| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Abercrombie | The Heroes | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing | Page edges marked and a little rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Not the Waterstones 'Special Edition' | £10.00 | "... Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley... Over three days of battle, they'll decide the fate of the North. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest of hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail... " |
| Douglas Adams | The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | Millennium 1994 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With facsimile Author's signature on front end paper | £4.00 | "Milliways... has been projected forwards in time to the exact moment of the end of the universe. While galactic gourmets sample delectable dishes they watch in total comfort as constellations collide and asteroids explode in what can only be described as the ultimate cabaret... " |
| Jack Adris (Herb Lehrman) | Science Fiction Classics Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 6 (Editor) | Ultimate Publishing 1967-8 | Good to Very Good copies Illustrations by Frank R. Paul & Wesso | £10.00 | For the 4 issues. Stories by Hugo Gernsback; Murray Leinster; Raymond Z. Gallun; Harl Vincent; Captain S. P. Meek; Curt Siodmak; John W. Campbell, Jr.; A. Hyatt Verrill; Otis Adelbert Kline; Miles J. Breuer; David H. Keller; Edmond Hamilton, Stanton A. Coblentz & others |
| Joan Aiken | A Fit Of Shivers | Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket a little crumpled at top of spine panel and with a short tear near the top of the front fold | £5.00 | Number Four, Bowstring Lane; Earrings; An L-shaped Grave; Something; Birthday Gifts; The Rose-garden Dream; Watkyn, Comma; The Shrieking Door; Cousin Alice and The Legacy |
| Joan Aiken | Midwinter Nightingale | Cape 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly marked on the inside (no show-through). | £5.00 | "... Dido is witness to some macabre murders... Simon is hampered not only by the mischievous Jorinda, but also by a flock of sheep, Russian bears and the United Real Saxon Army, who choose to levitate rather than fight. Who will succeed to the throne of England?... " |
| Joan Aiken | The Scream | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "David's grandmother is a very usual woman... On the remote Scottish island where she used to live, she was famous as a Riddler. She would put the Evil Eye on rats so that they drowned themselves in the sea. Now she has moved to the city and her dark powers have come with her... " |
| Joan Aiken | The Teeth of the Gale | Cape 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine book in like, price-clipped, overstickered, Dust Jacket (as usual). | £10.00 | "...it is 'a matter of life and death', and for Felix the rescue mission offers a chance to see his beloved Juana again..." |
| Joan Aiken | The Whispering Mountain | Cape 1968 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine, small mark to fore-edge of front board, page edges browned and water stained - around Very Good book in worn, torn and lightly stained, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "An ancient bardic prophecy about the legendary golden Harp of Teirtu comes true in the reign of King James III. After lying hidden for centuries, the harp is rediscovered... by the grandfather of young Owen Hughes. But who is its rightful owner?... the harp is stolen... " |
| Joan Aiken | The Witch Of Clatteringshaws | Cape 2005 First Edition | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Malise, Witch Of Clatteringshaws, writing to her cousin Father Sam, Archbishop of Canterbury, is not happy... She is not the only one... Simon Battersea, now on the throne of England... lives... in... St. James's Palace, where a dangerous faction of courtiers plans to get rid of his loyal friend, Dido... " The final volume in the Wolves Of Willoughby Chase series |
| David Almond | Clay | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "There's a stranger in town - Stephen Rose. He's got waxy skin, haunting eyes, a sickly smell. No parents. No friends. He's come to live with Crazy Mary. There are so many tales and rumours about him. One thing's certain: there's magic in the weird creatures he makes with clay... " |
| David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Hodder 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It's easy. Running away from Whitegates. Erin and her running-away friend January do it all the time. But this time they're going down river. This time they might never come back. This time they're looking for a tiny corner of paradise. How could they imagine that what they'd find there would be Heaven Eyes... This girl who should have drowned at sea... " |
| David Almond | Jackdaw Summer | Hodder 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A long hot summer A wild boy An abandoned baby An act of violence On the day that Liam follows the jackdaw, his life changes forever.;.. a summer of questions... when friendships are tested... when lines between good and bad are blurred. A summer that Liam will never forget... " |
| David Almond | Kit's Wilderness | Hodder 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "In Stonygate there was a wilderness, an empty space between the houses and the river where the ancient coal pit had once been. In the wilderness Kit met Askew, with his wild dog, Jax. Askew - who ran the game called Death. the wilderness where Kit begins to confront death - and life... " |
| Poul Anderson | A Midsummer Tempest (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1975) | Severn House 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, a few page top edges rough-cut and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a short (5mm) tear at the top edge of the rear panel and an associated crease. | £10.00 | "Somewhere, spinning through another universe, is an Earth where a twist of fate, a revolution and a few early inventions have made a world quite unlike our own. In a world where Cavaliers and Puritans battle with the aid of observation balloons and steam trains; where Oberon and Titania join forces with King Arthur to resist the Industrial Revolution... " Scarce Edition |
| Poul Anderson | Ensign Flandry | Severn House 1977 First UK Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the top edge of the front panel creased | £5.00 | "Dominic Flandry... at the age of nineteen and straight out of naval academy... the Merseans were coming after Flandry with every weapon in their terrible arsenal. And... Earth's own armadas were after him too - for desertion, high treason and other assorted crimes... " |
| Poul Anderson | The Broken Sword | Compton Russell 1974 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Thus | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, slight bump to upper edge of rear panel and page edges a little browned else Fine book in original imprinted plastic Dust Jacket. Note: there appears to have been a reaction which affected the orange boards directly under the black DJ lettering, lightening it to yellow in these places only. | £35.00 | Although first published by Abelard Schuman in 1954 this First UK Hardback edition follows the text of the 1971 Ballantine Adult Fantasy edition, revised by the author, and was his preferred text. As this edition was only issued to the UK Public Library system, and was not generally for sale, it is somewhat uncommon. |
| Poul Anderson | The Merman's Children | Sidgwick & Jackson 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the story of how the last age of Faery passed and of how the fairy folk gave way before the inevitable spread of Christendom... the tragic chronicle of how the scattered remnants of Faery lived and scrambled to survive in the last days of Magic... " |
| Poul Anderson | Trader To The Stars | Gollancz 1965 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of faded spine, traces of (?Boots?) sticker removal on front panel, pages foxed and browned and foxed - Very Good book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a faint (water?) stain at the base of the spine. | £5.00 | "... three novelettes introducing Nicholas Van Rijn, a 21st century trader between the stars whose behaviour is strongly reminiscent of the first Elizabethan buccaneers... a wily old bird with a well-developed analytical mind; and in each story he finds the solution to a problem that may mean the difference between life and death... " |
| Anonymous (Sol Cohen) | (The Most) Thrilling Science Fiction (Ever Told) /Adventures (Editor, with others?) | Ultimate Publishing 1966-75 (23 Issues) | Mostly VG or better issues | £40.00 | The Lot. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 (Jun. 72) & Dec. 72, Feb. 73, Jun 73, Feb. 74, Apr. 74, Apr. 75. Stories by James Gunn; Keith Laumer; Robert Bloch; Poul Anderson; J. F. Bone; Robert F. Young; Isaac Asimov; Robert Sheckley; Murray Leinster; J. G. Ballard; Harrison Denmark; Cordwainer Smith and Lots, Lots More |
| Anonymous (Sol Cohen) | Great Science Fiction/Science Fiction (S F) Greats (Editor) | Ultimate Publishing 1965-71 (15 Issues) | Mostly Very Good or better copies | £40.00 | The Lot: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19. Stories by Isaac Asimov; James Blish; Robert Bloch; Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; Robert F. Young; Jack Sharkey; Henry Slesar; J. F. Bone; J. G. Ballard; Cordwainer Smith; Phyllis Gottlieb; Harlan Ellison; Philip Jose Farmer; Poul Anderson; Keith Laumer; Roger Zelazny; Randall Garrett; Harry Harrison and many more |
| Anonymous (Sol Cohen) | Science Fiction Adventure(s)/Classics (Editor) | Ultimate Publishing 1969-74 (Four Issues) | Very Good or better copies | £10.00 | The Lot. Fall '69, July 73, May 74 July 74 Nov. 74. Stories by Asimov, Hamilton, Bloch, Gallun, Cummings, Keller, Wellman, Campbell, Heinlein, Wyndham, Moskowitz and others. Continuation of the Magazine that started as Science Fiction Classics |
| Piers Anthony | Rings Of Ice | Millington 1975 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and marked Dust Jacket with a 20mm tear on lower edge of back panel | £10.00 | "The wide white rainbow meant one thing: Noah's flood, only worse. Three men and three women trapped in a motor-home, battle a global flood that spells the end of civilisation... " |
| Piers Anthony | The Cluster Trilogy (Vicinity Cluster+Chaining The Lady+Kirlian Quest) | Millington 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardbacks First Printings | Page edges of volume one slightly foxed, else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £35.00 | "...On the far future planet of Outworld, where primitive men and nubile women still battle with giant dinosaurs, the barbaric genius Flint is summoned by the Earth-born to fulfil a mission of Galactic magnitude - the experimental transfer of his Kirlian essence to an alien sphere..." |
| Edwin Lester Arnold | The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician (In Bleiler's Checklist) | Chatto & Windus 1891 First Edition in One Volume (Adverts at rear dated April 1891 | Bumped and a little worn at top and base of spine and corners, front free end paper removed, signature and notes of author & critic John Clute on front fixed end paper and page edges age-darkened and a little foxed - Good book. With Twelve Illustrations by H. M. Padget | £5.00 | "... recalls a series of past 'awakenings' in different eras of British history... and continually meets women reminiscent of the witch-wife whose magic was the source of his problematic immortality and with whom he yearns to secure a more permanent reunion beyond the Earth... " |
| Catherine Asaro | Ascendant Sun | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth... With little more than the clothes on his back and his family imprisoned by the Allieds, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel. . But when that vessel enters Euban space, Kelric finds his worst nightmare realized: he is auctioned as a slave "provider" to the cruel Aristos... " |
| Catherine Asaro | The Moon's Shadow | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... a thrilling new chapter in this galaxy-spanning epic, as the titanic conflicts which have raged across the cosmos at last come to a climax... " |
| Neal Asher | Hilldiggers | Tor (UK) 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "A terrible war once raged between the two rival planets within a distant solar system. Over the centuries their human inhabitants had 'adapted' themselves to the extremely different conditions of their new homes, far outside Polity influence... Twenty years after the dust has settled... four exceptionally talented orphans have grown up... " |
| Neal Asher | Polity Agent The fourth Cormac novel. | Tor (UK) 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine panel and a couple of light bumps to centre of rear cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £12.50 | "From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it had been sent specially to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilisation... destroyed by a devastating virus... the Jain technology... " |
| Neal Asher | The Skinner | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Top rear corners slightly bumped else Fine book | £4.00 | "On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travellers: Janer, bringing the eyes of the hornet Hive mind... Erlin searching for Ambel - the ancient sea captain who can teach her to live; and Sable Keech on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for seven hundred years... " |
| Mike Ashley | Starlight Man The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (Algernon Blackwood An Extraordinary Life) | Constable 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket slightly worn at the tip of the folds. | £7.50 | "... one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century... an indefatigable traveller... undercover agent... Searcher for the Red Cross... storyteller on radio and television... member of the magical order of the Golden Dawn... all of his stories were based on personal experience or those of his close friends... " |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) | Arthor | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The adolescent Arthor is a brutal warrior, a Dark Age killing machine... Sent... on a mission... Arthor becomes entangled with some dangerous magic too potent for even his lethal combat skills... Against such powerful odds, Arthor's reaching... Camelot... begins to look alarmingly uncertain... " |
| A. A. Attanasio | Solis | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A thousand years in the future, Charles Outis (who has had his head cryonically frozen... ) wakes to find himself enslaved by brutal technocracy. His brain is imprisoned in an automated mining factory in the asteroid belt... his only hope of bodily reincarnation (through cloning) and sanctuary lies in Solis, an elite community on Mars... " |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) | Wyvern | Grafton 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | "... a spellbinding tale of pirates and soul-catchers, sorcery and battles, love and revenge." |
| Hilary Bailey | As Time Goes By | Constable 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small internal damp-mark at base of spine - no show-through Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Polly Kops life goes from bad to worse. Her ex-husband Alexander, once a musician, may now be a wealthy merchant banker, but Polly's house in West London is crumbling and peeling, overflowing with junk and miscellaneous possessions, with her four children, grandchild, bellicose ex-lover friends and neighbours... " Sequel to Polly Put the Kettle On. Based on HB's own experiences married to Mike Moorcock, perhaps? |
| Hilary Bailey | Polly Put The Kettle On | Constable 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a couple of pieces of lamination missing, a small tear and a little erosion at base of rear fold and spine panel slightly faded (as usual) With a non-ascribed inscription and Signed on the Title Page | £15.00 | "Polly Kops is redheaded, clever, turbulent and, above all, illegitimate. She lives in stylish squalor in a broken-down Gothic house near Portobello Road. There, too, her heavy-rock songwriter/writer husband, Alexander, their twin daughters, Polly's pregnant cousin, a malevolent old abortionist, a drug addict.. rock musicians, groupies and hangers-on..." Apparently based on her life with Mike Moorcock. Her first book - scarce. |
| J. G. Ballard | The Day Of Creation | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... " |
| Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) | A Song of Stone | Abacus 1997 First Edition First Printing | Front panel partly lightly browned, top rear cover corner creased and some top page corners lightly creased - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "The war is ending... For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless landscape...Taking to the road with the other refugees... seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. However, the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas, and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit and death." |
| Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) | Dead Air | Little, Brown 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and boards shelf-worn else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £25.00 | "... 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 | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £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 (Also as Iain M. Banks) | The Wasp Factory | Macmillan 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket slightly rubbed at the base of the spine panel and with a 25mm tear at the base of the front fold Signed and with a long inscription by the Author on the Title Page | £30.00 | "Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional... " |
| Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) | Walking On Glass | Macmillan 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, slightly bumped at top edge of rear board adjacent to the spine, page edges foxed and browning and front free end paper damp-marked - Very Good book in Dust Jacket, with flap extremities slightly dusty and a small spot of wear near the top of the front fold. | £7.50 | "Graham Park, an art student, is on his way to meet Sarah ffitch with whom he is in love... Stephen Groul's experience tells him to trust nothing, nobody... he knows They are out to get him... In his remote castle Quiss is forced to play interminable, impossible games... He is walking on glass... All three are on a collision course... " |
| Iain M. Banks | Look To Windward | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel background slightly faded Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... 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... " |
| Jo Bannister | The Winter Plain | Hale 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... when his bedslave teamed up with a nuclear engineer to rescue from Harry's evil clutches the last scion of the royal house of Chad the results were, literally, devastating... " Scarce |
| Clive Barker | Abarat Days Of Magic Nights Of War | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at extremities and smallish mark (?chocolate?) on top page edges - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. Illustrated throughout in full colour by the author | £5.00 | "Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her... Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't remember learning?... " |
| John Barnes | A Million Open Doors | Millennium 1993 First Edition in the UK | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in rubbed Dust Jacket. With Publisher's review slip - and review written on the reverse | £4.00 | Clute - "... instantaneous matter transmission... each formerly isolated planet is going through intense culture shock. Giraut, who comes from a high-tech, pseudomedieval culture... finds himself employed on Caledony, a grim, no-frills world... The clash of cultures is fascinating... " |
| Charles Barren | Foundation The Review of Science Fiction Nos. 7/8-104 (With Kenneth Bulmer, George Hay, Peter Nichols, Malcolm Edwards, Edward James etc.) | The Science Fiction Foundation 1973-2008 (96 issues) | Mostly Near Fine or better Copies | £120.00 | With Index for issues 1-40 |
| Stephen Baxter | Deep Future | Gollancz 2001 First Edition First Printing | A couple of light bumps to centre of front board else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a couple of light bumps to centre of front panel and a touch of wear to the fold tips | £5.00 | "How different will life be at the end of the 21st century? Can technology save us from ecological disaster? What is to be learnt from the abortive Apollo and Shuttle proqrammes that will help us escape the bounds of Earth in the future? And if we do escape Earth can we make a home on the harsh planets and moons of our solar system?... " |
| Stephen Baxter | Flux | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £125.00 | "Made from elementary particles, a submicroscopic race of humans was engineered to survive in the mantle of the Star. Being human, they soon have a history of ingenious achievement, culture, government... and superstition and war... " |
| Stephen Baxter | Traces | Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges a little creased and with a couple of short tears else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Stories set in a variety of futures... visions of histories which differ from our own, either through small changes - what if Germany had won WW1... or through a fundamental difference in physical laws... what if Archimedes had been right in his clockwork-like cosmological vision... " |
| Barrington J. Bayley | Collision With Chronos (Collision Course) | Allison & Busby 1977 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with some film delamination on front panel adjacent to the spine | £10.00 | "... These creatures aren't alien to Earth. They're Terran. They evolved here, millions of years in the future. Bu the same token, we are in their future. The Earth has two completely different evolutionary developments on it, separated in time and associated with separate time-streams... " |
| Sarah Baylis | The Tomb of Reeds | Julia MacRae 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few corners folded else Fine book in torn and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "An old golden crown, intricately patterned with spirals and symbols, is found on the riverbank. When Bridey puts on the crown she feels somehow transformed... Could the crown have belonged to Brigit, goddess and warrior queen of the past... why should Bridey feel a sudden affinity... " |
| Marc Behm | Three Novels (The Eye of the Beholder+The Queen of the Night+The Ice Maiden) | Zomba 1983 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly browned and faded. | £15.00 | The Eye of the Beholder - He was a detective, she was a murderer. Their odd relationship... left behind them a sinister trail of corpses. The Queen of the Night - A sombre tale of Nazi Germany and the search for an elusive father. The Ice Maiden - She was a croupier, as beautiful as she had been over 30 years ago. Being a vampire, she never aged, which had some advantages... |
| Beth Hamilton Bell | Lord Ham | John F. Blair 1960 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with a small chip missing from base of front fold | £7.50 | "... Mistress Bonnie... was sent to London to live with a cousin... she was surprised to find that the door knocker was only three inches from the bottom of the door. She... discovered... her cousin was entirely different from anyone she had ever known. His whiskers stuck out like little white wire, his nose was rough and rubbery and almost always moist, and his little round ears and luxuriant coat of fur reminded her of a toy bear... " |
| Robert Jackson Bennett | Mr. Shivers | Orbit 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is the time of the great depression... Marcus Connelly seeks not a new life, but a death... for the mysterious scarred man who murdered his daughter... Countless others have lost someone to the scarred man... but... the man they are hunting is more than human... " |
| James Blaylock | Homunculus | Morrigan 1988 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "When the corpse of Joanna Southcote begins to clack its fleshless jaws on Doctor Narbondo's operating table, it's clear that Narbondo has perfected Sebastian Owlesby's technique for raising the dead. A blimp with a skeleton for a pilot is swooping over Billingsgate market at dawn, and a mad preacher with his mother's head in a glass box is predicting the end... " |
| Tom Boardman, Jr. | The Unfriendly Future (Editor) | Four Square 1965 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine edges slightly worn, covers lightly creased and page edges browned, with an appearance that may mean page blocks have been carefully re-glued - Good to Very Good Copy | £10.00 | Introduction; Mack Reynolds' Russkies Go Home; Will Worthington's The Food Goes In The Top; Brian W. Aldiss' Danger: Religion; Harry Harrison's Rescue Operation; Terry Pratchett's The Hades Business; Jay Williams' The Seed of Violence; Acknowledgements |
| Ben Bova | Saturn | Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small (2.5mm) tear to bottom of front fold | £5.00 | "Ten thousand men and women, exiled by the restrictive governments of Earth, are riding a man-made habitat to Saturn. They form a volatile community - one needs only a spark to set off an explosion that could end in disaster... " |
| Ben Bova | Titan | Hodder & Stoughton 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Prwess Release | £10.00 | "... Titan Alpha has landed: the most complex man-made object to reach Saturn's largest moon. The ten thousand men and women of the habitat Goddard are once more at the frontier of science... Titan Alpha goes silent. And minor, inexplicable faults start to affect Goddard... " |
| Stephen Bowkett | Dreamtime (With Christopher Evans, Jenny Jones and Colin Greenland) | Dolphin 2000 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Four Volumes) | Fine Copies Appropriate volumes signed by Christopher Evans & Colin Greenland on the Title Pages | £10.00 | Stephen Bowkett’s Dreamcatcher; Christopher Evans’ Ice Tower; Jenny Jones’ Shadowsong and Colin Greenland’s Spritfeather - Linked tetralogy of YA novels - "In the world of dreamtime anything can happen... Be careful what you wish fo... " |
| T. C. Boyle | A Friend Of The Earth | Bloomsbury 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front and lower rear corners bruised also some signatures slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It's 2025. Tyrone O' Shaughnessy Tierwater is ekeing out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality, Once... Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an ecoterrorist... he had endangered the lives of both... his daughter... and his wife... " |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | Lady Of Avalon | Viking 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket where the foil inlay is slightly tarnished | £5.00 | "... spans the creation of Avalon itself and foreshadows the birth of the legendary King Arthur. Here. we meet three remarkable holy women who steer the fortunes of Roman Britain as they struggle with their on destinies... " |
| David Brin | Heaven's Reach The Final Book of the New Uplift Trilogy | Bantam 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and front corners bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... he concludes this second trilogy with his most imaginative and emotionally powerful novel to date - the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation... or annihilation... " |
| David Brin | Infinity's Shore Book Two of a New Uplift Trilogy | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... an epic of passion, imagination, and adventure, as a peaceful planet with a strange hybrid culture collides with an enigmatic Galactic empire... " |
| David Brin | The Postman | Bantam 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, lower corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket, with a tiny chip missing from the top of the spine panel and UK price & bar-code sticker on rear panel. | £4.00 | " A chronicle of violence and humanity, fear and hope, cruelty and love, The Postman is a moving, triumphant story of one man's heroic dedication to lift mankind from a new dark age." |
| Terry Brooks | High Druid Of Shannara Jarka Ruus | Earthlight 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Twenty years have passed since the events told in The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannara trilogy... " |
| Terry Brooks | High Druid Of Shannara Straken | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and across top edge of rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's promotional sheet | £5.00 | "Young Penderrin Ohmsford has been charged with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned... " |
| Terry Brooks | The Measure of the Magic Legends of Shannara: Book Two | Orbit 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Five centuries ago, a catastrophic demon war left the world in ruins. Since then, the survivors - humans elves and other mutants - have found sanctuary in a mountain valley protected by magic. But now these protective wards have failed and a ruthless troll army is on the brink of invasion... " |
| Terry Brooks | The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara (Ilse Witch+Antrax+Morgawr) | Earthlight 2001-2 First Edition in the UK First Printings (Three volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines, page edges a little browned, volume one with light spine creases and a slight spine lean else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "When the body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world... " |
| John Brosnan | The Sky Lords | St. Martin's Press 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Centuries in the future, after the world has been devastated by the Gene Wars, the scattered remnants of humanity struggle against both the spreading biological blight on the ground and the great airships that dominate the skies... " First of the trilogy. |
| John K. H. Brunner | The Crucible of Time | Del Rey (S.F.B.C.) 1984 (Code O08 on P. 367 = week 8/1984) | Bruised at top and base of spine and across a few page lower edges and page edges a little marked else Fine book in torn, creased and worn Dust Jacket. From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on front fixed end paper | £7.50 | "Life - an individual's, a culture's or a civilisation's - can be too interesting. And so it had become for the people of a world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy. They had always lived in an environment that was... daunting... to survive the race would have to abandon the planet. And... invent spacecraft... " |
| Steven Brust | Agyar | Tor 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul... ? Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago... he found... immortality in a woman's blood-red lips... " |
| Steven Brust | Dragon | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Vlad returns in a sweeping new saga of treachery, deception, and dark magics that at last reveal the untold story... the cataclysmic battle at the Walls of Baritt's tomb... " |
| Steven Brust | Issola | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "On the run from house Jhereg, which he double-crossed, Vlad Taltos has been living far too long in the woods... Then suddenly he's found by... Lady Teldra... has come to ask for Vlad's help... After all, what's a little cosmic battle with beings who control time and space?... " |
| Steven Brust | Jhegaala | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... with the criminal Jhereg organisation out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives... The witches coven that every... city should have is nowhere in evidence... Then a terrible thing happens... " |
| Francis Bryant | Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island | Orion 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Peter Bailey | £5.00 | "... Jim Hawkins, the cabin boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countryside... one day, ten years after his return, a beautiful stranger and her young son come looking for Jim Hawkins, and he is lead back to the south seas, to even greater danger than before... " |
| Cliff Burns | Righteous Blood | PS Publishing 2002 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed By The Author (No. 66/300) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a little wear at the fold tips | £5.00 | Introduced and signed by Tim Lebbon. "... a compelling and troubling look at evil in our time. in two provocative novellas... the Canadian author casts and unsparing eye on evil in a variety of guises... " |
| Jim Butcher | The Dresden Files Ghost Story | Orbit 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Harry Dresden forgot his own golden rule: magic - it can get a guy killed... And though Harry's continued existence is now in some doubt, this doesn't mean Chicago's resident professional wizard can rest in peace... " 13th book in the series |
| Octavia E. Butler | Bloodchild And Other Stories | Four Walls Eight Windows 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and felt pen mark on lower page edges and lower edge of rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "'Bloodchild' explores the paradoxes of power and inequality and starkly portrays the experience of a class who, like women throughout most of history, are valued chiefly for their reproductive capacities... it won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards... Bloodchild And Other Stories brings together for the first time Butler's entire output of shorter work." |
| Octavia E. Butler | Parable Of The Talents (1999 Nebula Winner) | Seven Stories 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... A continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina... told in the voice of... daughter Larkin... from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life... Against the background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U. S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder... " |
| Michael Butterworth | Space 1999: Planets of Peril | Allan Wingate 1977 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned and a little foxed else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with the price removed | £7.50 | "... Having passed through a space-warp, the Breakaway Moon is plunged ever deeper into the unknown, distantly removed in time and space from its home planet Earth. With their life-support system in danger, Moon Base Alpha personnel mount a desperate search for Tiranium, the precious mineral essential for their survival... " |
| Italo Calvino | The Literature Machine Essays | Secker & Warburg 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, gift inscription on front free end paper and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased, price-clipped Dust Jacket. Translated by Patrick Creagh | £5.00 | Cybernetics and Ghosts; Two Interviews on Science and Literature; Philosophy and Literature; Literature as Projection of Desire; Definitions of Territories: Comedy: Eroticism; Fantasy and lots more... |
| Italo Calvino | The Path To The Nest of Spiders | Beacon 1957 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked and age-darkened - Very Good book in slightly worn, browned and eroded Dust Jacket, with a (barely visible) 20mm tear near the top of the spine panel | £7.50 | "... This is the story of Pin, the cobbler's apprentice... a skinny kid who must keep his wits sharp in order to live... forced to take refuge in the world of grown-ups... He joins the partisans and makes common cause with another 'outcast' - one of the strangest combinations since Of Mice and Men... " His first book in English - scarce. |
| Alan Campbell | Iron Angel: The Deepgate Codex Volume II (Penny Devil) | Tor (UK) 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "Order has collapsed in Deepgate. The chained city is now in ruins, and the Deadsands beyond are full of fleeing refugees... the god Uleis's death has left the gates to Hell unguarded, and powerful forces in the fathomless darkness underneath Deepgate have seen their opportunity... " Sequel to SCAR NIGHT |
| Ramsey Campbell (Also as Jay Ramsay) | Dark Feasts The World of Ramsey Campbell | Robinson 1987 First Edition First Printing (With Printers' Code On P233) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £5.00 | The Room in the Castle; Cold Print; The Scar; The Interloper; The Guy; The End of a Summer's Day; The Whining; The Words that Count; The Man in the Underpass; Horror House of Blood; The Companion; Call First; In the Bag; The Chimney; The Brood; The Voice of the Beach; Out of Copyright; Above the World; Mackintosh Willy; The Ferries; Midnight Hobo; The Depths; The Fit; Hearing is Believing; The Hands; Again; Just Waiting; Seeing the World; Apples; and Boiled Alive. |
| Ramsey Campbell (Also as Jay Ramsay) | Demons By Daylight | Arkham House 1973 First Edition First Printing (Three Thousand Five Hundred copies printed) | Small faint spot to top page edges else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket with price overstickered $6.00 Cover Illustration by Eddie Jones | £20.00 | Nightmares: Potential; The End of a Summer's Day; At First Sight; Errol Underliffe: a tribute: The Franklyn Photographs; The Interloper by Errol Underliffe; Relationships: The Sentinels; The Guy; The Old Horns; The Lost; The Stocking; The Second Staircase; Concussion; The Enchanted Fruit and Made in Goatswood |
| Ramsey Campbell | The Darkest Part of the Woods | PS Publishing 2000 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (First Printing - Wods on DJ spine, last page omitted) | Bruised at top and base of spine and small mark on top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Additionally Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | "The yielding of the forest floor reminded him of flesh. He needn't imagine that they were walking over a face the size of the woods, a flattened face that was holding its breath while they approached its mouth... There have always been tales about the Severn Valley village of Goodmanswood - tales of ghosts and less familiar things... " Withdrawn First State marked 'PC' - Very Scarce. |
| Orson Scott Card | The Call Of Earth | Legend 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... this second volume of his brilliant new series, Homecoming... continues the story of the planet Harmony and its computer guardian, the Oversoul... another masterpiece, set over forty million years in the future, with wonderful characters and a glorious backdrop..." Homecoming Volume 2. |
| Terry Carr | Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year 4 (Editor) | Gollancz 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased, rubbed and browned Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction by the Editor; Frederik Pohl; Michael Moorcock; Larry Niven; Robert Silverberg; Ursula K. Le Guin; Bob Shaw; Philip K. Dick; William Tenn; Roger Zelazny; Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford & Honorable Mentions - 1974 |
| Jonathan Carroll | From The Teeth Of Angels | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top of spine and across top board edges and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... " |
| Jonathan Carroll | Kissing the Beehive | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and binding slightly strained else Fine book in like 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 book 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 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across top board edges else Fine book 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... " |
| Cinda Williams Chima | The Exiled Queen | HarperVoyager 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south... hunted every step of the way by the Bayars, a powerful wizarding family... Han meets Crow, a mysterious wizard who agrees to tutor Han in the darker parts of sorcery... " The Seven Realms Trilogy - Book Two |
| Joan Clarke | Take Your Time | Cape 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "To his family and schoolmates there is nothing out of the ordinary about Johnnie Wilde; but his teacher, the mysterious Mr Zak, knows that Johnnie is very special indeed... a Natural Bridge Builder, who can dip in and out of time- is only born once in a couple of hundred years, and Mr Zak has need of him for personal ends... " |
| Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2005 Hugo Award Winner) | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With both number lines ending in 1) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Cream Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Centuries ago, when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairies, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend... " |
| Hal Clement (Harry Clement Stubbs) | Half Life | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... About two centuries from now, the human race on Earth is in trouble, perhaps even facing extinction, because of the rapid evolution of diseases. A crew of young men and woman travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions there in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth... " |
| Mark Clifton | They'd Rather Be Right (1955 Hugo Award Winner) (The Forever Machine - With Frank Riley) | Starblaze 1981 First Edition Thus First Printing (Paper) | Edges/corners slightly rubbed else Fine Book Illustrated by M. W. Carroll | £10.00 | Edited by Hank Stine. "'Bossy was the ultimate computer, limited only in that she had to have facts... Soon Bossy offered mankind the greatest gift of all: Immortality. But only to that small handful mature enough to realize that they don't know all the answers... A science fiction novel based on a brand new idea... " |
| John Clute | Appleseed | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and wrinkle in paper over rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the prelim page & signed again on the Title Page | £7.50 | "It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of an Al with two minds and a krewe of helpers. And his latest commission... is routine enough... But.. A galaxy-wide data plague is infecting the spiral arm of local stars all the way from Old Earth... " |
| Eoin Colfer | And Another Thing... Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three | Michael Joseph 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea... " |
| Nancy A. Collins | Midnight Blue The Sonja Blue Collection (Sunglasses After Dark+In The Blood+Paint It Black) | White Wolf 1995 First Edition Thus First Printing (Trade Paper) | Some page edges no longer parallel and page edges lightly marked else Fine Book | £5.00 | Trade paperback original. Omnibus edition of the author's three vampire novels starring Sonja Blue, Sunglasses After Dark, In The Blood and Paint It Black. Fine copy. |
| 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 book 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) | Farewell, Earth's Bliss | Hodder & Stoughton 1966 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket with the original price overstickered by the publisher. | £10.00 | "... Mars... a latter-day convict settlement... On board an obsolete ship from the regular Moon run twenty-four deportees arrive at their destination... The reception party... is not welcoming... the deportees find their earth-shaped personalities violently wrenched into new patterns... " |
| Michael G. Coney | Cat Karina | Gollancz 1983 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... set in the distant future, when true humans coexist uneasily with a variety of not-quite-human beings, the products of ancient genetic experiments... one member of the race, Karina, whose destiny it is to bear the child of a true human... " |
| Michael G. Coney | Charisma | Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine lettering slightly faded. | £7.50 | "...the existence of an apparently infinite series of parallel worlds... ... but the only person who can possibly visit and explore a parallel world is the rare individual whose counterpart has lately died there and whose place he can therefore take - which in turn presages his own death on his version of Earth..." |
| Michael G. Coney | Hello Summer, Goodbye (Rax) | Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small stain affecting ca 1cm of last few top page edges and page edges lightly marked - Very Good Book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with spine panel lettering slightly faded | £10.00 | "... a most entertaining piece of work: a love story, a war story, a science fiction story, and more besides." |
| Michael G. Coney | The Girl With A Symphony In Her Fingers (The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch) | Elmfield Press 1975 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board bumped, small pressure mark at the top left hand corner of the front panel with page edges foxed and end papers a little foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with pink spine background faded | £5.00 | "Joe Sagar... is a Freeman in a society that uses its criminals for the benefit of others, either as temporary slaves or as living banks of limbs and organs for transplants. But when he meets 'the girl with a symphony in her fingers' and realises the horrors and abuses of the penal system, Sagar determines to bring about its exposure and downfall." |
| John Connolly | Bad Men | Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of page top-edges lightly creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a hint of edge-wear. | £7.50 | "In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace. Until now... Now a band of killers is set to desecrate Sanctuary and unleash the fury of its ghosts... " |
| John Connolly | The White Road | Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of... daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state... a case with its roots in old evil... murderous spectre of a hooded woman... descent into the abyss... a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets... the paths of the living and the dead converge... " |
| Richard Cowper | The Road To Corlay | Gollancz 1978 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... returns to the world described in his story 'Piper At The Gates of Dawn'... It is more than a thousand years in the future. The sea level has risen dividing Britain into seven Kingdoms; technology has regressed to primitive levels... the martyrdom of Tom the boy piper... eighteen years have passed... " |
| Richard Cowper (John Middleton Murry, [Jr.] - also as Colin Murry) | The Web Of The Magi and Other Stories | Gollancz 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and board edges, lower front corner slightly bumped and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased, rubbed and browned Dust Jacket with a small (4mm) 'nick' in the lower edge of the front panel With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | "Four stories examining first encounters with other intelligent life, an apparently paranormal phenomenon which proves to have an even stranger scientific explanation and an adventure fantasy where a Victorian Army officer discovers a cult in Asia Minor whose members literally tend and spin the loom of human destiny... " |
| Justin Cronin | The Passage | Orion 2010 First Limited Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Limitation Page - Special Waterstones Edition? | £15.00 | "Deep in the jungles of eastern Columbia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for - and wishes to God he hadn't, In Memphis... a six-year-old girl called Amy... wonders why her mother has abandoned her... in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again... " |
| Peter Crowther | Futures (Editor) | Gollancz 2001 First Trade & Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor on the Title Page | £7.50 | Includes Stephen Baxter's Reality Dust; Peter Hamilton's Watching Trees Grow; Ian McDonald's Tendelleo's Story and Paul J McAuley's Making History. |
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