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Death Trek.

By: Wallmann, Jeffrey N.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tower Books: NY.: 1980.

Seller ID: 48046

ISBN: 0505515288

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Sword and sorcery novel: ''to rescue a banished princess, Vantro the barbarian turns his mighty powers against the sinister Fanes!''. The only edition published of this title.
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Hell's Above Us.

By: Ward, Henry

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 46747

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy.

Panther 1505. SF novel, translated from the French by Alan Neame. First published in hardcover in 1960.

''perhaps a pseudonym of a French writer -- possibly Henri Louis Luc Viard (1921- ) as Donald H. Tuck claims. His sf novels are L'enfer est dans le ciel (trans Alan Neame as HELL'S ABOVE US: 1960) and Les soleils verts (1956; trans Alan Neame as The Green Suns: 1961). The latter book contains a detailed biography of the author in the introduction, claiming that he is a scientist educated at Cambridge in the UK and then Columbia in the USA, that at the request of the State Departm...
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Slights.

By: Warren, Kaaron

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Angry Robot: UK.: 2009.

Seller ID: 37753

ISBN: 19780007322428

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Supernatural/horror serial killer novel drom an Australian writer.

''Stevie is a killer. When she kills people she asks them: ''What do you see?''. She's about to find out. After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people -- everyone she's ever pissed off. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And she starts to wonder whether other people see the same room! when ...
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Courage Be My Guide.

By: Warren, Leonard P.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: John Spencer/Badger Books: London.: Nd (1960).

Seller ID: 29693

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

WW2 novel. Very uncommon.
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Center Force.

By: Waters, T. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 48092

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. ''First printing - December 1974'' on the copyright page. The only edition of this title.

''(1938-1998) US professional magician and author who began writing sf with Love that Spy! (1968), a spoof technothriller featuring a scientist named Niflheim - in Norse mythology the realm of ice - who specializes in ultra-cold warfare; The Blackwood Cult (1968) is a Gothic romance. Waters's first sf of more orthodox interest was The Probability Pad (1970), a novel which concluded the Greenwich Village Shared World trilogy begun in Chester Anderson's The Butterfly Kid (1967) and contin...
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The Embedding.

By: Watson, Ian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Quartet Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 48979

ISBN: 0704312182

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy with a little wear along bottom spine edge.

SF novel, the author's first book, published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1973.

''his first novel, THE EMBEDDING (1973) won the Prix Apollo in 1975 in its French translation, L'enchassement and remains the title by virtue of which his stature as an sf writer of powerful intellect -- the natural successor to H.G. Wells -- is most generally asserted. Through a complex tripartite plot, the book engages in a searching analysis of the nature of communication through language; the Whorfian hypothesis that languages shape our perception of reality -- a hypothesis very attractive, for obv...
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The Martian Inca.

By: Watson, Ian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther/Granada: London.: 1978.

Seller ID: 48982

ISBN: 0586047735

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. First published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz a year earlier. Peter Gudynas cover art.

''after salvaging a wrecked Russian spacecraft, recently crashed on a remote Bolivian mountainside, Julio Capac and his beloved Angelina are rendered comatose. They awake believing themselves reborn as terrible godlike creatures - the Inca and his Queen''.
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The Jonah Kit.

By: Watson, Ian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther/Granada: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 48983

ISBN: 0586043853

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel, the author's second book, first published by Victor Gollancz in hardcover in 1975.

''again and again, his novels reveal themselves to be very much of a piece, a series of thought experiments which spiral outwards from the same central obsessions about the nature of perception, the quest for what might be called the True Names that describe ultimate realities, and the terrible cost to human beings -- in betrayals and self-betrayals -- of searching for transcendence. THE JONAH KIT (1975), which won the British SF Award for 1978, describes the imprinting of human consciousness in...
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Pictures At An Exhibition.

By: Watson, Ian (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Greystoke Mobray: Cardiff.: 1981.

Seller ID: 14919

ISBN: 090690102

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Original sf anthology. Includes astory by Patricia & Lionel Fanthorpe, who were the publishers of this volume. Cover art by Pete Lyon.
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The Sword Of Bheleu.

By: Watt-Evans, Lawrence

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 44663

ISBN: 0345307771

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Heroic fantasy/sword & sorcery novel featuring ''Garth the overman'', third in the series.

''third in the Lords of Dus series - The Lure of the Basilisk (1980), The Seven Altars of Dsaara (1981), The SHE SWORD OF BHELEU (1983) and The Book of Silence (1984) - which gave the impression that it would retell the twelve labours of Hercules, but the series terminated before its SWORD-AND-SORCERY hero, mighty-thewed Garth, completed a full Herculean quota'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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Nightside City.

By: Watt-Evans, Lawrence

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY.: 1989.

Seller ID: 47317

ISBN: 0345359445

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel.

''NIGHTSIDE CITY (1989) tends to submerge the Hard-SF challenge at its heart - to elucidate human actions on a slow-spin planet whose terminator is advancing fatally on the city of the title - in the palely conceived escapades of a female detective. Though Watt-Evans's novels inhabit traditional venues, and their protagonists undergo traditional trials without much affecting the reader, his ingenuity is manifest'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Ads Infinitum (Being A Second Tale From The Dream House).

By: Wayman, Tony Russell

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 49028

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a touch of spine edge wear.

SF novel.

''He began writing sf with the Dreamhouse sequence - World of the Sleeper (1967 dos) and ADS INFINITUM (Being a Second Tale from the Dreamhouse) (1971) - which tells two associated tales. The first features a man from a 1994 dominated by Virtual Reality who transports himself, via an Invention that makes his dreams real, into another, preferable world, one rather resembling Malaya (the basic plot having originally been the script for a Malayan film). The second tale uses the same invention to place a similar character in a Game-World-like fantasy environment, Commercialand'' (...
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A Martian Odyssey And Other Classics Of Science Fiction.

By: Weinbaum, Stanley G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lancer Books: NY.: 1962.

Seller ID: 47471

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Lancer 74-808. SF stories: edited and with a six-page introduction by Sam Moskowitz.

''..although he did not graduate from the University of Wisconsin, he turned his two years spent there studying chemical engineering to good stead from the beginning of his sf career with ''A Martian Odyssey'' in Wonder Stories, for July 1934; this broke new ground in attempting to envisage Life on Other Worlds in terms of strange and complex ecosystems with weird alien lifeforms; there is a First Contact encounter. Told in Weinbaum's fluent style, it became immediately and permanently popular, having ...
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The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum.

By: Weinbaum, Stanley G.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 48307

ISBN: 0345238907

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy with a little creasing to top front corner.

306 pages: introduction by Isaac Asimov and afterword by Robert Bloch. ''First Printing: April, 1974'' on the copyright page.
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The New Adam.

By: Weinbaum, Stanley G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avon Books: NY.: 1969.

Seller ID: 49051

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

V2288. SF novel, first published in 1939: this is the first book publication since then. ''First Avon printing, May. 1969'' on copyright page. Cover art by Jeff Jones.

''Weinbaum's premature death from lung cancer robbed genre SF of its most promising writer of the 1930s, the full measure of his ability only becoming apparent when his longer works began to appear posthumously. THE NEW ADAM (1939) is a painstaking account of the career of a potential Superman who grows up as a kind of ''feral child'' in human society; it initiates into the pulp sf world the kind of superman story more...
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The Solar Invasion.

By: Wellman, Manly Wade

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Popular Library: NY.: Nd (1968).

Seller ID: 33626

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Popular Library 60-2346. Short sf novel set in the ''Captain Future universe'', having first appeared in the Fall 1946 issue of Startling Stories. Cover by Frank Frazetta.
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The Valley Of Spiders: A New Collection Of Short Stories.

By: Wells, H. G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1964.

Seller ID: 43753

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fair reading copy.

Collection of 13 stories, all reprinted from earlier volumes: ''sinister..macabre..ghoulish!'' - marketed as a horror paperback.
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Travels Of A Republican Radical In Search Of Hot Water [+ dj]

By: Wells, H. G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1939.

Seller ID: 14639

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a VG+ copy, as issued in the original Penguin paper dustjacket (fair condition).

Penguin Special S41. Non-fiction.
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The Spacejacks.

By: Wells, Robert

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 47513

ISBN: 042502847X

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Berkley N2847. SF novel, sequel to RIGHT-HANDED WILDERNESS (1973): ''a space salvage team led by a spirited young woman stands between mankind and alien conquest''. Richard Powers cover.

''UK author who began publishing sf with ''The Machine That Was Lovely'' in the Observer in 1954, and who later concentrated on novels, beginning with The Parasaurians (1969), in which fake safaris against robot Dinosaurs turn into a more serious threat to the hero. Candle in the Sun (1971) explores a Last Man scenario through the plight of a man left alone in a deep-ocean station with reason to belie...
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Lords of Creation.

By: West, Wallace

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Airmont Books: NY.: 1963.

Seller ID: 48863

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Airmont SF3. SF novel, serialised May-November 1952 in Future). First published in hardcover by Avalon Books in 1960, ''Airmont edition published October, 1963'' on copyright page, The wonderful cover art (different to the Avalon cover) is uncredited.

''at least three magazine series were collected in book form: The Bird of Time (August 1936 - June 1953 Astounding, Thrilling Wonder; fixup 1959), a planetary romance set on Mars; LORDS OF ATLANTIS (May - November 1952 Future; collection of linked stories 1960), which features the rulers and scientists of Atlantis who, after the island...
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Andromeda 2: An Original SF Anthology (inscribed by the author).

By: Weston, Peter (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Futura/Orbit: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 48403

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF anthology, includes stories by Ian Watson, Bob Shaw, Robert Holdstock, David Langford - and Richard Geis! Second of three original anthologies in the series edited by Peter Weston. Dennis Dobson issued a hardcover later the same year. WITH AN OPEN INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/''with best regards to an old subscriber, Peter Weston''. Cover art by Bob Layzell
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Return To Mars.

By: Westward, Elton

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd.: London.: 1954.

Seller ID: 48683

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A poor reading copy.

SF novel, by ''Elton Westward'', a probable pseudonym/House Name. Published April 1954. Cover art by Gordon C. Davies. In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, A 373, pp.126.
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The Royal Changeling.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Earthlight/Simon & Schuster: London.: 1998.

Seller ID: 23187

ISBN: 0671017853

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Arthurian fantasy. Mick Posen cover art.

''invading England after Charles II's death, the Duke of Monmouth comes face-to-face with an old friend - Theophilus Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe, in common with only a handful of others, knows Monmouth's background fully - not only that he is Charles's son, but also that he has elven blood, and has allied himself with evil powers in order to take England's crown. In fact, he is being used as a cat's paw by one far more steeped in evil than himselfKing Arthur, who would return to rule Britain and the entire world. Through London, Glastonbury, Sedgemoo...
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Hospital Station (signed by the author).

By: White, James

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1986.

Seller ID: 21375

ISBN: 0356121496

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Pages edges just a little age-darkened, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel, part of the long-running Sector General series. First published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1962. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/''with best wishes James White''.
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Deadly Litter.

By: White, James

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1968.

Seller ID: 32457

ISBN: 0552080527

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Bookshop details rubber stamped on first page, a VG copy with spine edge wear.

His first collection of sf stories, first published as a Ballantine paperback in 1964. ''Corgi edition published 1968'' on copyright page.
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Major Operation.

By: White, James

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 27320

ISBN: 0345021495

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning along edges of inner covers, else a fine (unread) copy.

SF novel, part of the Sector General series. ''First edition: February 1971'' on copyright page. Cover art by Dean Ellis.
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The Dream Millenium.

By: White, James

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 27321

ISBN: 034524012X

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Ballantine 24012. ''First printing, June 1974'' on copyright page. Cover art by John Berkey.

''a physician dreams a Jungian version of the human story in suspended animation as his slower-than-light ship takes him and other passengers to a paradisal planet'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Lifeboat.

By: White, James

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1972.

Seller ID: 48897

ISBN: 0345027973

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel (first serialised in January-March 1972 Galaxy). Title change: published earlier in 1972 in hardcover from Michael Joseph as DARK INFERNO. ''First printing, September 1972'' on copyright page. John Berkey cover art.
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Tomorrow Is Too Far.

By: White, James

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 48906

ISBN: 0345021509

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. Michael Joseph issued a hardcover later the same year. ''First printing, February 1971'' on copyright page. Dean Ellis cover art.
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The Escape Orbit.

By: White, James

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 48907

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Spine edges a little worn, a near fine (NF) copy.

Ace F-317. SF novel, first serialised February - April 1964 New Worlds. Retitled OPEN PRISON later the same year as a Four Square paperback. Jack Gaughan cover art,
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The Aliens Among Us.

By: White, James

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1969.

Seller ID: 48909

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ballantine 01545. SF stories. ''First printing: March 1969'' on copyright page. Cover art by Wayne Barlowe.
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The Secret Visitors.

By: White, James

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: Nd (1967).

Seller ID: 48915

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning along edges of inner covers, a little wear along bottom edge of front cover, a near fine (NF) copy.

Ace G-675. SF novel (first serialised in New Worlds October - December 1956), first published as half of an Ace Double in 1957 (Ace D-237), followed by this 1967 Ace printing of the novel just by itself with new cover art by Schinella. Note: Digit Books had earlier published two printings of the title (by itself) in 1961 (R479) and 1963 (R725).
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All Judgement Fled.

By: White, James

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 48919

ISBN: 0345020162

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Touch of browning along edges of inner covers, else a fine (unread) copy.

SF novel, first published in hardcover by Rapp & Whiting in 1968. ''First printing, September 1970'' on copyright page. Cover art by Dean Ellis.
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Sideslip.

By: White, Ted (& Dave Van Arnham)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Pyramid Books: NY.: 1968.

Seller ID: 49006

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Pyramid X-1787. SF novel: ''alien invaders ruled all Earth - so how come I'd never heard of them?''. ''First printing, April 1968'' on copyright page. Jack Gaughan cover art.
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Thor's Hammer.

By: Whiteford, Wynne

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cory & Collins: Victoria, Australia.: 1983.

Seller ID: 48691

ISBN: 0909117136

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Void 10. SF novel. Preceded the Ace paperback by two years. Cover art by Rowena Cory.
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. no 2: The Doomsday Affair (tv tie-in).

By: Whittington, Harry

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 04051

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with light marks along spine edges and remains of price sticker on front cover.

Ace G-560. Based on the MGM television series. Two dozen novels were based upon Man from U.N.C.L.E. and published between 1965 and 1968. Unhampered by television censors, the novels were generally grittier and more violent than the televised episodes.
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The Killing Thing.

By: Wilhelm, Kate

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 47347

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy but for a touch of spine edge wear.

Panther 027777. SF novel, and very unusually for the author, set on an alien planet. First published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1967.
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The Clone.

By: Wilhelm, Kate (& Theodore L. Thomas)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 32332

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Bookstore details neatly rubber-stamped on first page, a little browning along edges of inner covers, else a fine (unread) copy.

Berkley F1169. Wilhelm's first sf book, a paperback original. ''Berkley Medallion Edition, December, 1965'' on copyright page. Cover art by Hoot von Zitzewitz.

''After More Bitter than Death (1963), a mystery, her first sf novel was THE CLONE (1965) with Theodore L. Thomas, one of the rare sf books to use clone in the strict biological sense, in describing a formidable, voracious and ever-growing blob, and a competent demonstration of her workmanlike capacity to cope with genre content'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Clarion SF.

By: Wilhelm, Kate (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1977.

Seller ID: 49047

ISBN: 0425032930

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Original sf anthology: ''an electrifying mind trek with the bold, new explorers of ultra experience''. Anthology of stories by the writers of the Clarion SF Writers' Workshop held every year (with several gaps) from 1968.. ''Berkley Medallion Edition, January 1977'' on copyright page. Richard Powers cover art.
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Straw Dogs.

By: Williams, Gordon M.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Redemption Books: London.: 1995.

Seller ID: 06203

ISBN: 189963410X

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Originally published in 1969 as ''The Siege of Trencher's Farm'' (Secker & Warburg), this new edition includes eight pages of b/w stills from the (1971) movie, plus full colour wraparound covers (of Susan George with a gun).

''Taking elements of both the Western and the British horror film, Peckinpah's masterstroke was to shoot Straw Dogs absolutely straight, without the reassuring signposts of either type of film. Hoffman's American mathematician settles with his wife in the village where she grew up, encountering first hostility, then violence from the remote, backward (inbred?) Corni...
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Didi's Diary.

By: Williams, Jill

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tempo/Nite-Time Books: Hollywood, CA.: 1964.

Seller ID: 14964

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

1960s sleaze paperback original (NT 95): ''precocious, voluptuous Didi and her wild jet-age high school crowd didbn't need any textbooks on sex!''. Very uncommon paperback.
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The Song of the Axe: Book Six of the Pelbar Cycle.

By: Williams, Paul O.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY.: 1984.

Seller ID: 47965

ISBN: 0345316584

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF novel. ''First edition: July 1984'' on the copyright page.

''US poet - specializing in the haiku - professor of literature and author who won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1983, and who was known in the sf field almost exclusively for his Pelbar Cycle - comprising The Breaking of Northwall (1981), The Ends of the Circle (1981), The Dome in the Forest (1981), The Fall of the Shell (1982), An Ambush of Shadows (1983), THE SONG OF THE AXE (1984) and The Sword of Forbearance (1985) - set, 1100 years after a meteor shower disaster has instigated a devastating nuclear W...
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The Return Of Jongor.

By: Williams, Robert Moore

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Popular Library: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 32529

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning to edges of inner covers, a VG+ copy.

Heroic fantasy, second in the Jongor series, first published in 1944 Fantastic Adventures pulp magazine. Frank Frazetta cover.

''US writer (1907-1977) , active in the sf field under his own name and various pseudonyms, including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon and Russell Storm. He began publishing sf as Robert Moore with ''Zero as a Limit'' for ASF in 1937, and by the 1960s had published over 150 stories. Though most are unremarkable, he was an important supplier of competent genre fiction during these decades. Typically adequate is the Jongor series: Jongor of Lost Land (1940 Fantastic...
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The Return Of Jongor.

By: Williams, Robert Moore

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Popular Library: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 48630

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

eroic fantasy, second in the Jongor series, first published in 1944 Fantastic Adventures pulp magazine. Frank Frazetta cover.

''US writer (1907-1977) , active in the sf field under his own name and various pseudonyms, including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon and Russell Storm. He began publishing sf as Robert Moore with ''Zero as a Limit'' for ASF in 1937, and by the 1960s had published over 150 stories. Though most are unremarkable, he was an important supplier of competent genre fiction during these decades. Typically adequate is the Jongor series: Jongor of Lost Land (1940 Fantastic ...
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Beachhead Planet.

By: Williams, Robert Moore

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 49054

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Dell 0462. SF novel: ''he fought the invasion of the brain-snatchers''. ''First printing - January 1970'' on copyright page. Jack Gaughan cover art.
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The Fortress Of Utopia.

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Gryphon Books: NY.: 1998.

Seller ID: 08622

ISBN: 0936071974

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First book publication of a novelette first published in Startling Stories (November 1939): new six page introduction by Phil Harbottle.
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The Girl From Mars/The Prince Of Space

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Gryphon Books: NY.: 1998.

Seller ID: 27696

ISBN: 0936071966

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

A Gryphon double. Reprint of two classic sf novellas: ''The Prince of Space'' had first appeared in the January 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, and ''The Girl from Mars'' (with Dr. Miles J. Breuer), from Stellar Publishing's 1929 Science Fiction Series #1. New short introduction to each by Williamson.
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The Pandora Effect.

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1969.

Seller ID: 33342

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy, though on the contents page, the previous owner has very neatly entered details of which sf magazine each story had first appeared in.

Ace 65125. SF stories. Cover art by C. Gross.
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The Not-Men.

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tower Books: NY.: 1968.

Seller ID: 47420

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for slight spine lean.

Tower 43-957. SF novel. First published in hardcover in 1951 as DRAGON'S ISLAND, and issued by Tower in paperback in 1965 with that same title. This 2nd Tower printing from 1968 changes the title to THE NOT-MEN. See L. W. Currey: SF and Fantasy Authors, A Bibliography Of First Printings Of Their Fiction p. 542.
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The Trial of Terra.

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1962.

Seller ID: 46385

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace D-555. SF novel, based on earlier 'Quarantine' stories, including ''Man Down'', in the March 1952 issue of Astounding. The only edition of this title.

''comics historian Les Daniels noted that ''Conan the Barbarian was something of a gamble for Marvel. The series contained the usual elements of action and fantasy, to be sure, but it was set in a past that had no relation to the Marvel Universe, and it featured a hero who possessed no magical powers, little humor and comparatively few moral principles''''.
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