Author:Blackburn, John

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A Scent Of New-Mown Hay.

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1958.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 38980

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Inked name on front free endpaper, page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fairly good dustjacket with shallow chipping along the top spine edge and chipped (2cm x 2cm) bottom spine edge, dust-soiling to rear (white) panel and wear at corner tips.

Spy thriller with sf trappings: the author's first book. Published in the US in 1966 as a Lancer paperback as THE RELUCTANT SPY. Scarce UK hardcover (the US edition issued the same year is much more common).

''(1923-1993) UK writer and antiquarian book dealer, author of many novels whose ambience of Horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf, often simultaneously; he was a sophisticated, commercial exploiter of Equipoise in fantastic fiction. Early books, such as his first, A SCENT OF NEW MOWN-HAY (1958; vt The Reluctant Spy 1966), A Sour Apple ...
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A Sour Apple Tree.

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1958.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 38981

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning and a little spotted, a near fine copy in a G/VG dustjacket with shallow chipping along the spine edges and several corner tips.

Spy thriller: the author's second book.

''(1923-1993) UK writer and antiquarian book dealer, author of many novels whose ambience of Horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf, often simultaneously; he was a sophisticated, commercial exploiter of Equipoise in fantastic fiction. Early books, such as his first, A Scent Of New-Mown Hay (1958; vt The Reluctant Spy 1966), A SOUR APPLE TREE (1958), Broken Boy (1959) and A Ring of Roses (1965; vt A Wreath of Roses 1965), tend to manipulate the patterns of espionage and thriller fiction to buttress and ul...
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The Young Man From Lima (inscribed to Hugh Lamb)..

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1968.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 20027

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with light dust-soiling to rear (white) panel.

Horror novel with sf elements. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''Thank you Hugh, for opening a new field, John Blackburn''. With Hugh Lamb's signature and date (8.2.68) at top corner of the same page. A scarce UK hardcover.
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The Sins Of The Father.

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1979.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 18019

ISBN: 0224016091

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in VG dustjacket.

Thriller with horror elements.

''UK writer and antiquarian book dealer, author of many novels whose ambience of horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf. However, though his use of sf situations is often ingenious, and though even his most straightforward novels are prone to internal generic mutations from one form to another, it would be unduly stretching matters to describe the author as a genuine sf writer'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF): ''in his macabre new thriller, John Blackburn unravels the dark intricacies of a new form of evil as i...
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Mister Brown's Bodies (presentation copy to Hugh Lamb)..

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1975.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 45534

ISBN: 0224011006

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller with horror elements. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB/''Hugh Lamb, with all the best and gratitude for kicking off a new ball. John Blackburn''. With Hugh Lamb's signature beneath.

''UK writer and antiquarian book dealer, author of many novels whose ambience of horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf. However, though his use of sf situations is often ingenious, and though even his most straightforward novels are prone to internal generic mutations from one form to another, it would be unduly st...
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A Scent Of New-Mown Hay (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Blackburn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1961.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 46720

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a VG copy.

Penguin 1615. Spy thriller with sf trappings: the author's first book. Published in the US in 1966 as a Lancer paperback as THE RELUCTANT SPY. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. There was a Digit paperback in 1964 (with a much better cover!) but this is the first paperback edition from three years earlier.

''(1923-1993) UK writer and antiquarian book dealer, author of many novels whose ambience of Horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf, often simultaneously; he was a sophis...
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Author:Blackburn, John

A Scent Of New-Mown Hay.

A Sour Apple Tree.

The Young Man From Lima (inscribed to Hugh Lamb)..

The Sins Of The Father.

Mister Brown's Bodies (presentation copy to Hugh Lamb)..

A Scent Of New-Mown Hay (Hugh Lamb's copy).

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