| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Hagberg | Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the human resistance sends back the Terminator... to protect him. But this time there's another, even more lethal terminator model... a Terminatrix... " Novel based on the screenplay by John Brancato & Michael Ferris |
| Sir Henry Rider Haggard | The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard | Michael Joseph 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top rear corner bumped else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Editor on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... In this expertly edited selection of his best stories, Peter Haining has also revealed how Haggard drew from life in his work by including three factual essays that demonstrate the authentic background to his fiction..." |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) | Camouflage | Ace 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly faded Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath forty more feet of sand... Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit... and will not budge... Meanwhile, unknown to any of them, two creatures have wandered the earth for generations... " |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) | Old Twentieth | Ace 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity's past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days - when people's bodies were unable to spontaneously heal, and disease and age were actual causes of death. Immersing themselves in virtual reality time machines, they are addicted to exploring... " |
| Sandi Hall | Wingwomen of Hera | spinsters/aunt lute 1987 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine Copy | £3.00 | "A comet falls between two planets... lashed by its tail, both planets are thrown from their comfortable orbit... Finally they slow, stabilise, and settle into new paths... MALADAR - an icebound world... HERA - sculpted to lush beauty... a baffling, lethal disease... " Book One of the Cosmic Botanists Trilogy |
| Barbara Hambly | Icefalcon's Quest | Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "While chaos reigned in the Eastern lands, the Keep of Dare stood as a bastion against war and bandits and the spawn of unnatural sorceries. Then twin blows rocked the citadel... Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed general Vair... he had learned that the royal child possessed forbidden wisdom: a secret with which... Vair intended to conquer the world... " |
| Barbara Hambly | Star Wars Children Of The Jedi | Bantam 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca set out on a mission... They are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi, a quest that takes them to the once-vibrant stronghold of Belsavis... Halfway across the galaxy Luke Skywalker... discovers the automated Dreadnaught Eye of Palpatine... Its mission: the total annihilation of Belsavis... " |
| Barbara Hambly | The Rainbow Abyss | Grafton 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Page edges slightly browned and slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... the wizards are on the run from jealous husbands, night-demons, anti-wizard cults and the Ladies of the Moon. At last they are offered sanctuary... performs a rare and difficult rite... a voice calls for help... men have learned the secret of destroying magic... soon all the mages will be dead... " |
| Laurell K. Hamilton | A Lick Of Frost | Ballantine 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | 'I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie... To be crowned queen, I must first continue the royal bloodline and give birth to an heir... despite all my carnal efforts, I remain childless... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | A Quantum Murder | Pan 1994 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges and corners slightly worn and a couple of light cover creases - Very Good Copy | £10.00 | "Professor Edward Kitchener... researching quantum cosmology... dead... Greg Mandel, PSI-boosted ex-private eye, is enticed out of retirement to find himself on a convoluted trail that ends in a confrontation with a past which... might never have happened." |
| Peter F. Hamilton | A Second Chance At Eden | Macmillan 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "From the author of the Night's Dawn Trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the same brilliantly realised universe... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | A Second Chance At Eden | Macmillan 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top and base page edges marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "From the author of the Night's Dawn Trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the same brilliantly realised universe... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy... But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many teenage hotheads before him, he rebels and runs away... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Judas Unchained | Ballantine 2006 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life... Nor are the Prime the only threat... " Sequel to Pandora's Star. |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Misspent Youth | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "It is forty years into the future and, following decades of research and trillions of euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to rejuvenate a human being... Jeff Baker, the father of the datasphere... the seventy-eight-year-old patient returns home looking like a healthy twenty-year-old... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Misspent Youth | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is forty years into the future and, following decades of research and trillions of euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to rejuvenate a human being... Jeff Baker, the father of the datasphere... the seventy-eight-year-old patient returns home looking like a healthy twenty-year-old... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Naked God | Macmillan 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the fold tips | £10.00 | "The Third Volume in the 'Night's Dawn' Trilogy... The Confederation is starting to collapse... allowing the possessed to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies... a mission to find the Sleeping God - which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed." |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Nano Flower | Pan 1995 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges/corners rubbed, page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Julia Evans: billionairess, owner of Event Horizon... and in trouble. With her husband missing and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth Julia has no time to take notice of an anonymously delivered flower... One man can discover its origin... Greg Mandel... " The Third Greg Mandel novel. |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Neutronium Alchemist | Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a few small scratches at the edge of the front fold and a touch of wear at the base of that fold. | £20.00 | "The second volume in the Night's Dawn trilogy... On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy , the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night..." |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Reality Dysfunction | Macmillan 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine - Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £240.00 | "... something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears... It is the nightmare... that renders humanity's fabulous science and technology impotent... mankind gathers its strength in a desperate bid to fight a menace that hungers to be birthed in the dawn of an eternal night... " |
| W. A. Harbinson | Dream Maker | Walker 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | Clute - "UK writer who has concentrated on the sf of paranoia, generally rooted in the notion that aliens are either investigating our planet or governing us, or both... Dream Maker... suggests that UFOs in need of energy from human minds are sucking holes in the ozone layer." |
| Thomas Harlan | The Gate Of Fire Book Two of the Oath of Empire | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... following the increasingly deadly war, both military and sorcerous, between Rome and Persia... Prince Maxian... has raised both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great from the dead. Now, with the power that their legends can offer him, he considers how to free Rome... " |
| Andrew Harman | A Midsummer Night's Gene | Legend 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Professor Crickson has seen the future - and it tastes like chicken. The Prof. can unite vegetarians and carnivores by implanting the genes of said flavour into those of corn. Chicken Fed Corn... When the local Chief Inspector's daughter is abducted... and mysterious strands of DNA begin appearing in the amniotic tanks, it would seem that the Truth has become mightily bored hanging around Out There... " |
| Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz) | An Ice Cold Grave | Berkley 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar, she has a love life, albeit pretty complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy... her brother Jason's... about to turn into a were-panther... a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population... " |
| Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz) | Dead as a Doornail | Gollancz 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a slight spine lean else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar, she has a love life, albeit pretty complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy... her brother Jason's... about to turn into a were-panther... a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population... " |
| Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz) | Grave Sight | Gollancz 2006 Third Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ''Harper Connelly is honest, ethical and loyal - and ever since a bolt of lightning zapped her... she's had an extra special talent: she can find dead people... as Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead, while bringing some closure to the living... " |
| Joanne Harris | The Evil Seed | Warner Books 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine creased, covers rubbed and slightly creased, base of spine slightly torn, top page edges slightly bumped and page edges slightly browned and marked - Good Copy | £20.00 | "... When Alice Farrell is drawn to a Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when her former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and certain of her evil... " Very scarce - her first book. |
| Steve Harris | Straker's Island | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the rear fold | £5.00 | "... Jim Green, the Master of Disaster himself, is a mega-selling horror writer who has it all... But now his seemingly limitless imagination has dried up... Then, on the day of his annual trip to his own private island to give six lucky fans the night and fright of their lives, his creative juices start flowing again... and he can't seem to stop them... " |
| Steve Harris | The Hoodoo Man | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Danny is dead. But a mother's love and the skilled hands of the surgeons work miracles and Danny is dragged back into his body - again and again. The trouble is, the Danny who finally comes back isn't quite the boy he once was... " |
| Thomas Harris | Red Dragon | Bodley Head 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges foxed and slightly browned and marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with the red spine lettering faded to pink (flesh tone!). | £10.00 | "Will Graham has a fearful gift - a talent for the pursuit of human monsters. He has caught two mass murderers in his F. B. I. career. Now he must hunt again... " First book appearance of Hannibal Lector. |
| J. B. Harris-Burland (John Burland Harris-Burland also as J. B. Harris Burland & Harris Burland) | The Lion's Claw | Hutchinson [1919] First Edition First Printing (Pale Purple Boards, Black Lettering) | Slightly bumped at top of spine and slightly bumped and slightly worn at base, rear board slightly damp-faded, page edges browned, with first and last few pages foxed, hinges partially cracked and weak, inscription on front fixed end paper - Good in slightly marked, torn, stained and rubbed Dust Jacket with small chips at both sides of top and base of spine panel, a short slit in spine panel and with a small (10mm square) area of front panel delaminated but barely affecting the full colour illustration - good? | £65.00 | A Detective-Thriller from an author well-known for his Science Fiction. Hutchinson planned 10 volumes in this series consolidating H-B's detective stories for the 'millions of readers' who'd enjoyed their appearance in serial form. Scarce. |
| Harry Harrison | Bill The Galactic Hero | Gollancz 1965 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges foxed, end papers slightly foxed, top page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket a little frayed at the top of the spine panel. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £45.00 | "Bill never realised that sex was the cause of it all... " A Classic. |
| Harry Harrison | Bill The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Zombie Vampires | Gollancz 1992 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed and browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "He's the perfect starship trooper; big, strong and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero; willing to do almost anything to save his neck. He's got two right arms and his right foot is very unreliable. He's Bill the Galactic Hero... " |
| Harry Harrison | One King's Way | Tor 1995 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by Harry Harrison on the Title Page | £7.50 | "What if... the Vikings had conquered Britain and forged a new religion and civilisation based on the ancient gods of the North?... " |
| Harry Harrison | Stars And Stripes Triumphant | Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... It was a war that started almost by accident - an ill-considered letter led to an ill-starred invasion attempt and a series of brilliant military decisions by the incensed Americans who abandoned their own civil war to unite against... the British... " Book 3 of the Stars and Stripes Trilogy. |
| M. John Harrison | Viriconium Nights | Gollancz 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change... " Seven stories - revised from the 1984 US paperback edition, with 3 stories dropped and 2 added, and the texts revised. |
| Eric L. Harry | Arc Light | Simon & Schuster 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners bruised else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... As the 20th century draws to an end, missiles rain down on remote airbases all across America... the American people vent their outrage on their weak and hapless president, who is impeached... " |
| Eric L. Harry | Invasion | Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "When the Chinese dragon woke from her thousand-year sleep to bend Southeast Asia ruthlessly to her will... the complacent Western powers turned a blind eye... when the Middle East was swiftly conquered... A combined European fleet was swiftly cornered and annihilated... a dazed United States... sits and waits for... Invasion... " Very Scarce. |
| William K. Hartmann | Mars Underground | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... one of the world's foremost experts on planetary surfaces... speculates on the intriguing questions raised by the recent discovery of life on Mars... In out near future, a famous biologist stationed at the international Mars research outpost disappears... humanity is not the first sentient race to set foot on Mars... " |
| Jon Hartridge | Binary Divine | Macdonald 1969 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn, marked and rubbed Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | "... Can it be that the world's personal computer wants to become God? Or is it just trying to be human... nobody knows what's going wrong. Are we all going mad?... And that was the last they heard ... before history took a holiday. When the survivors awoke... they realised that the world's population had shrunk to a tenth... " |
| John D. Harvey | The Cleansing | Arkham House 2002 First Edition | Page edges a little marked else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket save for a short tear at the top of the rear fold | £7.50 | "... the story of a violent American Indian wolf god, Wanata, who comes to Earth to make humanity accountable for its abuses against nature... Wanata's cataclysmic mission goes terribly wrong. An Indian Shaman's magic turns him into a human... " |
| Richard Hatch | Battlestar Galactica Destiny | Ibooks 2004 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "A two-year stay by the Galacticans on the colonials on what appears the perfect planet for rebuilding their civilisation comes to an abrupt end... several of their refurbished ships are incapable of deep-space travel... Deciding who will live and who will die creates an impending mutiny... " |
| Richard Hatch | Battlestar Galactica Paradis | Ibooks 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the battlestar Galactica and the ragtag fleet of Colonials find themselves delivered to what has all the appearance of being the perfect home for the fleet... " |
| John Twelve Hawks | The Traveller | Bantam (UK) 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins - a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect... Travellers... " |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Haunting Tales Of Nathaniel Hawthorne | John Calder 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Includes Rappaccini's Daughter; The Hollow of the Three Hills; Howe's Masquerade; Edward Randolph's Portrait; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment; The Gray Champion; Ethan Brand; The Christmas Banquet and Young Goodman Brown together with an Introduction by the Editor |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Destiny | Gollancz 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The triumphant conclusion to the Rhapsody trilogy - "... the world is crossing the threshold of disaster and faces utter oblivion... " |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Elegy for a Lost Star Book Five of the Symphony of Ages | Gollancz 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Fifth book in the series - following Rhapsody, Prophecy, Destiny and Requiem for the Sun. "The dragon Anwyn - who has lain for three years in a deathlike sleep in a grave of rock and black coal - is freed... and... remembers... an all-encompassing desire to wreak vengeance... " |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Prophecy Child Of Earth | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Fleeing the demonic F'dor, Rhapsody, a Singer of talent and beauty, Achmed, the enigmatic assassin and Grunthor,. The deadly Firbolg Warrior... During their epic journey centuries have passed, their homeland has been destroyed and their people scattered across the world. Everyone they ever knew has long since passed away... Now the three companions must split up... " |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Prophecy Child Of Earth | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Driven by a prophetic vision, Rhapsody races to rescue the religious leader of her new homeland while Achmed and Grunthor seek evidence of the F'dor. These three may be their world's only hope, the heroes spoken of in the Prophecy of the Three, but their time is running short... " Sequel to Rhapsody: Child Of Blood. |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Requiem For The Sun | Gollancz 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and lower page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When the Dowager Empress dies, along with her successor, the instability of this mountainous, forbidding land allows for the rise of a new evil, igniting the spark of war that will threaten to overwhelm the known world... " |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Requiem For The Sun | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (2mm) tear at the top of the spine panel | £5.00 | "... When the Dowager Empress dies, along with her successor, the dark clouds of war loom on the horizon. And an old nemesis of Rhapsody's - presumed dead for centuries - resurfaces, forcing her to choose between facing his depravity or sacrificing her own life... and that of her unborn child." |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Rhapsody Child of Blood | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a crease in the front flap | £5.00 | "... a woman, a Singer of some talent, who is swept up into events of world-shattering import... " |
| Paul Hazel | The Wealdwife's Tale | Morrow/AvoNova 1993 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... now the melancholy Eighth Duke of West Redding does nothing but pine for his dear, deceased wife... he prepares for the approaching day when a miraculous, hand-crafted flying machine will carry him deep into the heart of the weald... where he believes his lost beloved waits... " |
| Paul Hazel | Yearwood | Little, Brown 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners bumped else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket with a small puncture at the edge of the front fold | £7.50 | First in the Finnbranch trilogy "... presents again and again, in cyclical form, versions of the birth, heroic adulthood and death of a hero named Finn... much of the imagery accompanying and intensifying the reiterations of Finn's life-course derives from Celtic fantasy... the sequence is in no clear sense obedient to any single underlying Northern story, Celtic or Arthurian... " Clute |
| Robert A. Heinlein | The Cat who Walks through Walls: A Comedy of Manners | New English Library 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked and a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... twenty-third century writer, traveller and bon viveur... hero of this entertaining, provocative and hilarious story. Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, he is pursued by mysterious and implacable agents of an unknown power... " |
| Amanda Hemingway (Also as Jan Siegel) | Sangreal Trilogy 1 The Greenstone Grail | Voyager 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and last three page top corners creased else Fine Copy With Publisher Review Slip and Media Release | £4.00 | "... Bartlemy Goodman... 's been waiting for a sign like this for millennia and Nathan enjoys an idyllic childhood protected by his new family. but everything changes when he chances upon the lost and sunken chapel of the Thorn family and comes across a cup of blood, which may or may not be the Grail." |
| Howard V. Hendricks | Better Angels | Ace 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears and a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold. | £4.00 | "... From California's La Brea tar pit, an artifact is unearthed that resembles an angel's shoulder blade - radiocarbon dating to tens of thousands of years in the past... Jim's immersion in the mystery... takes his mind... into the realm of a galactic consciousness unlike anything the universe has ever known... " |
| Tom Henighan | The Well of Time | Collins 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "From the snow-covered forests of primitive Canada, land of myth and magic, comes a tale of incest, lust and murder, of a young girl's quest to save her people." |
| James Herbert | Creed | Hodder & Stoughton 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Joseph Creed is a paparazzo... a sleaze of the first order, but good at his job... After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, he photographs a man of ragged appearance desecrating the grave... there follows a series of horrific events designed to intimidate him into handing over the film... " |
| James Herbert | The Dark | New English Library 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, pages slightly browned and ® stamped on title page else Near Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with red on spine badly faded. | £20.00 | "... But in the rubble the blackness in the cellar lives on, spreading its slimy tentacles, invading the minds of men, driving them into a frenzy of destruction. Soon an entire city is in the grasp of The Dark, a force of evil so powerful it cannot be destroyed." |
| James Herbert | The Ghosts Of Sleath | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Sleath.. Quiet, peaceful. A small village hidden away in the Chiltern Hills, almost forgotten by the modern world. Nothing much seems to happen here, little disturbs the centuries-old tranquillity. Until the ghosts begin to appear. And frighteningly bizarre events start to occur... " |
| James Herbert | The Magic Cottage | Hodder & Stoughton 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and pages lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "The miracles, the healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats, lets not forget the bats! - even now those terrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened." |
| James Herbert | The Secret of Crickley Hall | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the remote harbour village of Hollow Bay. the house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding... rumoured to be haunted... thought to hold a secret... " |
| James Herbert | The Spear | New English Library 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine lean, page edges a little browned and marked and old price and initials on front free end paper else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket with the price removed. | £15.00 | "Ever since it pierced the side of Christ on the Cross some 2000 years ago, the Spear of Longinus has been a symbol of legendary mystical power... an idealistic young Nazi, helped Himmler... smuggle the Spear to England, where it is now in the hands of... a fanatical neo-Nazi cult who plan... to change the course of history... " |
| James Herbert | The Survivor | New English Library 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, and board edges slightly bumped and rubbed, pages browned, trace of old price on front free end paper and D in circle stamped on title page - Very Good copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tear and a little erosion at base of the front fold | £70.00 | "... a 747 Jumbo jet explodes and plummets into a field, killing all passengers and crew - except one. David Keller. the co-pilot, walks away from the wreckage and the devastation around him without even a scratch... " Very Scarce |
| Patricia Highsmith | Ripley Under Water | Bloomsbury 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Tom Ripley is a man who is fastidious about everything except murder... the Pritchards, a new American couple in the village... are annoyingly well informed about incidents in his past... Ripley is determined that these intruders will muddly still waters at their peril... " |
| Douglas Hill | The Leafless Forest The Apotheosis Trilogy Book Two | Pan 1994 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed in a few places, page edges slightly marked - Near Fine Copy | £7.50 | "In his magical stronghold at the heart of a petrified forest Lebarran Magister... plans for his coming triumph over the free peoples. And in the Void... is the monstrous Unformed; malign, implacable... Red Cordell joins with those allied... to face the shadow of Lebarran's ambition... " Book Three, The Limitless Bridge was due end 2008?! |
| Douglas Hill | The Lightless Dome | Pan 1993 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at base of spine and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy with a little damp marking on the inside of the rear panel Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page to Kathy for her matchlessly creative editorial skills | £7.50 | "... in a 20th Century film studio, Red Cordell takes another cheap part in another cheap sword and sorcery movie... in Quamarr the enchantress Aurilia is in danger... she calls on the magic sword of Corodel... Red finds himself at her side, fighting for her life... " Book 1 in The Apotheosis Trilogy followed by The Leafless Forest and The Limitless Bridge (due end 2008?) |
| Russell Hoban | Fremder | Cape 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and code number stamped on bottom page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052: in the black sparkle of deep space a figure in a blue coverall tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is... " |
| Russell Hoban | The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz | Cape 1973 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in Dust Jacket worn, torn and creased at top of spine and a touch of wear at base of spine | £10.00 | "... a time in which there are no lions any more. Middle-aged Jachin-Boaz the map-seller leaves his wife, taking with him the map that was to give his son a start in life. the boy performs rites at the palace of a long-dead king, and far away the father wakes one morning to find a lion waiting for him in the street... " Scarce. |
| Russell Hoban | The Medusa Frequency | Viking 1987 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Alone in London Herman Orff writes comic books in the afternoon. Through night into morning he looks for a third novel in the dancing green phosphors of his computer screen while he listens to sweet shortwave voices from far away singing words he cannot understand... " |
| Russell Hoban | The Medusa Frequency | Cape 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like, price clipped, Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £7.50 | "... an exquisite gem of a novel... From the man who has never failed to excite neurons, who walked and riddled his readers through ancient England, and then back to the First Crusade, now comes a tour of those places in your head you haven't been to before." |
| Robin Hobb | Shaman's Crossing The Soldier Son Trilogy One | Voyager 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the fold tips. | £5.00 | "Young Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son... Nevare will follow his father... into the cavalry, to the frontier... to the enigmatic Speck people... the last vestiges of magic in a world which is becoming progressive and technologised... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Farseer I: The Assassin's Apprentice | HarperCollins 1995 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned and a few page corners a little bumped else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with foil lettering partially discoloured (as usual). | £75.00 | "... Fitz... is a royal bastard... he must... learn... how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin. Meanwhile, the land is beset with a terrible hazard: the Red Ship Raiders... Being a royal bastard is dangerous enough... but having both the Wit and the Skill will render him a threat to some and a valuable tool to others... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Farseer Trilogy | HarperCollins/Voyager 1995-7 All Are First Edition First Printing (Volume 1 First Hardback Edition - Vols. 2 & 3 1st editions) | Slightly bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines, page edges slightly browned, Volume 3 with a light spine crease else Fine copies in Near Fine Dust Jackets with Assassin's Apprentice foil lettering partially discoloured (as usual) and Volumes 2 & 3 unpriced | £200.00 | "... Fitz... is a royal bastard... he must... learn... how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin. Meanwhile, the land is beset with a terrible hazard: the Red Ship Raiders... Being a royal bastard is dangerous enough... but having both the Wit and the Skill will render him a threat to some and a valuable tool to others... " |
| Robin Hobb | The Liveship Traders Book III Ship Of Destiny | Voyager 2000 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. | £15.00 | "... concludes the tale of the Vestrit family and their part in the history of The Liveship Traders... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Tawny Man II The Golden Fool | HarperCollins 2003 First Complete Edition First Printing (632 pages - including chapter 16!) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Fitz has little time to dwell on the changing fates in his life. Outside the castle walls, Queen Kettricken's tolerance of the Witted is generating hostility against the Farseer throne... Prince Dutiful's... to undertake an impossible quest... slay a legendary Outislander dragon." |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Tawny Man III Fool's Fate | HarperCollins 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. | £7.50 | "Once assassin to the king, Fitz is now Skillmaster to Prince Dutiful's small coterie... His duty, to help the Prince fulfil the Narcheska Elliana's challenge: bring her the head of the dragon, Icefyre... " |
| Christopher Hodder-Williams | 98.4 | Hodder & Stoughton 1969 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with end flaps creased. | £5.00 | "... This novel deals with far-reaching implications of transplant surgery, but knocked out of joint by the tortuous influence of the war men... no discovery - however marvellous in itself - can remain free from becoming fodder for the power morons... " |
| James P. Hogan | Bug Park | Baen 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bumped and slightly torn at top and bruised at base of spine and remainder felt pen line on lower page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Kevin Heber had it good. he had his own lab, a colleague he could trust, and an idea that could make him millions... he and his friend Taki have created a new entertainment media - live action adventure in micro mechanical scale. Bug Park... Kevin and Taki are teenagers... Somebody wants to squash Bug Park dead... " |
| James P. Hogan | Cradle of Saturn | Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the planet Jupiter has recently emitted a white-hot protoplanet as large as the Earth which is hurtling sunward like a gigantic comet... the new planet will come close enough to Earth to obliterate civilisation... " |
| James P. Hogan | Entoverse | Orbit 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top edge of the rear panel Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page. With publisher's Promotional sheet | £7.50 | "Sometime during Earth's Tertiary period, a gentle race of alien giants fled the Solar System, leaving behind the product of their genetic-engineering experiments: humankind's evolutionary forebears. Millions of years later, their planet destroyed by war, those humans were rescued by their alien creators... " |
| James P. Hogan | The Anguished Dawn | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the folds | £5.00 | "Earth has been devastated after a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet ejected by Jupiter... civilisation as we know if has ended. Only the colony of Kronia, established among Saturn's moons, preserves technology and human culture... opening up new realms of physics that will carry humankind to the stars... " |
| Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Ancient Echoes | HarperCollins 1996 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 | £12.50 | "Jack Chatwin has visions. Vivid experiences of a world in parallel to our own; brief encounters with a human couple, Greyface and Greenface, fleeing a terrible event in their own world and battling with a land that is raw and cruel and old... Only when Greyface escapes into Jack's reality does the startling truth... start to occur to him... " |
| Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Celtika Book One of the MERLIN CODEX | Simon & Schuster 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, lower corners slightly bumped and a couple of page edges slightly rough-cut else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveller on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys he encounters Jason, whose search for the Golden Fleece he joins. It is a decision that will cost him dear!... " Book One of The Merlin Codex. |
| Robert Holdstock | Celtika Book One of the MERLIN CODEX | Simon & Schuster 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveller on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys he encounters Jason, whose search for the Golden Fleece he joins. It is a decision that will cost him dear!... " Book One of The Merlin Codex. |
| Robert Holdstock | The Fetch | Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "There is a landscape between reality and dreams, a strange and primitive country that exists on the edge of our waking world... The Whitlocks' house, in the Kentish Weald, stands near a chalk-pit, and it is here that their son Michael creates his peculiar imaginary world, making his camp by the pile of grave-earth... " |
| Robert Holdstock | The Ghost Dance | Century 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... Six months ago... thirty minutes of obscene terror have left Dan Brady... searching... Who or what has taken his wife and two children? And for what dark purpose? Brady hunts for the evil, first in a remote mountain village, where the ghosts of an ancient culture are about to be released... Dan Brady is the Nighthunter. But those he hunts are aware of his pursuit, and are setting traps... " |
| Robert Holdstock | The Hollowing | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "...The wood shields a heart of primeval forest wherein live phantoms and strange creatures - mythagos - those shades generated over time by our dreams and nightmares... " |
| Robert Holdstock | The Iron Grail | Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges rubbed and lower page edges marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... this sequel to Celtica... weaves myth and history into a fabulous tale of honour, death and magic. Characters both mythic and tragic, strange and yet oddly familiar, take on a life of their own. And at the centre... is Merlin himself, an enchanter in the prime of his life, reckless, curious, powerful, yet a stranger to his own past - a past that is catching up with him." |
| Robert Holdstock | The Iron Grail | Earthlight 2002 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 | "... this sequel to Celtica... weaves myth and history into a fabulous tale of honour, death and magic. Characters both mythic and tragic, strange and yet oddly familiar, take on a life of their own. And at the centre... is Merlin himself, an enchanter in the prime of his life, reckless, curious, powerful, yet a stranger to his own past - a past that is catching up with him." |
| Robert Holdstock | The Merlin Codex | Simon & Schuster 2001 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or baseof spines and page edges a little browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. Signed by the Author on the title pages | £22.50 | "Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveller on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys he encounters Jason, whose search for the Golden Fleece he joins. It is a decision that will cost him dear!... " |
| Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) | Thorn | B. S. F. G. 1984 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) No 228/500 | Fine Copy | £10.00 | Short story published to celebrate Robert Holdstock as Guest of Honour at Novacon 14 |
| Guy Holmes | P.E.A.C.E. | Simon & Schuster 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The New York City of the not-too-distant future is a surveillance state... Police Enforced Anti-Crime Environment... Mac Wells... one of New York's elite undercover agents... strange and random acts of violence persist... a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of the police department... and the government... " |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Barking | Orbit 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in a fine dust jacket | £5.00 | "Monsters are roaming the streets of London. Of course, some monsters are scarier than others: Unicorns? No bother. Vampires? Big deal. Werewolves? Ho hum. Lawyers? ...Aaargh! Duncan's boss doesn't think that he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But... " |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Djinn Rummy | Orbit 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Inside an aspirin bottle, nobody can hear you scream... when Kayaguchiya (Kiss, to his friends), a Force Twelve genie with an attitude, is released after fourteen years of living with two dozen white tablets, there's bound to be trouble... " |
| Tom Holt | Earth, Air, Fire and Custard | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "J. W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it... but death is never far away... " |
| Tom Holt | Flying Dutch | Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little swig from an oddly shaped-bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting round the world with your similarly immortal crew, unable to stay in port for very long owing to side effects... Worst of all, Richard Wagner writes an opera... " |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Goatsong Volume One in The Walled Orchard series | Macmillan 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket but for production fault fixing part of the top edge of the rear free end paper to rear board resulting in strip of free end paper tearing when the book was opened. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "The good part is that Athens is in the middle of her golden age. Pericles is building the Parthenon; Sophocles, Euripides and Socrates are writing words that will live forever, and Eupolis of Pallene, gentleman farmer, is herding goats... The bad part is that Athens is embarking on the Peloponnesian War... " Historical Novel. |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Grailblazers | Orbit 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the Grail is still missing, presumed ineffable; the knights have dumped the Quest and now deliver Pizzas; the sinister financial services industry of the lost kingdom of Atlantis threatens the universe with fiscal Armageddon; while in the background lurks the dark, brooding, red-caped presence of Father Christmas..." |
| Tom Holt | In Your Dreams | Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true?... The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why all your long-serving colleagues look secretly relieved, s if they're off some strange and unpleasant hook... " |
| Tom Holt | Little People | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "'I was eight years old when I saw my first elf'... Michael's unfortunately (but accurately) named girlfriend Cruella, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people, but... they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it is his own stepfather who is responsible for causing them so much misery... " |
| Tom Holt | Nothing But Blue Skies | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There are very many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, mad, or both - but all of them are wrong... The real reason why it rains perpetually from January 1st to December 31st (incl.) is, of course, irritable Chinese Water Dragons... " |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt) | Olympiad An Historical Novel | Little, Brown 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six years ago, a group of men ran between two piles of stones, and iunvented history. The first ever Olympic Games in 776 B. C. were apparently so memorable that all Western chronology is based on them. But all we know... is the name of the man who won the race... it's about time somebody told the story... " |
| Tom Holt | Snow White and the Seven Samurai | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Once upon a time (or last Thursday as its known in this matrix) everything was fine: Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and the wicked queen plotted murder most foul. But the human hackers cried havoc, shut down the wicked queen's system (Mirrors 3.1) and corrupted her database... " |
| Tom Holt | Valhalla | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "As everyone knows, when great warriors die their reward is eternal life in Odin's bijou little residence known as Valhalla. But Valhalla has changed. It has grown. It has diversified. Just like any corporation, the Valhalla Group has had to adapt to survive. Unfortunately, not even an omniscient Norse god could have prepared Valhalla for the arrival of Carol Kortright, one-time cocktail waitress... " |
| Tom Holt | Wish You Were Here | Orbit 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top of the front fold. | £4.00 | "It was a busy day on Lake Chicopee. But it was an eclectic bunch of sightseers and tourists that had the strange local residents rubbing their hands with delight... most promising of all, there was Wesley Higgins... who was there because he knew the legend of the ghost of Okeewana. All he had to do was immerse himself in the... lake and he would find his heart's desire... " |
| Tom Holt | You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here, But It Helps | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad... the business is in trouble... a plan to turn things round... but... the devil is in the detail... perhaps his new friend from... J. W. Wells & Co. can help." |
| William Horwood | Duncton Found Part Three of the Duncton Chronicles | Century 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, faint damp mark to top edge of rear board and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with damp mark inside top of rear panel (no show-through) | £5.00 | "... Under the ruthless leadership of Henbane of Whern, the grikes have taken over moledom... " |
| William Horwood | Duncton Rising Volume Two of The Book Of Silence | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... As cruel flurries of wind harry the highest and most ancient trees... timid Pumpkin reaches the Stone to pray for help. Only he and the venerable Master Librarian Stour have been left to defend Moledom's greatest library against the Newborn Inquisitors who have taken over the system... " |
| William Horwood | Duncton Tales | HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and at bottom edge of front board, top pages edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Decades of harmony have passed since... the brave moles of Duncton saved moledom's peaceful Stone followers from the evil Word. But now all is not well. Duncton Wood has grown sleepy, while moledom is dangerously complacent... " |
| William Horwood | The Stonor Eagles | Country Life 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top, base and one side of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Cuillin - last of the great sea eagles of the Western Isles, who abandons her Scottish homeland in 1917 to cross the dark North Sea to Norway. There she finds others of her race, but a race torn by bitter conflict and seemingly doomed to extinction... " |
| Geoffrey Household | Arrows of Desire | Michael Joseph 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and pages slightly browned else Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Seven hundred years after the Age of Destruction, all is not well in the new Euro-African federation of Avebury. Ancient British tribes... inhabit the forests beyond the perimeter of Federation-imposed civilisation. And the settlers have taken up notions of self-rule and nationalism, notions which have been outlawed..." |
| Robert E. Howard | Valley Of The Worm The Weird Works Of Robert E. Howard, Volume 5 | Wildside Press 2006 First Edition Thus First Printing | A couple of page edges no longer parallel else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket | £15.00 | Introduction by James Reasoner: Out of the Past: The Persistence of Evil in the Fiction of Robert E. Howard; Black Colossus; The Man on the Ground; The Slithering Shadows; The Pool of the Black One ; Old Garfield's Heart; One Who Comes at Eventide; To A Woman ("Though fathoms... "); Rogues in the House ;The Valley of the Worm; Gods of the North & Shadows in the Moonlight. |
| Trevor Hoyle | Blake's Seven Scorpio Attack | BBC 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "After the Atomic Wars there emerged from the ensuing chaos a Dictatorship so powerful that it enmeshed the majority of Earth-populated worlds. Known as the Federation, it grew in power until the hard-won freedom of the people it ruled disappeared. Blake himself began the sole resistance... Now he is lost... " From the scripts by Chris Boucher, James Follett and Robert Holmes |
| Sarah A. Hoyt | All Night Awake | Ace 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... young Will Shakespeare is having a harder time of it in London than he thought he would. Though his contact with the world of faerie has left him with poetry in his blood... he is overshadowed by the favourite of Elizabeth I : Christopher Marlowe... " Follows Ill Met By Moonlight |
| Sarah A. Hoyt | Ill Met By Moonlight | Ace 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "When his wife and newborn daughter disappear. young Will Shakespeare is drawn into a realm beyond imagination - and beyond reality. Held captive by the devious ruler of the elves and fairies, Shakespeare's family appears lost to him forever... " |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Battlefield Earth A Saga Of The Year 3000 | St. Martin's Press 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly marked and with a binding fault slightly affecting the cloth over rear hinge else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3,000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake... The Psychlos... have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries... How one man - with the aid of a few surviving Scotsmen - tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe... " Apparently 1st printings are scarce not having been generally released for sale. Better than the film?? |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Battlefield Earth A Saga Of The Year 3000 | Quadrant Books 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3,000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake... The Psychlos... have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries... How one man tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe... " Better than the film? |
| Tanya Huff | Smoke and Shadows | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small spot on top page edges (no, not a remainder) else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (5 mm) sealed tear at top of spine adjacent to rear panel | £5.00 | "... It began with shadows - shadows that seemed to be where shadows didn't belong, shadows that almost seemed to have an existence of their own... " A return to the world of Vicki Nelson and vampire Henry Fitzroy, |
| Walter H. Hunt | A Song In Stone | Discoveries/Wizards of the Coast 2008 First Edition First Printing | Small paper chip missing from base of spine, covers slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... For Ian Graham, life was finally on the upswing, until he was dropped without warning into the year 1307, sent to the Templars to find the key to the healing music of Rosslyn Chapel, the music that only he can hear and - with luck - return to the twenty-first century... before Friday, October 13th... " To be published in November. |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Crusade | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the same ancient philosophy of the zor race that prophesied the 'Dark Wing' has also foreseen a hero that will meet the new menace... " Book 4 |
| Shaun Hutson | Dying Words | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few spots of coloured lacquer missing from the front cover (?label removal?) Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Is it true that creative people who have been given great gifts by God have to pay a terrible price for them? Giacomo Cassano, a thirteenth-century writer and philosopher, thought so... and his... teachings have now reached across the centuries... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Hybrid | TimeWarner 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "For fifteen years Christopher Ward has known only success as a writer... Now, though, the good times are over... Struggling to complete a new novel Ward finds himself sucked into a vicious cycle: the further into the book he gets, the harder it becomes... Then the incidents begin. Strange unexplainable events... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Nemesis | W. H. Allen 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and bottom board edges bumped, page edges slightly bumped and slightly marked and browned - around Very Good copy in slightly creased and eroded Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page and dated 1/12/89 | £10.00 | "August 1940: while Hitler's bombers are busy reducing London to rubble, biologist George Lawrenson is nearing the climax of Project Genesis - a daring experiment aimed at breeding a super-race to combat Hitler's armies. But the results of his work are so appalling in their implications that Churchill personally orders Lawrenson silenced and all traces of his experiments destroyed... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Nemesis | W. H. Allen 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned and marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Hinkston is a town with a secret. a series of horrific and unexplained murders has brought terror to the area, and when Sue approaches Dr. Edward Curtis - a man famous in Hinkston for his treatment of infertile women - to help her conceive another child, past and present evils give birth to a new nightmare... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Twisted Souls | Time Warner 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Imagine your worst fear. A fear that eats away at you - a fear of death, of illness, of needles, of fire. Even of feelings themselves... Emma's life is collapsing around her... But Emma and her companions have secrets... that will bring about undreamed-of horrors... twisted and vile desires... " |
| Robert Irwin | The Arabian Nightmare | Viking 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Illustrated by David Roberts 'the Scottish Canaletto' | £7.50 | "In a city of sultans, seductresses and apes, Balian of Norwich is pursued through a maze of stories by the Father of Cats, Fatima the Deathly, Shikk the halfman and many others. The Arabian Nightmare pervades the darkness of medieval Cairo. It haunts the labyrinth of its streets. It is a dream without awakening, a flight without an escape, a tale without an end... " |
| Alexander Jablokov | Nimbus | Morrow 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top fold tips. | £5.00 | "During the Devolution Wars... one of seven... to work on a top-secret government project called Nimbus... he is now simply Peter Ambrose - a struggling jazz musician who makes his living implanting mental prosthetics into the skulls of those with the money and the desire to artificially expand their brainpower... someone is killing off his Nimbus brothers and sisters... " |
| Charlie Hamilton James | The Matewix | HarperCollins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Titty raced down the green corridor and leapt out of a first floor window, crashing to the ground three-and-half feet below. She leapt to her feet and shot off, not even apologising to the woman whose Yorkshire Terrier had died softening her landing. She rounded a corner or two... 'Where now, Operator?' she shouted down her phone... " |
| Peter James | Host | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's promotional and compliments sheets | £5.00 | "... artificial intelligence genius Professor Joe Messanger believes... the way to immortality lies in a combination of cryonics and artificial intelligence... Joe's revolutionary supercomputer... is already developing signs of a distinct, and maybe sinister, personality... Juliet Springs... has stumbled on a way of transferring human consciousness into a computer... " |
| Peter James | Prophecy | Gollancz 1992 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 | "... It began with the news of a friend's death, casually reported in a restaurant. Then came other events, horrifying tragedies that could not possibly be connected to the aristocratic widower Oliver Halkin and his eight-year-old son Edward. But, inexorably, Frannie's new relationship began to slide into a nightmare of bizarre coincidence and bloody accident... " |
| Phil Janes | Fission Impossible | Millennium 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review sheet | £5.00 | "Being manipulated by mega-beings so advanced that they created history as we know it (Dan Quayle was an idea they can confidently call their own) and who treat the galaxy as their own personal theme park really isn't that easy... Not when you're armed with the inspiring knowledge that failure in the next round of the Galaxy Game means death..." |
| Mike Jefferies | Palace of Kings | Collins 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, and pages slightly browned, else Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... even as Thane claims his grandfather's magic sword to kill the Nightmare enemy, Krulshards eludes him... where he prepares a terrible revenge. Thane is pledges to follow... but King Holbian waits... as seething Nighbeast hordes swarm against the walls. The fate of Elendium hangs on Thane's choice... " |
| Mike Jefferies | The Road To Underfall | Collins 1987 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. | £7.50 | "it is many generations now since the Battle Owls, the Warhorses and the Border Runners answered the war trumpets of the kings of Elundium. The corruption of the Chancellors surrounding the throne has allowed Krulshards, Master of Darkness, to gather his forces... All Elundium is poised for destruction... " |
| Jane Jensen | Dante's Equation | Orbit 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "In a dusty schoolroom on the outskirts of Jerusalem a Rabbi unearths and extraordinary and inexplicable pattern within the hidden codes of the Torah. In a tiny laboratory in Seattle, a young physicist begins work on a revolutionary wave-pattern theory... a clue to a potentially devastating threat... the future of all mankind will hang in the balance... " |
| K. W. Jeter | Blade Runner 3 Replicant Night | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Speed-Death productions are shooting a movie off-planet - the story of Rick Deckard. Desperate though Deckard is for money, watching his hunt for the replicants being repeated on the set is doing weird things to his mind... " |
| K. W. Jeter | Death Arms | Morrigan 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In a devastated Los Ageles of the near future most of the population have fled from THE FEAR, leaving the city inhabited by freaks and dropouts, policed by the powerful and mysterious SCRAP organisation. Into this stark world Legger is thrown... " |
| K. W. Jeter | In The Land Of The Dead | Morrigan 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Cooper is having trouble telling the living and the dead apart - and he doesn't have much time to figure out the difference... California during the Great Depression... Vandervelde, a citrus grower with a... taste for games that end in bloodshed... Fay, a girl who believes she can talk to the dead... Cooper... 'll find out what life is really like... in the land of the dead." |
| K. W. Jeter | Noir | Bantam 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Welcome to the Pacific Rim, the new centre of the civilised world. As the rest of the planet sinks toward economic and social disaster, the cities on the coast have become neon-lit, high tech paradise... Los Angeles, a sparkling metropolis... But beneath the sleek surface... " |
| Milton Johns | Patriot Future | Lyford Books 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small mark on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... part Bladerunner, part 1984... America... 2021... Federal Police Narcotics Detective Matt Sherida... struggles every day to stem the tide of an insidious new narcotic... a second role... to infiltrate a rebel political movement... " |
| Denis Johnson | Fiskadoro | Chatto & Windus 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and page edges s little slightly bumped else Fine Uncorrected proof copy | £5.00 | "... Once the town was Key West. Then two missiles hit it and sit there still, unexploded, objects of awe and indifference - and they changed its name to Twicetown, for luck... Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in the dangerous radioactive memories of a lost civilisation... " |
| D. F. Jones | Implosion | Hart-Davis 1967 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, page edges a little foxed and marked and edge of rear free end paper marked else Fine copy in slightly browned (nicotine?) and marked Dust Jacket with lamination gutter on rear panel. | £7.50 | "An inexplicable decline in the birthrate leads to an investigation and the discovery that the water of Great Britain has been treated with a substance that has left nearly 100% of British women sterile. The country faces total collapse under the effects of a population implosion... " |
| Dennis Jones | The Mask and the Sorceress Book Two of the House of the Pandragore | Eos 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Seventeen centuries past, a great diviner locked the Deep Magic away forever with a powerful spell known as the Ban, deeming the primal sorcery too dangerous for use by humankind. But more than a millennium later, evil and ambition united to break the Ban... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | A Sudden Wild Magic | Gollancz 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with the price removed. | £7.50 | "Our world has long been protected by the Ring, a benevolent secret society of witches and warlocks dedicated to the continuance and well-being of mankind. But now... the Ring has uncovered a conspiracy so destructive that it could doom the entire planet... it is up to a motley group of Talented commandos... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Year of the Griffin | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper corners else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | ""The Wizards' University is short of money. Nothing comes in from tourists anymore. Eight years after Mr. Chesney's offworld tours have stopped, High Chancellor Querida has left Wizard Derk and his family to run the world and handsome Wizard Corkoran to run the University... " Sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm. |
| Gwyneth Jones | Bold As Love: The Backstory | B. S. F. G. 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 187/300) | A couple of pinhead-sized pressure marks in cover else Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | 19 Page centre-stapled booklet - published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group to celebrate her appearance as Guest Of Honour at Novacon 31, November 2001 Autobiographical notes about the creation of her novel Bold As Love |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | Divine Endurance | Unwin Hyman 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | Clute - "... enormously complex Southeast Asia venue has a dying-Earth feel; and the matriarchal society she depicts is riven by profound ambivalences. The protagonist... and the eponymous cat which accompanies her, dangerously agitate the scene... and a civil conflict begins to devastate the long polity of the land. The hard melancholy and sustained density of the book are unique in recent sf." |
| Gwyneth Jones | Flowerdust | Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Flowerdust is not a sequel to... Divine Endurance. It is a story within a story, an episode that doesn't quite fit within the confines of that original myth and yet illuminates it." |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | Kairos | Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | Clute - "... the female protagonist descends into the disintegrating UK's netherworld through ingesting a drug, Kairos, which literally recasts reality around her... " |
| Gwyneth Jones | Midnight Lamp | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author - With Publisher's Review Sheet and "Life according to Gwyneth" | £5.00 | "Rufus O'Niall is dead and the green nazi occupation defeated - but at huge cost... " Third novel in the series, following Bold As Love and Castles Made Of Sand. |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | Phoenix Cafe | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly little marked else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Twenty-third-century Paris is a violent place, its air charged with dark eroticism and the anger of the dispossessed. But through the pounding beat of the cafe's music there sounds a note of graceful disengagement: a meditation on the unstable nature of reality; an acceptance of boundaries always in negotiation... " Last book of the Aleutian trilogy |
| J. V. Jones | A Cavern of Black Ice | Orbit 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... as this girl grows to womanhood she will develop powers which could destroy herself and the world if she doesn't learn to control them. And only Raif can protect her on her journey to understanding... " |
| J. V. Jones | A Sword From Red Ice Book Three Of Sword Of Shadows | Orbit 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised, and with a light crease, at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | 'The Long Night has begun. The Endlords and their dark army of Unmade prepare to unleash untold destruction upon the world. Every Sull warrior must step forward and fight... Key to mankind's survival is the sacred warrior Ash... she must discover her powers... ''. |
| Jenny Jones | The Blue Manor | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... In one of those secret places... the Blue Manor waits... it is a place of power, where sin is exposed and purged: a litmus paper for evil. it harbours within its walls years of brutal, violent, perverse secrets... which compel its inhabitants to re-enact a terrible story... " |
| Jenny Jones | The Edge of Vengeance Volume Two of Flight Over Fire | Headline 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of edge-wear. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £5.00 | ""The two masked figures echoed down the corridors of reality and dream, Their hatred reverberated over aeons, spanned universes... Their battle-ground was humanity... On Peraldon the vengeful sun burns over a raw landscape. The Desert Rose, a carnivorous, sentient jungle, roams an arid kingdom of dust... " |
| Lanyon Jones | When Dusk Comes Creeping Stories of the Sinister | Kimber 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... new collection, whose themes are suggested by rhymes and songs from nursery. But these are far from nursery fare, for when the light goes out, and the dusk comes creeping, it is not sweet dreams that follow." |
| Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.- also as Chang Lung, Regan O'Neal and Jackson O' Reilly) | A Crown of Swords Book Seven of The Wheel Of Time | Orbit 1996 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 | "... Rand faces the dread Forsaken Sammael, in the shadows of Shadar Logoth, where the blood-hungry mist, Mashadar, waits for prey... " |
| Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.- also as Chang Lung, Regan O'Neal and Jackson O' Reilly) | Crossroads Of Twilight Book Ten Of The Wheel Of Time | Orbit 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake - and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies... " |
| Robert Jordan | Knife Of Dreams Book Eleven of The Wheel Of Time | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicate that Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, is imminent... " |
| Robert Jordan | New Spring: The Novel | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "For three days the battle has raged... In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount... is born an infant prophesied to change the world... " The story before the Wheel turned.. |
| Robert Jordan | The Conan Chronicles | Legend 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top, base and rear edge of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with damp marking on the inside (no show-through) | £5.00 | "... less than nineteen years old... the young Conan must join forces with Karela, a dangerously seductive female bandit... Conan braves the traps and treacheries of the Royal Palace of the Dragon... Conan defies the sorcerous power of the Cult of Doom for the sake of a beautiful young woman... " |
| Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.- also as Chang Lung, Regan O'Neal and Jackson O' Reilly) | The Conan Chronicles 2 | Legend 1997 First Combined & Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | Together with Conan The Indestructible: a history of Conan and his times by L. Sprague de Camp |
| Robert Jordan | The Fallon Blood | Forge 1995 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Originally published in paperback in 1980 this is a non-fantasy, historical novel set in the American South before, and during, the American revolution. By the author of The Wheel of Time and others. |
| Robert Jordan | The Path Of Daggers Book Eight of The Wheel Of Time | Orbit 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine Fine copy in a fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than Seanchan... " |
| Robert Jordan | Winter's Heart Book Nine of the Wheel of Time | Orbit 2000 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 | "... the Wheel of Time turns again, and the remarkable tale that is mesmerising an entire generation of readers continues... " |
| Graham Joyce | Requiem | Tor 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With publisher's publicity sheet | £5.00 | "After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Tom Webster travels to modern-day Jerusalem in search of a lost love and a reason to keep on living. He finds a city haunted by ghosts and djinn... and... mysterious, spectral woman who shadows his every step... " |
| Graham Joyce | Twoc | Faber 2005 First Paperback & Trade Edition First Printing (Paper) | A couple of corners rubbed - Near Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "since the joyriding accident, fifteen-year-old Matt Morris's life has been hell. His brother Jake is dead, and Jake's girlfriend... hideously scarred. Only matt escaped... unscathed... Or so it seems. Because Jake is back, haunting Matt's every step... " Limited state hardback issued previously by PS Publishing |
| Richard Kadrey | Metrophage | Gollancz 1988 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a small face tear on front end papers (where excess glue stuck top edge of free to fixed end paper) else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Los Angeles, a century from now: a broken-down city run by gangsters and policed by the Committee of Public Health, the best-armed and best-organised mob around...more important is the spread... of a new disease... part bacterial, part viral, in which treating the early symptoms merely triggers the even more deadly second stage... " |
| James Kahn | Return Of The Jedi | Del Rey 1995 First US Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small stain on top page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The third/sixth Star Wars film. Story and new Introduction by George Lucas; novelisation taken from the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. |
| Hyman Kaner | People of the Twilight | Kaner 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards bowing and slightly marked, page edges slightly foxed and marked else Fine copy in torn and slightly stained Dust Jacket with a little erosion at top and base of spine panel. | £20.00 | "Professor Hayton discovers a drug which enables him and his friend to enter an amazing new world, the people of which lead a wonderful, idyllic existence. The Professor with his flair for experimentation, shatters the peace and happiness of this new world... " |
| Colin Kapp | The Ion War | Dobson 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with one short tear | £7.50 | "Only men already under sentence of death are offered the chance to become Ion Warriors - no-one else would be willing to... endure the agony of ion transformation... Dam is a fighter... and the Terran masters will never break his spirit... " |
| Colin Kapp | The Survival Game | Dobson 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a couple of short scratches on the spine panel and with the red spine lettering a little faded, to orange. | £5.00 | "... All Colonel Bogaert had to do was stay alive on the wildly primitive planet Avida. That seemed simple enough... But Bogaert didn't know the rules of the game... stranded on a strange and sinister planet where only one man knew how to survive... and that was the man who had been ordered to kill him." |
| Anna Kashinka (Also as Ann Porridge) | The Princess of Dhagabad Book 1 The Spirits of the Ancient Sands | Herodias 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Before she dies, the old sultaness presses her signet ring the wax that seals the ancient bronze bottle... the exotic world of a young Arabian princess, whose coming-of-age is guided by her special friendship with Hasan, the all-powerful djinn who becomes her mentor and steadfast companion... " |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Lord Of Emperors Book II of the Sarantine Mosaic | Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across top edge of front board else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... This eagerly-awaited conclusion to the magnificent sequence begun with Sailing to Sarantium finds a huge cast of characters from all walks of life caught up in rumours of war and perilous intrigue as all the threads of the tale come spectacularly together in a time shaped by violent upheaval - and the memory of fire in the streets." Scarce. |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | U.K (S.F.B.C.) 1990 First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket - crediting art to Steve Crisp | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges browned and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded (as usual) and a short split at the top of the front fold. | £5.00 | "The grief and rage of Brandin the Tyrant when his son fell in battle... were terrible in their consequences, his revenge relentless and annihilating. Valentin's bright province was no more. Its songs were unheard, its books and art destroyed, its cities razed, and worse: its very name obliterated from the minds of men... " |
| Marvin Kaye | Wintermind | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket with some small tears and creasing at top and base of spine panel. | £5.00 | ""... continues the epic future history begun in The Masters of Solitude. In far-distant America, civilisation is split into a nation of simple, forest-dwelling 'coveners' and a great mysterious City. After a harrowing war that profoundly changes the gentle folkways of the covens, the City at last recognizes the need for interaction with the forest nation... " |
| Paul Kearney | Riding The Unicorn | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Lower edge of rear board a little bumped else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Slip | £5.00 | "John Willoby is a prison officer... is hearing voices and strange sounds: the clash of swords, the thunder of horses' hooves... then the hallucinations begin, visions of another world... a wild, strange, primitive place... more attractive than the bleak modern world he lives in... " |
| Paul Kearney | The Way To Babylon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Top front corner lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's Review Slip | £4.00 | "... The traveller needs a guide, for a walking tour; Riven, indifferent, agrees to go along - and finds himself lead into a another world. His world, the land he created. Minginish... " His first book. |
| J. D. Keehn | Walden 3 or The Prisoners of Venture | Masterpress 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... three books in one... a little children's story... of the growth and downfall of a capitalists venture that parallels... Animal Farm. a second book... traces the romantic course of two science frictional characters from Venus... from ancient to future times. The third book... is an arrangement of academic essays on the world from which H. D. Thoreau retired to contemplate Walden and... Walden Two... " |
| William H. Keith | Bolo Strike | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... an all-out strike against the planet Caern... that most difficult of tactical evolutions - a planetary invasion... turns into a disaster... a deadly trap... as Bolo faces Bolo-human hybrid in a cataclysmic showdown that will uncover unexpected truths, reveal hidden secrets, and even call into question the loyalty of the Dinochrome Brigade... " |
| Leigh Kennedy | Saint Hiroshima | Bloomsbury 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £4.00 | "...disarming and irresistible novel follows Katie into an unlikely matrimony and Phil into the arms of a gun-toting St. Louis actress. But that's the least you would expect from two people who alone, as far as we know, have already been through World War Three." |
| Elizabeth Kerner | Redeeming The Lost | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges a little marked and a number of page corners once creased (to mark place?) - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "The prophecies are coming true, and the ancient race of Kantri, or true dragons, have come back to the world of Men... Their haven destroyed, the Kantri... have chosen to return to the land of their greatest defeat and to the fear of the people who rejected their aid... They bring ancient power and knowledge... " Last in the trilogy - scarce. |
| Jack Kerouac | Orpheus Emerged | ibooks 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... chonicles the passions, conflicts and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for truth wile studying at a university... a unique portrait of an artist as a young man and shows a writer in the process of finding the voice that would eventually express the spirit of a generation." |
| Katharine Kerr | A Time Of Exile A Novel of the Westlands | Grafton 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... it is many years since Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn, yet his half-elven blood keeps him looking so youthful-looking that the people suspect magic. When Rhodry's lost lover Jill - now a powerful wizard... tells him it is time to accept his elven heritage, Rhodry stages his own death... And, at last, destiny's intricate secrets begin to unravel... " |
| Katharine Kerr | A Time Of War | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and some signatures differentially browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... a sequence of events that tangles Jahdo in a web of intrigue and black magic which will drag him far from his beloved home... to unravel the evil that binds him... Soon he is caught up in dangers greater than any of his kind could ever have dreamed of. Two powerful sorcerers are battling to save the country from a goddess gone mad... " |
| John Kessel | Corrupting Dr Nice | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter Genevieve are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem, at the time of Jesus Christ... " |
| Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) | Road Kill | Headline 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Carole doesn't want to do it but murder seems like the only solution. The only way to solve the problem of her ex - drunken, sadistic, clever... how else will she ever be free?... Her lover, Lee, has the baseball bat but she's the one with the rock - and the nerve and desperation to crush a man's skull and pitch him off a mountain... " |
| J. Gregory Keyes | The Waterborn | Del Rey 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and across lower board edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears | £5.00 | "... Everywhere he touched the River God held dominion. And in Nhol, the fabled city at the heart of the world, an emperor ruled as the living aspect of the god... Hezhi was an imperial princess... When her favourite cousin disappeared, Hezhi searched... And the magic within her began to grow... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | A Midsummer's Nightmare | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Oberon, Titania and the other Shakespearean fairies live in a rapidly diminishing Sherwood Forest, whittled away by urban development. Oberon and Puck decide it's time to move to a larger wood where the fairies' magic will be restored to its former glory. On Midsummer's Eve... the fairies embark on... an old bus, purchased for them by Sid, an enthralled car mechanic... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | A Midsummer's Nightmare | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Oberon, Titania and the other Shakespearean fairies live in a rapidly diminishing Sherwood Forest, whittled away by urban development. Oberon and Puck decide it's time to move to a larger wood where the fairies' magic will be restored to its former glory. On Midsummer's Eve... the fairies embark on... an old bus, purchased for them by Sid, an enthralled car mechanic... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Abandonati | Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed to fellow author Richard Cowper/Colin/John Middleton Murry, (Jr.) and his wife Ruth | £15.00 | "All the rich people had disappeared... so had their cars, their possessions and their money. All that was left was the broken city, with its crumbling buildings, stagnant canals and pitted roads; and the broken people - the unwanted useless ones..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Abandonati | Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "All the rich people had disappeared... so had their cars, their possessions and their money. All that was left was the broken city, with its crumbling buildings, stagnant canals and pitted roads; and the broken people - the unwanted useless ones..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Archangel | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It's 2002, and there's a demon abroad in London, a soul so corrupt and foul that Satan himself has recruited him from the legions of the dead. Only one entity in Heaven can counter his power, an Archangel, an angel of the highest rank... the most awesome power ever seen by human eyes - blazing with Divine light and as volatile as a nuclear bomb... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Frost Dancers A Story Of Hares | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... one day Skelter's life of ease came to an abrupt end. Netted and captured, he and several other hares are transported hundreds of miles, to the strange lands of the south, destined for the cruel sport of hare coursing... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Gemini God | Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and bottom corners bumped, page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly marked and rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £3.50 | "... experimenting with telepathic communication between twins... leaves Earth for... that strange world a shadow-line civilisation... in perpetual slow motion to avoid the intolerable daytime heat... primitive aliens... driven... towards... its stunning climax..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands | Edgewood 1993 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine copy | £5.00 | Introduction by Robert Holdstock: Spiral Sands; The Looking-Glass Man; Island With The Stink of Ghosts; Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts; Doppelganger; Inside The Walled City; On The Watchtower at Plataea; 19548; White Noise; Usurper; Murderers Walk; The Vivarium and Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | House Of Tribes | Bantam 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In every mouse's long life there comes a time when ancestral voices tell him... to leave the Hedgerow and go on a long journey... the tribes come together... and decide to rid themselves of the greatest pests in the House... the humans... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | House Of Tribes | Bantam 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine, a few page top edges bumped and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In every mouse's long life there comes a time when ancestral voices tell him... to leave the Hedgerow and go on a long journey... the tribes come together... and decide to rid themselves of the greatest pests in the House... the humans... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Hunter's Moon A Story Of Foxes | Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, a little wear at spine edge of illustrated cover - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "... brings the world of urban and rural foxes vividly to life in this powerful and entrancing book." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Hunter's Moon A Story Of Foxes | Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Foxes are adaptable creatures, but every day the humans are coming closer to Trinity Wood with their bulldozers and their concrete mixers. Who will run and who will stand to face the guns and dogs; who will remain in a world where woodland paths have changed to alleys, grassland to streets?..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Midnight's Sun A Story of Wolves | Unwin Hyman 1990 First Edition First Printing | Covers lightly marked, page edges slightly bumped and browned - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's Review Slip | £7.50 | "... Exiled from his pack for breaking its rigid codes of behaviour and showing too much imagination, Athaba becomes a 'raven wolf', a lonely scavenger living on scraps and his wits. Survival in the icy wastes is hard and dangerous... Injured, and stranded... Athaba is forced to strike up an uneasy alliance with his natural enemy: a man... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Spiral Winds | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and card at head of spine delaminated else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £7.50 | "...has evoked the harsh, mythical landscapes of the South Arabian deserts...with its intense heat and extreme cold, and the uncompromising demands made upon those who enter it. The eerie, inexplicable emotions...will haunt the reader for a very long time." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Spiral Winds | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly bumped and marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "...has evoked the harsh, mythical landscapes of the South Arabian deserts...with its intense heat and extreme cold, and the uncompromising demands made upon those who enter it. The eerie, inexplicable emotions...will haunt the reader for a very long time." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Spiral Winds | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly faded Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...has evoked the harsh, mythical landscapes of the South Arabian deserts...with its intense heat and extreme cold, and the uncompromising demands made upon those who enter it. The eerie, inexplicable emotions...will haunt the reader for a very long time." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Split Second | Faber 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with spine slightly faded. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £5.00 | "Young Richard Levan, whose archaeologist father is digging in Cyprus, moves just a millimetre too close... and, in a terrifying second of splitting and fusion, finds himself sharing a body with Esk, a boy of his own age in the Paleolithic world..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Night Of Kadar | Faber 1978 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with orange of spine panel background faded to yellow | £5.00 | Clute - "... places humans hatched from frozen embryos on an alien planet whose culture has an Islamic coloration, where they must attempt to understand their own nature..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Phantom Piper | Methuen 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little rubbed else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "The children of Canlish Glen are abandoned. They know there is only one way to get their parents and families back, but if they do not succeed by Hogmanay history may repeat itself and all the adults will die. Then the strangers arrive. They come out of nowhere - like the parents went into nowhere - and they are dangerous... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | The Roof of Voyaging: Book I of The Navigator Kings | Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Slip | £5.00 | "Delighting in the rich and colourful detail and myth of Polynesian life, Garry Kilworth has written a marvellously ambitious fantasy. Funny, moving and epic... the first part of a wonderful tale which will become a landmark of fantastic fiction." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Witchwater Country | Bodley Head 1986 First Edition First Printing | Page edges browned else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "In a village on the edge of the Essex saltmarshes, Raymond 'Titch' Swan and his three friends embark on the summer of 1952 with optimism... relationships undergo a radical change when they set out in search of the legendary waterwitches... What begins as a light-hearted game leads the boys inexorably into a series of tragic circumstances... " |
| Gabriel King (Jane Johnson) | Nonesuch | Century 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and top page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... the mysterious Stella (known by many as the Witch of Ashmore), is dead, burned in the fire which consumed the house and freed the feral cats... Nonesuch passes to her cousin, John... the restoration work progresses and layers of history are peeled back. Soon, the grim secret that lies at the heart of Nonesuch will be revealed... " |
| Gabriel King (M. John Harrison & Jane Johnson) | The Wild Road | Century 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £15.00 | "... Tag, stolen from his home to join a mysterious quest... Once tame, now he must navigate the wild roads, the animal highways which bind our world... tells of the secret history of cats, and the perils of sharing a world with humankind... " Apparently only a few of the hardbacks were printed - scarce. |
| Laurie R. King | The Moor | HarperCollins 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top rear corner, lower rear corner with spot of paper from inside DJ surface adhering and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed at the top of the rear fold | £5.00 | "Holmes is summoned back to Dartmoor by an old friend, who is disturbed by rumours of sightings of a ghostly carriage and a huge 'devil dog' on the moonlit moor. and when the body of tin miner Josiah Gorton is found surrounded by oversized paw-prints, it looks as if the Hound of the Baskervilles has returned... " |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Bag of Bones | Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly... the bestselling writer suffers acute writer's block... Then the nightmares and the voices start... of Sara Laughs, their beautiful lakeside retreat. Still Mike is drawn inexorably to their once happy home... " |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Black House | HarperCollins 2001 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (Dust Jacket black with white lettering - no priority) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The house appears to be painted a uniform black - not only the boards, but every inch of the exterior. the porch, the trim, the rain gutters, even the windows... " Sequel to The Talisman and connected to the Dark Tower series... |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Cujo | Macdonald 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, faint brown stain on front (brown) board and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a few short scratches on the rear panel and a light brown stain inside the front panel. | £5.00 | "...locked inside the broken down car, in the sizzling heat of the summer sun... ...watched constantly by the mad, rage-filled eyes of the dog, which is certainly rabid, and perhaps even possessed by the spirit of something more powerfully evil." |
| Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne | Book Club Associates 1992 First Edition First Printing (Code CN 6975) | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £100.00 | Acknowledged as the First issued edition - predating even the Hodder & Stoughton facsimile-signed limited edition. Very scarce. |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Four Past Midnight | Hodder & Stoughton 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £5.00 | The Langoliers; Secret Window, Secret Garden; The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. |
| Stephen King | Gerald's Game | 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 creased at the top of the spine panel and with the price removed | £10.00 | "It wasn't the first time Gerald and Jessie Burlingame had tried bondage games to liven up their marriage.. she didn't foresee... the resulting coronary that leaves Gerald dead on the floor - and leaves her handcuffed to the bed, miles from anywhere, with no-one to hear her screams... she begins to hear voices inside her head... |
| Stephen King | Hearts In Atlantis | Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing | Fore edge of front board slightly bumped and lower front corner bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publishers' Advertising Sheet | £5.00 | "... five interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.. " |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Misery | Viking 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... a nightmare only Stephen King could have, and one only Stephen King could render in such gruesome detail. Nice of him to share it with us." |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Needful Things | Viking 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Jacket showing some water staining on the inside. | £15.00 | "With a demonic blend of malice and affection, Stephen King says goodbye to the town he put on the map - Castle Rock, Maine..." |
| Stephen King | Nightmares And Dreamscapes | Hodder & Stoughton 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Issue B) Illustration opposite P. 433) | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little marked and small spot on title page else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | 23 stories - Introduction; Dolan's Cadillac; The End of the Whole Mess; Suffer the Little Children; The Night Flier; Popsy; It Grows on You; Chattery Teeth; Dedication; The Moving Finger; Sneakers; You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Home Delivery; Rainy Season; My Pretty Pony and 9 others - and notes... |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Rose Madder | Hodder & Stoughton 1995 First Trade Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes up from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage to a chilling realisation that one of these days her husband, Norman, will kill her. Or worse still, he isn't... " There was an earlier UK Edition limited to 250 copies |
| Stephen King | Skeleton Crew | Macdonald 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners, top page edges a little foxed and a few page corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased, price clipped, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Six-page introduction, twenty-two stories, and five pages of story notes by the author. |
| Stephen King | The Dark Half | Hodder & Stoughton 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional & Review Slips | £5.00 | "Thad Beaumont is a writer. In the not-too-distant past the literary press were full of acclaim for his work. Then he hit a period of difficulty... and he invented George Stark... But the thrillers became bestsellers and soon Stark was earning far more money... George Stark doesn't want to die... " |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | The Eyes Of The Dragon | Viking 1987 First Trade Edition & Thus First Printing | Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards... " |
| Stephen King | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Tricia McFarland has only veered off the trail to get away from the bickering of her brother and recently divorced mother... a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper into the terrifying woods... " |
| Stephen King | The Green Mile A Novel In Six Parts | Orion 2000 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £17.50 | "... The Green Mile. Those who walk it do not return - because at the end of that walk, at the Cold Mountain penitentiary, is the room in which sits the electric chair... a story both bizarre and horrifying... Coffey has strange powers, which may yet offer salvation to others... " |
| Vincent King (Rex Thomas Vinson) | Candy Man | Gollancz 1971 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower edge of rear board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly browned, creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Clute - "... his more successful novels, like 'Light a Last Candle' and 'Candy Man' , tend to combine elements of epic and grotesque sf adventure with a characteristically English darkness of emotional colouring and a tendency towards downbeat conclusions" |
| Vincent King (Rex Thomas Vinson) | Light A Last Candle | Rapp & Whiting 1970 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket where the red of the spine lettering has faded to pale orange. | £5.00 | "... the story of one man's fight for freedom - one whole normal man in a world of aliens and 'modifieds'... " Clute - "... elements of epic and grotesque sf adventure with a characteristically English darkness of emotional colouring and a tendency towards downbeat conclusions." |
| Donald Kingsbury | The Moon Goddess And The Sun | Baen 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and across top edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a couple of small wear spots at corners | £5.00 | Clute - "... the near-future setting... seems directly extrapolative of current thinking about space technologies The hard-sf arguments, about... space stations capable of grappling space freighters into dock, are as gripping as this sort of narrative can sometimes be; and... Diana a generation or so further on... point a way forward into romance... " |
| Harry Adams Knight (John Brosnan) | Bedlam | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The inhabitants of a smart apartment block in a quiet London suburb begin to experience powerful erotic dreams, so vivid that they seem real... a local institution for neurological research... testing a revolutionary drug for treating personality disorders... reality and illusion blur and the quiet streets become a hallucinatory malestrom of horror... " |
| Kathe Koja | Skin | Delacorte 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "As a sculptor of metal, Tess is consumed with the perfection of welds, the drip of liquid metal, addicted to the burn... she meets Bibi. A self-proclaimed ''guerrilla performance artist,'' Bibi pushes her body to the utmost in her dancing, sculpting it into a finely tuned machine. But the limits of her body frustrate her... " |
| Dean R. Koontz (Also as Brian Coffey; K. R. Dwyer; Leigh Nichols, Owen West & Aaron Wolfe) | Brother Odd | Bantam 2006 First Edition First Printing | Front cover slightly rubbed else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he has sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature... " |
| Dean R. Koontz (Also as Brian Coffey; K. R. Dwyer; Leigh Nichols, Owen West & Aaron Wolfe) | Demon Seed | Headline 1997 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket - Note: due to a production fault (less-than sharp guillotine) a few page top edges are slightly 'rough cut' | £10.00 | "... Proteus is the store of human knowledge; a learning, thinking, self-programming computer designed as a slave to mankind. But Proteus intends to create a 'child'. And in the privacy of Susan Abramson's house, against her will, he commits an inconceivable act of terror." Extensively revised by the author |
| Dean R. Koontz | Intensity | Headline 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little bumped and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a homicidal sociopath... is intent on killing everyone in the house... Through a series of astonishing developments, Chyna finds herself inside Vess's motor home - a dungeon and morgue on wheels... when she learns the identity of the killer's next intended victim... that only she can save that precious life... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | Velocity | Bantam 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket but for partial fading of the vivid yellow/orange of the background to lemon. | £4.00 | "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours." |
| William Kotzwinkle | The Game of Thirty | Houghton Mifflin 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A wealthy Madison Avenue antiquities dealer is murdered while playing a game that the pharaohs once played - the Game of Thirty. Enter Jimmy McShane, hired to find the killer. But instead McShane finds that the killer is playing the Game of Thirty with him, and all Manhattan is the board... " |
| Nancy Kress | Beggars In Spain | Morrow 1993 First Edition First Printing (Based on the Hugo and Nebula Award winning Novella) | Bruised at top and base of spine and agency stamp on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. With Publisher's advertising postcard | £10.00 | "In the year 2008... Chicago millionaire Roger Camden and his wife Elizabeth produce the perfect child - a genetically modified daughter, Leisha, who is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent... and who will never require sleep... " |
| Nancy Kress | Nothing Human | Golden Gryphon 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Something strange is happening to thirteen-year-olds in New York - and in Virginia, Florida, and Connecticut. The children are receiving odd messages announcing that the 'pribir' are coming... Global warming, biowarfare, climactic upheavals all take their deadly toll, until humanity faces a final decision: die out completely or genetically engineer... " |
| Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell | Exile | Ace 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one page corner lightly creased else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top of the folds. | £5.00 | "Ana is a city of dutiful citizens, short vistas and harsh lives. Meer Faschen is a middle-aged petty bureaucrat who... was witness to a rebellion the government says never happened... " |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Harrowing Of Gwynedd Volume I of The Heirs of Saint Camber | Legend 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket slightly marked at the top of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "The evil times had come for the Deryni... the weak boy-king Alroy reigned; but the real rulers were the Regents, evil, power-hungry men who sought the total destruction of the Deryni... the forces of persecution were closing in on the Deryni... " |
| Ellen Kushner | The Privilege Of The Sword | Small Beer Press 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "In a labyrinthine city full of intrigue, secrets and scoundrels, in the Riverside district where society's rules only loosely apply, Katherine... dreams of a life of ladylike privilege. But Katherine's uncle... wants to turn her into something unique... a swordswoman... " |
© Porcupine Books 1999
Last updated on 1 November 2009