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Report on Probability A: Available Copies

paperback, near fine

paperback, near fine

Good mass market paperback. Worn/rubbed. Owner name on fore edge.

157 pp. Lancer Book 74677. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine. Cover art by Steel Savage.

1969. First Edition Thus. 155 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

1968 Copyright. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

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 (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

12mo., 176 pp. Lancer 74677. Cover art by Steele Savage. Very Near Fine with discrete name stamp on inside front cover and some age-toning to the inside covers and text block. Tight, clean and square.

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, VG+ (light rubbing to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl tanning to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & scuffing to spine- 1cm gouge with loss, moderate hcafing & soiling)

74677. A near fine copy. ; Small octavo; 157 pages.

Very Good for age, typical age tanning. Old bookshop stamp and price inside cover. Cover is Very Good overall with light crease to front along spine. US orders shipped via US Mail. International orders shipped via DHL. Additional postage may be required on oversize books and sets. NO prison orders.

Interior pages are clean and fully legible. Exterior shows shelf wear.

12mo. pp 176. Original publisher's red cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. Creasing at the folds of dust jacket and where the spine meets the front and back covers of the dust jacket. Slight wear and creasing at the edges and corners of dust jacket. Some minor stains to the dust jacket and tanning to the spine. Some minor marks to the front and back cloth boards. Otherwise binding is tight, pages are clean, a good second hand copy.

erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe, 8°, 155 S., Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), schönes, sauberes Exemplar Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925 - 2017) Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.

NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Slight tear at bottom cover spine. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

3 volumes in matching Sphere edition, selling as a set in one parcel, with therefore a single postage charge. A scarce edition in matching style of fonts, and full-page front illustration, all by Acorn Litho, but the artist not attributed. 1972/72/69. Urge&Age 2nd prints, Report pb 1st. All unread, as new, minor shelfwear only, lightly foxed edges, no owner's marks. Age with lightly rubbed spine folds, Urge slightly foxed epp, mark on tops, almost a score. 3 tour de force novels, Urge: amusing psychosexual sf with all British citizens fitted with an empathy device!, Age: backwards time-travel, Report: surreal and enigmatic voyeurism. An Age in this edition exceedingly scarce, all uncommon in this edition and scarce in this condition. Combined weight 370g. (Science fiction, Fantasy, Vintage Pb)

First edition. Light foxing adjacent to gutters in front and rear endpapers. Dustwrapper worn at edges aand a lile browned.

Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage; "10" Stamped on Lower Edge. A MYSTERY OF TIME, SPACE AND TERRIFYING INEVITABILITY. SYNOPSIS: DON'T EVEN TRY TO HIDE Mr. And Mrs. Mary have dismissed three of their servants. Now G(ardener) is hiding out in a one-room bungalow nearby. S(ecretary) is keeping vigil in the coach house. C(hauffeur) is holed up in the garage. Each one owns a black and white reproduction of a 19th century painting that holds the key to something important. Each one is observing Mr. And Mrs. Mary. But in a world of spies, no one can escape the eyes of the watchful. Caught in a prison without bars or locks, G, S, and C are in turn being watched, trapped in a mystery of time and space with no key, no answer - a mind-shattering infinity of watching and waiting. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. ''during the latter half of the 1960s Aldiss was closely identified with New Wave sf, and in particular with the innovative magazine New Worlds under the fruitfully controversial editorship of Michael Moorcock; Aldiss was instrumental in obtaining a 1967 Arts Council grant for the magazine, which saved it for a few years. Though never fully at ease with New Worlds's submission to an aesthetic dominated by J G Ballard, Aldiss published some increasingly unconventional fiction here, notably his novel REPORT ON PROBABILITY A (short version March 1967 New Worlds; 1968), an sf transposition of the techniques of the French ''anti-novelists'' into a surrealist story of enigmatic voyeurism which had been written in 1962 but remained unpublishable until the times changed; and the Acid-Head War stories, collected as Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia (fixup 1969). Set in the aftermath of a European war in which psychedelic drugs have been used as weapons, the latter is written in a dense, punning style reminiscent of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939); it is an ambitious tour de force of Modernism in SF'' (John Clute & David Pringle/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with rubbing to both front and rear panels.