Resultados de búsqueda: SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY from R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[First UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn by DOBSON BOOKS LTD.,1968.This edn stated FIRST NEL PAPERBACK EDITION MAY,1975.] VG-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Colour pictorial front cover with white+yellow letters,rubbed black spine with white letters and pale blue,last 5 numbers of ISBN at foot and with reding creases,rear cover with white and pale blue lettered partial author.contribs list and publisher blurb; with moderate shelf-wear,creasing and rubbing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.All edges aged/toned with some spotting and blemish; contents tight and clean with some minimal page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - carefully read.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn,includes an Editor's introduction,13 short stories by assorted sci-fi authors; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages - dedication to Kingsley Amis to reverse of title page,separate contents and acknowledgements pages and to the rear 4pp publisher's adverts.… Leer más

US,12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published US, Fantasy Press Reading,PA,1951 in 350 numbered,limited, subscribers' copies inscribed by Carr and publishers trade HB+dw/dj issue completing a believed print run of 3,000 copies only.This the first but later and early 50s US p/back appearance. Author is the brother of John Dickson Carr.] GOOD. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover (25c).Colour pictorial artwork by Richard Powers, illustrated front with black+red letters.Slightly grubbed rear white background cover with creases to corners, reading creases to spine,and light rubbing to edges but no major nicks,tears or splits present.All edges coloured sea-green; contents tight and solid with some light and minimal foxing/spotting/blemishes.US,12mo p/back,1st edn,11-223pp [paginated] - previous bookseller red ink stamp to top edge of pp11 and also to foot of last page, includes 4 short stories set on Earth in the mid-20thC but with SF content; plus [unpaginated] critics' reviews with… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj - believed an export copy,which precedes trade 1st edn - as there is no publisher's price to corner.Gollancz black+yellow Sci-Fi dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present,though the title to spine/backstrip is slightly sunned/faded,darker colours unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Unblemished,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-237pp includes title+half-title pages,contents list and 17 chapters. In 'Beyond the Blue Event Horizon', the sequel to 'Gateway' - the Hugo,Nebula & John W.Campbell Memorials award winning novel - the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed.In a novel that convincingly portrays the power of human curiosity and the strengths and failings of human emotion.Frederik Pohl has once… Leer más

LONDON.OCTOPUS,1986.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?), 1st edn thus.(Previously published by Octopus for Marks & Spencer,1983 with different artwork cover and different ISBN,but was withdrawn after the publishers ran into copyright problems over using an excerpt from the first Star Wars novel). NFINE. No owner inscrptn.Pictorial colour decorated,laminated boards with blue chalk-paper endpapers.Minimal shelf-wear to edges and no bumping to corners.Fore-edge+top edge slightly aged as usual/ normal,with contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?), 1st edn thus 9-286pp includes b/w line illus by Peter Dennis,to page head+foot and edges. Contains 17 sci-fi short stories or extracts including 'Return to Peladon' the first 16pp [in this edn - 22pp in the Octopus edn.] of Terrance Dicks - 'Dr Who and The Monster of Peladon' - a Dr WHO story previously published by W.H. Allen(UK) in both HB+Pb in 1980.Also includes extract 'Escape From the Death Star' from George Lucas's Star Wars:From the… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be export copies,issued before UK trade issues.Bright crisp,clean,glossy,instantly recognisable yellow Gollancz dw/dj with black,grey and blue- green (title) letters to front,spine with faded(?) title letters,though author's name is in vibrant black letters,as opposed to grey for same on the front - so probably not sunned(?) at all?,rear panel plain yellow. Dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear,bumping.creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present, though some inevitable,but minimal,superficial scoring/ indents to both panels - without any penetration nor affecting boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered.publisher's original RAF… Leer más

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn thus. (Previously published by Octopus for Marks & Spencer,1983 with different artwork cover and different ISBN,but was withdrawn after the publishers ran into copyright problems over using an excerpt from the first Star Wars novel).No dw/dj - as issued? NFINE.Pictorial colour decorated,laminated boards with blue chalk-paper eps.Minimal shelf-wear to edges and very light,minimal bumping to bottom corners.Fore-edge+top edge aged as usual/normal, with contents bright, tight and clean.UK,8vo HB,1st edn thus,9-286pp includes b/w line illus by Peter Dennis to page head+foot and edges. Contains 17 sci-fi short stories or extracts including 'Return to Peladon' the first 16pp [in this edn - 22pp in the Octopus edn.] of Terrance Dicks - 'Dr Who and The Monster of Peladon' - a Dr WHO story previously published by W.H. Allen (UK) in both HB+Pb in 1980.Also includes extract 'Escape From the Death Star' from George Lucas's Star Wars:From the Adventures of Luke… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Taylor,illutrated dw/dj,with fluorescent/ metallic blue title and black ink printed letter to front panel,red+ white lettering to spine/ backstrip,red lettered title to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot,inevitably,but minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,and very minimal, minor and superficial scoring/indents to either panel.Top edges very lightly toned,minimal sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter but also with minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text block internally unaffected with any foxing other than to page edges - no dog-ear reading creases - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered original plain pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Lightly bumped head+ foot of spine/backstrip,with a bumped front top corner on upper board.Light creasing both edges of dw/dj - shelf-wear? Set in a futuristic LA urban jungle Jeter's new novel 'The Edge of Human' returns to the world of blade runner Rick Deckard with a sequel of haunting suspense and power. Jeter's the acknowledged heir to the spirit of Philip K Dick whose novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' was the basis for the movie Bladerunner. In 'The Edge of Human' Jeter resolves many of the discrepancies between the movie and the novel upon which it is based. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order… Leer más

US,12mo paperback Original,p/b 1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other book format.A DAW BOOKS Original - never before in paperback.Precedes both the UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn by The Elmfield Press,London 1976 and the first UK p/back 1st edn by GRANADA,London,1983.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Jack Gaughan,illustarted front cover with black and yellow lettering,cover price 95c,slightly dulled white spine with orange+black letters,black lettered publisher's blurb to white background rear cover.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.All edges lightly toned but without spotting; contents bright,tight,clean with light page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages'… Leer más

US,slim 12mo p/back,1st thus.[First ACE p/b publication, originally in 1967.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal ($1.95) to cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Michael Herring,to front cover with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present and no reading creases to spine.Top+fore-edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread apart from my own collation.US,slim 12mo p/back,1st thus, 5-157pp [paginated] includes XXI (21) chapters; plus [unpaginated] story precis,title page and to the rear, publisher advert for free publisher's catalogue. See also my book IDs' rja920121 and rja9200321 for other Brunner sci-fi novels - 'The World Swappers' and (US) and 'Web of Everywhere' (UK) p/b 1sts. Originally serialised in 2 parts in 'Amazing Stories' in December,1966 and in February,1967 respectively. When mankind colonized the… Leer más

US,12mo p/back Original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.Stated First Avon Printing,November,1987 and complete number line K R 10 - 1 descending.A Byron Preiss book.] Near VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial cover art by Jim Burns, illustrated front cover with white,red,and bronze gilt outlined red letters, bronze gilt spine+rear cover with black lettering to each - spine with reading creases,rear cover with story preamble and critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present,Inside of front cover with b/w Technical Blueprint illustration.Some inevitable indents to either cover - majority of such,to rear cover and book has spine… Leer más

UK,slim,square 8vo wraps,1st edn thus.[Published simultaneously in UK,USA in softback/limp cover and in hardback in the UK only,in 1977.] VG+.No owner inscrptn, wraps as published.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Ian Pollock,illustrated card wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - some light dog-ear creasing to both front+rear wrap's lower corners - affecting internal pages' corners too.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged,but generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,square,slim Qrto wraps,1st edn thus,11-119pp [paginated] includes intro by Roberta Howe,7 chapters, profuse b/w+colour illus by Ian Pollock throughout the text and the book,an appendix; plus [unpaginated] fep,half-title page with dedication to verso of same,double-page colour illus frntis,title page,and contents list/table. The first book in an exciting new series of full-colour illustrated,original fiction which in itself is… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn, price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour illustrated dw/dj with 1" closed tear to head of spine/ backstrip - no loss.Book very slightly cocked and fore-edges lightly grubbed,contents clean and sound.Orange paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip,plain white eps.8vo,191pp. The big blow-up had taken place twenty-five years before.England - such as it had become - was,save for small pockets of oldies, peopled by the Brats.Brats were sub-human hairless creatures that hunted in packs,whose only impulse was to kill.Since the oldies could no longer reproduce their own kind,mankind seemed doomed.But Peter Croft,with two companions,convinced that mankind's only hope lies not in physical conquest of the Brats but in some way through them,is forced to leave the village with its older inhabitants in search of a solution.What that solution is,and whether it represents anarchy or order, salvation or destruction,is Chetwynd-Hayes' absorbing and… Leer más

UK.slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so,no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Bruce Pennington,illustrated dw/dj with bright,blue+black letters to front,spine - which in turn,is lightly sunned itself,and blue letters to back panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - no foxing/spotting or toning; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original burgundy cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK.slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-180pp [paginated] includes Pts One to Three,8 b/w full-page illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book - by Bruce Pennington (?); plus [unpaginated] b/w line… Leer más

UK,slim 12mo p/back Original,1st edn.[Originally and first published,US,by Charter Books,1980 as p/back,1st edn.This UK p/back is it's first UK appearance,and the first and only UK format and a paperback Original in this country,as it is in the US.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,vibrant colour pictorial artwork illustrated front cover with blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,rubbing,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present - some minor,minimal,light,superficial scoring/indents,but no reading creases to spine.Top+fore-edges exceptionally bright with very little toning,and no foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo p/back Original,1st edn,1- 182pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title ages,title separator page and to the rear 4pp publisher's advert for other… Leer más

UK,slim 12mo p/back Original,1st edn.[Originally and first published,US,by Charter Books,1980 as p/back,1st edn.This UK p/back is it's first UK appearance,and the first and only UK format and a paperback Original in this country,as it is in the US.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,vibrant colour pictorial artwork illustrated front cover with blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear, rubbing,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present - some minor,minimal,light,superficial scoring/ indents,but no reading creases to spine.Top+fore-edges exceptionally bright with very little toning,and one foxing spot, internally affecting a few pages' fore-edge,no other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo p/back Original,1st edn,1-182pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title… Leer más

US,12mo paperback,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published US,HB+dw/dj,1st edn by Charles Scribner's Sons,New York,1957.This issue a 1970's publication?] FINE. No owner inscrptn,no previous bookseller's inked price to cover,and no price removal ($1.25c) to cover.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Davis Meltzer ,illustrated front cover with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf- wear to edges and corners, no nicks,tears or splits present.Spine with partially read reading crease.All edges coloured yellow and vrtually blemish free; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - could appear if not unread - certainly carefully - apart from my own collation.US,12mo p/back,1st edn thus,5-253pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters; plus [unpaginated] story extract with author's potted biography to its reverse,title page,a contents list/table and to the rear,3pp publisher's advert. The slave market stood on the… Leer más

LONDON.GRAFTON BOOKS,1986. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp, clean,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Taylor,illustrated dw/dj,with yellow+orange,white letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of both the boards and dw/dj,minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,spine/backstrip minimally sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-344pp [paginated] includes a preface,20 chapters+ epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication page.… Leer más

US,slim 12mo p/back Original,1st edn.As such,precedes both the UK and then the US HB,1st edns. [Paperback/ softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back,s/back originals are published prior to any other format.] VG-.No owner inscrptn,no price removal (50c) and no previous bookseller's inked price on covers.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, coloured pictorial artwork by Jack Gaughan, illustrated front cover,with white+pale green lettering,blue+white spine with blue,white and pale green lettering and reading creases to same,rear panel blue-green with white text story blurb; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Rear lower corner with couple of diagonal corner creases - other corners generally sharp and both covers with vertical creases (from opening/ closing) towards spine's front+rear edges.All edges coloured… Leer más

USA,NY.ACE BOOKS,1967.US,12mo paperback 1st edn. [ACE G626.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Slight creased front corner,front wrap, with a longtitudinal crease near spine/b ackstrip to rear wrap. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate -… Leer más