| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter David | Fall of Knight | Ace 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper front corner and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When former first lady Gwen DeVere Queen Penn is discovered to be hale and hearty - after falling victim to a successful (and very public) assassination - the jig is finally up. Arthur Penn, aka King Arthur, reveals his true identity, and the existence of the Holy Grail, to the world... " Third ion the Trilogy, following Knight Life and One Knight Only |
| Stephen Deas | The Order of the Scales | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Light crease to rear cover lower corner and page edges a little marked else Fine Book | £4.00 | "... the war has come and it has come on the wings of hundreds of dragons. As Prince Jehal fights desperately for survival, the eyries are emptying and the realms' dragons fly to the fight, The dragons lust for blood, their riders lust for glory.. But there is a terrible secret at the heart of this war... " |
| Guillermo del Toro | The Strain Trilogy (The Strain+The Fall+The Night Eternal - With Chuck Hogan) | HarperCollins 2009-11 All are First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Very Good to Near Fine Books in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jackets, volume 1 with a 19mm tear at the top of the front fold and Volume 3 with the lower edge of rear panel slightly crumpled | £20.00 | "... Seated corpses faced them in row after row... seated as any normal passengers would be... still waiting for the fasten seatbelt sign to be turned off... Before the next sundown Eph, Setrakian, and a motley collection of heroes must undertake the ultimate fight for survival. Should they fail, New York will be lost. And the rest of the world will follow... " |
| August Derleth (Also as Stephen Grendon) | Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft and Others (Editor) | Arkham House 1969 First Edition First Printing (Four Thousand copies printed) | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly browned Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold Cover Illustration by Lee Brown Coye | £100.00 | The Cthulhu Mythos by August Derleth and nineteen stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, J. Vernon Shea, J. Ramsey Campbell, Brain Lumley, James Wade and Colin Wilson. With Biographical notes |
| August Derleth (Also as Stephen Grendon) | The House on the Mound | Duell Sloane 1958 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Near Fine book in torn, stained, and slightly frayed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "This historical novel of Wisconsin's first decade is based on the lives of Jane and Hercules Dousman, their years together from 1848 to 1857 in the Villa Louis - the house on the mound at Prairie du Chien." |
| Philip K. Dick | Galactic Pot-Healer | Gollancz 1971 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges lightly foxed and with a trace of colour bleed from the boards and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly marked and creased Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "Joe Fernwright's dwelling-place is Cleveland... a skilled mender or... healer of ceramic ware... Bored enough to accept an extremely chancy proposition... The Glimmung invites him to go to a distant planet, and help raise Heldscalla, the cathedral which is submerged beneath the sea... " Preceded by the U.S. Book Club edition |
| Philip K. Dick | The Dark Haired Girl (Edited by Paul Williams) | Ziesing 1988 First Edition | Bruised at base of spine and lower rear corner else Fine book in Dust Jacket worn at the extremities. | £7.50 | Introduction by the Editor; The Dark Haired Girl; The Android and the Human; poem; The Evolution of a Vital Love; letters; Man, Android and Machine; letter and Goodbye, Vincent. "... Dick shares his inner turmoil in the aftermath of a broken marriage... His emotional flailing is laid bare... as if 'Phil' was a close friend with problems, seeking advice... " |
| Gordon R. Dickson | Young Bleys | Tor 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page corner tips creased, small smudge on front free end paper and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The worlds of the Splinter Cultures have been the focus of a long experiment in human genetic drift, which culminated in Hal Mayne... Bleys Ahrens, by the workings of chance born the genetic equal of Hal... but destined... to a far different fate... " |
| Thomas M. Disch (Also as Thom Demijohn & Leonie Hargrave) | The Priest A Gothic Romance | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one small, faint mark to page edges else Fine book in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... a nasty, extremely unsettling, thought-provoking novel that lingers in the memory long after the last page is turned. A salutary lesson for all of us who live happily in the conviction that we live in a secular age..." A modern scarcity that's very amusing! |
| David Eddings | Domes Of Fire Book One of the Tamuli | Ballantine 1993 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with one small tear | £10.00 | "Six years had passed since the redoubtable knight Sparhawk had triumphed over the evil God Azash and returned to Elenia with Queen Ehlana, his bride. And now a new danger had arisen to threaten the peace... the fabled ancient warriors of Tamuli had indeed returned - intent on carnage... " |
| David Eddings | The Losers | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower rear corner, slightly bumped across lower edge of front board and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a seedy backstreet in Spokane, Washington... surrounded by 'the losers' , a nightmarish subculture of violence and despair that is kept going - and kept out of sight - by a band of incompetent social workers... enters deeply, sympathetically, into the lives of America's outcasts... " |
| David Eddings | The Redemption Of Althalus (With Leigh Eddings) | HarperCollins 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger... At the House at the End of the World... he can't find... the door by which he entered... " |
| E. C. Eliott (Reginald Alec Martin - Also as Rafe Bernard) | Kemlo And The End Of Time | Nelson 1957 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page edges, front free end paper removed and page edges slightly foxed and age darkened - Good book in worn, torn, stained, browned and slightly chipped Dust Jacket Illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell | £15.00 | "Everyone knows the story of the Marie Celeste. Kemlo and Kerowski hardly expected to find an aerial Marie Celeste adrift in the void... " Ninth in the series. Scarce. |
| E. C. Eliott | Tas And The Space Machine | Nelson 1955 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed and marked - Good book in worn and torn, price clipped, slightly marked Dust Jacket, overprinted '3/- NET' on the front flap Illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell | £5.00 | "'The new monster space machine P.X.Q. has arrived at the Australian space ship launching grounds. Tas and his two friends stumble on a clever plot to steal the secret ship and kidnap its designer... the three boys stow away and find themselves hurtling through space to an unknown destination with four ruthless men in control... " |
| Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) | Cold Fire The Spiritwalker Trilogy: Book Two | Orbit 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Book | £5.00 | "Trapped within a maze of blood, treachery and magic... " |
| Steve Erickson | Tours Of The Black Clock | Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised across top edge of rear board else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a journey through another twentieth century, eliding conventional borders of time and place to conduct a mesmerising exploration of the underside of civilisation... At the centre of this novel is Banning Jainlight... he becomes Hitler's private pornographer... glimpses the face of Hitler's lost erotic dream... most evil man of all time... change history, establish himself as a god... " |
| Steven Erikson (Steve Rune Lundin) | The Crippled God A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen | Bantam 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With the Publisher's promotion sheet | £10.00 | ."... the final cataclysmic chapter... " |
| Steven Erikson (Steve Rune Lundin) | The First Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach (Blood Follows+The Lees Of Laughter's End+The Healthy Dead) | Bantam 2010 First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Together with the original introductions by Stephen R. Donaldson, James Barclay & Paul Kearney |
| Hilary Evans | Beyond The Gaslight Science In Popular Fiction 1895-1905 (Editor, With Dick Evans) | Muller 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in price-clipped, overstickered, slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with internal gummed tape reinforcements at the corners. | £5.00 | "The citizen of 1900 looked forward to the century before him with high hopes... He believed that he would travel by 200 m.p.h. monorail... cross an ocean in giant passenger submarines... or travel beneath it in huge sub-oceanic pneumatic tubes linking one continent with another... Mesmerism, telepathy, animal magnetism... " |
| Jaine Fenn | Bringer Of Light | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Lower edge of front panel lightly bumped else Fine Book | £5.00 | "Everyone believes the Sidhe, humanity's one-time rulers, are long dead... Jarek knows better... " |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | The Book Of Conquests | Paper Tiger 1978 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at base of spine and small faint mark on cloth adjacent to spine edge else Fine book in slightly creased and browned Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | The story of Tuan and the conquest of the Fir Bolg, The coming of the Tuatha De Dannan and how Streng and Breas made a covenant of friendship, The gathering of the Fir Bolg at Tara and the assembly of Tuatha de Dannan, The First Battle of Moy Tura, The Dream of Nuada, The Battle Frenzy of Nuada and the Last Battle and the death of Eochai. |
| Eric Flint | The Dragon Done It (Editor, With Mike Resnick) | Baen 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine. lower edge of front board slightly eroded and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Editors' Introduction; 19 sleuthing & sorcery stories by Graham Edwards; Tanya Huff; Neil Gaiman; William Hope Hodgson; Laura Resnick; Michael M. Jones; Ron Goulart; Esther M. Friesner; Lawrence Schimel; Richard Parks; Randall Garrett; Brian M. Thomsen; David Kirtley; David Drake; Mike Resnick; Harry Turtledove; Gene Wolfe & Dave Freer with Eric Flint |
| Christopher Fowler | The Bureau Of Lost Souls | Century 1989 First Trade Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and fore-edge of rear board and page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's information sheet | £5.00 | "...a collection of twelve linked tales of urban paranoia in which the stresses and strains of city life force lurking fears into the open and provide a catalyst for bizarre events... black humour about desperate people in seemingly ordinary situations... trapped within their own personal, private visions of Hell..." |
| Alan Frank | The Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Handbook | Batsford 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, previous owner's sticker and annotation on front free end paper and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket, dust marked on the inside (no show-through). | £4.00 | "... a comprehensive and detailed guide... covering several hundred films as diverse as Star Wars and Mary Poppins and involving a whole range of space battles, time warps and bug-eyed monsters. For each film... a complete and systematic list of technical credits, a cast list, a brief synopsis... and a quotation from a contemporary review... " |
| Jane Frank | The Art of Richard Powers | Paper Tiger 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Foreword by Vincent di Fate, Introduction by Richard Gid Powers: The Life, an interview, full bibliography and checklist of book covers. 128 colour pages. |
| Frank Frazetta | Frank Frazetta Book Two | Peacock Press 1981 Fifth Printing (Paper) | Major crease across back cover and a few minor ones, and page edges a little marked - Very Good book | £7.50 | 32 colour plates and 12 black and white studies |
| Max Frei | The Stranger The Labyrinths of Echo: Book One | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing (Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon) | Lower edge of four pages bumped else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £4.00 | "A self-described twenty-something 'classic loser', and insomniac, hardened smoker, a glutton and a loafer, there's nothing much going for Max Frei... at least not until he arrives in the magical city of Echo... he's about to become a secret agent, tasked to solve extravagant, impossible crimes with noting but his wits and a handful of unexplained magical abilities... " |
| Brian Froud | The Goblin Companion A Field Guide To Goblins (With Terry Jones) | Pavilion Books 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and a short surface crease near the top rear corner else Fine book in padded boards, as issued | £7.50 | A catalogue of goblins, discovered by Brian Froud for Jim Henson's The Labyrinth and detailed by Terry Jones... |
| Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book (2009 Hugo Award & Newbery Winner) | Bloomsbury 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously ('Adult's' Edition) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small spot of wear at the base of the front fold. Illustrated by Dave McKean | £20.00 | "Nobody Owens, known to his friends as bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead... " |
| Stephen Gallagher (Also as John Lydecker) | Red, Red Robin | Bantam 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Guarantee | £5.00 | "It all begins as a simple enough plan: Ruth Lasseter needs an escort for the company party to cover her affair with one of the directors... the evening passes smoothly until Ruth ends it later than expected... in her companion's bed... a one-night stand becomes something infinitely more sinister... " |
| Stephen Gallagher | The Spirit Box | Subterranean Press 2005 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Unnumbered/750) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top tip of limitation page creased and absent (production fault) else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... You've got a twenty-two year old girl hidden in a cabin... She's got five packets of unknown substance in her gut... the boy who took her... thinks they have a value... He's preparing to cut her open... " A novel of terror. |
| Richard Garfinkle | All Of An Instant | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With the Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £5.00 | "... chronicles the discovery of a medium of existence outside time - the Instant - from which one can influence all past or future history. War dominates this strange, abstract place - war among forces contending for control of all time and place... " |
| Alan Garner | Strandloper | Harvil Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack... and Het is to be his Teaser. But when the local landowner discovers the celebration in the church, William is arrested and sentenced to transportation to New Holland... He vows to Het that he will return..." |
| Jane Gaskell | Atlan | Macdonald 1985 | Pages browned else Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Second in the Atlan saga. |
| David Gemmell (Also as Ross Harding) | Stormrider | Bantam 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top corners and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Centuries after Connavar's triumphant battles gained the Rigante their freedom, the clan finds itself oppressed once again. Magic that once flourished has been all but snuffed out... only in the north are the clansmen free... the magic still reigns, strengthened by the bold, brilliant victories of the outlaw leader known as Ravenheart... " |
| David Gemmell (Also as Ross Harding) | The Swords Of Night And Day | Bantam 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Drenai... But what is the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void... the ageless evil of the Eternal threatens... two legendary heroes will once again lead the way to freedom... " |
| David Gemmell (Also as Ross Harding) | White Wolf | Bantam 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Skilgammon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history... the General had taken the legendary Swords of Night and Day... Now he must travel through a perilous, demon-haunted realm seeking a mysterious temple, and the ageless goddess who rules it... But he does not travel alone. The man beside him is Druss the Legend... " |
| Gary Gibson | Stealing Light | Tor (UK) 2007 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... In the twenty-fifth century, only the... Shoal possess the secret of FTL... giving them absolute control over ... the entire galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries.... Dakota Merrick...Piloting a civilian cargo ship... ferrying an exploration team... hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive... " |
| William Gilmour | The Undying Land | Grant 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with the price removed Illustrated by Kevin Johnson | £5.00 | "Johnathan, a British adventurer... has developed an engine... installed in an advanced helicopter... takes him... to Nairobi... somewhere in the heart of the Dark Continent he disappears... a hidden land of monstrous beasts and barbaric men... " |
| Terry Goodkind | Faith Of The Fallen | Tor 2000 Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When a Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate sacrifice to ensure his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken deep into the Old World and forced to labour for the tyrannical evil he's sworn to defeat, he is determined to remain defiant even in the heart of darkness... " |
| 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 in laminated boards with a few fine scratches - Very Good Illustrated by Jeremy Ford | £10.00 | 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. |
| John Gordon | The Flesh Eater | Walker 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Harry Hogge has a beautiful girlfriend and an uncomplicated existence ... until Emma Judd bursts into his life... weird things are happening... a secret and sinister club is meeting... a woman plays cards while listening to a murder being committed elsewhere... And underground something monstrous is stirring from centuries of sleep, with a hunger for flesh... " |
| John Gordon | The Grasshopper | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at top of spine, tiny material chip missing from base, page edges lightly browned - Near Fine book | £5.00 | "Charlotte Bush, who was so beautiful that all of us in the sixth form were wild about her, was sitting in front of me in the lecture theatre when the picture was flashed onto the screen. I could see she didn't believe it. Nor did I. it showed a grasshopper much larger than a man. But there was something else about it that excited her... " |
| John Gordon | The Waterfall Box | Kestrel 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page fore edges with a smallish brown stain and a little age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with spine panel slightly faded | £10.00 | "An accident strips Bran of everything he possesses; he... has to go to live with relatives... among luxury of the kind his parents never enjoyed; has a girl cousin, Sandy, seemingly prepared to indulge his most secret longings... An intriguing story with supernatural overtones, and at the same time a subtle exploration of sexual and class tensions among adolescents." |
| Alasdair Gray | 1982 Janine | Cape 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, price clipped, overstickered, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "This already dated novel is set inside the head of an ageing, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations who is tippling in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel.... it is mainly a sado-masochistic fetishistic fantasy." |
| Alasdair Gray | A History Maker | Canongate 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Alasdair Gray has written a tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the Ettrick Forest of the twenty-third century. Superbly muscled Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettric chief, is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive life style. Only when challenged by the fearfully seductive Delilah Puddock and her plot to restore the competitive exploitation of human resources does he learn to embrace the women and traditional values he truly loves... " |
| Alasdair Gray | Poor Things Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless MD Scottish Public Health Officer | Bloomsbury 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corner tips slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean of the early 1880's, it describes the love-lives of two doctors and a mature woman created by one of them." Very funny. |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Effendi The Second Arabesk | Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bruised at top of spine and lower rear corner else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed to Tanith (Lee) | £25.00 | "Among many other things, Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system (definitely); son of the Emir of Tunis (possibly); and chief of detectives in the El Iskandryian police force (apparently). Small wonder that he's a little confused... " |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Pashazade The First Arabesk | Earthlight 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... El Iskandruia is North Africa's most urbane city. A metropolis where cultures meet and clash, and money buys you everything but safety... In a world where Germany won the First World War... In a Middle East where the Ottoman Empire still dominates... " Arthur Clarke Award Nominee for 2002. |
| Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies And Others | Tachyon Publications 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Some top page corners slightly curled/creased and page edges lightly marked - Very Good Book | £4.00 | Introductions by William Gibson, the Author and Michael Swanwick afterword by Howard Waldrop. Stable Strategies for Middle Management; Fellow Americans; Computer Friendly; The Sock Story; Coming to Terms; Lichen and Rock; Contact; What Are Friends For?; Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp; Spring Conditions; Nirvana High (With Leslie What) and Green Fire with others. |
| Peter Haining (Also as Rik Alexander, William Pattrick, Richard Peyton & Sean Richards) | Doctor Who 25 Glorious Years | W. H. Allen 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tips of the folds. | £7.50 | "... From its very early beginnings as a 25-minute black-and-white Saturday evening television series for children, Doctor Who has become a national institution and an international success story... " |
| Barbara Hambly | Icefalcon's Quest | Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "While chaos reigned in the Eastern lands, the Keep of Dare stood as a bastion against war and bandits and the spawn of unnatural sorceries. Then twin blows rocked the citadel... Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed general Vair... he had learned that the royal child possessed forbidden wisdom: a secret with which... Vair intended to conquer the world... " |
| Laurell K. Hamilton | A Kiss Of Shadows | Ballantine 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why... " |
| Laurell K. Hamilton | Strange Candy | Berkley 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page corners bumped and creased else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short tear at the lower edge of the rear panel | £5.00 | Introduction; Those Who Seek Forgiveness; A Lust of Cupids; The Edge of the Sea; A Scarcity of Lake Monsters; Selling Houses; A Token for Celandine; A Clean Sweep; The Curse-Maker; Geese; House of Wizards; Here Be Dragons; Winterkill; Steaming Souls and The Girl Who Was Infatuated With Death |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page and dated 12/10/01 (Publication Date) | £7.50 | "As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy... But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many teenage hotheads before him, he rebels and runs away... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No. 38/800) | Bruised at top and base of spine, corners a little rubbed, page edges lightly bumped and marked, small stain on front free end paper and prelim page - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author on the limitation page | £5.00 | "As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy... But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many teenage hotheads before him, he rebels and runs away... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Manhattan In Reverse | Macmillan 2011 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a small wear spot at the base of the front fold. With the Publisher's promotion sheet | £7.50 | Introduction; Watching Trees Grow; Footvote; If at First... ; The Forever Kitten; Blessed by an Angel; The Demon Trap and Manhattan In Reverse |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Misspent Youth | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower corners, and base of spine slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on a label fixed to the Title Page | £7.50 | "It is forty years into the future and, following decades of research and trillions of euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to rejuvenate a human being... Jeff Baker, the father of the datasphere... the seventy-eight-year-old patient returns home looking like a healthy twenty-year-old... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Dreaming Void Part One of The Void Trilogy | MacMillan 2007 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No 197/400) | Lower rear corner slightly creased, edges slightly rubbed, a few page edges and corners slightly bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread throughout the galaxy to over a thousand star systems... At the centre of the galaxy is the Void, a strange, artificial universe created by aliens billions of years ago, shrouded by an event horizon more deadly than any natural black hole... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Night's Dawn Series (a)The Reality Dysfunction+b)The Neutronium Alchemist+c)The Naked God+d)A Second Chance At Eden+e)The Confederation Handbook) | Macmillan 1996-9 All Are First Edition First Printing (Five Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and short crease in the rear free end paper of d) else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket c) with a touch of wear to the fold tips Signed by the Author on the Title Pages | £300.00 | "... one of the most triumphant works of science fiction to appear for decades... over 3,700 pages (or 1,200,000 words)... has brought to life an entire galaxy of diverse planets and astonishing civilisations... " |
| Nick Harkaway | The Gone-Away World | Heinemann 2008 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine Book in decorated boards and like Dust Jacket - As Issued | £7.50 | "The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out... The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings and into the dark heart of the Jorgmund Company itself... a tale of love and loss, of ninjas, pirates, politics, of curious heroism... " |
| Colin Harris | Mexicon 6 - The Party (Editor) | Mexicon 1994 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 121/400) | Fine book Illustrated by Dave Carson and others | £10.00 | Illustrated programme book for the convention - includes Alasdair Grey's In The Public Eye; John Clute's Survivors; Iain M Banks' Against A Dark Background (Epilogue); Paul Kincaid's Losing The Edge; Iain Sinclair's From Tilbury Out; Howard Waldrop's Tube Chiefs Talk Tough! Gi'z A Pint!; Norman Spinrad's Voice Over; Ian Macdonald's Crib Notes For 'Chaga'; and others - much of which has never been reprinted. |
| Joanne Harris | The Evil Seed | Warner Books 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine, corners and front cover creased, pages lightly browned, WITHDRAWN & SOLD stamped on prelim page - Good book | £30.00 | "... When Alice Farrell is drawn to a Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when her former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and certain of her evil... " Very scarce - her first book. |
| Richard Hatch | Battlestar Galactica Rebellion (With Alan Rodgers) | Ibooks 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly bumped else Fine book 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 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £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... " |
| Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein) | Across The Nightingale Floor Tales of the Otori Book One | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard... young Takeo knows only the ways of peace. But, unknown to himself, he possesses the supernatural skills of the Tribe... " |
| Lian Hearn | Brilliance Of The Moon Tales of the Otori Book Three | Macmillan 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Takeo desires nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with the beautiful Kaede. But his destiny is determined by forces beyond his control... " |
| Lian Hearn | Grass For His Pillow Tales of the Otori Book Two | Macmillan 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Takeo... has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. But he must deny the solemn oath of vengeance he made, his adopted birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede... " |
| David Herter | Ceres Storm | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars... Young Daric... is about to become aware of his destiny... may be a clone of a fearsome interplanetary conqueror from the distant past... forced to go on a quest... to discover his fate... " |
| F. E. Higgins | The Black Book of Secrets | Macmillan 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight fading to top right-hand corner of front fixed end paper (price erasure) else Fine book 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... " |
| Lynda Hilburn | The Vampire Shrink | Jo Fletcher 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Kismet Knight... is inspired to become the vampire shrink, offering her services to people who believe they are undead. Kismet herself, as a scientist, knows it's hokum, but she's looking at it in a purely psychoanalytic light... until she meets the leader of a vampire coven, a sexy, mysterious man who claims to be a 800-year-old vampire... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | Renegade's Magic The Soldier Son Trilogy Three | HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The people of Getty's town remember the death of their cemetery soldier vividly... But Nevare Burve didn't die that day... the magic of the Specs... claimed Nevare as a saviour... only the beginning of his trials... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | Shaman's Crossing The Soldier Son Trilogy One | Voyager 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the fold tips. | £5.00 | "Young Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son... Nevare will follow his father... into the cavalry, to the frontier... to the enigmatic Speck people... the last vestiges of magic in a world which is becoming progressive and technologised... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Liveship Traders Book I Ship Of Magic | Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top of spine, lower front corner lightly creased and page edges browned - Very Good book in Near Fine Dust Jacket with fold and flap edges partly faded | £7.50 | "Wizardwood. A sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds. But how can one trade with the Rain River Traders, when only a liveship, fashioned from wizardwood, can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River, which is known to flow with magic?... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Tawny Man I Fool's Errand | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the base of the front fold. | £20.00 | "... Fifteen years have passed since the end of the Red Ship War... for Fitz the past cannot be... easily laid to rest... the Witted are being persecuted... and Fitz's old mentor, the assassin Chade, begs him to come back... to train the young Prince Dutiful... " |
| Christopher Hodder-Williams | 98.4 | Hodder & Stoughton 1969 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with end flaps creased. | £5.00 | "... This novel deals with far-reaching implications of transplant surgery, but knocked out of joint by the tortuous influence of the war men... no discovery - however marvellous in itself - can remain free from becoming fodder for the power morons... " |
| 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 book 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 (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Celtika Book One of the MERLIN CODEX | Simon & Schuster 2001 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased,, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveller on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys he encounters Jason, whose search for the Golden Fleece he joins. It is a decision that will cost him dear!... " Book One of The Merlin Codex. |
| Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Editor) | Octopus 1978 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly torn, spine-faded, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | With a Foreword by Isaac Asimov, Locations by Robert Holdstock, Marriage of Science and Fiction by Brian Stableford, Major Themes by Douglas Hill, Pulps & Magazines by Michael Ashley, Screen Trips by Alan Frank, Machine As Hero by Harry Harrison, Alien Encounter by Chris Morgan, Art & Artists by David Hardy, Fiction to Fact by Patrick Moore, Etc., |
| Robert Holdstock | Merlin's Wood or The Vision of Magic | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges foxed and lightly browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket with the price removed. | £30.00 | "In those days... Broceliande was a terrible place, an ancient gloomy forest growing over misty dells, forgotten stones, a place of hidden lakes and strangling thickets... the true heart of Broceliande could never be found, the stink of its corruption oozed from the edgewood, shedding ghosts like autumn leaves. This was the forest of legend where Merlin had come to dream his magic and the enchantress Vivien had come to beguile that magic from him... " |
| Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Mythago Wood (BSFA & World Fantasy Award Winner 1985) | Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in a fine dust jacket with red spine lettering unfaded (most unusual) | £50.00 | "Ryhope Wood, in a remote corner of Herefordshire, is a forgotten remnant of ancient woodland: three square miles of post-Ice Age forest, untouched and unexplored... for George Huxley its exploration becomes an obsession... the bizarre truth about the wood gradually becomes apparent... " |
| Robert Holdstock | The Fetch (Unknown Regions) | Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower front corner bruised and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There is a landscape between reality and dreams, a strange and primitive country that exists on the edge of our waking world... The Whitlocks' house, in the Kentish Weald, stands near a chalk-pit, and it is here that their son Michael creates his peculiar imaginary world, making his camp by the pile of grave-earth... " |
| Liz Holliday | Odyssey Nos.1-3 1997-1998 (Editor) | Odyssey 1997-1998 | Fine copies | £5.00 | Fiction by Stephen Baxter, Vonda McIntyre, Paul Barnett, Darrell Schweitzer, Charles Stross, Cherith Baldry, Ben Jeapes Roz Kaveney and others, Interviews with Tim Powers, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Reviews, Criticism and much more... |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Barking | Orbit 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine else Fine book in a fine dust jacket | £5.00 | "Monsters are roaming the streets of London. Of course, some monsters are scarier than others: Unicorns? No bother. Vampires? Big deal. Werewolves? Ho hum. Lawyers? ...Aaargh! Duncan's boss doesn't think that he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But... " |
| William Horwood | Awakening | Macmillan 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £5.00 | "A series of extraordinary events mark the beginning of Summer: earth tremors ravage the Hyddenworld; Jack and Katherine have a child, Judith; and a mysterious gem is found near Brum. That same night, after decades of sleep, the Emperor of Hyddenworld awakens, in desperate requirement of a gem that might promise eternal life... " |
| William Horwood | The Wolves of Time (Journeys to the Heartland+Seekers at the Wulfrock) | HarperCollins 1995/7 All are First Edition First Printing (Two Volumes) | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "An age of heroes is dawning... The time has come for the wolves of Europe to take back their ancient Heartland. For centuries it has been poisoned by the Mennen and by the evil Magyar wolf-pack. Only then can the true gods be reborn and the natural order restored... " |
| Jonathan L. Howard | Johannes Cabal: The Detective | Headline 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "For necromancer Johannes Cabal , dealing with devils, demons and raising the dead is pretty much par for the course. But when his attempt to steal a rare book turns sour, he is faced by a far more terrifying entity - politics. While awaiting execution for his crime, Cabal is forced to resurrect an inconveniently deceased emperor... " |
| Jonathan L. Howard | Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute | Headline 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Beyond the wall of sleep lies the Dreamlands, a world formed by dreams, but not a dream itself... Cabal, a necromancer of some infamy, is employed by the mysterious Fear Institute to lead an expedition into the Dreamlands... to hunt and destroy the dread Phoebic Animus, the font of terrors, the very source of all the world's fear... " |
| Sarah A. Hoyt | All Night Awake | Ace 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... young Will Shakespeare is having a harder time of it in London than he thought he would. Though his contact with the world of faerie has left him with poetry in his blood... he is overshadowed by the favourite of Elizabeth I : Christopher Marlowe... " Follows Ill Met By Moonlight |
| Sarah A. Hoyt | Ill Met By Moonlight | Ace 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "When his wife and newborn daughter disappear. young Will Shakespeare is drawn into a realm beyond imagination - and beyond reality. Held captive by the devious ruler of the elves and fairies, Shakespeare's family appears lost to him forever... " |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Battlefield Earth A Saga Of The Year 3000 | Quadrant Books 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly bumped and lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket a little damp-marked on the inside along the lower edge - no show-through. | £7.50 | "... an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3,000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake... The Psychlos... have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries... How one man tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe... " Better than the film? |
| Barry Hughart | Bridge Of Birds (World Fantasy & Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner 1985) | Century 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed at the top of the rear fold. | £20.00 | "... a tale of ancient China... Number Ten Ox is a fit young peasant who... lives in the village of Ku-fu, where all the children between the ages of eight and thirteen lie stricken with a poison that will lead to death within a few months. Together with the sage, Li Kao, Ox must seek the Ginseng Great Root of Power - which is the only antidote... " |
| Stephen Hunt | The Court Of The Air | HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page edges lightly creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a short tear and a little creasing at the top of the spine panel | £5.00 | "... When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood... " |
| Stephen Hunt | The Kingdom Beyond the Waves | HarperVoyager 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one page corner creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £5.00 | "Perilous Quests Dastardly Deeds Deadly Intrigue A tale of high adventure. set in a Victorian-style world... an utterly engaging narrative voice, featuring a gutsy Indiana-Jones style heroine... " |
| Shaun Hutson | White Ghost | Little, Brown 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The IRA, drugs and the Chinese. It doesn't add up. Only when Doyle connects it to the killings of the Chinese in London and Hong Kong does it make sense. The Triads are at war with each other, and one gang has the support of the IRA. but why? The carnage itself is only just beginning - and will escalate to unheard-of heights unless... " Thriller? |
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