Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

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

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1978.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

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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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.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

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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Foreign Bodies (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Chopmen Publishers: Singapore. : 1981.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

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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Moreau's Other Island (from the author's own library).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1980.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

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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The Canopy Of Time (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1959.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

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 Tunnel: A Comedy.

By: Allen, Osric

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Robert Temple: London. : 1994.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 08753

ISBN-13: 9780952309314

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Fantasy novel: ''vivid prose: it has the effect of the best magic realists. It's definitely the kind of original idiosyncratiic novel I thoroughly enjoy'' (Michael Moorcock''.
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The Wind From A Burning Woman (briefly inscribed by the author).

By: Bear, Greg

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Arkham House: Sauk City, Wisconsin. : 1983.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 04656

ISBN-13: 9780870540943

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Short story collection: 270 pages. Illustrated by Dennis Neal Smith. BRIEFLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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A Life For The Stars.

By: Blish, James

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1964.

Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 28212

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Part of the Cities in Flight sf series: the others are ''Earthman, Come Home'' (1955) ''They Shall Have Stars'' (1956) and ''The Triumph Of Time'' (US 1958)/title change ''A Clash Of Cymbals'' (UK 1959).''he worked hard to develop his craft, but not until 1950, when the first of his Okie stories appeared in Astounding SF, did it became clear that he could become an sf writer of unusual depth. The Okie stories featured flying cities, powered by antigravity devices called spindizzies, moving through the Galaxy looking for work, much as the Okies did in the 1930s when they escaped from the dustbo...
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While There's Hope (signed/20 copy hardcover edition).

By: Brunner, John

Price: £125.00

Publisher: The Keepsake Press. : 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 16644

ISBN-13: 9780901924575

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Short SF story. LIMITED EDITION: 230 copies printed in total (of which 210 were paperback) of which this is one of just 20 hardcover copies signed by the author and illustrator Paul Piech. This no 7.
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Smire: An Acceptance In The Third Person.

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co.: NY. : 1937.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 13413

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

''First Edition'' stated on copyright page. Third in the fantasy trilogy, following Smirt (1934) and Smith (1935), all as by ''Branch Cabell''.

''A second fantasy series - Smirt (1934), Smith (1935) and Smire (1937), all as by Branch Cabell, deliberately and effectively imitates the hazy logical progression of dreams as it carries the eponym (who is three in one) ever downwards, through universes and incarnations: the effect is ironical'' (David Langford/The Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel.

By: Cady, Jack

Price: £15.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY. : 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 16695

ISBN-13: 9780312135744

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Weird novel: ''a pungent mix of Tom Robbins, Ray Bradbury and Charles G. Finney - but pute Cady, and it's glorious'' (Greg Bear).
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Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker 111 (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1989.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 07192

ISBN-13: 9780312931414

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE/''To Rodney/out of the fire, into/ the light - Orson Scott Card, 19 Nov '91''.''The Tales of Alvin Maker comprising Seventh Son (1987), Red Prophet (1988) , PRENTICE ALVIN (1989), and Alvin Journeyman (1995) with at least two further volumes projected - is set on Earth, an alternate-world version of the USA. On the basis of the first three volumes, it seems to come as close as humanly possible to the telling of an sf tale as Mormon parable, for the life of Alvin Maker clearly encodes the life of Joseph Smith (1805-1844...
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The Abyss (film tie-in).

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Legend: London. : 1989.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00207

ISBN-13: 9780712634038

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Published in the USA as a Pocket paperback original the same year. Novelisation of the James Cameron screenplay of the sf movie of the same title. Three page afterword by Cameron and ten page afterward from the author.''despite the largest budget of the period's undersea fantasies at about $60 million, and despite director Cameron's impressive track record with sf, this was not a box-office smash. A nuclear-missile-armed US submarine crashes at the edge of the Cayman Trough and the crew of an experimental, submersible drilling rig are asked to help rescue any survivors. A hurricane cuts commu...
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The Way Back.

By: Chandler, A. Bertram

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1976.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48160

ISBN-13: 9780709152781

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel, part of the John Grimes/Rim World series. A very uncommon UK hardcover.
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Judas Tree (signed by the author)..

By: Clark, Simon

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1999.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 01253

ISBN-13: 9780340739136

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Horror novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Cradle (+ uncorrected proof)

By: Clarke, Arthur C. ( & Gentry Lee)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 06148

ISBN-13: 9780575041646

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. Together with a (fine) uncorrected book proof.
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The Navigator Of Rhada.

By: Coppel, Alfred (writing as "Robert Gilman")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1971.

Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 01387

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Young adult sf novel, second in the trilogy.

''As 'Robert Gilman', Coppel published the Rhada Space-Opera sequence for tough, older children: The Rebel of Rhada (1968), THE NAVIGATOR OF RHADA (1969) and The Starkahn of Rhada (1970) are not easy reading, and neither is the prequel The Warlock of Rhada (1985). '' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Last Election.

By: Davies, Pete

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: London. : 1986.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 06256

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel set in the UK in the near future.''His first novel, THE LAST ELECTION (1986), depicts with singular ferocity a near-future dystopian UK ruled by the Money Party and its senile Nanny, a savage portrait of the 1980s British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher; Overpopulation and the total loss of a manufacturing base lead to the government's dissemination of a painkiller which causes initial rejuvenation but then extremely premature ageing in the poor to whom it has been given free. The final election, won by Nanny with the aid of a powerful advertising agency, soon marks the end of any r...
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Galactic Pot-Healer.

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1971.

Edition: First trade hardcover edition.

Seller ID: 01886

ISBN-13: 9780575005969

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. First published as a Berkley paperback original in 1969, followed by a 1970 Nelson Doubleday Book Club edition. See Levack: PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: Revised Edition (1988) 17c (p.35).
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Queen Of Demons.

By: Drake, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1998.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 01748

ISBN-13: 9780312864682

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Fantasy novel, sequel to LORD OF THE ISLES (1997) and second volume in the six-volume Lord Of The Isles series.
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Mortal Remains, or Heirs Of The Noosphere.

By: Evans, Christopher

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 42094

ISBN-13: 9780575060838

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel.''Known Space belongs to humanity: with the advent of organic biotechnology, the Settled Worlds of the Solar System are homes to a riot of varied environments, while the routes between the worlds are plied by all manner of sentient spacecraft. Ageing and extinction are a bad genetic memory: now, at a pre-determined time, the soul of every living body is translated into Noosphere, a psychic afterlife where loved ones (and less welcome visitors) can make contact through prayer terminals. Paradise ? Not quite, for even Eden has it's criminal element, and when a strange womb is recover...
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Flying To Nowhere.

By: Fuller, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Salamander Press: Edinburgh. : 1983.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 41954

ISBN-13: 9780907540274

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Fantasy novel.''UK poet and novelist, active as an author of poetry from his first book, Fairground Music (coll 1961); The Illusionists (1980), a book-length poem, hovers at the edge of the fantastic. In his first fiction of interest, FFLYING TO NOWHERE: A TALE (1983), set in a Land-of-Fable Middle Ages, a religious emissary comes to an island where a possibly heretic miracle has long before taken place, and finds - at the heart of an underground labyrinth - the abbot of the order busy dissecting bodies in a search for the soul. Once this recognition has been passed, the abbot urges, then we w...
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Star Smashers Of The Galaxy Rangers (signed by the author).

By: Harrison, Harry

Price: £50.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: NY. : 1973.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 53065

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Come Dance With Me.

By: Hoban, Russell

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury: London. : 2005.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 22954

ISBN-13: 9780747574521

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Fantasy/weird novel.

''there is a strangeness about Christabel Alderton. Elias Newman can see it right away, as well he might. When Christabel was thirteen she was walking by the River Lea and some people in a cabin cruiser waved to her. The scene before her seemed to freeze like a photograph and she felt weird. A little later the boat blew up and killed everyone on board. Since then she's been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Now, years later, she sings with a band called Mobile Mortuary''.
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Post Oaks & Rough Sands.

By: Howard, Robert E.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Donald M. Grant, Publisher: USA. : 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 39405

ISBN-13: 9780937986936

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Semi-autobiographical novel centering around his friends and acquantances and the towns in which he lived: introduction by Glenn Lord with index and other material. 850 copies printed.
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Horrors And Unpleasantries: A Bibliographical History & Collectors Price Guide To Arkham House.

By: Jaffery, Sheldon

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. : 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00995

ISBN-13: 9780879722197

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

142 pages: forget the price guide (obviously very much out of date) but does contain a lot of other very useful information about Arkham House.
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Assignment In Nowhere.

By: Laumer, Keith

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London. : 1972.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 17503

ISBN-13: 9780234776322

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel, first published as a paperback original (Berkley, 1968).
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Galactic Diplomat: Nine Incidents Of The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne.

By: Laumer, Keith

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Doubleday: NY. : 1965.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 17559

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

The second Retief book, comprising nine stories of interstellar diplomacy featuring the intrepid field agent Jame Retief.
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Shon The Taken (inscribed by the author).

By: Lee, Tanith

Price: £50.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 1979.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 00901

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Young adult fantasy. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR/''to Dave Holmes bestest Tanith Lee 1988''.
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Lovecraft's Providence And Adjacent Parts: Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged (signed by publisher Don Grant).

By: Lovecraft, H. P. (by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr).

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Donald M. Grant, Publisher: USA. : 1986.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 33356

ISBN-13: 9780937986844

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

96 pages: non-fiction. Photos and maps of where Lovecraft lived and worked. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER DON GRANT.
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The Scorpio Illusion (inscribed by the author).

By: Ludlum, Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 1993.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 44607

ISBN-13: 9780002239714

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Thriller. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR/''for - , many thanks and good to see you again'' Robert Ludlum''.
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From Carthage Then I Came.

By: Mason, Douglas R. (aka John Rankine)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1968.

Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19200

ISBN-13: 9780709102908

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

The author's first sf novel: he also wrote as ''John Rankine''. Issued in SF novel, Published in paperback in 1967 as EIGHT AGAINST UTOPIA.''(1918-2013) UK junior-school headmaster and prolific author after 1964, both under his own name and as John Rankine (Rankine being his middle name). His first story was ''Two's Company'' as by Rankine in John Carnell's New Writings in SF 1 (1964), and he was soon publishing two to three books a year, focusing under the Rankine name on generally routine Space Operas and other adventures. The Dag Fletcher series of Space Operas as by Rankine, was initiate...
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Decision At Doona (inscribed by the author).

By: McCaffrey, Anne

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Rapp and Whiting: London. : 1970.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 37662

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. First published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1969. BRIEFLY INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Dragondrums (signed by the author).

By: McCaffrey, Anne

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: London. : 1980.

Edition: Second printing.

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 45416

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel, part of the long-running Pern series, and third in the trilogy comprising Dragonsong (1976), Dragonsinger (1977) and Dragondrums (1979). ''Reprinted January 1980'' stated on the copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Dragonquest, Being the Further Adventures of the Dragonriders of Pern (signed by the author).

By: McCaffrey, Anne

Price: £750.00

Publisher: Rapp + Whiting/Andre Deutsch: London. : 1973.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 45380

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

First published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1971. Sequel to DRAGONFLIGHT (1968). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Renegades of Pern.

By: McCaffrey, Anne

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine: NY. : 1989.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 06574

ISBN-13: 9780345340962

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel, part of the long-running Pern series.

''the renegades were the misfits, the outcasts and the murderers united by Thella, Lady Holder of Telgar. They began a reign of terror as they moved from theft and murder to vicious and insane revenge''.
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On Chesil Beach.

By: McEwan, Ian

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 44139

ISBN-13: 9780224081184

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

First printing with 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 on copyright page.
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The Banner of Joan (signed by the publisher)..

By: Munn, H. Warner

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Donald M. Grant, Publisher: USA. : 1975.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00940

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

128 page epic poem about Joan of Arc. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER DON GRANT.
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Widow's Walk.

By: Parker, Robert B.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Murray: London. : 2002.

Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 18963

ISBN-13: 9780719562860

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

A Spenser private-eye novel.
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The Faces Of Fantasy: Photographs By Patti Perret (signed by 51 authors).

By: Perret, Patti (photographer)

Price: £500.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1996.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52520

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

236 pages: introduction by Terri Windling. 103 full-page b/w photos by Perret of fantasy writers, each with a short commentary by that particular writer. THIS COPY SIGNED BY FIFTY-ONE OF THE AUTHORS AT THEIR PARTICULAR PAGE. Signatures include Joan Aiken, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, George R. R. Martin, Terry Brooks, Charles de Lint, M. John Harrison, Diana Wynne Jones, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, Tim Powers, Fred Saberhagen, Peter Straub, Lisa Tuttle, Tad Williams, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Jane Yolen.
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Starfire.

By: Preuss, Paul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1988.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19638

ISBN-13: 9780312930561

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel.
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Moons Of Triopus.

By: Rankine, John (aka Douglas R. Mason)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London. : 1968.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 07756

ISBN-13: 9780234771969

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel.''(1918-2013) UK junior-school headmaster and prolific author after 1964, both under his own name and as John Rankine (Rankine being his middle name). His first story was ''Two's Company'' as by Rankine in John Carnell's New Writings in SF 1 (1964), and he was soon publishing two to three books a year, focusing under the Rankine name on generally routine Space Operas and other adventures. The Dag Fletcher series of Space Operas as by Rankine, was initiated in his first book, The Blockade of Sinitron: Four Adventures of Dag Fletcher (coll of linked stories 1966), and continued with Int...
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The Star Of Hesiock.

By: Rankine, John (aka Douglas R. Mason)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London. : 1980.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19205

ISBN-13: 9780234721735

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel. A rare book, and the only published edition of this title )other than as a 2013 e-book).
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Looking Backward, From The Year 2000.

By: Reynolds, Mack

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Elmfield Press: UK. : 1976.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19609

ISBN-13: 9780705700665

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF novel, first published as an Ace paperback in 1973.

''when his sf career resumed it was with the strikingly different Looking Backward, from the Year 2000 (1973), a reprise of Edward Bellamy's classic Utopian novel, displaying Reynolds ideas about the politics and economics of an energy-affluent society'' (Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Machines And Men: Science Fiction Stories (signed by the author).

By: Roberts, Keith

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: London. : 1973.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 17167

ISBN-13: 9780091151805

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Techniques of Fantasy Art.

By: Robertson, Bruce (illustrator)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Macdonald Orbis: London. : 1988.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 44827

ISBN-13: 9780356153247

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

144 pages.
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Now It's Dark (signed by the author and two contributors).

By: Rucker, Lynda E.

Price: £40.00

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

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 52818

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Collection of weird/horror stories, introduction by Rob Shearman, cover art by John Coulthart. LIMITED EDITION: 400 copies printed (the first 100 numbered) of whiuch this is one of 300 unnumbered copies signed by the author and other two contributors.
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Deep Space.

By: Russell, Eric Frank

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Fantasy Press: PA. : 1954.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 52806

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

SF stories. Currey first binding of dark blue cloth, spine stamped in gold. The author's first short story collection, collecting nine stories first published in the pulp magazines between 1941 - 1952.
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No Further Messages (signed/limited).

By: Savory, Brett Alexander

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Delirium Books: USA. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 35134

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Short story collection. LIMITED EDITION:100 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author Exclusive Series #9): one of a series of books for which Delirium only printed the exact number of pre-orders up to a maximum of 100 copies.
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Blow-Out.

By: Scortia, Thomas N. (& Frank M. Robinson)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Severn House: London : 1989.

Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 19612

ISBN-13: 9780727817044

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Near future thriller.''..he then shifted, however, into collaborative enterprises, mainly a series of popular Technothrillers with Frank M Robinson which, though successful in their own terms, exhibited relatively little of the creative daring Scortia had always threatened to exploit more fully. They are The Glass Inferno (1974) - which along with Richard Martin Stern's The Tower (1973) was filmed as The Towering Inferno (1974) - The Prometheus Crisis (1975), The Nightmare Factor (1978), The Gold Crew (1980) and - completed by Robinson after Scortia died - BLOW OUT! (1987), which features a tr...
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Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

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