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![Item #29235 SOMETIME, NEVER: THREE TALES OF IMAGINATION by William Golding, John Wyndham [and]...](https://jwkbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29235.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661380919)
SOMETIME, NEVER: THREE TALES OF IMAGINATION by William Golding, John Wyndham [and] Mervyn Peake.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Ballantine Books 215. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447].
![Item #14623 PLANET PLANE by John Beynon [pseudonym]. John Beynon, John Wyndham Parkes Lucas...](https://jwkbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14623.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1389828458)
PLANET PLANE by John Beynon [pseudonym].
London: Newnes, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. [Reference: Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715].
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76].
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76].
CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1961]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories including "A Long Spoon." According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella, "Consider Her Ways," in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 261].
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo. Cloth. First edition. The precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5].
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5].
THE JOHN WYNDHAM OMNIBUS
London: Michael Joseph, [1964]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collect three novels: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE KRAKEN WAKES and THE CHRYSALIDS. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1296, (1987) 3-412, and (2004) II-1298].
THE KRAKEN WAKES.
London: Michael Joseph, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth science fiction novel, the second using the John Wyndham pseudonym. Invasion of earth by beings from another planet who need to exist under conditions of enormous pressure found deep under the sea. Published later the same year in the U.S. as Out Of The Deeps with textual differences. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-412].
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The U.S. and earlier British editions have textual differences. "A really original scenario; social criticism; good story. Very popular; basis for superior SF film [Village of the Damned]." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-413. "... only slightly short of being a science fiction masterpiece." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1391-94. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-404].
THE OUTWARD URGE.
London: Michael Joseph, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four Troon stories. "A brief, episodic 'family saga' about the near future exploration of space." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 271.
THE SEEDS OF TIME.
London: Michael Joseph, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Wyndham's second collection of short fiction. Collects ten stories. "A likable gathering of SF stories, most of them proficient treatments of fairly obvious themes. Among the most enjoyable are 'Pawley's Peepholes' (1951) and 'Dumb Martian' (1952), well-mannered SF comedies in a very English vein." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 319-320.
TALES OF GOOSEFLESH AND LAUGHTER.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 182. Paperback original. Collects eleven stories from 1949-1955. Some, but not all, first published in the collection JIZZLE (1954). This is the author's first collection published in the U.S.