SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE
First UK edition of Styron's third novel, centered around a group of postwar American expatriates who take to the Amalfi coast to do violence among the picturesque ruins of the Old World.
First UK edition of Styron's third novel, centered around a group of postwar American expatriates who take to the Amalfi coast to do violence among the picturesque ruins of the Old World.
First edition of Styron's third novel, centered around a group of postwar American expatriates who take to the Amalfi coast to do violence among the picturesque ruins of the Old World.
First printing of Le Carré's masterpiece of moral ambiguity in Cold War espionage.
First impression, the only book in the James Bond series told from the point of view of a woman rather than from Bond's own perspective.
First edition of this sleaze exposé of polygamous Mormon prophet Jesse James Strang, his beautiful cross-dressing wife Elvira, and his leadership of the Strangites as Revelator and King of Michigan's Beaver Island.
First US edition of this sci-fi novel of nefarious First Contact with alien outsiders who infect the mind of the first human to notice them.
Boxed set of Berkley's paperback Authorized Editions, with classic cover art by William Teason.
First edition thus, the first collected edition of three of Delany's earliest novels: CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
First edition of this paperback original on mermanly themes, published in the same year as John Lilly's notorious THE MIND OF THE DOLPHIN and appealing to a similar primal dolphin fantasy.
First paperback edition of this classic Heinlein novel, combining two novellas ("Universe" and "Common Sense") first published separately by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941.
First paperback edition of Delany's mythic cyborg space opera, nominated for a Hugo Award and rich with allusions to Melville's MOBY DICK, Arthurian legend, and Tarot lore.
First Equinox printing of Blish's short novel on the cosmic consequences of Californian political demonology, first published in shorter form as Faust Aleph-Null in Galaxy magazine and issued here as no. 27 in the SF Rediscovery Series.
First US edition of the first New Worlds SF anthology under the editorship of Michael Moorcock, showcasing new-wave and avant garde work from J.G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, David I. Masson, Langdon Jones, and Thomas M. Disch.
First edition of MacLean's first short story collection, including her prescient 1950 classic "Incommunicado," anticipating the modern internet search engine and its many lurking horrors.
First UK edition of Himes's eighth Harlem Detective novel, the last to be published during his lifetime.
Signed first UK edition of the famous radical science fiction novel on gender and isolation by one of the most influential writers in the genre — an exceptionally beautiful copy.
First edition, paperback original, of this post-apocalyptic science fiction novel of the far future, in which war and technology are weaponised for control.
Uncommon first UK edition of this noir thriller, originally published in paperback in 1961, with spectacular cover art by Barbara Walton.
First edition of this anthology of eerie and supernatural speculative short fiction by John Wyndham, J.B. Priestley, Robert Heinlein, and others, including the editor, whose "The Greatest Gift" was the basis for the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
Limited edition reissue of the classic 1942 genre reference, "the first bibliography of the detective short story ever written," with a new introduction by the authors.
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First printing of these collected adventures of Derleth's Sherlockian pastiches starring detective Solar Pons, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
First UK edition of this historical Holmesian pastiche, by his prolific and pseudonymous fellow fictional detective Ellery Queen.
First edition in book form of this Hugo-winning tale of a Wisconsin farmer who is granted immortality in return for maintaining a galactic WAY STATION, where he meets and converses with a profusion of aliens.
First printing of the first US paperback edition of the Hugo Award-winning futuristic political fable, in which a lunar colony revolts through the beneficent assistance of a powerful computer that develops AI.