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Item #13495 A Book of Mystical Verse. Gertrude Mickleburgh

A 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.....

Price: £65.00

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Item #13492 The Ostrich for the Defence. William H. Hile

The Ostrich for the Defence

Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1912. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy in a good jacket. Uncommon in the jacket. By far and away the best ostrich farming lost race novel we've ever had in stock. Most likely the only one also. Front flap detached, the upper jacket is.....

Price: £325.00

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Item #13490 The Holiday Book with Julian Symons Typescript. John Singer, ed

The Holiday Book with Julian Symons Typescript

Glasgow: Maclellan, 1946. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. This copy with Julian Symons' typescript for his entry 'Early Days of the Detective'. 11pp, typed, single-sided, with minimal corrections. A little worn. Also contains pieces by Lord Dunsany, Robert Burns, Elizabeth Bowen, George Bernard Shaw, and many more.....

Price: £475.00

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Item #13483 The Soul of Kol Nikon. Eleanor Farjeon

The Soul of Kol Nikon

London: Collins, 1923. First / First. Hardback. Near fine condition. The publisher's file copy, with their sticker to the front endpaper. Kol Nikon is an unloved child, whose mother thinks him a Changeling swapped out by the Elves (which is indeed accurate). Kol Nikon, in his lonliness seeks out a......

Price: £600.00

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Item #13480 A Canticle for Leibowitz. Walter Miller

A Canticle for Leibowitz

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1960. Proof Paperback. A very good copy. A landmark post-apocalyptic novel tracing the passage of human knowledge across the centuries, as an order of monks maintains the remnants of civilisation after nuclear war. Uncommon in this format. Slight lean, some dustiness to the top and a......

Price: £750.00

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Item #13479 The Future of Mr Purdew. Marjorie Livingston

The Future of Mr Purdew

London: Wright & Brown Ltd., 1936. First / First. Hardback. Near fine condition. A lovely copy. A science fiction looking at reincarnation after a plane crash. A little dustiness, a little edge wear and a few marks and creases. Owner's name and a stamp to the front endpaper.

Price: £250.00

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Item #13478 The Case of Summerfield. W H. Rhodes

The Case of Summerfield

San Francisco & New York: Paul Elder & Co., 1907. First / First. Hardback. Near fine. A nice copy. Number two in the Western Classics series. A little overopened near the title page. A science fiction mystery. Introduced by Geraldine Bonner.

Price: £75.00

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Item #13475 The Lust of Treasure: A Story of Pirate Gold. H. Carson Marksman, Barrington Beverley

The Lust of Treasure: A Story of Pirate Gold

London: Philip Allan, 1934. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. A tale of buried treasure, edging into the realm of the Lost Race. Uncommon in the jacket. The jacket has been reinforced to the reverse with tape, there are a few short tears and chips and some toning. Spine.....

Price: £875.00

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Item #13468 California Dreaming. Nicholas Garlick

California Dreaming

London: Robert Hale, 1981. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Signed, without inscription, by David Griffiths the jacket artist. Quite uncommon. Revolves around a drug that turns thoughts into reality. Some rubbing and scuffing to the jacket, marks from a previous seller's price to the front endpaper.

Price: £75.00

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Item #13466 Swan Song - Typescript. Brian Stableford

Swan Song - Typescript

New York: DAW Books, 1975. Manuscript Unbound. Good condition. Typesetter's copy from the archives of DAW. 163pp typed, single-sided. Additionally, there are eight sheets for the book prelims. Annotated throughout, presumably by the editor or typesetter. Some edgewear and toning, first few leaves a little creased, one miscellaneous leaf is.....

Price: £150.00

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Item #13463 The Blue Star: A Romance of Today. Kate Murray

The Blue Star: A Romance of Today

London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. "...featuring the Invention of an electrical device capable of transferring vital energy from one body to another." [SFE, Clute]. A little toning to the spine, a few knocks, and a little dustiness to the top edge. Advertising.....

Price: £160.00

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Item #13458 The Stuffed Men. Anthony Rud

The Stuffed Men

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A weird thriller from the author of Ooze, first published in the first Weird Tales. A little bumping to the spine tips and a little rubbing, a short tear to the top of the spine. Price-clipped.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #13456 Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches. Harris Merton Lyon

Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches

New York: Metropolitan Syndicate Inc., 1908. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed Benjamin B. Hampton to the front pastedown, wherein he describes how he published the book as the author couldn't find a copy and printed around 500 copies. No jacket. In excellent shape overall, a little.....

Price: £425.00

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Item #13455 Workers in Darkness. J B. Harris-Burland

Workers in Darkness

London: Greening & Co., 1908. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the front pastedown. A science fiction of sorts involving criminology. Some markings and rubbing to the cloth, spine toned, slight lean and some bumping to the spine tips. A little foxing. Some.....

Price: £425.00

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Item #13451 The Future Power. Z S. Hendow

The Future Power

London: The Roxburghe Press, 1897. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An English Utopian future built on socialism. A little rubbing and bumping, but in nice shape overall. Owner's name to the front endpaper.

Price: £75.00

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Item #13447 The Fashionable World Displayed. Anonymous, John Owen

The Fashionable World Displayed

London: J. Hatchard, 1805. Fourth / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A critique of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Bound in fairly recent full leather, a little wear to the edges. Some offsetting to the endpapers. 4pp ads to the rear, a little roughly opened. Some spotting and.....

Price: £125.00

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Item #13443 Tales of Wonder Number Four. Autumn 1938. William F. Temple Edmond Hamilton

Tales 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.....

Price: £125.00

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Item #13442 The Park Lane Mystery. Joseph Hatton

The Park Lane Mystery

Bristol & London: J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1887. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. "Short novel of chemically induced transference of a young man's soul into the body of a rich old banker who has just died; the banker revives, with the young man's soul.....

Price: £300.00

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