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Immortals of Science Fiction
New York Mayflower Books 1981 083174880X / 9780831748807 First American Paperback Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
113 pgs. Interior very good: clean, bright, unwrinkled. Cover has creases and wrinkles, and small tears to base of spine. Edges are yellowed. "Biographies" of Susan Calvin, from Isaac Asimov's "I Robot"; the Illustrated Man, from Ray Bradbury's book of the same title; Slippery Jim Digriz, from Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series; Lewis Orne, from Frank Herbert's "The Godmakers"; Oscar Gordon, from Robert Heinlein's "Glory Road"; Beowulf Shaeffer, from Robert E. Howard's "Neutron Star"; Winston Smith, from George Orwell's "1984"; Winston Rumfoord from Kurt Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan"; and Howard Lester from Colin Wilson's "The Philosopher's Stone". Impressive, dynamic full-colour artwork throughout.
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Abdanath, Joshua A Tale of Hate and Pity
London Phoenix House 1951 First Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
254 pp. General and edgewear to price-clipped dw. Small hole and some rubbing to backstrip panel, the ends of which are chipped. Creasing and smudges to lower panel. Edgewear to unbumped brown cloth boards. Creasing to spine. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, some pencil marks to eps. Internally solidly bound with occasional splotches.
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32.00 AUD
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Achebe, Chinua A Man of the People
London Heinemann 1966 First Hard Cover Good + Good Octavo
166 pp. General wear to unclipped dw, including discolouration and abrasion to the spine panel, obscuring parts of three or four letters. Edges of dw are chipped; short closed tear to top edge of upper panel. Foxing to upper edge of text block; faint scuffing to fore edge. Sticker residue to front pastedown. Internally clean and solidly bound. Small inked notation to title page. Publisher's review copy slip laid in (originally taped to front pastedown).
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Almansi, Guido, and Claude Béguin Theater of Sleep: An Anthology of Literary Dreams
Picador 1987 0330289462 / 9780330289467 Reprint Paperback Good 12 mo
383 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "Bringing together a wide selection of dreams drawn from the literature of all ages and many cultures, from Aristotle and Apollinaire to Bob Dylan, Proust, Vonnegut and Wagner, some of which have been translated into English for the first time, with every piece put in its literary and historical context, this is a hugely entertaining work of some of the most bizarre, imaginative and perplexing passages ever written."
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Amadi, Elechi The Concubine
London Heinemann 1966 First Hard Cover Good + Very Good Octavo
279 pp. General and edgewear to unclipped dw: chips, rubbing, creases. A little browning to edges of text block. Foxing to upper edge, faint splotches to fore edge, scuffing to lower edge. Internally clean and solidly bound. Publisher's review copy slip laid in.
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Anand, Valerie The Disputed Crown
New York Scribners 1982 0684176297 / 9780684176291 First U.S. Hard Cover Very Good + Very Good + Octavo
xx, 297 pp. Extremely light wear to upper edge of unclipped dw. Edges of text block lightly yellowed. Faint splotches to lower edge of text block. Internally bright, clean and tightly bound.
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50.00 AUD
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Anand, Valerie The Norman Pretender
New York Scribners 1979 0684160994 / 9780684160993 First U.S. Hard Cover Good + Good + Octavo
xiii, 410 pp. Light edgewear to unclipped dw. Bump to upper rear corner. A little scuffing and discolouration to edges of text block. Internally unmarked and solidly bound.
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35.00 AUD
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Anderson, Kevin J Star Wars - Darksaber
New York Bantam Books 1995 0553099744 / 9780553099744 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
399 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dj. Edges of text block a little scuffed. Internally bright, unmarked, solidly bound.
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8.00 AUD
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Anderson, Poul Satan's World
London Gollancz 1970 0575005920 / 9780575005921 First British Edition Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
204 pp. Browning along upper edge of price-clipped dj. Lower front corner of boards (clean and square) is slightly bumped. A little discolouration and scuffing to edges of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound.
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Asimov, Isaac Out of the Everywhere
New York Doubleday 1990 0385262019 / 9780385262019 First Hard Cover Very Good Good Octavo
238 pp. Light general and edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. Corners of boards a little curled. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. "Thoughts on science from the master." A collection of essays that originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1987-1989.
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Auster, Paul Timbuktu
London Faber and Faber 1999 0571191975 / 9780571191970 First British Boards Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
186 pgs. DW protected, unclipped.
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Bain, F. W. The Ashes of a God: Translated from the Original Manuscript
London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1919 Third Edition Hard Cover Good Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
xxii, 118 pp. Dustwrapper, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped, but has sticker residue to front panel and edgewear including closed tears and considerable loss at extremities of backstrip panel. General wear to boards, including some bumping. Upper section of ffep has been cut away. Three or four passages in the text have been underlined in ink. Binding is solid.
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