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

Let's Make Love (film tie-in with Marilyn Monroe on cover).

By: Andrews, Matthew

Price: £25.00

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

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

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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The Mammoth Book Of Historical Detectives.

By: Ashley, Mike (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 51133

ISBN-13: 9781854874061

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

532 pages: 29 stories, a mixture of original stories and reprints, each with an individual introduction by the editor. Split into sections - The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Age of Discovery, Regency And Gaslight, and Holmes and Beyond.
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The Mammoth Book Of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures.

By: Ashley, Mike (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Carroll & Graf: NY. : 1997.

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

Seller ID: 51141

ISBN-13: 9780786704774

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

524 pages: 26 stories, mostly original with several rare reprints, introduction by Richard Lancelyn Green. . Authors include Michael Moorcock, Basil Copper, Barbara Roden, Basil Copper, Peter Tremayne, Eric Brown, Peter Crowther, David Langford and sf writer Stephen Baxter.
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Clive Barker's Books Of Blood Volume 1V (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Barker, Clive

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 43878

ISBN-13: 9780722113738

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fourth (of six) volumes of the 1984-1985 paperback series. INSCRIBED SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Malcolm and Chris, with very best wishes, Clive 22nd June 1985'' (two days after the publication date). The first true edition of volume 4 of Books Of Blood, with the distorted/mirror effect front covers (later printings reproduced the author's colour paintings from the Weidenfeld hardcovers dustjacket art)..
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Nuclear Weapons.

By: Berzins, Otto

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1966.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 33288

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan Piper MP104.
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Year 2018!

By: Blish, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Four Square: London. : 1964.

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

Seller ID: 47474

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Four Square 954. SF novel, part of the Okies/Cities In Flight series. ''First Four square Edition 1964'' on copyright page. First published by Faber in hardcover in 1956 as THEY SHALL HAVE STARS, then retitled YEAR 2018! As an Avon paperback original a year later. Four Square then issued it as YEAR 2018! In 1964 (reprinted 1965), followed by an NEL 1968 paperback, which reverted back to the original title. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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Infinity Plus: The Anthology.

By: Brooke, Keith (& Nicholas Gevers, eds.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Solaris: UK. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 50193

ISBN-13: 9781844164899

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

688 pages: anthology of 26 sf stories which had first appeared on the editors Infinity Plus website.
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Dempsey & Makepeace 3: Lucky Streak (tv tie-in)..

By: Brosnan, John (writing as "John Raymond")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London. : 1985.

Edition: First edition

Seller ID: 00602

ISBN-13: 9780708827352

Binding: Paperback original.

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

The third of six spin-off novels published by Futura 1985-1986 based on the 1985-1986 UK tv detective series.
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The Eagles: City of Fire.

By: Bulmer, Ken (writing as " Andrew Quiller")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mayflower/Granada: London. : 1976.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47994

ISBN-13: 9780583126663

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Historical Roman/gladiatoral novel, third in the five book series written by Bulmer as ''Andrew Quiller''.
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Fox 9: Cut And Thrust.

By: Bulmer, Kenneth (writing as "Adam Hardy")

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London. : 1974.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49447

ISBN-13: 9780450020162

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Kenneth Bulmer, writing as ''Adam Hardy'', wrote a 14 volume Fox sequence of Hornblower-esque historical sea stories beginning with The Press Gang (1973).
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Nova Express (new cover art).

By: Burroughs, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Panther/Granada: London. : 1978.

Edition: Fourth printing.

Seller ID: 48242

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Panther 0586023771. First published in the UK in hardcover by Jonathan Cape in 1966, followed by a 1st Panther paperback printing in 1968 and further printings in 1969 and 1972. ''Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1968/Reprinted 1969, 1972, 1978'' on copyright page. New cover art.''his major novels of this period, however, are The Soft Machine (1961 France; rev 1966 US), The Ticket that Exploded (1962 France; rev 1967 US), NOVA EXPRESS (1964), The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971; rev 1979 UK) and Exterminator! (1973). In these works, the author experimented with ...
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The Ticket That Exploded.

By: Burroughs, William S.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London. : 1971.

Edition: First Corgi paperback printing.

Seller ID: 46446

ISBN-13: 9780552086172

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Corgi 0552086177. First published in hardcover (and simultaneous trade paperback) in the UK in 1968, followed by this 1971 Corgi mass market paperback. ''Corgi edition published 1971'' on the copyright page. See: Maynard & Miles: William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography 1953-1973, A6f.
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The World In Peril.

By: Chilton, Charles

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1962.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 47408

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Great Pan G579. SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1960, and the third of three novelisations of the author's 1953-1956 radio sf series JOURNEY INTO SPACE, following the title novel and THE WORLD IN PERIL.''(1917-2013) UK Radio producer and scriptwriter whose three sf novels comprise a rewrite into novel form of his three-part BBC radio series, Journey Into Space (1953-1956), which he produced and wrote, and which were - and have remained through rebroadcasts - extremely popular. The individual volumes are Journey Into Space (1954), novelizing the first story (broadcast 21 September 19...
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Syzygy.

By: Coney, Michael G.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London. : 1975.

Edition: First British paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49166

Binding: Paperback original.

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

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

''his first novel, Mirror Image (1972) features alien ''amorphs'' who can so perfectly mimic humans that, when they have done so, they believe themselves to be in fact human; the amorphs reappear in Brontomek! (1976). The ecological puzzle story SYZYGY (1973) is set on the same world'' (Malcolm J. Edwards & Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Prisoner of Fire.

By: Cooper, Edmund

Price: £8.00

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

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49148

ISBN-13: 9780340212424

Binding: Paperback original.

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

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

By: Cooper, Edmund

Price: £8.00

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

Edition: First British paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49140

ISBN-13: 9780340194782

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Coronet 19478 2. SF novel, first published as a Hodder hardcover in 1973 (followed by a Ballantine paperback later the same year). Colin Hay cover art.
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The Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories.

By: Dalby, Richard (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 34523

ISBN-13: 9781854870551

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

First volume of two published: 654 pages: 52 stories Mostly classic reprints, but including a few original stories.
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Conan The Buccaneer.

By: de Camp, L. Sprague (& Lin Carter)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 1976.

Edition: Second printing.

Seller ID: 48606

ISBN-13: 9780722147122

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Eight-page introduction by Lin Carter. Published as a Lancer paperback original in 1971. The first Sphere printing was a year ealier. Frazetta cover art (same as the 1st printing).
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The Hidden City: Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon Volume 5.

By: de Lint, Charles

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bantam Spectra: NY. : 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49179

ISBN-13: 9780553283389

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Volume five in the Shared World series: six volumes published 1988-1990, two by Charles De Lint, two by Richard Lupoff, plus Bruce Coville and Robin Wayne Bailey. Six page preface by Philip Jose Farmer. ''A Bantam Spectre Book/March 1990'' on copyright page. Robert Gould cover art.
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We Can Build You.

By: Dick, Philip K.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Fontana: London. : 1977.

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

Seller ID: 48256

ISBN-13: 9780006146162

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fontana 4616. SF novel, first published as a DAW paperback original in 1972. First British edition, with cover art by Peter Tybus. Not listed in Levack: PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: Revised Edition (1988), even though in the introduction (in fact the very first sentence) it states ''This bibliography attempts to cite all the published works of Philip K. Dick through late 1984''. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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Beyond The Dar Al-Harb.

By: Dickson, Gordon R.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1985.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49247

ISBN-13: 9780812535501

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Fantasy novel (three linked long stories). ''First printing: November 1985''. Alan Gutierrez cover art.
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The Wounded Land.

By: Donaldson, Stephen R.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fontana/Collins: London. : 1980.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49269

ISBN-13: 9780006161400

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Book One of the Second Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, followed by THE ONE TREE (1982) and WHITE GOLD WIELDER (1983). Peter Goodfellow cover art.
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Time Safari.

By: Drake, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Baen Books: NY. : 1982.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 47319

ISBN-13: 9780523485416

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel (a collection of linked stories) - reissued/expanded as TYRANNOSAUR in 1994. ''First printing, August, 1982'' on copyright page. Cover art by E. T. Broeck Steadman.

''makes one of the hoary clichés of Time-Travel tales - the Dinosaur hunt - vividly present to the mind's eye through the well-researched verisimilitude of the telling'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Ghost Pirates (Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult) (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Hodgson, William Hope

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 1975.

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

Seller ID: 28640

ISBN-13: 9780722146149

Binding: Paperback original.

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

First published in 1909. New introduction by Dennis Wheatley. The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult Volume 33.
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Dust Before The Wind.

By: Homan, Robert

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Four Square/New English Library: London. : 1966.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 43859

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Adventure novel . First published in hardcover in 1960. Four Square 1491. Very uncommon paperback.
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The Dark Man And Others: The Dark Man Omnibus Volume 1.

By: Howard, Robert E.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Panther/Granada: London. : 1978.

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

Seller ID: 43998

ISBN-13: 9780586042939

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Volume One. First published in hardcover as THE DARK MAN AND OTHERS by Arkham House in 1963: British publication was split into two paperback volumes (the second being THE DARK MAN OMNIBUS TWO: THE DEAD REMEMBER). Two page introduction by August Derleth.
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 18 (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Jones, Stephen (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 2007.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 42270

ISBN-13: 9781845294816

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

Volume 18. 574 pages with a 70-page introduction by the editor and 75 page 'Necrology' (ie. those who had died that year) by Kim Newman. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION BY THE EDITOR TO A FELLOW UK HORROR WRITER.
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 19 (inscribed and dated by the editor).

By: Jones, Stephen (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 2008.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 36731

ISBN-13: 9781845298333

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

Volume 19 in the long-running series: 624 pages. Includes an 80-page introduction by the editor and 64 page 'Necrology' by Jones and Kim Newman. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION (20/9/08) BY THE EDITOR TO A WELL KNOWN UK HORROR WRITER ON THE TITLE PAGE, PLUS ELEVEN CONTRIBUTORS ON THE CONTENTS PAGES.
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 20 (inscribed & dated by the editor & cover artist).

By: Jones, Stephen (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 2009.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 42274

ISBN-13: 9781845299323

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

Volume 20 in the long-running series: 542 pages. Includes a 78-page introduction by the editor and a 60 page 'Necrology: 2008' (ie. those who had died that year) by Jones and Kim Newman. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE EDITOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION, PLUS COVER ARTIST VINCENT CHONG.
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The Mammoth Book Of Zombies.

By: Jones, Stephen (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Carroll & Graf: NY. : 1983.

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

Seller ID: 36678

ISBN-13: 9780786700233

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

518 pages: collects 26 stories, including eight original to this volume.
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Flesh Fantastic

By: Kilpatrick, Nancy (ed. as "Arajmantha Knight")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Rhinoceros/Masquerade Books: NY. : 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 39045

ISBN-13: 9781563333521

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Original anthology: 340 pages.
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Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate No 1 (inscribed by Michel Parry to Hugh Lamb)..

By: Lee, Christopher (& Michel Parry, eds.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Star Books: London. : 1975.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 43300

ISBN-13: 9780352398093

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Collection of Christopher Lee's personal favourite supernatural stories, with a seven page introduction by him plus introductions to each of the stories. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHEL PARRY TO FELLOW UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''to 'Hugh Certificate' Lamb- best wishes Michel Nov 75. PS. cover photo shows me suffering a bad attack of mumps!''. With Hugh Lamb's initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover.
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The Big Time (Hugo Award winner).

By: Leiber, Fritz

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Futura/Orbit: London. : 1976.

Edition: First Futura/Orbit edition.

Seller ID: 46732

ISBN-13: 9780860079255

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, serialised in Galaxy March - April 1958. First published as half of an Ace Double in 1961 (D-491) and winner of a Hugo award for best novel. Both Four Square (1965) and NEL (1969) issued British paperbacks before this 1976 Futura/Orbit edition,''his return to sf in 1958 was vigorous, his first stories introducing the Change War series, built around a time-paradox war being fought through time and space and alternate worldsby two factions, the ''Spiders'' and the ''Snakes''. The sequence comprises THE BIG TIME (1961) along with most of The Mind Spider and Other Stories (1961): THE ...
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This World Is Taboo.

By: Leinster, Murray

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY. : 1961.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48551

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Ace D-525. SF novel, last in the Med Service series (an expansion of the story ''Pariah Planet'' in July 1961 Amazing). Cover art by Ed Valigursky.''..of more interest is the Med Service sequence, S.O.S. from Three Worlds (1967), The Mutant Weapon (1959), Doctor to the Stars: Three Novelettes of the Interstellar Medical Service (1964l and THIS WORLD IS TABOO (1961). In these stories and novels, Calhoun and the ''being'' Murgatroyd act as troubleshooters in various far-flung crises; the tales are robust and adventurous, but rudimentary compared to the inventiveness of James White's Sector G...
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Sandworld.

By: Lupoff, Richard A.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Berkley Medallion: NY. : 1976.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48991

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel. ''Berkley Medallion edition, May 1976'' on copyright page. Paul Lehr cover art.
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The Final Battle: Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon Volume 6.

By: Lupoff, Richard A.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bantam Spectra: NY. : 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 49180

ISBN-13: 9780553285420

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Volume six in the Shared World series, the last of six published 1988-1990, two by Charles De Lint, two by Richard Lupoff, plus Bruce Coville and Robin Wayne Bailey. Four page preface by Philip Jose Farmer. ''A Bantam Spectre Book/July 1990'' on copyright page. Robert Gould cover art.
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The Shores Of Space (new cover art by Josh Kirby)..

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London. : 1965.

Edition: Second Corgi printing.

Seller ID: 49306

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Corgi GS7230, SF stories, first published as a Bantam paperback original in 1957, followed by a 1st Corgi printing (S614) a year later. ''Corgi edition reissued 1965'' on copyright page. New cover art by Josh Kirby.
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The Shores Of Space.

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: NY. : 1957.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 48695

Binding: Paperback original.

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

A1571. Short stories. ''Published February 1957'' on copyright page.
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This Is The Way The World Begins.

By: McIntosh, J. T.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Corgi: London. : 1977.

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

Seller ID: 39225

ISBN-13: 9780552104326

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published as a Laser paperback in 1976 as RULER OF THE WORLD, then revised with a title change for this Corgi paperback edition a year later. Cover art by Vicente Segrelles.''He began publishing sf with ''The Curfew Tolls'' in Astounding in December 1950, producing many stories (though no collections) through 1980. With his first novel, World Out of Mind (1953), he fully entered a career that was, in its early years, notably successful. He never lost the vivid narrative skills that made him an interesting figure of 1950s sf, but his failure to challenge himself or his readers...
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New Worlds no 26 (vol 9 no 26).

By: NEW WORLDS, (ed. John Carnell)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Nova Publications: London. : 1954.

Edition: First edition.

Seller ID: 43033

Binding: Digest magazine.

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

Issue no 26 (August) 1954).. Full title is NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION''the leading UK sf magazine, publishing 220-odd issues over an intermittent career of over fifty years, beginning with the first issue in July 1946. The first three issues were pulp-size, published irregularly by Pendulum in 1946 - 1947 under the editorship of sf fan, John Carnell. Nova Publications, a publishing group formed by UK sf fans who used to meet at the White Horse pub in London, revived this somewhat tentative 1946 - 1947 magazine in 1949 as a digest. Carnell remained in charge until #141 (April 1964), after ...
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The City Dwellers.

By: Platt, Charles

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 1971.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 49183

Binding: Paperback original.brak the barb

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

Sphere 69027. SF novel, first published in hardcover by Sidgwick & Jackson the year before, comprising a fix-up of three separate stories ''The Failures'', ''Lone Zone'' and ''The City Dwellers'' first published in New Worlds magazine.''Platt's first published novel, initially serialized in New Worlds, was Garbage World (October-November 1966 New Worlds; 1967), in which sf premise and scatological humour sometimes war - for instance, the Asteroid of the title, used as a garbage dump, is called Kopra. Planet of the Voles (1971) is a Space Opera, but THE CITY DWELLERS (1970; rev vt Twilight of...
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The Eighth Galaxy Reader.

By: Pohl, Frederik (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1968.

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

Seller ID: 47468

ISBN-13: 9780330021098

Binding: Paperback original.

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

First published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1965. A selection of sf stories taken from Galaxy magazine.
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The Ultimate Werewolf.

By: Preiss, Byron (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Dell: NY. : 1991.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 36702

ISBN-13: 9780440503545

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

360 pages: anthology of twenty original stories with an introduction by Harlan Ellison (who also contributes a story) and ''Selected Filmography'' (by Leonard Wolf).
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Crime Zone.

By: Richardson, Gerald

Price: £10.00

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

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 48384

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Digit 410. Non-fiction account of the author's - ex-CID Chief - unique record of police work and crime investigation in Tangier. First published in hardcover in 1959.
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Murder Revisited.

By: Rowland, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1964.

Edition: First paperback edition.

Seller ID: 33278

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Pan X287. First published in hardcover in 1961. Non-fiction account of two similar murder trials (the husband poisoned his wife). An uncommon UK paperback.
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The Two-Timers.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1971.

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

Seller ID: 48885

ISBN-13: 9780330026710

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published as an Ace Special paperback original in 1968 and then in hardcover from Victor Gollancz a year later.''Shaw was early involved in sf fandom, with stories and articles published in the Fanzine Slant from 1951 and his first book being The Enchanted Duplicator (1954) with Walt Willis, an allegory of fan and fanzine activities; he received Hugos in 1979 and 1980 for his fan writing, which was also collected in such volumes as The Best of the Bushel (1979) and The Eastercon Speeches (1979) In the meanwhile Shaw published his first professional story, ''Aspect'' in Nebula ...
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Skylark Three: The Second Novel In The Skylark series.

By: Smith, E. E. Doc

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Panther: London. : 1974.

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

Seller ID: 46753

ISBN-13: 9780586039472

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published by Fantasy Press in 1948. This is the first British edition, a 1st printing Panther paperback from 1974. Cover art by Chris Foss.
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Subspace Explorers.

By: Smith, E. E. Doc

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Panther: London. : 1975.

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

Seller ID: 48397

ISBN-13: 9780586041536

Binding: Paperback original.

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

SF novel, first published by Canaveral Press in hardcover in 1965, followed by an Ace paperback in 1968. This Panther paperback (1st printing) is the first British edition.
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Skylark DuQuesne: The Fourth Novel In The Skylark series.

By: Smith, E. E. Doc. (& Stephen Goldin)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Panther: London. : 1974.

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

Seller ID: 10222

ISBN-13: 9780586039465

Binding: Paperback.

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

SF novel (first serialised June - October 1965 in If magazine), first published as a Pyramid paperback original in 1966. Chris Foss cover art.
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Sign Of The Labrys

By: St. Clair, Margaret

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Corgi/Transworld Publishers: London. : 1963.

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

Seller ID: 48383

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Corgi YS1423. SF novel, first published as a Bantam paperback original in the US earlier the same year. An uncommon British paperback.''Her later novels, though ostensibly more ambitious, perhaps lose some of the nightmare urgency of her early work, though both SIGN OF THE LABRYS (1963), set underground in a Post-Holocaust world, and The Shadow People (1969), also set in a netherworld of underground caverns beneath the daylit world, effectively present Pocket Universes without - significantly - moving in the expected manner towards any convincing sort of Conceptual Breakthrough into a wider ...
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Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

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