Collas Phil (6 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Collector's Club Handbook No. 20. 176pp. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 34 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Australia; 1930s; ISBN: 0731665805. ISBN/EAN: 9780731665808. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 34086. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). SF story by Australian writer Phil Collas and first published in the October 1935 issue of Amazing Stories: now reprinted as a slim hardcover by Australian editor and fan Graham Stone, with a short introduction by Stone. Very uncommon hardcover (reportedly onlt 25 copies were printed). Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 2nd Edition. Very Fine original hand-bound red textured papered boards, spine backed in green cloth, gilt titles, no DW as issued. One of the few stories by Australians in prewar SF magazines, this was originally published in Amazing Stories October 1935, the author's only professionally published fiction, about a subterranean high civilisation beneath the Australian desert.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition thus of Phil Collas's 1935 science fiction short story, a lost race tale set in Australia. A very scarce first edition.Phil Collas's tale first appeared in an issue of 'Amazing Stories' in 1935, and appears here as a single volume work for the first time, with an introduction by Australian editor Graham Stone.Collas's tale follows a group of aboriginal Australians who, millennia ago, discover relics of an ancient underground civilisation. In the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine. book.

viii + 176pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers.