lucas beynon (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: GOOD. Paperback original - first US printing. A book which asks the questions "Suppose you could extend your life to 300 healthy, active years with no infirmities of age? What would this secret be worth? What would you do to protect it?" One reviewer commented that "what Wyndham does here is think things through in what was, for the time, a rather surprising way: he looks at it from the feminist angle." (Guardian) One of the scientists behind this discovery was a woman, the granddaughter of a suffragist, and this novel explores how such a discovery will affect women's lives, and their expectations of life - and the reaction against women being empowered. Ballantine 449K, cover price 35 cents. 160 pp. Cover art by Richard Powers, Good overall - usual toning to pages, some toning to covers, minor wear. Note: vintage paperbacks are fragile and need to be handled with care.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. First revised edition, originally published in 1936 as Planet Plane. Small stain on front cover, water stain on back cover, text block age-toned. A good copy. ; Octavo.

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 402 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated brown cloth covered boards. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Front free end-paper removed. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Book has a moderate forward lean. Boards are warped and bowed.

Zustand: Very good plus. First Edition. First paperback edition of this popular sci-fi novel wherein the women of an English village are all impregnated by aliens - famously adapted into the 1960 horror classic VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. This book has had several screen adaptations including Wolf Rilla's version in 1960, the 1990 John Carpenter-directed remake of the same name, and most recently, a Sky Max TV series (THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS). 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. All edges stained orange. 189 [3] pages. Minor shelfwear and rubbing. Firm.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. [Science fiction] SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. Publisher's grey cloth, spine backed in blue. With the typographic dust-jacket. Some light toning throughout, textblock edges faintly spotted. Light toning to jacket backstrip. Some gentle edgewear. Jacket laminated. Very good. A vast, speculative, galactic tale with an interesting publication history, the two credited authors John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes being two pen-names for the same person. Wyndham's publisher thought the story was more hard sci-fi than the other 'Wyndham' works, closer to what an earlier 'Parkes' book may have resembled.

SC. Zustand: Gut. 1. B1580-221 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The closed top edge of the text block is a little dusty. Complete with the very lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£4.95 to the front flap). The author's posthumously published last novel. A tale of a disastrous and fatal attempt to build a utopian colony on a small and remote Pacific island named Tanakuatua. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First UK edition, first printing. Bound by Stephen Conway in full green morocco with gilt titles to the spine. All edges gilt. Original publisher's cloth spine retained and bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A beautifully presented first edition of one of the undisputed highlights of 20th Century British Science Fiction. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.