| 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 Karres |
Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Captain Pausert had foiled the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World, yet his troubles kept piling up... someone had convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal... his bank account had been cut off... only one thing to do - run away and join the circus!... " |
| 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... ' " |
| 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... " |
| Marc Laidlaw |
Dad's Nuke |
Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket which is slightly stained on the inside. |
£5.00 |
"'Dad' Johnson prides himself on having the best-defended family on the block; and one of the most unusual and up-to-the-minute too, what with P. J., genetically engineered to be gay, and baby Erica, her digestive system adapted to consume nuclear waste. Imagine his chagrin when Jock Smith, across the street, becomes the first in the neighbourhood to install his very own tactical nuclear missile in the back yard..." |
| Joe R. Lansdale (Also as M. Dean Bayer; Jack Buchanan; Mark Simmons & Ray Slater) |
Act Of Love |
Kinnell 1989 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tips of the folds. |
£7.50 |
"... the story of the 'Houston Hacker' and how a peaceful city was terrorised by an insane and sadistic murderer. It is recounted from the point of view of the detective in charge of the investigation and tells how the policeman's own family became intimately involved in the gradual unraveling of a painstaking piece of deductive policework... " |
| Joe R. Lansdale (Also as M. Dean Bayer; Jack Buchanan; Mark Simmons & Ray Slater) |
By Bizarre Hands |
Ziesing 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
Introduction by Lou Shiner and 16 stories: Fish Night; The Pit; Duck Hunt; By Bizarre Hands; The Steel Valentine; I Tell You It's Love; Letter From The South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches; Boys Will Be Boys; The Fat Man and the Elephant; Hell Through a Windshield and six others |
| 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... " |
| Joe R. Lansdale |
Texas Night Riders |
Subterranean Press 1997 First US Hardback Edition First Printing & Thus No 314/500 |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed as by Ray Slater |
£25.00 |
A western published in paperback in 1983 under the pseudonym Ray Slater: now re0-issued with a new introduction by the author… |
| Joe R. Lansdale |
The Boar |
Subterranean Press 1998 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 293/776) |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£25.00 |
"... it was not my intent to try and write a great novel of The Depression... I essentially wanted to write a small book that took place during this time, in the East Texas river bottoms, and had a simple plot with a simple resolution... " |
| 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 |
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 |
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... " |
| Stephen Laws |
The Wyrm |
Souvenir Press 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"A dark and terrible evil slumbers... Slowly it is awakening and in its mind burns revenge against mankind... he probes the fragile core of our emotional armour, bringing us face to face with our deepest fears." |
| 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 |
Come Out Tonight |
Headline 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"It's a hot, hot night. Too hot to be making love unless your romance is young, like Sherry and Duane's. It's their first time and the anticipation is killing. There's just one problem - they have no condoms. Of course they could wait until tomorrow... " |
| Richard Laymon |
No Sanctuary |
Headline 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Rick would do anything for his girlfriend... follow her to hell and back... Gillian is off on vacation... She likes breaking into people's homes while they're away and just hanging out... this time she chances on the home of a serial-killer... " |
| 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... " |
| Richard Laymon |
Out Are The Lights And Other Tales |
Headline 1993 First Edition in Hardback First Printing (Note: Book is 25 mm thick) |
Bruised at top and base of spine, front hinge a little strained and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"The Vampire movie came first - the girl died in a welter of blood as the vampire bit clean through her jugular...The Inquisition came next... This was the horror-movie series to end them all. Cinema buffs particularly admired the grainy, amateurish camera work - it suggested the action was the real thing... also contains five rare short stories... " |
| 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." |
| 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 |
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 |
Nightshades Thirteen Journeys into Shadow |
Headline 1993 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 |
£10.00 |
"A novel and twelve short stories encompassing all the richness and variety of Tanith Lee's unique talent." |
| 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 |
Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a tiny nick at the base of the spine panel 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)." |
| Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins) |
Sidewise In Time And Other Scientific Adventures |
Shasta 1950 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, code number on front free end paper and page edges and end papers a little marked and age-darkened Very Good Copy in torn, slightly chipped, worn and eroded Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. Dust Jacket illustrated by Hannes Bok |
£20.00 |
Introduction; Sidewise In Time;Proxima Centauri; A Logic Named Joe; De Profundis; The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator and The Power |
| 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 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... " |
| 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... " |
| Charles Logan |
Shipwreck |
Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing (Gollancz/Sunday Times Joint SF Award Winner) |
Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners, slight spine lean and page edges foxed - around Very Good copy in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
""... the tale of one man's fight for survival... A huge expedition ship has been travelling through space for 65 years... an atomic explosion partly destroys it, leaving intact only one manned scout craft which Tansis... manages to land... The planet does not appear to be hostile but seems to have no means for human sustenance... " Surprisingly scarce |
| William Robert Loosely (David Langford) |
An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871 |
David & Charles 1979 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 and Inscribed to William (Robert Loosely) |
£10.00 |
"It was in October 1871 that Loosely... saw in the night sky what appeared to be a slowly moving star cross in the sky... What he discovered was far beyond his wildest speculations... " |
| 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 |
Beneath The Moors And Darker Places |
Tor 2002 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. |
£7.50 |
Introduction; David's Worm; Dagon's Bell; The Sun, The Sea, and the Silent Scream; The Second Wish, A Thing About Cars!; Rising With Surtsey; Big 'C'; The Fairground Horror and Beneath The Moors |
| 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 Invaders |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... But true evil is very hard to stamp out... the Gate is open once again... Three great vampires... fall upon an unsuspecting Earth... But Earth has defenders. Though the Necroscope has gone... " |
| 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 |
Psychamok |
Tor 2002 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and some page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (4mm) tear at the top of the spine panel |
£5.00 |
"... to his horror, Stone discovers that the Psychomeck has run amok and that The Gibbering is the result! Even though the insanity it creates batters his struggling mind, Stone realises that he is the only man with the knowledge and power capable of destroying the berserker mind-machine." Third in the trilogy |
| 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 the UK & First 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 slightly worn at base of spine, slightly bumped and frayed at top of spine, corners a little boxed and worn, and top front corner quite badly bumped, with previous owner's name on front fixed end paper and pages slightly age-darkened - overall Good plus |
£50.00 |
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. 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 |
£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 |
Voyages By Starlight |
Arkham House 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
Foreword by Michael Swanwick; Ellen O'Hara; Green; Starship Day; The Giving Mouth; The Perfect Stranger; Tirkiluk; Papa; 1/72nd Scale; Marnie and Grownups |
| 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 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..." |
| 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. |
| 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'... " |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
No One Writes To The Colonel |
Cape 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and rear corners else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with two small tears (5mm and 2mm) Translated by J. S. Bernstein |
£50.00 |
No One Writes To The Colonel and Big Mama's Funeral: Tuesday Siesta; One of These Days; There Are No Thieves in This Town; Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon; Montiel's Widow; One Day After Saturday; Artificial Roses and Big Mama's Funeral |
| 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. |
£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 bruised at base of spine, a couple of page edges a little bumped and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"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. |
| 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 |
Fevre Dream |
Poseidon Press 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and two page top-edges a little bumped and remainder stamp and a little foxing on lower page edges else Fine copy in torn and slightly worn Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"... Abner Marsh, a grizzled giant of a riverboat man... Joshua York offers him partnership and enough gold to build the fastest steam boat on the Mississippi... Abner discover, to his horror, that his pale, intellectual partner is a vampire... with every passing mile his dream ship is plunging them deeper and deeper into nightmare." Excellent |
| 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... " |
| George R. R. Martin |
The Armageddon Rag |
Poseidon Press 1983 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (3mm) tear at the top of the spine panel adjacent to the rear panel Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£25.00 |
"... Sandy is... called upon by his old underground newspaper to do an investigative report on the brutal murder of Jamie Lynch, manager of the legendary 60s rock supergroup the Nazgul... he travels around the country stalking Lynch's killer... and uncovers a bizarre plot to resurrect the revolution of the 60s through the power of rock 'n' roll... " Scarce in this condition. |
| 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... " |
| A. Lee Martinez |
The Automatic Detective |
Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Fine copy With Publisher's Press Release |
£4.00 |
"Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. he's just a bot trying to get by... " |
| 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 |
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. |
£15.00 |
"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 |
The Doorkeepers |
Severn Hous |