Search Results: Collectible Pbks: Scifi from Black Cat Hill Books

New York, NY Pocket Books: Permabooks, 1962. Paperback First Edition Thus (1962); First Printing, so stated. Copyright is 1960. First Edition Thus (1962); First Printing, so stated. Good in Wraps: shows indications of considerable use: moderate wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels, faint creasing to the backstrip and another at the lower corner of the rear panel; free of soiling; the spine leans; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Former owner's rubber stamped name and address at the top of the front panel, front endpaper, and title page. Despite noted flaws remains a sturdy reading copy with a clean text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A sturdy copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear and a few minor flaws, and with a clean text. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.35 x 4.25 x 0.5 inches). 185pp. M4242. Copyright is 1960. Mass Market Paperback. For golden age… Read More

New York, NY Donald A. Wollheim: DAW Books, 1986. Mass Market Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 256pp. DAW Collector's Book No. 659. Mass Market Paperback. The possibility that something else exists, that a male can write from a female point of view, that things are different,that the world is divided, never occurded to me before this book. I have read and reread it since I bought it 13 years ago. I love it. Take the time to alter reality for a while.

New York, NY Dell Publishing Company, 1972. Mass Market Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use: spine lean; just a hint of wear to extremities; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; creases top to bottom near the front hinge; binding secure; text clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 154pp. Mass Market Paperback. James E. Gunn's The Burning (1972) is a fix-up novel containing three previously published but linked novelettes: `Witches Must Burn' (1956), `Trial By Fire' (1969), and `Witch Hunt' (1969). The first two are contiguous while the third section is more loosely related. The Burning (1972) is a profoundly unsettling read. Of course Gunn's dystopic future is much more one of doom and gloom: The universities lie in smoldering ruins, the professors ("eggheads") have been murdered, and the "Lowbrow… Read More

New York, NY Berkley Books: Medallion, 1977. Paperback First Edition Thus [1977]; so stated. First Edition Thus [1977]. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: very slight spine lean; light wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; faint foxing to the front and rear endpapers; the binding is secure; the text is clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 215pp. Mass Market Paperback. 

New York, NY Grosset & Dunlap: Ace Books, 1978. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of rubbing; else flawless. Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 247pp. Cover Art by Ken Barr. Mass Market Paperback. Bova comes from out of the past at us like a bright light on a fast moving train. He worked around, beside, with and knew Asimov, RAH, Campbell, and [fill-in-your favorite author here]... Giants all of them, and Bova a work-a-day damn fine writer. In a crowd like THAT even the best and brightest can be unappreciated. THE DUELING MACHINE was one of the early book I cut my S-F teeth on that WASN'T one of the names above and it has stayed with me to this very day. Why? because the people in it, yes I said PEOPLE, had faces and hearts and troubles beyond the framistat finagling in in the raygun fight..… Read More

New York, NY Baen Books, 1989. Paperback First Edition Thus [1989]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1989]; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: pages have tanned just slightly with age; barely discernible wear to extremities; else flawless; binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 312pp. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Donald A. Wollheim: DAW Books, 1986. Paperback First Edition Thus [1962], Fourth Printing (1986). Fine in Wraps: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the covers. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no flaws. Bright and clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.85 x 4.25 x 0.45 inches). 135 pages. Language: English. Weight: 3 ounces. All Edges Tinted Yellow. First Edition Thus [1962], Fourth Printing (1986). Mass Market Paperback. 

New York, NY Ace Science Fiction, 1984. Mass Market Paperback First Edition (1984). A Paperback Original. First Edition (1984). A Paperback Original. Very Near Fine in Wraps: small, fine creases at the upper and lower corners of the front panel; mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; the text pages show the expected light tanning, due to aging; the binding is square and remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear and a couple of minor cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.8 x 4.25 x 0.7 inches). 233 pages. Arresting cover art is - apparently at least - unattributed. Language: English. Weight: 4.4 ounces. Mass Market Paperback. Arthur Bertram… Read More

New York, NY Tom Doherty Associates: Tor, 1984. Mass Market Paperback First Edition Thus (1984), so stated. First Edition Thus (1984), so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: very light wear to the extremities; a hint of a crease near the outside edge of the front panel; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; former owner's short gift inscription penned to the inside of the front cover; the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear and minor cosmetic flaws. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.9 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches). 253 pages. Language: English. Weight: 4.5 ounces. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Coronet Communications: Paperback Library, 1969. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use: slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers, which show a few faint creases near the front hinge; small faint dampstain at the bottom corner of the first twenty pages; binding secure; text clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 127pp. Cover Art by J. Jones. No. 62-120. Mass Market Paperback.

New York NY HarperCollins: HarperTorch, 2001. Paperback First Edition Thus [2001]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [2001]; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only a barely discernible nick at the lower outside edge front panel; else flawless; binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 313pp. Mass Market Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Kaspian Aaby walks out of a repressive summer camp for troubled teens and into the Maine woods. He awakens the next morning to find that four days have passed and he is 60 miles from where he should be. It was no dream, his strange nocturnal experience of mysterious beings that may be malevolent fairies or aliens, an angel, and the ghost of his dead father. Frightened, Kaspian's born-again stepmother exiles him to an authoritarian private school in Virginia, where obsessed alien-abduction investigators, extremist educational theorists, and paranoid politicians… Read More

New York, NY Dell Publishing Company, 1975. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities. Binding shows the slightest lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 203pp. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Bantam Books, 1975. Mass Market Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use: slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers; pages tanned slightly; binding secure; text clean. Clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 151pp. A Hardcover edition of this book was published in 1973; this is the first Bantam edition. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Fawcett: Crest, 1981. Paperback First Edition Thus [1981], so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition Thus [1981], so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine in Wraps: just the barest hint of wear to the extremities; a single page is dog-eared at the upper corner; the text pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp.Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.85 x 4.25 x 0.55 inches). 191 pages. Cover… Read More

New York, NY Ballantine: Del Rey, 1985. Paperback First Edition Thus [1985], so stated. First Edition Thus [1979], so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: just the barest hint of wear to the extremities; a single page is dog-eared at the upper corner; the text pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the covers. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. Bright and clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.8 x 4 x 0.7 inches). 191 pages. Cover art by Laurence Schwinger. Language: English. Shipping Weight: 4 ounces. Second in series, preceded by Catseye. The First… Read More

New York, NY Simon & Schuster: Pocket Books, 1984. Mass Market Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Good++ in Wraps: shows indications of very light use: just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing to wrapper covers; pages lightly tanned, with age; some faint creasing near the lower front corner; binding square and secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 463pp. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Hearst Corporation: Avon Books, 1979. Paperback First Edition [1979]; First Printing, so stated. First Edition [1979]; First Printing, so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of rubbing to a protective clear mylar cover which has been placed over over the outside of the book and affixed to the inside of the front and rear panels; else flawless. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Vitually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. xv, 266 pages. Mass Market Paperback. This book was published thirty-five ago, but it's still interesting, particularly if you want to get a broader appreciation for science fiction in its formative eras. The authors profile giants in the field, summarize their most famous stories and then give suggestions for other authors whom you might like as well. There's a ton of useful reference material, like winners of Space Academy Awards, lists of Last and First… Read More

New York, NY Bantam Books: Spectra, 1995. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a tiny, faint stain at the fore-edge; the pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; else flawless. Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 324pp. Trade Paperback.

New York, NY Ballantine Books, 1973. Paperback First Ed; First Printing, so stated. First Ed; First Printing, so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: light wear to extremities, and a couple of places [top and bottom front corner tips] where the blue-tinted cover has chipped away from the white underlayment, allowing the underlayment to show through; else mild rubbing and the faintest soiling to the wrapper covers; pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; the binding shows very slight lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 184pp. Mass Market Paperback. Science Fiction story about a biological time bomb that could destroy the entire planet. Autoheteromorph 233: a life-form so highly adaptive that it can feed on literally anything. Starting as a chemical, it can develop into a plant, and end up as a plant-animal. Under control, it is an infinitely useful source of high-grade… Read More

London, UK Methuen Paperbacks: Magnum Books, 1978. Mass Market Paperback Later Edition. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use: very slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; a patch of scuffing along the middle of the front hinge; some very faint creasing near three of the corners; the pages are lightly tanned, due to age; binding secure; text clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 159pp. First published in 1968 by Ace Books. Mass Market Paperback. From the back cover: "This volume is a collection of four of his most inventive, humorous and exciting novelettes - each different, each fantastic, and each guaranteed reading pleasure." The four stories here share a common theme: each features humans interacting with aliens in an unusual and inventive way. They also are all good stories, interesting to read and are infused with large doses of… Read More