| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes Lackey | The Wizard of Karres (With Eric Flint & Dave Freer) | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles kept piling up... someone had convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal... his bank account had been cut off... only one thing to do - run away and join the circus!... " |
| David Langford (Also as William Robert Loosely) | The Leaky Establishment | Muller 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top corners bumped and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket with a small stain at the lower edge of the rear panel | £7.50 | "Imagine Tom Sharpe with nuclear weaponry instead of the vibrators and inflatable sex-dolls... " |
| Joe R. Lansdale (Also as M. Dean Bayer; Jack Buchanan; Mark Simmons & Ray Slater) | By Bizarre Hands | Ziesing 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Introduction by Lou Shiner and 16 stories: Fish Night; The Pit; Duck Hunt; By Bizarre Hands; The Steel Valentine; I Tell You It's Love; Letter From The South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches; Boys Will Be Boys; The Fat Man and the Elephant; Hell Through a Windshield and six others |
| Joe R. Lansdale | Dead In The West | Kinnell 1990 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £12.50 | "DEATH was coming. Coming to pay a visit on the citizens of Mud Creek, in the shape of a pestilence that caused the dead to walk, a death that turned its victims into rabid zombies... " |
| Joe R. Lansdale | The Boar | Subterranean Press 1998 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 293/776) | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £12.50 | "... it was not my intent to try and write a great novel of The Depression... I essentially wanted to write a small book that took place during this time, in the East Texas river bottoms, and had a simple plot with a simple resolution... " |
| Joe R. Lansdale | The Two-Bear Mambo | Gollancz 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Some edges and corners slightly rubbed - Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | "... Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and straight, black and gay. Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished... while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son... a redneck police chief, a sadistic Christmas tree grower, and townsfolk itchin' for a lynchin'... " |
| Keith Laumer | Assignment In Nowhere | Dobson 1972 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, overstickered, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "This is the third of the projected series of five novels. Already published are Worlds of the Imperium and The Other Side of Time..." Clute - "The most interesting of KL's series is the Imperium sequence...a complex nest of PARALLEL WORLDS universes... strives to maintain the stability of its chosen time-stream... " |
| Keith Laumer | Worlds Of The Imperium | Dobson 1967 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed, end papers and fore-edges slightly foxed and black felt pen line across lower page edges else Fine copy in price-clipped, slightly browned and worn, Dust Jacket with a small black felt pen spot at lower edge of rear flap | £7.50 | "For Brion Bayard, the discovery of an alternative world to Earth, where history took a different turn in the road was not a pleasant experience. His kidnapping brought him some startling revelations. Here was a world in which appeared identical doubles of famous personages - including a... hated dictator named Brion Bayard... " The author's first book. |
| Margery Lawrence (Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) | Master of Shadows | Hale 1959 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, small area of front board, top edge lightly marked, page edges and end papers a little browned and marked - near Very Good copy in creased, worn and torn Dust Jacket, with a little erosion at top and base of spine, and lower corner of front flap (with price) torn away. | £100.00 | Forword; four Dr Miles Pennoyer psychic detective stories - Saloozy, Circus Child, The Woman on the Stairs & The Twisted Christ - very scarce. "... Miss Lawrence has a remarkable capacity for making the strange and the uncanny appear not only convincing but uncomfortably possible." |
| 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 copy 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 | 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 copy 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... " |
| Tim Lebbon | Face | Night Shade 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £12.50 | "When a family picks up a hitchhiker during the worst blizzard in living memory, they think they are doing him a favour... But he becomes threatening... They force him from a car... Brand - who may or may not be a man - shows the family that.. bad things sometimes happen to good people... " |
| Tim Lebbon | Fallen A Novel of Noreela | Allison & Busby 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and Salvation Army stamp on each front end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... An intrepid Wanderer has returned from a daring expedition to the Great Divide - an enormous sheer cliff soaring miles into the clouds above.. he discovered some parchments, evidence of people... living on or around the towering cliff... two Voyagers... attempt the impossible... into the nightmare world of the unknown... " |
| Stanislaw Lem | Hospital Of The Transfiguration | Harcourt Brace 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, lower corners bumped, previous owner's name on front fixed end paper and felt pen remainder line across lower page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Translated by William Brand | £5.00 | "... first novel, written before he became famous worldwide for his brilliant science fiction... The year is 1939. The Nazi's have just occupied Poland. Stephan... a young doctor alienated from his family and disturbed by the fate of his country, accepts an invitation to join the staff of a provincial insane asylum... " Not S.F. |
| Brian Lumley | The Burrowers Beneath | W Paul Ganley 1988 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Illustrated by Mark Bell | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a short tear at the top edge of the front panel and a touch of edge wear. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £12.50 | "The Great Old Ones existed before the dawn of the human race. They conquered worlds, fought incredible battles, and mastered magic and science. Yet they were evil. And since that time, unable to be killed, they have been imprisoned in special places... " |
| J. P. Martin | Uncle Stories (Uncle+Uncle Cleans Up) | Red Fox 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at base of spine page edges no longer quite parallel and top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy Illustrated by Quentin Blake | £10.00 | "Uncle is an elephant. He's immensely rich, and he's a B.A. He dresses well, generally in a purple dressing-gown, and often rides about on a traction engine, which he prefers to a car... " |
| Richard Matheson (Also as Logan Swanson) | 7 Steps To Midnight | Tor 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket of which lower edge is slightly damp-marked on the inside, with a faint ripple to that edge, | £5.00 | "... When a mysterious impostor steals his identity and his life, mathematician Chris Barton is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of danger and intrigue. Overnight, without warning or explanation, not even his sister recognises him, but people he has never met are trying to kill him... " Non-SF thriller with a surprising explanation... |
| Angus McAllister | The Canongate Strangler | Dog and Bone 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges and corners and one page edge slightly rubbed, and top front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy | £4.00 | "... a psychological thriller with supernatural overtones set in Edinburgh... Edward Middleton, a respectable lawyer, finds himself strangely involved in a series of murders. Horrified, he at first tries to explain, then to prevent their headlong progress... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | Changelings Book One of The Twins of Petaybee (With Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) | Bantam Press 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Yana and Sean are now the parents of twins... their destiny is deeply entwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human... each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet's creatures... Meanwhile Petaybee is changing..." |
| Anne McCaffrey | Moreta - Dragonlady Of Pern | Severn House 1983 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed, Dated and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page and signed again on a prelim page | £20.00 | "... Once more Pern is threatened by Thread Fall... only one defence: the Dragonriders. In the thin reaches of the upper air, it is they, partnering their great winged steeds, who must burn Thread before it devastates... But, still unknown to everyone, a new menace has appeared on Pern, unprecedented, lethal - and threatening to render the land defenceless against Thread Fall... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Rowan | Ace/Putnam 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author | £20.00 | "The colonies on Altair were frontier settlements... It was no surprise after torrential rains... that the small Rowan Mining camp was totally destroyed... What was surprising was the psychic wail of agony that went up... belonged to a three-year-old child... and she grew into a beautiful, magical-looking woman... the most important Talent on the planet... " |
| Suzanne McLeod | The Cold Kiss of Death | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's Press Release | £2.00 | "All Genny wants to do is live a quiet life and to do her job at Spellcrackers.com - but...She's being haunted by ghosts who want her help. Her witch neighbours want her evicted... And then there's the queue of vampires wanting her to paint the town red... But when one of her human friends is murdered by sidhe magic... " |
| Cliff McNish | The Doomspell | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name written on rear free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel very slightly faded | £10.00 | "... Rachael and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch... Rachael discovers that she has extraordinary gifts... transform herself into a feather, or fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch can... for the Witch's victims, Rachael is their only hope... " |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "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... " |
| John Meaney | Paradox | Bantam 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top edge a little rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "Centuries of self-imposed isolation have transformed Nulapeiron into a world unlike any other - a world of vast subterranean cities maintained by extraordinary organic technologies. For the majority of its peoples, however such wonders have little meaning. Denied their democratic rights and restricted to the impoverished lower levels, they are subjected to the brutal law of the Logic Lords and the Oracles... " |
| R. M. Meluch | The Myriad Tour of the Merrimack #1 | DAW 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a fast-paced, action-packed military science fiction series that seriously wreaks havoc with space, time, and our concepts of reality... the forces of Earth and the Palatine have recently united in an uneasy and extremely fragile alliance against the Hive, the alien life-form that is swarming across the galaxy, literally devouring everything it encounters... " |
| R. M. Meluch | Wolf Star Tour of the Merrimack #2 | DAW 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the Merrimack has located a Roman convoy that they believe is key to the success of their mission... this cunning enemy has a secret plan of attack... even as the two sides struggle... an alien life-form is bearing down on them... " |
| Abe Merritt | The Story Behind The Story | Private Press 1942 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and corners, cover lettering dulled, a few page corners creased and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked - Very Good Copy | £7.50 | A condensation of articles written by Abe Merritt explaining why he chose particular articles for inclusion in The American Weekly magazine and their significance to him, as an individual, or as Editor. Scarce. |
| Clifford Lawrence Meth | Strange Kaddish Tales you won't hear from Bubbie (Editor, with Ricia Mainhardt) | Aardwolf 1986 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A couple of tiny 'nicks' at the spine trailing edge, else Fine Copy | £15.00 | Introduction: Strange Bedfellows; Harlan Ellison's Go Toward The Light; Bill Messner-Loebs' Homeland; Clifford Lawrence Meth's I, Gezheh; Shira Daemon's Under Cover of Night; Sid Gevurah's Last of the Mo Greenbaums; Mike Pascal's A L'Chaim with Bru-hed and Neil Gaiman's In The End |
| Stephenie Meyer | Breaking Dawn | Atom 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners bumped else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality... " Fourth and last in the Twilight Saga. |
| China Mieville | Un Lun Dun | MacMillan 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Tip of lower rear corner slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | ''The iron wheel began to spin... The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder... The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are leading ordinary lives until they stumble into UnLondon... " |
| Walter M. Miller | Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman (With Terry Bisson) | Orbit 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly browned, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the midst of a post-nuclear dark age, the Catholic Church, riven by internal strife, is still involved in a bitter power struggle with the temporal leaders of the devastated USA... the Church embarks on the ultimate Crusade... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Haze | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little wear at the base of the folds. With Publisher's News Sheet | £5.00 | "... What lies beneath the millions of orbiting nanotech satellites that shroud the world called Haze? Major Keir Roget's mission... he finds a culture both seemingly familiar but frighteningly alien, with hints of a technology far superior to that of the Federation... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Parafaith War | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with one small tear. | £5.00 | "... The EcoTech Coalition and the expansionist Revenant theocracy are locked in a war against each other to control the planets not already colonised by aliens. Trystin Descoll is a young officer in the EcoTech armed forces. With little more than his determination and wit Trystin must defend his outpost against the invading Revenants as they drop out of the sky in overwhelming numbers... " |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | Eyes Of The Virgin Lamb | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The eyes that gaze out from the piece of stained glass are filled with love and grief and wisdom... the eyes of the Holy Mother... Periodically, those astonishingly beautiful eyes vanish, replaced by coded prophecies, warnings and guidance... but the glass is worthless without the key to the ancient code... " |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | Rough Beasts And Other Mutations | Five Star 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... 20 of his most powerful dark fantasy and horror stories... strange worlds... where religion, mythology, emotion, and terror combine... includes an introduction by John DeChancie... " |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | Blood A Southern Fantasy | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped, small tear at base of spine - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "The luscious and seductive southern states... and the mysterious universe of the Second Ether, where nothing is quite as it seems... Jack and Sam, their lovers Colinda and the Rose, are jugaderos, the very best at their trade, enjoying a special status unthreatened by even the most ferocious and cynical of warlords... " |
| Michael Moorcock | Hawkmoon The Tale of the Eternal Champion Volume 3 (The Jewel in the Skull+The Mad God's Amulet+The Sword of the Dawn+The Runestaff) | Millennium 1992 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, and lower front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "Warriors of ferocious skill, careless of their own lives; corrupt of soul and mad of brain; haters of all that is not in decay; wielders of power without morality, force without justice. The armies of the Dark Empire. The earth had grown old... Relentlessly the armies of the Dark Empire... conquered... ravaged and destroyed... Until Hawkmoon... |
| Michael Moorcock | The Chronicles Of Castle Brass (Count Brass+The Champion of Garathorm+The Quest for Tanelorn) | Granada 1985 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly stained else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with tan spine lettering faded to green. | £7.50 | "Five years after the Battle of Londra and the Destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt... and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda... and their two children. Suddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoon's past... appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to battle once more against the forces of evil... " |
| Michael Moorcock | The Fortress Of The Pearl An Elric Novel | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Lost in the immensities of the Sighing desert, Quarzhasaat is a city of elaborate intrigue... When Elric... arrives there he is weak and close to death, and is easily forced into agreeing to a mysterious quest: to find the pearl at the Heart of the World, which will convey much power on its owner, but which lies concealed in the in the hidden Fortress of the Pearl... " |
| Michael Moorcock | The Vengeance of Rome | Cape 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Pyat's extraordinary luck leaves him... he is swallowed up in Dachau concentration camp, Thirty years later... he is living in Portobello Road and telling his tale to a writer called Moorcock." |
| Christopher Moore | The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove | Spike/Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a touch of wear | £7.50 | "... a love story starring a sea-monster named Steve... September in Pine Cove, California, where the tourists have finally decamped for the season... and the local psychiatrist has just decided to switch everyone from antidepressants to placebos without telling them... " |
| Simon Morden | The Lost Art | David Fickling 2007 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly bumped/rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... This is a tale of the future in which the world has quite literally been turned upside down. all the knowledge of mankind has been lost - except for six incredibly precious books. And those books have just fallen into some very nefarious hands... " |
| Jim Morris | The Sheriff Of Purgatory | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J43 on P. 217) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned/foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly browned. | £5.00 | "... anarchy reigns throughout the United States. Except in Purgatory County, Arkansas, a peaceful haven presided over by Sheriff Frank Spurlock. But soon Spurlock's authority is challenged by the only organised power group to survive the holocaust... " |
| Mark Morris | Stitch | Piatkus 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Autumn term at Maybury university and as the nights draw in so does an atmosphere of menace. Dan Latcher, a previously quiet and withdrawn student, blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-working leader of a charismatic student movement, The Crack - an organisation with the power to shape and alter its followers' personalities, pushing them on to mindless heights of pleasure and pain... " |
| Mark Morris | Toady | Piatkus 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead... A fantasy world, of course for Richard, Robin and Nigel, the club's members, are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre... And then they admit a fourth member to their club - Toady... " |
| Peter Morwood | The Warlord's Domain | Legend 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like, slightly creased and rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Betrayed by his own king... Aldric... sets a course for the city of Drakkesborg. Within its walls lies the heart of the Warlord's domain, and the talisman which will enable a wizard to go home after centuries of exile. The wizard is Gemmel, foster-father to Aldric, but the Warlord's identity is a secret learned too late... the most deadly foe Aldric will ever face... " Fourth in the Alban saga. |
| Mr E. (Also as Leo Bulero) | Other Times Vol. 1 No. 1 (Editor, with Paul Brown & Andrew Brown) | P.P. Layouts 1975 | Covers slightly rubbed and creased, top corner slightly bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £4.00 | Fiction by Barry Malzberg - Going Down, Gustav Hasford - The Disneyland Man, & John Sladek - Another Look, a section of b/w drawings by Mal Dean with an appreciation by Judith Clute. Graphic Story by Chris Welch Poetry by Blaise Cendrars, Brief interview with Ken Campbell, Melies' Films by Paul Hammond and more |
| H. Warner Munn | The Banner of Joan | Grant 1975 First Edition First Printing Limited to 925 copies. | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...a series of poems with prose interjections making up the epic adventure of Joan of Arc." Issued at the First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, Rhode Island. |
| Edith Nesbit | The House of Arden | New York Review Children's Collection 2006 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, the lower edge of the front board and the lower front corner else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations... Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that the missing fortune will be his if... he can find it before he turns ten... the help of a magical talking creature, the temperamental Mouldiwarp, who leads them through a treasure hunt through the ages... " |
| Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Walker 2008 First Edition First Printing (Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Winner 2008) | Bruised, and with a hint of wear, at top and base of spine else Fine copy in printed acetate film Dust Jacket with a few creases near the top of the spine | £10.00 | "Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming never-ending Noise... no privacy... no secrets. Or are there? One month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible... " |
| Peter Nicholls | The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction (1980 Hugo Award Winner) (With John Clute, Malcolm Edwards & Brian Stableford) | Granada 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and blue stain on top page edges slightly faded else Fine copy in slightly torn, creased and worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | ... more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to do in Zero Gravity... although it is shorter and has many omissions... it scores over the newer, more pedestrian work in two important respects - firstly it contains many illustrations, and secondly it doesn't have the words 'Don't Panic' in large friendly letters on the cover... |
| Larry Niven | Ringworld's Children | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... 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." |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Iron Cage | Kestrel 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket, worn at the top of the front and rear folds. | £7.50 | "Thousands of years in the future, the young boy Jony and his mother, Rutee, are being held in cages as experimental animals of an alien race. As the alien ship prepares to leave this particular planet, Rutee is discarded and Jony manages to escape... " |
| Peter O'Donnell | Cobra Trap | Souvenir Press 2006 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine copy. | £5.00 | "... The first story... sees her in her Network days, set on dealing with a piece of unfinished business... 'The Dark Angels' finds her retired from the Network and allowing herself to be manipulated... by her good friend Sir Gerald Tarrant... in 'Old Alex' she is trapped by an unknown enemy... In... 'Cobra Trap', the dauntless pair face the most testing assignment of their lives... " According to the Author the last, ever, Modesty Blaise. |
| Fred Patten | An Anthropomorphic Bibliography | Yarf! 1996 Second Edition First Edition Thus (Paper) | Front cover a little marked else Fine Copy With Publisher's advertising sheet | £7.50 | "... an annotated listing of more than 375 books about 'humanized animals' or 'animalised humans'; science-fiction or literary fantasies in which animals with human-level intelligence play a major role... illustrated by many of fandom's best artists... " Completely revised from the First Edition and expanded from 34 to 59 A4 pages |
| Matthew Pearl | The Poe Shadow | Harvill Secker 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave.... Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer... discovers that Poe's last days are riddled with vital unanswered questions... Quentin seeks out the one person who can solve this strange case: the real-life model for Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin... " |
| Ludek Pesek | Trap For Perseus | Kestrel 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges slightly browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tiny wear spot at the top of the spine | £2.50 | "In the year 2275 Commander Steve Blair of the spacecraft Perseus III discovers from the Argo, a spaceship which slipped mysteriously from radio contact with Earth 200 years ago did not perish... the spaceship's 120,000 crew members have adapted to life in deep space... their old ideas of happiness and morality have also developed... " |
| Alexander M. Phillips | The Mislaid Charm | Prime Press 1947 First Edition First Printing Issue (A) with Yellow D. J. | Bumped and slightly worn at top and base of spine and lower corners, a tape 'ghost' on each fixed end paper and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in torn, chipped, marked, age-darkened Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Herschel Levit | £5.00 | "Henry A. Pickett is a 'little' man... her runs headlong into... a magnificent and commanding female... five feet eleven inches... one hundred and fifty pounds... a tribe of violently opinionated gnomes... unwitting repository of their tribal charm... intoxicating liquors... " First published in Unknown (February, 1941). |
| Ricardo Pinto | The Chosen Book One of the Stone Dance of the Chameleon Trilogy | Bantam 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, a few page corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (3 mm) tear at the top edge of the front fold. | £7.50 | "... the Commonwealth of the Three Lands... its heart, Osrakum... Here the society of the Masters... men who rule with savage cruelty... Soon after Carnelian is born, his father is exiled... Years later... Three Masters... beg Carnelian's father to return... to oversee the election of a new God Emperor... and sets in motion the concluding events in a story four thousand years old... " |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Beyond The Blue Event Horizon | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a short (6mm) tear at the top of the front panel, a crease running the length of the spine panel and the blue spine lettering slightly faded. | £7.50 | "... the sequel to the award-winning Gateway... the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed... a novel that convincingly portrays the power of human curiosity and the strengths and failings of human emotions... a breathtaking vista of the alien... " |
| Frederik Pohl | Narabedla Ltd | Gollancz 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges slightly bumped else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a pin-point scratch on the spine panel and the yellow of that panel slightly faded (as usual). | £7.50 | "... an immensely rich foundation supporting both scientific research and cultural events... two performers signing contracts with them and then vanish... on the second moon of the seventh planet of the star Aldebaran... to the advanced civilisations of the galaxy... primitive culture is in vogue... |
| Frederik Pohl | Pohlstars | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Introduction; The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles; The High Test; Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair; Second Coming; Enjoy, Enjoy; Growing Up in Edge City; We Purchased People; Rem the Rememberer; The Mother Trip; A Day in the Life of Able Charlie and The Way It Was |
| Terry Pratchett | Carpe Jugulum | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "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 | Feet Of Clay | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Who's murdering harmless old men? Who's poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen. Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay... have started to commit suicide... In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes finds that the truth might not be out there at all... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Men At Arms | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of page edges not quite parallel else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £10.00 | " 'Be a Man in the City Watch! The City Watch needs Men!' ... And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Terry Pratchett's Discworld Wyrd Sisters The Illustrated Screenplay | Corgi 1998 First Edition First Printing Thus (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed, rear cover slightly creased and lower rear corner creased - Very Good to Near Fine Copy. | £5.00 | "... Three witches on a stormy heath, a king cruelly murdered, a usurper on the throne, rivers of blood... sound familiar?... a young prince adrift from his rightful inheritance, a travelling band of thespians... the essence of Shakespeare without having to read thirty-seven plays... " |
| Susan Price | A Sterkarm Kiss | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one page corner creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "FUP is one of the most advanced research companies in the world, and the jewel in its crown is operational again. The Time Tube: a direct link to five centuries past. But this time they know the risks... Now the 21st century men... are out to get what they can by guile. They're to be seen as peacemakers, universally loved, and above suspicion... " |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock) | The Dream Archipelago | Earthlight 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "... In this interlinked collection of stories, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality... The tale becomes a tapestry in a manner reminiscent of... Pavane, weaving reality together in ways which are never obvious... " |
| David Pringle | Interzone Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring (Editor, with many others) | Interzone 1982 | Lower front corners slightly bumped, light cover creasing - Near Fine Copy | £20.00 | Fiction by M. John Harrison - The New Rays; Keith Roberts - Kitemaster; Angela Carter - The Cabinet of Edgar Allen Poe; John Sladek - Guesting; Michael Moorcock - The Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Reviews |
| Philip Pullman | The Tiger in the Well | Viking 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing (First State - Withdrawn by Publisher - missing last page of text!) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £120.00 | "Sally Lockhart had been thinking how good life was when the summons was served... sued for divorce by an unknown man... forging marriage and birth certificates. At stake: all Sally's possessions and custody of her beloved Harriet... " The most thought-provoking of the Sally Lockhart mysteries. |
| Richard L. Purtill | Murdercon | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M17 on P. 180) | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned/marked and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (5mm) tear at the base of the rear panel | £7.50 | "For some science fiction is a game, for others it becomes an obsession, but when 'death rays' kill, it becomes deadly. And fascinating... The plot unfolds through the eyes of Athena Pierce, a relatively sane philosophy professor thrown in with a bunch of science fiction fans, who finds herself caught up in thus mystery about a legendary writer... " |
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