Category: COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS

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.
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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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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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Weird Tales 3.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Zebra Books: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 26737

ISBN: 0890838038

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Original anthology, one of four Lin Carter edited for Zebra 1980-1983. Cover art by Tom Barber.
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Golden Cities, Far.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 29738

ISBN: 0345020456

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy, but for browning along the edges of the inner covers.

Fantasy anthology: edited, with an eight-page introduction and notes, by Lin Carter. ''First printing, October 1970'' on copyright page. Part of Ballantine series of Adult Fantasy edited by Carter and published in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Cover art by Ralph Iwamoto and Kathleen Zimmerman.
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The Young Magicians.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1969.

Seller ID: 48711

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

Fantasy anthology, edited, and with a seven page introduction by Lin Carter: part of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series that he edited late 1960s/early 1970s. .''First printing, October 1969''. Cover art by Sheryl Slavitt.
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Weird Tales 4.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Zebra Books: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 48714

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Original anthology, the last of four Lin Carter edited for Zebra 1980-1983. Cover art by Tom Barber. Cover art by Doug Beekman.
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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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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 L.

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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Brothers Of Earth.

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 48547

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Daw 212. SF novel, first published in hardcover earlier the same year as a Nelson Doubleday Book Club edition. ''First printing October 1976'' on copyright page. Cover art by Alan Atkinson.
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The Faded Sun: Kutath.

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1980.

Seller ID: 48735

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 372. SF novel, third in the Alliance-Union: The Faded Sun sf trilogy. First published as a Nelson Doubleday Book Club hardcover the year before. ''First printing: February, 1980'' on copyright page. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
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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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Dominique (film-tie-in + Hugh Lamb's copy).

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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Cold Terror (Hugh Lamb's copy).

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)..

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).

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).