Search Results: Titles starting with V from Clarkean Books

DAW, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Ken Kelly. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1987 DAW No. 701 UE2188 in Near Fine, unread condition (neat PON stamp first page). Another story in Norman's routine yet enthralling SF adventure/fantasy series! Inscribed by Norman!

Montreal: Dargaud. Soft cover. Very Good. Jean-Claude Mezieres; E. Tran-Le (colour). First Editions/printings in English. Ambassador (1981) and Without Stars (1982). Both graphic novels in Very Good Minus (3.5) condition. Full colour art and stories of the popular French SF creation: Valerian (Spatiotemporal Agent).

Jonathan Cape, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good. uncredited. First (U.K.?) edition/printing. Book is in Very Good Minus condition because of heavy foxing (see pic). Dust jacket (in a protector) is in Very Good condition with some moisture wrinkling, with uncredited wraparound cover art. "... describes trips through the Dimensions and Time to the Island of Cibola in the midst of a myth-ridden Atlantic Ocean, and back again to a time-ridden, grief-enfolded Earth ..." [JC] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd Edition/Internet.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition/printing thus. Book is in Near Fine condition with a white mark on front panel. No dust jacket present. Three Van Vogt novels including the classic (and retro Hugo Award winning) Slan! Nice and affordable copy of this book.

Tor, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Edition/Printing. Book is As New and the dust jacket is in Fine condition (only because of a very slight nick on the front dj panel - otherwise As New). Unread. Signed by contributing author Bruce McAllister at his story on the contents page. Some reprints but mostly original story anthology many terrific authors including: Ted Chiang, Joe Haldeman, Brian Stableford, Karen Joy Fowler, David Schow, et al.

Tor, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bruce Jensen. First edition/printing. Book and jacket each in As New, unread condition. SF mystery story set in California about the disappearance of 90% of the human race.

Dodd Mead. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Uncommon (not ex-library) copy of this title in Dodd, Mead's excellent Great Illustrated Classics series. 1950/60's? Book and jacket (in a protector) each in Fine condition. Introduction by Basil Davenport. A sharp copy!

Ace, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Ed Emshwiller. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1957 Ace D-261. Sharp copy in Fine, unread condition. Includes "The Minority Report".

Collier Macmillan, 1987. Soft cover. As New. Amanda Wilson. First Collier paperback edition/printing (Scribners Classic Collection). As New, unread condition from the original publisher's warehouse! New cover art for this edition and relatively uncommon in this edition.

Macmillan, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Robin Spowart. First U.S. edition/printing. Book and dust jacket each in As New, unread and collectible condition, from the original publisher's warehouse! Please check out my Children's Books (Fiction and Non Fiction) catalogs for many more. All of these are eminently collectible condition. Bulk buy discounts are possible.

Tor, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Boris Vallejo. First edition/ printing. Book is in Fine condition and the jacket is in Near Fine condition. Second story in the Orion sequence.

Popular Library, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Carlos Ochagavia. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1976 Popular Library 00380. Very Fine, unread, and collectible and harder to find in condition.

Granada, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Peter Gudynas. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1980 Granada 05187 - a hardcover would be published by Gollancz six years later. Fine condition - very faint remainder line to top text edge - remains sharp and unread. Short story collection by the brilliant Ballard. Inscribed by Ballard! A stellar copy, very scarce thus.

Pyramid Books, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good Plus. Victor Kalin. First edition/printing paperback original (1960 Pyramid G544). Almost Near Fine, collectible condition with an abrasion to TTE. A cognitive and prescient novel exploring sexuality as Sturgeon often did. "...Venus Plus X (1960) comes as close to a traditional Utopia as any American genre-sf writer had approached before the efforts of Mack Reynolds. Charlie Johns awakens in Ledom (that is, Model), a melodious unisex society, longingly and effectively depicted as having transcended that sexual divisiveness of mankind against which Sturgeon always argued, and finds that he has been translated into this Pocket Universe in order to examine Ledom and judge its success. Though he discovers to his distress that the androgynous bliss of Ledom depends not on a mutation or "natural" turn of Evolution but on surgery immediately after birth (see Transgender SF), the final message of the novel combines… Read More

Subterranean Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bob Eggleton. First edition/printing. Book, jacket (in a protector), and slipcase all in As New, unread condition! 1/125 copies limited edition signed by Farmer. Collects the author's 'writer as author' stories.

Berkley Medallion, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Richard Powers. First edition/printing paperback original PBO (1971 Berkley S1980) in Near Fine, unread condition (PON). Signed by Ballard! Great Powers cover art. Short story collection. Scarce thus.

Airmont. Soft cover. Fine. Two book paperback lot: Journey (CL60; $.95) and War/Worlds (CL45; $3.95). Part of the Airmont Classics series - reprints with some really nice new and interesting cover art. Paperbacks are Fine condition essentially As New, probably unread, which are hard to find in this condition. See my other listings for more of the collectible Airmont series.

University of Chicago Press, 1967. 4th Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This copy is the 1967 5th impression of the 1959 4th edition. Book is in Very Good Minus condition (with occasional light pencil underlining of the text) and the complete dust jacket is in Good Plus condition. The jacket is fastened by four neat tape pieces to the boards and has been left this way. A major work on evolution and comparative anatomy, of the last century, by the prominent paleontologist Romer, which is not very common with the jacket intact.

WS Publishing, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Handsome designed and Fine condition with opening drawstring: Cooking Guide, plus ten large pockets for recipe storage, plus recipe stand. Uncommon.

Dell, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Paul Lehr. First paperback edition/printing (1969 Dell 9303). Fine, unread condition with a bit of an opening crease and age toning." A Very Private Life (1968) describes a sanitized Earth with mankind divided into those who live inside germ-free Keeps and those who live outdoors; some ambivalence is expressed throughout as to whether what is being described is a Dystopia or simply a mise en scène." [JC] - The Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition/Internet.