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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors. Square corners. Excellent condition. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000536
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Kerosina 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing Limited State & Thus Signed by the Author (No 55/300) Fine book in like Dust Jacket and box, together with The Magic of the Past (unsigned) ''. It is 30 years since Brian Aldiss' first science fiction book was published, and Cracken at Critical is the author's own sardonic glance at the formative years of his career as a writer. For those who appreciate serious SF, this book will come as a welcome dose of light relief. ''. Book. Seller Inventory # 121540
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book in DJ; Signed, limited 104/250. Issued in box with chapbook The Magic of the Past. Seller Inventory # 55
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Brian Aldiss - No 88 / 250 250 copies of Cracken at Critical have been cloth bound, signed by the author and numbered; they have been Slip-cased with a hardcover copy of " The Magic of the Past". these copies comprise the Collector's edition. The Magic of the Past is numbered but not signed. First Edition, First Printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. minor chip on bottom edge. Not price clipped. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. Slip case shows some wear (Very good) All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 041735
Book Description Octavo, cloth. First British edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Aldiss. Fix-up novel in which "the author has built a framing narrative, about an alternative Europe still under Nazi domination, around two old space adventure novellas from the 1950s . The modern story is fine, but, unfortunately, it comprises less than a fifth of the whole book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 80. Text revised from that of the earlier U.S. edition published as THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Enclosed in cloth slipcase with a copy of the hardbound issue (300 numbered copies) of Aldiss's The Magic of the Past that collects the title story and "North Scarning." (#169215). Seller Inventory # 169215