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By: "Streamline",
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Eneas Mackay: Sterling, Scotland.: 1934.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41557
Condition: VG+ copy in a poor/fair worn and torn dustjacket.
''Streamline'' - ''the author of these stories is a well-known airpilot who served in the R.N.A.S. and R.F.C during the war''. Very uncommon UK hardcover. View more info
By: 'Sea-Lion',
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.: London.: 1950.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45006
Condition: Page edges a little browned, free endpapers part-browned, else a fine copy (bright red boards with black lettering) in a VG dustjacket with spine edge wear and one small (2cm) closed tear, and fading to top (white) part of the spine panel.
One of two sf novels written by UK naval officer Geoffrey Martin Bennett using the 'Sea-Lion' pseudonym. Apart from a later Arrow paperback in 1963 this is the only edition of this novel. Both are very uncommon.''pseudonym of UK naval officer and author Geoffrey Martin Bennett (1909-1983), whose two sf novels both deal with menaces at sea: The Invisible Ships (1950) indeed features invisible ships and THIS CREEPING EVIL (1950) features sea monsters and a threat to the UK'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View more info
By: Abdulla, The Sheik A. (ed.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Odhams Press: London.: Nd (1937)..
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40673
Condition: A near fine copy (lacking the dustjacket).
704 pages: 17 full-page illustrations by various artists. View more info
By: Abe, Shana
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: NY.: 2006.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 19455
ISBN: 0553804936
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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 hea... View more info
By: Abe, Shana
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Bantam Dell: NY.: 2005.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 26590
ISBN: 0553804480
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.
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,... View more info
By: Abnett, Dan
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Black Library (BL) Publishing: Notts.: 2004.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40548
ISBN: 1844160726
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
SF novel, set in the Warhammer (Games Workshop) universe. Very uncommon UK hardcover. View more info
By: Abnett, Dan
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Black Library (BL) Publishing: Notts.: 2005.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40558
ISBN: 1844162389
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
SF novel, set in the Warhammer (Games Workshop) universe. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Rutledge Books: CT.: 2003.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 11251
ISBN: 1582442576
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Juvenile sf novel. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. View more info
By: Abrash, Merritt (& Alexandra Aldridge, eds.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY.: 1979 (Fall).
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 38193
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Fall 1979 (volume 2, number 4). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128 pages. View more info
By: Abrash, Merritt (& Alexandra Aldridge, eds.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY.: 1979 (Summer).
Edition: First edition.
Seller ID: 38194
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Summer 1979 (volume 2, number 3). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128 pages. View more info
By: Abrash, Merritt (& Alexandra Aldridge, eds.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY.: 1980 (Winter)
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 38195
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Winter 1980 (volume 3, number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128. View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson: London.: 1996.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37336
ISBN: 1856196968
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little rubbing to rear (black) panel.
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London.: 1989.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 00262
ISBN: 0241124980
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Weird novel: ''fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels''.''FIRST LIGHT (1989) '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 reapp... View more info
By: Adaf, Shimon
Price: £40.00
Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2013.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41235
ISBN: 1848636768
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Fantasy stories: 470 pages. Translated from the Hebrew: introduction by Lavie Tidhar. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies issued with a dustjacket and signed by the author. View more info
By: Adaf, Shimon
Price: £20.00
Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2013.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40560
ISBN: 1848636768
Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).
Fantasy stories: 470 pages. Translated from the Hebrew: introduction by Lavie Tidhar. View more info
By: Adams, Fred C.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: The Strange Company: USA.: 1985.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 19876
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
Eight page prose poem. 200 copies printed. View more info
By: Adams, Fred C.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Shroud Publishers: CA.: 1974.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 31541
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
Published June 1974. 24 page Cthulhu Mythos short story. The Library Lovecraftian Volume 2. View more info
By: Adams, Paul (& Eddie Brazil & Peter Underwood)
Price: £50.00
Publisher: The History Press: Stroud, Glos.: 2009.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 43566
ISBN: 0750950676
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
384 pages. View more info
By: Adams, Richard
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Allen Lane: London.: 1980.
Edition: First edition (variant, later binding).
Seller ID: 35419
ISBN: 0713913452
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for dust-soilied top page edges.
Supernatural/ghost novel. This is the second issue with the main (female) character's name changed from Kathe to Karin throughout, for legal (?) reasons.''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 d... View more info
By: Adams, Robert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.
Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 16136
ISBN: 0356108392
Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with the signature of author John Clute on the front free endpaper.
Fifth volume in the Horseclans sf series. First published by NAL as a paperback original in 1980.''US soldier and writer (1932-1990) who was best known for the post-holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 AD in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes by a strain of immortal mutants, while an unsavoury group of human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally the reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody 20th-century movements - ecology, for instance - that were betes-noires of the author,... View more info
By: Adams, Robert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 03376
ISBN: 0356109860
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little browning along the top page edges.
Ninth volume in the Horseclans sf series. First published by NAL as a paperback original in 1982.''US soldier and writer (1932-1990) who was best known for the post-holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 AD in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes by a strain of immortal mutants, while an unsavoury group of human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally the reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody 20th-century movements - ecology, for instance - that were betes-noires of the author,... View more info
By: Adams, Robert
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.
Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 03373
ISBN: 0356109046
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little browning along the top page edges.
Sixth volume in the Horseclans sf/fantasy series. First published by NAL as a paperback original in 1980.''US soldier and writer (1932-1990) who was best known for the post-holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 AD in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes by a strain of immortal mutants, while an unsavoury group of human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally the reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody 20th-century movements - ecology, for instance - that were betes-noires of the... View more info
By: Adams, Robert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.
Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 03377
Condition: Page edges show a little browning, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little light rubbing to the rear (black) panel.
10th volume in the Horseclans sf series. First published as a paperback original in 1982. Uncommon UK hardcover.''US soldier and writer (1932-1990) who was best known for the post-holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 AD in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes by a strain of immortal mutants, while an unsavoury group of human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally the reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody 20th-century movements - ecology, for instance - that were betes-noire... View more info
By: Adams, Robert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.
Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 32282
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little browning along the top page edges.
Eighth volume in the Horseclans sf series: first published by NAL as a paperback original in 1981.''US soldier and writer (1932-1990) who was best known for the post-holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 AD in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes by a strain of immortal mutants, while an unsavoury group of human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally the reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody 20th-century movements - ecology, for instance - that were betes-noires of the author,... View more info
By: Adkins, P. H.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: P.D.A Enterprises: New Orleans.: 1974.
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 36237
Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with some fading along edges of rear cover.
24 pages. View more info
By: Adler, Irving (ill. by Ruth Adler)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: John Day: NY.: 1953.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 33523
Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Ash-Tree Press: Canada.: 2001.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 07743
ISBN: 1553100263
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Equation: Wellingborough, Northants.: 1988.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41148
ISBN: 1853360422
Condition: Just a little browning along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
224 pages. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Ash-Tree Press: Canada.: 1999.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 01997
ISBN: 1899562885
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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. View more info
By: ADVENTURE TALES, (ed. John Gregory Betancourt)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Wildside Press: USA.: 2006.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45491
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Third issue (Summer 2006). Four issues (one per year) were published 2004-2007. Classic reprints (this issue's featured author is Murray Leinster, with two stories), articles and poetry. View more info
By: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN, (foreword by Barry Forshaw)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2011.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 32812
ISBN: 1848632177
Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new)..
Volume One. Reprints in full colour the first five issues (Fall 1948 - June/July 1949) of ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN horror comic, with a foreword by Barry Forshaw and additional colour art by Glenn Chadbourne. View more info
By: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN, (foreword by Peter Crowther)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2012.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 32813
ISBN: 1848633297
Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new)..
Volume Two. Reprints in full colour issues 6 - 10 (August/September 1949 - April/May 1950) of ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN horror comic, with a foreword by Peter Crowther. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Ministry Of Whimsy Press: FL.: 2004.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 16431
ISBN: 1892389797
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Original anthology. LIMITED EDITION: 100 copies signed by the editor and all ten authors. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 07480
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1966, this Tartarus editiion (2nd printing) contains an eight page introduction by Mark Valentine. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39691
ISBN: 1905784562
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
The last, posthumously published collection of stories by Aickman, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1985. The Tartarus Press first printing of 2013 reprinted those five long stories plus a lot more, beginning with a new introduction by Barry Humphries. Also included was the weird novella THE MODEL (posthumously published in 1987), plus Aickman's ''An Essay'' (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), additionally this volume includes all seven of his Introductions to the seven volumes in The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series which he edited: and finally the six-p... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 39692
ISBN: 1905784481
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
The author's last collection of stories (while still alive), first published by Victor Gollancz in 1980. The Tartarus Press 2012 1st printing collected those six long supernatural stories, plus a new seven page introduction by Reggie Oliver. However this Tartarus Press 2nd printing of 2015 also now adds a further story ''The Stranger'', the titles story from the 2015 Tartarus Press Aickman collection The Strangers And Other Writings, which went o/p very quickly (more or less by the time of publication) and will NOT be reprinted. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 37355
ISBN: 1905784287
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1977. This Tartarus Press edition (2nd printing - the first was in 2012) contains a nine page introduction by Michael Dirda. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 37317
ISBN: 1905784287
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Supernatural short story collection first published by Victor Gollancz in 1968: this edition has a five page introduction by R. B. Russell. The Tartarus Press first printing was in 2010. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37316
ISBN: 1905784686
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
290 pages: the author's second volume of autobiography, following THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE (1966). First published in 1986, this Tartarus Press edition contains a new short introduction by Rosalie Parker. Limited to 350 hardcover copies. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £37.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 36100
ISBN: 1905784597
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Autobiography: 246 pages. Eight page foreword by Jeremy Dyson. Originally published in 1966, followed by a 1st Tartarus Press printing (red dustjacket) in 2001. This Tartarus reprint (in cream/yellow dustjacket) has some (minor?) revisions to the introduction. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's: NY.: 1979.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 32019
ISBN: 0684159996
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.
Short story collection: nine stories collected from earlier Aickman books; this selection not published in Britain. Priced $8.95 at top edge of front inner flap (ie. not a book club edition). View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £32.50
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 30089
ISBN: 1905784341
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1975, this Tartarus reprint contains a new introduction by Phil Baker.''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices of any form of fantastic literatur... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 29440
ISBN: 1905784325
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collection of supernatural stories, first published in 1964: this edition has a new four page introduction by Glen Cavaliero. Limited to 350 hardcover copies.''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices o... View more info
By: Aickman, Robert
Price: £425.00
Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1999.
Edition: First edition (first printing).
Seller ID: 01092
ISBN: 1872621473
Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets (as new) with errata sheet laid in.
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. Published by Tartarus Press in conjunction with Durtro Press. 500 hardcover sets printed. With publisher's printed errata sheet laid in. View more info
By: Aickman, Robert (ed. S. T. Joshi)
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Centipede Press: Lakewood, CO.: 2019.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45434
ISBN: 161347234X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
688 pages: collects eighteen of his best stories, with an introduction by editor Joshi. View more info
By: Aiken, Joan
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1970.
Edition: Second printing.
Seller ID: 41233
ISBN: 0575004517
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for bookplate affixed to front free endpaper.
Mystery novel. View more info
By: Aiken, Joan
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1977.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41234
ISBN: 0575022574
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new)but for bookplate affixed to front free endpaper.
Mystery novel. View more info
By: Aiken, Joan
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1972.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41214
ISBN: 0575014032
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper.
Thriller. View more info
By: Aird, Catherine
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Rue Morge Press: CO.: 2007.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 46004
ISBN: 1601870027
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
''Classic British mystery'', first published in 1967: new five page introduction ''Catherine Aird's Forgotten Novel'' by Tom Schantz and Enid Schantz. View more info
By: Aisenberg, Nadya
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.: 1979.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 35574
ISBN: 0879721421
Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.
272 pages:''an insightful study of both detective fiction and 'serious' literature'' View more info
