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London: No Publisher, 1868-1870. First Edition / First Impression. Unbound. Good condition overall. Evidently having been bound at some point. Some edge wear and general signs of age. Not Penny Dreadfuls exactly, but a similar vein.
Item 13536Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Minneapolis: Dreamhaven Books, 2002. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. 366 of 1000 copies. Signed by the 16 authors, the editor and Neil Gaiman who provides the introduction. Signators include Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Jack Williamson, Melanie Tem, P.D. Cacek, David Bischoff, Charles de Lint, Marianne de Pierres, Rick.....
Item 13535The Return of Skull Face
West Linn, Oregon: FAX Collector's Editions, 1977. Limited Hardback. Fine condition. Inscribed by Lupoff and Stephen E. Leialoha, the illustrator. Number 14 of 150 copies issued. Introduction by Frank Belknap Long. A few stops to the top edge, and a little dustiness.
Item 13533The Teixcalaanli Duology [comprising] A Memory Called Place [and] A Desolation Called Peace
Burton, Mi: Subterranean Press, 2021-2022. First Hardback. Complete in two volumes. Both are numbered 445 of 500 and signed by the author, as issued. Lovely copies.
Item 13532A Plunge into Space - Second Edition
London & New York: Warne, 1891. Second / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A trip to Mars. This is the second edition, being the first with the Jules Verne introduction. Of most interest though is a copyright property sheet laid into the book stating that 3,000 copies of the.....
Item 13531The Naked Sun
London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. A good copy. Second in Asimov's famous Robot Series (after Caves of Steel and before Robots of Dawn). First UK hardback edition (preceded by US HB and UK magazine issue). Some chipping to the head of the spine, a little.....
Item 13345Monsieur Zenith The Albino
Manchester: Savoy Books, 2001. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. Some edgewear and marks to the jacket. A little bumping to the edges.
Item 13344Moonchild
London: Mandrake Press, 1929. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Ownership signature to front endpaper, bright gilt titles and some edgewear. Slight crease and stain to upper board.
Item 13342The Five Jars
London: Edward Arnold, 1922. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. A little foxing on the edges of the block and offsetting to the end papers. Internally clean and bright. Sharp and tight, a very nice copy. Seven full page illustrations by Gilbert James.
Item 13341The Lair of the White Worm
London: W. Foulsham & Co., ND [~1940?]. Later / Later. Hardback. A very good copy. A bit of chipping and bumping to the spine tips, small hole on the jacket of the spine. Spine faded, some toning. Some discolouration to the boards, owner's name to front endpaper. No publication date.....
Item 13520Night Dweller in New Worlds Vol 49. No. 156. [The Wrecks of Time]
UK: Compact SF, 1965. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. Paperback. One of Pratchett's earliest publications preceding The Carpet People by a number of years. Volume 49. No. 156. A little warped, and the leaves toned as expected.
Item 13519A Game of Thrones
London: Voyager, 1996. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. The first in Martin's (still unfinished) epic. Some rolling to the jacket edges, spine tips a little bumped and the block quite toned. A few marks to the jacket reverse and a little transfer from the cloth dye. George R.R......
Item 13518The Truth
London: Doubleday, 2000. First / First. Hardback. The 25th Discworld novel. A near fine copy, block a little toned, a few marks to the boards with some light edge wear. Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) was one of the most prolific and most-read fantasy writers of all time. His Discworld books have.....
Item 13517Viator Plus
Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2009. Jim Burns. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. 87 of 100 copies signed by the author and jacket illustrator, Jim Burns. In the solander, as issued.
Item 13516Life, the Universe and Everything
London: Arthur Barker, 1982. First / First. Hardback. A very good book. Third in the Hitch-Hiker 'trilogy'. A little tanning to the spine and a little light wear, small create to the upper jacket. Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was perhaps the funniest of all speculative fiction writers, best known for the.....
Item 13515Detective Inspector Chance
London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974. Limited Paperback. A fine copy. One of 200 printed. Collects nine short mysteries. I presume these were copied directly from the magazine and shrunk down a little.
Item 13514A Pair of Adverts for an Unidentified Penny Dreadful
London: Temple Publishing Company, nd [1867]. Unbound. Seemingly the rear cover of a Penny Dreadful, but I've been unable to track down the title. The leaf is a pair of adverts for The Maroon's Daughter: Or, The Bloodhounds of Jamaica and Starlight Nell, Queen of the Highwaymen. Both advertising the.....
Item 13512When the Earth Swung Over
London: The 'Boy's Own Paper', nd [1926]. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. Offered in the rare jacket. "...a lost world tale set in South America, where the survivors of the sinking of Atlantis have established a civilization." [SFE, JC]. Republished in 2022 as part of Armchair Fiction's Lost.....
Item 13500Sonnets and Lyrics, a Little Book of Verse on the Present War
London: Privately Printed, 1915. First / First. Hardback. A nice copy. Posthumously published, presumably by family members. Dobell was a London bookseller and intellectual, he died in 1914. The present copy is offered with the tissue jacket, which has a little edgewear and a few small chips. Some toning to.....
Item 13499Return of the Mummies
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. Manuscript Unbound. Near fine condition. 6pp, holograph. The story hasn't been published under this name, but this is more of a synopsis than the actual tale so possibly written and published under another title.
Item 13498Horror Castle
London: Arthur Gray, 1936. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy in a good jacket. Some loss to the upper corner, and lower spine on the jacket. Edgewear, chipping and a few short tears elsewhere. Some tape to the jacket reverse. Book a little bumped to the spine tips.....
Item 13497Ratmania - The Birth of the Man-Rat
No Place: No Publisher, 2001? Manuscript Unbound. Near fine condition. Holograph manuscript, being the script for (presumably) a graphic novel adaptation of his short story of the same name. 9pp, autograph, both sides.
Item 13495A Book of Mystical Verse
London: No Publisher, 1935. Manuscript Hardback. Very good condition. A curious illuminated manuscript, of sorts, with an Emilie W. Shaw providing the calligraphy. Neither author nor calligrapher are well known it seems. Very much with a Christian leaning to the verse. Somewhat amateurish, but better than what I could do.....
Item 13494Coberley Hall. A Gloucestershire Tale of the Fourteenth Century.
Cheltenham: S.Y. Griffith & Co., 1824. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. A historical romance. Two plates, as called for, one of the Hall and a Coat of Arms. Short tale, only 91pp. Some chipping and loss to the spine, internally a little offsetting from the plates and a......
Item 13493The Eggchild
London: Faber & Faber, 1978. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy, just a little toning to the spine, some light fading to the edges of the boards.