Item 9758Chambers's Journal, October 1932
London: W & R Chambers, 1932. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Features "It Never Rains, but…" by A.M. Burrage. A little toned to the spine.
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Item 10536A Romance of a Mince-Pie; An Incident in the Life of John Chirrup, of Forty Winks, Pastry-Cook and Confectioner
London: D. Bogue, 1848. Phiz. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Some soiling to the wrappers and an old inscription. Blind stamp to the rear. Lean.
Item 11289Aldershottana; or, Chinks in my Hut
London: Ward and Lock, 1856. First / First. Hardback. Good only. Uncommon in the first edition. Heavy chipping to the spine, edges heavily rubbed, boards well worn. A few spots of foxing internally. Seller's blind stamp.
Item 9834Dramatic Tales: The Sea Serpent; or, The Wizard of the Winds
London: J. Duncombe, n.d. [c1840]. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. One of Duncombe's Dramatic Tales. Concerns a flying sea serpent controlled by a wizard - what more could you ask for? The plate is a little chipped and folded. There is no binding, as such so may.....
Item 10716Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887
London: William Blackwood, 1886. First / First. Paperback. A fine copy. A political piece of marginal sf interest extrapolating on the passing of the Home Rule Bill of 1886 resulting in civil war. A little tanning here and there and a few areas of wear, some chipping to the head.....
Item 9648Billy Bub - Double-Prize Detective or Old Arsenic's Secret
London: [Aldine Publishing Company?], n.d. [1880s?]. First Thus Good only. First UK edition[?]. Edward Lytton was the creator of Deadeye Dick and a popular dime author in the US. This is an uncommon UK issue in the Aldine Tip-Top Tales run. The wrappers are heavily chipped, split at the spine.....
Item 12031Sport Royal and Other Stories
London: A.D. Innes, 1893. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. Collects 11 short stories, with most having appeared earlier in the St James Gazette. Looks to have been reglued at some point, some surface loss to the spint and toning to the wrappers. Some dustiness to the.....
Item 9790The Dream of an Englishman
London: Sunrise Publishing Co., 1893. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. A rare science fiction, future history novel wherein the world is governed as a federation, looking to explore beyond Earth. Some chipping to the spine tips, otherwise a nice copy.
Item 9407The Grand Seigneur
London: Methuen, 1913. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon, no copies located in auction sales or on the market. Some creasing to the wraps, spine creased with a couple of chips. A little dusty.
Item 9679Robinson Crusoe's Return
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A comic reimagining of the sequel to Robinson Crusoe. Wraps a little toned and rubbed, chipping to the top of the spine. Ads to front and rear.
Item 13583Printer's Devil
London: Compact SF, 1966. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Very good condition. A nice copy. Signed by the author on the first page. Third in Moorcock's trilogy. A little foxing and some tanning to the leaves. Spine a little toned. Uncommon signed.
Item 13416The Man Who Wasn't
London: R.T. Lang, 1912. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. "Science fantasy horror story. A human being is created artificially, but when life is introduced into the body by means of the 'Q' ray, the persona of a singularly nasty ancient Egyptian there takes up position" [Locke, Spectrum.....
Item 10242The City of Shadows
London: Everett & Co., n.d. [1911?]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Published by Everett, though binding has Newnes on the spine. Seller's stamp (California) and a stamp from Everett's Library (presumably the publisher's copy?). A few signs of ageing, but nothing much. Beadle was a pulp writer.....
Item 10842Snooping: Comic Anecdotes About People Who Peep Over Other People's Shoulders
London: Fun' Office, nd [1885]. Dalziel Brothers. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. 166pp with plenty of small engravings. Some light foxing, and a little soiling and creasing. A great piece.
Item 11415Dick Tracy: The Racket Buster: No. 8
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1940. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. Some rubbing to the spine and a few short tears to the leaf edges, paper tanned as expected. Some tanning to the wrappers.
Item 9981Surface de la Planete
Paris: Hachette, 1959. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Association copy inscribed by the author to fellow SF writer William F. Temple. Wraps a touch creased, but nice enough overall.
Item 11285A Magnetic Man and Other Stories
New York: Frank. F. Lovell, 1890. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Collects six short stories. An uncommon collection, "The protagonist of 'A Magnetic Man', whose various Inventions do nothing to make him liked, learns how to control electricity, which governs affinities; and 'Chemical Clairvoyance' features a device.....
Item 11836The Man with the Broken Ear
London: Cable Printing and Publishing, nd [1908?]. Later / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Later edition (the first in English was 1864). "A soldier of the French First Empire, having been put into suspended animation for over fifty years through a process of dessication, is reanimated in the Second.....
Item 9543Peril of Creation
London: U.T.B., n.d. [1945?]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Quite uncommon. One copy found in commerce. Some tanning to the wraps, but largely in good shape. Crayon mark to the inner wrap. [Reginald p83].
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Item 11215How I Came to Write 'Looking Backward' [published in] The Nationalist
Boston: The Nationalist Publishing Co., 1889. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. Volume I, number one. Uncommon. Some chipping to the wrappers, large tear to upper wrap, some splitting to the spine.
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Item 11903The Brick Moon [with] Life in the Brick Moon [in] The Atlantic Monthly
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869-1870. First / First. Paperback. Good copies. The first account of an orbiting space station, if inadvertently. A 200 foot ball made of brick is launched into orbit, with a bunch of people accidently aboard. Four volumes: October 1869-December 1869, and February 1870. Volume 24:144-146.....
Item 11936Mirrikh, or A Woman from Mars
New York: The Burleigh & Johnston Co., 1892. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. A rare early American interplanetary piece. Five copies located in US libraries, one other copies located in commerce. Rebound in plain cloth, with the upper wrapper trimmed and pasted to new endpaper verso, lower wrapper.....
Item 8608The Hounds of Tindalos
New York: Belmont, 1963. First / First. Paperback. A fine copy. Just a little handling wear. UK price sticker to upper wrap.
Item 8806Spawn of Space
London: Scion, 1951. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Sole edition as far as we can tell, and perhaps Harkon's second of three books (the other two published as Astron Del Martia - both names pseudonyms for an unidentified writer). Harkon also wrote a couple of short stories.....
Item 13174Peter Wilkins; or, the Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians, an Extra Extravagant Extravaganza
London: Webster & Co., nd [c1846]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. In Webster's Acting National Drama series. This is number 130 in the series. Edges worn, wrappers toned. 24pp, 21 numbered. Etching to the front (quite toned). Peter Wilkins was introduced in a 1751 Guillver-esque tale.....