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The Best Science Fiction Of The Year 2.

By: Carr, Terry (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1973.

Seller ID: 47494

ISBN: 0345033124

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Edited and with an introduction and notes by Carr.

''it was as an editor that he became and remained best known; a reading of his various anthology series over the two decades from 1964 constitutes a perusal of much of the best short sf published during those important years; from 1964-1971 he worked with Donald A Wollheim at Ace Books, where he was responsible for the highly successful Ace Special series, whose most famous original publications were probably R A Lafferty's Past Master (1968), Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage . He ...
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New Worlds of Fantasy 3.

By: Carr, Terry (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 47534

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace 57272. Collects 13 sf and fantasy stories.
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The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #5.

By: Carr, Terry (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 48041

ISBN: 0345250648

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fifth volume. ''First edition: July, 1976'' on the copyright page.
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Thongor In The City of Magicians.

By: Carter, Lin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Paperback Library: NY.: 1968.

Seller ID: 47943

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Paperback Library 53-665. ''First printing, April 1968'' on the copyright page. Sword & sorcery, 4th in the series: ''Thongor battles the satanic power of Zaar's science and sorcery - armed only with his Valkarthan broadsword''. Frank Frazetta cover.
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Darya Of The Bronze Age: The Adventures of Eric Carstairs In Zanthodon.

By: Carter, Lin

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 48356

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 451. Heroic fantasy. Cover art by Josh Kirby.
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Zanthodon.

By: Carter, Lin

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1980.

Seller ID: 48372

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 391. Fantasy/sf novel. Cover art by Thomas Kidd.
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Seas Of Ernathe.

By: Carver, Jeffrey A.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Laser Books: Ontario.: 1976.

Seller ID: 33598

ISBN: 0373720343

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Laser 34. 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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A Woman In Space.

By: Cavanaugh, Sara

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tiara Books: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 48069

ISBN: 0843980230

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF/Romance novel: ''Spacewoman's Problem: How Do You Take A Bath Without Your Co-pilot Peeking?''. The only edition published of this title.
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Invasion: Earth - The Last Echo.

By: Cave, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Headline: London.: 1998.

Seller ID: 27769

ISBN: 074726001X

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Based on (or the basis for, I am not quite sure) a ''major TV series''.
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The New Avengers 6: Hostage (tv tie-in).

By: Cave, Peter

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Futura/Orbit: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 47282

ISBN: 0860075583

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

TV tie-in with THE NEW AVENGERS series, starring Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt (all three on the front cover).
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The New Avengers 5: Last Of The Cybernauts (tv tie-in).

By: Cave, Peter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Futura: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 48029

ISBN: 0860075303

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Tv tie-in/spin-off from the tv series. A colour still of Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt on the front cover.
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Unlawful Occasions.

By: Cecil, Henry

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1964.

Seller ID: 48422

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Penguin 2207. First published by Michael Joseph in hardcover in 1962.
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Ways And Means.

By: Cecil, Henry

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1963.

Seller ID: 48423

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Penguin 1993. First published in 1952.
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Soul Rider 1V: The Birth Of Flux & Anchor.

By: Chalker, Jack

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tor: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 32573

ISBN: 0812532848

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF/fantasy novel, fourth in the series.
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Kelly Country.

By: Chandler, A. Bertram

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia.: 1983.

Seller ID: 48391

ISBN: 0140050049

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Alternate history of an Australian war of independence, expanded from a story first published in Void sf no 3. This Australian edition preceded the Daw paperback (1985) by two years. An uncommon paperback.

''Two singletons merit some notice. The Bitter Pill (1974) sourly depicts a totalitarian dystopia on Earth, which has established a penal colony on Mars that becomes a new Botany Bay for the convicts transported there, and the ultimately successful attempts its leading characters make to wrest Mars free of oppression; and KELLY COUNTRY (1983) places a war for Australian independence...
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Corpus Earthling.

By: Charbonneau, Louis

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Zenith Books: NY.: 1960.

Seller ID: 48308

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel:''she was marked as the first victim of the martian invader''.

''US journalist and author who also wrote nonfantastic Westerns as by Carter Travis Young; he began to publish sf novels with No Place on Earth (1958), about a coercive dystopia. He produced sf for several years thereafter, publishing: CORPUS EARTHLING (1960), about invading telepathic Martian parasites who eventually pass on their ESP powers to mankind; The Sentinel Stars (1963), another dystopia, this time about doomed revolts in a regimented future; Psychedelic-40 (1965; vt The Specials 1965); and Antic Earth (19...
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Brothers Of Earth.

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orbit/Futura: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 47972

ISBN: 0860079465

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. First published in hardcover (a Nelson Doubleday Book Club edition) the year before.
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The Napoleon Of Notting Hill.

By: Chesterton, G. K.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: World Distributors (WDL): London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 46952

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Price stamped on front cover, neat inked details on first page, page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

H947. SF novel: ''a prophetic novel of the most violent revolution of our time''. First published in hardcover in 1904. A rare UK paperback (the Penguin 1946 paperback is much more common).

''The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), Chesterton's first novel, is set in a distant near future 1984 (George Orwell's use of the same date for Nineteen Eighty-Four seems coincidental), soon after whose outset London is whimsically balkanized by royal decree into a number of tiny medieval-Futurist principalities, leading to a moderately spoofish war among these statelets. The tale immediately esta...
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Cold Terror (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tandem: London.: 1973.

Seller ID: 43327

ISBN: 0426072960

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

The author's second collection of horror stories. A very uncommon UK paperback. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover
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Tales Of Fear And Fantasy (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 43329

ISBN: 0006146783

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fontana 4678. Collects seven horror/supernatural stories. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. A very uncommon UK paperback, and not reprinted since.
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The Night Ghouls And Other Grisly Tales (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 46700

ISBN: 0006137180

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, spine scuffed, a VG+ copy.

Fontana 3718. Collects ten stories. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. You wouldn't know there were ten stories as the paperback was printed without a contents page (which is unforgivable on the part of the publisher), but Hugh Lamb has admirably - and neatly - listed all ten titles (with a page number to each) opposite the title page. A rare UK paperback and not reprinted since.
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Dominique (film-tie-in + Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Universal/W. H. Allen: London: 1978.

Seller ID: 32104

ISBN: 0426187539

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a VG+ copy.

Novelisation of the screenplay by Edward Abraham and Valerie Abraham from the 1948 short story ''What Beckoning Ghost'' by Harold Lawlor, made into a 1978 British horror film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter and Ron Moody. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. The Belmont 1979 paperback is relatively common, but this 1978 UK paperback is rare.

''greedy David Ballard (Cliff Robertson) wants to get the money of his wife Dominique (Jean Simmons), so he attempts to drive...
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The Awakening (film-tie-in + Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Magnum: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 46691

ISBN: 0417065906

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edsges browning, a VG copy.

Novelisation by Chetwynd-Hayes from a screenplay by Allan Scott, Chris Bryant and Clive Exton of an EMI British film starring Charlton Heston and Susannah York, a version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel THE JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS. With eight pages of b/w stills. UK horror anthologist Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. The only publication of this title.

''a 1980 British horror film directed by Mike Newell and starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist. It is the theatrical debut film of Newell. The Awakening is the thi...
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Dominique (film-tie-in).

By: Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Universal/W. H. Allen: London: 1978.

Seller ID: 48414

ISBN: 0426187539

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Time Rangers 2: A Blast From The Past.

By: Childs, Rob

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Scholastic: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 18094

ISBN: 0590191179

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Slim juvenile football sf novel.
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The Red Planet.

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47407

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Great Pan G274. SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1956 and the second of three novelisations of the author's 1953-1956 radio sf series JOURNEY INTO SPACE, following the title novel and followed by THE WORLD IN PERIL.

''(1917-2013) UK Radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, Journey Into Space (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through rebroadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are Journey Into Space (1954), novelizing the first story (broad...
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The World In Peril.

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1962.

Seller ID: 47408

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G579. SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1960, and the third of three novelisations of the author's 1953-1956 radio sf series JOURNEY INTO SPACE, following the title novel and THE WORLD IN PERIL.

''(1917-2013) UK Radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, Journey Into Space (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through rebroadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are Journey Into Space (1954), novelizing the first story (broadcast 21 Sept...
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Journey Into Space (radio series tie-in).

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1958.

Seller ID: 48093

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, light wear to spine edges, price showing (faintly) on front cover, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Pan 437. SF novel, first in the trilogy, based on the radio series. First published in hardcover in 1955.

''(1917-2013) UK radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, JOURNEY INTO SPACE (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through re-broadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are JOURNEY INTO SPACE (1954), novelizing the first story (broadcast 21 September 1952 to 19 January 1954); The Red Planet (1956), novelizing the second series (broadcast 6 Septembe...
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A Fall of Moondust.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1964.

Seller ID: 47251

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan X280. SF novel, First published in hardcover in 1961.
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Tales Of Ten Worlds.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1965.

Seller ID: 47387

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan X424. SF stories, first published in hardcover in 1962.
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Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, With An Introduction By J. H. Plumb.

By: Cleland, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 36756

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

''First printing, November 1965'' on the copyright page. New edition with an eight page introduction by J. H. Plumb.
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Needle.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 47472

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Corgi YS1383. SF novel, the author's irst book, published by Doubleday in 1950, and later reissued as FROM OUTER SPACE (Avon, 1957).
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From Outer Space.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Avon: NY.: 1957.

Seller ID: 48317

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a little spine lean, a VG+ copy.

Avon T-175. SF novel. Title change, first published as NEEDLE by Doubleday in 1950.
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The Best of Hal Clement.

By: Clement, Hal

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine/Del Rey: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 48373

ISBN: 0345276892

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ballantine 27689. 380 pages: edited with an introduction by Lester del Rey. ''First edition: June 1979'' on the copyright page.
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Call It Experience.

By: Clos, Charles

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd.: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 46985

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A VG+ copy.

Thriller: ''the raw and bitter hurt of a broken marriage''. A rare UK paperback, and not reprinted since.
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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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The Erotic Spectacles.

By: Cohen, Genghis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Olympia Press: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 10848

ISBN: 0700414703

Binding: Paperback.

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

Erotic fantasy involving ''magic spectacles''.
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Doctor Who: More Short Trips: A Collection Of Short Stories.

By: Cole, Stephen (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1999.

Seller ID: 25671

ISBN: 0563555653

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Doctor Who: Short Trips, A Collection of Short Stories.

By: Cole, Stephen (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1998.

Seller ID: 45504

ISBN: 0563405600

Binding: Paperback original.

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

The Mirror Of Dionysos.

By: Comer, Ralph

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Universal-Tandem: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 43457

ISBN: 0426031997

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Tandem 3199. Supernatural/occult novel: ''the elemental powers of white magic contend with a more terrifying form of evil''. Published the same year in the US as TO DREAM OF EVIL.. Very uncommon UK paperback.
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Rax.

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 33637

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. Title change: issued earlier in the same year in the UK as HELLO SUMMER, GOODBYE. Daw #170. INSCRIBED ANDY BY THE AUTHOR/''To - , my favourite book! With best wishes, Mike Coney''.

''perhaps the best of his early books are Winter's Children (1974), a post-holocaust novel, and Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975; vt RAX 1975; vt Pallahaxi Tide 1990), a wistful story of the adolescent love between two members of a human-like species on a distant planet'' (Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Cat Karina (inscribed by the author).

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1982.

Seller ID: 33638

ISBN: 0441092543

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''set in the distant future, when true humans coexist uneasily with a variety of not-quite-human beings, the products of ancient genetic experiments''.
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Syzygy (inscribed by the author).

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 37794

ISBN: 0099110202

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''his first novel, Mirror Image (1972) features alien ''amorphs'' who can so perfectly mimic humans that, when they have done so, they believe themselves to be in fact human; the amorphs reappear in Brontomek! (1976). The ecological puzzle story SYZYGY (1973) is set on the same world'' (Malcolm J. Edwards & Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Gods Of The Greataway: Volume Two of The Song Of The Earth (inscribed by the author).

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orbit/Futura: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 37792

ISBN: 0708881920

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel: sequel to THE CELESTIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE (1983). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''bound together by a far-future background developed in the two-decker novel The Song of Earth: The Celestial Steam Locomotive (1983 US) and GODS OF THE GREATAWAY (1984 US). Here humans co-exist with other humanoid species, living out a kind of languid dream thanks to the manipulation by a computer, Rainbow, of the Ifalong (a multiverse of alternate worlds) despite the interference of the godlike alien Starquin'' (Malcolm J. Edwards & Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Charisma (inscribed by the author).

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 37793

ISBN: 0330250906

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''his first novel, Mirror Image (1972 US) features alien ''amorphs'' who can so perfectly mimic humans that, when they have done so, they believe themselves to be in fact human; the amorphs reappear in Brontomek! (1976 UK), The ecological puzzle story Syzygy (1973 US) is set on the same world. Another novel loosely connected to these is CHARISMA (1975 UK), a parallel-worlds story whose chief locale is a Cornish fishing village; similar seaside towns, often transplanted to other planets, commonly feature in his work'' (Malcolm J. Edwards & ...
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Friends Come in Boxes.

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1973.

Seller ID: 37796

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. Published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz one year later, in 1974. Daw #86. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Deadly Image.

By: Cooper, Edmund

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 47473

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Panther 988. SF novel, first published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1958, then retitled for Hutchinson UK hardcover publication as THE UNCERTAIN MIDNIGHT later the same year.
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