligned grave under the pastoral hills of Dorset, England, coincides with the startling reappearance of ancient stars (including H. P. Lovecraft's Aldebaran) in the night sky. A group of deliciously eccentric characters - archaeologists, astronomers, a stuffy civil servant, a stand-up comic, and vaguely menacing local villagers - converge at the site and collide with each other''.
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Ackroyd, Peter: Chatterton. 16085
Hamish Hamilton: London. 1987.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''in this remarkable detective novel Peter Ackroyd investigates the death of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century poet-forger and genius, who died at the tender age of eighteen under extremely strange circumstances. Fusing themes of illusion and imagination, delusion and dreams, the author weaves strands from three centuries. The cast is a motley crew of Dickensian eccentrics and rogues, from the outrageous, gin-sipping Harriet Scrope to the tragic Charles Wychwood, on a personal quest for Chatterton's deepest secrets. With his customary wit and attention to historical detail, Peter Ackroyd blends truth and fiction into a tantalizingly clever whodunit, an ingenious twist on the tale of English literature's greatest prodigy and most notorious ''suicide''''.
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AD ASTRA (UK sf mag),: Ad Astra 1-14. 09628
An incomplete run of the first 14 of the 16 issues published.
'' UK magazine, small-bedsheet format, 16 issues, bimonthly, Oct/Nov 1978-Sep/Oct 1981, only first 2 issues dated. Its subtitle, ''Britain's First ScienceFact/ScienceFiction Magazine'', contained the seeds of its eventual demise. It attempted to cover too many fields, most in no real depth. The fiction (about 2 stories an issue) -- mainly from UK authors, including John Brunner, Garry Kilworth, David Langford and Ian Watson -- was supplemented by a melange of film, book, games and theatre reviews, together with cartoon strips, sf news (from Langford), science articles, many about astronomy, and pseudo-science articles'' [Roger Robinson/Encyclopedia of SF].
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Adair, Gilbert: A Closed Book. 17835
Faber & Faber: London. 1999.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
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Adams, Fred C.: Procrustes. 19876
The Strange Company. 1985.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
Eight page prose poem. 200 copies printed.
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Adams, Richard: The Girl In A Swing. 05060
Allen Lane: London. 1980.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Supernatural/ghost novel. This copy is the 'suppressed' first edition with the main character called ''Kathe'' throughout the text: this edition was withdrawn before publication for legal reasons and the name changed to ''Karin'', though some copies got out into circulation.
''who is Karin, of no past, so vibrant, so beautiful? And what is to become of Alan Desland, the unworldly Englishman who falls under her spell? This is the haunted story of Alan's love for a woman beautiful and voluptuous beyond experience or even imagination, yet at the same time mysterious and disturbing as a pagan goddess. What darkness underlay the bliss and fear she inspired? Like a slowly intensifying August thunderstorm, the dark forces gather in a crescendo of terror''.
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Adams, Richard: Shardik. 24760
Simon & Schuster: NY. 1974.
First American edition (& 1st printing).
''the first of the Beklan Empire sequence - which comprises Shardik (1974) and Maia (1984) - followed. None of his subsequent work has enjoyed anything like the huge success of his first novel Watership Down, but his further accomplishments have been considerable. Shardik is set in a land -the Beklan Empire may be intended to represent a pre-Christian hegemony on Earth, but the geography is deliberately left so vague that the landscapes depicted could easily be understood as those of a secondary world - riven by cruelties and a bad war. Shardik himself - an enormous bear with paranormal powers - may be a messenger of God, or even a messiah-figure; but the cruel ambivalence of his behaviour makes him into a kind of black, worldly parody of figures like C.S. Lewis's Aslan. In Maia, set somewhat later in the same territory, the eponymous heroine, a slave girl profoundly attractive to almost everyone she meets, goes through a long sequence of adventures; the style of storytelling has been likened to that of Jane GASKELL's Atlan sequence, but the tale itself does not come to any transforming or catastrophic climax'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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Adams, Robert: The Death Of A Legend: The Horseclans #8. 03375
Macdonald: London. 1985.
First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Eighth volume in the Horseclans sf/fantasy series: first published by NAL as a p/b original in 1981.
''when the Witchmen caused the earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with thier lives. Driven by the flames into territory said to be peopled by monstrous half-humnas, Bili was forced to choose between braving the dangers of nature gone mad or fighting the savage natives on their own dround. But before he could decide, his troops were spotted by the beings who claimed this eerie land as their own and would use powerful spells of magic and illusion to send any intruders to their doom''.
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Adlard, Mark: Multiface. 01240
Sidgwick & Jackson: London. 1975.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Third volume in the author's sf trilogy, following Interface and Volteface.
''his knowledge of managerial and industrial problems plays a prominent role in his Tcity trilogy: Interface (1971), Volteface (1972) and Multiface (1975). The series is set in a city of the near future By calling it Tcity, the author plainly intended to confer on it a kind of regimented anonymity in the manner of Yevgeny Zamiatin; at the same time, he was probably making a pun on Teesside, the industrial conurbation in the northeast of England where he was raised (also, in some north-England dialects ''t'city'' means simply ''the city''). With a rich but sometimes sour irony, and a real if distanced sympathy for the problems and frustrations of both management and workers, the author plays a set of variations, often comic, on automation, hierarchical systems, the media landscape, revolution, the difficulties of coping with leisure, class distinction according to intelligence, fantasies of sex and the stultifying pressures of conformity. His books are ambitious in scope and deserve to be more widely known'' (Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Adlon, Arthur: The Lusting Three. 14962
Softcover Library: NY. 1968.
First edition?
Paperback original.
''the father, his son and his son's future wife - torrid mistress to both men''.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1998. 01059
Ash-Tree Press. 1998.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects six weird stories, ''Told in the Inn at Algeciras'' by William Somerset Maugham (1905), ''Post-Mortem'' by Arthur Ransome (1906), ''The Medium's End'' by Ford Madox Ford (1912), ''Exactly as it Happened'' by E. C. Bentley (1926), ''The Unpleasant Room'' by Hilaire Belloc (1928) and ''Ho! The Merry Masons'' by John Buchan (1933), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.. 500 copies printed.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1999. 01997
Ash-Tree Press. 1999.
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Collects six weird stories, ''The House That Was Lost'' by Tom Gallon (1908), ''Tight and Loose'' by Neil Gow (1932), ''The Man Who Was Tomorrow'' by Eric Ambrose (1933), ''Newsreel'' by W. J. Makin (1935), ''Time-Piece'' by Donald Showbridge (1939) and ''Last Act First'' by Laurence Meynell (1940), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian. 500 copies printed. SALE PRICE (ex-Fantasy Centre stock).
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1997. 02536
Ash-Tree Press. 1998.
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Collects four weird stories, ''A Wedding Day'' by Patricia Wentworth (1911), ''The Swaying Vision'' by Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1915), ''The Visitor'' by Carola Oman (1922) and ''The House of the Laburnums'' by Mollie Panter-Downes (1936), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2000. 04747
Ash-Tree Press. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Fourth in the annual series: collects nine ''forgotten'' ghost stories, never published in book form, by such masters of the macabre as E. Nesbit, S. Baring-Gould, Sax Rohmer and Julian Hawthorne. 500 copies printed.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001. 07743
Ash-Tree Press. 2001.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects thirteen supernatural stories from the British fiction magazines of the 1920's and 1930's, only one of which has seen previous book publication. Seven page introduction by the editor. 500 copies printed. SALE PRICE (ex-Fantasy Centre stock).
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002: Ghosts At The Cornhill 1920-1930. 10464
Ash-Tree Press. 2002.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collection of fourteen ghost stories from the pages of the Cornhill magazine (1920-1930), none of which have seen print since their original publication. 500 copies printed.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2003: Ghosts At 'The Cornhill' 1931-1939. 12852
Ash-Tree Press. 2003.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects fifteen supernatural stories all first publlished in The Cornhill magazine (of which only one has since been reprinted) with a ten page introduction by the editor. 500 copies printed.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories From Truth'. 16172
Ash-Tree Press. 2004.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects thirty-one short supernatural stories, first published in the weekly ''Truth'', which as the editor states in his 32-page introduction, was primarily a ''political, financial, and muck-raking scandal sheet which ran from the mid-1870's through to the 1950's''. 500 copies printed.
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Adrian, Jack (ed.): The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven't I Read This Before? 18920
Ash-Tree Press. 2006.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects twenty (mostly not well-known) supernatural stories by a number of writers ''whose work appears either to have been influenced by, or been an influence upon, the work of others. In some of the stories, well-known writers have drawn on, and improved, earlier work: in others, less known authors have attempted their own variations on well-known stories''. In his 26-page introduction, the editor puts it a little more bluntly, and ''discusses the theme of plagiarism and literary (and musical!) theft''. 400 copies printed.
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Aguirre, Forrest (ed): Leviathan 4: Cities. 16431
Ministry Of Whimsy Press: FL. 2004.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Original anthology.
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Aickman, Robert: Robert Aickman: The Collected Strange Stories Volumes 1 & 11. 05427
Tartarus/Durtro Press. 2000.
Second printing.
Two volumes: 400 and 475 pages each. With an appreciation by David Tibet. Collects all the stories in all the author's scarce short story collections. This second printing (one year after the first printing of 500 copies) has a few minor textual changes.
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Aickman, Robert: The 8th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories. 26688
Fontana: London. 1971.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Paperback original.
Owner's name and address neatly stamped on inner front cover, page edges a little browned, page edges browned and just a little spooted (top edge), a VG+ copy.
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Aickman, Robert (ed): The Third Fontana Book of Ghost Stories. 26710
Fontana: London. 1974.
Eighth printing.
Paperback.
First published as a Fontana paperback original in 1966..
Page edges browned, owner's name and address neatly stamed on inner front cover, a VG+ copy.
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Aiken, Joan: A Creepy Company. 07013
Victor Gollancz: London. 1993.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Young adult collection of eleven supernatural stories.
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Aiken, Joan: More Than You Bargained For And Other Stories. 19352
Jonathan Cape: London. 1955.
First edition (& 1st printing).
The author's second book. Scarce.
Page edges a little browned, neat small ink stamp on rear endpaper, a near fine copy in a good price-clipped dustjacket with soiling to front and rear panels and some (water?) staining along bottom of spine panel.
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Aiken, Joan: The Stolen Lake. 26785
Jonathan Cape: London. 1981.
First edition (& 1st printing).
The seventh book in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase fantasy series.
''Dido Twite stops off in South America and comes up against the sinister queen of New Cumbria who seems to be able to stay young forever. Is this linked to the lack of girl children in the land?''.
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Aiken, Joy Smith: Solo's Journey. 26013
Bodley Head: London. 1987.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Anthromorphic cat novel - ''epic tale of Solo, a feral cat who survives against all the odds''.
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Albano, John: Batman In: The Six Deadly Demons. 19461
Little, Brown: Boston. 1992.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
70 pages. With the signature of critic and author John Clute on the front half title page.
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Alderman, Gill: The Archivist: A Black Romance. 07302
Unwin Hyman: London. 1989.
First edition (& 1st printing).
The author's first book.
''she began publishing sf with the first two volumes of her Guna sequence -- The Archivist: A Black Romance (1989) and The Land Beyond: A Fable (1990) -- which established her very rapidly as a figure of interest in the field. As usual in the planetary romance, the world in which the tales are set (Guna) is heavily foregrounded throughout both volumes. Quite similar to Earth -- with which its more technologically advanced civilizations have had concourse for many centuries -- Guna is perhaps most remarkable for the wide range of relationships found there between the sexes, running from the complex matriarchy depicted in the first volume through Earth-like patterns of repressive patriarchy hinted at broadly in the second. Although it is clearly the author's intent, dexterously achieved, to make some feminist points about male hierarchical thinking, she abstains from creating characters whose consciousnesses reflect these issues. The homosexual male protagonists of The Archivist, for instance, whose long love affair and estrangement provide much of the immediate action of the book, exhibit no ''normal'' resentment at the dominant role of women; and the political revolution fomented by the elder lover has little or nothing to do with sexual politics in any Earthly sense. The long timespan of The Archivist, the Grand Tour evocations of landscape which make up much of its bulk, and its distanced narrative voice mark a contemplative sf fantasist of the first order. The Land Beyond, a chill book set in a cold part of the planet, is less engaging; but the author is clearly a writer to welcome'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Bodily Functions. 00148
Avernus: London. 1991.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects four stories, two poems and a letter to Sam J. Lundwall (on the subject of bowel movement). ''This book is printed for a private celebration, the birthday of a friend. It is limited to 100 copies''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with some rubbing to front and rear (bright blue) panels.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: A Is For Brian: A 65th Birthday Present For Brian W. Aldiss From His Family, Friends, Colleagues and Admirers. 00162
Avernus: London. 1990.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Oversize pictorial covers.
128 pages. Contributions from Kingsley Amis, J. G. Ballard, Ken Campbell, Harry Harrison, Robert Holdstock, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Priest, Kit Reed, Robert Silverberg and many others.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Helliconia Spring (and) Helliconia Summer (and) Helliconia Winter. 00571
Jonathan Cape: London. 1982-85.
First editions (& 1st printings).
Three volumes: complete set of the Helliconia trilogy.
''three massive, thoroughly researched, deeply through-composed tales set on a planet whose primary sun is in an eccentric orbit around another star, so that the planet experiences both small seasons and an eon-long Great Year, during the course of which radical changes afflict the human-like inhabitants. Cultures are born in spring, flourish over the summer, and die with the onset of the generations-long winter. A team from an exhausted Terran civilization observes the spectacle from orbit. Throughout all three volumes, BWA pays homage to various high moments of pulp sf, rewriting several classic action climaxes into a dark idiom that befits Helliconia. As an exercise in world-building, the Helliconia books lie unassailably at the heart of modern sf'' (John Clute/ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SF).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Science Fiction Blues. 00646
Avernus: London. 1988.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
Stories and poetry: introduction by Robert Holdstock.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Dracula Unbound. 00685
Grafton Books: London. 1991.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''in the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral, bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs . . . Linking these scenarios is impetuous inventor Joe Bodenland, who has just created a machine that manipulates time to dispose of hazardous waste''.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: New Arrivals, Old Encounters. 00826
Jonathan Cape: London. 1979.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects twelve sf stories.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Bury My Heart At W. H. Smith's: A Writing Life. 00832
Avernus: London. 1990.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Autobiography. LIMITED EDITION. 250 numbered copies signed by the author: this special edition contains six extra chapters not found in the Hodder trade edition.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Cracken At Critical. 00847
Kerosina: Worcester Park. 1987.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Published the same in the US as 'The Year Before Yesterday': this Kerosina edition is significantly different from the US edition and is the authors preferred text.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Item Eighty-Three: Brian W. Aldiss: A Bibliography 1954-1972. 03389
Nd (1973).
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
Bibliographical checklist of fiction, nonfiction and edited works, compiled by Margaret Aldiss: revised and updated edition of the earlier 'Item 43'. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 266.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Forgotten Life. 04454
Victor Gollancz: London. 1988.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Mainstream novel.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Best SF Stories OF Brian W. Aldiss. 04608
Victor Gollancz: London. 1988.
First edition (& 1st printing).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Farewell To A Child. 05833
Priapus Press: Hertfordshire. 1982.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
16 pages: short poem. 350 copies printed.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Last Orders And Other Stories. 07257
Jonathan Cape: London. 1977.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects 14 stories and an introduction by the author. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1978/''Read all about it! Amazing secrets of Holman Hunt revealed
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Aldiss, Brian W.: A Rude Awakening. 07261
Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. 1978.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Third in the mainstream Horatio Stubbs trilogy, sequel to The Hand-Reared Boy and A Soldier Erect.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Seasons In Flight. 07299
Jonathan Cape: London. 1984.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects ten sf stories. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: The Canopy Of Time. 09229
Faber & Faber: London. 1959.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Short story collection: issued a year later in the US as a paperback original as GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.
Top page edges a little browned, touch of white (paint?) on front bottom corner tip, else a fine copy in a VG dustjacket with one 3 cm closed tear and browning to bottom half of spine panel, and browning along both flap folds.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Excommunication. 09670
Postcard Partnership: London. 1975.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Printed postcard
Original short story (and a good one too!) printed as one of a series of postcards, the series edited (I think) by George Hay.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: This World And Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring The Familiar. 10182
Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. 1979.
First edition (& 1st printing).
262 pages: includes essays on Philip K. Dick, James Blish, Robert Sheckley, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, and Josef Nesvadba.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: My Country 'Tis Not Only Of Thee: A Story Of The World After The Vietnam War. 12438
Privately printed by the author. 1986.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
28 page short story, printed for the Aldiss Appreciation Society. Limited to 100 signed copies (though this copy - like most - has not been signed).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Avernus Presents Science Fiction Blues With Brian Aldiss. 14165
Avernus: London. 1987.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
Collector's programme: 12 pages. Includes three unpublished short stories.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: The Secret Of This Book: 20-odd Stories. 14389
HarperCollins: London. 1995.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collection of linked stories: published in the US under the title Common Clay.
''even for a collection of Brian Aldiss stories, this is unconventional. Many of these tales are interrelated, linked by their themes of life, death, and transformation. Commentary between the narratives shows how such themes are explored in storytelling - and, in one of the most amusing links, how a story may be stretched out until long after bedtime. The twenty stories almost become chapters in a long, curious, decidedly odd novel. Sometimes they are domestic, as in the tense ''Making My Father Read Revered Writings''; sometimes they are startling and horrific, as in ''Horse Meat.'' The disastrous human traits that make life infernal are here, as in ''The Mistakes, Miseries and Misfortunes of Mankind,'' and so too are designs for a happier state of existence, as in ''Three Moon Enigmas'' and ''Her Toes Were Beautiful on the Mountains.'' As is usual with Mr. Aldiss, humor is not lacking here, as in the profoundly Shakespearean ''If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy,'' which demonstrates that the Prince of Denmark was losing the Battle of the Bulge, and in the bizarre glimpse of a cost-conscious heaven in ''Evans in His Moment of Glory.''''.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Sanity And The Lady. 15571
PS Publishing: Harrogate. 2005.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Short novel: introduction by Ian R. Macleod. 500 numbered trade hardcover edition signed by the author.
''''They're the reason why xenophobia was invented.'' So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's an unmarried mother with a small child. There are mobs at the gates, divorces, illicit love affairs and a suicide - or is that two suicides? But life goes on. Until the night when a meteorite burns out in earth's atmosphere. It releases a number of microscopic beings. Well, if not beings, at least functions. They are a mystery, a challenge to human imagination. However, if you have one entering your brain, you may be able to communicate with it, perhaps to your advantage. Here is what humans have long wanted, a chance to study alien life. They do not like it when they get it. Laura Broughton defends the visitors while the world becomes more and more alarmed. That's what gets her into trouble. And finally, the visitors astonish us all''.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Sanity And The Lady. 15572
PS Publishing: Harrogate. 2005
First edition (& 1st printing).
Novel: introduction by Ian R. Macleod. LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered slipcased copies, signed by both authors.
''''They're the reason why xenophobia was invented.'' So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's an unmarried mother with a small child. There are mobs at the gates, divorces, illicit love affairs and a suicide - or is that two suicides? But life goes on. Until the night when a meteorite burns out in earth's atmosphere. It releases a number of microscopic beings. Well, if not beings, at least functions. They are a mystery, a challenge to human imagination. However, if you have one entering your brain, you may be able to communicate with it, perhaps to your advantage. Here is what humans have long wanted, a chance to study alien life. They do not like it when they get it. Laura Broughton defends the visitors while the world becomes more and more alarmed. That's what gets her into trouble. And finally, the visitors astonish us all''.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: The Shape Of Further Things: Speculations On Change. 16102
Faber & Faber: London. 1970.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Non-fiction book of (mostly) sf essays.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Science Fiction Blues. 16116
Avernus: London. 1988.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
Stories and poetry: introduction by Robert Holdstock. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Fine (as new) copy but for slight crease to front cover.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Enemies Of The System: A Tale Of Homo Uniformis. 17226
Jonathan Cape: London. 1978.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''set one million years into the future where the human race has evolved into a utopian race called homo uniform is: Man Alike Throughout. Supremely logical, their thoughts controlled by a centralised nervous system, these utopianists are freed, by a beneficial design called Biocom, from the emotional problems and absurd evolutionary flaws which have always plagued homo sapiens''
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories. 21582
Corgi: London. 1971.
First paperback edition.
First published in hardcover by Faber (1969).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories. 21795
HarperCollins: London. 1993.
First edition.
Octavo, boards.
Collects twelve sf stories, all written between 1988-1992.
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Aldiss, Brian W.: An Island Called Moreau. 23313
Simon & Schuster: NY. 1981.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Cloth-backed boards.
Title change: issued earlier in Britain as MOREAU'S OTHER ISLAND (1980).
''plays fruitfully with themes from H.G. Wells: during a nuclear war a US official discovers that bioengineering experiments performed on a deserted island are a secret project run by his own department'' (David Pringle & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Aldiss, Brian W.: Cities And Stones: A Traveller's Yugoslavia. 24226
Faber & Faber: London. 1956.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Non-fiction: travelogue. SIGNED BYTHE AUTHOR: previous inscription on front free endpaper under which Aldiss has written/''and also from the author, Brian W Aldiss''.
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Aldiss, Brian W. (& Mike Wilks, illus.): Pile, Petals From St. Klaed's Computer. 03211
Jonathan Cape: London. 1979.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Oversize hardcover.
Poem by Aldiss illustrated by illustrator Mike Wilks. 32 pages: each page has a near full-page b/w illustation by the artist (with two in colour). LIMITED EDITION: special bookplate signed by both author and artist: ''This bookplate has been specially produced to commemorate Seacon 79, the 37th Annual World Science Fiction Convention.''
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Aldiss, Brian W. (Philip K. Dick): Kindred Blood In Kensington Gore. 07482
Avernus: London. 1992.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
Short play, subtitled 'Philip K. Dick In The Afterlife: An Imaginary Conversation'. 28-page booklet.
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Alexander, Lloyd: The Rope Trick. 12063
Dutton: NY. 2002.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Young adult fantasy.
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ALL HALLOWS: THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY,: All Hallows #3. 05394
1991.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Stapled wrappers.
Third issue. Edited by Mark Valentine: contains the four stories chosen as winners of the GSS Ghost Story competition, including stories by Alan W. Lear (winner) and Ron Weighall (runner-up).
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Allan, Nina: A Thread Of Truth. 20303
Eibonvale Press. 2007.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collection of eight supernatural and horror stories, with an afterword from the author.
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Allen, Grant: The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel. 24350
John Lane: London. 1895.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Issued in the Keynote series: Title page design - repeated on the front cover - by Aubrey Beardsley. 16pp. publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in white, spine panel stamped in gold and white, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. ''Grant Allen was a Darwinian. Like Wells, he used the future to mirror the evils of the present, and his The British Barbarians (1895) presents a scientist from a distant future working as an anthropologist among a savage tribe in an English suburb.'' - Aldiss and Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree, p. 142. ''Very good satire.'' - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 59.
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Allen, Osric: The Dark Tunnel: A Comedy. 08753
Robert Temple: London. 1994.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Fantasy novel.
''Vivid prose: it has the effect of the best magic realists. It's definitely the kind of original idiosyncratiic novel I thoroughly enjoy'' (Michael Moorcock''.
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Altman, Mark A. (NEXT GENERATION): Captain's Logs Supplemental: The Next Generation 6th Season Guidebook. 18573
Boxtree: London. 1994.
First British edition (& 1st printing).
Oversize paperback.
128 pages.
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Ambrose, David: The Discrete Charm Of Charlie Monk. 02585
MacMillan: London. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
SF thriller. Preceded the US edition by three years.
''a blend of mystery, metaphysics and scientific speculation that will discretely charm you into a world of terrifying suspense... 'It was some moments before Charlie turned his gaze back to Control. When he did, there were tears in his eyes. ''What have you done?''' ''Something that evolution wouldn't have accomplished in a million years, left to itself,'' Control replied calmly. ''You're custom-built, Charlie, a hero for our time...''' Charlie Monk is the ultimate superhero. He has no conscience. He has no fear. But he also has no memory. Dr Susan Flemyng has found a way to give memory back. In a world where even virtual reality is controlled, that is the most dangerous knowledge of all. Can she trust those she works for, or should she take the greatest risk and trust Charlie?''.
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Ambrose, David: A Memory Of Demons. 15264
Simon & Schuster: London. 2003.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Thriller.
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Ambrose, David: The Discrete Charm Of Charlie Monk. 15295
MacMillan: London. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Metaphysical thriller.
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Ames, Mildred: Conjuring Summer In. 06283
Harper & Brothers: NY. 1986.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Young adult novel with fantasy elements.
''16-year old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over her family's move to California: then a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue''.
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Amies, Chris: Dead Ground. 18144
Big Engine: Abingdon, Oxon. 2001.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
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Amis, Kingsley: The Green Man. 00365
Jonathan Cape: London. 1969.
First edition (& 1st printing).
In Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (Moorcock & Cawthorn) #86; Horror: Hundred Best Books (Jones & Newman) #65; Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (Pringle) #42. A clean sweep of all three!
''his one major fantasy, The Green Man (1969), is a fine novel by any standards, and among his best. Its disturbing supernatural-horror events are usefully told through an entertainingly flawed and very Amisian (''hero as shit'') narrator, afflicted with alcoholism, family troubles and middle-aged lust. A 17th-century magician, who lived in what is now the protagonist's eponymous coaching inn, once animated a tree-man to do unpleasant business. The magician's ghost tempts the protagonist with power and immortality (in fact intending possession) - against which the protagonist's self-loathing is a shield - and harries him through minutely described illusions all too reminiscent of delirium tremens. There is a remarkable appearance of god, manifesting in the privacy of time stasis as a rather unpleasant young man whose self-imposed conditions of operation require that the wrongness of magician and tree-man be neutralized not directly but by a suitable catspaw. The reluctant hero is given the task, along with a talisman cross and some chilling hints about the afterlife; an exorcism results. A BBC TV miniseries adaptation was broadcast in 1991'' (David Langford/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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Amis, Kingsley: The Alteration. 01096
Jonathan Cape: London. 1976.
First edition (& 1st printing).
In Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #80.
''his major full-scale sf work is The Alteration (1976), set in an alternate world in which the Reformation has not taken place and Roman Catholic domination has continued to the present. It won the 1976 John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel'' (Encyclopedia of SF).
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Amis, Kingsley: Take A Girl Like You. 19347
Victor Gollancz: London. 1960.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Scattered light foxing to page edges, portion of rear free endpaper tanned, an almost fine copy (bright red unmarked cloth) in a VG+ (bright yellow) dustjacket with some soiling to spine panel and and a circular ring stain (coffee?) on the rear panel.
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Amis, Kingsley: The Anti-Death League. 19348
Victor Gollancz: London. 1966.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''an extravagant spy story featuring miniaturized nuclear devices'' (Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF).
Light scattered foxing along top page edges, spine panel a little sunned, endpapers partly browned, a near fine copy in a VG+ price-clipped dustjacket with light wear along the edges and a little spine fade.
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Amis, Kingsley (writing as "Robert Markham"): Colonel Sun. 25575
Jonathan Cape: London. 1968.
First edition (& 1st printing).
First novel in the continuation of the post-Fleming James Bond series. Variant binding with printer's error (a quad mark) on the copyright page, between ''Square'' and ''WC1'' in the publisher's address.
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Amis, Martin: Heavy Water And Other Stories. 00382
Jonathan Cape: London. 1998.
First edition (& 1st printing).
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Amis, Martin: Time's Arrow, or The Nature Of The Offence. 03167
Jonathan Cape: London. 1991.
First edition (& 1st printing).
'''Time's Arrow' -- which begins at the moment at which its protagonist ''awakens'' into a radically displaced world -- is a full and genuine sf novel, based on the premise that the arrow of time has been reversed (the author's acknowledged sf sources for this premise run from Philip K. Dick's Counter-Clock World [1967] to Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Slaughterhouse-Five, [1969) but very much complexifies the implications of the conceit by making the protagonist an old Nazi, whose involvement in the death camps now becomes a hymn to life. Throughout the book, the reversal of the 20th century reads as a reprieve. It is a tale whose joys encode ironies so grim that the ''happier'' moments of return and redemption are impossible to read without considerable pain'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Amis, Martin: The Information. 04500
Flamingo: London. 1995.
First edition (& 1st printing).
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Andahazi, Federico: The Merciful Women. 12936
Doubleday: London. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Vampire novel. First english text: translated from the Spanish.
''Switzerland, in 1816. Lord Byron, Shelley, Shelley's wife Mary and Byron's physician Dr Polidori are in the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva. Polidori is a hanger-on whose presence is merely tolerated. Yet he will stop at nothing to outwit them all. He enters a Faustian pact with an elusive penfriend, Annette Legrand, who is the mysterious third member of the infamous Legrand sisters, the notorious vaudeville act. Annette will produce for him the most compelling vampire story ever written, which he will read aloud the very night Mary Shelley is to reveal for the first time her tale of Frankenstein. But, in exchange, what can the effete Polidori offer this ghostly female predator, and what is her secret? ''.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Price:
10.00 GBP
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