![]() ![]() A little light discolouration and minor marks to the original cloth, marks a little heavier to the tail of the front board. In the original publisher's later state cloth binding, smartly rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. ![]() Lewis, as he strove to write his own science fiction to be the antithesis of Wells' work, though he did enjoy 'The First Men in the Moon'. Wells, this work was originally serialised in the 'Strand Magazine' from December 1900 to August 1901.This work inspired C. ![]() First edition, later state binding, with blue text to the boards and spine, rather that the gilt of the first issue, and white endpapers.'The First Men in the Moon' is an important science romance novel, following a journey to the Moon undertaken by a businessman and an eccentric scientist.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and eleven plates, by Claude Shepperson.Collated, complete.By H. Wells, complete with the original illustrations. A smart sought-after first edition copy of one of the early popular science fiction novels by H. ![]()
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Total Recall is the oddest (and, in my opinion, best) film in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s oeuvre, a potent hybrid of grisly action and mind-probing science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Soft cover. A spellbinding book' Barbara Taylor Bradford, book of the year in the Sunday Times 'The author's impeccable research brings a long-ago civilization thoroughly to life, and her portraits of Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony are wonderful. And it does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death. It is also a tale of passion that begins when the twenty-one-year-old Cleopatra, desperate to return from exile, seeks out the one man who can help her: Julius Caesar. 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Watson, Holmes and Charles Augustus Milverton, 1904 illustration by Sidney Paget ![]() ![]() Her mother dies without ever knowing Lucy is alive. ![]() Attempts to locate the family prove fruitless Lucy grows up under the care of two faithful servants. Meanwhile, Lucy is found a short while later in an abandoned ruin with a broken ankle. ![]() Finding a discarded garment of hers on the shore, the parents believe her drowned and begin a mournful 20-year odyssey, taking them to Italy and Switzerland, out of touch with the estate. The family decides to move to England,but Lucy is so upset at leaving her beloved home on the sea that she runs away. "Lucy Gault", the 2002 novel of the famous English writer, Trevor Howard, whose short stories appear regularly in the "New Yorker", begins in Ireland in 1921 during the "troubles", when Lucy's father shoots an intruder who tries to burn down his estate becuase his wife is English. ![]() |