| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alastair Reynolds | The Prefect | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Light curl to cover corners else Fine Uncorrected Uncorrected Proof | £10.00 | "Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts... his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band... A murderous attack... is far more serious than mere gruesome murder... worse than tyranny... to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Pandora New Tales of the Vampires | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "David Talbot, vampire survivor of Memnoch the Devil, calls forth Pandora in modern-day Paris to tell her own story. Two thousand years old, she was a mortal girl in ancient Rome at the time of Caesar Augustus... As a follower of the secret blood-tainted cult of Isis, Pandora had to flee to Antioch... " |
| Anne Rice | The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in lslightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | The Witching Hour | Chatto & Windus 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket worn at the top of the front fold, and slightly worn at the base of the spine. | £4.00 | "Rowan Mayfair is a brilliant and beautiful neurosurgeon with an extraordinary power to heal - or to harm. Sailing off the coast of California, she rescues a drowning man, Michael Curry, whose brush with death leaves him with strange sensory powers, and images which bewilder him... " |
| Anne Rice | Vittorio, The Vampire New Tales of the Vampires | Knopf 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and remainder dot on bottom page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the mesmerising story of a Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold... Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies... he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue... " |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Fabric Of Sin | Quercus 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top rear corner bumped and page edges lightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Garway church was built by medieval Knights Templar... the Master House, abandoned and falling into ruin... renovation plans stall when a specialist builder refuses to work there, insisting it's a place that doesn't want to be restored... Merrily Watkins is unconvinced... But violent death changes everything... " |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Remains of an Altar | Quercus 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum... heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents... an obsession... around Elgar and The Dream of Gerontius... a place at the centre of an ancient mystery... " |
| A. R. R. R. Roberts (Adam Roberts) | The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a hit of wear at the base of the spine and lower corners else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | £7.50 | "... Three hundred years ago, the young she-dragon Hellfire Vagner... mysteriously disappeared... Once a year... Kelltrik Vagner, head of the clan, receives a severed dragon tongue in the post... time to bring in Kaal Brimston, the celebrated Starkhelm journalist, to try to get to the bottom of the mystery... " |
| Adam Roberts (Also as A. R. R. R. Roberts, A R R R Roberts, A3R Roberts and Robertski Brothers) | By Light Alone | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) | Fine book With Publisher's Press Release | £5.00 | "In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair, hunger is a thing of the past... The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating... The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped... " |
| Adam Roberts | Stone | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, one page edge with a short (5mm) tear and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Sprung from a prison in the centre of a star, the universe's last criminal is employed to kill the entire population of a planet... it is a crime that will tear apart an interstellar utopia that has existed for centuries... " |
| Keith Roberts | Kiteworld | Gollancz 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | Clute - "Kiteworld... invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its constrictive rendering of the life of the crews who man giant kites to guard the frontiers against demons." |
| Keith Roberts | Pavane | Gollancz 1984 First Edition in the UK Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, previous owner's name and date on front fixed end paper (under jacket flap and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. | £10.00 | Prologue; The Lady Margaret; The Signaller; The White Boat; Brother John; Lords and Ladies; Corfe Gate and Coda. "... one of the undisputed classics... Elizabeth I was assassinated in 1588... Philip II of Spain became King of England. The Protestant Church was crushed, and under the stifling hand of Catholicism progress in Europe was greatly slowed... " |
| Keith Roberts | The Boat of Fate | Hutchinson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name and date on half-title else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £45.00 | "This superb historical novel... recreates... the whole experience of the Roman Empire in its death-throes. Written with wit, imagination, pace and great descriptive talent, it recalls for the modern reader an age of violence and disintegration... " |
| Frank M. Robinson | Waiting | Forge 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There are people living among us who look just like normal human beings. They've been here for a long time - waiting. But they aren't exactly like us at all. There are subtle psychological differences that might be found... and that is something they really want to avoid. They'll kill to prevent it... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | A Short, Sharp Shock | Ziesing 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Prelim Page | £7.50 | "... the story is propelled from surprise to surmise to disillusionment to satisfaction to utter mystification. Incorporating erotic symbolism fraught with quasi-Freudian overtones and social contrivances invested with Jungian implications, Robinson has created a modern mythological playground for the twentieth century imagination... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Mars Trilogy (1993 Nebula & 1994 & 1997 Hugo Award Winner) (Red Mars+Green Mars+Blue Mars) | HarperCollins 1992-6 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and lower front corner of 'Green' and page edges lightly browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Pages in the appropriate colour pens and 'Green' and 'Blue' additionally dated. | £450.00 | The history of man's terraforming and colonisation of Mars. Award winning novels: Red - 1993 Nebula Winner, Green - 1994 Hugo Winner & Blue - 1997 Hugo Winner |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Memory Of Whiteness | Macdonald 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges browned and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... It is the year AD 3229; human civilisation is scattered among the planets, moons and asteroids of the solar system. Millions of lives depend on the technology derived from the scientific works of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin... discover the deeper truths concealed in Holywelkin's work... the understanding... that will transform... all of humanity." |
| Justina Robson | Heliotrope | Ticoderoga. Publications 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Copy | £7.50 | Introduction; Heliotrope; Body of Evidence; The Adventurers' League; The Girl Hero's Mirror Says he's Not The One; The Bull Leapers; Deadhead; Erie Lackawanna's Song; Cracklegrackle; No Man's Island; Tremor; The Seventh Series; The Little Bear; Legolas Does The Dishes; Dreadnaught; An Unremarkable Man and A Dream of Mars |
| Justina Robson | Mappa Mundi | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "As medical nanotechnology completes a map of the human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her cutting-edge research suddenly leap out of the sidelines and into the heart of a black project to create comprehensive mind-control... " Arthur Clarke Award Nominee for 2002 |
| Justina Robson | Mappa Mundi | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and corners else Fine book | £4.00 | "As medical nanotechnology completes a map of the human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her cutting-edge research suddenly leap out of the sidelines and into the heart of a black project to create comprehensive mind-control... " Arthur Clarke Award Nominee for 2002 |
| Dave Rogers | Supermarionation Classics Stingray Thunderbirds Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons (With John Marriott, Chris Drake and Graeme Bassett) | Boxtree 1993 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little wear at the upper fold tips and a short (7mm) split at the base of the front fold. | £7.50 | "... every puppet TV series produced by the Anderson studios, in association with ITC, is brought together and illustrated with over 300 photographs... detailed histories of... THUNDERBIRDS, STINGRAY AND CAPTAIN SCARLET, as well as a unique analysis of the later years... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | Cloud Castles | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are a short voyage away from Liverpool or Hamburg - via the cloud archipelagoes... in the heart of hi-tech Europe a denizen from the dawn of time is reaching out to ensnare one of humanity's most sacred emblems... and a new dark age will begin... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan | The Gates Of Noon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan | The Hammer Of The Sun: The Winter Of The World Volume Three | Macdonald 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket, with a short split and a little wear at the base of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "... the chronicles of the Winter Of The World reach their climax... in the legend-haunted lands... the malevolent Powers of the Ice see the key to the final extinction of life that they so desperately crave... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | The Lord Of The Middle Air | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Young Walter Scot is hot on the heels of cattle raiders in the service of the dark Lord of Soulis when he encounters his kinsman Michael Scot - and his life is changed forever. Even in the turbulent Borderlands of thirteenth-century Scotland Michael had a fearsome reputation as a magician and master of forbidden arts, trafficking with the demons of the middle air... " |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (2001 Hugo Award Winner) | Bloomsbury 2000 First Edition First Printing (First Issue printed in England by Clays Printers. Contains 3 errors later corrected: P. 503 "Dumbledore, come!" spoken by Crouch; P. 579 James Potter exits Voldemort's wand before Lily; P. 594 "The Imperius Curse, Moody said) | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "It is the summer holidays, and one night Harry Potter wakes up with his scar burning. He has had a strange dream, one that he can't help worrying about... until a timely invitation... arrives: to nothing less than the Quiddich World Cup! Soon Harry is... gasping at the thrills of an international Quiddich match. But then something horrible happens... " |
| Brian Ruckley | Winterbirth The Godless World Book One | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "An uneasy truce exists between the thanes of the True Bloods. Now, as another winter approaches, the armies of the Black Road march south, from their exile beyond the Vale of Stones. For some, war will bring a swift and violent death.... But all, soon, will fall under the shadow that is descending... " |
| Geoff Ryman | The King's Last Song or Kraing Meas | HarperCollins 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little rubbed at the base of the spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £7.50 | "... When archaeologists discover an ancient book written on gold leaves at Angkor Wat, everyone wants a piece of the action... the precious artifact is stolen... The Book contains the wisdom of King Jayavarman VII, the Buddhist ruler who united a war-torn Cambodia in the twelfth century... " |
| Brandon Sanderson | The Way Of Kings The Stormlight Archive Book One | Gollancz 2010 First Edition in Paperback & The UK First Printing | A little light creasing/bumping to covers - Near Fine Book | £4.00 | "Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts... It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders... " Over 1000 pages! |
| Andrzej Sapkowski | The Last Wish | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A couple of corners lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £4.00 | "Geralt, the witcher from Rivia, is stronger than mere mortals, with sorcerous powers at his command. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world... but not everything monstrous-looking is evil, And not everything fair is good And in every fairy tale there is A grain of truth." |
| James H. Schmitz | The Best Of James H Schmitz (Edited by Mark L. Olsen) | NESFA 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket which was produced a few mm shorter than the book. | £15.00 | Mischief in the Spaceways by Janet Kagan; Grandpa; Lion Loose...; Just Curious; The Second Night of Summer; Novice; Balanced Ecology; The Custodians; Sour Note on Palayata; Goblin Night and Bibliography |
| Karl Schroeder | Permanence | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Young Rue Cassels of the Cyber Compact - a civilisation based around remote brown dwarf stars - is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft... she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to... an abandoned Cycler starship... " |
| Leslie Shepard | The Dracula Book of Classic Horror Stories (Editor - a.k.a. The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories) | Hale 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners and a number of small ?coffee? splashes on top page edges else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction; Dickens' Captain Murderer; Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum; Lytton The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain, De Maupassant's The Inn; Jerome's The Dancing Partner; Wells' The Cone; Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw; Benson's Caterpillars; Stoker's The Judges House and James; Lovecraft; Hartley & Blackwood. |
| Will Shetterly | The Gospel of the Knife | Tor 2007 First Edition | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a shortish crease in the front flap | £7.50 | "When Chris Nix was four years old, his family was nearly destroyed... now fourteen... He barely remembers the events at Dogland and has completely forgotten the powerful beings who cam to his aid... a mysterious benefactor wants to send Chris to an exclusive private school... " Sequel to Dogland |
| M. P. Shiel | Cold Steel | Gollancz 1929 | Slightly bumped and lightly worn at top and base of spine and lower corners, slight spine lean, free end papers browned and page edges slightly marked and age-darkened - Good to Very Good book | £5.00 | An historical novel |
| M. P. Shiel | The Yellow Danger (The Empress of the Earth) | Grant Richards 1900 | Bumped, and cloth a little torn, at top and base of spine, corners a little 'boxed', spine lean, spine panel darkened and with a smallish stain under the title, front free end paper removed and page edges a little foxed and marked - Good? Copy in original yellow boards with gold spine letters and striking black and orange cover illustration | £20.00 | Clute - "... contain sf elements.. Chinese hordes - overwhelms the world by sheer quantity of manpower.. the quarrel between Orient and Occident... ultimately a spiritual matter, rather than economic, as Chinese and UK SUPERMEN strive for domination.... a Spencerian survival of the fittest on a racial level; and thinly veiled suggestions of paranoia... " |
| Jan Siegel (Amanda Hemmingway) | Prospero's Children | HarperCollins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book 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. Signed by the Author on the Title Page (with both names) | £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 | 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 Jacket. | £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... " |
| Robert Silverberg | Tom O'Bedlam | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Review Slip | £5.00 | "In the 22nd century what is left of North America is a fragmented group of independent states on the west coast, the remainder having been turned into a radioactive wasteland... its society is a mixture of advanced technology and violent social disorder... a curious new phenomenon begins to intrude... extremely realistic dreams... " |
| Dan Simmons | Endymion | Headline 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The daughter of Brawne Lamia and the cybrid John Keats, eleven-year-old Aenea... is in grave danger. The powerful Pax military... thinks that... Aenea may well be... a threat to the Church... and then there's the unpredictable entity called the Shrike, which, it's thought, could control the fate of all mankind... " |
| Dan Simmons | Flashback | Quercus 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "America, 2036 A wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose people's only escape is to numb themselves on flashback - a euphoric yet crippling addictive drug that allows its users to revisit happier, past experiences... " |
| Dan Simmons | Phases Of Gravity | Headline 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Richard Baedecker once walked on the moon but... His quest for higher meaning begins when he meets a mysterious young woman who leads him on a journey to the 'places of power' in his own past... " |
| Alison Sinclair | Blueheart | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The adaptive humans who have colonised the planet, covered in the main by ocean, are at the limit of their usefulness and the debate on the desirability of further terraforming is becoming heated. The discovery of a corpse deep beneath the sea is nothing unusual ... this is the catalyst for a tragedy of global proportions... " |
| Nicky Singer | Feather Boy | Collins 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book | £5.00 | "... Robert is the class victim, the guy who's never picked for the team. so no-one is more surprised than Robert himself when a strange old lady sends him on a quest to solve the mystery of derelict Chance House. Legend has it that a boy once fell to his death from an upper window... To get the truth, Robert must learn what it really means to fly." Blue Peter book of the Year |
| Nalini Singh | Kiss of Snow A Psy-Changeling Novel | Gollancz 2011 First Edition in the UK in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a tiny (2mm) strain at the lower edge of the rear panel with associated creasing | £5.00 | "... Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would've been his mate. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf... " |
| Michael Slade (Jay Clarke, also with John Banks, Lee Clarke, Rebecca Clarke, and Richard Covell) | Death's Door | Penguin Viking 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The photos pinned to the Strategy Wall in Chief Superintendent Robert De Clercq's office prove that he and his colleagues are up against a monster this time - or is it monsters?... And then there's the madman bent on revenge who the Special X team doesn't even know about - the madman threatening to bring the world to the brink of DEATH'S DOOR." |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Demons of the Ocean | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners a little rubbed and slightly bumped/creased - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | "The year is 2505. the oceans have risen. A new era of piracy is dawning. A vicious storm separates twins Connor and Grace Tempest, destroying their boat... Picked up by one of the more notorious pirate ships, Connor soon finds himself wielding a cutlass... Grace finds herself aboard a more mysterious ship... " First of the series. First printings are scarce. |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Tide of Terror | Simon & Schuster 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine book | £7.50 | "... Connor Tempest may only be fourteen but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided.. Grace Tempest isn't finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that all is not well on the vampirate ship she left behind... " |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Darker Angels | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... At the heart of the tale is the houngan Old Joseph, a voodoo priest who has given up one eye in exchange for ultimate knowledge and who has dared to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War. From the college rooms of the young Lord Byron to the slave auctions of Haiti, from revival meetings to dark rituals of resurrection..." |
| S. P. Somtow | Jasmine Nights | Wyatt 1995 First US & Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is 1963. Twelve-year-old Justin has been entrusted to the care of three maiden aunts, an ancient great-great-grandmother, and a wicked uncle... the boy tumbles through a year of magic and discovery... Jasmine Nights is about the American civil rights movement, the Kennedy assassination, growing up in the sixties, the Thai aristocracy, the sexual eccentricities of relatives and the meaning of friendship... " |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Tagging The Moon: Fairy Tales From L A | Night Shade 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top edge of front board and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The loss of innocence. The seduction of death. The tragedy of desperate obsession... these are the things men and women are made of... ten extraordinary stories set in the surreal urban nightmare known as Los Angeles... " |
| Jon Sprunk | Shadow's Lure | Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Book | £3.00 | "In Othir he was... An assassin beyond compare... But Caim left that life behind when he helped an empress claim her throne. Now, searching for the truth behind the murder of his parents... Caim finds himself in a land in thrall to the Shadow... " |
| Neal Stephenson | Anathem | Atlantic 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, short, fine biro line on lower page edges and a few page corners slightly bumped else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world... Now, in celebration of the... rite of Alpert, Raz and his colleagues prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates... " |
| Charles Stross | The Clan Corporate Book Three of The Merchant Princes | Tor 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like the mafia for comfort... " |
| Charles Stross | The Family Trade Book One Of The Merchant Princes | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter... making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered... " |
| Charles Stross | The Hidden Family Book Two of the Merchant Princes | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small dark spot at for-edge of front free end paper else Fine book in Dust Jacket, a little worn at the fold tips | £4.00 | "The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but... " |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | Sword Song | Bodley Head 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Bjarni is a boy banished from his homeland because of a desperate deed in which blood is shed. Forced to fend for himself, he takes to the seas as a mercenary swordsman - in search of independence, adventure and a new life... His journey takes him to... Belfast Lough. And here Bjarni meets the man who is to shape the course of his life for years to come... " |
| 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 book 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." |
| Michael Swanwick | Jack Faust | Millennium 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "At the turn of the sixteenth century... Magister Faust is made an offer he cannot refuse by a force he cannot resist. If he accepts the offer he will know all there is to know, have answers to the mysteries of physics, astronomy and religion that have long frustrated him, but if he accepts he will also be condemning the human race to inevitable death... " |
| Michael Swanwick | Vacuum Flowers | Simon & Schuster 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In the sprawling space civilisations of the future, where humans live in hollowed-out asteroids, tunnelled comets and other artificial habitats, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark awakes in the Medical Centre in the body of another woman. In her world brains and psyches can be re-programmed in hours, bodies cloned and copyrighted and human capabilities enhanced by instant 'wetware' programming..." |
| Robert Swindells | World-Eater | Hodder & Stoughton 1987 | Pages slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "On the night of the big storm a mysterious new planet appears in the sky... Scientific probes reveal some incredible facts about this planet: its surface is a thin, smooth crust and it has a liquid interior. It is unlike any other planet known to man. It is Orville who... realises the truth about the planet's true nature. But will anyone believe him... " |
| Laini Taylor | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Hodder 2011 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously? | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | "Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost crow that delivered it. Karon... gathered up her things... On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, on the other, errand girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest approach she has to family... " |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Silmarillion | Allen & Unwin 1977 First Edition First Printing Printed by William Clowes - No price on DJ | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket with the spine panel red lettering slightly faded. | £10.00 | "... not a romance, not a fairy story, not a fictitious history contrived for its own sake. It is a work of unparalleled and sustained imagination, a sombre vision in the mode of myth and legend of the conflict between the desire to dominate the world and other wills and the creative power that proceeds from the development of... inner talents..." The scarce 1st State 'Export Edition' |
| Peter Tremayne (Peter Beresford Ellis) | The Fires of Lan-Kern | Bailey Bros. 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... more than drama, romance and mysticism, it offers a deep philosophical approach to life and contains many telling parables of our own times... based firmly in the fantastic - and often misinterpreted - world of Celtic mythology... persuasive and thought-provoking product of a keen imagination." First of the trilogy. |
| George Turner | The Sea And Summer (1988 Arthur Clarke Winner) (Drowning Towers) | Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, adhesive show-through at end paper gutters and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "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) | American Empire (Blood And Iron+The Center Cannot Hold+The Victorious Opposition) | Hodder & Stoughton 2001-3 All Are First Edition in the UK First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... As the 1920's begin... the seeds of a new conflict have already been sown, The United States, led by Theodore Roosevelt, swings wildly towards socialism. In Canada - now a US colony - nationalist terrorists strike against the new American oppressors. But it is in the Confederacy... where fascism begins to spread... " |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | The Guns of the South | UK (S.F.B.C.) 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then Andries Rhoodie, a time-travelling South African... approaches Lee with... a strange new rifle called the AK-47... " |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1972 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, edges and front cover slightly rubbed, a couple of light cover creases and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 14th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1973 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Worn at the top and slightly worn at the base of the spine, edges and spine panel a little rubbed, upper rear front corner lightly bumped and page edges lightly browned - Very Good Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 15th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1974 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, edges lightly rubbed, lower rear corner lightly creased and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1975 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Worn at the top and slightly worn at the base of the spine, edges a little rubbed, lower rear front corner lightly bumped and page edges lightly browned and a little marked - Very Good Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 17th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1976 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, a couple of short, light cover creases, top front corner lightly bumped and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1977 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at the top and base of the spine and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 19th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1978 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine and edges and corners lightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1979 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, covers lightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned and marked - Very Good Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1980 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1981 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 23rd Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1982 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, lower rear corner lightly bumped and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1983 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at the top and base of the spine and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Book | £20.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1984 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little wear at the top and base of the spine and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £20.00 | The special celebratory book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1967 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at the top and base of the spine and page edges browned - Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, short paper tear at base of the spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1964 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at the top and base of the spine and page edges browned - Near Fine Book | £15.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1963 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and with a small paper/hinge tear at the base of the spine and page edges browned - Very Good Book | £7.50 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1968 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and rubbed at base of the spine and page edges browned and slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1963 First Edition Eighth Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn and torn at the top and worn at base of the spine and page edges browned - Very Good Book | £3.00 | The first book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1962 First Edition Sixth Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, light spine creasing, spine edges a little rubbed, previous owner's stamp on prelim page and page edges browned - Very Good Book | £3.00 | The second book in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1966 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine and page edges browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1965 First Edition Second Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, small triangle of paper missing from base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked - Very Good Book | £5.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1969 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, lower front corner a little bumped and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1962 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers worn, torn and creased, sellotape markings, previous owner's stamp on prelim page, and pages browned and marked- ?Good? Copy | £3.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Herbert Van Thal | The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Editor) | Pan 1971 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly worn at the top and base of the spine, edges and front cover slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | One of the books in the long-running series selecting the best horror of the year |
| Immanuel Velikovsky | Peoples of the Sea Ages In Chaos: Volume IV | Sidgwick & Jackson 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top page edges foxed else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed and browned Dust Jacket with the Publisher's price sticker on the front flap | £5.00 | "... evidence that Ramses III lived 800 years later... the Peoples of the Sea were Greek mercenaries... what an avalanche, must accompany such a disclosure: kingdoms must topple, empires must glide over centuries, descendants and ancestors must change places,'" |
| Immanuel Velikovsky | Ramses II And His Time A Volume in the Ages In Chaos Series | Sidgwick & Jackson 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed and edge-worn Dust Jacket with rear panel film lamination starting to blister near the rear fold and Publisher's price sticker on the front flap With 'Velikovsky Today' slip | £5.00 | "... suggests that our accepted chronology... is incorrect, that Ramses II... is identical with Pharaoh Necho of the scriptures... the enemy that confronted Ramses at... Kadesh was Nebuchadnezzar... a struggle that was to last for nineteen years, while tiny Judea... lost its statehood... " |
| Jules Verne | Novels by Jules Verne being the following Five Books, reprinted unabridged and included in one volume: (Selected and Edited by H. C. Harwood) | Gollancz 1929 First Combined Edition Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened - Very Good to Near Fine book | £10.00 | Introductory Note by H. C. Harwood; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Floating Island, The Blockade Runners, Hector Servadac |
| Joan Vinge | The Summer Queen | Warner 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few lower page edges, and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Sequel to The Snow Queen. |
| Hugh Walters | First Family on the Moon | Abelard Schuman/Grasshopper 1979 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Light cross-spine creasing, corners slightly rubbed and page edges slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine book | £5.00 | "The Hills are a very unusual family. Captain Hill is an astronaut who has made several moon landings. Peter Hill, aged twelve, has already been up in space once as a member of the Apollo 20A crew. Now the whole family is being sent to the moon as part of the N.A.S.A. experiments... then things go very wrong... " Scarce. |
| Ivor Watkins | Demon | Macdonald 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The rains came. And came. Half Wales lay waterlogged. In the depths of an isolated valley, a landslip - and Ancient Evil saw the light of a new day.. the Demon is awakening to claim Its own - and nothing can stand in Its way... " |
| Martha Wells | The Gate of Gods Book Three of the Fall of Ile-Rien | Eos 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | £5.00 | "Searching for a way to stop the dread Gardier... Tremaine Valliarde discovered a new world filled with perils and potential allies. Now aided by her mercurial, mysterious father, Nicholas, and a brave band of heroes, she fights to recover the magical city of Lodun... " |
| Robert Westall | The Night Mare | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower board edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Miss Crimond was sitting in Dad's chair which had once been Grandpa's chair; and Billy hated her. To Billy and all the families who rented houses in Back Tennyson Street, Miss Crimond was the arch enemy. Billy and his gang declare war... But Billy's campaign has unexpected consequences when he sees the night mare, the horse of his dreams... " |
| Ian Whates | The Noise Within | Solaris 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower spine corners slightly rubbed - else Fine book | £4.00 | "On the brink of perfecting the long sought-after human/AI interface, Philip Kaufman finds his world thrown into turmoil... and dangerous information falls into his hands. Pursued by assassins... he flees. Leyton, a government black-ops specialist, is diverted... to hunt down the elusive pirate vessel The Noise Within... " |
| Michael Whelan | Wonderworks Science Fiction And Fantasy Art | Donning/Starblaze 1979 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Artist (No. 387/2000) | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book without Dust Jacket as issued in slightly bumped and rubbed slipcase. | £50.00 | 119 pages with full colour artwork. Editors Note by Kelly Freas, Foreword by the Artist, Six sections of Artwork with comments by the artist and Biographical Outline.. Contributions from Poul Anderson, C. J. Cherryh, Alan Dean Foster, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock & Gerald W. Page. |
| John Whitbourn | A Dangerous Energy | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across lower edge of rear board and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "England 1967: ruled by the power of the Catholic Church, as it has been since the failure of the Protestant Reformation. In this England there are steam trains, but no internal combustion engine, rifles but no electricity; heresy but no democracy. And in this England, magic works... " This author's first book. |
| John Whitbourn | Popes And Phantoms | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Admiral Slove was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension... in his sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim, walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with the Pope might be mirrored, exactly, by one with the Devil. Reality shifts could cause a King to see his capital city shimmer into another Realm entirely..." |
| John Whitbourn | To Build Jerusalem | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "One morning in 1995, Jonah Ransome, clothier, is going about his everyday business when he meets a beautiful demon in his storecupboard. At around the same time, the King of England with his entire court, vanishes abruptly before the astonished eyes of his public... Even in an England where the Reformation failed... such events could be described as unusual... " |
| Ronald Wickers | Venture Science Fiction (UK) (Editor) | Atlas Publishing 1963-5 (14 Issues) | Generally Very Good or better copies | £15.00 | the lot or £2 each. - Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20 & 22 |
| Tad Williams | Otherland Volume One City of Golden Shadow | Legend 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... takes us to our own near future when a global conspiracy at the highest levels threatens to sacrifice our Earth for the promise of a far more exclusive place - Otherland, a universe where any fantasy can be made real, but which is ruled by Earth's wealthiest and most ruthless power-brokers, The Grail Brotherhood... " |
| Tad Williams | Otherland Volume Three Mountain of Black Glass | Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page corner tips creased and page edges browned else Fine book in creased Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "... Otherland is owned and controlled by a secret cartel, the Grail Brotherhood. And the Brotherhood's motives in funding and developing this electronic wonderland are not at all straightforward... " |
| Tad Williams | Otherland Volume Two River of Blue Fire | Orbit 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small split in material at base of spine, and page edges differentially browned and slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "... a small band of adventurers has penetrated the secrecy that surrounds Otherland and has broken into the amazing worlds within worlds it contains. But now they are trapped, unable to escape back to their flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. And as dangers and circumstances split their party into small scattered groups... " |
| Tad Williams | Shadowheart Volume Four of Shadowmarch | Orbit 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Barrick Eddon, prince of Southmarch, is no longer entirely human. He has vowed to safeguard the legacy of the dark Qar race... His twin sister Briony has a difficult choice... Her father... is held captive by the Autarch... who plans to use Olin's blood to gain unlimited power... And... As the Great Defeat draws near..." |
| Tad Williams | Shadowrise Volume Three of Shadowmarch | Orbit 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "As shadows threaten to consume the kingdom of Southmarch, Barrick Eddon, heir to the March throne, battles his way across the sinister Shadowlands... Princess Briony... finds herself in no less danger... Meanwhile the assault upon Southmarch has truly begun... " |
| Connie Willis | Doomsday Book (1993 Hugo Award & '92 Nebula Winner) | Bantam 1992 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) | Light crease to rear cover, edges slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book | £10.00 | "... a novel that explores the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit... " |
| Robert Charles Wilson | The Perseids And Other Stories | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The Fields of Abraham; The Perseids; The Inner Inner City; The Observer; Protocols of Consumption; Ulysses Sees The Moon In The Bedroom Window; Plato's Mirror; Divided by Infinity; Pearl Baby and Afterword |
| Jack Womack | Random Acts Of Senseless Violence | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tip of the rear folds. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... in a disintegrating New York... the dam which shores up the wealth of the haves against the misery of the have-nots is bursting. War is breaking out on Long Island, the Army boys are flamethrowing the streets, the National Guard are holding Washington, five Presidents have been assassinated in one year. No one notices anymore... " |
| Jack Womack | Terraplane | Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Luther and Jake... 've got a job to do... to steal Oktobriana... and the experimental transfer device... It's a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong... New York. 1939. It's a nightmare. The slave trade has only just been abolished... Churchill is dead. Roosevelt has been assassinated, Europe lies vulnerable..." |
| Chris Wooding | The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (Silver Smarties Winner) | Scholastic 2001 First Edition First Printing | Lower front edge and corner bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof With Publisher's advertising sheet | £100.00 | "Inspired by Gormenghast and H. P. Lovecraft... a Gothic adventure set in Victorian London, all gas-lit and creepy, where wych-hunters roam the streets at night, seeking out the dreadful creatures who terrorise the capital's citizens. Thaniel Fox is only an apprentice... with an uncanny nose for anything from the dark side... " Silver Smarties Winner |
| Patrick Woodroffe | A Closer Look | Paper Tiger 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and Title page roughly removed - Good? book in slightly creased and browned Dust Jacket a little rubbed at the top of the spine | £5.00 | "... the personal techniques which he has he has perfected over twenty years to achieve his brilliant results... the ideas behind his art... where... they come from...Full colour illustrations show the progress of different styles of painting through their different stages, focusing on the minute details... " |
| William F. Wu | Hong On The Range | Walker 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket with the red framing lines on the front panel partially faded. | £4.00 | "... Most of the cowboys were partly mechanical... Most folk looked down on a man who didn't have at least one bionic hand. Louis Hong was determined to make his way in the new Wild West... explain to the bounty hunters who were after him for robbing a bank... and the outlaw gang that was after him for stealing the loot, that he hadn't done any of it... " |
| Janny Wurts | Shadowfane | Grafton 1990 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Ivainson Jaric, heir to Firelord's legacy, must assume the powers that destroyed his father. If he survives, if he can free the Stormwarden from a prison of ice, then wind and water, fire and earth, will once more stand united against Lord Scait and his demon hordes... " Book 3 of the Cycle of Fire. First Printings are quite scarce. |
| 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 book 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... " |
| Alan Wykes | H. G. Wells in the Cinema | Jupiter 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small adhesive 'ghost' on front free end paper and pages lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a hint of wear at the tips of the front fold | £10.00 | "... from Charles Pathe's first production of The Invisible Man... to the latest all-star-cast spectacle... a nostalgic, entertaining, and often funny history of the films... more than a hundred stills... " 176 pages with Appendix of known credits. |
| Carl B. Yoke | Journal Of The Fantastic In The Arts (Editor With Roger Schlobin and W. A. Senior) | JOTFITA 1988-1999 | Very Good to Near Fine Copies | £4.00 | Approximately Each: Vol. 1/1 - £5; Vol. 2/2 - £3; Vol. 5/1 - £3; Vol. 9/4 - £3; Vol. 10/1 - £4; Vol. 10/2 - £5; Vol. 10/3 - £4; |
| Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge | Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower rear corner slightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £2.00 | "When the Ring aliens first thought to contact other worlds, they gave no consideration to the fact that other species might be constructed differently from themselves. Deep-space dwellers, more like large and complex bundles of genetic information than physical entities, they sent their probes off into the night hoping to build a bridge between their dark and beautiful society and others... " |
| Steve Zell | Wizrd | St. Martin's Press 1994 Second Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Bryce Willems... fourteen-year-old son of a New York artist who's joined the growing arts colony of Pinon Rim... it becomes apparent that something... is very wrong... a clash of ancient, vengeful powers that will not rest until the deadly wheel of destiny is set in motion... " |
| David Zindell | A Requiem For Homo Sapiens (The Broken God+The Wild+War In Heaven) | HarperCollins/Voyager 1993-8 All Are First Edition First Printing Books 1 & 2 Hardback, Book 3 is Trade Paper (not issued in Hardback) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and page edges lightly browned else Fine books in like Dust Jackets - volume 2 DJ with a small crease in the rear flap. - volume 3 not issued in Dust Jacket. | £35.00 | "... set in Neverness, legendary City of Light... into its maze of colour-coded streets of ice a wild boy stumbles, starving, frostbitten and grieving... Danlo the Wild, a messenger from the deep past of man... alone of his tribe has survived a plague... his mind shaped by primitive man, brings to Neverness a single long-lost memory that will challenge them all... " |
| David Zindell | The Ea Cycle (The Lightstone+Lord of Lies+Black Jade) | Voyager 2001-5 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. | £35.00 | "On the island continent of Ea it is late in the Age of the Dragons. It is a dark time of chaos. war, and the dashed dreams of long-lost ages. Once again Morjin, the fallen angel, is seeking the Lightstone. With it he will eventually find a way to free Angra Mainyu, the Lord of Lies, the dark archangel imprisoned for a million years... " |
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