| Peter Van Greenaway |
The Man Who Held The Queen To Ransom And Sent Parliament Packing |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn, marked and creased Dust Jacket where section of front panel adjacent to spine is starting to delaminate. |
£7.50 |
"A small determined group of soldiers kidnap the Royal Family, capture the Tower of London and the BBC, hold up the House of Commons at gun-point... and - while the rest of England are still rubbing their collective eyes over their television sets - accomplish a more or less bloodless revolution in England today... " |
| Eric Van Lustbader |
The Sunset Warrior |
W. H. Allen 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket. With wraparound Bruce Pennington Jacket Illustration |
£5.00 |
"Beneath the surface of the planet lies the freehold, a society based on military tradition... whose time is running out... In a community without hope there is still one man whose spirit is not crushed. A swordsman trained to a pitch of magic perfection... a rebel... the bladesman Ronin... " First of the trilogy. |
| Jack Vance (Also as Peter Held; John Holbrook Vance, Alan Wade and, sometimes, Ellery Queen) |
Araminta Station |
Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue. |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Vance has constructed a brilliant, complex tale of revenge and murder, of love and alien intrigue, and set it glittering among the stars of the Purple Rose System." Cadwal Chronicles No. 1. |
| Jack Vance |
Night Lamp |
Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Jaro Fath has been troubled by visions all his life: a garden, a menacing man in black, a woman screaming... Jaro is an orphan, but he has been adopted under mysterious circumstances... He... finds himself threatened on all sides by men who wish to exploit or, worse, kill him... " |
| Jack Vance |
The Dying Earth |
Underwood-Miller 1976 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket slightly creased and worn at top and base of spine and fold tips with a tiny chip missing from the top of spine/front panel (approx. 3 x 1mm) with a short tear and the spine panel background slightly faded |
£30.00 |
Illustrated by George Barr. His fist book, originally published in paperback in 1950. |
| Jack Vance |
The Palace Of Love |
Dobson 1968 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with an 8mm tear at the top edge of the front panel |
£7.50 |
"Kirth Gersen has dedicated his life to revenge - to killing... each of the Demon Princes who had murdered his parents... Gersen tracks down the elusive Falushe at the strange pleasure temple known as the Palace of Love where at last their deadly confrontation takes place... " Demon Princes No. 3. |
| John Varley |
Mammoth |
Ace 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... cloning a mammoth... In a barren province of Canada, a mammoth hunter... has made the discovery of a lifetime: an intact frozen woolly mammoth... Huddled next to the mammoth is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12,000 years old. And he is wearing a wristwatch... " |
| John Varley |
Red Thunder |
Ace 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"The U. S. space program is effectively over... Everyone has accepted that the manned Chinese ship... will be the first vessel from Earth to land on the Red Planet. Almost everyone. In a deserted warehouse near Daytona, a band of seven suburban misfits... is constructing a spaceship... " |
| John Varley |
Science Fiction Special 42 Titan John Varley Tin Woodman Dennis R. Bailey and David F. Bischoff |
Sidgwick & Jackson 1982? First Combined Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Slight spine creasing, Tin Woodsman pages browned, and top page edges marked - Very Good Copy in slightly rubbed laminated boards |
£5.00 |
The first book of the Gaean trilogy 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo nominee with "... a complex adventure involving a telepathic human, a living alien starship, a convincingly psychopathic villain, and a galactic chase... " - Clute |
| John Varley |
Steel Beach |
Putnam 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine, top corners bruised and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... the story of Luna, the colony set up by Earth on the Moon, which became the primary home of the human race when an alien attack destroyed the mother planet... " |
| Jules Verne |
Magellania |
Welcome Rain 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Translated by Benjamin Ivry |
£7.50 |
"... the home of Kaw-djer, a mysterious man of Western origin whom the indigenous people consider a demigod... he has shunned Western civilisation and its hypocrisies... But when a thousand immigrants become stranded on his island and ask him to be the leader of their colony, will Kaw-djer go against everything he believes... " Introduction by Oliver Dumas |
| Joan D. Vinge |
World's End |
Bluejay 1984 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"BZ Gundhalinu, police officer of the Hegemony, member of the elite 'tech' class of the ruling planet Kharemough, left the planet Tiamat before the Stargate closed, cutting himself off forever from the barbarian girl who gave him back his sense of self-worth... " |
| Vernor Vinge |
A Deepness In The Sky |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one top page edge else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Thirty thousand years before... A Fire Upon The Deep, Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity among the Qeng Ho interstellar trading fleet. In high orbit above the planet Arachna, they wait for the awakening of... the Spiders... " |
| Vernor Vinge |
Rainbows End |
Tor 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient... He was a world-renowned poet... he has no choice but to learn how to cope with the new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum... he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination... " |
| Vernor Vinge |
The Peace War |
Bluejay 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"Paul Hoehler, a brilliant applied mathematician, discovered a unique force that would change the world forever: 'bobbles,' spherical force fields that allowed nothing - people, objects, radiation, light or air - in or out... " |
| E. Charles Vivian (Also as Jack Mann) |
City of Wonder |
Hutchinson ???? Fourth Edition |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners, corners rubbed, boards a little marked and stained, metallic inlay dulled, page edges and end papers foxed and marked and front end paper worn in one place - Good to Very Good copy |
£5.00 |
Clute - "... features Asian survivors from Lemuria... " A lost world tale. Listed in Bleiler's Guide. |
| E. Charles Vivian |
Fields Of Sleep |
Grant 1980 |
Bruised at base of spine and top rear corner slightly rubbed else Fine copy in creased and slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"A magnificent fantasy novel of lot lands in which Victor Marshall is hired to find an Englishman who has disappeared into remote and unexplored Asia. Marshall's expedition leads him to a remote valley whose inhabitants are descended from ancient Chaldean colonists. They are dependent on a narcotic flower whose fragrance produces a strange ecstasy... " |
| Paul Voermans |
And Disregards The Rest |
Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed and Warmly Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"Australian writer... extraordinary achievement, treating the themes of alien contact, time and alternate realities with verve and freshness... " |
| William T. Vollmann |
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs |
Andre Deutsch 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... history and myth are fused by prose as eerily beautiful as an Arctic landscape... " |
| Paula Volsky |
Illusion |
Gollancz 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"... the Exalted rule supreme, exercising absolute control over the peasants on their lands. But the magical powers of the Exalted have been fading for generations... and... revolt is in the air as seditionists fulminate against the tyranny, greed and corruption... " |
| Kurt Von Trojan |
Mars in Scorpio |
Wakefield Press 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Lower page edges slightly marked else Fine Copy |
£4.00 |
"The air shimmers over baking hills and the bush is tinder dry. From the stereo thunders the voice of Adolph Hitler... he saw Vienna burning, limbs stuck in trees, the muzzle flashes of submachine guns. Later, in Australia, he stood immobile while mental hospital attendants lifted screaming patients from their beds by the balls... " |
| Kurt Von Trojan |
The Atrocity Shop |
Altair Publishing 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Corners slightly worn else Fine Copy |
£4.00 |
"... We meet him, sleeping rolled up in a carpet, in a freezing attic; then find him in a luxury penthouse. His sudden affluence comes from the Atrocity Shop and its furtive customers; captains of industry, judges, politicians... Meanwhile the strutting Nazi leader, Hector Krafft, and urban terrorist Carmen Rouge build backyard atomic bombs..." |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
The Sirens Of Titan |
Gollancz 1986 (Paper) |
Corners slightly rubbed, some pressure marks on the spine, a few speckles to yellow paper covers - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£7.50 |
"When Winston Miles Rumfoord flies his space craft into a chronosynclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materialises when his waveform intercepts Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour... " |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Timequake |
Cape 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the base of the rear fold. |
£5.00 |
"According to... Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February, 2001... it decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure 10 years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will... In 1996... Vonnegut is wrestling again with Timequake, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now... " |
| Howard Waldrop |
Them Bones |
Ziesing 1989 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, small bump across top edge of rear board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... a subtle and disarming story, plainly and directly told from the various points of view of several protagonists distributed across four divergent alternate histories, past and future... The interwoven mysteries unfold from three triangulating sources, converging ultimately on conclusions whose timelessness span all four... Louisianas past, present and future... " |
| Howard Waldrop |
Them Bones |
Legend 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with two tears and creasing at base of rear fold. |
£5.00 |
"Madison Yazoo Leake, of the bombed-out, radiation ridden twenty-first century, wanted to go back in time to stop World War III before it began. When he stepped through the time portal, he thought he was entering Louisiana in the 1930's. Instead, he found himself in a world where Arabs had explored America, Christianity and the Roman Empire had never existed, and Aztecs performed human sacrifices near the Mississippi as woolly mammoths roamed nearby... " |
| Hugh Walpole |
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair A Romantic Macabre |
Macmillan 1925 First Edition First Printing - Trade Issue |
Slightly bumped and slightly worn at base of spine, bruised and worn at top, and top front corner slightly bumped, page edges slightly foxed and marked Very Good to Near Fine Copy . |
£10.00 |
"... I will invoke the great names of Hoffmann and Hawthorne for its God-fathers... But the word allegory is, in these days, a dangerous one, and some one will soon be showing me that we have, each one of us, his Sea-Fog, his White Tower, and that it is the fault of his own weakness if he does not fling out of the window his Red-Haired Man..." |
| Paul Ware |
Flight Of The Mariner |
Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed, browned and slightly bumped - Very Good copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Shushuan, world of the Vinh. Across a gulf of space and time that cannot be measured by Earth's science, the ancient, forgotten birthplace of humankind still calls to its long-lost offspring. But only a handful of those descendants, a special few in whom the race-memory still lies buried, are able - or willing - to respond... " |
| Freda Warrington |
A Blackbird in Amber |
New English Library 1992 (Paper) |
Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£4.00 |
"... Now was the time when the power of sorcery might be harnessed for good or evil..." Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
A Blackbird in Silver |
New English Library 1992 (Paper) |
Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£4.00 |
"... From Forluin, green, half-fabled land of beauty and peace, had journeyed Estarinel, grave and strong... From the terrible Empire of Gorethria, hated and feared... rode Ashurek, once High Commander... And the third was known only as Medrian... Theirs was the Quest... to seek out and slay the great Serpent..." Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
A Dance In Blood Velvet |
Macmillan 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine - Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£250.00 |
"For the love of her vampire suitor Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Her only contact with people now, is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her but its fulfilment brings ecstasy... " Volume Two in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
A Taste of Blood Wine |
Meisha Merlin 2002 First Edition in the US First Printing (Paper) |
Lower rear cover corner creased else Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"Karl... though a vampire himself, is completely in the power of his maker, Kristian... When Karl meets and falls in love with Charlotte, he realises that he must find a way to kill Kristian, for Kristian has decided to teach Karl a lesson in power, by devouring Charlotte." One of the author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
A Taste of Blood Wine |
Macmillan 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Edges and corners slightly worn else Fine Copy |
£10.00 |
"Karl... though vampire, is completely in the power of his maker, Kristian... Karl is determined to kill him - but vampires are indestructible. Madeleine Neville is eighteen: it is 1923. He father... has filled Parkland hall with guests for her birthday... Among them is... Karl..." |
| Freda Warrington |
Dark Cathederal and Pagan Moon |
Signet 1996-7 Both Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Two Volumes) |
Some edges slightly rubbed, page edges lightly browned - Near Fine Copies. Signed by the Author on the Title Pages |
£80.00 |
"For all of their childhood, young Beth... and her brother Luke have lived in fear... because of their mother's religious beliefs. Until one summer... Beth discovers independence. And her descent into darkness begins... " These are the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
Darker Than The Storm |
New English Library 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Edges very slightly rubbed - Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£4.00 |
"Prince Ashurek... looked up amazed. the towers of Niankan-Siol soared skywards, all blue gold and glass, seemingly as light as air. Walkways, weightless and swaying, threaded between the pinacles and spires, while winged creatures and transports flitted and looped among the glittering heights... beyond the teeming city the whole land was dissolving into Chaos and darkness... " |
| Freda Warrington |
Sorrow's Light |
Pan 1993 First Edition First Printing (Large Format Paper) |
Lower front corner bruised and creased else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"Iolithie is cousin to the Royal Family... Then Prince Tykavn's intended Princess is slaughtered by The Unseen, the evil supernatural denizens of The Stolen Land, and Iolithie is chosen as the replacement bride. Outwardly, her Prince is all she could have hoped. But in the privacy of their bedchamber, Iolithie discovers her husband is more than just deeply religious... " - one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
Sorrow's Light |
Pan 1994 (Paper) |
Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£4.00 |
"Iolithie is cousin to the Royal Family... Then Prince Tykavn's intended Princess is slaughtered by The Unseen, the evil supernatural denizens of The Stolen Land, and Iolithie is chosen as the replacement bride. Outwardly, her Prince is all she could have hoped. But in the privacy of their bedchamber, Iolithie discovers her husband is more than just deeply religious... " - one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Amber Citadel |
Earthlight 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£4.00 |
"Two hundred and fifty years ago, humans defeated the shape-changing Bhahdradomen... they are exiled, or thought to be extinct, the shapechangers' hatred and jealousy... live on... they find a way to assuage that hatred. Meanwhile the third race, the mysterious Aelyr, keep apart fom humans... Tanthe and Ysomir are sisters... " Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Blood Trilogy |
Macmillan 1992-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) |
Bruised at top and/or base of spines - Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Pages |
£1,000.00 |
"Karl... though vampire, is completely in the power of his maker, Kristian... Karl is determined to kill him - but vampires are indestructible. Madeleine Neville is eighteen: it is 1923. Her father... has filled Parkland hall with guests for her birthday... Among them is... Karl..." The Three Volumes of her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - these are the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Dark Blood of Poppies |
Pan 1996 First Edition in Paperback First Printing |
Covers slightly rubbed else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£22.50 |
"The ballerina Violete Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and led her to a terrifying realisation; that she has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires... " |
| Freda Warrington |
The Dark Blood of Poppies A Vampire Fantasy |
Macmillan 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£100.00 |
"The sequel to A Dance In Blood Velvet; a sensual and erotic vampire novel. The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and leads her to a dreadful realisation; that she has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires... " Volume Three in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Jewelfire Trilogy |
Earthlight 1999-2001 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) Three Volumes |
Volume 3 bruised and rubbed else Fine Copies Volume 1 & 2 Signed by the Author on the Title Pages |
£20.00 |
"Two hundred and fifty years ago, humans defeated the shape-changing Bhahdradomen... they are exiled, or thought to be extinct, the shapechangers' hatred and jealousy... live on... they find a way to assuage that hatred. Meanwhile the third race, the mysterious Aelyr, keep apart from humans... Tanthe and Ysomir are sisters... " Scarce. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Rainbow Gate |
New English Library 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£25.00 |
"...The land of the Chalcenians ripples with sunlight, energy and laughter; the home of the Domendrans is dark and dank... When Helen's friend Rianna begins to make exquisite dolls to sell... Helen finds herself drawn back to the strange other-world she and Rianna knew as children... they must play their part in an age-old conflict... which will save or destroy our own world." - one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Rainbow Gate |
New English Library 1990 (Paper) |
Slightly bumped at top of spine, with a short tear and page edges a little browned else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£5.00 |
"...The land of the Chalcenians ripples with sunlight, energy and laughter; the home of the Domendrans is dark and dank... When Helen's friend Rianna begins to make exquisite dolls to sell... Helen finds herself drawn back to the strange other-world she and Rianna knew as children... they must play their part in an age-old conflict... which will save or destroy our own world." - one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington |
The Sapphire Throne |
Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"The war appears to be over. Helananthe, granddaughter of the mad king, Garnelys, has gathered her forces and defeated the Amber Citadel of Parione and its evil Bhahdradomen advisers... but matters are not so simple... " Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Ian Watson |
Chekhov's Journey |
Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"in 1890... Anton Chekhov undertook an historic journey across the whole of Siberia. A hundred years later... a Soviet film unit prepare to commemorate his journey... news of a mysterious explosion in the Tunguska region... Captain of a Soviet time-ship from the year 2090, plunging out of control... time itself comes unstrung... " |
| Ian Watson |
The Book Of Ian Watson |
Ziesing 1985 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket slightly worn at the top and base of the front fold and with a small (1mm) tear at the base of the front fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"... a kind of autobiography woven of fiction and non-fiction.. " Twenty-six pieces showing the Author's range of interests, and intellectual standards... |
| Ian Watson |
The Book of Mana |
Gollancz 1993-4 All Are First Edition First Printing (Two Volumes) |
Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines, page edges a little marked and a few page corners creased else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets Both volumes signed by the Author on the Title Page. |
£10.00 |
"... an epic two-volume story... When she was a young girl Lucky Sariola belonged to a space-going mining commune which came upon an asteroid whose caves concealed the bones of serpentine aliens and humanoids. It was Lucky who discovered that the rock was an Ukko, a mysterious entity which would respond to stories told to it... " Based on the Kalevala. |
| Ian Watson |
The Book Of The Stars |
Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, spine crease and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"... sequel to The Book of the River continues the adventures of Yaleen, riverwoman extraordinary on a strange distant world... " |
| Ian Watson |
The Great Escape |
Golden Gryphon 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in a fine Dust Jacket |
£10.00 |
Do Stories Tell Themselves? and 19 stories published between 1995 and 1999 |
| Ian Watson |
Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Child |
Boxtree 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few spots of foxing on top page edges else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small (8 mm) tear at the top of the front fold and a spot of wear at the top of the rear fold. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
"In the strife-tom galaxy of the 41st millennium can Inquisitor Jaq Draco, hunted by lmperial and alien enemies, learn to read the Eldar book of fate and discover the secret of the final apocalypse? Devastated by the death of his assassin-courtesan Meh'lindi, might Jaq surrender his soul to a daemon to discover the legendary place where time can reverse, so as to bring her back from the dead?... " |
| David Weber |
Ashes Of Victory |
Baen 2000 First Edition Fourth Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"... The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington... " |
| David Weber |
Crown of Slaves |
Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs... In desperation, Queen Elizabeth tries to defuse the situation... " |
| David Weber |
Echoes Of Honor |
Baen 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch o wear at the corners. |
£5.00 |
"... For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront... But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security... and executed... " |
| David Weber |
Empire From the Ashes |
Baen 2003 First Combined Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Earth didn't actually have a Moon... alien starship pretending it was the Moon... deadly mutiny which had been raging longer than the human race had existed... millions of other starships, crewed by genocidal aliens... happened to be heading straight towards Earth... " |
| David Weber |
In Fury Born |
Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Alicia DeVries... put her life on the line in defence of her Empire and Emperor again and again... resigned her commission and retired... the pirates who attacked... tortured and murdered her family, and left her for dead, are about to discover just how big a mistake they made..." |
| David Weber |
March To The Sea |
Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the inside of the jacket a little marked at the base of the spine - no show-through |
£5.00 |
"... Prince Roger MacLintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a... spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt... and his bodyguard were marooned on Marduc by an assassination attempt... they had to march halfway round the entire planet, through damnbeasts, Capetoads, killerpillars... " |
| David Weber |
March To The Stars |
Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine and a small mark on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock has had a really bad year... A warrior prince who want to have a few choice words with ... Lady Mother, the Empress of Man. But to have them, you, your marines, and your Mardukan allies must cross a demon-haunted ocean, face a civilisation... and 'barbarians'... again battle against impossible odds... " |
| David Weber |
March Upcountry |
Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock... was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man... so why wouldn't anyone at Court trust him?... a saboteur tried to blow up his transport... Roger found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduc, whose jungles were full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, torrential rain... " |
| David Weber |
Off Armageddon Reef |
Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The Terran Federation Navy fought desperately for over forty years, but the ruthless species known as the Gbaba slaughtered the human race's colonies one by one. Now the end had finally come; Earth herself lay under siege by an enemy humankind could not defeat... " |
| David Weber |
The Apocalypse Troll |
Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small split in cloth at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"There, Captain Richard Aston was, minding his own business... the UFO's that decided to overfly a SN carrier group at Mach 17... shooting at each other... the very attractive, very young, critically wounded female alien he pulled out of the ocean... locked in a duel to the death with an alien cyborg killing machine... " |
| David Weber |
The Shadow of Saganami |
Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on a prelim page (if that's a signature?) |
£7.50 |
"The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of an all-out war... " |
| David Weber |
The Shiva Option |
Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped, and with a small tear at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"The war wasn't going well... the 'Bugs' had overrun planet after planet... and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source... " Sequel to In Death Ground |
| David Weber |
The Stars At War |
Baen 2004 First Hardback & Combined Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small biro dots against other Weber titles on prelim list else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Spacers call the warp point Charon's Ferry. No star ship has ever entered it and returned... The 'Grand Alliance' forged by the need to fight side-by-side against the genocidal Rigellians... is about to be tested. For Charon's Ferry is about to give up the secrets of its dead... " Prequels to The Shiva Option. |
| David Weber |
The War God's Own |
Baen 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Bahzell Bahnak son of the Horse Stealer hradani never wanted to be a champion of the War God... the order of Tomanak... were horrified... that their deity had chosen a hradani as a champion... and intended to do something about it... And assuming he survived that, he had to go home... to face a Dark God who threatened to destroy all hradani... " |
| David Weber |
We Few |
Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Prince Roger is coming home, but home isn't what it was when he left. Traitors have murdered his brother and sister, his nieces and nephews. His mother, the Empress, is still alive, but in the hands of Roger's own biological father, who controls her through drugs and physical and psychological torture... " Book Four in the 'March' Series |
| Fay Weldon |
The Cloning Of Joanna May |
Viking 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and black felt pen remainder line across lower page edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£3.00 |
"... the beautiful, passive, perfect wife of nuclear entrepreneur extraordinaire, Carl May - until he discovers her with her Egyptologist lover... the sixty-year-old Joanna discovers the demonic experiment... carried out thirty years ago... four sisters as lovely as she... four daughters uncannily like her... " |
| Angus Wells |
Lords Of The Sky |
Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... blends warfare, sorcery, honour, force manipulated to impose peace, legends chased in the desperate pursuit of a better world; and the turbulent, terrifying magic of the dragon." |
| H. G. Wells |
The Secret Places Of The Heart |
Cassell 1922 First Edition First Printing (Currey B) state - with Five Line Spine Title |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges and fixed end papers foxed 9and a few pages), free end papers partially browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in spine-stained Dust Jacket with wear and a few short tears at top and base of Dust Jacket spine panel with a small hole at base. |
£25.00 |
A novel about the search for an adult pattern of sexual morality and a release from frustration. |
| Mark Wernham |
Martin Martin's On The Other Side |
Cape 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Slightly bumped at top of spine and light cover crease else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£5.00 |
"An episode of Porn Disco, the latest luxury Dermo Shower, a day's work at the Security Department and fistfuls of drugs: this is the daily life of Jensen Interceptor, 'ace' government spy... charged with the unfavourable task of infiltrating... the Martin Martinists.. What Jensen discovers will turn the world upside down, literally... " |
| Albert Richard Wertjen |
Fiddlers' Green or The Strange Adventure of Tommy Lawn A Tale of the Great Divide of the Sailormen |
Chapman & Hall 1931 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
All four corners slightly rubbed, slight discoloration to top rear corner (?damp?), light crease to spine, and end papers, prelims and page edges a little foxed - Very Good to Near Fine Copy |
£10.00 |
With Authors Explanation and Notes - appears to combine sailors' fantastic legends of Mother Carey, the Great Ship, the Old Man of the Sea, Davy Jones' Locker and of course Fiddlers' Green... |
| Robert Westall |
Love Match |
Methuen 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Love as war, love as a game of tennis, love as worship... Making the wrong choice, falling in love at the wrong time... Loving the unattainable, love when you do not even know it is love... " Love Match; The Concert; The Women's Hour; Claudine; Lulworth Cove; Fatty France and First Death |
| Donald E. Westlake |
Anarchaos |
Severn House 2004 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy with two Dust Jackets. |
£5.00 |
"... a planet, inhabited by humans, where anarchy was the only law; here each man had to protect himself as best he could; and where the weak did not last long... Malone had come... carrying only a small arsenal... to find the man who had killed his brother... " |
| Robert Freeman Wexler |
In Springdale Town |
PS Publishing 2003 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No PC/500) |
Fine copy |
£5.00 |
"... Springdale appears to be a quiet village, unblemished by shopping mall or mega-store... some say Springdale exists only on the contoured highways of our collective imagination. Others point to references dating back to Colonial Boston, to multiple versions of a ballad telling a story of remorse and disgrace... " |
| Edith Wharton |
The Ghost-Feeler |
Peter Owen 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Small spot of wear and indentation adjacent to spine on rear panel else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and scratched Dust Jacket with spine panel lettering slightly faded, a few touches of wear to extremities, a small tear and a puncture adjacent to spine on rear panel. |
£10.00 |
"Edith Wharton described herself as someone with an 'intense Celtic sense of the supernatural'. As a 'ghost-feeler', she wrote a number of chilling tales that objectify this sense of unease, even terror. Many of these stories appear here for the first time... With their themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalised fears... " |
| Edith Wharton |
To Be Read By Candlelight Two Tales of Suspense |
Parsimony Press 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Fine Copy |
£5.00 |
Two of Edith Wharton's haunting tales: The Triumph of Night and The Eyes. 63 page booklet bound in red. Although the second impression is relatively common the first printing is scarce. |
| John Whitbourn |
A Dangerous Energy |
Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and across lower edge of rear board and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"England 1967: ruled by the power of the Catholic Church, as it has been since the failure of the Protestant Reformation. In this England there are steam trains, but no internal combustion engine, rifles but no electricity; heresy but no democracy. And in this England, magic works... " This author's first book. |
| John Whitbourn |
Popes And Phantoms |
Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"Admiral Slove was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension... in his sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim, walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with the Pope might be mirrored, exactly, by one with the Devil. Reality shifts could cause a King to see his capital city shimmer into another Realm entirely..." |
| John Whitbourn |
To Build Jerusalem |
Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"One morning in 1995, Jonah Ransome, clothier, is going about his everyday business when he meets a beautiful demon in his storecupboard. At around the same time, the King of England with his entire court, vanishes abruptly before the astonished eyes of his public... Even in an England where the Reformation failed... such events could be described as unusual... " |
| James White |
Ambulance Ship |
Macdonald 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... a craft in every way as extraordinary as the institution it serves, designed to seek out and succour the physically or mentally distressed, wherever they are to be found. And whatever their species or metabolism. The human doctor, Conway, is the senior medical officer, the insect telepath Prilicla is on his staff, as are the glamorous Nurse Murchison and the Kelgian Natdrad, and together they face ordeals literally out of this world... " |
| James White |
Dark Inferno |
Michael Joseph 1972 First Edition First Printing |
Top page edges slightly foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£30.00 |
"... a detailed story of space flight which James White has made completely credible; so much so that, as the Euridice gets into trouble, the tension has all the horror and breathless suspense of actual reporterage." |
| James White |
Hospital Station |
Macdonald 1986 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Page edges browned and small red spot on top page edges else Fine Copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket |
£10.00 |
"... a vast hospital complex floating in space, built to cater for the medical emergencies of the galaxy... " |
| Steve White |
Exodus |
Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Once before the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy - humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm - had united to defeat... The 'bugs'... as incomprehensibly alien as they were revoltingly evil... the arriving aliens know that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack... " |
| Steve White |
The Prometheus Project |
Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and lower board edges and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the largest disimformation operation in history, targeted at the aliens who ruled the galaxy... but someone in the Project was selling secrets to an interstellar mafia... about the real state of affairs on Earth... " |
| Barbara Whitehead |
Shadows End |
Kimber 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in price-clipped Dust Jacket with a small tear at base of spine panel |
£5.00 |
"It was just an ordinary picture - of a sixteenth century woman... Yet for Elizabeth Bowe, a... girl with her feet planted firmly in the twentieth century, it was the harbinger of a supernatural event that seemed inexorably imposed on her by fate. For it was more than just a portrait - it was herself... " |
| Kit Whitfield |
Bareback |
Cape 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"For those born feet-first, life is normal... every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first... locked in his or her human skin... first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity... " |
| Jack Whyte |
The Fort at River's Bend The Camulod Chronicles |
Forge 1999 First US & Hardback Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
""Merlyn Britannicus... is faced with educating his young charge, Arthur... Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt goes awry, Merlin takes Arthur and his boyhood companions... to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort... " The first part of The Sorcerer, the fifth novel in the series... |
| Leonard Wibberley |
Merchant of Rome A Novel Of Christ and Caesar |
Cassell 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and boards a little worn else Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"On the day when Caligula, Emperor of Rome, obsessed with thoughts of his own divinity, demanded of Theophilus: 'Admit it, admit it. Am I not greater than the Nazarene?' the fate of Theophilus lay in the balance... " |
| Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm Lockett also as Cherry Barbara Grimm) |
Cruel Designs |
Piatkus 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (5mm) tear at the top of the rear fold. |
£5.00 |
"... a tour du force, combining the horror of the supernatural with that of the all too real... there are horrifying echoes from the house's past and visitations from its femme fatale who will not be laid to rest until... " |
| Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm Lockett also as Cherry Barbara Grimm) |
Signs Of Life |
Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small (2mm) tear at the base of the rear fold. |
£7.50 |
"... most of the crew and passengers of an interstellar ship escape... before the ship explodes and land, widely dispersed, on Rhomary Land. This is the story of how these people survive and are reunited with each other and the original survivors who have now been living for generations on the planet... " Set on the same planet as Second Nature. |
| Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm Lockett also as Cherry Barbara Grimm) |
The Luck Of Brin's Five |
Angus & Robertson 1970 First Australian Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a little shelf wear else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Life was peaceful on the planet of Torin. Those who lived there, the Moruia, were an ancient people, but... life seemed to go on as it always had. But one winter night... this dreamtime changed forever. The navigator of a bio-survey team from Earth crashed... " |
| Kate Wilhelm |
Cambio Bay |
St. Martin's Press 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"For Miss Luisa, the beautiful proprietress of the Guest House, Cambio Bay is also a very special place, where the sky and the earth meet, where truth and fiction blend, where powers are and come to be. For a time of changes is upon them all..." |
| Kate Wilhelm |
No Defence |
St. Martin's Minotaur 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like, rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Barbara Holloway's a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases... But in every previous case she has had some fragment with which she could build an argument. This time out, it seems there's no defence at all... " |
| Kate Wilhelm |
Oh, Susannah! |
Houghton Mifflin 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like, slightly browned and rubbed, Dust Jacket with a 15mm tear at the lower edge of the rear panel |
£5.00 |
"... a heroine who loses her name, her past, and her husband... a hero with a sense of responsibility... some helpful... plausible... hilarious villains... and the most remarkable cat in fiction... " |
| Kate Wilhelm |
Sweet, Sweet Poison |
Hale 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
A Charlie and Constance mystery... |
| Kate Wilhelm |
The Clewiston Test |
Hutchinson 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Fine copy in Dust Jacket tending to curl and with a short crease at top of front flap. |
£5.00 |
"...a gifted young researcher, has isolated a blood serum that temporarily but completely suppresses pain - without... any of the side-effects of conventional anaesthetics... evidence appears that some of the test chimpanzees have become murderously psychotic..." |
| Kate Wilhelm |
The Clewiston Test |
Farrar Straus 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with some small chips of clear laminate missing from lower edge |
£7.50 |
"...a gifted young researcher, has isolated a blood serum that temporarily but completely suppresses pain - without... any of the side-effects of conventional anaesthetics... evidence appears that some of the test chimpanzees have become murderously psychotic..." |
| Nancy Willard |
Sister Water |
Knopf 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Jessie Woolman first saw the angel of death when she was a girl. That was before she married Henry... Now Henry is gone... and Jessie's two grown daughters... wondering how best to care for their mother... Into their lives... come the mysterious creatures of the river... that joins the worlds of the living and the dead... " Sequel to Things Invisible to See. |
| Conrad Williams |
Nearly People |
PS Publishing 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 63/300) |
Bruised at top spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith and signed by both. "... Howling Mile. A city of the future. Barred from surrounding areas in the aftermath of a deadly toxic spill, its citizens are a crushed, hateful breed, slowly imploding in a vicious cycle of violence and cannibalism... Yet within this black arena, hope has come... " |
| Mary Williams |
Chill Company Ghost Stories from Cornwall |
Kimber 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... In Mary Williams's tales an everyday incident becomes infused with the supernatural. The ghost story in her hands is an instrument of the horrific at one moment, the pathetic and the humorous at others, always beguiling the reader gently along the path of ordinary experience to the frightening realms of the 'perhaps'." 21 Stories |
| Mary Williams |
Ghostly Carnival |
Kimber 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners, slight spine lean and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with small print chips missing from back panel each adjacent to the base and top of the spine |
£10.00 |
The Witching Hour; The Hole; Exercise In The Macabre; Miss Hinkley; The Bird; Ghostly Carnival; No Ticket; Maddgens; The Wandering Woman; Legions Of The Dead; The Medallion; Anna; There And Back; The Hollow Walls; Red Sandals and Green Child |
| Mary Williams |
The Dark God A Novel Of The Occult And Other Supernatural Tales |
Kimber 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded. |
£10.00 |
"... Mary Williams creates from Celtic legend a world of shadows, of fears, and of the powers of darkness that haunt a small community of people in Cornwall. Emanating from the sinister figure of Manfred Hearne, with his mysterious attendant, the boy Bran, the tentacles of fear reach out to entrap all who venture in their path..." |
| Mary Williams |
The Haunted Valley and Other Ghost Stories |
Kimber 1978 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... another outstanding collection of stories which can only add to Mary Williams' growing reputation as one of the most popular and widely read writers in this special genre." Eighteen haunting tales... |
| Mary Williams |
Where Phantoms Stir Ghost Stories |
Kimber 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at bottom of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with browns and reds on spine and front panel faded |
£7.50 |
"Mary Williams can use the humorous, the horrific and the commonplace and turn them all magically into the mysterious... another outstanding collection of her tales." |
| Nigel Williams |
Black Magic |
Hutchinson 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Julek Heller |
£7.50 |
"'Once upon a time... ' a father starts to tell his children a story. It concerns a black magician whom nobody likes, and his plot to do something vile to his popular brother... not only does the story itself, almost against its teller's will, take on a resonance he never expected, but his whole life and marriage come under its sway... " A Hutchinson Novella |
| Tad Williams |
Otherland Volume One City of Golden Shadow |
Legend 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned, bumped and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... takes us to our own near future when a global conspiracy at the highest levels threatens to sacrifice our Earth for the promise of a far more exclusive place - Otherland, a universe where any fantasy can be made real, but which is ruled by Earth's wealthiest and most ruthless power-brokers, The Grail Brotherhood... " |
| Tad Williams |
Otherland Volume Two River of Blue Fire |
Orbit 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in rubbed and slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a small band of adventurers has penetrated the secrecy that surrounds Otherland and has broken into the amazing worlds within worlds it contains. But now they are trapped, unable to escape back to their flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. And as dangers and circumstances split their party into small scattered groups... " |
| Tad Williams |
To Green Angel Tower |
Legend 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"This final volume in... Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, brings to a stunning and surprising conclusion Tad Williams' monumental tale of a magical conflict which fractures the very fabric of time and space, turning both humans and Sithi against those of their own blood... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
Angel Station |
Orbit 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the upper tips of the folds slightly worn. |
£5.00 |
"... Originally created by Pasco from frozen sperm and ova... Ubu and Maria... scrabble for money; they try getting into business, disastrously, and, to equal effect, attempt to use Beautiful Maria's ESP powers in a casino. One step ahead of the law, they are forced to flee Angel Station... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
Aristoi |
Tor 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"In the far distant future, humanity has created a glittering interstellar empire, where need and sickness are unknown... by advanced technology - bioengineering and nanomachines, virtual reality and the harnessing of... gravity. But not everyone can handle all this high tech... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
City On Fire |
HarperPrism 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"The tremendous mass of the world-city generated a mysterious substance - the plasm that accumulates like rising water under the concrete and steel. Latent unless tapped, plasm can propel ships or knock down buildings; it can reverse ageing, amplify sex or alter genes. its awesome geomantic power can penetrate anything... " Sequel to Metropolitan. |
| Walter Jon Williams |
Metropolitan |
HarperPrism 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised and slightly faded at top, and bruised at base of spine and top edge of rear board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Aiah... spends her days metering out the powerful substance known as plasm... created by geomancy from the intrinsic power of the city's structures... more than an energy source; it resonates within the human mind, giving power to heal, to fuel dreams and visions, and to kill... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
The Praxis |
Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Page edges browned else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket |
£7.50 |
"The empire of the Shaa had lasted 10 millennia. 10,000 years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal order, legitimised by The Praxis, the harsh code of ethics that they imposed on the races they conquered. But the Shaa began to commit ritual suicide when it became clear that their minds... would accept no further information... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
The Praxis |
Earthlight 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and front panel laminate scraped in a line else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy . With Press Releases |
£4.00 |
"The empire of the Shaa had lasted 10 millennia. 10,000 years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal order, legitimised by The Praxis, the harsh code of ethics that they imposed on the races they conquered. But the Shaa began to commit ritual suicide when it became clear that their minds... would accept no further information... " |
| Walter Jon Williams |
The Rift |
HarperPrism 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"It starts with the dogs. They won't stop barking. and then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It's the world's biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn't hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster... but no one listened... " |
| Chet Williamson |
Figures In Rain Weird And Ghostly Tales |
Ash-Tree Press 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale; Offices; A Lover's Alibi; Lares & Penates; I'll Drown My Book; Prometheus's Ghost; Miss Tuck and the Gingerbread Boy; The Music of the Dark Time; Return of the Neon Fireball; The House of Fear; Blue Notes; O Come Little Children; Other Errors, Other Times and 15 others, with Story Notes and Sources |
| Jack Williamson |
The Black Sun |
Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£5.00 |
"...Project Starseed uses faster-than-light quantum-wave technology to send colonists to distant star systems. The ninety-ninth - and final - ship lands on a bleak world in the shadow of a dead star... colonists stumble upon wonders in the ice, and with them, a startling, world-shattering revelation... " |
| Philip G. Williamson |
Dinbig Of Khimmur |
Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... the first novel in one of the most exciting and ambitious fantasy saga-series of the decade... a world of the imagination presented in rich and convincing detail, populated by characters who display fascinating magical powers but who always remain entirely credible in their actions and relationships... " |
| Philip G. Williamson |
Enchantment's Edge |
Hodder & Stoughton 1996-8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) |
Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges slightly browned else Fine copies in Fine Dust Jackets - those of volumes 1 & 2 unpriced. |
£20.00 |
"... an outstanding work of high fantasy... a tense, intricately woven saga of conflict, mystery, magic and betrayal set in an exotic land where the fabulous and the unexpected are the norm and anything is possible... " |
| Connie Willis |
Doomsday Book |
New English Library 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and pages slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with an 8mm tear at the top of the rear fold |
£50.00 |
"... She was going to travel back to a time of unprecedented superstition, when scrofula and cholera were rife, a few decades before the Black Death came along and wiped out half of Europe, to Oxford in the early fourteenth century. And she was going to do it alone... " |
| Connie Willis |
Light Raid |
Ace 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed and Dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£20.00 |
"Blazing action. High-tech devastation. Explosive intrigue. The ultimate future war has begun... The world, as we know it, has changed considerably. A civil war is raging, between the eastern half of North America and the west. The latest methods of destruction are frightening, brutal, inescapable. They are called Light Raids - massive laser beam assaults... " |
| Connie Willis |
Passage |
Bantam 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across lower board edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life's greatest mystery - or fall victim to its greatest terror... " |
| Connie Willis |
Promised Land |
Ace 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and felt pen 'B' on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"It has been fifteen years since Delanna... set foot on Keramos... since her mother sent her away to be raised and educated on a world of cities and technology. Now her mother has died, and she has returned only to settle and sell her estate. But... to sell her farm, Delanna must first live on it for one year. And along... comes one Tarleton... a man who, at the moment of her mother's death, became Delanna's husband... " |
| Connie Willis |
To Say Nothing of the Dog or How We Found The Bishop's Bird Stump At Last |
Bantam 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£35.00 |
"On the surface, England in the summer of 1888 is possibly the most restful time in history - lazy afternoons boating on the Thames, tea parties, croquet... time traveler Ned Henry is badly in Ned of a rest. He's been shuttling back and forth between the 21st century and the 1940s... " |
| Ted Willis |
The Churchill Commando |
Macmillan 1977 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with spine panel red slightly faded |
£4.00 |
"... the campaign of a private army... designed to alert the British people to the dangers which threatened our way of life... murderers, kidnappers, the merchants of porn, street-muggers and others. They gain mass support, photographs of Churchill appear in their thousands, the Government itself is threatened by the tidal-wave of feeling... " |
| Colin Wilson |
Spider World The Delta |
Grafton 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... the human. Niall... must build on his tenuous position with the reluctant but dependable help of the Bombadier beetles and... must organise his forces towards the domination of the giant spiders... " |
| Colin Wilson |
The Space Vampires |
Random House 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"...on the derelict spacecraft the astronauts discover thirty humanoid forms... Three of them they take back to England, only to discover... the forms contain vampires, able at will to take over other bodies..." |
| F. Paul Wilson (Also as Colin Andrews) |
An Enemy Of The State |
Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K 19 on P. 268) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners, top page edges faintly marked and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket, with a pin-hole on the rear panel adjacent to the spine and a 1 cm strip of the front panel orange background adjacent to the spine partly faded. |
£10.00 |
"LaNague's voice was low but his eyes blazed as he spoke: 'Revolution... I propose a quiet revolution, one without blood and thunder, but one that will shake this world and the entire outworld mentality... " Excellent! |
| F. Paul Wilson (Also as Colin Andrews) |
Black Wind |
Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges, page edges a little marked and initial and date on rear fixed end paper around Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly creased and marked Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the rear fold |
£5.00 |
"... Hirohito's victory has been prophesied; to achieve it, Hiroki must work to discover once again the |