All Clear by Willis, Connie - 2011

London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973 1st edition thus. An omnibus volume containing the following 6 stories: Operation Terror, Checkpoint Lambda, and Invaders of Space - by Murray Leinster; and The Crack in Space, Dr Futurity, and The Unteleported Man by Philip K Dick. With the original dustwrapper. The wrapper has some fraying to edges and a little mottling on the spine and back cover. It is in protective wrap. The cloth binding is nice and clean but with a hollow area to the spine caused by the width of the book. The contents are very clean and in very good condition. There is a slight mark to the bottom page edges visible only when the book is closed. A very good copy

London: Robert Hale, 1978. Creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, the back panel of which is a bit grubby, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, some minor yellowing to the pages, and the book does smell a bit of being shut away in a cupboard or similar, but otherwise a not too bad tight copy of this hard-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Hale Science Fiction" series, the story deals with the discovery of a fossilised dinosaur in a clay pit in Bedfordshire. The creature is found with eggs which are all picked up except for one, which hatches out in the countryside and the resulting lizard-man type creature (hence the title) then proceeds to terrorise the area. The first novel by the author, a dentist in Bedford who wrote a few others back in the 1970s, one of which, "Child of Vodyanoi", was adapted by the BBC as "The Nightmare Man" in 1981. Signed and inscribed by the author on f/ep "For .... Kind… Read More

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First US edition, likely second printing, decorative hardcover, circa 1887/88. Identification of first editions is complicated and is partially addressed below. Overall condition is good. Boards show moderate patina, wear especially to edges and corners. Prior owner's stamp on front blank, moderate foxing to title page and last few pages of ads, occasional smudge, no tears or folds. Hinges and gutters starting but should hold with proper handling. Paginates: blanks, 384, 24, blanks plus 12 unpaginated plates. All edges gilt. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Popular British author with this title being one of his better known works. An example of early science fiction with a flying submarine. More Notes: True 1st ed. are 1887 by Blackie & Son, London with 1887 date on title page. Most US 1st edition books in this series had a date on the title page but is not the case with this title. This copy with "Christmas, 1886" date at top of ads in back. The first ad is for G. A. Henty's… Read More

London: H. R. Allenson, Limited, 1929. Hardback. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 368, incl. b/w frontis and full-page illustrations. Original red cloth, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in black, black-stamped Allenson's device to bottom board. Spine sunned, extremities gently bruised, faint spotting to edges. Endpapers toned, foxed, most heavily to front and rear, with a tide mark to gutter of title page. A robust copy of Bowhay's interwar (anti-)utopian novel. Unusual in the trade; Jisc LHD lists eight copies held by British & Irish research libraries (the legal deposit libraries, plus the London Library & UoStrathclyde). Good+ Bertha Louisa Bowhay (1873-1948) was a playwright and author, who wrote across genres: her historical novel Caspar: A Medieval Romance (1930) followed Elenchus and was itself followed by Guessing Deeper (1933). Elenchus has been compared to Winifred Hotly's The Astonishing Island (1933), another satirical novel on the traditional island utopia. Set on the fictional… Read More

New York, New York: Longmans, Green and Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1894. First American Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 357 pages: 5.25 x 7.5 in.: 1.8: KB#010064: No Dustjacket. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are dark green cloth with embossed gilt lettering on front and spine and light images of mountain tops on the front board. Boards and pages are mostly clean and unmarked (except for some small dark marks on page edges and four round red design marks near bottom of front board), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Illustrations include tissue-protected frontispiece and 15 additional full-page drawings by Arthur Layard. Contains 357 pages of text, followed by a 16-page catalogue of other Longmans' published works of the time. This classic "lost race" fantasy novel was first serialized in the magazine Tit-Bits Weekly in 1893 - 1894. It is a tale of a penniless British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1963. Second printing. Very Good. New York: Putnam, 1963 Second printing Black boards with blue lettering Stated second impression, list of books by Heinlein opposite title page and copyright page has 8 lines plus "second impression" Back and front covers are splotched in places (something a PO had on their hands when handling the book?)spine is slightly cocked, bumping to spine Contents clean, bright and as new Dust jacket is not price clipped ($3.95) with some light rubbing and chipping around edges, now in protective cover

New York: Doubleday, 1951. Later Printing, 1951 title page, 1950 copyright page. Price of $2.50 front flap. His 1st book. Very Good, small tear to cloth bottom edge of spine, slight spine lean, in a Good dust jacket, large chip at head of spine, affecting title, smaller chips at base of spine and edges of rear panel. The same dust jacket art as the First Edition. NOT the Young Moderns edition, nor a Book Club, most likely a 2nd printing of the First Edition. . Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stated First Edition. $2.75 on inside dust jacket. DJ has some chipping on the corners and tape repairs on the spine. DJ is now in a mylar cover. Gnome Press edition. Straight and clean copy. Photos are of the actual book.

SIGNED BY MARGARET ATWOOD on a special page added by the publisher so authenticity is irrefutable. Brand new true 1st printing in gorgeous gift-worthy condition. Publisher's Signed First Edition label on cover; new mylar cover keeps your dust jacket looking terrific. Please note: Ms. Atwood's signature varies a bit from book to book so your signature might vary from the photo shown. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.