beccon publications essex (17 results)

Stapled pictorial covers. First edition (& 1st printing). Short story limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author and the author's (then) young son, Jack, who supplied the colour cover art and interior b/w illustrations. However this copy is unnumbered and unsigned. A very funny Christmas story. Fine (as new) copy.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Collects one hundred stories of exactly one hundred words each by C. J. Cherryh, Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, Rachel Pollack, F. Paul Wilson, Joe Haldeman, Mary Gentle, Jane Yolen, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Joan Aiken, John Sladek, Christopher Stasheff, Brian M. Stableford, Ian Watson, James White, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles de Lint and many, many others. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 numbered copies printed. This is no 614. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for fading (light brown to yellow) along the spine and part of the front panel.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). 370 pages: collection of essays and articles, not so much specific book reviews (as found in earlier volumes) though there are some pieces on specific authors such as Joan Aiken, Thomas Burnett Swann, Howard Waldrop and William Mayne. Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). The author has been writing a monthly review column in Locus magazine since 1991: this book collects five years of these ''insightful, perceptive, and sometimes trenchant'', articles. The author's first book of collected book reviews. 428 pages, Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). 434 pages: mostly reviews from his monthly column for Locus magazine from 2002-2006. Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). 448 pages of book reviews (collected from Charles N. Brown's Locus magazine 1997-2001) with index: introduction by Peter Straub. Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). The latest volume of book reviews covering 2008-2014, plus the author's collected fiction (five stories!) with story notes, and also includes The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon Of Horror, first published in 2006 in a very small print run as a limited edition. Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). Over 400 pages, 214.000 words of uncollected book reviews and articles about sf and the genre: no overlap with the two earlier collections of Clute's non-fiction (Strokes and Look At The Evidence). There is also a simultaneous VERY limited hardbound edition of just fifty copies. Fine (as new) copy.

Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). 416 pages: uncollected book reviews and film reviews, plus other material. Fine (as new) copy.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-2] 3 [4] 5-107 [108], pictorial wrappers. First edition. An issue by issue review of UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN WORLDS (1939-1943) and indexes. Trade paperback format. A fine copy. (#164765).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clute, Judith (illustrator). 1st Edition. 133pp; illustrated; limited edition 222/? not numbered; presentation inscription to half title with signature of author and artist, also signed by author on sticky label to fep.; few sciffs to d/j. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Over 400 pages, 214,000 words of uncollected book reviews and articles about sf and the genre: no overlap with the two earlier collections of Clute's non-fiction (Strokes and Look At The Evidence). LIMITED EDITION. 50 numbered hardbound copies signed by the author. Note: this is the ONLY hardcover edition, limited to just fifty copies (there was a simultaneous trade paperback). Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Number 432 of 1000 numbered copies. Collects one hundred stories of exactly one hundred words each by one hundred authors, C.J. Cherryh, Bruce Sterling, Roger Zelazny, F. Paul Wilson, Joe Haldeman, Mary Gentle, Jane YolenNeil Gaiman, Joan Aiken, and many, many others. Signed by their stories by Steve Jones, Mary Gentle, Eve Devereux, David Langford, John Clute, Maxim Jakabowski and Stephen Gallagher as himself and as John Lydecker. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Number 831 of 1000 numbered copies. Collects one hundred stories of exactly one hundred words each by John Brunner, Ed Bryant, Robert Forward, Gwyneth Jones, Larry Niven, Brian Stableford, and many others. Signed by their stories by Brian Aldiss, twice by Colin Greenland, John Grant, Mark & Julia Smith - aka Jonathan Wylie, Harry Harrison, Storm Constantine, David Langford and Stephen Gallagher. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Scarce. A new, unread copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies, this being one of 111 copies reserved for the contributors (in this case, John Brunner's copy, with his neat name plate to the base of the front pastedown. This copy in numbered 72 and Brunner's contribution is to be found on that page). 8vo. 110pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state with very good dust wrapper, lighted faded at the spine panel, and with a shade of near-invisible further fading to the upper margin of the front panel. An anthology of 100 stories, each exactly 100 words in length. Contributors include John Brunner, Tery Pratchett, Brian Aldiss, Issac Asimov, E.C.Tubb, Patrick Tilley, Larry Niven, Robert Holdstock, Gene Wolfe, Harry Harrison, and the editors. A bookform version of a game ("drabble") played for many years by the Birmingham University Science Fiction Society.