| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Jackson | Frontier Crossings 45th World Science Fiction Programme Book (Editor) | Conspiracy 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Guests: Doris Lessing; Alfred Bester; Arkady & Boris Strugatsky; Ray Harryhausen; Jim Burns; Joyce & Ken Slater and Dave Langford with Brian Aldiss as Toastmaster - articles, critiques, bibliographies, portfolios, Hugo listings, adverts and much, much more... |
| Vadim Jean | Terry Pratchett's Hogfather The Illustrated Screenplay (With Terry Pratchett, Bill Kaye & Stephen Player) | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Hogswatchnight is fast approaching, and the Hogfather (that jolly fat man who delivers presents to the kiddies) is missing. But it's vital that all the presents are delivered, otherwise the sun won't rise tomorrow. However, there is another supernatural entity who can be everywhere at once and, most importantly, knows where everyone lives... " |
| B. T. Jeeves | A Checklist of Astounding Part 3 1950-1959 | Jeeves 1970 First Edition (Paper) | Staples slightly rusty and page edges slightly foxed else Fine book | £5.00 | Covers Astounding Stories of Super Science; Astounding Stories; Astounding Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact. Listing in six sections: By Issue; By Title; By Author; All science fact articles; All editorial titles, content and artists; Authors & pseudonyms |
| Mike Jefferies | The Road To Underfall | Collins 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "it is many generations now since the Battle Owls, the Warhorses and the Border Runners answered the war trumpets of the kings of Elundium. The corruption of the Chancellors surrounding the throne has allowed Krulshards, Master of Darkness, to gather his forces... All Elundium is poised for destruction... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Castle In The Air | Methuen 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and one signature differentially browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 7.5 cm diagonal crease starting at top corner of front panel. | £25.00 | "Far to the South of the Land of Ingary, a young carpet merchant called Abdullah lived in the city of Zanzib. He is a daydreamer and in his dreams, he is really the long-lost son o9f a great prince. His dream is a complete castle in the air... or is it?... " Sequel to Howl's Moving Castle |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Conrad's Fate | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing (Conrrad's Fate on spine) | Slightly bumped at side of spine, covers slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Illustrated by Tim Stevens | £7.50 | "... Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Smallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate... His mission is clear - get rid of them... things start to go even more strangely... from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Conrad's Fate | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top of the front fold. Illustrated by Tim Stevens | £4.00 | "... Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Smallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate... His mission is clear - get rid of them... things start to go even more strangely... from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | House of Many Ways | HarperCollins 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Small slit in the cloth at the head of the spine and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Tim Stevens | £10.00 | "Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage should have been easy, but he is the Royal Wizard Norland whose house bends time and space... Caught up in an intense royal search, she meets a sorceress named Sophie. Can Wizard Howl and Calcifer be far behind... " |
| Gwyneth Jones | Bold As Love: The Backstory | B. S. F. G. 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 184/300) | Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | 19 Page centre-stapled booklet - published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group to celebrate her appearance as Guest Of Honour at Novacon 31, November 2001 Autobiographical notes about the creation of her novel Bold As Love |
| Lanyon Jones | When Dusk Comes Creeping Stories of the Sinister | Kimber 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... new collection, whose themes are suggested by rhymes and songs from nursery. But these are far from nursery fare, for when the light goes out, and the dusk comes creeping, it is not sweet dreams that follow." |
| Stephen Jones | A Book of Horrors (Editor) | Jo Fletcher 2011First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and on page fore-edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publishers' Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | Introduction; Stephen King's The Little Green God of Agony; Caitlin R. Kiernan's Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint; Peter Crowther's Ghosts with Teeth; Ramsey Campbell's Getting it Wrong; Lisa Tuttle's The Man in the Ditch; Reggie Oliver's A Child's Problem; Michael Marshall Smith's Sad, Dark Thing and Five others |
| Stephen Jones | Dark Terrors 2 The Gollancz Book of Horror (Editor, with David Sutton) | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at the top and base of the spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor on the Title Page and Michael Marshal Smith, Kim Newman & Paul J. McAuley | £10.00 | "... stories of supernatural terror and psychological dread from such... as Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Kim Newman and many more..." |
| Stephen Jones | Dark Terrors The Gollancz Book of Horror (Editor, With David Sutton) | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner and top edge of rear board bruised else Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Stories by Michael Marshall Smith; Ramsey Campbell; Steve Rasnic Tem; Graham Masterton; Lisa Morton; Brian Lumley; Charles A. Gramlich; Christopher Fowler; Mandy Slater; Terry Lamsley; Charles Wagner; Mark Morris; Nicholas Royle; Jeff Vandermeer; C. Bruce Hunter; Roberta Lannes; Richard Christian Matheson; Kim Newman; Karl Edward Wagner & Peter Straub. |
| Hyman Kaner | People of the Twilight | Kaner 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards bowing and slightly marked, page edges slightly foxed and marked else Fine book in torn and slightly stained Dust Jacket with a little erosion at top and base of spine panel. | £20.00 | "Professor Hayton discovers a drug which enables him and his friend to enter an amazing new world, the people of which lead a wonderful, idyllic existence. The Professor with his flair for experimentation, shatters the peace and happiness of this new world... " |
| John Kessel | The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and other stories | Small Beer 2008 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Page edges slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £4.00 | The Baum Plan for Financial Independence; Every Angel is Terrifying; The Red Phone; The Invisible Empire; A Lunar Quartet: The Juniper Tree, Stories for Men, Under the Lunchbox Tree, Sunlight or Rock; The Snake Girl; It's All True; The Last American; Downtown; Powerless & Pride and Prometheus |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Bronte Girls | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £7.50 | "... When Chris trespasses on their isolated farm in the Essex marshes, Emily Craster takes an action that smashes their world apart. She is almost fifteen and has known no other life except that with her two sisters and parents on the farm - modelled on the Brontes' parsonage at Haworth... a deeply felt and passionate story of parents and children and the uneasy frontier between love and hate..." |
| Vincent King (Rex Thomas Vinson) | Light A Last Candle | Rapp & Whiting 1970 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket where the red of the spine lettering has faded to pale orange. | £5.00 | "... the story of one man's fight for freedom - one whole normal man in a world of aliens and 'modifieds'... " Clute - "... elements of epic and grotesque sf adventure with a characteristically English darkness of emotional colouring and a tendency towards downbeat conclusions." |
| Donald Kingsbury | The Moon Goddess And The Sun | Baen 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and across top edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a couple of small wear spots at corners | £5.00 | Clute - "... the near-future setting... seems directly extrapolative of current thinking about space technologies The hard-sf arguments, about... space stations capable of grappling space freighters into dock, are as gripping as this sort of narrative can sometimes be; and... Diana a generation or so further on... point a way forward into romance... " |
| Harry Adams Knight (John Brosnan) | Bedlam | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The inhabitants of a smart apartment block in a quiet London suburb begin to experience powerful erotic dreams, so vivid that they seem real... a local institution for neurological research... testing a revolutionary drug for treating personality disorders... reality and illusion blur and the quiet streets become a hallucinatory malestrom of horror... " |
| Stephen D. Korshak | A Hannes Bok Showcase (Editor) | Miller 1995 First Edition First Printing | Lower corners slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a light crease running the length of the front flap | £10.00 | "... with over eight full color pages and over eighty of Bok's distinctive black and white illustrations. Illustrating WEIRD TALES and the science fiction pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, Bok's work reflects a childlike delight in a new world of wonders... " |
| Nancy Kress | The Aliens Of Earth | Arkham House 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly dusty (white) Dust Jacket with a short (2.5 mm) tear at the lower edge of the front flap. | £10.00 | The Price of Oranges; Glass; People Like Us; Cannibals; To Scale; Touchdown; Down Behind Cuba Lake; In a World Like This; Philippa’s Hands; Inertia; Phone Repairs; The Battle of Long Island; Renaissance; Spillage; The Mountain to Mohammed; Craps; And Wild for to Hold; In Memoriam |
| M. D. Lachlan | Fenrir | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Book | £4.00 | "The Vikings are laying siege to Paris... The Vikings want the Count's sister. In return they will spare the rest of the city... The Count and the church are relying on the living saint... Jehan, to enlist the aid of God... But the Vikings have their own gods... a terrifying brother and sister, priests of Odin, have their own agenda... of darkness and madness... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Fairy Godmother | Luna 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "In then land of the Five hundred Kingdoms, if you can't carry out your legendary role, life is no fairy tale... Elena Klovis was supposed to be her kingdom's Cinderella - until an accident of fate left her with a completely inappropriate prince!... Elena set out to get a new job... " |
| Mark Lawrence | Prince of Thorns Book One of The Broken Empire | HarperVoyager 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | "... From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws... The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him... " |
| Stephen Laws | Gideon | New English Library 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the name inspires obsession in three women... Passion soon becomes degradation - then terror - as with each encounter they realise that Gideon is literally loving them to death... " |
| Stephen Laws | The Wyrm | Souvenir Press 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A dark and terrible evil slumbers... Slowly it is awakening and in its mind burns revenge against mankind... he probes the fragile core of our emotional armour, bringing us face to face with our deepest fears." |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Always Coming Home | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket creased and crumpled at the top of the spine panel and along the top edges. | £4.00 | "The Valley, home of the people who call themselves the Klesh, exists somewhere in the far future... a brilliant and complex inter-weaving of stories, histories, strange and familiar customs, art, architecture, technology, poetry, drama and music... perhaps the most remarkable work yet... " |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Gifts | Orion 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and small smudged/roughened area at top corner of front free end paper else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Orrec is the son of... Caspromanti; Gry the daughter of... Barre and Rodd... The Barre gift is calling animals... The Rodds can send a spellknife... The Caspro... gift of undoing... an animal, a place... Orrec... has a problem, for his gift of undoing is wild; he cannot control it... " |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Powers | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Young Gavir sometimes sees into the future. He can neither explain nor control this power, and his beloved older sister wisely advises him to keep it secret.. It doesn't really get in the way of his comfortable life as a house slave for a great family. Then tragedy strikes... " Third in the trilogy. |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand | HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In her first completely mainstream book of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin... demonstrates why she is a major American novelist in any category." |
| Sharon Lee | Pilots Choice (With Steve Miller - Local Custom+Scout's Progress | Meisha Merlin 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower spine corners a little bumped and rubbed - Near Fine book | £5.00 | Introductions by Anne McCaffrey & Susan Krinard, two Liaden novels, Liaden/Trerran dictionary, Afterword, About the Authors, About the Artist |
| Tanith Lee | Heart-Beast | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background slightly faded. Signed by the Author on the Title Page & with Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £7.50 | "Where the moon washed the deck, something sat, its huge head raised, more like the visage of a bear than a wolf, yet long-snouted, the jaws open. Cold eyes that had no soul in them mirrored the moon... " |
| Herb Lehrman | Strange Fantasy No. 8 Spring | Ultimate Publishing 1969 | Very Good Copy | £4.00 | Continuation of Science Fiction (Adventure) Classics - First Issue under this title: Some Fabulous Yonder by Philip José Farmer; Dr. Adams’ Garden of Evil by Fritz Leiber; Nine Starships Waiting by Roger Zelazny; Suicide World by Harlan Ellison |
| Fritz Leiber | The Big Time (1958 Hugo Award Winner) | Severn House 1976 First Edition in Hardback in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a fain cup ring on the front panel. | £10.00 | "The secret of time travel is the exclusive property of two huge, shadowy corporations who send their agents into the past to change crucial events in history and thus remodel the world in their own image." |
| Holly Lisle | Vengeance Of Dragons | Gollancz 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The second volume of The Secret Texts, a fantastic epic adventure of ancient curses, dark curses, and soul-devouring magic." Preceded by Diplomacy Of Wolves |
| Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons) | The Mailman | Headline 1994 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | £15.00 | "... With the whole summer off and time to kill, high-school teacher Doug Albin... watches in alarm as the entire social fabric of the town begins to unravel, bit by bit... he becomes aware of the cold menace behind the... plastic smile of the new mailman... " |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Beyond The Wall Of Sleep | Arkham House 1943 First Edition (Twelve Hundred Copies Printed) | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, corners slightly/bumped, lettering at the top of the spine worn and page edges and end-papers age-darkened - Good to Very Good book in torn, creased, browned, lightly chipped and slightly worn and marked Good Dust Jacket, with the front flap detached. Cover Illustration of Clark Ashton Smith sculptures | £300.00 | Introduction, Autobiography, The Commonplace Book, History and Chronology of the Necronomicon; 4 Prose Poems; 14 Stories; 9 Collaborations and/or Revisions; 2 Pieces; Selected Poems: Early Poetry, The Early Track, Psychopompos, Fungi From Yuggoth, Last Poems, Glossary & Appreciation. 458 pages. Scarce. |
| James Lovegrove (Also as Jay Amory and J. M. H. Lovegrove) | The Foreigners | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and small spot on top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the Foreigners were everywhere... They brought... the technological marvel of Crystech... They banished all our worries and heralded a new utopia... they asked... that we sing to them... And now... one of the Foreigners has been found dead... " |
| James Lovegrove (Also as Jay Amory and J. M. H. Lovegrove) | The Hope | Macmillan 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges browning and gift bear stamp and name on prelim page else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Hope was five miles long and two miles wide and one mile high. She had a displacement of one thousand million tons. She cost the equivalent of the gross national product of a small nation. She would carry nearly one million passengers. people said it was folly, and said it was madness but wasn't it wonderful... the crowning achievement of the industrial era... " |
| David Mace | Shadow Hunters | New English Library 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "Glasnost means nothing to Colonel Oliver Lutwidge of the US Air Force. In command of a secret unit stationed in England, he believes the Soviets have an aircraft invisible to radar... A psychodrama seething with tension, betrayal and sexual politics, and featuring some of the most excitingly depicted aerial sequences ever written... " |
| Ian R. Macleod | The Light Ages | Earthlight 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Spine creased, covers slightly creased, corners slightly rubbed and page edges lightly marked - Good to Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | £4.00 | "... Through the power of aether, and through the secrets and mysteries of the guilds that wield it, England has created a mighty Industrial Age... " |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light Book Three Engine City | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | The last book in the Engines of Light trilogy. |
| Ken Macleod | Newton's Wake A Space Opera | Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away. Now the rest are about to find out where they went... Centuries ago, space settlers and soldiers fled to the stars from the sentient AI machines... They colonised Eurydice... the Eurydiceans discover that they weren't the last survivors of humanity after all... " |
| Ian Alexander Martin | The Second Humdrumming Book Of Horror Stories (Editor) | Humdrumming 2008 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by some of the Authors - Issued Without Dust Jacket (Unnumbered - One of 100 Hardback Copies) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in pictorial boards, as issued. Signed by the Editor and Seven Contributors on the appropriate prelim page | £15.00 | Original anthology of 15 stories by Conrad Williams; Gary McMahon (S); Simon Strantzas; Tim Lebbon; Guy Adams; Rhys Hughes (S); Christopher Fowler; Gary Fry (S); Mark Morris; Carol Weekes (S); Michael Kelly (S); Davin Ireland; John Travis; Sarah Pinborough and James Cooper (S) & Andrew Jury ()S) |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Night Warriors | Severn House 1987 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Henry was the first to reach the body, while Gil and Susan walked cautiously closer... It was the body of a beautiful, naked young girl... But in the bloody yawning hole of the dead girl's womb, something crawled and writhed... The only hope is to destroy the original seed and together, Henry Gil and Susan become NIGHT WARRIORS... " |
| Richard Matheson (Also as Logan Swanson) | Shadow on the Sun | Evans 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... These two bodies could plunge everyone in Picture City into bloody nightmare again. No human could possibly have done that to the Corcoran brothers. It just wasn't possible." Matheson's fourth Western and the only one with a fantastical element |
| John R. Maxim | Time Out Of Mind | Century 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, faint crayoned 'A' on rear fixed end paper and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "All his life, Jonathan Corbin was vaguely troubled by the notion that he had memories that were not his own. Then he moved to New York and found to his horror that snow triggered memories of a past steeped in tragedy and murder. Corbin saw cars fade and be replaced with horse-drawn carriages. He would see men and women wearing clothes from a time long dead. And they would see him... " |
| William Mayne | Summer Visitors | Oxford University Press 1961 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, school prize plate on front free end paper, previous owners' names on prelim page and page edges lightly age-darkened and marked else Fine book in slightly creased and wrinkled, price-clipped Dust Jacket, with two adhesive residue lines running parallel to the upper and lower Dust Jacket edges | £5.00 | "It was another world and he didn't like it... Michael Taylor had looked forward for months to the summer camp in Yorkshire but now that he was there with the other boys of his form, he longed to be home again... Then he was given the job of collecting the milk... and found new friends... unexpected activities... and even a mystery to solve... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | Crystal Line | Bantam 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Killashandra was the most experienced, the most gifted Crystal Singer on Ballybran. With her partner, Lars Dahl, she held the record for cutting the terrible, fascinating and infinitely rare black crystals... a new, beautiful, unfathomable manifestation was discovered... Only the Crystal Singers... were thought to stand a chance of survival... " |
| Tom McCarthy | C | Cape 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in printed acetate Dust Jacket with a small chip missing and a crack near the top of the spine and the price removed Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who... surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him... a compelling, sophisticated and sublimely imaginative book uncovering the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life." |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "Six children... drawn to Coldharbour... Emily and Freda, the twins... Thomas... the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... the luminous Milo, whose eyes see everything and whose skin is hot and bright with silver. Each of them has a unique gift, but they must learn to use their skills fast... " |
| Karen Michalson | Enemy Glory | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and against the side of the spine panel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... a dark, atmospheric fantasy world where the realm of the supernatural lies in the north while warring kingdoms and a complex religion devoted to gods and goddesses of good and evil dominate the south. Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child.. solaced by an ailing local hedge witch, who lies to him... " |
| Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and light pressure mark on cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £4.00 | ""Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities." |
| Laura J. Mixon | Proxies | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked and slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... In the parched twenty-first century Southwest, Carli D'Auber has made the most important discovery of the century... It is now possible to send your consciousness across hundreds of thousands of miles, to be present in another country or on another world, through a remote device... " |
| David Moody | Autumn The City | Gollancz 2011 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in a slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a spot of wear at the base of the front fold. | £7.50 | "A virulent disease has ripped across the face of the planet, killing billions of people in under twenty-four hours... A small group of survivors have been cowering in fear in the desolate remains of a silent city,,, when a company of soldiers appears... " Sequel to Autumn. |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | The New Nature Of The Catastrophe (With Langdon Jones, Editors) | Millennium 1993 First Edition Thus First Printing The Tale of the Eternal Champion Volume 9 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, short 'nick' to top of one page top edge and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased and worn, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Mal Dean & R. Glyn Jones. | £15.00 | Introductions by Mike Moorcock & James Colvin, and pieces by M. M., M. John Harrison; Brian W. Aldiss; Norman Spinrad; Maxim Jakubowski; James Sallis; Langdon Jones; Alex Krislow; Giles Gordon; John Clute; Charles Partington; Hilary Bailey; Simon Ings & John Davey |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | The New Nature Of The Catastrophe (With Langdon Jones, Editors) | Millennium 1993 First Edition Thus First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) The Tale of the Eternal Champion Volume 9 | Light spine crease, page edges lightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Book Illustrated by Mal Dean & R. Glyn Jones. | £7.50 | Introductions by Mike Moorcock & James Colvin, and pieces by M. M., M. John Harrison; Brian W. Aldiss; Norman Spinrad; Maxim Jakubowski; James Sallis; Langdon Jones; Alex Krislow; Giles Gordon; John Clute; Charles Partington; Hilary Bailey; Simon Ings & John Davey |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | The War Amongst The Angels | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in price-clipped Dust Jacket with a couple of 7mm tears at the top edge of the front flap and associated creasing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | "Rose von Bek travels many of London's byways glimpsing many lives and many worlds. At times she meets with knights of the road Dick Turpin and Colonel Jack, a man better known to his mukhamirim fellows as plain Sam Oakhurst... But London is one of many such scales of existence... " |
| Richard Morgan | The Cold Commands | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | £10.00 | "Ringil Eskiath, scarred wielder of the kiriath-forged broadsword Ravensdfriend is on the run... Outlawed and exiled from his ancestral home... Ringil has only one place left to turn... Old enemies are stirring, the old order is rotted through and crumbling, and... the city of Yhelteth is bout to explode... " Follows The Steel Remains |
| Richard Morgan | The Steel Remains | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds | £7.50 | "Ringil Eskiath, hero to anyone who doesn't know him, and a corrupt degenerate to anyone who does, wielder of the kiriath blade Ravensfriend... lives in exile nursing his rage. But now a family member has come calling with an offer he can't refuse... " |
| A. Reynolds Morse | The Works of M. P. Shiel "The Shielography Updated" Volume II Part 1 & Volume III Part 2 | Reynolds Morse 1980 First Edition Thus Limited State Signed by the Author First Printing (2 Volumes - No. 13/900) | Hardbound, spring-loaded binders - withdrawn from the Science Fiction Foundation Library with appropriate stamps, stickers and annotations - Good Volumes | £20.00 | Confusingly titled but the full update Including Check List of Novels & Short Stories; Collations; Short Stories; Miscellaneous Works; Manuscripts; Bibliography; 'About Myself'; Redonda and much, much more |
| Pat Murphy | There And Back Again by Max Merriwell | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Bailey was heading home in his steam-powered rocket when he found a message pod... and notified its owners that he had it. And that was the beginning of the adventure. The next thing he knew, the legendary Gitana, adventurer extraordinaire, was arriving... with a crew of Farrs, members of the oldest and richest clone family in the galaxy... " |
| Gary Myers | The House Of The Worm | Arkham House 1975 First Edition First Printing (Limited to 4000 copies - actually 4144] | Bruised at base of spine and top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the fold tips. Illustrations by Allan Servoss | £10.00 | Introduction by the Author; The House Of The Worm; Yohk the Necromancer; Xiurhn; Passing of a Dreamer; The Return of Zhosph; The Three Enchantments; Hazuth-Kleg; The Loot of Golgoth; The Four Sealed Jars and The Maker of Gods |
| Adam Nevill | The Ritual | Pan 2011 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "... When four old university friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness... finding they have little left in common... tensions soon rise... Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched by millennia, things couldn't possibly get any worse... Then... the bestial presence that follows their every step... " |
| Kim Newman | Bad Dreams | Simon & Schuster 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small bump to the rear panel and a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | £4.00 | "...Anne meets the Monster, an immortal life-taker who lives at the centre of his own twisted and ever-changing dream... sucked through a corpse-haunted wardrobe into a nightmare that fuses the worst of London's nightlife, the Monsters immortal memories..." |
| Larry Niven | Ringworld's Children | Orbit 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Diust Jacket | £4.00 | "... The Ringworld is dying. And this time even Louis Wu - captive of the hyperintelligent alien Tunesmith - may be unable to save it... The victorious race that conquers the Ringworld will conquer the galaxy... and no one will be able to stop them. But Louis Wu is going to try." |
| Larry Niven | The Gripping Hand (With Jerry Pournelle a.k.a. The Moat Around Murchison's Eye ) | Pocket 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, binding slightly strained and page edges a little marked - Very Good book in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... twenty-five years have passed since the second Empire of man quarantines the mysterious aliens known only as Moties... Humanity's finest minds... analysing and agonising over the deadly threat... For the Moties must breed - or die. And the single wall standing between them and the galaxy beyond is starting to crumble... " |
| Garth Nix | The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel+Lirael+Abhorsen | Collins 2002-3 All are First Edition in the UK First Printing (Three Volumes) | Very Good to Near Fine Books | £20.00 | "Sabriel is the daughter of the Mage Abhorsen. Ever since she was a tiny child, she has lived outside the Wall of the Old Kingdom - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father is missing... Sabriel embarks on a quest fraught with supernatural dangers... " |
| Clarence Padget | The 26th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1985 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little wear at the spine corners and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £20.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Clarence Padget | The 27th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1986 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at the top and base of the spine, light crease at top rear cover corner and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Book | £20.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Clarence Padget | The 28th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1987 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little wear at the top and base of the spine and edges and page edges lightly browned - Very Good Book | £15.00 | The anti-penultimate book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Clarence Padget | The 29th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1988 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little wear at the spine corners and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £20.00 | The penultimate book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Clarence Padget | The 30th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1989 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little wear at the spine corners and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £20.00 | The last book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Mary E. Patchett | Flight To The Misty Planet (Lost on Venus) | Bobbs-Merrill (1956) First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and corners, boards lightly faded and page edges lightly browned, and with a gift inscription on the front free end paper from Mary (?the Author?) - Very Good Book in slightly browned and worn Dust Jacket with small chips at top and base of the front fold. | £20.00 | "At an orbital station 23,000 miles above Earth the mighty spaceship Shenandoah has taken aboard her compliment of midshipmen... the training ship for young astronauts of the Earth-organised Space Patrol... In this year of 1999... the Shenandoah has set her course for Venus... " |
| Sarah Pinborough | The Dog-Faced Gods Book One A Matter of Blood | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £5.00 | "The recession that grips the world has left it exhausted. Crime is rising in every major city. Financial institutions across the world have collapsed, and most governments are now in debt to The Bank, a company created by the world's wealthiest men. But Detective Inspector Cass Jones has enough on his plate without worrying about the world at large... " |
| Frederik Pohl | International Science Fiction Vol. 1 No. 1 & Vol. 1 No. 2 (Complete Run) (Editor) | Galaxy Publishing 1967-8 | V. 1 # 1 VG+ V.1 #2 VG- | £8.00 | For the 2 issues. Stories from U.S.S.R.; Germany; France; Australia; Italy; England; Netherlands; Poland; India; Esperanto (?); Austria & Chile |
| Viido Polikarpus | Down Town A Fantasy (With Tappan King) | Macdonald 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There is an enchanted place beneath the streets of the City where the past can still be found... the tale of a fantastic odyssey to defend this forgotten world from an ancient evil... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Carpe Jugulum | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, lower front and upper rear corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly rubbed and browned else Fine book in like, price clipped, Dust Jacket with a small scrape near the top edge of the rear panel | £7.50 | "Mighty Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest... he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches... And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Truth | Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Wintersmith A Story of Discworld | Doubleday 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool!... " |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock) | The Separation (2003 Arthur Clarke Winner) | Scribners 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front corner tip slightly rubbed else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £30.00 | "... Jack and Joe Sawyer rowed for Great Britain in the 1936 Berlin Olympics... Jack joins the RAF. His war is savage, spreading firestorms across Germany... Joe... declares himself a pacifist... As their stories play out, possibilities, parallels and confusion surround them... each... an ordinary man party to momentous events." Withdrawn by the Publisher - very scarce. |
| Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)+The Subtle Knife+The Amber Spyglass) | Ted Smart (2001) First Printing | Smallish triangular paper chip (5mm-a-side) missing from one top page edge else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £25.00 | "Lyra and her daemon... The first four words of this extraordinary book tell us we are in a story like no other... " His Dark Materials Trilogy - one of the most significant Young Adult series to be published... |
| Philip Pullman | Lyra's Oxford | David Fickling 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book Engravings by John Lawrence | £5.00 | "A beguiling new episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and other matter never before seen in this world." |
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