Category: Reference & Non-Fiction

Folklore vol 71, September 1960.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Glaisher: London. : 1960.

Seller ID: 43206

September, 1960 issue: 72 pages. Publication of The Folklore Society: the society has published scholarly studies of folklore continuously since 1878, both in periodical and book form, and the magazine FOLKLORE itself began in 1889 (a continuation of earlier journals Folk-Lore Record and Folk-Lore Journal). And still going today (three issues a year).
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Folklore vol 72, June 1961.

By: FOLKLORE, (ed. Christina Hole)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Glaisher: London. : 1961.

Seller ID: 43207

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

June, 1961 issue: 72 pages. Publication of The Folklore Society: the society has published scholarly studies of folklore continuously since 1878, both in periodical and book form, and the magazine FOLKLORE itself began in 1889 (a continuation of earlier journals Folk-Lore Record and Folk-Lore Journal). And still going today (three issues a year).
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Haunted East Anglia.

By: Forman, Joan

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Fontana: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 30651

ISBN-13: 9780006340096

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, VG+ copy.

Collection of folk tales. First published in hardcover by Robert Hale in 1974.
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Foundation no 10.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1976.

Seller ID: 24801

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

June 1976 issue. Editor Peter Nicholls: 128 pages: articles, reviews and letters.
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Foundation no 14.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1978.

Seller ID: 46416

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

September 1978 issue. 108 pages. Editor Malcolm Edwards: articles, reviews and letters. Includes Maxim Jakubowski on the rise and fall of Essex House (publisher of sf porn).
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Foundation no 17.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1979.

Seller ID: 46418

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

September 1979 issue. 110 pages. Editor Malcolm Edwards: articles, reviews and letters. Includes pieces by Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, D. G. Compton, Barrington Bayley, Charles Platt and Colin Greenland,
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Foundation no 18.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1980.

Seller ID: 46419

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

January 1980 issue. 108 pages. Editor Malcolm Edwards: articles, reviews and letters. Includes pieces by Gene Wolfe, Rudy Rucker and Colin Greenland (on the tv series Battlestar Galactica).
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Foundation no 19.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1980.

Seller ID: 24809

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

June 1980 issue. 112 pages. Editor Malcolm Edwards: articles, reviews and letters. Includes Norman Spinrad's ''The Profession Of Science Fiction'', plus pieces by Keith Roberts, Ian Watson, Charles Platt and Michael Bishop.
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Foundation no 20.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1980.

Seller ID: 24810

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

October 1980 issue. 110 pages. Editor David Pringle: articles, reviews and letters. Includes Harlan Ellison's ''The Profession Of Science Fiction''.
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Foundation no 21.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1981.

Seller ID: 24811

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

February 1981 issue. 110 pages. Editor David Pringle: articles, reviews and letters. Includes Gregory Benford's ''The Profession Of Science Fiction''. Plus Naomi Mitchison; D.West on Kornbluth's ''Marching Morons''; K.V. Bailey on Dickens as fantasist; Colin Greenland on Mervyn Peake; and Christopher Priest on Del Rey's history of SF.
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Foundation no 22.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1981.

Seller ID: 24812

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

June 1981 issue. 108 pages. David Pringle editor: articles, reviews and letters. Includes Raymond Z. Gallun's 14-page piece ''The Profession Of Science Fiction''.
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Foundation no 23.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1981.

Seller ID: 24814

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

October 1981 issue. 112 pages. Editor David Pringle: articles, reviews and letters. Interview with M John Harrison, the articles on Pohl/Kornbluth, SF in Hungary, Zebrowski's Profession of sf article and John dean on SF and the City. Also letters from Moorcock, Ballard, Brosnan et al.
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Foundation no 24.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1982.

Seller ID: 24815

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

February 1982 issue. 108 pages. David Pringle editor: articles, reviews and letters. Includes both J.G. Ballard's and George Turner's ''Profession of SF'' pieces; Stableford on Edgar Fawcett; Gregory Feeley on James Blish.
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Foundation no 27.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1983 (February).

Seller ID: 24817

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

110 pages: articles, reviews and letters. Letters from Harlan Ellison, Ursula Le Guiin and others commenting on the (out-of-print) Dick issue; K.V. Bailey on Play and Ritual; William D. Vernon interviews Rudy Rucker; Neil Ferguson as a man from the future; Brian Stableford on M.P. Shiel; Gregory Feeley on Avram Davidson; and Richard D. Erlich on Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty.
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Foundation no 5.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1974.

Seller ID: 46414

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

January 1974 issue. 120 pages. Edited by Peter Nicholls: articles, reviews and letters.
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Foundation no 7/8.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1975.

Seller ID: 24799

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

March 1975 issue. Double Issue: 212 pages, edited by Peter Nicholls. . Articles, reviews and letters. Includes Samuel R. Delany's 30-page piece on ''The Profession Of Science Fiction'', Douglas Barbour's 17 page piece on Delany, and (much more fun), David I. Masson's book review of Keith Roberts' THE CHALK GIANTS, which led to a wonderful spat between the two of them in the letters column of the next issue. .
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Foundation no 9.

By: FOUNDATION (The Review Of Science Fiction),

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1975.

Seller ID: 24800

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

November 1975 issue. 120 pages, edited by Peter Nicholls. Articles, reviews and letters. Includes a ten page piece by J. G. Ballard ''Some Words About Crash!''. But pride of place goes to Keith Roberts' six-page letter, replying to David I. Masson's review of his novel THE CHALK GIANTS (and including Mason's own three-page response to that letter!) in the previous issue.
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Gothic Fiction: A Master List Of Twentieth Century Criticism And Research.

By: Frank, Frederick S.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Meckler Corporation: Westport, CT. : 1988.

Seller ID: 44158

ISBN-13: 9780887362187

Binding: Hardcover.

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

192 pages.
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The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers On Their Art.

By: Freeman, Lucy (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ungar: NY. : 1982.

Seller ID: 36280

ISBN-13: 9780804422123

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Nearly fine copy in a VG dustjacket.

140 pages: pices from Thomas Chastain, Hillary Waugh, Edward D. Hoch, Shannon O'Cork, Bruce Cassidy, Franklin Bandy, Eleanor Sullivan, D.R. Benson, Helen Wells and the editor.
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance (signed/slipcased)

By: Furth, Robin

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 2009.

Seller ID: 31910

ISBN-13: 9781587671586

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

864 pages: foreword by Stephen King. LIMITED EDITION: 2000 numbered hardcover copies signed by Robin Furth and slipcased. This is no 470. Note: NOT signed by Stephen King.
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance: Revised And Updated.

By: Furth, Robin

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2012.

Seller ID: 47774

ISBN-13: 9781444764697

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

686 pages. First published by Hodder in two volumes in 2003 and 2005, now revised and updated in one volume.
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Future/Future Life: first 10 issues..

By: FUTURE/FUTURE LIFE, (various editors)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Future Magazine Inc.: NY. : 1978.

Seller ID: 49740

Binding: Slick magazines.

Condition: Fine (unread) copies.

A run of the first ten issues. 31 issues of this non-fiction media slick sf magazine were published from April 1978 to December 1981, mostly monthly.''an attempt to establish a more science-fact oriented companion to Starlog, this magazine was initially entitled Future but with the March 1979 issue became Future Life to avoid confusion with a similarly-titled economics publication. It featured interviews with many sf notables including Gregory Benford, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K Le Guin, Frederick Pohl, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, John Varley and Roger Zelazny. Isaac Asim...
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Futures Past: A Visual Guidebook to Science Fiction History no 4.

By: FUTURES PAST, (ed. Jim Emerson)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Write Answer: Convoy, OH. : 1994.

Seller ID: 46497

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Issue no 4 (April 1994). 68 pages. A rather nice idea - each issue of the magazine concentrates on a single year in sf history (beginning I assume, as not seen, with 1926 for the first issue).
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The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition Of H. G. Wells's scientific Romance With Introduction And Notes By Harry M. Geguld.

By: Geduld, Harry M. (H. G. Wells THE TIME MACHINE)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press. : 1987.

Seller ID: 38801

ISBN-13: 9780253316110

Binding: Hardcover.

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

218 pages.
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Sons Of Sam Spade: The Private Eye Novel In the 70's: Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon, Andrew Bergman.

By: Geherin, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1982,.

Seller ID: 11972

ISBN-13: 9780804461702

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

168 pages.
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The American Private Eye: The Image In Fiction.

By: Geherin, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1985.

Seller ID: 36271

ISBN-13: 9780804461849

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

228 pages.
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The American Private Eye: The Image In Fiction.

By: Geherin, David (PRIVATE EYE NOVELS)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1985.

Seller ID: 11986

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with several small closed tears and creasing.

228 pages.
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The Unofficial X-Files Companion: Volume 3.

By: Genge, N. E. (X-FILES)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 11752

ISBN-13: 9780333721193

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Distrust That Particular Flavor.

By: Gibson, William

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Viking/Penguin: London. : 2012.

Seller ID: 48130

ISBN-13: 9780670921546

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Non-fiction essays and some autobiographical material: 254 pages. Not published in hardcover in the UK.
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Distrust That Particular Flavor.

By: Gibson, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: NY. : 2012.

Seller ID: 48140

ISBN-13: 9780399158438

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Non-fiction essays and some autobiographical material: 254 pages.
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Dark Knights And Holy Fools: The Art And Films Of Terry Gilliam.

By: Gilliam, Terry

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 00504

ISBN-13: 9780752818276

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

By Bob McCabe: 192 pages Heavily illustrated in full colour.''First fully authorised book to trace the life and work of one of the most innovative film-makers of the century. Fabulously illustrated, it features many previously unseen photographs, storyboards and drawings from Gilliam's private archive. For the first time Gilliam talks at length about the creation of Python, his first attempt at directing and the inside stories of making: Time Bandits, Jabberwocky, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book includes interviews with John Cleese, Ter...
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 11.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2018.

Seller ID: 45038

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 11. 104 pages: three articles on Lord Dunsany, plus articles on Regina Maria Roche (by Albert Power), B. M. Croker (by Richard Dalby), C. S. Lewis (by Reggie Oliver) and others.
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 12.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2018.

Seller ID: 45039

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 12. 108 pages: articles on Jonathan Swift and Charles Maturin (both by Albert Power), Brinsley le Fanu, Robert Cromie, James Stephens, Mervyn Wall and others.
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 13.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2019.

Seller ID: 45662

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 13. 106 pages: articles on Irish writers - Thomas Parnell, Thomas Leland, Mary Fortune, Keith Fleming, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Beatrice Grimshaw, Stephen Gilbert, Cheiro, George William Russell, Shane Leslie, Oliver Sherry, James Corbett, Francis Stuart and Peter Berresford Ellis (aka Peter Tremayne). Contributors include James Doig (3), Albert Power (2), Reggie Chamberlain-King (2), Daniel Mulhall, Mike Ashley, Mark Valentine, Derek John, Richard Bleiler, Edward O'Hare and Richard Dalby
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 18.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2021.

Seller ID: 51193

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 18. 108 page Articles on eleven Irish writers/artists - George Croly (1780-1860) by Paul Murray, Michael and John Banim (1796-1874/1798-1842), Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881) both by James Doig, James William Barlow (1826-1913 by Jack Fennell, , Fitz-James O?Brien (1828-1862), Lady Gregory (1852-1932) both by Richard Bleiler, Jane Barlow (1856-1917) by Jack Fennell, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Harry Clarke (1889-1931) both by R. B. Russell, Christine and Edward Longford (1900-1980/1902-1961) by Reggie Chamberlain-King and Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by Miles Leeson.
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 19.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2022.

Seller ID: 52109

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

No 19: 108 pages. Ireland of the late nineteenth century was awash in reawakened interest in Irish legends and folklore, craft and custom, language and art; the men and women whose works would come to define the ensuing Celtic Literary Revival often concerned themselves with a belief in the authoritative wisdom of ancient traditions and mythology, and with these fervent beliefs, they propelled Ireland toward nationhood. That a new spiritual movement could hold such sway over young minds in late nineteenth-century Ireland comes as no surprise. Theosophy was formally established in New York in...
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 20..

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2022.

Seller ID: 53089

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

No 20. This issue (108 pages) contains profiles of ten Irish writers, James Clarence Mangan, Dion Boucicault, Charlotte Riddell, Bram Stoker, Victor O'Donovan Power, Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, Ella Young, Althea Gyles and Hamilton Deane.
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 21.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2023.

Seller ID: 53090

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

No 21. This issue 104 pages) focuses on three women writers - B. M. Croker, Althea Gyles and Mary Frances McHugh - including stories from each.
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 4.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2014.

Seller ID: 37594

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Fourth issue: 104 pages. Includes pieces on ''Uncle Silas'' (including M. R. James' introduction from 1926) and ''Carmilla'', Ireland And The Supernatural in Elizabeth Bowen's short fiction,
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The Green Book, Writings On Irish Gothic, Supernatural And Fantastic Literature Issue 7.

By: GREEN BOOK, (ed. Brian J. Showers)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Swan River Press: Dublin, Ireland. : 2016.

Seller ID: 40535

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Issue 7. 104 pages.
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Apertures: A Study Of The Writings of Brian W. Aldiss (signed by three authors).

By: Griffin, Brian (& David Wingrove)

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. : 1984.

Seller ID: 45101

ISBN-13: 9780313234286

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new) but for slight mark on front cover..

262 pages. Part of Greenwood Press's Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (vol 8). SIGNED AND DATED BY BRIAN GRIFFIN IN APRIL 1985 AND BY DAVID WINGROVE IN AUGUST 2014, ALSO SIGNED BY BRIAN ALDISS.
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The Encyclopedia Of Ghosts And Spirits: Second Edition.

By: Guiley, Rosemary Ellen

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Checkmark Books: NY. : 2000.

Seller ID: 43249

ISBN-13: 9780816040865

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

430 pages.
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Legendary Horror Films.

By: Guttmacher, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Metro Books: NY. : 1995.

Seller ID: 03539

ISBN-13: 9781567991710

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

128 pages, illustrated throughout.
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Who Done It? A Guide To Detective, Mystery And Suspense Fiction.

By: Hagen, Ordean A.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: R. R. Bowker: NY. : 1969.

Seller ID: 35510

ISBN-13: 9780835202343

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Almost fine copy, as issued without a dustjacket.

834 pages.
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A Dictionary of Vampires.

By: Haining, Peter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 45389

ISBN-13: 9780709065500

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

288 pages: an A-Z of vampires: non-fiction. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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The Dracula Centenary Book.

By: Haining, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Souvenir Press: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 30702

ISBN-13: 9780285628229

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

160 pages: b/w illustrations/photos throughout.
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The Man Who Was Frankenstein.

By: Haining, Peter

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Frederick Muller: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 03445

ISBN-13: 9780584103564

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: A little browning along the top page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Book-length theory that the inspiration for Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was based on an eccentric English scientist whom Mary had seen and heard lecture on the then mysterious and fantastic medium of electricity - Andrew Crosse.
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