Typed Letter Signed by Pratchett, Terry - 1995

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1935 HBDJ, 1935 on title pg, 1st Edition, VG/VG-, AS-IS, This collectible vintage children's book is in very good condition with clean, strong pages and a Pictorial cover, which Duplicztes DJ showing only light-moderate general wear including rubbing at corners and spine ends. No writing or marks except for a seven-word to/from/date inside the front cover. The dust jacket is in good condition showing light-moderate general wear including some short tears and small chips (longest tear only 3/4"), and a small spot of white debris near the bottom of the front of the jacket., Pictorial hardback, Scarce, lightly edge worn jacket with several small edge tears and 50 cent flap price., UNPAGINATED ,Approximately 52 pages. approximately 9-3/4" x 7", Back DJ Small Scuff Mark, Black spine DJ has scuff Marks, Light Wear Fox Interior Pgs, We wanted to play Indians so we went to Mrs. McGuire’s Chicken Yard to get some Feathers. Lebeck is best known for his role in the establishment… Read More

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe/Doubleday SFBC, 1987. First US hardcover edition, first prnt. Signed by Pratchett on the title page. Dustjacket art by Josh Kirby. Upper board corners tapped and dustjacket bottom corner just touched (not immediately apparent). Bright, tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. This is one of the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club copies.The code "11154" printed on the rear panel of the dustjacket, "Book Club Edition" printed on lower corner of front flap, no ISBN, code "R32" printed on p188 and "First published in 1986 by Colin Smythe Limited Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire" and "Printed in the United States of America" on the copyright page. All points present.
St. Martin's Press intended to issue the US edition of Pratchett's novel but Colin Smythe declined their offer for subsidiary rights and granted Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club license to publish a book club edition. The first hardcover edition of this title… Read More

Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Text is clean. Tan cloth with blue lettering. One B&W glossy plate (frontis). Dust jacket shows light wear, minor chipping at corners and spine ends. ; Tarzan Stories; Vol. 23; B&W Frontis .

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head and heel of spine, light bumps and scuffs to boards. The first book in the author's twelve-book, fictional history, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott.

The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein), Egremont Michael (Maurice Desmond Rohan; Pseudonym Michael Harrison). Published by Bookfinger, New York, 1976. Introduction by George Locke. (i-v)., 252pp. with half title, title, publisher, table of contents. Reprint of the 1936 original Queensway Press Edition of The Readers Library Publishing Company of London. Issued without a dustjacket. Black boards with gilt spine titles. In fine, unread condition with a tiny dust mark lower outer edge and a tiny crease at head of spine.
The novel was based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. After the movie was completed, Michael Harrison was commissioned to produce a novel from the original film script. Given only three weeks to produce a finished work, Harrison (Egremont) ultimately abandoned the script and produced what "was to all intents and purposes original fiction."
Michael Egremont was a one time only pen name for UK detective and… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1935 HBDJ, 1935 on title pg, 1st Edition, VG/VG-, AS-IS, This collectible vintage children's book is in very good condition with clean, strong pages and a Pictorial cover, which Duplicztes DJ showing only light-moderate general wear including rubbing at corners and spine ends. No writing or marks except for a seven-word to/from/date inside the front cover. The dust jacket is in good condition showing light-moderate general wear including some short tears and small chips (longest tear only 3/4"), and a small spot of white debris near the bottom of the front of the jacket., Pictorial hardback, Scarce, lightly edge worn jacket with several small edge tears and 50 cent flap price., UNPAGINATED ,Approximately 52 pages. approximately 9-3/4" x 7", Back DJ Small Scuff Mark, Black spine DJ has scuff Marks, Light Wear Fox Interior Pgs, We wanted to play Indians so we went to Mrs. McGuire’s Chicken Yard to get some Feathers. Lebeck is best known for his role in the establishment… Read More

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe/Doubleday SFBC, 1987. First US hardcover edition, first prnt. Signed by Pratchett on the title page. Dustjacket art by Josh Kirby. Upper board corners tapped and dustjacket bottom corner just touched (not immediately apparent). Bright, tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. This is one of the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club copies.The code "11154" printed on the rear panel of the dustjacket, "Book Club Edition" printed on lower corner of front flap, no ISBN, code "R32" printed on p188 and "First published in 1986 by Colin Smythe Limited Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire" and "Printed in the United States of America" on the copyright page. All points present.
St. Martin's Press intended to issue the US edition of Pratchett's novel but Colin Smythe declined their offer for subsidiary rights and granted Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club license to publish a book club edition. The first hardcover edition of this title… Read More

The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein), Egremont Michael (Maurice Desmond Rohan; Pseudonym Michael Harrison). Published by Bookfinger, New York, 1976. Introduction by George Locke. (i-v)., 252pp. with half title, title, publisher, table of contents. Reprint of the 1936 original Queensway Press Edition of The Readers Library Publishing Company of London. Issued without a dustjacket. Black boards with gilt spine titles. In fine, unread condition with a tiny dust mark lower outer edge and a tiny crease at head of spine.
The novel was based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. After the movie was completed, Michael Harrison was commissioned to produce a novel from the original film script. Given only three weeks to produce a finished work, Harrison (Egremont) ultimately abandoned the script and produced what "was to all intents and purposes original fiction."
Michael Egremont was a one time only pen name for UK detective and… Read More

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.

San Francisco, CA: Vix Media, 2018. First Edition thus. First Printing, stated. Hardcover. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover, including very light rubbing to all corners, else Fine / As New. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.