Poetry, with an introduction by the author: 48 pages. From a total printing of 650 copies, this is one of 300 hardcover copies (the rest were paperbound), of which 276 copies were included with the limited/slipcased edition of his novel GRAINNE, leaving 24 copies left over for the author's own use. This is no 251. View More...
Collection of the author's Anita witch stories: originally published as an Ace paperback in 1970. The title story ''Anita'' was his first published story, together with ''Escapism'', both appearing in the same issue of Science Fantasy (September/October 1964). PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR TO FELLOW UK WRITER MICHAEL MOORCOCK/''For Mike Moorcock, a good friend and critic - with love, Keith Roberts. February 1977''.. View More...
Collection of the author's Anita witch stories: originally published as an Ace paperback in 1970. The title story ''Anita'' was his first published story, together with ''Escapism'', both appearing in the same issue of Science Fantasy (September/October 1964). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''he first appeared in Science Fantasy with ''Anita'' (1964), the start of the Anita series about a young female witch, collected as Anita (coll of linked stories 1970 US; with 1 extra story 1990 US). Deliberately humorous, the stories are at times rather cutesy. At this period the appeared regularly in Science Fan... View More...
SF/Fantasy novel. Winner of the 1988 BSFA award for best novel. LIMITED EDITION. 250 numbered copies signed by the author: slipcased together with a second hardbound volume A HERON CAUGHT IN WEEDS, a collection of poems by the author. Both items are no 217. GRAINNE is additionally inscribed by the author on the title page.''the theme of the primitive heroine comes sharply into focus in GRAINNE (1987), which draws upon the Celtic legend of the Goddess and explores her power in the modern age through the form of a mysterious young girl. These novels form the author's main corpus of fantast... View More...
Story cycle with eight of the ten stories first collected here. LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author, together with a separate stapled booklet KAETI'S APOCALPYSE (also numbered), which prints an eleventh Kaeti story by Roberts, and was only available with this limited edition. Both items are no 178. BOTH ITEMS ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. View More...
Second collection of Kaeti fantasy stories: full-colour wraparound dustwrapper art by Jim Burns. LIMITED EDITION: 150 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author and slipcased. This edition contains two extra stories not present in the trade edition. This is no 18. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY ARTIST JIM BURNS ON THE LIMITATION PAGE. View More...
Fix-up sf novel: a series of linked stories (three first appearing in Interzone).''much more sf-like is the Kiteworld sequence comprising KITEWORLD (fixup 1985) and ''Drek Yarman'' (February-June 2000 Spectrum SF), which invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Ruined Earth Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its Steampunk rendering of the life of the crews who man the Kiteships, which are the size of airships, to guard the frontiers against ''demons'' (as the ballistic or cruise missiles of a former technological era are now remembered) in a kind of parody of the ... View More...
Fix-up sf novel: a series of linked stories (three first appearing in Interzone). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''much more sf-like is the Kiteworld sequence comprising KITEWORLD (fixup 1985) and ''Drek Yarman'' (February-June 2000 Spectrum SF), which invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Ruined Earth Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its Steampunk rendering of the life of the crews who man the Kiteships, which are the size of airships, to guard the frontiers against ''demons'' (as the ballistic or cruise missiles of a former technological era are now re... View More...
Fix-up sf novel: a series of linked stories (three first appearing in Interzone). Together with a copy of the uncorrected book proof (trade paperback) which is fine but for spotting along top page edges (with VG proof dustjacket).''much more sf-like is the Kiteworld sequence comprising KITEWORLD (fixup 1985) and ''Drek Yarman'' (February-June 2000 Spectrum SF), which invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Ruined Earth Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its Steampunk rendering of the life of the crews who man the Kiteships, which are the size of airships, to gua... View More...
Collects seven sf stories. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE (cut from a letter?) AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BELOW BY COVER ARTIST CHRIS FOSS. View More...
SF novel (comprising three linked stories): the authors third book, preceded by THE FURIES and PAVANE. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
''The Inner Wheel (coll of linked stories 1970) deals with the kind of gestalt superman theme made familiar by Theodore Sturgeon's MORE THAN HUMAN (fix-up 1953) and is similarly powerful, though tending to a rather uneasy sentimentality, perhaps endemic to tales of such relationships but also typical of the author's handling of children and women'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF). View More...
Slim sixteen-page booklet - an essay on the 'Primitive Woman'. LIMITED EDITION: 526 (unnumbered) copies printed (of which 500 were paperback booklets) of which this is one of 26 lettered hardcover copies. This is letter ''R''. . View More...
Collection of ghost stories and weird fiction: introduction by Robert Holdstock. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author and Robert Holdstock and slipcased. This signed/limited edition has an additional short story ''The Event,'' not found in the trade edition. View More...