| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | Foreign Legions | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction: Well It Happened This Way by David Drake; Ranks of Bronze by David Drake; Sir George and the Dragon by David Weber; Lambs to the Slaughter by David Drake; A Clear Signal by Mark L. Van Name; The Three Walls - 32nd Campaign by S. M. Stirling and Carthago Delenda Est by Eric Flint |
| Anonymous | Their Immortal Hearts three visions of time | West Coast Poetry Review 1980 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly bumped, covers slightly rubbed and marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | An original anthology of three visions of immortality - Cold War Orphans by Michael Bishop; Le Croix (The Cross) by Barry Malzberg and Their Immortal Hearts by Bruce McAllister |
| Mike Ashley | The History Of The Science Fiction Magazine Part 2 1936-1945 | New English Library 1975 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "...Included in this volume are extensive appendices covering the frequency of publication of various magazines, magazine editors, and cover artists. Also reprinted are ten stories most representative of the writing of the period... include an early Eric Frank Russell collaboration, Seeker of Tomorrow; a classic Stanley G. Weinbaum tale, The Circle of Zero; and a grim piece from Robert Bloch, Almost Human..." |
| David Barrett | Digital Dreams | New English Library 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine panel and adjacent 5mm of back panel slightly faded and top page edges a little browned else Fine Copy | £7.50 | Original Stories of Computers - Garry Kiworth's Bronze Casket for a Mummified Shrew-Mouse; Ben Jeapes' Digital Cats Come Out Tonight; David Langford's What Happened at Cambridge IV; Anne Gay's The World of the Silver Writer; Alex Stewart's Forgotten Milestones in Computing No 7: The Quenderghast Bullian Algebraic Calculator; Terry Pratchett's # idefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time" & 14 others |
| Greg Bear | New Legends | Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £5.00 | Brand New Stories by: Greg Abraham; Poul Anderson; Gregory Benford; Sterling Blake; George Alec Effinger; Greg Egan; Geoffrey A. Landis; Ursula K. Le Guin; Sonia Orin Lyris; Paul J. McAuley; Mary Rosenblum; Carter Sholtz; Robert Sheckley; Robert Silverberg and James Stevens-Arce. |
| Robert Bloch | Psycho-Paths | Tor 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor (and Dennis Etchison) on the Title Page | £10.00 | Original stories by Gahan Wilson; David Morrell; J. N. Williamson; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Asteve Rasnic Tem; Robert E. Vardeman; Billie Sue Mosiman; Michael Berry; William F. Nolan; Brad Linaweaver; Susan Shwartz, Edward D. Hoch; Charles L. Grant; Dennis Etchison; Kathleen Buckley; Hugh B. Cave and David J. Schow |
| Ben Bova | Analog 9 | Dobson 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction; Barbara Paul's Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"; Frederik Pohl's The Gold At the Starbow's End; Keith Laumer's The Plague; Katherine MacLean's The Missing Man; Howard L. Myers' Out, Wit! and Joe W. Haldeman's Hero |
| John W. Campbell | Analog 3 | Doubleday 1965 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly worn at top and base of spine, small lightish stain on top page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a short tear at the top of the front fold and one associated crease. | £4.00 | Introduction; Hillifter by Gordon Dickson; Not in the Literature by Christopher Anvil; Sonny by Rick Raphael; The Trouble with Telstar by John Berryman; New Folk's Home by Clifford Simak; Industrial Revolution by Winston P. Sanders; A world by the Tale by Seaton McKettrig and Thin Edge by Jonathan Blake McKenzie |
| Ramsey Campbell | Meddling With Ghosts Stories In The Tradition Of M R James | British Library 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top of each fold | £15.00 | "Ancient in their themes of evil and dread, thoroughly modern in their execution... " Stories by the writers who influenced James, by contemporaries in his own literary circle and by successors who emulate James' style. Includes a Bibliography - The James Gang by Rosemary Pardoe listing many other authors who have been influenced by James |
| Terry Carr | Universe 14 | Doubleday 1984 First Edition First Printing (Code O18 on P. 181) | Slightly bumped at top of spine, page edges lightly foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson; Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory by Robert Silverberg; Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead by Sharon N. Farber; O by Damon Knight; Art in the War Zone by Pat Murphy; Interlocking Pieces by Molly Gloss; The Menagerie of Babel by Carter Scholz; Deadtime by Joel Richards; Me/Days by Gregory Benford; Black Coral by Lucius Shepard |
| Terry Carr | Universe 15 | Doubleday 1985 First Edition First Printing (Code N19 on P. 180) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges lightly foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Her Habiline Husband by Michael Bishop; The Width of the World by Ian Watson; Stone Eggs by Kim Stanley Robinson; The Widow and the Body Sitter by Bill Bickel; The Taylorsville Reconstruction by Lucius Shepard; A Way Back by Leanne Frahm; Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling |
| Terry Carr | Universe 2 | Dobson 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small area of film delamination on front and back panel adjacent to spine and background of spine panel slightly faded from orange to yellow. | £4.00 | Bob Shaw’s Retroactive; Robert Silverberg’s When We Went To See The End Of The World; Gerard F. Conway’s Funeral Service; R. A. Lafferty’s A Special Condition In Summit City; William Rotsler’s Patron of the Arts; Joanna Russ’ Useful Phrases for the Tourist; Harlan Ellison’s On The Downhill Side; Gene Wolfe’s The Headless Man; Edgar Pangborn’s Tiger Boy and others... |
| Terry Carr | Universe 4 | Dobson 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Jack Vance’s Assault on a City; Robert Silverberg’s A Sea of Faces; R. A. Lafferty’s And Read the Flesh Between The Lines; Howard Waldrop’s My Sweet Lady Jo; Ron Goulart’s Stungun Slim; Pamela Sargent’s Desert Places; Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford’s If The Stars Are Gods and Alexei Panshin’s When the Vertical World Becomes Horizontal |
| Aidan Chambers | The Eleventh Ghost Book | Barrie & Jenkins 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (2.5 mm) tear at the top edge of rear panel | £7.50 | William Trevor’s The Death Of Peggy Morrissey; Victoria Williams’ Refuge For The Heart; George Mackay Brown’s The Pirate’s Ghost; Dorothy K. Haynes’ Kiss Of Life; Giles Gordon’s Peake; John Rowe Townsend’s Trying To Connect You; Petronella Breinburg’s Na Jorka Fo Bekoisi; Brian Morse’s Hope Cottages; Frederick Bradnum’s Folly; John Burke’s The Custodian; Jean Stubbs’ The Band In The Park and Christopher Leach’s The Trouble With Nathan |
| Aidan Chambers | The Tenth Ghost Book | Barrie & Jenkins 1974 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with the price removed | £10.00 | New Stories by Joan Aiken, Frederick Bradnum, George Mackay Brown, John Burke, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, L. P. Davies, Michael Delving, Peter Dickinson, Dorothy K. Haynes, Christopher Leach, Brian Morse, Albert Rowe, Jean Stubbs, Barry Sutton, Rosemary Timperley and Victoria Williams. |
| John Clute | Interzone The 3rd Anthology New Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing | Simon & Schuster 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and pages slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold. | £5.00 | John Clute’s Introduction; David Brin’s The Giving Plague; Man Kim Newman’s The Next-But-One; Karen Joy Fowler’s Heartland; David S. Garnett’s The Only One; Cherry Wilder’s The Decline of Sunshine; Richard Kadrey’s Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye; Lisa Tuttle’s Memories of the Body; Brian M. Stableford’s Sexual Chemistry; Michael Swanwick, Eric Brown, Pat Murphy, David Langford, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Paul J. McAuley, Notes on the Authors and Misc. Material |
| Robert Cowley | More What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been | Macmillan 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Twenty-five alternate history essays - Socrates Dies at Delium; The Triumph of Antony & Cleopatra; Pontius Pilate Spares Jesus; William Does Not Conquer England; The Chinese Discovery of the New World; Martin Luther Burns at the Stake; If Charles had not Left Whitehall; Napoleon's Invasion of North America... |
| Peter Crowther | Futures | Gollancz 2001 First Trade & Combined Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Editor on the Title Page | £7.50 | Includes Stephen Baxter's Reality Dust; Peter Hamilton's Watching Trees Grow; Ian McDonald's Tendelleo's Story and Paul J McAuley's Making History. |
| Peter Crowther | Infinities | Gollancz 2002 First Trade & Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly bumped Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor on the Title Page | £5.00 | Introduction by Pete Crowther Eric Brown's A Writer's Life; Ken Macleod's The Human Front; Alastair Reynolds' Diamond Dogs & Adam Roberts' Park Polar |
| Richard Dalby | The Virago Book Of Victorian Ghost Stories | Virago 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and previous owner's name on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | 20 chilling ghost stories by Charlotte Bronte; Elizabeth Gaskell; Dinah M. Mulock; Catherine Crowe; Mary E. Braddon; Rosa Mulholland; Amelia B. Edwards; Rhoda Broughton; Mrs Henry Wood; Vernon Lee; Charlotte Riddell; Margaret Oliphant; Lanoe Falconer; Louisa Baldwin; Violet Hunt; Willa Cather; Mary E. Wilkins and others |
| Gardner Dozois | Best New SF 10th Annual Collection | Raven Books 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Edges of covers slightly worn, light cover creasing - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £10.00 | Greg Benford’s Immersion; Michael Swanwick’s The Dead; Nancy Kress’ The Flowers Of Aulit Prison; Tony Daniel’s A Dry, Quiet War, James P. Blaylock Thirteen Phantasms; Bud Sparhawk’s Primrose And Thorn; John Kessel’s The Miracle Of Ivar Avenue; Paul Park’s The Last Homosexual; Ian Macdonald's Recording Angel & 19 more. 676 p. |
| Gardner Dozois | The Year's Best Science Fiction Twentieth Annual Edition | St Martins Press 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold and the top spine corner adjacent to the rear panel | £7.50 | Ian R. MacLeod's Breathmoss; Nancy Kress' The Most Famous Little Girl in the World; Paul McAuley The Passenger; Charles Coleman Finlay's The Political Officer; Molly Gloss' Lambing Season; Robert Reed's Coelacanths; Maureen F. McHugh's Presence; Charles Stross' Halo; Bruce Sterling's In Paradise and LOTS more |
| Gardner Dozois | The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-First Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | More than 300,000 words from Robert Reed, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Paul Di Filippo, Harry Turtledove, Charles Stross, Vernor Vinge, John Varley, Kage Baker, Terry Dowling, Terry Bisson and many others. |
| Gardner Dozois | The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Second Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Inappropriate Behaviour Pat Cadigan; Start the Clock Benjamin Rosenbaum; The Third Party David Moles; The Voluntary State Christopher Rowe; Shiva in Shadow Nancy Kress; The People of Sand and Slag Paolo Bacigalupi; The Clapping Hands of God Michael F. Flynn; Tourism M. John Harrison; Scout’s Honor Terry Bisson; Men Are Trouble James Patrick Kelly; Mother Aegypt Kage Baker; Synthetic Serendipity Vernor Vinge; Skin Deep Mary Rosenblum; Delhi Vandana Singh and lots more |
| David Drake | The World Turned Upside Down | Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | The stories which turned the editors' worlds around - by Arthur Clarke; Robert Heinlein; Rich Raphael; Robert Sheckley; A. E. Van Vogt; Fritz Leiber; Robert Ernest Gilbert; L. Sprague de Camp; James H. Schmitz; C. M. Kornbluth; Wyman Guin; Murray Leinster; Michael Shaara; Keith Laumer; John Campbell; Ross Rocklynne and lots more |
| Stefan Dziemianowicz | Weird Tales 32 Unearthed Terrors | Bonanza Books ???? Third Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small cut to top inner edge of rear board and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | 655 pages of stories from each year by Anthony M. Rud; C. M. Eddy; Nictzin Dyalhis; R. Anthony; Edmond Hamilton; H. Warner Munn; Robert E. Howard; Henry S. Whitehead; Seabury Quinn; Jack Williamson; Clark Ashton Smith; C. L. Moore; Laurence J. Cahill; Arthur J. Burks; Mary Elizabeth Counselman; Gans T. Field; Robert Barbour Johnson; Fritz Leiber; H. P. Lovecraft and lots more |
| Roger Elwood | Continuum 2 | W. H. Allen 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | The second in the Continuum series of four - includes story/portions by Phil Farmer, Poul Anderson, Chad Oliver, Thomas Scortia; Anne McCaffrey; Gene Wolfe; Edgar Pangborn and Gail Kimberly |
| Charles L. Grant | Shadows | Doubleday 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, bottom page edges remainder sprayed else Very Good to Near Fine copy in Near Fine, spray affected, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "An innovative collection of new and original horror stories: quietly eerie tales based on entirely new mythologies of terror... The result - quietly foreboding lullabies whose after images linger... and whose demons refuse to be dismissed." |
| Charles L. Grant (Also as Timothy Boggs, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis, Geoffrey Marsh & Felicia Andrews) | Shadows | Headline 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Pages browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... nightmarish tales as dark as a freshly opened grave. So terrifying that they scatter dreams like leaves before a midnight wind. So macabre that they freeze the blood. So horrific that Evil itself turns away... " Stories by King, Young, Shirley, Gibson, Malzberg, Campbell, Ryan, Lee, Tem, Tuttle, Yarbro and others. |
| Charles L. Grant (Also as Timothy Boggs, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis, Geoffrey Marsh & Felicia Andrews) | Shadows 2 | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly foxed and traces of previous owner's bookplate removal on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket flap signed by Ramsey Campbell | £10.00 | Stories by William F. Nolan, Jack Dann, Manly Wade Wellman, Janet Fox, Ramsey Campbell, Ruth Berman, Elizabeth Lynn, Alan Dean Foster and Jane Couzart, Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, Juleen Brantingham, Lee Wells, Peter Pautz, Richard Christian Matheson, Michael Bishop and T. E. D. Klein |
| Charles L. Grant | Shadows 3 | Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Davis Grubb, Bruce Francis, Ray Russell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Juleen Brantingham, Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, William F. Nolan, Pat Murphy, Peter Pautz, Alan Ryan, Steve Rasnic Tem and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| Charles L. Grant | Shadows II | Headline 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and pages browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Step into the shadows, and you will be spirited away to worlds of lurking menace and darkling dread. Where macabre monsters of the mind beckon and call. Where the creatures of evil eagerly await... " Stories by Davidson, Campbell, Watkins, Monteleone, Lafferty, Bloch, Etchison, Pronzini, Bishop, Crowley, King and others. |
| John Grant | Aries 1 | David & Charles [1979] First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor on the Title Page | £5.00 | Original stories by Gary Kilworth; Bob Shaw & Malcolm Harris; Robert Holdstock; Michael Scott Rohan; Christopher Priest David Redd; Robin Douglas; David Langford; Stephen Spruill; Terry Tapp; Colin Wilson and Eve Devereaux... |
| Peter Haining | The Flying Sorcerers More Comic Tales Of Fantasy | Souvenir Press 1997 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket Illustration by Josh Kirby | £12.50 | Terry Pratchett; P. G. Wodehouse; L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; Eric Knight; Mervyn Peake; C. S. Lewis; Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; Piers Anthony; John Collier; Fredric Brown; Nelson Bond; Thomas M. Disch; Angela Carter; Michael Moorcock; Robert 'Bloch; Roald Dahl; Stephen Leacock; John Wyndham; Stanislaw Lem; Cordwainer Smith; Robert Sheckley and more. |
| Peter Haining | Weird Tales A selection, in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine | Xanadu 1990 First Edition Thus First Printing (Slightly Revised from the 1976 Spearman Edition) | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, top page edges browned and a few page corners marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with the spine panel faded | £10.00 | Stories by Edmond Hamilton; Robert E. Howard; August Derleth; Seabury Quinn; H. P. Lovecraft; Clark Ashton Smith; Virgil Finlay; Henry Kuttner; G. G. Pendarves; Henry S. Whitehead; Manley Wade Wellman; Nictzin Dyalhis; Fritz Leiber; and lots more including Reader's Letters and True Psychic Experiences |
| James Hale | The After Midnight Ghost Book | Hutchinson 1980 First Edition First Printing | Spine ends bruised else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with the end flaps slightly browned. | £7.50 | Robert Nye - Glendower; Fay Weldon - Spirit of the House; Peter Dickinson - Mink; Peter Tinniswood - Summer, New York, 1978 - That's All; Willis Hall - The Victorian Leather Hat-Box; Giles Gordon - Mask; Graham Lord - A Child is Born at the Inn; Esme Dodderidge - The Villa Inglese; Michael Gilbert - Camford Cottage; Steve Wilson - O Keep the Cat Far Hence and many others... |
| Lee Harding | The Altered I An Encounter With Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin and Others | Norstrilia Press 1976 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed, else Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Twenty-two fine examples of the art of science fiction await your pleasure... an extraordinary writers' workshop held in Melbourne under the guiding hand of... Ursula K. Le Guin... " |
| David G. Hartwell | The Ascent Of Wonder The Evolution of Hard SF | Orbit 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at the base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a tiny (1mm) tear at the top edge of the rear panel | £7.50 | 67 stories - many 'classics' - and a critical analysis of the origins and meaning of 'hard' science fiction by the Editors and Greg Benford |
| Don Hutchison | Northern Frights | Mosaic Press 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Almost all original stories by Garfield Reeves-Stevens; Steve Rasnic Tem; Tanya Huff; Robert Bloch; Galad Elflandsson; Karen Wehrstein; Terence M. Green; Nancy Kilpatrick; Lucy Taylor; Andrew Weiner; Edo Van Belkom; Shirley Meier; Carolyn Clink; Nancy Baker; Peter Sellers; David Nickle; Charles De Lint and Robert Sampson |
| Van Ikin | Portable Australian Authors Australian Science Fiction | University of Queensland Press 1982 First Edition First Printing (With Errata Slip adhering to P. vi) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a little shelf-wear to the lower board edges and page edges a little foxed - Very Good copy in Fine Dust Jacket save for small spots of wear at the fold tips | £20.00 | Anthology reviewing Australian Science Fiction from 1845 to date, with 26 novel extracts and stories from scarce sources; The History of Australian Science Fiction and a Select Bibliography. The First Edition is very scarce |
| Robert Jackson | Frontier Crossings 45th World Science Fiction Programme Book | Conspiracy 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Guests: Doris Lessing; Alfred Bester; Arkady & Boris Strugatsky; Ray Harryhausen; Jim Burns; Joyce & Ken Slater and Dave Langford with Brian Aldiss as Toastmaster - articles, critiques, bibliographies, portfolios, Hugo listings, adverts and much, much more... |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Hidden Turnings | Methuen 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | New Stories from Douglas Hill, Tanith Lee, Robert Westall, Garry Kilworth, Lisa Tuttle, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rayner, Geraldine Harris, Helen Creswell, Emma Bull, Roger Zelazny and Terry Pratchett. |
| Damon Knight | The Golden Road Great Tales of Fantasy and the Supernatural | Gollancz 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing & Thus | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction; John Collier; R. A. Lafferty; Kate Wilhelm; H. G. Wells, C. M. Kornbluth; Robert Arthur; Arthur Machen; Mark Twain; Alfred Bester; Steven Vincent Benet; Ursula K. Le Guin; Robert A. Heinlein; Zenna Henderson; Heywood Broun; Venard McLaughlin; Algis Budrys; Oliver Onions and Larry Niven; |
| Judith Merril (Also as Cyril Judd) | SF:'57 The Year's Greatest Science Fiction And Fantasy | Gnome Press 1957 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top rear corner bruised and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a number of short tears | £7.50 | 18 stories by John Bernard Daley; C. M. Kornbluth; E. L. Malpass; R. Bretnor; Algis Budrys; Damon Knight; Isaac Asimov; Randall Garrett; Ray Russell; Robert Nathan; Roger Thorne; Robert Abernathy; Mack Reynolds; J. G. Ballard; Theodore Sturgeon; Garson Kanin; Zenna Henderson with Summation and Honorable Mention by the Editor. |
| Kim Mohan | More Amazing Stories | T. S. R. 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket creased at top of spine panel | £4.00 | Nancy Springer's The Time of Her Life; Daniel Hood's Scipio; Linda Nagata's The Flood; Philip K. Dick's The Builder; Robert Silverberg's Quantity and Quality: The Short Fiction of Philip K. Dick; John Morressy's The Persistence of Memory; Martin E. Cirulis' Stiletto; Eleanor Arnasson's The Gauze Banner; S. N. Dyer's The Experiment and 12 others |
| Mayo Mohs | Other Worlds, Other Gods | New English Library 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the spine background slightly faded | £5.00 | Introduction by Mayo Mohs; The Cunning of the Beast by Nelson S. Bond; A Cross of Centuries by Henry Kuttner; Soul Mate by Lee Sutton; The Word to Space by Winston P. Sanders; Prometheus by Philip José Farmer; The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke; The Vitanuls by John Brunner; Judas by John Brunner; The Quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher; Balaam by Anthony Boucher; Evensong by Lester del Rey; Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight and Christus Apollo by Ray Bradbury |
| Amy Myers | The Fourth Book Of After Midnight Stories | Kimber 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... once again a wide range of the best of today's ghost tales is presented... Brian Lumley's chilling 'Dead on Time', J. C. Trewin's evocative 'Good Night, Good Night!', John Whitbourne's quirky 'Roots', Jean Stubbs thoughtful 'An Evening at the Cromers' and many others, all so different in style and approach but all combining to give the reader that special midnight shiver... " |
| Alan Ryan | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories | Claremont Books 1995 | Bruised at top of spine and lower page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | 612 pages, Introduction and two appendices - Vampire Novels and Vampire Movies and 32 Stories arranged chronologically - Clark Ashton Smith; Carl Jacobi; Manly Wade Wellman; John Polidori; James Malcolm Rymer; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Suzy McKee Charnas; Tanith Lee; Algernon Blackwood; E. F. Benson; M. R. James; Robert Aickman and many others |
| Charles C. Ryan | Starry Messenger: The Best of Galileo | St. Martin's Press 1979 | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges faintly foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, worn at the top of the spine panel With Publisher's Review Slip | £3.00 | Introduction; Harlan Ellison's Django; Brian Aldiss' Where the Lines Converge; Connie Willis' Samaritan; Alan Dean Foster's Ye Who Would Sing; Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.'s Do Not Go Gentle; Gene de Weese & Joe Hensley's The Midnight Bicyclist; M. Lucie Chin's The Best Is Yet to Be; Gregor Hartmann's On The Road; D. C. Poyer's Three Soldiers and three others |
| Eckart Sackmann | Great Masters of Fantasy Art | Taco 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | A couple of corners slightly rubbed and top page edges a little marked - Near Fine copy | £7.50 | Full-colour artwork by, and brief interviews with, Frank Frazetta; Frank Kelly Freas; Greg Hildebrandt; Carl Lundgren; Oliviero Berni; Boris Vallejo; Richard Corben; Vincente Segrelles; Barclay Shaw; Rowena Morrill; Rodney Matthews; Paul Lehr; Richard Hescox; Tim White; Michael Whelan and Don Maitz |
| Janet Sacks | The Best of Science Fiction Monthly | New English Library 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and worn at base of spine and pages browned else Fine copy in slightly scratched and creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...These stories conjure up some of the most exciting, even dangerous, visions of tomorrow in a universe containing both unrecognisable and familiar elements. This is an anthology to stir the imagination and dispel complacency..." Stories by Chris Priest, Syd Bounds, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, Olaf Stapledon, and others. |
| Stuart David Schiff | Whispers II | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J27 on P. 236) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. | £10.00 | Undertow by Karl Edward Wagner; Berryhill by R. A. Lafferty; The King’s Shadow Has No Limits by Avram Davidson; Conversation Piece by Richard Christian Matheson; The Stormsong Runner by Jack L. Chalker; They Will Not Hush by James Sallis & David Lunde; Lex Talionis by Russell Kirk; Marianne by Joseph Payne Brennan; From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave; The Fourth Musketeer by Charles L. Grant; Ghost of a Chance by Ray Russell; The Elcar Special by Carl Jacobi; The Box by Lee Weinstein; We Have All Been Here Before by Dennis Etchison and lots more... |
| Stuart David Schiff | Whispers IV | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N23 on P. 181) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Preface by Stuart David Schiff; A Night on the Docks by Freff; Into Whose Hands by Karl Edward Wagner; Out of Copyright by Ramsey Campbell; Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) by Tanith Lee; Come to the Party by Frances Garfield; The Warrior Who Did Not Know Fear by Gerald W. Page; Fair Trade by William F. Nolan; I Never Could Say Goodbye by Charles L. Grant; The Devil You Say! by Lawrence Treat; Diploma Time by Frank Belknap Long and lots more |
| Stuart David Schiff | Whispers V | Doubleday 1985 First Edition First Printing (Code P01 on P. 208) | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned/marked and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Preface by Stuart David Schiff; Substitution Trick by Connie Willis; Dreams in Amber by David Drake; Footprints in Perdu by Hugh B. Cave; The Last One Mo Once Golden Oldies Revival by F. Paul Wilson; A Country Home by Wade Kenny; Of Time and Kathy Benedict by William F. Nolan; Deadspace by Dennis Etchison; Cabin Number Six by Jerry Sohl; Father’s Day by Steve Rasnic Tem; The East Beaverton Monster by Alan Ryan; The Horse by Libby Tinker; and lots more |
| Robert Silverberg | Legends | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Eleven original stories... a new Dark Tower quest... Discworld story... the world of The Sword of Truth... An addition to the Tales of Alvin Maker... a new Majipoor story... Earthsea story... the world of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn... A Song of Ice and Fire... Pern... Riftwar... Wheel of Time... |
| Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall) | Legends | HarperCollins 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few corners lightly creased and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly scratched Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... eleven of the most fabulous worlds ever created... a new Dark Tower quest... Discworld story... the world of The Sword of Truth... An addition to the Tales of Alvin Maker... a new Majipoor story... Earthsea story... the world of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn... A Song of Ice and Fire... Pern... Riftwar... Wheel of Time... " |
| Robert Silverberg | Legends II | Voyager 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | New Short Novels set in familiar worlds by Robin Hobb; George R. R. Martin; Orson Scott Card; Diana Gabaldon; Robert Silverberg; Tad Williams; Anne McCaffrey; Raymond E. Feist; Elizabeth Haydon; Neil Gaiman and Terry Brooks |
| Kurt Singer | They Are Possessed Masterpieces of Exorcism | W H Allen 1970 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, pages browned and slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with back panel creased. | £10.00 | "Possession by spirits... using both fictional and real-life accounts, the author investigates strange phenomena that have existed throughout the ages, but which are only now being revealed to those outside a sheltered circle... enter into the vividly demonic atmosphere of the other world." |
| Bruce Sterling | Mirrorshades The Cyberpunk Anthology | Arbor House 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor/Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | Preface by Bruce Sterling; William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum; Tom Maddox' Snake Eyes; Pat Cadigan's Rock On; Rudy Rucker's Tales of Houdini; Marc Laidlaw's 400 Boys; James Patrick Kelly's Solstice; Greg Bear's Petra, Lewis Shiner's Till Human Voices Wake Us; and others by John Shirley, Paul di Filippo and Bruce Sterling. Scarce and ground-breaking. |
| Leon E. Stover | Apeman, Spaceman Anthropological Science Fiction | Rapp & Whiting 1968 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... This is an anthology of speculation, fictional and non-fictional, about mankind, and it owes equal credit to both science and art. It is arranged in two parts, the first entitled MAN... , and the second... HIS WORKS ... " |
| Eleanor Sullivan | Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Make Your Hair Stand on End | Reinhardt 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Boards slightly marked, page edges browned and marked and small stain at lower corner of front free end paper and prelim page - Very Good Copy in slightly creased and rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket with stains at the lower fold corners. | £4.00 | 24 stories (mainly detective) with a 30 page Alfred Hitchcock photoquiz by C. B. Gilford; Theodore Mathieson; Arthur Porges; Edward D. Hoch; Gary Brandner; Talmadge Powell; Robert W. Alexander; August Derleth and others... |
| Eleanor Sullivan | Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Scare You Stiff | Reinhardt 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | 27 stories (mainly detective) by Donald E. Westlake; Edward D. Hoch; August Derleth; Bill Pronzini; Ron Goulart, Kate Wilhelm; Lawrence Block; Arthur Porges; Henry Slesar and others... |
| Stephen Thompson | Glimpses An Anthology by Vision Writers (Queensland) | VisionWriters 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly creased and rubbed - near Fine Copy | £4.00 | 25 stories by Scott Robinson; Dirk Flinthart; Karin Hannigan; Shane Brown; Lee Battersby; Geoffrey Maloney; Cat Sparks; Cory Daniells; Tome Dullemond; Robert Hodge; Trent Jamieson; Jay D'Argo; Kate Eltham; Mike Morgan; Grace Dugan; Barry Rosenberg; Mark Curtis; Jaxx Kirby and others |
| Rosemary Timperley | The Ninth Ghost Book | Barrie & Jenkins 1973 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and rubbed - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in worn and slightly torn, priceless, Dust Jacket with lamination wrinkles | £7.50 | All new stories from Gilbert Phelps; Christopher Hood; Kit Pedler; Maggie Ross; Richard Selmer; L. P. Hartley; Kay Batchelor; Rosemary Timperley; John Hynam; James Turner; Jean Stubbs; William Trevor; John Burke; Giles Gordon; John Moat and George Mckay Brown and Editor's Introduction. |
| George Turner | The View From The Edge A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories | Norstrilia Press 1977 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers a little worn and creased, pages slightly browned, previous owner's name on front free end paper - Very Good Copy | £4.00 | Foreword by the Editor, stories by Christopher Priest, Vonda N. McIntyre, Paul Voermans and 12 others |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | Alternate Generals II | Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine light bump on lower edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Original stories by Jim Fiscus, Michael F. Flynn, Harry Turtledove, Noreen Doyle, Judith Tarr, Roland J. Green, Chris Bunch, S. M. Stirling & Richard Foss, Susan Shwartz, R. M. Meluch, Joel Richards, Esther M. Friesner and William Sanders. |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | Alternate Generals III | Baen 2005 First Edition | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Suppose... MacArthur had been captured... the Prince of Peace came... with a sword... Joan of Arc had not been burned... winning the Vietnam War turned out to be worse than losing... Genghis Khan had been a convert to Judaism... a victorious American Confederacy... " |
| David Weber | Worlds of Honor | Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a scratch on the front panel | £4.00 | "The Host and His Guests: two never before published excursions into Honor's universe... a chapter in the history of the telepathic treecats... far more intelligent than humans realize... " Linda Evans' The Stray; David Weber's What Price Dreams? & The Hard Way Home; Jane Lindskold's Queens Gambit and Roland Green's Deck Load Strike |
| David Weber | Worlds of Honor #3 Changer Of Worlds | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small (? fingernail) puncture in the gutter of the front panel. | £4.00 | Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington Changer of Worlds and Nightfall by David Weber; From the Highlands by Eric Flint |
| David Weber | Worlds Of Honor #4 The Service Of The Sword: | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | Jase Lindskold's Promised Land; Timothy Zahn's With One Stone; John Ringo & Victor Mitchell's A Ship Named Francis; John Ringo's Let's Go To Prague; Eric Flint's Fanatic and David Weber's The Service Of The Sword: |
| Sheila Williams | Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and other stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine | Delacorte 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top corners and top edge of rear board else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Foreword: Isaac Asimov’s Earth Is Room Enough; Introduction: Charles Ardai’s More Tomorrows; Kim Stanley Robinson’s Glacier; Connie Willis’ And Who Would Pity a Swan?; Barry B. Longyear’s The Tryouts; James Patrick Kelly’s Still Time; Jane Yolen’s The White Babe; Edward D. Hoch’s The Homesick Chicken; Keith Minnion’s Empire State; Isaac Asimov’s Profession etc... |
| Terri Windling | The Armless Maiden And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors | TOR 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... an exploration of the magic within us all... the healing, transformational power of fairy tale and myth... " By Midori Snyder; Lisel Mueller; Jane Yolen; Delia Sherman; Tanith Lee; Charles de Lint; Emma Bull; Jane Yolen; Peter Straub; Ellen Kushner; Terri Windling; Kara Dalkey; Caroline Stevermer; Tappan King and many others... |
| Douglas E. Winter | Dark Visions | Gollancz 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | Original stories by Stephen King: The Reploids, Sneakers and Dedication; Dan Simmons: Metastasis, Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell and Iverson's Pits; and George R. R. Martin's The Skin Trade. With illustrations by Ron Lindahn and Val Lackey Lindahn |
| Douglas E. Winter | Night Visions 5 | Dark Harvest 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Original stories by Stephen King: The Reploids, Sneakers and Dedication; Dan Simmons: Metastasis, Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell and Iverson's Pits; and George R. R. Martin's The Skin Trade. With illustrations by Ron Lindahn and Val Lackey Lindahn |
| Douglas E. Winter | Prime Evil | Bantam Press 1988 First UK Trade Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the front fold and base of rear fold. | £5.00 | Original stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Whitley Streiber, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Cady, Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant, M. John Harrison, Paul Hazel, Thomas Ligotti, David Morel and Thomas Tessier |
| Donald A Wollheim (Also as David Grinnell) | Avon Fantasy Reader Nos 1-18 | Avon 1947-52 (Rebound into 5 Volumes - with covers) | Page edges browned and a few bumps/corner folds in handsome royal blue bindings blocked with gold, slightly bumped/rubbed at tops and/or bases of a few of the spines. | £180.00 | Clute - "... the first regular paperback reprint fantasy anthology series... selected primarily from Weird Tales, emphasising the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, and working... with August W. Derleth... to promote the best of WT's authors... the quality was high throughout." |
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