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London: Mills, Jowett and Mills, Bolt-Court, 1832-1833. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Covering issue one of the 'New Series' (8th Sept 1832) to number 64 (23rd Nov 1833). Includes an interesting piece onf Ogle and Sumner's Steam Carriage (page 89). Half leather with marbled boards, heavily rubbed.....
Item 12817The London Light. Number One, Volume One, August 1880.
London: Allingham and Holloway, 1880. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. The publication is not bound and has loose leaves. Some chipping and a small amount of loss to the edges. General handling wear and light foxing but overall well preserved. Full title The London Light: An Illustrated.....
Item 9954The Wonder Library Bound Volume [containing] Issues 5-8.
London: Amalgamated Press, n.d. [1915]. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. File copy in the publisher's file binding. Internally fine. Contains: The Outlaw Princess, It's Never too Late, The Girl from Gaol, Hinton of the Rovers.
Item 13689Gaiety - The Magazine of Humour [March 1926 to January 1927]
London: Gaiety Magazine Publishing, 1926-1927. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Very good condition. An uncommon run, containing the first eleven of Anthony Armstrong's Loose in the Library series, a group of parodies known chiefly for Armstrong's take on Edgar Rice Burroughs, with Marzipan the Ape-Man, The Battlechief of Mars.....
Item 13434Super Science Stories: July 1949
Niagara Falls, NY: Fictioneers, 1949. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. Contains Changeling by Ray Bradbury (this is the first publication of this story), and The Wall of Darkness by Clarke (again, the first publication). Also includes works by John D. MacDonald, Damon Knight and Margaret St. Clair. Illustration.....
Item 13186The Horror of the Heights [in] The Strand Magazine, Vol 46, No 275. November 1913
London: George Newnes, 1913. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A fantasy involving an aeroplane that discovers ecosystems high in the sky. A little toning and wear the edge of the wrappers, slight lean and some creasing. A few marks internally.
Item 13784The Scapegrace at Sea
Or The Adventures of Dick Lightheart. His Adventures on the Sea, Under the Sea, On the Earth, and in the Centre of the Earth
London: Edwin J. Brett, nd [1874]. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Very good condition. Quite an uncommon Victorian magazine, mostly remembered now for how closely the character of Captain Nemo in the present title resembles Verne's Nemo from a couple of years earlier - he's a bit of a......
Item 13660Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy [Volume 1, Nos. 1-4]
New York: Baronet Publishing Company, 1977. Jack Gaughan. First Edition Paperback. Very good condition. This is a complete run of the short-lived magazine. Includes: Rime Isle in two parts by Leiber; 3 Vignettes by Niven; Horsemen by Brian Aldiss; A review of A Scanner Darkly by Robert Silverberg; Blackout by.....
Item 13712Garthoyle Gardens [in] World & His Wife
London: Amalgamated Press, 1909. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Good only. March 1909 issue to December 1909. Ten issues of Garthoyle Gardens, a slight Edwardian satire on aristocratic life. The book was published in 1913 by Hutchinson. Comparing to the US text the ten magazine issues appear to be.....
Item 12841Sydney Punch: Volume One
Sydney: Edgar Ray, 1864. First / First. Hardback. A very good set. May 27th 1864 to November 19th 1864. Volume One. Boards are worn with some surface loss, a little loss and splitting to the spine, owner's plate to the front pastedown, a couple of ownership inscriptions. Uncommon.
Item 12596At the Earth's Core [as published in] Pluck [Volume One, Nos 23-33]
London: The Amalgamated Press, 1923. First / First. Paperback. A good set. The complete serialisation. For once, the magazine serialisation wasn't first - the story was published by Methuen in February the same year and nearly a decade earlier in All Story magazine in the US. The paper is toned.....
Item 13732At the Earth's Core [in] Pluck
London: The Amalgamated Press, 1923. Hardback. Very good condition. Incomplete serialisation, covering the last part of the story. For once, the magazine serialisation wasn't first - the story was published by Methuen in February the same year and nearly a decade earlier in All Story magazine in the US. Bound.....
Item 13443Tales of Wonder Number Four. Autumn 1938
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work, 1938. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. ContainsThe Menace from Space by John Edwards, The Smile of the Sphinx by William F. Temple, The Eternal Professors by David H. Keller, The Third Vibrator by John B. Harris (John Wyndham), Out of the Past.....
Item 9885The Nelson Lee Library a Partial Run from No. 19 to 37
London: Amalgamated Press, 1915-1916. First / First. Paperback. Very good condition. 22 issues. Presumably written by ESB as most of this era were. Some of the wrappers are a little chipped, some tape ghosting and some issues have the covers detached or getting there. But they're largely in excellent shape.....
Item 9852The Nelson Lee Library a Partial Run from No. 220 to 241
London: Amalgamated Press, 1919-1920. First / First. Paperback. Very good condition. 22 issues. Presumably written by ESB as most of this era were. Some of the wrappers are a little chipped, and some issues have the covers detached or getting there. But they're largely in excellent shape. They revolve around.....
Item 13658Anduril: Issue 6
Skelmersdale, Lancs. John Martin, 1976. First Edition Paperback. Near fine condition. The first four issues of the magazine were devoted to Tolkien but then branched out into fantasy in general. The Leiber piece is Lankhmar and Lands Around, a biographical piece looking at Leiber's world. A little edge wear and.....
Item 13806The Great Sacrifice [in] The London Magazine [Summer Number for 1903]
London: London Magazine, 1903. R.W. Wallace. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Very good condition. The magazine is notable for science fiction collectors for first printing George C. Wallis's The Great Sacrifice. At the turn of the century, Wallis wrote a small number of scientific romances in the manner of.....
Item 13817Figaro In London
London: William Strange, 1831-1834. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Near fine condition. Three volumes covering Issue 1 (Dec 10th 1831) to Issue 159 (Dec 20th 1834). A significant satirical and comic periodical, preceding Punch, which was edited by Figaro's later editor Henry Mayhew - so a precursor of sorts.....
Item 12652The Vampyre [in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume XI Number 63]
London: Henry Colburn, 1819. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. The very rare first appearance in print of the first modern vampire novel, with the attribution to Lord Byron as author. The book is famously unobtainable with the Byron attribution, so it's very nice for us to have.....
Item 13676Boy's Own Paper: Parts 117 to 128
London: Boy's Own Paper, 1888-1889. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Good condition. A complete year of The Boy's Own Paper. No. 508 Vol XI October 6th 1888 - No. 559 Vol XI September 28 1889, comprising a full year. Containing the first UK publication of Jules Verne's Deux ans.....
Item 13816The Cosmic Courtship
An Inter-Planetary Romance
New York: Frank Munsey, 1917. First Edition / First Impression. Paperback. Good condition. An interesting wartime interplanetary, where human consciousness is transmitted across space. Rebound in a card binding, with additional card covers. Some separation at the hinge. The original wrappers were not bound in, but a section of the.....
Item 12816Lady's Pictorial Christmas Number; "The Christmas Hirelings"
London: Alfred Gibbons, 1893. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. The first publication of " The Christmas Hirelings" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her only juvenile fiction. Creases to the spine and some chipping to the edges. General handling wear but overall well preserved.
Item 13648Christ's College Magazine [1886-1888 and 1888-1890]
Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1886-1890. First Edition Hardback. Good condition. A collection of articles, best known for its Charles Darwin entry. The boards are a little sunned, with some splitting to the cloth at the spines, some spotting and offsetting to the prelims. A bit of rubbing and foxing. Spines a......
Item 13798The Humorist [Six Issues: Jan 23rd 1937-Feb 27th 1937]
Paperback. Near fine condition. Six issues. Volume XXX, nos. 756-761. File copies with editor's approval marks etc. Each issue has a printed image by Bruce Bairnsfather, I mention this purely because it was mentioned on a previous seller's note. Some toning and edge wear, but a nice group overall.
Item 10071The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
New York and London: The Century Co. / Wawne, 1884. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. I think of most interest in this magazine is an article of Vedder's Rubaiyat, and perhaps Austin Dobson's The Old Sedan Chair. Wrappers are worn, but internally excellent.