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96372 Asimov, Isaac Foundation and Earth Doubleday, New York NY, nd. (1993?). Reprint with later Bob Eggleton dustwrapper. Hardcover, octavo; quarter bound black papered boards with black cloth spine and gilt spine titling; 356pp. A few tiny marks on text block edges. Illustrated black dustwrapper rubbed with some scraping at corners and spine panel extremities, tiny tears and creasing to edges. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $30

209676 Bradbury, Ray The October Country A grotesque world of the weird and macabre Ace Books Inc., London, 1956. First printing. Octavo; paperback; 142pp. Moderate wear; covers rubbed; hinges creased; text block and page edges lightly toned; a sticker ghost to the front cover. Very good. Click here to order $25

209672 Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End Pan Books Ltd., London, 1956. First printing. Octavo; paperback; 189pp. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; covers rubbed and spine a little sunned; text block and page edges lightly toned with a few spots to the top edge; retailers' ink stamps to the first page. Very good. Click here to order $50

209675 Clarke, Arthur C. Expedition to Earth Eleven Science Fiction Stories Ballantine Books Inc., New York NY, 1961. Reprint: octavo; paperback; 167pp., text block edges dyed yellow. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; covers rubbed and spine a little sunned; hinges creased; text block and page edges lightly toned; retailer's contemporary price sticker and a sticker ghost to the front cover. Very good. Click here to order $20

98821 Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1961. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 224pp. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened and corners lightly bumped; text block edges heavily toned; previous owner's ink stamp to the flyleaf; pages tanned. Dustwrapper well-rubbed and sunned along the spine panel; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $80

63456 Clarke, Arthur C. Glide Path Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1969. First UK edition (six years after the US). Hardcover, octavo, 229pp. Bookseller's stamp on lower edge of endpaper. Minor wear; lightly toned and faintly spotted text block edges. Price-clipped orange and blue dustwrapper, slightly rubbed with minor chipping on spine extremities and corners. Near fine otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $50

63461 Clarke, Arthur C. The Young Traveller in Space: signed copy Phoenix House, London, 1954. First edition. Quarto hardcover, 72pp., monochrome plates and diagrams with colour frontispiece. Author's signature in ink on endpaper. Bookseller's stamp on pastedown. Illustrated boards with slightly worn edges and bumped corners. Minor wear; foxing to endpaper edges and browned and spotted text block edges. Scattered spotting on rear panel of dustwrapper; wear to spine extremities and corners; diamond shape cut out of lower edge of front inner flap with foxing to edges. Otherwise very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Remarkable in this condition. Signed when the author visited Australia in the early 1960s for a convention. Click here to order $450

63462 Clarke, Arthur C. & R.A. Smith (illus.) Exploration of the Moon Frederick Muller, London, 1954. First edition. Quarto hardcover, 112pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; foxing to endpapers, preliminaries and pastedowns with spotting to text block edges. Wear to price-clipped dustwrapper edges and corners, some chipping, and rear panel rubbed. Otherwise very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Remarkable in this condition. Click here to order $300

87661 Dick, Philip K. (Ron Lindahn, illus.; Val Lakey-Lindahn and Doug Rice, eds.) Ubik The Screenplay Corroboree Press, Minneapolis MN, 1985. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; mauve cloth boards with gilt spine titling and authors name in gilt on centre front; monochrome decorated endpapers; 154pp., monochrome frontispiece and colour illustrations. Minor wear; mild spotting to text block edges; one or two spots on title page, and very slight wear to dustwrapper edges. Near fine. Click here to order $100

97575 Hearn, Lian Emperor of the Eight Islands - signed, limited edition The Battle for the Lotus Throne has Begun Hachette, Sydney, 2015. Signed, uncorrected proof, issued in an edition of 100 copies, this being no. 60. Octavo hardcover; pink boards with black spine, upper board black decoration, black and white upper board and spine titling, decorated black endpapers; 432pp. Frayed board edges and corners with some wear and loss of colour to spine panel extremities. Very good otherwise. No dustwrapper. Click here to order $60

83017 Herbert, Frank The Santaroga Barrier Rapp & Whiting Ltd., London, 1970. First UK edition. Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine and upper board titling; 255pp. Slightly rolled; text block edges spotted; offset to endpaper. Price-clipped dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $30

41583 Hodgson, William Hope The House on the Borderland And Other Novels Arkham House, Sauk City, 1946. First edition. Hardcover, large octavo, 639pp. Some overall browning to pastedowns and initial pages, dustiness to text block edges; else very good in dustwrapper worn at edges, few tiny tears; not price-clipped; colour illustration bright and unimpeded; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive archival film and white paper backing. A remarkable copy. This omnibus collection takes its title from what is perhaps the best of the four novels (The Boats of the Glen Carrig; The House on the Borderland; The Ghost Pirates and The Nightland) despite its lack of form; but all four of the novels merit attention in the genre of the weird and fantastic. Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird. The Night Land is as much a fantasy as it is a romance, a fantasy of the world millions of years in the future. A thread of romance creeps into even the House on the Borderland, indeed, only The Ghost Pirates lacks the customary romantic element, and perhaps, because of this it stands out as the most consecutive narrative of the four. Click here to order $400

86607 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman) Wings in the Night The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 4 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2005. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 179pp. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

86612 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman; intro. Benjamin Szumsky) Gardens of Fear The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 6 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2006. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 223pp. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

86606 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman; intro. Damon C Sasser) Beyond the Black River The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 7 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2007. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 190pp. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

86608 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman; intro. James Reasoner) Valley of the Worm The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 5 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2005. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 213pp. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

86610 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman; intro. Joe R Lansdale) People of the Dark The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 3 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2005. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 214pp. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

86609 Howard, Robert E. (ed. Paul Herman; intro. Mark Finn) Shadow Kingdoms The Weird Works of Robert E Howard, Volume 1 Wildside Press, Holicong PA, 2004. First edition. Hardcover; octavo; black cloth boards with gilt spine titling; sewn binding; 204pp. Tiny mark on edge on front endpaper; very mild wear to spine extremities of dustwrapper. Fine in like illustrated dustwrapper. Click here to order $85

98318 Le Guin, Ursula The Farthest Shore Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1973. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; gray cloth boards; 206pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; light softening to the spine extremities; text block edges toned with some spotting and top edge dusted. Unclipped dustwrapper rubbed; spine panel sunned; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Magic is drying up and vanishing from the world of Earthsea. Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Roke, accompanied by Arren, the Prince of Enlad, travels to the Farthest Shore - realm of the dead - guided by dragons to discover how they can save the world, even at the cost of their own lives. This is the third volume in the original Earthsea Trilogy which brought Le Guin fame as a fantasy writer of merit (two more books were much later added to the series and a collection of short stories). Click here to order $150

71841 Pratchett, Terry Going Postal A Discworld Novel Doubleday/Transworld/Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milsons Point NSW, 2004. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and decorated endpapers; 352pp. Minor wear; cocked; spine heel softened; text block edges toned. Dustwrapper mildly edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $22

203629 Pratchett, Terry Raising Steam A Discworld Novel Doubleday/Random House LLC., London, 2013. First UK edition. Octavo; hardcover; black boards with silver gilt spine-titling, illustrated endpapers; 374pp. Inscription. Mild toning to text block and page edges and very slight wear to dustwrapper edges. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $22

94780 Silverberg, Robert Gilgamesh the King - signed Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1985. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 320pp. Moderate wear; text block and page edges embrowned; spine extremities mildly softened; mild offset to the endpapers; signed in ink by the author on the title page. Price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

91188 Sprague de Camp, L. & Fletcher Pratt The Mathematics of Magic Volume 2 The Enchanter Stories of de Camp and Pratt Nesfa Press, Framingham, 2007. Hardcover, octavo; red cloth boards with silver gilt spine titling; 507pp. Minor wear only; fine in like dustwrapper and now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $45

201190 Tolkien, J.R.R. (Christopher Tolkien, ed.) The Fall of Arthur HarperCollins, 2013. First edition: hardcover, octavo; black boards with gilt spine titling, gray endpapers; 233pp., colour frontispiece. Mildly toned text block edges. Near fine in like dustwrapper. Click here to order $30

83380 Tolkien, J.R.R. (Christopher Tolkien, ed.; Alan Lee, illus.) The Children of Hurin - "Narn I Chin Hurin" The Tale of the Children of Hurin HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2007. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 315pp., with a folding map, eight colour plates and many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; boards rubbed and edgeworn; a heavy bump to the fore-edge of the lower board affecting the dustwrapper; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper is very isd rubbed and edgeworn; a small tear to the lower flap-turn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

68061 Williamson, Jack (Stephen E Fabian, illus.) Golden Blood - signed, numbered limited edition Popular Fiction Publishing, Edgewater, 1978. Octavo; hardcover; 267pp. Mild wear; random spotting to the text block edges, Slightly scuffed dustwrapper with light wear to edges and corners; a few spots on inner flaps of dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Limited edition of 1500, of which 150 are numbered and signed in ink by the author and artist - this being No 18. Click here to order $100

94781 Zelazny, Roger Today We Choose Faces Millington Ltd., London, 1974. First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 174pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block and page edges lightly toned; faint offset to the endpapers; old inked price to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is very lightly edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $85