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By: Blackburn, John
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1958.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 38981
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 ... View more info
By: Blackburn, John
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1965.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 20030
Thriller with sf elements. View more info
By: Blackburn, John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1975.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 10858
''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). View more info
By: Blackburn, John
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1977.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 18018
Mystery/thriller.''throughout Blackburn's more routine work, however, it is often the case that what seem to be sf plot devices on introduction turn out to be explicable in terms of contemporary science by the story's close, or are McGuffins like the atom-bomb conspiracy in The Face of the Lion. 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 w... View more info
By: Blackburn, John
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1958.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 38980
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 i... View more info
By: Blackburn, John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1976.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 10044
Thriller/horror novel.''author of many novels whose ambience of horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including sf: he tended to use themes from espionage and thriller fiction to buttress and ultimately provide explanations for tales whose effects were fundamentally gothic horror and fantasy. Ex-Nazis often cropped up in these books, and even in later stories, like THE FACE OF THE LION (1976), which again (characteristically) deals... View more info
