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ALLEN, Glen : OPERATION JET. London : Curtis Warren, [ca.1950]. First edition. “There was something wrong with the old box of tricks that was stooging around way up in the blue there” – a title in the Curtis Warren “Aero Fiction” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43583 – or simply click on the button
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ARLEN, Michael, 1895-1956 : MAN’S MORTALITY : A STORY. London : William Heinemann, (1933). First edition. International Aircraft and Airways Inc. collapses in 1987 after fifty years of oligarchy in guarding and upholding peace (by war and tyranny if necessary) – a “Pax Aeronautica” tale, providing an interesting contrast and a rather less optimistic vision than that of H. G. Wells’s “The Shape of Things to Come”, which was published in the same year. “Truthfully, I am not certain of Mr. Arlen’s conclusions. At any rate, he has given us a story the tremendous drive of which shatters all criticism, leaving only an excited admiration ... a splendid story splendidly told” (Richard King in “The Tatler”, 1st February 1933). £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43692 – or simply click on the button
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BALLARD, J.G. (James Graham), 1930-2009 : “STORM-WIND” contained in NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION : VOL. 37. NOS. 110-111. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 1961. London : Nova Publications, 1961. Two consecutive issues of the magazine containing both parts of Ballard’s “Storm-Wind”, which later appeared as his subsequently disavowed first novel, “The Wind from Nowhere”, first published as a paperback in the USA in 1962. No. 111 also contains a profile of Ballard, with a photograph – “anyone wondering why I’ve chosen to destroy London quite so thoroughly should try living there for ten years ...”. Other contributors include Lee Harding, Colin Kapp, John Kippax, George Langalaan, David Rome, James White, George Whitley, Lan Wright, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41515 – or simply click on the button
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BALLARD, J.G. (James Graham), 1930-2009 : THE DAY OF CREATION. London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. A river appears in parched central Africa – “classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one else writes with such haunting impact” (William Boyd). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10010 – or simply click on the button
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“BARRY, Ray” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : DEATH DIMENSION. London : Curtis Warren, [1952]. First edition. Robert Varden almost dies when his plane hits an electrical storm. When he awakes in hospital he has an invisible double. “An extraordinary and chilling fantasy” (Harbottle & Holland A244). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42965 – or simply click on the button
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BERRY, Bryan (Roderick Bryan), 1930-1966 : FROM WHAT FAR STAR? London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1953). First edition : the wrappers issue. Security officer becomes suspicious of a physicist at the Spaceship Development Centre – “something had walked through walls all right – but certainly not a man”. Panther Book 40. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41487 – or simply click on the button
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BLISH, James (James Benjamin), 1921-1975 : ANYWHEN. London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First British edition of this collection of short stories from the by now British-based American master of science fiction. Eight stories (one more than the American edition of the same title) — “creatures that look like men but aren't; rodent custodians of lone planets; tobacco mosaic totally out of control; a society in which cleanliness is a vice; beggars literally led by dogs; pomander-poaching on Mars; the coming of heterosexuality to Titan; a hippy space hijacker”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44911 — or simply click on the button
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BOVA, Ben (Benjamin William), 1932-2020 : THE DUELLING MACHINE. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First British edition. The much-admired third instalment in Bova’s loosely connected “Watchmen” series — peace throughout the universe maintained by the Star Watch with the aid of the duelling machine, a virtual reality device for sublimating individual conflict — until someone tinkers with the mechanism. Originally published (with the shorter American spelling “dueling”) in New York in 1969. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44918 — or simply click on the button
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BULMER, H.K. (Henry Kenneth), 1921-2005 : EMPIRE OF CHAOS. London : Panther Books, Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1953). First edition : the wrappers issue. “The story moves rapidly, out from the solar system to the far planets of Martell and Loris” – Captain Lance struggles alongside beautiful flame-haired Rusty Purcell for the mastery of the galaxy. Panther Book 69. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41474 – or simply click on the button
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BURKE, Jonathan (John Frederick), 1922-2011 : DEEP FREEZE. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1955). First edition. “When the men of the planet Demeter died out in space, the destiny of the human race was left to a group of women. Clare Monkton worked to establish a feminist world ...”. Panther Book 182. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41539 – or simply click on the button
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BURKE, Jonathan (John Frederick), 1922-2011 : REVOLT OF THE HUMANS. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1955). First edition. “Mankind overcomes his parasitical alien oppressors in this excellent and suspenseful sequel to ‘Twilight of Reason’” (Harbottle & Holland A43). Panther Book 192. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41475 – or simply click on the button
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CAMPBELL, H.J. (Herbert James), 1925-1983 : BRAIN ULTIMATE. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1953). First edition. “First one man, and then another and another, disappeared, so that their brains should serve this secret purpose, pulsing bodiless on that lonely asteroid” – “By turns scientific and mystical, it is one of Campbell’s better efforts” (Harbottle & Holland A54). Panther Book 86. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41484 – or simply click on the button
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CAMPBELL, H.J. (Herbert James), 1925-1983 : ONCE UPON A SPACE. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1954). First edition. High official rebels against Earth’s repressive regime – and there was a girl, clever, shrewd and daring – “Typical Campbell dystopia, filled with disturbingly grim and realistic medical and scientific details” (Harbottle & Holland A59). Panther Book 160. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41483 – or simply click on the button
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CAMPBELL, John Wood, 1910-1971 – editor : STREET & SMITH’S UNKNOWN. VOL. III. NO. 4. JUNE 1940. London : The Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co., (1940). The British issue of the June 1940 ‘Unknown’, featuring Norvell W. Page, ‘But Without Horns’, Frederick Engelhardt, ‘The Kraken’, and Frank Belknap Long, ‘The Man from Nowhere’, with illustrations by Kolliker, F. Kramer, etc. SOLD |
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“CHARLES, Neil” – [HOLLOWAY, Brian] : PLANET THA. London : Curtis Warren, (1953). First edition. Carelessness sends the rocket-ship Ventura on its way to Tha a day too early – short-crewed and with three civilians on board, one a woman. Tha turns out to be inhabited by “a vastly superior race of corporate beings” – creatures planning to evacuate their world and invade another. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44722 – or simply click on the button
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COMPTON, D.G. (David Guy), 1930- : HOT WIRELESS SETS, ASPIRIN TABLETS, THE SANDPAPER SIDES OF USED MATCHBOXES, AND SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CASTOR OIL. London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First British and first hardback edition. A world in chaos — plague, strikes and riots — and a group of scientists at a top-secret facility in Cornwall try to develop a method of time travel to escape it all. First published as “Chronocules” the previous year in paperback form in the United States, where this exiled British writer was declared Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2007. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44959 — or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : BEYOND THE FOURTH DOOR. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1954]. First edition : the paperback issue. The second in the Corridors of Time trilogy – Magda and Dysart in pursuit of the thief of the symbolic jewel – a tenuous trail of radioactivity through time to follow. Panther Book 96. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30869 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : CORRIDORS OF TIME. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1953]. First edition : the paperback issue. The first in the Corridors of Time trilogy – Dysart and Magda know they must plunge into Time itself in pursuit of the avenging Kazan – four times the time-warp hurtles them to unknown dimensions. Panther Book 85. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30868 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : CORRIDORS OF TIME. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1953]. First edition : the paperback issue. The first in the Corridors of Time trilogy – Dysart and Magda know they must plunge into Time itself in pursuit of the avenging Kazan – four times the time-warp hurtles them to unknown dimensions. Panther Book 85. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41482 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : EXILES IN TIME. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1954]. First edition : the paperback issue. Illegal excavations below the portals of time. The final volume in the Corridors of Time series – Panther Book 117. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30867 – or simply click on the button
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“DEL MARTIA, Astron” : DAWN OF DARKNESS. London : Gaywood Press, (1951). First edition. Flying saucers come ever closer – and retaliate with radiation rays when attacked. “It’s a pity their rays hadn’t been aimed at Gaywood Press before this book was published” (Harbottle & Holland A91). £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43537 – or simply click on the button
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“DEL MARTIA, Astron” : INTERSTELLAR ESPIONAGE. London : Gaywood Press, (1952). First edition. The third and last of the Space Express titles, one of which appeared under the “Franz Harkon” pseudonym. A journey to Nebulae Sixty-Six in search of Crystonium, led by the coldly beautiful Dr Mena Diamenter. “Abject rubbish” (Harbottle & Holland A92). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31383 – or simply click on the button
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“DEL MARTIA, Astron” : SPACE PIRATES. London : Gaywood Press, [1951] First edition. Spaceships on the scheduled services between Earth, Mars and Venus start being kidnapped. One of the three Space Express titles, one of which appeared under the “Franz Harkon” pseudonym. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30168 – or simply click on the button
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FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960 : THE SLAVES OF IJAX : A COMPLETE MYSTERY ROMANCE. Llandudno : Kaner Publishing Co., [1947]. First edition. The dystopian twenty-eighth century and the peoples of earth hypnotised into servitude, the Ebon Sphere of Surrey, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30844 – or simply click on the button
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FINN, Ralph L. (Ralph Leslie), 1912-1999 : FREAKS AGAINST SUPERMEN. London : Gaywood Press, [1950]. First edition. Finn was a prize-winning short story writer before being tempted by the pulp publishers Gaywood to produce some sex-and-space science fiction potboilers for their new series. The present tale sees the world decimated by the “Sickness”, a mutant new race of supermen, etc., and (perhaps against the odds) is a thoroughly competent example of the British sci-fi of the period. Finn is also remembered for his football books and his childhood autobiography “Grief Forgotten : The Tale of an East End Jewish Boyhood”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44758 – or simply click on the button
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“GARNER, Rolf” – [BERRY, Bryan (Roderick Bryan), 1930-1966] : THE INDESTRUCTIBLE. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1954). First edition. The final portion of the Resurgent Dust trilogy – the first spaceship to be built on Venus since the Golden Age – Lord Kennet of Gryllaar leads the dangerous expedition back to the Mother Earth of his forebears. Panther Book 104. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41473 – or simply click on the button
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“GRIDBAN, Volsted” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : I CAME – I SAW – I WONDERED. London : Scion Distributors, [1954]. First edition. The half-title has been excised by the publishers and the Scion Distributors imprint pasted over the earlier Scion Ltd. on both title-page and final leaf – presumably a reflection of Scion’s internal wrangles and legal difficulties at that time. Strangely dressed stranger comes calling on a cold and wet February night on the outskirts of London – and sits down with a dictionary. Although the first two Volsted Gridban novels had been written by E. C. Tubb, subsequent Scion titles under this name all seem to have been written by the indefatigable John Russell Fearn. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30128 – or simply click on the button
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“GRUEN, Von” – [HOLLOWAY, Brian] : THE MORTALS OF RENI. London : Curtis Warren, (1953). First edition : the wrappers issue. The long-established Earth colony on the planet Reni has to be evacuated when its sun fails, abandoning the gentle and trusting Renians to their fate – but some Earth mortals decline to leave. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30644 – or simply click on the button
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HARRISON, Harry” — [DEMPSEY, Henry Maxwell, 1925-2012] — editor : THE YEAR 2000 : AN ANTHOLOGY. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First British edition. A baker’s dozen of commissioned and frequently challenging science fiction stories, all set in the year 2,000 but reflecting the preoccupations of 1970 — overpopulation, race relations, space exploration, starvation, and war. With contributions from Brian W. Aldiss (Orgy of the Living and the Dying); Bertram Chandler (Sea Change); Harrison himself (American Dead); Fritz Leiber (America the Beautiful); Naomi Mitchison (After the Accident); Chad Oliver (Far from this Earth); Mack Reynolds (Utopian); Thomas N. Scortia (Judas Fish); Robert Silverberg (Black is Beautiful), etc. With an introduction by Harrison, notes on the authors, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44929 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Denis (Denis Talbot), 1917-2008 : MOON WAR. London : Curtis Warren, [1951]. First edition. A vast force of spaceships is spotted in the outer galaxy, aliens from Gamma 7 have taken a base on the moon – “a ghastly space opera mish-mash” (Harbottle & Holland A239). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45231 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, James, 1937- : ENDS. London : Secker & Warburg, (1971). First British edition. “It is London, tomorrow. The government has announced that Cessation is only a few weeks off; in the meantime, most people are planning their own particular ends, and those with the most status and privilege are preparing to go City — that is, to embark for the fabulous End City on the south-west coast” — the young Starvies are passive, the Failergoners weak-willed and indecisive, and the Lifers fight back. “Ostensibly this book is a skilful and successful piece of science fiction, but it is more than that. It is a devastatingly uncomfortable view of the way we live now” (Victoria Brittain in the Illustrated London News, 1st October 1971, on this British author first published in the United States). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45023 – or simply click on the button
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“HUNT, Gill” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : ELEKTRON UNION. London : Curtis Warren, [1951]. First edition. Newly opened space-route between Earth and Tanus, ships disappearing, convoy lands on alien planet – “Another of the atrociously-written space operas by Hughes, essentially a transplanted western” (Harbottle & Holland). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43505 – or simply click on the button
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KANER, H. (Hyman), 1896-1973 : PEOPLE OF THE TWILIGHT. Llandudno : Kaner Publishing Co., 1946. First edition. Professor Hayton discovers a gateway drug to an amazing and idyllic parallel world – but shatters the peace and happiness of the lost race. Probably the best of the self-published science fiction of the Romanian-born civil servant, also the author of “Balance Sheets Explained”, etc. For more on Hyman Kaner, see my Bookhunter on Safari blog-post for 7th July 2016. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42276 – or simply click on the button
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KANER, H. (Hyman), 1896-1973 : THE SUN QUEEN. Llandudno : Kaner Publishing Co., 1946. First edition. “In a flash the Instantaneous Flight Machine was gone ...” – Roger Marshall and his girlfriend Joan Lorimer teleport themselves into a sunspot and find the Sun Queen engaged in a terrible war against the Black Knights and the evil superstition of the Rock God. “Many novel theories and ideas”. For more on Hyman Kaner, see my Bookhunter on Safari blog-post for 7th July 2016. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42277 – or simply click on the button
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“LANG, King” – [GRIFFITHS, David Arthur] : GYRATOR CONTROL. London : Curtis Warren, [1951]. First edition. The “Leinster Principles” are adopted after the conclusion of the Earth/Mars wars, but one of Leinster’s assistants steals the secret of the gyrator control and offers it to the Martian warlords. The Curtis Warren “King Lang” house-name here in the capable hands of one of their readers, David Arthur Griffiths. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45203 – or simply click on the button
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“LE PAGE, Rand” – [BIRD, William Henry Fleming, 1896-1971] : WAR OF ARGOS. London : Curtis Warren, (1952). First edition. “A story by the modern French master of Science Fiction” runs the strapline, although the eight or so “Rand le Page” titles produced by Curtis Warren all appear to have been written by British authors, in this instance by William Bird. The planet Argos has been under the Earth’s control for centuries, but now there is an uprising fuelled by telepathy. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30580 – or simply click on the button
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LOWNDES, Robert W. (Robert Augustine Ward), 1916-1998 – editor : FUTURE : COMBINED WITH SCIENCE FICTION STORIES. NO. 1. Leicester : Thorpe & Porter, [1951]. The first issue of a new American Science Fiction magazine from Doc Lowndes and Columbia Publications – here in the British issue, with the wrappers and outer leaves modified for the UK market. Novellas and short stories by James MacCreigh, Wallace West, Richard S. Shaver, Edwin James, H. B. Fyfe and William Morrison, with some striking illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Fawcette, Milton Luros, Peter Poulton and others. With an introduction by James Blish. SOLD |
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“LUIGI, Belli” – [BLEECK, Gordon Clive, 1907-1971] : MASTER-MIND MENACE. Manchester : Sydney Pemberton, (1950). First British edition. Mind-borrowing criminality from an Australian (Sydney) writer, originally a railway signalman, who at his peak was turning out a short novel every fortnight under at least nineteen different pseudonyms. His diaries and records are held by the National Library of Australia. Also published in Australia in August 1950. SOLD |
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“MALCOM, Grant” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : RAY ELLIS IN THE GREEN MANDARIN MYSTERY. London : Curtis Warren, [1950]. First edition. “A scientific detective story. Ray Ellis is asked to find why a number of top scientists have dissapeared ... plot to take over the world ... superior to anything else that Hughes wrote during this period” (Harbottle & Holland A266). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43978 – or simply click on the button
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“MANNHEIM, Karl” : VAMPIRES OF VENUS. Manchester : World Distributors / Sydney Pemberton, (1950). First edition. The sequel to “When the Earth Died” – Plato and Helen, last survivors of Earth, travel across the Flamless Fire. In the World Fantasy Classic series. We take it that this is not the work of the eminent sociologist Karl Mannheim (1883-1947). SOLD |
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“MISTRAL, Bengo” – [LAZENBY, Norman Austin, 1914-2003] : THE BRAINS OF HELLE. London : Gannet Press, [1953]. First edition. “Chev Markham landed on the tiny planet of Helle and felt bored as soon as he entered the spaceport hotel bar. It was always the same ...”. SOLD |
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MOORCOCK, Michael (Michael John), 1939- : THE SLEEPING SORCERESS : AN ELRIC NOVEL. London : New English Library, (1971). First edition. “For ten thousand years did the Bright Empire of Melniboné rule the world by virtue of her Sorcerer Kings, her Dragon Hordes and her golden battle barges ...” — the action taking place between the earlier short stories of “The Singing Citadel” and “The Stealer of Souls” — and Moorcock already hailed in the publisher’s blurb as “the greatest living writer of heroic fantasy”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44999 – or simply click on the button
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MOORCOCK, Michael (Michael John), 1939- : BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS. New York : Random House, [1974]. First American edition. Signed by Michael Moorcock on the title-page. A disturbing fantasy – this edition with the deliberately false announcement of Moorcock’s death by way of introduction – the action commencing on the roof garden of Derry & Toms, but ranging through time from 1871 to 1990, through place from Havana to Shanghai, through multiple incarnations of the principal character, and through multiple “What would you do?” moral dilemmas. “A fearful, compelling book – told with a calm voice through clenched teeth”. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45027 – or simply click on the button
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“REED, Van” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : HOUSE OF MANY CHANGES. London : Curtis Warren, (1952). First edition : the wrappers issue. “When creation which is contrary to all the accepted laws of Nature springs directly from Genius in the grip of Evil the results may well take a form so terrible as to be beyond human understanding ...”. Mad scientist, laboratory horror, allegorical fantasy – “charmingly bizarre” (Harbottle & Holland A268). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30578 – or simply click on the button
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“ROMILUS, Arn” – [HUGHES, Denis Talbot, 1917-2008] : BRAIN PALAEO. London : Curtis Warren, (1953). First edition. Telepathy developed, but a time-space gap opens up and an evil half-brain, half-robot, life form is listening in. “A gorgeously screwy Hughes interdimensional space fantasy” (Harbottle & Holland A273). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30372 – or simply click on the button
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SHAW, Bob (Robert), 1931-1996 : 1 MILLION TOMORROWS. London : Victor Gollancz, 1971. First British and first hardback edition. Inscribed and signed by Belfast-born Bob Shaw on the title-page. “A tale of intrigue and double dealings ... a new drug that produces immortality. There is already a drug, but it has the side effect that it makes men impotent: the new one does not ... when it is offered to the manufacturer’s cost accountant for trial, someone starts trying to kill him. This fast, hard-hitting story is the best so far from this author” (James Clayton in the Birmingham Daily Post, 12th June 1971). First published in paperback in New York the previous year. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45022 – or simply click on the button
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SPENCER, John & Co. – publishers : TALES OF TO-MORROW. NO. 3. London : John Spencer & Co., [1951]. The third of the eleven published issues of this rather good Science Fiction quarterly, edited by Michael Nahum and Sol Assael. Five short stories – “Expedition Eternity” by David Campbell (Leonard G. Fish); “Forgotten World” by John Ellis; “Hell Planet”, again by Fish; “The Encompassed Globe” by James Stanfield; and “Reaction” by Thomas Rochdale. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44723 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : ANNIHILATION. London : Scion, [1950]. First edition. Originally titled “Fool’s Paradise” and the second in the Vargo Statten series. The summer of 1980 has been the hottest in history and Ken is working on increasing the capacity of the Channel Tunnel. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30691 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE AVENGING MARTIAN. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. Venus and its mighty scientific civilisation are dying, plans are made to take the air and the water from a neighbouring planet populated by strange creatures who “walk upright on two legs and possess round-shaped bodies crowned with queer furry mats.” £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41440 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : BLACK-WING OF MARS. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. A still-living specimen of giant Martian moth threatens destruction on earth. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41449 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : CATACLYSM! London : Scion, (1951). First edition. Young provincial Martin Clegg has long suspected he has a twin in the constellation of Orion – girlfriend and psychiatrist are sceptical. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30145 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE CATALYST. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. Scott and Nancy Andrews, chief investigators of the interplanetary deeps, pioneers of both Mars and Venus, now in 1980 encounter an inhospitable Mercury – except that it is covered in diamonds. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41434 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE CATALYST. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. Scott and Nancy Andrews, chief investigators of the interplanetary deeps, pioneers of both Mars and Venus, now in 1980 encounter an inhospitable Mercury – except that it is covered in diamonds. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45207 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : DEADLINE TO PLUTO. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. It is the year 2060 and a massive meteorite hits Pluto head on – Captain Mark Rapier is send to investigate. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41432 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : DE-CREATION. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. Brilliant scientist has a car accident on the way to London from Godalming – and meets a tramp who knows too much and issues a warning. “Esau Jones was just a wandering tramp who loved his beer and the country air. But Esau also had the ability to work miracles, which led to problems ... one of the best Statten novels” (Harbottle & Holland A136). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44325 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE G-BOMB. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. The elders of Mars covet the planet Earth. They have failed twice (1914-1918 and 1939-1946) to persuade humanity to destroy itself – time to unleash the Gravity Bomb. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41451 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : MAN FROM TO-MORROW. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. Meteorites with rivets light up a Sussex night, a curious stranger rescues sparky young journalist Glenda Carlyle from unwanted attentions in an alley off Fleet Street. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41437 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : MAN IN DUPLICATE. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Playboy millionaire with a demanding girl-friend has an alien doppelganger. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41447 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : MAN OF TWO WORLDS. London : Scion, [1953]. First edition. London department store salesman gets struck by freakish lightning in the Lake District – with curious effects. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41438 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE MULTI-MAN. London : Scion Distributors, (1954). First edition. Research biologist develops cellular human duplicates – even Scotland Yard is powerless, save for one man. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41444 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE NEW SATELLITE. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. The planet Mercury disintegrates, the solar system starts breaking up – and then the moon turns red. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30116 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE RENEGADE STAR. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. “At first it was only a smudge on the face of infinity ...” – a runaway star threatens the solar system. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30692 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : SCIENCE METROPOLIS. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. “Set in a future when time travelling is commonplace ... the story of a population in deadly peril from a Jovian super scientist who has vowed vengeance on Humanity for the destruction of his home world” (Harbottle & Holland A163). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44324 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : SPACE WARP. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. In the near future of June 1963, a wedge of stars suddenly becomes too bright to observe with the naked eye. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41430 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : THE SUNMAKERS. London : Scion, (1950). First edition. An attempt to make a model artificial sun for the London Planetarium (now at Greenwich in the year 2,000) has unexpected consequences. Partly based on Fearn’s pre-war story “Metamorphosis”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30144 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : A TIME APPOINTED. London : Scion Distributors, (1954). First edition. “Thirty million miles out on her maiden voyage to Venus, a space liner encounters the baleful power of a long-extinct race of scientists ... a dreadful legacy that will destroy the Solar System unless it can be stopped in time” (Harbottle & Holland A166). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44323 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : WANDERER OF SPACE. London : Scion, [1950]. First edition. Anchored between Mars and Jupiter in the year 2150, the royal space cruiser Starwind awaits a royal event. Queen Maylion of Earth is about to give birth to a future king or queen. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41427 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : WEALTH OF THE VOID. London : Scion, (1954). First edition. “That a planetoid of solid gold might exist in the Solar System is not beyond scientific possibility ... Here is a story of human longings, of greed overmastering finer sentiments, and behind it all the implaccable [sic] edicts of space ...”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41443 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : ZERO HOUR. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Dr Royd needs a guinea-pig to try out his Brain Scanner – a device to strip away the past to achieve a vision of the future. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41448 – or simply click on the button
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TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 : CITY OF NO RETURN. London : Scion, (1954). First edition. Klaglan – the ancient, mysterious and forbidden city of Mars – Halmar the Guide, Lorna the dancer from Venus, and the man called Smith try to penetrate its crystal walls. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41552 – or simply click on the button
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TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 : JOURNEY TO MARS. London : Scion, [1954]. First edition. Verrill needs to get to Mars where a spaceship is making ready for the Big Jump to the stars, but he is stranded on Venus without money, papers or weapons. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41537 – or simply click on the button
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WRIGHT, S. Fowler (Sydney Fowler), 1874-1965 : THE DWELLERS. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1954]. First paperback edition. The sequel to Fowler Wright’s “The Amphibians”, originally published in 1929 under the title “The World Below”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41488 – or simply click on the button
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[“WYNDHAM, John”, 1903-1969] – “BEYNON, John” : STOWAWAY TO MARS. London : Nova Publications, (1953). [Second edition]. John Wyndham’s second foray into science fiction, first published as “Planet Plane” in 1936 and here in a revised text, published under his John Beynon pseudonym as the first in the Nova Science Fiction Novels series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30370 – or simply click on the button
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[“WYNDHAM, John”, 1903-1969] – “BEYNON, John” – : STOWAWAY TO MARS. London : Nova Publications, (1953). [Second edition]. John Wyndham’s second foray into science fiction, first published as “Planet Plane” in 1936 and here in a revised text, published under his John Beynon pseudonym as the first in the Nova Science Fiction Novels series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41489 – or simply click on the button
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