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Serpent's Egg (signed/limited + extra story).

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Morrigan Publications: Bath.: 1987.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 02567

ISBN: 1870338154

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF/Fantasy novel. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Note: this edition includes an extra story ''Gray Ghost; A Reminiscence'', by Lafferty, not present in the trade edition. There was no slipcase issued with this book.

''it was the End of Summer of the year 2035. The Global Village that was the World was ruled by a Kangaroo Court of Compassionate Aldermen who ordered assassinations when it was deemed to be for the common good. As a sign of their openness, they were always experimenting to find new ways of looking at the World. Most of these experiments w...
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Serpent's Egg.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Morrigan Publications: Bath.: 1987.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 02569

ISBN: 1870338103

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF/Fantasy novel. 750 copies printed.

''there have always been the Twenty One Pillars of Rectitude who sustain the World; Seven Saints to insure the sanity of the World; Seven Technicians to insure it's correct mechanical working; and Seven Scribbling Giants to write it's scenarios and histories. The Saints and Technicians were always in plentiful supply. But not the Scribbling Giants. So when Atrox Fabulinus, the greatest of the Scribbling Giants, was most foully murdered with his own nine-foot goose feather quill, the World staggered with the collapse of it's most sustaining pilla...
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East Of Laughter.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Morrigan Publications: Bath.: 1988.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 04437

ISBN: 1870338308

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel.

''there have always been the Twenty One Pillars of Rectitude who sustain the World; Seven Saints to insure the sanity of the World; Seven Technicians to insure it's correct mechanical working; and Seven Scribbling Giants to write it's scenarios and histories. The Saints and Technicians were always in plentiful supply. But not the Scribbling Giants. So when Atrox Fabulinus, the greatest of the Scribbling Giants, was most foully murdered with his own nine-foot goose feather quill, the World staggered with the collapse of it's most sustaining pillar''.
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Through Elegant Eyes: Stories Of Austro And The Men Who Know Everything (signed & numbered by the author).

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Corroboree Press: Minneapolis.: 1983.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 00072

ISBN: 0911169016

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Collects fifteen stories: illustrated in b/w, but also with tipped-in colour plates by artist Joe Staton. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author.
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The Devil Is Dead.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1978.

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

Seller ID: 07829

ISBN: 0234720735

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.

SF novel, first published as an Avon paperback original in 1971, followed by a Gregg Press hardcover in 1977. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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Nine Hundred Grandmothers.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1975.

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

Seller ID: 06230

ISBN: 0234772867

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for a touch of fading to the red lettering on the spine.

Collects twenty-one sf and fantasy stories. First published as an Ace paperback oiginal in 1970. A common fault with this title is the lamination peel along the edges of the dustjacket, but for this copy that is absolutely minimal. An uncommon UK hardcover.
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Space Chantey.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1976.

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

Seller ID: 06232

ISBN: 0234770961

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. First published as half of an Ace Double paperback (H-56) in 1968: this UK hardcover includes the Vaughn Bode illustrations from that edition.

''his first three novels, Past Master (1968), The Reefs of Earth (1968) and SPACE CHANTEY (1968), all appeared within a few months of one another, causing some stir. Pre-publication praise for Past Master (accolades from New-Wave writers Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny and Harlan Ellison) demonstrated the impact his work was beginning to have, and, though it can be said that the US New Wave amounted more to an iconoclastic tone of voi...
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Arrive At Easterwine: The Autobiography Of A Ktistec Machine.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1977.

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

Seller ID: 20610

ISBN: 0234720131

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Very faint spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine copy (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

SF novel.
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Fourth Mansions.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1972.

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

Seller ID: 21989

ISBN: 0234776536

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for price-clipping.

SF novel. First published as an Ace Science Fiction Special paperback original in 1969. 1970 Nebula nominee. In Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels no 45.

''his first three novels, Past Master (1968), The Reefs of Earth (1968) and Space Chantey (1968), all appeared within a few months of one another, causing some stir. Pre-publication praise for Past Master (accolades from New-Wave writers Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny and Harlan Ellison) demonstrated the impact his work was beginning to have, and, though it can be said that the US New Wave amounted more to an iconoclas...
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Aurelia.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Donning/Starblaze.: 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 39647

ISBN: 0898651948

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. The ONLY edition of this book (no hardcover, no mass market paperback).
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The Reefs Of Earth.

By: Lafferty, R. A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1968.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48395

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Berkley X1528. SF novel.

''Lafferty's first three novels, Past Master (1968), THE REEFS OF EARTH (1968) and Space Chantey (1968 dos), all appeared within a few months of one another, causing some stir. Pre-publication praise for Past Master (including accolades from New Wave writers Samuel R Delany, Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny) demonstrated the impact his work was beginning to have, it places Sir Thomas More on the planet Astrobe, where he is tricked into becoming World President and suffers once again a martyr's death: the contrasts between Utopia and life are laid down without t...
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