| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes Lackey | By Slanderous Tongues | Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly rubbed else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Great Harry is dead, and England is ruled by a dour Protector for 10-year-old Edward VI - a Protector intent on keeping total control over the young king.... In the great lenses that hold Visions of the future for the elves of the Bright Court and the Dark, the images change and waver... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | Music To My Sorrow | Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold | £7.50 | "Eric Banyon, also known as Bedlam's Bard... now... must rescue Magnus... from... the evangelist Billy Fairchild, who... is a tool of the evil Unseleighe elves, who feed off human sorrow and suffering... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | Phoenix and Ashes The Elemental Masters, Book Three | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual... during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried... For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth... not just an ordinary Master - a Master who practised the darker blood-fuelled arts... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | Take A Thief A Novel of Valdemar | Daw 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... it was after school that Skif got his real education...he could slip into the laundry rooms of wealthier homes and dress himself as a page. In the proper livery a young boy would be essentially invisible... and Skif could easily pocket a certain percentage of the food he was serving... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Black Gryphon | Millennium 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the lands of Tantara, beset by the endlessly cunning evil of the mage Maar; and the forces of good are led by Urtho, Mage of Silence... the story of a formative phase of war, one in which conflict from within - and treachery - present dangers that can and do lead to tragedy... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Mage Winds Trilogy | Millennium 1994-6 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and/or base of spine and a couple of corners else Fine copies in like, unpriced, Dust Jackets. | £30.00 | "An'desha is recovering from possession by a great evil... Karal is sixteen, an inexperienced envoy... are at the heart of a whirlwind - Valdemar... a place full of colour and turbulence... on the western horizon, the true storm, one that hearkens from displaced time, is growing... " |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Serpent's Shadow | Daw 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed along top edge of front panel | £7.50 | "... her mother was a sorceress - a former priestess of the mystical magics fuelled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods... 'Yours is the magic of your father's blood, not mine... ' ... But Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power which had murdered her parents... " The Elemental Masters, Book One. |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Silver Gryphon Book Three of The Mage Wars | Millennium 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Skandranon, the Black Gryphon, is getting old, his days as the conquering hero fading as his reputation as a wise, elder statesman grows. his twin sons Tadrith and Keenath... find adventure, and unwanted exposure to the ghastly magical remnants of the terrible Mage Wars." |
| Mercedes Lackey | The Wizard of London The Elemental Masters, Book Four | Daw 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed along top edge of front panel | £7.50 | "... she could tell that the writer, Sarah's mother, was a practitioner of Earth magic... It was what was not written in the letter that resonated to Isobelle's own finely tuned 'extra' senses: 'Sarah has gifts we cannot train... nor can anyone we know. Those we trust tell us that you can... ' " |
| Mercedes Lackey | This Rough Magic | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the front fold | £5.00 | "Corfu in the sixteenth century. Key to Asia. Repository of a magic older than history itself. No wonder the demon Chernobog must possess the island - for with it in his grasp, Chernobog can finally crush Venice and defeat his immortal enemy... Now all hope depends on the derring-do of the small band of heroes who fought against the demon before... " |
| R. A. Lafferty | East Of Laughter | Morrigan 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "There have always been the Twenty One Pillars of Rectitude who sustain the World: Seven Saints to insure the sanity of the World; Seven Technicians to insure its correct mechanical working; and Seven Scribbling Giants to write its scenarios and histories. The Saints and Technicians were always in plentiful supply. But not so the Scribbling Giants... " |
| R. A. Lafferty | Serpent's Egg | Morrigan 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It was the End of Summer of the year 2035. The Global Village that was the World was ruled by a Kangaroo Court of Compassionate Aldermen who ordered assassinations when it was deemed to be for the common good. As a sign of their openness, they were always experimenting to find new ways of looking at the World... " |
| R. A. Lafferty | Space Chantey | Dobson 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine Copy in slightly rubbed and browned Dust Jacket with the orange spine letters faded to yellow | £7.50 | "... the Odyssey of Space Captain Roadstrum, who travels far and wide before returning home to Big Tulsa, the Capital of the World, after twenty years, to his wife and his young son Tele-Max. The classical allusions are unmistakable as Lafferty sets his future Odysseus in the midst of the trials and tribulations of a bizarre space, and sings the strange song of his triumphs... " |
| Harold Lamb | Charlemagne The Legend and the Man | Hale 1955 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, and page edges a little age-browned else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded and a short (2.5 mm) tear at the top of the spine panel.. | £15.00 | "His name was Charles Those who hated him as a youth dubbed him the Churl. Generations after he died people remembered him as a great man... both Charles the man and Charles the Holy Roman Emperor are brought vividly to life... the man who eventually brought the entire Western world under absolute control and saw his rule sanctified... " Scarce. |
| Joe R. Lansdale | High Cotton: Selected Stories | Golden Gryphon 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Twenty-one stories and three page introduction by the author: "... these stories are the ones I think best reflect my work." Each story starts with an Introduction by Lansdale, describing the story-behind-the-story. |
| Joe R. Lansdale | Sunset and Sawdust | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Advertising Sheet | £5.00 | "When the local constable at a sawmill camp in Texas is shot dead, his widow Sunset finds herself stepping into his shoes to investigate a bizarre double murder. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's badge and gun: some because this is the 1930s... others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place... " |
| Keith Laumer | Catastrophe Planet | Dobson 1970 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small pressure mark on front board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Earth was in shambles after the final quake had levelled the cities. For Mai Irish the last hold on reality was the embossed gold coin he had taken from the pocket of the dead man - the man who with his last breath had told him of mastodons buried in ice and men who were not human... " |
| Keith Laumer | Imperium | Baen 2005 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges partly browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top fold tips | £10.00 | "There are millions of parallel worlds - and most of them are no longer inhabitable. The world that is home to the Imperium is desperately fighting not to join their number!... " Preface by Harry Turtledove; Afterword by Eric Flint |
| Keith Laumer | Retief's Ransom | Dobson 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "...even the most undesirable chunk of galactic real estate attracts its quota of rival overlords, and the fiendish Groaci had a scheme for absorbing Lumbaga into their scheme of influence. It was working well, until it involved Retief... " |
| Stephen Lawhead | Byzantium | HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, touch of wear to lower edge of front board, five spots to top page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a little wear at top of front fold. | £5.00 | "... Aidan has been picked to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the furthest reaches of the world... there to present the Holy Roman Emperor with the beautiful Book of Kells... " |
| Stephen Lawhead | Scarlet | Atom 2007 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Before he swings, Will... dictates his story... Abbot Hugo... is gathering evidence that will lead to the capture of the men who have plagued the aristocracy... the elusive King Raven and his band... " |
| Stephen Lawhead | Song of Albion | Lion 1991-3 First Edition First Printings (Three Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines, page edges slightly browned else Fine Copies in slightly bumped Dust Jackets. Publisher's Review slips with Volumes 2 & 3 and submission slip for Clarke Award with 3 | £30.00 | "Drawn from the ivory towers of Oxford to the misty moors and glens of Scotland, Lewis expects little more than a pleasant weekend away . But the road north leads to a mystical crossroads, and he finds himself in a place where two worlds meet, in the time-between-times... " |
| Stephen Laws | Macabre | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £30.00 | "... All living their own personal nightmares, but drawn inexorably together to a terrifying and macabre confrontation with the forces of Evil. As the inner city streets erupt into riot, the gates of Hell itself are opened - and those who should be at rest walk the city streets on a terrifying mission of revenge... " |
| Stephen Laws | Spectre | Souvenir Press 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased, unpriced Dust Jacket with a small (2mm) tear at the lower edge of the rear panel. | £5.00 | "... as children, they had played in the streets, gone to school and shared the pains and ecstasies of growing up... Six blokes and a girl... but when Richard looked at his copy of the photograph, there were only six people in the picture: Phil had disappeared.. and a few days later he noticed that Derek's image was beginning to fade... The came the news... both... dead, horribly mutilated... " |
| Richard Laymon (Also as Richard Kelly) | Among The Missing | Headline 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | ""At 2.32 a.m. a Jaguar roars along a lonely road in the California mountains. Behind the wheel sits the beautiful wife of Professor Grant Parkington. In spite of the night's chill she wears only a thin, skimpy nightgown... In the morning a naked body will be found... a body missing more than its clothes... " |
| Richard Laymon (Also as Richard Kelly) | Blood Games | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges a little browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "They meet up for one week every year... five former co-eds in search of thrills and adventure... Helen has picked The Totem Pole Lodge. A deserted hotel with a sinister past... she'll tell the others the details of the massacre... night falls... the lodge is not as deserted as they thought... Helen goes into the shower. Alone." |
| Richard Laymon | One Rainy Night | Headline 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with a short crease in the rear flap. | £10.00 | "The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby. Warm, viscous and unnatural, it coats the inhabitants in an unending torrent - and turns them into crazy, hate-filled maniacs... " |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea Science Fiction Stories | Gollancz 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a far-reaching catalogue of wonders... illuminate the earth on which ordinary men and women live. Astonishing in their diversity and power, her stories exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact." |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Four Ways To Forgiveness | Gollancz 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A stunning new collection of four linked novellas set in the Hainish universe of The Left Hand of Darkness by one of science fiction's most highly honoured and respected writers... " |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand | HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In her first completely mainstream book of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin... demonstrates why she is a major American novelist in any category." |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | The Telling | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, across top front board edge and small dent towards centre of front board and page edges a little marked Very Good copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Okzat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion... The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so that the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined... " |
| Tim Lebbon | As The Sun Goes Down | Night Shade 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The stories in this collection demonstrate his extensive range - from pure psychological suspense and terror, to overtly supernatural thrillers, to science fiction and fantasy. They also reveal his unique persistence of artistic vision... " Sixteen horror stories with an Introduction by Ramsey Campbell. |
| Tim Lebbon | Face | Night Shade 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket. | £10.00 | "When a family picks up a hitchhiker during the worst blizzard in living memory, they think they are doing him a favour... But he becomes threatening... They force him from a car... Brand - who may or may not be a man - shows the family that.. bad things sometimes happen to good people... " |
| Sharon Lee | Crystal Dragon Book Two of the Great Migration Duology | Meisha Merlin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "You can't go home again... when home is a conspiracy that's been discovered and destroyed?... means working for the destroyers of galaxies?... is a spaceship that's calling out to the enemy?... and how do you fight an Enemy whose major form of attack is the de-crystallisation of everything around itself?... " Sequel to Crystal Soldier |
| Sharon Lee | Partners in Necessity | Meisha Merlin 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at top of spine and lower front corner slightly bumped and rubbed - Near Fine copy | £5.00 | Introduction by Anne McCaffrey, the first three Liaden novels, Afterword, Authors Bio & Artists Bio |
| Tanith Lee | A Heroine Of The World | Headline 1994 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "The path the Lady had started her on would lead Ara into the very heart of conflict. And though she might gain or lose great wealth, become a pawn or key player in the power games of princes and warlords, there was only one for whom she would risk everything. He was a soldier that some named traitor and others liberator - the man for whom she would strive to become a Heroine of the World." |
| Tanith Lee | Being A Daring Tale Of A Singular Girl's Adventure Upon The High Seas Piratica Presented Most Handsomely by The Notorious | Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small superficial tear at the base of the spine panel. | £5.00 | "... the world of this book is very like ours and also, it isn't... this isn't exactly a historical novel - but it's not exactly a fantasy either. And it takes place in a time we never had... " |
| Tanith Lee | Dark Dance | Macdonald 1992 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Then, on a night of storm, there appears the tall, dark man of Rachaela's smothered dreams and nightmares. He is young... although he claims to be older... Can Rachaela - and the daughter she will come to bear - ever contrive to fight against the overwhelming influence of The House?" First in the Blood Opera Sequence. |
| Tanith Lee | Elephantasm | Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and top front corner and old price and initials on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Annie Ember lives in hopeless poverty... until the day that Annie discovers the mysterious, exotic shop where she buys, for one penny, a tiny and ancient ivory elephant... " |
| Tanith Lee | Eva Fairdeath | Headline 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, lower corners bruised and pages a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel a little faded. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... In a future world polluted to the point of anarchy and dissolution, the trees are dead. the sky is yellow, and no birds sing. Everything and everyone is tinged with madness. For Eva, in such a debased society, there seems no role but that of some man's object and possession... But then, one day, arrives the stranger with the gun - the man with blue eyes and hair as white as her own... " |
| Tanith Lee | Heart-Beast | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Where the moon washed the deck, something sat, its huge head raised, more like the visage of a bear than a wolf, yet long-snouted, the jaws open. Cold eyes that had no soul in them mirrored the moon... " |
| Tanith Lee | Personal Darkness Second in the Blood Opera Sequence | Little, Brown 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and light pressure mark to centre of rear board else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "The House is destroyed, the Scarabae dead or scattered. And the youngest and most dangerous of them, voracious for destruction is free... " |
| Tanith Lee | The Book of the Beast The Secret Books of Paradys II | Overlook Press 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few spots of glue on cloth over rear board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | ""The fantastic world of Paradys continues to unfold...the unspeakable horror of this forgotten city... the bloody trail of the Beast... " |
| Tanith Lee | The Book Of The Mad The Secret Books of Paradys IV | Overlook Press 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small bookstore sticker on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "In her darkly dazzling finish... Tanith Lee tempts the reader with a tale of horror, lust and madness that leaves no perversity untouched, no taboo unbroken... Combining horror and hedonism, art and eroticism, Lee offers an aesthete's amoral view of beauty, pleasure and pain in her inimitable high style..." |
| Tanith Lee | Vivia | Little, Brown 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... When plague enters the castle... Vivia seeks shelter... Drawn to her innocence and beauty , a presence whose power knows no bounds is resurrected, claiming her as his own, taking her to a luxurious palace steeped in seduction and blood. Vivia, the innocent, wakened to the wonder of the undead, granted the gift of eternal life... " |
| Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) | Supernatural Tales | Peter Owen 1987 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners bruised else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... pervaded by the theme of alien spirits representing good and evil... true classics of their genre: psychological depth and a chilling sense of the macabre are matched by great descriptive power... " Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady; A wedding Chest; Amour Dure; A Wicked Voice; The Legend of Madame Krasinska and The Virgin of the Seven Daggers. |
| Fritz Leiber | Ship of Shadows | Gollancz 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards slightly faded and front fixed end pages ragged (production fault) else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Now this special new collection brings together all his award-winning stories, with the exception of the long novel The Wanderer - three stories, two novellas and one complete novel (The Big Time)." |
| Elmore Leonard | Freaky Deaky | Viking 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges browned and two page edges slightly damp-rippled else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small (3mm) tear at top of spine panel adjacent to front panel Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the front free end paper | £7.50 | "Robin Abbott and Skip Gibbs are ex-lovers who once burned bras and draft cards together, dropped acid and finally dynamited a federal building... after some time underground and in prison, they've decided to relight the fuse for revenge and profit by using Skip's talent with dynamite... " |
| Edward M. Lerner | Moonstruck | Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a two-mile-across starship the represents a hitherto unsuspected Galactic Commonwealth. The F'thk... have been sent to evaluate humanity for prospective membership... " |
| Doris Lessing | Canopus in Argos: Archives Documents Relating to The Sentimental Agents In The Volyan Empire | Cape 1983 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... On duty in the Volyan Empire, planetary hotbed of unchecked emotion, Canopean Agent Incent, despite his training has found himself deeply moved - and succumbs to one of the local afflictions, Undulant Rhetoric... " |
| Paul Levinson | The Pixel Eye | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a couple of page corners creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... terrorism is more threatening than ever... underground concourses have multiplied... law enforcement and civil liberties groups clash over... public safety and personal freedom... NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato is called in to investigate an urgent case - squirrels missing from Central Park... " |
| Paul Levinson | The Silk Code | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. | £4.00 | "... Phil D'Amato, an NYC forensic detective... is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth - and one of his best friends is a recent casualty, Unless Phil can unravel the genetic puzzle of the silk code, he'll soon be just as dead... " His first novel. |
| Roger Levy | Dark Heavens | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one tear. | £7.50 | "Our planet is dying, literally falling apart. Our attempts to colonise Dirangesept, the one other habitable world we've found, have been bloody failures. All that's left now is to wait for one last desperate effort to slaughter the beasts of Dirangesept. Or to Leave... Consensual Mass Suicide... " |
| Shariann Lewitt | Rebel Sutra | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Maya is run by the Changed, an inbred elite. From their hillside Xanadu they can look down on the grotty, badly maintained streets of the city of Babelion, and its swarms of merely human colonists... the Changed have been tinkering with their own genetic makeup. On the whole, they're smarter, faster, longer-lived - and acutely aware of their own superiority... " |
| Jane Lindskold | The Buried Pyramid | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Plucky young Jenny Bennet... her uncle... a prominent British archaeologist... part of a team hunting for the legendary Buried Pyramid, the tomb of the pharaoh Neferankhotep - who may also have been Moses the lawgiver. But they're not the only ones interested... mortal antagonists may not be all that stands in their way... " |
| Jane Lindskold | The Dragon of Despair | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine upper corners and top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Raised far from humans by intelligent, language-using wolves, then brought back to the court of Hawk Haven, Firekeeper has had to learn to cope with human society... " Sequel to Through Wolf's Eyes and Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart |
| Jane Lindskold | Wolf Captured | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket slightly worn at the base of the folds | £5.00 | Sequel to Through Wolf's Eyes; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart and The Dragon of Despair "... the story of Firekeeper, a young girl raised by sentient, language-using wolves who is plunged back into human society, where her training as a pack animal stands her in good stead amid political and dynastic intrigues... " |
| Holly Lisle | Vengeance Of Dragons | Gollancz 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The second volume of The Secret Texts, a fantastic epic adventure of ancient curses, dark curses, and soul-devouring magic." Preceded by Diplomacy Of Wolves |
| Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons) | Dark Dominion | Headline 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and rubbed at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly crumpled Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... high school student Dion Semele has just moved to Napa with his mother, and he soon notices that something is amiss. For Dion begins having bizarre, incomprehensible dreams... the source of all the strange occurrences is the winery at which his new girlfriend Penelope lives with the five women she calls her 'mothers'.. " |
| Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons) | Evil Deeds | Headline 1994 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, touch of wear at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Sheet | £15.00 | "... The idea of someone actually living in the Lauter house made her shiver. It seemed strange for people to be there, wrong almost. She had only been six when Keith Lauter had killed both himself and his wife, but she remembered the events as clearly as if they'd happened yesterday... " Scarce |
| Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons) | Houses | Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing | Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "A young man bumming around the West. An unemployed family man... A high-school teacher... None of these people have ever met an they have nothing in common. Except that they have all started dreaming about frightening but tantalisingly blurred events... the identical homes of their childhoods are connected to a bizarre series of supernatural events... " |
| Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons) | The Mailman | Headline 1994 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £15.00 | "... With the whole summer off and time to kill, high-school teacher Doug Albin... watches in alarm as the entire social fabric of the town begins to unravel, bit by bit... he becomes aware of the cold menace behind the... plastic smile of the new mailman... " |
| Bentley Little | The Store | Headline 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a short (7mm) tear at top of rear panel adjacent to spine | £10.00 | "... when The Store opens, the townspeople's initial euphoria is replaced by unease as other things begin to die. Businesses fail. Shops bur down. People disappear... " |
| Bentley Little | The Summoning | Headline 1993 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Manuel Torres had been literally sucked dry... But this is only the first horrific manifestation of the primeval atrocity which has come to feast on Rio Verde. Formless, shapeless, mysterious, the grisly predator slips through the town... Even the buried dead in the graveyard are unsafe... new and nasty twists in the vampire legend... " |
| Simon Louvish | The Days of Miracles and Wonders | Canongate 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Richard the Lionheart rises from his tomb... minus his heart and his guts, to mingle with the tourists of early 1990s Europe... failed novellist Danny Hohenlohe contemplates murderous revenge against his London publisher... Avram Blok... has begun a new life... the Western powers are about to embark on their modern crusade against Saddam Hussein... " |
| Simon Louvish | What's Up God? A Romance of the Apocalypse | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The Kingdom of God is proclaimed on Christmas Day 1998, by the Archangel Gabriel, on global TV. The Resurrection is set for April 30th, 1999. The Day of Judgement will follow seven days later... Jerry Davis is a professional stand-up comedian... He has peeked in the databanks, and knows which way he is headed. Is there a way out?... " |
| James Lovegrove (Also as Jay Amory and J. M. H. Lovegrove) | The Foreigners | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the Foreigners were everywhere... They brought... the technological marvel of Crystech... They banished all our worries and heralded a new utopia... they asked... that we sing to them... And now... one of the Foreigners has been found dead... " |
| James Lovegrove | The Hope | Macmillan 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, lower corners bumped, page edges browned and one small coffee? spot on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in Dust Jacket slightly marked on the inside | £10.00 | "The Hope was five miles long and two miles wide and one mile high. She had a displacement of one thousand million tons. She cost the equivalent of the gross national product of a small nation. She would carry nearly one million passengers. people said it was folly, and said it was madness but wasn't it wonderful... the crowning achievement of the industrial era... " |
| James Lovegrove (Also as Jay Amory and J. M. H. Lovegrove) | Untied Kingdom | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the United Kingdom has finally fallen foul of the International Community. Ostracised and bombed at random the country has fallen apart... In the small town of Downbourne... a London-based gang... kidnap...of... the wife of the schoolmaster, Fen Morris... a journey through an England at once terrifying and magical... " |
| Delos W. Lovelace | King Kong | Gollancz 2005 | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the base of the spine. | £5.00 | "... The Eighth Wonder of the World!... " With a new seven page afterword by Stephen Jones. |
| Brian Lumley | Necroscope Avengers E-Branch Volume 3 | Hodder & Stoughton 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "They're on the run! Now that their monstrous vampire 'gardens' under London, in Australia and on the Greek island of Krassos have been razed, two 'Lords' and a 'Lady' of the Wamphyri... have joined forces, leaving a trail of undead destruction as they flee headlong from Ben Trask's E-Branch and the dead-waking Necroscope, Jake Cutter... " E-Branch Volume 3 |
| Brian Lumley | Necroscope Defilers | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner, lower front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a 6mm tear at the top of the spine panel. | £5.00 | "Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope - how to use the Moebus continuum to travel instantaneously... how to talk to the dead... but the dead don’t like him much. It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker in his mind, a dead vampire... " |
| Brian Lumley | Necroscope: Defilers | Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope - how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously fr5om place to place, how to talk to the dead - but the dead don’t like him much. It seems that Jake's got a hitchhiker in his mind, a dead vampire... " E-Branch Volume 2. |
| Brian Lumley | Titus Crow Volumes 1-3 | Tor 1997 First Combined Editions First Printings (3 Volumes) | Slightly/bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. With the Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £25.00 | Six novels in a horror-adventure series inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft... Titus Crow battles the Elder Gods and their offspring wherever and whenever they rise to threaten mankind... |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | A Different Light | Gollancz 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, binding slightly strained, page edges a little browned and rear end papers not bound into this copy else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket with a couple of small scrapes. | £4.00 | "... her first novel, 'A Different Light'... the existence of hyperspace, used here both to facilitate storytelling and as an existential cusp for her protagonists -- like the cancer-stricken artist in the novel, who must decide whether or not to seize the day by travelling where he needs to go by hyperspace, even though such travel will mortally intensify his illness... " - Clute |
| John D. Macdonald | The Girl The Gold Watch & Everything | Hale 1974 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and across rear edge of spine panel else Fine copy in Dust Jacket a little worn at top edge of spine panel and with a tear at the top edge of the rear panel | £20.00 | "'The young women came running along the beach in the sunlight. First one would hold the lead and then another would make a special effort and forge ahead. They were young women of generous construction, naked as eggs... a superb fantasy... There was Kirby... and there was Bonnie Lee... There were the thugs after Kirby's fortune. And there was the Gold Watch which stopped the world... " |
| David Mace | Shadow Hunters | New English Library 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "Glasnost means nothing to Colonel Oliver Lutwidge of the US Air Force. In command of a secret unit stationed in England, he believes the Soviets have an aircraft invisible to radar... A psychodrama seething with tension, betrayal and sexual politics, and featuring some of the most excitingly depicted aerial sequences ever written... " |
| Arthur Machen | The Terror A Fantasy | Duckworth 1927 First Edition Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, spine panel a little faded, page edges slightly age-darkened an previous owner's name on front free end paper - Very Good to Near Fine Copy | £20.00 | Clute - "... in which the apocalyptic fears aroused by WW1 are confirmed by a revolt of the animals against the corrupt rule of humanity... " |
| Fiona Macleod (William Sharp) | The Sin-Eater and Other Tales | Patrick Geddes 1895 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, lower front corner a little bumped, with previous owner's name on prelim page and date on reverse of front free end paper and pages browned - overall Very Good copy | £30.00 | Apparently a formative influence on the young H. P. Lovecraft! Includes the following supernatural tales - The Sin-Eater; The Judgement o' God; The Harping of Cravetheen; The Dan-nan-Ron and Green Branches. |
| Ian R. Macleod | The House Of Storms | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author And With Publisher's Press Release | £7.50 | "When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Ilvercombe... she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease... " Sequel to The Light Ages. |
| Ian R. Macleod | The Light Ages | Earthlight 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... Through the power of aether, and through the secrets and mysteries of the guilds that wield it, England has created a mighty Industrial Age... " |
| Ian R. Macleod | The Light Ages | Earthlight 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Covers slightly creased, and plastic laminate lifted slightly at lower edge of rear cover Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... Through the power of aether, and through the secrets and mysteries of the guilds that wield it, England has created a mighty Industrial Age... " |
| Ian R. Macleod | The Light Ages | Earthlight 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine, faint mark on prelim page and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Through the power of aether, and through the secrets and mysteries of the guilds that wield it, England has created a mighty Industrial Age... " |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light | Orbit 2000-2 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges of book 1 a little browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets, save for a small (5mm) tear at the base of the rear fold on volume 2. | £15.00 | "... Thousands of light-years from Earth, human colonists have learned to live among other intelligent species. For Gregor and his fellow students of marine biology, the arrival of an interstellar merchant ship sets their research on a new course - where an alien past encounters a human future, at the speed of light." |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light Book One Cosmonaut Keep | Orbit 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author | £7.50 | "... Thousands of light-years from Earth, human colonists have learned to live among other intelligent species. For Gregor and his fellow students of marine biology, the arrival of an interstellar merchant ship sets their research on a new course - where an alien past encounters a human future, at the speed of light." |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light Book Three Engine City | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | The last book in the Engines of Light trilogy. |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light Book Two Dark Light | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased and rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... thousands of light-years from Earth - if Earth still exists... home to other civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race of god-like aliens. On Croatan, two of these civilisations live a precarious co-existence, separated by eons of technological advance... And all the time, hidden among the stars, the gods are watching... " |
| Ken Macleod | Engines of Light Book Two Dark Light | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author | £7.50 | "... thousands of light-years from Earth - if Earth still exists... home to other civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race of god-like aliens. On Croatan, two of these civilisations live a precarious co-existence, separated by eons of technological advance... And all the time, hidden among the stars, the gods are watching... " |
| Ken Macleod | Learning The World a novel of first contact | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The great sunliner But The Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home... the detection of electronic signals... comes as a shock... " |
| Ken Macleod | Newton's Wake A Space Opera | Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away. Now the rest are about to find out where they went... Centuries ago, space settlers and soldiers fled to the stars from the sentient AI machines... They colonised Eurydice... the Eurydiceans discover that they weren't the last survivors of humanity after all... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Cassini Division | Orbit 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Ellen May Ngwethu is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge. The world she knows is about to end. Orbiting around Jupiter, the forts of the Cassini Division... are the front line in the centuries-long conflict with post-human AIs - whose intentions are unknown, but whose powers once extended to shattering Ganymede and building a wormhole bridge to the far future... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Human Front | PS Publishing 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Authors (No 197/400) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "It 's the 1970s, but not as we knew it. The Third World War has raged since 1949. Across the globe, communist partisans and Western conscript armies slug it out, while America's disc-shaped bombers deliver death from above. for radical youth everywhere, the icon of resistance, is the martyred guerrilla leader, Joseph Stalin... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Sky Road | Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top edge of front board and lower edge of rear board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship yard, Clovis Colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Star Fraction | Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "In a Balkanised world where the peace process is deadlier than the wars, the US/UN's spy satellites and laser weapons have everybody in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans... Spectres of a betrayed revolution haunt the fight for space and freedom, as the Army of the New Republic prepares its fourth 'final' offensive and the green barbarians close in... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Star Fraction | Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly creased and worn, page edges a little marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy . Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "In the twenty-first century Britain is a collection of Balkanised enclaves; an explosion waiting to happen. The peace process is deadlier than the wars, US/UN's spy satellites and laser weapons have everyone in their sights. Three disparate people are drawn together by an unseen force which may save the world or cause it to collapse..." |
| Ken Macleod | The Star Fraction | Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed and Dated by the Author on the Title Page and with a non-personalised Inscription | £5.00 | "In a Balkanised world where the peace process is deadlier than the wars, the US/UN's spy satellites and laser weapons have everybody in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans... Spectres of a betrayed revolution haunt the fight for space and freedom, as the Army of the New Republic prepares its fourth 'final' offensive and the green barbarians close in... " |
| Ken Macleod | The Stone Canal | Legend 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Jonathan Wilde is dead. His memory is immortal. The young man who walks into Ship City remembers all of Wilde's life and death. The 21st-century anarchist agitator took some of his secrets to the grave, and beyond. His clone is back and looking for the man who sent him to a cold and lonely death... " |
| Sheila Macleod | The Snow-White Soliloquies | Secker & Warburg 1970 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine in slightly marked, fragile silver foil, price clipped, Dust Jacket | £10.00 | "Snow-white is beautiful and lives in a state of suspended animation in a coffin constructed of a special kind of glass that 'breathes'. Is she a freak or a miracle of modern medical science? Doc, who combines the functions of a scientist and an impresario, takes her around the country in a caravan, showing her off to an incredulous public..." |
| Paul Magrs | Conjugal Rites | Headline 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £7.50 | "No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda. It's hardly surprising with secrets like hers. When her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late night phone in show it can mean only one thing - and sure enough best friend Effie soon finds herself up to her neck in it... " Third of the Brenda & Effie Books |
| Barry N. Malzberg (Also as Mike Barry; Francine Di Natale; Claudine Dumas; Mel Johnson; Howard Lee; Lee W. Mason; K. M. O'donnell; & Gerrold Watkins) | Screen | Olympia Press 1970 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly marked and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "...draws his readers over the precipice of rationality into a realm where the dreams are real - a realm in which the hero... finds himself married to Sophia Loren, seducing Elizabeth Taylor and seduced by Brigitte Bardot - all in one tortured weekend." |
| Wolf Mankowitz | Abracadabra! | Macmillan 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Abarbanel, a rebellious octogenarian removed from his private quarters in the year 2013, dreams of the only time of his long life he can clearly remember, his thirteenth year, 1939, when... evacuated to the decaying rural mansion of... the Last of the Alchemists... how he helped Hakoen the Alchemist... pursue the Secret of Eternal Life... " |
| Wolf Mankowitz | The Devil In Texas | Royce 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Copiously Illustrated by Ralph Steadman | £7.50 | "Dr. Oliver Stanley... is enjoying his... research into the history of a Hungarian vampire family said to have emigrated to Texas... His pleasant idyll... is broken when he discovers that the... Founding Fathers of both the County and the University and, worse still, his own sponsors, are descendants of the Texas vampire... " Satirical and fun. |
| George Mann | The Affinity Bridge | Snowbooks 2008 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed and short (3mm) tear at the lower edge of one page, else Fine Copy | £4.00 | "Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London... Airships soar in the skies over the city whilst ground trains rumble through the streets, and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks... ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel... cadavers can rise from the dead... " |
| Philip Mann | The Fall Of The Families Book Two of the Story of Pawl Paxwax, the Gardener | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... develops into an extraordinary interstellar revenge tragedy, moving towards a conclusion which is both unexpected and deeply poignant... " |
| Diana Marcellas | Twilight Rising, Serpent's Dream | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The young shari'a witch Brierley once thought that she was the last of her kind - powerful witches who lived in peace and harmony, using their powers for good... Her people had flourished for millennia, guided by the elemental beings who embodied the very forces of nature... Then the fierce Allemanii people came... " |
| Leo Margulies | The Flags Were Three A Novel of Old New Orleans | Hurst & Blackett ca 1949 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, and foreign body under front fixed end paper resulting in indentation to first few pages else Fine copy in worn and slightly torn and marked, unpriced, Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "... the story of Juliette Michaux a convent-bred orphan, who grew up in the days when the fabulous governor, de Vaudreuill, brought to the crude French settlement... the luxury and licentiousness of a "little Versailles"... her daughter, Adrienne, who during the great fire... fell deeply in love with a Spanish nobleman... and... when the War with England reached New Orleans... young Francisca fell in love with... a Yanqui... " |
| Juliet Marillier | Blade Of Fortriu Book 2 The Bridei Chronicles | Tor/Pan Macmillan 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £7.50 | "The kingdom of Fortriu has enjoyed five years of peace since Bridei came to the throne. Now the king is preparing for the long-awaited war that he hopes will see the Gaelic invaders driven from the west forever... " Sequel to 'The Dark Mirror'. |
| Juliet Marillier | The Dark Mirror Book 1 The Bridei Chronicles | Tor (UK) 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and prelim page slightly creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "When Bridei is sent by his parents to live with the druid Broichan, he knows only hat he has left his home and family to learn to be a warrior and scholar, strategist and sage. He is not aware... a secret council of elders... have long been making plans... with Bridei... central to their strategy... " |
| Juliet Marillier | Wolfskin | Tor (UK) 2003 First Edition First Printing | Page edges bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "Eyvind yearn to become a Wolfskin, devoted to the service of the mighty war god Thor... Meanwhile, far away across the water on the Light isles, Nessa is beginning to learn the ways of the mysteries - though neither the young priestess nor her people can realise what lies ahead for them... " |
| Jan Mark | The Eclipse of the Century | Scholastic 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket lightly bumped in the centre of the rear panel | £5.00 | "... a young man has a near death experience and finds himself, as many have apparently done before, at the end of a long tunnel. He thinks at first he must be in heaven or at least receiving a glimpse of the afterlife. He is greeted by strangers who tell him he is in Quantoum and that they will meet him there again 'under a black sun at the end of a thousand years'... " |
| Laurie J. Marks | Fire Logic | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Earth Air Water Fire... have sustained the peaceful people of Shaftal for generations, with their subtle powers of healing, truth, joy and intuition. But now Shaftal is dying... a complex tale of political and personal struggle, set in a world whose concerns are as familiar as today's headlines." |
| Michael Marshall (Michael Marshall Smith) | The Intruders | HarperCollins 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Jack Whalen was an LAPD patrol cop for twelve years. He left under a cloud... he loves his wife, Amy. so when she goes missing... his world is shaken. Jack sets out to search for her, only to discover that there is something far more mysterious going on... Searching for answers... Jack discovers that the truth has roots... " |
| Michael Marshall (Michael Marshall Smith) | The Lonely Dead | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly differentially browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control. Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman's body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark... " |
| Michael Marshall (Michael Marshall Smith) | The Lonely Dead | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and corners else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control. Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman's body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark... " |
| Michael Marshall (Michael Marshall Smith) | The Straw Men | HarperCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac... her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator - his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago... " |
| Michael Marshall | The Straw Men | HarperCollins 2002 First Edition in Paperback First Printing (Free Advance Edition) | Corners and edges slightly rubbed - Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac... her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator - his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago... " Distributed to booksellers/reviewers for promotional purposes - scarce. |
| Gail Martin | The Summoner Book One of the Chronicles of the Necromancer | Solaris 2007 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "The world of Prince Martris Drayke is thrown into sudden chaos and disorder when his brother murders their father and seizes the throne. Cast out, Martris... must seek retribution and restore his father's honour... the living are arrayed against him. Martris must call on... the ranks of the dead." |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game Of Thrones Book One of A Song Of Ice And Fire | Voyager 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top front corner, page edges browned and a few corners creased else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £250.00 | "... a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic in the Sunset Lands... " |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game Of Thrones Book One of A Song Of Ice And Fire | Bantam 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing | One spine crease, top corners slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned - Very Good to Near Fine brown and white Advance Reading Copy in torn, creased and slightly worn UK Dust Jacket (as issued in the UK??) with a fingernail-sized piece missing from top edge of the jacket spine panel | £50.00 | "... Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. Now, in a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards come together in a time of grim omens... " |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game Of Thrones Preview Edition The Opening Chapters of Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire | Voyager 1996 First Edition Thus First Printing (Paper) | Some edges slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned - Near Fine Copy | £10.00 | "... this special preview edition... enables you to read the early chapters... If you like it... you will be able to buy the complete novel at a special price... " Scarce |
| George R. R. Martin | Hunter's Moon | HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... Ramon Espejo kills a man... goes on the run, heading north towards unexplored territory... only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys... he finds... something terrifying. Or rather it finds him, and uses him: as humans are used by species more intelligent than themselves... Ramon is about to demonstrate what it is to be human; to be angry, intelligent and alive... " |
| Graham Dunstan Martin | The Soul Master | Allen & Unwin 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In Tethesta, the laws of the universe no longer operate. Human emotions can turn shiny like glass and as hard and resistant as rock. Fear and pain can create an impenetrable wall... The souls of men are controlled by a single consciousness... who seeks to become a God... Yet the more absolute the power, the more glaring its weakness... " |
| Manuela Dunn Mascetti | Chronicles of the Vampire | Bloomsbury 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little edgewear and a few small pieces of the plastic lamination missing | £5.00 | "... an odyssey into the darkest recesses of our fearful imagination... these chronicles record, in intimate and gruesome detail, the physical nature of vampires, the obsessions and desires that possess them, the experiences that transport a man from humanity into the supernatural world... " |
| Misty Massey | Mad Kestrel | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Small tear in paper at head of spine else fine Copy With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "In a world where infants with magical powers are torn from their parents to be raised exclusively by the mysterious and powerful Danisoba, Kestrel has managed to keep her abilities concealed - and herself free... Now an adult and quartermaster for a pirate ship, Kestrel... has magical control over the wind... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Charnel House | Bailey Bros & Swinfen 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... Seymour Wallis... insisted that his house was breathing... The disbelievers investigated... until their reason was shattered by the shrieking unseen being that threatened to take their lives. By then it was too late to halt the towering malevolent force from finding its way into the world again... to resume its eternally evil mission of cruel annihilation... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Death Trance | Severn House 1987 First UK Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with the lamination slightly wrinkled. | £7.50 | "Randolph Clare... enlists the help of an Indonesian doctor who holds the key to a secret door - a passageway to the netherworld called the Death Trance. But... those who enter may never return... to survive the Death Trance, Randolph... must... overcome - the ravening demons who are already waiting for him... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Descendant | Severn House 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Californian James Falcon's Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that... he's an expert on the strigoi, the vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But... US counterintelligence recruit him. James hunts down strigoi Nazi assassins in war-ravaged Europe... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Night Warriors | Severn House 1987 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Henry was the first to reach the body, while Gil and Susan walked cautiously closer... It was the body of a beautiful, naked young girl... But in the bloody yawning hole of the dead girl's womb, something crawled and writhed... The only hope is to destroy the original seed and together, Henry Gil and Susan become NIGHT WARRIORS... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Ritual | Severn House 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked and rubbed else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Charlie McLean, a restaurant inspector, is travelling with his son, Martin, when his professional interest is aroused by mention of a high-class French restaurant... Gradually the horrific events at Le Reposoir come to light as Charlie learns the ghastly truth of the Celestines and their gruesome, ultimate ritual. And there, at the centre of the ritual, is Martin... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | The Doorkeepers | Severn House 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Julia had been working for a company which shut down sixty years ago, and living at an address that hadn't existed since World War II. The only person who might be able to help... is Ella, a strange, fey young woman with psychic abilities. But the doors she can open with her mind could unearth a terrible secret that is better left unknown... " |
| Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | The Walkers | Severn House 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "What was the strange, mysterious shape in the woods? Who lived in the eerie gothic building at the top of the hill? Who was the haunted young child?... Terror follows horror as Jack searches for his son... Could Jack stop the murders, the bizarre sacrifices and save his son?... " |
| Richard Matheson | Bid Time Return | Viking 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, page edges a little marked and small wrinkle and page curl to front free end paper implying careful plate removal else Fine copy in slightly browned, creased and rubbed Dust Jacket a little eroded and frayed at top and base of faded spine, with two 3 cm tears at the top edge of the rear panel. | £70.00 | "... Richard Collier, a thirty-six-year-old screenwriter, falls in love... Elise McKenna... stage actress... 1896. Richard is in 1971... to cross that gulf and to comport himself as obscure suitor and stranded traveller in time are the challenges Richard must overcome to reach his beloved Elise... " |
| Richard Matheson (Also as Logan Swanson) | Earthbound | Robinson 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback & Thus First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "But Marianna is waiting there. Beautiful unearthly Marianna, waiting for a companion to lure into her nightmare of lust." This first Hardback edition restores the authors original text. An erotic haunting novel. |
| Richard Matheson | Hunted Past Reason | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped (and with a very small tear) at top of spine, corners and edges slightly rubbed and page edges marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... just an ordinary camping trip, two old friends hiking through the wilderness... But the enforced isolation... soon exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments... The deeper they get into the primal wilderness, and the further from civilisation, the greater the tension... until the simmering hostility erupts... " |
| Richard Matheson | Shadow on the Sun | Evans 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... These two bodies could plunge everyone in Picture City into bloody nightmare again. No human could possibly have done that to the Corcoran brothers. It just wasn't possible." Matheson's fourth Western. |
| Adrian Mathews | Vienna Blood | Cape 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards | £5.00 | "It is 2026. Sharkey, a Viennese newspaper columnist, spends a tiresome evening with Leo, a drunken computer nerd. Nearly three months later... he is called by the man's unexpectedly glamorous widow... Against his better judgement, and entirely out of his depth, Sharkey begins a... dangerous search through the cyber-highways, and the frozen city... " |
| John R. Maxim | Haven | Avon 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...the woman they called 'Black Angel' a ruthless and efficient assassin... Martin Kessler, himself hunted, touched her heart... A teenage girl is about to be kidnapped... unwittingly holds the key to a planned act of terrorism so horrific that an all-out war could be the only result... And nowhere on earth will be safe... no haven." |
| John R. Maxim | Time Out Of Mind | Century 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, faint crayoned 'A' on rear fixed end paper and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "All his life, Jonathan Corbin was vaguely troubled by the notion that he had memories that were not his own. Then he moved to New York and found to his horror that snow triggered memories of a past steeped in tragedy and murder. Corbin saw cars fade and be replaced with horse-drawn carriages. He would see men and women wearing clothes from a time long dead. And they would see him... " |
| Julian May | Ironcrown Moon | Voyager 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "King Conrig Ironcrown now rules the entire island of High Blenholme. But the peace he achieved after ruthlessly uniting its four quarrelling kingdoms into a Sovereignty is about to be challenged by enemies both mortal and supernatural... " |
| Julian May | Perseus Spur An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... So one minute there I was, subbing around Brillig Reef watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, making enough of a living to afford a little rotgut Danaen whiskey now and again; the next thing I know, some giant sea-toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!... " |
| Julian May | Sagittarius Whorl An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. With Review slip | £5.00 | "... an adrenaline-fuelled adventure full of high-speed thrills, intrigue and sharp-edged humour, which delivers an entertaining and exciting finale to the Rampart Worlds trilogy." |
| Julian May | The Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | Voyager 1998-2001 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and base of spines and top page edges browned else Fine copies in slightly sun-faded Dust Jackets. | £15.00 | "... Helly and his oddly assorted band of companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the Galapharma conspiracy... Alistair Drummond, will stop at nothing in his quest for power, and Helly is marked for death... Meanwhile, the Haluk follow their own appalling agenda, using human science to mutate their bodies... and infiltrate human society... " |
| Ardath Mayhar | Exile On Vlahil | Doubleday 1984 First Edition First Printing (Code O14 on P.183) | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a scrape/crease along part of the spine panel | £10.00 | "Ila Fazieh has committed the ultimate crime. She has refused mental conditioning, preferring to risk exile and even death rather than submit to the programmed paralysis that passes for life on an Earth governed by the severe edicts of the Instrumentality. The sentence is exile to... Planet 1KXT 23 - Vlahil... " |
| Ardath Mayhar | How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J35 on P.180) | Slightly bumped at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) | £7.50 | Clute - "In the Kyrannon books, folk of transparent decency must resist a tyrant whose disruptive influence threatens to sour the harmony between human beings and nature." Her first novel. |
| Ardath Mayhar | The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn | Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K20 on P.187) | Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) | £7.50 | "Teleport yourself into the land that holds the Three Secrets as you wander through the corridors of the Tower of Truth. Shar-Nuhn is the land of pilgrimage, a mystically bizarre world... filled with forgotten races, beautiful aliens, evil wizards, mysterious and terrible curses, and two courageous heroes... " Same world as How the Gods Wove... |
| Ardath Mayhar | Warlock's Gift | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M12 on P.187) | Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a tear at the base of the rear fold | £10.00 | "... Karas Lantir, once the prince of his father's mighty and happy kingdom, dreams of deposing the frightfully evil warlock who stole control... With the aid of only a few loyal men - and the power of his fiancee... Karas embarks on a perilous journey into the warlock's seemingly impregnable fortress... |
| L. H. Maynard | Shadows At Midnight Ten Ghost Stories | Kimber 1979 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top page edges lightly marked else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by L. H. Maynard on the title page. | £7.50 | "In this masterly collection of tales, the authors take us into that unquiet land, into the witching time of night, where malign presences seek to entwine the unwary in their web of evil. Their ghosts, or evil spirits, or gruesome influences... remain lingering in their chosen abodes, be it wardrobe, cradle or tomb, to threaten the existence of the innocent..." |
| Paul J. McAuley | Child Of The River The First Book Of Confluence | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Small tear at base of spine, covers slightly stained and top front corner creased - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Confluence: an artificial world orbiting an obscure star beyond the edge of the galaxy, a flat strip twenty thousand kilometres long... home to thousands of alien races, shaped and raised to intelligence by god-like descendants of humanity who long ago retreated... into an artificial Black Hole... abandoned by its creators, its stagnant civilisation threatened by the heresies of the last humans... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Child Of The River The First Book Of Confluence | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower page edges slightly bumped else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little wear at the fold tips and a short (2mm) tear at the top edge of the front panel Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Confluence: an artificial world orbiting an obscure star beyond the edge of the galaxy, a flat strip twenty thousand kilometres long... home to thousands of alien races, shaped and raised to intelligence by god-like descendants of humanity who long ago retreated... into an artificial Black Hole... abandoned by its creators, its stagnant civilisation threatened by the heresies of the last humans... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Cowboy Angels | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Corners bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used its Turing gate - alternate reality - technology to infiltrate alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war... establishing a Pan-American Alliance... Adam Stone... uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Four Hundred Billion Stars | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with orange spine-panel background slightly faded to yellow (as usual) Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Dorthy Yoshida is an astronomer with a telepathic/empathic talent who is sent to investigate a mystery on the small planet of a red dwarf star... the only advanced life-forms on the planet are creatures... known as herders... Yet on Dorthy's arrival on the world she senses the presence of a dazzling intelligence... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Mind's Eye | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small triangle of wear and a little erosion at the top of the rear fold. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "When Alfie Flowers chances on a strange piece of graffiti daubed on the window of a north London restaurant, the violence of his reaction takes him by surprise. The thorny circle of dashes and zigzags reaches right inside his brain and triggers a flashback to a terrifying childhood accident... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Pasquale's Angel | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Florence in the year 1518. The most powerful of the Italian states, the city is riven by the changes brought about by the devices of... Leonardo Da Vinci. Steamships ply the canal which links Florence with the sea; steam-powered factories flood the economy with mass-produced goods... Politics, necromancy, and the discovery that the Great Engineer has far from retired mean that nothing is ever as it seems..." |
| Paul J. McAuley | Secret Harmonies | Gollancz 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly faded Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the title page. | £5.00 | "... Elysium had boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains. Its primitive aborigines seemed harmless... Yet all was not well... Citizens... benefited from the new technologies brought by every ship... but feared... the expansion plans of the new settlers... When the revolution against the city's tyranny finally came, not everyone caught up in the struggle was human..." |
| Paul J. McAuley | The Invisible Country | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "In a fifteenth-century Venice subtly different from our own, a physician chasing the image of his lost daughter encounters a forerunner of Baron Victor Frankenstein; in near-future Holland and France the use of genetically engineered dolls in combat games and the sex industry poses hard ethical questions... His second short-story collection..." |
| Paul J. McAuley | The Secret Of Life | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "A Chinese expedition finds microbial life deep under Mar's polar cap and secretly brings it back to Earth. Chinese biotech companies want to exploit the extraordinary potential of this tough, ancient life, but industrial espionage leads to the escape of a genetically altered version, the Chi, into the Pacific Ocean. Able to adapt and change at high speed... " Shortlisted for the Arthur Clarke Award 2002 |
| Paul J. McAuley | White Devils | Simon & Schuster 2004 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Nicholas Hyde is a volunteer working with a humanitarian charity in the chaos of the new Africa, a continent torn apart by civil war, plague, and rogue biotechnology. While investigating a fresh massacre... Nick's team is ambushed. Small, ape-like creatures - pale, fierce and preternaturally strong... " |
| Paul J. McAuley | Whole Wide World | HarperCollins 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "LONDON, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE INFOWAR Then: terrorists bombed the City, brought down the Internet and equalised the nation's bank accounts at zero. Now: surveillance cameras on every street-corner. Censors patrolling the borders of the internet. A young woman murdered before the gaze of eager voyeurs... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | Crisis On Doona | Orbit 1993 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tips of the front fold. | £7.50 | "... the historic Decision at Doona... was to last for a quarter of a century. Now that contract has run out and is up for renewal. Everything that Human and Hrruban has worked for - particularly the delicate alliance itself - is in peril and could be destroyed utterly..." |
| Anne McCaffrey | Crystal Line | Bantam 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Killashandra was the most experienced, the most gifted Crystal Singer on Ballybran. With her partner, Lars Dahl, she held the record for cutting the terrible, fascinating and infinitely rare black crystals... a new, beautiful, unfathomable manifestation was discovered... Only the Crystal Singers... were thought to stand a chance of survival... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | Dragon Harper | Bantam 2008 Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, binding slightly strained and lower page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short (7mm) slit at the top of the rear fold | £5.00 | "Allm Kindan wanted to do was become a Harper, singing, playing, and teaching the ballads of Pern... But then he is offered the chance to attend a hatching and succeeds in Impressing the magnificent bronze fire-lizard, Valla... he is accused of starting a fire... banished... a terrible plague starts to spread across Pern... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | Freedom's Challenge | Ace/Putnam 1998 First Edition - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a couple of short scratches on the rear panel. | £4.00 | "... Kris Bjornson and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters... the colonists have learned to survive... Should they settle in here... their duty is to escape, to get back to Earth... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | No One Noticed The Cat | Wildside Press 2004 (Trade Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top of spine and front cover lightly creased else Fine copy. | £4.00 | "Mangan Tighe... the perfect regent... had left behind an extraordinary guardian to help Jamas bear his new burden of leadership: Niffy the cat... no ordinary feline, will accompany Prince Jamas everywhere, perusing every document and decree and - in her own peculiar way - offering guidance... " 127 page novelette. |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Mark Of Merlin | Wildside Press 2002 (Paper) | Top corners slightly bumped else Fine Copy | £3.00 | "Carla Murdock had learned what it was to be alone, growing up on different army posts. But now her loneliness is terrible - for her officer father met a mysterious death... and Carla has been sent to live in her new guardian's mansion... a remote, snowbound place... her father's killer is now on her trail... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Masterharper Of Pern | Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. | £7.50 | "... Robinton is a prodigy from birth. as a child, he is already composing music that the apprentice and journeyman harpers play with delight. and he has discovered another gift: he has the ability to speak with the dragons... But not everyone appreciates his talents... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Renegades Of Pern | Bantam 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "They were the misfits, the outcasts, the murderers without Hold or Crafthall. Some were resentful, some sought vengeance, but it was not until Thella, Lady Holder of Telgar, began to weld them together into a terrifying and brilliant clan that they became the Renegades Of Pern... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Rowan | Ace/Putnam 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The colonies on Altair were frontier settlements... It was no surprise after torrential rains... that the small Rowan Mining camp was totally destroyed... What was surprising was the psychic wail of agony that went up... belonged to a three-year-old child... and she grew into a beautiful, magical-looking woman... the most important Talent on the planet... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Ship Who Sang | Rapp & Whiting 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges marked and slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly browned and edge-worn Dust Jacket with a number of short tears Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £200.00 | "Helva was a shell person - a human brain encapsulated in a metal body, part of the structure of a spaceship. Brainships combine human will, emotions and intelligence with all the latest in computer technology; so Helva could calculate like a computer and knew all of Shakespeare, world history, had studied art... and she could sing!... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Tower And The Hive | Bantam 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonisation... " |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Worlds Of Anne McCaffrey | Andre Deutsch 1981 First Combined Edition & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £60.00 | The Ship Who Sang specially revised for this edition. |
| Anne McCaffrey | The Worlds Of Anne McCaffrey | Andre Deutsch 1981 First Combined Edition & Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper front corner, faint spine crease, a few page corners creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with some of the red front panel lettering faded and red spine panel lettering slightly faded Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £40.00 | The Ship Who Sang specially revised for this edition. |
| Robert R. McCammon | Mystery Walk | Heinemann 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with price removed | £15.00 | ""Billy... and Wayne... faced each other for the first time at a tent revival meeting in Alabama. The inexplicable energy that passed between them frightened the young men. Each began dreaming the same dream: an eagle made of smoke locked in combat with a snake made of fire. And seeing things: a bestial shape with glowing red eyes... The Shape Changer... " |
| Wil McCarthy | Murder In The Solid State | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... a hard-science, page-turning suspense novel of one man's battle to save his life, career, and country in a 21st-century America. It is a Heinleinesque examination of how nanotechnology offers both the possibility of unparalleled freedom and the danger of inescapable totalitarianism... " |
| Sharyn McCrumb | Zombies of the Gene Pool | Simon & Schuster 1992 Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...a most unusual science fiction convention: the reunion of the Lanthanides - a group of fans from the 1950's... a collection of unpublished, never-before-seen short stories... a memorial to the late and not-so-lamented... Pat Malone... shows up with some very irreverent memories... found murdered... " |
| Ian McDonald | Ares Express | Earthlight 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page corner tips bruised and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times every second. One young woman... becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends... " |
| Ian McDonald | Chaga | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed | £5.00 | "Gaby McAslan's heart is set on a career in network journalism, but when the brightside of Iapetus starts diminishing, and Hyperion disappears completely... a meteor drags her.. to Kenya...Where... the striking African landscape has given way to something... indescribably alien... a kaleidoscopic voyage through an alien landscape, right here on Earth..." |
| Ian McDonald | Desolation Road | Drunken Dragon 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... It all began thirty years ago with a greenperson... But by the time it all finished, Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality on offer, from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza to the Amazing Scorn, Mutant Master of Scintillating Sarcasm and Rapid Repartee... " |
| Ian McDonald | Hearts, Hands And Voices | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed and a couple of light cover creases else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in slightly creased Uncorrected Proof Copy Dust Jacket with 25 mm tear at the top of the spine panel | £5.00 | "... For millennia the Land has been blessed with biotechnology - everything... is organically grown, while the dead, absorbed in Ancestor Trees, for a vast information net, the Dreaming... the Land is troubled, divided between Proclaimer and Confessor, and by political conflict between the... Emperor, and those... who would see the land free of the... Imperial yoke..." |
| Ian McDonald | Necroville | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In the twenty-first century nanotechnology has revolutionised the world... Now nanotechnology can resurrect the dead - and by 2063 they account for almost a third of the world's population. They have their own cities, Necrovilles, within the cities of the living and have evolved a separate and alien culture..." |
| Ian McDonald | Sacrifice Of Fools | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "They're ancient, they're enigmatic, they're alien and they're here. Eight million... Shian arrive on Earth in 2001... as settlers and refugees... In exchange for... their highly advanced technology, they are given the right to stay... a challenge to all mankind's established notions of society, family, gender, sex and law..." |
| Ian McDonald | Speaking In Tongues | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a showcase of the extraordinary range of this exceptionally gifted writer... teleportation for transcendental kicks... the literature of artificial intelligence... premonitions of the holocaust in Freud's Vienna... here are a dozen gems... " |
| Ian McDonald | Tendelleo's Story | PS Publishing 2000 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed By The Author (Paper) (No 127/500) | Small wear mark at base of spine else Fine Copy | £4.00 | "The world of Tendeleo Bi is small, safe, stable: school, farm, her father's church, the village of Gichichi. Then one night the Chaga comes, and everything is different. Advancing across the plains of East Africa at ten metres at ten metres every day, this alien infestation transforms terrestrial life... " Introduced by Robert Silverberg. |
| Sandra McDonald | The Outback Stars | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | £5.00 | "Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and scars to prove it... and she's bored... she takes a berth on the next ship out... a mistake... Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals... Jodenny comes face-to-face with something powerful... love." |
| Sophia McDougall | Romanitas | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... A single state holds absolute sway from the Eastern border of India across the Atlantic: magnetic railways span the globe... Slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf... The sixteen-year-old heir to the throne is about to learn a secret that threatens the security of the greatest power on earth... This is the Roman Empire. Now." First of the trilogy |
| Maureen F. McHugh | Half The Day Is Night | Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a gripping tale of intrigue and complicity in the undersea cities of the 21st century. War veteran David Dai has come to ocean-bottom Caribe to work as a bodyguard to Maya Ling, banker... but... she draws the attention of terrorists who threaten to plunge her, and David, back into the nightmare of his own past..." |
| Maureen F. McHugh | Mission Child | Avon 1998 First Edition First Printing | Spiral Bound Uncorrected Galley Proof - Near Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Humanity once boldly pushed outward from the Earth to establish colonies throughout the galaxy. But humankind reached too far - overextending, faltering, and ultimately failing - leaving its distant settlements to fend for themselves. Now, after many centuries, the progenitors have returned to reclaim their lost territories... " |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | Fireflood And Other Stories | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Eleven stories including the Nebula Award winning 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' - Fireflood; Spectra; Wings; The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn; The End's Beginning; Screwtop; Only at Night; Recourse, Inc.; The Genius Freaks and Aztecs. |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | Fireflood And Other Stories | Houghton-Mifflin 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket a little worn at the base of the spine | £10.00 | Eleven stories including the Nebula Award winning 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' - Fireflood; Spectra; Wings; The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn; The End's Beginning; Screwtop; Only at Night; Recourse, Inc.; The Genius Freaks and Aztecs. |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Severn House 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly scratched and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "At last, Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the late Starship Enterprise begin the long voyage home. But the trip is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious, all-powerful intruder... Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew must journey back through time... only there can they save the future... " Scarce |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | The Crystal Star | Bantam 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "With the New Alliance firmly established, Princess Leia Organa has taken a strong leading role in government... As Luke Skywalker and Han Solo... follow rumours of a lost enclave of Jedi Knights, Leia's and Han's children are kidnapped... Leia and Chewbacca follow a trail of clues... " |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | The Moon And The Sun | Pocket 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a tale of alternate history... Louis XIV... the Sun King... sends his natural philosopher on an expedition to seek the source of immortality... sea monsters... Yves de la Croix returns with his treasures: one heavy shroud packed in ice... and a covered basin that imprisons a shrieking creature... The living sea monster..." |
| Dennis L. McKiernan | Into The Forge Hel's Crucible Book 1 | Roc 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and on top page edges, slight spine lean, else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A fell and ancient sorcery has engulfed the kingdoms... bringing them headlong into battle with forces of great evil... Hordes of Foul Folk have been seen wandering the countryside, burning and plundering as they go, and rumours of war spread like wildfire while elves and men gather in armed bands... so begins the Hel's Crucible Duology... " |
| Dennis L. McKiernan | Silver Wolf, Black Falcon | Roc 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | " ... The progeny of an Elf and a shape-changing Baeran, Bair is cursed with a destiny that places him in mortal danger, for according to prophecy, Bair is the Hope of the World... " |
| Patricia A. McKillip | The Riddle-Master Of Hed | Sidgwick & Jackson 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Bound in Green Leatherette, blocked in gold - ? for Library Distribution?) | Bruised at base of spine, top page edges slightly foxed and reinforced end papers slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Morgon was a prince of Hed. But he was something more, too. He was the best student the College of Riddle-Masters at Caithnard had ever had. He staked his life on a 700-year-old riddle game that everyone else had lost, and he had won... " |
| John McLoughlin | Toolmaker Koan | Baen 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and a few shallow dents to the front and rear boards else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is the early 21st century... A Third Party has been encountered in our Solar System... two rival governments launch manned spacecraft... Each has orders not to allow the other to succeed... Confrontation follows... both ships are crippled... the Third Party steps in... The human survivors are... completely within its powers... " |
| Cliff McNish | Angel | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the spine panel. | £7.50 | "NOT FIT TO BE A DAUGHTER... NOT FIT TO BE A FRIEND... NOT FIT TO BE AN ANGEL... Two girls are inextricably linked by destiny... Stephanie is friendless, strange, a misfit. Freya can't stop seeing angels. but when one of the angels starts to stalk her... " |
| Ronald A. McQueen | Mardoc | Hale 1981 First Edition First Printing | Small '(B)' in biro on front end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | "Mardoc was the ultimate weapon, a weapon built at the height of an intergalactic war; but a weapon which was never used because of its fearful potential. Nobody really knew what Mardoc was, but they knew that once unleashed, it represented a force which would be impossible to control. And someone had released Mardoc..." |
| John Meaney | Context | Bantam 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a couple of page corner tips creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Nulapeiron: a world isolated for twelve centuries. Its billions of inhabitants occupy subterranean strata, ruled by a logosophically trained aristocracy... But revolution has touched all of its many cultures... "Sequel to Paradox. |
| John Meaney | The Nulapeiron Sequence | Bantam 2000 All Are First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and boards a little bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Copies in like Dust Jackets. All Three Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | "Centuries of self-imposed isolation have transformed Nulapeiron into a world unlike any other - a world of vast subterranean cities maintained by extraordinary organic technologies. For the majority of its peoples, however such wonders have little meaning. Denied their democratic rights and restricted to the impoverished lower levels, they are subjected to the brutal law of the Logic Lords and the Oracles... " |
| James Melville | The Chrysanthemum Chain | Secker & Warburg 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Problems... for Superitendent Otani... David Murrow was murdered... his death has certain marks of a gangland killing. How could a foreigner, a respected and conspicuous figure in the expatriate community, have become involved with the highly professional - and jealously exclusive - local criminals... " His second Otani novel. |
| Karen Michalson | Enemy Glory | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and against the side of the spine panel else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a dark, atmospheric fantasy world where the realm of the supernatural lies in the north while warring kingdoms and a complex religion devoted to gods and goddesses of good and evil dominate the south. Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child.. solaced by an ailing local hedge witch, who lies to him... " |
| Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Scribner 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, slightly worn at the extremities. | £7.50 | ""Firethorn flees a life of drudgery to live alone in the forest, relying on her knowledge of herb lore to survive... she returns transformed, indebted to the god who saved her life, and blessed - or cursed - with uncanny abilities and a nagging sense of destiny..." |
| Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and a couple of page edges slightly damp-wrinkled else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | ""Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities." |
| China Mieville | Iron Council | Macmillan 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart... In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in strange places... search for a lost hope, an undying legend... the time of the Iron Council." |
| Victor Milan | The Cybernetic Samurai | Severn House 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Dr Elisabeth O'Neill and her employer, Yoshimitsu...had spent long years searching to create an artificial intelligence. When Tokugawa came into being... the most awesome computer that had ever been created... the culmination of all their dreams... forgetting that dreams can all too easily turn to nightmares... " |
| Rand Miller | Myst The Book Of Atrus | Hyperion 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "... the story of Atrus, son of Gehn, the last of the race of D'Ni - the masters of The Art, the craft of linking to other worlds through the descriptive art of writing... a tale of son against father... truth versus evil... love and redemption... " |
| Adrian Mitchell | The Bodyguard | Cape 1970 First Edition First Printing | Red colouration on top page edges 'splashed' else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with a small (2mm) tear at the base of the spine | £10.00 | Clute - "... the deathbed narrative of a representative figure of a 1980s UK, a paramilitary bodyguard whose reminiscences of his various jobs defending a totalitarian state provide a dystopian portrait of the Europe to come." |
| Laura J. Mixon | Proxies | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked and slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... In the parched twenty-first century Southwest, Carli D'Auber has made the most important discovery of the century... It is now possible to send your consciousness across hundreds of thousands of miles, to be present in another country or on another world, through a remote device... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Flash | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Return to the world of Archform: Beauty... Earth is vastly changed. Ecological and biological catastrophe have raged across the planet, but for the survivors, it is a world of plenty. Even the poorest live in abundance, and the upper class - the ascendant - command technological marvels... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Magi'i of Cyador | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little damp staining on the inside at the base of the spine (no show-through) | £5.00 | "... marks the beginning of a new tale... the story of Lorn... A fastidious student of remarkable talent, Lorn lacks the single most coveted attribute... unquestionable loyalty... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Ordermaster | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the thirteenth book in the Saga of Recluce and the direct sequel to Wellspring of Chaos... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Shadowsinger A Spellsong Cycle Novel | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a rich and complex world and culture, a truly enthralling magical system based on the use of music to create power, and a captivating set of characters embroiled in wars, diplomacy, and politics... love and romance... " The last book of the Spellsong Cycle. |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Chaos Balance | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Engineer/smith Nylan, the only man among the leadership of the company of 'angels' marooned on a high plateau... Nylan must leave his companions... into the world of warring kingdoms and strange magics... and so the war between chaos and order begins again." |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Death Of Chaos | Orbit 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the world is in turmoil... the distant Empire of Hamor has sent invading forces... they mean to conquer the world... Lerris is drawn back into action and forced to exercise and strengthen his magical powers to become the greatest wizard of all time - or see his world destroyed... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Order War | Orbit 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped and torn at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The deadly White Wizards of Fairhaven, wielding the forces of chaos... now threaten the ancient matriarchy of Sarronnyn, the last bastion of order in Candar. The ruler... appeals to the Black order wizards of Recluce for help... " |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Spellsong War Book Two of the Spellsong Cycle | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... The Soprano Sorceress... started The Spellsong Cycle, an innovative and compelling new fantasy series set in the world of erde, where music and song govern magic |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Viewpoints Critical Selected Stories | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Introduction; The Great American Economy; Second Coming; Rule of Law; Iron Man, Plastic Ships; Power to... ?; Precision Set; Fallen Angel; Black Ordermage; Understanding; News Clips Recovered from the NYC Ruins; Beyond the Obvious Wind; Always Outside the Lines: Four Battles; The Pilots; The Dock to Heaven; Ghost Mission; Spec-Ops and three others. |
| L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Wellspring Of Chaos | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... set roughly sixty years after the close of The Order War, it does not require previous knowledge of Recluce to be enjoyed... " |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | Guardian | Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K33 on P. 175) | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little browned/foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Millennia from now, a new earth attempts to rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the past... a primitive collection of feudal states surrounded by the devastation of former wars and wrapped in superstition, ignorance, and mystery... A young sailor teams up with a wandering sage... to search for Guardian - a mythical, omnipotent machine... " |
| Elizabeth Moon | Change of Command | Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Rejuvants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs; they want to ensure that nothing interferes with their pursuit of long life - or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbour states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant... Fear Begets violent reactions... and nothing escapes the resultant bloodbath... " Sequel to Rules of Engagement. |
| Elizabeth Moon | Rules of Engagement | Baen 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat... when Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself in disgrace... " Sequel to Once A Hero. |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | Blood A Southern Fantasy | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The luscious and seductive southern states... and the mysterious universe of the Second Ether, where nothing is quite as it seems... Jack and Sam, their lovers Colinda and the Rose, are jugaderos, the very best at their trade, enjoying a special status unthreatened by even the most ferocious and cynical of warlords... " |
| Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | The City In The Autumn Stars | Grafton 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with the top edge of the rear panel crumpled | £7.50 | "... Ritter Manfred von Bek flees from the excesses of the French revolution pursued by the vengeful Montsorbier. His destination is the neutral, prosperous Germanic city-state of Mirenburg, en route... " Sequel to 'The Warhound and the World's Pain'. |
| Michael Moorcock | The Distant Suns | Unicorn Books 1975 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned else Fine copy Illustrated by James Cawthorne | £10.00 | "... Colonel Jerry Cornelius of the United Nations Space Command stared at her with a mixture of love and trepidation. Today was the day when would, once and for all, bind his fortune with hers. They were soon to become inseparable... She was ready for blast-off... " |
| Michael Moorcock | The English Assassin | Allison & Busby 1976 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed/marked else Fine copy in slightly marked and rubbed, price-clipped. Dust Jacket with a 6mm tear at the base or the rear fold Illustrated by Richard Glynn Jones & Mal Dean | £5.00 | "... the third of Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels. It looks through a many-sided lens at English assumptions about themselves, about class, and about the Empire over the past seventy years. It includes all the familiar characters from the previous Cornelius novels |
| Michael Moorcock | The Eternal Champion | Millennium 1992 First Edition Thus First Printing The Tale of the Eternal Champion Volume 2 | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... Pulled by the tide of chance through a thousand worlds and ages, Erekose, the Eternal Champion, is doomed to perpetual struggle, an endless quest for redemption and his lost love... " |
| Michael Moorcock | The Revenge Of The Rose | Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... To escape a mystic doom that will condemn him to an eternity of anguish, Elric must quest across the dimensions of the multiverse for the rosewood soulbox containing the soul of Sadric, his father... " |
| Michael Moorcock | The War Hound and the World's Pain | New English Library 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Von Bek has been granted entrance so the Devil may offer him a most unusual bargain. Lucifer will relinquish his claim on von Bek's lost soul, but... to be reconciled with God, and to prove his sincerity to Heaven needs the Cure for the World's Pain." |
| Alan Moore | V For Vendetta | Titan 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Cover edges slightly rubbed, light cover creases, page edges slightly browned/marked - Very Good Copy | £10.00 | Full-colour graphic novel - set in the future world of 1997 where one man fights a totalitarian regime in England. |
| Daniel Keyes Moran | The Ring based on a screenplay by William Stewart and Joanne Nelsen | Doubleday 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... that most priceless of all science fiction creations: an entire, vividly detailed, breathtakingly original world... a towering adventure spanning galaxies and centuries, straddling the human present and the cosmic future... the spellbinding tale of a ring of great power... " |
| Richard Morgan | Altered Carbon | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges a little browned else Fine copy. | £10.00 | "... Ex-UN envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before; it was a hazard of the job, but his last death was particularly brutal. Needlecast across light years of space... thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that is vicious... he soon realises that the shell that blew a hole in his chest on Harlan's World was only the beginning of his problems." |
| Richard Morgan | Altered Carbon | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned and previous owner's blind-emboss stamp on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £75.00 | "... Ex-UN envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before; it was a hazard of the job, but his last death was particularly brutal. Needlecast across light years of space... thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that is vicious... he soon realises that the shell that blew a hole in his chest on Harlan's World was only the beginning of his problems." |
| Richard Morgan | Market Forces | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the base of the tips of the front fold | £5.00 | "All over the world, men and women still find causes worth killing and dying for. And who are we to argue with them? Have we lived in their circumstances? Have we felt what they feel? No It is not our place to say if they are right or wrong. At Shorn Conflict Investment, we are concerned with only two things. Will they win? And will it pay?... " |
| Richard Morgan | Market Forces | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "All over the world, men and women still find causes worth killing and dying for. And who are we to argue with them? Have we lived in their circumstances? Have we felt what they feel? No It is not our place to say if they are right or wrong. At Shorn Conflict Investment, we are concerned with only two things. Will they win? And will it pay?... " |
| Richard Morgan | Woken Furies | Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Takeshi Kovacs has come home... to Harlan's World... Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown... into a malestrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due... " |
| Dick Morland (Reginald Hill) | Albion! Albion! | Faber 1974 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and pages edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly marked and rubbed Dust Jacket which is slightly browned on the inside of the spine panel. | £25.00 | "England in the 1990s: an England in which the partisan and hysterical hooliganism of football supporters, now completely out of control, has determined the pattern of political life." Uncommon early Reginald Hill novel. |
| Janet Morris | Threshold | Roc 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket slightly worn at the base of the front fold | £5.00 | ",,, Threshold Terminal... a Grand Hotel in space... a young test pilot, Joe South, is thrust five hundred years into the future and finds himself in the thick of interstellar smuggling, intrigue and the rough underworld of an alien environment... " |
| William Morris | The Water of the Wondrous Isles | Longmans Green 1897 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slightly boxed, boards and spine a little rubbed, spine label worn, page edges and end papers foxed, with previous owner's contemporary inscription and her two book plates else Near Fine copy. | £55.00 | Issued the same year as the Kelmscott Press limited edition. |
| James Morrow | City Of Truth | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and slightly bumped across top edge of boards else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Steve Crisp | £5.00 | ""Veritas is a city in a future world where all dishonesty is outlawed. At ten years old, every citizen is treated to a brainburn which forces them to speak only the immediate truth... Jack Sperry is happy... He has a desirable job as an art critic, a stable marriage and a son who he adores. So what could possibly persuade him to give all this up... " |
| Peter Morwood | Prince Ivan | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board badly bumped, and pages edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket creased along lower edge of front board Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... a tale of a Russia that never existed... of great heroes and beautiful princesses, or sorcerers both good and evil. All set beyond the steppes where the horizon goes on forever, and within forests that could swallow Europe... Prince Ivan... sets out on the bridal quest that will lead him to the fairest princess in all the Russias... " |
| Peter Morwood | The Dragon Lord | Century 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, a couple of shallow indentations at the centre of the front board, page edges a little browned and marked, a few creased and one with a short (3mm) tear else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a couple of indentations at the centre of the front board and a few in the front gutter. | £7.50 | "... Aldric Talvalin. high-clan lord, swordsman, scholar, emissary for hi king - and assassin... betrayed... to the Drusalan Empire which has been the enemy for three generations... There seems no aid or ally in this land... yet allies there are indeed... " |
| Ray W. Murill (Will Murray) | Mars Attacks War Dogs of the Golden Horde | Del Ray 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Martian armies invade Mongolia - only to discover that the descendants of Genghis Khan are as fierce and warlike as the legendary conqueror... who is more savage... ?" With two game playing cards. |
| Pat Murphy | The City, Not Long After | Doubleday 1989 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. Marked in pencil on front free end paper 'Brian Aldiss' copy' | £7.50 | "... A tale of love, renewal and revolution set against a postapocalyptic backdrop... Half a generation ago, a plague spread itself across the land and left all but one in a thousand dead. Now San Francisco is a strange, haunted place... in a strange way nearly alive itself... " |
| Pat Murphy | There And Back Again by Max Merriwell | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Bailey was heading home in his steam-powered rocket when he found a message pod... and notified its owners that he had it. And that was the beginning of the adventure. The next thing he knew, the legendary Gitana, adventurer extraordinaire, was arriving... with a crew of Farrs, members of the oldest and richest clone family in the galaxy... " |
| Pat Murphy | Wild Angel | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | ""When Sarah McKensie's parents are murdered, the young girl is saved by a mother wolf and raised in the pack. Part Mowgli, part Tarzan of the Apes, Sarah becomes the Wild Angel of the Sierras... " |
| Robert J. Myers | The Cross Of Frankenstein | Hamish Hamilton 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket with the price removed | £4.00 | "... written in the Victorian Gothic tradition and faithful to the style and mood... brings the haunting Promethean legend to wilderness America... Victor Frankenstein, a doctor like his father... is kidnapped to America where he is forced to heal the wounded monster who is... planning to raise an army of the dead... " |
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