Light ownership stamp to front endpaper; cloth a little softened at head of spine; jacket with minor rubbing but overall very good.
Plates from the film edition.
£2,500
or, The Modern Prometheus
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, [c.1931].
Universal film tie-in edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first ‘Photoplay’ edition, issued to tie-in with the James Whale 1931 film. With the jacket artwork featuring Boris Karloff in one of his most famous roles.
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Light ownership stamp to front endpaper; cloth a little softened at head of spine; jacket with minor rubbing but overall very good.
Plates from the film edition.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A Story between Jest and Earnest
London, Methuen, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped and with wartime price sticker '3/-' to inside front flap.
Stapledon's famous take on the Übermensch idea, in the even more famous "odd" dust-jacket. Rare in such condition.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Faber, 1963.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
Science fiction short stories by a leading British light of the genre, inscribed to his 'Aunt Bodger'.
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
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London, Readers Library 'Crime Series', [1929].
First edition. Small 8vo. Original gilt-tooled red cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive copy and edition of these two Wallace tales, here published in book-form for the first time. Although attached to the Readers Library Crime Series, the first tale is decidedly Science Fiction. Uncommon thus.