Category: COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS

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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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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Time War.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 49177

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. ''First printing - November 1974''. Frank Frazetta cover art.
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Golden Cities, Far.

By: Carter, Lin (ed.)

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.

By: Carter, Lin (ed.)

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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Flashing Swords! 4: Barbarians And Black Magicians.

By: Carter, Lin (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1977.

Seller ID: 31840

ISBN: 0440126274

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

Dell 12627. ''First printing - November 1977'' on copyright page. Fourth volume in this five volume sword and sorcery original anthology series, edited, with introduction and notes, by Lin Carter. With five long stories by Jack Vance (''The Bagful Of Dreams'', a Cugel The Clever story), Poul Anderson (''The Tupilak''), John Jakes (''Storm In A Bottle'', a story of Brak The Barbarian), Katherine Kurtz (''Swords Against The Marluk'', a Deryni story), and Michael Moorcock (''The Lands Beyond The World'', an Elric story). Don Maitz cover art.
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The Flame Of Iridar/Peril Of The Starmen.

By: Carter, Lin/Kris Neville

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Belmont Books: NY.: 1967.

Seller ID: 48866

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

B50-759. Two short sf novels in one paperback volume. ''A Belmont Book: May 1967'' on copyright page. A total of eight Belmont Double paperbacks were published 1967-1969, presumably an attempt to emulate the success of the long-running Ace Double series.
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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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Satellite E One.

By: Castle, Jeffery Lloyd

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: NY.: 1958.

Seller ID: 49003

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A little spine edge wear, red mark along top page edges, a NF/Fine copy.

Bantam A1766. SF novel, first published in hardcover by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1954. ''Bantam edition published February 1958'' on copyright page. Paul Lehr cover art. This is the first paperback edition (the UK Consul paperback followed four years later in 1962).

''UK writer whose first sf novel, SATELLITE E ONE (1954), deals awkwardly with the scientific details surrounding the construction of a space satellite. His second, Vanguard to Venus (1957), identifies UFO's as the ships of descendants of spacefaring ancient Egyptians'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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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 4: 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 (unread) copy.

SF/fantasy novel, fourth in the five volume Soul Rider series published 1984-1986, all five featuring cover art by Dawn Wilson. ''First printing, December 1985'' on copyright page.
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The River of Dancing Gods.

By: Chalker, Jack L.

Price: £5.00

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

Seller ID: 48925

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel., first in the (five volume Dancing Gods sf series 1984-1994. ''First edition: February 1984'' on copyright page. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
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The Return of Nathan Brazil: Volume 4 of The Saga Of The Well World (inscribed by the author).

By: Chalker, Jack L.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY.: 1980.

Seller ID: 49390

ISBN: 0345283678

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel, fourth in the series. ''First Edition: January, 1980'' on copyright page. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO EDITOR ART SAHA/''to my old friend Art Saha, with best regards Jack Chalker''.
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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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The Wild Ones.

By: Chandler, A. Bertram

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 49194

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 623. The final John Grimes/Rim World sf novel. ''First printing: April 1985''. Ken W. Kelly cover art.
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Corpus Earthling.

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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The Sensitives.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: NY.: 1968.

Seller ID: 49262

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Bantam H3759. SF novel, based on the original screenplay by Deane Romano (though unsure if any film was ever made?). ''A Bantam Book/published February 1968''.
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Psychedelic-40.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 49304

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Bantam F2929. SF novel, published in hardcover later the same year by Herberty Jenkins in the UK as THE SPECIALS. ''A Bantam Book - published January 1965'' on copyright page. Paul Lehr cover art.

''PSI-40, the drug that gave The Syndicate its power and the people their pleasure. The Syndicate was a group of Specials, ruthless men with super-intellects, who with PSI-40 could probe the minds of friend and foe alike - and even control lesser minds at will. The people lived for the joys of the vacation colonies where they played orgiastically with liquor, sex, and best of all, PSI-40, w...
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No Place On Earth.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Crest Books: NY.: 1959.

Seller ID: 02809

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine copy, a little spine edge wear.

Crest s342. SF novel, first published in hardcover by Doubleday a year earlier. ''First Crest printing, December 1959'' on copyright page. Paul Lehr cover art.

''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 UK); and Antic Earth...
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Brothers Of Earth.

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.

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.

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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Wave Without A Shore.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 49316

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Daw 444. SF novel, sequel to DOWNBELOW STATION and second in the Alliance-Union/Merchanters series. First printing, August 1981'' on copyright page. Cover art by Don Maitz.
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The Dreamstone.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1983.

Seller ID: 49442

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fantasy novel. ''First printing, March 1983'' on copyright page. Cover art by David A. Cherry.
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Fires Of Azeroth.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 49443

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fantasy novel. ''First printing, June 1979'' on copyright page. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
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Downbelow Station (Hugo Award winner).