Jacket a little rubbed at extremities, overall VG.
Jacket design by Edd Cartier.
£30
Reading, Penn., Fantasy Press, 1950.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.
In stock
Jacket a little rubbed at extremities, overall VG.
Jacket design by Edd Cartier.
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.
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
First edition.
London, Burke, 1962.
Uncommon in jacket.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Vawser & Viles, 1947
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Four stories for children, two fantasy: 'Death Swamp' (impregnated with radium) and The Lake under London (subterranean lake filled with monsters)
Uncommon in jacket.
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.