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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Berlin, 1979; orange cloth covered boards with brown cover titles and spine titles; corners bumped; mild corner and edge wear; light wear and markings to boards; 8vo, 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; no jacket; Interior clean and unmarked. 401 pages.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the novella "The Martian Way" by Isaac Asimov; novelets "Sugar Plum" by R. Bretnor and "Command Performance" by Walter M. Miller, Jr, short stories by Robert Sheckley, C. M. Kornbluth and more. Illustrated by Emsh, Scattergood and others. 160 pp. Cover art by Jack Coggins for "The Martian Way." Good overall condition with usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels but missing a long piece on the rear cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Cover shows minor wear, pages are tanned, tape on the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the novelets "Star, Bright" by Mark Clifton and "Dumb Martian" by John Wyndham, short stories by Roger Dee and Richard Matheson; the second intallment of the serial "Gravy Planet" by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth and more. 160 pp. Cover art by Jack Coggins. Near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers. …

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the novella "Delay in Transit" by F. L. Wallace; the novelet "The Altruist" by James H. Schmitz and short stories by Katherine MacLean, Roger Dee, Gordon R. Dickson and more. Illustrated by Don Sibley, Emsh, Willer, Ashman, and Karl Rogers. 160 pp. Cover by Jack Coggins. Near fine condition with only minor wear, star stamped on front cover, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the novella "The Martian Way" by Isaac Asimov; novelets "Sugar Plum" by R. Bretnor and "Command Performance" by Walter M. Miller, Jr, short stories by Robert Sheckley, C. M. Kornbluth and more. Illustrated by Emsh, Scattergood and others. 160 pp. Cover art by Jack Coggins for "The Martian Way." Near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the first part of "Mars Child" by Cyril Judd [pseudonym of C. M. Kornbluth & Judith Merril], the novelets "Hostess" by Isaac Asimov and "Ask Me Anything" by Damon Knight, short stories by Bridge by Dave Dryfoos and John Christopher; an article by Willy Ley. Illustrated by Harrison, Willer, Emsh, and Peter Burchard. 160 pp. Striking cover art by Chesley Bonestell for "Mars Child" Near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the novella 'Baby Is Three' by Theodore Sturgeon and the short story 'Game for Blondes' by John D. MacDonald, and more. Illustrated by Don Sibley, Freas, and others. 160 pp. Cover art by Emsh on both the front and the back covers with caricature portraits of the leading science fiction writers of the day - including Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson - celebrating Galaxy Magazine's second birthday with robots serving cake and cocktails. Near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing - a digest magazine. Includes the conclusion of "Time Quarry" by Clifford D. Simak; the novelets "A Second Night of Summer" by James H. Schmitz and "A Stone and a Spear" by Raymond F. Jones; stories by Sam Merwin, Jr., Richard Matheson and more. Illustrated by James Vincent, Don Sibley, John Bunch, Paul Pierre, and David Stone. 160 pp Cover art by Don Hunter for the novelet "Second Night of Summer." Near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1956: THE FLYING SAUCER LEAVES SCIENCE FICTION AND ENTERS THE HANGAR. A striking Atomic Age issue of Mechanix Illustrated, dominated by Gurney Miller's dramatic flying-saucer cover and the announcement U.S. AIR FORCE REVEALS OUR FLYING SAUCER. Inside, noted science writer and rocketry popularizer Willy Ley explains the proposed disc-shaped aircraft then associated with Avro Canada's work for the U.S. Air Force. Rather than treating the saucer simply as extraterrestrial speculation, Ley presents it as an engineering problem-placing this issue squarely at the intersection of 1950s UFO culture, Cold War aviation, and technological futurism. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: THE HOW-TO-DO MAGAZINE. Illustrated magazine in color pictorial wrappers, priced 25 cents. Cover artwork by Gurney Miller depicts a disc-shaped aircraft rocketing above a city. The March 1956 issue includes photographs, diagrams, technical drawings, advertisements, and spot illustrations throughout. Ley's four-page cover feature, 'How the Flying Saucer Works,' begins on page 78 with a dramatic two-page illustrated opening. Other features include Frank Tinsley's 'Why Don't We Build an Atoms-for-Peace Dirigible?'; Tom McCahill's retrospective 'My Ten Years of Car-Testing'; R. C. Sebold's 'Is the Pilot Obsolete?'; Robert Hertzberg's 'The Gun That Refused to Die'; and the magazine's characteristic assortment of automobile, home-workshop, electronics, and do-it-yourself material. Period advertising appears throughout, including automotive, radio, television, tools, technical-training, and mail-order advertising. CONDITION: CAREFULLY HANDLED. Very Good. Binding remains sound. Moderate rubbing and handling wear to the pictorial wrappers, with edge and corner wear and small creases. Interior pages remain clean with expected age-toning. The illustrated flying-saucer cover remains bright and visually strong. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: WHEN THE FLYING SAUCER BECAME AN ENGINEERING PROJECT. Willy Ley's 'How the Flying Saucer Works' is an unusually vivid artifact from the point where popular flying-saucer fascination met genuine Cold War aerospace experimentation. The article discusses disc-shaped aircraft development associated with Avro Canada and the U.S. Air Force, presenting the saucer not merely as UFO speculation but as a potentially workable military aircraft. The article continues to appear in bibliographies devoted to UFO-like aircraft and the history of flying-saucer technology. ATOMIC AGE OPTIMISM. The same issue contains Frank Tinsley's 'Why Don't We Build an Atoms-for-Peace Dirigible?'-an ambitious proposal for nuclear-powered lighter-than-air flight. Together the two features capture a particularly exuberant moment in mid-century technological culture, when atomic power, radical aircraft, automation, and futuristic transportation seemed close enough to illustrate, diagram, and build. SUBJECTS: Flying Saucers, UFOs, Willy Ley, U.S. Air Force, Avro Canada, Cold War Aviation, Atomic Age, Experimental Aircraft, Gurney Miller, Atoms for Peace, Nuclear Aviation, 1950s Technology, Science and Technology, Aviation, UFOs, Popular Science, Atomic Age, Cold War, Science Fiction, Vintage Magazines, Automotive History, Futurism.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printings - digest magazines. A set of six complete issues from the first two years of Galaxy Science Fiction digest, arguably the most influential science fiction magazine of its time, one which brought a new maturity to the stories, and an emphasis on how changes in the future affected people rather than on the technology. Frederik Pohl who worked with Gold and succeeded him as editor said that Gold brought a "sophisticated intellectual subtlety" to magazine science fiction, The magazine published all new and original stories. Among the authors contributing to these issues are James Schmitz. Richard Matheson, John D. MacDonald, Katherine MacLean, Gordon R. Dickson, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Judith Merril, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight and, of course, Willy Ley who contributed an article for each issue. Each is 160 pp, illustrated throughout. Among the notable covers in this group is that by Chesley Bonestall for the May 1951 issue and that of Emsh for the second birthday party issue with caricature portraits of the leading science fiction writers of the day - including Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein - filling the front and back covers. All issues are in a solid very good to near fine condition with only minor wear, usual toning to the pages, no mailing labels and bright and attractive covers. Uncommon in this condition.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 428 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 247 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. This collection contains eight short stories by Isaac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, Manly Wade Wellman, Lewis Padgett (joint pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore), A.E. van Vogt, and E. M. Hull. The introduction is by the prominent rocketry expert Willy Ley. Willy Otto Oskar Ley (1906-1969) became interested in rocketry after reading Hermann Oberth's technical work Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (1923). Aged only 19, he wrote a popularisation of the book's contents, beginning his career as a prolific author. He was one of the first members of the amateur Society for Space Travel (Verein für Raumschiffahrt) and served as a technical consultant on Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (Die Frau im Mond), the first film to depict realistic space flight. Ley was deeply opposed to Nazism and fled Germany in 1935. He settled in the United States, where his background aligned with the post-war explosion of interest in space exploration and science fiction. In addition to many one-off books and articles, he published a regular column in Galaxy Science Fiction, appeared in the 1955 Disney programme 'Man in Space', and was cited by the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration. First UK edition; 8vo; dampstain to the rear endpapers and blanks, marks to pages 214 and 215 and corresponding lighter marks to adjoining pages, top edge of the text block darkened and spotted; original red cloth, titles to spine in black, dampstain to the lower board, pale scuffs to the spine, a very good copy in the jacket with corresponding dampstain on the lower panel and spine panel and some rubbing, nicks, and short splits.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with green cloth over boards, silver lettering and illustration across cover and along spine. Yellow DJ with colorful illustration and text across covers. Former owner has pasted a white strip of paper with the book's title printed on it over the DJ's spine, probably removable but left on to be cautious. DJ has mild edge wear, but remains in overall good condition in a protective mylar jacket. Binding is tight and secure. Corners are slightly bumped. Pages are toned throughout, but remain otherwise crisp and clean. Images are printed in full color and B&W. The Viking Press. Title page dated 1953. Copyright page dated 1952 and 1953. 126 pages. A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford [et al.]. 1659. Two parts in one volume, folio. Contemporary sheep, boards ruled in blind with double fillets and roll-tooled border along joints, rebacked, blue lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed; pp. [iv], 83, [1 (blank)], [7], [1 (blank)]; 27, [1 (blank)], woodcut initials and headpieces; boards slightly rubbed, extremities restored; light dampstaining, small wormhole to upper outer corner of title and few other pages (not affecting text), but overall very good; modern bookseller's ticket 'Wildy & Sons Ltd.' to front pastedown.First edition of James Ley's collection of law reports on wardship matters, the only published volume of reports of the Court of Wards and Liveries.Established in 1542, the Court of Wards and Liveries managed the estates and guardianship of young, orphaned heirs whose fathers had held the status of 'Tenants-in-Chief of the Crown,' often after acquiring ex-monastic land. The Crown controlled these estates, overseeing the heirs' income rights and arranging their marriages until they came of age (21 for boys, 14 for girls). Although widows typically retained a third of their late husbands' estates, the Crown frequently sold wardships to the highest bidder or granted them as rewards for services rendered.Officially abolished in 1645, the Court of Wards and Liveries continued to function until the last wards came of age in the 1650s. This collection of reports was compiled by James Ley (1550-1629), the first Earl of Marlborough and Attorney-General of Wards from 1609. It includes cases from two other courts, the Court of Star Chamber and the King's Bench, and Ley's 'Instructions for our Master of our Wards and Liveries' and 'Learned treatise concerning wards & liveries' as an appendix.ESTC R13805. …