A little sporadic spotting; book VG-; jacket with some light wear to spine ends and fore corners, but overall quite lovely.
Jacket artwork by G.P. Micklewright.
£325
London, Methuen, 1939.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, cheaper issue jacket correctly priced 4s.6d.
A scarce edition of this the third title in Burroughs’ ‘Pellucidar’ series, set in a hollow earth environment. Wonderful jacket artwork.
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A little sporadic spotting; book VG-; jacket with some light wear to spine ends and fore corners, but overall quite lovely.
Jacket artwork by G.P. Micklewright.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, John Hamilton, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A rare dust-jacket. One of this author's less common and more interesting titles, a Mad Scientist's attempts to block off the sun's rays and cause the end of the world. Produced for Hamilton's Sundial Mystery Library series.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jarrold, 1896.
First edition. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped dark green cloth.
A tantalising tango with Sci-Fi elements by the insanely prolific author of Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). A really nice copy, to boot.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d
A very nice first edition of this sinister sci-fi novel, by ex Merchant Seaman Frank Crisp.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
New York, Frederick A. Stokes, February, 1910.
Second edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth.
The second edition of this weird sci-fi tale of Egyptologists and suspended animation, published within one month of the first edition. Scarce.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Translated by Lawrence Hyde.
London, Bles, 1925.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A great first edition in English of Čapek's novel about a secret explosive formulation and the trouble it causes, not least for its inventor, the chemist Prokop: "a rich and wildly imagined work, unusual in its almost orgiastic baroque exploration of power, sexuality, and guilt." (Bleiler). The wonderful art deco jacket artwork sets the mood perfectly! The original Czech edition was published the previous year.