The Best of British SF 2 (inscribed to Hugh Lamb) by Ashley, Mike (ed.) - 1977

Orbit/Futura: London, 1977. First edition (& 1st printing). Paperback original. Volume 2: ''takes up where Volume One left off, with the beginnings of the ''new wave'', and shows how, in the 'sixties, experimental and traditional sf existed side by side - in what was a new Golden Age for British SF''. 378 pages: 14 sf stories. General introduction and afterword by the editor, plus an introduction to each individual story. Bob Layzell cover art. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND DATED BY THE EDITOR TO UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB/''Hugh, a staggering achievement to find this one. Mike Ashley Sep '88!''. With Hugh Lamb's initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover. Page edges browning, a VG copy with shallow saw cut along bottom page edges (believe it or not, one of the ways books were identified as ''remaindered'' oh so long ago).