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Jizzle: Available Copies

Solid with a few small creases on the front cover. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.

1963. 1963 Reprint. 191 pages. Beige paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout.Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is moderately rub worn and thumbed with noticeable shelf wear to edges and corners, creases to corners and spine. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

1974. Reprinted. 251 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial laminated dust jacket over blue cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards assumed in good condition as covered with library-laminated jacket. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

0450022501. Softcover, light shelf wear on cover, colour fade on spine. Not ex. library. 191 pages. A wide range of entertaining fantasy tales written in Wyndham's characteristic style. Light crease on front endpapers, otherwise contents clean, tight and bright.

191 pages. 15 short stories.

G- 1st HB Ex Army Lib Binding weak tear at bottom right sp. For rebinding

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Page edges a bit grubby. Well bound and no marks. Looks well-read.

© 1954: A collection of 15 short stories by John Wyndham. 1st printing of 1978 edition:- Contents: Jizzle / Technical Slip / A Present From Brunswick / Chinese Puzzle / Esmeralda / How Do I Do? / Una / Affair Of The Heart / Confidence Trick / The Wheel / Look Natural, Please! / Perforce To Dream / Reservation Deferred / Heaven Scent / More Spinned Against:- Synopsis: Take a dip into a world where reality trembles and sanity is all in the mind. A world created by the brilliant author of 'The Day Of The Triffids' and 'The Kraken Wakes'. There's a monkey with a unique artistic talent. A man living his life over again. The tube in the rush hour that was so crowded it seemed like hell; in fact it was hell. 'Jizzle' will grip you from cover to cover with its unique blend of horror and fantasy - a combination which can never fail:- (original cost £0.80).

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

This is the 1963 third hardcover edition, as described in ISFDB. (It was preceded by the 1954 first edition, and 1961 SFBC edition.) This book is in very good condition, marred only by bumps on its covers' corners and spine ends, plus a light scrape on the top edge of its front endpaper. Its binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright silver titles on its spine. Pages are unmarked and unworn, with a trace of toning in their top margin. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is also in very good condition, whole and bright, marred only by some foxing along its back flap fold, traces of soiling on its white back, and some very light wear along the bottom edge of its spine and front. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble cushion, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

paperback, 191 pp. Some traces of use

VG+ Moderate creasing to spine, very mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a very attractive copy. Great cover art by S.R. Boldero.

VG- Moderate edgewear, very slight lean, mild age-toning to pages, rear cover slightly rubbed, otherwise clean throughout. Third Four Square printing, with different cover art to previous printings.

191 pp, pages browned, minor surface damage to upper wrapper due to sticker removal, else very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers. Striking 'Monkey and Dragon' cover illustration.

Jizzle by John Wyndham (Reprint Edition) A firm square copy. Minor crease to lower front cover and a minor crack to front hinge. Price-clipped. A bright jacket. Mild dusting to rear cover; two small closed tears; minor wear to edges. In clear protective cover. Reprinted 1968, stated. Contains fifteen short stories.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.25

A nice firm straight unmarked book with the usual slight age toning.

, , near fine, larger price clip jacket only, NO BOOK

Pages 7-22 are loose although secured with tape. Paperback. Photograph available on request.

First edition, first printing, 1954. A very good+ book in the original binding. In a very good dust jacket with somesoiling and a 1/2 inch chip at the top corner of the jacket. Publishers clipped corner and book re priced at 11s 6d net.

The first edition of this anthology of fifteen of John Wyndham's science fiction short stories. The first edition, first impression.An anthology of fourteen short stories from British science fiction writer John Wyndham, best known for novels 'The Day of the Triffids' and 'The Midwich Cuckoos', both subject to classic film adaptations in the early 1960s.The titular story of this work was later to be adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in an episode of his long running television series 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', where it was retitled as 'Maria'.Between 1925 and 1931, Wyndham sold short stories and serial fiction to American Science Fiction magazines. He halted his writing career during the Second World War, but soon returned to even greater success. He is now viewed as one of the best and most prominent authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, alongside the likes of Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Alfred Bester.Library bookplate removal to front pastedown and front free endpaper, with ink inscription to front free endpaper head. Library stamp to verso of title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, with handling marks to fore edge of front board. Library bookplate removal to front pastedown and front free endpaper, with ink inscription to front free endpaper head. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamp to verso of title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good

Few minor spots to red cloth cover, bookseller ticket to fixed endpaper, VG in dj with small piece lacking at spine head (affecting title), dj flap clipped with price 11s 6d net imprinted. Photos of any of our books supplied on request.

8vo. 251, [3] pp. Red tweed boards, gilt lettering ons pine (very slight bumping to couple corners, light offsetting on front & rear flyleaves), w/ d.j. striking cover art by Peter Rudland (price-clipped w/ 13'6 price label affixed at lower corner), NF/NF. First edition, stated, of this curious anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories by Wyndham, including Jizzle, Technical Slip, Chinese Puzzle, Esmerelda, Confidence Trick, The Wheel, Heaven Scent, and others.