| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Rampling (Anne Rice) | Belinda | Macdonald 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... the sensuous story of a postmodern nymphet and her provocative relationship with her considerably older lover... " |
| Robert Rankin | Nostradamus Ate My Hamster | Doubleday 1996 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned and a little marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a couple of short (ca 2 mm) tears | £10.00 | "They're making a movie in Brentford. It's unlike any movie that's ever been made before. All the Hollywood Greats are in it. All the dead ones anyway. They've got this Cyberstar equipment, you see. A computer system that can generate life-sized moving holograms of famous film stars. the big question is, where did they get it from? Or should the question be WHEN?... " |
| Jacqueline Rayner | Doctor Who Short Trips: Farewells (Editor) | Big Finish 2006 First Edition First Printing | A couple of page corners slightly bumped else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "... Sometimes it's easy to say goodbye - to a friend, to a way of life, to a lover. Sometimes it's heartbreaking... 14 stories of goodbyes... the Fourth Doctor contemplates his mortality after a funeral; a young man goes to murderous lengths to stop Jo Grant from leaving him; the First Doctor considers his flight from Gallifrey... " |
| Philip Reeve | Here Lies Arthur | Scholastic 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Gwyna's new master Myrddin says he's not an enchanter, yet he works his own kind of magic. He turns Gwyna from a slave-girl into a goddess, a boy, and a spy - and Arthur into a legend... " |
| Philip Reeve | The Hungry City Chronicles (Mortal Engines+Infernal Devices+Predator's Gold+A Darkling Plain) | Scholastic 2001-6 All Are First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines, some page edges a little rubbed and/or browned and Predator's Gold with two page fore-edges with a small (3mm) tear else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £60.00 | "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea... London is on the move again. The city has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground... A young assassin is hunting her own prey through the city... " |
| Judith Reeves-Stevens | Icefire (With Garfield Reeves-Stevens) | Pocket 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Antarctica. the Ross Ice Shelf... the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick... six precisely placed nuclear warheads... detonate in sequence... then a seventh warhead explodes... generating an electromagnetic pulse... an initial wall of water 1,400 feet high... " |
| Mack Reynolds | Mission To Horatius | Pocket Books 1999 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, one top page edge slightly creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued - with slightly rubbed, special promotional wraparound band | £5.00 | "... Of the strange things man finds in space, however, one of the strangest is man himself when he must adapt to new environments. Whole sets of new problems arose. Among these was the need for man to discipline himself in the protection of other life forms, and other cultures, other civilisations foreign to his way of life on Earth... " |
| Justin Richards | The Invisible Detective The Paranormal Puppet Show | Pocket Books 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "... When fourteen-year-old Arthur Drake shelters from the rain in a dusty shop, the last thing he expects to find is the antique casebook of The Invisible Detective. It may have been written in the 1930's but it's in his handwriting... " The first incredible adventure... |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | Crybbe | Macmillan 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "... a sombre little town in the haunted hills of the Welsh Border Country. Sunless, secretive and going quietly to seed in the shadows of its gruesome past... until Max Goff, music tycoon... and his modern mystics believe that they can tap into Crybbe's hidden powers... the power it releases in ever darkening shades of evil... " |
| John Ringo | Emerald Sea | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk... convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition... against the fascist dictators of New Destiny... " Sequel to There Will Be Dragons |
| John Ringo | Hell's Faire | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Free CD | £5.00 | "With the defences of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior... are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry... " Fourth in the Posleen Saga |
| John Ringo | Princess of Wands | Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Barbara Everette... had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house... the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have 'one weekend off'... Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockheart... had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect... the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances." |
| John Ringo | When The Devil Dances | Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold | £5.00 | "After five years of battling the Posleen invaders, human civilisation is down to this... " Third in the Posleen Saga |
| Keith Roberts | Grainne (BSFA Award Winner 1988) | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £35.00 | Spiral bound photocopy of manuscript. Only 6 copies were produced (I think). |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti & Company | Kerosina 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by Four of the Kerosina Collective | £7.50 | "... Kaeti and her companions inhabit a strange world; a 'theatre of the mind' where the unexpected is commonplace, where ghosts, vampires and even the odd goddess may be encountered... " Ten Stories. |
| Keith Roberts | The Natural History Of The P. H. | Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 81/500) | A couple of light cover creases else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the prelim page | £10.00 | 16 page, centre stapled 13.5 x 21cm booklet about Keith Roberts' and Rob Holdstock's concept of the Primitive Heroine |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | The Gates Of Noon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Shadows from the past, from the present - and from somewhere that is neither, where myths and archetypes stalk the world. Entangled by old loves and ancient hatreds, with witches and warlocks to help him and the original Bogyman on his trail, Steve must fight to reconcile past and present... " |
| Bill Rotsler | The Hidden Worlds Of Zandra | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N23 on P. 180) | Bruised at top and base of the spine, page edges slightly browned/foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in like, slightly worn. Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Having passed through a time and space warp... fellow passengers on a jetliner... find themselves on Zandra. Peopled by a variety of races, some humanoid and others reptilian... With Princess Falana... the Earth people... become the targets of both a court conspiracy to usurp the Emperor's power and... rebellious subjects... " |
| Franz Rottensteiner | The Science Fiction Book An Illustrated History | Thames & Hudson 1975 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Near Fine copy | £7.50 | "... a survey of the pictorial aspects of science fiction as well as a comprehensive history of its literature... he also covers fully the whole range of magazine sf... comic strips... television series, etc... this book covers not merely the Anglo-Saxon achievement, but treats science fiction as an international phenomenon... " |
| Nicholas Royle | Darklands 2 (Editor) | Egerton Press 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and a few page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine copy | £4.00 | Introduction by the Editor and 23 original stories by Joel Lane; John Burke; Graham Joyce; Simon Clark; Garry Kilworth; Mike O'Driscoll; Kim Newman; Michael Marshall Smith; Peter Crowther; Mark Morris and others |
| Salman Rushdie | Grimus | Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges poorly guillotined and uncut pages separated without excessive care and with a little foxing else Fine Copy in slightly edge-worn Dust Jacket with purple spine background very slightly faded (as usual). | £100.00 | "... Here you will meet the decrepit, yet somehow majestic, figure of Virgil Jones and his eerily tragic companion Dolores O'Toole; you will be led through the startling forests of Dimension-fever; you will arrive at the town of K. where the blinkered and bizarre citizens successfully blind themselves to unacceptable truths... " His first novel - scarce. |
| Carrie Ryan | The Forest of Hands & Teeth | Gollancz 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £5.00 | "In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects... from the Forest of Hands and Teeth... " |
| Fred Saberhagen | Berserker Fury | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £5.00 | "... The Berserkers have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. They're... massing for an all-out attack on human-held space. But the humans have... cracked the Berserkers' basic codes and know what their battle plans are... " |
| Fred Saberhagen | Shiva In Steel | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... one Berserker computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tactical strategy unlike anything the human opposition has seen before... Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction... annihilates whole colonies... " |
| R. A. Salvatore | The Dame | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's News Sheet | £5.00 | "Bransen Garibond, the highwayman... is joined by his comrades... and his road becomes a quest to put right over wrong, a quest for truth... " Book 3 in the Saga of the First King |
| Brandon Sanderson | The Hero Of Ages Book Three Of Mistborn | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. . With Publisher's Newsletter | £7.50 | "... the story of two sisters who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago... " |
| Stanley Schmidt | Aliens From Analog (Editor) | Analog 1983 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, spine creased and page edges lightly browned - Very Good Copy | £2.00 | Anthology #7 classic stories by Poul Anderson; Paul Ash; Fredric Brown; Murray Leinster; Katherine MacLean; Lawrence O'Donnell; Eric Frank Russell; Stanley Schmidt; Marc Steigler & Alison Tellure |
| Stanley Schmidt | Analog's Lighter Side (Editor) | Analog 1983 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, lower front corner lightly creased and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Copy | £3.00 | Anthology #4 classic stories by Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; Christopher Anvil; L. Sprague de Camp; Gordon R. Dickson; David Gordon; Joe Haldeman; W. Macfarlane; Andrew J. Offutt; Lewis Padgett; Hayford Pierce; Rick Raphael & Eric Frank Russell |
| Stanley Schmidt | Analog: Writers' Choice (Editor) | Analog 1983 First Edition First Printing | Corners, edges and front cover slightly rubbed, rear cover lightly marked and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £2.00 | Anthology #5 classic stories by Poul Anderson; Christopher Anvil; L. Sprague de Camp; Lester del Rey; Gordon R. Dickson; Harry Harrison; Robert Randall; Mack Reynolds; Clifford D. Simak; A. E. Van Vogt & Jack Williamson |
| Stanley Schmidt | Argonaut | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Three decades in the future, in a public garden north of New York City, a man enjoying the seasonal blossoms, butterflies, and buzzing bees notices a strange flying insect unlike any he's ever seen before. When it stings him between the eyes, he is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of memories crashing through his mind in a flood of simultaneous sensations and emotions... " |
| Stanley Schmidt | From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog (Editor) | Analog 1984 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly marked, light spine crease and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £2.00 | Anthology #9 classic stories by Paul Ash; Christopher Anvil; Anthony Boucher; Bruce Stanley Burdick; Francis A. Cartier; Al Charmatz; Dolton Edwards; Verge Foray; Mark C. Jarvis; Lewis Padgett; H. Beam Piper; Eric Frank Russell; George O. Smith; Jack Vance & Edward Wellen |
| Stanley Schmidt | The Analog Anthology #1 (Editor) | Analog 1980 First Edition First Printing | Coves slightly marked, edges slightly rubbed, a few corners curled and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £3.00 | Fifty Years of the Best: classic stories by Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; Ben Bova; Fredric Brown; John W. Campbell, Jr.; L. Sprague de Camp; Mark Clifton; Gordon R. Dickson; Robert A. Heinlein; Vonda N. McIntyre; Chad Oliver; Ted Reynolds; Stanley Schmidt; George O. Smith; Don A. Stuart; Theodore Sturgeon; Theodore L. Thomas; A. E. Van Vogt & Stanley Weinbaum |
| Stanley Schmidt | The Analog Anthology #2 (Editor) | Analog 1982 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Copy | £3.00 | Readers' Choice: classic stories by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Orson Scott Card; L. Sprague de Camp; Lester Del Rey; Raymond Z. Gallun; Tom Godwin; Robert A. Heinlein; Eric Frank Russell; Clifford D. Simak; Joan D. Vinge & Roger Zelazny |
| Stanley Schmidt | The Analog Anthology #3 (Editor) | Analog 1982 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Copy | £3.00 | Children of the Future: classic stories by Orson Scott Card; Anne McCaffrey; Lewis Padgett; David R. Palmer; P. J. Plauger; Ted Reynolds; James H. Schmitz; Wilmar H. Shiras & Theodore Sturgeon |
| Stanley Schmidt | War and Peace Possible Futures from Analog (Editor) | Analog 1983 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, small area of front cover slightly ?faded? and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £2.00 | Anthology #6 classic stories by Hank Davis; Gordon R. Dickson; Murray Leinster; Dean McLaughlin; Jerry Pournelle; Eric Frank Russell; T. L. Sherred; Mark Stiegler; Theodore Sturgeon; Vernor Vinge & A. E. Van Vogt |
| George Scithers | Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine (Editor) | Davis Publications 1977-79 | Very Good to Near Fine Copies or better | £35.00 | First 15 Issues: 1977: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter; 1978 Jan./Feb., Mar./Apr., May/Jun., Jul./Aug., Sept./Oct., Nov./Dec; 1979: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jun., Jul., Aug., Sept., Oct. & Nov. |
| Michael Scot (Mike Scott Rohan & Allan Scott) | The Ice King | New English Library 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a team of archaeologists... uncovers the remains of a thousand-year-old Viking ship... A brutal attack on the dig's nightwatchman and the bizarre death of a guard dog are only the first in a series of killings... But in the end it is Hal Hansen who... comes face to face with Raven, the Ice King himself." |
| Martin Scott | Thraxas at the Races | Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at corners and lower edge of rear panel else Fine copy | £5.00 | "It hasn't been a good morning for Thraxas. A vindictive judge has fined him almost every guran he has, and two old enemies have threatened his life. To cap it all, the rainy season has started and it's wetter than a mermaid's blanket... What Thraxas desperately needs is a winner in the big chariot race... " Scarce. |
| Bob Shaw | Serious Scientific Talks 1982-1984 | Harvey 1985 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers lightly marked, lower front cover corner creased - Very Good to Near Fine Copy Signed and Inscribed by the Author - Artwork by Jim Barker | £5.00 | 24 page centre-stapled booklet. Collects pseudo-scientific talks given by the author: Beyond Cosmos at Channelcon '82; Conning Your Way at Albacon II '83 and Ten Years, But Not Decayed at Seacon '84 |
| Lucius Shepard | The Jaguar Hunter | Kerosina 1988 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Thus | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Drops "R & R" from the original Arkham House edition and adds Solitario's Eyes, Delta Sly Honey and The Exercise of Faith to The Night of White Bhairab; Salvador; How the Wind Spoke at Maraket; Black Coral; The End of Life As We Know It; A Traveller's Tale; Mengele; The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule; A Spanish Lesson and the title story |
| John Shirley | Darkness Divided | Stealth Press 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | My Victim; Nineteen Seconds; Jody and Annie on TV; Occurrence At Owl Street Ridge; Wings Burnt Black: A Tale of the Crow; Tighter; Your Servants in Hell; Whisperers; Learn At Home! Your Career in Evil!; Sweetbite Point; In The Road; To Make Children Good; Two Strangers; The Prince; A Walk Through Beirut and seven more... |
| Jan Siegel (Amanda Hemmingway) | Prospero's Children | HarperCollins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold and a short tear at the lower edge of the rear panel. | £5.00 | "A mysterious house in the remote Yorkshire moors awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother... the old house gradually gives up its secrets their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago... " |
| Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall) | Kingdoms Of The Wall (The Kingdoms Of The Wall) | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in unpriced Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "This is the book of Poilar Crookleg, who has been to the roof of the World at the top of the Wall, who has seen the strange and bewildering gods that dwell there, who has grappled with them and returned rich with the knowledge of the mysteries of life and death... " |
| Robert Silverberg | Legends II (Editor) | Voyager 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | New Short Novels set in familiar worlds by Robin Hobb; George R. R. Martin; Orson Scott Card; Diana Gabaldon; Robert Silverberg; Tad Williams; Anne McCaffrey; Raymond E. Feist; Elizabeth Haydon; Neil Gaiman and Terry Brooks |
| Robert Silverberg | Sorcerers Of Majipoor | Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket . | £7.50 | " A thousand years before Lord Valentine... a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin.. is at last near death. Omens are seen, prodigies are born... Surely some great change is at hand!... whispered words... will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration... in a war to alter destiny itself... " |
| Robert Silverberg | The New Springtime (At Winter's End+The Queen Of Springtime vt. Winter’s End+The New Springtime) | Gollancz 1988/9 First UK/First Edition First Printings (Two Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and slightly torn and top page edges a little dusty and bumped else Fine copies in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jackets. | £15.00 | "Everyone on Earth for a million years or more had known that the death-stars were coming, that the Great World was doomed... Each of the peoples of Earth addressed its fate in its own fashion. The vegetals and the sapphire-eyes people knew they would not survive... The mechanicals knew they could survive if they wanted to... " |
| Iain Sinclair | Slow Chocolate Autopsy (With Dave McKean) | Phoenix House 1997 First Edition First Printing (Pages 124 and 125 reversed) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in lightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page - Illustrated by Dave McKean | £10.00 | "... Trapped in space - within the city limits of London - but not in time, Norton is present at dark deeds in Deptford at the time of Christopher Marlowe's death to the east end at the time of the murder of Jack the Hat. Bizarre and phantasmagoric... draws on the dark and paranoid images of the city... " - With Publishers' Erratum Slip |
| Canon Basil A. Smith | The Scallion Stone | Whispers Press 1980 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue (1/1750) | Fine Copy - Still in original shrink-wrap. | £10.00 | ''These stories... similar in some respects to M. R. James's... bear the mark of B. A. Smith's original fancy and literary skill... " The Bishop's Room; The Wine Glasses; Hagthwaite Hall; The Pedlar of Pendle and The Propert Bequest. Introduction by Russell Kirk |
| Gavin Smith | DogFellow's Ghost | Macmillan 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top edge of front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | A new century has begun and new fields of science are shaking man's longest-held beliefs. And on a tropical island, somewhere in the Pacific, new kinds of creature have been conceived. Yet the one who made them had disappeared, and for one of his creations the loss is unbearable: neither entirely man nor wholly animal, DogFellow is both more and less than the sum of his parts. |
| Norman Spinrad | Science Fiction In The Real World | Southern Illinois University Press 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Introduction; Literature and Genre: A Critical Overview, Critical Standards, Science Fiction versus Sci-Fi, Inside, Outside; Alternate Media: Visual Translations The Graphic Novel, Books into Movies; The Hard Stuff, The Neuromantic Cyberpunks, Dreams of Space; Sturgeon, Vonnegut, Ballard, Dick and more... |
| Vincent Starrett | The Case Book Of Jimmie Lavender (The Casebook Of Jimmy Lavender/Jimmy Lavender) | Bookfinger 1973 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy | £7.50 | Prologue; The Lisping Man; Recipe For Murder; The House That Vanished; The Man Who Couldn't Fly; The Case of the Two Flutes; The Sealed Room; The Note of the Cracked Bugle; The Case of Abner Gunsmith; The Raven's Claw; The Lame Duck; The Woman in Black; Food for the Sharks and Epilogue |
| Allen Steele | Clarke County, Space | Legend 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, small faint mark on front free end paper and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | ".. is a huge space colony... Over the years, the colonists and pioneers there have evolved a community identity. Now Skycorp want to develop their economy - with tourism. Soon the distressed colonists have to cope with people with a desperate need to hide, Mafia hitmen and volatile religious cultists. It's like Las Vegas in space... " |
| Caroline Stevermer | When The King Comes Home | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Good King Julian of Aravis has been dead for two hundred years, but his kingdom still misses him. The current occupant of the throne is old and witless... the true ruler... is the powerful Prince Bishop... When the King comes home, all wishes will be granted... all dreams will be made real... " |
| S. M. Stirling | Conquistador | Roc 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... 1946. ex-soldier John Rolfe... with a flip of his shortwave radio switch, a thunder crack of sound, and a blinding light... a portal to an alternative world where European have never set foot on the land he knows as America... " |
| Whitley Strieber | Transformation The Breakthrough | Morrow 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a short scrape on the edge of the rear fold and the spine panel background slightly faded. | £4.00 | "... Do the visitors represent a force that has been with mankind throughout history? Has it played an absolutely central role in altering human culture? Has a conscious force emerged from the unknown as the single most powerful instrument of change in history... a journey from the secret depths of the mind to the secret depths of the universe... " |
| Charles Stross | Halting State | Orbit 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Corners a little rubbed and page edges a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £4.00 | "It was called in as a robbery... a heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon... But... when the bodies of real people start to show up it's clear that this is anything but a game... the walls between the actual and the virtual are about to come crashing down''. |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Visions and Venturers | Gollancz 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The eight stories... show all the facet of his talent: a blend of science fiction and fantasy, full of unusual ideas, peopled with memorable and sympathetically observed characters." The Hag Seleen; The Martian and the Moron; The Nail and the Oracle; Won't You Walk - ; Talent; One Foot and the Grave; The Touch of Your Hand and The Travelling Crag |
| Eleanor Sullivan | Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Send Chills Down Your Spine (Editor) | Reinhardt 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | 29 stories (mainly detective) by Robert Bloch, Paul Tabori, Henry Slesar, Donald E. Westlake; Wenzell Brown, Lawrence Block, Edward D. Hoch; Bill Pronzini; Patricia Highsmith and others... |
| Tricia Sullivan (Also as Valery Leith) | Dreaming in Smoke (1999 Arthur Clarke Winner) | Millennium 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Kalypso Deed is a shotgun. She rides the interface between the Al Ganesh and human scientists who use cyber-assisted Dreams to reach the height of their creative powers... Azamat Marcsson is a colourless statistician, middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with micro-organisms. Yet he Dreams. The story would end here if they lived on Earth... " Winner of the Arthur Clarke Award |
| Tricia Sullivan | Someone To Watch Over Me | Millennium 1997 First Edition First Printing | Small bump at base of front cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "When Sabina picks up Adrien battered and bleeding outside Zagreb station... She has no idea that she is also touching the Watcher, a mysterious figure who can inhabit Adrien's body using a brain implant and satellite link. What might have been a love affair is about to turn deadly. For as Sabina is drawn into Adrien's twisted world, she will become the object of his Watcher's desire - and prey to his enemies..." |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | The Road to Camlann | Bodley Head 1981 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine, pages lightly browned and previous owner's name on front end paper, else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... begins with the arrival of... Mordred at Camelot... the stage is set for the tragedy that will bring down the Fellowship of the Round Table and give reign to the forces of darkness in Britain that Arthur had striven for so many years to repel." |
| Steph Swainston | The Year Of Our War | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "All mortals dream, it seems, of joining the Castle Circle. Always pushing for immortality. Always seeking to stop the spin of the wheel of fortune, as it rips through their hands, leaving splinters. How splendid it would be to be eternal. and safe. But at the same time it is daunting to join such a fellowship. " |
| John Taine (Eric Temple Bell) | The Cosmic Geoids and One Other | F.P.C.I. 1949 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly worn at top and base of spine, previous owner's stamp on rear free end paper (DONALD A. WOLLHEIM) light string (?) dent to edge of top and base of rear board else Fine copy in slightly worn, age-darkened and chipped Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Lou Goldstone | £7.50 | "The first Cosmic Geoid was discovered in 1879 by the Lascelles paleontological expedition. And after three hundred years of constant searching forty-three more were found. When the technicians opened the first geoid they discovered small plates... covered on both sides with minute characters... " With The Black Goldfish |
| Judith Tarr | White Mare's Daughter | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "... a sweeping saga that expertly blends... A courageous heroine... A great love story filled with stirring romance and ardent passion. A turbulent, forgotten age... gripping saga of Sarama. the beautiful, headstrong young priestess of a nomadic warrior band, whose majestic white horse is the incarnation of the Goddess Epona on Earth... " |
| Melanie Tem | Black River | Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly rubbed and creased and lightly browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... For Renata, it's just the start of a busy weekend... Until... one of her children is found dead... Renata struggles to come to terms with her loss... she embarks on an eerie journey through an underworld inhabited by monstrous and seductive creatures that threatens both her sanity and her physical survival... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | A Plague Of Angels | Bantam 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel and a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with the spine panel background slightly faded | £5.00 | "West of the land called Artemisia, past mountains, valleys, arroyos, and mesas, atop a sinuous, canyon-climbing road, the Place of Power spreads... Here are walls to hold out the dragons, ogres, and goblins of the ruined land. And from here the Witch, Quince Ellel, peers out into a world of faded pageantry... decimated by violence and plague... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Shadow's End | Bantam 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel and a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The fragrant, sun-checkered canyon lands of the planet Dinadh seem to be a peaceful backwater of the universe... except for one thing. A century ago, a mysterious force wiped out human life on all surrounding worlds, leaving Dinadh untouched. Every team sent to investigate vanished. Every attempt to contact survivors met with deafening silence. Now the unknown force is back... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Singer From The Sea | Avon Eos 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... An accomplished student and heiress to a great title, Genevieve has been brought up as a Proper Young Lady... carefully instructed in the Covenants - the inflexible laws governing the women of her class - and knows she must soon take up the time-honoured responsibilities of woman-hood: to marry a nobleman of her father's choosing and... bear a child at age thirty... " |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien at the Ashmolean Museum 14th December - 27th February 1976-1977 | Ashmolean 1976 (Paper) | Colour covers lightly browned and slightly creased, staples rusting - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £20.00 | 36 page centre-stapled booklet, colour cover. Foreword; Introduction; Biographical Note; Catalogue; The Hobbit; The Father Christmas Letters; The Lord of the Rings; J. R. R. Tolkien's books. With a few black & white illustrations. Scarce |
| E. C. Tubb (Also as Chuck Adams; Judy Cary; J. F. Clarkson; James S. Farrow; James R. Fenner; Charles S. Graham; Charles Grey; Volsted Gridban; Gill Hunt; E. F. Jackson; Gregory Kern; King Lang; Mike Lantry; P. Lawrence; Chet Lawson; Arthur Maclean; Carl Maddox; M. L. Powers; Paul Schofield; Brian Shaw; Roy Sheldon; John Stevens & Edward Thompson) | Prelude to a Work in Progress (With Who's Who in the Universe by Chris Evans) | B. S. F. G. 1981 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) No 212/500 | Fine copy Signed by Chris Evans on his side. | £15.00 | Short story published to celebrate E. C. Tubb as Guest of Honour, and Chris Evans as Special Guest at Novacon 16 |
| E. C. Tubb | The Dumarest Saga Volumes 1-16 (The Winds of Gath to Haven of Darkness) | Arrow 1976-1980 (Paper) (16 volumes) | Edges/corners a little rubbed, page edges a little/browned and some marked/foxed - Very Good to Near Fine Copies Signed by the Author on the title page (Vol. 1 is inscribed). | £45.00 | The start of the saga of Earl Dumarest's search for, and return to, Earth (and that of the titanic duel with Ken Bulmer as to who could write the longest series?). Signed books by this author are now uncommon. |
| George Turner | The Sea And Summer (1988 Arthur Clarke Winner) (Drowning Towers) | Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the twenty-first century poor nations sink in accumulated debt... Industry embraces automation to cut costs, so unemployment rises... Population rises inexorably... And over the planet the Greenhouse Effect makes chaos of weather and food production... set in drowning Melbourne... totally real people in a totally convincing setting... " |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | Alternate Generals II (Editor) | Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine light bump on lower edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Original stories by Jim Fiscus, Michael F. Flynn, Harry Turtledove, Noreen Doyle, Judith Tarr, Roland J. Green, Chris Bunch, S. M. Stirling & Richard Foss, Susan Shwartz, R. M. Meluch, Joel Richards, Esther M. Friesner and William Sanders. |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | Alternate Generals III (Editor, with Roland J. Green) | Baen 2005 First Edition | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Suppose... MacArthur had been captured... the Prince of Peace came... with a sword... Joan of Arc had not been burned... winning the Vietnam War turned out to be worse than losing... Genghis Khan had been a convert to Judaism... a victorious American Confederacy... " |
| Harry Turtledove | American Empire Blood And Iron | Ballantine 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy... after a generation of relative peace, The Great war exploded... the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial Germany... The Great war has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns... " |
| Harry Turtledove | Beyond the Gap | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters' camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago... Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots... has come to town with strange news... " |
| Harry Turtledove | How Few Remain | Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition in the UK | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a few light pressure marks on the front panel and a tiny scrape on the rear fold. | £5.00 | "... an epic of the Second American Civil War... A generation after the South won... America writhes once more in the bloody throes of battle... along with France, Britain enters the fray on the side of the South... " |
| Harry Turtledove | Settling Accounts (Return Engagement+Drive To The East+The Grapple) | Del Rey 2004-6 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £20.00 | "... the story of a North American continent, separated into two bitterly opposed nations... on the verge of exploding once again... " |
| Harry Turtledove | The Great War Breakthroughs | Del Rey 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Is it the war to end all wars - or war without end?... an apocalyptic turning point. Victory is at hand... " |
| Jack Vance (Also as Peter Held; John Holbrook Vance, Alan Wade and, sometimes, Ellery Queen) | Star King | Dobson 1966 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of foxing along the top edge of the rear fold | £15.00 | "Star Kings are a race of non-humans who... disguise themselves as humans... Power alone is their goal... no matter what the price in ordinary 'human life'. Keith Gerson... was looking for one - a very special Star King... who had murdered his parents many years before... " The first of the Demon Princes series. |
| Jack Vance | The Killing Machine | Dobson 1967 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, faint mark on front free end paper and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, stickered (£6.95), Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "In his pocket Keith Gerson carried a slip of paper with five names on it... the five Demon Princes who had led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, destroying Gerson's parents... " Book two in the Demon Princes series |
| Joan D. Vinge | World's End | Bluejay 1984 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "BZ Gundhalinu, police officer of the Hegemony, member of the elite 'tech' class of the ruling planet Kharemough, left the planet Tiamat before the Stargate closed, cutting himself off forever from the barbarian girl who gave him back his sense of self-worth... " |
| Paula Volsky | Illusion | Gollancz 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... the Exalted rule supreme, exercising absolute control over the peasants on their lands. But the magical powers of the Exalted have been fading for generations... and... revolt is in the air as seditionists fulminate against the tyranny, greed and corruption... " |
| John Wagner | The Judge Dredd Collection 1, 2 & 3 (With Alan Grant and Ron Smith) | IPC Magazine 1985-7 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Three 48 page Volumes) | Covers slightly bumped and/or creased | £5.00 | The pick of the Daily Star strips in large format paperback |
| Ron Walotsky | Inner Visions The Art Of Ron Walotsky | Paper Tiger 2000 First Edition (Paper) | Edges slightly bumped else Fine Copy | £5.00 | 112 pages of full colour illustrations, Introduction by Joe Haldeman, text by Ellen Asher, Jill Bauman, Jim Burns, Vincent di Fate, Bob Eggleton, Ed Ferman, Jane & Howard Frank, Don Maitz, Gordon van Gelder and Robert Weinberg, Afterword by Alan Dean Foster. |
| Freda Warrington | A Taste of Blood Wine | Pan 1993 (Paper) | Edges, corners and cover gilt lettering slightly rubbed, red spine lettering slightly faded and page edges lightly browned else Fine Copy | £10.00 | "1923. Madeleine Neville watches as her father fills Parkland Hall with guests for her 18th birthday. Among them is his handsome new research assistant Karl - the man she has already decided will be her husband... Karl von Wultendorf is a vampire... " |
| Ian Watson | Salvage Rites and Other Stories | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "...we immediately encounter a phantasmagoric vision of a society increasingly dependent on recycling its reusable materials ("Salvage Rites"), a planet inhabited by lemur-like aliens who bafflingly produce marvellously finished stone carvings without apparently having the tools to do so ("The Moon and Michelangelo")... there are fifteen stories... " |
| Ian Watson | The Jonah Kit (BSFA Award Winner 1978) | Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel lettering and an adjacent slice of the front panel design a little faded. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £15.00 | "... the story of two apparently disconnected pieces of scientific research... Paul Hammond has made the shattering discovery that... God's created Universe no longer exists... Meanwhile... a young Russian boy is found who appears to possess the mind... of a Soviet astronaut who is supposed to be dead... These two events are linked... by the great whale population..." |
| David Weber | Echoes Of Honor | Baen 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch o wear at the corners. | £5.00 | "... For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront... But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security... and executed... " |
| David Weber | March To The Sea (With John Ringo) | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the inside of the jacket a little marked at the base of the spine - no show-through | £5.00 | "... Prince Roger MacLintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a... spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt... and his bodyguard were marooned on Marduc by an assassination attempt... they had to march halfway round the entire planet, through damnbeasts, Capetoads, killerpillars... " |
| David Weber | Storm From The Shadows | Baen 2009 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges slightly damp-rippled else Fine copy in slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Gloria Michelle Samantha Evelyn Henke has always wished her life could have been simpler... rear admiral, Countess of the Gold Peak, cousin of the Queen, fifth in line for the throne, and best friend of Honor Harrington... prisoner of war... high-level interstellar political envoy... vice admiral... squarely in the path of the storm ... " |
| David Weber | The Stars At War (Crusade+In Death Ground) | Baen 2004 First Hardback & Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small biro dots against other Weber titles on prelim list else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Spacers call the warp point Charon's Ferry. No star ship has ever entered it and returned... The 'Grand Alliance' forged by the need to fight side-by-side against the genocidal Rigellians... is about to be tested. For Charon's Ferry is about to give up the secrets of its dead... " Prequels to The Shiva Option. |
| Robert Weinberg | From The Golden Age (Editor) | Pulp Press ca 1975 (Paper) (Each limited to 100 copies) | B/W photocopies, centre-stapled - Spines slightly browned - Near Fine Copies except # 14 which has lower corner of last page missing - ca 15 % | £10.00 | Each, Except #14 - £5. Robert J. Hogan - #14 G-8 and His Battle Aces: Satan Paints the Sky from Jan 38; #17 The Mysterious Wu Fang: The Case of the Six Coffins from Sept 35; #24 G-8: Flight of the Green Assassin from Sept 37; #27 Maxwell Grant The Shadow: The House That Vanished from Oct 35; #41 Kenneth Robeson Up From Earth's Center from Summer 49; #42 Robert Sydney Bowen Dusty Ayres: Black Lightning from July 34 |
| Chris Westwood | The Silence | Piatkus 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed. | £10.00 | "The past is forever closing in, however hard you try to escape it. And when it finds you - when the telephone rings and a voice you hoped never to hear again speaks your name - the silence that follows can be deadly... " Scarce. |
| James White | The Dream Millennium | Michael Joseph 1974 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly foxed and end papers a little browned else Fine Copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with the flaps a little foxed. | £7.50 | "... a computer-controlled starship is embarked on a thousand-year voyage in search of a new home for the nucleus of humanity... The only people with freedom of movement inside the ship are its crew of two... they begin to realise... the growing threat to the sanity of the Cold Sleepers... the dreams which come are strange indeed, and attack the very fabric of reality." |
| Steve White | Exodus (With Shirley Meier) | Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Once before the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy - humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm - had united to defeat... The 'bugs'... as incomprehensibly alien as they were revoltingly evil... the arriving aliens know that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack... " |
| Ted White | The Best From Amazing (Editor) | Hale 1976 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket with a short tear at the top edge of the rear panel and a light mark to the reverse of the flaps | £7.50 | Horace L. Gold's No Charge For Alterations; Jack Vance's The Augmented Agent (I-C-a-BeM); Roger Zelazny's The Misfit; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dowry of the Angyar; Keith Laumer's Placement Test; Poul Anderson's The Horn of Time The Hunter (Homo Aquaticus); Ted White & Marion Zimmer Bradley's Phoenix and James H. Schmitz' Rogue Psi |
| Walter Jon Williams | The Praxis | Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing | Page edges browned else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "The empire of the Shaa had lasted 10 millennia. 10,000 years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal order, legitimised by The Praxis, the harsh code of ethics that they imposed on the races they conquered. But the Shaa began to commit ritual suicide when it became clear that their minds... would accept no further information... " |
| Barbara Ker Wilson | Jane Austen in Australia | Secker & Warburg 1984 First Edition First Printing? | Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page corners slightly bumped, previous owner's bookplate on front free end paper and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket, with orange spine lettering slightly faded. | £7.50 | "... A novel of what might have been?... Jane Leigh Perrot was Jane Austen's aunt; one day in 1799 she was arrested for shop-lifting in Bath.. the most usual sentence was transportation to Botany Bay... Her husband ... made arrangements to accompany her... And would not their unmarried niece Jane Austen have been the perfect companion... " |
| F. Paul Wilson | Masque (With Matthew J. Costello) | Warner 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Tristan is the perfect spy: He has no identity, no family, no friends, no face, no rights... an artificially created and cloned human whose metamorphic DNA can be programmed to transform him into a... perfect genetic copy of anyone, even an imagined creature... " |
| Gene Wolfe | Calde Of The Long Sun The Third Volume of The Book The Long Sun | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Silk emerges from his exploration of the subterranean caverns and passages of the Whorl to find Viron engulfed in revolutionary violence - and himself hailed (and damned) as leader of the uprising... " |
| Gene Wolfe | Exodus From The Long Sun The Fourth Volume of the Book of The Long Sun | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £15.00 | "In earlier volumes of The Book of the Long Sun, the reader saw Patera Silk, charismatic young augur of the decaying city of Viron, beginning to discover the astounding true nature of his strange world... now matters move... into devastatingly unexpected dimensions... " |
| Gene Wolfe | Lake Of The Long Sun The Second Volume of The Book Of The Long Sun | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Patera Silk... has made a pact with the wealthy, sinister Blood... so Silk has embarked on a quest which begins to reveal to him the hidden secrets of his world... " |
| Gene Wolfe | Nightside The Long Sun | New English Library 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and discrete "THIS BOOK WAS WAREHOUSE DAMAGED... " on rear fixed end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | First volume of The Book of the Long Sun, set on board the Generation Starship sent from Urth to colonise a distant planet. |
| Gene Wolfe | The Devil In A Forest | Follett 1976 First Edition First Printing | Small mark on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "At the end of a narrow road in the deep of a forest lay a village... in this tiny forest settlement was waged a mighty battle - the timeless battle between good and evil... " |
| Donald A Wollheim (Also as David Grinnell) | The Men From Ariel | NESFA 1982 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No. 765/1200 | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Introduction by the Author; The Man From Ariel; The Lost Poe; Who's There; Ishkabab; The Horror Out of Lovecraft; The Hook; Still Life; Colt Cash Cache; Miss McWhortle's Weird and The Rules of the Game |
| Janny Wurts | Stormwarden | Grafton 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Written in the records at Vaere is the tale of the binding of the Mharg-demons by Anskiere, wizard of wind and water. Anskiere was aided in this task by Ivain, master of fire and earth... at the moment of greatest peril, Ivain betrayed his companion... and Anskiere survived to swear a powerful oath... " |
| Timothy Zahn | Night Train to Rigel | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a man comes to deliver a message to former government agent Frank Compton - then falls dead at his feet... a summons from the Spiders - enigmatic aliens that are part organic and part machine - who run the Quadrail... transportation system that connects civilisations throughout the galaxy... someone is preparing to attack the entire network... " |
| Timothy Zahn | The Icarus Hunt | Bantam 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Jordan ekes out a living dabbling in interstellar smuggling for outlaw concerns that represent the last vestiges of free trade in the galaxy... Jordan and his partner, Ixil - an alien with two ferret-like 'outhunters' linked to his neural system - are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its special cargo to Earth... " |
| Roger Zelazny | Today We Choose Faces | Millington 1974 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £40.00 | "... Lange was the current 'nexus' of the Family, the telepathic leader, keeper of the House, controller of the corporate mind that ruled the destiny of mankind. And yet the voice haunted him... " |
| Marcus Zusak | The Book Thief | Doubleday 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing ('Adult' design Dust Jacket) | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine. | £25.00 | "1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family... her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books... This novel is narrated by Death... Death will visit the book thief three times... " |
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