Douglas R Mason - Typescript - The End Bringers - John Rankine

Description: Title: The End BringersAuthor: Douglas R MasonDate: 1973 Description: A unique, museum-quality item. Typescript with hand-written corrections and changes, including a tipped-in epigraph to the first page (see picture). The typescript was prepared by Mason's Literary Agent E.J. Carnell (Leslie Flood), and was later acquired by the celebrated SF aficionado, bibliographer and bookseller George Locke, and bears his characteristic pencilled price to the title page. Bound in white and red card covers, typed on pink paper. 10 inches by 8 inches. It is in good sound clean condition, with just a hint of light marking to the covers (see pictures). Internally clean. Binding sound and square. A unique item. Douglas Rankine Mason, 1918-2005, who also wrote as John Rankine. was active in British SF fan circles at the same time as Brian Aldiss and George Locke. He began publishing his innovative Science Fiction in 1966. He wrote three excellent novelisations of Gerry Anderson's TV series Space:1999, and two further Space 1999 original novels.Provenance: We have, over many years, acquired a large quantity of the collection and stock of the celebrated bibliographer and bookseller, George Locke, of Ferret Fantasy, who sadly died in 2019. We take great care in the packaging of all our books to ensure that they arrive as described. Please browse our other books for sale in our ebay shop, Goodman Books. We have over 4,500 titles with specialist sections for Manuscripts and Typescripts, Uncorrected Proofs, and Signed Books. We are long-established booksellers who have been successfully trading on ebay since 2002. Buy with confidence from a seller with an excellent record.

Price: 95 GBP

Location: Hornchurch

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