Category: Science Fiction--Fantasy (paperback)

Captain Johner and the Aliens, No. 1

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, Gold Key 10216-712 / Western Publishing / K.K. Publications : 1967

Seller ID: 018618

Condition: About Good

Presents eight stories featuring a character created by Manning, which first appeared as short back-up adventures in various issues of Magnus, Robot Fighter. Inside covers attempt to inject actual information into readers' heads with something called the Keys of Knowledge, this issue presenting information on astronomy, the first inside cover dealing with meteors and meteorites, the other with asteroids. The back cover reproduces the front, with a notation that it is a pin-up (although who in his right mind would rip the back cover off a comic book? A grunting savage who breathes through his m...
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Official Street Fighter Anniversary Edition Controller / Instruction Manual

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Capcon / Udon : 2004

Seller ID: 016681

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The instruction manual (in English, Spanish and French) for the controller for the popular Street Fighter game. (Quite possibly the most intriguing instruction is, "Please do not wrap the cord around any part of anyone's body." Apparently they knew that neither David Carradine nor Vaughn Bode would have had any interest in the controller.) Flip side contains a comic book. Light general wear.
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The Star Wars Iron-On Transfer Book

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York and Toronto, Ballantine 27491 : 1977

Seller ID: 018354

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Contains 16 "fantastic designs you can transfer to any fabric -- from the most fabulous space fantasy ever made!" All 16 iron-ons clean and intact. Mild surface wear, a bit of scraping to spine, gentle corner bumps, a bit of glue spotting to bottom right corner of front cover (sticker removal) slight staple pull (everything's still firm and intact). A decent copy of a book intended for destruction in the first place (just like those pesky rebels that the Empire tried to hard to destroy, but they endured, nonetheless).
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, August 1969, Vol. 3 No. 2

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mercury Press

Seller ID: 011280

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Twelfth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains a full-length novel by Julius Fast, and stories by Edward Wellen, Dean R. Koontz, Larry Eisenberg, and Robert F. Young. Also contains a Ferdinard Feghoot vignette by Grendel Briarton (Reginald Bretnor), columns by Ron Goulant and Joseph C. Stacey, and an article by F.E. Edwards concerning the work of Ray Bradbury on film. Short (1/4") tear to top right of back cover, small dots beside titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read), light genera...
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, February 1970, Vol. 4 No. 1

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mercury Press : 1970

Seller ID: 011278

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fair

The fourteenth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains a full-length novel by Keith Laumer, stories by V.N. McIntyre, Ron Goulart, and Robert Toomey, a Ferdinand Feghoot vignette by Grendel Briarton (Reginald Bretnor), and Ron Goulart's column on books. Tape stains at top and bottom spine and cover edges, small ink price in top right corner of front cover, light soil, small dots beside titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read), 1" high stamp (the numeral "2") on Contents Page, moderate g...
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, July 1958, Vol. 2 No. 4

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mercury Press

Seller ID: 011259

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

Tenth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by C.M. Kornbluth, Clifford D. Simak, Lester del Rey, Albert Stroud, and John Novotny, Sturgeon's usual books column and Asimov's usual science column. Cover by Emsh, interior illustrations by Giunta and Hurwitz. Spine a bit cocked, browned pages, small circles beside titles on Contents Page (apparently previous owner kept track of stories he had read).
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, March 1958, Vol. 2 No. 2

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : 1958

Seller ID: 011261

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fair to Good

Eighth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by Poul Anderson, Dick Hetschel, Robert Silverberg, Robert Marner, Don Berry, C.M. Kornbluth, and Algis Budrys, books column by Theodore Sturgeon, and science column by Isaac Asimov. Spine severely cocked/rolled, 1/2" separation to bottom right spine edge, browned pages, minor dampstaining, small circles beside titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read).
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, May 1958, Vol. 2 No. 3

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mercury Press

Seller ID: 011260

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Ninth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Edmond Hamilton, Arthur C. Clarke, Rog Phillips, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Marner, and Isaac Asimov, Sturgeon's usual books column, and Asimov's usual science column. Strongly cocked spine, browned pages, small circles beside titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read), dampstained edges, general wear.
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, May 1969, Vol. 3 No. 1

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mercury Press

Seller ID: 011266

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Eleventh issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains a full-length novel by Gordon R. Dickson, and stories by K.M. O'Donnell, Don Thompson, Bryce Walton, Daphne Castell, Ronald S. Boon, and Larry Eisenberg. Also contains one of those nifty little Ferdinand Feghoot vignettes by Grendel Briarton (Reginald Bretnor ). Books column by Ron Goulart. Small dots beside story titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read), light general wear.
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, November / Nov. 1957, Vol. 1 No. 6

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fantasy House Inc.

Seller ID: 011248

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fair to Good

Sixth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Miriam Allen De Ford, Isaac Asimov, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, and a books column by Sturgeon. Spine a bit cocked, crinkling to upper left portion of front cover, spine split at pages 52/53, small circles beside titles on Contents Page (previous owner apparently kept track of which stories he had read).
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VENTURE SCIENCE FICTION, September / Sept. 1957, Vol. 1 No. 5

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fantasy House Inc.

Seller ID: 011249

Binding: Wraps

Condition: About Good

Fifth issue of the sister publication to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by Floyd Wallace, Poul Anderson, Avram Davidson, Mack Reynolds, Jim Harmon, Robert Silverberg, Rog Phillips, Henry Slesar, and Robert F. Young, with a books column by Theodore Sturgeon. Spine strongly cocked/rolled, tanned/lightly soiled edges, smudged back cover, date written at top edge of back cover, date stamp on Contents Page, spine split beginning at pages 26/27.
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Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One (1)

By: Barron, Laird (guest editor) and Michael Kelly (series editor)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: No Place, Undertow Publications / CZP Chizine Publications : 2014

Seller ID: 018928

ISBN-13: 9780981317755

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 22 weird stories, including "Success" by Michael Blumlein, "Like Feather, Like Bone" by Kristi DeMeester, "A Terror" by Jeffrey Ford, "The Key to Your Heart Is Made of Brass" by John R. Fultz, "A Cavern of Redbrick" by Richard Gavin, "The Krakatoan" by Maria Dahvana Headley, "Bor Urus" by John Langan, "Furnace" by Livia Llewellyn, "Eyes Exchange Bank" by Scott Nicolay, "A Quest of Dream" by W.H. Pugmire, "(he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror" by Joseph S. Pulver Sr., "Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron" by A.C. Wise, "The Year of the Rat" by Chen Quifan, "Fox into ...
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The World Menders

By: Biggle, Lloyd Jr.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: DAW UQ1015 : 1972

Seller ID: 011577

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Follows the 1971 Doubleday first edition. An artistic and civilized race is unaware that its prosperity is entirely dependent upon a race of slaves owned and abused by their god-emperor. A bit of spine sunning, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1949

By: Blish, Bradbury, Cartmill, de Camp, Jones, Leinster, Morrison

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Standard Magazines : 1949

Seller ID: sf.00363

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Fair to Good

Stories by James Blish, Murray Leinster, Raymond F. Jones, Ray Bradbury, William Morrison, Cleve Cartmill, and L. Sprague de Camp, features. The usual edgewear/short tears/chipping, bottom inch of spine chipped, 2" tear to bottom right spine edge and across left edge of front cover, insect hole to fore-edge (doesn't reach text), some moderate soil here and there throughout, much handling wear, a bit of mustiness.
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The Unfriendly Future

By: Boardman, Tom, Jr. (editor) (contributors: Mack Reynolds, Will Worthington, Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison, Terry Pratchett, Jay Williams)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Four Square 1347 / New English Library / NEL : 1965

Seller ID: 019086

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

Paperback original containing six stories that "tell about the future -- but the problems might be happening today!" Contributors include Mack Reynolds ("Russkies Go Home!" -- now THAT turns out to be both prescient then and pertinent now), Will Worthington ("The Food Goes in the Top"), Brian W. Aldiss ("Danger: Religion!"), Harry Harrison ("Rescue Operation"), Terry Pratchett ("The Hades Business"), and Jay Williams ("The Seed of Violence"). The Pratchett story, his first to be published, appeared in 1963 in Science Fantasy #60 before being collected here. Not a particularly common titl...
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THE WAY IT IS: WAITING FOR THE MAN, including The Other Foot, Gift of the Magi, The Happiest Day, The Most Dangerous Game, A Letter to God

By: Bradbury, Ray, O. Henry, Sherman Dixon, Richard Connell, and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes

Price: $25.00

Publisher: No Place, Xerox Corporation : 1967

Seller ID: 018066

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

An uncommon collection of stories primarily of interest to collectors of Ray Bradbury material, this was "compiled by Xerox Corporation. It is part of the program THE WAY IT IS, to be used in conjunction with the Teacher Handbook, Learner Log, and accompanying phonograph records" (phonograph records????? -- must be some sort of futuristic term). Uncommon words/phrases are defined at the bottom of each page. Stapled wraps, 62 pages. Sunned spine, crinkles/impressions to covers, corner creases, sticker pull to front cover, 1/4" tear to bottom edge of back cover, general wear.
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Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, #59 (signed)

By: Campbell, Carver, Donaldson, Eisenstein, Moore, Wylde

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Munchen, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag : 1981

Seller ID: sf.00324

ISBN-13: 9783453307131

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The German-language edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This issue contains stories by Jeffrey A. Carver (whose signature is above his name on the contents page), Stephen R. Donaldson, Raylyn Moore, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Wylde and Phyllis Eisenstein. Slightly larger than the average North American paperback. Minute edgewear to spine ends.
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Image for NEBADOR, Book One: The Test; Book Two: Journey; Book Three: Selection; Book Four: Flight Training, b/w Kibi and the Search for Happiness; Book Five: Back to the Stars, b/w Buna's New World, and First Taste of Freedom; Book Six: Star Station b/w Neti's Temptation

NEBADOR, Book One: The Test; Book Two: Journey; Book Three: Selection; Book Four: Flight Training, b/w Kibi and the Search for Happiness; Book Five: Back to the Stars, b/w Buna's New World, and First Taste of Freedom; Book Six: Star Station b/w Neti's Temptation

By: Colby, J.Z., Karen Buchanan, Katelynn Persons

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Kelso, Nebador Archives : 2010

Seller ID: 019130

ISBN-13: 9781936253029

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

The first six volumes of a 10-volume series featuring the adventures of five young adults who rise from poverty and oppression to become citizens of the universe. All six volumes signed on first end paper, w/five of the six volumes bearing previous owner's name. All volumes internally tight and clean w/moderate handling wear. These weigh more than the average title, so additional postage may be required.
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An AFB 5-book sf multi-pack: The Maracot Deep, When the World Screamed, Starship Troopers, The Venus Venture, Earth Unaware

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan (2), Robert A. Heinlein, John E. Muller, Mack Reynolds

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Belmont 2056, Pan 25764, Ace 78358, Vega VSF-11, BelmontB50-826

Seller ID: 019258

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good to Very Good

Five novels of speculative fiction, the first being a novel of Atlantis (haven't they found that damn place yet?), the second a collection of seven short stories (the first of which is the sf title story, the other six "ranging from tales of mystery to yarns of the bare-knuckle prize-ring"), the third a classic from one of sf's Big Three, the fourth a novel of mankind "galloping towards the stars," and the fifth giving us the story of a being whose "unearthly power could destroy the world" (considering the way things are going, it can't happen a minute too soon, either).
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Night and the Enemy (signed)

By: Ellison, Harlan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norristown, Comico the Comic Company : 1988

Seller ID: 018232

ISBN-13: 9780938965060

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Five Ellison Earth/Kyben War stories adapted to comics form and linked for the medium. Unpaginated. Mild corner wear, light surface wear. Internally tight and clean.
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A Lost Tale (signed)

By: Estey, Dale

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Ace 49525 : 1982

Seller ID: 017343

ISBN-13: 9780441495252

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing w/complete number line. From the back cover: "For two generations a tale has been whispered about a rite of Druid magic, more ancient than the standing stones, that awoke sleeping powers on the quiet Isle of Man and protected Britain through the darkest nights of Hitler's war." 206 pages. Thin reading crease to spine, impressions (previous owner used the book underneath a piece of paper, upon which something was written -- book must be turned to the light for the impressions to show), tanning, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January through December 1969, (12 issues)

By: Ferman, Edward L. (editor)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Concord, Mercury Press : 1969

Seller ID: 019002

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Various Conditions

The complete 12-issue run from January through December of 1969, of the best sf magazine in the world. This lot contains fiction by many of the genre's top names, including Harlan Ellison, Anne McCaffrey, James M. Schmitz, R. (Reginald) Bretnor, Greg Benford, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, Vance Aandahl, Sterling Lanier, Zenna Henderson, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Miriam Allen deFord, Manly Wade Wellman, and many others, with columns and reviews by a wide group of contributors. Cover artists include Gahan Wilson, Russell Fitz...
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January through December 1973, (12 issues) (signed)

By: Ferman, Edward L. (editor)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Concord, Mercury Press : 1973

Seller ID: 019017

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

The complete 12-issue run from January through December of 1973, of the best sf magazine in the world. This lot contains fiction by many of the genre's top names, including James Tiptree, Jr., Jack Williamson, Gordon Eklund, Bill Ponzini, Phylis Gotlieb, Fritz Leiber, Kate Wilhelm, Frederik Pohl (the September issue is the Special Frederik Pohl Issue), the vastly under-appreciated Avram Davidson, Michael Bishop, Ray Bradbury, Robin Scott Wilson, Jack Vance, Gregory Benford, Harlan Ellison ("The Deathbird," which Ellison has inscribed, "For Xxx--/a friend of short but pleasant/acquaintance, wi...
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The Golden Rooms

By: Fisher, Vardis

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Armed Services 713

Seller ID: 012729

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

No date. Originally published in 1944 by The Vanguard Press. A tale of primitive man which "lays bare our primeval instincts before they became overlaid by rationalizations and refinements; he shows us in what mean beginnings love and the family have their roots, and he shows us, too, the dark blood." 350 pages. Light edgewear, moderately sunned spine, a bit cocked, 1/4" tear to fore-edge of pages 145 through 160, another to pages 305 through 308, thin crease to bottom left corner of back cover, the usual Armed Services editions tanning. Internally tight and clean, with no previous owner's mar...
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TRANSVERSIONS, An Anthology of New Fantastic Literature

By: Gagne, Marcel, and Sally Tomasevic (editors)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mississauga, Paper Orchid Press : 2000

Seller ID: 011742

ISBN-13: 9780968793909

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of stories and poems from such folks as Robert J. Sawyer, Bruce Holland Rogers, John Park, Ursula Pflug, Eileen Kernaghan, Nancy Bennett, William Laughlin, Rebecca M. Senese, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Don Hornbostel, Denise Dumar, John Everson, and many more. 186 pages, illustrated. Mild general wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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Midnight Robber (signed)

By: Hopkinson, Nalo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Aspect/Warner Books : 2000

Seller ID: 014182

ISBN-13: 9780446675604

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

329 pages. An unread copy w/moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Sex Life of the Gods

By: Knerr, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Uptown Book 703 : 1962

Seller ID: 014046

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A soft-core porn/sf novel written (according to Charles Nuetzel, who quotes Knerr on the matter) in about a week. 160 pages. A bit cocked, original price blacked out, crosscrack, tanning, moderate general wear.
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From the Archives of Evil # / Number 2

By: Lee, Christopher, and Michel Parry (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books 88-215 : 1976

Seller ID: 018530

ISBN-13: 9780446882156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Canadian printing. Contains "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Lurking Fear," by H.P. Lovecraft, "Rope Enough," by John Collier, "Lost Face," by Jack London, "It," by Theodore Sturgeon, "The Rats of Doctor Picard," by Henry Slesar, "The Beast With Five Fingers," by W.F. Harvey, "Skeleton," by Ray Bradbury, "The 17th Hole at Duncaster," by H.R. Wakefield, "Gabriel-Ernest," by Saki (H.H. Munro), "The Ash-Tree," by M.R. Jones (at least that's what it says on the contents page, but hey, never believe a contents page, because this one turns out to have been writt...
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a l'aube des ténèbres

By: Leiber, Fritz

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Paris, J'ai Lu 694 : 1975

Seller ID: 010188

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

French-language text of 'Gather, Darkness,' a classic sf story by a master of the genre. Originally published in the U.S. in 1943, then in French in 1958 by Gallimard before this reissue. Translation by Janine Herisson. 253 pages. Light rubbing, previous owner's name magic-markered out on front end paper. A nice copy, internally tight and clean.
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City on the Moon b/w Men on the Moon

By: Leinster, Murray, b/w Wollheim, Donald A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ace Double D-277 : 1958

Seller ID: 009664

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The Leinster side is a story of the first lunar colonists, while the Wollheim side consists of moon-related stories by Raymond Z. Gallun, A. Bertram Chandler, Frank M. Robinson, H.B. Fyfe, and Murray Leinster. Spine a bit cocked, some spine roll, light general wear.
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Category: Science Fiction--Fantasy (paperback)