Large gift inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to extremities; jacket slightly darkened, very slight loss to head of spine, o/w VG.
Jacket artwork by Roy Sanford.
£275
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original light grey boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
More famously known as The Martian Chronicles, but with some varying content from the first US edition.
Out of stock
Large gift inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to extremities; jacket slightly darkened, very slight loss to head of spine, o/w VG.
Jacket artwork by Roy Sanford.
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, George Routledge, 1887.
8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
A rare, very good example of this sixpence "pulp" edition of Verne's SciFi classic.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Collins Crime Club, 1931
First edition. 8vo. 2pp. advertisements. Original dark orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket spine priced 3/6, with further 1/- sticker.
'The name "Charles Pearce"...to whisper it after dark is to start a horde of wild imagings...all that makes the flesh creep and the hair stand on end...a repulsive creature to look upon; a colossal braggart; a gifted musician; a murderer - a dwarf in stature and a Samson in strength; the perfect burglar; and a man with an irresistible attraction for women...' (publisher's blurb).
A very good first edition in early issue jacket with the sinister artwork by V. Asta bright and clean to upper panel.