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	DAVIES, PAUL How to Build a Time Machine London, Allen Lane. 2001, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Publishers original blue boards with yellow lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Bright yellow endpapers, no inscriptions. 148pp including index. Profusely illustrated throughout text with line illustrations. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. A magnificent copy. Is time travel possible? According to internationally acclaimed physicist and science writer Paul Davies, the answer is definitely yes. But can we travel in time; surely we can glimpse the future and act to change it? Or alter the past, creating all sorts of bizarre paradoxes? This hugely entertaining brain twisting book reveals how it might be done. With his remarkable gift for easy explanation, the author shows how to use gravity to visit the future and how to warp space to reach the past; and, in a tour de force, how to build a time machine from a traversable wormhole. Might the inconceivable be achievable? Can we break the last cosmic taboo?. Very Good/Fine/Very Good/Fine. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 US$ 22.95 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 1975] Book number: 001906 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HALDEMAN, JOE Infinite Dreams - A Science Fiction Collection New York, St. Martin Press. 1978, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original blue boards with orange lettering on spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, rubbed surfaces, minor chipping to edges, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 218pp. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. An ancient gypsy crone puts a curse on all mankind. A Mason jar of home made booze changes the course of history. A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy. A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty, inside a berserk computer. A shriveled up child, two hundred years old, singing praises of W.C. Handy as he fishes through time. Here for the first time in one place are the award winning short stories of this author. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 US$ 22.95 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 1975] Book number: 001737 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HEARD, GERALD Doppelgangers. An episode of the fourth, the psychological, revolution, 1997 London, Cassell & Company. 1948, First UK Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original blue cloth with black lettering to spine, light sunning to edges. Dustwrapper: clipped, closed tear to bottom of front cover, chipping to top and base of spine, rubbing to edges, however now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, front endpaper missing, light foxing to first few pages. 256pp some foxing in margins of a few other pages, and foxing to closed pages otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. The world of 1997is held in the grip of a benevolent dictator who runs it, willy nilly, for its own good with the full measure of aid and control which science by then can afford. Yet to every dictator there will always be opposition, an opposite drive, in this case, literally underground, and organised ruthlessly as the world of light despotically driven forward overhead. A willing victim is selected by the dictator of darkness who shall assume the habits and physical characteristics of the upper world's ruler through rigorous training and extreme grafting operations so painful as to require the greatest fortitude for their endurance. The author traces the fate which awaits this victim once he is ready to ascend into the light and has become the double, the doppelganger, of the upper world's dictator. Very Good/Good. AUD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 32.13 \| £UK 19.5 \| JP¥ 2765] Book number: 003899 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HERBERT, FRANK Dune New York, Ace. 1990, Reprint of Ace Special 25th Anniversary. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original pictorial card. Security tag still present on inside rear cover. Minor bumping to extremities. No inscriptions. 535pp. plus double page spread map. Pages clean and bright in tight binding. This appears an unread magnificent copy. Here is the novel that will forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family, and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 13.77 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1185] Book number: 002030 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.

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	DAVIES, PAUL How to Build a Time Machine London, Allen Lane. 2001, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Publishers original blue boards with yellow lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Bright yellow endpapers, no inscriptions. 148pp including index. Profusely illustrated throughout text with line illustrations. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. A magnificent copy. Is time travel possible? According to internationally acclaimed physicist and science writer Paul Davies, the answer is definitely yes. But can we travel in time; surely we can glimpse the future and act to change it? Or alter the past, creating all sorts of bizarre paradoxes? This hugely entertaining brain twisting book reveals how it might be done. With his remarkable gift for easy explanation, the author shows how to use gravity to visit the future and how to warp space to reach the past; and, in a tour de force, how to build a time machine from a traversable wormhole. Might the inconceivable be achievable? Can we break the last cosmic taboo?. Very Good/Fine/Very Good/Fine. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 US$ 22.95 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 1975] Book number: 001906 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HALDEMAN, JOE Infinite Dreams - A Science Fiction Collection New York, St. Martin Press. 1978, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original blue boards with orange lettering on spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, rubbed surfaces, minor chipping to edges, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 218pp. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. An ancient gypsy crone puts a curse on all mankind. A Mason jar of home made booze changes the course of history. A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy. A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty, inside a berserk computer. A shriveled up child, two hundred years old, singing praises of W.C. Handy as he fishes through time. Here for the first time in one place are the award winning short stories of this author. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 US$ 22.95 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 1975] Book number: 001737 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HEARD, GERALD Doppelgangers. An episode of the fourth, the psychological, revolution, 1997 London, Cassell & Company. 1948, First UK Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original blue cloth with black lettering to spine, light sunning to edges. Dustwrapper: clipped, closed tear to bottom of front cover, chipping to top and base of spine, rubbing to edges, however now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, front endpaper missing, light foxing to first few pages. 256pp some foxing in margins of a few other pages, and foxing to closed pages otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. The world of 1997is held in the grip of a benevolent dictator who runs it, willy nilly, for its own good with the full measure of aid and control which science by then can afford. Yet to every dictator there will always be opposition, an opposite drive, in this case, literally underground, and organised ruthlessly as the world of light despotically driven forward overhead. A willing victim is selected by the dictator of darkness who shall assume the habits and physical characteristics of the upper world's ruler through rigorous training and extreme grafting operations so painful as to require the greatest fortitude for their endurance. The author traces the fate which awaits this victim once he is ready to ascend into the light and has become the double, the doppelganger, of the upper world's dictator. Very Good/Good. AUD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 32.13 \| £UK 19.5 \| JP¥ 2765] Book number: 003899 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HERBERT, FRANK Dune New York, Ace. 1990, Reprint of Ace Special 25th Anniversary. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original pictorial card. Security tag still present on inside rear cover. Minor bumping to extremities. No inscriptions. 535pp. plus double page spread map. Pages clean and bright in tight binding. This appears an unread magnificent copy. Here is the novel that will forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family, and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 13.77 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1185] Book number: 002030 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.