| 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... " |
| David Eddings |
The Redemption Of Althalus |
HarperCollins 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked strange... At the House at the End of the World... he can't find... the door by which he entered... " |
| David Eddings |
The Shining Ones |
Ballantine 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. (It rested at the very bottom of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing temptation to mortal men. Now Sparhawk... must retrieve that Sapphire Rose from its briny sleep... " |
| David Eddings |
The Treasured One |
Voyager 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
""The one ray of hope shining through the darkness are the four children called the Dreamers. They alone have the power to change the course of history... " |
| 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... " |
| Greg Egan |
An Unusual Angle |
Norstrilia Press 1983 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy |
£25.00 |
"... about the making of this great film... a blazing epic of stupendous events: four years of an ordinary Australian secondary school... rich humour, zany lunacy, and near tragedy." The authors first book - there was also a very small hardcover edition. |
| Greg Egan |
Luminous |
Millennium 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... ten stories... The Planck Dive - a dazzling insight into a world here quantum physics is not just theory but tangible reality, where black holes can be navigated not just mapped... Our Lady of Chernobyl - a near future thriller revolving around an 18th century Ukrainian icon... Luminous - in which a mathematical paradox could turn out to be the first sign of a new life form... " |
| 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 |
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 |
Permutation City |
Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£80.00 |
"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 |
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... " |
| 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?" |
| 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?... " |
| 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 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. |
£15.00 |
"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 (Green Board Variant - no known priority) |
Slightly bumped at top of spine, page edges a little browned and one lower page edge slightly creased and torn 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... " |
| Harlan Ellison |
Shatterday |
Hutchinson 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas... a writer who defies categorization... master of the uncanny, the suspenseful, the weird and the wonderful... " Clute - "... generating a sense of the painful maturity of an author passionately engaged not only with himself... but with the essential gestures of rage and love and self-betrayal that mark our species." |
| 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... " |
| 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 |
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... " |
| Steven Erikson |
Gardens Of The Moon A Tale of Malazan The Fallen |
Bantam 1999 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) |
Fine Copy |
£80.00 |
"The vast Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, its subject states bled dry by decades of interminable warfare... Yet the Empress' rule remains absolute... However... a more sinister, shadowbound force is poised to make its first move... " ISBN: 0-593-04470-3 |
| 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 |
Darkside |
Garcia 1996 First Edition First Printing Limited State Thus 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 |
£20.00 |
"... 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... " |
| Dennis Etchison |
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. |
| Chris Evans (Also as Christopher Carpenter and Nathan Elliot) |
Aztec Century |
Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in price-clipped, Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top of the spine. With Publisher's Press Releases |
£10.00 |
"Ever since Cortez changed sides back in the sixteenth century, the Aztec Empire has been spreading inexorably across the globe. Now, in the late twentieth century, it is Britain's turn to experience Aztec rule... " |
| Chris Evans |
Mortal Remains |
Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"... with the advent of organic biotechnology, the Settled Worlds of the Solar System are homes to a riot of varied environments... Ageing and extinction are a bad genetic memory: now... the soul of every living body is translated into the Noosphere, a psychic afterlife... contact through prayer terminals... when a strange womb is recovered from... Mars it... becomes the focus of intrigue and murder..." |
| 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 |
Catacombs |
Hodder & Stoughton 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Spine ends slightly bumped and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Deep within the volcanic rock of Mt. Kilimanjaro lie the Catacombs, the enormous hidden burial caves of a vanishes African society more sophisticated than our own... that still lives on through the earth-shattering formula etched into bloodred diamonds... " |
| 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." |
| Raymond E. Feist |
Krondor: The Assassins Book II of the Riftwar Legacy |
HarperCollins 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a few of the gold cover letters a little rubbed |
£7.50 |
"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." |
| Raymond E. Feist |
Krondor: The Betrayal Book 1 of the Riftwar Legacy |
HarperCollins 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... It is nine years on from the aftermath of Sethanon and news is feeding through to the people of the Kingdom of the Isles that deadly forces are stirring on the horizon... The bloodletting has started. Nighthawks are murdering again. politics is a dangerous, cut-throat game once more. At the root of all this unrest lie the mysterious machinations of a group of magicians known as the Six... " |
| 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." |
| 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 |
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 |
Bruised at top of spine and one short tear (3mm) with associated crease at bottom edge of one page else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£25.00 |
"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... " |
| Jack Finney |
From Time To Time |
Simon & Schuster 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and felt pen mark on bottom page edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a short slit at the base of the spine panel |
£5.00 |
"... 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. |
| Patricia Finney |
A Shadow of Gulls |
Collins 1977 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges slightly marked and previous owner's name and date on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"When Lugh the Harper... was driven from Connaught under a curse for having killed the Queen's anointed consort, he sought refuge at the court of her enemy, the High King of Ulster, and later among the Tuatha de Danaan, the so-called 'fairy folk' who lived in the hollow hills..." Her first book. |
| Bernard Fischman |
The Man Who Rode His 10-Speed Bicycle To The Moon |
Marek 1979 First Edition in the US First Printing? |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Barbara Lanza |
£4.00 |
"... the heartening story... of one man's almost mystical hegeira from the doldrums of career and marriage to a splendid autonomy as he rediscovers himself. it is a journey for all of us, a trip to the moon... he falls in love with a nubile witch; he is pursued by a mysterious cyclist... " |
| 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 |
Grantville Gazette II Sequels to 1632 |
Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower front corner and around 20 pages damp-rippled else Fine copy in like, slightly worn, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Fiction by Eric Flint; Mike Spehar; Enrico M. Toro; Christopher James Weber; Leonard Hollar; George Huff; John Zeek and Danita Ewing. Fact by Enrico M. Toro; Rick Boatright; Laura Runcle; Andrew Clark with an Afterword by Eric Flint; Images and Submissions to the Magazine |
| 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... " |
| Charles Fort |
The Complete Books Of Charles Fort |
Dover 1974 |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Did beings from outer space visit earth in the past... are the various objects seen in the sky (flying saucers, in modern terminology) evidences of their visits? What is the explanation of falls of frogs... fishes... seashells, which have been recorded from time to time?... " New introduction by Damon Knight! |
| Robert L. Forward |
Timemaster |
Tor 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and top front corner and bruised at top of spine and top rear corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"the tale of Randy Hunter, billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight and explores far-flung worlds in a future filled with technological wonders. The future-physics is mind-boggling but firmly grounded in the science of today, and the action never stops." |
| 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 |
Drowning World A Novel of the Commonwealth |
Del Rey 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Fluva, a planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth where is rains torrentially, ceaselessly, and maddeningly for all but one month of the Fluven year. chief Administrator Lauren Matthias is fairly new... Her primary goal is keeping Fluva's indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala, and it's immigrant species... from annihilating one another... " |
| 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 |
Sagramanda A Novel of Near-Future India |
Pyr 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine 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 |
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 Deluge Drivers |
Severn House 1989 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Just when it looked as if Ethan Fortune might be able to breathe a warm sigh of relief at getting away from the icy world of Tran-ky-ky, he was ordered to stay right where he was... Only Ethan, along with the huge hell-raising Skua September, had the local knowledge and the persuasiveness to get the Tran to mount an expedition. Only the giant icerigger Slanderscree could cope with the conditions... " |
| 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, its oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands containing vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran is also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child, for 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 Mocking Program |
Warner 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small wear spot at the top edge of the rear flap. |
£4.00 |
"... the Montezuma Strip. A Mexamerican megalopolis sprawling from Baja to the Gulf... the home of one tough cop who specialises in solving the most devious, diabolical crimes that future felons can devise... " |
| 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. |
£7.50 |
"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 Rinehart 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy. 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 |
Sarah Canary |
Holt Rinehart 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 |
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. |
| Pat Frank |
Mr. Adam |
Gollancz 1947 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped and faded at top and base of spine, prelim page slightly creased page edges age-darkened and end papers browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly torn and worn Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
Clute - "... exploits the fears of contamination felt in the USA after Hiroshima. All men but one are sterilised by nuclear disaster; the experiences of the sole fertile male are rather feebly rendered as comical, providing grounds for a satire on government procedures... " |
| 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... " |
| 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... " |
| Neil Gaiman |
American Gods |
Headline 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Corners slightly rubbed, a few page edges slightly creased, prelim page lightly creased and with a short (5mm) tear at the fore-edge else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£10.00 |
"... Shadow makes his way back home, only to encounter en route the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America... together the embark on a profoundly strange journey... meeting a cast of weirdly familiar characters... All around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break... " |
| 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 |
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 |
Bruised at top and base of spine, boards springing from pages and top corner of front free end paper creased else Fine copy in worn and torn Dust Jacket, with the price clipped and £1.60 net overprinted on inside flap, as usual (as issued?). |
£5.00 |
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... " |
| 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..." |
| 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... " |
| Mark Gatiss |
The Vesuvius Club A Bit of Fluff |
Simon & Schuster 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake... ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way... to the seediest stews of Naples, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club." |
| 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 |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed 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 |
Bruised at base of spine and top front corner and page edges browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with top front corner a little stained. |
£15.00 |
"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 Lord Of The Silver Bow |
Bantam 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"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 |
Winter Warriors |
B.S.F.G. 1996 First Edition Limited State (Paper) (No. 77/300) |
Fine copy. |
£7.50 |
The first chapter of the novel published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 26, in November 1996 to commemorate David Gemmell's appearance as Guest Of Honour. |
| Mary Gentle (Also as Roxanne Morgan) |
1610 A Sundial In A Grave |
Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in a fine dust jacket |
£10.00 |
"... 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 |
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 |
£10.00 |
"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, |
| Mark S. Geston |
Out Of The Mouth Of The Dragon |
Michael Joseph 1972 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Small brown mark on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"... The call was to the Meadows, to the wars, to the Armageddon in which all the forces of Good and Evil would meet, would clash, would decide the fate of a world, already doomed... " |
| 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'... " |
| 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 |
Burning Chrome |
Arbor House 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Small bump to top page edges else Fine Copy in Dust Jacket slightly rubbed at top and base of spine panel, spot of wear at the base of the front fold and an 11mm tear at the top edge of the front panel |
£20.00 |
Preface by Bruce Sterling; Johnny Mnemonic; The Gernsback Continuum; Fragments of a Hologram Rose; The Belonging Kind (with John Shirley); Hinterlands; Red Star, Winter Orbit (with Bruce Sterling); New Rose Hotel; The Winter Market; Dogfight (with Michael Swanwick) and Burning Chrome |
| 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 |
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 |
Johnny Mnemonic |
HarperCollins 1996 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Fine copy in Dust Jacket slightly rubbed at the tip of the folds |
£5.00 |
"Johnny is a courier. he carries other people's memories, millions of them, downloaded into his brain... Working out of Beijing, he is hired to carry a package to the States. The hundreds of gigabytes stashed in his head are far beyond his capacity, but as long as he gets downloaded quickly they won't do him any permanent harm... " With the screenplay, the original story and 16 pages of colour plates from the film. |
| 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 else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... 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." |
| William Gibson |
Virtual Light |
Viking 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket slightly worn at top and base of spine and top corners. Inscribed and Signed by the Author on the Title Page. |
£10.00 |
"... set in the near future in the states of Northern and Southern California, a land and society increasingly divided along the seismic fault lines of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness: chasms crossed only in fear, exploitation and violence. The end of the American century brings with it the death of exhausted notions of common good, as the rich cocoon themselves into impenetrable 'stealth houses' - islands of self-indulgence amid a sea of drugs, disease and desperation... " |
| 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... |