Search Results: Authors starting with R from TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS

LONDON: BATSFORD. Square format Hard cover with dust jacket. DJ has been price clipped. Slight wear on DJ edges.A basic guide to some of Britain's more promient stately homes. 63 pages. Slight marking on back endpaper. Green boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Colour photograph illustration. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1973.

LONDON: SPHERE BOOKS. Science Fiction novel. Related to the Dorsai sequence. The Chantry Guild plans to save Mankind from a future of stagnation by using the alternative laws of the universe, powers once known as witchcraft. Slight wear on cover edges. Slight peeling on cover turning points. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. . Very Good. Paperback. First Thus. 1983.

LONDON: FUTURA. Paperback. Science fiction novel. Slight wear/peeling on cover edges. A small piece of the back cover bottom edge has a fold over small tear. Tanned pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: STC8 . Good. Mass Market Paperback. First UK PAPERBACK. 1978.

LONDON: THE CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB. Book Club edition. Hard cover with dust jacket. Large piece of bottom corner section of DJ is missing. Large piece of top section of back of DJ is also missing. Other small tears/pieces missing on the edges of DJ. The bulk of the DJ survives. Some surface damage on DJ front from label removal and stains on back of DJ. Light blue boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Previous owner name on front free endpaper in pencil. Science fiction novel. Jim Rawlins was one of three students from the United States chosen to study the Galactic Federation of the Aliens(Earth was not yet a member). Jim was not impressed with his fellow students, Ellen(a sociologist) and Kurt(a historian). But when all three were Marooned on Quebahr(along with their alien companion), a world outside the Federation, Jim realised that each had a contribution to make in communicating with the unusal inhabitants of that world. Location: MBS1 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"… Read More

Kingswood, Surrey, UK: THE WORLD'S WORK TLD. Western adventure novel set in the late 1840s. Hard cover with dust jacket. Moderate wear and small splits/tears on DJ edges. The bulk of the DJ is in good order. Not price clipped. Foxing on DJ. Blacked out price on front free endpaper. Page edges are foxed and slightly soiled. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Brown boards with a illustration on the front board. Location: LBS1 . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK EDITION. 1958.

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Dust jacket has been lost. Brown boards which are colour faded. Gilt titles on board spine. Slight foxing on boards. Some foxing/slight soiling on pages. Overall clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Previous owner name on front endpaper. 389 pages with index. Location: CONE4 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1960.

UK: MARVEL COMICS/PANINI UK LIMITED. American format UK comic. Glossy card covers. Colour art. Reprints Generation X 27(The Last X-Man), X-Men 62-63(Games of Deceit and Death Part 1 & Part 2. Features an article on the first X-Men film(cast members interviewed). Slight wear on cover edges. . Fine. Paperback. First Printing. 2000.

NEW YORK: MARVEL COMICS. Star Trek Voyager Issue 7(May 1997). U.S. format comic. Moderate general creasing to comic. Comic Grade: Fine. Story is 'Relicquest' part 1. Location: ELCB1A Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. COMIC. First Printing.. 1997.

DUXFORD: THE DUXFORD AVIATION SOCIETY. Paperback Landscape format booklet. Slight wear on cover edges. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. l souvenir programme and guide to vintage aircraft flights on 18th June 1978. Location: SG1 . Very Good. Soft cover. 1978.

NEW YORK: MARVEL COMICS. U.S. format comic. Colour comic strip art. Comic Grade: Cornr crease on back cover. Comic Grade: Very Fine . Fine. COMIC. First Printing. 2005.

LONDON: MARVEL COMICS/GRANDREAMS. UK hardcover comic annual. Moderate wear on board edges. Not dated on cover. No copyright date. Probably 1983 Annual (endpaper art by Paul Neary with 1982 date). Full colour art. Reprints 'Spectacular Spider-Man' stories, 'Vengeance is Mine.Sayeth the Sword. Illustrated text stories 'Starngore the Superb, Blight of the Bluebird. Plus 1960s comic strip feature on Spider-Man's powers(scripted by Stan Lee, Art by Steve Ditko) and the 1970s live action Spider-Man TV series (summary of the TV stories). Covers of annual show clips from the TV series(Spider-Man fighting Martial Artists). Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Original price has not been clipped. Location: RT/P . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1982.

BATH: BLACKFISH PUBLISHING. Slight wear on cover edges. Areas of flat creasing on front cover. A few small creases/folds on the tips of early pages. Features on District 9, Dorian Gray, Carry On Films. Interviews with Joel Silver, Zooey Deschanel. . Very Good. Paperback. First Printing. 2009.

BATH: BLACKFISH PUBLISHING. Slight wear/creasing on cover edges. Features on District 9, Dorian Gray, Carry On Films. Interviews with Joel Silver, Zooey Deschanel . Very Good. Paperback. First Printing. 2009.

BATH: BLACKFISH PUBLISHING. Slight wear on cover edges. Features on Thirst, Le Donk, The Soloist. Interviews with Terry Gilliam, Bruce Campbell, Peter Sarsgaard, Kristen Bell, Olivia de Havilland . Very Good. Paperback. First Printing. 2009.

NEW YORK: BIRCH LANE PRESS. First printing. Slight wear on dust jacket edges. Not price clipped. Blue and purple boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. The last few pages(notes and index) have bottom corner curls/folds. Black and white photograph illustration(plates). Location: HP1 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1989.

MILWAUKIE, USA: DARK HORSE COMICS. U.S. format comic. Black and white comic strip art. Slight wear/creasing on cover edges. Comic Grade: Fine Plus. Anthology title. Features Aliens Versus Predator(early story that continues in Aliens Versus Predator 1. By Randy Stradley and Phill Norwood), Hearbreakers: Ceiling Zero( By Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan), Delia & Celia: The Great Marsh(by Gary Davis). Back painted cover art by Dave Dorman(Predator Vs Aliens). Front cover art by Chris Warner(Predator vs Alien). Location: ELCB1A Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. COMIC. First Printing.. 1990.

LONDON: ORION. A collection of twenty one short stories including seven featuring Inspector John Rebus. Second Impression of the first edition. Slight wear/creasing on dust jacket edges. Slight wear on edges of boards. DJ has not been price clipped. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: A6 . Fine. Hardcover. Second Impression. 2002.

LONDON: ORION. A new editon of the author's first novel which was first published in 1986. Hard cover with dust jacket. First printing of this edition. Slight creasing/marking on dust jacket edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: RT7 . Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 2005.

LONDON: BCA. Crime thriller featuring Inspector Rebus. Surface wear on dust jacket edges. Black boards. Small format book club edition. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Early pages are creased. Small graze on the top front corner of the DJ . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 2006.

LONDON: ORION BOOKS. First printing. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight soiling on front of DJ. Small scar on front of DJ. Slight wear/creasing on DJ edges. Bottom corner fold/crease on front flap. Not price clipped. Black boards. Moderate slant to board spine. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. A Rebus thriller. Location: HK2 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2016.