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1989538677London: Viking 1989. Very good condition first edition first printing hardcover signed and dedicated by the author with mylar covered unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is slightly sunned and page block is tanned. Pages and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Signed and Dedicated By Author. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. Viking Hardcover
18985498<p><strong>The first Russian translations of the novel.</strong></p><p>This Russian translation was issued in the same year as the first edition of '<em>The War of the Worlds</em>' was published. The translation appeared in the magazine '<em>Novyi Zhurnal Inostrannoi Literatury Iskusstva i Nauki</em>' 'New Journal of Foreign Literature Art and Science' Nos. 6-9 and this particular copy is an offprint from the magazine. It was also published in 1898 as a separate book in a smaller format with different pagination.</p><p>According to some sources the translator might have been <strong>Konstantin Tolstoi</strong> 1842-1913 a doctor and publicist known for his attempt to translate Shakespeare's '<em>Romeo and Juliet</em>'.</p><p>Later that same year another Russian translation of the novel was released.</p> Novyi Zhurnal Inostrannoi Literatury hardcover
190312988London: Macmillan 1903. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo full green cloth blind embossed with gilt titling 1st ed. points per L.W. Currey. Mild foxing to final ad pages alight bubbling to cover cloth "Mudie's Select Library" label to front cover. Near very good no dj. Macmillan hardcover
1904000740London: Macmillan & Company 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Vii 317 2 Pp Catalog Not Numbered 61 Pp Catalog Dated 20.7.4. First Edition First Issue. With Ads Dated 20.7.04 Green Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind T.E.G. Front Panel Including Gilt Bright And Clean But Spine A Little Faded And Worn At Ends "Macmillan" Is Difficult To Read Gilt Title And Author's Name Are Weak But Clear Some Wear At Corners A Few Points Beginning To Fray At Top/Bottom Of Spine 1/8" Split At Top Of Spine. Small Morocco Bookstore Label Of R. L. Goulden Canterbury On Front Pastedown <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Company hardcover
1902000742London: Methuen 1910 1902. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine. 31 Pp. 47 Pp Publisher's Catalog At Rear. First Edition Sheets And First Edition Red Cloth Binding With 1902 Date On Title Page But 1902 Sheets Bound With 1910 Catalog At Rear. A Philosophical Fantasy With A Starring Mermaid. Probably Wells' Least Successful Work Now More Appreciated. A Stunningly Fine Copy Absolutely Bright With A Trace Of Bumping At Edges. This Is The Copy Which Belonged To Wells Fan And Indiana Poet And Novelist George Barr Mccutcheon With His Personalized Engraved Bookplate On The Front Pastedown. There Is Also The Attractive Bookplate Of Anne J. Smith On Ffep With A Naked Eve Holding An Apple In Which Lies A Tiny Book. The Book Is Enclosed In A Custom Half-Leather Case With A Cloth Sleeve A Matching Case With Men Like Gods Is Also Available. Nice Copies Of This Book Are Apparently Rarer Than Even His Sf Classics. <br/> <br/> London: Methuen (1910) hardcover
1909000743London: Macmillan & Company 1909. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. Green Cloth. Very Good First Edition First Issue. First Edition First Printing And The First Issue With Ads Dated 1.09. Green Cloth With Gilt Lettering And Design. Very Good With Slight Wear And Fading And A Small Namestamp Of A Previous Owner On The First Free Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Company hardcover
1899000745London: Harper & Bros. 1899. First Edition First Issue . Red Cloth. Very Good . 329 Pp. Red Cloth. First Edition First Issue With Gilt Lettering On Spine And Front Panel. Very Good Front Panel Attractive Spine Slightly Faded And With Slight Soiling And A Few Tiny Spots Of Foxing. A Little Foxing To Edges Of Sheets And On A Few Pages. An Attractive Copy Of A Book Which Does Not Wear Well. Rear Hinge With 2" Long Crack. Front Free Endpaper With Partly Erased Ownership Signature Of Henry W. Bowders Dated July 1899. <br/> <br/> Harper & Bros. hardcover
1975036570Berkeley: University of California Press 1975. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Fine/As New Dustjacket. 249 Pp. Yellow-Orange Boards Stamped In Brown. First Printing. Scarce Scholarly Compilation With Notes And Commentary By The Editors. As New In As New Dust Jacket <br/> <br/> University of California Press hardcover
1964010125New York: The Limited Editions Club 1964. Book. Fine. Cloth. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. # 615 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Joe Mugnaini at colophon page of both volumes. Fine books in a Near Fine slipcase spine and top edge of slipcase a bit soiled and spotted. Monthly Letter of the Club laid in the letter with creases. Lacking the fragile unprinted glassine jackets. The Limited Editions Club Hardcover
1904000225London: MacMillan 1904 true first as colonial preceeds Uk edition. Blue cloth with embossed vignette about gilt title on upper board. Gilt titled spine. Boards soiled and rubbed to edges with splitting to spine joints and chipping to cloth at head and tail corners rubbed through to boards. Could look reasonable with repair to cloth but may be better as a rebound copy. Text block is fully detached from boards lacks prelims upto half title. ex-library stamps to paste downs and half-title. Some foxing and/or soiling throughout. Text block is loose on sewing and some pages are separated and detached. Rear free endpaper has peice from top corner missing and former owners ink name dated may 1919 this is repeated on the rear pastedown i-viii 3 -317 1 unpaginated leaf advertising HG Wells and also Popular Works Thomas Hardy followed by 8 page catalogue of MacMillans Colonial Library with the code CL.30.7.04 at the foot. With competent repairs and rebinding would look good enough but the pages are a bit unsightly unless you defox them. Scarce true first edition of one of Wells science fiction classics. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Ex-Library. MacMillan hardcover
19840015831Berkley 1984. blue pictorial cover with yellow & white ltrs yellow printers ink on edges corners/edges/ and head-heel of spine are nicked. A Silver John novel of ghoul-haunted woods and the spirits of stonehenge. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Berkley Paperback
1986A41001New York: Berkeley Books. Near Fine. 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is a tiny bit of rubbing to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. "Howard the Duck is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by Willard Huyck and starring Lea Thompson Jeffrey Jones and Tim Robbins. Based on the Marvel comic book of the same name the film was produced by Gloria Katz and written by Huyck and Katz with George Lucas as executive producer. The screenplay was originally intended to be an animated film but the film adaptation became live-action because of a contractual obligation. Although several TV adaptations of Marvel characters had aired during the preceding 21 years this was the first theatrically released feature film coming after the serial Captain America. " from Wikipedia . Berkeley Books paperback
2022021747Riverdale New York: Baen 2022. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 374 pages. Signed by author on specially bound in page just after front free end-paper. Four pages of maps and illustrations at rear. Stated first edition first printing with full number line. Scarce at the time of listing only one other signed copy available online. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A pristine and like new copy. Dust-jacket protected by clear acetate cover. As new in an as new dust-jacket. . Baen Hardcover
1979540961London: New English Library 1979. First edition hard cover in very good condition with unclipped plastic coated dust jacket in good condition. General shelf and handling wear; DJ is sunned lightly creased at edges and folds with minor bumps to front cover. Light tanning to page block leading into page edges. Within pages are tightly bound and content unmarked. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. New English Library Hardcover
2001648VG092722e1Scholastic Paperbacks 2001-04-01. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 8x5x0. Clean unmarked interior text no highlighting underlining or writing. Softcover book is clean and bright shows a bit of edge/corner. No rips chips stains or tears. 2001. Scholastic Paperbacks. First printing paperback English Full Print Line Displayed. Ships quickly and with care. Scholastic Paperbacks paperback
1990021655London : Victor Gollancz 1990 First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Ian Watson directly on title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Victor Gollancz hardcover
1950020956Circa 1945/1955: Forrest Ackerman Agency 1950. Original Typescript . Loose Sheets. Very Good. 14 pp. "about 3500 words". Typescript with hand corrections. Original story about a dictator a scientist and a time machine in which the dictatator is unaware that time changes only INSIDE the time machine. Harry Warner was a long-time SF fan who published 11 stories and several books particularly "All Our Yesterdays" a history of early SF fandom and "A Wealth of Fable" covering the 1950's which won the Hugo Award in 1993 for Best Related Book. Label of the Forrest Ackerman Agency. <br/> <br/> Forrest Ackerman Agency unknown
1947020966El Segundo: Fandom Speaks 1947. First Edition . Stapled Wrappers. Very Good . 14" Tall. Drawings By Gordon Cockroft. Complete issue from the files of Forrest Ackerman no names or marks address area not filled in. <br/> <br/> Fandom Speaks unknown
201134463Lakewood CO: Centipede Press 2011. Limited edition. Hardcover. Gerberding Roger; Arfstrom Jon and Beksinski Zdzislaw. #137 of 300 copies signed by the author and all three illustrators. Large 8vo black over pictorial cloth. Two novels by Wandrei: Dead Titans Awake! and Invisible Sun illustrated by Roger Gerberding Jon Arfstrom and Zdzislaw Beksinski. Fine in original clear acetate with two bound in ribbon bookmarks no previous owner's marks. Signed by author and artists. Centipede Press hardcover
1943027574New York: Henry Holt and Company 1943. A gorgeous copy of the 1943 First Printing. Appears unread. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Near Fine dust jacket two tiny closed edge tears. NO chips creases or fading. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. NOT price clipped $2.50. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of Verne and 11 other illustrations. Dust jacket design by Hollis Holland. Bibliography of Works by Verne. Bibliography of Sources. Index. Top edge tinted blue as issued. Bound in the original blue cloth stamped in bright white. Complete with a beautiful dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvi 223pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover
1945010211Sauk City: Arkham House 1945 500 gram rate slight foxing to free endpapers very tidy otherwise unclipped DW has paper pasted to the reverse side along the edges there is no discolouration showing in relation to this 200pp at rear limitation states 3000 copies were printed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Ronald Clyne. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Arkham House hardcover
199819104Harold Wood Essex: Beccon 1998. NrF. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. 200pp. Illustrated. A well-rsearched and authoritative guide to every book and short story written by E C Tubb 1919-2010. With Indexes. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition first printing. No inscriptions highlighting or underlining. . First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Beccon Paperback
1989006877New York: Underwood-Miller 1989. Book. Illus. by Michael Whelan. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Most Contributors. First Edition/First Printing. SIGNED LIMITED#99/350. Slipcased/signed/limited. This copy has been signed by 32 contributors. Underwood-Miller Hardcover
1997022498Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1997. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limted/numbered/signed. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover bound in full genuine green gilt-stamped leather binding. 219 pages. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker all edges gilt raised spine 22kt gold stamping smyth-sewn binding silk moire end-papers acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Limited First signed and numbered edition published by Easton Press 1997. One of 1200 copies personally signed by Kurt Vonnegut with COA Certificate of Authenticity and Collector's Notes laid-in loose. A tale of time travel with a twist as only Kilgore Trout's alter-ego can write it. A pristine copy gift quality new in shrink wrap. . The Easton Press Hardcover
199721960<p>NY: Putnam 1997. First edition first prnt. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Slate-colored speckled endpages. <em>Signed</em> by Vonnegut on the title page. Trifle corner bump on rear board upper corner with corresponding tiny wrinkles on the dustjacket; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Purportedly there were only a few copies of the first printing issued with the speckled endpages which preceded the second state with plain slate-colored endpages. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's last novel published during his lifetime.</p><p>The images are of the book described and not stock photos.</p> Putnam hardcover