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THE CYCLOPS GOBLET.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to DEEP AMONG THE DEAD MEN and MR. BROWN'S BODIES.
DEVIL DADDY.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of Blackburn's finest supernatural thrillers with ingenious plot skillfully woven around the legend of the Wandering Jew. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-39. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 37.
OUR LADY OF PAIN.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The novel focuses on an upcoming play based on Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory the supposed notorious serial murderer in the late 16th - early 17th centuries with hundreds of alleged victims. " ...probably Blackburn's most tightly structured, exciting book." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-41.
OUR LADY OF PAIN.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The novel focuses on an upcoming play based on Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory the supposed notorious serial murderer in the late 16th - early 17th centuries with hundreds of alleged victims. " ...probably Blackburn's most tightly structured, exciting book." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-41.
PACKED FOR MURDER.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as Colonel Bogus.
THE POLLINATORS OF EDEN.
New York: Weybright and Talley, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1705-09. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-74.
MURDER CALIFORNIA STYLE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology featuring stories from the Southern California chapter of the M.W.A.
THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. Third book of a trilogy, preceded by THE SKY LORDS (1988) and WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989).
THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. "After the 'Gene Wars' have wrecked the Earth, the piratical Sky Lords rule the roost from their airships. But they come up against a feminist heroine." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 331. Slow moving at first, it "develops into a lively adventure story backed with the authority of a well-extrapolated future scenario." - Simon Ounsley, Interzone. First book of a trilogy, followed by THE WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989) and THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS (1991). First book of a trilogy, followed by THE WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989) and THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS (1991).
WAR OF THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. Second book of a trilogy, preceded by THE SKY LORDS (1988).
HALO IN BRASS.
Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Browne (signed as Howard "John Evan" Browne) on the front free end paper. The fourth Paul Pine novel. "...feature[s] Chicago private detective Paul Pine, one of the best of the plethora of tough-guy heroes from that era. Although the Pine novels are solidly in the tradition of Raynond Chandler, they have a complexity and character all their own and are too well crafted to be imitations." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p.96-97. Hubin, p. 270.
BLACKLASH.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition. Pyramid T-2107. Issued in the U. K. as A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR CAUSES. Jamaican born Max Curfew is former spy who gets involved in an adventure set in Africa. Hubin, p. 113.
GOOD MEN DO NOTHING.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1971]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition. Pyramid T-2443. Jamaican born Max Curfew is former spy, this adventure is set in Greece. Hubin, p. 113.
THE BRINK.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover book and fourth SF novel.
THE COMPLETE TRAVELLER IN BLACK.
New York: Bluejay Books, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the enlarged edition. Collects all five Traveller in Black novelettes. Illustrations by Martin Springett. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-53. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1963-65. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 55-6.
FOREIGN CONSTELLATIONS: THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF JOHN BRUNNER.
New York: Everest House Publishers, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects eight stories.
THE LONG RESULT.
London: Faber and Faber, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Tale of the far future, set on Earth, about a clash of extraterrestrial cultures. "A detective/political thriller set on a near-Utopian future Earth on the cusp of being outstripped by a more rapidly developing colony world, posits that racial prejudice, now eliminated from human culture, will resurge as irrational hatred (by a few) of even benign Aliens." - John Clute, SFE (online).
NO FUTURE IN IT: AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). The author's first collection of short fiction. Collects eleven stories. "Brunner's superb early corpus of short fiction, perhaps his greater forte." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-71. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-172.
THE SHEEP LOOK UP.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1972]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Brunner on the title page. 1972 Nebula nominee. "The most elaborate alarmist novel about industrial pollution." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-72. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 69. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1913-16.
THE SHEEP LOOK UP.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1972]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. 1972 Nebula nominee. "The most elaborate alarmist novel about industrial pollution." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-72. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 69. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1913-16.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The Hugo award winner for best novel, 1969. A Nebula nominee for 1968. "...one of the key works of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-74. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1987]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by David Brin. "Mammoth attempt to picture the world as it may well be in the early twenty-first century -- overpopulated, over automated, and torn by riots and muggings. The pop sociologist Chad C. Mulligan comments wryly on it all, and he is the nearest thing to a hero in this densely peopled book. Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows surface bravura from John Dos Passos's social realist USA trilogy (1930-1936)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 343. Winner of the 1969 Hugo award for best novel. 1968 Nebula nominee. Winner of the 1970 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel and the French Prix Apollo. Collector's notes laid in. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-175. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
WEAR THE BUTCHERS' MEDAL.
New York: Pocket Books, 1965. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Mystery novel set in Europe.
THE WHOLE MAN.
New York: Walker & Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. "World largely controlled by an international team of telepathists attached to the World Heath Organization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 161. This novel, a 1965 Hugo nominee, was first published as a paperback original in 1964 by Ballantine Books and in Britain in 1965 as TELEPATHIST. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-176.
THE WHOLE MAN.
New York: Walker & Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. "World largely controlled by an international team of telepathists attached to the World Heath Organization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 161. This novel, a 1965 Hugo nominee, was first published as a paperback original in 1964 by Ballantine Books and in Britain in 1965 as TELEPATHIST. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-176.