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A Better Mantrap: Nine Science Fiction And Fantasy Stories

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1982.

Seller ID: 45944

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF stories. An uncommon UK hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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A Better Mantrap: Nine Science Fiction And Fantasy Stories (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1982.

Seller ID: 01865

ISBN-13: 9780575030831

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Faint spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

SF stories. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Harry, with best wishes, Bob Shaw 19 June '82''.
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A Load Of Old Bosh: Serious Scientific Talks (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Beccon Publications: Essex. : 1995.

Seller ID: 07263

ISBN-13: 9781870824347

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collects ten pseudo-scientific ''talks'' given by the author at various Easter SF Conventions from 1974-1988: 94 pages. Interior illustrations by SF fan artist Jim Barker, cover art by Sue Mason.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGEBY BOB SHAW AND SIGNED BY JIM BARKER BELOW. ALSO SIGNED BY SUE MASON ON COPYRIGHT PAGE.
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Cosmic Kaleidoscope (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Gollancz: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 37625

ISBN-13: 9780575022096

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for small ink mark on the contents pageik.

SF short story collection. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/To - , with best wishes, Bob Shaw''.
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Cosmic Kaleidoscope (signed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 01863

ISBN-13: 9780575022096

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF short story collection. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
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Cosmic Kaleidoscope (signed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 37626

ISBN-13: 9780575022096

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for small abrasion/mark along bottom edge of front panel..

SF short story collection. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Courageous New Planet.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: BSFG: Birmingham. : 1981.

Seller ID: 12637

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

12-page booklet: a short sf story published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 11, October 1981 to commemorate Bob Shaw's appearance as Guest Of Honour. 550 numbered copies printed. THIS COPY IS ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Dagger Of The Mind (inscribed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 01864

ISBN-13: 9780575026124

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/''To - , with best wishes, Bob Shaw''.
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Dark Night In Toyland (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 04567

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collection of 15 sf stories: the title story had been originally bought by Harlan Ellison for his (never published) Final Dangerous Visions anthology, but Shaw managed to retrieve it for publication here. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Dark Night In Toyland.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 01861

ISBN-13: 9780575044487

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collection of 15 sf stories: the title story had been originally bought by Harlan Ellison for his (never published) Final Dangerous Visions anthology, but Shaw managed to retrieve it for publication here.
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Fen Crittur Comical Books.

By: Shaw, Bob (& Walt Willis)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: : 1952.

Seller ID: 50062

Binding: Fanzine.

Condition: VG copy.

Autumn 1952. SF fanzine: ''An Oblique-Angle publication for FAPA 61''. 16-page comic strip drawn by Bob Shaw, story written by both Shaw and Walt Willis. Some sf fans are characters in the comic strip, though not using their real names,such as Ray Bradbury (''Birdbury, a Vile Pro''). A rare item.
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Fire Pattern (inscribed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 39621

ISBN-13: 9780575034525

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel: ''a science fiction novel exploring the mystery of spontaneous human combustion''. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Galactic Tours: Thomas Cook Out Of This World Vacations (signed by both author & artist).

By: Shaw, Bob (& David Hardy, illus.)

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Proteus: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 14206

ISBN-13: 9780862760052

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Spoof sf holidays: text by Bob Shaw, colour art by David Hardy: 96 pages. Oversize hardcover. BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY BOB SHAW AND SIGNED BY DAVID HARDY.
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Killer Planet (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 04340

ISBN-13: 9780575045101

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Young adult sf novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Medusa's Children (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1977.

Seller ID: 01868

ISBN-13: 9780575022492

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Night Walk (signed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1976

Seller ID: 23738

ISBN-13: 9780575020719

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: A fine copy in fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel. Text differs from the 1967 Avon paperback edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''his first novel was NIGHT WALK (1967 US paperback), a fast-moving chase story. A man who has been blinded and condemned to a penal colony on a far planet invents a device that enables him to see through other people's (and animals') eyes and thus manages to escape'' (David Pringle & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
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Night Walk.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Banner Books: NY. : 1967.

Seller ID: 52959

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Banner B60-110. SF novel. Frank Frazetta cover. ''First Banner printing, September, 1967'' on copyright page.
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Orbitsville Departure (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1983.

Seller ID: 01867

ISBN-13: 9780575033467

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Second book in the Orbitsville sf trilogy: sequel to ORBITSVILLE (1975) and followed by ORBITSVILLE JUDGEMENT (1990). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Other Days, Other Eyes (signed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1972.

Seller ID: 17383

ISBN-13: 9780575014855

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Bookplate on front pastedown, page edges browning, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

An expansion into novel form of his short story of the same title. ''WITH BEST WISHES, BOB SHAW'' HAS BEEN AFFIXED (clipped from a letter?) TO THE TITLE PAGE.
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Overload.

By: Banks, Iain (& Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison & Bob Shaw)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: BSFG: Birmingham. : 1995.

Seller ID: 03468

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collection of short fiction and poetry by Iain Banks, Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison and Bob Shaw, published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 25, November 1995 to commemorate their appearance as joint Guests Of Honour. Each author contributes an original short story (Harry Harrison's ''A Dog And His Boy'', had been originally intended for Harlan Ellison's still unpublished ''Last Dangerous Visions''), except for Ian Banks, who contributes two poems. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies.
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Serious Science: Bob Shaw's Serious Scientific Talks 1982 - 1984 (signed by the author & illustrator).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: : 1984.

Seller ID: 37443

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

24 page stapled booklet, illustrated by Jim Barker. SIGNED BY BOTH BOB SHAW AND JIM BARKER.
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Shadow Of Heaven (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avon Books: NY. : 1969.

Seller ID: 10544

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Covers rubbed, a near fine (NF) copy.

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Ship Of Strangers (inscribed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 40576

ISBN-13: 9780575024823

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. Uncommon UK hardcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Terminal Velocity (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 08551

ISBN-13: 9780575049178

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. Greatly revised and expanded from the original version published as VERTIGO (Gollancz, 1978). SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''In the twenty-first century, antigravity harnesses give everyone the power of personal flight. But in such a world how is traffic to be controlled safely, and how do policemen deal with juvenile delinquents who have the whole sky in which to play their dangerous games? A fine example of logical extrapolation conveyed in an ingenious plot with interesting characters'' (David Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401)....
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The Best Of The Bushel (signed by the author & artist).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Paranoid/Inca Press. : 1979.

Seller ID: 08077

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Subtitled The Complete Bob Shaw Volume 1. Collects thirteen articles from the fanzine Hyphen, plus an introduction by Walt Willis: illustrated by Jim Barker. THIS COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BOB SHAW AND SIGNED BY JIM BARKER.
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The Ceres Solution (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1981.

Seller ID: 17373

ISBN-13: 9780575029668

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED (11th June) 1988 ) BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Ceres Solution (signed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1981.

Seller ID: 01862

ISBN-13: 9780575029668

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little creasing along top spine edge.

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Eastercon Speeches (Complete BoSh vol 2).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Paranoid/Inca Press. : 1979.

Seller ID: 08078

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for two minor marks on front cover.

Collects five speeches by the author, given at the Eastercon SF Conventions 1974-1978: 50 pages. Illustrated by fan artist Jim Barker. THIS COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOB SHAW AND SIGNED BY JIM BARKER.
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The Fugitive Worlds.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 12694

ISBN-13: 9780575046115

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Third (and final) volume in the sf trilogy, following The Ragged Astronauts (1986) and The Wooden Spaceships (1988).''however, with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other. Later volumes lost some of the freshness and elation of the first, but the series as a whole emphasizes his genuine stature in the genre as an entertainer who rarely fails to thrill the mind's eye with a...
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The Peace Machine (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1985.

Seller ID: 37621

ISBN-13: 9780575035829

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel: A much revised (and retitling) hardcover version of GROUND ZERO MAN (published as a paperback original in 1971). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Ragged Astronauts (and) The Wooden Spaceships (and) The Fugitive Worlds (all three inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1986-1989,

Seller ID: 52958

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copies in a fine dustjackets (as new).

All three volumes in the sf trilogy. ALL THREE VOLUMES INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR/''to Neil with best wishes, Bob Shaw''.''however, with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other. Later volumes lost some of the freshness and elation of the first, but the series as a whole emphasizes his genuine stature in the genre as an entertainer who rarely fails to thrill the mind's eye wit...
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The Ragged Astronauts (and) The Wooden Spaceships (and) The Fugitive Worlds.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1986-1989.

Seller ID: 01869

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets (as new).

All three volumes in the sf trilogy.

''however, with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other. Later volumes lost some of the freshness and elation of the first, but the series as a whole emphasizes his genuine stature in the genre as an entertainer who rarely fails to thrill the mind's eye with a new prospect. '' (Encyclopedia of SF: David Pringle & John Clute)
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The Ragged Astronauts.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1986.

Seller ID: 23137

ISBN-13: 9780575036390

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First volume in the sf trilogy, followed by The Wooden Spaceships (1988) and The Fugitive Worlds (1989).''however, with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other. Later volumes lost some of the freshness and elation of the first, but the series as a whole emphasizes his genuine stature in the genre as an entertainer who rarely fails to thrill the mind's eye with a new prospec...
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The Shadow Of Heaven (inscribed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 30042

ISBN-13: 9780575049161

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. First published as an Avon paperback original in 1969, this first hardcover is revised and expanded. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Shadow Of Heaven.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 32867

ISBN-13: 9780575049161

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel. First published as an Avon paperback original in 1969, this first hardcover is revised and expanded.
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The Two-Timers (signed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1969.

Seller ID: 01859

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with a little dust-soiling to rear panel.

SF novel. ''Best wishes, Bob Shaw'' AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE (seeminly cut out from a letter?).''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 Science Fiction in August 1954, fo...
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The Two-Timers.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1971.

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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The Wooden Spaceships.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 12693

ISBN-13: 9780575038943

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Second volume in the sf trilogy, sequel to The Ragged Astronauts (1986) and followed by The Fugitive Worlds (1989).''however, with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other. Later volumes lost some of the freshness and elation of the first, but the series as a whole emphasizes his genuine stature in the genre as an entertainer who rarely fails to thrill the mind's eye with a ...
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Tomorrow Lies In Ambush (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1973.

Seller ID: 45028

ISBN-13: 9780575016026

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Tape marks on both paste-downs and rear free endpaper, a V copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.

SF stories. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Tomorrow Lies In Ambush (inscribed by the author)..

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1973.

Seller ID: 03381

ISBN-13: 9780575016026

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF stories. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Warren Peace (inscribed by the author).

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 02579

ISBN-13: 9780575049185

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Humurous sf novel: sequel to WHO GOES HERE? (1977).j SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

''Warren embarks on a new career as a galactic troubleshooter. His first mission takes him to a water planet where a company producing a mind-blowing drug is having trouble with its alien workforce''.
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Warren Peace.

By: Shaw, Bob

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 39640

ISBN-13: 9780575049185

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Humurous sf novel: sequel to WHO GOES HERE? (1977).

''Warren embarks on a new career as a galactic troubleshooter. His first mission takes him to a water planet where a company producing a mind-blowing drug is having trouble with its alien workforce''.
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