Category: Other

A Rude Awakening (signed by the author with doodle).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 07261

ISBN-13: 9780297774488

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Third in the mainstream Horatio Stubbs trilogy, sequel to THE HAND-REARED BOY and A SOLDIER ERECT. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A DOODLE OF AN ERECT PENIS AND PAIR OF BOLLOCKS!

''He gained his first bestseller and some notoriety with The Hand-Reared Boy (1970). This, with its two sequels, A Soldier Erect (1971) and A RUDE AWAKENING (1978), deals with the education, growth to maturity and war experiences in Burma of a young man whose circumstances often recall the early life of the author'' (David Pringle & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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A Soldier Erect, Or Further Adventures Of The Hand-Reared Boy (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1971.

Seller ID: 32497

ISBN: 0297003306

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mainstream rite-of-passage novel (partly-autobiographical?), second in the Horatio Stubbs trilogy: following THE HAND-REARED BOY and followed by A RUDE AWAKENING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''the 1970s also saw the author beginning to publish non-sf fictions more substantial than his previous two, The Brightfount Diaries and The Male Response. He gained his first bestseller and some notoriety with The Hand-Reared Boy (1970). This, with its two sequels, A SOLDIER ERECT (1971) and A Rude Awakening (1978), deals with the education, growth to maturity and war experiences in Burma of a young man whose c...
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A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories (from the author's own library)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 21795

ISBN-13: 9780002240338

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: A fine copy in fine dust jacket (as new).

Collects twelve sf stories, all written between 1988-1992, with a one page poem by the author titled ''Short Stories'' by way of an introduction. This copy is from the author's own library, with a white printed label pasted in, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''.
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A Tupolev Too Far And Other Stories (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 02954

ISBN-13: 9780002240338

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects twelve sf stories, all written between 1988-1992. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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An Age (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1967.

Seller ID: 09864

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

SF novel: serialised October - December 1967 in New Worlds), issued later in the US as CRYPTOZOIC! (1968). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''AN AGE (serialised October-December 1967 New Worlds; 1967; vt Cryptozoic! 1968) is an odd and original treatment of time travel, which sees time as running backwards with a consequent reversal of cause and effect, comparable to Philip K Dick's Counter-Clock World (1967), published in the same year'' (John Clute & David Pringle/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Avernus Presents Science Fiction Blues With Brian Aldiss.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avernus: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 14165

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

12-page Collector's Programme of the ''show that he took on the road'', a tour with Ken Campbell and Petronilla Whitfield: ''contains three unpublished Aldiss short stories'' and a short appreciation by Ken Campbell. Plus several poems. Not to be confused with the collection SCIENCE FICTION BLUES issued as a trade paperback by Avernus the following year, which is a substantial expansion of the same material.
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Best Science Fiction Stories Of Brian W. Aldiss (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1965.

Seller ID: 42989

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dust jacket (as new, but for price-clipping).

There were a few other ''Best Of'' collections by Aldiss in later years, but this was the first. Issued later in the USA. as WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN?. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Best SF Stories OF Brian W. Aldiss (signed & dated by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 04608

ISBN-13: 9780575042100

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SIGNED AND DATED (1991) BY THE AUTHOR.
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Best SF Stories OF Brian W. Aldiss.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 52978

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for bookstore details stamped on rear inner flap.

Bodily Functions (100 copies printed).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Avernus: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 00148

ISBN-13: 9781871503067

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

Collects four stories, two poems and a letter to Sam J. Lundwall (on the subject of bowel movement). LIMITED EDITION: one hundred copies printed, as stated: ''This book is printed for a private celebration, the birthday of a friend. It is limited to 100 copies''. The only edition published of this book.
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Bodily Functions (100 copy edition + signed + from his own library).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Avernus: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 32878

ISBN-13: 9781871503067

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.with a little edge wear and a little rubbing to the blue covers.

Collects four stories, two poems and a letter to Sam J. Lundwall (on the subject of bowel movement). LIMITED EDITION: one hundred copies printed, as stated: ''This book is printed for a private celebration, the birthday of a friend. It is limited to 100 copies''. The only edition published of this book. THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This copy is from the author's own library, with a white printed label pasted in, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor...
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Dracula Unbound (signed by the author & cover artist Chris Foss).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Grafton Books: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 00685

ISBN-13: 9780246137739

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Time-travel vampire novel with Bram Stoker as a protagonist. SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND COVER ARTIST CHRIS FOSS.

''in the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral, bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs . . . linking these scenarios is impetuous inventor Joe Bodenland, who has just created a machine that manipulates time to dispose of hazardous waste''.
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Dracula Unbound [leatherbound/signed].

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Easton Press: CT. : 1991.

Seller ID: 52975

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Time-travel vampire novel with Bram Stoker as a protagonist. New six-page introduction by James Gunn, colour frontispiece by James Mayo. LIMITED EDITION: leatherboundedition signed by the author.''in the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral, bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs . . . linking these scenarios is impetuous inventor Joe Bodenland, who has just created a machine that manipulat...
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Earthworks (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1965.

Seller ID: 06605

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

SF novel about overpopulation, an expansion of a story that first appeared in Science Fantasy in 1963 as ''Skeleton Crew''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong''.
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Enemies Of The System: A Tale Of Homo Uniformis (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 17226

ISBN-13: 9780224015837

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''set one million years into the future where the human race has evolved into a utopian race called homo uniformis: Man Alike Throughout. Supremely logical, their thoughts controlled by a centralised nervous system, these utopianists are freed, by a beneficial design called Biocom, from the emotional problems and absurd evolutionary flaws which have always plagued homo sapiens''.
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Excommunication.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Postcard Partnership: London. : 1975.

Seller ID: 09670

Binding: Printed postcard.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

160-word sf story (and a good one!) published as a (14cm x 10cm) postcard, one of six in total, the series edited (I think) by George Hay. The other authors are Ian Watson (''The Pyramid''), Harry Harrison (''How I Made A Million Pounds - And You Can Too..''), Ursula K. le Guin (''Desperadoes Of The Galactic Union''), Isaac Asimov and Kennther Bulmer (both untitled) All very uncommon.
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Farewell To A Child (signed/limited).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Priapus Press: Hertfordshire. : 1982.

Seller ID: 52977

Binding: Chapbook.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

16 pages: short poem. LIMITED EDITION: 350 copies printed (315 unsigned/unnumbered) of which this is one of 35 copies signed and numbered by bthe author. This is no 14. Laid in is a handwritten letter from the printer John Cotton (confirming that there were only 35 signed/numbered copies).
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Farewell To A Child.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Priapus Press: Hertfordshire. : 1982.

Seller ID: 05833

Binding: Chapbook.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

16 pages: short poem. LIMITED EDITION: 350 copies printed (35 numbered and signed) of which this is one of 315 copies..
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Foreign Bodies (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Chopmen Publishers: Singapore. : 1981.

Seller ID: 16112

ISBN-13: 9789971681050

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Collection of six sf stories (English text!): published to commemorate his appearance in 1980 as Guest Of Honour at the Singapore Book Fair. A most uncommon book, especially in the hardcover edition (there was a simultaneous paperbound edition). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. I ordered five of these from the publisher in Singapore in the early 1980s and they arrived four months later with no packaging but simply tied in a bundle with string: the two outer copies were trashed but the three in the middle were ok.
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Forgotten Life (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 04521

ISBN-13: 9780575043695

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mainstream novel, second in the Squire Quartet, comprising Life In The West (1980), FORGOTTEN LIFE (1988), Remembrance Day (1993) and Somewhere East of Life: Another European Fantasia (1994). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Forgotten Life.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 04454

ISBN-13: 9780575043695

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mainstream novel, second in the Squire Quartet, comprising Life In The West (1980), FORGOTTEN LIFE (1988), Remembrance Day (1993) and Somewhere East of Life: Another European Fantasia (1994). Togethger with separate publisher's publicity pack in card folder.
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Frankenstein Unbound (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1973.

Seller ID: 10146

ISBN-13: 9780224009034

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Time travel sf/fantasy featuring Byron and Mary Shelley, basis for the 1990 Roger Corman film of the same title. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''a time-travel fantasia which has Mary Shelley as a major character and presents in fictional form the myth-of-origin for sf he advocated in his history of the genre, Billion Year Spree'' (David Pringle/John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Gregg Press: Boston. : 1977.

Seller ID: 45098

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, an almost fine copy (as issued without dustjacket).

SF stories, first published as a Signet paperback original in 1960 (the stories were first collected in the UK as THE CANOPY OF TIME in 1959, the 1960 Signet paperback was abridged). With a new nine-page introduction by Norman Spinrad. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Harm (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY. : 2007.

Seller ID: 45199

ISBN-13: 9780345496713

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel. Includes a 12-page conversation/interview (about the novel Harm) with the author at the back of the book, plus a two page 'Author's Note'.. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''further late novels of genre interest include HARM (2007), a dystopian tale of repression and political paranoia, set in a very near-future UK where an innocent British Muslim or ex-Muslim is ruthlessly tortured; and Finches of Mars (2013), set deeper into the future, on a Mars colonized in dystopian fashion by the warring power blocs of Earthl'' (John Clute & David Pringle/Encylopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Helliconia Winter.(signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Atheneum: NY. : 1985.

Seller ID: 15694

ISBN-13: 9780689115417

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little wear along the top edge of the front panel.

Third volume in the Helliconia trilogy - following Helliconia Spring and Helliconia Summer. Issued in April 1985, simultaneous withthe UK Jonathan Cape edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With publicity material laid in.
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Intangibles Inc. & Other Stories: Five Novellas (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1969.

Seller ID: 03912

ISBN-13: 9780571089574

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects five sf novellas. Published in the USA as NEANDERTHAL PLANET (with altered contents - two stories omitted and one added) as an Avon paperback original in 1970. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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Jocasta: ''Wife And Mother'''' (limited + signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: The Rose Press: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 15046

ISBN-13: 9780954827700

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Historical fantasy in ancient Thebes, ''which retells Sophocles's Oedipus Rex through the eyes of his knowing, vigorous, doom-haunted wife'': and maybe more ertinent to sf, ''featuring a time-travelling Sophocles''; LIMITED EDITION: 750 numbered copies printed. Note: the signature of the author found on the limitation page is a facsimile. HOWEVER THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.''The tragedy of Oedipus is precipitated by his unwitting marriage to his mother, Jocasta. Brian Aldiss's psychological novel re-examines the entire Oedipus drama from Jocasta's point of view. At ...
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Last Orders And Other Stories (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1977.

Seller ID: 03913

ISBN-13: 9780224014878

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects fourteen stories and an introduction by the author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Life In The West: A Novel (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 46675

ISBN-13: 9780297777441

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for browning along the edges of front panel.

Mainstream novel, first in the Squire Quartet, comprising LIFE IN THE WEST (1980), Forgotten Life (1988), Remembrance Day (1993) and Somewhere East of Life: Another European Fantasia (1994). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Moreau's Other Island (from the author's own library).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 32184

ISBN-13: 9780224018401

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. Published in the US as AN ISLAND CALLED MOREAU.. This copy from the author's own library, with a white printed label pasted in, stating/''This book was a personal copy of the author Brian W. Aldiss, part of his effects at his home at the time of his death in August 2017. Wendy Aldiss, Literary Executor Brian Aldiss Estate''. Literary agents label affixed to front free endpaper.''plays fruitfully with themes from H.G. Wells: during a nuclear war a US official discovers that bioengineering experiments performed on a deserted island are a secret project run by his own department''...
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Moreau's Other Island (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 52968

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel. Published in the US as AN ISLAND CALLED MOREAU. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''plays fruitfully with themes from H.G. Wells: during a nuclear war a US official discovers that bioengineering experiments performed on a deserted island are a secret project run by his own department'' (David Pringle & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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My Country 'Tis Not Only Of Thee: A Story Of The World After The Vietnam War.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Privately printed by the author. : 1986.

Seller ID: 12438

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

28 page short story, printed for the Aldiss Appreciation Society. LIMITED EDITION: 100 signed copiesprinted (though this copy - like most - has not been signed).
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New Arrivals, Old Encounters (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 21790

ISBN-13: 9780224016810

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine price-clipped dustjacket (as new)

Collects twelve sf stories. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Report On Probability A (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1968.

Seller ID: 00567

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with ubbing to both front and rear panels.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''during the latter half of the 1960s Aldiss was closely identified with New Wave sf, and in particular with the innovative magazine New Worlds under the fruitfully controversial editorship of Michael Moorcock; Aldiss was instrumental in obtaining a 1967 Arts Council grant for the magazine, which saved it for a few years. Though never fully at ease with New Worlds's submission to an aesthetic dominated by J G Ballard, Aldiss published some increasingly unconventional fiction here, notably his novel REPORT ON PROBABILITY A (short version March 1967 New Worlds; 19...
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Ruins (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 07265

ISBN-13: 9780091678609

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mainstream fiction, part of the Hutchinson series of novellas, colour wraparound cover and b/w illustrations by Salim Patell.
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Sanity And The Lady (limited/slipcased).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2005

Seller ID: 15572

ISBN-13: 9781904619253

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket and slipcase (as new).

Short sf novel: introduction by Ian R. Macleod. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 700 copies, this is one of 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by both authors and slipcased.''''They're the reason why xenophobia was invented.'' So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's a...
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Science Fiction Blues: The Show That Brian Aldiss Took on the Road: A Selection of His Best Stories, Poetry, and Speculations: An Evening of Wonders.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avernus: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 00646

ISBN-13: 9781871503005

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Stories and poetry: new introduction by Robert Holdstock. 160 pages: much expanded from the 12-page Collector's Programme issued a year earlier to accompany the author's tour with Ken Campbell. Short stories, poetry and ''The Night of the Talking Dog'' by Campbell and Petronilla Whitfield.
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Science Fiction Quiz (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1983.

Seller ID: 16104

ISBN-13: 9780297783404

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Small-sized 10 cm x 9 cm hardcover: non-fiction. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Seasons In Flight

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 52980

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for price on inner front flap neatly crossed out.

Collects ten sf stories.
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Seasons In Flight (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 07299

ISBN-13: 9780224022712

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects ten sf stories. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (cut out from elsewhere and affixed to the title page).
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Somewhere East Of Life (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Flamingo: London. : 1994.

Seller ID: 30334

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mainstream novel, last in the Squire Quartet, comprising Life In The West (1980), Forgotten Life (1988), Remembrance Day (1993) and SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE (1994). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Space, Time And Nathaniel.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1957.

Seller ID: 00859

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Near fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with spine and other edge wear

The author's first collection of sf stories, with a four-page introduction.
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Starswarm (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Gregg Press: Boston. : 1978.

Seller ID: 45154

ISBN-13: 9780839824084

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Short stories, first published in the UK in 1963 as THE AIRS OF EARTH, then, with textual changes, in the US a year later as a Signet paperback original with a new title STARSWARM. This new edition follows the 1964 US text. New 12-page introduction by Joseph Milicia. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Summer 1773.

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Bellevue Press: NY. : 1976.

Seller ID: 32904

Binding: Postcard.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Short poem printed as a postcard: part of a series of poems by various sf writers edited by Jack Dann and issued by the The Bellevue Press in the 1970's. Nine postcards were issued in total, the authors were Ursula K. Le Guin (two poems), Thomas Disch, Michael Bishop. Sonya Dorman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Brian W. Aldiss, and Jack Dann (two poems).
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Super-State: A Novel Of A Future Europe (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Orbit: London. : 2002.

Seller ID: 10018

ISBN-13: 9781841491448

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''is the Europe of 40 years' time where, despite technological advancement, the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists and a subversive group, the ''Insanatics'', is sending out doleful messages to worry and provoke the population''.
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The Airs Of Earth: Science Fiction Stories (signed by the author)..

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1963.

Seller ID: 25629

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Collects eight sf stories. Published a year later as an NAL ipaperback original n the US with textual differences as STARSWARM (1964). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Brightfount Diaries (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1955.

Seller ID: 08529

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Gift inscription on front free endpaper, faint spotting along top page edges, an almost fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

The author's first book, a mainstream novel of the author's experience working in bookshops in Oxford after WW2, with illustrations by Pearl Falconer. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''he served from 1943 through World War Two in the Royal Corps of Signals in India, Burma and Sumatra, being demobilized in 1947; these four years provided him with background material throughout his career, and are specifically recreated in the non-fantastic Horatio Stubbs sequence. He then worked as an assistant in Oxford bookshops, an experience he transformed into a series of fictionalized sketches about bookselling as...
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The Canopy Of Time (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1959.

Seller ID: 09229

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF short story collection. Issued a year later in the US as an NAL paperback original with abridged contents as GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND (1960). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Dark Light Years (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1964.

Seller ID: 44262

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket, with abrasion in middle of front panel and edge wear.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''notable for its ironized treatment of a central sf dilemma - how one comes to terms with intelligent Aliens who are physically disgusting'' (John Clute & David Pringle/Encyclopedia of SF, 3d Edition).
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The Detached Retina: Aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press. : 1995.

Seller ID: 52981

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

224 pages: collects 23 essays plus index. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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