Category: REFERENCE & NON-FICTION

Third (and final) issue of a genre film fanzine (though this third issue is mucher slicker in quality than the first two). Very uncommon.
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Cinefantastique vol 21 no 4.

By: CINEFANTASTIQUE, (ed. Frederick S. Clarke)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1991.

Seller ID: 41145

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

1991 February issue. Long-running, groundbreaking horror/fantastic film magazine edited and published by Frederick Clarke. This issue includes Stephen King on Hollywood and the filming of his novel Misery, plus Edward Scissorhands and much more.
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Cinemacabre no 4.

By: CINEMACABRE, (ed. John E. Parnum)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: George Stover: Baltimore, MD.: 1981.

Seller ID: 44971

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy with light cover crease.

No 4 (Summer 1981). SF/fantasy film magazine: ''an appreciation of the fantastic''.
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Cinemacabre: An Appreciation Of The Fantastic no 3.

By: CINEMACABRE, (ed. John Parnum)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: George Stover: Baltimore, MD.: 1980 (Summer).

Seller ID: 32159

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Third issue. Seven issues of this slick monster/horror film magazine (A5 format) were published between 1978-1988 by editor John Parnum and publisher George Stover, itself a retitling of publisher George Stover's previous fanzine BLACK ORACLE (ten issues, 1969-1978)
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Raymond Chandler In Hollywood.

By: Clark, Al

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Proteus Publishing: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 36417

ISBN: 0862761093

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Almost fine copy with a little background spine fade (dark blue to light blue).

160 pages: b/w photos throughout.
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The Young Traveller In Space.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Phoenix House Ltd: London.: 1954.

Seller ID: 34465

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, spine edges a little worn, faint spotting to both free endpapers, a near fine copy in a good edge-worn (but bright pictorial unfaded) dustjacket with several short closed tears and wear at both spine ends.

Non-fiction: ''with one colour plate and 31 monochrome plates and six diagrams''. Published later the same year in the USA with some differences in content as GOING INTO SPACE. Uncommon UK hardcover, particularly so with the original dustjacket - the front cover illustration is reproduced on the front board, and a lot of young boys in the 1950s would have simply thrown the dustjacket away.
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The Pattern Of Expectation 1644-2001.

By: Clarke, I. F.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London.: 1979.

Seller ID: 24365

ISBN: 0224014714

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little spine fade.

Non-fiction: 344 pages.

''ranges widely through the literature of the future from its earliest days to the most recent forecasts of futurology, and takes in much work which tends to be ignored by historians of genre sf. This book broke new ground in the history and sociology of ideas, focusing on the interrelation between differing expectations and predictions of the future in different historical periods and the characteristic future images they yielded, in pictures as well as in words'' (Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF).
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The Tale Of The Next Great War, 1871 - 1914: Fictions Of Future Warfare And Battles Still-To-Come.

By: Clarke, I. F. (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press.: 1995.

Seller ID: 30360

ISBN: 0853234698

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collects sixteen stories about future wars, mostly English, but also French and German in translation, with some of the original illustrations, with a 26 page introduction by the editor, and bibliographical and biographical notes. 382 pages.
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A Natural History Of Ghosts: 500 Years Of Hunting For Proof.

By: Clarke, Roger

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Particular Books/Penguin Books: London.: 2012.

Seller ID: 44444

ISBN: 1846143330

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

362 pages.
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Some Notes on X1 Bootis.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Advent: Chicago.: 1960.

Seller ID: 06670

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

12-page booklet.Extrapolation of the astronomy, geology, and biology of an imaginary solar system summarized, with diagrams, for a lecture, ''Interstellar Stage-Setting,'' delivered at the 18th World Science Fiction Convention, 2nd September 1960.
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How To Make And Use Magic Mirrors.

By: Clough, Nigel R.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, Northants.: 1977.

Seller ID: 32212

ISBN: 0850301297

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little age-darkened, else a fine (as new) copy.

64 pages.
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Men, Women And Chainsaws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film.

By: Clover, Carol J.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: BFI: London.: 1996.

Seller ID: 41155

ISBN: 0851706169

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy with several light stains along page edges.

260 pages.
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Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 (signed/limited 50 copies).

By: Clute, John

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Beccon Publications: Essex.: 2003.

Seller ID: 11485

ISBN: 1870824474

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Over 400 pages, 214,000 words of uncollected book reviews and articles about sf and the genre: no overlap with the two earlier collections of Clute's non-fiction (Strokes and Look At The Evidence). LIMITED EDITION. 50 numbered hardbound copies signed by the author. Note: this is the ONLY hardcover edition, limited to just fifty copies (there was a simultaneous trade paperback).
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Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika In The World Storm (signed by the author).

By: Clute, John

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Beccon Publications: Essex.: 2011.

Seller ID: 29842

ISBN: 1870824601

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

370 pages: collection of essays and articles, not so much specific book reviews (as found in earlier volumes) though there are some pieces on specific authors such as Joan Aiken, Thomas Burnett Swann, Howard Waldrop and William Mayne.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1988.

By: Collins, Robert A. (& Robert Latham, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Meckler Corporation: Westport, CT.: 1988.

Seller ID: 43241

ISBN: 0887362494

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Almost fine copy as issued without dustjacket.

486 pages: collects together all the reviews from different sources for sf/fantasy books published in 1987.
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The Hitchcock Murders.

By: Conrad, Peter

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 35479

ISBN: 0571200230

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Non-fiction: 362 pages.
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500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes.

By: Conroy, Mike

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Chrysalis: London.: 2002.

Seller ID: 43435

ISBN: 1844110044

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Near fine copy.

376 pages: colour throughout. Introduction by Will Eisner.
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In Conversation A Writer's Perspective: Volume One: Horror.

By: Cooper, James (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The British Fantasy Society (BFS).: 2009.

Seller ID: 44029

ISBN: 0953868192

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collection of interviews with leading horror writers - Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Graham Joyce, Pete Crowther, Conrad Williams, Ray Garton and many others.
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The Werewolf In Legend, Fact And Art.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 24125

ISBN: 070916193X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Light circular stain (where a cup was placed?) on front board, an almost fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with a little wear along the bottom spine edge.

An uncommon UK hardcover (though some would say that that assertion is undermined by the fact that I have three copies for sale at the moment).
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Science Fiction And Fantasy Series And Sequels, A Bibliography: Volume 1: Books.

By: Cottrill, Tim (& M. Greenberg & C. Waugh)

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Garland Publishing: NY.: 1986.

Seller ID: 17328

ISBN: 0824086716

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket.

Success..and How To Avoid It.

By: Coward, Matt

Price: £25.00

Publisher: TTA Press: UK.: 2004.

Seller ID: 47604

ISBN: 0953294919

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

176 pages: a very funny, tongue-in-cheek book for would be writers, with cartoons by Rob Kirbyson.
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The Mummy In Fact, Fiction And Film.

By: Cowie, Susan D. (& Tom Johnson)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: McFarland & Co.: North Carolina.: 2002.

Seller ID: 37568

ISBN: 0786410833

Binding: Hardcover.

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

202 pages.
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M. R. James: An Informal Portrait.

By: Cox, Michael (M. R. James)

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Oxford.: 1983.

Seller ID: 27211

ISBN: 0192117653

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for background spine panel fade (brown to green).

Biography: 268 pages.
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Crime Time: The Journal Of Crime Fiction 2.6 (Special Mickey Spillane issue)

By: CRIME TIME, (ed. Barry Forshaw)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: CT Publishing: Birmingham.: 1999.

Seller ID: 34802

ISBN: 1902002202

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 2.6. The Journal Of Crime Fiction. Special Millenium-sized issue/Special Mickey Spillane issue. Articles and reviews: 416 pages
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Crime Time: The Journal Of Crime Fiction #21.

By: CRIME TIME, (ed. Barry Forshaw)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: CT Publishing: Birmingham.: 2000.

Seller ID: 34808

ISBN: 1842430181

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 21. The Journal Of Crime Fiction. Articles and reviews: 272 pages
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Image for Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley Written By 'A Gentleman From Hastings' With Additional Contributions From Frater Amor Fati & The English Heretic.

Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley Written By 'A Gentleman From Hastings' With Additional Contributions From Frater Amor Fati & The English Heretic.

By: Crowley, Aleister

Price: £225.00

Publisher: Accumulator Press: Camden Town, London.: 2012.

Seller ID: 44892

ISBN: 095723340X

Binding: Hardcover.

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

228 pages: foreword by Anok Pe. Very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Film Noir: Reflections In A Dark Mirror.

By: Crowther, Bruce

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Columbus Books: London.: 1988.

Seller ID: 36884

ISBN: 0862874025

Binding: Oversize pictorial covers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

192 pages.
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Crypt Of Cthulhu Vol 4 no 8: Dirk W. Mosig issue (whole no. 33).

By: CRYPT OF CTHULHU, (ed. Robert M. Price)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cryptic Publications: USA.: 1985.

Seller ID: 38220

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Issue 33: Dirk W. Mosig issue. 107 issues of this Lovecraftian magazine were published between 1981-2002.
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Crypt Of Cthulhu Vol 3 no 9: Weird Tales Tribute issue (whole no. 25).

By: CRYPT OF CTHULHU, (ed. Robert M. Price)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cryptic Publications: USA.: 1984.

Seller ID: 38876

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy in yellow covers, with small price sticker on front cover.

Issue 25: Weird Tales Tribute issue. 107 issues of this Lovecraftian magazine were published between 1981-2002. This copy is one of 200 copies printed with yellow covers, following the 525 copies issued earlier the same month (September 1984) in gold covers.
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Past Forgetting : Memoirs of the Hammer Years.

By: Cushing, Peter

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Clio Press: Oxford.: 1988.

Seller ID: 43120

ISBN: 185089261X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Ex-library, a VG copy in pictorial boards (as issued).

Large print edition, issued for the library market.
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Bram Stoker: A Bibliography Of First Editions: Illustrated (inscribed to Mike Ashley).

By: Dalby, Richard (Bram Stoker)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dracula Press: London.: 1983.

Seller ID: 30754

ISBN: 0721206434

Binding: Card pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little browning along page edges.

80 pages: small pocketbook format. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED (''Christmas 1983'') TO FELLOW UK DITOR MIKE ASHLEY.
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The Golden Age Of DC Comics: 365 Days.

By: Daniels, Les

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: NY.: 2004.

Seller ID: 35935

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Full-colour throughout (every page).
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Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media.

By: Daniels, Les

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Granada/Paladin: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 45170

ISBN: 0586082840

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

270 pages. First published in the USA as LIVING IN FEAR.
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Holmes Of The Movies: The Screen Career Of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Davies, David Stuart (Sherlock Holmes)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 32059

ISBN: 0450030652

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Ink-stamp on copyright page, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Foreword by Peter Cushing: 176 pages, b/w stills throughout.
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The Thriller: The Suspense Film From 1946.

By: Davis, Brian

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Studio Vista: London.: 1973.

Seller ID: 35475

ISBN: 0289703417

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

160 pages. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.
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The Encyclopedia Of Horror.

By: Davis, Richard (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hamlyn: London.: 1987.

Seller ID: 32693

ISBN: 0600553590

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

192 pages: b/w (and some colour) illustrations throughout. Foreword by Peter Cushing, and includes Tom Hutchinson on Evil Monsters, Michel Parry on The Frankenstein Saga, Richard Cavendish on The Devil's Army, Basil Copper on Vampires & Werewolves, Michael Ashley on The Supernatural, Richard Davis on The Undead, and Douglas Hill on Travelling Beyond.
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Citadels Of Mystery.

By: de Camp, L. Sprague (& Catherine Crook de Camp)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 33460

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, a browning, an almost fine (unread) copy.

292: ''unsolved puzzles of archeology: Atlantis, Stonehenge, Tintangel and more''.
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The International Sherlock Holmes: A Companion Volume To The World Bibliography Of Sherlock Holmes And Dr. Watson.

By: de Waal, Ronald Burt

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Archon Books/Mansell.: 1980.

Seller ID: 28890

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Ex-library, else hear fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

622 pages.
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Encyclopedia Mysteriosa: A Comprehensive Guide To The Art Of Detection In Print, Film, Radio And Television.

By: DeAndrea, William L.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall Inc., NJ.: 1994.

Seller ID: 34780

ISBN: 0671850253

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

406 pages.
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Masters Of Fantasy 2: August Derleth.

By: Derleth, August (ed. Nic Howard)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The British Fantasy Society (BFS).: 1984.

Seller ID: 13511

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

24 pages: BFS booklet no. 7. Edited by Nic Howard [aka John Howard].
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The Hugo, Nebula And World Fantasy Awards.

By: Devore, Howard

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Advent: Chicago.: 1998.

Seller ID: 31086

ISBN: 0911682325

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

332 pages.
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Plot (Writer's Workshop Series).

By: Dibell, Ansen

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Robinson: London.: 1990.

Seller ID: 16329

ISBN: 1854870696

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

170 pages: ''how to build short stories and novels that do not sag, fizzle or trail off in scraps of frustrated revision - and how to rescue stories that do''.
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The Selected Letters Of Philip K. Dick: Volume Three 1974 (signed/slipcased).

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Underwood-Miller: USA.: 1991.

Seller ID: 21963

ISBN: 0887331041

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Volume 3 (1974) - third in the five volume series. 314 pages: edited by Don Herron. introduction by William Gibson. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by Gibson and slipcased.
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On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles From Science-Fiction Studies.

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Terre De Brume: Rennes, France.: 1992.

Seller ID: 41849

ISBN: 0963316907

Binding: Hardcover.

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

290 pages: edited by R. D. Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans and Veronica Hollinger. Note: 40 articles ABOUT Philip K. Dick, not by him. Very uncommon edition.
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