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Introduction - Fred Chappell; Illustrated by Rod Waters. Large 8vo hardback. Cloth boards with blue, beige and silver design. Blue slipcase. 651pp. Short stories, set in early 20th Century America. Watch out for the twist in the tail! CONDITION: book as new; slipcase has very light shelf wear.

First English edition.
A modern chapter in the lives of 2000 year-old Lazarus and Rachel.
Hardback. No longer has dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. 127pp.
Used, good. No dust jacket. Boards clean. Tanning to pages, commensurate with age. No inscriptions. Binding very good.

First English edition.
A modern chapter in the lives of 2000 year-old Lazarus and Rachel.
Hardback. No longer has dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. 127pp.
Used, good. No dust jacket. Boards clean. Tanning to pages, commensurate with age. No inscriptions. Binding very good.

Tales where magic and nature meet by one of the greatest Weird Fiction writers of the Twentieth Century.

Can Inspector Amberg solve the case of the Lombard Bank heist? Is it an inside job? Award-winning German thriller. (Written in English)

The first book in the four volume series 'The Flax of Dream'

Part of the series, also including: Dandelion DaysThe Dream of Fair WomenThe PathwayBook - Used, very good. Dust jacket very, very poor.

1974 (reprint of the 1967 publication)
Their problems were solved: the poor they no longer had with them; the sick; the lame; the halt and the blind were historic memories; the ancient causes of war no longer obtained; they had more freedom than Man had ever enjoyed. All of them should have been happy.
The time is three centuries past tomorrow. The place is Earth, an Earth just beyond the horizon when science and technology have solved all problems - exxcept the 'why' of life...........

Classic thriller with a treasure hunt thrown in for good measure! Blue cloth boards with black lettering. Pictorial dust jacket. 'Yellow Jacket' publication. Used, good. Dust jacket shows moderate wear - not price clipped. Boards and spine very good. Front board slightly skewed. Light foxing to edges. No inscriptions. Internally clean. Binding very good.

Classic Science Fiction from one of the masters of the genre. Pictorial hardback library bound, with protective poly dust jacket. 250pp + 1 page of 'Epilogue', ostensibly (but not really) written in 2021. Unusual artwork on front cover.Used, good. Ex-library book with markings. Library card still in situ on ffep. Internally clean. Binding good.

Black Colossus, copyright 1933 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, June 1933
Shadows in the Moonlight, copyright 1934 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, April 1934.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by Ned Dameron

"Spy thriller, using sensory deprivation experiments (The black room) as a basis. The stories hero is interested in sensory deprivation as a way of being creative, but his agreement to work with British Intelligence gets him into all sorts of difficulties in Europe." (Fantastic Fiction)

An account of Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. An outré classic of the macabre by William Hope Hodgson.Facsimile book.

Early Science Fiction set 200,000,000 years in the future when Earth's continents and nature are no longer as we know them and humans are ruled by Gods and Goddesses, overseen by the all-powerful Ptath.

Classic fiction from one of the master thriller writers of the twentieth century.
Very rare copy of this popular title. Rare artwork on dust jacket. Yellow Jacket publication.
Red cloth boards with black lettering.
Used, good. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, edge chipping and damp marking, but is intact and not price clipped. Boards and spine good. Internally clean. No inscriptions. Binding very good.
Ref: 10669

First Ian Henry (1982) edition, 1st printing.
The horribly mutilated corpse, pulled out of the river was identified by the British Intelligence experts as Gerda Raine, one time East German Agent who had traded missile secrets for asylum in the West............

1937 reprint of the 1935 1st edition.

Dangerous by name-dangerous by natureAll three volumes of George Augustus Sala's rollicking adventures of Captain Dangerous have been brought together as a single collection in this special Leonaur edition available in soft cover or hardback with dust jacket for collectors. Dangerous is born in England in the reign of Queen Anne and his name is prophetic, for a life of peril, uncertainty and adventure he will certainly lead. This period romp has its hero launching himself into the exotic and colourful world of the early eighteenth century becoming among other things by turn a sailor, a soldier, a spy, taken into captivity and sold into slavery by the Moors and rising to the rank of Bashaw to the Grand Turk. These classic tales were hugely popular in their day and will be sure to delight today's enthusiasts of adventure and historical fiction.

Classic historical maritime adventure by the undisputed master of the genre. Yellow cloth boards. 324pp. 8vo size (19x13x3cm). CONDITION: Used, good. No dust jacket - a result of which is general age-related marking to boards and fading to spine. Edges and prelims foxed. Signature on ffep. Internally clean. Binding good.

Can a young woman win her case of assault against a man from a powerful family? Remember this was written in the 1960s.