| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Abercrombie | Best Served Cold | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... War may be hell, but for Monza Murcatto... the most feared and famous mercenary... it's a damned good way of making money... Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead... Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance... seven men must die... " |
| Joan Aiken | Cold Shoulder Road | Cape 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... continues the story of the Twite family, which began in Black Hearts in Battersea, Dido and Pa and Is. Joan Aiken spins a web of historical fantasy that readers everywhere will find irresistible." |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss | Super-State A Novel Of A Future Europe | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Welcome to the near future: to the super-state of Europe forty years from now, a Europe embracing everywhere, from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast of Greece... where technology advances ever onwards, where humanitarian concerns slip ever backwards, and where the answers to the big questions remain as elusive as ever..." |
| Kingsley Amis | The Golden Age of Science Fiction (Editor) | Hutchinson 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small paper tear at rear hinge, faint crayon 'D' on rear fixed end paper, and page edges browned else Fine copy in like. unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Classic stories by Anthony Boucher, Philip Latham, Fred Pohl, Brian Aldiss, Jim Blish, Kurt Vonnegut, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, H. Beam Piper, Cordwainer Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Harrison, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, F. L. Wallace, Jerome Bixby and Poul Anderson. |
| Kevin J. Anderson | The Edge Of The World Terra Incognita Book One | Orbit 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Two nations, traditional enemies, have finally forged an uneasy peace. But all it takes is a single tragic accident... and the world is once more cast into the fires of war. But while war rages... a great quest will defy the storms and sea-serpents to venture beyond the horizon... 'here be monsters'... " |
| Anonymous | Their Immortal Hearts three visions of time (Editor) | West Coast Poetry Review 1980 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly bumped, covers slightly rubbed and marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | An original anthology of three visions of immortality - Cold War Orphans by Michael Bishop; Le Croix (The Cross) by Barry Malzberg and Their Immortal Hearts by Bruce McAllister |
| Kelly Armstrong | No Humans Involved | Orbit 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean, and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... A tragic mystery lurks in the maze of gardens... Jaime - and the attractive and unobtainable werewolf Jeremy Danvers - are forced to embark on an investigation into a shocking underworld of black magic and ritual sacrifice... Jaime must use the darkest power she has to defeat a terrifying and previously unforeseen enemy... " |
| Margaret Atwood | Bluebeard's Egg and other stories | Cape 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Significan Moments in the Life of My Mother; Hurricane Hazel; Loulou; or the Domastic Life of the Language; Uglypuss; Two Stories About Emma; Bluebeard's Egg; Spring Song of the Frogs; Scarlet Ibis; The Salt Garden; In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain; The Sunrise and Unearthing Suite |
| Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | Bloomsbury 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With P. 236 & 7 reversed) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page fore-edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayals and terros... Atwood has given fascinating dimensions to the ambiguous roots of women's relationships... disquieting, hilarious, comapassionate, haunting and mordant... " |
| F. Britten Austin | The War God Walks Again (In Bleiler's Checklist) | Williams & Norgate 1926 First Edition First Printing (red pebbled cloth stamped black & gold) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and front corners a little rubbed, spine slightly browned and leant, boards a little marked and page edges foxed and age-darkened - with front free end paper glued to fixed end paper - apparently a production fault - near Very Good. | £10.00 | Clute - "... collection... of stories illustrating problems for UK military security arising in future wars from new weaponry and tactics... occasionally eloquent... " Included in Bleiler's Checklist of Fantastic Literature. |
| Dennis R. Bailey | Tin Woodman (With David Bischoff) | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J08 on P. 181) | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Talents. In a far, yet disquietingly near future, this is what the 'Normals' called children born with psionic abilities. They were hated and feared... An alien artifact is discovered - showing signs of life... There is only one hope to break through to the seemingly dormant creature- a brilliant, unstable teen-ager with unprecedented mental energy... " |
| Kage Baker | Black Project, White Knights | Golden Gryphon 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and with a touch of wear at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Prelim Page | £10.00 | Part of the Company Dossiers series: Introduction: The Hounds of Zeus; Noble Mold; Smart Alec; Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin; Old Flat Top; The Dust Enclosed Here; The Literary Agent; Lemuria Will Rise!; The Wreck of the Gladstone; Monster Story; Hanuman; Studio Dick Drowns Near Malibu; The Likely Lad; The Queen in Yellow; The Hotel at Harlan’s Landing |
| Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) | Canal Dreams | Macmillan 1989 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With a 'warm' inscription by the Author | £30.00 | "Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to her much anticipated first European concerts by sea as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. Which is how Hisako comes to give an impromptu recital on her Stradivarius in the shadow of a loaded Kalashnikov... " Fantasy? - Memorable. |
| Iain Banks | Complicity | Little, Brown 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... vividly explores the morality of greed, corruption & violence and ventures into the darker regions of human purpose. It confirms Iain Banks' status both as an exceptional storyteller and as one of the most imaginative and witty novelists of our time." |
| Iain Banks | Dead Air | Little, Brown 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London's East end; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock... starts dropping stuff off the roof towards the deserted car park a hundred feet below... " |
| Iain Banks | Espedair Street | Macmillan 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author on the Title Page | £45.00 | "... a vibrant, zestful rock novel with a strong beat, streaked with shadows and light, rich comic, honest and intensely readable... " Excellent. |
| Iain Banks | The Bridge | Macmillan 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine, top corners slightly bumped and page edges browned else Fine copy in like, lightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed, Inscribed and Dated by Iain 'Bigmouth' Banks | £45.00 | "... The man who wakes up in the extraordinary, surrealistic world of the bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him... Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse... " |
| Iain Banks | Whit or Isis Amongst the Unsaved | Little, Brown 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on a prelim page | £10.00 | "... Related by a heroine of true originality - a beguiling blend of candour, naivete and naked wit - Whit is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, exploring the techno-ridden vacuity of modern society from a unique perspective." Fun! |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) | Feersum Endjinn (BSFA Award Winner 1994) | Orbit 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones... Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt... And everything is about to change... " |
| Iain M. Banks | Look To Windward | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient deaths has reached the Culture... " |
| Iain M. Banks | The Algebraist | Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing | Top front corner slightly curled else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | "It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak... is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years... with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known... " |
| Clive Barker | Son Of Celluloid | Eclipse Books 1989 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly bumped and lightly browned else Fine copy | £4.00 | Full-colour comic-strip adaptation of a Clive Barker story by Steve Niles, illustrated by artist Les Edwards (a.k.a. Edward Miller). |
| Stephen Baxter | Ring | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little rubbed and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page | £175.00 | "... The age-old battle of light and dark takes on a new and deeply disturbing aspect... as a few frail humans reach bravely into the future to confront the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe... " |
| Stephen Baxter | The Web Gulliverzone | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in laminated boards, as issued. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "February 7th 2027, World Peace Day. All over the world the celebrations are in full swing. There's even free access to the Web today... A chance for Sarah to leave behind the realities of life with her father and enter the fantastic world of the GULLIVERZONE. February 7th 2027, a day of danger beyond imagination." |
| Greg Bear | New Legends (Editor, with Martin Greenberg) | Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £5.00 | Brand New Stories by: Greg Abraham; Poul Anderson; Gregory Benford; Sterling Blake; George Alec Effinger; Greg Egan; Geoffrey A. Landis; Ursula K. Le Guin; Sonia Orin Lyris; Paul J. McAuley; Mary Rosenblum; Carter Sholtz; Robert Sheckley; Robert Silverberg and James Stevens-Arce. |
| Greg Bear | Star Wars Rogue Planet | Century 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The Force is strong in Anakin... so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted the young Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan... believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force... " |
| Greg Bear | Strength Of Stones | Severn House 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "In the deserts of God-Does-Battle the Cities stand alone, as beleaguered as the aspirations of Mankind. Those still alive are silent - like stars in a dying universe they await dust and decay. Yet within the living plasm... an ancient program works still, implanted by the human creators they cast out a thousand years ago... " |
| Pamela Belle | The Silver City | Pan 1995 First Mass Market Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little edge and corner rubbing, covers and spine lightly creased - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | "The Ska'I, savage barbarians intent on slaughter, are massing in the hills... Only Halthris of the nomadic Tanathi can warn the beautiful city... a chance encounter on the steppe throws her into a terrifying world of decadent royalty, sinister political intrigue and lethal magic... " First in the trilogy - scarce. |
| Gregory Benford (Also as Sterling Blake) | Deep Time How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia | Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top and base of the rear fold | £7.50 | "... Combining the logical rigour of a scientist with the lyrical beauty of a novelist, Gregory Benford explores... fascinating questions in a provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal, to cross the immense gulf that... deep-time messages must span... " |
| John Blackburn | A Sour Apple Tree | Secker & Warburg 1958 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges browned and slightly bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Copy - no Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "Until the previous week General Kirk, of British Intelligence, had been convinced that John Glyde, the notorious broadcasting traitor, had died when Germany collapsed... Was John Glyde alive? And if so, where?... as the list of suicidal murders spread... was there a unifying brain behind them all?" Weird thriller. |
| Algernon Blackwood | Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood | Dover 1973 (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed, a couple of short scratches on cover - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | Selected and Introduced by E. F. Bleiler: The Willows; Secret Worship; Ancient Sorceries; The Glamour of the Snow; The Wendigo; The Other Wing; The Transfer; Ancient Lights; The Listener; The Empty House; Accessory Before the Fact; Keeping His Promise; and Max Hensig. |
| Algernon Blackwood | The Empty House (In Bleiler's Checklist) | Richards Press 1947 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and top edge of front board and bruised at base of spine, rear board slightly creased, top edge stain slightly faded and end papers slightly foxed Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly browned, foxed and marked Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears and a triangular chip missing from the base of the spine/rear panels (max 20mm/side) | £15.00 | The Empty House; A Haunted Island; A Case of Eavesdropping; Keeping His Promise; With Intent to Steal; The Wood of the Dead; Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House; A Suspicious Gift; The strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York and Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp |
| Ben Bova | Saturn | Tor 2003 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Earth groans under the rule of fundamentalist political regimes... Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks... a great ark on a one-way expedition... to Saturn... the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of the expedition... " |
| Scott Bradfield | Animal Planet | Picador 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "On Animal Planet, animals possess the ability ton talk as well as any human being. They rebel... breaking out of zoos and leaving homes to live as independent beings... a steady job... Charlie the Crow, rabble-rouser and avian revolutionary... becomes a media celebrity... Everyone wants a piece of Charlie's radical action... " |
| Scott Bradfield | What's Wrong With America | Picador 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a crease running the length of the front flap | £5.00 | "Tired of living with Marvin, her unloving, cantankerous husband, Emma O'Hallahan shoots him in the back of his head and buries him in the garden. From then on her daily routine is thrown into turmoil, her life becoming increasingly distorted as she rebels against her old self - filling her fridge with frozen TV dinners, Kit-Kats, and brandy..." Scarce. |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | Black Trillium (With Julian May & Andre Norton) | Grafton 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review sheet | £5.00 | "... Late one stormy night three infant princesses are born. As each baby is placed into her mother's arms, so the Archmage Binah bestows on her a gift of great power: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct Black Trillium. One day that power will be all that protects the princesses from certain doom... " |
| Ernest Bramah | A Little Flutter | Cassell 1932 Second Printing (Note: Identical to the 1st with replacement title page "Popular Edition June 1932" tipped onto stub) | Slightly bumped, worn and a little torn at top and base of spine, slight spine lean, corner tips slightly bumped and worn, small string indentation at upper & lower edge of front board and page edges browned and slightly marked - near Very Good Copy | £25.00 | Very scarce detective story (with a private detective called 'S. Holmes' and the bloodthirsty, relentless, Patagonian Groo-Groo) by the author of the Kai Lung and Max Carrados stories... |
| Ernest Bramah | The Bravo of London | Cassell 1934 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, small black ink blob on front cover, slight spine lean, lower front corner tip slightly bumped and worn, previous owner's name partly erased from front free end paper and page edges lightly browned - Very Good copy | £70.00 | The last book about the blind detective, Max Carrados - and the only novel - extremely scarce! |
| Ernest Bramah | The Eyes of Max Carrados | Grant Richards 1923 First Edition First Printing (Second State: Pages trimmed, bound in grey cloth, with RICHARDS PRESS on spine ?1926?) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, cloth rubbed, board edges slightly bumped, slight spine lean, five page corners lightly creased and page edges browned and lightly foxed - Very Good copy | £40.00 | Introduction; The Virginiola Fraud; The Disappearance of Marie Severe; The Secret of Dunstan's Tower; The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms; The Ghost of Massingham Mansions; The Missing Actress Sensation; The Ingenious Mr. Spinola; The Kingsmouth Spy Case; The Eastern Mystery. |
| Ernest Bramah | The Mirror of Kong Ho | Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin 1929 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, light centre-spine crease, spine lettering a little worn and a short (3 mm) split in cloth at head of spine and page edges and end papers foxed and lightly browned - Very Good copy | £15.00 | "... Introduces a completely ingenuous and inexperienced young Chinese gentleman into... a Bloomsbury boarding house... Kong Ho's absurd misadventures and mistakes are conducted and described with Oriental gravity, the result being an atmosphere of muted knockabout... " 8 page introduction by J. C. Squire. |
| Paul Brandon | Swim the Moon | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Scottish fiddle-player Richard Brennan... scratches out a living playing music. The land welcomes him like a prodigal returned. And he meets Alish, the enigmatic young woman hose ethereal singing haunts the bay by moonlight. And, one by one, the hidden secrets of the past are unlocked... both terrifying and fantastic... " |
| Madeleine Brent (Peter O'Donnell) | The Long Masquerade | Souvenir Press 1981 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly discoloured else Fine Copy in unpriced Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the head of the spine | £20.00 | "1t is 1897, and a small ship sails the Caribbean, trading between the islands. This is the only home of a man and a girl who are runaways bearing false names, living constantly in fear of arrest for murder... story of mystery, romance and high adventure ." A romance by the author of the Modesty Blaise books. |
| Reginald Bretnor | The Craft Of Science Fiction (Editor) | Harper & Row 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower front corner, trace of shelf-wear at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly worn and browned Dust Jacket with the red spine lettering faded to pale pink John Brunner's copy, with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper | £10.00 | by Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Frank Herbert, Alan E. Nourse, Norman Spinrad, John Brunner, Hal Clement, Jack Williamson, Katherine Maclean, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon "... primarily for people who want to start writing... science fiction and science fantasy... " |
| David Brin | Glory Season | Orbit 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, a few page edges a little bumped with a couple of short tears and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the base of the folds | £5.00 | "Long ago the Founding Mothers left old Earth and the Phylum Worlds, seeking to reforge human destiny. Through genetic wizardry, they have altered human genetic patterns. For most of the year, any child born on the planet Stratos is a clone of her mother... Only in summer are 'vars' conceived - old fashioned, gene-mixed girls, and even sometimes boys... " |
| Eric Brown | New York Nights Book One in the Virex Trilogy | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "2040. New York is crowded with the lost. Refugees from the radioactive eastern seaboard, the splintered remains of a society in freefall... when Hal is asked to find a missing computer tech... he is pulled into a bizarre world of counter-cultures intertwined with exotic virtual reality domains... " |
| Eric Brown | The Web Untouchable | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... Life might be easier for most people in 2027 but for Ana Devi, whose only home is the streets of New Delhi, it's a battle for survival. She's certainly never dreamed of visiting the bright virtual worlds of the Web.. But the Web holds the secret to what has happened to her brother and to dozens of other New Delhi street children... " |
| John K. H. Brunner (Also as Keith Woodcott) | A Maze of Stars | Del Rey 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper. | £15.00 | "... over six hundred planets had been seeded with human stock by... the Ship. And on each of these worlds, the memory of the Ship had faded into legend... But the Ship still endured... However, it had somehow been damaged in ways even its computer mind could not fathom... " Pre-dated the Easton Press 'First edition' by some two months. |
| John K. H. Brunner | Into the Slave Nebula (Slavers Of Space) | Millington 1980 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top rear corner and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. From the Library of the Author with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper. | £15.00 | "... There was nothing left for the men of Earth but to seek pleasure, in never-ending carnival... Then an android died... and Derry knew that this universe must be shattered and reborn, even if he and the Earth he left behind must die in the process!" |
| John K. H. Brunner | Life In An Explosive Forming Press | Poets Trust 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Small faint mark on cover else Fine copy From the Library of the Author with his bookplate inside cover | £20.00 | Twenty Eight poems in 31 pages... scarce. |
| John K. H. Brunner | Players At The Game of People | Doubleday (S.F.B.C.) 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K40 on P. 212 = week 40/1980) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket with a small chip missing from the top of the spine panel From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper. | £7.50 | "... Suppose you could make your dreams come true, simply by lending your body to an unknown, superior being. Would you consider it a good bargain, or fear that you'd bartered your soul?" |
| John K. H. Brunner | The Great Steamboat Race | Ballantine 1983 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners a little bumped and worn, crease across top corner front cover, spine panel a little faded, and page edges a little browned and marked From the Library of the Author with his bookplate inside front cover. | £7.50 | "... the breathtaking story of the last great race between the two most famous steamboats ever to travel the Mississippi. Filled with charismatic men and women and bursting with all the colour, suspense, treachery and romance of a wonderful age... " |
| John K. H. Brunner | The Sheep Look Up | Dent 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, corners bruised, and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with the spine panel background almost completely faded (as usual) and a couple of short tears. From the Library of the Author with his bookplate inside front cover. | £10.00 | "... short-sighted greed has nearly put the planet Earth to death. The seas are foul, the rivers choked... City-dwellers walk the seas in masks, sometimes pausing at the slot-machines that dispense oxygen to ease their smog-sick lungs... " One of John's four Great Dystopian futures |
| Mark Burnell | Glittering Savages | Hodder & Stoughton 1995 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with the lower tip of the front fold a little rubbed. With Publisher Review Sheet with review notes on reverse) | £30.00 | "... an elusive killer of unique ferocity.. who moves unseen and unheard... who uses unimaginable force but no weapon... who leaves no clues... Rachel holds the key to a terrible secret... that could help the police... a monumental struggle between good and evil... " |
| William Butler Butler | The Durable Desperadoes | Macmillan 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and worn Dust Jacket with a few tears. Preface by Anthony Lejeune | £5.00 | "... The leading Desperadoes here analysed derive from Raffles and Arsene Lupin via the inescapable Bulldog Drummond to such later household names as The Saint, The Toff, the Baron, Norman Conquest and many others, not least James Bond... the author... has unearthed a mass of obscure or unknown information about the histories of these books... " |
| Italo Calvino | Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city | Secker & Warburg 1983 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a sticker 'ghost' on the front flap and the price removed. | £7.50 | "Marcovaldo is a labourer working in a vast manufacturing city... He is more in tune with the life of the seasons than with the rhythms of urban existence... infiltrating mushrooms, improbable leaves, a passing flock of migrant birds - but he is unable to ignore the pulsations of neon advertising signs... " |
| Italo Calvino | Mr Palomar | Secker & Warburg 1986 Second Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a sticker 'ghost' on the front flap and the price removed. | £5.00 | "it's no accident that the surname of the narrator recalls the famous telescope, for Palomar is an obsessive observer, capable of turning his alarmingly concentrated focus from the Milky Way to the cheese counter of the local delicatessen... Palomar is inclined to focus on the specific - the night sky, a breast, a roofline, the decaying ranks of television aerials... " |
| Paul Campbell | Extro Science Speculative Fiction Vol. 1 No 1 (Editor) | Specifi Publications 1982 | Slightly rubbed at the base of the spine else Fine Copy | £4.00 | Christopher Priest's Invisible Men; Interview with Stephen Donaldson; Garry Kilworth's Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog; Paul Campbell's Slow Harry; David Langford's Genocide for Fun and Profit; Ian Watson's Flame and the Healer; Interview with Ian Watson; Andy Cooper's A Night in Shining Armour; Reviews and more |
| Orson Scott Card | Alvin Journeyman The Tales of Alvin Maker IV | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top front corner bruised else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a light scratch on the rear panel. | £7.50 | "... Alvin is a Maker, and what he can make is a new future for America. But to do that he must defeat his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvin's life... By lies and innuendo, and by false accusations, Alvin is driven from his home... he must now stand trial for his life." |
| Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin The Tales of Alvin Maker III | Tor 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Little Peggy is now sixteen, and has seen more of the world's evil than anyone rightly should - and when she 'sees' a young girl and her infant son... Peggy's father takes the risk of bringing the two back to the guest house, and in doing sop creates the one path... that may lead to happiness for both her and Alvin... " |
| Orson Scott Card | Red Prophet The Tales of Alvin Maker II | Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... we learn more about... talents... the minor gifts of the white people... and the much grander gifts of the Indians, whose lives are filled with a beautiful green music... Young Alvin Miller... has extraordinary talents for a white boy... " |
| Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1988) | Tor 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... an alternate frontier America; a world where a particular kind of magic really works and where the magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world... dowsers find water, sparks set fires, blacksmiths speak to their iron, the second sight warns of dangers to come... " |
| Orson Scott Card | The Shadow Saga (Ender's Shadow+Shadow of the Hegemon+Shadow Puppets) | Orbit 1999-2002 First Edition in the UKs First Printings (3 Volumes) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £25.00 | "... Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. earth faces a new danger, and this time the enemy is much closer to home. " |
| Orson Scott Card | Unaccompanied Sonata & Other Stories | Dial Press 1981 First Edition First Printing | Spine panel decoration a little rubbed, top few mm of spine cloth lightly browned and page edges lightly browned else Fine Copy in Dust Jacket with a hint of wear at the top and base of spine and top of front fold and light browning along top edge of rear panel | £30.00 | Introduction by Ben Bova; Ender's Game; Kingsmeat; Deep Breathing Exercises; Closing the Timelid; I Put My Blue Genes On; Eumenedes in the Fourth Floor Lavatory; Mortal Gods; Quietus; The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All In Fun; The Porcelain Salamander; Unaccompanied Sonata and Afterword: On Origins |
| Terry Carr | Universe 14 (Editor) | Doubleday 1984 First Edition First Printing (Code O18 on P. 181) | Slightly bumped at top of spine, page edges lightly foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson; Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory by Robert Silverberg; Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead by Sharon N. Farber; O by Damon Knight; Art in the War Zone by Pat Murphy; Interlocking Pieces by Molly Gloss; The Menagerie of Babel by Carter Scholz; Deadtime by Joel Richards; Me/Days by Gregory Benford; Black Coral by Lucius Shepard |
| Jonathan Carroll | Glass Soup | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £12.50 | "... The realm of the dead is built from the dreams - and nightmares of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to Hell. Once before Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child... " |
| Jonathan Carroll | Kissing the Beehive | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top corners and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... bestselling novelist Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his Great Book... his subject the death of teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova - the 'Beehive'... Bayer's gesture of respect to his youth turns sour in the face of all that he unearths; and, for many people close to him, this leads to devastating - and fatal - consequences... " |
| Jonathan Carroll | Sleeping In Flame | Century/Legend 1988 First Edition First Printing (Second State with P240/1 correct) | Page edges lightly browned and slightly marked, but due to production fault, spine lettering slanted and gold patch on fore-edge of front board, else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author | £30.00 | "... who, really, is... Walker Easterling... abandoned as an infant and discovered by a vagrant prowling the garbage bins... in Atlanta... Maris York... brings him all the warmth and sense of belonging he has never quite experienced before. But she also provokes a chain reaction of increasingly bizarre events - threats from some dark otherworld..." J.C. inscriptions are very scarce. |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "What would happen if, in the middle of a contented middle-aged life, your seventeen-year-old self suddenly appeared? And what if he said you had done everything wrong?... But there's still hope because he's come to help. He's going to show you how to live the rest of your life the right way... and... the fate of the universe could well be determined by what you decide to do next... " |
| Jim Cawthorn | The Lord of the Rings A Portfolio 2: The Two Towers | Self-Published 1962 | Near Fine duplicated A4 copies | £5.00 | Black & While Illustrations: Anduril and the Mark; Entmarch; The Hosts of Minas Morgul; Light in Edoras; Against the Deeping Wall and Untitled (Nazgul leading column) |
| Mark Chadbourn | Destroyer of Worlds Kingdom Of The Serpent: Book 3 | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine copy | £4.00 | "In the Far Lands, the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons gather for the final battle, the one the ancient Norse legends called Ragnarok, which will lead to the passing of gods and men from the universe. the Champion of Life, Jack Churchill has gathered a mighty army, backed by the gods from the world's greatest mythologies... " |
| Mark Chadbourn | The Queen of Sinister | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, boards a little rubbed and one spot on top page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "With the sudden return of magic, our modern, technological society has crumbled. Cities lie in ruins, communications are limited. Ancient Gods and mythic creatures rage across the land, but in this new order good and evil are never quite as they appear. Welcome to Britain's new Dark Age... " |
| C. J. Cherryh | Finity's End | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel background a little faded | £5.00 | "... the award-winning universe of her classic Cyteen and Downbelow Station... an evocative, richly realised exploration of loyalty, family and transition... " |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes | The King's Ghost | Kimber 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with short tear at the top of the front fold and a touch of wear at the corners | £5.00 | "Clavering Grange, that brooding almost sinister country mansion which according to tradition was built on tainted ground, has had many ghosts that have walked its corridors and who have been glimpsed looking down from the musicians' gallery upon the generations of the Sinclair family. But the most famous haunting of all... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Rama II (With Gentry Lee) | Bantam 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing | Top corners slightly bumped and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Now the Ramans have finally returned... near the dawn of the twenty-third century, a spacecraft is identified hurtling across our solar system... Some of the best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled... " Sequel to 'Rendezvous With Rama'. |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Garden of Rama (With Gentry Lee a.k.a. Garden of Rama) | Bantam 1991 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the plastic lamination lifting from around the front panel embossed lettering | £5.00 | "... Atomic warheads meant for the second Raman craft... have detonated - with cosmonauts Nicole des Jardins, Richard Wakeman and Michael O'Toole trapped aboard... travelling at half the speed of light toward an uncertain destination... " Still with Spectra Summer Proof of Purchase |
| Mike Cobley | MindMaps Enquiries into the Surreal, the Wicked and the Blasphemous (Editor) | Mindmaps ca1996 (Paper) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy | £7.50 | 32 page centre--stapled booklet. Ian McDonald's Faithful; Keith Brooke's Solo; Mike Cobley's Opinion; John Ross' Another Girl... ; Iain Banks' On The Culture; Stewart Robinson's Rock Sister and William King's Easy Steps |
| Adrian Cole | Madness Emerging | Hale 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket with 9mm tear at top edge of rear panel adjacent to spine. Signed and Inscribed by the Author to the person who inspired the title... | £15.00 | "... Roy and Sarah Bland come to the secluded Cornish hamlet of Menhithiot... Davey warns Roy of the dangers... Davey claims to have unearthed some vile secret. Roy ignores the further warnings... to investigate... he releases an alien horror older than Man himself and plunges the serene countryside into a reign of madness and nightmare." Signed AC's are very uncommon |
| Adrian Cole | The Sleep of Giants | Spindlewood 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Stuart Littlejohn | £7.50 | "Roddy and Donna, two teen-agers from very different backgrounds, take a boat for a spree on the river, but the boat gets mysteriously drawn out to sea by a mysterious current. they scramble ashore on Lundy Island to find hidden powers stirring from a long sleep... " |
| Adrian Cole | Wargods of Ludorbis | Hale 1981 First Edition First Printing | Top corners bruised and page edges lightly marked else Fine copy in slightly browned and rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with Publisher's price sticker on front flap and a little damp-marking inside the base of the spine (no show-through) | £15.00 | "... the Games World. Primitive, cruel and merciless, a remote planet rules by the Wargods, faceless aliens who used whole civilizations in their manic wars... for their own amusement. On to this violent world came the reluctant players... " Very Scarce. |
| Nancy A. Collins | The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story | Roadkill Press 1991 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No. 194/500) | Fine copy Illustrated by Timothy Standish | £7.50 | 25 page centre-stapled booklet. "Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous in a round-about fashion. But that was a long time ago, and the missus don't like me talking bout the old days, so's most folks here abouts don't know I was ever anything but a dry goods merchant who come West for his health... " |
| David Guy Compton (Also as Guy Compton & Frances Lynch) | Radio Plays | Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 604/650) | Light front cover crease, faint (thumbprint) mark on rear cover, corners slightly rubbed - Near Fine copy | £3.00 | 62 pages - Collects two previously unpublished radio play: A Turning Off the Minch Park Road and Time Exposure, with a two-page introduction by the author. |
| Stoney Compton | Russian Amerika | Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Alaska, 1987. in a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigoriy Grigorievich... was cashiered for disobeying an insane direct order. Now, ten years later, Grisha... discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future... and all nine... nations of North America... " |
| Groff Conklin | Science Fiction Elsewhen (Editor) | Rapp & Whiting 1970 First Separate, UK & Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and marked Dust Jacket with spine panel dark green background slightly faded. | £5.00 | "... Each of the four stories is about recognisable people on Earth, but an Earth with different almost alien concepts... " Walt & Leigh Richmond's Shortstack; Mark Clifton's How Allied; J. T. Mcintosh's The Wrong World and Allen Kim Lang's World In A Bottle together with an Introduction by the Editor. Originally half of Elsewhere and Elsewhen |
| John Connolly | The Book Of Lost Things | Hodder & Stoughton 2006 First Edition First Printing (Limited to 1500 copies) | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | "As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend... bad things start to happen... the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book Of Lost Things." |
| Storm Constantine | The Enchantments Of Flesh And Spirit | Macdonald 1987 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author on the Title Page. | £15.00 | "The Northern cities were an industrial wasteland, a garbage heap of despair and decay. On such soil strange orchids grow: and one such was the Wraethu - mutant humans, strikingly beautiful. possessed of mystical powers, biological sports to challenge 'parent' humanity to the limit, and beyond... " |
| D. M. Cornish | Monster Blood Tattoo Book One: Foundling | David Fickling 2007 First Edition Thus First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, back panel with a couple of rubs and a small, light scratch else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrations by the Author | £5.00 | "The vast lands of the Half-Continent bear the scars of centuries of conflict between monsters and men. Only the hardiest of souls now travel the inland ways: merchants, imperial messengers and - bravest of all - the monster hunters... Not that Rossamund Bookchild should worry... " With 100 page Explicarium - an illustrated guide to the Half-Continent... |
| Albert E. Cowdrey | Crux | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the top of the front fold. | £5.00 | "Centuries ago, the Time of Troubles left Earth shattered and nearly empty... Now the Government of the Universe is spread out among hundreds of worlds... Into this glorious golden age comes a new threat. scientists... have created a wormhole generator - a machine that can send people into the past... Even the smallest change to the past will destroy the future... " |
| Peter Crowther | Lonesome Roads | RazorBlade Press 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at top and base of spine and top cirners else Fine copy | £4.00 | "Three gripping stories collected together for the first time! Forest Plains The heady scent of death brings a uniquely gifted native American to a small town... The Space Between the Lines... David Milligan discovers that his... ability to freeze-frame the entire world carries a high price-tag... Stand-By Unable to cope with the loss of his wife, John Penderson discovers... " |
| Seamus Cullen (????) | Astra And Flondrix | Allen Lane 1976 First Edition First Printing | Page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Clute - "...a relatively rare presentation of eroticism in fantasy. The king of a fantasyland kingdom on post-holocaust earth impregnates his elf bride; their son Flondrix matures into a shapeshifter and sexual athlete, and inadvertently awakens a malign sleeper... " |
| Julie E. Czerneda | Survival Species Imperative #1 | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of sun-fading to the extremities. | £7.50 | "... Mac... was a trained biologist... research was interrupted by the... arrival of Brymn, the first member of the alien race known as the Dhryn to ever set foot on Earth... Brymn was an archaeologist, and much of his work had focused on... the Chasm... traces existed of the civilisations that must once have flourished... " |
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