Catalogue #47 - November 2009
Author Title Edition Condition Price Details
Richard Dalby The Virago Book Of Victorian Ghost Stories (Editor) Virago 1988 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and previous owner's name on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. £5.00 20 chilling ghost stories by Charlotte Bronte; Elizabeth Gaskell; Dinah M. Mulock; Catherine Crowe; Mary E. Braddon; Rosa Mulholland; Amelia B. Edwards; Rhoda Broughton; Mrs Henry Wood; Vernon Lee; Charlotte Riddell; Margaret Oliphant; Lanoe Falconer; Louisa Baldwin; Violet Hunt; Willa Cather; Mary E. Wilkins and others
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror Fourth Annual Collection (Editor, With Terri Windling) St. Martin's Press 1991 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in a dust jacket with the spine panel background very slightly faded £15.00 Over 250,000 words from Charles De Lint; Nina Kiriki Hoffman; Joyce Carol Oates; Nancy A. Collins; John Crowley; Thomas Ligotti; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Susan Cooper; John Brunner; Ellen Kushner; David S. Schow; Karen Joy Fowler; Haruki Murakami; Gary Kilworth; Ian R. MacLeod; Jonathan Carroll; Michael Blumlein; Delia Sherman and many others.
Matthew B. J. Delaney Jinn St Martins Press 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top few mm of boards slightly faded and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £5.00 "It is May 1943. On the... island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. they've landed to do battle with the Japanese... but in short order, they begin to realise that the forbidding background holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army... "
Bradley Denton Lunatics St. Martin's Press 1996 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. £5.00 "Each month, when the moon is full, Jack strips naked and waits outside for his lover. He has to: Lily can only find him by the light of the moon. (It's one of those things about being the moon goddess)... "
Bradley Denton One Day Closer To Death Eight Stabs At Immortality St. Martin's Press 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 Foreword; The Territory; Skidmore; Killing Weeds; Captain Coyote’s Last Hunt; The Calvin Coolidge Home For Dead Comedians; We Love Lydia Love; A Conflagration Artist; Blackburn Bakes Cookies and Afterword
Philip K. Dick Beyond Lies The Wub Gollancz 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Second State - 'Wub' on the spine) One small spot on page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket £10.00 "... the first volume of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick... includes stories written (with one exception) in a nine-month period in 1951 and 1952... Many of them have never been collected before... they... show Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view; and they serve as an ideal introduction to his work... "
James Dickie The Undead (Editor) Spearman 1971 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, creased and worn Dust Jacket. £7.50 "An anthology of vampire stories arranged, selected and with a foreword by James Dickie..." Stories by Bram Stoker; F. Marion Crawford; Clark Ashton Smith; Carl Jacobi; E. F. Benson; Ambrose Bierce; Eric, Count Stenbock; H. P. Lovecraft; Manley Wade Wellman and others.
Peter Dickinson Death Of A Unicorn Bodley Head 1984 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the top edge of the front panel creased and a spot of wear at the tip of the front fold. £5.00 "Lady Margaret Millett ex-deb-of-the-year, puts a white-gloved hand to her mouth and yawns. A stranger at her elbow speaks to her, and her world changes. Within a week she has a job... A few more weeks and she has a lover. then a year of happiness and self-discovery; and then, out of the blue, wholly inexplicably, tragedy... "
Gordon R. Dickson In Iron Years Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing? (No Code) Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned/foxed (front free end paper corner creased) and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with a short tear near the top of the rear fold Note: The usual DJ pricing corner is clipped with $9.95 printed on flap - implying the publisher changed their mind? £5.00 In Iron Years; Homecoming; A Taste Of Tenure; The Hours Are Good; Gifts; Zeepsday; Things Which Are Caesar's.
William C. Dietz Earthrise Ace 2002 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, lower 1mm of board edges slightly faded and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion... three days... to destroy the great cities of the world ... More than three billion people perished... But the invaders... needed survivors. They needed slaves... " Sequel to Deathday
William C. Dietz Logos Run Ace 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "In a universe littered with the ruins of a once technologically advanced past, there are those who seek to restore the galaxy to its former high-tech glory - and those passionately committed to preventing that. Caught between these factions, Runner Jak Rebo can no longer stay out of the fray... " Sequel to Runner
Carole Nelson Douglas Keepers of Edanvant Sword and Circlet 1 Tor 1987 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip £5.00 "Silver-eyed Irissa, the Torloc seeress, has been searching for her people and for their home world, Edanvant, through years, through Gates between Worlds. Accompanied by Kendric... the human sceptic who... has gained the magical powers he utterly distrusts, Irissa finds an Edanvant far bleaker than she hoped... "
Carole Nelson Douglas Seven of Swords Sword and Circlet 3 Tor 1989 First Edition First Printing Bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, spine creased and page edges a little browned and marked - Very Good copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket £5.00 "... forever on guard against the return of their enemy... "
K. R. Dwyer (Dean R. Koontz) The Face of Fear Peter Davies 1978 Second Impression Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges slightly damp-rippled else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... during a late-night television interview about his detective work as a clairvoyant... Graham Harris... 'sees' another murder actually being committed... the murderer is the man the police have named the Butcher... The newspaper reports... tell the murderer... the Butcher stalks Harris and his girl friend... "
David Eddings The Redemption Of Althalus (With Leigh Eddings) HarperCollins 2000 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "... Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked strange... At the House at the End of the World... he can't find... the door by which he entered... "
David Eddings The Shining Ones Ballantine 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £10.00 "Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. (It rested at the very bottom of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing temptation to mortal men. Now Sparhawk... must retrieve that Sapphire Rose from its briny sleep... "
Greg Egan Axiomatic Millennium 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds. £100.00 Nineteen short stories "From bio-engineering to the wilder shore of physics, from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier... Scientists can 'bounce' messages from the future back to the present... Crystalline minds take the place of human brains... A man obsessed with having a child does it all by himself.. " Scarce.
Greg Egan Diaspora Millennium 1997 First Edition First Printing Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's Promotion Sheet £30.00 "By the end of the 30th century humanity has the ability to travel the universe... The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three: fleshers - true Homo Sapiens; Gleisner robots - embodying human minds within machines... and polises - supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing... billions of human personalities... "
Greg Egan Luminous Millennium 1998 First Edition First Printing Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... ten stories... The Planck Dive - a dazzling insight into a world here quantum physics is not just theory but tangible reality, where black holes can be navigated not just mapped... Our Lady of Chernobyl - a near future thriller revolving around an 18th century Ukrainian icon... Luminous - in which a mathematical paradox could turn out to be the first sign of a new life form... "
Brett Easton Ellis American Psycho Picador 1998 First Edition in Hardback Second Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £60.00 "Patrick Bateman is twenty-six, handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. He works on Wall Street by day earning a fortune. at night he spends it in ways we cannot begin to understand... " Very Scarce
Harlan Ellison Again, Dangerous Visions Doubleday (S.F.B.C.) 1972 (Code R44 on P.830 - Nov. '76) Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket a little creased and frayed at top and base of spine panel with that panel's purple lettering slightly faded and a short tear at the top of the rear panel With the Author's Signed business card loosely inserted £10.00 Piers Anthony, Gregory Benford, Joan Bernott, James Blish, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, Edward Bryant, Terry Carr, Thomas M. Disch, Burt K. Filer, David Gerrold, M. John Harrison, John Heidenry, James B. Hemesath, Richard Hill, Lee Hoffman, H. H. Holis, David Kerr, Dean R. Koontz, Ursula K. Le Guin, Evelyn Lief, Richard Lupoff... 46 stories 830 pages.
Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison's The City On The Edge Of Forever The Original Teleplay That Became The Classic Star Trek Episode White Wolf 1996 First Edition in Paperback First Printing Manufacturing wrinkle at top of spine panel, else Fine Copy £10.00 46 page introductory essay by H.E., Two Treatments, The Original Teleplay, Appendix: Second Revised Draft, Afterwords by Peter David, D. C. Fontana, David Gerrold, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, Melinda M. Snodgrass & George Takei
Harlan Ellison Shatterday Hutchinson 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. £7.50 "Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas... a writer who defies categorization... master of the uncanny, the suspenseful, the weird and the wonderful... " Clute - "... generating a sense of the painful maturity of an author passionately engaged not only with himself... but with the essential gestures of rage and love and self-betrayal that mark our species."
Sam Enthoven The Black Tattoo Doubleday 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... The test transformed Charlie - leaving him with the distinctive markings of the Black Tattoo. The boys' meeting with Esme - a young girl with the most impressive Martial Arts skills this side of Bruce Lee - her huge and hairy father Raymond... seemed to have swept Charlie and Jack into a world they had no idea existed. And it was only going to get weirder... "
Ian Cameron Esslemont Night of Knives A Novel of the Malazan Empire Tor 2009 First Edition in the US (Paper) Touch of wear at the top of the spine else Fine Copy With Publisher's News Sheet £3.00 "The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name, but now it is nothing more than a sleepy backwater port. Tonight, however, things are different... there is to be a convergence, the once-in-a-generation appearance of a Shadow Moon - an occasion that threaten... demon hounds and other, darker things... " Introduction by Steve Erikson.
Chris Evans (Also as Christopher Carpenter and Nathan Elliot) Aztec Century (BSFA Award Winner 1993) Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page £25.00 "Ever since Cortez changed sides back in the sixteenth century, the Aztec Empire has been spreading inexorably across the globe. Now, in the late twentieth century, it is Britain's turn to experience Aztec rule... "
Chris Evans Mortal Remains Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page £7.50 "... with the advent of organic biotechnology, the Settled Worlds of the Solar System are homes to a riot of varied environments... Ageing and extinction are a bad genetic memory: now... the soul of every living body is translated into the Noosphere, a psychic afterlife... contact through prayer terminals... when a strange womb is recovered from... Mars it... becomes the focus of intrigue and murder..."
John Farris Catacombs Hodder & Stoughton 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing Spine ends slightly bumped and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. £10.00 "Deep within the volcanic rock of Mt. Kilimanjaro lie the Catacombs, the enormous hidden burial caves of a vanishes African society more sophisticated than our own... that still lives on through the earth-shattering formula etched into bloodred diamonds... "
John Farris Nightfall Severn House 1988 First Trade Edition in Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket. £5.00 "His heritage is violence and terror. A creature of nightmare, shunning all that is good in mankind, he kills without warning, without mercy. Only once has his prey survived... his wife... Anita waited... She had very professional Mob protection... But she knew no peace, for all of them were about to face the dark, avenging Angel of Death... "
Raymond E. Feist Flight Of The Nighthawks The Darkwar Book One Voyager 2005 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly curled Dust Jacket. £7.50 "The Conclave of Shadows faces two challenges, finding and destroying the evil magician Leso Varen, and neutralising an army of ten thousand magical warriors... " Despite Copyright page showing 2004 this First Edition was issued in September 2005
Rick Ferreira A Chill to the Sunlight Tropical Stories of the Macabre (Editor) Kimber 1978 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly foxed Dust Jacket with a small fingernail puncture in the rear gutter £5.00 "... a handful of perceptive short story writers have looked beyond the sun-hot beaches... to catch the air of unease... Writers like Clark Ashton Smith, Jean Rhys, Evelyn Waugh, Elinor Mordaunt and Lady Elinor Smith... " With stories also by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Shiva Naipaul, K. T. Brown III, Richard Davis, Peter C. Smith, Ken Kessler, Peter Burton and Henry Whitehead
Bernard Fischman The Man Who Rode His 10-Speed Bicycle To The Moon Marek 1979 First Edition in the US First Printing? Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Barbara Lanza £4.00 "... the heartening story... of one man's almost mystical hegeira from the doldrums of career and marriage to a splendid autonomy as he rediscovers himself. it is a journey for all of us, a trip to the moon... he falls in love with a nubile witch; he is pursued by a mysterious cyclist... "
Catherine Fisher Bellin's Hill Bodley Head 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at top and base of spine and top edge of rear board, a little wear at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else fine copy in laminated boards - as issued. £5.00 "... Huw, the 'lucky' survivor of an accident in which both his parents are killed, comes to the haunted valley of the Usk with his sister Lizzie to recover and start a new life... his nightmares increase in intensity, become real, force him to increasingly desperate action. Only Hal... seems to understand the forces of evil that threaten... "
Catherine Fisher The Conjuror's Game Bodley Head 1990 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at top and base of spine and small bump to side of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued. £7.50 "... Alick has unwittingly started something frightening, that disrupts the seasons and disturbs the natural order of Halcombe Great Wood. He has the Tod and the conjuror to help him but he has seen the threatening black birds in the trees and glimpsed the golden riders, and knows they will pursue him until they get what they are after... "
Catherine Fisher The Soul Thieves Bodley Head 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else fine copy in laminated boards - as issued. £7.50 "'The thing you love best, that thing I will have... ' On the day of Wulfgar's wedding, Gudrun's chilling threat is carried out. In a devastating spell-storm she attacks... Eventually they all wake, except Signi, Wulfgar's bride. Gudrun has stolen her soul... " Last in the Snow-walker trilogy.
Alan Dean Foster Drowning World A Novel of the Commonwealth Del Rey 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... Fluva, a planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth where is rains torrentially, ceaselessly, and maddeningly for all but one month of the Fluven year. chief Administrator Lauren Matthias is fairly new... Her primary goal is keeping Fluva's indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala, and it's immigrant species... from annihilating one another... "
Alan Dean Foster The Mocking Program Warner 2002 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small wear spot at the top edge of the rear flap. £4.00 "... the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf... the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise... "
Donald Franson Fandbook Nos. 1-4 (With Bob Lichtman, Len Moffatt & Ron Ellik) The National Fantasy Fan Federation 1962-3 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Four Booklets) Covers/edges a little browned or faded, lower front corner of Vol. 2 creased - Very Good to Near Fine Copies £10.00 A Key to the Terminology of Science Fiction; with Bob Lichtman's The Amateur Press Associations in Science Fiction Fandom; Donald Franson's Some Historical Facts About Science-Fiction Fandom and Len Moffatt & Ron Ellik's The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund
Brian Froud Goblins of the Labyrinth (Captured and catalogued by Terry Jones) Pavilion 1986 First Edition First Printing Top corners bumped and top board edges slightly bumped and two page corners torn and creased - Very Good Copy in like, slightly rubbed and worn Dust Jacket £10.00 "... Most are small, grotesque creatures who love to torment unsuspecting humans. Others are simply dumb, lazy, loutish brats with unspeakable personal habits... thanks to an important archaeological find... forty-three notebooks... an illustrated Who's Who of the goblin world... "
Isamu Fukui Truancy Origins Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tiny (ca 1mm) triangular print chip missing from base of the spine. With Publisher's News Sheet £5.00 ".. Umasi and Zen are as different as two brothers can be. Umasi is a good student; Zen an indifferent one. They love their adoptive father, but in a city where education is absolute... Umasi and Zen are thrust onto two diverging paths. One will try to destroy the city. The other will try to stop him."
Mary Gentle (Also as Roxanne Morgan) A Hawk In Silver Lothrop 1977 First Edition in the US First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the spine panel. £7.50 "The moment Holly picks up the strange silver coin glinting in the gutter, her whole life changes... Holly and her friend Chris find themselves involved in the centuries-long feud between the two people of Faerie - the Elukoi and the Morkani... "
Mary Gentle Grunts! Bantam 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with spine panel background slightly faded, a touch of wear at the top of the front fold, and a nick at the edge of the trailing spine crease and another on the rear fold £15.00 "...An orc is an eighteen-stone fighting machine made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humour... a poor dumb grunt - the much-abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of Darkness... Grunts is a triumphant tactical advance into comic territory... capturing all the dirty realism and grim comedy of sword and sorcery from the bad guys' point of view... "
William Gibson Spook Country Viking 2007 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner, top rear corner bumped and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the base of the front fold £7.50 "In New York, what you've got on your iPod can be bad for your health... Tito, a young and athletic Cuban, has been asked to pass 'the old man' iPods in Washington Square... Milgrim is a pill junkie... who happens to be fluent in Russian... Journalist Hollis Henry has been asked to investigate... a man who knows the ins and outs of military navigation systems... "
William Gibson Virtual Light Viking 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket slightly worn at top and base of spine and top corners. Inscribed and Signed by the Author on the Title Page. £10.00 "... set in the near future in the states of Northern and Southern California, a land and society increasingly divided along the seismic fault lines of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness: chasms crossed only in fear, exploitation and violence. The end of the American century brings with it the death of exhausted notions of common good, as the rich cocoon themselves into impenetrable 'stealth houses' - islands of self-indulgence amid a sea of drugs, disease and desperation... "
Mike Gold The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2 (Editor) DC 1988 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Covers slightly rubbed, page edges lightly browned - Near Fine copy £3.00 The Second half of a 50 year retrospective.. includes Introduction by Dick Giordano, Foreword by Mike Gold, 25 stories, End Notes by Robert Greenberger and Biographies by Mark Wald
John Gordon Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories Patrick Hardy 1984 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, fore-edge of front board and spine panels slightly faded, a few very small wear spots and a repaired lamination tear at the top edge of the rear board, page edges slightly marked, small gift inscription on front fixed end paper and laminated boards with a few fine scratches - Very Good Illustrated by Jeremy Ford £20.00 Well-regarded and scarce collection: Never Grow Up; Catch Your Death; If She Bends, She Breaks; Joby's Pint; Half A Crown; The Girl Outside; Oh, My Bairn; Little Black Pies; and The Pot of Basil. Scarce.
Muriel Gray The Trickster HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine panel £7.50 "Immortal, demonic, metamorphic and amoral - evil can play the most terrifying tricks... The Trickster He is a shape-shifter He kills without mercy He is as old as time Only one man can stand against him"
John Gribbin Father to the Man Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. Signed by the Author on the Title Page £5.00 "Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Lee has stirred up fanatical religious hatred with his controversial theory that chimpanzees and humans may have a common ancestor as little as three million years ago... Adam, an apelike creature... is growing up, and the astonishing secret of his genetic parentage cannot remain secret... "
Nicola Griffith Bending the Landscape Fantasy (Editor With Stephen Pagel) White Wolf 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. £10.00 Gay & Lesbian stories by Carolyn Ives Gilman; Mark Shepherd; Mark McLaughlin; Holly Wade Matter; Mark W. Tiedemann; Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman; Charlee Jacob; K. L. Berac; Lisa L. Silverthorne; James A. Moore; Leslie What; B. J. Thrower; Dominick Cancilla; Simon Sheppard and many others - first of the series
Bob Guccione Omni October 1978 (Volume 1 Number 1) (Editor) Omni 1978 First Edition in the UK - Issued Simultaneously Small tear at top and base of spine, top corner slightly bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Copy £4.00 Fiction: Isaac Asimov's Found; Ron Goulart's Invisible Stripes; James B. Hall's Valley of the Kilns; Theodore Sturgeon's Time Warp; Interview with Freeman Dyson; Pictorial: Robots by Harry Harrison (from Mechanismo) ; Stars by Patrick Moore and more...
Isidore Haiblum The Tsaddik Of The Seven Wonders Doubleday 1981 First Edition in Hardback First Printing ? Bruised at top and base of spine, small scrape on front panel and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the top edge of the front panel adjacent to the spine with a little creasing. £5.00 "Greenberg was quite a character... a travel agent of sorts; he affected a checked suit, a cane. a bowler hat and white shoes... Greenberg dealt in time travel but could never seem to land at the right place on schedule. Maybe because he was only eight inches tall. Greenberg was a homunculus... "
Peter Haining Halloween Hauntings Stories about the most ghostly night of the year (Editor) Kimber 1984 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket, torn at the top of the front fold £10.00 Introduction; Stories by William Black, Julian Hawthorne, Tod Robbins, Hugh Walpole, Charles Williams, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Macardle, Robert Bloch, Ellery Queen, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Ray Bradbury and Basil Copper; Acknowledgements
Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) Ally, Ally, Aster Allen & Unwin 1981 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. £15.00 "... That autumn Richard tried hard to stay out of trouble. He ignored the strange hints about Ally from his friend Dr Radleigh... Shadows of witchcraft and the far off past gathered around Cauldhouse as the winter began... What are the neighbours doing in the cellar? Why are the villagers so unfriendly? Why is it getting cold, so very cold? What is happening to Ally Shore? She seems to be changing - was she ever really a little girl?... "
Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) Forever Free Gollancz 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 "William Mandella and his partner Marygay survived a war which should never have been. They lived long enough to see humanity changed beyond all recognition. The human race has evolved into Man, a group mind similar to the alien Taurans that William and Marygay used to fight. But man's society doesn't feel right... "
Joe Haldeman The Hemingway Hoax New English Library 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "...John Baird has been able to devote his life to Ernest Hemingway... Castlemaine, tempts him into forging... Hemingway's lost Paris stories... he is confronted with... an interdimensional literary critic with a license to kill..."
Laurell K. Hamilton Skin Trade An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Novel Headline 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small surface tear near the base of the rear fold.. With Publisher's Blurb Sheet £5.00 "... No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with monsters... when a vampire serial killer sends me a head from Las Vegas, I know I have to warn Sin City's local authorities. Only it's worse than I thought... "
Philip Harbottle John Russell Fearn - An Evaluation Harbottle 1963 First Edition First Printing (Paper) 8 x 13" Paper covers marked and reattached with brown tape, slightly creased and with a few short tears - Good copy?. With previous owner's notes and article on J. R. F. £20.00 First attempt at a Biography and Bibliography of Fearn. Lists of Magazine Stories both Overseas and English; Golden Amazon Novels; Vargo Statten & Volsted Gridban Novels, SF Novels with plot summaries, Pseudonyms - what eventually evolved into Multi-Man
Thomas Harlan Wasteland of Flint Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, front fixed end paper with a couple of wrinkles and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of sun-fading top the top edge of the front panel. £5.00 "... an alternative future in which the Aztec Empire rules the earth and an interstellar empire... Dr Gretchen Anderssen, a xenoarchaeologist... is to travel on an imperial warship... to Ephesus III... the seemingly dead planet hides a secret life and may hold treasures far too deadly for the empire to ever allow her to discover."
Thomas Harris Hannibal Delacorte 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one crease in the front flap £10.00 "... Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody... "
Harry Harrison Stars and Stripes In Peril Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page £7.50 "... the war of the 1860's between the United States of America and the British Empire... began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an ill-considered letter to Abraham Lincoln, and continued with an ill-starred invasion of the territory of the USA by an incensed British Government. The first modern war... " Book 2 of the Stars and Stripes Trilogy.
M. John Harrison Travel Arrangements Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... first book of short stories since The Ice Monkey... These stories - in which sex is a form of transport, travel an interior project, and the world never quite what it seems - explore the undependable boundary between the desired and the possible, the real and the transcendent, discovering humour, horror and a kind of wry glamour in the ordinary... "
David G. Hartwell The Ascent Of Wonder The Evolution of Hard SF (Editor With Kathryn Cramer) Orbit 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at the base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a tiny (1mm) tear at the top edge of the rear panel £7.50 67 stories - many 'classics' - and a critical analysis of the origins and meaning of 'hard' science fiction by the Editors and Greg Benford
Richard Hatch Battlestar Galactica Rebellion (With Alan Rodgers) Ibooks 2002 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "The remnants of the ragtag fleet and the battle-scarred Galactica have escaped the clutches of the Cylons and warped into an unknown quadrant of the galaxy... in which their stardrives will not work... "
Richard Hatch Battlestar Galactica Resurrection (With Stan Timmons) Ibooks 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (3mm) split at the base of the front fold. £7.50 "The Battlestar Galactica and the colonial fleet are in serious trouble... last encounter with the Cylons and the fierce alien race called the Chitain have left them crippled and exhausted and depleted of food and fuel. And they are still in Cylon space... "
William Heaney (Graham Joyce) Memoirs of a Master Forger (BFS Derleth Award Winner 2009) Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Fine Copy With Publisher's Press Release £20.00 "... a dissolute bookseller, happily penning forgeries of classic works of literature to flog to gullible collectors... also a poet composing verse for his more attractive Asian friend... a drink problem... And William sees demons... Shadowy figures which lurk on the shoulders of everyone... except... " First Printings of this are very scarce.
Brian Herbert Legends of Dune 1 The Butlerian Jihad (With Kevin J. Anderson) Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £10.00 "One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters... The human race still clings to life. Some - like the idealistic Serena Butler... even dream of overthrowing the machines... Others... are proud to serve the machines... "
Brian Herbert Prelude To Dune II House Harkonnen (With Kevin J. Anderson) Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition First Printing Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "At House Harkonnen, arch enemy of House Atreides, Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathsome disease. His nephew and heir, Rabban, prepares to take over the Harkonnen Empire. At the same time gentle, helpless Abulurd strives to undo his half-brother's cruelty and his own son's viciousness... "
Brian Herbert Prelude to Dune III House Corrino (With Kevin J. Anderson) Hodder & Stoughton 2001 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped along one side of spine and a few page corners a little bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "... The war which will decide the fate of three great dynasties has begun, the field of battle is... a universe... "
James Herbert Sepulchre Hodder & Stoughton 1987 First Edition First Printing Superficial tear to paper at top of spine, lower edges slightly bumped, corners a little rubbed - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in Dust Jacket crumpled at top of spine (where it extends over the Proof), spine panel background slightly faded and fine scratch on rear panel £10.00 "There is a house, hidden away in a small valley, that holds a dark and dreadful secret... There is a psychic who lives in that house who is part of its secret... There is a guardian of the house, and of the psychic, and of the secret... Together, in unholy union, they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind... "
F. E. Higgins The Black Book of Secrets Macmillan 2007 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and a few light scratches on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £7.50 "A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night... Ludlow Fitch... he is running from a most terrible past. Then out of the most comes Joe Zabbidou - a mysterious pawnbroker who trades people's deepest, darkest secrets for cash... as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume... "
F. E. Higgins The Bone Magician Macmillan 2008 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "Since his father vanished, Pin Carpue has lived alone in the dismal city of Urbs Umida. Then he meets the Bone Magician - a man who can make the dead speak - and Pin is drawn into an intoxicating world of magic and illusion... But as Pin uncovers the secrets of bone magic, his own life is put in grave danger... " Sequel to The Black Book of Secrets
Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) The Farseer II Royal Assassin HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. £75.00 "... With King Shrewd struck down be a mysterious sickness, Verity's departure leaves Regal free to pursue his evil plottings; and Fitz, friendless but for the wolf Nighteyes, rescued from a market-trader's cage, and the King's Fool, who torments Fitz with his cryptic prophecies... " The Farseer Trilogy Book Two.
Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) Ancient Echoes HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing Page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Warmly Inscribed to fellow author Richard Cowper/Colin/John Middleton Murry, (Jr.) and his wife Ruth £30.00 "Jack Chatwin has visions. Vivid experiences of a world in parallel to our own; brief encounters with a human couple, Greyface and Greenface, fleeing a terrible event in their own world and battling with a land that is raw and cruel and old... Only when Greyface escapes into Jack's reality does the startling truth... start to occur to him... "
Robert Holdstock Lavondyss Journey to an Unknown Region (BSFA Award Winner 1989) Gollancz 1988 First Edition First Printing Lower front cover corner lightly creased, lower page edges slightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in Proof Dust Jacket with front flap creased and slightly creased where it extends over the proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page £10.00 Sequel to Mythago Wood "... Talis Keeton, sister of Harry... journeys into the wood in search of her lost brother. Her adventures lead her towards Lavondyss itself: but it is a realm quite unlike anything she could have imagined... "
Robert Holdstock Where Time Winds Blow Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel and top 2 mm of front panel background faded to pale orange Signed and Inscribed to fellow author Richard Cowper/Colin/John Middleton Murry, (Jr.) and his wife Ruth £10.00 "An unpredictable planet where time blows between past and future; a domed city, crawling along the sheer edge of a rift-valley, watching below as alien ruins flicker in and out of the present; a group of 'Manchanged' humans who have been medically and surgically adapted... who are struggling to adapt psychologically... "
Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) May Contain Traces of Magic Orbit 2009 First Edition First Printing Fine copy in a fine dust jacket With Publisher's Press Release. £7.50 "There are all kinds of products... Most are harmless... But some are not. Not the ones that contain traces of magic..."
Tom Holt Odds And Gods Orbit 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with spine lettering slightly faded £7.50 'It's a god's life at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for retired deities. Everlasting life can be a real drag when all you've got to look forward to is cauliflower cheese on Wednesdays... there's a major technical problem with the thousand-year-old traction engine... lovingly restored by... Thor, Odin and Frey... "
Tom Holt Ye Gods! Orbit 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one crease along front flap £15.00 "... Being a Hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mum's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying fabulous monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before your mum'll let you watch Star Trek... "
Walter H. Hunt The Dark Ascent Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "... As armadas clash and outposts fall, the overly confident alien menace is forced to confront a zor-human alliance that has been warned... " Book 3
Walter H. Hunt The Dark Path Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and with a small cloth tear at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top edge or front board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £5.00 "Man and zor , once sworn enemies... now live side by side... a mystery from the past has become a threat to the present... " Book 2
Walter H. Hunt The Dark Wing Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 "... the zor decide to mount a surprise attack against the human colonies... a controversial scholar by the name of Marais... claims to have a plan to deal with them... Marais is put in charge of the battlefleet... " Book 1
Margaret Irwin Still She Wished For Company (Who Will Remember?) Chatto & Windus 1942 Bruised at base of spine, a few top page edges slightly damp-rippled and page edges a little marked and bumped - Very Good to Near Fine copy in tarnished, torn, creased and slightly eroded gold Dust Jacket with the remains of an old pricing sticker on the spine panel and lower corner of front flap removed. £15.00 Clute - "... a subtly bitter timeslip romance in which an occultist's attempts to clarify a haunting vision, using his sister as a medium, draw the heroine out of the present to a phantom existence in 1779." No 29 in The Golden Library - reset to War Economy standard.
Brian Jacques Castaways of the Flying Dutchman Viking 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, to rear board and some page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with some bumping to rear panel £4.00 "... what of the boy and his dog who were trapped aboard that ship?... Sent off on an eternal journey of their own by an avenging angel, the boy and dog roam the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need... their travels lead them to Chapelvale... whose very existence is at stake... "
Brian Jacques The Pearls Of Lutra A Tale Of Redwall Hutchinson 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... The gruesome discovery of a skeleton in Mossflower woods heralds the start of both a mystery and a quest... Emperor Ublaz, also known as Mad Eyes, sends his fearsome lizards and corsairs on a murderous mission to Redwall... "
T. M. Jenkins The Waking Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and a couple of light pressure marks across the front panel else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top of the front fold. £5.00 "... 2070: sixty-four years after his own violent death Nate is resuscitated, using the body of an anonymous donor... all too soon, an investigative journalist blows the cover... threatens both to expose the identity of the mysterious donor and unravel the truth behind Sheehan's murder all those years ago... "
Diana Wynne Jones The Four Grannies Hamish Hamilton 1980 Third Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed laminated boards - as issued £10.00 "Erg and Emily have four grannies. Granny One is strict, Granny Two is a worrier, Granny Three is rich and Granny Four is a saint. Erg and Emily's parents go away for a while and arrange for one of the grannies to come and look after them. Unfortunately, all four grannies turn up, and havoc breaks out... " Scarce
Gwyneth Jones Band Of Gypsys Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page £7.50 "... Ax Preston, former dictator, returns to England to take up the Green President job... he finds some outrageous details in the contract, so the Triumvirate decamps for Paris... embarrassing the English government over conditions in the new-slavery labour camps... " Fourth volume in the sf/fantasy series.
Graham Joyce Dark Sister (BFS Derleth Award Winner 1993) Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page £15.00 "... Maggi's experiments in herbalism plunge her into a frightening, awe-inspiring world of magic... And when Bella reaches out from the pages of her diary, searching for peace from beyond the grave, Maggie's sanity is suddenly under siege and the lives of her children left at the mercy of an ancient terror... "
Graham Joyce Dreamside Pan 1991 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Edges and corners slightly worn, top front corner slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy £5.00 "... It began as a students' game. A harmless attempt to control their dreams... But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now the dreams have returned... summoned by forces beyond their control... powerful enough to threaten their sanity... " The author's first book. Scarce.
Graham Joyce House Of Lost Dreams Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing A couple of page corner tips creased and page edges browned else Fine Copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top tip of the rear fold £40.00 "Mike and Kim Hanson have thrown away everything in search of their dream - an idyllic villa on the Greek Island of Mavros... The House of Lost Dreams has kept its secret for decades... the secret must be told. The tumour of lies must be cut out and the land purified... the Hansons have made the first incision... " Scarce.
Graham Joyce Leningrad Nights PS Publishing 1999 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 143/500) Back cover slightly creased else Fine copy £5.00 48 page novella: introduced by Peter Straub. "... a phantasmal, haunted version of Leningrad... An orphaned boy named Leo dodges through the rubble, doing whatever he must to survive... "
Elizabeth Kay The Divide Chicken House 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy £7.50 "... Meet Felix. He's not your ordinary hero. Though brave and intelligent, Felix is suffering from a life-threatening illness... His parents take him... to Costa Rica.. when he open his eyes... he's arrived in an amazing, back-to-front world, where magic and mythical animals are real, and humans are legend... "
David H. Keller The Human Termites A 1929 Science Fiction Extravaganza P.D.A. Enterprises 1979 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Covers slightly worn, browned and marked, page edges slightly browned and a number of top page corners creased - Very Good Copy £7.50 Volume Two The David H. Keller Memorial Library. 80 page centre-stapled booklet introduced by Patrick H. Adkins, with the original Frank R. Paul illustrations, new illustrations by Dixie Adkins, and includes previously unpublished correspondence between Dr. Keller & Hugo Gernsback...
Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) Hearts In Atlantis Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Royal Blue card covers £25.00 "... five interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.. "
Stephen King Rose Madder Viking 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Page edges a little marked else Fine Copy in Dust Jacket with a few punctures and a short tear at the base of the rear fold £4.00 "Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes up from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight... Her husband is a cop, with the instincts of a predator... Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness... almost mythic in his monstrosity... "
Stephen King The Dark Tower V Wolves Of The Calla Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. With 12 full-colour illustrations by Bernie Wrightson £15.00 "Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing south-east... to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers... Beyond the town the rocky ground rises towards the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul... "
Dean R. Koontz (Also as Brian Coffey; K. R. Dwyer; Leigh Nichols, Owen West & Aaron Wolfe) Forever Odd Bantam 2005 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top rear corner else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he finds something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror...
Dean R. Koontz Life Expectancy Bantam 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "... at the very height of the storm's fury, Joseph Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke... there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson... the path he must follow will defy every expectation... a struggle against evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through... "
Dean R. Koontz The Face Bantam 2003 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "He's Hollywood's most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul . His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic 'messages' breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate... "
Cyril M. Kornbluth (Also as Cyril Judd & Jordan Park) The Syndic Faber 1964 First Edition in the UK Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, bump at top edge of front board, and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and browned Dust Jacket with the purple spine panel background a little faded £7.50 "... The Government of North America has been pushed into the sea and controls nothing but a fringe of territory in Western Ireland... the East Coast is ruled by the Syndic - free-and-easy, permissive, happy, perhaps doomed - and to the West is Mob Territory... "
Tom Kratman A State of Disobedience Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine a few small marks to the front board and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 "2060 in the so-called United States of America. A Body Politic transformed iinto a bloody stage for partisan revenge and state-controlled terror. One President vying for dictatorial power. one mild-mannered governor determined to stop the madness, yet not sacrifice democracy in the process... Welcome to the Second American Revolution... "
Katherine Kurtz The Harrowing Of Gwynedd Volume I of The Heirs of Saint Camber Del Rey 1989 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. £7.50 "The evil times had come for the Deryni... King Cinhil was dead, and the weak boy-king Alroy reigned. But the real rulers were the Regents, evil, power-hungry men who sought the total destruction of all Deryni... "

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