Farmer in the Sky
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Farmer in the Sky
By Robert Heinlein
First UK edition, first impression, published by Gollancz in 1962.
Original red cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Better than very good with a little pushing to spine tips and some foxing to edges, otherwise clean internally.
The original and unclipped dust jacket, featuring striking artwork by Alan Breese, has a tiny nick to top edge and traces of mild wear to spine tips with some isolated spotting to rear fold verso, else near fine.
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Categories: First Edition, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction
Farmer in the Sky
By Robert Heinlein
First UK Edition
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
First Edition, History, Modern First Editions
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
By Evelyn Waugh
Three volumes. All first editions, first impressions, published by Chapman & Hall between 1952-1961.
All three volumes bound in blue cloth with lettering to spines in gilt and blue top-stain, which remains bright and well-preserved. A little toning to edges of vols I and II. Vol I has a tear to fore-edge of page 145 with some associated creasing and a thin and unobtrusive strip of discolouration to the bottom edge of upper board. The contents, aside from a couple of light and small areas of soiling to pages 310 & 313, are clean throughout. Vol II has some off-setting to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs and a small Foyles sticker to front paste-down, else a near fine book. Vol III is a fine and bright copy with just the slighted off-setting to fron and rear endpapers and paste-downs.
A few chips and tears to the edges of the dust jacket of the first two vols with a little spotting or light soiling in places and a couple of tape repairs to upper panel fore-edge of vol I. The dust jacket of vol III is near fine and bright, but for a touch of faint soiling to lower panel and a few light spots to verso.
A very good set overall.
£250.00
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Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
Modern First Editions, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Showcase, Signed First Editions
Unended Quest
By Karl Popper
First revised edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication to the title page: 'To Ian Hunter From Karl Popper October 1976. Popper's autobiography was originally published a couple of years earlier in 1974 as part of 'The Philosophy of Karl Popper'. The present edition represents its first separate publication, containing Popper's subsequent revisions to the original text.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 - 1994) was a highly influential Austrian-British Philosopher, academic and social commentator regarded as one of the most important and impactive philosophers of science of the 20th century. He proposed and developed ideas such as 'critical rationalism' and 'empirical falsification'; the idea behind the latter being that, given the impossibility of the attainment of definitive proof of a particular scientific theory, all theories should be subjected to rigorous testing and, therefore, potentially disproved by means of decisive scientific experimentation. This idea led to the establishment of the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
A touch of rubbing to spine ends. A few soft creases to spine and corners of covers with the usual toning to edges. Otherwise a uniquely well-preserved and near fine example, not often encountered inscribed in the year of publication and in such good condition.
£1,750.00
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American Psycho
First Edition, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
American Psycho
By Bret Easton Ellis
First UK hardcover edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page: 'For Danny best wishes Bret Easton Ellis'. A novel that was censored in several countries due to the graphic nature of the violence it depicts and formed the basis for the popular 2000 film adaptation.
Originally published as a paperback in the US and UK in 1991 and, as a hardcover, by way of the present edition in the UK in 1998. A hardcover edition would not be issued in the US until some 14 years later in 2012.
Original black cloth with silver lettering to spine and dark blue endpapers and paste-downs. A lovely and clean example with only a very minor knock to bottom corner of upper board and mild compression to spine foot.
The original and unclipped dust jacket bears the correct '10.00' price, corresponding to the first issue. Some of the usual sunning to spine panel with a little edgewear to spine ends and a very tiny nick to foot of lower panel spine hinge.
A near fine copy of a novel that is uncommon inscribed.
£1,000.00


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The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy: The Three-Body Problem, Death’s End, The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu, First Edition, Limited Editions, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction, Signed First Editions
The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy
By Cixin Liu
A complete set of the books comprising the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy. Each volume one of 250 numbered copies to be signed (and dated in the year of publication in the case of Vol I) by both the author and translators, Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen. All additionally bearing the matching number 180. The basis of the on-going Netflix TV adaptation.
The trilogy originally appeared in Science Fiction World in the Republic of China in 2006. It was first published as a standalone work in 2008 by Chongqing Publishing Group, later appearing in the US in 2014 and in the UK by way of the present edition in 2015.
Original blue, red and dark burgundy cloth with lettering to backstrips in silver, white and gilt respectively. A fine, unblemished set, in fine dust jackets.
£1,875.00