Kuttner Henry Bester (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Shelf 558 Text clean, paper browned; wear to the edges, corners and surface of covers including three large chips and several small chips at edge of front cover, a few small chips at edge of rear cover, several small closed tears at edge of front and rear cover; pp. 83-86 folded at bottom corner; Not a book club copy. No previous owner name, no marks, no underlining, not ex library, not price clipped, not a remainder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustrator). First Edition. (xiv) 352 pp. Quarter-bound in Navy blue cloth on blue boards; blue endpapers; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj by Stanislaw Fernandes. This anthology contains: Colony - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; The New Prime - a novelette by Jack Vance; Home Is the Hunter by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore; No Woman Born - a novella by C. L. Moore; Four in One - a novelette by Damon Knight; Fondly Fahrenheit - a novelette by Alfred Bester; The Monsters by Robert Sheckley; Common Time by James Blish; Scanners Live in Vain - a novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Hothouse - a novelette by Brian W. Aldiss; The Little Black Bag - a novelette by C. M. Kornbluth; Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw; and Day Million by Frederik Pohl. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide couverture défraîchie intérieur propre. poche. 1984. Broché. 153 pages. Good.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Painted Cover (illustrator). First Paperback Ed 1st Printing. 224 pages. >> Very Nice, unread copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 14 (British edition). Small quarto. 68pp. Wrappers moderately worn and with a few light stains, a few nicks and creases along the edges, chipping at the crown, slight curl at the spine, about very good. Includes "Tumithak of the Towers of Fire" by Charles R. Tanner, as well as stories by Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, Ray Cummings, and Walter Kubilius.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Magazine. "When New York Vanished" illustrated by Alex Schomburg. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Typical wear to yapped edges with chips and a few long tears (affecting a bit of text), stain on the cover and first page with small stains at the bottom margin of several pages, external tape repair on the cover, good only. Features: The first appearance of "When New York Vanished" by Henry Kuttner, "The Phantom Teleview" by Bob Olsen, and the first appearances of "Station Death" by Oscar J. Friend, and "Guinea Pig, Ph.D." by Alfred Bester. Stan Lee once praised illustrator Schomburg stating, "Alex Schomburg was totally unique. I remember hearing Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman tell me time and again how great a cover illustrator Alex was, and how he wished we had more like him. He was the only artist I knew able to combine strong, dramatic layouts, and exciting superhero action with a simplistic, almost cartoony style of execution.".

good + chips, creases, some clear tape.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 8 (British edition). Cover art by Virgil Finlay. Small quarto. 68pp. Wrappers lightly worn and with a few faint stains and nicks, small abrasion on the front cover, very slight curl at the spine, very good. Includes "Legion of the Dark" by Manly Wade Wellman, as well as stories by Cleve Cartmill, Henry Kuttner, Stuart Fleming, Walter Kubilius, and Willy Ley.

First Edition. THE UNKNOWN 5, Pyramid, 1964, first edition fine in wraps. Contributions for the first time in book form from: Asimov, Bester, Sturgeon, Cartmill & Rice. All culled from Unknown Magazine. Along with THE UNKNOWN, Pyramid, 1963, first edition vg+ in wraps. The first book in the series with contributions by Bensen, D. R. (editor), Isaac Asimov; Henry Kuttner; Nelson S. Bond; Theodore Sturgeon; L. Sprague de Camp; Fritz Leiber; H. L. Gold; Malcolm Jameson; Many Wade Wellman; Robert Arthur; Anthony Boucher; Fredric Brown).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XIII, No. 2. [Edited by Mortimer Weisinger.] Cover art by Brown for "Men Must Die" (novelet) by Ward Hawkins. Includes "The Jules Verne Express" (novelet) by Eando Binder; "White Barrier" (novelet) by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.; "Experiment" by Roscoe Clark, F.R.C.S.; "Beyond Annihilation" by Henry Kuttner; "The Broken Axiom" (contest-winning story by amateur 25 year old) Alfred Bester; "Madness from Mars" by Clifford D. Simak; "Zeoh-X" by Ray Cummings. Special Features: "Science Quiz"; "If- The Sun Went Out" (picture feature) by Jack Binder; "Scientifacts" by J. B. Walter. Other Features and Departments: "Science Questions and Answers"; "Special Announcement"; "Science Fiction League"; "The Reader Speaks"; "The Story Behind the Story"; "The Swap Column." Illustrated by Jack Binder, Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, and Wesso. Letters from Robert A. Madle and others. Store stamps on bother covers; tanning; some wear and tear at edges; minor wet spots. Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

First Edition. THE ASCENT OF WONDER, Tor, 1994, first edition, (scarce first issue), fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Contributions by Ursula Leguin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Gene Wolfe, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Isaac Asimov, Robert Forward, Edgar Allan Poe, Greg Benford, Kate Wilhelm, J. G. Ballard, Anne McCaffrey, H. G. Wells, Larry Niven, John Campbell, John Sladek, Ted Sturgeon, Clifford Simak, James Tiptree, Frederik Pohl, Jules Verne, James Blish, Cordust-wrapper ainer Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Bester, Greg Benford, P. K. Dick, William Gibson, David Brin, et.al. A massive 1004 pages. Signed by both editors. Very scarce thus.

almost near fine.

almost near fine small clear tape at the spine end.