Category: COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Daw Books: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 33637

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Daw 170. SF novel. Title change: issued earlier in the same year in the UK in hardcover by Victor Gollancz as HELLO SUMMER, GOODBYE. ''First printing, November 1975'' on copyright page. Cover art by Josh Kirby. INSCRIBED 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...
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Cat Karina (inscribed by the author).

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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Charisma (inscribed by the author).

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 37793

ISBN: 0330250906

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1975. 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 plan...
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Syzygy (inscribed by the author).

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 37794

ISBN: 0099110202

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Pages browning, a VG+ copy.

SF novel, first published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1973, followed by a hardcover from Elmfield Press later the same year. David Bergen cover art. 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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The Hero Of Downways.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Futura/Orbit: London.: 1974.

Seller ID: 49126

ISBN: 0860078221

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy but for slight edge wear to rear cover.

SF novel, first published as a Daw paperback original a year earlier. Bruce Pennington cover art.
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Syzygy.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 49166

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1973, followed by a hardcover from Elmfield Press later the same year. David Bergen cover art.

''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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Science Fiction Omnibus.

By: Conklin, Groff (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Berkley Books: NY.: 1956.

Seller ID: 48892

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A little spine lean, a near fine (NF) copy.

Berkley G31. SF anthology, first published as a Crown hardcover in 1952 as THE OMNIBUS OF SCIENCE FICTION with 43 stories - this 1956 Berkley paperback reprints just eleven of those, with new Richard Powers cover art.
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A Matter Of Time.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 48518

ISBN: 0441522130

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Time travel novel. ''Ace original/April 1985'' on copyright page.
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The Heirs Of Babylon.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1972.

Seller ID: 48729

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Signet Q5299. SF novel, by an author better known for his (later) fantasy. ''First printing, December 1972'' on copyright page.

''US author who began his sf career with orthodox stories like his first, ''Song from a Forgotten Hill'' for Clarion (anthology 1971), and with the sf novel THE HEIRS OF BABYLON (1972), in which an authoritarian religious government takes over in the Post-Holocaust era. However, he soon became best known for his high Fantasy, especially the Dread Empire series, beginning with A Shadow of All Night Falling (1979), which was notable for its concerted military ...
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Shadows Linger.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tor: NY.: 1984.

Seller ID: 49438

ISBN: 0812533720

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, inner covers browning, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Fantasy novel, part of the Black Company series, sequel to THE BLACK COMPANY (1984). ''First Tor printing, October, 1984'' on copyright page. Cover art by Keith Berdack.

''Inasmuch as the overall title of the sequence pays homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company (1891), it is a double-edged homage. Cook's mercenaries are entirely ruthless in their use of magic and massacre and are for much of the first sequence employees of the almost entirely evil Enchantress Lady. Their eventual allegiance to the cause of what passes for Good is a mixture of personal loyalty and expediency,...
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Darkwar Trilogy 3: Ceremony.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Popular Library: NY.: 1986.

Seller ID: 49439

ISBN: 0445200316

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, third in the Darkwar fantasy trilogy. ''First printing, February, 1986'' on copyright page. Cover art by Barclay Shaw.
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Sweet Silver Blues.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1987.

Seller ID: 49440

ISBN: 0451150619

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Edges of inner covers a little browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

First in the Garrett occult detective series. ''First printing, Augiust, 1987'' on copyright page. Tim Hildebrandt cover art.

''This genial yet sinister cynicism is the besetting tone of his rather different Garrett series: SWEET SILVER BLUES (1987), Bitter Gold Hearts (1988), Cold Copper Tears (1988), Old Tin Sorrows (1989), Dread Brass Shadows (1990), Red Iron Nights (1991), Deadly Quicksilver Lies (1994) and Petty Pewter Gods (1995). Private eye Garrett is an occult detective, aided by an undead nonhuman Mycroft Holmes figure. The books pay constant homage to Hammett, Chandler an...
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Deadly Image.

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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Voices In The Dark.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd/Digit Books: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 36763

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, spine lean, a fairly good copy.

Digit D349 priced 2/-. SF novel. ''First World Publication'' on copyright page. Note:a later printing (published 31st January 1963) has Digit Book R663 on the cover, priced 2/6. See Currey/SF And Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography Of First Printings Of Their Fiction, p. 127.
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Tomorrow's Gift.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd/Digit Books: London.: 1958.

Seller ID: 45851

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, spine lean, a fairly good copy.

Digit D280. SF stories - his first short story collection. Published earlier the same year as a Ballantine paperback orginal.
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The Cloud Walker.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 49140

ISBN: 0340194782

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Coronet 19478 2. SF novel, first published as a Hodder hardcover in 1973 (followed by a Ballantine paperback later the same year). Colin Hay cover art.
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Prisoner of Fire.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 49148

ISBN: 034021242 X.

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Coronet 21242 X. SF novel, first published as a Hodder hardcover in 1974. Jim Burns cover art.
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The Tenth Planet.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Coronet: London: 1976.

Seller ID: 49163

ISBN: 0340205120

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published as a Hodder hardcover in 1973. ''Coronet edition 1976'' on copyright page. Tony Roberts cover art.
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The Overman Culture.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton: London.: 1974.

Seller ID: 49147

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Coronet 17860 4. SF novel, first published as a Hodder hardcover in 1971. Chris Foss cover art.

''a later work like THE OVERMAN CULTURE (1971) shows (if reluctant) his facility in newer modes, particularly in its depiction of London as an artificial Keep in which the last humans, reproduced from something resembling DNA, are meant to begin to breed again. The breeding stock theme is repeated in Slaves of Heaven (1974), in which females surviving on a ruined Earth are periodically abducted by Robots to keep a Homo sapiens elite genetically viable in their luxurious Space Station. Coop...
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Transit.

By: Cristabel, (pseudonym of Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lancer Books: NY.: 1964.

Seller ID: 49256

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Lancer 72-758. SF novel, first published by Faber earlier in 1964. Incidentally he used the name of the main protagonist - Richard Avery - as the pseudonym for his later series of Expendables sf adventure novels. Ed Emshwiller cover art.
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The Book of Paradox.

By: Cooper, Louise

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 48974

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Dell3343. Occult fantasy, the author's first book: ''an occult odyssey through the Tarot to an inner world beyond the portals of Death''. ''First Dell printing - February 1975'' on copyright page. Frank Frazetta cover art.
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Doctor Who: The Shadows Of Avalon.

By: Cornell, Paul

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 25661

ISBN: 0563555882

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

The Sound Of Winter.

By: Cover, Arthur Byron

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pyramid Books: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 49122

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for minor bruising to bottom edge of rear pages.

Pyramid V4017. SF novel. ''Pyramid Edition published: November 1976'' on copyright page. Cover art by Quirk.
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The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization (film tie-in)..

By: Cox, Greg

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Titan Books: London.: 2012.

Seller ID: 44679

ISBN: 1781161062

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Film tie-in.
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Kiss Of The Raven.

By: Cox, Jonathan

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Fawcett/Gold Medal: CT.: 1981.

Seller ID: 49119

ISBN: 0449144151

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Gold Medal T-4415-1. Thriller. ''First Fawcett Gold Medal printing: July 1981'' on copyright page. A surprisingly rare paperback.
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Crime Time no 37.

By: CRIME TIME, (ed. Barry Forshaw)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: CT Publishing: Birmingham.: 2004.

Seller ID: 35713

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue no 37: The Journal Of Crime Fiction. Articles and reviews: 96 pages
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The Cruachan And The Killane.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions: NY.: 1970.

Seller ID: 49058

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine copy with rubbing to rear cover.

SF novel, sequel to Manalacor of Veltakin (1970). A very uncommon book.

''Pseudonym of US nurse, professor of nursing, and author Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen (1916-1995), who wrote at least one Gothic as Kathleen Westcott, Bride of Kilkerran (1972). As Cristabel, she began publishing sf with the florid Veltakin sequence of Planetary Romances: Manalacor of Veltakin (1970) and THE CRUACHAN AND THE KILLANE (1970). Her singletons were The Mortal Immortals (1971) and The Golden Olive (1972). All are written in a style that crosses the romance genre with boys' fiction'' (John Clute & Pet...
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Stories From The Other Passenger.

By: Cross, John Keir

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1961.

Seller ID: 47246

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Ballantine 480K. Abridged: first published in the UK in 1944 as THE OTHER PASSENGER: 18 STRANGE STORIES, this first paperback edition collects only nine of those stories.
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Year Of Consent.

By: Crossen, Kendell Foster

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1954.

Seller ID: 05700

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Dell 32. SF novel. Great cover art by Richard Powers, though several people also credit the artwork to Robert Stanley? Certainly the painting is not typical of Powers work.

''US author and editor, active under various names in various pulp-magazine markets, perhaps most notably as an author of detective stories, his best work being published under his own name and (more successfully) as M. E. Chaber. The Green Lama series of thrillers (in Double Detective from 1940), as by Richard Foster, gives off fantastic-Pulp-magazine emanations reminiscent of Doc Savage, as the Green Lama himse...
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Tama Of The Light Country.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 33587

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace F-363. SF novel: ''kidnapped by a spaceship!''. Cover art by Jerome Podwil.

''Cummings was fundamentally a pulp magazines writer and - in contrast to colleagues only a little younger, like Murray Leinster and Edmond Hamilton - he was never capable of adapting himself to the changing times, either scientifically or stylistically. His later works could be interchanged with his earliest with very little adjustment. In the 1960s, some of his work was nostalgically reprinted in book form, but this revival did not affect the critical consensus. Typical of his rather roughshod prose and ...
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Brigands Of The Moon.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1958.

Seller ID: 48315

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Ace D-324. SF novel, first serialised in the March - June 1930 issues of Astounding, and published in hardcover in 1931. Incidentally the first paperback printing (by a Canadian publisher Duchess) in the 1940s wrongly attributed the author as John W Campbell Jr.

''Cummings was fundamentally a Pulp Magazine writer and - in contrast to colleagues only a little younger, like Murray Leinster and Edmond Hamilton - he was never capable of adapting himself to the changing times, either scientifically or stylistically. Typical of his rather roughshod prose and routine conceptualizing are the...
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The Shadow Girl.

By: Cummings, Ray

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: 1962.

Seller ID: 22832

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Ace D-535. Originally published as a serial in ARGOSY-ALL-STORY magazine (22nd June - 13th July 1929) then published as an (unauthorised) hardcover by Gerald G. Swan in the UK in 1946. This is the first paperback edition and first American edition of this title. Ed Emshwiller cover art.
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The Witches (film tie-in).

By: Curtis, Peter (aka Norah Lofts)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 43849

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Spine lean, a little tear along bottom of spine, page edges browning, a VG copy. Pan X591.

Title change: supernatural novel (written by Norah Lofts using her ''Peter Curtis'' pseudonym), first published in hardcover as THE DEVIL'S OWN in 1960. Made into a Hammer film in 1966 as THE WITCHES. This is the paperback film tie-in. Confusingly, also published subsequently as The Little Wax Doll and Catch as Catch Can. Very uncommon UK paperback. Pan X591.
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Doctor Who: Parallel 59.

By: Dallaire, Natalie (& Stephen Cole)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 25700

ISBN: 0563555904

Binding: Paperback original.

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

The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy)..

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1971.

Seller ID: 28636

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a G/VG copy.

The Fifth Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy).

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1970.

Seller ID: 34434

ISBN: 0006123465

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Spine lean, page edges browned, spine worn, a fair copy.

Part reprint, part original horror anthology. 17 volumes published in total between 1966-1984 of THE FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT HORROR STORIES, the first four edited by Christine Bernard, and the rest by Mary Danby. ''First published by Fontana Books, 1970'' stated on the copyright page. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover: with several pencil annotations by Hugh on the title page and ''(MD in cover pic!!)'' written by him below the editor's name on the title page (which is a tad unkind, if meant seriously, as the cover shows a bird/monster with a gia...
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The Seventh Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy).

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 34435

ISBN: 0006129951

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, spine lean, a good copy.

The Third Armada Ghost Book (Hugh Lamb's copy).

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Armada/May Fair Books: London.: 1970.

Seller ID: 43299

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG copy.

Armada C362. Young adult supernatural anthology, third in the series: mostly reprints but including original stories by Sydney J. Bounds, R. Chetwynd-Hayes and the editor herself. 15 volumes in total were published between 1967 - 1983, the first two edited by Christine Bernard, the rest by Mary Danby. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. An uncommon 1970 UK paperback.
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The Sixth Armada Ghost Book Hugh Lamb's copy).