| 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 |
Heart Of The World |
Longmans 1896 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Dark Green Bevelled Boards, Gilt Letters) |
Slightly bumped and a little worn at top and base of spine and lower corners, covers slightly rubbed, hinges cracking, pages slightly foxed, previous owners details on verso of front free end paper and frontispiece tissue guard browned - around Very Good Copy. With Black & White Frontispiece & 14 plates. |
£25.00 |
Set in the 1870s in Central America, the protagonists travel into the mountains to an inhabited ancient city. Bleiler - "...crypto-metaphysical work, which is much removed from Haggard's usual simple adventure stories... Rich in detail, ingenious and well plotted... There are occasional minor supernatural elements... " |
| Sir Henry Rider Haggard |
The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard |
Michael Joseph 1981 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, pages slightly damp-rippled, small biro '8' on front fixed end paper and page edges a little marked - Very Good copy in slightly rubbed and worn Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"... 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..." |
| Isidore Haiblum |
The Tsaddik Of The Seven Wonders |
Doubleday 1981 First Edition in Hardback First Printing ? |
Bruised at top and base of spine, small scrape on front panel and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the top edge of the front panel adjacent to the spine with a little creasing. |
£5.00 |
"Greenberg was quite a character... a travel agent of sorts; he affected a checked suit, a cane. a bowler hat and white shoes... Greenberg dealt in time travel but could never seem to land at the right place on schedule. Maybe because he was only eight inches tall. Greenberg was a homunculus... " |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) |
Forever Free |
Gollancz 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"William Mandella and his partner Marygay survived a war which should never have been. They lived long enough to see humanity changed beyond all recognition. The human race has evolved into Man, a group mind similar to the alien Taurans that William and Marygay used to fight. But man's society doesn't feel right... " |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) |
Forever Peace |
Ace 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised and slightly faded at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the base of the front fold. Signed and Inscribed by the Author |
£7.50 |
"In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages... fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines run by remote control... Julian Class... and his lover, Dr Amelia Harding, have made a terrifying scientific discovery that could literally put the universe back to square one. For Julian, however, the discovery isn't terrifying. It's tempting... " |
| 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... " |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) |
The Forever War |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, purple boards slightly faded and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
""... Beginning in 1997 the war with the Taurans drags on century by century. Spanning the stars at faster-than-light speeds, the troops in The Forever War age only months as the centuries zip by on earth - an earth that becomes increasingly unrecognisable with each return visit... " His first full length novel. |
| Joe Haldeman (Also as Robert Graham) |
The Hemingway Hoax |
New English Library 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"...John Baird has been able to devote his life to Ernest Hemingway... Castlemaine, tempts him into forging... Hemingway's lost Paris stories... he is confronted with... an interdimensional literary critic with a license to kill..." |
| 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 |
Dragonshadow |
Del Rey 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... In a world where most people live and die without glimpsing a single dragon, Lord John Aversin - with the aid of his mageborn wife, Jenny Waynest - has fought and defeated two, earning the proud title of Dragonsbane. But there are creatures more terrifying than dragons... " Sequel to Dragonsbane |
| 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... " |
| 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 Part Two of the Commonwealth Saga |
Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"After hundreds of years secretly manipulating the human race, the Starflyer alien has succeeded in engineering a war which should result in the destruction of the Intersolar Commonwealth... " 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 Dreaming Void Part One of The Void Trilogy |
MacMillan 2007 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned and no longer parallel and top right hand corner of front free end paper roughened by previous price erasure else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread throughout the galaxy to over a thousand star systems... At the centre of the galaxy is the Void, a strange, artificial universe created by aliens billions of years ago, shrouded by an event horizon more deadly than any natural black hole... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton |
The Naked God |
Macmillan 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in slightly rubbed like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£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 Neutronium Alchemist |
Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners and and page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£30.00 |
"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 Night's Dawn Series |
Macmillan 1996-9 All Are First Edition First Printing |
Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and top corners of b) bruised, page edges of c) faintly marked and two page edges of e) slightly bumped and with small tears, else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. Signed by the Author on the Title Pages and a) additionally inscribed. |
£320.00 |
"... one of the most triumphant works of science fiction to appear for decades... over 3,700 pages (or 1,200,000 words)... has brought to life an entire galaxy of diverse planets and astonishing civilisations... " |
| 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... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton |
Watching Trees Grow |
PS Publishing 2000 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 174/300) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
29,000 word novelette (100 plus pages), introduction by Larry Niven. LIMITED EDITION, 800 copy print run of which this is one of 300 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author and Larry Niven. (#3523) Fine copy in a fine dustjacket |
| 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." |
| Frances Hardinge |
Fly By Night |
Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"One runaway orphan and one homicidal goose. Unlikely heroes on an extraordinary quest. After her father dies Mosca Mye flees the hamlet where she grew up. With her goose companion and a smooth-tongued swindler, Eponymous Client, she heads towards the city of Mandelion - and a better life... " |
| 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... " |
| Thomas Harlan |
Wasteland of Flint |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, front fixed end paper with a couple of wrinkles and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of sun-fading top the top edge of the front panel. |
£5.00 |
"... an alternative future in which the Aztec Empire rules the earth and an interstellar empire... Dr Gretchen Anderssen, a xenoarchaeologist... is to travel on an imperial warship... to Ephesus III... the seemingly dead planet hides a secret life and may hold treasures far too deadly for the empire to ever allow her to discover." |
| 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... " |
| Charles L. Harness |
Rings |
NESFA 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and faint mark on front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
Drunkard's Endgame is new and there is a four page introduction by George Zebrowski. "... Baroque space-time opera at its best!... " |
| 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 |
£40.00 |
"... 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 |
Hannibal |
Delacorte 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one crease in the front flap |
£10.00 |
"... Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody... " |
| 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 ( Also as Harris Burland & J. B. Harris Burland) |
The Lion's Claws |
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 - I have been unable to trace the issue of any other planned title in this series (or indeed this one!). 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 |
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 In Peril |
Hodder & Stoughton 2000 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 |
£7.50 |
"... the war of the 1860's between the United States of America and the British Empire... began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an ill-considered letter to Abraham Lincoln, and continued with an ill-starred invasion of the territory of the USA by an incensed British Government. The first modern war... " Book 2 of the Stars and Stripes Trilogy. |
| 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 |
Nova Swing |
Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing |
One light front cover crease and page edges a little marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£7.50 |
"Great tourist ships drift from star to star. Everything is out there and available. You can get a new body. You can get a new self. You can be anything you choose - except in the forbidden zone... " Space-noir sequel to Light. |
| M. John Harrison |
The Course Of The Heart |
Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear near the top of the folds. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"One hot May night in the Cambridge meadows three students carry out... a ritualistic act which changes their lives... they read of a country called the Coeur, which emerges from between the shifting borders of Europe only under the most special conditions... In the Coeur everything is possible. There they may find not only escape but redemption..." |
| M. John Harrison |
Travel Arrangements |
Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... first book of short stories since The Ice Monkey... These stories - in which sex is a form of transport, travel an interior project, and the world never quite what it seems - explore the undependable boundary between the desired and the possible, the real and the transcendent, discovering humour, horror and a kind of wry glamour in the ordinary... " |
| M. John Harrison |
Viriconium Nights |
Gollancz 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus |
Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... 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... " |
| 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 Rebellion |
Ibooks 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The remnants of the ragtag fleet and the battle-scarred Galactica have escaped the clutches of the Cylons and warped into an unknown quadrant of the galaxy... in which their stardrives will not work... " |
| Richard Hatch |
Battlestar Galactica Resurrection |
Ibooks 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (3mm) split at the base of the front fold. |
£7.50 |
"The Battlestar Galactica and the colonial fleet are in serious trouble... last encounter with the Cylons and the fierce alien race called the Chitain have left them crippled and exhausted and depleted of food and fuel. And they are still in Cylon space... " |
| 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... " |
| 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 |
Job: A Comedy Of Justice |
New English Library 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"In his latest masterpiece Robert A. Heinlein... sets out to question some of mankind's most fundamental and necessary belief systems. He does so with penetrating intelligence, great sensitivity and, most important, with enormous wit... " |
| 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." |
| Brian Herbert |
Legends of Dune 1 The Butlerian Jihad |
Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters... The human race still clings to life. Some - like the idealistic Serena Butler... even dream of overthrowing the machines... Others... are proud to serve the machines... " |
| Brian Herbert |
Prelude To Dune II House Harkonnen |
Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"At House Harkonnen, arch enemy of House Atreides, Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathsome disease. His nephew and heir, Rabban, prepares to take over the Harkonnen Empire. At the same time gentle, helpless Abulurd strives to undo his half-brother's cruelty and his own son's viciousness... " |
| 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 |
Sepulchre |
Hodder & Stoughton 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Superficial tear to paper at top of spine, lower edges slightly bumped, corners a little rubbed - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in Dust Jacket crumpled at top of spine (where it extends over the Proof), spine panel background slightly faded and fine scratch on rear panel |
£10.00 |
"There is a house, hidden away in a small valley, that holds a dark and dreadful secret... There is a psychic who lives in that house who is part of its secret... There is a guardian of the house, and of the psychic, and of the secret... Together, in unholy union, they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind... " |
| 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 |
| Philip E. High |
Double Illusion |
Dobson 1970 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in price-clipped Dust Jacket with faint foxing on the rear flap Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front free end paper |
£7.50 |
"...Mother machine knows what's best for her human children and does it... rapidly turning men into zombies. The world's only hope turns out to be one outlawed man of seemingly average intelligence, but with an incredible I.Q. potential... " |
| 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 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?) |
| Susan Hill |
The Mist in the Mirror |
Sinclair-Stevenson 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Sir James Monmouth... his first night back in England... The Cross Keys Inn near the docks... The boy with the pale face... the old woman behind the curtain... the terrible scream... the mist in the mirror... did they have any reality beyond his fevered imagination?... combining the seemingly ordinary with the extraordinary in the best tradition of the ghost story... " |
| 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 |
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." |
| 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... " |
| 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 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... " |
| 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 P. 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 P. Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) |
Ancient Echoes |
HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Warmly Inscribed to fellow author Richard Cowper/Colin/John Middleton Murry, (Jr.) and his wife Ruth |
£30.00 |
"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 P. 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 P. 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 P. Holdstock |
Earthwind |
Faber 1977 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 |
"... the story of two people trapped on the planet Aeran. What has happened to the colonists of this world to obliterate their memories of who and what they were, and to have rebuilt in their place a precise and accurate copy of a stone age culture that flourished in Ireland during the fourth century BC?... " |
| Robert P. 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 P. 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 P. 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 P. 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 P. 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 P. Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon) |
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 P. 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 |
| Robert P. Holdstock |
Where Time Winds Blow |
Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel and top 2 mm of front panel background faded to pale orange Signed and Inscribed to fellow author Richard Cowper/Colin/John Middleton Murry, (Jr.) and his wife Ruth |
£10.00 |
"An unpredictable planet where time blows between past and future; a domed city, crawling along the sheer edge of a rift-valley, watching below as alien ruins flicker in and out of the present; a group of 'Manchanged' humans who have been medically and surgically adapted... who are struggling to adapt psychologically... " |
| Cecilia Holland |
Two Ravens |
Knopf 1977 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with one small tear |
£5.00 |
"... the setting is twelfth-century Iceland. It is a word of conflict within conflict: Christian against Pagan, father against son, brother against brother. And in the tough, impassioned Bjarni, who reflects both the violence and the poetry of this primal land, we have a hero congruent with his time... " Non Fantasy historical novel by the author of Floating Worlds. |
| 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) |
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 (Also as Thomas 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 |
Grailblazers |
Orbit 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top of the spine panel adjacent to the spine. Signed by the Author on the Title Page and dated 22/1/94 |
£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 |
Lucia In Wartime |
Macmillan 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the top of each fold |
£30.00 |
"It is 1939. War threatens Europe... it has to be admitted that the hostilities that occupy the attention of Lucia and George are with Elizabeth Mapp-Flint rather than with the enemy across the Channel... Lucia's domination of the little Sussex town is under serious threat... " Scarce |
| 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) |
Odds And Gods |
Orbit 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with spine lettering slightly faded |
£7.50 |
'It's a god's life at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for retired deities. Everlasting life can be a real drag when all you've got to look forward to is cauliflower cheese on Wednesdays... there's a major technical problem with the thousand-year-old traction engine... lovingly restored by... Thor, Odin and Frey... " |
| 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 |
Open Sesame |
Orbit 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little bumped and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Something was wrong! Just as the boiling water was about to be poured on his head and the man with the red book appeared and his life flashed before his eyes, Akram the Terrible, the most feared thief in Baghdad, knew that this had happened before. Many times..." |
| Tom Holt |
Overtime |
Orbit 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page and Dated 23/1/93 |
£10.00 |
"Only in a Tom Holt novel can you discover the relationship between the Inland Revenue, the Second Crusade and God's great plan to build starter planets for first time life-forms... " |
| 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 (Also as Thomas Holt) |
Ye Gods! |
Orbit 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one crease along front flap |
£15.00 |
"... Being a Hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mum's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying fabulous monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before your mum'll let you watch Star Trek... " |
| 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 |