Flash Gordon December 1936
First and only Issue ; The Master of Mars (Flash Gordon) ; comic book style cover art. Interior Full color Comic Art.Condition: Very Good: Slightly glossy cover with mild creasing only on top edge, small discoloration at top left front edge. Spine missing tiny piece at bottom with light wear. Cream to light tan supple pages.
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The Late Breakfasters
by Robert Aickman
Book Condition- Fine: A tight unread copy. Bright pages, binding and gilt lettering. "File Copy" stamped to front endpaper, "F.101" penned to ffe. Dust Jacket Condition- Near Fine: A bright dust jacket with tiny rubbed tears to spine top edge otherwise sharp. Not price-clipped. "File Copy" stamped to flap and back cover, "64" penned to back corner. Brodart cover. Features Override: Publisher's File Copy. Scarce first printing of the only novel published in the Author's lifetime. Red boards, gilt lettering... Read More
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The Boat of a Million Years
by Poul Anderson
Presentation copy. Signed and Inscribed First Edition (stated). Black cloth board binding with gilt lettering to spine. Signed on title page to Philip Jose Farmer, author of the Riverworld and World of Tiers series and multi-Hugo award winner, "To Phil Farmer - with admiration for your work - Poul Anderson". A sharp, square copy. Price unclipped. Wrapped in protective cover. Light bumping to spine edges. Light scuffing
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The Terminal Beach
by J. G. Ballard
Publisher's Archive Copy. Second UK printing. "Reissued 1974. First published 1964." The Author's scarcest book. The Gollancz edition differs in Contents from the U.S first edition. Book Condition: Near Fine: A tight bright unread copy with sharp corners. A small stain to title page and page opposite. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine: A sharp bright dust jacket.
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The Star Conquerors
by Ben Bova
Stated First edition. Green cloth, spine lettered black. Pictorial dust jacket. Bova's first Science Fiction Novel. One of the hardest to find of the Winston Juveniles.Book Condition - Very Good+: A firm square copy. Bright cloth. Rubbing to spine ends and corner tips. Dust Jacket Condition - Very Good+: A bright original dust jacket. Moderate rubbing to spine edges and corner tips. Original $2.50 price intact on flap. Mylar cover.
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Sex Life on the Planet Mars
by Fredric Brown
Book Condition: Near Fine: A sharp, square copy. A previous owner's stamp on back of front flyleaf. Minor foxing present on top text block, with light foxing present on side and bottom text blocks. Dust Jacket Condition: As New: A bright, multicolored jacket. A First, Limited Signed Edition of Volume 10 of Fredric Brown's detective pulp stories. This is signed copy #99 of 400 copies. Signed and numbered by Charles Willeford, author of the introduction.
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Tanar of Pellucidar
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book Condition- Very Good+: A firm copy with some dust-soiling to the edges. Dust Jacket Condition- Very Good+: A bright dust jacket with some sunning to spine, three-quarter inch closed creased tear to the cover, a quarter-inch loss to spine top edge and qurter-inch chips to spine lower edge. Not price-clipped '7s. 6d. net'. Fresh Brodart clear protective cover. Features: First UK printing. Copyright page states "First published in 1939", dust jacket price of "7s 6d net". (The DJ price... Read More
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The Cave Girl
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book Condition- Near Fine: A firm square copy with minor rubbing to edges. A faint dampstain to fore-edge (see pic). Dust Jacket Condition- Near Fine: A bright original jacket with minimal edgewear, a few short closed tears to back edge. Protective clear cover. Features: First Edition, first printing. "Published March, 1925" stated on copyright page. McClurg made only this one printing. Blue cloth, dark green lettering, "A. C. McClurg" on the spine. Jacket and Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John.
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Darkness and Dawn
by George Allan England
Third printing March 1914. A color frontis and three black and white illustration plates. Publisher's red cloth stamped gilt. Brown and tan pictorial endpapers. 672pp. Utopian novel.This copy is SIGNED and IINSCRIBED by the Author, "To the Boys at Rumford, with fraternal greetings, from George Allan England, Nov 1, 1915." Book Condition: Good: A firm square copy with tarnished spine gilt, bright cover gilt. Owner's 1915 gift inscription to back of frontispiece - front free endpaper is missing.
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The Citizen of the World
by Oliver Goldsmith
2 Volumes. Contemporary leather. Decorative gilt to spines. Volume the First & Volume the Second. Title page of both volumes states "Printed for J. Newberry, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCLXII". Page "vii" misnumbered "v" in Volume 1, and a misaligned "i" in "mazing" at page 11 bottom corner of Volume 2. Full title: "The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to his Friends in the East." From the... Read More
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Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead
by Peter Grimwade
Book Condition: Fine: Mild bump on back cover top left corner. Center back cover mild bump. Autographed by Mark Strickson (Turlough in the Doctor Who T.V. series during the Peter Daviesson era). This Book is Turlough's first episode.
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She: A History of Adventure
by H. Rider Haggard
Book Condition: Very Good: A firm copy. Slight lean. Bright gilt. Front free endpaper almost detached. Open tear to top of Dedication page - the piece attached to opposite page - the two pages not cleanly topcut. Last page and advert leaf still uncut. No markings. Two chromolithographic plates precede the title page. Original dark blue cloth, decorative gilt to spine and cover. 317pp + (2) adverts. Basis for several films. First printing with "Godness me" error on page 269.... Read More
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Original Art for Heinlein "Time Enough for Love" Painting by Carl Lundgren
by ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Original Painting by Carl Lundgren (1947- ) American Artist "Time Enough for Love" 1979 23.5 x 35.5 inches. Framed: 30.25 x 42.25 inches. Mixed Media painting on Board. Original color cover painting for the paperback edition of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN'S novel TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE. Signed in a box in the lower right-hand middle of painting on four lines: "CARL / LUND / GREN / 1979." The painting depicts a seated man reading a book with two nude women looking on with a futuristic machine... Read More
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The Green Hills of Earth
by Robert Heinlein
Stated first edition. Part of Heinlein's influential "Future History" sequence. Not a subscriber copy. Signed on the Half-Title page Book Condition: Near Fine: A firm square copy. Minor bumping to corners. Personal library sticker on end paper. A very clean copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine: A bright dust jacket. In clear, protective cover. Minor rubbing to back face. Not price clipped.
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Always Comes Evening
by Robert E. Howard
One of the first 536 copies printed with the author's name at bottom of spine (636 copies printed, the last 100 copies display the name at top). A collection of REH's poetry compiled by Glenn Lord. Some never before published. Book Condition: Fine: Tight copy with sharp corners, tanning endpapers and text block edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+: A quarter-inch closed tear and associated crease to dust jacket spine corner, a small closed tear to top cover edge, a... Read More
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Slaves of Sleep
by L. Ron Hubbard
First Edition, stated. Signed. Rebound in full leather and house in custom box with inlaid wood, brass hinges, and padded velvet interior.
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The Tiger Snake
by Harry Stephen Keeler
First published in 1931, stated. Green cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's Archive Copy. Book Condition - Fine: A tight bright copy. Unread. Very minor edge wear. Publisher's "File Copy" label to front panel. Dust Jacket Condition - Very Good+ : A bright dust jacket. Moderate edge wear. Some dust-soiling. Brodart cover.
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Thieves' Nights
by Harry Stephen Keeler
First published in 1930, stated. Green cloth. Pictorial dust jacket.Book Condition: Very Good+: A firm square copy. Minor edge wear. Publisher's "File Copy" label to front panel. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good: Moderate wear to the dust jacket. Half-inch loss to cover corner, spine bottom edge. Dust-soiling to back cover. Brodart cover.
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Book Condition- Near Fine: A tight square unread copy. Bright boards and pages. Very slightly dulled gilt. Mild rubbing to upper spine edge and upper corner tips. "S.68" penciled to ffep. Dust Jacket Condition- Fine: A bright yellow jacket . Minor edge wear. "OK" penciled to front cover. Back cover stamped "File Copy". "62" penned to back corner. Brodart cover. Features Override: Author's second novel. First UK Edition. Gollancz SF.
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Ming Yellow
by John P. Marquand
Book Condition: Very Good: A firm square copy with foxing to the cover cloth and inside cloth edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good: A three-quarter inch partially closed tear to the upper spine edge and minor chip, minor chips to corner tips. Not price-clipped. Clear cover.Published March 1935, stated.
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Dying of the Light
by George R. R. Martin
Signed by the Author on the title page, no inscription. First printing with full number line 1-10. Author's first novel. Hugo nominee. Intrigue on a dying planet as Dirk t'Larien ventures to rescue the woman who left him. Book Condition: Near Fine: A firm square copy with tiny spots of faint foxing to the top edge, slightly to fore edge, and what appears to be a red Remainder Mark to the bottom edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine: Moderate wear... Read More
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Dragonflight
by Anne McCaffrey
Book Condition- As New: A sharp tight beautiful copy. Unread. The book was unwrapped from the estate's acid-free tissue-paper wrapping for this listing. The book is now protected in an archival safe sleeve. Features: Author's copy. This copy not numbered. Limitation page states: "This leatherbound edition of DRAGONFLIGHT (published by Transworld as a special commemorative edition of one thousand) is one of three (3) copies, commissioned by the author to be bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Marlay Park, Dublin." Dark blue... Read More
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The Mark of Zorro
by Johnston McCulley
First Edition, First Photoplay Edition. Signature of Science fiction Author Stanley Mullen in pencil on the FFEP. This was believed to be Mullins copy acquired by Science fiction Artist and collector Roy Hunt. Hunt then laid in a signed letter in the original envelope from McCulley to Hunt talking about his new screen version of the Mark of Zorro starring Tyrone Power. This G&D copy is the With the Frontispiece and 3 plates taken from the 1920 Film starring Douglas... Read More
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Conditionally Human
by Walter M. Miller
Book Condition- Fine: A firm bright copy with sharp corners. Dust Jacket Condition- Near Fine: A sharp bright dust jacket and Promotional band with mild dust-rubbing. Not price-clipped. Brodart cover. Features Override: Scarce First UK Edition and First Hardcover Printing with the rare Promotional Band around the dust jacket. Contains 3 Novelettes Conditionally, Human, Dark Benediction and Darfsteller which won a Hugo Award.
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Land Under England
by Joseph O'Neill
Book Condition: Very Good+: A very firm square copy with a few spots of toning to the outer text block edges and endpapers. Bright green lettering to spine, softened corner tips and spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good: Sunning to spine and edges. An inch closed tear and small tears to spine corners, and small chips to corner tips. "35" penned to back corner. Brodart cover. Publisher's Archive Copy. Third impression March 1935. (First UK edition published February 1935).... Read More
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