Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Cover art of 'Star Hawks' by Gil Kane. An often overlooked magazine with a great interview with the Hildebrandt brothers. The interview reveals that they only had 36 hours to put together their original Star Wars poster that would eventually cement Star Wars as a classic. Magazine also features a spread of the Sci-Fi art of John Berkey (another classic Star Wars artist), Buck Rogers comes to TV, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Jerry Pournelle interview, Superman the Movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Flash Gordon, David Hardy Art, Wally Schirra on the Earth from Space, much more.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 78 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Data bank, Logan's Runner William F. Nolan. Still Sittin' On Top of the World- The Amazing Group 1 Astronauts, Star Trek - The Movie, The World of SF Pulps, Civilization in Space, Space Now! - The L-5 Society's Henson Family Writes a Future scenario, SF Graphics- Boris Meets Barbarella, Navy Drops a Boom Theory, Space Art of Robert McCall, and much more.
Softcover. NY, Dey Street Books, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 594 pages, b&w illustrations. Rediscover the groundbreaking magic of Blade Runner with this revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Ridley Scott's transformative film and published in anticipation of its sequel, Blade Runner 2049, premiering October 2017 and starring Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, and Harrison Ford. Ridley Scott's 1992 "Director's Cut" confirmed the international film cognoscenti's judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction film ever made. Future Noir offers a deeper understanding of this cult phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best. In this intensive, intimate and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction's most uncompromising author into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the 1950s and 1960s, giving particular emphasis to the significance of myth for the group in its reception of science fiction and its engagement with fantastic art. Offering new readings of the art and writings of the later generation of Surrealists, Gavin Parkinson demonstrates how they were connected to the larger cultural and political debates of the time. Whereas earlier Surrealist art and writing drew on psychoanalytic practices, younger Surrealists engaged with contemporary issues, ideas, and themes of the period of the Cold War and Algerian War such as parapsychology, space travel, fantastic art, increasing consumerism in Europe, emerging avant-gardes such as Nouveau Realisme, and the rise of the whole genre of conspiracy theory, from Nazi occultism to flying saucers. Futures of Surrealism offers a unique perspective on this brave new world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 2006, Hardcover, 343 pages, in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Collects eight stories. Reynold's first short story collection, the five sf stories set in the Revelation Space universe and adding three new novellas written specially for this edition. Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwalder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North and an Afterword.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pizzolatto, author of the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea (2006), delivers a taut first novel suffused with a strong noir sensibility. Roy Cady is working as a strong-arm man for a low-level New Orleans gangster when two events change his life: he's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and his boss puts out a hit on him. Soon enough, Roy and a young prostitute, Rocky--thrown together after a blood-spattered encounter with the would-be hit men--are on the run, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston. "Nothing ends well," Roy muses at one point, and, of course, we know from the start that this road trip is on a collision course with disaster.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Here collected into a single omnibus volume is Len Deighton's s thrilling "Game, Set, and Match" trilogy. Following Bernard Samson, a middle aged and some WHat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret ServiceBerlin Game, first in the trilogy, featured in the ten best spy novels chosen by The Times in June 2020. This edition contains helpful maps of Berlin not included in the original versions. Due to bulky 857-pages DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Howard N. Watson. Clean copy.
Boston, Lothrop Lee & Shephard, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, 259 pages. Color frontis, B&W drawings by L. J. Bridgeman. Nice bright copy.
New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Translated by the author. Dust jacket good only with edgewear and front with tear and creasing to top edge and with light residue mark. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Elsevier/Nelson, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 127 pages. Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson describes what it means to be a writer & reader struggling through the "gates of excellence". Spine with light fading.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second book in Lois Lowry'sGiver Quartet tells the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Jantar Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. The unloved wife of a doctor practising in Slovakia comes across his medical notes after his death. One `unofficial patient' has severe problems coming to terms with the disappearance and murder of his childhood sweetheart. Set in Slovakia from the mid-1970s onwards, historical fact, murder, loss and mourning combine delicately in a tale of love, loss, redemption and joy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w drawings by Brad Holland. Light edge wear, soiling to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover. Translated from the French, Les Meteores, by Anne Carter. Ivory cloth boards, with light tone to bottom edge, silver titles to spine. Dust jacket with light age toning, protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, light chipping. Autry and his horse Champ find plenty of grave trouble brewing as soon as they get into the redwood country to investigate a gang pirating timber in the forests along the Chicapoo River. B&w drawings by Erwin Hess. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 292 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Stated Ninth Printing on copyright page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Wallace Hebberd, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with a white label pastedown on front cover. B&w drawings by Jack Rader, 39 pages. Some tanning to inside covers from old paste used in production, Otherwise a clean copy.