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Dystopia
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. A science fiction near-future, post-apocalyptic, borderline dystopian tale. The book's set in 1970, but published in 1961 and involves nuclear war, British isolation and the woes of ageing. Presented with a proof copy of the same. Proof.....
Item 10547A Clockwork Orange
London: Heinemann, 1962. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A highlight of modern literature and book collecting. First issue in black boards with wider flaps. Price-clipped, with an owner's inscription. A little edgewear to the jacket and a couple of short tears, small indentation beneath the 'A' on.....
Item 10726Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
London: Frederick Warne, 1891. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. First British edition, maybe. There was a Sampson, Low edition which appears to be the authorised issue, suggesting this isn't authorised. The Sampson Low edition apparently has ads dated October 1890 (the US first edition was published in.....
Item 11690When the Sleeper Wakes
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. First American edition (preceded by the UK by a couple of weeks, and the Harper's Weekly and Graphic magazines). A dystopian piece following the story of a man awaking from a 203 year slumber in 22nd century.....
Item 9607Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath)
London: Grafton, 1991. Proof Paperback. A near fine copy. Signed and dated without inscription to the title page. Uncommon. A UK with a sort of worse version of Thatcher, almost dystopic.
Item 11730Stand on Zanzibar
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009. Jacob McMurray. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. 175 of 300 copies published. Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson, and signed by the author and Robinson. Brunner had passed 15 years earlier, but some signed sheets from a prior book were made available for this production. An.....
Item 9637Breakthrough
London: Methuen, 1960. Proof Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. No other copies or references located (even searching in case the name and titles are misspelled), so presumably the book was never published. It appears to be set in the near future; though the year '09' is frequently referenced, it.....
Item 11142The Yellow Wave
London: Ward Lock & Co., 1905. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Standard Yellow Peril stuff, I guess. Ink rubbed on the boards, a little rubbing to the edges and tips and corners, top edge a touch chipped. Author's name misspelt on the title page.
Item 11474Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
New York: Doubleday, 1974. First / First. Hardback. A near fine. A Dystopian future with a police state. Some rubbing to the corners, and a little bumping to the spine tips, owner's name to the front pastedown. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) had a profound influence on the science fiction genre.....
Item 11361The Hopkins Manuscript
London: Gollancz, 1939. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Spine tanned, a few chips and short tears, some markings. Slight lean, bumping to the spine tips. A few tape marks to the endpapers, and some fixing tears to the jacket.
Item 10900After London or Wild England
London: Cassell & Company, 1885. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. First issue with the ads dated March, 1885. A classic work of Victorian science fiction. An important, early post-apocalyptic story set in dystopic England after an unspecified disaster has wiped out most of civilization, leaving only small.....
Item 11311Logan's Run
New York: The Dial Press, 1967. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Vertical slice to the jacket (to the left of the heads), about 30mm. Owner's name to the front pastedown, small area of glue to jacket reverse from previous jacket protector. A nice copy.
Item 12645Logan's Run
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2014. Jim & Ruth Keegan. Limited Hardback. A near fine copy. 48 of 200 copies issued, signed by both the authors and illustrators. Introduction by Jason V. Brock, gallery of previous edition to the rear. A lovely production. Scuff to the jacket at the spine, a......
Item 11086Virtual Light
New York: Bantam Press, 1995. Limited Hardback. A near fine copy, in slipcase as issued. Signed by the author and numbered 118 of 150. The first in the cyberpunk / dystopia Bridge trilogy.
Item 12746We
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. A seminal work of speculative fiction and one of the earliest dystopias. Highly influenced by Wells, whom Zamyatin had translated. The book was first published in 1924 in English, by Dutton. It wasn't until 1988 that it was.....
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Item 6548Swastika Night
London: Gollancz, 1937. First / First. Hardback. Uncommon in jacket, increasingly so inscribed. Inscribed by the author 'To John Hampson from 'Murray Constantine' July 1937'. Hampson was an author for the Hogarth Press and critic. A landmark feminist novel, and a classic work of science fiction, recently reprinted in the.....