The City and the Stars by Clarke, Arthur C - 1956

LONDON: SECKER & WARBURG. NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1944. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. TAN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH BLACK TITLES TO THE SPINE. BOOK IS FINE BUT FOR SOME MODEST FOXING TO THE SPINE. D.J. HAS SOME MODEST CHIPPING TO THE ENDS OF THE SPINE PANEL WITH A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, A SMALL BIT OF CORNER WEAR, SOME VERY LIGHT SOIL TO THE REAR PANEL, FAINT EVIDENCE OF A DATE INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS SCARCE STAPLEDON FANTASY. .

Paterson, NJ: Fandom House, 1953. First Edition. Stapled sheets. The run includes five issues from 1953, ten from 1954, six from 1955, six from 1956 and twenty-one from 1957 (with one duplicate). Issues 211, 212 and 279 have tears to the edges that partially affect text. Some are soiled and the paper is age-toned but, in all, presentable copies of one of the longest running science fiction fanzines, which won a Hugo Award for best fanzine in two of the years here represented, 1955 and 1957. Uncommon.

LONDON: T. WERNER LAURIE. VERY GOOD+ WITHOUT D.J.. PUB 1906. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PUBLISHER'S BLACK DECORATED CLOTH. BOOK HAS A COUPLE OF SHORT BREAKS AT THE ENDS OF THE SPINE WITH SLIGHT CORNER RUB AND A COUPLE OF FAINT SPOTS ON THE LOWER COVER, AND SOME MODEST FOXING TO THE PRELIMINARY AND TERMINAL LEAVES. A VERY NICE COPY WITH DECORATION TO THE SPINE AND UPPER COVER VIVID. .

1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Fine condition and has a near fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright.

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine.

Centreville, VA: Centreville, VA: ShadowLands Press (Shadow Lands) 2000 Limited First Edition 8vo ill. , 2000 Very Fine original charcoal cloth, in Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Number 136 of 500 Signed/Numbered copies. Signed by Lisa Snelling, Edward E. Kramer, Harlan Ellison, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Charles De Lint, Neil Gaiman, Robert J. Sawyer, Chet Williamson, John Shirley, Michael Bishop, Gene Wolfe, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Edward Bryant, S.P. Somtow, Nancy A. Collins, Nina Kiriki Hoffmann, Brad Linaweaver, Fred Olen Ray, Richard Lee Byers, David Niall Wilson, Darrell Schweitzer, & Peter Crowther. Illustrated with 16 plates by Lisa Snellings. Errata slip bound in.

Paris: Collection Hetzel, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good -. [4], 395, [1] p., 6 leaves of plates in 1 color: many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Publisher's binding: red leather spine with five spine compartments between raised bands; red pebbled cloth over boards. Gilt-tooled title in second and fourth compartments and decoration in remaining compartments. Blind-ruled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. White moire endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars, listed on the last page with the code 33478. Part of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. No date of publication; consistent with first edition (1877), but without the publisher's catalog for 1877-78, suggesting a later issue of the first edition. Stamp on title page and p. 50: Georgian Court College, Sisters of Mercy, Lakewood, N.J. Back endpapers scraped where pocket was removed. With 6 plates not usually noted. In Very Good- Condition: edges of leather spine are rubbed with minor loss at spine ends; corners of boards are frayed; endpapers are… Read More

The Menace from Earth - Robert A. Heinlein 1st Edition Gnome Press 1959 Hardcover w/DJ
Copyright 1959, published by The Gnome Press, Inc. (New York); stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Dust jacket has soiling, foxing, as well as significant nicks, chips, wrinkling to the spine, and tears up to 1" along the edges, especially on the top-edge. The DJ flap does not have a price on the inside flap (as originally issued) and the rear of the jacket lists other science fiction books and their prices by Gnome Press. Yellow endpapers. Black hardcovers have slight spine lean and several nicks on the top-edge and others on the fore-edge of the boards. Heavily tanned pages. No writing or markings. Overall, it is in Good Plus (G+) condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on front flap) Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (A little tear in the top left corner, see pic.)

The Easton Press, The Masterpieces of Science Fiction, 1991. Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Fine, Like New condition. Appears unopened / unread. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spines. Text block is tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Collector's Notes sheet laid in. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.Beautiful gift book!