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1963, Corgi, pbk Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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Storyline: A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. . .Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories - voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations. . .the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man Contents: |
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1969, Corgi Books, pbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: "In the strange world of Green Town, Illinois, there was a junkman who saved lives; a pair of shoes that could make you run as fast as a deer; a human time machine; a wax witch that could tell real fortunes; a man who almost wrecked happiness by building a happiness machine. And there was a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding, who found himself very much at home in this extraordinary world... |
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1980, Granada Publishing Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK! Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: The Past Holds The Truth! The Hollywood of the 1950s is stuck in the nostalgia of its brilliant past, with little thought for the future. Our Hero, naive and bright-eyed, is a scriptwriter, movie buff and star-worshipper who longs to relive the Golden Age of Film. One cold Halloween, he gets his chance when he receives an anonymous note inviting him to the Green Glades Cemetery where he is promised a great revelation. This heralds the start of a fantastic death-defying trip into the past - and the truth |
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1991, Grafton, pbk In stock, click to buy for £2.50, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge of £2.80 Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
About this book / synopsis: The Past Holds The Truth! The Hollywood of the 1950s is stuck in the nostalgia of its brilliant past, with little thought for the future. Our Hero, naive and bright-eyed, is a scriptwriter, movie buff and star-worshipper who longs to relive the Golden Age of Film. One cold Halloween, he gets his chance when he receives an anonymous note inviting him to the Green Glades Cemetery where he is promised a great revelation. This heralds the start of a fantastic death-defying trip into the past - and the truth...
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