| Kathy Acker |
Empire Of The Senseless |
Picador 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, end papers slightly foxed and page edges browned (as usual) and slightly foxed Very Good to Near Fine Copy in browned and foxed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... set in a less-than-distant future time... where the wretched of the earth have seized power over a bleak new world... Abhor... and Thivai... journey on an odyssey and savage sexual carnage, a holocaust of the erotic painted in the fearsome colours of blood and death... " |
| Peter Ackroyd |
Milton In America |
Sinclair-Stephenson 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Lower corners slightly bumped, lower page edges foxed and browned and a few page corners bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the king's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England?... an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed... " |
| Douglas Adams |
Mostly Harmless |
Heinemann 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills... " |
| Douglas Adams |
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish |
Pan 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and upper corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"...and then, one Thursday, nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting somewhere on her own somewhere in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." |
| Douglas Adams |
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy |
Pan 1979 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Slight spine lean, a couple of light spine creases, page edges browned and slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy |
£20.00 |
"'People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planing Council. Plans for development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspacial express route through your solar system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition... " First Printings of this have always been very scarce. |
| Douglas Adams |
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe |
Millennium 1994 |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With facsimile Author's signature on front end paper |
£4.00 |
"Milliways... has been projected forwards in time to the exact moment of the end of the universe. While galactic gourmets sample delectable dishes they watch in total comfort as constellations collide and asteroids explode in what can only be described as the ultimate cabaret... " |
| Richard Adams |
Shardik |
Simon & Schuster 1974 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Very Good to Near Fine Copy in torn and slightly browned Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"...a novel of intensity, depth and imaginative force which transcends Watership Down." |
| Richard Adams |
The Girl In A Swing |
Allen Lane 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and top page edges a little dusty else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Not the "Suppressed" First State with the lead female called Kathe Gutner, (which seems to have been sent to Australia/Canada) this state has the name changed to "Karin Forster" as being 'easier' for an English-speaking audience (and perhaps avoiding a lawsuit?). A haunting love-story... |
| Joan Aiken |
Foul Matter |
Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket a little browned along the top edge |
£7.50 |
"... search for a missing child, long believed to have perished, who now, it's mysteriously hinted, may still be alive: Clytie Churchill, our heroine, is receiving horrible anonymous letters... The child was not hers but that of her husband, Dan, who was drowned on the very day he married her... " |
| Joan Aiken |
The Haunting of Lamb House |
Cape 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"A disturbed, alien presence may sometimes be sensed in the gracious Georgian building, or outside in its exquisite half-acre of walled garden. E. F. Benson actually saw the ghost. Henry James felt it. Or why, as soon as he had moved in, should he write The Turn of the Screw? This is the story of what might have happened... a combination of ghost story, biography, and fantasy... " |
| Gill Alderman |
The Archivist A black romance |
Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's promotional 16 page booklet |
£10.00 |
"For thousands of years the planet Guna has been ruled by a powerful matriarchy. Science is banned...Scientific data and secrets accumulated over the centuries have been locked away in the Forbidden Archive... The Archivist is a man driven by obsessive guilt and ambition... and nurses a heretical plan for revolution that will destroy the rule of women... " |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss |
Cracken At Critical |
Kerosina 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing Limited State & Thus Signed by the Author |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket and box, together with The Magic of the Past (unsigned) |
£25.00 |
"... It is 30 years since Brian Aldiss' first science fiction book was published, and Cracken at Critical is the author's own sardonic glance at the formative years of his career as a writer. For those who appreciate serious SF, this book will come as a welcome dose of light relief... " |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss |
Cracken At Critical |
Kerosina 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing & Thus |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the rear fold |
£7.50 |
"... It is 30 years since Brian Aldiss' first science fiction book was published, and Cracken at Critical is the author's own sardonic glance at the formative years of his career as a writer. For those who appreciate serious SF, this book will come as a welcome dose of light relief... " |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss |
Forgotten Life |
Gollancz 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a novel of immense scope, encompassing comedy and tragedy, joy and grief, as its three main characters try to work out the most difficult problem of all - the meaning of their own lives... " |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss |
The Cretan Teat |
House of Stratus 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, rubbed at top and base of spine |
£7.50 |
"... most ribald novel since The Hand-reared Boy... the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus: a fake ikon becomes an instrument of Nemesis. The narrator... is a randy but unfortunate author who intrudes in his own story... " |
| Brian Wilson Aldiss |
The Secret Of This Book 20-Odd Stories |
HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold. |
£5.00 |
"... a breathtaking collection of recent short stories... Many of the stories are inter-related, their themes being life, death, transformation. A linking commentary between stories shows how such themes are explored... The stories almost become chapters in a long, curious novel... " |
| Buzz Aldrin |
Encounter With Tiber |
Warner 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... two grand quests, two dynasties of heroes. A new space race is sparked by a bitter feud between scientist-astronaut Chris Terence and visionary entrepreneur Sig Jarlsbourg: two enemies determined to claim the frontier blazed by the Apollo pioneers. But a radio beacon from deep space, from a world called Tiber, will bring both men together - and lead one to his doom... " |
| Roger MacBride Allen |
Isaac Asimov's Inferno |
Millennium 1994 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges bruised and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... On the decaying Spacer world of Inferno, amidst the technological sophistication of the Limbo terraforming station, the no-law robot Caliban finds himself intermediary in the complex relations between robots and humans. But when a key politician is murdered, fear of Caliban as the robot without guilt or conscience... escalates - and crisis begins... " |
| Roger MacBride Allen |
Isaac Asimov's Utopia |
Millennium 1996 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small (7 x 2 mm) delaminated area at top edge of rear panel |
£10.00 |
"Isaac Asimov's famous Three Laws, which provide far-future humanity with omni-compliant robots, ultimately led to a vision of hell - human existence with all challenge and conflict removed. Thus Asimov proposed the New Laws to Roger MacBride Allen, laws which endow humanity with helping hands, but not slaves... " Third of the trilogy. |
| Roger MacBride Allen |
The Ring Of Charon The First Book of the Hunted Earth |
Orbit 1991 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... When Larry... manages to harness the giant Ring of Charon, orbiting Pluto's only moon, to control a field of over one million gravities... no one knows... the entity hidden in Earth's Moon... would then tell the aliens it was time to vanish the Earth." |
| Aaron Allston |
Terminator 3 Terminator Dreams |
Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Despite the heroic efforts of John Connor and Kate Brewster, and the ultimate sacrifice of a T-850 terminator, Skynet became operational and mobilised its machine forces in an all-out war against its prime enemy, mankind... " Novel based on the characters created in the movie ''Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines''. |
| Kingsley Amis |
Russian Hide And Seek |
Hutchinson 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"England fifty years after its takeover by the Soviet Union... official Rolls-Royces move among horse-drawn carts... Alexander Petrovsky... becomes involved in a plot to topple the occupying government and return the country to the natives... " |
| Martin Amis |
Heavy Water And Other Stories |
Cape 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small pressure mark adjacent to spine. |
£7.50 |
Nine stories Career Move; Denton's Death; State of England; Let Me Count the Times; The Coincidence of the Arts; Heavy Water; The Janitor on Mars; Straight Fiction; and What Happened to Me on My Holiday. |
| Martin Amis |
Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence |
Cape 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground. Nobody knows I'm here: I'm stuck with this man, brutally yoked to Tod and his nightmare visions - the white coat, the black boots, the bloodstained rubber bib. My future, his past... " |
| Jay Amory (James Lovegrove) |
The Fledging of AZ Gabrielson The Clouded World Book I |
Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high among the clouds. It’s a life of ease and beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity... " |
| Jay Amory (James Lovegrove) |
The Wingless Boy |
Gollancz 2006 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Fine copy. With Publisher's Press Release |
£5.00 |
"Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high among the clouds. It’s a life of ease and beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity... " The first two books in the series. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
Scattered Suns Saga Of Seven Suns Book 4 |
Warner 2005 First US & Hardback Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells - including one of the fabled suns of the Ildiran Empire... Can mankind and Ildirans overcome their own internal fighting to face a deadly new enemy that is ready to annihilate them?... " |
| Poul Anderson |
For Love And Glory |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine a few page corners creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly scratched, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Lissa, a human Earth woman, and her partner, "Karl", a giant alien academic who resembles a Tyrannosaur, are interstellar archaeologists... they've discovered an immense artifact that may have been left by the mysterious beings called the Forerunners... " |
| Poul Anderson |
The Broken Sword |
Compton Russell 1974 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Thus |
Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, slight bump to upper edge of rear panel and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in original imprinted plastic Dust Jacket. Note: there appears to have been a reaction which affected the orange boards directly under the black DJ lettering, lightening it to yellow in these places only. |
£35.00 |
Although first published by Abelard Schuman in 1954 this First UK Hardback edition follows the text of the 1971 Ballantine Adult Fantasy edition, revised by the author, and was his preferred text. As this edition was only issued to the UK Public Library system, and was not generally for sale, it is somewhat uncommon. |
| Anonymous |
Pieces of Six An Anthology of works by the Guests of Honour at Bucconeer, the 56th Annual World Science Fiction Convention |
Eyeball Books/Bucconeer 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and lower front corner, and faint (?water) stain to edge of both free end papers else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Michael Whelan & Signed & Inscribed by C. J. Cherryh |
£20.00 |
The Parallels Of Penzance by Michael A. Burstein & Stanley Schmidt; The Turning Of Auberon Mansfield by Charles Sheffield ; Fusion by Milton A Rothman; Pinnocchio by Stanley Schmidt and Pots by C. J. Cherryh |
| F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie) |
Tourmalin's Time Cheques |
Heinemann and Balestier 1891 - Issued Without Dust Jacket? (Green Cloth, Black Spine label blocked in Gold, Gilt top page edges, 181p. - No Catalogue) |
Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and corners, cloth darkened and a little stained and rubbed, spine label slightly cracked and rubbed, free end papers and page edges a little browned, previous owner's initials on front free end paper, first few pages slightly marked and one small mark on top page edges - around Very Good Copy - possibly rebound and no publisher's name on spine. |
£20.00 |
Early time-travel novel based on the idea of 'banking' otherwise unused, boring time and then reclaiming it later... very scarce edition, probably issued as part of H. & B.'s 'English Library' published on the Continent in a similar format to the Tauchnitz Editions in the same year as the Arrowsmith first edition. |
| Patricia Anthony |
God's Fires |
Ace 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... In Portugal, where the Inquisition protects the true word of God, Father Manoel Pessoa has begun to hear strange confessions... Glowing lights in the sky. Angels who lie with village women. A virgin birth... Alfonso... has seen God Himself fall to Earth in a ship, round like an acorn... " |
| Piers Anthony |
Bio of a Space Tyrant Volume 1: Refugee |
Severn House 1988 First UK Hardback Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and across a few page edges Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Later he was to be accused of every crime and perversion in the galaxy, but Hope Hubris began as an innocent boy... daring to defend his sister against the violent assault of a wealthy scion... forced to flee... Pursued... across the airless desert, they barely escaped with their lives... " |
| Piers Anthony |
Dragon's Gold |
Severn House 1992 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bumped at top and lightly bumped at base of spine, slightly spine crease and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... The Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper; an evil sorcerer has taken the throne in the name of his wicked daughter... the people tremble... But Kelvin and Jon... have found a dragon's territory, where scales of purest gold... lie free on the ground... " |
| Piers Anthony |
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold |
Baen 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"In the age of the Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day... great for dieting... but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket... over a would-be rampaging male... No uppity males in Mazonia!... " |
| Piers Anthony |
Kirlian Quest |
Millington 1979 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 slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"...The Second War of Energy is over, but hurtling towards Cluster is a million-ship spacefleet from the energy galaxy of Amoeba - and only Herald the Healer can stop it!" Third in the series. |
| Piers Anthony |
Rings Of Ice |
Millington 1975 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and marked Dust Jacket with a 20mm tear on lower edge of back panel |
£10.00 |
"The wide white rainbow meant one thing: Noah's flood, only worse. Three men and three women trapped in a motor-home, battle a global flood that spells the end of civilisation... " |
| Piers Anthony |
The Cluster Trilogy |
Millington 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardbacks First Printings |
Page edges of volume one slightly foxed, else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jackets |
£35.00 |
"...On the far future planet of Outworld, where primitive men and nubile women still battle with giant dinosaurs, the barbaric genius Flint is summoned by the Earth-born to fulfil a mission of Galactic magnitude - the experimental transfer of his Kirlian essence to an alien sphere..." |
| Piers Anthony |
The Dastard |
Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Becka was a crossbreed... she journeyed to the Good Magician Humphrey to discover her True Purpose in life. Much to her astonishment... the Magician told her that a great Destiny awaited her - one that would affect the future of all of Xanth... " |
| Piers Anthony |
The Gutbucket Quest |
Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck and just about broke... He loves his music... Then one day the music loves him back. In a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. It's a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same... " |
| Piers Anthony |
The Ring |
Macdonald 1969 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with old biro price on front flap |
£30.00 |
"After a distinguished space service career, Jeff had come back to the planet of his birth bent on vengeance - against the powerful man who had framed Jeff's father and caused the whole of his family to be sent into space exile." |
| Piers Anthony |
Total Recall |
Legend 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Spine ends bruised and top corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Douglas Quaid is haunted by nightmares of what seems someone else's life. Though he has never been to Mars, he dreams of the planet, of covert missions, unfriendly agents, a beautiful woman, and a life much more glamorous than his earthbound AD 2089 reality... inspired by a classic Phillip K. Dick short story... " |
| Piers Anthony |
Vicinity Cluster |
Millington 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. |
£5.00 |
"...the first volume in the sexy, savage, brilliantly conceived CLUSTER trilogy of interplanetary adventure..." |
| Keith Antil |
Moon In The Ground |
Norstrilia Press 1979 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and lower cornersb else Fine copy in Dust Jacket worn at the corners and ends of spine. |
£5.00 |
"What is really happening at the famous and very secret US base just outside of Alice Springs?... Communication with Pandora? And who is Pandora? An ancient Aboriginal god, the origin of the Rainbow Snake legends from the dreamtime? A computer with a very quirky sense of humour... a fable of remarkable emotional intensity and intellectual clarity... " Scarce. |
| Christopher Anvil |
The Trouble With Aliens |
Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... This volume includes: The complete stories of the war with the Outs, collected for the first time into a novel-length chronicle... Another set of aliens arrive to conquer the Earth with the promise of eternal youth... Who's the best human envoy to deal with aliens who can read minds... stories of human/alien conflict... " |
| Tom Arden |
The King and Queen of Swords Second Book of THE OROKON |
Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and a few page edges bruised and very faintly stained else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Rich in magic, mystery, horror and humour... vividly depicts and eighteenth-century world of armies and assassins, brothels and bandits, love and longing, ransom and rape - and looming over it all, the ancient riddle of the King and Queen of Swords." |
| Campbell Armstrong |
Agents of Darkness |
Hodder & Stoughton 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Charlie Galloway was a good cop... a close friend calls for help... A brutal murder has taken place... Charlie's investigation becomes, ultimately, a journey of painful self-discovery... on a trail of intrigue and rapid-fire action that reaches from Manila to the White House... " |
| Catherine Asaro |
Ascendant Sun |
Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth... With little more than the clothes on his back and his family imprisoned by the Allieds, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel. . But when that vessel enters Euban space, Kelric finds his worst nightmare realized: he is auctioned as a slave ''provider'' to the cruel Aristos... " |
| Catherine Asaro |
Skyfall |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top- page edges marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"... Skyfall goes back to the beginning, to the rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forged a vast interstellar empire... " |
| Catherine Asaro |
The Final Key |
Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket a little creased along top edge of rear panel. |
£5.00 |
Volume Two of the Triad, sequel to ''Schism" - part of the Saga of the Skolian Empire sf series. "... the Skolian Empire come under all-out assault from its nemesis, the Euban Concord, who have undermined the Skolians via subterfuge and assassination, leaving them ripe for conquest... " |
| Catherine Asaro |
The Moon's Shadow |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a thrilling new chapter in this galaxy-spanning epic, as the titanic conflicts which have raged across the cosmos at last come to a climax... " |
| Isaac Asimov |
The Gods Themselves |
Gollancz 1972 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Top 2mm of boards slightly faded, page edges a little foxed and browned and previous owner's name on front free end paper - Very Good Copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... a thrilling race-against-time story of which the first part is set on Earth in the year 2100, the second in a strange universe parallel in time, known to our scientists as a para-universe, and the third in a lunar colony. The invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump threatens the rate of hydrogen fusion in the sun, leading inevitably to the possibility of a vast explosion... " |
| Isaac Asimov |
The Ugly Little Boy |
Doubleday 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the base of the rear fold |
£5.00 |
"... When Stasis Technologies, Ltd., plucks a Neanderthal child off the prehistoric tundra and transports it into the twenty-first century, the scientific conglomerate gives no thought to the creature's human feelings. The nurse assigned to the case must somehow bridge the 40,000-year gap to forge an emotional bond that transcends time... " |
| Janet Asimov (Also as Janet O. Jeppson) |
Mind Transfer |
Walker 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, spine creased, and a red felt pen dot on bottom page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"What happens to a human mind when its patterns are transferred to a superior robot brain? If the transfer succeeds, will the robot be accepted by biological humans? If the transfer fails, what will the results be like?... " |
| Robert Asprin |
The Bug Wars |
St. Martin's Press 1979 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... This is the story of a war. Evolving in a hostile environment, the Tzen have fought and clawed their way to dominance on their own world. Now they and their planet lie in the path of a relentless swarming foe. Hopelessly outnumbered, the Tzen face their greatest test. To survive they must attack... in a war where defeat means certain extinction... " |
| Robert Asprin |
The Cold Cash War |
New English Library 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£3.50 |
"... a near-future that is horrifyingly plausible, and will keep you gripped till the shattering climax." |
| Peter Atkins |
Big Thunder |
HarperCollins 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"...A gentleman vigilante from the pages of a 1930's pulp magazine materialises in present-day Manhattan ready to orchestrate a mass-murder that will at long last reconcile the living with the dead... the most vicious of the cloaked avengers... A young woman... caught up in the dreadful unfolding of a supernatural apocalypse... " |
| Peter Atkins |
Morningstar Or The Vampires Of Summer |
HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... in each case, the cause of death was a massive rupture to the heart, caused by the insertion of a sharpened wooden stake... in each case the victim's mouth was stuffed with garlic... It falls to Donovan Moon, reporter, to meet the man behind the murders, and who claims to be eliminating a community of vampires... " |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) |
Arthor |
Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... The adolescent Arthor is a brutal warrior, a Dark Age killing machine... Sent... on a mission... Arthor becomes entangled with some dangerous magic too potent for even his lethal combat skills... Against such powerful odds, Arthor's reaching... Camelot... begins to look alarmingly uncertain... " |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) |
Beastmarks |
Zeising 1984 First Edition First Printing |
One mark to page edges else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little wear to top edge of the Dust Jacket |
£7.50 |
"... a world where the distinction between dreams and reality blurs, and where fantastic transmogrifications are no more startling than the horrifying mushroom cloud of Hiroshima." |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) |
Solis |
Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"A thousand years in the future, Charles Outis (who has had his head cryonically frozen... ) wakes to find himself enslaved by brutal technocracy. His brain is imprisoned in an automated mining factory in the asteroid belt... his only hope of bodily reincarnation (through cloning) and sanctuary lies in Solis, an elite community on Mars... " |
| A. A. Attanasio (Also as Adam Lee) |
The Dragon And The Unicorn |
Hodder & Stoughton 1994 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, unpriced, Dust Jacket, slightly creased at top of spine panel. |
£7.50 |
"... the first in a brilliant new series of Arthurian fantasies that will set this most enduring of primal legends in a fascinating new light... " Followed by Arthor and The Perilous Order. |
| A. A. Attanasio |
The Perilous Order: Warriors of the Round Table |
Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Arthor must take his frail power... and win the pledges of loyalty from his subjects... But his soul is wracked with a secret... His sister Morgeu carries... their incest child... Amidst towering supernatural forces and ancient magic, the epic story of the legendary king is retold in glowing colours with a new, vigorous passion against a superbly drawn backdrop of ancient Britain." |
| Margaret Atwood |
Bluebeard's Egg and other stories |
Cape 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Significan Moments in the Life of My Mother; Hurricane Hazel; Loulou; or the Domastic Life of the Language; Uglypuss; Two Stories About Emma; Bluebeard's Egg; Spring Song of the Frogs; Scarlet Ibis; The Salt Garden; In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain; The Sunrise and Unearthing Suite |
| Margaret Atwood |
Cat's Eye |
Bloomsbury 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With P. 236 & 7 reversed) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page fore-edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... The realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayals and terros... Atwood has given fascinating dimensions to the ambiguous roots of women's relationships... disquieting, hilarious, comapassionate, haunting and mordant... " |
| Jean M. Auel |
The Plains Of Passage |
Crown 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe... the woman... talks to animals with their own sounds... The tall, yellow-haired man... is... held in awe... for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower... Together they... must reach that place on earth they can call home... " |
| F. Britten Austin |
The War God Walks Again |
Williams & Norgate 1926 First Edition First Printing (red pebbled cloth stamped black & gold) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and front corners a little rubbed, spine slightly browned and leant, boards a little marked and page edges foxed and age-darkened - with front free end paper glued to fixed end paper - apparently a production fault - near Very Good. |
£10.00 |
Clute - "... collection... of stories illustrating problems for UK military security arising in future wars from new weaponry and tactics... occasionally eloquent... " Included in Bleiler's Checklist of Fantastic Literature. |
| Fiona Avery |
The Crown Rose |
Pyr 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the story of Isabelle of France, born heir to the throne... the year is 1240... a time of intense chivalry and faith... one man enters Isabelle's life...becoming her icon, her soul's other half, and her destiny - a man who may... be much more than an ordinary man.. he is far, far older than he appears... " |
| Jonathan Aycliffe (Denis MacEoin also as Daniel Easterman) |
The Lost |
HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... British-born Michael Feraru, scion of a long line of Romanian aristocrats, leaves his country of birth... to reclaim his heritage - a Draculian castle deep in the heart of Transylvania...In a series of letters, journal entries and tape... transcripts, Feraru describes his journey into the heart of the Romanian countryside, wasted by years of neglect... as though the twentieth century had never reached it... " |
| Jonathan Aycliffe (Denis MacEoin also as Daniel Easterman) |
The Matrix |
HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and upper front corner and top page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Andrew Macleod... A sociologist, his work involves an investigation of occult groups in the city... in the library... he hears strange sounds... Hidden among the shelves is a curious book, a magical treatise from the sixteenth century, which contains a terrifying illustration that disturbs him and begins to haunt his sleep... " |
| Steve Aylett |
Atom |
Phoenix House 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£5.00 |
"When you need to speak to one of Eddie Thermidor's boys then you better send the right man. Taffy Atom is that man. He's made his luck on the streets of Beerlight, a city that sprawls like roadkill, and he has a truly monstrous goldfish. Maybe he can get to the bottom of what happened the night the City Brain Facility blew up, taking with it the brain of Tony Curtis... " |
| Steve Aylett |
Shamanspace |
Codex 2001 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Lower page edges slightly marked else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£8.00 |
"God has been found to exist and the race is on to take revenge... Opposing groups of occult assassins compete to exterminate the creator... " |
| Steve Aylett |
Slaughtermatic |
Phoenix House 1998 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Welcome to the future, welcome to Beerlight. Where to kill a man is less a murder than a mannerism. Where integrity is no more than a fierce dream. Where crime is the new and only art form... " |
| Steve Aylett |
The Inflatable Volunteer |
Phoenix House 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"... Welcome to Eddie's world... where grave fillers throng the pavements, where ants are plotting to slash and burn us before we do it to them, where it doesn't pay to have too many dealings with John Satan. Anything can happen, and does. All the time... " |
| Steve Aylett |
Toxicology |
Gollancz 2002 First Edition Thus First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
26 Stories "... some of the stories are original... some stories set in Beerlight... and other set who only knows where... mostly satire with a few lighter pieces... mixed in." |
| Richard Bachman (Stephen King) |
The Regulators |
Penguin/Viking 1996 First (Canadian) Trade Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everything's normal... By the time night falls... the surviving residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no matter how terrible, is possible... and where the regulators are on their way. By what power they have come, how far they will go, and how they can be stopped - these are the desperate questions. The answers are absolutely terrifying." |
| Richard Bachman (Stephen King) |
Thinner |
New American Library 1984 Sixth printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in torn and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Billy Halleck sideswipes an old gypsy woman as she is crossing the street... and everything in his pleasant, upwardly mobile life changes. He is exonerated in the local court... but a blacker, far worse judgement has been passed on him... Billy Halleck begins losing weight. He is pleased at first, them worried, and finally terrified... " |
| Dennis R. Bailey |
Tin Woodman |
Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J08 on P. 181) |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Talents. In a far, yet disquietingly near future, this is what the 'Normals' called children born with psionic abilities. They were hated and feared... An alien artifact is discovered - showing signs of life... There is only one hope to break through to the seemingly dormant creature- a brilliant, unstable teen-ager with unprecedented mental energy... " |
| Dennis R. Bailey |
Tin Woodman |
Sidgwick & Jackson 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"Talents. This is what 'Normals' call children born with psionic abilities. Talents are hated and feared for their powers, and they feel the hostile emotional stream that emanates from Normals... When the star-cruiser Pegasus detects an alien... there is only one Talent thought capable of establishing contact... " |
| Hilary Bailey |
As Time Goes By |
Constable 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and pages browning else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Polly Kops life goes from bad to worse. Her ex-husband Alexander, once a musician, may now be a wealthy merchant banker, but Polly's house in West London is crumbling and peeling, overflowing with junk and miscellaneous possessions, with her four children, grandchild, bellicose ex-lover friends and neighbours... " Sequel to Polly Put the Kettle On. Based on HB's own experiences married to Mike Moorcock, perhaps? |
| Hilary Bailey |
Polly Put The Kettle On |
Constable 1975 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a couple of pieces of lamination missing, a small tear and a little erosion at base of rear fold and spine panel slightly faded (as usual) |
£15.00 |
"Polly Kops is redheaded, clever, turbulent and, above all, illegitimate. She lives in stylish squalor in a broken-down Gothic house near Portobello Road. There, too, her heavy-rock songwriter/writer husband, Alexander, their twin daughters, Polly's pregnant cousin, a malevolent old abortionist, a drug addict.. rock musicians, groupies and hangers-on..." Apparently based on her life with Mike Moorcock. Her first book - scarce. |
| Kage Baker |
Black Project, White Knights |
Golden Gryphon 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised and with a touch of wear at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Prelim Page |
£10.00 |
Part of the Company Dossiers series: Introduction: The Hounds of Zeus; Noble Mold; Smart Alec; Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin; Old Flat Top; The Dust Enclosed Here; The Literary Agent; Lemuria Will Rise!; The Wreck of the Gladstone; Monster Story; Hanuman; Studio Dick Drowns Near Malibu; The Likely Lad; The Queen in Yellow; The Hotel at Harlan’s Landing |
| Kage Baker |
The Graveyard Game |
Tor 2005 First Edition in Paperback First Printing |
Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£7.50 |
"You wouldn't take Lewis for a an immortal cyborg... And Joseph... his parents drew the Neolithic cave paintings in the Cevennes... They're looking for Mendoza, fellow cyborg of Dr. Zeus Incorporated, who has been banished Back Way Back... " |
| Nicholson Baker |
The Fermata |
Chatto & Windus 1984 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued |
£5.00 |
"... the story of Arno Strine, a temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off... An hilarious comedy about sexual fantasy and fantastic sexuality" |
| Nicholson Baker |
The Fermata |
Random House 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Corners bruised and page edges slightly and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket |
£7.50 |
"Arno Strine likes to stop time and take women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata. It proves in the telling to be a very provocative, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work." |
| Will Baker |
The Raven Bride |
Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"The time: an uncomfortably close tomorrow. The place: one of the wildest and remotest on the planet Earth... Here a beautiful young woman, Satchi, half Russian and half Koryak, is drawn reluctantly into the primal, sometimes horrific way of life of the native reindeer herdsmen when they take her from a wrecked research outpost... " |
| Robert T. Bakker |
Raptor Red |
Bantam 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the dull green undergrowth of conifers that bound the edges of the mudflats and riverbeds. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd of plant-eating dinosaurs that mills around the open meadows, moving back and forth with the rapid scanning of a hunter who is thinking about everything she sees. She is an intelligent killer... " |
| Scott Bakker (Also as R. Scott Bakker) |
Neuropath |
Orion 2008 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket slightly rubbed on the inside |
£7.50 |
"... His best friend, Neil, has spent years as a government neuroscientist... has embarked on a spree of killings and mutilations that beggar the imagination. And the FBI want Tom to apprehend him... " |
| David Baldacci |
Absolute Power |
Warner 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bumped at top and base of spine and board edges slightly bumped as are the top page edges, and a few corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Can the President of the United States get away with murder?... combines the highest levels of political intrigue with big-money law, cutting-edge forensics, and the riveting search for truth hidden within the power of the Oval Office... " Thriller. His first book. |
| John Ball |
The First Team |
Michael Joseph 1972 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket with the rear flap a little marked. |
£7.50 |
"Sometime in the not-too-distant future. A Russian named Zalinsky is sitting in the President's chair in the Oval room of the White House... Rigid censorship is taking hold... Pogroms against the Jews are suddenly beginning... only hope is a secret underground organisation... known as - the First Team... " |
| J. G. Ballard |
Millennium People |
Flamingo 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... a bomb goes off at Heathrow... David Markham... discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims... he starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements... Markham... is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control... the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital... " Surprisingly scarce. |
| J. G. Ballard |
Rushing To Paradise |
Flamingo 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, price clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"...the story of sixteen-year-old Neil Dempsey, who finds himself caught up in... obsessive crusade to save the albatross... a brilliant and controversial satire on extremism, guaranteed to ruffle the feathers of environmentalists, animal-rights activists and feminists." |
| J. G. Ballard |
Super-Cannes |
Flamingo 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed and scratched Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Paul Sinclair is calm, sane and curious. He and his bright young wife Jane drive down... to the new community of Eden-Olympia, just above Cannes... Paul... learns that he and his wife have been housed in a villa whose previous occupant had been driven to massacre notable executives on a horrific shooting spree... " |
| J. G. Ballard |
The Day Of Creation |
Lester & Orpen Denys 1987 First Canadian Edition First Printing |
Top board edges slightly rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... " |
| J. G. Ballard |
The Day Of Creation |
Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... " |
| J. G. Ballard |
The Kindness Of Women |
HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada; then after marrying and settling happily into family life, his world is shattered by domestic tragedy... " |
| Iain Banks |
Espedair Street |
Macmillan 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and boards lightly rubbed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£25.00 |
"... a vibrant, zestful rock novel with a strong beat, streaked with shadows and light, rich comic, honest and intensely readable... " Excellent. |
| Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) |
Whit or Isis Amongst the Unsaved |
Little, Brown 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on a prelim page |
£10.00 |
"... Related by a heroine of true originality - a beguiling blend of candour, naivete and naked wit - Whit is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, exploring the techno-ridden vacuity of modern society from a unique perspective." Fun! |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) |
Against A Dark Background |
Orbit 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£35.00 |
"She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families... she is to be hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes she is the last obstacle before their faith's apotheosis. She has to run... " |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) |
Consider Phlebas |
Macmillan 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page corner tips creased, gift inscription on front free end paper and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£30.00 |
"They were like two vast machines, each intent on the others destruction. To the Indirans it was a jihad: a holy war against the ultimate anathema of the Communistic Culture and its sentient Minds. To the Culture, it was a matter of principle, the one fight it couldn't walk away from... " |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) |
Excession |
Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing |
A couple of light cover and spine creases, a little rubbing at the top of the spine panel and page edges a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in slightly crumpled and curled Dust Jacket, stickered with Publication date: 13th June 1996 and Publisher contact Signed and dated (15.6.96) by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space... It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Silent, motionless... the artifact waits... The Culture ships, however, cannot. For the artifact is something they need to understand... " |
| Iain M. Banks |
Feersum Endjinn |
Orbit 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones... Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt... And everything is about to change... " |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) |
Look To Windward |
Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, lower edge of front board and top edge of rear board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with speckles on the inside (no show-through). Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£5.00 |
"... It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient deaths has reached the Culture... " |
| Iain M. Banks (Also as Iain Banks) |
The Player Of Games |
Macmillan 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised, and a little shelf-worn, at top and base of spine, top front corner bruised and rub mark where glue blob (I think?) on front board has been removed, else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£40.00 |
"Gurgeh is one of the greatest game-players the Culture's ever produced; respected and rarely beaten, he is successful at almost everything... the Empire of Azad, a civilization of immense and appalling cruelty... where there exists a game so complex and so closely modeled on the rules of existence that the winner becomes Emperor... " |
| Clive Barker |
Abarat |
HarperCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush... Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away... " Illustrated throughout by the author in full colour. |
| Clive Barker |
Books Of Blood I, II & III |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985 First Edition Thus First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, previous owners' name and date on front free end paper and pages slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peaceful along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, a chosen few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned... " |
| Clive Barker |
Books of Blood Volumes I & II |
Sphere Books 1984 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and pages slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
The first, and arguably the best short stories Clive Barker ever wrote, in the scarce Sphere Hardback edition. |
| Clive Barker |
Books Of Blood Volumes I-VI |
Sphere 1984-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Volumes IV has pages browning and PUBLISHERS DAMAGED STOCK stamped on front free end paper else Near Fine Copies. |
£50.00 |
First Edition, First Issue paperbacks with the distorted mirror illustrations - not by the author. A labour of love - stories packed away into his bottom drawer over 10 or so years, and then offered to a publisher who said - 'Write another three books and we'll publish the lot!' |
| Clive Barker |
Clive Barker's Books Of Blood Volume I |
Macdonald 1991 |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Introduction by Ramsey Campbell; The Book of Blood; The Midnight Meat Train; The Yattering and Jack; Pig Blood Blues; Sex, Death and Starshine; In The Hills, The Cities - some of the best he ever wrote... |
| Clive Barker |
Everville The Second Book of the Art |
HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No 1355/2000) |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that opens onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity. And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact... " |
| Clive Barker |
Imajica |
HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip |
£7.50 |
"... a seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition and mythic horror... the brightly-coloured threads of three memorable characters... United in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery, all three discover the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as God, and as secret as the human soul... " |
| Clive Barker |
Sacrament |
HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Bruised at top and base of spine and across lower board edges, some page corners slightly bumped and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Will Rabjohns has everything. Handsome, famous and revered, he is the world's greatest wildlife photographer... But Will is a haunted man.. he remembers and relives... an encounter with ancient and terrible forces... he is about to engage in a war not only for his own soul, but for the soul of the planet, and every animal that breathes upon it... " |
| Clive Barker |
The Books Of Blood Volumes IV & V |
Leisure Circle 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges browned and previous owner's name on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... mingle the poetic with the barbaric, the beautiful with the repulsive... the potent... cocktail of fantasy, mystery and pure nightmare that has rapidly elevated Barker to the first rank of horror writers... " |
| Clive Barker |
The Great And Secret Show The First Book of the Art |
Collins 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Armageddon begins quietly. It is 1971. In... Palomo Grove four girls go swimming in a mysterious and haunted lake. Nine months later several children are born. Two are the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity. The other is the son of Fletcher, a force for light who has fought the Jaff across America... " |
| Toby Barlow |
Sharp Teeth |
Heinemann 2007 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Bruised at top and base of spine and small area of plastic delamination on rear panel (sticker removal?) else Fine copy. |
£7.50 |
"An ancient race of lycanthropes survives in modern L.A. and its numbers are growing as packs convert the city's downtrodden into their fold. Stuck in the middle are a local dogcatcher and the woman he loves, whose secret past haunts her... Paying no heed to the moon, these packs change from human to wolf at will... " A novel-in-verse. |
| James Barnes |
The Unpardonable War |
Macmillan 1904 First Edition First Printing (Green Cloth with Red, White and Blue Inlay in cover, Gilt titles to spine) |
Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and corners, page edges and end papers age-darkened and a little foxed, top page gilt edge a little tarnished and previous owner's name on front free end paper and title pages |
£15.00 |
War between Britain and America... |
| John Barnes |
A Million Open Doors |
Tor 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across top page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... change has come to Nou Occitan. Formerly isolated... by the limitations of lightspeed... this swashbuckling world finds itself being transformed by the springer, the new technology of instantaneous travel between the stars... a small but growing number of Occitan youth embrace a new way of life... " |
| John Barnes |
Earth Made Of Glass |
Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... twelve years after the events of A Million Open Doors... their task is to bring into the community of the Thousand Cultures the one human world that has yet to build a springer - the terrifyingly hostile world of Briand... " |
| John Barnes |
Earth Made Of Glass |
Orion 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... sequel to... A Million Open Doors... At the furthest reaches of the galaxy exist the Thousand cultures, societies scattered across 31 inhabited worlds in 25 star systems... humanity is expanding and... fight over access to frontier worlds... a war of hatred as three cultural factions threaten a struggle with echoes of the bloodiest genocides of the 20th century." |
| John Barnes |
Finity |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Lyle Pripart's world is coming apart...he was a settled Professor at the University of Aucland... descendant of American expatriates... doesn't care for the Reichs that have dominated the world since the Axis victory over a century ago... His fiancee turns out to be a gun-toting weapons expert... grew up in a world... in which America surrendered to the Soviet Union in the 1970's... " |
| John Barnes |
Finity |
Gollancz 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Earth in 2063: Adolf Hitler won World War II. There are intelligent cars and personal ballistic transports... but there is no United States of America. The USA appears to have almost vanished from humanity's collective memory... Lyle Peripart isn't even aware that he can't keep the USA in his mind for longer than a minute or two - until... " |
| John Barnes |
Kaleidoscope Century |
Millennium 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... in the late 1980's Joshua... a 'non-critical' spy, was unknowingly subjected to scientific experimentation - injected with a virus tailored for bodily renewal. And every fifteen years, he regains ten... Every time... his virus makes him very sick; and when he emerges from his fever... most of his memories have disappeared. so he keeps... a hypertext account of the lives he has lived... " |
| John Barnes |
Mother Of Storms |
Millennium 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Clute - "his most impressive novel... a powerful and complex portrait of a near future world wracked by the eponymous self-fuelling storm, and on the verge of numerous cusps, ethical and practical. Through virtual reality, sex has become extraordinarily present in everyone's consciousness, and genetic engineering helps point the way to the stars. Meanwhile the storm continues... " |
| John Barnes |
Sin Of Origin |
Congdon & Weed 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"In the distant future, the planet Randall becomes the focus of human exploration, Not even Earth before its end boasted the existence of three such highly developed, intelligent species. Forming an interdependent triumvirate being... the Randallans once again begin to fight among themselves because the human teachings undermine key cultural doctrines that united them... " |
| John Barnes |
The Merchants of Souls |
Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Girault Leones, special agent for the shadowy instrumentality in charge of reintegrating humanity's sundered fragments, had been betrayed by his closest friend and superior. The result was the destruction of the planet Briand and the end of Girault's marriage... " |
| Neil Barrett |
The Hereafter Gang |
Ziesing 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Turned off by the present, Doug tries to recapture the joys of his past - Captain Marvel and cinnamon squares, Dr Pepper and window-peeking fun. Nothing goes right until Doug meets Sue Jean... Reality takes a hard right and never slows down... readers who can hang on tight are swept through an indescribable romp that gives new meaning to life, death, and roadside romance... " |
| Neal Barrett, Jr |
Skinny Annie Blues |
Kensington 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. |
£10.00 |
"... Welcome to Wiley Moss's world: a teeming, skewed landscape called the Southwest, populated by a cast of hopelessly venal and endlessly fascinating characters who always have one more guilty secret to reveal... from a redneck porno king to a Whitney Houston look-alike who's a terror on wheels to Annie herself, an angel in cut-offs who stirs primal passions in every man she meets... " Not S. F. |
| Neal Barrett, Jr |
Skinny Annie Blues |