London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Wyndham's best-known work, a catastrophe novel about Londoners stricken with blindness due to a cosmic phenomenon, and wave of large, intelligent, carnivorous plants taking over the city. "The triffids seem beneficent plants until human greed and mismanagement turn them into quasi-sentient, mobile flora..... More
London: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd., 1952. First U.K. Edition. Asimov's best-known work, a collection of "Nine "postironic" robot stories, originally published 1940-1950, with new material added for continuity. Contains Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics and involves the history of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., and the strong-willed "robopsychologist"..... More
[New York]: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1955. First Edition. First Printing, with the correct title page points (per Currey) and the printed dedication to Bradbury's daughters on the opposing page. Octavo (22cm); light grey printed paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [52]pp; illus. Signed by Bradbury on the front endpaper, beneath a full-page drawing..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1998. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist, this being copy no.160. Octavo (25.5cm); full beige canvas cloth, with printed title label mounted across spine and front cover; publisher's original reinforced string-tied envelope, with printed labels; [ii],[4],5-119,[7]pp, with..... More