Published by Lancer, 1964
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Frank Frazetta (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing thus(1964 Lancer 72-701 paperback) of the great author's lost race, juvenile novel - his first book originally published in 1935. Revised text for this edition. Near Fine condition with tanned edges and stunning Frazetta cover art.
Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140014403 ISBN 13: 9780140014402
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Peter Lord; (illustrator). Later Printing. 220 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Cover art by Peter Lord. This was first filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, directed by Wolf Rilla and starring George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips and others. Next it was done in 1995, directed by John Carpenter and starring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Pare, Meredith Salenger, Mark Hamill. and many others. Book.
Published by HEYNE, WILHELM, 1970
Seller: Versandantiquariat Felix Mücke, Grasellenbach - Hammelbach, Germany
paperback. Condition: Akzeptabel. Seiten; außen mit deutlichen Gebrauchsspuren, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! R17330 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.
Published by Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Don Ivan Punchatz (illustrator). 2nd U.S. paperback edition/printing (1973 Fawcett M2890) of the great author's lost race, juvenile novel - his first book originally published in 1935. Sharp and Fine and tight condition!.
Published by New York: Ballantine, (1960), 1960
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition - Paperback original - first US printing. A book which asks the questions "Suppose you could extend your life to 300 healthy, active years with no infirmities of age? What would this secret be worth? What would you do to protect it?" One reviewer commented that "what Wyndham does here is think things through in what was, for the time, a rather surprising way: he looks at it from the feminist angle." (Guardian) One of the scientists behind this discovery was a woman, the granddaughter of a suffragist, and this novel explores how such a discovery will affect women's lives, and their expectations of life - and the reaction against women being empowered. Ballantine 449K, cover price 35 cents. 160 pp. Cover art by Richard Powers. Good overall - usual toning to pages, some toning to covers, minor wear. Note: vintage paperbacks are fragile and need to be handled with care.
Published by Ballantine, 1969
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Richard Powers (illustrator). 3rd Ballantine paperback edition/printing (1969 Ballantine 01638) with new cover art by Powers. Near Fine condition with PON to inside of front cover - otherwise tight and sharp.
Published by Ballantine, 1960
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First U.S. edition/printing with textual revisions from the first UK edition. Fine condition with the neat (and new for this edition) cover art by Powers!.
Published by Ballantine, 1968
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Robert E. Schulz (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing paperback original (1968 Ballantine U6119). Fine, unread condition with just a touch of darkening along the spine! Sharp, collectible copy with great cover art by Schulz.
Published by Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1960
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book No. 449K with a price of 35cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951) , filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) , which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title. " (from Wikipedia).
Published by Nova Publications Ltd. [1953], London, 1953
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First printing of the revised text. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76]. Mild rubs to spine edge, light wear to head of spine/upper spine edge, 35 cent ink stamp to front cover, a very good copy. (24466).
Published by Nova Publications Ltd. [1953], London, 1953
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First printing of the revised text. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76]. Spine a little rolled, mild reading creases, a very good copy. (24435).
Published by Editrice Nord, Milano, 1976
Seller: Libreria Tara, Roma, RM, Italy
First Edition
Fantastica Fiction and Poetry Fantasy and Science Fiction it. prima ed. Cosmo classici della fantascienza trad. di Riccardo Valla tela edit. con sovrac. ill. fuori catalogo.
Published by Nova Publications Ltd, London, 1953
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. First revised edition, originally published in 1936 as Planet Plane. Small stain on front cover, water stain on back cover, text block age-toned. A good copy. ; Octavo.
Published by Editrice Nord, 1900
Seller: Genesis Books, Fonte Nuova, RM, Italy
libro cartaceo. Condition: Buono. **Per foto ed ulteriori informazioni contattateci**.
Published by Michael Joseph, [c. 1955 (1966).], London:, 1955
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
12mo. 238, [2] pp. Black tweed boards, gilt lettering on spine (occasional minor foxing, ex-lib markings on endpapers, shaken, some old tape ghosting, wear), w/ d.j. cover art by Brian Wildsmith (very minor creasing, edgewear back cover, slight dustsoiling), still G-/VG copy. Early printing of this dark dystopian science fiction by the noted science fiction author, set in a post-apocalyptic future world where odds of breeding true are less than 50%, and telepathic deviants are ruthlessly weeded out and destroyed.
Published by Penguin, 1980
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Peter Lord (illustrator). 1st Edition. First paperback edition/printing (1980 Penguin 5338). Fine, unread condition. Harder to find in this nice condition! There is no U.S. edition of this posthumous (issued 10 years after the author's death) novel.
Condition: Very good plus. First paperback edition of this popular sci-fi novel wherein the women of an English village are all impregnated by aliens - famously adapted into the 1960 horror classic VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. This book has had several screen adaptations including Wolf Rilla's version in 1960, the 1990 John Carpenter-directed remake of the same name, and most recently, a Sky Max TV series (THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS). 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. All edges stained orange. 189 [3] pages. Minor shelfwear and rubbing. Firm.
Published by George Newnes, London, 1935
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Beynon, John (pseudonym of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, better known later as John Wyndham). The Secret People. London: George Newnes, Limited, n.d. [1935]. First edition. Other bindings in blue or green cloth with black spine lettering and top edge unstained constitute later cheaper editions. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-256. Original red cloth, spine panel stamped in ersatz gold, top edge stained red. Cloth damp-stained with red offsetting onto endpapers, especially in front, spine lettering tarnished, otherwise a solid good copy with no significant wear to cloth or problems with the text block. #1735. $75. This lost race adventure story, set in North Africa thirty years in the future, was the first science-fictional novel by a writer who would later win major acclaim with fantastic catastrophe tales including The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos. "A dwarfed and decadent race, originally of Egyptian descent, found in caverns under the Sahara. Discovery of a new form of energy. One of the few lost race novels set in the future." -- Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot, #124. The underground pygmies are pale-skinned and live on giant mushrooms. The primacy of this issue, priced at 7/6, is confirmed by Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, vol. I p. 33. Reginald 15716. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 67. Costes & Altairac, Les Terres Creuses, #1002.
Published by Michael Joseph, [1960]., London:, 1960
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
12mo. 189, [1] pp. Black tweed boards, gilt lettering on spine (occasional minor foxing), w/ d.j. cover art by Hugh Marshall (minor creasing & dustsoiling back cover), still VG/VG copy. First edition of this fascinating and feminist dystopian satire by the noted science fiction author, seta against the backdrop of a biochemist empowering women through the anti-aging properties of a scarce lichen by preserving their beauty and youth.
Published by London: The Science Fiction Book Club by arrangement with Michael Joseph, 1961, 1961
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Science fiction] SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. Publisher's grey cloth, spine backed in blue. With the typographic dust-jacket. Some light toning throughout, textblock edges faintly spotted. Light toning to jacket backstrip. Some gentle edgewear. Jacket laminated. Very good. A vast, speculative, galactic tale with an interesting publication history, the two credited authors John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes being two pen-names for the same person. Wyndham's publisher thought the story was more hard sci-fi than the other 'Wyndham' works, closer to what an earlier 'Parkes' book may have resembled.
Published by London: Michael Joseph., 1979
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The closed top edge of the text block is a little dusty. Complete with the very lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.95 to the front flap). The author's posthumously published last novel. A tale of a disastrous and fatal attempt to build a utopian colony on a small and remote Pacific island named Tanakuatua. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1958
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Richard Barton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1956, this is a second impression of 1958, a tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of fab retro jacket and spine by Richard Barton, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight browning and time staining to back jacket, some offsetting to endpapers, slight lean, not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 253pp. There's the story of the meteor, which holds much more than it ought to. In 'Chronoclasm' a man is pursued by his own future. We meet a robot with an overactive compassion circuit. And what happens when the citizens of the future turn the past into a giant theme park? A thrilling collection of short stories, John Wyndham conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what might happen if.!' By classic English sci fi novelist John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-69). Quite a scarce book in this early impression.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1959
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 13s6d. Conventional science fiction from the pen of Wyndham, comprising four chapters - a fifth chapter was added to subsequent editions. A fine copy, in slightly chipped but otherwise very good dust-jacket.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1958
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket by Patrick Gierth (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1951, this is a third impression of 1958, a tribute to the author's popularity. Jacket sadly tatty, with edge wear, chipping, old tape repairs to folds, some closed tears and 2" loss to top of spine, corners and folds rubbed with some loss, some overall browning and time staining, lean, some dust staining to page block, not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable copy for its age 302pp. A post apocalyptic sci fi novel. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive, venomous, alien species of plant starts killing the survivors. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen name combinations drawn from his real name, this was the first novel published as 'John Wyndham'. The story has been made into the 1962 feature film of the same name, three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2001) and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. By classic English sci fi novelist John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-69). Scarce even in this somewhat compromised condition, with fab retro jacket by artist Patrick Gierth (1910-94).
8vo. 251, [3] pp. Red tweed boards, gilt lettering ons pine (very slight bumping to couple corners, light offsetting on front & rear flyleaves), w/ d.j. striking cover art by Peter Rudland (price-clipped w/ 13'6 price label affixed at lower corner), NF/NF. First edition, stated, of this curious anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories by Wyndham, including Jizzle, Technical Slip, Chinese Puzzle, Esmerelda, Confidence Trick, The Wheel, Heaven Scent, and others.
Published by Doubleday & Co., Inc.,, Garden City, NY:, 1951
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
8vo. 222 pp. Blue-gray publisher's cloth, yellow lettering (minor shelfwear, rubbing, slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art by Whitney Bender (minor chipping & creasing head & foot of spine, some creasing & edgewear, couple closed tears), still VG/G- copy w/ former ownership price marking on ffep. First American edition, stated, of this classic dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction set after a meteor shower and invasion by plants blind most of the population, inspired by H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, and serialized in Collier's magazine. It served as the basis for the 1963 horror film of the same name which starred Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey.
Published by Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1937
Seller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 'Modern Wonder' was a largely factual magazine with some Fiction/Sci-Fi aimed at boys and young men. It had many articles and pictures on the latest science, engineering and warfare, etc. Issues were usually around 15/20 pages in length, with the pictorial covers (and inside two pages) printed in colour. The magazine was printed in Great Britain by Oldhams. The magazine was in "tabloid" format, approximate dimensions 36 cm x 27 cm. The magazine (cost twopence, (2d) every Wednesday) began publication in 1937 under the title 'Modern Wonder', and went through a few name changes, becoming Modern Wonders in late 1940 and Modern World from March 1941 until the magazine folded in 1941, possibly due to wartime paper shortages in England." . These are the first 10 issues from 1937. All magazines have general 'age/storage' wear in the way that affects magazines more specifically = some creases/folds, they are a little ragged on the edges, the covers, and spines particularly, have a few splits/chips horizontally and have some foxing here and there, but all are generally sound, bright and complete. Apart from the John Wyndham contribution, the magazines also include, amongst many articles/stories/pictures, the following : - Vol 1. No.1." Sir Malcolm Campbell, at the wheel of his record-shattering car 'Blue-Bird', Faced Death at Five Miles a Minute." ; . 'Conqueror of the Rockies' (Part 1) - W. Stanton Hope; . £1,000,000 Giant Glass Eye brings Moon only 24 Miles Away; 'The Flying Bomb' - Complete Story by Gerald Bowman; Across the World in a Flying Liner (Double page colour) - Imperial Airways; Half a Mile under the Sea by Sir William Beebe; The 1st Installment of the Thrilling Serial 'The Space Machine'. By John Beynon (John Wyndham)., etc. Vol 1. No. 2. Millions Motor under a River (Mersey Tunnel) ; 'Mechanical Triumph No. 1' by Charles W. A. Scott, the famous airman; 'Flames Below' by E. W. Stanton (Long Complete Story) ; A 200 H. P Dart and the Target World's New Speed Record; Continuing 'The Space Machine' Non Stop to Mars. By John Beynon (John Wyndham) ; Across the channel by Train (Double page Full colour) ; Faking Screen Thrillers, Back Stage Secrets of Modern Film Producers; 'The Last Spike' by W. Stanton Hope (Concluding 'Conqueror of the Rockies' from the first issue). , etc, Vol 1. No 5. Railway Run by Armed Warriors (Through the War Zone of the Khyber Pass) ; 'Roaring Speedway' Long complete Story by W. E. Stanton Hope. ; All Set for the Great Transatlantic Flying Ferry New York Non-Stop ; Queen Mary - The World's Wonder Ship (Double page Full colour) ; continuing 'The Space Machine', Kidnapped by a Machine, by John Beynon (John Wyndham) ; 'Hoodoo Pearls' - A Thrilling Complete story of Divers and Danger by Gerald Bowman. Brooklands Speedway article with overhead views of the track. Sci-fi story 'Martians on Earth' etc, etc, etc , Large format magazine featuring on its cover dramatic/dynamic artwork by known illustrators of the period. These First issues are Quite Scarce and delightfully 'period'. Images available on request. ; Each Folio sized 13" - 23" tall.
Published by London: Michael Joseph., 1955
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Wildsmith designed dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper and a single foxing spot to the lower edge of the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that is a little darkened and spotted to the rear panel and is otherwise without loss or tears. Published in the US earlier in the same year with a few textual differences under the title 'Re-Birth'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Newnes, London, 1936
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1297. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715. Free endpapers lightly foxed, a very good copy in a good 3/6 four-color pictorial dust jacket with shallow creases, tears and chips along top and bottom edges. This is the first state jacket with three Railton Holden novels listed on rear panel. (#170264).
Published by London: Michael Joseph., 1951
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First UK edition, first printing. Bound by Stephen Conway in full green morocco with gilt titles to the spine. All edges gilt. Original publisher's cloth spine retained and bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A beautifully presented first edition of one of the undisputed highlights of 20th Century British Science Fiction. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.