Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hutchinson, [1929].
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A curious thriller revolving around a mysterious death ray - one of only three books published by this author.
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.
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, Rapp & Whiting, 1969.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket.
Simak's flight of Wisconsin whimsy, but a great read nevertheless, in which time travel has allowed goblins, dinosaurs, even Shakespeare to coexist...
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Gollancz, 1964.
First UK edition. Ex-library. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first UK edition of Simak's sci-fi classic, about a lonely immortal farmer who man & maintains a way station for aliens in Wisconsin, winner of the Hugo prize for that year.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cleveland & New York, The World Publishing Company, 1946.
Tower Books edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Compelling jacket artwork on this UK edition of American author Sloane's dalliance with sci-fi horror.
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, Greening, 1903.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A very good example of this uncommon sci-fi title, "which contains two Prehistoric SF novellas plus a similar short tale, each set in a different Asian civilization prior to the founding of China; these stories are made available to the modern world by use of a Time Viewer." (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
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.
Bram Stoker Birthday
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Second edition, first issue. 8vo. Original imitation cream vellum, lettered and stamped in red and gilt, edges gilt.
The scarce first issue of the second edition, the work having been published the previous year, but here furnished with new and revised illustrations. A collection of fantasy stories set in a magical land called the Land Under the Sunset, which is located beyond the horizon.
Bram Stoker Birthday
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Second edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and stamped in red and gilt, edges gilt.
The scarce second edition, published the previous year, but here illustrated for the first time. A collection of fantasy stories set in a magical land called the Land Under the Sunset, which is located beyond the horizon.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Grey Walls Press, 1943.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
An attractive first edition of this surreal semi-SciFi title by Scottish author Todd, renowned for his writings on the artist & poet William Blake. Published in England in 1943 by the Grey Walls Press in an edition of 1000 copies because of paper shortages, it received little circulation, although the few critics who saw copies praised it highly. The first edition has subsequently become a known rarity.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An uncommon "Lost Race" title, notable also for the rather smashing jacket artwork by well-known illustrator J. Morton Sale.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Comprising: The Fellowship of the Ring (13th impression); The Two Towers (10th impression); The Return of the King (9th impression).
London & Boston, George Allen & Unwin; Houghton Mifflin, 1963-62.
First edition, mixed impressions. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jackets, priced 21s.
An attractive first edition set of Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, enjoying yet another renaissance now with the new Amazon series, The Rings of Power.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Comprising: The Fellowship of the Ring (first edition, fourth impression); The Two Towers (first edition, second impression); The Return of the King (first edition, first impression).
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955.
First editions, mixed impressions, vol.III p.49 with sagging text and number '4'. 3 vol., 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jackets.
A really nice first edition set of Tolkien's epic masterpiece of fantasy fiction, the single most impactive work of this genre, and one that continues to inspire to this day, for example with the new Amazon series 'The Rings of Power'. The jackets here are clean and bright, and have done a splendid job of protecting the books beneath.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
or, There and Back Again
London, Allen & Unwin, 1974.
Third edition, ninth impression. 8vo. Original green pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.50.
A lovely example of the third edition of Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece for children.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Early edition, Likely rebound copy of original paperback edition and rare as such.
London, Ward Lock and Tyler, 1876
![Jules Verne, Abandoned, [c.1920]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/84672-300x300.jpg)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson Low, [c.1920].
8vo. Original red pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
An attractive jacketed edition of this mysterious islands tale by Verne.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Likely rebound copy of original paperback edition
London, Sampson Low, 1876
Author's Illustrated Edition
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson Low, 1878.
First UK edition. Publisher's catalogue at end. 8vo. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt & black.
The first edition in English of Verne's sci-fi classic of a comet's collision with the earth which bears away part of the planet, and its inhabitants. This translation alters the text considerably with additions and emendations, paraphrases dialogue, and rearranges material, although the general thread of the story is followed. The translation was made from the serial version of the novel, published January to December 1877.
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
A real curiosity for Verne collectors. A key title with each volume issued by a different publisher.
London, Ward Lock (vol 1) Sampson Low (vol 2) 1876
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black and gilt.
The scarce first UK edition of Jules Vernes' nautical sci-fi classic, following a professor and his companions as they embark on a dangerous journey aboard the technologically advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo.
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.
![Edgar Wallace, Planetoid 127 [-] The Sweizer Pup, first edition, [1929]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/84582-300x300.jpg)
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.
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.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, WM. Collins Sons & Co, Ltd By The London Book Co. Ltd., [1934]
A film tie in Issued around the same time of the release of the film adaptation of The Invisible Man which was filmed by Universal Pictures Ltd. Uncommon in wrapper.
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, William Heinemann, 1896.
First UK edition, first impression, issue with rear advertisement for The Time Machine on terminal leaf preceding publisher's list. 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, 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...
![Lloyd Williams, The Great Raid, first edition, [1909]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/85546-300x300.jpg)
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
London, Michael Joseph, 1959.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 13s6d.
Conventional science fiction from the pen of Wyndham, comprising four chapters - a fifth chapter was added to subsequent editions.