| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Nagata | Memory | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in a like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... a human colony whose people have forgotten their past, on a tremendous ring-shaped structure where the sky is bisected by an arch of light and where the mysterious 'silver' rises from the ground each night to completely transform the landscape... " |
| Alan Nayes | The Unnatural | Forge 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Dr. Charmaine has only two clues to the beautiful young woman's death: she reeks of the city sewers, and her last word was the Spanish slang for monkey... in an experiment gone horribly awry, Kovacs holds the key to the Sewer Stalker, the bizarre hybrid creature who lusts insatiably for beautiful women... " |
| Ray Faraday Nelson | The Prometheus Man a nrobook | Starblaze 1982 First Edition First Printing (Paper Issue) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book | £3.00 | "'... Asimov... postulated a science he called 'psychohistory,' not realising that the statistical methods... were very similar to... underwriting... only an insurance man could see... how rigorous the statistical probability of human behaviour can be made... '" |
| Adam Nevill | The Ritual | Pan 2011 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "... When four old university friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness... finding they have little left in common... tensions soon rise... Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched by millennia, things couldn't possibly get any worse... Then... the bestial presence that follows their every step... " |
| Kim Newman (Also as Jack Yeovil) | Anno Dracula | Simon & Schuster 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket slightly creased at the top of the spine panel with a 2mm tear and a few rub spots on the front panel silver lettering | £30.00 | "... In 1888, the Widow of Windsor has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula... But in Whitechapel, a murderer known as Silver Knife is cutting down vampire girls, and his crimes threaten to unsettle the new regime... " |
| Kim Newman | Bad Dreams | Simon & Schuster 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small bump to the rear panel and a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | £4.00 | "...Anne meets the Monster, an immortal life-taker who lives at the centre of his own twisted and ever-changing dream... sucked through a corpse-haunted wardrobe into a nightmare that fuses the worst of London's nightlife, the Monsters immortal memories..." |
| Kim Newman | Quetzalcon 'The Kingston Dunstan Convention' | Airgedlamh 1997 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Authors (Paper) (No. 39/800) | Centre-stapled card-covered A5 booklet slightly creased at the head of the spine | £10.00 | Spoof convention booklet in honour of hack horror writer Kingston Dunstan... written by Kim Newman, designed by Michael Marshall Smith and given to each attendee of the 1997 World Fantasy Convention in London. |
| Kim Newman | The Bloody Red Baron | Carroll & Graf 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds. | £7.50 | "... It is 1918. Graf von Dracula, expelled from Britain, is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary, while Lord Ruthven, his former disciple and now enemy, is Prime Minister of Britain. Over the Western Front, allied aces fall to the feared flying monster, Baron von Richtofen. but the War... is also a war between the living and the dead... " |
| Kim Newman | The Quorum | Simon & Schuster 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, previous owner's annotation on front free end paper and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "In 1961, born of filth Derek Leech emerges fully-formed from the Thames, destined to found an empire... Supernatural horror and social satire mix equally in this dazzling relocation of the Faust legend to contemporary London... " Scarce. |
| Mark Charan Newton | City of Ruin Legends of the Red Sun Book Two | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amid the chaos, commander Brynd Lathraea of the Night Guard must plan the defence of Villiren against a race that has broken through from some other realm... " |
| Mark Charan Newton | Nights of Villjamur Legends of the Red Sun Book One | Tor 2009 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... When the Emperor commits suicide, his elder daughter, Rika, is brought home to lead the Jamur Empire, but the sinister Chancellor plans to get rid of her and claim the throne. Meanwhile a senior investigator in the city inquisition must solve the high-profile and savage murder of a city politician... " |
| Mark Charan Newton | Nights of Villjamur Legends of the Red Sun Book One | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Press Release | £10.00 | "... When the Emperor commits suicide, his elder daughter, Rika, is brought home to lead the Jamur Empire, but the sinister Chancellor plans to get rid of her and claim the throne. Meanwhile a senior investigator in the city inquisition must solve the high-profile and savage murder of a city politician... " |
| Adam Nichols | The Pathless Way | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners, faint damp-mark on front board and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a mysterious calling that beckons few and is understood by fewer still. But those who adhere to the teachings of the Closter command a host of skills that break all the rules of the known world - make black white, and solid ground behave like rippling water... " |
| Adam Nichols | The War Of The Lord's Veil | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked and no longer quite parallel - Very Good book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (3mm) split at the top of the rear fold and a mark at the top of the rear flap. | £5.00 | "The savage Veil army sweeps through the wild northern hinterland... taking all they please... their demonic helmets yielding unearthly strength... a young man named Tai will soon escape with two bizarre creatures... Crane, the Dreamwalker and witch-woman, is awaiting the change-bringer that her dreams foretell... " |
| Douglas Niles | War of the Worlds New Millennium | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... From an isolated farmhouse in rural Wisconsin to the National Mall in Washington, D. C., our world becomes a battlefield against the alien intruders from Mars, whose superior weapons and defences dwarf the Pentagon's latest weaponry... " |
| Larry Niven | Burning Tower | Pocket Books 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected... From out of the desert come monsters... Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel... into a world where the manna that fuels magic is still strong... " Sequel to THE BURNING CITY. |
| Larry Niven | Destiny's Road | Orbit 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Almost 250 years ago, the starcruiser Argos reached the planet Destiny, carrying the first settlers... the landing craft... seared the wide, smooth Road into the rock... no settler who has travelled down the Road has ever returned... Jemmy Bloocher is a young farm boy who...accidentally kills... his flight becomes a quest to... uncover the many mysteries of Destiny's Road." |
| Larry Niven | Dream Park: The Voodoo Game | Pan 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... 25 gamers will line up against the most sophisticated forces in modern technology, cunningly allied with the most potent powers of ancient magic. Their task: to stop Tata Nkiti, undead Man-Demon and desecrator of corpses, and his insatiable army of devils - before they destroy the good followers of the White Path..." |
| Larry Niven | Footfall | Gollancz 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and foxed else Fine book in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with faint pressure marks to front panel. | £5.00 | "... Earth was about to receive visitors from another star... Almost everyone agreed... would have to be friendly. But they were soon proved catastrophically wrong... Suddenly Earth was at the mercy of invaders... whose tactical advantage seemed insuperable... " |
| Larry Niven | The Gripping Hand | Pocket 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, binding slightly strained and page edges a little marked - Very Good book in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... twenty-five years have passed since the second Empire of man quarantines the mysterious aliens known only as Moties... Humanity's finest minds... analysing and agonising over the deadly threat... For the Moties must breed - or die. And the single wall standing between them and the galaxy beyond is starting to crumble... " |
| Larry Niven | The Legacy of Heorot | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly browned and marked else Fine book in rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the colonists begin to realise that on Avalon there are complex and lethal biological puzzles which they had not even begun to understand, including the strangest and most dangerous creature any human has ever had to face... the most convincing and hair-raising novel ever of humans struggling to survive on a strange new world." |
| John Normam (John Lange, Jr.) | Kajira Of Gor | W. H. Allen 1984 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £35.00 | "... when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth... she found herself on the throne of a mighty city... Little did she realise that her true role was that of a slave puppet to a conniving woman agent of the monstrous Kurii... between crown and fetters... adulation and total submission... the full-scale panorama... " |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Crosstime Agent | Gollancz 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with orange of spine panel a little faded and a short tear at the top edge of the rear panel adjacent to the spine | £5.00 | "Marva had disappeared. Even telepathic communication with her twin sister, Marfy, had ceased. The girls were members of a team from the planet Vroom seeding life on a forbidding, sterile world, a world which could only be reached by crosstime travel... But... their crosstime journey was sabotaged... " |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Imperial Lady A Fantasy of Han China | Tor 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top front corner slightly bumped and page edges age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Silver Snow, the beautiful daughter of a disgraced general of the imperial Army, has always lived in exile. Far from the heart of the empire she has been free to learn the arts of war and hunting. Her only female companion is her maid Willow, an enchanting girl who talks with wild animals. But an Imperial Envoy changes Silver Snow's simple life forever... " |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Iron Cage | Kestrel 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly marked Dust Jacket, worn at the top of the front and rear folds. | £7.50 | "Thousands of years in the future, the young boy Jony and his mother, Rutee, are being held in cages as experimental animals of an alien race. As the alien ship prepares to leave this particular planet, Rutee is discarded and Jony manages to escape... " |
| Andre Norton | Leopard In Exile Carolus Rex: Book II | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Sarah's love, the Duke of Wessex, is always close behind, balancing the desire to save his wife from unknown perils, his need to save the King of France from Napoleon's and de Sade's clutches, and his responsibility to save King Charles II's England from those who would destroy it... " Sequel to The Shadow of Albion |
| Andre Norton | No Night Without Stars | Gollancz 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners and page edges a little foxed and marked else Fine book in price clipped Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Long ago, according to the Rememberers of the Mob, the earth danced and mountains of fire belched forth flames and molten rock. The sea rolled inward, hammering the land into nothingness. Only pockets of men and animals survived... " |
| Andre Norton | Star Soldiers | Baen 2001 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a grand tapestry of the far-flung interstellar future, in which the first starships from Earth have burst out into the universe... only to run into the restraining grasp of the stagnant alien federation known as Central Control... " |
| Andre Norton | Time Traders | Baen 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tips of the folds | £4.00 | "... the USA's greatest adversary... is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with... weapons - far beyond our most advanced science... " |
| Andre Norton | Wind In The Stone | Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners and lower corner of front free end paper creased else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the corners of the folds | £10.00 | "Once the Wind united the Valley with the Forest, enveloping them in the strongest of magics. It was a union that endured when the Darkness came, and through it the land was preserved and the evil banished... And so there was peace for many centuries... until the Dark returned... " |
| Mary Norton | Are All The Giants Dead? | Dent 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Illustrated By Brian Froud | £15.00 | "... a fairy tale for modern children. Mildred, a society reporter who mingles with the well-born in her workaday life, is equally at home with fairy-tale princes and takes young James on a moonlight visit to their ageing but still fanciful world... traditional characters, all a little older... " |
| Naomi Novik | Temeraire: Black Powder War | Voyager 2007 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... urgent new orders. the British Government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire, now require Lawrence and Temeraire... to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England... before they hatch... " Third in the series. |
| Naomi Novik | Temeraire: The Throne Of Jade | Voyager 2006 First Edition in the UK & Hardback First Printing | Fine book in a fine dustjacket | £10.00 | "The battle for Europe rages upon land and sea... and in the skies. Squadrons of aviators rain fiery death upon their enemies... from the very guts of the beasts they are flying: dragons... Temeraire was intended to be a companion to the Emperor Napoleon... But tidings... have reached the Chinese, and they furiously demand their dragon's return... " |
| Naomi Novik | Victory of Eagles | Ballantine/Del Rey 2008 First Edition First Printing | Covers a little worn and torn - around Very Good Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | "The long-dreaded invasion of Great Britain is at hand. Napoleon's vast armies have consolidated his hold on Europe, and he is poised to attack across the English Channel... Will Lawrence has been jailed for treason, and his dragon, Temeraire, is consigned to the breeding grounds... " |
| Eric S. Nylund | Pawn's Dream | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Roland Pritchard has a life of unending tedium, loneliness and despair. His only escape is into the fertile landscape of his dreams: a magical realm of demons, war and miraculous adventure... But now something is happening that cannot be rationally explained. An extraordinary merging of nightmare and daydream... " |
| Peter O'Donnell | Cobra Trap | Souvenir Press 2006 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book. | £5.00 | "... The first story... sees her in her Network days, set on dealing with a piece of unfinished business... 'The Dark Angels' finds her retired from the Network and allowing herself to be manipulated... by her good friend Sir Gerald Tarrant... in 'Old Alex' she is trapped by an unknown enemy... In... 'Cobra Trap', the dauntless pair face the most testing assignment of their lives... " According to the Author the last, ever, Modesty Blaise. |
| Peter O'Donnell | Cobra Trap | Souvenir Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £60.00 | "... The first story... sees her in her Network days, set on dealing with a piece of unfinished business... 'The Dark Angels' finds her retired from the Network and allowing herself to be manipulated... by her good friend Sir Gerald Tarrant... in 'Old Alex' she is trapped by an unknown enemy... In... 'Cobra Trap', the dauntless pair face the most testing assignment of their lives... " According to the Author the last, ever, Modesty Blaise. Scarce. |
| Andrew J. Offutt | Clansman of Andor | Hale 1979 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "On Earth Robert Cleve was a misfit, a man of action who had no place in an advanced technological civilisation. But a lust for adventure drove him to accept a dangerous assignment on distant Andor. Taking on the bodily form... Cleve became a warrior chief in a barbaric corner of the universe... " Very scarce. |
| Timothy O'Grady | Motherland | Chatto & Windus 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly damp-marked on the inside (no show-through). | £5.00 | "An ornately bound book containing handwritten records which date from the twelfth century, the chronicle of an ancient family. Clairvoyant visions which point the way towards unknown lives and stir up long-buried memories... driven by a desperate love, a man embarks on a search for his wayward mother... " |
| Chad Oliver | The Shores Of Another Sea | Robson 1985 | A few page edges slightly marked and torn else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "On the dusty, remote plains of Kenya, Royce Crawford runs a baboonery... One day there is a strange light in the East African sky, and the baboons start disappearing from their cages... he finds that the animals have changed. The strange look of cold intelligence... reveals to Crawford that he is no longer the hunter, but the hunted..." |
| Douglas Orgil | Brother Esau | Bodley Head 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and pages browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | "In other words, we have two identical prehistoric skulls. One is a million years old and the other could have been alive one hundred years ago... the ultimate discovery: a creature, alive, something like a gorilla, something like a man, its powerful body covered in reddish hair... DNA tests showed that Esau was of the genus Homo, but definitely not Homo Sapiens..." |
| Pat O'Shea | The Hounds of the Morrigan | Oxford University Press 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, and page edges browned and lightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | " 'You are still in Ireland, but you are in Faery too... Some people call it Otherworld and some people say Tir-na-nOg.'... tells of the coming of the Great Queen, the Morrigan, from out of the west to free the snake, Olc Glas, and bring destruction to the world... " |
| Paul Park | A Princess Of Roumania | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners slightly bumped else Fine book in slightly rubbed and marked Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "Many girls dream that they are princesses adopted by commoners. In Miranda Popescu's case, her dream is literally true... at the same time she stands at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurors in an alternate world, a place of magic and intrigue... " |
| Paul Park | Coelestis | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base and a few page corners bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... On a distant planet, discovered and developed by America eons ago, two native alien races co-exist; the aboriginals and the Coelestis. One race has sold its soul to the colonists: the other has been hunted to the edge of extinction - the Coelestis - majestic, strange, terrifying. Now only two survive... " |
| Paul Park | The Hidden World | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked and lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The concluding volume in Paul Park's remarkable tale of Roumania... After discovering that she is the lost princess of Roumania and the mythical white tyger... " |
| Paul Park | The White Tyger | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket a little torn and frayed at the base of the spine panel | £4.00 | "Miranda Popescu is at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurors in a fantasy world where 'Roumania', now occupied by the German army, is still a leading European power. Her enemies are the mad Baroness Ceausescu, serving as a figurehead-of-state, and the ghost of the sinister Elector of Ratisbon... " |
| Diana L. Paxson | The White Raven | Morrow 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across lower edge of boards, page edges slightly marked and a couple of page edges a little damp-wrinkled else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... the names Tristan, Isolde, and Mark are linked to an awful destiny, a bond of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, heroism, devotion, and magic beyond imagining... re-creates the world-famous story of their love, but with a formerly missing element now added to a consequently more vibrant whole... " |
| Alexey Pehov | Shadow Prowler | Simon & Schuster 2010 First Edition First Printing (No. 266/500) | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof Translated by Andrew Bromfield. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | £7.50 | "After centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring. An army is gathering: thousands of fell creatures joining forces from all across the Desolate Lands, united for the first time in history under one black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Namelerss one and his forces will be at the walls of the great city of Avendoom. Unless... " |
| Ludek Pesek | The Log Of A Moon Expedition | Collins 1969 First Edition Translated from the German (published in Germany in 1967). | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... This is the enthralling diary of an eight-man scientific expedition: the astronauts' assignment is to spend fourteen lunar days,,, carrying out as great variety of scientific work on the lunar surface. Yet a sequence of accidents... " |
| Pierre Pevel | The Alchemist in the Shadows | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Upper rear corner slightly creased else Fine book Translated by Tom Clegg. With Publisher's Press Release | £4.00 | "Cardinal Richelieu... is on guard... France is under threat... a secret society known as the Black Claw is conspiring against him... his most trusted men... the Cardinal's Blades... ready to risk their lives... a beautiful, infamous, deadly Italian spy... demands... protection... Because La Donna can name their enemy... " Sequel to The Cardinal's Blades |
| Tom Piccirilli | Headstone City | Bantam Spectra 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners and edges slightly worn - Very Good to Near Fine Advance Reading book | £5.00 | "On the streets of Brooklyn, a haunted man must settle his accounts with the living - and the dead... " |
| Marge Piercy | City of Darkness, City of Light | Fawcett 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and spine panel a little uneven else Fine book in rubbed, printed clear plastic Dust Jacket - as issued. | £5.00 | !"... the French Revolution... the courageous women who sparked the Revolution by taking to the streets... three of the women who played prominent roles... Claire Lacombe... Manon Philipon... Pauline Leon... the Revolutionary Republican Women are born... the sweep of the French Revolution... " |
| Sarah Pinborough | The Dog-Faced Gods Book One A Matter of Blood | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | £5.00 | "The recession that grips the world has left it exhausted. Crime is rising in every major city. Financial institutions across the world have collapsed, and most governments are now in debt to The Bank, a company created by the world's wealthiest men. But Detective Inspector Cass Jones has enough on his plate without worrying about the world at large... " |
| Ricardo Pinto | The Stone Dance of the Chameleon Trilogy | Bantam 1999-2009 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Slightly bumped and/or rubbed at top and/or base of spines and page edges lightly browned and/or marked else Fine books in Dust Jackets, volume 1 with a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold Books 1 & 2 Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £22.50 | "... the Commonwealth of the Three Lands... its heart, Osrakum... Three Masters... beg Carnelian's father to return... to oversee the election of a new God Emperor... and sets in motion the concluding events in a story four thousand years old... " Science Fiction with a non-US/UK view - fascinating... |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Wordsworth 1995 First Edition Thus First Printing? (Includes The Imp of the Perverse) | Bruised at top and base of spine, previous owner's details on front free end paper and page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham | £4.00 | The Gold-Bug; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; Ms. Found in a Bottle; A Descent into the Maelstrom; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Premature Burial; The Black Cat; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado; and many others |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | Great Writers Library 1986 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book with decorated boards, as issued. | £4.00 | 39 stories. |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Beyond The Blue Event Horizon | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a short (6mm) tear at the top of the front panel, a crease running the length of the spine panel and the blue spine lettering slightly faded. | £7.50 | "... the sequel to the award-winning Gateway... the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed... a novel that convincingly portrays the power of human curiosity and the strengths and failings of human emotions... a breathtaking vista of the alien... " |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Black Star Rising | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket a little crumpled at top of spine panel. | £5.00 | "Two hundred years from now the USA and USSR are largely forgotten, having destroyed each other as world powers... China and India have moved in to pick up the pieces... an alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to talk to the President of the USA... there is no such person... but the aliens wont take no for an answer... " |
| Frederik Pohl | Mars Plus | Baen 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and remainder felt pen line across lower page edges else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the events chronicled in... Man Plus were only the beginning. It is now fifty years later. Man is, or seems to be, on Mars to stay, but things have become... strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs, half-cyborgs and just plain humans... " |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Midas World | Gollancz 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked with a few corners folded else Fine book in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""The Midas Plague" - the story which first described this society and which is included in revised form... quickly became recognised as one of the classic science fiction social satires. Midas World brilliantly unfolds further implications of the ideas... " |
| Frederik Pohl | Narabedla Ltd | Gollancz 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges slightly bumped else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a pin-point scratch on the spine panel and the yellow of that panel slightly faded (as usual). | £7.50 | "... an immensely rich foundation supporting both scientific research and cultural events... two performers signing contracts with them and then vanish... on the second moon of the seventh planet of the star Aldebaran... to the advanced civilisations of the galaxy... primitive culture is in vogue... |
| Frederik Pohl | Pohlstars | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Introduction; The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles; The High Test; Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair; Second Coming; Enjoy, Enjoy; Growing Up in Edge City; We Purchased People; Rem the Rememberer; The Mother Trip; A Day in the Life of Able Charlie and The Way It Was |
| Frederik Pohl | The Early Pohl | Doubleday 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased. foxed and marked Dust Jacket slightly eroded at the top of the spine panel and with one short tear. | £5.00 | "... Together with eight stories and one poem... is hiss delightful autobiographical commentary on each of them... " Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna; The Dweller in the Ice; The King's Eye; It's a Young World; Daughters of Eternity; Earth, Farewell!; Conspiracy on Callisto; Highwayman of the Void and Double-Cross. |
| Rachael Pollack | Temporary Agency | Orbit 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | Orbit Uncorrected Proof Copy with St. Martin's Press covers. "Ellen Pierson and a Malignant One cross paths - and the world will never be the same... " Set in the world of Unquenchable Fire |
| Tim Powers | Expiration Date | Tor 1996 First US & Hardback Edition & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Los Angeles... a city full of ghosts - and full, too, of unpleasant characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead... " |
| Amanda Prantera | Conversations With Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death | Cape 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Not only had the machine been fed every snippet of information available about the poet's life, with all his work and correspondence, but took into account his temperament and tastes... It was clear that the young, rather pretty female researcher, Anna, enjoyed an intimate rapport with 'Lord Byron'... we discover the startling truth about the legendary rake... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Carpe Jugulum | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, lower front and upper rear corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly rubbed and browned else Fine book in like, price clipped, Dust Jacket with a small scrape near the top edge of the rear panel | £7.50 | "Mighty Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest... he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches... And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Eric | Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges and/or corners slightly worn else Fine book Illustrated by Josh Kerby | £12.50 | "... Eric is fourteen, lives on the famed and magical Discworld, and is the first ever demonology hacker. Fortunately he doesn't succeed in raising any devils, but he does raise Rincewind (the most incompetent wizard in the universe) and the Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory)..." |
| Terry Pratchett | Going Postal | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top and base of the rear fold | £5.00 | "Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision... " |
| Terry Pratchett | I Shall Wear Midnight | Doubleday 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with a light strain in the front panel gutter | £7.50 | "Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk. even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much, well, magic. Or sleep. But somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Interesting Times | BCA 2007 - Issued Without Dust Jacket (Unseen Library Edition) | Fine book Cover illustration by Paul Kidby | £10.00 | Quarter Leather (?) binding, blocked in Gold, Discworld Map End Papers, silk ribbon. "... The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil... And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard... Cohen the barbarian hero... and a very special butterfly." The Seventeenth Discworld Novel. Scarce Unseen Library Edition. |
| Terry Pratchett | Maskerade | BCA 2007 - Issued Without Dust Jacket (Unseen Library Edition) | Fine book | £15.00 | Quarter Leather (?) binding, blocked in Gold, Discworld Map End Papers, silk ribbon. "... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg... are back for an innocent night out at the opera. So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum... )". The Eighteenth Discworld Novel. Scarce Unseen Library Edition. |
| Terry Pratchett | Monstrous Regiment | Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It all began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time... And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Moving Pictures | Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned and marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £35.00 | "Cameras roll - which mean that the imps inside have to paint really fast... when alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill? As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out..." |
| Terry Pratchett | Nation | Corgi 2009 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, else Fine Trade Paperback | £3.00 | "... Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it... The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there's just Mau... a trouserman girl... and an awful lot of big misunderstandings... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Night Watch | Doubleday 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Commander Sam Vines of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. but now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic | Corgi Audio 1993 First Thus (Two Abridged Audio Tapes - Approved by the Author) | Still sealed in original wrap - Fine Front Cover Illustration by Josh Kirby | £10.00 | "Is it fantasy? No - it's a different and more eccentric reality where the world is flat and moves through space on the back of a giant turtle... " Read by Tony Robinson |
| Terry Pratchett | The Discworld Companion | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "For the newcomer and old hand alike the Discworld can be a fatally confusing planet. From the great city of Ankh-Morpork, featuring a river you could skateboard across if it wasn't so knobbly, to the distant Ramtop Mountains and the mysterious Counterweight Continent, the Discworld is a place where Death waits around every corner... For safety's sake you need a guide... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Light Fantastic The Graphic Novel | Corgi 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, lower front corner lightly creased else Fine book Illustrated by Steve Ross & Joe Bennett | £10.00 | "Six months ago Rincewind was a perfectly ordinary failed wizard. Then he met Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, was employed at an outrageous salary as his guide, and has since spent his time being shot at, terrorised, chased and hanging from high places with no hope of salvation... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Unadulterated Cat A Campaign for Real Cats | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and page edges a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine book Illustrated by Gray Jolliffe | £5.00 | "Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one? Or have you grown too used to the boring, mass-produced cats the advertising industry adores? Real cats never eat from bowls (at least, not the ones marked CAT). Real cats never wear flea collars... or appear on birthday cards... or chase anything with a bell in it... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Thud! | Doubleday 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf. Commander Sam Vimes... is going to see it fought again, right outside his office... " Companion volume to Where's My Cow. |
| Terry Pratchett | Unseen Academicals | HarperCollins 2009 First Edition in the US First Printing? | Small adhesive 'bleed' on front and rear boards else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things - wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime - but athletics is most assuredly not on the list... so when Lord Vetinari... strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and... put forth a football team... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Unseen Academicals | Doubleday 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic... " |
| Tim Pratt | The Strange Adventures Of Rangergirl | Bantam Spectra 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front corner creased, edges/corners slightly rubbed else Fine book. | £2.00 | "As night manager of Santa Cruz's quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean expresso, but her first love is making comics... when Marzi opened a hidden door... she saw the face of something unknown... and dangerous... it's up to Marzi to stop this supervillainous superforce... the showdown of her life. For Rangergirl, it's just another day... " |
| Douglas Preston (Also as Lincoln Preston with Lincoln Child) | Still Life With Crows | Warner 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges browned and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a few slivers of lacquer missing from the front panel (?sticker removal). | £5.00 | "... a ghastly murder has taken place. The unknown victim has been placed in a small clearing in a sea of corn, mutilated and arranged... neighbours begin to disappear... No one is safe... the local curse and the truth of Medicine Creek's greatest enigma, the Ghost Warrior Massacre... " |
| Douglas Preston (Also as Lincoln Preston with Lincoln Child) | The Wheel of Darkness | Warner 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage... An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning... When the Agozyen walks the Western Sea, And darkness upon darkness wheels, The waters shall rise up in fury... " |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock) | The Separation | Scribners 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front corner tip slightly rubbed else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £30.00 | "... Jack and Joe Sawyer rowed for Great Britain in the 1936 Berlin Olympics... Jack joins the RAF. His war is savage, spreading firestorms across Germany... Joe... declares himself a pacifist... As their stories play out, possibilities, parallels and confusion surround them... each... an ordinary man party to momentous events." Withdrawn by the Publisher - very scarce. |
| Malcolm Pryce | Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth | Bloomsbury 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Aberystwyth at Christmas. The smell of pine drifts along the Prom, mingling with the reek of bladderwrack, toffee apple, vanilla and wet donkey fur. And in a filthy alley in Chinatown, a man in a red-and-white coat with a long white beard lies dead in a pool of his own gore... Aberystwyth at Christmas. Compliments of the Season." |
| Andrew Pyper | Lost Girls | Orion 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Press Release | £5.00 | "Don't all kids imagine there's a haunted house in their neighbourhood? Can you remember yours? But what if you knew something bad really had happened in that house? What if you saw it? What if you tried not to think about it for the next thirty years? What if, one day, you had to back into that house... " |
| Ellery Queen | The Madman Theory | Kinnell 1988 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing (First State Dust Jacket with 'The Mad Man' Theory) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, lightly marked on the inside (no show-through) | £7.50 | "Five friends and colleagues off for a hiking holiday in the redwood forests. Suddenly a shotgun blast blows one of them away. No-one else knew they were coming - surely only a madman could have dealt so cruelly with people he didn't even know... " Murder mystery written by Vance and originally published in paperback in 1966 |
| Robert Rankin | Knees Up Mother Earth | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | "... There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy Griffin Park, the borough's beloved football ground... Horror! Shock! Outrage! Something must be done... Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Book Of Ultimate Truths | Doubleday 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower board edges and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "He had walked the Earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Caligliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vesta on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert and Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down in tears... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Brentford Chainstore Massacre | Doubleday 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned and no longer quite parallel else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. with a short tear at the base of the rear fold | £7.50 | "There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than... Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud... not just a single Jesus... a full half-dozen... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Brightonomicon | Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "When our teenage hero takes his beloved one, Enid Earles, away for a dirty weekend in Brighton, things do not go as he might have wished. Instead of a night of passion... He narrowly escapes... drowning... brought ashore by the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon... Hugo Rune.. " |
| Robert Rankin | The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code | Gollancz 2007 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Jonny Hooker is a tormented man, but his former problems pale into insignificance when he received a Very Special Letter telling him his name has been selected... to be a WINNER... But to claim his prize, he has to solve the Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Fandom Of The Operator | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Gary Cheese is twenty-two years of age. His hobbies include music, girls, TV and the detective novels of the twentieth century's bestselling novelist, the now legendary P. P. Penrose. And attempting to reanimate the dead... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at top of front fold. | £5.00 | "... there is a serial killer loose upon the streets of Toy City. One by one the old rich nursery rhyme characters, who made their millions from the royalties on their best-selling rhymes, are being brutally slaughtered... The Toy Cuty police are getting nowhere; and Billie Winkie, Private Eye, has also mysteriously vanished, leaving only his sidekick, Eddie Bear... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Toyminator | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town... There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion... strange signs and portents... With the body count rising... it is time for a hero... Eddie Bear... and his loyal sidekick, Jack." Sequel to Hollow Chocolate Bunnies... |
| Robert Rankin | Waiting For Godalming | Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... God is dead. He died in mysterious circumstances while on a fishing trip to Norfolk, leaving a wife, three children and a great deal of valuable property... he left his beloved planet Earth to his youngest son, Colin. Which seems mightily suspicious as the meek were expecting to inherit it. Colin is all for flogging it off to the highest bidder... " |
| Robert Rankin | Web Site Story | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The Millennium Bug... a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species crosssover from machine to mankind... The Black Death was spread by rats... this plague will be spread by a mouse... " |
| John Rankine (Douglas R. Mason) | Ring Of Garamas | Dobson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, page edges foxed and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "They were tall, hitting the two metre mark, narrow and high-shouldered with long arms and legs. Heads balanced symmetrically on short necks, were almost perfect spheres...." We follow Dag Fletcher again into his harrowing adventures in space, struggling with the war-like, dominant People of Garamas and coming out on top as usual." |
| Bill Ransom | Viravax | Ace 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top and base of the front fold. | £5.00 | "... a private laboratory on the cutting edge of genetic research... whose secret work for the Agency involves the creation of viruses that 'mark' the host for tracking purposes... where former operative Rico Toledo will confirm... that his partner has been genetically programmed for assassination... " |
| R. E. Raspe | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Meridian 1971 First Edition in Paperback First Printing ? | Slightly worn at base of spine, covers lightly browned, previous owner's sticker on front free end paper and page edges lightly foxed - Very Good book Profusely Illustrated by Ronald Searle | £7.50 | Introduction by S. J. Perelman "... R. E, Raspe... first published the Baron's tall stories in 1785... Scores of other writers have embellished his adventures; now Ronald Searle has created over sixty preposterous drawings... " |
| Julian Rathbone | Trajectories | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... contrasts the idyll that was the origin of our species with its final decades in a polluted, doomed environment, and the pampered, secure life of the haves with the squalor and civil strife of the majority... " |
| Melanie Rawn | The Dragon Token | Daw 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a section of the front panel 'gold' inlay tarnished | £5.00 | "... Till now the beleaguered forces of the High Prince have been forced to retreat... Prince Pol and Maarken... must rally their forces in a desperate attempt to halt the advance of the unknown invaders' army... yet the invaders, too, have an agenda for conquest... " |
| Melanie Rawn | The Mageborn Traitor Exiles : Book Two | Macmillan 1997 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and two corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The second volume in her enthralling fantasy epic about three magically gifted sisters and their desperate contest for control of their world..." |
| L. P. Reeves | Last Days of the Peacemaker | Hale 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges lightly browned and a little marked else Fine book in rubbed and slightly marked Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "A nuclear device devastates London... all the blame is heaped upon a world renowned figure and fighter for peace... George finds himself inextricably tangled with the efforts of the Peacemaker to prove his innocence... " |
| Judith Reeves-Stevens | Quicksilver | Pocket 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold | £4.00 | "... six years from now... In a breathtakingly precise, split-second operation using the latest military technology, a team of ruthless commandos takes over America's ultimate military command post - from the inside... their hostages include the top military officials of twenty European nations... the Vice President, the First Lady and the Joint Chiefs of Staff... " |
| Mickey Zucker Reichert | Beyond Ragnarok | DAW 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and cloth faded at base of spine, page edges slightly marked else Fine book in internally creased Dust Jacket with a little internal damp staining at base of spine. | £5.00 | "... what hope was there for mere humans when Odin... was himself doomed to die in the upcoming battle? Yet Odin had long planned to cheat his fate. His chosen weapon to slay his nemesis, Fenris Wolf, was the demigod Colbey Calistinnson, the son of Thor and the last true survivor of the warrior race known as the Renshai... " |
| Mickey Zucker Reichert | The Last of the Renshai | Millennium 1993 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Down through the centuries... four masters of magic have struggled to maintain the delicate balance of power in the troubled Northlands. But now the mortal world teeters on the brink of the long foretold Great War... When their enemies band together in a surprise attack... one Renshai will escape the genocide... a lone warrior... and a master of destruction... " |
| John Remenham (John A. Vlasto) | The Peacemaker | Macdonald 1947 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed and marked - around Very Good book in grimy and slightly torn Dust Jacket, frayed and slightly chipped at top and base of spine. | £7.50 | "When Myron P. Lord, American armament manufacturer, had achieved... one thousand million dollars he felt he had fulfilled all ambition. But Charlotte... pleaded with him... to devote his energies and wealth to a new cause: the creation of universal peace... fantasy of the future... " Listed in Bleiler's Checklist of Fantastic Literature. |
| Mike Resnick | Stalking The Dragon A Fable of Tonight A John Justin Mallory Mystery | Pyr/Prometheus 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Light crease to lower front cover corner else Fine book | £5.00 | "It's Valentine's Day and private detective John Justin Mallory is planning on closing up the office early... But before he can turn off the lights and lock the door, he is visited by a panic-stricken Buffalo Bill Brody. It seems that the Eastminster pet show is being held the next day, and his dragon, Fifi, the heavy favourite, has been kidnapped... " |
| Mike Resnick | Stalking The Vampire A Fable of Tonight A John Justin Mallory Mystery | Pyr/Prometheus 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "It's Halloween and John Justin Mallory's partner. Winnifred Carruthers, has been so busy preparing for the biggest holiday of the year (in this Manhattan, anyway) that she seems short of energy and pale. Mallory is worried that she may be working too hard. Then he notices the two puncture marks on her neck... " |
| Mike Resnick | Starship: Mutiny Book One | Pyr 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, rear board faintly damp-marked and page edges a little marked - Very Good book in like Dust Jacket with the rear panel damp-marked on the inside and a slight ripple. | £5.00 | "The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era... and the Republic, created by the human race... finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power... The Theodore Roosevelt is one of three ships charged with protecting the Phoenix Cluster... " |
| Mike Resnick | Starship: Pirate Book Two | Pyr 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and front board faintly damp-marked - Near Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the front fold | £7.50 | "... After his latest exploit saved millions of lives but embarrassed his superiors... Faced with a court-marshal... branded mutineers... remake... as a pirate ship and set sail for the lawless Inner Frontier... " |
| Mike Resnick | The Buntline Special | Pyr 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised at base of spine and corners and a few page corners lightly creased else Fine book | £4.00 | "The year is 1881. The United States ends at the Mississippi River. Beyond lies the Indian nations, where the magic of powerful Medicine Men has halted the advance of the Americans... Thomas Alva Edison... on a mission... to protect this great genius, Wyatt Earp and his brothers... Against them stand the Apache wizard Geronimo and the Clanton Gang... " |
| Alastair Reynolds | Galactic North | Ace 2006 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | Collecting all the Revelation Space universe stories (so far): Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwalder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North and Afterword |
| Alastair Reynolds | House Of Suns | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Top corners slightly rubbed, light cover crease, else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | "At the dawn of the human starfaring era a woman called Abigail Gentian split herself into a thousand clones and launched them into the galaxy to gather memories and wisdom. Periodicallty the shatterlings... meet... they exchange memories. But all is not well... someone has decided it is time to end the Gentian line... " |
| Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £30.00 | "... Nine hundred thousand years ago something wiped out the alien Amarantin. Maybe it was pure bad luck that their star chose to flare just when they were on the verge of discovering space flight... For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylvestre it's more than just intellectual curiosity... " |
| Alastair Reynolds | Terminal World | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Edges and corners slightly rubbed, last 20 pages and rear cover lightly creased and page edges lightly marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | £7.50 | "Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Following an infiltration mission... Quillon has been... working as a pathologist... when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissection table... " |
| Alastair Reynolds | Terminal World | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology... Following an infiltration mission... Quillon has been... working as a pathologist... when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissection table... " |
| Jenna Rhodes | The Four Forges The Elven Ways: Book One | DAW 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Kerith, a world... bereft of magic after the devastating Magi wars which killed off the Magi, leaving behind their Galdarkan minions, the fighters they had created...the Vaelinars had mysteriously appeared from nowhere... no memory of how they had come... carrying forward an enmity they scarcely understood... a different sort of elemental magic... |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Blood And Gold The Vampire Marius | Chatto & Windus 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... one of the oldest vampires of them all... Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires... haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca... the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept'... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Christ the Lord The Road to Cana | Chatto & Windus 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Whispers of a virgin birth have long surrounded Jesus. His brother, his mother, his friends, wait for some sign of the path he will take... Both divine and human, he struggles with the demands of his family, the human need for love, and his overwhelming sense of destiny... " |
| Anne Rice | Lasher | Knopf 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and with one small mark else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Anne Rice brings us again...into the midst of the dynasty of witches she introduced in The Witching Hour...With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of occult and spiritual aspirations and passion" |
| Anne Rice | Memnoch the Devil The Vampire Chronicles | Knopf 1995 First Edition Third Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. Now, in her most daring and darkest novel she takes us...into the realms of our own theology" |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Merrick | Chatto & Windus 2000 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. | £5.00 | "... Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and memory... Louis de Pointe du Lac... takes centre stage , tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia, whom he loved and lost... Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Pandora New Tales of the Vampires | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "David Talbot, vampire survivor of Memnoch the Devil, calls forth Pandora in modern-day Paris to tell her own story. Two thousand years old, she was a mortal girl in ancient Rome at the time of Caesar Augustus... As a follower of the secret blood-tainted cult of Isis, Pandora had to flee to Antioch... " |
| Anne Rice | Servant Of The Bones | Chatto & Windus 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""... Azriel is a rebel ghost who holds in his memories the long and troubled history of Western civilisation. Born almost 2500 years ago... Azriel is forced to take the role of a god for three days, paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death, half-life... his restless spirit can be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones... " |
| Anne Rice | The Mummy or Ramses the Damned | Chatto & Windus 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | A couple of light cover/spine creases, page edges slightly grubby - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof (bound with the title page upside-down!) | £40.00 | "... Ramses the Great reawakens in the drawing rooms of Edwardian London and becomes infatuated with adventurous and beautiful Julie Stratford... Though Ramses is immortal, he is all too human... " |
| Anne Rice | The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in lslightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | The Witching Hour | Chatto & Windus 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket worn at the top of the front fold, and slightly worn at the base of the spine. | £4.00 | "Rowan Mayfair is a brilliant and beautiful neurosurgeon with an extraordinary power to heal - or to harm. Sailing off the coast of California, she rescues a drowning man, Michael Curry, whose brush with death leaves him with strange sensory powers, and images which bewilder him... " |
| Anne Rice | Violin | Chatto & Windus 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In this powerful confessional novel... another ghost... the mesmeric and dangerous Stefan - part incubus, part inspiration... nineteenth-century violinist appears on the street corner in twentieth century New Orleans, to haunt Triana... Stefan takes Triana back to Vienna in the early 1800s where Beethoven was his teacher... " |
| Anne Rice | Vittorio, The Vampire New Tales of the Vampires | Knopf 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and remainder dot on bottom page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the mesmerising story of a Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold... Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies... he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue... " |
| Robert Richardson | The Book of the Dead | St. Martin's Press 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... he is especially intrigued by wealthy bibliophile Carrington's tale of a literary treasure - the last unpublished Sherlock Holmes story - passed down through the family... Carrington's murderer steals the precious Holmes story from the safe... But eventually, Gus must turn to the master Holmes... to untangle... this very modern murder case." |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Fabric Of Sin | Quercus 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top rear corner bumped and page edges lightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Garway church was built by medieval Knights Templar... the Master House, abandoned and falling into ruin... renovation plans stall when a specialist builder refuses to work there, insisting it's a place that doesn't want to be restored... Merrily Watkins is unconvinced... But violent death changes everything... " |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Remains of an Altar | Quercus 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum... heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents... an obsession... around Elgar and The Dream of Gerontius... a place at the centre of an ancient mystery... " |
| John Ringo | Princess of Wands | Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Barbara Everette... had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house... the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have 'one weekend off'... Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockheart... had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect... the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances." |
| Jennifer Roberson | Sword-Born A Novel of Tiger and Del | Daw 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small amount of white material trapped under the lamination on the rear panel. | £5.00 | "... Left as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger... Born in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered... she had studied with the greatest of Northern sword-masters and had become the most deadly sword-singer in the North... " |
| A. R. R. R. Roberts (Adam Roberts) | The Sellamillion | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Here at last are all the grand legends and myths of Lower Middle Earth that A. R. R. R. Roberts lovingly compiled after we rang him up last Thursday with the promise of another contract. Also included are numerous early drafts... correspondence with his publisher. And, err, some poems... " |
| Adam Roberts | Salt | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Told by two people, Petj and Barlei, SALT is the story of a planetary colonisation that slips into a tragedy of Biblical proportions. The two communities who went to Salt were united by the dream of a new beginning and, isolated in a landscape of cruel majesty, torn apart by ancient enmities... " |
| Adam Roberts | Stone | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, one page edge with a short (5mm) tear and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Sprung from a prison in the centre of a star, the universe's last criminal is employed to kill the entire population of a planet... it is a crime that will tear apart an interstellar utopia that has existed for centuries... " |
| Keith Roberts | Grainne | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof | £35.00 | Spiral bound photocopy of manuscript. Only 6 copies were produced (I think). |
| Keith Roberts | Grainne | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 225/250) | £20.00 | Together with matching numbered hardback of a poetry collection - A Heron Caught In Weeds. "... Through Bevan's vivid memories we meet Grainne; blue stocking, seductress, darling of the media. Painfully human yet as mysterious as her great namesake, the girl-goddess doomed by her own proud nature... human and divine, a proto-myth for the coming millennium." | |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti & Company | Kerosina 1986 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No 14/200) | Page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With additional numbered booklet "Kaeti's Apocalypse" (one extra story) included. | £25.00 | "... Kaeti and her companions inhabit a strange world; a 'theatre of the mind' where the unexpected is commonplace, where ghosts, vampires and even the odd goddess may be encountered... " Ten Stories, plus Kaeti's Apocalypse. |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti On Tour | Sirius 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Kaeti branches out, moves further from her beloved London. In the process she makes a whole range of new, intriguing friends; and lands herself in some scrapes startling even by her standards. The shadows she sprays on the pavements... come alive to haunt her; later, the magic Tiger Sweater... does more than haunt the subjects of her wrath... " |
| Keith Roberts | Kiteworld | Gollancz 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | Clute - "Kiteworld... invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its constrictive rendering of the life of the crews who man giant kites to guard the frontiers against demons." |
| Keith Roberts | Molly Zero | Gollancz 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "In an England two hundred years hence all children are brought up in single sex creches; the 'Blocks'. Molly Zero, young and intelligent, resilient and loving, is a product of the 'Blocks' and is destined for the Elite - the governing body of a country now crippled by martial law. She rebels and escapes... gradually awakening to the realities of responsibility and the price of caring... " |
| Keith Roberts | The Boat of Fate | Hutchinson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name and date on half-title else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £45.00 | "This superb historical novel... recreates... the whole experience of the Roman Empire in its death-throes. Written with wit, imagination, pace and great descriptive talent, it recalls for the modern reader an age of violence and disintegration... " |
| Keith Roberts | The Boat of Fate an historical novel | Prentice-Hall 1974 First Edition in the US First Printing | Covers creased and marked, corners rubbed, page edges browned, marked and a little water-marked - Good? Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | "The Roman Empire in its death-throes provides the background for this superb historical novel that recreates the experience of one man trying to cope with his changing world... " Early Proofs are very scarce. |
| Keith Roberts | The Road To Paradise | Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 188/250) | Fine book in like Dust Jacket and Box. With matching Hardback of Irish Encounters | £25.00 | "... Meet Maggie Blighe, the girl from Gospel Oak; novelist, penitent, lapsed Catholic. She touched evil, one bright, hot day in Oxfordshire, and swore to hunt it down... " |
| R. Garcia Y Robertson | Lady Robyn | Forge 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Robyn's fantasy of courtly romance comes up against the brute reality of medieval politics... murder, warfare, and betrayal... an engrossing time-travel romance... " Follows Knight Errant. |
| Madeleine E. Robins | The Stone War | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... confused reports come from New York. Millions of refugees are streaming out, each bearing contradictory tales of fire, earthquake, explosions, collapse... the full nature of the catastrophe is still unclear, for its roots lie in mystery, in wounds to a human heart... " |
| Frank M. Robinson | Waiting | Forge 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There are people living among us who look just like normal human beings. They've been here for a long time - waiting. But they aren't exactly like us at all. There are subtle psychological differences that might be found... and that is something they really want to avoid. They'll kill to prevent it... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | A Short, Sharp Shock | Ziesing 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Prelim Page | £7.50 | "... the story is propelled from surprise to surmise to disillusionment to satisfaction to utter mystification. Incorporating erotic symbolism fraught with quasi-Freudian overtones and social contrivances invested with Jungian implications, Robinson has created a modern mythological playground for the twentieth century imagination... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica | HarperCollins 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The world's last unstripped asset. Antarctica is in danger of becoming a free-for-all - oil reconnaissance teams intent on mass extraction, adventure travelers trailing waste across the tundra, and strategic interests covertly vying for influence... a gripping, provocative eco-thriller set early in the next century..." |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Galileo's Dream | HarperVoyager 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket, with Voyager First Edition sticker on the front panel. | £12.50 | "... one night a stranger presents a different kind of telescope for Galileo to peer through... Galileo will soon find himself straddling two worlds, the medieval and the modern... Galileo faces trial for religious crimes in his own time... in the new world he discovers... he is revered." |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Sixty Days and Counting | HarperCollins 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... the world's climate is well on the way to irrevocable change... As ecological disaster overwhelms China and carbon figures are close to cooking the rest of the world, the battle of science versus capitalism erupts... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Mars Trilogy | HarperCollins 1992-6 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and lower front corner of 'Green' and page edges lightly browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Pages in the appropriate colour pens and 'Green' and 'Blue' additionally dated. | £450.00 | The history of man's terraforming and colonisation of Mars. Award winning novels: Red - 1993 Nebula Winner, Green - 1994 Hugo Winner & Blue - 1997 Hugo Winner |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Memory Of Whiteness | Macdonald 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges browned and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... It is the year AD 3229; human civilisation is scattered among the planets, moons and asteroids of the solar system. Millions of lives depend on the technology derived from the scientific works of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin... discover the deeper truths concealed in Holywelkin's work... the understanding... that will transform... all of humanity." |
| Spider Robinson | Callahan's Lady | Ace 1989 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Welcome to Lady Sally's: a house of incredible repute whose dedicated staff of erotic artists bring all sorts of fantasies to life. Come and mingle in the Parlour with the Lady's select clientele - including priests, cabbies, KGB agents, and even a purebred werebeagle. Then shed your inhibitions (among other things) for a visit to the Bower... " |
| Justina Robson | Down to the Bone Quantum Gravity: 5 | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Corners/edges slightly rubbed/bumped and small bump to the side of the spine else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Lila Black can still turn into a lethal war-winning machine with the merest thought but she doesn't work for the agency any more. Problem is, she has no idea what to do next... But the dead are walking, the veil between the worlds is tearing and if it fails altogether all bets are off. Someone has to do something... " |
| Justina Robson | Going Under Quantum Gravity: Book 3 | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Light crease to upper corner of rear panel else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals... and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by humans into a half-robot, part-AI... " |
| Justina Robson | Selling Out Quantum Gravity: Book 2 | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Lower page edges marked and a couple of smudges at base of spine panel else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £3.00 | "Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals... and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been different too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by humans into a half-robot... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | Cloud Castles | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are a short voyage away from Liverpool or Hamburg - via the cloud archipelagoes... in the heart of hi-tech Europe a denizen from the dawn of time is reaching out to ensnare one of humanity's most sacred emblems... and a new dark age will begin... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan | The Gates Of Noon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Shadows from the past, from the present - and from somewhere that is neither, where myths and archetypes stalk the world. Entangled by old loves and ancient hatreds, with witches and warlocks to help him and the original Bogyman on his trail, Steve must fight to reconcile past and present... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan | The Hammer Of The Sun: The Winter Of The World Volume Three | Macdonald 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket, with a short split and a little wear at the base of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "... the chronicles of the Winter Of The World reach their climax... in the legend-haunted lands... the malevolent Powers of the Ice see the key to the final extinction of life that they so desperately crave... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan | The Lord Of The Middle Air | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Young Walter Scot is hot on the heels of cattle raiders in the service of the dark Lord of Soulis when he encounters his kinsman Michael Scot - and his life is changed forever. Even in the turbulent Borderlands of thirteenth-century Scotland Michael had a fearsome reputation as a magician and master of forbidden arts, trafficking with the demons of the middle air... " |
| Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Penguin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Lower rear corner slightly creased, corners slightly rubbed, else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | "Imagine the world exploding. A perfect summer blown apart. The summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part of that was because of the war... Mostly everything changed because of Edmond... It would be much easier to tell this story if it was all about a chaste and perfect love at an Extreme Time in History... " |
| Meg Rosoff | Just In Case | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "The day David Case saves his brother's life his whole world changes... he must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate... if he can. Will changing his name, his appearance, befriending an astrophysicist and gaining an imaginary pet be enough?... " |
| Bernard L. Ross (Ken Follett) | Capricorn One | Arthur Barker 1979 First Edition in Hardback | Top 2mm of spine panel a little faded, top page edges foxed, small tear in rear fixed end paper (production fault) and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly browned Dust Jacket. | £100.00 | Based on the screenplay by Peter Hyams and different to the novelisation by Ron Goulart! "The first manned flight to Mars.. it must succeed... So NASA plans a 30 billion dollar fraud... an elaborate film set, deep in the Arizona desert... But when the capsule burns up... NASA is left with three live astronauts whom they want dead fast... " Very scarce. |
| Bill Rotsler | The Hidden Worlds Of Zandra | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N23 on P. 180) | Bruised at top and base of the spine, page edges slightly browned/foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine book in like, slightly worn. Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Having passed through a time and space warp... fellow passengers on a jetliner... find themselves on Zandra. Peopled by a variety of races, some humanoid and others reptilian... With Princess Falana... the Earth people... become the targets of both a court conspiracy to usurp the Emperor's power and... rebellious subjects... " |
| Marcus Rowland | Diana Warrior Princess | Heliograph 2003 First Edition First Printing | Fine book Signed and Inscribed by the Author Illustrated by Aaron Williams | £5.00 | "... a modern-day role playing game with a difference. Imagine our world, as seen by someone as remote from us as we are from the ancient Greeks, and with as many gaps in their knowledge... converted into a TV series by a production company showing the loving attention to historical accuracy we have come to expect... 109 pages! Featuring the exciting adventure 'Diana Does Dallas!'" |
| Rudy Rucker | Transreal! | WCS Books 1991 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners and edges slightly rubbed and page edges lightly marked - Near Fine book | £5.00 | Introduction by Robert Sheckley; Book One: Light Fuse and Get Away Poems 1975-1982; Book Two: The 57th Franz Kafka Stories 1980-1983; Book Three: Weird Screens Stories 1984-1990; Book Four: Some of the Dharma Selected Essays 1982-1989; Authors Notes. 534 pages. |
| Brian Ruckley | Winterbirth The Godless World Book One | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "An uneasy truce exists between the thanes of the True Bloods. Now, as another winter approaches, the armies of the Black Road march south, from their exile beyond the Vale of Stones. For some, war will bring a swift and violent death.... But all, soon, will fall under the shadow that is descending... " |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Also as Kristine Grayson, Kris Nelscott and with Dean Wesley Smith, Kathryn Wesley & Sandy Schofield) | The White Mists Of Power | Millennium 1992 First UK & Trade Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners folded else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded | £7.50 | "An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. it is nothing like he imagined. Hands pound against his carriage... The streets teem with merchants... magicians, half-mad preachers... But it is the last journey of his life as a prince. soon he will be abandoned and declared dead... " |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Also as Kristine Grayson, Kris Nelscott and with Dean Wesley Smith, Kathryn Wesley & Sandy Schofield) | Traitors | Millennium 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and letter 'D' stamped across bottom page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with one small tear. | £5.00 | "Two people love Emilio Diate - the Golgoth, the king who raised the refugee boy as his own; and Sheba, second to the throne of the Golgoth's deadly enemy, the Kingdom. Both believe he will betray the other side... " |
| Jay Russell | Celestial Dogs | Raven/Robinson 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly bumped, else Fine Uncorrected Proof | £7.50 | "The search for a missing Hollywood hooker draws Marty to the streets of L.A. where he encounters demons relentless and hungry for human flesh.!" |
| Jay Russell | Waltzes And Whispers | Pumpkin Books 1999 First Edition First Printing (Limited to 750 copies) | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith, afterword by Kim Newman and fifteen horror stories in between |
| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | Black Swan 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed, upper rear corner and last few page corners creased - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | £7.50 | "... the powerful, haunting story of a charismatic Jesuit priest, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to make first contact with an extra-terrestrial culture... but nothing can prepare them for the civilisation they encounter on the planet Rakhat, or the tragic misunderstanding that brings the mission to a devastating end... " |
| Sean Russell | The Compass of the Soul Book Two of the River into Darkness | DAW 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a wondrous journey to a world where magic is vanishing as the era of reason and science dawns... two factions vie for control of the magical arts-shrouded and secret, et powerful beyond imagining. Lord Eldrich is last mage... " |
| Sean Russell | The One Kingdom Book One of The Swans' War | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Lower corners of the first 27 pages marked and creased, else Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | £3.00 | "... From their home in the Vale of Lakes, three young traders set out on a quest to make their fortune. Carrying a cargo of ancient artefacts, their journey... will take them into a world both strange and terrifying... " |
| Sean Russell | The Shadow Road Book Three of the Swans' War. | Orbit 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine book in a fine dust jacket | £5.00 | "After the King of Ayr died without naming a successor, a century of enmity destroyed the one kingdom... now the decades of hatred have woken the unquiet river spirits from their timeless sleep, and revived a feud more deadly than any conflict of man... " |
| Alan Ryan | Quadriphobia | Doubleday 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Kiss the Vampire Goodbye; The Man Who Killed Forever; Candlewyck and The Queen of Kilimanjaro. |
| Frank Ryan | The Sundered World Book One Tir | Swift 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly bumped Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "... Alan Duval... suddenly, bewilderingly... is transported from Earth to a mirror world - Tir... Granny Ddhu... confers on him the Oraculum of the Tridedana, the gateway to immense power and the first step in a seemingly impossible quest... " |
| Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden or A Low Comedy | Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slight spine fading, front panel a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | £5.00 | Clute "...a long rich novel about identity and the making of great art. Set in a transfigured UK - in effect an alternate world - the book stands as one of the sturdiest monuments of 'Humanist' sf..." |
| Geoff Ryman | 'Was...' A NOVEL | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges slightly browned and production fault resulting in one page corner tip miscut and with a small tear else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... the story of Dorothy. Orphaned in the 1870s, she goes to live in Kansas with her Aunty Em and Uncle Henry. They face drought and poverty. They face each other. Alone, abused, Dorothy meets an itinerant actor called Frank and inspires a masterpiece... " |
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