London: Tor, 2015. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Signed by the author without inscription. Quite uncommon. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. Optioned by Lionsgate for the big screen.
New York: Walker Books, 1968. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. The first hardback edition of any of McCaffrey's Pern novels. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula, making McCaffrey the first to win both. A landmark work of what turned out to be science fiction. A little toning.....
London: Rapp & Whiting, 1973. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Very presentable. Second in McCaffrey's Pern sequence. Nominated for the Hugo award, losing out to Philip Jose Farmer. Price-clipped with seller's sticker. Slight lean, foxing to top edge. A nice copy.
London: MacDonald / Raven Books, 1976. First / First. Hardback. A near fine book in a very good jacket. Jacket has some wear to the edges, mostly pushing to the top of the spine with a couple of neat short tears. Spine tips a little bumped. Front corner with short.....
London: Gollancz, 1978. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. A seminal work of SF. Adapted multiple times, most notably as Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. Spine a touch faded, yellow to top edge slightly toned. Owner's inscription and sticker to front endpaper.
London: Voyager, 1997. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. The fourth and final book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. Though there's been no update since 2016, Ridley Scott's Scott Free is set to produce a TV miniseries for Syfy. A little bumped to the spine tips. Some handling.....
London: Gollancz, 2014. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. The second in Sanderson's acclaimed ongoing fantasy series. Corners and spine tips a little bumped, binding a little loose as is pretty much inevitable. Boards with a little handling wear.
London: Headline, 1990. First / First. Hardback. A very good book in a near fine jacket. One of the greatest works of speculative fiction, an epic narrative. Winner of the Hugo and Locus awards. It wasn't nominated for the Nebula though (though that year, Tor published five of the six.....
London: Gollancz, 1985. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. The last of Herbert's six Dune novels. Just a couple of early leaves having a short, but barely noticable tear to the lower edge.
London: Gollancz, 1984. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. The fifth of Herbert's Dune series (dutifully continued by his son). A fine copy, with one white mark to the upper board.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1977. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy with just a little edge wear. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, John F. Campbell and Locus. A wonderful novel, and the first in the Heechee saga. Fore-corners and spine tips rubbed. Small stain to front free endpaper.....
London: Heinemann, 1898. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A cornerstone of modern speculative fiction collecting, and literature in general. First issue (Currey's priority A [Currey p426]), sixteen pages of ads dated Autumn 1897. Number 39 on the NPR greatest SF list. In the Locus list for best.....
Privately Printed, 2013-2014. First / First. Paperback. Five volumes, as first published by the author. Uncommon. The five volumes are titled: The Belt of the Buried Gods (December 15, 2013), Out of No Man's Land (December 19, 2013), Return to Danvar (December 26, 2013), Thunder Due East (December 27, 2013).....
London: Macmillan, 1987. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. The first in Banks' excellent Culture series. Due to be adapted by Amazon. Block a little toned, short tear (10mm) to jacket. Spine tips a touch bumped. Flap tops a little worn.
New York: Tor, 2015. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Signed by the author without inscription. The first in a planned trilogy; touted as Game of Thrones in Space (but then again, publishers love saying that stuff). The trilogy is set to be filmed for TV under the CBS.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by Asimov. One of the highlights of science fiction writing. . Infrequently found in the UK and inscribed. The inscription reads 'For Bill Savill who reads English as easily as American Isaac Asimov'. Asimov famously disliked.....
London: Allen & Unwin / Unwin Hyman / Harper Collins, 1983-1996. First / First. Hardback. Twelve [12] volumes. Complete. Christopher Tolkien's extraordinary exploration of his father's work. A very good set overall. Each volume with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown (except vols 1 and 8). No price.....
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2017. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Signed by the author without inscription. Slight bumping to the spine tips.
London: 4th [Fourth] Estate, 2014. First / First. Hardback. Three [3] volumes complete. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson awards, with the full trilogy (as it was published in one year) winning the World Fantasy Award. Recently, and very successfully adapted for the big screen by Alex Garland (though.....
London: Corsair / Constable & Robinson, 2012. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and BFA. "Walton's best work to date" Elizabeth Bear (tor.com). Tips and corners a touch bumped.
London: Corsair / Constable & Robinson, 2013 [2012]. Proof Paperback. Near fine. A touch toned. Uncommon proof copy of Walton's Hugo, Nebula and BFA winning fantasy bildungsroman. Date reported as 2013, but the book was published earlier in 2012.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1974. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy with just a little trifiling edge wear to the jacket. A stunning work of science fiction and a highlight of the genre. Winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Locus award.
London: Gollancz, 2012 [2013]. Proof Paperback. A fine copy. Published in the US as NOS-4A2 (I assume due ot pronunciation - say it out loud). Set to air in 2019 on AMC.
New York: Tor, 2005. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. First in Scalzi's Old Man's War series. Frequently topping polls for the best work of science fiction this century. Spine tips a little bumped.