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Foretold - 13 Stories of Modern Second Sight.

By: "Streamline",

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Eneas Mackay: Sterling, Scotland.: 1934.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 41557

Binding: Hardcover.

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.
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This Creeping Evil.

By: 'Sea-Lion',

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.: London.: 1950.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 45006

Binding: Hardcover.

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).
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Sparks From The Fire (signed copy + signed postcard).

By: (& Uderzo, ill.) ASTERIX, Gosciny

Price: £30.00

Publisher: The Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland.: 2018.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 44387

ISBN: 1783800232

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of weird fantasy stories. Limited to 300 hardcover (unsigned) copies. HOWEVER THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE - A SPECIAL PUBLISHER'S POSTCARD IS ALSO SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND LAID IN.
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2000 AD Sci-Fi Special.

By: 2000 AD, (UK comic)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: IPC Magazines: London.: 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47062

Binding: Oversize comic.

Condition: Pages browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Spin-off from the UK comic 2000 AD. 64 pages: b/w comic strips with some colour (''Colour Photo-Review of Dragonslayer'').
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A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine vol 1 no 1 December 1949.

By: A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE, (ed. Mary Gnaedinger?)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Recreational Reading Inc.: Kokomo, IN.: 1949.

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 46634

Binding: Pulp Magazine.

Condition: Edges of covers taped, a fair copy.

First of just five issues published 1949-1950.

''US Pulp magazine, 5 issues, December 1949 to October 1950, published by Popular Publications under their imprint Recreational Reading, Inc. No editor was credited, but it is believed to have been Harry Widmer, though Mary Gnaedinger may well have also been involved. A Merritt's Fantasy Magazine was a companion magazine to Famous Fantastic Mysteries and Fantastic Novels, and was begun in response to the considerable enthusiasm engendered by the reprinting of A Merritt's fiction in those magazines and elsewhere. Until the appearance in 1954...
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Mycroft Holmes.

By: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (& Anna Waterhouse)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Titan Books: London.: 2015.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47794

ISBN: 1783291532

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

324 pages: ''the untold story of Sherlock Holmes' older brother''.
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Fifty Enthralling Stories Of The Mysterious East.

By: Abdulla, The Sheik A. (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Odhams Press: London.: Nd (1937)..

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 40673

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: A near fine copy (lacking the dustjacket).

704 pages: 17 full-page illustrations by various artists.
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The Dream Thief.

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...
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The Smoke Thief.

By: Abe, Shana

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bantam Dell: NY.: 2005.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 26590

ISBN: 0553804480

Binding: Hardcover.

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,...
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Ravenor: Warhammer 40,000.

By: Abnett, Dan

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Black Library (BL) Publishing: Notts.: 2004.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 40548

ISBN: 1844160726

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel, set in the Warhammer (Games Workshop) universe. Very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Gaunt's Ghosts: His Last Command: Warhammer 40.000.

By: Abnett, Dan

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Black Library (BL) Publishing: Notts.: 2005.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 40558

ISBN: 1844162389

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel, set in the Warhammer (Games Workshop) universe.
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Jack Jacobs And The Doomsday Time Machine (signed & dated)..

By: Abraham, Albert S.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Rutledge Books: CT.: 2003.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 11251

ISBN: 1582442576

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Juvenile sf novel. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Alternative Futures: The Journal Of Utopian Studies Fall 1979 (vol 2 no. 4).

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

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fall 1979 (volume 2, number 4). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128 pages.
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Alternative Futures: The Journal Of Utopian Studies Summer 1979 (vol 2 no. 3).

By: Abrash, Merritt (& Alexandra Aldridge, eds.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY.: 1979 (Summer).

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 38194

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Summer 1979 (volume 2, number 3). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128 pages.
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Alternative Futures: The Journal Of Utopian Studies Winter 1980 (vol 3 no. 1).

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

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Winter 1980 (volume 3, number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. 128.
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Amazons.

By: Achilleos, Chris (illustrator)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Paper Tiger/Dragon's World: UK.: Nd (1979).

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48148

Binding: Oversize portfolio.

Condition: Fine as issued in pictorial card folder.

Contains eight full colour prints on high quality paper, the paintings each 30cm x 19cm (42cm x 30cm with borders) and one sheet of text, all in pictorial card folder. The eight female warriors are - The Mercenary, The Redskin, The Botanist, Jezebel, Sword Mistress, Jungle Girl, The Standard Bearer and Massai. No date given but probably 1979, after Paper Tiger had published his first book of illustrations in 1978. Seemingly rare.
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1983 Calendar: Amazons.

By: Achilleos, Chris (illustrator)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Iguana Publications: London.: 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48158

Binding: Oversize calendar.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Oversize calendar 62cm x 32cm) with twelve colour fantasy/sf illustrations by Chris Achilleos.
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The Orbit Poster Book.

By: Achilleos, Chris/Chris Foss/Peter Jones/Tony Roberts

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Orbit: London.: Nd (1975).

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 48757

ISBN: 0860079201

Binding: Oversize pictorial covers.

Condition: A near fine copy.

Very oversize (42cm x 30cm) poster book showcasing eleven sf/fantasy colour paintings/posters by the four artists. Not to be confused with another similarly titled book from 1987.
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First Light.

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London.: 1989.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00262

ISBN: 0241124980

Binding: Hardcover.

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...
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Milton In America.

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson: London.: 1996.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 37336

ISBN: 1856196968

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little rubbing to rear (black) panel.

Sunburnt Faces.

By: Adaf, Shimon

Price: £20.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2013.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 40560

ISBN: 1848636768

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Fantasy stories: 470 pages. Translated from the Hebrew: introduction by Lavie Tidhar.
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Sunburnt Faces (100-copy signed/limited).

By: Adaf, Shimon

Price: £40.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate.: 2013.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 41235

ISBN: 1848636768

Binding: Hardcover.

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.
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts.

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 10826

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for touch of browning along page edges.

250 pages: edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Perkins, plus an additional introduction by Douglas Adams. First printing with ''9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'' on copyright page.
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Mostly Harmless.

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Heinemann: London.: 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 11206

ISBN: 0434009261

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The fifth book in the Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish: The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy 4.

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1984.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 40420

ISBN: 0330284983

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for the number "1209" neatly stamped on the bottom of the front free endpaper.

4th in the Hitchhiker series. Hologram cover. First printing with ''9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'' on copyright page. Note: I have had several copies in stock over the years with a number stamped on the front free endpaper (and looking on AbeBooks there are several others with the same), but what it refers to I do not know.
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The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1980.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 33205

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

Sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: based on episodes of the cult BBC radio series.
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The Deeper Meaning Of Liff.

By: Adams, Douglas (& John Lloyd)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 36963

ISBN: 0330316060

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

146 pages: subtitled:''a dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet''. Illustrated by Bert Kitchen.
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Last Chance To See..

By: Adams, Douglas (& Mark Carwardine)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Heinemann: London.: 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 30090

ISBN: 0434009245

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Non-fiction book on endangered species.
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Procrustes.

By: Adams, Fred C.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Strange Company: USA.: 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19876

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Eight page prose poem. 200 copies printed.
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The Chaos Spawn.

By: Adams, Fred C.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Shroud Publishers: CA.: 1974.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 31541

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Published June 1974. 24 page Cthulhu Mythos short story. The Library Lovecraftian Volume 2.
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Countess Dracula.

By: Adams, Guy

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hammer Books/Arrow: London.: 2013.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47659

ISBN: 0099553864

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Supernatural/horror novel set in 1930s Hollywood.

''you can do anything in Hollywood and be forgiven, anything except grow old.It's the 1930s and cinema stands at the dawn of a new age, the silent era is all but dead, talkies are here and Technicolor is on its way. The whole world loves movie icons Frank Nayland and Elizabeth Sasdy, lapping up each new picture and following their romantic life story both on and off the screen. But all is not as perfect as it appears. Not only has the advent of talkies meant torturous sessions with a vocal coach to try and remove Sasdy's Hungarian accent...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Army Of Dr Moreau.

By: Adams, Guy

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Titan Books: London.: 2012.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47825

ISBN: 0857689339

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Supernatural/SF novel.
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The Borley Rectory Companion: The Complete Guide To 'The Most Haunted House In England',

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

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

384 pages.
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The Girl In A Swing.

By: Adams, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Allen Lane: London.: 1980.

Edition: First edition (variant, later binding).

Seller ID: 35419

ISBN: 0713913452

Binding: Hardcover.

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...
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The Patrimony: A Horseclans Novel (Horseclans 6].

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 03373

ISBN: 0356109046

Binding: Hardcover.

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 author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 twentieth-century movements - Ecology, for instance - that were btes-noires of the author, who was...
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The Witch Goddess [Horseclans 9].

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 03376

ISBN: 0356109860

Binding: Hardcover.

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 author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 twentieth-century movements - Ecology, for instance - that were btes-noires of the author, who was not ave...
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The Savage Mountains [Horseclans 5].

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 16136

ISBN: 0356108392

Binding: Hardcover.

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 author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 twentieth-century movements - Ecology, for instance - that were btes-noires of the author, who was not ave...
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The Death Of A Legend [Horseclans Novel 8).

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1985.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 32282

ISBN: 035610981X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, reat bottom corner tip bruised, an almost fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Eighth volume in the Horseclans sf series: first published by NAL as a paperback original in 1981.

''US soldier and author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 twentieth-century movements - Ecology, for instance - that were btes-noires of the author, who was not ave...
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The Patrimony: A Horseclans Novel [Horseclans 6].

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1980.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49036

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with a little bottom edge spine wear.

SF novel, sixth in the long-running Horseclans series - 18 in total were published 1975-1978 by Signet/New Americann Library.. ''First printing, April 1980'' on copyright page. Cover art by Ken Kelly.

''US soldier and author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 tw...
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Horses Of The North [Horseclans 13].

By: Adams, Robert

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49052

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel, 13th in the long-running Horseclans series - 18 in total were published 1975-1978 by Signet/New Americann Library.. ''First printing, June 1985'' on copyright page. Cover art by Ken Kelly.

''US soldier and author best known for his Post-Holocaust Horseclans sequence of adventures set after 2500 CE 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 twen...
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Barbarians 11.

By: Adams, Robert (& Martin H. Greenberg & Patricia Crippen Adams, ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1988.

Edition: Second printing.

Seller ID: 48560

ISBN: 0451151984

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Heroic fantasy anthology: 364 pages. Cover art by Ken Kelly.
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Phantom Regiments.

By: Adams, Robert (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Baen Books: NY.: 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48002

ISBN: 0671698621

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Reprint anthology of 15 military sf stories, with a four page introduction by David Drake (''Skeletons At The Feast'') which is (in part) an impassioned plea highlighting the condition (not good) of many Viet Nam veterans.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography and Price Guide.

By: Adkins, P. H.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: P.D.A Enterprises: New Orleans.: 1974.

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 36237

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with some fading along edges of rear cover.

24 pages.
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Terror On Planet Ionus.

By: Adler, Allen

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Paperback Library: NY.: 1966.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48583

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

52-941. SF novel: ''The odds against destroying Karkong the monster were incredible. Jeb had to win - or Earth would perish!''. First published in hardcover in 1957 as MACH 1, A STORY OF PLANET IONUS. ''First printing, April 1966'' on copyright page.

''US author, mostly for films, co-author of the story used as the basis for the film Forbidden Planet (1956), although he had nothing to do with the novelization Forbidden Planet (1956) by Philip MacDonald writing as by W J Stuart. Allen's only sf novel Mach 1: A Story of the Planet Ionus (1957; vt TERROR ON PLANET IONUS (1966), set lik...
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Monkey Business: Stories Of Hoaxes In The Name Of Science.

By: Adler, Irving (ill. by Ruth Adler)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Day: NY.: 1953.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 33523

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Crime At Christmas: A Seasonal Box Of Murderous Delights.

By: Adrian, Jack (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Equation: Wellingborough, Northants.: 1988.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 41148

ISBN: 1853360422

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Just a little browning along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

224 pages.
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The Making Of Kubrick's 2001.

By: Agel, Jerome (ed.)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1970.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49425

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Signet W4205. 368 pages, plus 96-page ''photo insert''. ''First printing: April 1970'' on copyright page.
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Robert Aickman: The Collected Strange Stories Volumes 1 & 11.

By: Aickman, Robert

Price: £425.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1999.

Edition: First edition (first printing).

Seller ID: 01092

ISBN: 1872621473

Binding: Hardcovers.

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.
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Powers Of Darkness.

By: Aickman, Robert

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Edition: Second printing.

Seller ID: 07480

Binding: Hardcover.

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.
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Dark Entries (350 copies).

By: Aickman, Robert

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 29440

ISBN: 1905784325

Binding: Hardcover.

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...
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