Category: COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1962.

Seller ID: 46957

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G534. First published in hardcover in 1954 . World Distributors/Consul published a UK paperback in 1965: that itself is uncommon, but this Pan paperback from three years earlier is rare.
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American Earth.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1961.

Seller ID: 46964

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G446: ''a provocative patchwork of comedy, drama and bitterness''. First published in hardcover in 1931: issued in the 1950s in the US as A SWELL-LOOKING GIRL, this is the first paperback edition with the original title.
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The Courting of Susie Brown.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1958.

Seller ID: 46989

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G190. Short story collection. First published in hardcover in 1951. A sharp/unread copy (wonderful cover art, different to the US paperback cover art).
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Jenny By Nature.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 46990

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan G646. First published in hardcover in 1961. A sharp/unread copy (wonderful cover art, different to the US paperback cover art).
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God's Little Acre (film tie-in).

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1958.

Seller ID: 46998

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G148. Film tie-in with b/w still on rear cover. First published in hardcover in 1933.
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Southways.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47000

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G344. First published in hardcover in 1938.
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The Sure Hand of God.

By: Carr, Charles (pseudonym of Sydney Charles Mason)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47001

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G392. First published in hardcover in 1947.
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The Thing.

By: Campbell, John M.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Tandem: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 47411

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, just a touch of spine fade, else a fine (unread) copy.

Tandem T75. Title change: reprint of the author's 1948 Shasta collection WHO GOES THERE? Note: front cover titled THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE. The 65-page title story was the basis for both the 1951 film directed by Howard Hawks and the John Carpenter directed 1982 version, both titled THE THING. A rare UK paperback,
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Islands Of Space.

By: Campbell, John W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1966.

Seller ID: 48319

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Ace M-143. SF novel, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1956.
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The Mightiest Machine.

By: Campbell, John W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: Nd (1965).

Seller ID: 33345

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Browning along edges of inner covers, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Ace F-364. The author's first sf book, published in hardcover in 1947. This 1965 Ace paperback is the first publication (English text, anyway) since then. Cover art by Jerome Podwil.
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New Terrors Two.

By: Campbell, Ramsey

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 48404

ISBN: 0330261274

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Volume 2. Original horror anthology, including a new story from Stephen King (''Big Wheels''), but more surprisinly, Christopher Priest (''The Miraculous Cairn''), John Brunner (''The Man Whose Eyes Beheld The Glory''), Greg Bear (''Richie By The Sea'') and M. John Harrison (''The Ice Monkey''). 334 pages.
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The Face That Must Die (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Campbell, Ramsey

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Star Books: London.: 1979.

Seller ID: 48849

ISBN: 0352305398

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Touch of bottom spine edge wear, else a fine (unread) copy.

Horror novel (''a psychotic homophobic killer in Liverpool, chills our soul not with spashes of gore, but with the more terrifying feeling of sharing the thoughts of a paranoid maniac''). This paperback edition preceded all other editions (by a few years). INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR/''for Andy, some semi-autobiography! all the best from Ramsey, 18th June 1985''. My own copy.
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New Terrors (presentation copy to Hugh Lamb).

By: Campbell, Ramsey (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 10401

ISBN: 0330261266

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, else a NF/Fine (unread) copy with a touch of spine edge wear.

Volume 1. Original horror anthology, including ''The Stains'' by Robert Aickan and 18 more: author's include Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Daphne Castell, Lisa Tuttle, Graham Masterton, Tanith Lee, Bob Shaw and Gene Wolfe. 336 pages. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR TO UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''for Hugh - who taught me about editing anthologies - all the best from Ramsey 27th August 1980''. With Hugh Lamb's signature at the top corner of same page, and his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inner rear cover.
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New Terrors Two (inscribed & signed by the author).

By: Campbell, Ramsey (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 34385

ISBN: 0330261274

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

New Terrors.

By: Campbell, Ramsey (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 48030

ISBN: 0330261266

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy with review slip laid in.

The Vampyre, Retold By David Campton, Based On A Story By John Polidori.

By: Campton, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Beaver Books: London.: 1986.

Seller ID: 30633

ISBN: 0099497204

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Part of the Beaver Books ''Fleshcreepers'' series of books for young adults. Very uncommon UK paperback - the US paperback edition (far more common) was isssued two years later in 1988.
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Assault!

By: Camra, Ross

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Epic Books: Sunset Boulevard, LA.: 1962.

Seller ID: 48771

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Epic 144. Erotic sf: ''under the surgeon's knife, Griff Sheridan had become more than woman dared hope - a super-human twenty-fifth century lover capable of driving all girls wild!''. Reissued in 1967 as SPACE SEX and later again (date not known) as SEX MACHINE. ''First printing, 1962'' on copyright page. All editions are rare.
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Hart's Hope.

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 33646

ISBN: 0425058190

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fantasy novel. Fantasy novel (an expansion of a story first published in Chrysalis 8 in 1980). ''Berkley edition/February 1983'' on copyright page. Kinuko Y Craft cover art.

''His first fantasy novel, HART'S HOPE (1983), is interesting mainly for its protagonist's anti-gift, as he is a nullifier of magic! (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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The Abyss (film tie-in).

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY.: 1989.

Seller ID: 48534

ISBN: 0671676253

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

Novelisation of the James Cameron screenplay for the 1989 sf film of the same title. ''Pocket Books printing, June 1989'' on copyright page. Three page afterword by Cameron and ten page afterward from the author.

''Despite the largest budget of the period's undersea fantasies at about $60 million, and despite director Cameron's impressive track record with sf, this was not a box-office smash. A nuclear-missile-armed US submarine crashes at the edge of the Cayman Trough and the crew of an experimental, submersible drilling rig are asked to help rescue any survivors. A hurricane cuts co...
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Black Midas.

By: Carew, Jan

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Ace Books/Harborough Publishing Co.: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 46984

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Ace Books H331: ''brazen, outspoken, brilliantly coloured - a story of fierce loves, violence and excitement in British Guiana''. First published in hardcover by Secker & Warburg in 1958. A rare UK paperback.
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Cody's Christmas Wish (inscribed by the author).

By: Carleen, Sally

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Silhouette Books: NY.: 1995.

Seller ID: 48950

ISBN: 0373191243

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Silhouette Romance 1124. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Lambda 1 and Other Stories

By: Carnell, John (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1965.

Seller ID: 47984

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Penguin 2275. SF anthology, collecting eight stories, the title story by Colin Kapp.
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Salamander War.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd/Digit Books: London.: Nd (1962).

Seller ID: 48773

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a good copy.

Digit R616. SF novel, sequel to COLONISTS OF SPACE (1954). First published in hardcover in 1955.

''Pseudonym of Sydney Charles Mason (1901-1985), a prolific UK author - primarily of Westerns under a variety of names including Colt Henderson and John Langley. His two Bel novels, Colonists of Space (1954) and its sequel SALAMANDER WAR (1955), routinely deal with colonizing humans and their conflicts with the original salamander inhabitants of the planet Bel'' (John Clute & Steve Holland/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition),
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The Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Carr, John Dickson (& Adrian Conan Doyle)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: John Murray: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 45330

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Collection of new stories written by Adrian Conan Doyle (the son of Arthur Conan Doyle) together with John Dickson Carr. First published in hardcover by John Murray in 1954. Hugh Lamb's copy with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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The Best Science Fiction Of The Year 2.

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.

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. Third (and last) in the series edited by Carr and published by Ace 1967-1971.
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The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #5.

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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The Year's Finest Fantasy Volume 2.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 48446

ISBN: 0425041557

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Includes ''The Gunslinger'' by Stephen King. ''Berkley edition, July 1979'' on copyright page. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.
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Year's Finest Fantasy.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1978.

Seller ID: 48451

ISBN: 0425038084

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

First volume in the series. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover. ''Berkley edition, July 1978'' on copyright page. Includes Stephen King ''The Cat From Hell''.
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New Worlds Of Fantasy.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1967.

Seller ID: 48980

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace A-12. SF anthology, first of three edited by Carr in the series and published by Ace 1967-1971. Issued in 1969 by Dennis Dobson in hardcover as STEP OUTSIDE YOUR MIND. Cover art by Kelly Freas.
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Thongor In The City of Magicians.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Paperback Library: NY.: 1968.

Seller ID: 47943

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Paperback Library 53-665. Sword and sorcery. ''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.

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.

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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Thongor And The Pirates Of Tarakus.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 48723

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Sword & sorcery, 3rd in the series: ''Sorcery and seafighting - and mortal peril for the mightiest warrior hero since CONAN''. The first printing was in 1970, with Jeff Jones cover art, this 1976 printing has new cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
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Thongor And The Dragon City.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 48748

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

N3068. First published in 1970, a revised and expanded version of THONGOR OF LEMURIA (Ace, 1966). New cover art by Vincent DiFate (the 1970 Ace paperback cover was by Jeff Jones).
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Hurok Of The Stone Age.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 48864

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 423. Fantasy novel, third in the five volume Eric Carstairs/Zanthodon seres published by Daw Books 1979-1982. ''First printing, February 1981'' on copyright page. Cover art by Josh Kirby.

''Most of his fiction deliberately pastiched the work of earlier fantasy writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, but did so both openly and with the clear intent of popularizing modes (SWORD AND SORCERY and PLANETARY ROMANCE were his personal favourites) less well understood in the 1960s than they are now. Indebted to Burroughs are three series: the Green Star Rises sequence, th...
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