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The Reign Of Wizardry.

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Lancer Books: NY.: 1964.

Seller ID: 26822

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Lancer 72-761. Fantasy/sf novel: ''The magic of The Dark One enslaved the world: Theseus alone stood against it''. Originally published in Unknown in 1940, then expanded for first book publication as this Lancer paperback in 1964. Frank Frazetta cover.
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McCloud 4: The Corpse Maker (tv tie-in).

By: Wilson, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Award Books: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 49023

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Novel based on the NBC detective TV series. Dennis Weaver photo cover.
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Memory Wire.

By: Wilson, Robert Charles

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: NY.: 1987.

Seller ID: 48502

ISBN: 0553268538

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel (not published in hardcover).

''US-born author, in Canada from 1962, who began to publish sf with ''Equinocturne'' for Analog in February 1975 as by Bob Chuck Wilson, though he did not make a significant impact on the field until the 1980s. It was then that he began to publish his polished and inventive novels, which from the first tend to posit an emotion-drenched binary between the mundane world and a better or more intense or intriguingly more alive otherworld, which may be defined in sf terms, variously, as an Alternate Cosmos, or Alternate World, or other Dimension, or som...
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Clarion 111: An Anthology Of Speculative Fiction And Criticism.

By: Wilson, Robin Scott (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1973.

Seller ID: 49048

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Signet 451-Q5503. Original sf antholog of stories by the writers of the Clarion SF Writers' Workshop held every year (with several gaps) from 1968. Includes an 18-page piece by Harlan Ellison ''When Dreams Become Nightmares: Some Cautionary Notes On The Clarion Experience''. ''First printing, October 1973'' on copyright page. Bob Pepper cover art.
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The Men From Arcturus.

By: Winterbotham, Russ

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Consul/World Distributors: London.: 1965.

Seller ID: 47288

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, tiny nick along top front edge, else a fine (unread) copy.

Consul 1418. SF novel.

''(1904-1971) US newspaperman and author who began publishing work of genre interest with ''The Star that Would not Behave'' in Astounding for August 1935, and was a prolific contributor of genre SF in the magazine before WW11, becoming inactive in that sphere until the 1950s, when he again began to publish serviceable fiction. His return to sf around 1952 led to several exercises in genre SF, beginning with The Space Egg (March 1958 Amazing; 1958), about an Invasion of Earth; several other sf adventures followed, including The Other World (1963) as by J Harvey ...
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Mike Mars Around The Moon.

By: Wollheim, Donald

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Paperback Library: NY.: 1966.

Seller ID: 48611

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A little spine wear along bottom edge, else a fine (unread) copy.

Juvenile sf, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1964. ''First printing, December 1966'' on copyright page. One of eight Mike Mars novels written by Wollheim 1961 - 1964. Cover art by Hanke.
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World's Best Science Fiction: 1965.

By: Wollheim, Donald A. (& Terry Carr, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 48548

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Ace G-551, Interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan. Includes stories by (lesser well-known?) authors such as Colin Free, Thomas Purdom, Edward Jesby, Robert Lory, Jack B. Lawson, Myron Lewis, Edward Mackin and Harry Mulisch, but also includes Thomas M. Disch, Fritz Leiber and Philip K. Dick's ''Oh, To Be A Blobel!'',
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The Hidden Planet: Science Fiction Adventures on Venus.

By: Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1959.

Seller ID: 48496

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

Ace D-354. SF anthology. Collects five long stories by Chad Oliver, Leigh Brackett, Lester del Rey, J. T. McIntosh and Stanley G. Weinbaum. Ed Emschwiller cover art.
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Swordsmen In The Sky.

By: Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1964.

Seller ID: 48466

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning along edges of inner covers, a near fine (NF) copy.

Ace F-311. Collects five long stories by Poul Anderson, Leigh Brackett, Andrew Norton, Otis Adelbert Kline and Edmond Hamilton. Cover art by Frazetta, interios illos by Jack Gaughan.
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Edge Of Time.

By: Wollheim, Donald A. (writing as "David Grinnell")

Price: £8.00

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

Seller ID: 47427

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace M-162. SF novel (by Wollheim writing as ''David Grinnell'') first published in hardcover by Avalon in 1958, then as half of an Ace Double paperback in 1959 (Ace D-362): this 1967 Ace paperback (with wonderful new Kelly Freas cover art) reprints just this title.
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Wonders Of The Spaceways no 2.

By: WONDERS OF THE SPACEWAYS (UK),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: John Spencer: London.: 1952.

Seller ID: 26061

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fairly good copy.

No 2 ((January 1952). Gerald Facey cover art. 11 numbered issues published 1950-1954. .In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, pp.153.

''UK pocketbook-size magazine, published by John Spencer, London; edited by Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum, both uncredited. One of the four poor-quality Spencer juvenile-sf magazines of the 1950s, all very similar, the others being Futuristic Science Stories, Tales of Tomorrow, and Worlds of Fantasy. They contain some fiction by R L Fanthorpe and John S Glasby. All four only regis...
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Wonders Of The Spaceways no 6.

By: WONDERS OF THE SPACEWAYS (UK),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Spencer: London.: 1953.

Seller ID: 26062

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine edge wear, a VG copy.

No 6 (January, 1953). Norman Light cover art. 11 numbered issues published 1950-1954. .In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, pp.154.

''UK pocketbook-size magazine, published by John Spencer, London; edited by Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum, both uncredited. One of the four poor-quality Spencer juvenile-sf magazines of the 1950s, all very similar, the others being Futuristic Science Stories, Tales of Tomorrow, and Worlds of Fantasy. They contain some fiction by R L Fanthorpe and John S Glasby. All four only regi...
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Serenade For Murder.

By: Wood, Andrew

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cherry Tree Books: London.: Nd (c.1944).

Seller ID: 43929

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a G/VG copy.

Thriller.
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Sinister Island.

By: Wood, S. Andrew

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Cherry Tree Books: London.: Nd (1945).

Seller ID: 43898

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Staples rusting, pages browned, a good copy.

Thriller.
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The Creeping Shroud.

By: Wright, Lan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Roberts & Vinter, Ltd/Compact: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 47938

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Compact F293. SF novel. The only edition published of this title. Great cover art (sadly, artist not known).

''he began publishing sf with ''Operation Exodus'' for New Worlds in January 1952, and was active for over a decade in UK magazines, chiefly New Worlds and Nebula Science Fiction. His Johnny Dawson series in New Worlds, about intrigues between Earth and the planet Luther - beginning with ''Fair Exchange'' (January 1955 New Worlds) - were partly assembled in Assignment Luther (January 1955-October 1957 New Worlds; fixup 1963); the further series episodes ''Joker's Trick'' (July...
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The Amphibians (Galaxy Sf Novel no 4).

By: Wright, S. Fowler

Price: £15.00

Publisher: World Editions Inc.: NY.: 1951.

Seller ID: 38406

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine, bright (unread) copy.

First published in hardcover in 1925 Galaxy Science Fiction Novel no. 4

''a companion series to Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. The first 31 issues of these numbered books, which resembled magazines, were published irregularly, 1950 - 1957, in digest format, and a further four, 1957 - 1959, were issued in standard paperback format. The series was then taken over by Beacon Books, a publisher specializing in mild pornography, which brought out eleven further issues, no 36 - 46 (1959 - 1961), still in paperback format, usually with lurid covers and suggestive titles'' (Brian Stablefor...
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Stowaway To Mars.

By: Wyndham, John (writing as "John Beynon")

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Nova Publications: London.: 1953.

Seller ID: 05491

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browned, a fairly good copy.

SF novel (''An Outstanding Adventure Novel of the First Interplanetary Flight to Mars'') originally published as 'PLANET PLANE in 1936 (as by ''John Beynon''), then issued by Nova Publications in 1953 as STOWAWAY TO MARS with revised text as by ''John Beynon''. Cover by Gordon Hutchings. In In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, B76, p. 140.
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Dragonfield And Other Stories.

By: Yolen, Jane

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1995.

Seller ID: 48825

ISBN: 0441166229

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy, a little wear along top edge of back cover.

Fantasy stories: introduction by Patricia A. McKillip. ''Ace Fantasy Edition/September 1995'' on copyright page. Richard Courtney cover art.
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The Star Web.

By: Zebrowski, George

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Laser Books: Ontario.: 1975.

Seller ID: 33601

ISBN: 0373720157

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Laser 15. SF novel.

''Canadian sf imprint initiated in 1975 by Harlequin Books, the US publisher of Mills & Boon romances, under the editorship of Roger Elwood. The books were restricted to a formula which specified a male protagonist, an upbeat ending, no sex or atheism, and a minimum of long words. All Laser Book covers were the work of Frank Kelly Freas. The series was suspended early in 1977 after fifty-seven books had appeared. The Laser formula made it unlikely that books of any literary quality would be published, but some were interesting, including K W Jeter's debut, Seeklight...
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Synergy: New Science Fiction Volume One.

By: Zebrowski, George (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Harvest/HBJ: NY.: 1987.

Seller ID: 47976

ISBN: 0156877007

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First volume of original sf anthology series, with eight-page introduction by the editor. Also includes the 25-page Brian W. Aldiss non-fiction piece ''What Should an SF novel be About?''. Four volumes were issued 1987-1989.
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