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Lot 357

HEINLEIN, Robert A. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON. Shasta Publishers, Chicago,1950. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a dustwrapper with minor loss to the very head of the spine, not affecting the lettering and slight rubbing to the foot of the spine, two very small tears to the head of the upper panel and a little light wear to the corners of the folds. Sold For £130.00

Lot 358

HEINLEIN, Robert A. ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY. Fantasy Press, Reading, PA, 1953. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in the original plum cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. In a clean bright dustwrapper with the slightest wear to the spine extremities and corners. Sold For £180.00

Lot 359

HEINLEIN, Robert A. METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN. Gnome Press, Hicksville, NY, [1958]. First edition. 8vo. Text block browned as usual, in the scarce first issue dustwrapper with the 80 East 11th St, New York 3 address on the lower panel, with slight wear to the corners and a little chipping to the spine extremities. Sold For £100.00

Lot 360

HEINLEIN, Robert A. THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, 1951. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a dustwrapper with some wear and associated tears to the spine extremities, a tear mid-spine, two small tears to the top edges and a little wear to the corners. With three other Heinleins and a signed copy of Robert Owen's The Porcelain Magician. (5) Sold For £160.00

Lot 361

LEWIS, C.S. PERELANDRA. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1943. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a clipped dustwrapper, with a printed price of 8s. 6d., with minor loss to the head of the spine, and consequent fading to the head of the spine of the binding-case, and a little wear to the foot of the spine and to the corners, and with three very small tears to the edges. Sold with a third impression of That Hideous Strength and a Cheap Edition of Out of the Silent Planet, both in dustwrapper. Sold For £140.00

Lot 362

LOVECRAFT, H.P. THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR [and] THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD. Gollancz, London,1951. First editions. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in clean bright dustwrappers with one small tear to the head of the lower fold of the first title and slight fading to the spine of the second. Plus one other by the same author. (3) Sold For £120.00

Lot 363

STAPLEDON, Olaf. DEATH INTO LIFE. Methuen, London, 1946. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a clean bright dustwrapper with one mid-spine 'v' shaped tear, one minute tear to the head of the upper panel, very light wear to the spine extremities and the head of the upper fold. With five other Stapledon titles and an early reprint in the "Young Moderns" series of Isaac Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. (7) Sold For £60.00

Lot 364

VONNEGUT, Kurt. PLAYER PIANO. Macmillan, London,1953. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a dustwrapper with slight fading to the spine, as usual, and very light wear to the head of the upper fold. A very attractive copy, scarce in this condition. Sold For £340.00

Lot 365

WYNDHAM, John. JIZZLE. Dennis Dobson, London, 1954. First edition. 8vo. Usual partial light browning to the free endpapers otherwise internally clean and bright in a very bright clipped Rudland dustwrapper with the printed price of 11s 6d. showing the very slightest wear to the spine extrmities and corners. WYNDHAM, John. THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Michael Joseph, London, 1951. First edition, second impression before publication. 8vo. Partial light spotting to the free endpapers otherwise internally clean and bright in a dustwrapper with loss to the spine extremities, tears and minor loss mid-spine and with the lower panel of the wrapper partially detached from the spine, with a little wear to the corners and a small curving tear to the foot of the upper joint. (2) Sold For £220.00

Lot 366

WYNDHAM, John. THE KRAKEN WAKES. Michael Joseph, London, 1953. First edition. 8vo. Usual partial light browning to the free endpapers otherwise internally clean and bright in a very bright dustwrapper with a touch of browning to the extremities of the inner folds. Sold For £280.00

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