Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997)

Nova Express [First Edition, First Printing]

New York, Grove Press, Inc. 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 187. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.25". Publisher's original orange cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved with no evidence of wear to the cloth extremities, very faint offsetting to the endpapers from the dustjacket panels, otherwise, contents remain equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in its original, near fine, lightly rubbed, dustjacket bearing original price of $5.00 to the inner-panel, followed by "GP-307" immediately beneath (dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover). "First Printing" stated on the copyright / limitation page. Near fine. Written using the 'fold-in' method, a version of the cut-up method, developed by Burroughs with Brion Gysin, of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel. It is part of The Nova Trilogy, or "Cut-Up Trilogy,' together with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded. Burroughs considered the trilogy a "sequel" or "mathematical" continuation of Naked Lunch." [Source: Elliott, George P. (November 8, 1964). "Speaking of Books: Nihilism". The New York Times: BR2. "With the novel 'Nova Express,' published tomorrow.."].

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Book number: 5311

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: naked lunch; junkie; jack kerouac; beat literature; american literature; literature; nebula award

Cameron, Grant

Alien Bedtime Stories [Signed]

N.P. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 324. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs. Bright, clean, and unmarked. SIGNED, and inscribed by the author to the title page. This book contains some of the most popular UFO stories from the files of a researcher’s 40 years of research. Ranging from: The story of the Canadian government that confirmed flying saucers were real, that they were dealing with recovered UFO hardware including the Roswell crash, and tried to get an alien to land at a Top Secret base. The United States cover-up including the CIA’s documented channeling of an alien, and the real inside story of Area-51. What the Presidents of the United States knew about the UFO subject. The inside story of Hillary Clinton and UFOs. Stories about the famous rock stars, Nobel Prize winners, and top researchers who experienced alien abduction. The connection of consciousness to the UFO phenomena and insight into where inventions come from. A huge 1975 flap of sightings that was tied in closely to the United States nuclear missile program. Full Story of the Chris Bledsoe abduction which is about to become a major hollywood movie.

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Book number: 5188

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: ufo; area 51

Carlinsky, Dan; Edwin Goodgold

The World's Greatest Monster Quiz ["Shockingly Illustrated!]

New York, Berkley Publishing Corp. 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. pp. 122. 16mo. Pictorial covers. Richly illustrated with a variety of striking photographs, games, illustrations, etc. Remarkably well-perserved; near fine. For the connoisseur of the creepy and the gourmet of the ghoulish, the world's greatest monster quiz!".

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Book number: 7019

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: horror; games

Silverberg, Robert (Compiled and Ed. by)

Mutants: Eleven Stories of Science Fiction

New York, Thomas Nelson Inc. Publishers, 1974. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. pp. 182. 8vo. Terracotta boards, gilt lettering to the spine, untrimmed page edges. Remarkably well-preserved, and entirely without blemish; near fine and housed near fine lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, near fine. A virus attains intelligent consciousness. Men search desperately for normal infants after an atomic war. A mind-reading three-year-old with enormous powers holds an entire village in terror. Evolution takes a turn in reverse. A trifling shift in the genetic structure of a dahlia has remarkable consequences for mankind. Mutant ants get a chance to rule the world. The theme of mutations, genetic changes in living things, has long been one of science fiction's favorites. In this anthology, authors Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop, Jerome Bixby, Forrest J. Ackerman, Frederik Pohl, Mark Clifton, Ralph Milne Farley, Brian W. Aldiss, Terry Carr, Robert Silverberg, R. A. Lafferty, and James Blish explore the subject in eleven stories that demonstrate science fiction's marvelous diversity. Some of the mutants represented differ from their parents in just one relatively inconspicuous, but startling, trait; others show immense and fantastic degrees of variation. Some of them look normal, but have extraordinary mental powers; other mutations result in two-headed people, giant insects, or giant man-eating plants that rule a bizarre green world. None of it could happen. Or could it? The possibilities suggested are often amusing, but also appalling--and that makes the reading all the more engrossing.

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Book number: 3405

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: literature

Constantine, Storm

The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure: The First Book of the Wraeththu Histories

New York, TOR Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 496. 8vo. Publisher's ribbed black board, gilt lettering to the spine. One black-and-white line map. Light bump to the head of spine, else, extremities in near fine condition. Contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in origina, near fine, dustjacket. .

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Book number: 5153

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: literary fantasy; fantasy; literature

Gabaldon, Diana

The Outlandish Companion

New York, Delacorte Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xxix, 577. Thick Royal 8vo. Publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Black-and-white illustrations, maps, charts, tables throughout. Light bump to the tail of spine, else, near fine. Contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ very lightly rubbed, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good+, to, near fine. .

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Book number: 5185

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: fantasy; literature

Heinlein, Robert A.

Assignment in Eternity

New York, The New American Library, November, 1970. Second Printing SIGNET 451-T3968-075. Softcover. pp. 192. Small 8vo. Remarkably well-preserved with only a touch of rubbing to the covers, slight crease to spine. Overall, very good+. .

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Book number: 2779

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: pulp fiction; occult; mystery; space

Heinlein, Robert A.

The Day After Tomorrow (Original Title: Sixth Column)

New York, The New American Library, 1949. SIGNET 451-W7766. Softcover. pp. 144. Small 8vo. Remarkably well-preserved with only a touch of rubbing to the covers, no crease to spine. Overall, very good+. .

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Book number: 2682

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: pulp fiction; occult; mystery; space

Heinlein, Robert A.

Green Hills of Earth

New York, Signet | New American Library, 1951. SIGNET 451-Y6381. Softcover. pp. 176. 12mo. Remarkably well-preserved, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. .

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Book number: 2944

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: pulp fiction; scifi

Heinlein, Robert A.

The Man Who Sold the Moon

New York, Signet | New American Library, 1953. SIGNET 451-E7196. Softcover. pp. 267. 12mo. Remarkably well-preserved, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. .

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Book number: 2943

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: pulp fiction; scifi

King, Stephen

Dolores Claiborne [First Edition, First Printing]

New York, Viking, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 305. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over like boards with gilt-and-red lettering to the spine, King's initials "SK" emobbosed in lower-right margin of the front boards in red, untrimmed page edges, bright yellow endpapers. Extremities exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws, contents equally bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket showing one very short closed tear (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good+ to near fine. .

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Book number: 6775

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: fantasy; horror; american literature

Knight, Damon (Ed.)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Ten Tales of the Future

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1973. First Edition, First Printing (Reinforced Edition). Hardcover. pp. 253. 8vo. Bright orange cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine. Touch of bumping to spine ends otherwise, the extremities are in near fine condition, some foxing to foredges, contents remain bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good lightly rubbed unclipped dustjacket. Overall, very good. Includes selections by Algis Budrys, A.E. Van Vogt, Italo Calvino, William Tenn, J.G. Ballard, Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter van Tilburg Clark, Bernard Wolfe.

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Book number: 2871

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: history; science fiction

Martin, George R.R.; Gary Gianni

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

New York, Bantam, 2015. Hardcover. pp. 355. 8vo. Terracotta boards, gilt lettering to the spine; illustrated endpapers. Black-and-white illustration by Gianni. Light bumping to spine ends, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good dustjacket. Overall, very good. A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE.

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Book number: 2855

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: game of thrones

Mitchison, Naomi

Memoirs of a Spacewoman

New York, Berkley Medallion Books, June, 1973. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. pp. 176. 12mo. Light rubbing to the covers, no crease to the spine, faint age-toning throughout but contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. Establishing communications with aliens has its extraordinary hazards. Imagine negotiating with intellectual super-centipedes who enjoy nothing so much as a feast of warm-blooded mammals! Or mediating between sentient, innocent caterpillars being bullied telepathetically by butterflies. Naomi Mitchison has created a contemporary classic of imaginative fiction in this thoughtful and adventurous exploration of man's future in a complex universe.

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Book number: 2931

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: pulp fiction; scifi; mythology

Morris, Jackie; Jon Boden

The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow

Llangennech, Llanelli, Wales, Graffeg Limited, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 98. Tall 4to. Pictorial boards, silver lettering to the spine. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; remains in publishers' shrinkwrap. Quite scarce in commerce, in, as new, condition. As new. New A beautifully illustrated collection of interconnected folk tales by internationally bestselling author Jackie Morris, set in a world of music, curious animals, and towers that reach the stars. The tales are illustrated with a series of musically-themed illustrations, originally created for UK charity Help Musicians.

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Book number: 3340

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: literature; children's literature; art; fantasy