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The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (and) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (and) Life, The Universe And Everything (and)

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1979 - 1982.

Seller ID: 09805

ISBN: 0330258648

Binding: Paperback originals.

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

Three volumes: the first three Hitchhiker books in the original Pan paperback 1st printings from 1979, 1980 and 1982 respectively. Each went into multiple later printings, but these are the true 1st editions - and incidentally the hardcover editions followed after.
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The Loch Ness Monster.

By: Akins, William

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1977.

Seller ID: 43994

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

Breakfast With A Bigfoot.

By: Alderton, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Beaver Books: London.: 1986.

Seller ID: 43177

ISBN: 0099435705

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Non-fiction for younger readers: ''do strange creatures like these really exist''.
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The Airs Of Earth: Science Fiction Stories.

By: Aldiss, Brian (& Roger Penrose)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Four Square: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 10376

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Four Square 1325. First published in hardcover by Faber in 1963. Issued later in the US with textual differences as STARSWARM (1964).
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Report On Probability A.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sphere: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 46744

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1968.
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Who Can Replace A Man?

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1967.

Seller ID: 48094

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Signet 3311. ''First printing: November 1967'' on the copyright page. SF stories, first published in the UK as BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF BRIAN W. ALDISS (1965).
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Yet More Penguin Science Fiction.

By: Aldiss, Brian W. (ed.)

Price: £8.00

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

Seller ID: 47998

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a little browning along page edges.

Penguin 2189. The second of three volumes edited by Aldiss and published by Penguin 1961-1964.
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More Penguin Science Fiction.

By: Aldiss, Brian W. (ed.)

Price: £8.00

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

Seller ID: 48114

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Penguin 1963. The second of three volumes edited by Aldiss and published by Penguin 1961-1964.
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Penguin Science Fiction.

By: Aldiss, Brian W. (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1961.

Seller ID: 48113

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Penguin 1938. The first of three volumes edited by Aldiss and published by Penguin 1961-1964.
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The King's Creditor.

By: Alexander, Cecil

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Curtis Warren: London.: 1954.

Seller ID: 46968

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

Historical romance: ''he brought a loyal sword and gay deceit to the retinue of a king''. A rare UK paperback and never reprinted.
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A Dream Of Things That Were.

By: Alexander, Katherine

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Manor Books: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 47509

ISBN: 0532192354

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fantasy novel.
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Operation Jet.

By: Allen, Glen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Curtis Warren: London.: Nd (1951).

Seller ID: 46955

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a little spine lean, spine edges a little chipped, staples rusting, a fairly good copy.

Aviation novel, part of the Curtis Books short-lived 'Aero Fiction' series which ran for ten tiitles in 1951, five by ''Glen Allen'' and five by by ''Ken Ford''. Cover by Ray Theobold. A rare UK paperback, never reprinted.
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Spectrum 111: A Third Science Fiction Anthology.

By: Amis, Kingsley (& Robert Conquest, eds.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 47343

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan M113. First published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1963. Contains stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester,Theodore Sturgeon, J. G. Ballard, Poul Anderson, Peter Phillips, Mark Rose and Murray Leinster, with a four page introduction by the editors.

''Amis went on to edit the memorable Spectrum series of anthologies with Robert Conquest (like his friend a novelist, poet, conservative political commentator and sf fan), beginning with Spectrum (1961) and ending with Spectrum V: A Science Fiction Anthology (1966). These, too, were influential in popularizing sf in the UK and t...
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Spectrum V: A Fifth Science Fiction Anthology.

By: Amis, Kingsley (& Robert Conquest, eds.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 47344

Binding: Paperback original.

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

First published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1966. Contains stories by Paul Ash, Richard Ashby, Tom Godwin, Raymond F. Jones, Walter M. Miller, James M. Schmitz, Theodore L. Thomas and F. L. Wallace, with a five page introduction by the editors.

''Amis went on to edit the memorable Spectrum series of anthologies with Robert Conquest (like his friend a novelist, poet, conservative political commentator and sf fan), beginning with Spectrum (1961) and ending with Spectrum V: A Science Fiction Anthology (1966). These, too, were influential in popularizing sf in the UK and to some ext...
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By: Andrews, Matthew

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 46967

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Corgi SN914. Film tie-in of the 1960 movie LET'S MAKE LOVE starring Marilyn Monroe. Both front and rear cover have a blurb from the film plus stills showing the actress in a teasing pose in her underwear. The 1960 US Bantam paperback is uncommon: this UK Corgi paperback is rare.
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Doctor Who: Frontier Worlds.

By: Anghelides, Peter

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London.: 1999.

Seller ID: 25665

ISBN: 0563555890

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Tor Horror Sampler.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Tor: NY.: 1986.

Seller ID: 10398

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine copy but for small scrape to back cover.

Extracts from novels by John Farris, Stephen Laws, Richard Laymon, Dan Simmons, K. W. Jeter and eight others.
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Avon Ghost Reader.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Avon Book Company: NY.: 1946.

Seller ID: 13789

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Avon 90.
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Time Untamed.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Belmont Books: NY.: 1967.

Seller ID: 48034

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Belmont B50-781. SF anthology. ''A Belmont book - September 1967'' on the copyright page. The only edition of this title.
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Taboo 2.

By: Anonymous (ed.),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New Classics House: Chicago.: 1965.

Seller ID: 48419

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

''Four short stories no publisher would touch from four leading writers'' - James T. Farrell, Jay Nash, Paul G. Neimark and Con Sellers
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Hasan.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Borgo Press: CA.: 1977.

Seller ID: 00455

ISBN: 0893702153

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Arabian nights fantasy novel.
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Phthor.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 27309

ISBN: 0425030113

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel.
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Centaur Aisle.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Del Rey: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 27317

ISBN: 0345297709

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Published first as a paperback original, this US Book club edition was the first hardcover edition. Part of the long-running Xanth fantasy series.
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Orn.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Avon: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 27333

ISBN: 038002405

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

SF novel.

''the future of a wild an primitive planet depends on three earth exiles - who may not survive its dangers long enough to save it.''.
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Bio Of A Space Tyrant Volume 4: Executive.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Avon: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 41353

ISBN: 0380898349

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel.
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Rings Of Ice.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Avon: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 41379

ISBN: 0380000369

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

Avon 19448. SF novel. ''First Avon printing, June 1974'' on the copyright page.
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Phthor.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1978.

Seller ID: 41386

ISBN: 0586047700

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF novel.
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Chthon.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 41378

ISBN: 586035931

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. The author's first book, a 1967 Nebula and 1968 Hugo nominee.

''he has written large amounts of both sf and fantasy; though there is no clear demarcation, it is certainly the case that he has more and more concentrated his energies on the latter form. His two most ambitious sf novels came early in his career. CHTHON (1967), his first, is a complexly structured adventure of self-discovery partially set in a vast Underground Prison, and making ambitious though sometimes over-baroque use of Pastoral and other parallels; its sequel, Phthor (1975), is less far-reaching, less irrit...
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SOS The Rope.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 41355

ISBN: 0552097314

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

The first Corgi printing was 1975. SF novel, first serialised in F&SF ((July-September 1968) and winner of the $5000 award from Pyramid Books, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Kent Productions. First in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising SOS THE ROPE (1966), Var the Stick (1972; cut 1973) and Neq The Sword (1975).

''first in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising SOS THE ROPE, Var the Stick (1972; cut 1973) and Neq The Sword (1975), a combat-oriented trilogy. Here and in other novels Anthony resorts to stripped-down protagonists with ...
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Var The Stick.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 46756

ISBN: 0552097365

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF novel, second in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising Sos The Rope (1966), VAR THE STICK (1972) and Neq The Sword (1975). First published by Faber in 1972, followed by a US Bantam paperback in 1973 which was ''expurgated'' according to the author. This Corgi paperback follows the text of the Faber edition.

''second in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising Sos the Rope (July-September 1968 F&SF; 1968), winner of the $5000 award from Pyramid Books, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Kent Productions, VAR THE STICK (1972; cut 1973) and Ne...
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Neq The Sword.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 41354

ISBN: 0552098248

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, third in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising Sos The Rope (1968), Var the Stick (1972; cut 1973) and NEQ THE SWORD (1975). Preceded the Avon edition by three years. Front cover by Patrick Woodroffe.

''third in the post-holocaust Battle Circle sequence, comprising Sos the Rope (July-September 1968 F&SF; 1968), winner of the $5000 award from Pyramid Books, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Kent Productions, Var the Stick (1972; cut 1973) and NEQ THE SWORD (1975), a combat-oriented trilogy. Here and in other novels Anthony resorts to stripped-do...
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Rings Of Ice.

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Avon: NY.: 1974.

Seller ID: 48286

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Avon 19448. SF novel. ''First Avon printing, June 1974'' on the copyright page.
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The E.S.P. Worm.

By: Anthony, Piers (& Robert E. Margroff)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Paperback Library: NY.: 1970..

Seller ID: 48371

ISBN: 0450056945

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Paperback Library 63-357. SF novel. ''First printing: June, 1970'' on the copyright page.Zanthodon.
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Conditioned For Space.

By: Ash, Alan

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co.: London.: 1956.

Seller ID: 47289

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little wear along top spine edge, a near fine (NF) copy.

SF novel, first published in hardcover by Ward Lock in 1955. Digit reprinted the novel in 1961 and is itself uncommon, but this 1956 Ward Lock paperback is rare - not to be found in Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magaziines 1949-1956.

''(1909-1988) UK author in whose sf adventure, CONDITION FOR SPACE (1955), a sleeper, having been encased in a block of ice for a century, awakens - after scientists transform him into a kind of cyborg - in the front line of Earth defence in a space war'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Best of British SF 2 (inscribed to Hugh Lamb).

By: Ashley, Mike (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Orbit/Futura: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 46689

ISBN: 0860079139

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG copy with shallow saw cut along bottom page edges (believe it or not, one of the ways books were identified as ''remaindered'' oh so long ago)..

Volume 2: ''takes up where Volume One left off, with the beginnings of the ''new wave'', and shows how, in the 'sixties, experimental and traditional sf existed side by side - in what was a new Golden Age for British SF''. 378 pages: 14 sf stories. General introduction and afterword by the editor, plus an introduction to each individual story. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED BY THE EDITOR TO UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB/''Hugh, a staggering acievement to find this one. Mike Ashley Sep '88!''. With Hugh Lamb's initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover.
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The Martian Way And Other Science Fiction Stories.

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 47264

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, a VG+ copy.

Panther 1799. First published in hardcover in 1955. ''Panther edition published February 1965'' on copyright page.
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I, Robot.

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1968.

Seller ID: 05715

Binding: Paperback.

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

Panther 025324. Classic sf novel (actually a collection of nine linked stories), first published by Gnome Press in 1950. The UK 1958 Digit paperback drops two of those nine stories, but this 1968 Panther paperback, the first UK paperback since the Digit (and with new artwork), restores all nine. Panther issued a second robot collection THE REST OF THE ROBOTS the same year, which is common, but this 1968 I. ROBOT is rare.

''it was the third story of the Robot series, ''Liar!'' (May 1941 Astounding), that saw the introduction of the Three Laws of Robotics, whose formulation Asimov cred...
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Spells: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy #4.

By: Asimov, Isaac (& Charles G. Waugh & Martin Greenberg, eds.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1985.

Seller ID: 47963

ISBN: 0451135784

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Signet AE 3578. 350 pages: reprint anthology featuring authors from Stephen King, Jack Vance to Frank R. Stockton and Henry Slesar.
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Avon Fantasy Reader no 3.

By: AVON FANTASY READER, (ed. Donald A. Wollheim)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Avon Book Company: NY.: 1947.

Seller ID: 22297

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: A little age-darkening to page edges, a bright, near fine (NF) copy.

Third issue. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. 18 issues published in total, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, edited by Donald A. Wollheim., In Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 127-132.

''US digest anthology, 18 volumes, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, published by Avon Publishing, New York; ed Donald A. Wollheim. AVON FANTASY READER was the first regular paperback reprint fantasy anthology series, though its digest format has often caused it to be classified as a magazine Wollheim selected primarily from WEIRD TALES, emphasizing the works o...
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Avon Fantasy Reader no 1 (first issue).

By: AVON FANTASY READER, (ed. Donald A. Wollheim)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Avon Book Company: NY.: 1947 (February)

Seller ID: 39590

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Page edges age-darkened, some wrinkling and separation of cover lamination, a bright, VG+ copy.

First issue. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. 18 issues published in total, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, edited by Donald A. Wollheim., In Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 127-132.

''US digest anthology, 18 volumes, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, published by Avon Publishing, New York; ed Donald A. Wollheim. AVON FANTASY READER was the first regular paperback reprint fantasy anthology series, though its digest format has often caused it to be classified as a magazine Wollheim selected primarily from WEIRD TALES, emphasizing the works of...
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Avon Fantasy Reader no 4.

By: AVON FANTASY READER, (ed. Donald A. Wollheim)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avon Book Company: NY.: 1947.

Seller ID: 39593

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Page edges age-darkened spine panel a bit sunned, several creases to front cover, light dust soiling to rear cover, a VG copy.

Fourth issue. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. 18 issues published in total, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, edited by Donald A. Wollheim., In Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 127-132.

''US digest anthology, 18 volumes, quarterly, 1947 - 1952, published by Avon Publishing, New York; ed Donald A. Wollheim. AVON FANTASY READER was the first regular paperback reprint fantasy anthology series, though its digest format has often caused it to be classified as a magazine Wollheim selected primarily from WEIRD TALES, emphasizing the works ...
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Avon Science Fiction And Fantasy Reader Vol 1 no 1.

By: AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER, (ed. Sol Cohen)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Avon Novels, Inc., NY.: 1953 (January).

Seller ID: 22349

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: A NF/Fine (unread) copy..

January 1953 issue (vol 1 no 1). First of just two magazine issues published in total in 1953, an attempt to revive the earlier Avon Fantasy Reader series and Avon Science Fiction Reader series under one title. Unlike those earlier series (which contained many reprints), all stories in these two issues were new. Indeed, this first issue contains Arthur C. Clarke's classic story ''The Forgotten Enemy''.
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Avon Science Fiction Reader no 2.

By: AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, (ed. Donald A. Wollheim)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avon Novels, Inc., NY.: 1951.

Seller ID: 22312

Binding: Digest magazine.

Condition: Text block lightly age-darkened, faint ring marks on front and rear covers, a VG+ copy with bright covers.

Second of just three magazine issues published 1951-1952, intended as a companion title to the successful AVON FANTASY READER series. Contained mostly reprints from the 1920s and 1930s. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. See Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 134-35.
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Avon Science Fiction Reader no 2.

By: AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, (ed. Donald A. Wollheim)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Avon Novels, Inc., NY.: 1951.

Seller ID: 39235

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Text block age-darkened, a near fine (NF) copy with bright covers.

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