| 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 book 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 book 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..." |
| 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 book 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 and page edges lightly marked else Fine book 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) | Guardian | Ace 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Something not of this world has approached her. It has revealed the universe's secrets to her. And it will take her on an extraordinary odyssey as she discovers that she, Rosa Coleman, has a role to play in bringing peace to Earth... " |
| 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 book 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 | 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 book 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 book | £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 |
| Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army | Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | £5.00 | "... With much of the country now underwater, assets and weapons seized... all women should be fitted with contraceptive devices... Sister... tells of her attempts to escape... to join the commune of women at Carhullan... but arrival is only the beginning of her struggle... " |
| 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 book 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 book 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 | Bantam 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | '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... yet for all our eager carnal efforts, I remain childless... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | A Second Chance At Eden | Macmillan 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners bruised and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "From the author of the Night's Dawn Trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the same brilliantly realised universe... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Misspent Youth | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | Pandora's Star | Macmillan 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £30.00 | "It is AD 2380 and humanity has colonised over six hundred planets.... With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth has grown into a quiet. wealthy society... When astronomer Dudley Bose observes a star over a thousand light years away vanish... the Commonwealth is anxious to discover what actually happened... " |
| Peter F. Hamilton | The Dreaming Void Part One of The Void Trilogy | MacMillan 2007 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Light creasing to lower edge of rear cover else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "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 Limited State (No. 166/306) | Edges/corners slightly rubbed, lower front corner lightly creased and slightly curled and page edges a little marked and a few slightly creased - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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..." |
| W. A. Harbinson | Dream Maker | Walker 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing | Fine book 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 book 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 | The Storm Of Heaven Book Three of The Oath Of Empire | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the great three-sided war continues. Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. The tide is turning against the Eastern Empire... Rome lies devastated by the long-pent eruption of Vesuvius... and in Judea, young Dwyrin is coming into his full powers... " |
| Andrew Harman | A Midsummer Night's Gene | Legend 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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... " |
| Anne Harris | Accidental Creatures | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly damp-marked at the head of the spine panel | £5.00 | "... Helix has always been... different. After a lifetime of isolation, she travels deep into Vattown, where the vat divers live... and die... a motley bunch, mutated by repeated exposure to the growth medium they swim through to harvest biopolymers for the biotech megacorporation GeneSys... " |
| 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 book 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 | 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 book 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 | Dead Reckoning | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. It's a job which has its own challenges, but now the vampires and shapeshifters are finally 'out', you'd think the supernaturals would get on with each other... " |
| Charlaine Harris | Grave Sight | Gollancz 2006 Third Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book 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 | Severn House 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £100.00 | "... When artist Alice Farrell reads... inscription on an overgrown headstone... the message seems somehow portentous... Then Alice's ex-boyfriend Joe suddenly contacts her ... begging her to meet his new girlfriend... " Very scarce |
| Steve Harris | The Hoodoo Man | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book 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 book 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 book 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 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 book 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 | Bill, The Galactic Hero The Final Incoherent Adventure | Gollancz 1993 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, lower front corner slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in price-clipped 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 (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own). Now he's been recruited... for a suicide mission... Bill has his orders to die trying, but trying what he doesn't know... " |
| Harry Harrison | One King's Way | Tor 1995 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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?... " |
| Kim Harrison (Dawn Cook) | Dead Witch Walking | B.C.A. 2005 Second Reprint | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the fold tips and at the upper rear spine corner | £4.00 | "All the creatures of the night gather in 'the Hollows' of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers... and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep the world civilised. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal... she'll bring 'em back alive, dead... or undead." |
| Kim Harrison | Every Which Way But Dead | B.C.A. 2005 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan... Between 'runs' she has her hands full fending off the attention of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor... " |
| Kim Harrison | The Good, The Bad, and the Undead | B.C.A. 2005 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits... " |
| M. John Harrison | Viriconium Nights | Gollancz 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Fine book 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 book 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 book 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 book 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 Twelve Hawks | The Traveller | Bantam (UK) 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | The triumphant conclusion to the Rhapsody trilogy - "... the world is crossing the threshold of disaster and faces utter oblivion... " |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Prophecy Child Of Earth | Tor 2000 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... 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 | 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 book 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 | Requiem For The Sun | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 | 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 book 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 | 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 book in like Dust Jacket with a crease in the front flap | £4.00 | "... 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 book 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 book 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 |
| Gerald Heard (H. F. Heard) | The Great Fog And Other Weird Tales | Cassell 1947 First Edition in the UK Fist Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and foxed else Fine book in worn, torn, creased and slightly chipped Dust Jacket with the price removed. | £20.00 | The Crayfish; The Great Fog; Wingless Victory; Vindicae Flammae; Eclipse; The Swap; Dromenon; The Cat, "I Am"; The Rousing of Mr. Bradegar. Quite Scarce. |
| 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 book 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 book Signed by the Author With 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 book 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 book 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 | Hunters Of Dune | Tor 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune... a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho... escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres... driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy... Duncan's no-ship... is forced to elude... diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy... Failure is unthinkable... " Based in Frank Herbert's outline. |
| Brian Herbert | Prelude to Dune III House Corrino | Hodder & Stoughton 2001 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly marked, and edges of last two pages marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof in Dust Jacket badly crumpled at top and base of spine panel where it has extended over the proof | £7.50 | "... The war which will decide the fate of three great dynasties has begun, the field of battle is... a universe... " |
| Frank Herbert | Man Of Two Worlds | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "On the planet Dreenor live the most powerful and influential species in the Galaxy... possess the power of 'idmaging': turning their thoughts into actual solid objects, both inert and alive... Dreens can create whole worlds... as the basis for Storytelling... The most popular stories concern that wild planet... Earth... " |
| James Herbert | The Secret of Crickley Hall | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine book 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, light mark on front free end paper and page edges browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, 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 book in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tear and a little erosion at base of the front fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 book 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 book 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?) |
| Joe Hill | Heart-Shaped Box | Gollancz 2007 First Trade Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "When Judas Coyne heard someone was selling a ghost on the internet... It was perfect for his collection of the macabre and the grotesque... Jude has been haunted for years... by the spirits of bandmates dead and gone, the spectre of the abusive father he fled as a child, and the memory of the girl he abandoned, who killed herself... " |
| Joe Hill | Horns | Gollancz 2010 First Trade Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Ignatius William Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache - and horns growing from his temples... and a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look... " |
| Reginald Hill (Also as Dick Morland, PatrickRuell & Charles Underhill) | One Small Step A Dalziel and Pascoe novella | Collins Crime Club 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a hint of wear. | £25.00 | "...there are two hundred and twenty seven million witnesses - but none of them can help.. For this is murder on the moon in 2010... when Emile Lemarque keels over on the steps of the space ship Europa, he stirs up more than lunar dust... the personal intervention of Commissioner Peter Pascoe... turns for assistance to... Andy Dalziel... " Scarce |
| 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 book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "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 Medusa Frequency | Viking 1987 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 (Megan Lindholm) | The Dragon Keeper | Voyager 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £5.00 | "17 Damaged Dragons. 13 Misfits. 1 Impossible Quest. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wild River: the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations... People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise... " |
| Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) | The Inheritance | HarperVoyager 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small surface tear to paper in front gutter (production fault) else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's promotion sheet | £10.00 | Three Tales by 'Robin Hobb', Seven Tales by Megan Lindholm and a Preface/Explanation |
| Robin Hobb | The Liveship Traders Book III Ship Of Destiny | Voyager 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... concludes the tale of the Vestrit family and their part in the history of The Liveship Traders... " |
| 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 book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "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... " |
| 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 book 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 book 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 | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "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... " |
| Nancy Holder | Angel Endangered Species | Pocket 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at lower front corner and a few lower page corners and page edges lightly browned and slightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Cordelia Chase is accustomed to being rocked by excruciating visions courtesy of the Powers That Be... Faith - whose recent incarceration, it would seem, is the least of her problems. Angel wastes no time... " The First Angel Hardback- action from early in the third season. |
| 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, publisher's name stamped on front fixed end paper and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "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 | The Hollowing | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...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... " |
| 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 book 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 | Earth, Air, Fire and Custard | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 | In Your Dreams | Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book 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 | Snow White and the Seven Samurai | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "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 book 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 | Ye Gods! | Orbit 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book 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 and base of spine. lower front corner and lower edge of rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "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." |
| Nalo Hopkinson | The New Moon's Arms | Warner 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Calamity... 's starting menopause. And with this change of life comes the return of a special gift she has not felt since her childhood - she can find lost things. Now after a little tingling in the hands and a hot flash, objects suddenly appear... a bruised yet cheerful four-year-old boy... Calamity decides to take the orphaned child into her care... " |
| 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 book 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 | Hyddenworld Spring | Macmillan 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It has lain lost and forgotten for fifteen hundred years in the ancient heartland of Englalond. A scrap of glass and metal melded by fierce fire. Created by the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon Craftlords, in memory of the one he loved. Her name was Spring, and... in the very heart of this work is a spark from the fires of the Universe... " |
| William Horwood | The Stonor Eagles | Country Life 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top, base and one side of spine else Fine book 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... " |
| 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 book 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?? |
| 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 book 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, |
| Tanya Huff | The Enchantment Emporium | Daw 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a little lower edge rubbing and a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold. | £4.00 | "... featuring Alysha Catherine Gale... The Gales can change the world with the charms they cast, and they like to keep all this power in the family... The Gale Aunties are in charge of the family, or think they are. And Alysha... often finds herself beset with too many Aunties trying to run her life... So when... she's inherited a junk shop... " |
| Matthew Hughes | Template A Novel Of The Archonate | PS Publishing 2008 First Edition Thus First Printing Signed by the Author - Issued Without Dust Jacket (No. 142/500) | Fine book in laminated boards. | £15.00 | Introduction by Jay Lake. "... Hughes canvas is the human experience... in a future as distant and disconnected as any Vancean saga... a canvas too broad for a large man's arms... a paintbox of colors which do not exist... From this dioscuric pair he fashions a brightly-tinted matrioshka array of plots, places and passages of arms... " |
| M. K. Hume | King Arthur: Warrior of the West | Headline 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £7.50 | "Twelve long, blood-soaked years have passed since Artor fulfilled his destiny and was crowned High King... Artor has united Celtic Britain and with a last great campaign has banished the Saxon scourge. The legend of Camlann has begun... " Second in the trilogy. |
| 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 | £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 Ascent | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... As armadas clash and outposts fall, the overly confident alien menace is forced to confront a zor-human alliance that has been warned... " Book 3 |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Crusade | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Path | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and with a small cloth tear at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top edge or front board else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Man and zor , once sworn enemies... now live side by side... a mystery from the past has become a threat to the present... " Book 2 |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Wing | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the zor decide to mount a surprise attack against the human colonies... a controversial scholar by the name of Marais... claims to have a plan to deal with them... Marais is put in charge of the battlefleet... " Book 1 |
| Charlie Huston | Sleepless | Orion 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £5.00 | "... An epidemic of sleeplessness is sweeping LA, and as the afflicted gradually lose their minds, the border between reality and nightmare is getting awfully hard to keep in focus... Haas spends his days... posing as a drug dealer in a quest to find the source of Dreamer, the black market narcotic that provides relief for the sleepless - before it kills them... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Captives | Macdonald 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | £4.00 | "... behind the sealed doors of the hospital wing of Whitely prison... Dr. Robert Dexter is working at his own methods of solving prison overcrowding. Methods that have gone a little wrong... that will turn ordinary men into raving psychopaths, screaming for vengeance, destruction and death... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Dying Words | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine book 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 | Epitaph | Orbit 2010 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in a like Dust Jacket | £10.00 | "... When Frank and Gina Hackett's daughter, Laura, is abducted and murdered, the police are baffled... Frank and Gina decide to take matters into their own hands... they want a confession. If you say you did it, they'll kill you. if you say you didn't, they'll leave you to die. So how do you stop the next words you say from being your last?... " |
| Shaun Hutson | Hybrid | TimeWarner 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book 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 page edges slightly browned and marked else Fine book 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 | Three Novels in One Volume Comprising Slugs Spawn Erebus | Macdonald 1994 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one light spine crease, touch of wear at lower corners and page edges browned else Fine book in laminated boards and like, slightly creased and rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Slugs One female slug can lay one and a half million eggs a year... new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For flesh... Spawn Released from a mental hospital, Harold Pierce is given a job as a hospital porter... that job involves the disposal of abnormal foetuses... Erebus Wakely was just a small farming community but something was terribly wrong there... " |
| Alexander C. Irvine (Also as Alex Irvine) | Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery Have Robot, Will Travel | iBooks 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Exiled to the colony Nova Levis, roboticist Derek Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess have tried to make the best of their situation, after exposing an anti-robot conspiracy on Earth... A human has been murdered on Kopernik, a space station... and all the clues point to a robot |
| Alexander C. Irvine (Also as Alex Irvine) | The Narrows | Del Rey 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and top front cover corner creased else Fine book | £3.00 | "... World War II... Dtroit, where Henry Ford's factories have been retooled for America's grand war effort... a top-secret effort to produce golems... the devilish dwarf known as the Nain Rouge... a shape-shifting Indian shaman... a cataclysm of mythic and sinister proportions... " |
| 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 book 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... " |
| Steve Jackson | The Warlock of Firetop Mountain | Wizard Books 2007 25th Anniversary Edition - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Illustrations by Russ Nicholson | £4.00 | A fighting fantasy gamebook in which YOU become the hero! |
| Charlie Hamilton James | The Matewix | HarperCollins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book 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... " |
| John James | Not For All The Gold In Ireland | Cassell 1968 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine book in like slightly rubbed, creased and lightly browned Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front free end paper. | £75.00 | "The hard years on the Amber Road had changed Photinus the Greek. He had won a fortune and lost an eye and married various wives and become a God... His cousin Philebus had played the game of the pea and the three cups; now, reluctantly, Photinus- Votan set off to retrieve... the Deed of Monopoly to the Gold of Ireland... ." Very Scarce. |
| Peter James | Host | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine book 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 book 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 book 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..." |
| Mark Jansen | Apers | Dailey Swan 2006 First Edition First Printing (Complimentary Copy) | Fine book Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Time: Near future Place: California... Mission: Create a new order of life as a source of manual labor... unintended consequence... high level of intelligence... " Based on the screenplay by Barbara Day Zinicola and Mark Jansen |
| 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 book 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... " |
| T. M. Jenkins | The Waking | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and a couple of light pressure marks across the front panel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top of the front fold. | £5.00 | "... 2070: sixty-four years after his own violent death Nate is resuscitated, using the body of an anonymous donor... all too soon, an investigative journalist blows the cover... threatens both to expose the identity of the mysterious donor and unravel the truth behind Sheehan's murder all those years ago... " |
| 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 book 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 2: The Edge Of Human | Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of signatures lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Deckard has fled Los Angeles with Rachael, his beautiful replicant lover. Rachael, like all her kind, has a built in life span of four years. In a rural hideaway they ration their days together and Deckard spends months just watching Rachael sleep in cryogenic suspension. They think themselves safe from the Tyrell Corporation... " |
| K. W. Jeter | Blade Runner 3 Replicant Night | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 book 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 book 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 book 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... " |
| 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 book 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 | Lower front cover corner creased, lower rear corner bruised - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | £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... " |
| Gwyneth Jones | Band Of Gypsys | Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Ax Preston, former dictator, returns to England to take up the Green President job... he finds some outrageous details in the contract, so the Triumvirate decamps for Paris... embarrassing the English government over conditions in the new-slavery labour camps... " Fourth volume in the sf/fantasy series. |
| 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 book 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 book 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 book 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 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 book 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 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 book 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 book 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 book 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... " |
| 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 book 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 | New Spring: The Novel | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine book 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 (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.- also as Chang Lung, Regan O'Neal and Jackson O' Reilly) | 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 book 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 | The Conan Chronicles 2 | Legend 1997 First Combined & Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.- also as Chang Lung, Regan O'Neal and Jackson O' Reilly) | The Dragon Reborn | Tor 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and faintly marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £150.00 | "... the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the saviour who will run mad and kill all those dear to him... in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon Reborn... " |
| Robert Jordan | The Fallon Blood | Forge 1995 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Near Fine book 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 | 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 book 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 (Also as William Heaney) | Dark Sister | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners bruised and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightky worn and creased Dust Jacket Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... Maggi's experiments in herbalism plunge her into a frightening, awe-inspiring world of magic... And when Bella reaches out from the pages of her diary, searching for peace from beyond the grave, Maggie's sanity is suddenly under siege and the lives of her children left at the mercy of an ancient terror... " |
| Graham Joyce | Dreamside | Pan 1991 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges and corners slightly worn, top front corner slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine book | £5.00 | "... It began as a students' game. A harmless attempt to control their dreams... But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now the dreams have returned... summoned by forces beyond their control... powerful enough to threaten their sanity... " The author's first book. Scarce. |
| Graham Joyce | Leningrad Nights | PS Publishing 1999 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 143/500) | Back cover slightly creased else Fine book | £5.00 | 48 page novella: introduced by Peter Straub. "... a phantasmal, haunted version of Leningrad... An orphaned boy named Leo dodges through the rubble, doing whatever he must to survive... " |
| Graham Joyce (Also as William Heaney) | Requiem | Tor 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 |
| 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 book 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. |
| MacKinlay Kantor | If The South Had Won The Civil War | Forge 2001 (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine book Illustrated by Dan Nance | £4.00 | Introduction by Harry Turtledove & with An Historical Inversion |
| 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 book 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... " |
| 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 book 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 | The Last Light Of The Sun | Simon & Schuster 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Spine a little creased, corners a little curled - Very good Uncorrected Proof | £4.00 | "... in the Northlands... for decades there has been bitter, bloody war... and for a generation there has been peace... Alun ab Owyn... embroiled in the politics of the great... Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins... and the shrewd King Aeldred shores up his defences... The death of a prince... and the world is changed forever." Set in the same fantasy world as The Sarantine Mosaic. |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | The Sarantine Mosaic | Earthlight 1998/2000 Both are First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spines and LoE additionally across the top edge of front board and page edges lightly browned else Fine copies in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jackets. | £15.00 | "... a long-awaited new work that evokes - and vividly recaptures - the glory and decadence of the early Byzantine Empire... marrying history with high fantasy, the imagined with the known... 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..." |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | HarperCollins 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £7.50 | "or two years Shen Tai has mourned his father, living like a hermit beyond the borders of the Kitan Empire... Now, Tai must try to return alive to the glittering, dangerous court of his emperor... " |
| Marvin Kaye | Wintermind | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 | A Different Kingdom | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...As Michael grows he finds himself again and again travelling, with the mysterious, alluring girl, Cat, ever deeper into the heart of this netherworld, where wolves and bears roam the dense forest, where warriors battle legendary beasts, and where the Horseman waits, and watches ... " |
| Paul Kearney | Riding The Unicorn | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Lower edge of rear board a little bumped else Fine book 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 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 book 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 book 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... " |
| James Patrick Kelly | think like a Dinosaur and other stories | Golden Gryphon 1997 First Edition First Printing | Page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £10.00 | Foreword by John Kessel; Think Like a Dinosaur; Heroics; Pogrom; Faith; Big Guy; Dancing with the Chairs; Rat; The First Law of Thermodynamics; Breakaway, Backdown; Standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy; Crow; Monsters; Itsy Bitsy Spider; Mr. Boy |
| 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 book 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 book 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 War | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and some signatures differentially browned else Fine book 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... " |
| Katharine Kerr | The Red Wyvern Book One of The Dragon Mage | Voyager 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, lower front corner bruised and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly damp-marked on the inside. With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | "... a new chapter in the history of the kingdom of Deverry - an ideal starting point for newcomers to her gorgeous epic, and a satisfactory continuation of the saga for those readers who have followed the series through its previous incarnations... " |
| John Kessel | Corrupting Dr Nice | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 book 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... " |
| Nancy Kilpatrick | Bloodlover | Baskerville Books 2000 First Edition First Printing? (Paper) | Slightly bumped at top of spine and upper rear corner lightly creased and spine panel red faded to pale pink else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "London. England. It is the 1960s, and anything goes! Julien has been around for almost 500 years, and most of that time he's been alone. Relationships are a power struggle, extremely violent, and he intends to hold the reigns. Jeanette has problems with relationship.. In her shallow world Julien is just another man to be manipulated... " Power of the Blood Volume IV |
| 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 book 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 | A Midsummer's Nightmare | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 top and base of spine and lower front corner bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "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 base of spine else Fine book 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 | Archangel | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 book 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 book 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 | 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 book in Fine, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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) | House Of Tribes | Bantam 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | 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 Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | In The Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave A Novel And Seven Stories | Bodley Head 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket damp-marked on the inside (no show-through) | £4.00 | "... an enigma is unravelled to reveal a strange cultural and emotional core. This central theme is explored in various ways in many of the short stories accompanying the novel, from an investigation into mendacity, in Blood Orange and The River-Sailor's Wife, to the incestuous movements behind Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of Fitzcarraldo... " |
| 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 book in slightly faded Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | Spiral Winds | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and card at head of spine delaminated else Fine Uncorrected Proof 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 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 | Split Second | Faber 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with orange of spine panel background faded to yellow Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £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 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 | The Roof of Voyaging: Book I of The Navigator Kings | Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page. 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." |
| 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 book 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 book 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 book 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) | 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 book 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) | Christine | Hodder & Stoughton 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed, Inscribed and Dated by the Author on 5/14/83 (Publication Date) | £200.00 | "...at his best, his skill as a storyteller matched only by his ability to mould the incredible into horrific and spine-chilling reality, and by his acute observation of the social mores of the teenage generations of America in the late 1950s and 1970s." |
| Stephen King | Cujo | Macdonald 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing (2nd state ISBN 0354047590 Unpriced) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a short (3.5 mm) tear at the top edge of the rear 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 book 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 | Dolores Claiborne | Viking 1993 First Edition in the US Variant state - U.S.$23.50 Canada $28.99 and £14.99 (export only) on front flap) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... her story centers on a disintegrating marriage's molten core, where the mind's unblinking eye becomes huge with hate and a woman's heart turns murderous... how fierce love can be , and how dreadful its consequences... how the soul, harrowed by the hardest life, can achieve a kind of grace... " |
| Stephen King | Four Past Midnight | Hodder & Stoughton 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | The Langoliers; Secret Window, Secret Garden; The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. |
| Stephen King | From A Buick 8 | Hodder & Stoughton 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with the spine panel purple background very slightly faded. | £7.50 | "Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 blue Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like... Because the Buick is a conduit to a world beyond... " |
| Stephen King | From A Buick 8 | Scribners 2002 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979. when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilson... came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster... Rafferty vanished... the car was worse than dangerous... a novel about our fascination with deadly things... " |
| 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 book in like Dust Jacket creased at the top of the spine panel and with the price removed | £7.50 | "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 (Also as Richard Bachman) | Hearts In Atlantis | Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing | Edges and gold cover lettering slightly rubbed else Fine Promotional Proof book With Royal Blue card covers | £25.00 | "... 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) | Hearts In Atlantis | Hodder & Stoughton 1999 First Edition First Printing | Fore edge of front board slightly bumped and lower front corner bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publishers' Advertising Sheet | £4.00 | "... 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 | Hearts In Atlantis | Scribners 1999 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... five interconnected sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999... " Low Men in Yellow Coats; Hearts In Atlantis; Blind Willie; Why We're in Vietnam and Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling |
| Stephen King | Insomnia | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition in the UK & First Trade Edition - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... You'll lose a lot of sleep. Ralph does. at first he finds it hard to drop off. Then he starts waking earlier. And earlier. But that isn't when he starts to see things. Colours, shapes, strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. The evil-looking one clutching a rusty scalpel... " |
| Stephen King | Misery | Viking 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine book 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 | Needful Things | Hodder & Stoughton 1991 First Edition in the UK Third Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... With a demonic blend of malice and affection, Stephen King says farewell to the town he put on the map - and delivers another spellbinding testament to his dark genius." |
| Stephen King | Needful Things | Viking 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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 book 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 | 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 book 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 and lower rear corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £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 | The Dark Tower V Wolves Of The Calla | Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. With 12 full-colour illustrations by Bernie Wrightson | £10.00 | "Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing south-east... to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers... Beyond the town the rocky ground rises towards the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul... " |
| Stephen King | The Eyes Of The Dragon | Viking 1987 First Trade Edition & Thus First Printing | Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards... " |
| 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 book 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" |
| Fletcher Knebel | Trespass | W. H. Allen 1969 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, old price in biro on front free end paper and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket, lightly damp-marked on the inside. | £5.00 | "To most white Americans, the Blacks of February 21st was a shadowy organisation... To Tim Crawford, it was four armed men occupying his home... an ingenious blueprint for revolution... about an imaginary future that could easily become tomorrow's reality... " |
| 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 book 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 | By the Light of the Moon | Headline 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The doctor warns his victims that he is being pursued and that they too are now targets. If they are caught, they will be killed. Both Jillian and Dylan are sceptical, but when three Chevrolet Suburbans with dark-tinted windows come screaming into the motel carpark and Jillian's... car is found in flames... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | Fear Nothing | Bantam 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, a little creased, and with a short tear, at the head of the spine panel | £5.00 | "Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay... a very rare genetic disorder... that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light... he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | Forever Odd | Bantam 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top rear corner else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he finds something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror... |
| 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 book 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 | Life Expectancy | Bantam 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... at the very height of the storm's fury, Joseph Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke... there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson... the path he must follow will defy every expectation... a struggle against evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | The Face | Bantam 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "He's Hollywood's most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul . His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic 'messages' breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate... " |
| Dean R. Koontz (Also as Brian Coffey; K. R. Dwyer; Leigh Nichols, Owen West & Aaron Wolfe) | The Taking | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Molly and Neil awaken to the drumbeat of rain... As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe ... By evening the town has lost all communication with the outside world... The night brings strange noises... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | The Taking | Bantam 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a few page corner tips bumped and creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... the story of a community cut off from a world under siege... the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbours as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps... something... is hunting them with ruthless efficiency... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | The Voice of the Night | Headline1991 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The night was a vast, dank cellar, home to that which crept and crawled and slithered. the night had ears and eyes. It had a horrible, scratchy old voice... It whispered about graves and rotting flesh and demons and ghosts and swamp monsters. it spoke of unspeakable things... " |
| Dean R. Koontz | Velocity | Bantam 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book 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 | Doctor Rat | Knopf 1976 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, a few speckles on spine cloth and one page corner tip creased else Fine book in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket with a small bump on the spine panel. | £10.00 | "There has never been a character... like Doctor Rat, Ph.D. Mad survivor of the most refined experiments... But... His fellow animals... are rebelling, refusing to accept their proper places - as experimental subjects, as pets, as food - in the natural order of things! And plucky, fanatical Doctor Rat... dedicates himself to protecting mankind... " World Fantasy Award Winner |
| William Kotzwinkle | The Game of Thirty | Houghton Mifflin 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book 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... " |
| Tom Kratman | A State of Disobedience | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine a few small marks to the front board and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "2060 in the so-called United States of America. A Body Politic transformed iinto a bloody stage for partisan revenge and state-controlled terror. One President vying for dictatorial power. one mild-mannered governor determined to stop the madness, yet not sacrifice democracy in the process... Welcome to the Second American Revolution... " |
| 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 top page edges marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "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 | Brain Rose | Morrow 1990 First Edition First Printing | Cross-spine crack, covers lightly browned and faintly marked and a couple of page edges bumped else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £4.00 | "... Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren and Robbie Brekke meet at a hospital where each has signed up for a new - and fashionable - procedure: Previous Life Access Surgery, which enables patients to access memories from previous incarnations. Their journeys... turn out to have... horrifying relevance to the future of human life on earth." |
| Nancy Kress | Crossfire | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | "... the story of a human colony... as this diverse group of thousands of people comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens... the evidence seems to indicate that the aliens aren't native to the planet... " |
| Nancy Kress | Crucible | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Light mark on spine panel else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | "It began with Crossfire... humans found themselves caught in the crossfire of a galaxy-spanning war between two disparate species... " |
| 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 book 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 | King Kelson's Bride | Ace 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, Penguin Books stamp on front free end paper and lower page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed at the tips of the folds. | £5.00 | "Speculation runs rampant throughout the kingdom of Gwynedd as to when, and to whom, King Kelson will finally be wed. As a rival monarch takes his place on the throne of a nearby land, it becomes more imperative than ever that Kelson produces a long-awaited heir... " |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Adept | Severn House 1992 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a little shelf-wear at the top edge of the rear board else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket. | £40.00 | "He is Adam Sinclair: nobleman, physician, scholar - and Adept. A man of learning and power, he practices ancient arts unknown to the twentieth century. he has had many names, lived many lives, but his mission remains the same: to protect the Light from those who would tread the Dark Roads... " |
| 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 book 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... " |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Harrowing Of Gwynedd Volume I of The Heirs of Saint Camber | Del Rey 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The evil times had come for the Deryni... King Cinhil was dead, and the weak boy-king Alroy reigned. But the real rulers were the Regents, evil, power-hungry men who sought the total destruction of all 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 book 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... " |
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