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Trade paperback original. Etat : Fine (as new) copy. First edition (& 1st printing). ''England, 1955. Harriet Locke accepts an invitation to the seaside mansion of Shadow Black and looks forward to joining her fiancé Mark Vardell, the handsome avant-garde artist who is painting the reclusive Lord Harrowblest. Her life is about to change, and change forever, in a household of bizarre characters bound together by ties of deceit, lust and half-truths. At Shadow Black, Harriet meets Yardley Urban, faded Hollywood goddess, and Cora Van Voyd, elderly, seven-times-married gossip and grande dame. There is crippled, embittered media mogul Lord Harrowblest and his faithful servant Collidge; pathetic, drunken songwriter Jellicoe Travers; Milly, the hare-lipped parlourmaid; and Toby Chance, the lonely fifteen-year-old science fiction fan who somehow links them all together. And then there is Mr Vox, mysterious agent of a force that will tear away the veils of deceit from Shadow Black, and from Harriet too, in a climax that boldly mingles fantasy, social comedy and gothic horror''.…

Trade paperback original. Etat : Fine (as new) copy. First edition (& 1st printing). Historical fantasy.

Trade paperback original. Etat : Fine (as new) copy. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel.

Trade paperback original. Etat : Fine (as new) copy. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel: the author's first book.

Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. This collection, "edited by David Langford, assembles all the previously uncollected short work that was then known. A further lighthearted story from 'The Steam-Driven Boy' era subsequently came to light in Sladek's papers and appeared as 'The Real Martian Chronicles' (May/June 2010 F&SF) . As the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern American sf writers, Sladek (1937-2000) always addressed the heart of the genre, but never gained due renown. We needed his attention, which we got: he deserved ours, which he did not receive." - John Clute, SFE (online). Trade paperback format. A fine copy. This edition is uncommon. (#161449).…