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In his latest work Ian Barbour tackles some of the thorniest issues posed by contemporary thought. He offers astute analyses of the shape and import of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neuroscience, information theory and artificial intelligence. He also addresses deeper philosophical issues and the idea of nature itself. Then with characteristic clarity and verve, Barbour advances to the interconnected religious questions at he core of contemporary debate: Are humans free? Does religion itself evolve? Are we immortal? How does God act in nature?

The story of Arthur Gordon Pym's gory adventures aboard a Nantucket ship: 'Comprising the Details of a Mutiny and Atrocious Butchery on Board the American Brig Grampus, on her way to The South Seas, in the month of June 1827'
Marbled boards and speckled edges in black slipcase. Illustrated by Rene Clarke. Limited Editions Club edition, 1930.
Book: darkening to spine; otherwise amazingly good condition. No inscriptions. Very clean. Binding very good. Slipcase: poor - very worn and coming apart.

Green cloth boards with Pictorial design on pastedowns. gilt lettering and design to spine. Title pages have b/w leaf design. 2 page map b y George Philip & Sons on post-contents pages. 434pp. Condition: v. good. clean. Bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise vg. Binding vg.

Beautifully presented in a navy slipcase with cream text. Blue pictorial cloth boards with navy and cream design and text. Illustrated by David Lupton. 346pp. Size: 18 x 12.5 x 4 cm. Very rare to find this particular edition for sale. New. Slipcase has very light shelf marks (hardly noticeable). Shipped 'sign for' at no extra cost in UK.

Collectible, signed copy, from William Saroyan, a popular American novelist and playwright. Limited edition of 450 copies. Pictorial boards. 80 pp. Illustrated by Hans. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Used, good. General wear and light grubbiness to boards and spine. Spine split from front board internally but still attached. Some damp marking to lower edges, seeped onto bottom of some pages. Some light transference of illustrations onto opposite pages. Generally good. Hardback. Size quarto. 27x18x1.5 cm

This is the fascinating story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America. The Nazi sympathies held by groups and individuals within these organizations evolved into a successful assistance network for fugitive criminals, providing them not only with secret escape routes but hiding places for their loot. Gerald Steinacher skilfully traces the complex escape stories of some of the most prominent Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, showing how they mingled and blended with thousands of technically stateless or displaced persons, all flooding across the Alps to Italy and from there, to destinations abroad. The story of their escape shows clearly just how difficult the apprehending of war criminals can be. As Steinacher shows,… Read More

First edition of a magazine devoted to dark and supernatural films. With b/w stills from films. Please see image of Editor's page, for more information.

Collectible edition of this classic crime thriller, by one of the most popular twentieth century authors in the genre. Other works by the same author include the Maigret series, as popularised on TV. Translated from the original French by Joanna Richardson Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket with artwork by Youngman Carter. CONDITION: Used, good. Dust jacket shows edge wear and fading to spine. Not price clipped. Boards have remains of historical tape still attached, otherwise very good. Light foxing to edges. No inscriptions. Binding very good. Two small library stamps on title page.

The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing by a legend -- they are a story told to soothe children. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt -- but the end of their days is at hand.
First published in 1912, as a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre.
The importance of The Night Land was recognized by its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972.
Of The Night Land Clark Ashton Smith wrote "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have… Read More

Early edition of this young people's novel. Undated. c. 1916

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1910 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.