Author: Aldiss, Brian W.

Bestsellers vol 3 no 9: Best of Aldiss

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Viaduct Publications: London. : 1983.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49683

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Page edges browning (cheap newsprint paper) else a fine copy.

Special Brian W. Aldiss issue of Bestsellers magazine, with ten sf stories ''personally chosen by the author'', and introduction by the author.
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Harm (from the author's own library)..

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Duckworth: London. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 45200

ISBN-13: 9780715636992

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. Includes a 12-page conversation/interview (about the novel Harm) with the author at the back of the book, plus a two page 'Author's Note'. This copy is from Brian Aldiss's own library, with a white printed label pasted in, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''.''further late novels of genre interest include HARM (2007), a dystopian tale of repression and political paranoia, set in a very near-future UK where an innocent Br...
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Harm.

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Duckworth & Co.: London. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 52979

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. Includes a 12-page conversation/interview (about the novel Harm) with the author at the back of the book, plus a two page 'Author's Note'.
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Mortal Morning: Poems (signed/limited).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Flambard Press: Newcastle. : 2011.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52971

Binding: Hardcover.

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

LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author. This is no 38.
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Sex And The Black Machine.

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Avernus Media: Old Headington, Oxford. : 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49688

Binding: Staplled magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

24-page booklet (''An Aldiss 'CUTUP' - first publication anywhere!''), issued free with Interzone magazine no 38 (August 1990) which was a Brian Aldiss Special Issue. A montage of prose, poetry and illustrations. Very uncommon.
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The Cretan Teat (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £25.00

Publisher: House Of Stratus: North Yorkshire. : 2002.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 46657

ISBN-13: 9780755111473

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Mainstream novel with fantastic elements. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of a randy but unfortunate author who becomes a character in his own novel, this clever novel, which smacks of both Pirandello and post-modernism, walks a tightrope between hilarity and tragedy as it delivers on familiar Aldiss themes, as muff-...
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The Invention Of Happiness (signed/limited).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £40.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2013.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52972

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects 34 stories: ''a new year dawned and I suddenly determined to challenge myself with shortage of time. In brief, I would write a short short story every day in succession''. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies signed by the author and issued in dustjacket. This is no 25.
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The Rain Will Stop (signed/limited).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £150.00

Publisher: The Pretentious Press: Rochester, MI. : 2000.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 50862

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy in original mailing envelope.

20-page booklet, featuring the ''author's earliest surviving literay work including his own illustrations reproduced from his original notebook in 1942''. A very attractive item with a tipped-in b/w photo of Aldiss (aged 12) at the front and four further tipped-in colour plates. LIMITED EDITION: 85 copies printed all signed by the author. The 14th title from The Pretentious Press. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Twinkling Of An Eye or, My Life As An Englishman (signed by the author pre-publication).

By: Aldiss, Brian

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: London. : 1998.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52961

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Autobiography, with index: 484 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/''Brian Aldiss (pre-publication copy)''.
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Songs From the Steppes Of Central Asia: The Collected Poems of Makhtumkuli (inscribed by Brian Aldiss).

By: Aldiss, Brian (Makhtumkuli)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Society of Friends of Makhtumkuli: Caversham, UK. : 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52976

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Selection of 40 poems ''translated by Youssef Azemoun & Peter Hughes to provide the English texts on which Brian Aldiss's subsequent versifications have been based''. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BRIAN ALDISS/''to Don, who knows where Ashkhabab is! Best regards Brian Aldiss '96''.
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When The Feast Is Finished: Reflections On Terminal Illness (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W (& Margaret Aldiss)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: London. : 1999.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 03312

ISBN-13: 9780316648356

Binding: Hardcover.

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

An account of the last few weeks of his wife's life (Margaret Aldiss died of cancer in 1997): 230 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Author: Aldiss, Brian W.

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