Beynon Lucas (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 220 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Cover art by Peter Lord. This was first filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, directed by Wolf Rilla and starring George Sanders, Barbara Shelley,…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book number U6119 with a price of .75 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The white book covers h…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book No. 449K with a price of 35cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. Th…

First printing of the revised text. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76]. Mild rubs to spine edge, light wear to head of spine/upper spine edge, 35 ce…

Condition: 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…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 2nd issue binding of green cloth with spine titles in black. "Science fiction adventure story set in 1964 about an underground race in the Sahara." Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-33. Some marginal spotting affects 5-6 pages, small whiteish spot to mid spine, G-VG c…

Condition: 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…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated. There is a bookplate to inside front board for school prize. There is a coloured frontispiece of a boy on a pony with a dog running beside; also a further three colour full page illustrations by Charles Robinson; also many b/w drawings by the artist, some full page. Th…

12mo. 189, [1] pp. Black tweed boards, gilt lettering on spine (occasional minor foxing), w/ d.j. cover art by Hugh Marshall (minor creasing & dustsoiling back cover), still VG/VG copy. First edition of this fascinating and feminist dystopian satire by the noted science fiction author, seta against the backdrop of a biochemist e…

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, speculati…

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. Com…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1956, this is a second impression of 1958, a tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of fab retro jacket and spine by Richard Barton, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight…

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 13s6d. Conventional science fiction from the pen of Wyndham, comprising four chapters - a fifth chapter was added to subsequent editions. A fine copy, in slightly chipped but otherwise very good dust-jacket. Convention…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First published in 1951, this is a third impression of 1958, a tribute to the author's popularity. Jacket sadly tatty, with edge wear, chipping, old tape repairs to folds, some closed tears and 2" loss to top of spine, corners and folds rubbed with some loss,…

8vo. 251, [3] pp. Red tweed boards, gilt lettering ons pine (very slight bumping to couple corners, light offsetting on front & rear flyleaves), w/ d.j. striking cover art by Peter Rudland (price-clipped w/ 13'6 price label affixed at lower corner), NF/NF. First edition, stated, of this curious anthology of science fiction and f…

8vo. 222 pp. Blue-gray publisher's cloth, yellow lettering (minor shelfwear, rubbing, slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art by Whitney Bender (minor chipping & creasing head & foot of spine, some creasing & edgewear, couple closed tears), still VG/G- copy w/ former ownership price marking on ffep. First American e…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. A science fiction adventure that imagines a hidden civilization beneath the Sahara Desert. The novel, set in the "future" year of 1964 (as projected from 1935), begins…