Search Results: Science Fiction from Turtleman Used Books

Little wear, no spine creases. Pages are clean, tight and intact. In great shape for a pulp scifi novel nearing 50 years old. Rather rare, priced to sell.

Cover is creased and soiled, spine is cocked but not creased and corners and edges are chipped. Pages are clean, tight and only a little yellowed. A moderately rare book, priced at the lower end of the spectrum. Ace Books 00265, cover price $1.25.

First edition. Very little wear. Fourth book of the Asteroid Wars. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few very minor crimps at the edges.

No dust jacket. A 2 cm tear to the cover at the rear top corner of the spine. A few other minor signs of wear on the cover as well. Pages not too bad, although a little soiled on the central bottom forward edges. There is one spine break, just before the first story begins (see photo #3). No pages lost. A total of 46 stories are included: some authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Gahan Wilson, Ben Bova, and H. H. Hollis. This book will ship at over two pounds. Excess shipping costs are included in the list price. This is a rather rare book, with few copies on the market.

Book shows some wear at the corners and edges. Spine is skewed and creased but the pages appear to be clean and tight. The fifth of seven novels in the United Planets series. A somewhat rare book, priced to sell.

Very little wear. No spine creases. Pages are clean, tight and bright. A story set in a dystopian future America where organized religion is outlawed. Follows two characters: one a mother who surreptitiously has her child baptized, the other an enforcer of the new order, hunting down those who secretly continue practicing religious rites. The author's first novel, published just before the pandemic took hold.

Spine has creases and is skewed. Front cover has many more creases and a small, skinned area near the middle of the spine. Back cover creases are there, but don't show as bad. Corners are bumped. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked, but age tanned. DAW Books #565 (UE1908); cover price $2.50; complete number line. Cover art by Ken W. Kelly.

First edition. No sign of wear, to book or dust jacket. The seventh book in the Maximum Ride series. As might be guessed from the title, this book focuses on the winged girl Angel. And a love interest, of course.

The sixth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy. Yes, I know, but it says so right on the cover, part six of three. Very little wear to the book. The dust jacket has one small tear (1 cm) located on the lower rear a little to the right of the bar code. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. First edition.

Book shows wear at the edges and corners. Spine is square and uncreased. Pages are clean, tight and intact. One small tear (

Translated from the original French. Little wear, consisting mainly of scattered chips around the edges and a couple of minor creases. The spine has one shallow crease and remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The number 2 written with a sharpie on the top page edges. For mature audiences. A rare and highly valued book.

Some wear, including scrapes, a corner crease and an interesting tear of 3 cm on the front cover, inward from the spine side. (Looks like the book got briefly bent.) The spine has a couple of creases and is slightly skewed. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with orange dyed edges all around. Ace #G-709, cover art by Jeff Jones.

Translated from the original Japanese. First published in Japan in 2015. A story about a special coffee shop where some people are able to travel back in time, but only until the coffee cools. Very little wear, to book or dust jacket.

Book has wear at the corners and along the edges. Spine is uncreased and square. Pages are clean, tight and lightly tanned. This is the debut novel for this writer, and her only scifi effort. (She followed with two horror novels, did a little editing and seems to have left the world of published works after just a decade.) The book is kind of rare. Stated as an Ace original, never before published, and the number line is complete. Bookstore stamp inside the front cover.

A rare book, but not a beautiful book. Spine is creased, cocked and curved. Corners are worn and turned. Pages, however, and clean, tight and completely readable. Priced well below the average.

Book shows some wear at the edges and corners. Spine has a few creases but remains square. On the front cover the lower right corner is creased and the front left corner has a 1.5 cm tear. A very rare book. Ace #07895, cover price $1.25.

Little wear. Spine is uncreased, pages are clean and tight. A few minor creases on the cover. A little wear at the top and bottom front spine corners. DAW #UE 1496, $1.75 cover price, SF No. 360. Complete number line. A John Grimes Adventure.

First edition (see photo #5). 382 pages. Dust jacket shows some wear, mainly at the top edge of the spine (visible in photo #3). Book has little wear other than one significant exception, that being a spine break right after the front endpaper (see photo #4). Other than that, the pages are all clean, tight and intact. It is fully readable, it just needs to be handled gently. A story of time and space and a cat.

The book is slightly bent. It is currently undergoing pressure therapy to try and cure this. The cover shows a few chips around the edges and is discolored in places. There is a crease across the upper front right corner, and the spine is slightly skewed. The pages are clean, tight and somewhat yellowed.

Not much wear. A small stain on the front cover and the residue of a price sticker on the spine. I think this is Anthony's first novel. I think it is also the first edition, direct to paperback (stated on the rear cover - "This is an original publication--not a reprint"). Science fiction romance of the forbidden kind.