THE HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (FIRST STATE JACKET)
First Edition, First Printing, First State Near fine/fine book in the exceedingly scarce near fine FIRST STATE original jacket with the requisite ?Capricorn One? Statement to the rear panel. An usually bright clean book with deep blue cloth boards. Bright unfaded gilt titles to spine. The book is in fine/near fine condition with sharp corners, one very tiny outer tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end pages are clean, bright and flat with no owner names and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages, no age toning and no foxing. Beautiful clean, crisp book, internally appearing as unread! Please see images. The book comes with a fine/near fine FIRST STATE first edition, first printing original dust jacket, with the requisite ?Capricorn One? Statement to the rear panel. The dust jacket benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine tips and present in fine/near fine condition with strong vibrant colors. The dust jacket has No rips, No chips, No edgewear, No staining, No foxing and NONE of the otherwise usual spine fading. Very slight evening toning to the rear panel. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a price of £4.95 net on the front inner flap. The fantastic jacket art was designed by Patrick Gierth, and is now protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Stunning jacket! Easily the most superb dust jacket copy we have handled. A superb copy of this classic sci-fi title which launched subsequent titles, movies and an entire following! ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for additional landmark SciFi Classics.
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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
GEORGE ORWELL First Edition, First Printing A clean crisp book with the original dust jacket in the scarce red variant color. Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work “of hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity. nightmarish in the telling” (Clute & Nicholls, 896). In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. “It is quite simply a novel which has changed the world” The book is in near fine condition with light green cloth boards with red titles to the spine. The boards have sharp corners, a tight binding and no edgewear. Hint of slight edge bumping. Mottling and toning to the cloth mostly to the spine tips. The end papers are in clean condition with no owner names, no bookplates and no inscriptions but with some very pale faded foxing spots. Small faded bookseller stamp to the rear end paper. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no age toning, no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages and no foxing internally but some foxing spots to the outer page block. Please see images. The preferred scarce red variant original dust jacket has benefited from some restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition. The restoration is mostly limited to the very outer spine tips/edges and to an intact tear along the rear panel. The Nineteen Eighty-Four jacket is known to be extremely fragile, and usually in pieces or missing altogether. This jacket has strong vibrant colors with the typical fading of the spine to a grey tone. Otherwise the jacket has no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, no rubbing and no foxing. The rear panel remains quite bright with a very softened slight crease. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 10s. net. A beautiful unclipped dust jacket! Please see detailed images. A remarkable crisp, clean copy of this title with an original jacket in the scarce red variant color. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi titles.- $16,995
- $16,995
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
H.G. WELLS st Edition, First Impression, First State An excellent example of this title in the FIRST state with the copyright page date 1898, and without the publishers catalogue. The first state of this title was issued both with a 16 page catalogue AND without the publishers catalogue; and a second state of the first printing was issued with a 32 page catalogue. The book is in excellent condition for this title being firmly bound, having benefited from being rebacked with all the original cloth laid back down. As such the book is tight and sound and quite readable without the usual cracked hinges or broken bindings. The original cloth is in beautiful condition with no rubbing or wear but a spot to the rear board. The book has slightly rounded corners with strong black titles to the front and spine. The original end papers are present, the front end paper has slight offsetting from what was likely a book plate. The book has no owner names, and no inscriptions but a faint pencil mark to the first blank page. The pages are remarkably clean with but a few stray faded handling marks, otherwise no stains, no bent pages and no foxing. Overall even toning to the pages. Please see detailed images. No dust jacket as issued. A wonderful example of this title in a sound readable binding! A handsome copy in highly collectible condition, which displays well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi titles.- $5,195
- $5,195
PSYCHO (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED)
ROBERT BLOCH First Edition, First printing, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY Stunning near fine crisp book in a striking near fine vibrant dust jacket, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY WITH AN INCREDIBLE DEDICATION “To John Anthony Miller/ – Who likes autobiographies / Robert Bloch / 2/27/94” Crisp first state book in beige quarter and black paper boards with bright unfaded red title to the spine. The book is in fine condition with clean boards with no edgewear. The book has sharp corners, and a tight and square binding. This notoriously fragile book is always found with age toned pages. The end papers and internal pages have the common age toning, otherwise are clean with no owner names, no book plates and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean with bring crisp and flat with no marks, no writing, no bent pages, no stains, no handling marks and no foxing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY “To John Anthony Miller/ – Who likes autobiographies / Robert Bloch / 2/27/94”. Beautiful crisp near fine book appearing as unread. Please see detailed images. The original first edition dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine tips by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in stunning fine/near fine condition. The jacket has unusually strong vibrant colors with slight toning to the white portion of the jacket, otherwise no edgewear, no chips, no rubbing, no stains and no foxing. The jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $2.95. Beautiful stunning jacket! Please see detailed images. A very handsome, near one-of-a-kind fine copy of this scarce title with a vibrant striking, unclipped dust jacket. Presents beautifully on the shelf. About John Anthony Miller: Miller owned Phantom Bookshop which he established in 1993 located for eight years in Downtown Ventura at 451 E. Main St in Ventura, California. Many famous authors and celebrities signed there and was a top favorite bookshop of Ray Bradbury's. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark Horror titles.- $4,895
- $4,895
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
J.D. SALINGER First Edition, First Printing, First State Jacket A superb copy of this title in an also superb unrestored FIRST STATE first printing dust jacket. Beautiful vibrant clean fine fine book with a beautiful FIRST STATE fine vibrant original dust jacket. With all relevant issue points, including original price (in the correct place on the flap, the dollar sign is above the shoulder of the letter ?R? instead of being on the heel of the ?R?), close crop to Salinger?s hair touching the upper edge of the rear panel, and ?First Edition? stated on the copyright page. The book is in exceptional condition for this title which otherwise is normally found with the gilt completely faded/oxidized to brown. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean and bright and with only a hint of the toning normally found along the gutter of the end papers. The end papers have no inscriptions, no book plates and no bookstore stamps. The interior pages are clean, and unusually bright, with no marks, no stains, no handling marks, no bent pages and no writing, and the outer page block remains bright. An overall solid, beautiful, clean book. Please see images. The original unrestored stunning first edition, FIRST STATE jacket is the correct first issue with the close cropping of Salinger?s head on the rear panel, with Salinger?s hair barely touching the upper edge and the correct placement of the price on the front flap. The jacket has strong vibrant colors with the spine color very vibrant and a strong red color. The jacket has no edgewear, no chips, no stains, no rubbing, no rips, no fading and no foxing. The dust jacket is NOT Price clipped and has a stated price of $3.00 on the inside front flap, and is the FIRST state with no space above Salinger?s head. Striking dust jacket! Please see detailed images. A superb example of this title with a stunning first state dust jacket. Presents beautifully on the shelf. We have included an image of the proper location of the $3.00 price in a first state jacket. The correct placement for the first state jacket is shown in the last image, and is the image shown to the left side, the image has drawn in lines running down from the price to assist in discerning the correct location of the $3.00 placement on the front flap (please see the image, last in our image series which shows the first state dust jacket as the first image to the left). However, in addition, the first state of the first printing dust jacket is also 3 mm shorter which accommodates the first printing book with is also shorter than the second and later printings. The second state jacket and all later printing jackets were then ever so slightly longer. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other first printing landmark classics.- $18,995
- $18,995
THE HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (FIRST STATE JACKET)
DOUGLAS ADAMS First Edition, First Printing, First State Near fine/fine book in the exceedingly scarce near fine FIRST STATE original jacket with the requisite ?Capricorn One? Statement to the rear panel. An usually bright clean book with deep blue cloth boards. Bright unfaded gilt titles to spine. The book is in fine/near fine condition with sharp corners, one very tiny outer tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end pages are clean, bright and flat with no owner names and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages, no age toning and no foxing. Beautiful clean, crisp book, internally appearing as unread! Please see images. The book comes with a fine/near fine FIRST STATE first edition, first printing original dust jacket, with the requisite ?Capricorn One? Statement to the rear panel. The dust jacket benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine tips and present in fine/near fine condition with strong vibrant colors. The dust jacket has No rips, No chips, No edgewear, No staining, No foxing and NONE of the otherwise usual spine fading. Very slight evening toning to the rear panel. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a price of £4.95 net on the front inner flap. The fantastic jacket art was designed by Patrick Gierth, and is now protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Stunning jacket! Easily the most superb dust jacket copy we have handled. A superb copy of this classic sci-fi title which launched subsequent titles, movies and an entire following! ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for additional landmark SciFi Classics.- $4,995
- $4,995
LORD OF THE FLIES
WILLIAM GOLDING First Edition, First Printing: Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful bright near fine plus condition clean book with a magnificent near fine vibrant original unclipped dust jacket. A superb copy of this book with stunning ruby red cloth boards with sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. Strong, unfaded white titles to the spine. The end papers have one delicate scripted owner name and date of 1954 (in the year of publication), and otherwise are in perfect condition, with no bookplates and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat, internally appearing as fresh and unread but very faint foxing to the end papers. This original First Issue Dust Jacket with the summary of “Lord of the Flies” on the front flap, (later editions were changed to blurbs), is bright and vibrant in color and received only a tiny touch of restoration to the upper tip of the jacket spine. The jacket presents in magnificent near fine/fine condition and withOUT any of the typical discoloratin or sunning to the spine. The dust jacket maintains the strong vibrant colors with no other rips, no chips, no edgewear, no fading, no foxing and no stains. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and is priced 12s 6d net. A stunning dust jacket, scarce in this condition. Originally published in 1954, The Lord of the Flies was named to Modern Library’s 100 Greatest Novels List of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s cultural commentators noted that Lord of the Flies was replacing Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye as the bible of the American adolescent. Since then, this masterpiece has established itself as a modern classic. “This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man’s return to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is” (The New York Times Book Review). A very handsome copy of this scarce title in superb condition. Presents extremely well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark classics.- $16,995
- $16,995
MOONRAKER
IAN FLEMING First Edition, First Printing Beautiful near fine book with a near fine dust jacket. Original crisp fine/near fine black covered boards with bright unfaded silver titles to front and spine. The boards are in clean, beautiful condition with sharp ever so slightly rounded corners, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are in clean condition, with no owner names, no inscriptions, no book plates, and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with crisp page corners with no stains, no handling marks, no writing, no foxing, and no bent pages. “Shoot” spelled correctly as “Shoot” on page 10. Beautiful book with very bright, clean boards! A stunning example of this elusive first edition, first impression Fleming book. Please see images for details. The dust jacket is in near fine condition having benefited from slight restoration to the outer spine tips. The dust jacket has No edgewear, No chips, No rips, No tears, No stains, and No foxing. Some light overall fading to the flame colors, more so on the spine. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 10s 6d net. The dust jacket is protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Please see the many detailed images. A very striking, handsome example of this Fleming title. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for additional Ian Fleming/James Bond listings.- $5,995
- $5,995
THE INVISIBLE MAN
H.G. WELLS First Edition, First Printing, First Issue An excellent example of this title in the original red cloth. First edition, first printing, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s ads The book is in excellent condition for this title being firmly bound. The has been professionally recased with renewed end papers, allowing the book to be tight and sound and quite readable without the usual cracked hinges or broken bindings. The original cloth is in beautiful vibrant condition and withOUT the usual common fading of the spine cloth. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The book has no bookplates, no owner names and no inscriptions. The internal pages are remarkable clean with no stains, no bent pages and no foxing but have the common overall even light toning. Please see detailed images. No dust jacket as issued. A wonderful example of this title in a sound readable binding! A handsome copy in collectible condition, which displays well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi and Horror listings.- $2,995
- $2,995
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
H.G. WELLS First US Edition, First Printing, First State An exceedingly scarce title to locate in the first US printing. A handsome, unrestored, clean example of this title. The US edition is the true first printing having been published one month prior to the UK edition. All pages present, and firmly bound. First state with “Bowen/Merrill” at the base of the spine panel. Variant with the moon, author and title all gold stamped to the front, and the title blind stamped to the rear board. The American edition of The First Men in the Moon is the true first edition in book form, preceding the London edition by one month. Wells’s lunar adventure was a genre-defining work, and arguably the first alien dystopia, which inspired many later works. The First State book is in near fine condition with beautiful blue cloth boards with strong unfaded gilt tiles to the front and spine. Variant with both the moon, the author and the tiles all stamped in gold, and stunning gilt designs to the front with gilt titles to the spine, and the title blind stamped to the rear board. First state with “Bowen/Merrill” at the base of the spine panel. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear but with to the outermost corner tips. Illustrations by E Herring. Original tissue guard is present. The end papers are clean with no owner names, no bookplates and no bookstore stamps, however there is a faded illegible inscription to the title page (please see images). The internal pages are very clean and bright with no foxing, no handling marks, no writing, no bent pages and no stains. A very handsome example of this title in collectible condition without the excessive wear, and broken bindings as is typically found with this title. Important, scarce edition. Presents well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi titlles.- $2,995
- $2,995
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
H.G. WELLS First Edition, First Printing, First State First British edition, First state. A beautiful unrestored first state book, with the requisite black end papers. All pages present, and firmly bound. The book is in great condition with beautiful blue cloth boards and stunning gilt designs to the front with gilt titles to the spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. 12 inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson. Final leaf is blank. The book has the original black coated end papers with no prior owner names and no inscriptions. The book has no edgewear but a few tiny spots of rubbing; and the binding is tight and square making the book quite readable and not fragile as is otherwise typical of this title. The internal pages are very clean and bright with no foxing, no stains, no writing, no handling marks and no bent pages. Please see the many detailed images. The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call “Selenites”. A very handsome unrestored copy of this title in collectible condition without the excessive wear, and broken bindings as is typically found with this title. Important, scarce edition. Presents well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi listings.- $1,995
- $1,995
