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1922réf. 009266New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In RARE dust jacket Near Fine top edge lightly soiled prior owner blindstamp front end page in Very Good dust jacket front flap lower corner price-clipped spine a bit darkened and dulled small chips at spine ends and folds. One of de la Mare's finest occult stories a tale of Walter Lawford who after napping in a cemetery becomes trapped between the two worlds two different realities. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
1981réf. 001409New York: Elsevier / Nelson Books 1981. Very Fine condition in bright shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. Fresh and crisp apparently never read. A beautiful copy of a book tough-to-find in Very Fine collectible condition. Clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped $12.50. No chips tears scuffs creases or rubbing. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. "First edition" is so stated with complete number row 10 987654321 on copyright page. Scarce anthology of 11 science fiction stories on baseball: THE CELEBRATED NO-HIT INNING by Frederick Pohl; THE WORD OF BABE RUTH by Paul Gallico; THE MIGHTY CASEY by Rod Serling; THE HEAVENLY WORLD SERIES by Frank O'Rourke; THE EINSTEIN INSHOOT by Nelson Bond; STAR SLUGGER by William Morrison; HALF PAST ALLIGATOR by Donald Colvin; ON ACCOUNT OF DARKNESS by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini; etc. Great wrap-around Dust Jacket illustration by Bradley Clark features aliens and a robot playing baseball. One of the aliens has three sets of arms and a baseball glove on each of three hands. Original blue boards. From the Dust Jacket: "What is the effect of baseball on alien beings new to the game How will the game change when human-shaped machines become capable of playing it Is it fair play for an outfielder to levitate hundreds of feet into the air to catch the ball Fascinating problems are explored in eleven science-fiction stories about America's most popular sport. here are baseball tales that will amuse provoke and enlighten. This unusual anthology will take baseball fans and lovers of science fiction and fantasy far out to some thrilling ball games." McCue p. 73. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Clark Bradley jacket art. 8vo. vi 210pp. Elsevier / Nelson Books Hardcover
1987réf. EW5067Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1987. Full bonded blue leather with gilt embossed front cover and spine. Textblock immaculate unread and tight. All edges gilt; Silk page marker sewn into the headband; Binding minimally edge and corner rubbed. Collector's notes and blank Easton press bulk plate laid in. 224p. From the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Collector's Edition. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by Vincent DiFate. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover. The Easton Press Hardcover
1994réf. 016150Bucuresti Bucharest 1994-: Nemira 1993 1994 1994. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good. 12 " Tall. Color and b/w Original Illustrations. 47 Issues Of The Romanian Sf Weekly Journal "The Only European Science Fiction Weekly" With Original Articles And Stories In Romanian And English. The Original Magazine Art Is Very Detailed Very Fantastic And Usually Surreal Well-Done But Printed On Newspaper Stock; Most Of This Has Never Been Seen Outside Of Romania. A Long Run Missing A Few Issues. From The Library Of Forrest Ackerman Sf Agent And Uber-Fan Whose Collection Of Sf Material Will Likely Never Be Surpassed The Only True Sf Completist Circa 1930-1995 With Vast Holdings Of Sf Now Dispersed. Nemira 1993 1994 unknown
1950réf. 029315New York: Doubleday and Company 1950. First Edition stated 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. First Edition Stated. A Clean Unmarked Book Tight And Clean With Three Points Of Fraying At Top Of Spine And Two Points Of Fraying At Bottom Of Spine. Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped $2.50 Unfaded Light Edge Wear Wear At Corners Removing Up To 1/8' Of Paper At Tips And At Corners Of Spine But No Loss On Spine. Doubleday and Company hardcover
1956réf. 024105New York: Ballantine 1956. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 185 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Red. First Printing. A Fine Example Protected In A Heavy Plastic Dust Jacket Protector For Many Decades Dj Very Near Fine Not Price-Clipped With Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips. However There Are Four Small Foxing Marks On Endpapers With Some Show-Thru On Half-Title Which Is Dark Offset From Smooth Sides Of Old Yellow Tape Used To Connect Folds Of Dust Jacket Protector No Tape Ever Adhering To Endpapers But Foxing Is Strong 2 Marks 2 1/2" X 3/4" Each On Each Endpaper. Ballantine hardcover
1899réf. 000745London: Harper & Bros. 1899. First Edition First Issue . Red Cloth. Very Good . 329 Pp. Red Cloth. First Edition First Issue With Gilt Lettering On Spine And Front Panel. Very Good Front Panel Attractive Spine Slightly Faded And With Slight Soiling And A Few Tiny Spots Of Foxing. A Little Foxing To Edges Of Sheets And On A Few Pages. An Attractive Copy Of A Book Which Does Not Wear Well. Rear Hinge With 2" Long Crack. Front Free Endpaper With Partly Erased Ownership Signature Of Henry W. Bowders Dated July 1899. Harper & Bros. hardcover
1972réf. 007705London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1972 scarce first UK issue price clipped dust jacket is rubbed and worn to corners and top and bottom edges and spine ends book has squares of tape to boards where a plastic sleeve was taped down hinges reinforced with tape stamps and labels to fep stamp to imprint stamp to top and bottom closed edges stamp to rear fep otherwise tidy copy Kubrick asked Clarke to rework his story 'The Sentinel' into a film script this book gives the different versions and evolution of Clarke's story into the basis of Kubrick's film classic240pp. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Ex-Library. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
1972réf. 012204London: W H Allen 1972 price clipped dust jacket handling soiled and sunned to spine fep has some foxing and brown stain marks rare title in this format 192pp minimal scattered foxing to closed edges. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. W H Allen hardcover
2013réf. 047070East Yorkshire England: PSArtbooks 2013. First U.K. Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unpaginated. Colour panels. Colour illustrated wrappers are clean and without wear. Bindings square and not creased. Small quarto: 26 x 18cm. Originally published in magazine form by Harvey Publications Inc. Complete set in five volumes. Volume One - Issues 1-5. Volume Two - Issues 6-10. Volume Three - Issues 11-16. Volume Four - Issues 17-22. Volume Five - Issues 23-28. PSArtbooks paperback
1996réf. 051517-KLondon United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton 1996. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Fine. Hardcover. Author Inscribed. 1st Edition. 1st. UK. Edition 1st. Printing 1996 Black cloth hardcover in the dust jacket 560 page book with some black & white line drawings . This copy is inscrbed by Mr. Aldin in the title page . Condition : Very Fine . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
1972réf. 67083Garden City NY:: Doubleday 1972. Hardcover -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First book club edition. A collection of 27 of Asimov's early stories each prefaced by Asimov's often amusing biographical details about how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluations of it. Appendix with a list of 60 short stories published during the Campbell years. vii 568 pp. Code of M35 indicating that this was published in 1971 probably preceding the trade edition. Rather uncommon in any Doubleday printing. Doubleday, hardcover
1921réf. 004753London: Cassell 1921 papered boards with black decorative titling upper joint rubbed through to the underlying mesh lower joint split corners bumped spine ends rubbed lacks fep some minor scattered foxing to closed edges and a few spots to title page 328pp final story of fifteen is by Algernon Blackwood the rest written by Blackwood from story ideas by Wilson first edition internally VG but papered boards are fragile. First Edition. Decorative Boards. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Cassell hardcover
1946réf. 004666Tarzana CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. John Coleman Burroughs. VG/VG dj; now in archival Brodart. Slight shelf-rubbing to bottom edge and at top tips. Jacket toning with foxing at spine edge. Fourth in the Venus series. Blue pebbled cloth top edge red titled in red map endpapers at front. Comes with COA stating this volume came from the Glenn Lord Collection - Long-time literary agent and literary executor of the Robert E. Howard estate. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. hardcover
2004réf. 003842Forest Hill: Cemetery Dance Publications 2004 Deluxe edition limited to 26 lettered and signed copies this being the letter L. Signed by Hugh B. Cave directly on the colophon page. Book dust jacket and tray case in fine as new condition. Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover
1934réf. FZ08London: Methuen & Co. 1934. Book. Good to Very Good-. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 1st printing 1934. Orange cloth lettered in black on front and spine. Lacks dj. Cloth lightly soiled with a few small marks rear; spine a little faded; light fraying top of spine and minor soiling. Author's note glued onto ffep "With all good wishes from the author James Francis Dwyer 33 Curzon Stret London W.I." About Good to Very Good. A very scarce item unique with author's note. Hubin p.130. Methuen & Co. Hardcover
1963réf. DC826NY: Pantheon 1963. Book. Very Good to Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing 1963. "Wilson a bored middle-aged banker is 'reborn' by the 'company' into a new identity. Adjusting to his new life he is even less happy than he was before and gradually understands that the price paid for a second chance is too high. A Kafka-like exploration of the depersonalization of modern life. The benign indifference bureaucratic efficiency and curteous reasonableness of the company are more disturbing than overt malevolence. John Frankenheimer's 1966 film version with Rock Hudson as the protagonist was one of the scariest films of that decade." Barron; Horror 4-105 Previous owner's name and date on ffep; dj has a couple of tiny closed edge tears. Pantheon Hardcover
2017réf. 022058Burton: Subterranean Press 2017 First printing of the first limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies this being #344. Signed directly on the colophon page by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves. Book and dust jacket in fine as new condition. Subterranean Press hardcover
2014réf. 022057Burton: Subterranean Press 2014 First printing of the first limited edition 1 of 500 signed and numbered copies this being #344. Signed directly on the colophon page by Neil Gaiman Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves. Book and dust jacket in fine as new condition. Subterranean Press hardcover
1938réf. 1080London: Methuen & Co 1938. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange cloth cover - no dustjacket. Hardback. Thoughts by H. G. Wells taken from three lectures he gave about a single world educational community - a precursor idea that has predicted the internet. 130 pages. Some shelf rubbing. Methuen & Co hardcover
1985réf. 121524-EEditions Les Incunables 1985. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover large folio in red cloth covers with gilt letters at the spine 1300 page total in both volumes.With illustrations in color and black & white . Condition : NEW with the publisher's shipping box. NOTE : This set is large and heavy and will need extra postage for shipping we will notify you of the cost. NO INTERNATIONAL SALES . Editions Les Incunables Hardcover
2000réf. 002126London: Headline 2000 near fine in same DW unclipped no tears or inscriptions 312pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Headline hardcover
1998réf. 002125London: Headline 1998 near fine in same DW unclipped no tears or inscriptions just a little light creasing to extreme edges of DW 438pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Headline hardcover
2000réf. 002950London: Headline 2000 near fine in same DW unclipped no tears or inscriptions except small split at top corner fold 314pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Headline hardcover
2000réf. 002129London: Headline 2000 near fine in same DW unclipped no tears or inscriptions 314pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Headline hardcover