Category: REFERENCE & NON-FICTION

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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Search For Philip K. Dick: A Memoir And Biography Of the Science Fiction Writer.

By: Dick, Anne R.

Price: £250.00

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press: NY.: 1995.

Seller ID: 48294

ISBN: 0773491376

Binding: Hardcover.

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

372 pages: introduction by Benjamin Gross, Afterward and notes by the author, ex-wife of Philip K. Dick. A very uncommon 1st edition hardcover (though reprinted by Tachyon in 2004).
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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 (hardcover issue).

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Terre Haute & Greencastle, SF-TH, Inc: Indiana.: 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. Reprints the two Philip K. Dick Special Issues from Science-Fiction Studies (no 5, March 1975 and no 45, July 1988) plus another 19 articles from other issues 1975-1992. Note: forty articles ABOUT Philip K. Dick, not by him. Issued simultaneously in paperback and hardcover, this is the very uncommon hardcover issue.
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What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick.

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Overlook Press: NY.: 2000.

Seller ID: 06095

ISBN: 158567009X

Binding: Hardcover.

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

204 pages: edited by Gwen Lee and Doris Elaine Sauter, introduction by Tim Powers.
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Philip K. Dick: The Dream Connection.

By: Dick, Philip K. (ed. D. Scott Apel)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: The Permament Press: San Jose, CA.: 1987.

Seller ID: 28342

Binding: Hardcover.

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

296 pages. Includes a seventy page interview with Philip K. Dick, plus the short story ''The Eye Of The Sybil'' by Dick, plus pieces on Dick by Ray Faraday Nelson, Robert Anton Wilson and other material.
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Philip K. Dick: Writers Of The 21st Century.

By: Dick, Philip K. (ed. Olander & Greenberg)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Taplinger: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 01878

ISBN: 0800862929

Binding: Hardcover.

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

256 pages: edited by Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg with an introduction by Barry Malzberg. Ten essays on Philip K. Dick by Thomas M. Disch, Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Bishop and others, plus ''Now Wait For This Year'' a non-fiction piece by Dick himself.
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations.

By: Dick, Philip K. (ed. Samuel J. Umland)

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press: Westport, CT.: 1995.

Seller ID: 48293

ISBN: 0313292957

Binding: Hardcover.

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

228 pages: eleven essays on Philip K. Dick, with Primary and Secondary Bibliography plus index. Edited with an introduction by Samuel J. Umland. Second printing with ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'' number code on copyright page.
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations.

By: Dick, Philip K. (ed. Samuel J. Umland)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press: Westport, CT.: 1995.

Seller ID: 48295

Binding: Hardcover.

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

228 pages: eleven essays on Philip K. Dick, with Primary and Secondary Bibliography plus index. Edited with an introduction by Samuel J. Umland. First printing with ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'' number code on copyright page.
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Star Trek Where No One Has Gone Before: A History In Pictures.

By: Dillard, J. M. (STAR TREK)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY.: 1994.

Seller ID: 16297

ISBN: 0671511491

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

208 pages: full colour throughout.
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American Crime Fiction: Studies In The Genre.

By: Docherty, Brian (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY.: 1988.

Seller ID: 36711

ISBN: 0312016859

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

146 pages. Uncommon US hardcover.
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Doctor Who: The Scripts Tom Baker 1974/5.

By: DOCTOR WHO, (Tom Baker)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 2001.

Seller ID: 45569

ISBN: 0563538155

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

368 pages. Full scripts for Tom Baker's First Season, plus appendices and other material.
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Fantasy And The Cinema.

By: Donald, James (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: BFI: London.: 1989.

Seller ID: 37366

ISBN: 0851702295

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

298 pages. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.
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The Oracle Of Change: How To Consult The I Ching.

By: Douglas, Alfred

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1972.

Seller ID: 32228

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a near fine (NF) copy.

238 pages. First published in hardcover in 1971.
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The Owlman and Others: 30th Anniversary Edition.

By: Downes, Jonathan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: CFZ Press: Bideford, Devon.: 2006.

Seller ID: 43586

ISBN: 1905723024

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

332 pages: revised and updated from earlier editions. Investigates the mid-1970s sightings of ''a big, feathered bird-man hovering over the church tower at Mawnan in Cornwall''. Lionel Fanthorpe states on the back cover ''Exciting and well-constructed'', which he would know all about after writing hundreds of stories and novels gor Badger books in the 1960s. I think not.
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The Future of Canadian Literature (limited/numbered).

By: Doyle, Adrian Conan

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Arthur Conan Doyle Society: Chester, UK.: 1994.

Seller ID: 46075

ISBN: 1899060014

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

12 page booklet: contains the five page essay by Doyle plus a three page introduction by publisher/editors Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden. LIMITED EDITION: 125 copies printed. This is no 116.
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The Sensuous Couple.

By: Dr. 'C', (aka Robert Chartham)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1971.

Seller ID: 43872

ISBN: 0450010732

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a fine (unread) copy.

Comics Between The Panels.

By: Duin, Steve (& Mike Richardson)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics: USA.: 1998.

Seller ID: 36547

ISBN: 1569713448

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

498 pages: encyclopedia of comics. Illustrated throughout.
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The Pocket Essential: Film Noir: Films Of Trust And Betrayal.

By: Duncan, Paul

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pocket Essentials: Herts.: 2000.

Seller ID: 34795

ISBN: 1903047080

Binding: Paperback original.

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

96 pages.
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Off The Ancient Track: A Lovecraftian Guide To New England & Adjacent New York.

By: Eckhardt, Jason C.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Necronomicon Press: USA.: 1987.

Seller ID: 33787

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

16 page booklet. ''First printed - December 1987'' on the copyright page.
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X Files Confidential: The Unauthorised X-Philes Compendium.

By: Edwards, Ted (X-FILES)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 11961

ISBN: 0316881813

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine copy with review slip (as new).

Second Edition: expanded to include series 4: 328 pages.
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Smoke & Mirrors: The Haunted House Of Alton Towers.

By: Eley, Michael P.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Haunted One Publication: UK.: 2012.

Seller ID: 44005

ISBN: 1490417087

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

112 pages: non-fiction account of the Haunted House ride/attraction at Alton Towers, discontinued in 2002. Short introduction by John Wardley, co-designer for the ride.
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Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults In Singapore.

By: Elliott, Alan J. A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Athlone Press: London: 1990.

Seller ID: 44467

ISBN: 0485195143

Binding: Hardcover.

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

180 pages. Revised from the original 1955 publication.
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The Harlan Ellison Hornbook.

By: Ellison, Harlan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Penzler Books: NY.: 1990.

Seller ID: 00766

Binding: Hardcover.

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

More than fifty previously uncollected essays. Preceded by a limited edition from the Mirage Press.
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Edgeworks 1: Over The Edge and An Edge In My Voice.

By: Ellison, Harlan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: White Wolf Publishing: GA.: 1996.

Seller ID: 07611

ISBN: 1565049608

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Faint spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Omnibus edition: collects all the essays (and some fiction) from two earlier volumes, Over The Edge and An Edge In My Voice, with the obligatory new introductions by the author, plus further introductions by Norman Spinrad and Tom Snyder. 600 pages.
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Empire For The SF Writer vol 6 no 4 (whole no 25).

By: EMPIRE SF, (ed. Mark J. McGarry)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Empire SF: New Haven, CT.: 1981.

Seller ID: 47074

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 25 (Fall, 1981). SF fanzine for sf writers, primarily aimed at aspiring sf writers. Regular columns, including 'Crazy Diamonds', in which an umpublished piece of fiction is critiqued by three sf writers - in this case the story is ''Mynd'' by Derrick Ferguson and the three author/reviewers are Eric Vinicoff, Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Gene Wolfe.
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Erb-dom no 54.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1972.

Seller ID: 25939

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 54 (January, 1972). Special DC Comics Preview issue. Nice colour covers. Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction,...
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Erb-dom no 35.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1970.

Seller ID: 25942

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for light creasing to rear cover.

No 35 (June, 1970). Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 819).

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Erb-dom no 55.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1972.

Seller ID: 25945

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 55 (February, 1972). Lots of adverts. Nice colour covers. Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and We...
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Erb-dom no 56.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1972.

Seller ID: 25946

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 56 (March, 1972). Lots of adverts. Nice colour covers. Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird...
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Erb-dom no 59.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1972.

Seller ID: 25947

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 59 (June, 1972). Lots of adverts. Nice colour covers. Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird ...
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Erb-dom no 61.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1972.

Seller ID: 25948

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 61 (August, 1972). Lots of adverts. Nice colour covers. Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weir...
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Erb-dom no 49.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1971.

Seller ID: 28978

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 49 (August, 1971). Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 819).

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Erb-dom no 46.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1971.

Seller ID: 38890

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 46 (May, 1971). Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 819).

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Erb-dom no 50.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1971

Seller ID: 38891

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 50 (September, 1971). Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 819).
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Erb-dom no 34.

By: ERB-DOM, (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1970.

Seller ID: 39429

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 34 (May, 1970). Long-running fanzine (89 issues published 1960-1976) edited by Camille ''Caz'' Cazedessus Jr. devoted to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs: ''of the fanzines rooted in love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perenially popular wish-fulfillment fantasies, ERB-DOM stands out as valuable even for readers who do not adulate the writer. It gives many background and bibliographical details of Burroughs' work as it had appeared in books, comic strips and movies. Some material is reprinted, some new'' (Ashley & Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 819).

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Star Trek: Action!

By: Erdmann, Terry J (STAR TREK)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY.: 1998.

Seller ID: 11665

ISBN: 0671025422

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

Book-length study (278 pages, illustrated throughout with colour stills and photos) of the special effects sequences used throughout the movies, particularly concentrating on just three specific sequences of action taken from three of the movies. It's all in the detail..
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Landscapes Of The Night: How And Why We Dream.

By: Evans, Christopher (& Peter Evans)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1983.

Seller ID: 36888

ISBN: 0575031042

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Faint spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

UK psychologist and computer scientist (1931-1979) - not to be confused with the sf writer of the same name. Posthumously published non-fiction book, edited and completed by Peter Evans.

''(1931-1979) UK psychologist and computer scientist perhaps best known for his nonfiction books Cults of Unreason (1973) - a witty and surprisingly sympathetic study of various aspects of pseudoscience, in particular UFO cults and Scientology - and The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution (1979). His enthusiasm for sf brought him into contact with the field at several points; he was bil...
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