Ex-library copy with sticker to front pastedown and stamps to front free endpaper and verso of title-page; jacket slightly dulled at spine but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Margaret Eastoe.
£375
London, Martin Secker, 1964.
First English edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
First English edition of the basis for ‘The Planet of the Apes’ franchise.
In stock
Ex-library copy with sticker to front pastedown and stamps to front free endpaper and verso of title-page; jacket slightly dulled at spine but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Margaret Eastoe.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Golding (William), John Wyndham and Mervyn Peake. Sometime, Never
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s6d.
An intriguing combination of authors: "Each of the three 'tales of imagination' in this book is by a master of the art, and there is enough incident and invention in each of them to surpass most full-length novels." (jacket blurb). The Peake tale Boy in Darkness features Titus, from the Gormenghast books.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original blue cloth ruled in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s.
A very good early dust-jacket, uncommon thus. This collection of tale comes from the pen of Scottish author Gerald Grogan, author of the sci-fi novel A Drop in Infinity (1915); the author was killed in the First World War, in 1918.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Harrap, 1937,
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Brunngraber was a German industrial designer and author. In Radium he speculates about near-contemporary cornering of the radium market causing problems in a hospital using it as a medicine cure cancer.
Rare in jacket. An important sci-fi title.