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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Martian Series 09: Synthetic Men of Mars - Four Square - 4153282   € 3,75 Essef - 1965 - reprinting - pocket - 160 p. - John Carter desperately needed the aid of Barsoom's greatest scientist. But Ras Thavas was the prisoner of a nightmare army of his own creation - half-humans who lived only for conquest. And in their hidden laboratory seethed a horror that could engulf all of Mars. (VG-, cover creases) |
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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Monster Men - Ace - 4104368 € 3,50 Essef - 1973? - pocket - 155 blz. - Professor Maxon has kept the results of his experimentation a secret from his colleagues and his only daughter. A lifelong attempt to chemically recreate a "perfect race" of human-like creatures has finally succeeded in creating "Number Thirteen" in this variation on the Beauty and the Beast theme. (VG) |
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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Moon Men - Ace - 4150916 € 6,50 Essef - 1968 - Ace pocket G-748 - 222 p. - collectible paperback - Complete and unabridged. Also contains 'The Red Hawk'. Through the treason of a handful of men, contact between Earth and the Moon had become a nightmare. The world became the tool of the Lunarians, whose plundering and cruelty reduced thriving nations to poverty-stricken wastelands. THE MOON MEN is the astounding story of that tragedy, and of the exploits of Julian, the human who dared fight for freedom. It is the story, also, of Red Hawk, Julian's descendant, the nomad who attempted to bring the struggle to its final desperate conclusion. (VG) |
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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Outlaw of Torn - Ace - 4150913 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1969 - Ace A-25 - pocket - 255 p. - Even though he is famous for his Tarzan series, Burroughs also is well known for his science fiction series such as John Carter of Mars, the Land Time Forgot and other series. Burroughs also wrote a number of less well known individual novels on various topics. This is one of them. The genre closest to this one is heroic historical fiction or fantasy, as the hero is the greatest swordsman in England, with a price on his head and the leader of a band of thousand. Who was this Norman of Torn? Where did he come from? What is the secret of his birth? (VG) |
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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Venus Series 1: Pirates of Venus - Ace - 4150919 € 8,00 Essef - 1963 - Ace pocket F179 - Catalogue Lovisi $15 (VG) - 159 p. - collectible paperback - The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky; ferocious beasts stalk the wilderness below; rare flashes of sunlight precipitate devastating storms; and the inhabitants believe their world is saucer-shaped with a fiery center and icy rim. Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess comes at a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun. Pirates of Venus is the exciting inaugural volume in the last series imagined and penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (VG+) |
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Burroughs, Edgar R. - The Venus Series 1: Pirates of Venus - Four Square - 4148079 € 3,00 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 159 p. - The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky; ferocious beasts stalk the wilderness below; rare flashes of sunlight precipitate devastating storms; and the inhabitants believe their world is saucer-shaped with a fiery center and icy rim. Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess comes at a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun. Pirates of Venus is the exciting inaugural volume in the last series imagined and penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (VG-) |
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice - The Eternal Savage - Bison Books - 8150167 € 8,75 Fantasy - 2003 - paperback - 204 p. - With a new introduction, this classic adventure tale from the creator of the Tarzan series finds Nu, a Stone Age warrior trapped in suspended animation by an earthquake, as he reawakens on Tarzan's African estate and tries to adapt to new... (F) |
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice - The Son of Tarzan (without dust jacket) - A. L. Burt Co. New York - 9150909 € 55,00 Fantasy - 1918 - first edition, second printing - Hardcover - Illustrated by J. Allen St. John - Green cloth lettered in black - 394 p. - The fourth book in the Tarzan series. Edgar Rice Burroughs's epic story of love and adventure is well-adapted here for the young reader, leaving intact much of the author's original prose and the book's narrative structure. With the strength of a... (VG-, without dust jacket) |
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Burton, Sir Richard - More Stories from the Arabian Nights - Panther - 116050 € 2,75 Fairy Tales - 1961 - pocket - illustrated - 155 p. - An unexpurgated selection, edited by Julian Franklyn. (VG) |
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Bury, Stephen - Interface - Bantam - 9149321 € 8,50 Essef - 1994 - paperback - 583 p. - Steven Bury is the pseudonym for Neal Stephenson and another writer. (F) |
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Bury, Stephen - The Cobweb - Bantam - 9142899 € 5,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 432 p. - Steven Bury is the pseudonym for Neal Stephenson and another writer. (VG+) |
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Bury, Stephen - The Cobweb - Bantam - 9142895 € 4,50 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 432 p. - Steven Bury is the pseudonym for Neal Stephenson and another writer. (VG-) |
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Busby, Francis M. - All These Earths - Berkley - 121411 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 213 p. - When Woody Pearsall returns to Earth after traveling eight months in space at many times the speed of light, he finds a world in which familiar people do not recognize him. (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Getting Home - Ace - 4083844 € 2,50 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 195 p. - Collected for the first time, the short stories of F. M. Busby... Time travel, reincarnation, and out-of-body experiences, an unusual invention, extraterrestrials, unicorns, immortality, and the future are just some of the adventures in... (VG-, cover puncture) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Holzein Dynasty 2: The Alien Debt - Orbit - 081704 € 3,25 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 226 p. - The second book in the Holzein Dynasty series. (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Holzein Dynasty 2: The Alien Debt - Bantam - 121408 € 3,25 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 226 p. - The second book in the Holzein Dynasty series. (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Holzein Dynasty 3: Rebel's Quest - Bantam - 122263 € 3,25 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 243 p. - Tregare's continuing story of how he overcame the evil empire that controls earth at this time. (VG-) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Holzein Dynasty 4: Rebel's Seed - Bantam - 122261 € 3,75 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 249 p. - This book continues the storyline started with the Rissa trilogy ("Young Rissa," "Rissa and Tregare," and "The Long View"). After "The Long View" comes "The Alien Debt" and then "Rebel's Seed." This story is of Lisele, daughter of Rissa Kerguelen and Bran Tregare. (VG-, cover browning inside) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Islands of Tomorrow - Avon - 4062723 € 4,25 Essef - pocket - 1994 - 347 p. - When Luke Tabor protests against higher taxes, he expects little from the peaceful demonstration, until it lands him in jail. Through the powers of Derio, Luke is transported through time to a distant future Earth. In his new surroundings, he discovers that he may be the solution to genetic disaster. (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Rissa Kerguelen [omnibus] - Berkley - 115701 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 630 p. - Includes 'Rissa Kerguelen' and the sequel 'The Long View'. Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she's escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment-or so it seems. Possessing the only force capable of challenging the tyranny that devastated the Earth and Universe, Rissa can do almost anything... (G+, some wear) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Slow Freight - Bantam - 4074041 € 3,75 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 311 p. - A voyage that transcends the laws of physics and human behavior... (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - The Breeds of Man - Bantam - 121410 € 4,00 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 294 p. - A near-future society that is ravaged by AIDS. When scientists engineer a cure, part of the cure, however, renders women sterile to a second pregnancy by a man of the same blood type as the first (eliminating the chances of another child with the same man). Scientists create an altered human, the Mark II. Unknown to them until the children reach puberty, they are cyclical hermaphrodites, going from male to female and back again every other month. Society's response is typical and intolerant. A fast-paced, solid science fiction novel with a terrific message that isn't preachy! (VG) |
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Busby, Francis M. - Zelde M'Tana - Dell - 113365 € 2,75 Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 316 p. - Young, untried, but a lethally trained fighter, Zelde M'Tana found herself legally shanghaied by the oppressive UET - imprisoned on a starship bound for the brothels of a mining planet. There was no way Zelde was going to stand for that - and when the ship's first officer, Parnell, led an anti-UET revolt, Zelde, joined the mutineers and single-handedly turned defeat into victory. (VG) |
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Bushyager, Linda E. - Master of Hawks - Dell - 4122630 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1979 - first printing - pocket - 256 p. - An epic combat between telepath and sorcerer, with the destiny of an empire at stake... (VG) |
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Bushyager, Linda E. - The Spellstone of Shaltus - Dell - 122516 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1980 - 1st printing - pocket - 204 p. - An exciting fantasy in the tradition of Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley. When Lord S'Carlton killed the evil wizard Shaltus, he didn't realize the sorcerer had transferred his soul into the spellstone crystal that amplified his psychic abilities. Now Shaltus was back, as a powerful wraith whose one goal was to destroy S'Carlton's family... (VG) |
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Butterworth, Oliver - Nate Twitchell 1: The Enormous Egg - Dell - 4134480 € 2,50 Essef - JUVENILE - 1987 - 6th printing - paperback - illustrated - 188 p. - Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley! But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. (VG-, some creases and minor spine wear) |
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Byrne, Patrick - The Second Book of Irish Ghost Stories - Mercier - 4144107 € 2,75 Horror - 1974 - pocket - 88 p. - A collection of stories by the author of 'Irish Ghost Stories' and 'Witchcraft in Ireland'. A seemingly unending stream of tales of the supernatural comes from Ireland. (VG-) |
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