London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1929].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"Pseudonym of UK author Mavis Elizabeth Hocking Nisot (1893-1973) which she used for two of her novels, the second, The Man Who Could Stop War (1929), being a Near Future Scientific Romance in which the invention of an immobilising gas helps thwart a Russian Invasion. She is better known for her detective tales as E H Nisot." (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author, 'J.G. Ballard: "El Supremo"', to title-page. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, publisher's price-sticker of £7.95 to inside flap.
Signed first edition of this collection of ten short stories originally written for magazines in the late '70s and early '80s.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Harrap, 1935.
Third Harrap printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
"rich in detail, ingenious and well plotted, but weak in characterization at times." (Bleiler)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hutchinson, [1934].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in green. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Africa-based novel with lost race elements.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Gollancz, [1966].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
The first UK edition of Frank Herbert's classic space opera, originally published serially in three parts as 'Dune World' in John W. Campbell's magazine Analog (December 1963).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Elkin Mathews & Marot, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The search for a lost race in the Brazilian jungle.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Robert Hale, 1955.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
The first UK edition of Clement's third, and best-known, novel, originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in April–July 1953. "[...]noteworthy not only as an impressive piece of planet-building, but as the first SF novel built on actual observational data involving another possible solar system." ('The Closely Reasoned Technological Story', Gary Westfahl).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Kéraban the Inflexible (Part II.)
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885.
First UK edition. 8vo. Publisher's advertisements dated 'October, 1884'. Original pictorial brown cloth.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Grayson & Grayson, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Themed collection of 12 science fiction stories dealing with space travel taken from the early modern genre pulp magazines. Contributors include Isaac Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Hal Clement, Lewis Padgett (husband-wife team pen name of Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore), L. Ron Hubbard, Manly Wade Wellman and Murray Leinster.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A Story Between Jest and Earnest
London, Methuen, 1935.
First edition, softcover issue. 8vo. Original salmon wrappers with front cover from the hardback dust-jacket mounted to upper wrapper (Currey binding C with price "2/-").
One of Stapledon's best novels, exploring the idea of a Nietzschean superman existing beyond the conventional ideas of morality… These softcover issues were issued a few years after the hardback edition, made up from the surplus sheets of the first printing. This is the scarce first issue of this softcover 'remainder'.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
One of Biggles creator Johns' successful dalliances with science fiction.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Michael Joseph, 1960.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey boards. Dust-jacket.
A great example of Wyndham's flair for speculative fiction that delves into the complexities of human nature, scientific ethics and societal change.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Translated by Winifred Ray
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1933.
First UK edition, first issue. 8vo. Original light blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
The scarce first English edition of this compelling blend of science fiction, horror and utopian fantasy, revolving around a hunchbacked scientist's attempts to become master of the world by removing all memory. Listed in Bleiler and Locke.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Newnes, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Sci-fi crime thriller aimed at a younger audience.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Reinhardt, 1956.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
The first collected edition of short stories by the author of I am Legend (1965).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1897.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth illustrated in gilt, white and black.
A patriotic novel by Jules Verne, part of his Voyages extraordinaires series.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Cassell, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth decorated and lettered in black. Dust-jacket.
Further reflections on utopian models, by the author of War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
or, the Pommeray Case.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Striking jacket artwork of on this uncommon "death ray" title.
or, The Phantom Mines
London, Vizetelly, 1887.
First edition. 8vo. Original printed stiff card wrappers, priced one shilling.
A scarce little parody of H. Rider Haggard's fantastical works, particularly uncommon thus in the original wrappers.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
or, a Captain at Fifteen
New York, A.L. Burt, n.d..
8vo. Original pale green cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive early Burt edition of this Verne tale revolving around African slavery.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Rapp & Whiting, 1970.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.40.
A very good first UK edition of this novel set in a future 1992 where psychics are common and utilised in corporate espionage while intricate technologies allow recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The first edition of this science fiction author's reflections on the ways in which the world might in fact end.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Lincoln Williams, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black.
A scarce science fiction title, published under a distinctly uncommon imprint. The title is referenced in the checklists of Bleiler and Reginald.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Martin Secker, 1964.
First English edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
First English edition of the book that became the basis for 'The Planet of the Apes' films and the numerous spin-offs.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Comprising: The Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass
London, Point/Scholastic, 1995-2000.
3 vol. First editions, first impressions, vol.I first issue. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets, correctly priced, vol.I with Carnegie prize sticker as normal.
The first trilogy by Pullman following the adventures of Lyra Silvertongue, one of most significant works of fantasy fiction since Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The author has built on the phenomenal success of this trilogy with numerous spin-offs and extensions, and is working on the next trilogy, The Books of Dust.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Comprising: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore
London, Gollancz, 1971-73.
3 vol. First UK editions. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets, all correctly priced.
One of the great fantasy fiction series, by the inimitable and prolific Le Guin. The original trilogy, although the author did add to the series with subsequent stories and books, including a work which attempted to bring more focus and heft to female characters. Uncommon in such condition.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Stanley Paul, [1923].First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.An important Future War novel in which the UK is attacked by chemical weapons, scarce in the original dust-jacket.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, William Heinemann, 1896.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's monogram in black to lower board.
A shipwrecked man uncovers horrifying scientific experiments turning animals into human-like beings on a remote island...a cautionary tale.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Gollancz, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Published in 1939 as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, the novel describes how the nations of the world, previously bent on destroying each other, band together to meet a common catastrophe. The story takes place in West London where the main character, Edgar Hopkins, writes his own narrative about a lunar catastrophe in which the moon collides with the Earth.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, The Black and White Publishing Company, [1909].
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial boards, smartly rebacked in later blue cloth.
A scarce 'future war' title, with only seven copies seemingly recorded in institutional holdings and no auction records we could trace. The work first appeared in serial form the same year: "...a relatively late Battle of Dorking tale, The Great Raid: A Story of Britain's Peril (13 February-15 May 1909 Black and White; 1909), with the German Invasion of Britain being narrated with a clear apprehension of the nature and possibilities of a Future War in Europe. Unusually for novels of this type during these years, there are hints of trench warfare." (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). The author was a journalist and author of ten works of popular fiction. Presumed particularly rare in the original boards.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
and Other Stories
London, Jonathan Cape, 1976.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.
An attractive, albeit ex-library, copy of this important collection of Ballard stories, in the distinctive wrap-around Bill Botten jacket.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Charles Griffin, [1930s].
8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
A lovely copy of this sci-fi collection in the Verne vein; uncommon imprint.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A Tale of Cosmic Adventure
Pennsylvania, Fantasy Press, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.
'No single phrase can adequately describe "Triplanetary". It might be termed a Galactic Romance, or a Cosmological Fantasy, since it is a work of the imagination with the cosmos as its background. But above all else, it is a story, a story of thinking beings, human, super-human, and alien.' (dust-jacket blurb)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Heinemann, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark pink boards. Dust-jacket, pried 13s 6d.
The first edition of this keystone sci-fi work, fascinating on numerous levels, not least for the 'space-folding' capabilities of the indigenous 'dominant beings'.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue board lettered in silver. Dust-jacket, priced £1.60.
Classic weird science fiction from Clifford D. Simak, featuring telepathic robots and a familiarly named Friar.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sheed & Ward, 1935.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
"In 1935, Mitchell's book Traveller in Time, set in Ireland in 1942, explores a fantastic development of the age of television in the context of Irish history. Colm MacColgan, her traveller, uses his invention of "Tempevision" to tune in to events at different times and places in the past, observing the impacts of the Irish around Europe and beyond." (Wikipedia)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1969.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, price sticker 25/-.
The first UK edition of the author's first novel, a standout work in his canon; rites-of-passage+generation ships.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson Low, Masrton, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
Ninth UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt.
An excellent example of an early edition of Verne's sub-aquatic classic.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Heinemann, 1896.
First UK edition, first impression, issue with rear advertisement for The Time Machine on terminal leaf preceding publisher's list, beginning with The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and ends with Chun-ti-Kung by Claude Rees. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's monogram in black to lower board.
A very good first UK edition of Wells' "weird science" classic, contemplating the blurred lines between man and beast, civilisation and savagery...
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Lovely jacket artwork graces this intriguing tale of drastically accelerated evolution; winner of a £1000 literary prize at the time.
London, Duckworth, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
Of some sci-fi & fantasy interest, featuring in Bleiler's Checklist of science-fiction and supernatural fiction and Reginald's Science fiction and fantasy literature.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A Tale of Two Spheres
London, Authors' Co-operative Publishing, 1892.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
Classic Victorian sci-fi, the story of a young man transported to another planet, where he meets and fall in love with a beautiful woman only to have their relationship threatened by an evil sorcerer. The spheres, Earth is a world of war and poverty, while the other Aethasia is a world of peace and prosperity.