| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Eddings | Domes Of Fire Book One of the Tamuli | Ballantine 1993 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one small tear | £10.00 | "Six years had passed since the redoubtable knight Sparhawk had triumphed over the evil God Azash and returned to Elenia with Queen Ehlana, his bride. And now a new danger had arisen to threaten the peace... the fabled ancient warriors of Tamuli had indeed returned - intent on carnage... " |
| David Eddings | Enchanters' End Game | Century 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, faint discoloration to some page edges and faint impression of old prices on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £200.00 | "... the young Belgarion confronts the evil god Torak to decide the fate of men, gods and Prophecies... " Scarce. |
| David Eddings | Polgara The Sorceress | Del Rey 1997 First Edition in the US First Printing | Spine ends slightly bumped and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "She soars above a world of warriors, kings and priests. the daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has fought wars, plotted palace coups, and worked her powerful magic for three thousand years... the epic culmination of a magnificent saga... " |
| David Eddings | Sorceress Of Darshiva | Bantam 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the fourth book of The Malloreon... Garion and his companions continue their desperate search for Zandramas, the Child of Dark... " |
| David Eddings | The Belgariad 2 | Guild 1985 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | The last two novels in The Belgariad... the titanic struggle of gods and kings and men... scarce. |
| David Eddings | The Elder Gods Book One of The Dreamers | Voyager 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges slightly rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... There are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time the Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake... a stand-alone novel of mythological proportions... the first in a new... series of four books... " |
| David Eddings | The Losers | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower rear corner, slightly bumped across lower edge of front board and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a seedy backstreet in Spokane, Washington... surrounded by 'the losers' , a nightmarish subculture of violence and despair that is kept going - and kept out of sight - by a band of incompetent social workers... enters deeply, sympathetically, into the lives of America's outcasts... " |
| G. C. Edmondson | T. H. E. M. | Doubleday 1974 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and marked Dust Jacket with a short (4mm) tear at the base of the spine | £5.00 | "... The Theriomorph Hellbent Enemy Mission had appeared one day from the endless unexplored reaches of the galaxy... THEM scorched planet after planet... accepted no surrender... self-destructed when they were losing... were not human... the bulk of the Earth fleet was annihilated in the space of a few minutes... " |
| George Alec Effinger | The Bird Of Time | Doubleday 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a tear and a few creases at the top edge of the rear panel. | £5.00 | "Continuing his audacious exploration of the rocky and unpredictable science of time travel... an outrageous and altogether winning tale of one young man's hilarious heroics as the unlikely guardian of mankind's destiny... " |
| Greg Egan | Diaspora | Millennium 1997 First Edition First Printing £16.99 | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "By the end of the 30th century humanity has the ability to travel the universe... The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into three: fleshers - true Homo Sapiens; Gleisner robots - embodying human minds within machines... and polises - supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing... billions of human personalities... " |
| Greg Egan | Our Lady Of Chernobyl | MirrorDanse Books 1995 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 265/500) | Lower rear corner creased and last few page corners also - Very Good Copy Illustrated by Shaun Tan | £30.00 | Short Stories: Chaff; Beyond The Whistle Test; Transition Dreams; Our Lady Of Chernobyl and a bibliography. Scarce. |
| Greg Egan | Permutation City | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the rear fold | £110.00 | "In our children's children's children's future, immortality is possible. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into virtual environments. The result: 'Copies', virtual people, all memory and identity intact, dependent only on the stability of world computer nets. Which leaves them vulnerable... " Scarce. |
| Greg Egan | Permutation City | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a short (4mm) tear at base of rear fold | £50.00 | "In our children's children's children's future, immortality is possible. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into virtual environments. The result: 'Copies', virtual people, all memory and identity intact, dependent only on the stability of world computer nets. Which leaves them vulnerable... " Scarce. |
| Greg Egan | Teranesia | Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small area (5 x 3mm) on the back panel eroded near the fold. | £15.00 | "Prabir Suresh is nine years old and the son of two scientists specialising in entomology. They live on an otherwise uninhabited island... Prabir calls it Teranesia and populates it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying... An evolutionary leap forward, a new humanity or the evanescent ghosts of past lies?" |
| Greg Egan | Teranesia | HarperPrism 1999 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nine-year-old boy with an island all his own to name, to explore, and to populate with imaginary monsters stranger than any tropical wildlife. Teranesia is his kingdom... The unexplained genetic mutation of the island's butterflies... remains unsolved, but nearly twenty years later... " |
| Phyllis Eisenstein | Born To Exile | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Alaric, a young minstrel with a talent for magic, roamed the lands in search of his fortune. And in Castle Royale, it seemed he'd found both his fortune and his true love, the beautiful Princess Solinde. But could a penniless orphan hope to claim such a royal treasure?... " |
| Phyllis Eisenstein | Sorcerer's Son | Grafton 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "As Cray Ormoru, son of the enchantress Delivev, grows to be a man in magical Castle Spinweb, he yearns to find his father. who disappeared years before... and so Cray sets out on the journey which would take him.... to a fortress of bronze, totally unprepared for the sorrows and dangers that lie ahead... " |
| Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) | Child of Flame Volume Four of Crown of Stars | Daw 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Lost and alone in an unknown country, Alain is caught in a desperate struggle for survival even as he finds himself unwittingly drawn into the heart of an ancient conflict between humankind and their dread enemy, the Cursed Ones... " |
| Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) | Crown of Stars Volume Seven of Crown of Stars | Daw 2006 First Edition First Printing | Edges and corners very slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | The Series dramatic conclusion... |
| Harlan Ellison | Angry Candy | Houghton Mifflin 1988 First Trade Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little bumped/marked else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "When the one you loved abandoned you, leaving a note filled with accusations you could not answer, you needed a piece of angry candy. When death took another, and you burned to say final words never spoken, again the angry candy. When you peered into the abyss, angry candy would have sustained you. Here is the bittersweet: you are not alone." |
| Harlan Ellison | Edgeworks 1 Over The Edge An Edge In My Voice | White Wolf 1996 First Combined Edition First Printing Thus | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Though blind from birth, Ellison had so developed his other sensory faculties that he was able to distinguish honest citizens from miscreants solely by the odour of the pheromones they exuded... has always found time... to pen his charming childrens' stories featuring Barry the beige Bunny, as well as a biography of Betty Page for young adults." |
| Harlan Ellison | Ellison Wonderland | Science Fiction Book Club 1979 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus (Red Board Variant - no known priority) | Slightly bumped at base of spine, top of spine and top front corner bruised and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | His first collection, from 1962, in hardback for the first time. Includes All the Sounds of Fear, The Very Last Day of a Good Woman, Nothing For My Noon Meal, In Lonely Lands and 12 others... and an introduction not in the original... " |
| Ben Elton | Gridlock | Macdonald 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed and a touch of wear at the fold tips. | £5.00 | "... a thirty chapter, plot-charged, word-injected comedy-thriller with a GPC (gags per chapter) ratio superior to any novel currently in the showrooms. Its tough, impact-resistant cardboard body shell surrounds a state-of-the-art interior featuring real paper in a luxuriant two-ply format with individual page numbering fitted as standard... the ultimate reading machine... " |
| William Emms | Doctor Who Galaxy Four | W. H. Allen 1985 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, a faint spot to top page edges and a touch of wear to the top corner tips else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued. | £5.00 | "Following a skirmish in space, two alien spacecraft have crashlanded on a barren planet in Galaxy Four. The Drahvins are a race of beautiful females... The Rills are hideous tusked monstrosities... When the Doctor arrives, he discovers that the planet will explode in two days' time... But things are not always as they seem... " |
| Guy Endore | Methinks the Lady | Cresset Press 1947 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn, torn and creased Dust Jacket, a little eroded at top and base of spine panel and fold tips | £5.00 | "... tale of a female Jekyll and Hyde... an ingenious compound of suspense and murder, suicide and psycho-analysis... The very appealing 'Lady', Mrs Gillian, is possessed by two very different and conflicting personalities... " Appears non-fantastical. Basis for the 1949 Otto Preminger film Whirlpool with Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, and Jose Ferrer |
| Steve Erickson | Days Between Stations | Poseidon Press 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and remainder stamp across bottom page edges else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Michel Sarre is a man who has literally lost his past. A fragment of film, a young woman’s face - these are his only clues in an odyssey, which takes him from a hallucinatory Los Angeles of the future, where the freeways are buried in sand and dust storms obscure the sun, to a Paris where the lights have gone out and bonfires burn in the streets... " |
| Steve Erickson | Tours Of The Black Clock | Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised across top edge of rear board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a journey through another twentieth century, eliding conventional borders of time and place to conduct a mesmerising exploration of the underside of civilisation... At the centre of this novel is Banning Jainlight... he becomes Hitler's private pornographer... glimpses the face of Hitler's lost erotic dream... most evil man of all time... change history, establish himself as a god... " |
| Ian Cameron Esslemont | Return of the Crimson Guard A Novel Of The Malazan Empire | Bantam 2008 First Combined & Paperback Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy | £5.00 | "... could not have come at a worse time for a Malazan Empire exhausted by warfare and weakened by betrayals and rivalries... Into the seething cauldron of... the Empire's heartland - marches the Guard... an enthralling new chapter in the tumultuous history of the Malazan Empire." |
| Dale Estey | A Lost Tale | St. Martin's Press 1980 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges slightly foxed and faint trace of bookplate removal on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with one tear | £5.00 | "... as the tide of violence and evil unleashed by Hitler threatens their homeland the sturdy Manx Druids call on all their other-worldly powers... to prevent the Nazis from stealing the secret of the atomic bomb... " |
| Dennis Etchison (Also as Jack Martin) | Darkside | Macdonald 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Page edges browning (as usual) and very slightly foxed else Fine copy with top edge of rear panel creased and slightly rubbed | £30.00 | "... You have been enveloped by a nightmare a terrifying flirtation with the seductive thrill of death. Walk the razor's edge. It is too late to turn back... " Scarce - Many copies from a small initial print-run were water damaged in the warehouse. |
| Dennis Etchison (Also as Jack Martin) | Darkside | Garcia 1996 First Edition First Printing Thus Limited State Signed by the Author (No. PC/750) | Slightly bumped at base of spine and bruised at top and lower rear corner, pages slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £10.00 | "... To save his wife and daughters, Doug descends into a grim culture of teenage runaways, manipulators and murderers. It is a stark and twisted vision of L. A., darkly perverted from the idealism of the sixties. But he must learn the secret of Darkside and survive, even if the cost is higher than he can possibly imagine... " Restores the author's preferred text |
| Chris Evans | A Darkness Forged in Fire Book One of the Iron Elves | Pocket Books 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... an Empire teetering on the brink of war... Konowa Swift Dragon, former commander of the Empire's elite Iron Elves... court-martialed... his beloved regiment disbanded... banished in disgrace... The mysterious and alluring Visyna Tekoy... seeks him out... with a royal decree... For in the east, a falling Red Star heralds the return of a magic long vanished from the earth... " |
| Chris Evans (Also as Christopher Carpenter and Nathan Elliot) | The Insider | Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, a trace of foxing to top page edges and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | ".. a harrowing study of alienation, set against a background of a moribund near-future Britain threatened with the prospect of authoritarian government... " |
| Jennifer Fallon | Medalon Book One of the Hythrun Chronicles | Tor 2004 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "According to legend, the last king of the Harshini sired a half-human child, known as the Demon Child, born to destroy a god... The Sisterhood of the Blade rules Medalon with an iron fist... R'shiel, daughter of the First Sister of the Blade... half-brother, Tarja encounter Brak. a Harshini outcast... " |
| Philip Jose Farmer | The Book of Philip Jose Farmer or The Wares of Simple Simon's Custard Pie and Space Man | Elmfield Press 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "A master story teller presents an intriguing collection of his stories." My Sister's Brother; Skinburn; he Alley Man; Father's in the Basement; Towards the Beloved City; Polytropical Paramyths; Totem and Taboo; Don't Wash the Carats; The Sumerian Oath; The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix; An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke... and others. |
| Philip Jose Farmer (Also as Kilgore Trout) | The Fabulous Riverboat | Rapp & Whiting 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly foxed else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "Volume 2 of... Farmer's... Riverworld, this book grippingly describes further adventure along the seemingly endless shores of the meandering river... Mark Twain is the hero of this second part, accompanied by a huge pre-historic hominoid of colossal strength... with protagonists as varied as treacherous King John, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mozart, Ulysses... " |
| Philip Jose Farmer (Also as Kilgore Trout) | The Maker Of Universes | Garland 1975 First Edition in Hardback First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and pages quite badly foxed else Fine copy. | £25.00 | Clute - "... the sequence unfolds within a series of pocket universes, playgrounds built by the masters - who are perhaps gods, originally humanoid - whose technology is unimaginable... The books... have moments of high invention; and the Jungian models upon which the main characters are constructed supply ... tools in the role-playing therapy for disturbed adolescents." |
| Mick Farren | The Feelies | Big O 1978 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Near Fine Copy. Illustrated by Chris Welch | £7.50 | "Some time in the future in a world of gleaming glass megastructures, interspersed with slum remains, society is set in rigid economic groups. The ultimate goal has become a lifetime... hooked up to sensory input machines, entombed in coffin-like structures, living out private fantasies manufactured to order..." |
| Mick Farren | The Texts Of Festival | Hart-Davis 1973 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded | £7.50 | "...Around the hills and valleys of southern England roam primitive tribes, trading in dope and beer, surviving on a decaying technology, talking a hybrid of cockney, West Indian and rock slang, feuding and raping, and speeding on 'crystal', while their despotic leader Iggy plans to invade Festival... " |
| John Farris | Scare Tactics | Hodder & Stoughton 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... will take you from the supernatural sorcery of ancient Babylon to the awful spectacle of reincarnated gods, from the terrifying mysteries of life after death to the horrendous power of forces from beyond the grave... " Contains the short The Odor of Violets, the novella: Horrorshow and novel: The Guardians |
| John Farris | Shatter | W. H. Allen 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... first-rate contemporary thriller..." Scarce. |
| John Farris | The Uninvited | Hodder & Stoughton 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and pages lightly browned else Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... blends the tantalising plausibility of Rosemary's Baby with the devastating impact of The Shining and presents a novel of love stalked by terror." |
| John Russell Fearn (Also as Polton Cross and John Slate) | Liners Of Time | World's Work 1947 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners, and base of spine a little worn, rear board marked - Good to Very Good copy | £7.50 | "... intricate details of future amazing inventions, machines which bridge not only eras of time millions and billions of years apart, but which also traverse space and land one upon worlds yet unborn, where intellect will be supreme; or, perhaps, on Jupiter whence comes the villain... " This manuscript comes back to us from 2000 A.D.! |
| Raymond E. Feist | Magician | Grafton 1992 First UK & Paperback Edition Thus First Printing (Trade Paper) | Edges and corners a little bumped and rubbed and page edges a little browned else Fine copy | £10.00 | "... a new, revised edition... incorporate over 15,000 words of text omitted from previous editions so that 'it is essentially the book I would have written had I the skills I possess today... '" Scarce. |
| Raymond E. Feist | Shards of a Broken Crown | Voyager 1998 First Edition in the UK 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 | "... Midkemia lies in smouldering ruins... Many lives have been lost... As the people turn their hands to rebuilding their once great nation, a new threat arises from the ashes... the unforgettable finale to the... Serpentwar Saga." |
| Raymond E. Feist | The Riftwar Legacy | HarperCollins 1999 All are First Edition First Printings (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges lightly browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket with some light creasing and a few of the gold cover letters a little rubbed on front panel of volume 2 and front panel of volume 3 rubbed | £20.00 | "The assassins Guild returns to Krondor, seemingly killing without pattern or purpose. Squire James and newly commissioned Lieutenant William conDoin are plummeted into a dark world of murder and politics as war threatens to engulf the Kingdom... time is short and the city is gripped in terror as the two young men race to find the man responsible... The Crawler." |
| Bruce Ferguson | The Shadow Of His Wings | Arbor House 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of browning to the top edge | £5.00 | "... the story of Lukan Barra and his quest... the materials of conventional heroic fantasy... renewed... an original novel of broad scope and meticulous detail... " |
| Neil Ferguson | Bars of America | Hamish Hamilton 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and pages browned else Fine in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A cityscape of gas stations and banks, interstate freeways, rundown motels, fast-food eats, diners and downtown bars. The USA in the Eighties... It is as sharp as a gimlet and as polished as the bartender's first glass of the day." Not Science Fiction. |
| Neil Ferguson | Putting Out | Hamish Hamilton 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and pages lightly browned else Fine in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Politics in this depeche mode thriller set in New York, has become primarily a matter of style - like all other important things in life: sport, television, sex. Even murder." Stylish near-future detective thriller. |
| David Ferring (David Garnett) | Warhammer: The Konrad Trilogy | Boxtree 1993 (Paper) | Fine Copies | £15.00 | The tale of Konrad's perilous quest across the Chaos-infested Warhammer world - a quest for vengeance and for his own mysterious past. Scarce. |
| Jasper Fforde | Lost In A Good Book | Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (With 'Views From Swindon' Postcard - No. 22/100) | A little light spine creasing and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "All life on earth was due to end in a month but I had more pressing matters to attend to. My husband didn't exist and unless I did something about it soon, he might remain that way for ever... " |
| Jasper Fforde | The Big Over Easy An investigation with the Nursery Crime Division | Hodder & Stoughton 2005 First Edition First Printing (20.5 cm tall) | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It's Easter in reading - a bad time for eggs - and no-one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall... a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering... problems with beanstalks... " |
| Jasper Fforde | The Big Over Easy An investigation with the Nursery Crime Division | Hodder & Stoughton 2005 First Edition First Printing ('Collector's Edition' - 24 cm tall) | Bruised at top and base of spine, top rear corner slightly bumped, 3mm slit in cloth at head of spine, pages slightly damp-rippled and prelim pages slightly pink-stained else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket damp-stained on the inside (no show through). Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "It's Easter in reading - a bad time for eggs - and no-one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall... a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering... problems with beanstalks... " |
| Jasper Fforde | The Fourth Bear | Hodder & Stoughton 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case... until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-'Vu Club... " |
| Jasper Fforde | The Well Of Lost Plots | Hodder 2003 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £15.00 | "Literary detective Thursday Next's new adventure takes her deep inside the world of books, to anger management session within Wuthering Heights, boy-racing with Miss Haversham, a run-in with the Queen of Hearts and the discovery of something rotten in the state of fiction." Scarce. |
| Jasper Fforde | Thursday Next and The Eyre Affair | New English Library 2001 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges a little rubbed, lower front corner lightly creased and two tiny scrapes on cover (1-2 mm long) Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £35.00 | "There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Wales is a Soviet Republic, dodos are available in home-cloning kits, the Crimean war is 131 years old and the ending of Jane Eyre is less than satisfactory... " |
| Philip Finch | F2F | Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and at the top edge of the front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small rub mark at the top edge of the front panel. | £5.00 | "... a new kind of predator is stalking the network... SNOWFLAKE is a psychopathic computer genius who has found a way of accessing the personal details... able to bring them face to face with their most secret fears. When SNOWFLAKE locks onto Kate Lavin... he is unknowingly going one to one with an opponent worthy of his own dark brilliance... " |
| Jack Finney | From Time To Time | Simon & Schuster 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the tips of the rear fold rubbed | £7.50 | "... Now, twenty-five years later... finds Ruben Prien still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to adjust events.. to interfere, some might say, with destiny. Once again, his conduit to that bygone era... is Simon Morley, the man who actually proved himself capable of travelling back and forth in time... " |
| Jack Finney | Time And Again | Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in spine-browned, unpriced, Dust Jacket with red lettering on spine panel a little faded. | £20.00 | "... illustrator Si Morley's travels backwards in time... His mission... is to be an observer... he briefly visits the New York of nearly a century ago and is enchanted by the beautiful and unspoiled aspect of the city... He falls in love, finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game of blackmail, and unwittingly runs afoul of a ruthless and corrupt police force... " Listed by Murder Ink as one of the five best mysteries of all time. |
| Russell Flinn | Stirring Within | British Fantasy Society 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Copy Illustrated by Jeff Salmon | £3.00 | BFS Booklet no 15. 23 page, centre-stapled booklet. Ritual Observance; In The Quiet, Among The Trees & Subway Story |
| Eric Flint | The Course of Empire | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny - and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, who are sending a genocidal extermination fleet... " |
| Eric Flint | The Tide of Victory | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, lower edge of rear board and one top page edge else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The creators of the monster called Link once were human, but that was distant ages in their past... they have sent their creation back to shape the world of the 6th century AD... Those in the future who never were human have sent their own messenger to the past... to Belisarius, the greatest general of the 6th century... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Alien 3 | Little, Brown 1992 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing (Bound in black leatherette, with yellow stain to top page edges] | A couple of light spine creases, top page edges a little marked and page edges a little browned else fine Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a tiny wear spot at base of front fold | £20.00 | Novelization of the film based on the screenplay by David Giler & Walter Hill & Larry Ferguson, story by Vincent Ward. Very scarce. |
| Alan Dean Foster | Codgerspace | Severn House 1994 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Boards slightly bowed else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a scratch on the rear panel. | £5.00 | "THE TOASTERS WERE REVOLTING . . . . . as were the lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers and just about every other household appliance imaginable... Now an alien threat to man and machine has put the fate of the galaxy in the unlikely hands of five senior citizens - and their brave little food processor... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Flinx's Folly A Pip & Flinx Novel | Del Rey 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page fore-edges slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold. | £5.00 | "... Even before the latest murderous attack by a new gang of assailants, there seems no end to the number of people determined to arrest, examine or kill him... Flinx has been spirited away and enlisted in a battle against a monstrous extra-galactic threat... evil. Pure evil that is approaching him, accelerating... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Patrimony A Pip & Flinx Novel | Del Rey 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and boards slightly bowed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "'I know who your father is... Gestalt.' A shocked Flinx hears these dying words from one of the renegade eugenicists whose experiments with humans twenty-odd years ago shocked the galaxy... and spawned Flinx. So Flinx and his minidrag, Pip, venture to Gestalt, an out-of-the-way planet perfect for someone who never wants to be found... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Sagramanda A Novel of Near-Future India | Pyr 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and front lower corner bruised, and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... a city of one hundred million, this is the story of Taneer, a scientist who has absconded with his multinational corporation's secret project code and who is now on the run... a fast-paced and gripping techno-thriller... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Sliding Scales A Pip & Flinx Novel | Del Rey 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | £5.00 | "... Flinx attempts something that may be impossible for the heretofore undefeated hero. His mission: take a vacation... Pursued by a newly revealed sect of doomsday fanatics, hunted by factions inside and outside the Commonwealth... expected to single-handedly avert a looming galactic crisis... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | Star Wars The Approaching Storm | Century 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Many perils lie waiting to trap them. The Jedi will have to fulfil near-impossible tasks, befriend wary strangers, and influence two great armies to complete their quest, stalked all the while by an enemy sworn to see the negotiations collapse and the mission fail... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | The Howling Stones A Novel of the Commonwealth | Orbit 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The newly discovered planet of Senisran is a veritable paradise... oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands... vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran is also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child... each island is inhabited by a different tribe of aboriginal natives. Each has to be negotiated with separately... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | The I Inside | Severn House 1988 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the tips of the folds | £7.50 | "... The machine has ruled Earth since before living memory. It has brought peace, prosperity, tranquillity. It can even predict the future, with incredible accuracy - until now... someone is challenging the delicate balance... A young man, desperately in love... " |
| Alan Dean Foster | The Paths Of The Perambulator | Phantasia 1985 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with two pinpricks in the front panel. | £10.00 | "... Jon-Tom and his companions are challenged by an unknown force which violates all the laws of nature and threatens to disturb the very fabric of the universe... an unforgettable tale of humour, suspense and magic." Book 4 of the Series |
| Alan Dean Foster | The Time Of The Transference | Phantasia 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small hole in the front panel | £5.00 | "... finds Jon Thomas Meriweather facing the most difficult decision of his life... he begins what he expects to be a simple journey, only to find himself, once again, in great peril... " Book 5 of the Series - and the last. |
| Christopher Fowler | Full Dark House | Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Arthur Bryant and John May are London's longest-serving detectives. When a bomb claims Bryant's life, it ends a partnership that has lasted for over half a century. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May becomes convinced that the answer lies in their very first case together... " |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Holt 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the back panel slightly discoloured | £7.50 | Clute - "...may be the finest First Contact novel yet written. A strange female figure...arrives in the state of Washington in 1873 and is dubbed Sarah Canary, because of the birdlike sounds she makes... finally disappears, never having said a word. As an emblem of the enigma behind the idea of First Contact she is perhaps definitive... " |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Hodder & Stoughton 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | £5.00 | Clute - "...may be the finest First Contact novel yet written. A strange female figure... arrives in the state of Washington in 1873 and is dubbed Sarah Canary, because of the birdlike sounds she makes... finally disappears, never having said a word. As an emblem of the enigma behind the idea of First Contact she is perhaps definitive..." |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sarah Canary | Holt 1991 First Edition First Printing | Lower page edges a little marked and full colour covers lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "...a magical novel, entertaining us even as it ambushes with stunning illuminations that demonstrate the madness of the sane, the ferocity of the civilised and the sad vulnerability of the marginal and dispossessed... a novel with the power to raise tears and laughter... " |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Sister Noon | Putnam 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "San Francisco in the Gilded Age... Lizzie Hayes is part of this elite... Mary Ellen Pleasant... brings not only mystery and a whiff of disrepute, but also the key that will unlock Lizzie's rebellious nature... sly and insidious skewering of social pretensions... totally subversive... " |
| Karen Joy Fowler | The Sweetheart Season | Holt 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It's 1947 and America...in rural Magrit, the boys who marched off to war don’t seem to want to come back and make a home... a group of lovely young women... playing the great American pastime... happen to meet up with eligible young men... the Sweetwheat Sweethearts were born... " |
| Sydney Fowler (S. Fowler Wright) | The Hanging Of Constance Hillier | Hutchinson 22nd Thousand | Covers a little bumped, marked and worn, back cover stained, bookseller's emboss on front free end paper and page edges browned and marked - Good to Very Good copy | £5.00 | Thriller/mystery by author well known for his science fiction. |
| C. S Friedman | The Wilding | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Great War between Braxi and Azea has gone on since the beginning of interstellar history... Unable to achieve final victory, unwilling to accept defeat, both sides have devoted centuries to perfecting their martial capacity... " |
| Nigel Frith | The Legend of Krishna | Sheldon Press 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket with a touch of erosion at the top of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "... blends together the many Krishna myths and tells the story of his nativity and youth... his battles against monsters and his conflict with King Kamsa... his sensual life with the milkmaids in the forests of Vrindavan and especially of his love for Radha... " |
| Maggie Furey | The Heart of Myrial Book One of The Shadowleague | Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The world is breaking down. The magical barriers that have held Myrial together for aeons are starting to fail... Catastrophe is imminent, and the only hope of salvation lies in the hands of the Shadowleague... " |
| Stephen Gallagher (Also as John Lydecker) | Down River | New English Library 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly foxed and brown else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and inscribed by the Author on the title page | £7.50 | "... chillingly suspenseful, darkly imagined and relentlessly compelling. It is the finest novel yet from one of the most exciting young writers in Britain today." |
| Stephen Gallagher (Also as John Lydecker) | Red, Red Robin | Bantam 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Guarantee | £5.00 | "It all begins as a simple enough plan: Ruth Lasseter needs an escort for the company party to cover her affair with one of the directors... the evening passes smoothly until Ruth ends it later than expected... in her companion's bed... a one-night stand becomes something infinitely more sinister... " |
| Stephen Gallagher | The Spirit Box | Subterranean Press 2005 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Unnumbered/750) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top tip of limitation page creased and absent (production fault) else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... You've got a twenty-two year old girl hidden in a cabin... She's got five packets of unknown substance in her gut... the boy who took her... thinks they have a value... He's preparing to cut her open... " A novel of terror. |
| Stephen Gallagher | Valley Of Lights | New English Library 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a couple of light pressure marks to the front panel | £5.00 | "... a ghastly sense of the supernatural is seeping into the life of Alex Volchak, and before long he realises that he is involved in a personal confrontation with an almost unimaginable evil. In this struggle, Alex must win, or die. Or worse... " Memorable and Good. |
| Craig Shaw Gardner | Back to the Future III | Chivers Press/Firecrest 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "When Marty McFly went into the future to save his son from going to gaol he had no idea of the chaos he would cause... Marty's stuck in 1955, with no way home... Doc's vanished even further back in time... Is Marty doomed to live out his life in 1955, when he hasn't even been born yet?... " |
| Craig Shaw Gardner | The Other Sinbad | Headline 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. With Publisher's promotional sheet | £5.00 | "Let me tell you of a time before time, when Allah's name was first upon the lips of man and the great cities of Baghdad and Basrah were newly come upon the world, their shining, multi-coloured towers like a field of jewels beneath the sun. And let me tell then of two men, both with a name that all have heard - Sinbad... " |
| James Alan Gardner | Radiant | Eos 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold | £5.00 | "Explorer Third Class Youn Sue is Expendable - a member of the highly skilled... Explorer Corps trained to undertake hazardous missions... With her partner Tut, Youn is sent to rescue an innocent planet from the extremely dangerous sentient Balrig. but how do you defeat an alien intelligence so advanced that is literally knows what you will do before you do... " |
| Alan Garner | Red Shift | Collins 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine, corners bruised, boards slightly bowed and page edges a little foxed and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price clipped and £1.60 net overprinted on inside flap, as usual (as issued?).. | £20.00 | A complex and emotionally powerful book, challenging through its elided text but repaying the effort it demands and ultimately wholly satisfying. "... In Red Shift conventional time means even less, and physical place even more. Lives which appear lived in different historical periods are bound together by a power that is outside space and time... " With the end-paper letter transcribed in pencil. In Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books |
| Alan Garner | Strandloper | Harvil Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack... and Het is to be his Teaser. But when the local landowner discovers the celebration in the church, William is arrested and sentenced to transportation to New Holland... He vows to Het that he will return..." |
| Graham Garner (Donald S. Rowland) | Space Probe | Hale 1974 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and worn Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Philo Burke was a troubleshooter for the vast Kane Zanthar Starfreight Company and his job was to ensure the punctual trouble-free running of the many giant starships that plied over the countless billions of light years along the freight routes. But Vado Preston and his space pirates were a menace... " |
| Jane Gaskell | Atlan | Macdonald 1985 | Pages browned else Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Second in the Atlan saga. |
| Jane Gaskell | Sun Bubble | Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990 First Edition First Printing | Signatures differentially browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The sun bubble contains Julia and Joey, incompatible lovers, yet the relationship is warm and strong. Outside is Julia's other life: as Sukey's mother, as a magazine journalist, as owner of a house which builders are systematically ruining, as a woman trying valiantly to maintain a balance. And then the other world. This too is breaking through." A novel of modern life. |
| Mark Gatiss | The Devil in Amber A "Shocker" | Simon & Schuster 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold. Signed by the Author on a St Bede's Convent School bookplate stuck to the prelim page | £15.00 | "Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts.. Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder... " |
| Anne Gay | Mindsail | Orbit 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the folds. With Publisher's promotional sheet | £5.00 | "Generations have passed since the starship that colonised Rosaria landed. After some half-understood disaster, the original crew's descendants have split into groups and lost touch with each other... or become enemies... " |
| Anne Gay | The Brooch Of Azure Midnight | Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine Copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket With Publisher's promotional sheet | £5.00 | "Spiderglass is a vast interplanetary combine... Karel is the youngest member of the Board, and learned early... to trust his family even less than outsiders... Karel creates a double-edged weapon... But then the Gate is discovered... Instantaneous matter-transmission... will change humanity... " |
| Michael Gear | Raising Abel | Warner 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the spine. | £5.00 | "... paleoanthropologist Veronica Tremaine's nightmare begins. Her brother... an anthropologist, has been tortured and murdered... the charred corpse of his girlfriend... is found... scienists on three continents... are dead or missing... her brother mentioned solving a 60,000-year-old-mystery... a global conspiracy exists to kill one small child." |
| David Gemmell | Dark Moon | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top front corner, and page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "... Then, on one unforgettable day, a dark moon rose above the Great Northern Desert... In moments the desert had vanished.. and a great city could be seen glittering... From this city re-emerged the blood-hungry Daroth, powerful and immortal, immune to spear and sword... Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of three heroes... " |
| David Gemmell | Hero In the Shadows | Bantam 2000 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... returns to the savage lands of his acclaimed Drenai Saga... The ruined city of Kuan-Hador reeks of dark mystery... it is home to fearsome wild things and legends that freeze the blood... was the capital of a vast empire ruled by evil sorcerers... trapped in another world... and the spell of imprisonment has begun to fade... Waylander... must kill a man who cannot die." |
| David Gemmell | Ravenheart | Bantam 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... One woman remains who follows the ancient paths once trod by the Rigante. She is the Wyrd of Wishing Tree Wood, and she alone knows the nature of the evil soon to be unleashed on a doomed and unsuspecting world... " |
| David Gemmell | Stormrider | Bantam 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and pale brown mark on page fore-edges else Fine copy in like slightly creased Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Centuries after Connavar's triumphant battles gained the Rigante their freedom, the clan finds itself oppressed once again. Magic that once flourished has been all but snuffed out... only in the north are the clansmen free... the magic still reigns, strengthened by the bold, brilliant victories of the outlaw leader known as Ravenheart... " |
| David Gemmell | Sword in the Storm | Bantam 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the base of the front fold | £10.00 | "Deep in the green mountain lands of the Rigante lies the settlement of the Three Streams, whose people worship the gods of Air and Water, and the spirits of the Earth. Among them lives a boy whose destiny is written in starlight. He is Connavar, the Demonblade, born in a storm that doomed his father... " |
| David Gemmell | The Legend Of Deathwalker | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges lightly browned and, through a production fault, roughly 2x2x3" triangle of top corner rear fixed end paper was folded under, so free end paper was glued there, has now been released but particles of material from board now adhere to that triangle else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Garen-Tsen, the sadistic power behind the Gothir throne, believes the magical gems will lead him to glory, and sends the Elite soldiers of the Gothir army to sack the Shrine, and butcher the few defenders . They cannot lose: five thousand men against a handful of savages and a renegade Drenai warrior. But the savages are led by one of the most brilliant strategists of the day. And the renegade is Druss the Legend. " |
| David Gemmell | The Swords Of Night And Day | Bantam 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Drenai... But what is the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void... the ageless evil of the Eternal threatens... two legendary heroes will once again lead the way to freedom... " |
| David Gemmell | Troy | Bantam 2005-7 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Slightly bumped/bruised at top and/or base of spines, and lower page edges of volume 1 slightly marked else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £35.00 | "Helikaon. the young prince... haunted by a scarred and traumatic childhood. The priestess Andromache... and the legendary warrior Argurios... a city torn apart by destructive rivalries... a time of bravery and betrayal... bloodshed and fear. A time for heroes... " |
| David Gemmell | White Wolf | Bantam 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Skilgammon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history... the General had taken the legendary Swords of Night and Day... Now he must travel through a perilous, demon-haunted realm seeking a mysterious temple, and the ageless goddess who rules it... But he does not travel alone. The man beside him is Druss the Legend... " |
| Mary Gentle (Also as Roxanne Morgan) | 1610 A Sundial In A Grave | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. | £7.50 | "... Four hundred years ago, magic is fast becoming science. Robert Fludd, English physician and astrologer, has inherited... Hermetic knowledge... and Bruno's method of foretelling the future. But Fludd doesn't like the future centuries that he sees. He decides to alter them... " |
| Mary Gentle (Also as Roxanne Morgan) | Ancient Light | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, superficial paper tear at head of spine, slight fading of blue paper wraps and cover and next few pages lightly creased - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... Orthe still bears traces of its ancient hi-tech civilisation; vast areas of war-devastated land laid waste two millennia ago when the dominant culture, the Golden Witchbreed destroyed themselves... now... ancient Witchbreed artifacts... appear, astonishingly, still to be functional... " Sequel to Golden Witchbreed. |
| Mary Gentle | Ash A Secret History | Gollancz 2000 First UK, Hardback and Complete Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, pressure mark across top corners and lower page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £40.00 | "... magnificent tale of the gutsy and beautiful mercenary leader... an unforgettable ride through mediaeval Europe as it never quite was. For Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour, and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat... But she doesn't realise that the voice in her head is not the Lord and His Saints, but something far, far stranger... " |
| Mary Gentle | Golden Witchbreed | Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "The distant world of Orthe... is inhabited by a race almost identical to humans, except that until they reach adolescence they are... without gender... Once the Ortheans built a great civilisation, but it was destroyed in a terrible holocaust... the people known as The Golden Witchbreed, the last direct link with the ancient Ortheans, feared and shunned..." |
| Mary Gentle | Rats and Gargoyles | Bantam 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... breathtakingly imaginative in its scope, in which the author converts a field of scholarly research into an adventure playground. It conjures up an exotic, savage world of humans and fabulous creatures; a world of anarchy and tyranny..." |
| Michael Gerber | Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Like a chronic skin condition, the world's most irritating wizard is back! Barry Trotter... has returned to the Hogwash School for Wizardry and Witchcrap... " |
| Anna Louise Germeshausen | Cats In Crime... and others | Norris 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Stapled wraps slightly rubbed else Fine Copy Illustrated by Frank Utpatel | £7.50 | "This collection is the distillation of much reading, much doing and some thinking during a long and active business career... " Short stories Introduced by Bob Bloch - Beneath the Law; Fog; To Wake The Dead; The Friend; Future Fugitive and Exit Roberto - 30pp. Limited to 300 unnumbered copies, |
| Zulfikar Ghose | A New History of Torments | Hutchinson 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... set in the South American jungle... a wealthy ranch-owner... supplants his wife of two decades with a young and greedy mistress... drought withers the crops, vampire bats ravage the herds... his children... leave home for adventures... deliver two million dollars worth of gold bullion... in return for an ancient map which... points the way to El Dorado... " |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Calcutta Chromosome A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery | Picador 1995 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. | £5.00 | "... Antar begins to unravel the puzzle... the novel traces the adventures of the enigmatic Murugan and the strange truth of what took place, years before... They are events which haunt and twist the fate of characters from the past, present and future and ones that come to reveal the true nature of the 'Calcutta Chromosome'... " |
| Gary Gibson | Stealing Light | Tor (UK) 2007 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Small spot of wear at top of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "... In the twenty-fifth century, only the... Shoal possess the secret of FTL... giving them absolute control over ... the entire galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries.... Dakota Merrick...Piloting a civilian cargo ship... ferrying an exploration team... hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive... " |
| William Gibson | All Tomorrow's Parties | Viking 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and across top of front board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Written in his characteristically stylish cyber-noir prose and depicting an uniquely envisioned future... reintroduces characters from Virtual Light and Idoru and completes... stunningly imagined trilogy of the soon-to-be-post-Net world." |
| William Gibson | Idoru | Viking 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...Rei Toei is the beautiful, mysterious (and entirely virtual) media star adored by all Japan: the idoru. Tokyo, almost destroyed by a stupendous earthquake and now recreated, has become subtly different... The very nature of reality seems different here, and it's possible that the idoru is as real as she wants or needs to be... enough to put all their lives in danger, even as she breaks their hearts." |
| William Gibson | Idoru | Putnam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...Rei Toei is the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan: The Idoru... Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? or is it that something violently New is about to happen?..." |
| William Gibson | Neuromancer | HarperCollins 1994 Tenth Anniversary Edition | Bruised at top of spine, lower front corner and lower edge of front board with a small bump and top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "William Gibson's liquid-crystal prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted and destined to be current into the next century." With a new afterword by the author. |
| William Gibson | Pattern Recognition | Viking 2003 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. | £5.00 | "... Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London... she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of film footage uploaded to the web in cryptic fragments, into a global quest for its shadowy auteur... " |
| William Gibson | Pattern Recognition | Putnam 2004 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Corners slightly creased/rubbed else fine Copy | £3.00 | "... Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned 'coolhunter' who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded on the Internet... " |
| William Gibson | The Difference Engine | Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower page edges slightly rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... a tour de force by two of science fiction's most talented and controversial writers, a brilliantly conceived alternate history, steeped in superbly evoked atmosphere and featuring a dazzling cast of characters... fictional and historical." |
| Stephen Gilbert | Ratman's Notebooks | Michael Joseph 1968 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, front free end paper slightly browned and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "This is not a nice book... But it... is a perversely gripping novel. You may think that you won't want to read it again, but you probably will. You may try to forget it, but you won't succeed." |
| Robert Gilman (Alfred Coppel) | The Rebel Of Rhada | Gollancz 1970 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges a little foxed and browned and two small areas of superficial paper removal on each fixed end paper (sellotape removal?) else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Kier expected treachery when he answered the Imperial summons to the court of Nyor on the planet Earth, but not treason and the downfall of an Emperor... " |
| Parke Godwin | The Fire When It Comes | Doubleday 1984 First Edition First Printing (Code O10 on P. 169) | Bruised at top and base of the spine, page edges slightly browned and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears | £5.00 | Introduction by Marvin Kaye; The Fire When It Comes; The Lady of Finnigan’s Hearth; Unsigned Original; Stroke of Mercy; The Little Things; Up Yours, Federico; The Last Rainbow; The Second Day of Genius; Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz |
| Stephen Goldin | A World Called Solitude | Doubleday 1981 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small scratch on the spine panel. | £5.00 | "Birk Aaland thought he'd reached the perfect planet. A fugitive from Earth's tyrannical government, he found himself stranded on an uncharted world whose long-deserted cities... still functioned... after eleven years, his fragile peace is shattered... " |
| Stephen Goldin | Assault On The Gods | Doubleday 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges slightly foxed and previous owner's bookplate on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a couple of small tears | £4.00 | "... a spaceship commander without a ship... a sly, conniving trader... leads them to the backwater planet Dascham; and now her sullen rebellious crew has lead her to a local bar, where two crewmen are drinking their way into danger. One of them drunkenly curses the Daschamese gods - and for his blasphemy is incinerated by a celestial lightning bolt, after which an angel delivers a proclamation... " |
| William Goldman | Magic | Macmillan 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a tiny chip at top of rear panel adjacent to spine panel. | £5.00 | "... a dazzling psychological thriller about a man obsessed by magic and the dark forces at work to destroy him... packed with menace, laced with wit, touched with genius." |
| Lisa Goldstein (Also as Isabel Glass) | The Dream Years | Bantam 1985 First Edition First Printing | Board edges bruised else Fine copy in slightly worn and marked Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... on one strange and magical day, a mysterious, dark-haired woman named Solange leads him decades into the future, to the volatile time of May 1968 in Paris... Together Robert and Solange learn the awesome powers of the imagination to transform darkness into light, lies into truth, death into love, and prepare the way for a visionary war of dreams in the 21st century." |
| Tony Gonzales | Eve The Empyrean Age | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Copy With Publisher's Press Release | £5.00 | "A clone with no name or past awakens to a cruel existence, hunted mercilessly for crimes he may never know; yet he stand close to the pinnacle of power in New Eden... and among the downtrodden masses of a corporation-owned world, a man named Tibus Heath is about to launch a revolution... " |
| Terry Goodkind | Chainfire | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a small mark on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "After being gravely injured in a battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes she really exists, or that he was married... " |
| Terry Goodkind | Faith Of The Fallen | Tor 2000 Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When a Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate sacrifice to ensure his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken deep into the Old World and forced to labour for the tyrannical evil he's sworn to defeat, he is determined to remain defiant even in the heart of darkness... " |
| Terry Goodkind | Faith Of The Fallen | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When a Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate sacrifice to ensure his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken deep into the Old World and forced to labour for the tyrannical evil he's sworn to defeat, he is determined to remain defiant even in the heart of darkness... " |
| Kathleen Ann Goonan | Queen City Jazz | Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a crease at base of spine panel Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... In Verity's world, nanotechnology plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities... as she grows up of the isolated farm, she is often drawn to the City of Dayton, abandoned nearby, and to its self-contained and still-functioning library... " |
| Frances Gordon | Thorn An Immortal Tale | Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "For several hundred years the famous lngram family has lived under a curse - the taint of homicidal madness which manifests itself in the females every 80 or 90 years... vividly recreates the immortal legend of 'Sleeping Beauty' in this powerful and enthralling new novel, taking the reader into a dark world of modern fairytale." |
| Ed Gorman | Blood Red Moon | Headline 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When former FBI criminologist Robert Payne receives $10,000 in an unmarked envelope he knows there has to be a catch. the catch comes in the shape of a glamorous blonde. She wants Payne to find the man who killed her daughter... Payne keeps the money and packs his bags and sets off beneath the blood red moon... " |
| Ed Gorman | The Silver Scream | Headline 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Parkhurst is a fine Iowa town - pretty, well ordered and peaceful... But that peace is about to be destroyed forever... Writer Darcy McCain is not what you'd expect... Gentle young women don't bust out of jail and hop freight trains with half the state police on their trail. But Darcy's serving time for murder and she's got one hope of overturning her conviction... that hope is fading fast on a bed in Parkhurst... " |
| Sherry Gottlieb | Worse Than Death | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... an absorbing erotic thriller involving a detective's romantic relationship with the female vampire who can give him eternal life... along with her sexual favors... sexy, violent and full of dark humor... " |
| Ron Goulart (Also as Howard Lee; Kenneth Robeson; Frank S. Shawn; Joseph Silva; & Con Steffanson) | Cowboy Heaven | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code I51 on P. 184) | Bruised at top and base of the spine, page edges slightly browned/foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased and marked Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Andy Stoker, troubleshooter for a talent agency, is pursuing lovely Alicia Branble... Andy's boss... sends Andy out to Cowboy Heaven with an imitation Jake Troop - an android... too good a replica... the android does everything the real Jake does, right down to getting drunk. Andy's hands are constantly full - but not of Alicia... " |
| Ron Goulart | Flux & The Tin Angel | Millington 1978 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In FLUX secret agent Ben Jolson has to sort out... Jasper where girls and boys are being made into human bombs which explode on contact. Jolson is a member of the... Chameleon Corps... Bowser is the TIN ANGEL, a wise-cracking bionic dog and top-rated star of 1999's television... " |
| Ian Graham | Monument | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Ballas is a drunk and a vagrant. In his eyes there is only greed, and in his heart only bitterness. Such a man is not suited to legend... When a young priest saves him from a beating... Ballas does not know how to react... he betrays him by stealing... but it is no trinket to be sold in the market... It is an artifact that will lead an army to hunt him down and bring the world to the edge of chaos... " |
| Daniel Graham, Jr. | The Gatekeepers | Baen 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at the base and bruised at the top of the spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Can one man, using today's technology, seize and control space, and then dictate terms to spacefaring nations? Aerospace industrialist Rolf Bernard will try to pull it off... SSTO (single stage to orbit)... will revolutionise space transportation in the next 20 years, and this is how." |
| Charles L. Grant (Also as Timothy Boggs, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis, Geoffrey Marsh & Felicia Andrews) | For Fear Of The Night | Tor 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the old pier... burned ten days ago... young Julie Etler had died in the fire... tonight his answering machine will have a message from Julie...Something awful is happening in Oceantide - something that leaves no one untouched... " |
| Charles L. Grant (Also as Timothy Boggs, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis, Geoffrey Marsh & Felicia Andrews) | Nightmare Seasons | Severn House 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (2.5 mm) slit in the top edge of the front panel near the upper corner. | £5.00 | "A new season and the Grim Reaper smiles in anticipation of the harvest to come... No one is safe, no one can be trusted... the world of Oxrun Station... " Note: Nightmare Season shown on DJ |
| Charles L. Grant (Also as Timothy Boggs, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis, Geoffrey Marsh & Felicia Andrews) | Raven | New English Library 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The dead time of year. February. Night falling, light fading. No colour. Trees, black skeletons against the snow. then, silent and sudden, the raven. Dark omen of death. While the man who leaves no tracks, the faceless man, watches. Inside, huddled, the people, trapped. Phone dead. No more passing cars... And now, the quick splash of colour. The colour of blood." |
| Charles L. Grant | The Pet | Tor 1986 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "An exceptionally chilling novel of human darkness and inhuman terror... early frost crisps the bracing Autumn air... Ashford N.J. has become the new stalking ground for the Howler, a serial child-killer... "` |
| Charles L. Grant | The Ravens of the Moon | Doubleday 1978 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and slightly worn at top and base of spine else Fine copy in creased, worn and slightly marked Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In the dim future, the energy crisis has forced most of the world's population into huge urban centres, and countries have banded together in protective political confederations. Noram... is currently involved in manoeuvres to avoid... another world war... a mock revolution... to convince their allies that Noram is in no... position to wage war... " |
| Richard Grant | Tex and Molly in the Afterlife | Avon 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a poignant, endlessly imaginative, and hilariously provocative novel of invigorating power and mystical absurdity..." |
| Rob Grant | Fat | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Small, rubbed spot at lower edge of front cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "It's unclear precisely when it became illegal to be fat. Of course, technically, it's not, even in this day and age. Even with the blatant persecution of all tubbies, there's no official legislation on any statute book that comes right out and says fatness is against the law. But it is." |
| Alasdair Gray | 1982 Janine | Cape 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, price clipped, overstickered, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "This already dated novel is set inside the head of an ageing, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations who is tippling in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel.... it is mainly a sado-masochistic fetishistic fantasy." |
| Alasdair Gray | A History Maker | Canongate 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Alasdair Gray has written a tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the Ettrick Forest of the twenty-third century. Superbly muscled Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettric chief, is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive life style. Only when challenged by the fearfully seductive Delilah Puddock and her plot to restore the competitive exploitation of human resources does he learn to embrace the women and traditional values he truly loves... " |
| Alasdair Gray | Lean Tales | Cape 1985 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | 18 stories by James Kelman; 9 stories by Agnes Owens and 13 by Alasdair Gray - scarce |
| Alasdair Gray | Mavis Belfrage A Romantic Novel with Five Shorter Tales | Bloomsbury 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "This is the least fanciful of Gray's fiction collections and will amuse readers who do not find the world comfortable and don't expect to escape from it alive." |
| Alasdair Gray | Poor Things Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless MD Scottish Public Health Officer | Bloomsbury 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean of the early 1880's, it describes the love-lives of two doctors and a mature woman created by one of them." Very funny. |
| Alasdair Gray | Ten Tales Tall And True | Bloomsbury 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "This book contains more tales than ten so the title is a tall tale too. I would spoil my book if I shortened it, spoil the title if I made it true. Social Realism... Sexual Comedy... Science Fiction... Satire... " |
| Andrew M. Greeley | God Game | Century 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top front corner and top of spine bumped, pages slightly browned, else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...when lightning strikes his satellite dish... he finds he is manipulating on his screen characters who are real people in a different world... he himself can never enter, although he must bear the responsibility... for the waging of their futile war, their lives and their loves..." |
| Simon R. Green | Blue Moon Rising | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and smudge on lower page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "... Prince Rupert, the younger son... has been sent on a Quest. He wasn't supposed to come back. When he does, bringing the dragon with him - and the princess - he adds only confusion to disaster... even the help of the High Warlock - if they can sober him up for long enough - may not... hold back the long night... " His first book. |
| Simon R. Green | Deathstalker Coda | Gollancz 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and some page corners bumped else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... the final volume of the great Deathstalker Saga. Two Deathstalkers must fight for the survival of Humanity: Lewis Deathstalker, in the present, and Owen Deathstalker in the past... " Apparently published 2 weeks after the US edition. |
| Simon R. Green | Deathstalker Return | Gollancz 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Lewis Deathstalker is on the run, with an evil Empire snapping at his heels. He and his companions... travel from world to world, searching for help and answers to the mysteries of the past... On Lachrimae Christi, and old legend... tells them the truth... finally, they come to ... the culmination... the return of Owen Deathstalker." |
| Colin Greenland | Daybreak On A Different Mountain A Fantasy Novel | Unwin Hyman 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Walled off from a world it no longer remembers, the city of Thryn decays in arrogant isolation... Lupio, a cynical and decadent young aristocrat... decides to break ancient law and flee... He joins up with Dubilier, a failed poet and dreamer... Together they travel through completely unknown lands... " |
| Colin Greenland | Finding Helen | Black Swan 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed, and lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "One morning while he was still in his pyjamas, Christopher Gale hears an old familiar song on the radio. The smoky, heartbreaking voice of Helen Leonard, and the urgent sound of her guitar. Once upon a time, Chris used to adore her completely, but... Traded peace, love and dope for work, marriage and suburbia... " Non-fantasy novel - Scarce. |
| Colin Greenland | Harm's Way | HarperCollins 1993 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. | £7.50 | "... into the dark heart of a romantic era that never was, when Britannia ruled the stars. Filled with extravagant Dickensian characters and weird, exotic locations, Harms Way audaciously marries the classic Victorian coming of age story with the whirlwind excitement of space opera." |
| Colin Greenland | Harm's Way | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine copy | £4.00 | "... into the dark heart of a romantic era that never was, when Britannia ruled the stars. Filled with extravagant Dickensian characters and weird, exotic locations, Harms Way audaciously marries the classic Victorian coming of age story with the whirlwind excitement of space opera." |
| Colin Greenland | Other Voices | Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In this dark, dramatic novel of power and deprivation Colin Greenland takes us away from the prairies and jungles of his previous book The Hour of the Thin Ox, up into the mountains, and the no-man's-land between the living and the dead." |
| Colin Greenland | Seasons Of Plenty The Tabith Jute Trilogy Volume 2 | HarperCollins 1995 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 | "Space Captain Tabitha Jute... has defeated the Capellan overlords, and liberated the gigantic alien spaceship known as Plenty. Now she and her friends have to get out of the system. And quickly. So begins the first human voyage to another star - a journey that will take the strange ship and a motley complement of refugees and villains deep into the unknown reaches of time and space... " |
| Colin Greenland | The Hour Of The Thin Ox | Unwin Hyman 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a 25mm tear at base of front panel adjacent to spine with one crease Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "The barbarians are coming... In tranquil, prosperous Bryland, House Curram holds a glittering banquet and a young heiress learns of the terrible new engine that will change everything: the revolving gun... " |
| Stephen Gregory | The Woodwitch | Heinemann 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a (?fingernail) split in the gutter of the rear panel. | £4.00 | "Solicitor's clerk Andrew Pinkney seems a nice sort of man... But what can he want with the decaying carcasses of a badger and a swan? And what is he doing with a heap of foul-smelling phallus-shaped fungi aptly called stinkhorns... Andrew's experiment becomes an obsession, nightmarish in its intensity... " |
| John Gribbin | Reunion | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the tips of the rear fold. With Publisher's Review sheet | £5.00 | "It is over a thousand years since the events of Double Planet, when a group of cosmonauts crashed a comet into the Moon, thereby bringing a potentially life-supporting atmosphere... a revolution is brewing among the Moon colony... Within this violent struggle, Tugela has a vital role to play... " |
| Nicola Griffith | The Blue Place | Avon 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "A police lieutenant... until she retired at twenty-nine... out walking, she turns a corner and collides with a running woman... behind her a house explodes, incinerating... a renowned art historian... a deadly international game of forgery, drugs, money and murder... forging an intense erotic bond between the two women... " |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Effendi The Second Arabesk | Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bruised at top of spine and lower rear corner else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed to Tanith (Lee) | £25.00 | "Among many other things, Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system (definitely); son of the Emir of Tunis (possibly); and chief of detectives in the El Iskandryian police force (apparently). Small wonder that he's a little confused... " |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Effendi The Second Arabesk | Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "Among many other things, Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system (definitely); son of the Emir of Tunis (possibly); and chief of detectives in the El Iskandryian police force (apparently). Small wonder that he's a little confused... " |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Empereur de L'Ouest | B. S. F. G. 2003 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 183/300) | Spine lightly creased else Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | 8 page short story with card covers, centre stapled booklet published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of his appearance as Guest Of Honour at Novacon 33 in 2003. |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | End Of The World Blues | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner bruised, covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in... Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord... Nijie has stolen fifteen million dollars, she's on the run, she's just killed a man and she has a cat who knows more than it should. It's a lot to deal with when you haven't even left school... " |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Pashazade The First Arabesk | Earthlight 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... El Iskandruia is North Africa's most urbane city. A metropolis where cultures meet and clash, and money buys you everything but safety... In a world where Germany won the First World War... In a Middle East where the Ottoman Empire still dominates... " Arthur Clarke Award Nominee for 2002. |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Stamping Butterflies | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed rear cover creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... When someone attempts to assassinate the U President... the West is stunned and puzzled... The man himself will say nothing... does the answer actually lie elsewhere in time? Where a young emperor, ruler of 148 billion souls, waits alone in the Forbidden City for his own assassin and a butterfly to stamp." |
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Stamping Butterflies | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the lower edge of the front panel a little crumpled Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... When someone attempts to assassinate the U President... the West is stunned and puzzled... The man himself will say nothing... does the answer actually lie elsewhere in time? Where a young emperor, ruler of 148 billion souls, waits alone in the Forbidden City for his own assassin and a butterfly to stamp." |
| Ken Grimwood | Into The Deep | Morrow 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a 6mm slit at the base of the spine panel. | £4.00 | "... a hard-hitting journalist, a beautiful scientist, a globe-trotting engineer, and a venerable Portugese fisherman. Vastly different, their lives are about to intersect and to become irrevocably changed by a school of dolphins - as the fate of the world hangs in the balance... " |
| Stephan Grundy | Rhinegold | Michael Joseph 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in unpriced Dust Jacket with a few fine scratches on the rear panel. | £7.50 | "... the Rhine's gold. the dragon's horde of treasure worth more than any human reckoning, stolen by trickery and guarded by a dragon... who was once a man... Only a hero would be able to slay the dragon, avenge old wrongs and end the curse. For that, a sword is forged... " Retelling of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer. |
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