Fletcher Pratt Editor (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. None Listed. 445 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, the covers are tight, they have scattered color flecking, mostly on the front cover.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Standard Magazines Inc.1949. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.25"], 146 pages, illustrated. Very good copy with light chipping to the spine ends, usual rubbing and edgewear/light chipping to the cover, text paper tanning as usual. mag 34// E. Cover artwork by Earle Bergey (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Second Printing. Bookplate. Jacket is price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. [1st printing, Apr. 1958] #G-116. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Co-operate - Or Else!" by A. E. van Vogt; "Good-Night, Mr. James" by Clifford Simak; "The Critters" by Frank Belknap Long; "Death Sentence" by Isaac Asimov; "This Is the Land" by Nelson Bond; "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury; "The Green cat" by Cleve Cartmill; "Pardon My Mistake" by Fletcher Pratt; "The Plutonian Drug" by Clark Ashton Smith; "Farewell to Eden" by Theodore Sturgeon. Creasing; tanning; corner wear with minor chips; minor bumps and dings. Book.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. Tear and hole in front cover, cover rubbed, a good copy. Back cover advertisement is for Wate-On Company. Ed Emshwiller (front cover) (illustrator).

Condition: FAIR. Paperback. Second volume in this series of anthologies containing original stories - this includes fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, Jerome Bixby (his classic "It's a Good Life"), Robert Sheckley, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. SIGNED by Pohl on the title page. Note from editor. 195 pp. Fair condition only (small tear at top of spine, crease to front cover, bookstore stamp on first page, usual toning to the pages).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shows minor wear, tear, and tanning.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good copy in pictorial paper covers. Binding cocked, but no internal cracks. Narrow damp-stain along the bottom edge (in the very bottom edge of the text block within). Paper tanning. No prior owner's marks, or tears/chips to the covers. A reading copy of the 1947 original edition, and not ex-library. Book.…

Condition: FAIR. Paperback. SIGNED by Pohl on the title page. Second volume in this series of anthologies containing original stories - this includes fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, Jerome Bixby (his classic "It's a Good Life"), Robert Sheckley, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. Note from editor. 195 pp. Fair condition only (glue in binding is beginning to deteriorate, usual toning to the pages). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher.. 173 pages. "More of the best. supernatural horror and awesome swashbuckling from the greatest fantasy periodical of them all! The creatures within will haunt your dreams and torment your daylight fantasies with the snister power tey hold. The great creators of chilling tales are brought together again in this convocation of monsters." CONTENTS = "The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth" by Robert E. Howard; "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore; "The Curse of Yig" by Zelia Brown Bishop; "Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith; "The Painted Mirror" by Donald Wandrei; "Amina" by Edward Lucas White; "The Black Kiss" by Robert Bloch; "The City of the Living Dead" by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt; "The Curse of a Thousand Kisses" by Sax Rohmer. >> Minor cover scuffing; minor creasing to backcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gray Morrow Art! (illustrator). Book.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. Less than the usual small edge tears, back cover crease, a VG+ to near fine copy. Back cover advertisement is for The Dollar Mystery Guild. Earle Bergey (front cover) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Coward-McCann Inc 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. A symposium on science fiction by Asimov, Boucher, Campbell, Clarke, etc. 294 pages. Very good condition with edge wear, light dust soiling top page edges offset to endpapers, in jacket with small closed tears, chipping to spine ends light rubbing. bx2.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine Brown Taped, Complete Covers With Small Store Stamp 1" X 1/4" Triangular Abrasion On Front Cover. Cover By Frank Paul (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Complete covers, spine chipped 1" at top, also with 2" x 1/8" chip near bottom, two thin Acco Fastener holes near spine, front cover detached above and below these holes with 1" tear into cover from lower hole., 2 1/2" corner cease lower right. Cover By Frank Paul (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ballantine Book 401K. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Richard Powers. This anthology contains: The Vanishing American by Charles Beaumont; The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island by John Collier; the Invisible Man Murder Case by Henry Slesar; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; The Weissenbroch Spectacles by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Shottle Bop by Theodore Sturgeon; The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London; The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells; Invisible Boy by Ray Bradbury; The Invisible Prisoner by Maurice Leblanc; and Love in the Dark by H. L. Gold. Richard Powers; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xiv) 210 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by James Warhola. This anthology contains: The Malaysian Mer by Jane Yolen; The Cloak by Robert Bloch; The Cheese Stands Alone by Harlan Ellison; Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds by Ray Bradbury; Shottle Bop - a novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; Woman in the Designer Genes by Daniel Gilbert; Junk Shop by John Brosnan; Of Time and Third Avenue by Alfred Bester; Bottle Party by John Collier; As Is by Robert Silverberg; Touchstone by Terry Carr; The Bazaar of the Bizarre - a novelette by Fritz Leiber; Elephas Frumenti by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; and The Crystal Egg by H. G. Wells. James Warhola; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good in Good dust jacket. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off white pages. Paper over boards is clean except for small areas of adhesive tape residue. DJ lightly shelf worn with label at lower spine, clear sleeve. Signed by author of preface, Fletcher Pratt, on page following colophon. Commander in Chief Edition of the Civil War Book Club. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 246 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Second Printing. 268 pp, frontis, illus, second printing, light blue cloth with black spine, clean and tight. DJ is in mylar, the front has a 3 inch closed tear and some toning of the spine and top edge, else VG. Not price clipped ($4.00), but the lower corner of the inner flap has a triangular trim. This book is likely to require extra postage for overseas shipping which can be very high, so before ordering , contact me so that the postage rate can be agreed upon. ID# CB.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xii, 294 Pp. Red Cloth. First Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.75.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bumped at the head and heel of the spine; previous owner's information written under the front flap. Jacket has several small nicks, tears, and creases along the top and bottom edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated bi-color boards/NF w/trace edge wear. DJ/None. Gift inscription to front cover verso. Collection of 21 science fiction stories beyond 1950s conception, and perhaps, still. Selections, published first in magazines, have not been anthologized in book form. Recognize any favorites? They are: 1, The Fittest (Katherine MacLean); 2, The House Dutiful (William Tenn); 3, Pride (Malcolm Jameson); 4, Unwelcome Tenant (Roger Dee); 5, The Glass Eye (Eric Frank Russell); 6, Underground Movement (Kris Neville); 7, A Gnome There Was (Lewis Padgett); 8, Solar Plexus (James Blish); 11, Our Fair City (Robert A. Heinlein); 10, The Fly (Arthur Porges); 11, Afterthought (H.B. Fyfe); 12, The Compleat Werewolf (Anthony Boucher); 13, The Wabbler (Murray Leinster); 14, The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles (Idris Seabright); 15, What Have I Done? (Mark Clifton); 16, The Angel was a Yankee (Stephen Vincent Benet); 17, Helen O'Loy (Lester del Ray); 18, Socrates (John Christopher); 19, Good-bye, Ilha! (Laurence Manning); 20, The Foxholes of Mars (Fritz Leiber); and 21, The Perfect Host (Theodore Sturgeon).…

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xvi, 268, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed/scuffed; nicks and several small chips at edges; toning to white rear panel; front flap's bottom corner clipped but with printed price still present at top right. Black spine; light aquamarine boards bumped at corners. Deckle fore-edge. Light toning to endpapers; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Paperback Printing. An uncreased spine with very light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : Kurt Singer,W.Somerset Maugham, Alan Rand, Winston Churchill, Franz Von Rintelen, Joseph Gollomb, Anthony Abbot, Thomas Johnson, Fletcher Pratt. Sacks, Carl (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Second Edition. [1st printing thus] Apr. 1979. Dj art by Mike Hinge. Inlcudes "Retrospect and Prospect"; "Preface to First Edition"; "The Place of Science Fiction" by John W. Campbell, Jr.; "The Publishing of Science Fiction" by Anthony Boucher; "Science Fiction in Motion Pictures, Radio, and Television" by Don Fabun; "A Critique of Science Fiction" by Fletcher Pratt; "Science Fiction and the Main Stream" by Rosalie Moore; "Imaginative Science Fiction and Creative Imagination" by L. Sprague de Camp; "Social Science Fiction' by Isaac Asimov; "Science Fiction: Preparation for the Age of Space" by Arthur C. Clarke; "Science Fiction and Sanity in an Age of Crisis" by Philip Wylie; "Science Fiction, Morals, and Religion" by Gerald Heard; "the Future of Science Fiction" by Reginald Bretnor; "Supplement"; "Notes and Corrections". New, but picked up minor dj soil in storage. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Paperback Printing. An uncreased spine with very light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : Kurt Singer,W.Somerset Maugham, Alan Rand, Winston Churchill, Franz Von Rintelen, Joseph Gollomb, Anthony Abbot, Thomas Johnson, Fletcher Pratt. Sacks, Carl (illustrator).…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 110 + pp. Vol. 70, October 1944, No. 500 issue only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on front cover. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 87 + pp. Vol. 55, November 1929, No. 321 issue only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 146 pp. General wear. Cover art by Ed Emsh; interiors by: Ed Emsh; Virgil Finlay; Paul Orban; Alex Schomburg; and Peter Pooulton. This issue contains: A Million Years to Conquer - a book length feature by Henry Kuttner; and short stories: Second Chance by Walter Kubilius and Fletcher Pratt; Orphan of Space by Don Wilcox; The Hunters by Alfred Coppel; Greenhorn by Harry Stine; The Question by Arthur Jean Cox writing as Ralph Carghill; and Science Can Wait by Ray Cummings; along with the usual features. Size: 8vo. Ed Emsh; Virgil Finlay; Paul Orban; Alex Schomburg; Peter Pooulton; (illustrator). Book.…

HARD BACK MULTI. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: TATTERED DJ. General wear: cracked hinge, loose sewn pages, foxing Awesome illustrations-- many full-color and full-page-- by Coggins make an otherwise technical book an interesting and imaginative read for young people or the young at heart DATE PUBLISHED: 1958 EDITION: 64. COGGINS, JACK (illustrator). …