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20095699London: GreenProfile 2009. FIRST TRADE EDITIONS SIGNED BY 15 CONTRIBUTORS 4 vols. 8vo pp. 207 1; 208; 206; 208. Original colour-printed card wrappers. Just a touch of shelfwear to extremities. Signed by 15 contributors to the title-pages of their contributions. A complete set of the trade paperback editions of these charity anthologies published for Oxfam based loosely around the 4 classical elements and highlighting aspects of the charity’s work in related areas for example the afterword of the third volume ‘Fire’ summarises their work in arms control. In this set Kate Atkinson Ian Rankin Marina Lewycka Alexander McCall Smith DBC Pierre A.L. Kennedy Kamila Shamsie Louise Welsh Geoff Dyer Xiaolu Guo Ali Smith Jeanette Winterson William Boyd Michel Faber Giles Foden and Michael Morpurgo have all signed their contributions. GreenProfile paperback
19972392Quito: Dinediciones 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. Used; Like New. 4to bds 158 pp. dust jacket semi glossy stock illus. Erotic texts and plates on facing pages. Includes essays by Hernán Rodríguez Castelo and Javier Ponce. Dinediciones hardcover
196016695EVERY BOY'S BOOK OF OUTER SPACE STORIES Fell 1960 first edition text block shows some tanning as usual else fine in vg pictorial dust-wrapper with contributions by: Lee Correy Oliver Saari Malcolm Jameson Poul Anderson Julian May Frank M. Robinson C. M. Kornbluth Manly Wade Wellman Algis Budrys et.al. Inscribed by the editor to yours truly. Fell unknown
197014750THE AUTHORS OWN COPY FIRST FLIGHTS TO THE MOON Doubleday 1970 first edition just about fine in vg dust-wrapper. Editor / author Hal Clement gathers up contributions by Isaac Asimov John Brunner Arthur C. Clarke Thomas Disch Larry Niven et.al. This copy Clements very own comes with a letter from a Doubleday editor stating "Herewith first copy of FIRST FLIGHTS TO THE MOON. I think it looks especially good. Hope you like it." Signed by the author / editor. Doubleday unknown
195516122Gateway To The Stars: A Science Fiction Anthology Of British Authors Museum Press / Science Fiction Club 1955 first edition fine like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with just a bit of rubbing to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Contributions by: J. T. Mcintosh Alan Barclay John Christopher Gene Lees John Beynon John Wyndham James White Peter Hawkins E. C. Tubb & Lan Wright. Signed by editor Carnell and dated at time of publication. Museum Press / Science Fiction Club unknown
199819062Lamps On the Brow James Cahill 1998 first edition very fine in special lettered binding SIGNED by authors Ben Bova Gregory Benford Bruce Bethke David Brin Andre Norton Laura Resnick Mike Resnick Josepha Sherman Harry C. Stubbs Gene Wolfe & A. E. Van Vogt. James Cahill unknown
193414760THE FAIRIES RETURN OR NEW TALES FOR OLD Peter Davies 1934 first edition just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with original contributions by A. E. Coppard Clemence Dane E. M. Delafield Lord Dunsany Eric Linklater Christina Stead et.al. Peter Davies unknown
198500470THE HUGO WINNERS VOLUME 4 1976-1979 Doubleday 1985 first edition fine. The first state proof of this title in unbound sheets measuring 8 by 11 inches. This copy INSCRIBED by Asimov to one of his publishers. Very scarce thus in this format let alone SIGNED or INSCRIBED. Award winning contributions by: Roger Zelazny Larry Niven Fritz Leiber James Tiptree Jr. Isaac Asimov Joe Haldeman Spider and Jeanne Robinson Joan D. Vinge Harlan Ellison John Varley Poul Anderson and C. J. Cherryh. Doubleday unknown
196616141TIME PROBE: THE SCIENCES IN SCIENCE FICTION Delacorte 1966 first edition fine in near fine dust-wrapper with several modest creases in the rear dust-wrapper panel near the rear flap fold. Contributions by: Clarke Arthur C. Robert Heinlein Murray Leinster Robert Silverberg Isaac Asimov Johm Schmitz Cyril Kornbluth Jack Vance et. al. Delacorte unknown
195216108YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1952 Fell 1952 first edition fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Contributions by Eric Frank Russell Walter M. Miller Jr. Frank Robinson Arthur C. Clarke and Poul Anderson. Inscribed by co-editor Ditky to a science fiction author. Fell unknown
1797AQ21850London: Printed and Sold by Darton & Harvey 1797. 8 204pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurt to FEP near contemporary ownership inscription to recto of FFEP else internally clean and crisp. An anthology of popular English verse first printed in 1793 including extracts from the works of celebrated British poets such as Cowper Milton and Pope. . New edition. 12mo. Printed and Sold by Darton & Harvey unknown
PJH53186CCA Kitakyushu 2002. Two Volumes Fine in publishers wrappers in patterned card Slipcase. 1st edition 1st issue. ISBN 4901387006 CCA Kitakyushu 2002 unknown
1933ANTHOLOG011564Mallinson London. 1933. First trade edition preceded by the limited edition of the previous year. Octavo. pp viii 237. Eighteen stories. The authors include: H.E. Bates Malachi Whitaker Oswell Blakeston Rupert Croft-Cooke Se�n O'Faol�in Rhys Davies T.F. Powys John Brophy John Hampson Charles Duff Liam O'Flaherty John Lindsey Eimar O'Duffy etc. The first publication in book form of all the stories although four of them had previously appeared in periodicals.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine. Scarce even more so than the limited edition. Mallinson, London. unknown
1923ARC94128The Poetry Bookshop London 1923. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue printed on handmade watermarked paper and limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 199pp. Brown buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Some light partial toning to the endpapers. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper. A hefty selection of verse by Rupert Brooke 'The Old Vicarage Grantchester' Lascelles Abercrombie Gordon Bottomley G. K. Chesterton W. H. Davies Walter de la Mare John Drinkwater J. L. Flecker W. W. Gibson D. H. Lawrence John Masefield T. Sturge Moore James Stephens and others. Originally published in 1912 the very first book printed under the Poetry Bookshop imprint this deluxe issue was produced in a uniform set with Georgian Poetry numbers 1-4 all published in 1923 and each volume limited to 250 copies. There is no change to the contents of any of the volumes but the bibliographies have been updated to reflect subsequent publications. Woolmer A1b. The Poetry Bookshop, London Hardcover
1934GAM289Gollancz London 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. 8vo. 1069pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in red at the spine. The binding cracked at the title page but still firm. A very good copy in the second state 'Cheap Edition' dust wrapper lightly toned at the spine panel and just a trace of edgewear and a little internal reinforcement. John Betjeman contributes his story 'Lord Mount Prospect' to this anthology of sixty-two sleuthing and detection tales. Other contributors include H.A.Manhood Francis Brett Young Leslie Charteris Freeman Willis Crofts Martin Armstrong Algernon Blackwood Thomas Burke A.E.Coppard Lord Dunsany L.P.Hartley M.R.James Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch R.Austin Freeman Francis Brett Young E.M.Delafield Lord Dunsany W.W.Jacobs and H.G.Wells. Gollancz, London Hardcover
1937ARC95070Frederick Muller Ltd. London 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. 8vo. 256pp. Yellow cloth lettered in red at the spine. Some offsetting from the dust wrapper colouring to the upper board cloth and a speckling of light spotting to the top- and fore edge with a little more to the title page. A very good copy in fractionally rubbed and faded non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A seven-page introduction by the editor precedes essays by Rex Warner Edward Upward Arthur Calder-Marshall Barbara Nixon Anthony Blunt Alan Bush Charles Madge Alistair Browne J.D.Bernal T.A.Jackson and Edgell Rickword. Uncommon. "The Mind in Chains could never have been written were it not for the widespread belief of intellectual workers that the mind is really in chains to-day that those chains have been forged by a dying social system that they can and must be broken - and in the Soviet Union have been broken; and that we can only realise our strength by joining forces with the millions of workers who have nothing to lose but their chains and have a world to win" - Day-Lewis. Frederick Muller Ltd., London Hardcover
1929ARC94118Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. London 1929. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. 8vo. xii 143pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's black top edge stain. Errata slip tipped to the introduction verso as required. Free endpapers partially toned. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped Whistler dust wrapper lightly darkened and dust soiled with one short closed edge-wear and several tiny fractions of loss. A super copy of this star-studded anthology which includes contributions from Maurice Baring Max Beerbohm Clive Bell Hilaire Belloc Lord Berners Edmund Blunden Cyril Connolly Ian Hay Ronald Knox Rose Macaulay Raymond Mortimer Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-West Siegfried Sassoon Edward Shanks J.C.Squire Christopher Sykes H.M.Tomlinson Hugh Walpole Dorothy Wellesley and nearly a score of others. Loose advertising flyer for Blunden's 'Undertones of War' issued a year earlier under the same imprint laid-in. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., London Hardcover
1919ANTHOLOG002293The Voices Press London. 1919. First edition in book form of the first six issue of this postwar literary journal. The introduction by Quiller-Couch celebrates the work of the contributors: ''.fresh and full of faith. It produced an impression on me concerning which for the moment I could not decide whether it resembled dreaming amid hideous realities or awaking from a hideous nightmare.'' Contributions by Neville Cardus Louis Golding John Middleton Murry et al. Louis Golding's poem ''Lenin'' is startling in its enthusiasm for the scything down of ''rank men''.Signed by Neville Cardus on the verso of the first blank. At the time his writing was concentrated on music criticism as shown by his contributions here. It was not long however before his work as a cricket correspondent began to cement his journalistic reputation.Faint spots to fore-edge. Front cover slightly marked. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Very good. Scarce. The Voices Press, London. unknown
PJH48304The Socialist Party Belfast 1942. VG bright copy in publishers wrappers. 16pp. 1st edition of collection to aid the Russian Red Cross. Contents includes: "Soviet Symbol" by William Adair "Neither Here Nor There" by W.R. Rodgers "The Little Lough" and "Sonnet in Autumn" by John Hewitt "The Threshold" and "Mrs Jones: A Roundelay" by Colin Middleton "From Sebastian" and "Instead of a Carol" by Rayner Happenstall "Eyes" and "Poem in May" by R. Patrick Maybin "From the Lassoing of a Maverick" and "In The Plain Words of an Ordinary Man" by Paul Potts "Poem" and "The Dialectical Dreamer" by Maurice James Craig and "The Dead" by James Mackinlay The Socialist Party (Belfast) 1942 unknown
1946215026Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. 1946. 1156 almost near fine fold rubbing PBO. paperback Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. paperback
1928205052New York: Horace Liveright 1928. First edition. Slight soil; just about fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a bit wear to extremities and spine-ends. 8vo 410pp; cloth-backed boards. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson Robert Benchley Colette Rube Goldberg Arthur Schnitzler Andre Maurois Ferenc Molnar Jim Tully others. Horace Liveright unknown
1959207166Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1959. First Edition. Fine in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of wear at upper edge. 8vo 111pp; cloth. Includes critical essays by R.P. Blackmur Yvor Winters Marianne Moore and Mark Van Doren. Moore has inscribed and signed this copy at the end of her contribution on p. 82: "Marianne Moore revised I hope January 13 1969. The Johns Hopkins Press unknown
1952A51513New York NY: Doubleday and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. There are five or six small spots of white discoloration on the top edge of the front book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright though there is some lightish generalized toning throughout. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright but has some light fading to the spine some tiny nicks to the top spine end and corners and there is a semi-closed tear to the bottom front edge. . Doubleday and Company hardcover
197316082THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME: VOLUME TWO A and B. The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America Doubleday 1973 first edition some light brown staining to small areas of the top page edges with some modest bleed through else just about fine in like dust-wrapper 's. Contributions by John W. Campbell Jr. Robert A. Heinlein Isaac Asimov James Blish Algis Budrys Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore H. G. Wells Jack Vance E. M. Forster Clifford Simak Fred Pohl James Schmitz Poul Anderson Jack Williamson Eric Frank Russell Theodore Sturgeon et.al. Doubleday unknown
2012X-344-700Celephais Revue 2012. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Celephais Revue paperback
