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STRETE Craig Craig Kee Strete
DREAMS THAT BURN IN THE NIGHT
Garden City New York: Doubleday 1982. Octavo black boards. Small bump to upper outer corner of front cover and to head of spine else fine no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and rubbing at head of spine VG otherwise flap price intact. A collection of 28 short stories of "mystic fantasy" by this American Indian author. . First printing. Hardcover. Doubleday
Bookseller reference : 35648
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DUNSANY Lord
UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS
Boston: Little Brown 1919. The correct first edition preceding the UK edition by 9 days. Red cloth gilt lettered. Small shallow dents to top edge of front cover and top and bottom edges of rear cover; small crease at head of spine; quite minor rubbing at spine ends; nearly fine otherwise no owner names. The cream dust jacket has small chips short tears at spine ends no lettering lost; spine a little darkened with red lettering faded; panels have a few nicks with shallow chips along upper edge of rear panel; rubbing to flap folds; in all about VG. Quite scarce in any short of jacket. "Wonderful pen pictures of the war's destruction by this Irish soldier and playwright. Lord Dunsany is at his best in describing war-swept villages and the ruined homes of the French. Like his "Tales of War" these vignettes written in expressive sensitive prose are gems of literature." - dust jacket. . First printing. Hardcover. Little, Brown
Bookseller reference : 35445
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AIKEN Joan
THE KINGDOM AND THE CAVE. Illustrated by Dick Hart
London & New York: Abelard-Schuman 1960. Octavo beige boards spine stamped in red later issue binding first was black cloth spine lettered in bronze. Small shallow bump to lower inner corner of rear cover and to lower edge of front cover very nearly fine otherwise clean no owner names. The dust jacket is only fair; with a thumbnail-size chip at foot of spine smaller chip tears at head of spine large chip to upper outer corner of rear panel; one inch tear at upper inner corner of front panel; short creased tears at top edge of rear panel; colours still bright flap prices intact. This was Aiken's first novel written at age 17 and third published book overall a magic & mystery story for younger readers. Quite scare in first edition. . First printing. Hardcover. Abelard-Schuman
Bookseller reference : 35448
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ALDISS Brian W.
THE SALIVA TREE and other strange growths
London: Faber 1966. Octavo green cloth first issue binding. Yellowing to page edges two cloth bubbles at top margin of front cover small skinned spot on front free endpaper else VG no owner names. Price clipped jacket has very small chips and short tears at corners of spine ends; some minor soiling; circular impression to front panel scarcely noticeable externally; VG otherwise colours bright still attractive in appearance. A collection of 10 stories - the title story won a 1965 Nebula Award for best novella. First printing. Hardcover. Faber
Bookseller reference : 35443
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NORTON Andre
IRON CAGE
New York: Viking 1974. Black cloth. Fine copy no owner names. Dust jacket has minor rubbing to black portions of front panel else fine flap price intact. . First printing. Hardcover. Viking
Bookseller reference : 35470
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LE GUIN Ursula LeGuin
TEHANU: The last book of Earthsea
New York: Atheneum 1990. Advance copy for review with Canadian distributor's slip pasted in at front. Narrow octavo black cloth and red boards. Small soft bruise to lower outer corners of boards else fine in fine price-clipped by the Canadian distributor jacket. Collier-Macmillan Canada paper label pasted over jacket spine imprint and to bottom of rear flap. Won the 1990 Nebula Award. First Canadian issue. Hardcover. Atheneum
Bookseller reference : 35357
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HYNE Cutcliffe
THE LOST CONTINENT
New York: Harper c1900 Later printing early 20th century of the US edition. Octavo green cloth spine decorated in blind with gilt lettering and a gilt panel. pp viii 353 5 frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 other plates. Light cover soiling mild wear at spine ends; bookplate; yellowing to page edges; a good tight and clean copy otherwise. A classic fantasy novel of Atlantis. . Hardcover. Harper, c1900
Bookseller reference : 34855
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Burroughs Edgar Rice
Tarzan of the Apes
Racine WI: Whitman 1964. edgewear hinges shaken owner's info ffep toning cover delamination. Pictorial Boards. Good. Illus. by Andersen Al & Marsh Jesse. Whitman Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2580
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Ketterer David
New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination Science Fiction and American Literature
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press 1974. Octavo purple cloth. pp xii 347. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper with ink date on the other side else fine in very nearly fine jacket. Signed by the author "Best wishes David K." Canadian author of a standard book on Canadian SF & F. . First edition. Hardcover. Indiana University Press
Bookseller reference : 34415 ISBN : 0253340527 9780253340528
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ERSKINE Douglas pseud. of John Stuart Buchan 1852
A BIT OF ATLANTIS. Illustrated by H. Julien and R.G. Mathews.
Montreal: A.T. Chapman 1900. Octavo red cloth gilt lettered. pp iv 197 3 9 plates; chart and map in text. Endpapers are lightly yellowed with a few small foxing spots; else a fine and bright copy no owner names no rubbing or sunning very nice. Watters p. 253. Bleiler 1978 p. 69. Reginald 04926 neither Bleiler nor Reginald noting pseudonymous authorship. Not in Ketterer nor in Colombo Canadian SF & F. Dedicated "To My Honored Friend Sir J. William Dawson" who had been his professor in his student days. The author acknowledges his debt to Ignatius Donnelly in his long introductory discourse on the subject of Atlantis pp 11-49. Matthews' illustrations are rather good classic fantasy illustration of the period. There is only one plate at p. 152 by Henri Julien the Montreal artist who was the best Canadian political cartoonist of his day. John Stuart Buchan not to be confused with John Buchan Lord Tweedsmuir was a McGill graduate and a Montreal lawyer. This seems to be his only book. A scarce Canadian fantasy / lost race novel there were few pre-20th century Canadian SF&F novels. "A descendant of the ancient Atlanteans in the company of a group of people locates an island which was once a part of Atlantis and finds some relics there including an account of its last days. The island perhaps inevitably sinks beneath the waves at the end of the story." - Locke Spectrum of Fantasy. First edition. Hardcover. A.T. Chapman
Bookseller reference : 19727
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Zelazny Roger
The Great Book of Amber
Avon NY 1999 edgewear minor cover creasing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Avon, NY, 1999 Paperback
Bookseller reference : 4383 ISBN : 0380809060 9780380809066
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TURNER George
THE SEA AND SUMMER
London: Faber 1987. Octavo blue boards. "R" in black ink to upper inner corner of front pastedown light yellowing to page edges else fine no owner names. Black dust jacket is nearly fine with minor rubbing flap price intact. A dystopian novel set in a drowning Melbourne by a noted Melbourne author. Winner of the 1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominated for the 1988 Nebula Award and for the 1988 John W. Campbell Award. Published in the USA as DROWNING TOWERS. . First edition. Hardcover. Faber
Bookseller reference : 34013 ISBN : 0571148468 9780571148462
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Marvel
Star Wars #15 Comic Jan 01 1977 Marvel
Marvel 1977-01-01. Comic. Good. Publisher: Marvel Comics<br>Date of Publication: 1978<br>Binding: paperback<br>Edition: <br>Condition: Good<br>Description: 8vo - over 7 Marvel unknown
Bookseller reference : 702664
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BARKER Clive
THE THIEF OF ALWAYS: a fable signed ARC
New York: HarperCollins Harper Collins 1992. Advance reading copy in pictorial card covers with flaps. Vertical crease to fore margin of first two leaves else fine. Inscribed by the author in a large hand on title page to literary agent and screenwriter Stanley Colbert Set from the uncorrected proof with only 7 illustrations of the 26 in the published book. . Inscribed by Author. First US printing. Softcover. HarperCollins (Harper Collins) Paperback
Bookseller reference : 33133
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CRAWFORD F. Marion
MR. ISSACS: A Tale of Modern India
New York: Macmillan 1883. Early printing first was in 1882. Octavo orange decorated cloth stamped in black. pp iv 315. Book a bit leaned; nicks and minor rubbing to spine tips minor rubbing to rear joint; very light cover soiling; else a fine bright copy no owner names. The author's first novel and second book. BAL 4130. Bleiler 1978 p. 52 Occult. Not in Reginald. The novel has fantastic elements Indian mysticism the occult but is more notable for its observations on contemporary India. Hardcover. Macmillan
Bookseller reference : 33313
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POHL Frederik
JEM
New York: St. Martin's Press no date 1979 Advance uncorrected proof in yellow card covers. A fine copy of this uncommon advance issue. The hardcover book was published in 1979 and there was an Easton Press edition in 1995. . "A cynical and compelling account of the colonization of an alien world." - Clute & Nicholls Ency. of SF. . First edition. Softcover. St. Martin's Press, no date (1979?) Paperback
Bookseller reference : 31006
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TOLKIEN J. R. R.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Boston: Houghton Mifflin no date 1955 1955. US issue of the 3rd UK printing there was no US issue from the 2nd UK printing. Blue cloth gilt lettered. pp 424 colour folding map tipped to rear pastedown made from UK sheets Auckland address is Haddon Hall at rear. Crease along upper margin of p. 7 manufacturing flaw has left a soft impression to the first 11 pages and the title leaf has another soft diagonal crease; light damp stain along bottom of rear cover; this is otherwise a fine bright and unworn copy no owner names. The dust jacket has very light sunning to yellow spine; rear panel has tiny nicks along top edge and a dark damp stain to the bottom margin; the jacket is mainly fine otherwise no chips clips no printed flap price or tears the spine and front panel showing well. The third UK printing contained 11 corrections to the 2nd UK printing which also had JRRT's corrections to the first printing as well as a number of errors introduced by the printers some of which remained in the text for years. The American dust jacket art by Walter Lorraine is entirely different from the familiar UK jacket design. The first US "edition" actually the US issue from UK sheets was published 21 Oct. 1954 only 1500 copies. The present issue is the second earliest for US publication. Hardcover. Octavo. Houghton, Mifflin, no date (1955)
Bookseller reference : 30234
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FLETCHER J. S.
THE WONDERFUL CITY
London: T. Nelson 1894. Blue pictoriall cloth stamped in black blind and gilt floral endpapers. pp viii 9-185 1 6 ads frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrated half-title. Minor rubbing to foot of spine and outer corners; light foxing to page edges; text paper lightly toned; ink gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper; small brown spot on rear cover; else a fine bright & tight copy no owner names. A lost race tale for boys set in the Southwestern United States. Bleiler 1978 p. 74. Reginald 05486. Uncommon in first edition especially in such nice condition. First edition. Hardcover. T. Nelson
Bookseller reference : 30098
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ELDERSHAW M. Barnard pseud. of
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
London & Melbourne: Phoenix House / Georgian House 1948. Tan cloth. Soft bumps to upper outer corners of covers; tears to rear free endpaper repaired; else a VG copy no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has chips to spne tips and upper edge of panels repaired internally & externally with cellotape good otherwise. A future novel - Australian 400 years hence. First UK issue. Hardcover. Octavo. Phoenix House / Georgian House
Bookseller reference : 29174
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BELL Geo. W.
MR. OSEBA'S LAST DISCOVERY.
Wellington New Zealand: The New Zealand Times Co. 1904. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and blind. pp. viii 226 2 plates. Spine very lightly sunned text paper lightly toned narrow short soil spot to fore margin of one leaf else fine and bright no owner names. "A curious book which recounts the experiences of an inhabitant of a Symmes- style inner world when he visits the outer surface of the world." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 30. "Fictionalized account of New Zealand Zelania as eutopia." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Bleiler 1978 p. 19. Reginald 01045. Socialism. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. The New Zealand Times Co.
Bookseller reference : 29558
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Rice Anne
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT
New York: Knopf 1985. White cloth & boards variant with plain top page edges. Fine copy corners square no owner names no remainder marks. Dust jacket has soft creases along head of spine an upper front panel else VG clean and bright flap price intact. Her second vampire novel. 1.5 kg parcel. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Knopf
Bookseller reference : 28026 ISBN : 0394534433 9780394534435
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HODDER Reginald
THE DAUGHTER OF THE DAWN. A Romance
London: Hodder & Stoughton. no date Ca. 1920s reprint. Light blue cloth stamped in black. Octavo 320 pp. 1927 ink name on front pastedown light yellowing to page edges and endpapers else a near fine clean tight and bright jacketless copy. First published in 1903 Bleiler 1978 p.100. Reginald 7265. A better lost race adventure novel. Survivors of Lemuria live in New Zealand. Maori legend. . Hardcover. Hodder & Stoughton. no date
Bookseller reference : 28071
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WELLS HG. H. G.
TALES OF SPACE AND TIME
London & New York: Harper 1900 for 1899 1900. Original tan decorated cloth front cover gilt lettered and decorated in dark brown spine lettered in black fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. pp 8 358 2 ads. Yellowing to page edges; old ink owner name and address on front free endpaper; faint damp spotting to rear cover; else a VG clean tight and unworn copy. One of Wells' early SF classics a collection of five stories containing "The Crystal Egg" "The Star" "A Story of the Stone Age" "A Story of the Days to Come" and "The Man Who Could Work Miracles". Wells 16. Actually published in 1899 BL deposit copy received 21 Nov. 1899. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Harper, 1900 [for 1899]
Bookseller reference : 27739
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BARBUSSE Henri
CHAINS. Translated from the French by Stephen Haden Guest
London: Cape 1925. Octavo. Two volumes red cloth spines gilt lettered. Spines lightly sunned; private owner rubber stamp and 1928 ink name to front endpapers of each volume; yellowing to endpapers; else a VG clean tight and unworn jacketless pair. Not in Bleler. Reginald 859. "French writer best known for his strongly realistic fiction especially that concerning WWI. Les encha�nements 1925; trans as Chains in 2 vols US attempts - like many novels from the first third of the century - to present a panoramic vision of mankind's prehistory and history in this case through the trancendental experiences of a single protagonist who is stuck by his significant visions while in the middle of a staircase." - Clute Ency. of SF. Reginald 859. 1.5 kg parcel. First UK edition. Hardcover. Cape
Bookseller reference : 27282
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BALFOUR Andrew Sir 1u873 1931
THE GOLDEN KINGDOM: Being an Account of the Quest for the same as described in the Remarkable Narrative of Doctor Henry Mortimer contained in the Manuscript found within the boards of a Boer Bible during the Late War and edited with a Prefatory Note
Boston: L.C. Page 1903. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black white and copper. pp 4-424 5 ads 1 blank 2 ads folding frontispiece map printed in red & black and one other folding map both on thin paper. Spine lightly darkened with mild wear at ends; frontispiece has one small corner chip one fold repaired on blank recto with clear archival paper tape; yellowing to page edges; three small ink digits to rear pastedown; else a VG bright and tight copy no owner names. A lost race adventure novel about the discovery of a kingdom of coloured people ruled by whites in Central Africa. Great Apes. "So realistic is most of its detail that it could be mistaken for an historical novel." - Clarkson SF in America 1870-1930s no. 037. Not in Reginald. In Bleiler 1948 but not in the 1978 ed. Balfour was a noted Scottish medical author and tropical medicine specialist. First US printing. Hardcover. L.C. Page
Bookseller reference : 27413
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LONDON Jack
THE IRON HEEL.
Toronto: Macmillan 1910. Original green cloth front cover lettered in black spine lettered and decorated in gilt with "Macmillan / Toronto" spine imprint in black. pp xvi 354 4 Canadian ads 2. Front free endpaper has a Dec. 1913 ink gift inscription on blank recto; vertical creases to fore margin of front free endpaper and half-title leaf soft crease to fore margin of following few leaves; yellowing to page edges; spine lightly darkened' else a VG copy hinges not cracked. Made from plates of the US fifth printing and printed in the US. Though there were Canadian issues from US first printings of many of London's books there was no earlier Canadian issue for this title and the Canadian issue is not mentioned in either Woodbridge or Sisson & Martens though it is not rare. A noted future novel about the workers overthrowing the "iron heel" of tyranny. First Canadian issue. Hardcover. Macmillan
Bookseller reference : 27417
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WHITE W. Holt W. Holt White
THE MAN WHO DREAMED RIGHT
New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1914. Salmon cloth stamped in blind and gilt. 8 314 pp. Cancel title leaf. "Mitchell Kennerley's Railroad Novels" stamped in blind at lower front cover. Spine lightly sunned; rubber stamped name and address on front free endpaper has blotted onto pastedown; VG otherwise. First published London 1910 and NY 1911. Bleiler 1978 p. 102. Reginald 07367. A novel about a man who can see into the future. This is a later issue of the US edition likely made from sheets of the 1911 first US ed. Kennerley. Hardcover. Octavo. Mitchell Kennerley
Bookseller reference : 24639
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Weis Margaret and Tracy Hickman
Well of Darkness
New York: Eos / HarperCollins c. 2000 Harper Collins Third printing. Black & cream boards colour illustrated endpapers. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Margaret Weis on an illustrated label on the half-title leaf. First volume in The Sovereign Stone trilogy. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel extra shipping may be required. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Octavo. Eos / HarperCollins, c. 2000 (Harper Collins)
Bookseller reference : 25069 ISBN : 0061051802 9780061051807
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McCaffrey Anne
The Tower and the Hive
New York: Putnam 1999. Small crease at foot of spine else fine in like jacket. Inscribed by the author on a colour photo of herself pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper " To Jackie love Anne McCaffrey". Inscribed by Author. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Putnam
Bookseller reference : 25067 ISBN : 039914501x 9780399145018
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HOUSMAN Laurence
THE KIND AND THE FOOLISH. Short Tales of Myth Magic & Miracle
London: Cape 1952. Yellow boards. Nov. 1952 ink gift inscription on front free endpaper from Irish-Canadian author Shaun Herron yellowing to page edges else VG. Dust jacket has yellowing to spine and rear panel nearly fine otherwise. A collection of 30 stories which appeared in previous books. Baron Fantasy Literature 3-180. See Reginald 07452 07457 and 07460. First printing. Hardcover. Cape
Bookseller reference : 24335
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JACKSON Shirley
THE ROAD THROUGH THE WALL
New York: Farrar Straus 1948. Terra cotta boards spine lettered in white. Slight rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; very small bruise to upper edge of rear cover; text paper tanned as usual page edges yellowed; else fine no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has chips and tears to tips of lightly darkened yellow spine; slight rubbng to spine and flap folds; edge nicks and two short tears at flap folds; rear panel very lightly dust soiled; VG otherwise still attractive. This singular author's FIRST BOOK scarce in first edition. Based on her hometown of Burlingame California. Supernatural elements. . First printing. Hardcover. Farrar, Straus
Bookseller reference : 24469
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PEEKE Margaret B.
ZENIA THE VESTAL; or The Problem of Vibrations
Boston: Arena Publishing Company 1896. Small quarto. "Second Edition" first was Arena 1893. Blue cloth gilt lettered green floral endpapers. 2 vi 7 - 356 2 pp. Rubbing to tips of lightly darkened spine; small ink spot to front cover; light damp stains to fore margins of covers; small soil spots to rear cover; rubber stamp on front fly leaf; light tide mark to fore margin of lightly toned text; short tear at top of front free endpaper neatly repaired on verso;a good tight and unworn copy otherwise inner hinges not cracked. Reginald 11276. Bleiler p. 155. A supernatural novel with an occult / spiritualist theme.Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra postage may be required. Hardcover. Arena Publishing Company
Bookseller reference : 24212
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BALLARD JG. J. G.
THE DAY OF CREATION Canadian proof
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1987. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF in white card covers printed in black. vi 254 6 blank pp. Some faint cover soiling; small corner crease to two leaves; minor use; VG. Simultaneous or nearly so with the UK edition the Canadian edition preceded the US edition. This badly printed proof would have been done in a very small print run. Blurbs on rear cover by Graham Greene Angela Carter William Boyd Doris Lessing and Michael Moorcock. One of Pringle's 100 best modern fantasy novels in a very scarce issue. First Canadian issue. Softcover. Lester & Orpen, Dennys Paperback
Bookseller reference : 5885
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WILLIAMS Charles
SHADOWS OF ECSTASY
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy 1950. Octavo dark blue cloth gilt lettered. Small bookstore label to lower inner corner of front free endpaper; else fine. Blue price-clipped dust jacket has shallow chips and rubbing to tips of spine; spine sunned to pale blue with light tann ing small rubbed spots to folds; front panel has some rubbing one inch tear; white rear panel lightly dust soiled lightly tanned; VG- otherwise. Reginald 15358. UK first edition was London: Gollancz 1933. First US printing. Hardcover. Pellegrini & Cudahy
Bookseller reference : 10143
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BLISH James
DOCTOR MIRABILIS
London: Faber 1964. Octavo. Maroon cloth. Rubbing at head of spine covers a little bowed else fine and bright no owner names. Jacket has light sunning to the tan lettered portions of the spine else fine and bright no chips clips or tears. A nice copy of this scarce historical novel of 13th century English monk and scientist Roger Bacon widely accused of being a sorcerer the first volume of the After Such Knowledge sequence although the second published. The first published US edition 1971 had textual changes. First printing. Hardcover. Faber
Bookseller reference : 15521
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FRANK Pat pseud. of Harry Hart Frank
MR. ADAM
London: Gollancz 1947. Blue cloth. Some endpaper browning offsetting from binding; else fine. Thin yellow jacket small chip to upper inner corner of front panel to an unprinted area; 2 inch closed tear to lower spine fold; spine very slightly tanned; l ight soiling to rear panel; a bright VG example otherwise. Post atomic holocaust tale about the single fertile male left on earth the mind reels. First novel of the author of ALAS BABYLON. First UK edition. Hardcover. Gollancz
Bookseller reference : 3084
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Gibson Walter editor
FANTASTIC SCIENCE FICTION. Vol. 1 No. 1 August 1952.
Derby Connecticut: Super Science Fiction Publisher 1952. pp 3-50 stapled in colour pictorial covers. Staples rusty; a few edge nicks; light cover soiling; else VG with uncreased covers. Cover art by Lou Morales of a spaceman in tights with a fish bowl over his head puching out robots. Contains a complete novel "The Day New York Ended" by Walter B. Gibson and more. Only two issues were published #2 was in Dec. 1952. Lousy writing by Walter Gibson author of "The Shadow" series. . Softcover. Folio. Super Science Fiction Publisher Paperback
Bookseller reference : 5923
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OPPENHEIM E. Phillips
THE MAGNIFICENT HOAX
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1936. Black linen grain cloth stamped in orange. 4 316 pp. Small soft bruise to upper outer corners of covers and text; yellowing to page edges top edges dusty; light yellowing to endpapers; a bright and tight near fine copy otherwise no owner names. In the scarce dust jacket which has small chips and short tears to spine; slight rubbing to spine folds; small chips to outer corners; darkening to flap folds; VG otherwise attactive. Note: the jacket bears the Little Brown imprint but there is no flap price and the rear flap quotes from a Canadian review. Heroin opium and cocaine a titled lady a seedy club on the London waterfront. First Canadian issue. Hardcover. McClelland & Stewart
Bookseller reference : 20064
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BLISH James
JACK OF EAGLES
New York: Greenberg 1952. Yellow boards spine lettered in red. Pastedowns tanned from binding; tape stains to free endpapers; 1954 red ink inscription to front free endpaper; quite minor rubbing to spine tips; VG otherwise. Black dust jacket has shallow chips to foot of spine; edge nicks to panels; clip to upper corner of front flap but 2.75 price still showing; VG otherwise still attractive in appearance. Author's first book. First printing. Hardcover. Greenberg
Bookseller reference : 13290
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MOSLEY Walter
FUTURELAND ARC
New York: Warner 2001. Ardvance reading copy in pictorial paper covers. Fine copy. Nine stories about the near future in America. "Life in America a generation from now isn't much different from today: The drugs are better the daily grind is worse. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened to a chasm.cyberpunk with biting social commentary and Matrix-style wonders." - rear cover. Scheduled for 12 Nov. 2001 publication. First printing. Softcover. Warner Paperback
Bookseller reference : 14471
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WILLEY Elizabeth
THE PRICE OF BLOOD AND HONOR proof
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty 1996. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. Red non-pictorial card covers printed in black. Fine. Grand climax to the tale begun in The Well-Favored Man and A Sorcerer and a Gentleman. Fantasy novel. First printing. Softcover. Fine. Octavo. TOR / Tom Doherty Paperback
Bookseller reference : 2005
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HAGGARD H. Rider
COLONEL QUARITCH V.C. A Tale of Country Life.
London: Longmans Green 1890. Early printing. Octavo hardcover maroon cloth stamped in silver pale green decorated endpapers. 2 342 2 pp 16 pp publisher's catalogue. Illustrated title leaf and frontispiece inserted lacking the tissue guard. Lightly sunned spine has a bit of wear at foot rubbing to the joints; rear cover sunned at inner margin damp stained at lower inner corners; book a bit leaned; yellowing to page edges; inner hinges cracked but firm; in all a good clean copy. A volume in the publisher's Silver Library series. First published 1889 in 3 vols. rare. First one volume ed. was also in 1889. Not one of his fantasy tales. Hardcover. Longmans, Green
Bookseller reference : 20193
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FITZGIBBON Constantine
WHEN THE KISSING HAD TO STOP
London: Cassell 1960. Scarlet boards. Fine copy. Jacket has white portion of spine tanned else fine. A near future novel of Britain under a dictatorship unable to stop Soviet domination because it had given up its nuclear weapons. Basis of the 1962 film starring Denholm Elliott Peter Vaughan and Douglas Wilmer. The book and filmed caused something of a controversy because of its anti-CND stance. One writer called him a "fascist hyena". "Philip Toynbee described Fitzgibbon's politics as 'free-booting Poujadism' but praised him as 'a great admirer of style in life' and his writing as showing 'occasionally gusts of common sense'." Fitzgibbon was a commie in his youth but ended up a Tory. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Cassell
Bookseller reference : 7808
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MacLENNAN Hugh
VOICES IN TIME.
Toronto: Macmillan 1980. Second printing Nov. 1980 first was Sept. 1980. Octavo hardcover blue boards. Text paper tanned as always; front cover and head of spine quite spotted; crease to lower outer corner of pp 221-22; owner name's crossed out with felt tip marker on front free endpaper; book a bit leaned; a good tight copy otherwise. The supplied dust jacket has moderate rubbing VG otherwise. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in ink on the title page "To my dear friend the Padre - Hugh MacLennan. 1981". MacLennan's biographer Elspeth Cameron considered this to be his greatest novel. A post-nuclear holocaust novel set in Montreal in the year 2030. An old man looks back on the destruction of most of the world's cities in the 1980's. In the new Dark Ages books were burned and all records of the past wiped out - well almost. The name under the black out seems to say "McLaverty Queen's March 1981.". Inscribed by Author. Hardcover. Macmillan
Bookseller reference : 17832 ISBN : 0771595700 9780771595707
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POHL Frederik
THE OTHER END OF TIME
New York: TOR 1996. Advance uncorrected proof in lavendar card covers printed in black. Small corner crease to one leaf else fine. "A high - concept novel of first contact.". First printing. Softcover. TOR Paperback
Bookseller reference : 2000
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GREENE Graham
A SENSE OF REALITY
New York: Viking 1963. Cream and light blue cloth green top page edges. Slight sunning to green top edges else fine now owner names. Dust jacket has just a touch of rubbing to tips of ends of only faintly yellowed spine; light dust soiling to white rear panel; else fine. An unusually nice copy of this collection of four stories some with fantasy elements. First US printing. Hardcover. Viking
Bookseller reference : 2884
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FLECKER James Elroy
THE KING OF ALSANDER
London: Max Goschen 1914. First issue. Red cloth stamped in white and gilt Goschen spine imprint. xii 304 pp. Spine has very light sunning; light yellowing to page edges and endpapers; else a fine bright copy no previous owner marks spine gilt bright no flaking to the delicate white lettering to the front cover lacking the rare tissue wrapper. The poet and playwright's second novel of two a fantasy novel written while he was serving for two years with the consular service in Beruit. Scarce. Bleiler p. 74. Reginald 05469. First printing. Hardcover. Max Goschen
Bookseller reference : 13891
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KELLER David H.
THE ETERNAL CONFLICT
Philadelpha: Prime Press 1949. # 343 of an edition of 400 copies 350 for sale SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Tall octvo half tan cloth with green paper spine label marbled boards without dust jacket as issued. Spine has tiny light spots light rubbing to spine label els e a fine unopened copy. Card slipcase has slight rubbing light soiling generally VG. Signed by Author. First edition. Softcover. Prime Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 12624
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DAVIS Richard Harding
VERA THE MEDIUM. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele.
New York: Scribner's 1908. In the remainder issue binding. Red cloth lettered in white. 6 plates inserted. Lacking the tissue guard to the frontispiece; delicate white spine lettering a bit flaked; light age-darkening to spine; bookplate to front pastedown; age -darkening to top page edges; corner crease to one leaf cracked but still attached neatly reinforced with clear archival paper tape; a VG clean & unworn copy otherwise. First issued in purple cloth 3 June 1908 in an edition of 21.5 K copies. Unsold sheets were bound up in this remainder binding and issued 18 March 1911. BAL 4548. Bleiler p.56 spiritualism. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Scribner's
Bookseller reference : 10081
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HILE William H.
THE OSTRICH FOR THE DEFENSE.
Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co. 1912. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black white & gilt. 4 viii 324 pp frontispiece and 2 other plates. Slight spine sunning; ink name verso of front free endpaper; some foxing to first few leaves and to page edges; VG unworn copy o/w. A utopian novel promoting the ideas of the co-operative movement by this MIT associate. First Edition. Hardcover. Geo. H. Ellis Co.,
Bookseller reference : 770
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