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Time's Arrow, or The Nature Of The Offence.

By: Amis, Martin

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1991.

Seller ID: 03167

ISBN: 0224030930

Condition: Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine price-clipped dustjacket.

SF novel in which time runs backwards.''begins at the moment at which its protagonist ''awakens'' into a radically displaced world - is a full and genuine sf novel, based on the premise that the arrow of time has been reversed (the author's acknowledged sf sources for this premise run from Philip K. Dick's Counter-Clock World [1967] to Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Slaughterhouse-Five, [1969) but very much complexifies the implications of the conceit by making the protagonist an old Nazi, whose involvement in the death camps now becomes a hymn to life. Throughout the book, the reversal of the 20t...
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The Merciful Women.

By: Andahazi, Federico

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Doubleday: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 12936

ISBN: 0385600534

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

Vampire novel. First english text: translated from the Spanish.''Switzerland, in 1816. Lord Byron, Shelley, Shelley's wife Mary and Byron's physician Dr Polidori are in the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva. Polidori is a hanger-on whose presence is merely tolerated. Yet he will stop at nothing to outwit them all. He enters a Faustian pact with an elusive penfriend, Annette Legrand, who is the mysterious third member of the infamous Legrand sisters, the notorious vaudeville act. Annette will produce for him the most compelling vampire story ever written, which he will read aloud the ve...
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The Butterfly Kid.

By: Anderson, Chester

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Gregg Press: Boston.: 1977.

Seller ID: 44299

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

SF novel, first published as a Pyramid paperback original in 1967. New introduction by Paul Williams.''US author and poet, member of the Beat Generation, editor of underground journals on both coasts, and of Paul Williams's Crawdaddy, a rock'n'roll magazine (1968-1969); he wrote poetry as c v j anderson. His most straightforward sf was written in association with Michael Kurland, Ten Years to Doomsday (1964), a straight collaboration, being a lightly written Invasion tale with a good deal of activity in space and on other planets. THE BUTTERFLY KID (1967) was written by Chester Anders...
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Enemies & Allies.

By: Anderson, Kevin J.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Morrow: NY.: 2009.

Seller ID: 38441

ISBN: 0061662550

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

Superman/Batman novel : ''The Dark Knight meets The Man Of Steel''.
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War of The Worlds: Global Dispatches.

By: Anderson, Kevin J. (ed)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bantam Spectra: NY.: 1996.

Seller ID: 27124

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

Original anthology: a collection of nineteen pastiches and parodies of The War Of The Worlds as if they had been written by other famous writers - H. G. Wells' martian invasion of earth as if witnessed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Albert Einstein, The Texas Rangers, H. P. Lovecraft and others. Authors (actual) include Howard Waldrop, Connie Willis, Allen Steele, Mike Resnick, Walter Jon Williams, Don Webb and Gregory Benford (with David Brin).
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The Unholy.

By: Anderson, Michael Falconer

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London.: 1987.

Seller ID: 17426

ISBN: 0709028776

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

Supernatural novel.
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The Devil Made Me Do it: Twenty Contemporary Tales Of Subtle Horror.

By: Anderson, Paul Dale

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Strange Company: USA.: 1985.

Seller ID: 08268

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Limited to 500 copies.
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Staves.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jwindz Publishing: Minneapolis.: 1993.

Seller ID: 00481

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Fantasy/sf poetry collection: 80 pages.
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Operation Chaos.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 1995.

Seller ID: 12053

ISBN: 0727847635

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

Fantasy novel: originally published by Putnam in 1971, this first British hardcover edition contains a new, short one-page introduction by the author.''is set in an alternate world where magic works through the discovery and application of pragmatic laws. The cast (one of whom enters the debate in the Phoenix Tavern) is again populous and colourfully conceived, and includes afreets, various familiars and demons (one of whom is an alternate version of Adolf Hitler); the male protagonist is a werewolf and his female counterpart a virgin witch. Again the war is between Law and Chaos; here...
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The Makeshift Rocket.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 16134

ISBN: 0234773693

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

Short sf novel. first published as half of an Ace Double (F-139) in 1962.
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Star Ways.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Avalon Books: NY.: 1956.

Seller ID: 42979

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket wth some reinforcement tape on the verso edges of the dustjacket.

SF novel, part of the Psychotechnic League Future History series, the first to be published (but last in the internal chronology of the series).''the Psychotechnic League stories trace the gradual movement of Man into the solar system and eventually the galaxy itself. There is a good deal of action-debate about automation, the maintenance of freedom in an expanded polity, and so forth. The sequence comprises, by rough internal chronology: The Psychotechnic League (1981), Cold Victory (1982), Starship (1982), The Snows of Ganymede (Winter 1955 Startling 1958), Virgin Planet (1959), and ...
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Commander Flandry.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 1978.

Seller ID: 32442

ISBN: 0727803980

Condition: Neat inked name in top corner of front free endpaper, and the same person (?) has written"orig. title The Rebel Worlds" on the copyright page, a little browning along top page edges, an almost fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

First published in 1969 as a NAL/Signet paperback original under the title THE REBEL WORLDS. A very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Flandry Of Terra.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Chilton: Philadelphia.: 1965.

Seller ID: 45735

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, ''The Game of Glory'', ''A Message in Secret'' (as ''Mayday Orbit'' , half of a 1961 Ace Double F-104) and ''The Plague of Masters'' (as ''Earthman, Go Home!'' (half of a 1961 Ace Double D-479).
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Three Hearts And Three Lions.

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sphere: London.: 1974.

Seller ID: 46729

ISBN: 0722111606

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Classic fantasy novel, first published by Doubleday in 1961. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books no 73. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels no 25.''published in short form about the same time as The Broken Sword, though considerably smoother in effect, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS is a more conventional exercise in rationalized fantasy, being clearly reminiscent of the Incomplete Enchanter stories published a decade earlier by L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Anderson's protagonist - conveyed to a medieval world replete with witches, dragons and eroti...
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Rising Tides.

By: Anderson, Taylor

Price: £10.00

Publisher: ROC: NY.: 2011.

Seller ID: 38442

ISBN: 0451463889

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for light spotting along top page edges.

Fifth novel in the Destroyermen fantasy series.
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Castle Trespin.

By: Andrews, Allen

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: London.: 1982.

Seller ID: 16291

ISBN: 009147650X

Condition: Top corner of front free endpaper neatly clipped, top page edges show light foxing, a near fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Animal fantasy set in 13th century France.
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Timebomb.

By: Andrews, Scott K.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London.: 2014.

Seller ID: 39011

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First volume in the Timebomb trilogy, a young adult time-travel series set in both present day Cornwall and Cornwall in the 1640s.
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Anduril Magazine Of Fantasy no 6.

By: ANDURIL, (ed. John Martin)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1976.

Seller ID: 03454

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Issue 6 (August 1976). Fiction, poetry, art, articles, reviews, letters. Anduril began as the official bulletin of The Tolkien Society, and became an independent fanzine after issue 2 (although issue 3 was distributed to Tolkien Society members) becoming more general in scope. Eight issues were published in in total between 1972-1979, the first unnumbered (a ''trial'' issue), then seven further issues numbered I to 7. This issue includes fiction and articles by Fritz Leiber, Adrian Cole, Joe R. Christopher, Pat McIntosh, Amos Salmonson and Lin Carter (writing as ''The Old Professor''.
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Robot: The Mechanical Monster.

By: Annan, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Lorrimer Publishing: London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 25221

ISBN: 0856471127

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

112 pages: robots in the movies, b/w stills throughout.
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Frontier Crossings.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1987.

Seller ID: 01847

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

Convention book for the 1987 World SF Convention held in Brighton, England. Includes pieces by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Doris Lessing, Ray Harryhausen, William Gibson, Brian W. Aldiss, Arthur C. Clarke, Walt Willis and artist Jim Burns. 196 pages.
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Walk In Dread: More Tales From 'A Century Of Ghost Stories'.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: London.: 1970.

Seller ID: 01235

Condition: Fine copy in a VG dustjacket with spine edge wear.

Collects thirteen stories taken from the A CENTURY OF GHOST STORIES, first published in 1936. Very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Tales From Beyond The Grave.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Octopus Books: London.: 1982.

Seller ID: 08885

ISBN: 0706417984

Condition: Previous owner's ink-stamped address details on title page, else a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with spine edge wear.

Reprint anthology of ghost/supernatural: 27 stories.
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Red Stains.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Creation Books: London.: 1991.

Seller ID: 27249

ISBN: 1871592089

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Original anthology: ''tales of darkest biological extremes and the psycho-sexual imagination''. 138 pages.
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The Man In Black: Macabre Stories From Fear On Four.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1990.

Seller ID: 34530

ISBN: 0563209046

Condition: Page edges browning, an almost fine (NF) copy.

Collects 25 supernatural/ghost stories first broadcast on Radio 4's weekly half hour radio programme Fear On Four - some classic reprints, but many original stories by contemporary authors such as Steve Gallagher and Robert Westall.
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Four Thrilling Adventure Novels.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Odhams Press: London.: Nd (1930s?).

Seller ID: 40677

Condition: Fine copy (lacking the dustjacket).

Collects HEARTS OF THREE (Jack London), THE CRYSTAL SKULL (Jack McLaren), THE MASTER OF MERRIPIT (Eden Phillpotts) and SHADOWS BY THE SEA (J. Jefferson Farjeon).
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Chilling Ghost Short Stories:

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing: London.: 2015.

Seller ID: 44613

ISBN: 1783613750

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

480 pages: 42 stories. Classic reprints with some original stories: introduction by Dr. Dale Townsend.
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Chilling Horror Short Stories: Anthology of New And Classic Tales.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing: London.: 2015.

Seller ID: 44723

ISBN: 1783613742

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

480 pages: foreword by Dr. Dale Townsend. 45 stories, many classic stories plus a few original stories or stories first published in small press-magazines of the last few years.
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Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: Anthology of New and Classic Tales.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing: London.: 2016.

Seller ID: 44728

ISBN: 1783619988

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

480 pages: reprints 29 classic sf/fantasy stories plus a few original stories with an introduction by Dave Golder.
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