The Last Dragonslayer - **Signed** + First Lined - 1st/1st by Fforde Jasper - 2010

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.
Synopsis: The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

0 Scarce First edition/First printing published by Gollancz, London 1960. VG condition. No marks or inscriptions. Spotting to page edges. Clean and bright Red cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped. Minimal wear with Toning to edges.

The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, Bantock, Nick. Published by Chronicle Books/Raincoast Books, San Francisco and Vancouver, 1991-1993. Each volume signed by author to title page without inscription. Vol. I: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence; Vol. II: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues; and Vol. III: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes. Volumes 2 and 3 are First printings; Volume 1 is a later printing. Each volume is in fine condition; dustjackets have very light edge ruffling; dustjacket of Volume 1 is clipped and has light fading to spine.

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.

London: Cassell, 1917 dark green cloth with black decoration and titling, india ink name to paste down dated 1918, small ownership label at head of pastedown, clean copy excepting some light foxing to closed edges, v 295pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.
Synopsis: The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, Bantock, Nick. Published by Chronicle Books/Raincoast Books, San Francisco and Vancouver, 1991-1993. Each volume signed by author to title page without inscription. Vol. I: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence; Vol. II: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues; and Vol. III: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes. Volumes 2 and 3 are First printings; Volume 1 is a later printing. Each volume is in fine condition; dustjackets have very light edge ruffling; dustjacket of Volume 1 is clipped and has light fading to spine.

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.