Alan Hyder (27 results)

Condition: Fair. 1944. First Edition. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Condition: Good. Boards have little wear. Light toning to pages with some spotting. DJ has some edge wear and a few marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, in green cloth. No dust-wrapper. The first collection of Hyder's "Matt" stories from the London Evening News. Owner's signature on front paste-down. Otherwise a clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. 1st US printing. 7.5x5", 310 pp. Light sunned areas and stains on covers, ribbon bookmark present but detached, else clean, solid, Good in Poor dj with illegible spine, heavy chipping and scrapes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First American edition. Minor tanning to endpapers, VG in price clipped dust jacket with 1" piece lacking at base of spine, smaller pieces at spine head. Jacket artwork by Steel Savage.

Jason Van Hollander (illustrator). Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press:, 2002. First printing, Trade paperback, Fine, 160 pp. Cover artwork by: Jason Van Hollander An Ash-Tree Press vampire classic. First published in 1935, this is the story of an invasion of earth by a swarm of vampires from outer space. Good stuff that hasn't seen print in years. The first in Ash-Tree's vampire classics line. features an introduction by Jack Adrian. First printing, Trade paperback, Fine,

1944 1st edition; war economy standard; tightly bound in green cloth with black lettering to spine; spine and top front corner close to spine bleached. Faint foxing to page edges. Internally, endpapers yellowed/foxed; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cloke, Rene & Roberts, Lunt & Parker, Neave & Soper, Eileen & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows children playing each with a month on them. First story is 'The Girl Who Liked Fairy Tales. Pretty colour plates and two-tone text illustrations. 163 pages. Base of spine bumped. Minimal wear to spine and corners. A couple of hinges starting to crack. Just a odd fox spot otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is badly torn around bottom half of spine and along rear fold and into rear panel, with creasing but very little loss. Small tears and creasing to top of spine. A few other chips and tears to edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan Hyder (illustrator). 1st Edition. The second collection of Hyder's popular "Matt" stories from The London Evening News, with illustrations by the author. A very good copy in very good (prince unclipped) dust-wrapper (in mylar). Foxing on the book's outer edges, and a light inscription in pen on front free endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First printing of this edition. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" trade paperback bound in pictorial wrappers. Fine condition. Introduction by Jack Adrian.

Trade paperback original. First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Condition: Very Good. Ash-Tree Press 2002 First Printing (Paper) Small spot on top page edges else Fine Book Introduction by Jack Adrian. ''From somewhere out of space through the stratosphere. from the unknown, dropping through a silence with bleak eyes fixed greedily towards the inhabited earth. They might have bred here unseen, unheard of, in some darkly warm unexplored tropical fastness. '' Originally published in 1935 - a very scarce vampire novel. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. 1st Edition. Very good plus in orange boards with very slight fading and foxing to spine, and a touch of fading to small portion of right edge of front board. Interior clean and unmarked with minor offsetting to endpapers. An excellent copy of this very scarce titile.

First paperback edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Apocalyptic horror thriller, issued in conjunction with "Creeps" series; alien vampires come to earth via comet, devastate civilization. In one sense low-grade Wellsian SF, but highly entertaining in its own roughhewn fashion, also anticipating Colin Wilson's THE SPACE VAMPIRES by 40-odd years. ". Remarkable . told with very considerable vigor." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 607. "Strange and effective," number 3 of 13 best science fiction horror novels cited by Karl Wagner (TWILIGHT ZONE, August 1983). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-559. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p.106. Reginald 07680]. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers, unread. (33781).

P R Gawthorn London 1950. First edition. Gift inscription, foxing o/w good in like jacket. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

Illustrated by port frontis and Jason Van Hollander cover art and two illustrations. First thus edition. c.1935. Vampire Paperback Classics. Self-extended gloss paperback. 8vo. pp. xiv, 160. As New/In like jacket/Price sticker in clear archival cover. Introduction by Jack Adrian. ISBN: 1553100255. Flawless unread copy. OWBVAM117771.

Softcover. Condition: AN. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As New. FRom Vampire Classics and imprint of Ash-Tree Press, Edited by Adrian Jack, Book in pictorial wrappers and in as new condition.

Paperback. first edition. fine, unread, trade paperback,

First Edition. PRELUDE TO BLUE MOUNTAINS, C. Kendall, 1936, first edition, vg+ in a near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and a chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. A most uncommon Hubin title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, bound in orange cloth. The cover well rubbed; lacks front fly leaf; text tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Some wear to print on spine. Toning to edges and throughout. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. First Edition with "First Published.1935" stated on the copyright page. A very good copy bound in orange cloth and stamped in black on the spine. With soiling and stray marks to the cloth boards. Light wear along the edges of the spine. Clean and tight throughout. With 8 pages of Philip Allen & Co. Limited books for sale: "2/6 Library of Popular Fiction" ads. A collectible copy. First Edition with "First Published.1935" stated on the copyright page. First Edition with "First Published.1935" stated on the copyright page.

Hardcover. pp. 248. 8vo. Bound in orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Light shelfwear and discolouration to cloth, bumping and scuffing to corners, spotting to top page edge and sporadically throughout; very good. Lacking dustjacket. Featuring an innovative plot written in a style reminiscent of a vulgarized H.G. Wells, this seemingly one-off title from Alan Hyder has managed to cultivate a near mythical aura due to its rarity.

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Murder mystery by the author of Vampires Overhead. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, small closed tear to upper front panel, some slight edge rubbing, slight soiling to white backgrounds. Uncommon in the jacket. (10631).

1st ed. Brown cloth with black titles on spine; spine a little faded; moderate shelf wear to extremities; foxing on end papers and prelims. Rear hinge split and repaired. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).