Toronto: Stoddart, 1987. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED to title page. Full blue cloth. 247 pp. Some age toning to interior, else fine. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realized Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. More
Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. 247 pp. Dust jacket has some light bumping to edges and age toning, damp stain to head of rear cover, else fine. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, brown paper boards. 319 pp. Some age toning to dust jacket, else fine. Funnier than Psycho, more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge, shorter than War and Peace, the new Dirk Gently novel is Douglas Adams' most ambitious..... More
Toronto: Stoddart, 1988. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full grey cloth. 246 pp. Spine slightly cocked, very light bump to spine head. Light age toning to interior. In fine jacket. More
New York: Wings Books, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, green paper boards. xii, 624 pp. Very light staining to fore edge of text block. Else fine. Includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, The Universe, and Everything; So Long and..... More
London: Macmillan, 2002. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With an introduction by Stephen Fry. Full black paper boards. xxxv, 299 pp. Fine. The Salmon of Doubt comprises ten chapters of the novel on which Douglas Adams was working at the time of his death in May 2001, along with an..... More
London: Pan Books, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. 191 pp. Fine condition. The fourth book in the Hitch-Hiker trilogy. More
Toronto: APT, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Soft cover. 257 pp. Some light bumping to extremities, else fine. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. Kaye, Graham. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Full blue cloth. Illustrated endpapers. 210 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Rubbing to edges, sunning to spine and top edges. Spine tilted. Damp staining to fore edge of ffep. Light soiling to lower corner of text block. Dust..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. War edition, produced in accordance with conservation orders. Second large printing. Full brown cloth. 244 pp. Spine cocked. Rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is edge worn, chipped to spine foot..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. Cote, Jean Marc. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8" x 9" Soft cover. 96 pp. Colour illustrations in text. Covers are age toned, else fine. In 1899, Jean Marc Cote, a French commercial artist, was commissioned to produce illustrations for a series of cigarette..... More
New York: The New American Library of Canada Ltd., 1972. Soft cover. 12mo. Paperback, 144 p.p. All edges yellow. Light bumping to front cover, very minor soiling to rear. The twin rings of Saturn were suddenly swarming with the robot ships of the deadly Sirian enemy. The avowed antagonists of..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A Foundation Book. viii, 339 p.p. Quarter-bound in blue cloth with orange paper boards, orange gilt lettering. Dust jacket lightly sunned to edges of flaps, lightly bumped at edges in a few spots. Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos..... More
New York: Harper Prism, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (super). Full grey paper boards. 101 pp., [34] pp pencil drawings from Barlowe's sketchbook. Colour illustrations in text, including one fold-out chart of comparative sizes. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, some spots of rubbing to edges. Else fine. More
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Tschirky, Robert. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full red cloth. 229 pp. B&W full-page illustrations in text. Spine ends bumped. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities, small chips to corners, foxing to..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full burgundy paper boards. 213 pp. Chafing to tail edges of boards, spine slightly tilted, light bruising to corners. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly bumped in a few places. More
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full turquoise cloth. 143 pp. Bruise to lower corner of front board. Foxing to edges of text block. Toning to interior. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly rubbed to extremities, moderately soiled. When..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1935. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. maroon cloth. 287 pp. LIght bruising to spine heads and top edge of rear board. Some light foxing. Dust jacket sunned to spine, edge worn, cropped to flaps, some small chips..... More
New York: Avalon Books, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full green cloth. 222 pp. Dust jacket lightly worn and creased to extremities, light soiling to rear. Else a fine copy. There was peace on Earth, an Earth united under the all-powerful rule of the..... More
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New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback. Original slipcase. In publishers shrinkwrap. Published posthumously, Roberto Bolano's [1953-2007] science fiction masterpiece is set in Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have vanished in a decade. A German author, New York reporter, a widowed philosopher and a...... More
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. burgundy cloth. 282 pp. Damp staining to upper corners and top edge of rear board, white scuff to spine head. Foxing to edges of text block. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is..... More
New York: Del Rey, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, black paper boards. 288 pp. Remainder mark to top edge of text block. Fine condition. With The Crucible of Time, John Brunner returns to the large-canvas science fiction he pioneered in his Hugo Award-winning novel Stand on Zanzibar..... More
London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1969. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Scarce unclipped first UK edition. Full black paper boards, gold titles to spine. 505 pp. Bookseller's ticket of Foyles, London to front pastedown. Dust jacket lightly edge worn, sunned in spots. Stand on Zanzibar is more than just a science..... More
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xii, 404 pp. Very light bumping to covers and some light scuffing to covers, else fine. Terminal Identity puts to rest any lingering doubts about the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a...... More
