John Beynon Harris (109 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Some creasing and wear; sticker and sticker tear to the Frazetta cover; pages yellowed. A reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Vintage Paperbacks; Inventory No: 227906.

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, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips and others. Next it was done in 1995, directed by John Carpenter and starring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Pare, Meredith Salenger, Mark Hamill. and many others. Peter Lord; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Three paperbacks by John Wyndham. "Stowaway to Mars," Fawcett Gold Medal T2646, printed December 1972 (though copyright 1935, 1963), originally sold for 75 cents. It's as-new unread, 192 pp. "The Infinite Moment," Ballantine original 546, carries only the 1961 copyright date and was originally priced 35 cents. It's "good" with creasing, cover art by Richard Powers, publisher's ad offers "Three Great Science-Fiction Classics" (including Clarke's "Childhood's End") for one dollar; 159 pp. "Re-Birth / They were the Mutants -- the hunted people . . . and the seed of the future," Ballantine original 104, was published in 1955, and originally priced at 35 cents. It's "good" with edge rub, page edges toning, and the original glued binding perhaps strong enough for one more careful reading, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, 187 pp. followed by an ad for a new Arthur C. Clarke novel called "Childhood's End." The three mass-market paperbacks now reduced from $20. Two cover illustrations by Richard Powers (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Printing. #72-701. Written by John Wyndham. 175pp. Light general wear. Cover by Frank Frazetta. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Condition: GOOD. Paperback original - first US printing. A book which asks the questions "Suppose you could extend your life to 300 healthy, active years with no infirmities of age? What would this secret be worth? What would you do to protect it?" One reviewer commented that "what Wyndham does here is think things through in what was, for the time, a rather surprising way: he looks at it from the feminist angle." (Guardian) One of the scientists behind this discovery was a woman, the granddaughter of a suffragist, and this novel explores how such a discovery will affect women's lives, and their expectations of life - and the reaction against women being empowered. Ballantine 449K, cover price 35 cents. 160 pp. Cover art by Richard Powers, Good overall - usual toning to pages, some toning to covers, minor wear. Note: vintage paperbacks are fragile and need to be handled with care.…

Paperback. 72-701 very good - fine, reading crease PBO. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. paperback.

Paperback. 72-155 almost near fine paperback.

Paperback. 72-155 very good - fine paperback.

Paperback. 72-701 almost near fine PBO. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. paperback.

Paperback. 72-701 near fine, unread PBO. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. paperback.

Condition: New.

Paperback. 72-155 near fine, unread paperback.

Wraps. Condition: Good-. Vol. 6, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Cover art by Paul for "The Man from Beyond" by John Beynon Harris. Includes "Wonders of the Planets" (editorial) by Hugo Gernsback; "The Fall of the Eiffel Tower" (pt. 1 of 3) by Charles de Richter; "The Living Galaxy" by Laurence Manning; "Forthcoming Stories"; "Shell Utilizes Rotation of the Earth"; "What Is Your SAcience Knowledge?"; "The Wanderer" (poem) by L. A. Eshbach; "The Tree of Life" by David H. Keller, MD; "Enslaved Brains" (pt. 3 of 3) by Eando Binder; "Science Questions and Answers"; Science Fiction League departments and book reviews. Illustrated by Paul, Saaty & Winter. Edges trimmed; spine and edges covered with masking tape; glued inside hinges; tanned. Solid and readable. Magazine. …

Wraps. Condition: Good-. Vol. 6, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Cover art by Paul for "The Man from Beyond" by John Beynon Harris. Includes "Wonders of the Planets" (editorial) by Hugo Gernsback; "The Fall of the Eiffel Tower" (pt. 1 of 3) by Charles de Richter; "The Living Galaxy" by Laurence Manning; "Forthcoming Stories"; "Shell Utilizes Rotation of the Earth"; "What Is Your SAcience Knowledge?"; "The Wanderer" (poem) by L. A. Eshbach; "The Tree of Life" by David H. Keller, MD; "Enslaved Brains" (pt. 3 of 3) by Eando Binder; "Science Questions and Answers"; Science Fiction League departments and book reviews. Illustrated by Paul, Saaty & Winter. Tanned; lots of old tape or ghosts; ad clipped from p. 512; trimmed; creasing; minor losses; pen marks and owner's stamp on front; a few owner's stamps internally. Magazine. …

good damp marks.

good corner bite.

good many tears.

good coverless.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 175 pages. "ROCKET TO THE EARTH'S CORE -it was the ultra-scientific machine-but it plunged Mark and Margaret into the weirdest of primative worlds.a land beneath the Earth's surface and forgotten by time." >> Cover scuffing; paper pull to lower left front cover; store stamp to interior front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. FRANK FRAZETTA (illustrator). Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. As Issued. 175pp. Covers show minor wear. Good to Very Good condition. Paper tanned.

Paperbacks. Condition: Near Fine. Later Printing. Cover By Frazetta (illustrator). Book.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Vol. 1, No. 2. [Edited by Sam Merwin.] Cover art by Bergey. Includes "The Exile of the Skies" (novel) by Richard Vaughan; "The Last Planet" (novelet) by R. F. Starzl; "The Man from Beyond" (novelet) by John Beynon Harris (John Wyndham); "The Light Bender" by Frank K. Kelly; "The Bore" by James Blish; "A Thief in Time" by Raymond A. Young; "The Moon and Mr. Wick" by Jack Williamson. Features: "Cosmic Encores"; "From the Annals of Science" by S. M. Ritter. Illustrated by Lawrence, Napoli, Orban, and Finlay. Tears at lower hinges (see scan; rear similar); tanned; edge and corner wear with short tears and small losses; foxing; small losses at spine ends. Magazine. …

Wraps. Condition: Good-. Vol. 4, No. 10. Bedsheet-sized pulp magazine; stapled wraps. Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Cover art by Paul for "Wanderers of Time" by John Beynon Harris [John Wyndham]. Includes "The Robot Technocrat" by Nathan Schachner; "The Man Who Awoke" by Laurence Manning; "Dweller in Martian Depths" by Clark Ashton Smith; "Science Questions and Answers"; "The Reader Speaks". Illustrated by Frank R. Paul. Letters from Jack Darrow and others. Issue has been wet and is wavy with minor damage to front at upper foredge corner, and rear cover and last few pages soiled with minor pulls and adhesions; center page loose. Magazine.…

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 have some light toning / toning. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is light generalized toning throughout. "Wyndham's reputation rests mainly on the first four of the novels published in his life under that name. The Day of the Triffids remains his best-known work, but some readers consider that The Chrysalids was really his best. This is set in the far future of a post-nuclear dystopia where genetic stability is compromised and women are severely oppressed if they give birth to "mutants". David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, wrote of it: "One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written. Wyndham was a true English visionary, a William Blake with a science doctorate." The Guardian states his "innocuously English backdrops are central to the power of his novels, implying that apocalypse could occur at any time or, indeed, be happening in the next village at this moment", while The Times's reviewer of The Day of the Triffids described it as possessing "all the reality of a vividly realised nightmare." " (from Wikipedia).…

very good , creases.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2nd U.S. paperback edition/printing (1973 Fawcett M2890) of the great author's lost race, juvenile novel - his first book originally published in 1935. Sharp and Fine and tight condition. Don Ivan Punchatz (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Ballantine paperback edition/printing (1969 Ballantine 01638) with new cover art by Powers. Near Fine condition with PON to inside of front cover - otherwise tight and sharp. Richard Powers (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Used Book.