| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Adams | The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine Together with Most Lamentable Losse of the Alcestis & Triumphant Firing of the Port of Chagres | Cape 1977 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a touch of wear at the top board points and laminated covers a little rubbed Illustrated by Alan Aldridge | £3.50 | Truthfully Narrated in Verses by Mr. Richard Adams and in divers cunning and fantastical pictures by Mr. Alan Aldridge with Mr Harry Willock |
| Joan Aiken | Bridle The Wind | Cape 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, one signature slightly misbound and page edges lightly differentially browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Pat Marriott. With Publisher's Review Slip. | £15.00 | "... Felix Brooke is ship-wrecked in a January gale in the Bay of Biscay. He is harboured by the monks in the island monastery of St Just de Seignanx but not before he has seen a haunting vision in the nearby woods which will remain a mystery to him until one extraordinary afternoon months later... " Scarce. |
| Joan Aiken | Limbo Lodge | Cape 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Dido Twite aboard the Thrush and trying to return to England after her adventures... is frustrated once again. Orders are sent to the Captain to find and bring home Lord Herodsfoot, on a quest for rare games to cheer up the English King. His Lordship is said to be on the Pacific island of Aratu 'Island of the Pearl Snakes'... " |
| Joan Aiken | The Teeth of the Gale | Cape 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, overstickered, Dust Jacket (as usual). | £10.00 | "...it is 'a matter of life and death', and for Felix the rescue mission offers a chance to see his beloved Juana again..." |
| Joan Aiken | The Whispering Mountain | Cape 1968 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine, small mark to fore-edge of front board, page edges browned and water stained - around Very Good copy in worn, torn and lightly stained, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "An ancient bardic prophecy about the legendary golden Harp of Teirtu comes true in the reign of King James III. After lying hidden for centuries, the harp is rediscovered... by the grandfather of young Owen Hughes. But who is its rightful owner?... the harp is stolen... " |
| Eric Allen | The Latchkey Children | Oxford University Press 1963 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and faded at top and base of spine, page edges a little marked and inscription on front free end paper (see below) else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of browning at the flap tips | £15.00 | "... the tree in the St. Justin's estate playground was their own special meeting place. but one day they discovered that the tree was to be replaced by... one simulated locomotive in a sand/cement agregate... What were they to do?... " Beatrice Murray's copy for rview on World of Books Jan 18 1964 and so inscribed on front free end paper. |
| David Almond | Clay | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "There's a stranger in town - Stephen Rose. He's got waxy skin, haunting eyes, a sickly smell. No parents. No friends. He's come to live with Crazy Mary. There are so many tales and rumours about him. One thing's certain: there's magic in the weird creatures he makes with clay... " |
| David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Hodder 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "It's easy. Running away from Whitegates. Erin and her running-away friend January do it all the time. But this time they're going down river. This time they might never come back. This time they're looking for a tiny corner of paradise. How could they imagine that what they'd find there would be Heaven Eyes... This girl who should have drowned at sea... " |
| David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Hodder 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It's easy. Running away from Whitegates. Erin and her running-away friend January do it all the time. But this time they're going down river. This time they might never come back. This time they're looking for a tiny corner of paradise. How could they imagine that what they'd find there would be Heaven Eyes... This girl who should have drowned at sea... " |
| David Almond | Kit's Wilderness | Hodder 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "In Stonygate there was a wilderness, an empty space between the houses and the river where the ancient coal pit had once been. In the wilderness Kit met Askew, with his wild dog, Jax. Askew - who ran the game called Death. the wilderness where Kit begins to confront death - and life... " |
| M. T. Anderson (Also as Matthew T. Anderson) | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources Volume 1 The Pox Party | Candlewick Press 2006 First Edition First Printing (Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, NY Times Notable Book & Horn Book award winner) | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in lightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their household assigned names... " |
| Allen Andrews | The Pig Plantagenet | Hutchinson 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Michael Foreman | £7.50 | "When the feudal lords of Poitou decide... to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet... who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin... and plays a key role in the wild animals' escape plan... leading up to the great pitched battle..." |
| Anonymous | Authors' Choice 2 | Hamish Hamilton 1973 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 | Stories chosen and introduced by Joan Aiken, John Christopher, Peter Dickinson, Mollie Hunter, Andre Norton, and written by Laurence Housman, Theodore Sturgeon, Walter de la Mare, Arthur Porges, Frank Stockton, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Oscar Wilde, Ray Bradbury and others |
| Kelly Armstrong | Personal Demon | Orbit 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slight spine lean and short tear at base of front fixed end paper (production gluing fault) else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "Hope Adams, tabloid journalist and half-demon... Like full demons, she gets an almost sexual rush from danger... When the head of the powerful Cortez Cabal asks her to infiltrate a gang of bored, rich, troublemaking supernaturals in Miami, Hope can't resist the excitement... " |
| Louise Arnold | The Invisible Friend | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Grey Arthur is a ghost. Not a chain-rattling, dramatic-wailing type of ghost. He's a hazy, grey and not very ghost-like at all... Tom is a very normal boy... But somehow people at school don't seen to think that... People call him weird... Grey Arthur... decides he's going to be Tom's official Invisible Friend and help him solve his problems." |
| Avi | The Christmas Rat | Atheneum 2000 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | ""He is one weird Christmas visitor - his hair and moustache an unearthly white-blond, his voice a gruff rumble. he fills the apartment doorway. From two metal cases he produces what a boy would expect from an exterminator: Toxic roach powders and poisonous frog bombs. But a crossbow?... " |
| Tom Baker | The Boy Who Kicked Pigs | Faber 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges a little browned and covers slightly rubbed else Fine copy in laminated boards Illustrated by David Roberts | £5.00 | "Robert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realises just how much he loathes the human race - and his revenge is truly terrible... " |
| Brian N. Ball | The Starbuggy A Space Adventure | Heinemann 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with light paperclip impression at top edge of front panel. Illustrated by Ian Newsham | £7.50 | "... Liam's heading for outer space on the Lambretta, with Grokk, his six-tentacled friend, perched on the back. Grokk must find the starbuggy before the Space Lords... catch up with him... Victor, the super chimp with the banana machine, can help... Will Liam, Grokk and Victor escape the Star Lords?... " |
| Blue Balliett | Chasing Vermeer | Chicken House 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Plain matt black covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Illustrated by Brett Helquist | £5.00 | "I love mysteries - and especially when it's the adults who are bemused, befuddled... and finally outwitted! Blue Balliett sets you a cracker - with wonderful villains and an intriguing puzzle solving solution. Are you smart enough?... " |
| Lynne Reid Banks | The Key to the Indian | Collins 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Omri's dad has found Omri's greatest secret... the magic cupboard that turns plastic toy figures into real live little people from the past; and the key made by his 'wicked' great-great aunt, that can transform certain containers into time-machines and take present-day people back into the past... Omri and his father... go back two hundred years to the time of Little Bull... " |
| Stephen Baxter | The Web | Dolphin 1997-8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine copies Gulliverzone, Spiderbite & Lightstorm signed by Stephen Baxter, Graham Joyce & Peter Hamilton respectively, on the title pages | £15.00 | The first six in The Web series: Gulliverzone by Stephen Baxter; Dreamcastle by Stephen Bowkett; Untouchable by Eric Brown; Spiderbite by Graham Joyce; Lightstorm by Peter F. Hamilton and Sorceress by Maggie Furey. Adventures in the year 2027 in and around The Web! |
| Stephen Baxter | The Web Gulliverzone | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in laminated boards, as issued. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "February 7th 2027, World Peace Day. All over the world the celebrations are in full swing. There's even free access to the Web today... A chance for Sarah to leave behind the realities of life with her father and enter the fantastic world of the GULLIVERZONE. February 7th 2027, a day of danger beyond imagination." |
| Sarah Baylis | The Tomb of Reeds | Julia MacRae 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few corners folded else Fine copy in torn and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "An old golden crown, intricately patterned with spirals and symbols, is found on the riverbank. When Bridey puts on the crown she feels somehow transformed... Could the crown have belonged to Brigit, goddess and warrior queen of the past... why should Bridey feel a sudden affinity... " |
| BB | The Wizard of Boland | Kaye & Ward 1977 | Bruised at top and base of spine and boards slightly bowed else Fine copy in slightly creased and browned Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford | £35.00 | "... the Forest of Boland and the creatures who live there - scheming gnomes, black cats, dragons, cowzies, and, most exciting of all, the Wizard. In the valley nearby... a little goosegirl called Helda... upsets the Wizard and he, irritated, decides to cast a spell on her... " |
| Nina Beachcroft | A Spell Of Sleep | Heinemann 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn, price-clipped, Dust Jacket, overprinted £2.90 net. | £5.00 | "There is something distinctly odd about the Baxters, the middle-aged couple who move into the other half of the semi-detached house where the Turner family live... Peter... has seen them before... is haunted by dreams of some half-remembered time... the dreams begin to fit together and in some strange way take over from reality... " |
| Beth Hamilton Bell | Lord Ham | John F. Blair 1960 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket with a small chip missing from base of front fold | £7.50 | "... Mistress Bonnie... was sent to London to live with a cousin... she was surprised to find that the door knocker was only three inches from the bottom of the door. She... discovered... her cousin was entirely different from anyone she had ever known. His whiskers stuck out like little white wire, his nose was rough and rubbery and almost always moist, and his little round ears and luxuriant coat of fur reminded her of a toy bear... " |
| John Bellamy | Daily Mail Boys Annual | Associated Newspapers ca 1950 | Extremities slightly bumped, cover edges worn, page edges browned - Very Good copy (no dust jacket) | £5.00 | 14 Stories (including W. E. Johns The Case of the Two Bright Boys); 2 Picture-strips; 1 True-Life Story; 3 Full-Colour Features; 5 Hobbies and Things to Make and Do; 8 Articles and Features and 8 Puzzles, Problems and Quizzes - none completed. |
| Luc Besson | Arthur and the Minimoys | Faber 2005 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, light crease to rear cover, one corner creased and lower page edges marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy Translated by Ellen Sowchek | £5.00 | "... Minimoys... are less than an inch tall... Arthur has three days to discover the Minimoys, recover stolen treasure, fight a force of mosquito-riding warriors, defeat an evil wizard and return to save the family home All the more difficult if you've been shrunk to the size of a Minimoy... " Published 2 months before the US Hardback edition |
| Malorie Blackman | Cloud Busting | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, and page edges a little marked and bumped - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "... Davey is the new boy - he has holes in his jumper and strange ideas in his head. Sam can't stand him; he thinks Davey's a first-class, grade A, top-of-the-dung-heap moron. But when the two boys are thrown together, Sam finds that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more exciting, until... " Told in verse |
| Malorie Blackman | Knife Edge | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners bruised else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Eighteen-year-old Sephy feels totally alone - and terrified - as she gazes down on her new-born daughter. Whilst Sephy is a Cross, the baby's father, Callum - who was hanged for terrorism... was a nought, giving her baby dual heritage in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts - blankers - as second-class citizens... " Second in the trilogy. |
| Anne-Laure Bondoux | The Princess and the Captain | Bloomsbury 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Translated from the French by Anthea Bell | £4.00 | "Malva is the Princess of Galnicia... On the eve of her wedding, she escapes from the place and sets sail for Lombardaine... a huge storm leaves her shipwrecked... Orpheus McBott is disappointed by life... Galnicia needs him to sail on a mission to find the Princess... an epic tale full of drama, magic and excitement... " |
| Stephen Bowkett | Dreamtime | Dolphin 2000 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Four Volumes) | Fine Copies Appropriate volumes signed by Christopher Evans & Colin Greenland on the Title Pages | £10.00 | Dreamcatcher by Stephen Bowkett; Ice Tower by Christopher Evans; Shadowsong by Jenny Jones and Spritfeather by Colin Greenland - Linked tetralogy of YA novels - "In the world of dreamtime anything can happen... Be careful what you wish for... " |
| Stephen Bowkett | The Web Dreamcastle | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Corners bruised else Fine copy in laminated boards | £10.00 | "The year: 2027. The place: everywhere. DREAMCASTLE, the meanest, the most venomous, of all the countless thousands of virtual reality gamezones in the Web. It's the ultimate test. A vast maze of tunnels and rooms, haunted by firedrakes and stormdragons and at its very centre, the Dark Lord... " |
| Max Brand | The White Cheyenne | Hodder & Stoughton 1961 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Lost Wolf was a white man, but he lived with the Cheyenne Indians, a terror to even the tough and wicked Zander City. He chose the young runaway Terence Rivers as his friend and companion, and the girl Terence loved for his squaw." |
| Herbie Brennan | Faerie Wars | Bloomsbury 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small surface tear to front gutter else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with matching tear through jacket. | £5.00 | "When a rebel prince comes into conflict with some demons and a group of unscrupulous faeries of the night, things get very exciting. On top of this, court intrigue and a cunning plot to kill an Emperor send the faerie realm to the brink of chaos... " |
| Herbie Brennan | The Purple Emperor | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with top edge slightly rubbed and two tiny scrapes on rear fold | £5.00 | "Even a Faerie Prince must follow in his father's footsteps. But what happens if your father comes back from the grave?... the Purple Emperor has become an ally of the Faeries of the Night... Madness is unleashed and the old order is seriously under threat... Henry arrives from the human realm to help... " Sequel to Faerie Wars. |
| Herbie Brennan | The Purple Emperor | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, faint cover crease, faint mark to page edges - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Even a Faerie Prince must follow in his father's footsteps. But what happens if your father comes back from the grave?... the Purple Emperor has become an ally of the Faeries of the Night... Madness is unleashed and the old order is seriously under threat... Henry arrives from the human realm to help... " Sequel to Faerie Wars. |
| Edwy Searles Brooks | Expelled! | Howard Baker/Greyfriars Library 1972 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and old price in pencil on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly faded, rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The Remove versus the Fourth of St Frank's... starts as a series of practical jokes but the 'jokes' become vicious and violent... Walter Church of the Remove is threatened by ruthless enemies... the school is told that 'Church' has died and he is smuggled away... " Originally published as 8 booklets in 1927. |
| Eric Brown | British Front | Barrington Stoke 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top of spine else Fine copy | £5.00 | "An ordinary camping trip goes horribly wrong. Al and Jenny find themselves in 2055... and the future is grim. The countryside is full of troops and army tanks. But worse than that, there are no black people, no Asian people... only white people are left. Something dreadful has happened... " Trade paperback original SF novella. |
| Eric Brown | The Web Untouchable | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... Life might be easier for most people in 2027 but for Ana Devi, whose only home is the streets of New Delhi, it's a battle for survival. She's certainly never dreamed of visiting the bright virtual worlds of the Web.. But the Web holds the secret to what has happened to her brother and to dozens of other New Delhi street children... " |
| Francis Bryant | Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island | Orion 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Peter Bailey | £5.00 | "... Jim Hawkins, the cabin boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countryside... one day, ten years after his return, a beautiful stranger and her young son come looking for Jim Hawkins, and he is lead back to the south seas, to even greater danger than before... " |
| Anthony Buckeridge | Speaking of Jennings! | Collins 1973 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners, and page edges slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed and a small circle of white material (3mm dia.) trapped under the front cover lamination. | £20.00 | "It was the list of secondhand bargains advertised out side the village shop that sparked off the brilliant money-making scheme in Jenning's mind. In theory, Jennings' plan seemed flawless: in practice, it was unworkable and involved the boys... in a series of alarming situations... " |
| Melvin Burgess | The Baby and Fly Pie | Anderson Press 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Faint marking to page edges else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £7.50 | "'We are the Rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Every day we go to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.' But one day everything changes for Fly Pie and Sham when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth 17 million pounds... " |
| Melvin Burgess | The Earth Giant | Anderson Press 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and edge of rear panel and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Ken Brown | £7.50 | "'As a great storm rages round their house, Amy and Peter hear a terrible noise like a dying giant. Amy knows that the sound is an ancient oak tree half a mile away being ripped from the ground. Trapped among its roots is a secret that is for her alone... " |
| Trudi Canavan | The Magicians' Guild | Atom 2005 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Each year the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city streets of beggars, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But... an untrained magician s loose... She must be found, and quickly... " Followed by The Novice and The High Lord. |
| Angela Carter | Sea-Cat And Dragon King | Bloomsbury 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the lower tip of the front fold. Illustrated by Eva Tatcheva | £5.00 | "It is a little-known fact that Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the sea with his mother, who makes him beautiful jewel-encrusted clothes. Dragon King also lives at the bottom of the sea. He is Lord of the Ocean but terribly ashamed of his ugliness... " |
| Hugh B. Cave (Also as C. H. Barnett, Cary Barnett; Allen Beck; Judy Case; Justin Case; J. C. Cole; Jack D'Arcy; William Decatur, Carl Hughes, R. T. Maynard; Max Neilson; Maxwell Smith; Geoffrey Vace; John Wayne) | Uncharted Voyage | Collins 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The summer Vinnie Blake turns eleven, his father escapes from prison... Vinnie is overjoyed to see his father and gladly sneaks out at night, taking food to his hideout on a deserted schooner. But keeping the secret from his mother isn't easy. And the strain increases when Vinnie and his father decide to do up the ship and sail away with her... " |
| Joy Chant (Eileen Joyce Rutter) | The Grey Mane Of Morning | Allen & Unwin 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Near Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with spine panel slightly faded. | £7.50 | "... This is the oldest of the stories of the land of Vandarei and deals with a time long before the Harani came to the Starlit land. It is not told here as the poets of a later age told it but as it happened. It tells of the beginning of Vandarei's history: of the rousing of the Gentle People: and of the first of the heroes." |
| John Christopher | New Found Land | Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and previous owner's name on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Simon and Brad were on the other side of the Fireball - a whirling ball of light which had transported them from a quiet London suburb to a terrifying 'if' world... an alternative North America, even more fantastically changed than the Europe they left behind." Sequel to Fireball. |
| Scott Ciencin | Dinoverse | Random House 1999 First Edition First Printing Note - Numerical Sequence ends with a 1! | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Mike Fredericks | £5.00 | "Survival of the fittest has always been the rule at Wetherford Junior High. So when Bertram Philips's science fair project sends his mind back 67 million years, he's well prepared. After all, as the class brain, he's learned how to avoid predators. But Bertram's not prepared for his new tanklike, spike-backed Ankylosaurus form... " |
| Joan Clarke | Foxon's Hole | Cape 1969 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and age-darkened else Fine copy in torn and slightly worn Dust Jacket with the price removed Frontispiece and end-paper maps by Pat Marriott | £4.00 | "A mysterious research establishment up on the moors; a cave fifty thousand years old; a top-secret experiment; a strange, wild boy found half-dead by the roadside... the skeleton of a boy from the Ice Age... tamperings with time... " |
| David Clement-Davies | The Sight | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and creased and one bump to page edges - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "In the icy shadow of the Carpathian mountains, a pack of wolves seeks shelter, struggling to survive in a barren winter. A legend clings to them - a story of man and wolf, of a gift and a curse. The story of the Sight has been with the wolves for ever - but now its eerie powers seem to be coming true... " |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | Puffin 2001 First Edition First Printing | A couple of small, light wrinkles in the spine panel, top front corner slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy with decorated card covers - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £80.00 | "Twelve year old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom, once he's cracked the fairy code and exposed the secrets... But leprechaun technology is more advanced than Artemis anticipates... " Supplied with the 'Crack the Code' competition slip. |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident | Puffin 2002 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Someone has been supplying Class A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that the person responsible is her arch-enemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl... Artemis has his own problems... his father is being held to ransom and only a miracle will save him... " |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception | Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Covers lightly creased, page edges slightly marked and a couple of biro words on the last page - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "The fairy People have wiped all knowledge of their world from the brain of the only human they're scared of: criminal genius Artemis Fowl. But now the evil pixie Opal Koboi is back on the scent and the People need Artemis - and fast. " |
| Eoin Colfer | Half Moon Investigations | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious... " |
| Eoin Colfer | The Legend of Spud Murphy | Puffin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Spud Murphy keeps order in her library with a myriad of tricks and rumours of a gas-powered spud gun. Will brothers Marty and Will be bored senseless by summer-holiday afternoons in the library where a titter could get you spudded? Or will they discover a new interest... " |
| Susan Cooper | King of Shadows | Bodley Head 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and upper corners and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed | £5.00 | "Nat Field is a young actor who has travelled from America to perform as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre. But as rehearsals begin, strange eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat... wakes up... to find himself in 1599... And his co-star is King of Shadows himself: William Shakespeare... " Runner-Up for the Carnegie Medal. |
| D. M. Cornish | Monster Blood Tattoo Book One: Foundling | David Fickling 2007 First Edition Thus First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, back panel with a couple of rubs and a small, light scratch else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrations by the Author | £5.00 | "The vast lands of the Half-Continent bear the scars of centuries of conflict between monsters and men. Only the hardiest of souls now travel the inland ways: merchants, imperial messengers and - bravest of all - the monster hunters... Not that Rossamund Bookchild should worry... " With 100 page Explicarium - an illustrated guide to the Half-Continent... |
| D. M. Cornish | Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter | David Fickling 2008 First Edition Thus First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small area of varnish missing from back panel (sticker removal) Illustrations by the Author | £7.50 | "The vast lands of the Half-Continent bear the scars of centuries of conflict between monsters and men. Only the hardiest of souls now travel the inland ways: merchants, imperial messengers and - bravest of all - the monster hunters... Not that Rossamund Bookchild should worry... " With 100 page Explicarium - an illustrated guide to the Half-Continent... |
| Frederick Cowles | Harlequinade The Fantastic History of Harlequin and Columbine | Muller 1937 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, corners a little rubbed, yellow cloth and page edges a little marked - very good copy Illustrated by Grace Reed Harding | £20.00 | Short (157pp) fantasy for children by the well-known ghost story author... quite scarce |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland | Arthur At The Crossing-Places | Orion 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is 1200 and young Arthur de Caldicot is all set to accompany Lord Stephen de Holt on the fourth crusade... There is a murder. There is a girl... The exciting and bewildering events in Arthur's own life are reflected in his magical seeing stone, where he sees and steps into stories revolving around his namesake, the young King Arthur... " Second in the Arthur trilogy. |
| Chris Curley | The Doorkeepers | Oxford University Press 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... What Robbie doesn't know is that there's already an adventure hiding in their house. Pocket, the fairy, demands their help... then all sorts of strange things begin to happen... their wishes come true - but never in the way they mean! And adults soon get very suspicious... " |
| Jane Louise Curry | Shadow Dancers | Atheneum 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and front free end paper slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Three of the fabled Twelve Stones of the Aldar are missing and the young conjuror Lek, wrongfully accused of stealing the third, Nirim the Worldstone, braves the dark Shadowlands in search of the legendary Opal Mountains of Astarlind... where the Twelve Stones were mined... " |
| Jane Louise Curry | The Birdstones | Kestrel 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Soon after school opened in Apple Lock that autumn a series of inexplicable and seemingly unrelated happenings plunged Mike... and his friends into a mysterious adventure that had its beginnings sixteen hundred years before on a small island in the Ohio River..." |
| Anna Dale | Whispering to Witches | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top of spine and covers slightly worn - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... Joe is travelling to stay with his mother and stepfather for Christmas... Before the journey is over he finds himself part of a dramatic conspiracy surrounding an ancient book of magic, and embroiled in a world of witches, spells and cunning plots... " |
| Annie Dalton | Out of the Ordinary | Methuen 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little slightly bumped and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £15.00 | "'Ordinary is written all over me,' thinks Molly Gurney, 'and probably all through me too, like seaside rock!'... Inexplicably, her hastily scribbled advert for a holiday job ('Quests undertaken, lost things found, enchantments broken... ') is transfigured into Words of Power that reach beyond the Gurney's shabby kitchen to touch another world - and change Molly's for ever... " |
| D. J. Denney | Young Winter's Tales 8 | Macmillan 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "An eighth annual winter garland of stories and poems, all of them new... creepy tales... and comic ones, historical and fantastic, even a ghoulish essay in S.F... " By Nicholas Fisk, Rosemary Harris, Diana Wynne Jones, Jan Mark, John Pudney Barbara Willard and others... |
| John Dickinson | The Cup of the World | David Fickling 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Phaedra, Daughter of the Warden of Trant, puts her trust in a man she has only met in dreams. He can see far, and speak far, and pass where no man should be able to pass. With him she may escape to a new beginning... " |
| Peter Dickinson | Shadow of a Hero | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "In the Legends, the hero Restaur Vax, with Lash the Golden at his side, battles with sword and cannon for the freedom of Varina. Now, almost two centuries later, another Restaur Vax is fighting the same fight, but this time the hero is an old man in exile... Letta is his granddaughter, and she watches and helps and tries to understand... " |
| Peter Dickinson | The Blue Hawk | Gollancz 1976 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by David Smee | £20.00 | "... Tron, a boy with a hawk on his wrist, tame only for him. From the moment when he first touches the bird, the destiny of a nation seems to be woven into his actions. He hears the Gods whisper in his heart; he obeys their word and the world changes. This is a story of... a civilisation which might exist in the distant past or far future, a time when... Gods rule and are obeyed... " |
| Peter Dickinson | The Gift Boat | Macmillan 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The model of the boat that Grandad is making for Gavin's birthday is perfect down to the tiniest detail. All she needs is the perfect name. Gavin chooses Selkie... Grandad is suddenly struck down by a massive stroke... somehow the boat, and the selkies, hold the key to saving him... " |
| Peter Dickinson | The Ropemaker | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "...Tilja and Tahl... must set out on a desperate quest... to find the one man who can renew... ancient power... to utter his name means death... a mysterious stranger... appears in many disguises. friend? Or deadly enemy? And is he the magician who will command the secrets that weave and unweave the rope of time itself?... " |
| Terrance Dicks | Star Quest | Big Finish 2003 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small scrape and a spot of wear at the top of the rear fold | £5.00 | "Three young cousins get caught up in galactic events when two battling UFOs land near Stonehenge... it is only the beginning of their thrilling adventures... "With a new Introduction by the author. |
| Joe Donnelly | Jack Flint and the Redthorn Sword | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Corriwen Redthorn, dangerous with her twin daggers, is the orphaned daughter of a Temair chieftain. Her wicked Uncle Mandrake has seized the Redthorn sword and plans to use it to raise the deadly Morrigan... Jack, Kerry and Corrie must save the kingdom and themselves. The Book of Ways will lead them... " First in the series... |
| Douglas V. Duff | The Man From Outer Space | Blackie Undated | Bruised at base of spine, pages browned and boards stained else Fine copy in worn, torn and creased Dust Jacket. | £2.50 | "Roger Lindlay... is lucky when he falls overboard from his ship, for.. she is torpedoed by a mysterious submarine of an unknown type... at last reaching... South America... he runs into new dangers... presently finding himself... captive... the dread head and organiser of the vast and sinister scheme... The 'man from outer space' - known as The Ancient... " |
| Sylvia Engdahl | Enchantress from the Stars | Gollancz 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and with one bump to top edge of front board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a little wear to the top of each fold. | £7.50 | "Who was... this mysterious Enchantress from the Stars? To Georyn... she was a fairytale enchantress who appeared... to help him conquer the evil dragon... To Jarel... she was an unforgettable enigma who entrusted him with a secret dangerous enough to cost him his life... She was... a student... who... should never have been included... in the landing craft..." |
| Penelope Farmer | Year King | Chatto & Windus 1977 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and faded at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Lan and Lew are identical twins, yet very different... Lan finds that without warning his mind has entered Lew's body and for brief periods he is experiencing his bother's life... the exchanges occur in increasingly unnerving circumstances. Then Lew hits on a terrifying form of retaliation... " |
| Winifred Finlay | Beadbonny Ash | Harrap 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, lower boards edges slightly marked and a couple of page corners creased else Fine copy in price-clipped, overprinted Dust Jacket worn at the base of the front fold. | £3.00 | "... the Celtic culture of the sixth century, with Argyll, Mull and Iona as its principal setting. A party of modern teenage girls and boys find themselves magically transported to this distant world... to the times of the Picts, the Kingdom of Dalriada and the coming of St Columba to Argyll." |
| Nicholas Fisk (David Lee Higginbottom) | Antigrav | Kestrel 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with one small tear. | £7.50 | "A tiny island off Scotland, surrounded by deep blue sea... an ideal place for a group of international scientists to take a break... But lying innocently on the strand was a single red pebble... Pog found it. His older sister Mee and her new-found friend, Train, discovered its remarkable powers... " |
| Nicholas Fisk (David Lee Higginbottom) | Mindbenders | Viking Kestrel 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, spine panel a little faded, previous owner's name on front fixed end paper and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "Vinny and Toby just hate the regular visits from their bossy Aunt Craven. She obviously despises the children... her leaving present is a formicarium... What kind of fun could you have with a colony of ants? But as time passes, the children find themselves... drawn to stare and stare into the glass case... then the ants decide to grow... " |
| Antonia Forrest | The Attic Term | Faber 1976 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly foxed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "Ginty Marlow had spent most of a bloissful summer holiday in the company of Patrick Merrick, and coming back to school was a wrench. Still worse was the news that her friend Monica had had a bad accident... school seemed surprisingly savourless until... she thought of telephoning Patrick... " |
| Cornelia Funke | The Thief Lord | The Chicken House 2002 First Edition First Printing (£12.99 on D. J) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "... two brothers...have run away from home because their mum has died... escape to Venice... taken in by a gang of homeless children... live in... an old cinema... looked after by a biy who calls himself the Thief Lord... " |
| Craig Shaw Gardner | Batman | Macdonald 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | The book of the film - with 8 pages of colour photographs. |
| Sally Gardner | I, Coriander | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "I looked back into the bedchamber. The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear voices calling me from far away. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone." |
| Alan Garner | Granny Reardun | Collins 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased, price clipped, Dust Jacket with 'ghost' of old price sticker on front flap | £7.50 | "Joseph watched as the Allmans' house was pulled down. It had been built of good dimension stone, and there was no more left in the quarry... his grandfather was a stonemason... He had to be different from his grandfather, and stone felt heavy and cruel... the story of the day Joseph decided his future... " |
| Mary Gentle (Also as Roxanne Morgan) | A Hawk In Silver | Lothrop 1977 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the spine panel. | £7.50 | "The moment Holly picks up the strange silver coin glinting in the gutter, her whole life changes... Holly and her friend Chris find themselves involved in the centuries-long feud between the two people of Faerie - the Elukoi and the Morkani... " |
| David Gerrold | Jumping Off The Planet | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Caught in the crossfire in a corporate battle for global domination, a young man must choose between his home on Earth and a new life on the lunar frontier... But too late Charles discovers that his father... is smuggling a form of synthetic intelligence that a rival corporation would kill to obtain... " |
| Morris Gleitzman | Once | Puffin 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "Once there was a boy called Felix, who had a big imagination and a heart full of optimism. Once his Polish/Jewish bookseller parents left him in an orphanage before being wrenched away by the Nazis. Once he set out to find them and, in the process, saved someone else's life. Once Felix's whole world changed forever... " |
| Debi Gliori | Pure Dead Magic | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy - without pricing sticker on rear panel | £25.00 | "Beasts in the basement. A gangster in a rabbit suit. And rats in the modem. Great-great-grandma in the freezer. A talking spider in the attic. And a crocodile in the moat... Add a stressed-out witch for a mum, a kidnapped dad and a nanny who puts Mary Poppins to shame... " First in the series |
| Debi Gliori | Pure Dead Wicked | Doubleday 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at base of spine and small scratch to silver inlay on rear panel else Fine copy | £10.00 | "Disaster strikes at StregaSchloss! The roof of the old castle is falling down and the Strega-Borgia family have to move out. The mythical beasts and the magical nanny come too. But the talking tarantula, the frozen granny and a trickle of tincture are left behind... " Second in the series |
| Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Egmont 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "At the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, Covent Garden, This present day being 1st January, 1790, Will be presented The Diamond of Drury Lane (written by Miss Cat Royal)... And a hidden diamond!... " |
| George Goldsmith-Carter | Lord of The Chained | Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1972 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in torn and creased Dust Jacket. | £2.50 | "Asa and Anna, sixteen-year-old twins, live... in a tiny ninth century English stronghold of Christianity. One windy threatening day, while walking along a cliff edge, brother and sister meet the Lord of the Chained, who leads them to Idavoll, the realm of the gods... their mission is to bring peace to the gods of the ancient world and to help give birth to a new one... " |
| John Gordon | Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories | Patrick Hardy 1984 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, fore-edge of front board and spine panels slightly faded, a few very small wear spots and a repaired lamination tear at the top edge of the rear board, page edges slightly marked, small gift inscription on front fixed end paper and laminated boards with a few fine scratches - Very Good Illustrated by Jeremy Ford | £20.00 | Well-regarded and scarce collection: Never Grow Up; Catch Your Death; If She Bends, She Breaks; Joby's Pint; Half A Crown; The Girl Outside; Oh, My Bairn; Little Black Pies; and The Pot of Basil. Scarce. |
| John Gordon | Gilray's Ghost | Walker 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "...In a pyramid-shaped tomb, in the forest, lie the remains of Doctor Septimus Carr. An evil necromancer, he believed the bodily fluids of virgins could rejuvenate him, his grisly experiments claiming the life of a servant girl. Now, two centuries later, another girl is in mortal danger... Gilray has flown back in time to try to prevent the wickedness he fears is looming... " |
| John Gordon | The Edge of the World | Patrick Hardy 1983 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, fore-edge of front board worn and laminated boards slightly rubbed else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Cover Illustration by Geoff Taylor | £7.50 | "Tekker Begdale had seen a ghost. nobody believed him except Kit Huntley, and she did not want anybody else to know... her brother. Dan... saw something which drew him into the mystery with terrifying results... Kit and Tekker have to set out on a quest to save him... dangerous and frightening." Scarce. |
| John Gordon | The Flesh Eater | Walker 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Harry Hogge has a beautiful girlfriend and an uncomplicated existence ... until Emma Judd bursts into his life... weird things are happening... a secret and sinister club is meeting... a woman plays cards while listening to a murder being committed elsewhere... And underground something monstrous is stirring from centuries of sleep, with a hunger for flesh... " |
| John Gordon | The Spitfire Grave And Other Stories | Kestrel 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed, spine panel background slightly faded and a small stain on the inside (no show-through). | £7.50 | "... one of nine stories by this master of chilling and eerie tales, in which apparently ordinary people - a small child, an industrious clerk, and a newly married couple, for instance - find themselves inextricably caught up in events and situations both terrifying and uncanny... " |
| Barbara Griffiths | A Gruesome Body | Anderson Press 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Illustrated by the Author | £4.00 | "Whatever haunts your dreams, these stories are guaranteed to stretch your imagination to the very limits of horror. The innocence of a day on the beach or a trip to the cinema will be lost forever... These chilling tales will plumb the depths of your worst nightmare,,, read on if you dare!" Eleven Stories |
| Margaret Peterson Haddix | Turnabout | Simon & Schuster 2000 Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "Melly and Amy Beth both lived normal lives throughout the twentieth century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger. at some point these participants are to receive another injection, which will stop the unaging process. But everyone who receives the second shot dies... " |
| Mark Haddon | the curious incident of the dog in the night-time | David Fickling 2003 First Edition First Printing (Cream and red Dust Jacket) | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with light creasing along the top edge and a spot of wear at the top of the rear fold. | £10.00 | "Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes, but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on his neighbour's lawn, he decides to solve the mystery... " |
| Peter Haining | The Wizards' Den Spellbinding Stories of Magic And Magicians | Souvenir Press 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a tiny scratch on the spine panel | £7.50 | Peter Haining's The World of Wizardry; E. Nesbit's Professor de Lara and the Twopenny Spell; Manly Wade Wellman's School for the Unspeakable; Gillian Cross' The Demon Headmaster; Humphrey Carpenter's Ghostclusters; and others by Alan Garner; Russell Hoban; Joan Aiken; William Harvey; Jacqueline Wilson; John Wyndham; Roald Dahl; Ray Bradbury; William F. Nolan; Philip Pullman and Diana Wynne Jones |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | Don't Open Your Eyes | Dolphin/Orion 2000 First Edition (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed, else Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £3.00 | "BLOOD RED EYES. BARE BONE. RAGGED, ROTTING FLESH. NO ESCAPE. Something awful has happened to Martin. You'd think it was all over - after the joyriding, the crash, Martin's tragic death. He was only fifteen... just the start of something too terrifying even to think about... " |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | King Death's Garden: A Ghost Story | Orchard Books 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and upper and lower few mm of boards slightly faded, front free end paper slightly damp-rippled, one top page edge slightly bumped and page edges a little marked Very Good copy in like Dust Jacket damp-marked at base of spine Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Maurice...feels...cut off from the... world when his parents move... dumping him for the summer term with an unknown great aunt who lives in an ancient rambling mansion on the edge of a cemetery - King Death's Garden... he becomes caught up in a perilous research into the supernatural... pulled deeper and deeper into the world of shadows who whisper round his door at night..." |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | Siberia | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "When Rosita was tiny, her papa disappeared. Sher and her mama had to go and live in an ugly place... a prison camp, and she didn't understand her mama's magic... Rosita grew up to be a tough, cynical girl called Sloe... Sloe had to make the journey alone, pursued by a mysterious and all-powerful enemy, and carrying the living treasure that she knew was the hope off the world... " |
| Ann Halam (Gwynneth Jones) | The Daymaker | Orchard Books 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "Zanne's untrained but compelling magic is a continued source of worry to her mother... But as Zanne reaches the age where she should make the choice journey that will determine her course in life, she becomes restless and rebellious... she sets off on a forbidden quest to the city... where the great Daymaker lies lost and hidden..." |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | The Fear Man | Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Covers slightly rubbed and scratched else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why does his mother have such a fear of it? And what is the unknown presence that seems to be stalking the family at night? Constantly on the run from a father he has never known, Andrei dreams of being an ordinary boy, but Andrei is living a nightmare." |
| Ann Halam | The Haunting of Jessica Raven | Orion 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy - as issued in laminated boards with spine panel background slightly faded | £5.00 | "Jessica Raven dreams of finding a cure for her brother Adam' s fatal illness, but she knows it isn't going to happen. Then, on holiday in France, she meets a strange band of ragged children... And... is caught up in a game that is more than a game. How can she free Jean-Luc from the terrifying children, undead guardians a! a priceless treasure?... " |
| Ann Halam | The Haunting of Jessica Raven | Orion 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and spine panel slightly faded else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Jessica Raven dreams of finding a cure for her brother Adam' s fatal illness, but she knows it isn't going to happen. Then, on holiday in France, she meets a strange band of ragged children... And... is caught up in a game that is more than a game. How can she free Jean-Luc from the terrifying children, undead guardians of a priceless treasure?... " |
| Ann Halam | The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy | Orion 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £3.00 | "Stacey vanished three years ago. She's dead. It's Alan's fault. He knows. But mum refuses to believe it - her endless search for her little daughter leads them first to N.I.M.R.O.D., and then into a criminal underworld of deceit and conspiracies, burglary, blackmail and terrible danger... " |
| Shannon Hale | Enna Burning | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, and page edges a little marked and bumped - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "When Enna's brother Leifer brings home a mysterious piece of vellum that teaches him how to create fire - without a spark, without a flint... then war threatens... " Companion/sequel to The Goose Girl |
| Virginia Hamilton | Justice And Her Brothers | Hamish Hamilton 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards stained and front end paper slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... During a few hot, heavy summer days, Justice discovers how different her twin brothers are... for the three of them are inexorably linked by supersensory powers... " |
| Victoria Hanley | The Seer And The Sword | Scholastic 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Flame-haired Princess Torina knows nothing of battles and conquest. Her father, King Kareed, has returned... odd gifts: a beautiful sphere in which she glimpses strange images... And a bruised and bloodied boy - a former prince... Bellandra, his home, was reputed to be invincible... " Nominated for the Carnegie Award & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. |
| Joanne Harris | Runemarks | Doubleday 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a small mark on lower page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... Maddy enjoys working with magic, even if it is just to control some pesky goblins... her best friend... One-Eye - has been teaching her more and more about the old ways... he wants her to open Red Horse Hill and... retrieve a relic of the old gods... Otherwise - apparently - it could be the End of Everything. Again... " |
| Joanne Harris | Runemarks | Doubleday 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly bumped, Dust Jacket with a small scratch on the rear fold | £7.50 | "... Maddy enjoys working with magic, even if it is just to control some pesky goblins... her best friend... One-Eye - has been teaching her more and more about the old ways... he wants her to open Red Horse Hill and... retrieve a relic of the old gods... Otherwise - apparently - it could be the End of Everything. Again... " |
| Rosemary Harris | A Quest For Orion | Faber 1980 | Top page edges slightly marked else Fine Copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Note: This copy produced with extra end-papers bound in. | £5.00 | "... The twentieth century has closed for Britain and the greater part of Western Europe in defeat and pillage by the Neo-Stalinist 'Freaks' - and... inhabitants are... enslaved or dead... a thin weak web of resistance is forming... Walther's new Order of Teutonic Knights, whose last recruit... is destined to be... the means of restoring Charlemagne's... talisman... " |
| Rosemary Harris | The Bright and Morning Star | Faber 1979 | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... completes the adventures that began with The Moon in the Cloud and continued through The Shadow on the Sun... " |
| Rosemary Harris | Zed | Faber 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and bottom corners else Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Review Slip | £2.50 | "... as Thomas and his father arrived they were caught up in a terrorist attack... For four terrible days, an irrelevant and unwanted hostage, the small boy watched a drama of courage and cowardice, unexpected cruelty and even more unexpected kindness. The experience had been searing, but it had begun the process of turning frightened, inadequate Thomas into clever confident Zed... " |
| Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein) | Across The Nightingale Floor Tales of the Otori Book One | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | A few page edges slightly bumped and a small mark else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard... young Takeo knows only the ways of peace. But, unknown to himself, he possesses the supernatural skills of the Tribe... " |
| Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein) | Across The Nightingale Floor Tales of the Otori Book One | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard... young Takeo knows only the ways of peace. But, unknown to himself, he possesses the supernatural skills of the Tribe... " |
| Lian Hearn | Grass For His Pillow Tales of the Otori Book Two | Macmillan 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Takeo... has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. But he must deny the solemn oath of vengeance he made, his adopted birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede... " |
| Lian Hearn | Grass For His Pillow Tales of the Otori Book Two | Macmillan 2003 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No. 251/643) | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | "Takeo... has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. But he must deny the solemn oath of vengeance he made, his adopted birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede... " |
| Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein) | Tales of the Otori | Macmillan 2002-4 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets | £25.00 | "In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard... young Takeo knows only the ways of peace. But, unknown to himself, he possesses the supernatural skills of the Tribe... " |
| Pamela L. V. Henn | Nick & Slim The Legend of the Falcon Mine | White Wolf Studio 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In a new home, a new town, and a new school, Nick feels more alone than ever... With no friends to vouch for him, Nick is framed for stealing... the journal of the notorious Slim Marano, who was hanged for murder more than 100 years ago... Nick comes face-to-face with Slim's spirit... Soon Nick is travelling through time to the Old West... " |
| F. E. Higgins | The Bone Magician | Macmillan 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Since his father vanished, Pin Carpue has lived alone in the dismal city of Urbs Umida. Then he meets the Bone Magician - a man who can make the dead speak - and Pin is drawn into an intoxicating world of magic and illusion... But as Pin uncovers the secrets of bone magic, his own life is put in grave danger... " Sequel to The Black Book of Secrets |
| Lorna Hill | Dress Rehearsal | Evans 1959 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges quite badly foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "The heroine of this story is a new-comer to the series, Nona Browning, who has the misfortune to be physically handicapped. Her parents are dead and she is brought up in an orphanage where she is given dancing lessons to strengthen her body. She grows to love ballet dancing... " |
| Stuart Hill | The Cry of the Icemark | Chicken House 2005 First Edition First Printing | Lower rear corner bruised and top page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "The blood of the Strong-in-the-Arm clan awoke roaring in Thirrin's brain, and the fighting spirit of the Hypolitan, her mother's people straightened her spine and sent a tingling excitement coursing through her veins. She was heir to the throne of the Icemark... She must defend her land and her people!" First in the series |
| Russell Hoban | The Mouse & His Child | Faber 1986 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... The idea for this book came from some friends who used to keep a collection of wind-up toys that were only brought out at Christmas time, when they put them under the tree. That in itself had poignancy - the toys shut up in their boxes except for those few days each year... " |
| Russell Hoban | The Trokeville Way | Cape 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... On his way home he meets sometime magician Moe Nagic who has an unusual jigsaw puzzle to sell. Moe shows Nick a technique for getting into the picture but he warns him, "You get into that picture and you'll wish you were out of it." Nick, however, can't resist the challenge..." |
| Helen Hoke | Venomous Tales of Villany and Vengeance | Lodestar/Dutton 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped, and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | E. Nesbit's John Charrington's Wedding; Ray Bradbury's Skeleton; W. M. Tidmarsh's Bronze; Robert Silverberg's As Is; Joan Aiken's Smell; Robert Bloch's The Hungry House; John Edgell's Did You See the Window-cleaner? and Penelope Mortimer's The Skylight |
| Monica Hughes | The Crystal Drop | Methuen 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small dot on top edge of rear board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with small (5mm) tear at top of front fold | £4.00 | "... Drought and the hole in the sky have destroyed Megan and Ian's world. They are now alone except for the uncle who lives far away... they must find him. They enter the dangerous world of the buffalo jump and escape it only to encounter the survivalists with their dogs and guns... set in our very near future when the most precious commodity is water... " |
| Geoffrey Huntington | Sorcerers of the Nightwing Book I The Ravenscliff Series | HarperCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with two 2mm tears at top of rear fold and a little wear | £4.00 | "Every kid fears the monsters in the closet - but for Devon March, the monsters are all too real. Horrible things come slithering out across his floor, determined to drag him with them back down their Hellhole. But Devon is no ordinary young man. he can move objects with his mind, summon incredible strength, disappear at will... so far... " |
| Brian Jacques | Castaways of the Flying Dutchman | Viking 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, to rear board and some page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with some bumping to rear panel | £10.00 | "... what of the boy and his dog who were trapped aboard that ship?... Sent off on an eternal journey of their own by an avenging angel, the boy and dog roam the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need... their travels lead them to Chapelvale... whose very existence is at stake... " |
| Brian Jacques | Lord Brocktree | Hutchinson 2000 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No 102 of 150) | Slightly worn at top and base of spine and corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the front free end paper | £10.00 | "... Salamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords, is under threat from an enemy whose power would seem to be absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now?" |
| Brian Jacques | Martin The Warrior | Hutchinson 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket with two pin-holes in the front panel Illustrated by Gary Chalk | £10.00 | "Tyrant! Badrang, evil Lord of the eastern coast looks out over his domain... While he rules over a band of ruthless hoardebeasts, his slaves labour night and day... But among Badrang's slaves is an indomitable young mouse, Martin... he... plots his escape... " Sixth novel in the Chronicles of Redwall |
| Brian Jacques | Mattimeo | Hutchinson 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and two diagonal creases in the contents page else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £100.00 | "Slagar the fox contemplated Redwall Abbey, his twisted face hidden beneath a sinister harlequin hood. How he hated the peaceable Abbey creatures; how he hated the fearless mouse-warrior Matthias... Gathering his mercenary band of rats, stoats and weasels about him, he prepared for his hour of vengeance... " |
| Brian Jacques | Mossflower | Hutchinson 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a forked ca. 10 mm tear at the top of the rear fold | £30.00 | "... Tsarmina, and her lackeys, Fortunata the vixen and Ashleg the marten, were plotting together to create a plan that would strike terror and loathing in the heart of the woodlanders..." |
| Brian Jacques | Mossflower | Beaver Books 1989 (Trade Paper) | Spine creased, corners a little rubbed - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... Tsarmina, and her lackeys, Fortunata the vixen and Ashleg the marten, were plotting together to create a plan that would strike terror and loathing in the heart of the woodlanders..." |
| Brian Jacques | Outcast of Redwall | Hutchinson 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 4mm tear at the top of the spine panel adjacent to the back panel | £7.50 | "An escape into the snowbound winter night starts a lifelong enmity between two young creatures - a badger and a ferret. By turns they become the hunter and the hunted in this epic tale... " |
| Brian Jacques | Redwall | Hutchinson 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and across bottom page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top edge of the rear panel | £100.00 | "Redwall Abbey, the tranquil home of civilised community of mice, slumbers peacefully in the warmth of a summer afternoon. But not for long. Cluny is coming. The terrifying, one-eyed rat warlord with his battle-scarred horde - veterans of many brutal campaigns. Cluny wants Redwall. And nothing, he vows, is going to stand in his way. Certainly not a load of peace-loving, disorganised mice and woodland creatures... " |
| Brian Jacques | Salamandastron | Hutchinson 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Book illustrated by Gary Chalk, dust jacket by Fangorn | £100.00 | "When the mountain stronghold of Salamandastron, ruled with a paw of iron by Lord Urthstripe the Strong, is under siege... the destinies of five creatures... become intertwined. Why did Martin the Warrior's sword fall from the Abbey roof? Who is the white badger? And can the good creatures triumph over Ferahgo the Assassin?... " |
| Brian Jacques | The Bellmaker | Hutchinson 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Book illustrated by Allan Curless, dust jacket by Fangorn | £15.00 | "Joseph the Bellmaker is troubled. It has been four long seasons since his daughter Mariel and her companion Dandin set off from Redwall in search of adventure. Nothing has been heard of them since. Then one night Martin, legendary warrior of Redwall, appears in Joseph's dreams with a mysterious message... it becomes clear that Mariel and Dandin are in grave danger... " |
| Brian Jacques | The Long Patrol A Tale of Redwall | Hutchinson 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges browned else Fine copy in like, slightly worn, Dust Jacket. Book illustrated by Allan Curless, dust jacket by Fangorn | £7.50 | "To run with the Long Patrol, to join the legendary army of fighting hares who serve Cregga Rose Eyes, Ruler of Salamandastron - this is young Tammo's dream. In the heart of Mossflower Wood stands Redwall Abbey, peaceful in the gentle sun. But there is worrying news. The south wall is collapsing leaving the Abbey open to invasion... " |
| Brian Jacques | The Pearls Of Lutra A Tale Of Redwall | Hutchinson 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The gruesome discovery of a skeleton in Mossflower woods heralds the start of both a mystery and a quest... Emperor Ublaz, also known as Mad Eyes, sends his fearsome lizards and corsairs on a murderous mission to Redwall... " |
| Ben Jeapes | The New World Order | David Fickling 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... this is not the history you know, for the world has turned on to a new and deadly path... an entirely alien force - the Holekhor - who have martial powers... who bring with them technology that should not have been seen in England for another three hundred years... History will never be the same again." |
| Capt. W. E. Johns | Biggles Follows On | Hodder & Stoughton 1952 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges and rear end papers a little marked and gift inscription on front free end paper Very Good Copy in worn, torn and foxed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | A Story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia. |
| Jane Johnson | The Secret Country | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Covers and spine a little creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "Ben tried to step forward a pace, but something - someone? - was holding him back... It was a cat... with shiny gold eyes and a remarkably determined arm... 'Let go!' he said under his breath... The cat looked at him, unblinking. Then it said very distinctly... "There's no way you're leaving this shop without me, Sonny Jim.'... |
| Diana Wynne Jones | A Tale of Time City | Methuen 1987 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket a little rubbed along the top edge and with a short tear at top of rear fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "In a world of mystery and illusion, where clues are provided by time ghosts and legends, Vivian discovers that friends and enemies are to be found in some very unexpected times and places..." |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Castle In The Air | Methuen 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and one signature differentially browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 7.5 cm diagonal crease starting at top corner of front panel. | £25.00 | "Far to the South of the Land of Ingary, a young carpet merchant called Abdullah lived in the city of Zanzib. He is a daydreamer and in his dreams, he is really the long-lost son o9f a great prince. His dream is a complete castle in the air... or is it?... " Sequel to Howl's Moving Castle |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Conrad's Fate | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top of the front fold. Illustrated by Tim Stevens | £5.00 | "... Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Smallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate... His mission is clear - get rid of them... things start to go even more strangely... from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Conrad's Fate | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing (Conrrad's Fate on spine) | Slightly bumped at side of spine, covers slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Illustrated by Tim Stevens | £7.50 | "... Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Smallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate... His mission is clear - get rid of them... things start to go even more strangely... from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher... " |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Minor Arcana | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket slightly rubbed at the top of the rear fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... six stories and a novella which showcase the superb skills, the style and the humour of this award-winning fantasist... demonstrates both her unique offbeat quirkiness and her sheer narrative drive and power..." |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Four Grannies | Hamish Hamilton 1980 Third Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed laminated boards - as issued | £10.00 | "Erg and Emily have four grannies. Granny One is strict, Granny Two is a worrier, Granny Three is rich and Granny Four is a saint. Erg and Emily's parents go away for a while and arrange for one of the grannies to come and look after them. Unfortunately, all four grannies turn up, and havoc breaks out... " Scarce |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Merlin Conspiracy | Collins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Roddy Hyde lives in a world of magic, pageantry and ritual. The daughter of two court wizards, she travels with the King's Progress, ready to take part in whatever ceremony is required... Presiding overall is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of the Blest... something is wrong... " |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | The Hidden Ones | Cambridge University Press 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Adele is a school drop out who has been in trouble all her life. What she loves is computer games, where her strange powers come into play..." With a new Author's Introduction explaining where the ideas started and how they grew. |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | The Influence Of Ironwood | Macmillan 1978 First Edition First Printing | A little edgewear to both book and jacket and jacket spine panel slightly faded else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "She hated them all... She hated being there in the first place, dumped down on the Irish branch of the family like a parcel put into Left Luggage. She hated Ireland for being so heart-wrenchingly beautiful when she wanted everything to be horrible... was there something wrong with Ironwood? Was there an... influence? Or was it just that resentment, likes misery, loves a companion?... " Non-fantasy Y.A. novel. |
| Graham Joyce | The Web Spiderbite | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... Imagine entering virtual reality and creeping through the Labyrinth with the roars of the Minotaur echoing in your ears?... The sites are open to all... So why has Conrad been warned off... Who is behind the savage spiders... There is a dark lesson being taught at the centre of the Labyrinth... " Scarce. |
| Herve Jubert | Dance of the Assassins | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Translated by Anthea Bell | £5.00 | "Welcome to the future. Welcome to nineteenth-century London: a theme park re-created for tourists. But it's not just tourists visiting this historical virtual city... Jack the Ripper, too, has returned... " |
| Herve Jubert | Devil's Tango | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Faint cover crease, slight rubbing else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "Welcome to the future... to Basle, where for generations, technology has made the world a crime-free zone... until now... full of erudition and theatrical flourish... fun and exciting... come dancing... " |
| Elizabeth Kay | The Divide | Chicken House 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy | £7.50 | "... Meet Felix. He's not your ordinary hero. Though brave and intelligent, Felix is suffering from a life-threatening illness... His parents take him... to Costa Rica.. when he open his eyes... he's arrived in an amazing, back-to-front world, where magic and mythical animals are real, and humans are legend... " |
| Ian Kellam | The First Summer Year | Oxford University Press 1972 | Bruised at top and base of spine, board edges slightly faded, a few page corners creased and top page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased and lightly foxed Dust Jacket from which a jacket protector, taped to the inside of the jacket, has been carefully removed. Illustrated by Robin Jacques | £5.00 | "Richard is on holiday in a remote part of Scotland... One day he finds, in the burn, a jewel on a finely wrought gold chain. This jewel leads him into a new world, that of Nemmles, where he appears to be taken for a person of rank and is confronted with a daunting and dangerous mission against the dreaded Mongs... " |
| Victor Kelleher | To The Dark Tower | Julia MacRae 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Awake, Tom works the cliffs in the shadow of Tower Rock, a pillar of stone that no-one has ever climbed; asleep, he is the 'Carrier', the bearer of a mysteriously beautiful child... he journeys across a seemingly timeless, winter-locked landscape in search of the fabulous 'Sleeper'... " |
| P. B. Kerr | Children Of The Lamp The Akhenaten Adventure | Scholastic 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Humans are made of earth. Djinn are made of fire." First in the series about two Djinn Children... |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Attica | Atom 2006 First Edition First Printing | Front fixed end paper creased and torn (but complete) else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a 2mm tear at the top edge of rear panel | £5.00 | ""Jordy, Chloe and Alex have moved to a new house... Before long our intrepid heroes have embarked on a quest to recover Mr Grantham's missing watch from the attic. However, the world they discover beneath the rafters is no ordinary attic. it is a world full of lost treasures and discarded dreams... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Billy Pink's Private Detective Agency | Methuen 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued. | £7.50 | "... Billy Pink is not afraid of anything. Supernatural things certainly do not worry Billy in the least. so when he meets the rispit out in the Essex Marshes, he is not at all surprised... the Bakery is robbed... With the rispit's help he finds the thief.. he opens his detective agency. It prospers... Then one morning a stranger knocks on the door... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Jigsaw | Atom 2007 First Edition First Printing | Page edges slightly bumped/marked else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "At first, Max's diary seems like any other entry on a teenageer's blog but it's an incredible adventure story... The bright beam of the torch was shining directly into a huge pair of eyes... Whatever had been caught in my torch beam had crashed through the flimsy wall of the shed and stampeded into the rainforest... " |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Spiggot's Quest Book One of The Knights of Leofwende | Atom 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Top front corner bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Faerieland... It's like a reflection of your world, a warped reflection. And Jack has stumbled right into it - with a whole lot of trouble on his tail. Trolls, goblins, ogres and giants... He needs some allies, like now... Someone who can do some serious magic... Just not some dreamy young boggart named Spiggot..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Bronte Girls | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £7.50 | "... When Chris trespasses on their isolated farm in the Essex marshes, Emily Craster takes an action that smashes their world apart. She is almost fifteen and has known no other life except that with her two sisters and parents on the farm - modelled on the Brontes' parsonage at Haworth... a deeply felt and passionate story of parents and children and the uneasy frontier between love and hate..." |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Drowners | Methuen 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the fold tips. | £7.50 | "...one day, a young boy appears and begins to teach Jem Blunden the ways of the river... a boy whose age remains untouched by the passing of years...a stunning and moving ghost story and thriller." |
| Mark Lamb | Farperoo Book One of the Dark Inventions | Madriax Press 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised (and a small wear spot) at top and bruised at base of spine and lower board edges else Fine Copy in Laminated Boards - As Issued Illustrated by Matthew Armstrong & Claudio Grilli | £10.00 | Arcanum the Fourth: Ravenous Creatures; Schnuuuurk... ; Maiden Flight of the Ornithopter; Groffin and the Star Shadow; Green Triangles; Assembly of the Dead; Doctor Dee - His Privatt Howse; Ex Libris; Whiff of a Mermaid; The Table of Practice and Arcanum the Fifth... 885 pages. |
| Jack Lasenby | The Conjuror | Oxford University Press 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £2.50 | "'Behave yourself.' said the Sister, 'or the Conjuror will come for your mother.' After Johnny is taken to Moory he learn what behaving himself means for a Grey: working, keeping your head down, obeying the Browns, and keeping out of the way of the Sisters... Somehow they must escape from Moory and the evil Conjuror... " |
| Louise Lawrence (Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle Holden) | Journey Through Llandor | Collins 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges slightly browned and 35mm lamination split in front gutter else Fine copy with laminated boards. | £10.00 | "Chased by Craig and Carrie after school, Roderick stumbles through the forest. Almost instantly the three of them are caught up in events far beyond their control, in a world of terrifying creatures and strange beings where all their accepted standards and beliefs are turned upside down... " First of the Llandor Trilogy. |
| Louise Lawrence (Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle Holden) | The Crowlings | Collins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When young Ben Crowling unexpectedly finds himself leader of his clan, his one thought is to build a new life on the land granted to him by the star-people... But the wheel is completing the circle: no longer can their planet provide for its people, and its enemies grow invisibly in number - until it is too late... " |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Gifts | Orion 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and small smudged/roughened area at top corner of front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Orrec is the son of... Caspromanti; Gry the daughter of... Barre and Rodd... The Barre gift is calling animals... The Rodds can send a spellknife... The Caspro... gift of undoing... an animal, a place... Orrec... has a problem, for his gift of undoing is wild; he cannot control it... " |
| Holme Lee (Harriet Parr) | Legends From Fairyland | Bracken Books 1988 | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Illustrations by Reginald L. and Horace J. Knowles taken from the 1907 Edition) | £5.00 | "... Prince Glee and Princess Trill... journey through wonderland... the creeping plant with many tendrils... the everlasting friendship of Mannekin Hop and the wise counsel of Tuflongbo, the journey inspires a child's imagination in a world of unsympathetic adults... " First published by Smith Elder in 1860. |
| Tanith Lee | East Of Midnight | Macmillan 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket wit one small tear Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £35.00 | "The last thing he remembered was the darkness in the hollow below the stone, and the dogs belling overhead, cheated of their quarry - Dekteon, sometimes called Red, the rebellious runaway slave... when the cart came so suddenly out of the wood there was something strange about it too. The horse that drew it had the feet of a bear, and the man... had phosphorescent eyes... " |
| Tanith Lee | Prince On A White Horse | Macmillan 1982 First Edition First Printing | Page edges bruised else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £40.00 | "He was a prince, he knew. And he was riding a white horse. But who he was, and how he had got there, he had no idea... " Scarce. |
| Anna Lewins | Dream For Danger | Blackie 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Todd and Tessa are used to aliens - New London is full of them and even one of their best friends at school is an alien. But Gilen and Luz are different, more mysterious and more powerful than any other children... their deadly enemy, the Betrayer, has been waiting for them... And the only way the children can stop everything being destroyed is to... find the Betrayer himself... " |
| Kenneth Lillington | What Beckoning Ghost? | Faber 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "What makes a ghost walk? Emma had no idea, but after what happened to her at Marland Hall she needed to find out... she felt a sensation of sheer terror and saw - faintly but unmistakably - a ghost... " |
| Lois Lowry | The Willoughbys Nefariously Written and Ignominiously Illustrated by the Author | Houghton Mifflin 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Recalling literary heroes and heroines such as Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna, and James with his giant peach, the Willoughbys concoct a diabolical plot to turn themselves into worthy and winsome orphans. Little do they know that Mr and Mrs Willoughby have already begun formulating their own... inspired by... the tale of Hansel and Gretel... " |
| Wilson Macarthur | The Young Chevalier | Collins 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly torn creased and worn Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Steven Spurrier, A. R. A. | £5.00 | "... Bonnie Prince Charlie... the tragic story of the House of Stuart's vain but valliant struggle to drive from the Throne the usurping foreigner |
| George MacBeth | The Rectory Mice | Hutchinson 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Under the rafters in the attic of a Norfolk rectory live a family of mice. Careful not to leave any traces of their activities... the mice live a happy, trouble-free life. But the year is 1914... When young Tamberlane mouse spots the first enemy air vessel the mice know the great war has begun... " |
| Margaret Mahy | Dangerous Spaces | Hamish Hamilton 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with an 8 mm tear at the top of the front panel adjacent to the spine. | £4.00 | "... One day... Anthea finds an old-fashioned photographic viewer - a stereoscope - and a notebook belonging to her great uncle Henry, who died as a boy... later she is alarmed, and then terrified, by the ghostly nightmare into which they draw her, where the lines between waking and sleeping become increasingly blurred... Lured on by the dead Henry, Anthea is soon in tremendous danger... " |
| Ruth Manley | The Peony Lantern | Hodder & Stoughton (Australia) 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, lower corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with glue from old price-sticker on front flap Illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi | £15.00 | "The Mikado's Realm is on the brink of despair. Earthquakes, floods, fire and famine have been followed by a series of gruesome... Taro and Oboro... and their friends are swept into a great struggle against the forces of treachery and evil... " Very Scarce. |
| Bessie Marchant | Greta's Domain A Tale of Chiloe | Blackie 1911 First Edition First Printing (Dark page edges; Green boards with gilt lettering and red/black/cream illustrated spine and front) | Slightly bumped and creased at top and base of spine, red on spine illustration slightly faded to orange, corners a little rubbed/worn, page edges slightly faded, a little scattered foxing and 1st prize plate (from 1912) on reverse of Frontispiece - Very Good Copy Illustrated by W. Rainey, R. I. | £35.00 | "The wind, which had been blowing half-a gale all night, dropped to a calm when the sun rose; and although there was still a heavy swell still on, the tramp-steamer Western Star plied her way merrily along down the coast of Chile, rolling, as was her uncomfortable wont... " |
| Jan Mark | Aquarius | Atheneum 1984 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one small (2mm) tear at the hear of the spine panel and a couple of creases on the front flap | £4.00 | "VINER gets his name from his craft - that of a water diviner... the skill of finding water is not one that's appreciated by the people amongst whom he lives... they suffer from floods... he drifts off to find a place that will welcome his knowledge... " |
| Jan Mark | Divide and Rule | Kestrel 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "...a powerful successor to The Ennead - acclaimed by many as the outstanding novel of 1978 - and once again reveals Jan Mark's remarkable versatility, wit and ability to probe her characters to extraordinary depths." |
| Jan Mark | The Lady With Iron Bones | Walker 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | ""... Though they've been best friends since the infants, Ellen and Kasey are very different. Ellen is easy-going, Kasey can be sullen and difficult... But Kasey never seems to get what she wants... until Ellen introduces her to the Lady with Iron Bones. Finally, it seems, Kasey's Prayers are to be answered... " |
| Jan Mark | Useful Idiots | David Fickling 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Rhine Delta Islands, 2255. The mass of land previously known at the United Kingdom has been gradually eroded by climate change, and the east of the islands possessed by the sea. And it is not only physical history that is vanishing: the cultural past is also being erased... " |
| J. P. Martin | Uncle Stories | Red Fox 2000 Second Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, covers lightly creased, two short (2-3mm) tear to the top edge of the front panel - Very Good to Near Fine Copy Illustrated by Quentin Blake | £10.00 | "Uncle is an elephant. He's immensely rich, and he's a B.A. He dresses well, generally in a purple dressing-gown, and often rides about on a traction engine, which he prefers to a car... " |
| Stanislaw Mayakovsky (Jerry Prosser) | Cyberantics | Dark Horse Comics 1992 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards Illustrated by Rick Geary | £5.00 | "There once was an ant, a very special ant. Instead of chitin, glands, and organs, this ant was made of chromium, lithium circuits, and optic cable only a fraction of the diameter of a hair... " The book that's the starting point for Aliens: Hive by Jerry Prosser & Aliens: Alien Harvest by Robert Sheckley both starring... Stanislaw Mayakovsky. |
| William Mayne | Cradlefasts | Hodder 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and slightly bumped base of spine else Fine copy in rubbed laminated boards - as issued | £7.50 | "David avoids talk of the past. Memories of the loss of his mother and baby sister are too painful to share, even with Keith, his best friend. Then Clare appears, a girl the same age as his sister would have been. She knows his name and says he's her brother. David wants to believe her story... Can the baby girl have survived after all?" Sequel to Earthfasts |
| William Mayne | The Fairy Tales of London Town Volume One Upon Paul's Steeple | Hodder 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear at the top of the rear fold and a small damp mark at the lower edge of the rear panel (no show-through). | £5.00 | "... From classic retellings such as Dick Whittington, to contemporary tales of goblins lurking under Tower Bridge, and pixies tending tulips in the park... will bring pleasure to old and young alike... storytelling that is both exquisite and astonishing... " |
| M. I. McAllister | The Mistmantle Chronicles Urchin of the Riding Stars | Bloomsbury 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with pictorial boards - as issued | £5.00 | ""On a night of riding stars, an orphaned squirrel is found abandoned and close to death... Urchin has no idea of his powerful destiny or the way in which he will influence the island of Mistmantle... first in The Mistmantle Chronicles." |
| Geraldine McCaughrean | One Thousand and One Arabian Nights | Oxford University Press 1982 First Edition Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a dark blue ink spot at top edge of rear panel and another at top edge of rear flap. Illustrated by Stephen Lavis | £5.00 | "... This is a completely new version of the Arabian Nights - many of the stories have never appeared before in a collection for children. They include fables, romances, narrative jokes, and fairy tales... written in a style that is clear, gripping and poetic - one which conveys the flavour of the original and preserves the context of a magic, jinni-ridden, cruel, desert world." |
| Geraldine McCaughrean | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Oxford University Press 2006 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Number 837/1500) | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by David Wyatt | £150.00 | "... Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of warpaint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help... " |
| Geraldine McCaughrean | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Oxford University Press 2006 First Trade Edition (With Number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by David Wyatt | £15.00 | "... Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of warpaint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help... " The Official Sequel. The First Edition was a limited, signed (and now very scarce) edition with the full number line. |
| Oisin McGann | Small-Minded Giants | Doubleday 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly bumped - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... Beyond the huge domed roof of Ash Harbour, deadly storms and Arctic temperatures have stripped the Earth bare... When sixteen-year-old Solomon Wheat's father goes missing and is accused of murder, he's desperate to uncover the truth... Can Sol and his unlikely accomplices take on the city's underworld and survive?" |
| Robin McKinley | The Outlaws of Sherwood | Macdonald 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one internal crease Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... a brilliant retelling of the of the Robin Hood myth, featuring all the well-loved characters - Marion, Little John, Will Scarlett - and not a few villains... a new peak of invention and brilliance." |
| Eoin McNamee | The Navigator | HarperCollins 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, edges slightly rubbed, lower 50mm of spine with pressure wrinkles and one surface tear - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... Owen's life is turned upside-down the day he gets involved with the Resisters and their centuries-long feud with an ancient, evil race. The harsh, with their icy blasts and relentless onslaught, have a single aim - to turn back time and eliminate all life... " |
| Cliff McNish | The Doomspell | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name written on rear free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel very slightly faded | £10.00 | "... Rachael and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch... Rachael discovers that she has extraordinary gifts... transform herself into a feather, or fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch can... for the Witch's victims, Rachael is their only hope... " |
| Cliff McNish | The Doomspell | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy with decorated card covers - as issued | £10.00 | "... Rachael and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch... Rachael discovers that she has extraordinary gifts... transform herself into a feather, or fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch can... for the Witch's victims, Rachael is their only hope... " Scarce |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Top corners slightly creased, small wear spot at base of spine - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | "... Six children... are drawn to Coldharbour - an eerie wasteland of wind, rats, seagulls and rubbish tips. Emily and Freda... scuttle bright-eyed and insect-like in search of the others. They find Thomas half-starving on a food tip. They discover the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... And... the luminous Milo... " |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "Six children... drawn to Coldharbour... Emily and Freda, the twins... Thomas... the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... the luminous Milo, whose eyes see everything and whose skin is hot and bright with silver. Each of them has a unique gift, but they must learn to use their skills fast... " |
| Dominic Mieville | The Mysterious Burnchester Hall | DM Productions 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Juvenile Cover Variant - no priority) | Lower rear corner a little bumped, else Fine Copy Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "When Tyro and Jess explore their empty school, Burnchester Hall, with their friends Rick and Tom, they discover their hated teacher conducting strange experiments, abandoned tunnels under the school, and hooded figures shadowing their activities... " |
| Walter Moers | The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear Being the demibiography of a seagoing bear, with numerous illustrations and excerpts from the 'Encyclopedia of the Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs' by Professor Abdullah Nightingale | Secker & Warburg 2000 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned and top page edges slightly foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Translated by John Brownjohn | £5.00 | "... a bear with blue fur... a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have no less than twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw's breadth... " |
| Michael Molloy (Mike Molley) | The Witch Trade | The Chicken House 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Abbey and Spike are drawn into a world of witches... captive children, lost parents, and a quest to find Ice Dust - the source of magical power. With their strange new companions - Captain Starlight, Benbow he giant albatross, and Sir Chadwick Street, flamboyant Master of the Light Witches - they... do battle with an enemy darker and dirtier than they could have ever imagined... " |
| Hugh Montgomery | The Voyage of the Arctic Tern | Walker 2002 First Edition Trade Issue | Bruised at top of spine and front free end paper a little abraded else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Nick Poullis | £5.00 | "... the ship's skipper, Bruno, cursed to a life of eternal wandering for a moment of greed and betrayal... a battle with an ancient adversary, the villainous pirate Mad Dog Morgan... Will good triumph over evil?... Vividly narrated in stirring verse... an extraordinary and epic adventure story... " Lavishly illustrated in black & white. |
| Simon Morden | The Lost Art | David Fickling 2007 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly bumped/rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... This is a tale of the future in which the world has quite literally been turned upside down. all the knowledge of mankind has been lost - except for six incredibly precious books. And those books have just fallen into some very nefarious hands... " |
| Michael Morpurgo | King of the Cloud Forests | Heinemann 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of page corners folded else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a few small ink dots on front fold wording | £5.00 | "With the Japanese armies advancing into China, Ashley is forced to leave his father's Mission and escape to India... the meet a holy man who foretells that Ashley will be... King of the Cloud Forests... Within days Ashley finds himself... trapped by snowstorms in a mountain hut with hungry wolves prowling outside... great lumbering creatures bend over him... caring for him... " |
| Violet Needham | The Changeling of Monte Lucio | Collins 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top edge of front board and page edges a little foxed and faint crayon mark on front free end paper - Very Good copy in slightly rubbed, marked and creased Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears Illustrated by Joyce Bruce | £25.00 | "... the story of Philip, Count of Monte Lucio, and his twin brother Hugo... His guardians and relations, who cordially dislike him, are intriguing to depose him and set his twin brother in his place... Philip... also discovers a plot to oust both himself and Hugo... " |
| Violet Needham | The Stormy Petrel | Tom Stacey 1973 | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine copy in slightly bumped Dust Jacket with a small scratch and a little creasing on the spine panel. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce | £40.00 | "Dick... is called 'the Stormy Petrel' because he always seems to turn up when there's trouble brewing. And he's certainly needed this time; for the young Emperor, Carol, though the rightful heir to the throne, is far from secure..." |
| Robert Newman | The Shattered Stone | Hutchinson 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower board edges slightly rubbed and previous owner's name on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "There were mysteries about their life within the forest that Neva and Iv did not understand. Why did an invisible barrier hold them there? Would they ever be allowed to leave?... they were restless... they sensed that they were being prepared for something... " |
| Robert Newman | The Testing of Tertius | Hutchinson 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower front corner, and slightly bumped at base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In Europe a new Dark Power has arisen... a pigeon carrying a piece of parchment for the wizard Merlin landed exhausted... Tertius still had much to learn from his master. At birth he had, in error, been given the gift of future knowledge and although... well versed in such things as computers and lasers his ability with simple weather spells was not so good... " Sequel to Merlin's Mistake |
| William Nicholson | Noman The Third Book of The Noble Warriors Trilogy | Egmont 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The legendary fighter monks are no more. The mighty warlord of Orlan has managed to destroy their fortress. Without a base or a leader, the Nomana's power has grown weak and the fighters have scattered... And so the hunt begins for a new leader... " |
| William Nicholson | Seeker The First Book of The Noble Warriors Trilogy | Egmont 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Seeker wants glory. Morning Star is looking for her mother. and the Wildman is searching for the answers to questions he doesn't even know exist... united in their desire to join the Nomana, the mysterious fighter monks known as the Noble Warriors... " |
| William Nicholson | The Wind on Fire Trilogy | Mammoth/Egmont 2000-2 All Are First Edition First Printing (All with number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and (volume 1) lower front corner else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jackets. The Wind Singer Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £100.00 | "In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer... " Scarce.. |
| William Nicholson | The Wind Singer | Mammoth 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with the price removed. | £15.00 | "In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer... " First in the acclaimed trilogy. |
| Jenny Nimmo | Emlyn's Moon | Methuen 1987 First Edition First Printing | Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... it is at the chapel that Emlyn Llewelyn and his father, the artist, uncover Nial's special gift... But when Emlyn is in danger, it is Gwyn, the boy magician, who must save him... sequel to the prize-winning The Snow Spider... Rooted in the mythology and landscape of Wales, it is the story of the healing of a family... " |
| Jenny Nimmo | Midnight For Charlie Bone | Egmont 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front, and upper rear corners lightly creased else Fine copy | £80.00 | "Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? Why now? His horrible aunts are delighted with his new talent. They have plans for him... The way Charlie's life is about to change, he'll be lucky to live till Christmas." First of the series - Scarce |
| Jenny Nimmo | Midnight For Charlie Bone | Egmont 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly bumped, spine creased - Very Good Copy | £20.00 | "Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? Why now? His horrible aunts are delighted with his new talent. They have plans for him... The way Charlie's life is about to change, he'll be lucky to live till Christmas." First of the series - Scarce |
| Garth Nix | Abhorsen | Eos 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and around 7mm of one lower page edge else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with lower corner of rear panel slightly crumpled. | £5.00 | "... Only Lirael, newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-waiting, has any chance of stopping the Destroyer... the enemy of all Life, and it must be stopped, though Lirael does not know how... " Last in the acclaimed trilogy. |
| Garth Nix | Sabriel | Collins 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in slightly worn acetate Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Sabriel is the daughter of the Mage Abhorsen. Ever since she was a tiny child, she has lived outside the Wall of the Old Kingdom - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father is missing... Sabriel embarks on a quest fraught with supernatural dangers... " |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Brother To Shadows | Avonova 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "At the end of the history of Ho-Le-Far Lair, a young Shadow named Jofre is cast out in disgrace - cruelly forsaken by the illustrious Brotherhood of spies, bodyguards and assassins to whom he has dedicated hi life... and damned to wander Asborgan alone... he is blood-oathed to... a gentle, reptilian knowledge-seeker on a quest to penetrate the mystery of time... " |
| Andre Norton | Exiles Of The Stars | Longman 1972 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked and slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "As crew members of the Free Trader ship Lydis, Maelen, in the furred body of Vros, Krip Vorlund, who now walked as a Thassa, had to put down on the planet Thoth to find themselves in the middle of an explosive civil war... " Sequel to Moon of Three Rings - scarce. |
| Mary O'Hara | Green Grass of Wyoming | Eyre & Spottiswoode 1947 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised and worn at top and base of spine and page edges and end papers badly foxed - around Very Good copy in worn and slightly eroded, and page edges a little browned and marked Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... hailed as 'the best of her incomparable horse stories'... the canvas is wider, the incidents even faster and more dramatic, there is the hint of a delightfully handled young love story, and... the writer's brilliant handling of all her people, human and animal... " |
| Michelle Paver | Spirit Walker Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "A cry echoed through the Forest. He froze. It was not the yowl of a vixen, or a lynx seeking a mate. It was a man. Or something that had once been a man. With a creeping sense of dread, Torak watched the light between the trees begin to fail... " Book Two. |
| Dennis Pepper | The Young Oxford book of Supernatural Stories | Oxford University Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Stories by Ramsey Campbell; Angela Carter; Adele Geras; John Gordon; Lafcadio Hearn; Brian Jacques; M. R. James; Phillipa Pearce; Alison Prince; Lawrence Staig; H. Russell Wakefield; Elizabeth Walter and Jane Yolen and others |
| Ludek Pesek | Trap For Perseus | Kestrel 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges slightly browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tiny wear spot at the top of the spine | £2.50 | "In the year 2275 Commander Steve Blair of the spacecraft Perseus III discovers from the Argo, a spaceship which slipped mysteriously from radio contact with Earth 200 years ago did not perish... the spaceship's 120,000 crew members have adapted to life in deep space... their old ideas of happiness and morality have also developed... " |
| K. M. Peyton | The Maplin Bird | Oxford 1964 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, School Prize label on front free end paper and front free end paper and top page edges a little marked and foxed - Very Good copy in slightly marked, worn and torn Dust Jacket with pricing sticker 'ghost'.. | £7.50 | "Mr and Mrs Garland died in an epidemic of cholera and their two children were taken in by an uncle. To Toby and Emily, any sort of life seemed better than the gall and indignity of living with their uncle's brutal slave driving... there was Adam and the mystery of the Maplin Bird... heading with that ruthless, daring smuggler for France... " |
| Meredith Ann Pierce | Dark Moon | Little, Brown 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and previous owner's name and date on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "He was the youngest prince the unicorns had ever known: Alijan son-of-Korr, Dark Moon. A silver crescent on his brow and a white star on his heel were tokens that one day he was destined to become the legendary Firebringer... a haunting, high-spirited fantasy full of magic and adventure, creating a stunning sequel to Birth of the Firebringer, the first in the trilogy..." |
| Meredith Ann Pierce | The Darkangel | Collins 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Darkangel. Aeriel remembered the first time she had seen the vampyre, a creature with more wings than she could count. They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky. they drank the light and diminished it; they were wings of pure shadow... Never before had she seen a living being so cold and evil... or so compellingly handsome..." |
| Meredith Ann Pierce | The Pearl Of The Soul Of The World | Little, Brown 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "All the knowledge necessary to run the world is there in the small white pearl that glows in Aeriel's hand. "All my sorcery," the ancient Ravenna had said, "and you are about to be my envoy. It is left to you to save the world."..." Volume III of the Darkangel Trilogy. |
| Viido Polikarpus | Down Town A Fantasy | Macdonald 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There is an enchanted place beneath the streets of the City where the past can still be found... the tale of a fantastic odyssey to defend this forgotten world from an ancient evil... " |
| Terry Pratchett | A Hat Full Of Sky | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A real witch can ride a broomstick, cast spells and make a proper shambles out of anything... Elven-year-old Tiffany Aching can't. A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Only You Can Save Mankind | Doubleday 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, damp marked on the inside. | £5.00 | "The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen... Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces... And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that!... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats... And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Bromeliad | Doubleday 1989-90 All Are First Edition First Printings (3 Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines, and page edges a little marked else Fine copies in slightly creased Dust Jackets - Note: Truckers Jacket is price-clipped and hinge-glue on this copy is visible through the end papers in this area. | £25.00 | "... a devastating piece of news is to shatter the nomes' existence: the Store - their world - is to be demolished... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Truckers | Ladybird 1992 First Edition Thus First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy. Illustrated with scenes from the Cosgrove Hall TV serial. | £5.00 | "... The nomes are in danger! The department store where they live is about to be demolished and they need to move to a new home. But how do you drive a full-sized lorry through city streets when you and your friends are just four inches high?" |
| Terry Pratchett | Wintersmith A Story of Discworld | Doubleday 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool!... " |
| Susan Price | A Sterkarm Kiss | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one page corner creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "FUP is one of the most advanced research companies in the world, and the jewel in its crown is operational again. The Time Tube: a direct link to five centuries past. But this time they know the risks... Now the 21st century men... are out to get what they can by guile. They're to be seen as peacemakers, universally loved, and above suspicion... " |
| Susan Price | Christopher Uptake | Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Christopher Uptake, a joiner's son, was clever enough to win a University scholarship. But the conventional teaching bored him, the conventional religion repelled him; soon... he had... sold a play... atheism was a capital crime and his careless talk of it had laid him open to blackmail... " 16th century historical.. |
| Maggie Prince | Here Comes A Candle To Light You To Bed | Orion 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "Although she hardly knows him, Emily already feels part of Seth's mysterious world... one of trapped time, full of the terrified and terrifying victims of plague-ridden seventeenth London. How can Emily release herself from this fearful past? " |
| Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials III The Amber Spyglass | Scholastic 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Whitbread Award Winner) | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top of spine and top corners, slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a few short lamination wrinkles on the back panel | £10.00 | "Lyra and Will... find themselves... facing even greater perils. But there are old friends who come to their aid... There are new allies... And there are new dangers, including a journey to the worst world of all... " Third book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials Northern Lights | Scholastic 1995 First Edition First Printing (First State DJ - without Carnegie Medal sticker on D. J. front panel) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one light spine crease else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a tiny triangle of material eroded from the base of the front fold. | £1,500.00 | "A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London... where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air... and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for... " Scarce first book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Philip Pullman | I Was A Rat!... or The Scarlet Slippers | Doubleday 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine with a couple of spots of wear at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in laminated boards, as issued | £100.00 | "I was a RAT! So insists Roger. Maybe it's not true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster rampaging in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A money-spinning fairground freak? He is to Mr Tapscrew. A champion wriggler and a downy card. That's what Billy hopes... " |
| Philip Pullman | Lyra's Oxford | David Fickling 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy Engravings by John Lawrence | £5.00 | "A beguiling new episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and other matter never before seen in this world." |
| Philip Pullman | The Scarecrow And His Servant | Knopf 2004 First Edition in the US First Printing | Corners creased, covers lightly creased, edges slightly rubbed/worn - around Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £10.00 | "When a bolt of lightning strikes a tattered scarecrow, he blinks with surprise - and comes to life. He's a courteous fellow with a generous spirit, a passion for adventure - and a small pea for a brain. Accompanied by Jack... the Scarecrow leaves his bird-scaring duties behind and seeks a life of excitement and glory... " |
| Philip Pullman | The Scarecrow And His Servant | Doubleday 2004 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. | £5.00 | "One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no notice... until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head. The scarecrow blinked with surprise and came to life... a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas... terrifying dangers - battle and shipwreck, brigands and tricksters... " |
| Philip Pullman | The Subtle Knife | Scholastic 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) | Bruised at base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed | £175.00 | "Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run... Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs... " Scarce second book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Philip Pullman | The Subtle Knife | Scholastic 1997 Second Printing (With number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3) | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a light crease running the length of the spine panel | £30.00 | "Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run... Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs... " Second book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Lucy Daniel Raby | Nicolai of the North | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, and page edges a little browned - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Illustrated by Ted Dewan | £4.00 | "One Midwinter's Eve, many centuries ago, a miracle happened at the North Pole, when out of a chasm in the earth's core, the Elfin Kingdom was born... Now the kingdom is all but destroyed. Only Nicolai, the last Elf, is saved... when the evil Magda begins her terrifying onslaught on the children of the world, it is Nicolai alone who is able to stand up to her... " |
| Celia Rees | The Wish House | Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In the scorching summer of 1976, on holiday in Wales, Richard meets the inhabitants of the Wish House... a famous artist... His sixteen-year-old daughter, Clio... The whole exuberant, talented Dalton clan amaze Richard... and Clio entrances him utterly... " |
| Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | Scholastic 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea... London is on the move again. The city has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground... A young assassin is hunting her own prey through the city... " |
| Philip Reeve | Predator's Gold | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short (4mm) split at the top of the rear fold | £5.00 | "... After two years of carefree travelling on the Bird Roads, a chance encounter leads Tom and Hester back into danger. Fleeing from the grim aviators of the Green Storm, the cold of the Ice Wastes seeping into their bones, they stumble on the ice city of Anchorage... " Sequel to Mortal Engines. |
| Philip Reeve | The Hungry City Chronicles | Scholastic 2001-6 All Are First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines, some page edges a little rubbed and/or browned and Predator's Gold with two page fore-edges with a small (3mm) tear else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £60.00 | "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea... London is on the move again. The city has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground... A young assassin is hunting her own prey through the city... " |
| Justin Richards | The Invisible Detective The Paranormal Puppet Show | Pocket Books 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "... When fourteen-year-old Arthur Drake shelters from the rain in a dusty shop, the last thing he expects to find is the antique casebook of The Invisible Detective. It may have been written in the 1930's but it's in his handwriting... " The first incredible adventure... |
| Katherine Roberts | Song Quest | Element 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and mark on lower edge of P. 52/3 else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with 7mm tear at top edge of rear panel and a little wear at the top of the rear fold Illustrated by Chris Down | £5.00 | "... Trembling with excitement, she opened her eyes. At first they were only shadows under the surface, dark blurs that glimmered silver and green around the edges as they rippled closer. Then about fifty of them broke the water at once in a fountain of spray and flashing rainbow tails. Rialle caught her breath. They were even more beautiful than she'd imagined... " |
| Jean Ross | The Martlet Box | Canongate 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower few mm of front panel slightly dusty else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Simon and Malcolm, cousins on holiday in Edinburgh, find themselves drawn into a mystery... the meeting with the beautiful and ageless Mrs Clarke, and their first experience of travelling back in time... the boys allow the age-old forces of good and evil to lead them, perilously, to the very edge of hell... " |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets | Bloomsbury 1998 Third Printing (Number Line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small spot of wear at base of spine, and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small spot of wear near the top of the rear fold. | £100.00 | First issue dustwrapper with '1997 Smarties Award Winner etc.' roundel on front panel, and full issue points - On front DJ flap: lines 19 & 20: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' not italicised; line 25: 'Tom El-Shawk Age 11' - no comma after name, 'age' has capital 'A'; line 26: 'Harry Potter' not italicised; line 30: 'Harry' not italicised; line 32: 'Katrina Farrant Age 10' - no comma after name, 'age' has a capital 'A'. |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire | Bloomsbury 2000 First Edition First Printing (First Issue printed in England by Clays Printers. Contains 3 errors later corrected: P. 503 "Dumbledore, come!" spoken by Crouch; P. 579 James Potter exits Voldemort's wand before Lily; P. 594 "The Imperius Curse, Moody said) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "It is the summer holidays, and one night Harry Potter wakes up with his scar burning. He has had a strange dream, one that he can't help worrying about... until a timely invitation... arrives: to nothing less than the Quiddich World Cup! Soon Harry is... gasping at the thrills of an international Quiddich match. But then something horrible happens... " |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix | Bloomsbury 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the lower edge. | £4.00 | "Harry Potter is about to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... " |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Bloomsbury 1999 First Edition in Paperback First Printing (With Full Number Line) | Slightly bumped at base of spine, corners slightly rubbed, one page corner creased and previous owner's initials on top left corner of prelim page else Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Harry Potter, along with his friends Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... But... the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose... " |
| Christopher Russell | Brind | Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and corners - Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Discovered as a baby in a litter of hounds, kennel boy Brind is more dog than human. He understands dogs. He speaks to dogs. And most importantly, he leads them. but when Brind is torn from his pack in the midst of a bloody battle, he is suddenly thrown into a world more dangerous than the fiercest of his dogs - the world of men... " |
| Jean Russell | The Methuen Book of Sinister Stories | Methuen 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Tony Ross | £5.00 | "All of these twelve new stories are set in the present day and tell of strange and curious happenings that will send shivers down your spine... " Stories by Adele Geras; Dennis Hamley; Joan Phipson; Joan Aiken; Jan And page edges slightly marked; Robert Swindells; Gene Kemp; Marjorie Darke; Ann Pilling and Patricia Miles |
| Angie Sage | Araminta Spook 1 My Haunted House | Bloomsbury 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrations by Jimmy Pickering | £7.50 | "... Araminta Spook isn't like most girls her age. She lives in a huge and haunted house with her Uncle Drac and Aunt Tabitha and her greatest ambition is to meet a ghost. But Aunt Tabitha is determined to sell the house, and Araminta must think of a cunning way to stop her... " |
| Angie Sage | Septimus Heap Book One Magyk | Bloomsbury 2005 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in laminated boards and Dust Jacket with a crease running the length of the front flap. Illustrations by Mark Zug | £10.00 | "An ExtraOrdinary Wizard mysteriously resigns. a young Queen is taken ill. A baby boy disappears. a baby girl is rescued from a snowy path in the woods. And all on the same night... The evil necromancer DomDaniel is plotting his comeback and a Major Obstacle resides in the Heap family... " First of the series |
| Fay Sampson | The Silent Fort | Hale 2003 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "The Roman army is invading Devon. In Hillforts and sacred groves, druids and warriors quarrel over the fate of their tribe... male and female druids compete for the soul of the tribe and the Roman legion marches relentlessly closer... " |
| Hugh Scott | Something Watching | Walker 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... When Alice's mother is clearing out the loft, ready for the family's move from their chalet bungalow to an old castle, Alice sees the leopard-skin coat for the first time. And it makes her shudder. Attached to the coat is a label insisting that it be burned... out in the darkness, there is something watching and waiting. Something evil. Something monstrous... " |
| Hugh Scott | The Shaman's Stone | Andersen Press 1988 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine and a touch of wear top corners else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "... Martha's father dies suddenly while working on an archaeological dig... a chain of supernatural happenings is set off... a wolfish shape is seen prowling round the garden... Later, to her horror, Martha finds her father's handwriting superimposed on a poem she has written, warning of danger... " |
| Marcus Sedgwick | Floodland | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Imagine that England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island... Zoe... survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among the marauding gangs, she manages to digs a boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island is full of danger too... " |
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Dark Flight Down | Orion 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic and deadly chases through gloomy catacombs, but he is still on the run... " Sequel to The Book of Dead Days |
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Dark Horse | Orion 2002 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket but for tarnishing of silver cover letters | £5.00 | "A girl snatched from the wolves, a sealed box that can only be opened by one person, a sinister stranger nearing the end of his quest, and a boy destined to lead his clan are woven together into this riveting story of betrayal and ancient magic... " |
| David Severn (David Storr Unwin) | Forest Holiday | Bodley Head 1946 First Edition First Printing | Lower board edges a little bumped, top page edges a little dusty and small area of spine panel slightly faded - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly torn Dust Jacket with half-fingernail sized piece missing from bade of spine Illustrated by J Kiddell-Monroe | £7.50 | "Spring in the air; the forest carpeted with early flowers, and Crusoe camping out under the trees with his horse and caravan... the Easter holiday prospects were almost too good to be true!... a chain of adventures (or mis-adventures)... " |
| Darren Shan | Lord Loss | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No 78/666) | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a fine slit in the spine panel and a bumped and torn box. | £10.00 | "When Grubbs Grady first encounters Lord Loss and his evil minions, he learns three things the world is vicious, magic is possible, demons are real. He thinks he will never again witness such a terrible night of death and darkness. ... He is wrong." |
| Bob Shaw | Killer Planet | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Verdia - the most mysterious, most dangerous, most deadly planet man has yet discovered; a remote most-shrouded world from which no one has ever returned... " |
| Nicky Singer | Feather Boy | Collins 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine Copy | £5.00 | "... Robert is the class victim, the guy who's never picked for the team. so no-one is more surprised than Robert himself when a strange old lady sends him on a quest to solve the mystery of derelict Chance House. Legend has it that a boy once fell to his death from an upper window... To get the truth, Robert must learn what it really means to fly." Blue Peter book of the Year |
| William Sleator | The Spirit House | Heinemann 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the top of the front fold and a short split at the top of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "Julie Kamen is definitely not looking forward to the arrival of her family's exchange student from Thailand... But Bia ... turns out to be handsome and sophisticated... her brother, Dominic... builds a traditional Thai spirit house... But Bia is afraid of the spirit house... " |
| Alexander McCall Smith | The Muscle Machine | Hamish Hamilton 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top of spine and upper corners and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Terry McKenna | £15.00 | "Gordon is not particularly strong: not weak, but not especially strong. This has never bothered him though, until he meets Ted, who's a bit of a bully. That's when Gordon decides to send for Mr World's Muscle Machine - a machine which will bring about some extraordinary changes for Gordon!" Scarce 87pp children's' story. |
| Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) | A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the First A Bad Beginning | Egmont 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and a touch of wear at the corners else Fine copy in laminated boards, as issued. Illustrated by Brett Helquist | £7.50 | "... an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children... the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe... terrible news... a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast... " |
| Mary Stewart | A Walk in Wolf Wood | Hodder & Stoughton 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the corners | £7.50 | "... a story which combines adventure with magic. the romance of a time-slip into castle life of the Germany of the Middle Ages... John and Margaret are offered the choice of whether they go into great danger or not, and on that choice may depend a release from enchantment... " |
| Paul Stewart | Beyond the Deepwoods The Edge Chronicles | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Advertising Flyer | £280.00 | "Dark and deeply mysterious, the Deepwoods are home to many fantastical peoples and creatures... beyond the Deepwoods lie further harsh and perilous lands: the Edgelands, a barren wasteland of swirling mists and nightmares, the enchanting but treacherous Twilight Woods, the stinking, desolate landscape of the Mire... " |
| Paul Stewart | Beyond the Deepwoods The Edge Chronicles | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in Proof Dust Jacket, a little crumpled and creased where Jacket extended over the proof. With Publisher's Promotional Letter | £230.00 | "Dark and deeply mysterious, the Deepwoods are home to many fantastical peoples and creatures... beyond the Deepwoods lie further harsh and perilous lands: the Edgelands, a barren wasteland of swirling mists and nightmares, the enchanting but treacherous Twilight Woods, the stinking, desolate landscape of the Mire... " |
| Paul Stewart | Beyond the Deepwoods The Edge Chronicles | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners, page edges a little marked and a faint ink smudge at the top edge of the rear panel - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket a little damp-marked on the inside. Signed and Inscribed by the Author & Illustrator and with a double-page, signed drawing by the illustrator. | £200.00 | "Dark and deeply mysterious, the Deepwoods are home to many fantastical peoples and creatures... beyond the Deepwoods lie further harsh and perilous lands: the Edgelands, a barren wasteland of swirling mists and nightmares, the enchanting but treacherous Twilight Woods, the stinking, desolate landscape of the Mire... " |
| Paul Stewart | Blobheads | Macmillan 2003 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, a few light spots on top page edges and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy. Signed and Inscribed by the Author & Illustrator. | £7.50 | "... Blobheads are PURPLE, WEIRD ALIENS from THE PLANET BLOB Zerek, Kerek and Derek are on a VERY important mission. They're looking for the High Emperor of the Universe. His nose oozes green stuff. He smells pongy. He's less than a year old. And they think they will find him in Billy Barnes bathroom... " |
| Paul Stewart | Fergus Crane | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Illustrator on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... the Daring Exploits of Fergus Crane and his amazing journey to the Emerald Sea... " |
| Paul Stewart | Midnight Over Sanctaphrax Book 3 Of The Edge Chronicles | Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners, previous owner's name on front free end paper and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Far over the Edge, a mighty storm is brewing - a whirling vortex of immense power and unimaginable ferocity that is essential to the survival of the Edgelands... in its path is Sanctaphrax - a magnificent city built on a floating rock and tethered to the land by a massive chain... " |
| Paul Stewart | The Weather Witch | Viking Kestrel 1989 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Jon Riley | £50.00 | "Clee Manor is all that survives of a village that mysteriously disappeared 400 years ago. Kerry and Joe go there to stay with their Great-Aunt... But they are direct descendants of Megwyn Nashe and... come face to face with the Weather Witch herself... they comprehend the enormity of their task and the awesome power they must overcome." |
| David Lee Stone | The Illmoor Chronicles The Shadewell Shenanigans | Hodder & Stoughton 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page and with special bookmark | £10.00 | "Groan Teethgrit and Gordo Goldaxe have looted one village too many, and now the Lords of Illmoor are baying for their blood. Can Duke Modeset, exiled Lord of Dullitch, devise a plan clever enough to topple the duo AND Groan's equally reckless half-brother?... " |
| Jonathan Stroud | The Bartimaeus Trilogy | Doubleday 2003-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets | £30.00 | "... When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to do nothing more taxing than a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge... Set in a modern-day London controlled by magicians... " |
| Showell Styles | A Sword for Mr Fitton | Faber 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Acting-Lieutenant Michael Fitton lived and fought in the same period as Horatio Nelson... the amazing story of Michael Fitton's Caribbean sea-fights... encounters and sea-duels as desperate as any in historical fiction - yet, all of them, historical fact... " |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | Bonnie Dundee | Bodley Head 1983 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a light damp stain at the top edge of the rear panel and the spine-panel browns faded. | £5.00 | "... a memorable picture of seventeenth-century Scotland and a portrait of one of its great Jacobite heroes whose name has lived over the centuries in story and in song... " |
| Robert Swindells | Brother In The Land | Oxford University Press 1984 First Edition First Printing (The Other Award Winner 1984 | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightyl creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Danny is one of the unlucky ones, a survivor, one of those who have come through a nuclear holocaust alive... In plain language Danny sets down the sights and events around him... It isn't a pleasant story. Danny records whatr happened to the people of Shipley... " |
| Robert Swindells | World-Eater | Hodder & Stoughton 1987 | Pages slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £3.00 | "On the night of the big storm a mysterious new planet appears in the sky... Scientific probes reveal some incredible facts about this planet: its surface is a thin, smooth crust and it has a liquid interior. It is unlike any other planet known to man. It is Orville who... realises the truth about the planet's true nature. But will anyone believe him... " |
| G. P. Taylor | Mariah Mundi The Midas Box | Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Fresh out of school, young Mariah... is to assist the magician in... stage shows... Below ground, between the slimy, green-dripping walls of the basement is where the magic-show equipment is kept - and lurking in an Egyptian sarcophagus among scuttling sea-creatures is a secret that draws Mariah into the path of villainy and possible death." |
| G. P. Taylor | Shadowmancer | Faber 2003 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue (Paper) (With Number Line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) | Page edges bruised else Fine Copy | £15.00 | "... a world of superstition, magic and witchcraft where nothing can be taken for granted... Obediah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane... " Highly regarded first novel. |
| G. P. Taylor | Tersias | Faber 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "London is living through dark times and Magnus Malachi, a magician, is closely guarding his latest moneyspinner - Tersias, a blind boy who can see into the future... but is he a force for good or evil? And can he ever rid himself of the dark spirit that torments his soul?" |
| Roderick Townley | Into The Labyrinth | Simon & Schuster 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and across top board edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Princess Sylvie and her fellow fairy-tale characters can't believe it when the storybook they are part of becomes a smash hit bestseller. They have to rush to get to their place in the story every time a new reader... opens the book... soon the story is even uploaded onto the Web... But when words get changed round... their electronic world is in danger of destruction... " Sequel to The Great Good Thing |
| Roderick Townley | The Great Good Thing | Simon & Schuster 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than 80 years, ever since the novel she lives in was first printed... when a new reader gazes down into Chapter One, Sylvie breaks an important rule... she looks at the Reader. Worse still, she gets to know the Reader... Sylvie enters the girl's dreams and discovers a new and exciting world... " |
| John Rowe Townsend | King Creature, Come | Oxford University Press 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | "'...I think, myself, it began the day I saw the Creature prowling around the garbage...' From that day, Vector, the narrator... found all his inherited assumptions about the nature of Creatures being called into question..." |
| Thomas Vetch (????) | The Amber City Being Some Account Of The Adventures Of A Steam Crocodile In Central Africa. | Biggs & Debenham [1888] First Edition First Printing | Worn and slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners and lower boards edges worn, cloth split over lower 20mm at left hand side of spine, covers a little rubbed and dulled, evidence of label removal from front fixed end paper and page edges stained and age-darkened - fair (?) copy | £80.00 | A boys adventure: Thomas Vetch and his friends explore Central Africa where they find a lost race in a city of amber... |
| Jackie Vivelo | Chills Run Down My Spine | Dorling Kindersley 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and one page corner creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Jennifer Eachus | £4.00 | "When Mickey finds himself abandoned in a terrifying haunted house, he discovers more than ghosts and learns that nothing is stranger than human nature... In this, the title story, and the other eight stories in this chilling collection, Jackie Vivelo gives traditional ghost stories a subtle twist as she explores deeper and darker secrets and emotions... " |
| Cynthia Voigt | When She Hollers | Scholastic 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The knowledge hurts. It claws at her insides like a disease, like a tumour. The shame burns. Like acid eating at her stomach. Like a fire that ignites in this air, engulfing her... that's why Tish got the knife. She feels it cool against her ankle... she is not going to take it from him anymore... " |
| Hugh Walters | The Caves Of Drach | Faber 1977 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "Chris Godfrey, the famous astronaut is on holiday... with his friends... There is one cavern to which no one is admitted... a number of people had entered and none had ever returned... the astronauts... enter the cavern..." |
| Keith Waterhouse | Worzel Gummidge's Television Adventures | Kestrel 1979 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a collection of stories about... the irrepressible scarecrow of Scatterbrook Farm... These new adventures... have all appeared in the television series... and they bring out all that is funniest and most charming about the lovable, sulky, irresponsible Worzel." |
| Sylvia Waugh | The Mennyms | Julia MacRae 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner damp marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with damp-marking at lower front corner on the inside (no show-through). | £10.00 | "The Mennyms are a devoted family living together at No. 5 Brocklehurst Grove. It is a big household in which five children are eternally fussed over by their mother... No. 5 is home to a stunning deception... It isn't just the elusive Miss Quigley, lurking in the cupboard under the stairs... It is a far more dangerous secret... " First of the series. |
| Beth Webb | Star Dancer The Book of Air | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Goddess has warned the druids of evil to come... an untimely shower of stars will mark the birth of one who can stem the tide... Raven-haired and green-eyed, her name is Tegen... a ruthless enemy plots to destroy the Star Dancer and let evil out... " First of the series. |
| Catherine Webb | Mirror Dreams | Atom 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "Every dream you've ever had, and every dream yet to come, exists somewhere in the Kingdom of the Void. Every nightmare, too... The Lords of the Nightkeep... 're... into Conquest, Fear, and Eternal Darkness... It takes an extremely powerful Void wizard... to keep them in check... and Nightkeep is growing stronger... " |
| Robert Westall | A Place For Me | Macmillan 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and in the centre of the rear panel else Fine copy in like, rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Still getting over her mother's sudden death, Lucy's father one day hands her a briefcase full of tattered bank notes and tells her she must run away. Is he going mad with grief? Or is it something much worse? Frightened and alone, Lucy knows neither where she's running to, nor what she's running from... " |
| Robert Westall | Futuretrack 5 | Kestrel 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "Henry Kitson makes his first mistake when he scores a hundred percent in his exams... Promoted to Tech, he is equipped with a white coat and a clipboard and becomes one of that small body who keep the country's computerised living-systems going. His second mistake is going on the razzle... Kitson becomes pinball champion and meets blonde, leather-clad Keri... " |
| Robert Westall | Ghost Abbey | Macmillan 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in torn and slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Maggi knew from the start the old Abbey had power - power to welcome and to love as well as to destroy... Only the Abbey knew what it wanted to do with them. The things that happened were so subtle, so innocent... till Maggi saw the pattern. Then she knew they had to leave quickly. But would the Abbey let them?" |
| Robert Westall | Rachel and the Angel and other stories | Macmillan 1986 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly rubbed else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £15.00 | "... A new collection for young adults of fantastic, chilling and extraordinary stories from a master storyteller." Urn Burial; Peckforton Hill; The Death of Wizards; The Big Rock Candy Mountain; Rachel and the Angel; A Nose Against the Glass and Artist on Aramor |
| Robert Westall | The Haunting Of Chas McGill and other stories | Macmillan 1985 First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and top rear corner else Fine copy in slightly rubbed laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | The Haunting Of Chas McGill; Almost a Ghost Story; The Vacancy; The Night Out; The Creatures in the House; Sea-coal; The Dracula Tour; and A Walk on the Wild Side. Very scarce. |
| Robert Westall | The Night Mare | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing | Eroded at top of rear panel adjacent to spine (and affecting this corner of 13 pages) else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Miss Crimond was sitting in Dad's chair which had once been Grandpa's chair; and Billy hated her. To Billy and all the families who rented houses in Back Tennyson Street, Miss Crimond was the arch enemy. Billy and his gang declare war... But Billy's campaign has unexpected consequences when he sees the night mare, the horse of his dreams... " |
| Jay Williams | Unearthly Beasts and Other Strange People | Macmillan 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and board edges slightly faded else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... mostly new stories from a veteran SF author... about people who have forgotten what life now is like, about strange and unexpected creatures. What... is the monster that frightens everyone on Omizu? Are Happy Pills the way to a better life? Is it safe to play outside the domes among the silver snakes and owl-things?... " Very Scarce |
| Tad Williams | Child Of An Ancient City | Legend 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top f the front fold | £4.00 | "Sitting around their dinner table, replete from a mighty banquet... two of the Calif's most trusted servants - are called upon to tell tales. Tales of the unknown north, where they ventured in their youth as guards to a caravan. As their tale unfolds, a creeping horror floods over the listeners.. " |
| Maud Willis | The Bionic Woman: A Question of Life | Allan Wingate 1977 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, pages browned, else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | Based on the TV Series The Bionic Woman, which was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. This novel adapted from the episodes 'Claws' and 'Canyon of Death'. |
| Patrick Wood | Viaduct Child | Scholastic 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corne else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a short scratch on the front panel | £7.50 | "The orphaned Dushma lives in the arch of a railway viaduct with her unsympathetic Aunt Megan. Officially a non-person... she spends her time exploring the tangle of streets beneath the viaduct and the outlandish, labyrinthine St Gotha's Cathedral... When police raid her home, Dushma... finds refuge in the forgotten passageways of the city's underground railway... " |
| Chris Wooding | Poison | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly bumped and rubbed and small felt pen cross on cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Poison has always been a wilful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when she discovers that her younger sister is has been snatched by the phaeries, she decides to seek out the Phaerie Lord herself to get her back... " |
| Chris Wooding | Poison | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Poison has always been a wilful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when she discovers that her younger sister is has been snatched by the phaeries, she decides to seek out the Phaerie Lord herself to get her back... " |
| Chris Wooding | The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray | Scholastic 2001 First Edition First Printing | Lower front edge and corner bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy With Publisher's advertising sheet | £100.00 | "Inspired by Gormenghast and H. P. Lovecraft... a Gothic adventure set in Victorian London, all gas-lit and creepy, where wych-hunters roam the streets at night, seeking out the dreadful creatures who terrorise the capital's citizens. Thaniel Fox is only an apprentice... with an uncanny nose for anything from the dark side... " Silver Smarties Winner |
| Sean Wright | Jesse Jameson and the Bogie Beast | Crowswing 2003 Second Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page & with matching bookmark | £5.00 | "... you will discover imaginary fairy kingdoms to rival Discworld, Hogwarts and Deptford with a host of hilarious, weird new characters... " |
| Sean Wright | Jesse Jameson and the Curse of Caldazar | Crowswing 2004 Second Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page & with matching bookmark | £5.00 | "... is the third... Jesse, enters the Spiral Gate to the unknown fairy kingdoms to search for a cure to awaken her grandmother, but there are dark, bloodsucking forces desperate to stop her... " |
| Sean Wright | Jesse Jameson and the Golden Glow | Crowswing 2003 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, front free end paper damp-rippled else Fine copy in like, slightly crumpled, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Although Jesse Jameson is not a wizard or a witch, she has two rather unusual gifts for a child who is almost eleven. Firstly she can see into the future... Secondly... she finds out that she is a changeling... " |
| Patricia Wrightson | Shadows of Time | Random House Australia 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "If you were given the freedom of water - to go wherever you wished and do whatever was natural - if you were able to follow forever through time and space, is 'forever' what you would choose? A kitchen maid called Sarah Jane and an Aboriginal boy whose name is secret have made the choice; while a new country grows up around them, and the sky spirits wander, and the Hairy-Men hide." |
| Patricia Wrightson | The Dark Bright Water | Hutchinson 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Wirrun, the Aborigine boy, was working in a pub when the summons came from his People... they had noticed strange things happening... And the spirits were wandering far from their proper places… Wirrun... had dealt with the land and its spirits before, and was known as a Hero...Wirrun was unwilling to go... he had troubles of his own... " |
| Timothy Zahn | Dragon And Soldier The Second Dragonback Adventure | Starscape 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Strange things are happening... and people and events are not always what they seem. Jack and Draycos will need all their wits and talents... if they are going to survive... " |
| Timothy Zahn | Dragon And Thief | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small bump to a few top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... two outcasts: Jack Morgan, a teen on his own who is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and Draycos, a dragon who is the sole survivor of a battle with a space fleet intent on annihilating everyone from his homeworld... |
| Paul Zindel | The Doom Stone | Bodley Head 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | "A deadly predator is roaming Salisbury Plain and Jackson Cawley, a fifteen year old American, is abruptly plunged into the hunt to kill it before it kills again... With the help o a local girl, Alma, Jackson endeavours to discover the lair of the beast. But to do so, they must first unravel the secret of its power and the connection it has to the vast and mysterious Stonehenge. ... " |
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