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The Grain Kings: Available Copies

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First Paanther edition.Unread,cover art by Chris Foss.Lightly shelf-worn,page edges browned,contents clean.

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Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

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5 x 8 inches. 208 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good; exterior excellent, title page slightly rippled, text is clean, binding is tight . Dust jacket is Very Good; very light surface wear, light rippling. STK

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© 1976: A collection of 7 short stories by Keith Roberts. 1st printing of 1977 edition:- Contents:- Weihnachtsabend / The White Boat / The Passing Of The Dragons / The Trustie Tree / The Lake Of Tuonela / The Grain Kings / I Lose Medea:- Synopsis: "We reap and we thresh; grain for half the world. We are the Grain Kings raised of old". They call them the Grain Kings. Gigantic mechanical monarchs of the wheat-bearing plains that were once the frozen Alaskan wastes. Whole eco-systems in themselves, they can supply the food so desperately needed by the teeming millions of our overpopulated planet. But even now, as the whole world waits in hungry suspense, the great powers battle for control of the prairies and two competing combine harvesters find they are heading on a course of collision. A collision with catastrophic consequences - not only for the hundreds of crewmen aboard each massive machine but for the future survival of all mankind:- Review(s): "Awesome, evocative, and brilliantly inventive, 'The Grain Kings' demonstrates the full range of Keith Roberts's storytelling genius":- (original cost £0.65).

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A science fiction novel by the author of "The Inner World" and "The Furies." THis edition published by Readers Union Hardback with dustjacket - 1977 - good condition, pages browning, spine faded, 1-880448-84-X Isbn 188044884X. Reader's Union.

SF stories, first published in hardcover by Hutchinson a year earlier. Chris Foss cover art. Fine (unread) copy but for minor crease at bottom corner of rear cover.

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© 1976: A collection of 7 short stories by Keith Roberts. 1st printing of 1977 edition. SFBC #1122:- Contents:- Weihnachtsabend / The White Boat / The Passing Of The Dragons / The Trustie Tree / The Lake Of Tuonela / The Grain Kings / I Lose Medea:- Synopsis: As an SF writer, Keith Roberts has long been as fascinated with the past as with the future. In his stories, several of which are printed in this new collection, he explores parallel worlds, where, but for a quirk of history, we might all be living today. The Grain Kings, the title story, charts the course of two massive and rival combine harvesters, whole eco-systems themselves, on a collision path in a vast sea of wheat. 'The White Boat' is a disturbing atmospheric story of a girl's awakening from a kind of Celtic twilight, and her abduction by Corsairs from the Continent. 'Weihnachtsabend' explores the eerie parallel world of a German England. There are also barge stories, dragon stories - and a few set on other planets. All testify to the tremendous range of Keith Roberts' imagination - and even more, to his evocative descriptive power:- (original cost unmarked).

VG. Cover art by Chris Foss.

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Panther Science Fiction. Includes seven stories. Toning to pages. A fine copy. ; Octavo.

Near Fine. Light edgewear, otherwise Fine throughout. Cover art by Chris Foss.

As an SF writer, Keith Roberts has long been as fascnated with the past as with the future. In his stories, several of which are printed in this new collection, he explores parallel worlds, where, but for a quirk of history, we might all be living today. Very slight wear through age of D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)

. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 208 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0586043136. ISBN/EAN: 9780586043134. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 032369.

VG+/VG-. 8vo. original terracotta boards gilt (a trifle marked, but generally clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges frayed); pp. 208. A very good copy.

1976-1st ed,h/c + d/j, 208pp, 20.5x13.3, has a ex-lib pocket to front end paper and four cancelled stamps to end papers and half title page, couple of tiny pen marks, d/j protected by plastic cover,couple of faint tape marks to d/j back cover, small price clip, no spine markings as a library copy, quite a nice copy considering it is an ex-lib. Seven stories of great sci-fi from Roberts.

Very Fine. An As-New unblemished copy. Cover art by Chris Foss.

Very Fine original cloth, As New throughout, in Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. An exceptional copy. Jacket art by Chris Foss.