Category: REFERENCE & NON-FICTION

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Nd (1973).

Seller ID: 03389

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Bibliographical checklist of fiction, nonfiction and edited works, compiled by Margaret Aldiss: revised and updated edition of the earlier 'Item 43'. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 266.
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The Twinkling Of An Eye or, My Life As An Englishman (inscribed by the author).

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: London.: 1998.

Seller ID: 05976

ISBN: 0316647063

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Autobiography, with index: 484 pages.

Autobiography.
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The Detached Retina: Aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy (a copy from his library).

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press.: 1995.

Seller ID: 06451

ISBN: 0853232997

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

224 pages: collects 23 essays plus index. This copy is from Brian Aldiss's own library, with a white printed label signed by Wendy Aldiss affixed at the back of the book, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''.
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This World And Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring The Familiar.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London.: 1979.

Seller ID: 10182

ISBN: 029777655X

Binding: Hardcover.

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

262 pages: includes essays on Philip K. Dick, James Blish, Robert Sheckley, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, and Josef Nesvadba.
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The Detached Retina: Aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy (a copy from his library).

By: Aldiss, Brian W. (& Harry Harrison, eds.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press.: 1995.

Seller ID: 45105

Binding: Hardcover.

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

224 pages: collects 23 essays plus index. Uncommon hardcover issue. This copy is from Brian Aldiss's own library, with a white printed label signed by Wendy Aldiss affixed on the rear pastedown, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''.
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Trillion Year Spree: The History Of Science Fiction (from the author's own library).

By: Aldiss, Brian W. (& David Wingrove)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Atheneum: NY.: 1986.

Seller ID: 46673

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of spotting to front free endpaper.

512 pages. Greatly expanded and updated (mostly by Wingrove, I believe) from the earlier volume Billion Year Spree (1973, by Aldiss alone). Winner of a Hugo for best non-fiction. This copy is from Brian Aldiss's own library, with a white printed label pasted in, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''.

''Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973), a large survey of sf marked by iconoclasms, enthusiasms, and impat...
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SF Horizons : A Magazine Of Criticism and Comment: no 2 (the author's own copy).

Price: £30.00

Publisher: SF Horizons Ltd: Oxford.: 1965.

Seller ID: 46649

Binding: Stapled pictorial covers.

Condition: Staples rusting, a NF/Fine copy with a touch of browning along the stapled spine.

No 2 (Winter 1965). Second of just two issues published in total (each 64 pages) Spring 1964 and Winter 1965. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. This issue contains ''The Hallucinatory Operators Are Real'' by William Burroughs in which he discusses Science Fiction. A fine attempt to establish a popular magazine of SF comment and criticism. See Tymn and Ashley (ed.), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 841. This copy is from the author's own library, with a white printed label signed by Wendy Aldiss affixed on the inside rear cover, stating/''This book was a personal copy...
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Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction no 15, 19, 20, 21, 23, 32.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1969-1978.

Seller ID: 46556

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copies.

Six issues from 1969-1978. Long-running and important small-press sf magazine (early issues were mimeographed fanzines) with articles, reviews interviews and regular columns. 44 issues published 1963-1984. Issue 15 (Spring 1969) includes Norman Spinrad ''The Bug Jack Barron Papers'': issue 20 has a special section on Cordwainer Smith, issue 21 includes pieces by Ursula K. Le Guin, John Brunner, Gregory Benford, Alfred Bester, J. G. Ballard (''A New Metaphor For The Future''), Jack Williamson, Richard Lupoff and Ted White (the latter two regular columnists for the magazine). And much, muc...
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Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction no 24 (vol 12 no 2).

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Andrew Porter, Publisher: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 48336

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

No 24 (Summer, 1975). Long-running and important small-press sf magazine (early issues were mimeographed fanzines) with articles, reviews interviews and regular columns. 44 issues published 1963-1984 (from no 34 it changed it's name to STARSHIP). This issue includes articles by Ted White, Jack Williamson, Brian M. Stableford, Richard Lupoff and an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction no 25 (vol 13 no 1).

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Andrew Porter, Publisher: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 48337

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

No 25 (Winter, 1976). Long-running and important small-press sf magazine (early issues were mimeographed fanzines) with articles, reviews interviews and regular columns. 44 issues published 1963-1984 (from no 34 it changed it's name to STARSHIP). This issue includes articles by Ted White, Jack Williamson, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, Darrell Schweitzer, Richard Lupoff and an interview with Gardner Dozois.
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Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction no 27 (vol 14 no 1).

By: Archer, Simon & Marcus Hearn (THUNDERBIRDS)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Andrew Porter, Publisher: NY.: 1977.

Seller ID: 48338

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

No 27 (Fall 1976/Winter 1977). Long-running and important small-press sf magazine (early issues were mimeographed fanzines) with articles, reviews interviews and regular columns. 44 issues published 1963-1984 (from no 34 it changed it's name to STARSHIP). This issue includes articles by James Gunn, James White, Richard Lupoff, Susan Wood, L. Sprague de Camp, Marta Randall, Vincent diFate, Bob Shaw, Darrell Schweitzer and an interview with Isaac Asimov.
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Science Fiction Reader's Guide.

By: Allen, L. David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Centennial Press: Lincoln, Nebraska.: 1974.

Seller ID: 36614

ISBN: 0822016117

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

300 pages. Title change: published the year before (1973) as SCIENCE FICTION: AN INTRODUCTION
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You're Next! Loss Of Identity In The Horror Film.

By: Ambrogio, Anthony (ed)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press: Baltimore, MD.: 2008.

Seller ID: 41132

ISBN: 1887664807

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

320 pages.
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Catastrophe: The End Of The Cinema?

By: Annan, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lorrimer Publishing: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 30777

ISBN: 0856471011

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a little dust-soiling along top page edges.

112 pages: profusely illustrated in b/w and some colour. A look at the ''disaster movie'' genre.
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Cinema Of Mystery And Fantasy.

By: Annan, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lorrimer Publishing: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 30870

ISBN: 0856470015

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

136 pages: 200 b/w film stills and eight pages of colour. ''The origins of the cinema of mystery and fantasy is traced back to myths and dreams, machines and ancient fears and is a hallucinatory trip into the depths of the mind that are illuminated in the science fiction and horror movies of the past eighty years''.
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Cinefantastic: Beyond The Dream Machine.

By: Annan, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Lorrimer Publishing: London.: 1974.

Seller ID: 36886

ISBN: 0856470376

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Top of page edges dust-soiled, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

132 pages: fantasy in the cinema, over 300 b/w stills.
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Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeStarring Fredric March.

By: Anobile, Richard J. (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Jupiter Books: London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 43608

ISBN: 0904041433

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

256 pages: 1931 horror film: ''over 1500 frame blow up photos shown sequentially and coupled with the complete dialogue from the original soundtrack''. This is the original 1975 US hardcover with a sticker affixed to the copyright page denoting it as the first UK edition.
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What Made Thunderbirds Go! The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 2002.

Seller ID: 16138

ISBN: 0563534818

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

288 pages.
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Faces Of The Future: The Lessons of Science Fiction.

By: Ash, Brian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Taplinger: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 07647

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

212 pages.
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The Complete Book Of Devils And Demons.

By: Ashley, Leonard R. N.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Robson Books: London.: 1997.First B

Seller ID: 41058

ISBN: 1861050410

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine (unpriced but unclipped) dustjacket (as new)

280 pages: non-fiction.
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When Spirits Talk: The True Story Of 'Ghost Stories'.

By: Ashley, Mike

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ghost Story Society (GSS).: 1990.

Seller ID: 05395

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

GSS Special Booklet #2. 32 pages: a look at the American pulp magazine GHOST STORIES (1926-1932): reprints two stories, plus a nine page introduction.
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The Mammoth Encyclopedia Of Modern Crime Fiction (inscribed to Hugh Lamb).

By: Ashley, Mike

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Robinson: London.: 2002.

Seller ID: 35579

ISBN: 1841192872

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a NF/Fine copy.

780 pages. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE EDITOR TO FELLOW UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB/''for Hugh, Lord of the Proofreaders, Mike Ashley 6/1/2005''. With Hugh Lamb's signature and date (7 Jan 2005) at the top corner of the front free endpaper, and his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside rear cover.
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Who's Who In Horror And Fantasy Fiction (inscribed by the author).

By: Ashley, Mike (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Taplinger: NY.: 1988.

Seller ID: 45918

ISBN: 080088275X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for light wear along top spine edge.

240 pages. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Terry Nation's Blake's 7: The Programme Guide.

By: Attwood, Tony (BLAKE'S 7)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: W. H. Allen/Pinnacle: London.: 1982.

Seller ID: 40734

ISBN: 049102858X

Binding: Hardcover.

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

192 pages. A very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature.

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press: Oxford.: 1995.

Seller ID: 47223

ISBN: 0198119763

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket with printed label affixed to front free endpaper stating "This book has been donated by Oxford University Press to mark the re-opening of Canada House 13 May 1998".

Consists of four lectures delivered by the author in 1991 at Oxford University. John Clute notes in the Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition that it ''includes a long discussion of underestimated Canadian sf writer Wayland Drew''.

''Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous -- Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations ...
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Childhood's Pattern: A Study Of The Heroes And Heroines Of Children's Fiction 1770-1950.

By: Avery, Gillian

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 35499

ISBN: 0340169451

Binding: Hardcover.

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

256 pages with index.
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Enterprising Women: Television Fandom And The Creation Of Popular Myth..

By: Bacon-Smith, Camille

Price: £20.00

Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press.: 1992.

Seller ID: 41004

ISBN: 0812213793

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

338 pages. A book-length examination of Star Trek fans and fandom.
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Binding the Devil: Exorcism Past and Present.

By: Baker, Roger

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 43880

ISBN: 009911450X

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Creased rear cover, a VG+ copy.

First published in hardcover in 1974.
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The Director's Cut: A Memoir of 60 Years In Film And Television.

By: Baker, Roy Ward

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Reynolds & Hearn: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 46180

ISBN: 1903111021

Binding: Hardcover.

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

186 pages with filmography and index. Autobiography of one of Hammer film's principle directors (though he also directed tv series such as The Avengers and The Saint).
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Miracles Of Life: Shanghai To Shepperton, An Autobiography.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate: London.: 2007.

Seller ID: 22918

ISBN: 0007270720

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Autobiography. First printing with ''1'' on copyright page. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 numbered copies signed by the author and slipcased. This is no 24.
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Miracles Of Life: Shanghai To Shepperton, An Autobiography.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate: London.: 2008.

Seller ID: 22912

ISBN: 0007270720

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Autobiography. First printing with ''1'' on copyright page.
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J. G. Ballard: The First Twenty Years.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bran's Head Books: UK.: 1976.

Seller ID: 28314

ISBN: 0905220048

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: A near fine copy.

Paperback issue. Edited by James Goddard and David Pringle: Full bibliography of all writings, plus 'symposium section', with articles by Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, Ian Watson, Peter Linnett, plus three pieces by Pringle himself, plus interview with the author. There was a simultaneous limited hardcover edition.
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Extreme Metaphors: Interviews With J. G. Ballard 1967-2008.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate: London.: 2012.

Seller ID: 48141

ISBN: 0007454856

Binding: Hardcover.

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

504 pages with index: edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara.
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A User's Guide To The Millenium: Essays And Reviews.