Dan Abnett | Doctor DW Who The Silent Stars Go By | BBC Books 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine, one page fore-edge a little creased and top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... For centuries the Morphans have worked... to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth... as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops... it's not the time to welcome unexpected guests... The Doctor, my and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain... And then... the Ice Warriors make their move... '' |
Douglas Adams | Mostly Harmless | Heinemann 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a little erosion at the base of the front fold | 5.00 | ''It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills... '' |
Douglas Adams | The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul | Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly browned Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow... shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility... the IRA... the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushes out a statement... it is simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God?... '' |
Richard Adams | The Girl In A Swing | Allen Lane 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine & top page edges a little dusty else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | Not the ''Suppressed'' First State with the lead female called Kathe Gutner, (which seems to have been sent to Australia/Canada) this state has the name changed to ''Karin Forster'' as being 'easier' for an English-speaking audience (and perhaps avoiding a lawsuit?). A haunting love-story... |
Brian Wilson Aldiss | Sex and the Black Machine | Avernus 1988 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue (Paper) | Centre-stapled paper booklet - pages lightly browned | 5.00 | Poetry, illustrations and a short story, created 3rd June 1988 and isued with Interzone 38 |
Brian Wilson Aldiss | That Improbable Equator | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine Photocopy A4 Spiral-Bound Uncorrected Proof. With a few notes from the proof-reader | 20.00 | Probably an Uncorrected Proof for the US 'The Year Before Yesterday' as the Kerosina Cracken At Critical is significantly different... |
Brian Wilson Aldiss | The Magic of the Past | Kerosina 1987 First Edition Limited State - Issued Without Dust Jacket (No. 261/300 | Fine Book | 15.00 | Includes An Introduction by the Author and two shorts: North Scarning (Originally published in The Illustrated London News as The Older Evil and the title story. ''... both about people caught by the past... 'North Scarning' is set in Norfolk, a hunted region of England... 'The Magic of the Past' is scarcely a ghost story, and certainly not science fiction... '' 48 pages. |
Osric Allen (P. J. Allen a.k.a. Rodney Scruggs, Charlie Chimp or Hyperbole G. Malestrom) | The Dark Tunnel A Comedy | Robert Temple 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket With Publisher/Author's Promotion Sheet, and Two Signed Letters addressed to Peter Haining with attached review | 10.00 | ''... Set in a world that has never been, but is a distillation of our world... a single family: three brothers, their sister and their father - who is perhaps a King... Freed from circumstances by their royal birth, they are able to pursue untrammelled the paths that are suggested by their natures... mysterious, darkly comic, thoughtful, lyrical and terrifying... '' |
Roger MacBride Allen | Isaac Asimov's Inferno | Millennium 1994 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little bruised and marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a tear at the base of the spine and a long crease extending along the lower edge of the rear panel | 7.50 | ''... On the decaying Spacer world of Inferno, amidst the technological sophistication of the Limbo terraforming station, the no-law robot Caliban finds himself intermediary in the complex relations between robots and humans. But when a key politician is murdered, fear of Caliban as the robot without guilt or conscience... escalates - and crisis begins... '' |
Marilyn L. ? Alm | London Lady | Self-Published ???? | Fine spiral-bound laminated card covered booklet | 5.00 | An historical fantasy with magick dedicated to Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey. Possibly produced in this format for distribution to prospective publishers. |
David Ambrose | The Discrete Charm Of Charlie Monk | Macmillan 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket | 4.00 | '' 'You're custom-built, Charlie, a hero for our time... We want you thinking, but only up to a point... ' Charlie... is the ultimate superhero... no conscience... no memory. Dr Susan Flemyng has found a way to give memory back... should she take the greatest risk of all, and trust Charlie?... '' |
Jay Amory (James Lovegrove) | The Fledging of AZ Gabrielson The Clouded World Book I | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With the Publisher's promotion sheet | 7.50 | ''Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high among the clouds. It's a life of ease and beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity... '' |
Jay Amory (James Lovegrove) | The Fledging of AZ Gabrielson The Clouded World Book I | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high among the clouds. It's a life of ease and beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity... '' |
Jay Amory (James Lovegrove) | The Wingless Boy | Gollancz 2006 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book. With Publisher's Press Release | 5.00 | ''Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high among the clouds. It's a life of ease and beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity... '' The first two books in the series. |
Charlie Jane Anders | The City In The Middle Of The Night | Titan 2019 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, one bookmark binding strain and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 5.00 | ''January is a dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life... in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands... Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead... '' |
Kevin J. Anderson | Ignition | Tor 1997 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and one page corner tip creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a short staple scratch on the front panel | 4.00 | ''The launching of the shuttle Atlantis will make history. Another triumph for the space programme, and a political coup: a Russian cosmonaut is scheduled to perform the first spacewalk from an American unit... The mission is proceeding like clockwork.. No one knows the real danger... '' |
Kevin J. Anderson | Ill Wind | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and faint mark on lower page edges else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket, with a 15mm tear at the base of the rear panel | 4.00 | ''A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco... to avert an ecological... disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill. A virus that spreads like wildfire on the wind, destroying anything made of petroleum... As America descends into savagery... a daring plan to restore order. But... '' |
Kevin J. Anderson (Also as Gabriel Mesta) | The Edge Of The World Terra Incognita Book One | Orbit 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book | 3.00 | ''Two nations, traditional enemies, have finally forged an uneasy peace. But all it takes is a single tragic accident... and the world is once more cast into the fires of war. But while war rages... a great quest will defy the storms and sea-serpents to venture beyond the horizon... 'here be monsters'... '' |
Piers Anthony | Chaos Mode | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Unbeaten - indeed, undaunted - by the bizarre obstacles placed in their way in Fractal Mode, Colene and Darius escape to another reality... '' |
Piers Anthony | Demons Don't Dream | New English Library 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Dug is cynical about computers, computer games, girls - almost anything. until he meets his game Companion in Xanth, the seductive snake woman Nada Naga... Kim is thrilled to be playing a Xanth game... much more exciting than the boring real world. But when the ogre she longs to see nearly eats Jenny Elf, she has to revise her definitions... '' No. 16 |
Piers Anthony | Fractal Mode | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in lightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Saved from death at the hands of the Emperor Ddwng, would-be lovers Colene and Darius and their companions - Provos, a woman who remembers only the future, and Sequiro, a telepathic horse - stumble into yet another dangerous reality... '' |
Piers Anthony | Harpy Thyme | New English Library 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... the prettiest - and only harpy-goblin sets off to see the good magician Humfry in order to obtain... the perfect husband... He sends her to meet some very old people, all of whom... have been Kings of Xanth... '' No. 17 |
Piers Anthony | Kirlian Quest | Millington 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''...The Second War of Energy is over, but hurtling towards Cluster is a million-ship spacefleet from the energy galaxy of Amoeba - and only Herald the Healer can stop it!'' Third in the series. |
Piers Anthony | Rings Of Ice | Millington 1975 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, boards slightly bowed and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''The wide white rainbow meant one thing: Noah's flood, only worse. Three men and three women trapped in a motor-home, battle a global flood that spells the end of civilisation... '' |
Piers Anthony | The Gutbucket Quest | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck and just about broke... He loves his music... Then one day the music loves him back. In a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. It's a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same... '' |
Piers Anthony | The Ring | Macdonald 1969 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with old biro price on front flap | 20.00 | ''After a distinguished space service career, Jeff had come back to the planet of his birth bent on vengeance - against the powerful man who had framed Jeff's father and caused the whole of his family to be sent into space exile.'' |
Piers Anthony | Vicinity Cluster | Millington 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges and end papers lightly browned and page edges foxed - Good book in Dust Jacket with the yellow spine panel background a little faded (as usual) | 4.00 | ''...the first volume in the sexy, savage, brilliantly conceived CLUSTER trilogy of interplanetary adventure...'' |
Tom Arden | Sultan of the Moon and Stars Third Book of THE OROKON | Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Rich in horror and high adventure, outrageous comedy and aching romance... a lush and startling tapestry of dreams and dangers... '' |
Tom Arden | The Harlequin's Dance First Book of THE OROKON | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges faintly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''The god Orok gave to his five children crystals of surpassing beauty, to be embedded in a circle on the Rock of Being And Unbeing, whence had sprung the gods, the earth and all its peoples... until the dark god Koros plucked his crystal from the rock and plunged the world into chaos and despair... the first book in a sweeping fantasy epic...'' |
Tom Arden (David Rain) | The King and Queen of Swords Second Book of THE OROKON | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked and slightly stained else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Rich in magic, mystery, horror and humour... vividly depicts and eighteenth-century world of armies and assassins, brothels and bandits, love and longing, ransom and rape - and looming over it all, the ancient riddle of the King and Queen of Swords.'' |
Campbell Armstrong | Agents of Darkness | Hodder & Stoughton 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Charlie Galloway was a good cop... a close friend calls for help... A brutal murder has taken place... Charlie's investigation becomes, ultimately, a journey of painful self-discovery... on a trail of intrigue and rapid-fire action that reaches from Manila to the White House... '' |
Catherine Asaro | The Moon's Shadow | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... a thrilling new chapter in this galaxy-spanning epic, as the titanic conflicts which have raged across the cosmos at last come to a climax... '' Eighth in the series |
Sarah Ash | Flight Into Darkness Book Two of the Alchemyst's Legacy | Bantam 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, 3mm band at base of spine light-faded and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... a clash of kingdoms and rebels, of magicians and inquisitors... two young mages must find the resolution and courage they need to save the world... and themselves... '' Conclusion of the Alchemyst's Legacy |
Sarah Ash | Lord Of Snow And Shadows Book One of The Tears of Artamon | Bantam 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly rubbed at the base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Gavril... an impoverished young painter... unbeknownst... does have royal blood in his veins... of a father he never knew... the Drakhon, ruler of... Azhkendir... brutally murdered, an unwilling Gavril is forced to take up the mantle of both his father's rule - and his power. For... the Drakhon's blood carries... access to awesome, unimagined magics... '' |
Sarah Ash | Tracing The Shadow Book One of the Alchemyst's Legacy | Bantam 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly faded at top of spine with a few short tears and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The kingdom of Francia has purged its magi... a young Guerrierrescies an orphaned street waif... the daughter of a magus who met his end on their pyres... guarded by an aetheric spirit... With the gift of song... she will craft herself into a weapon... aimed at the heart of the man she despises... '' |
Neal Asher | Cowl | Tor (UK) 2004 First Edition First Printing | One spine crease & page edges a little marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Tthe Heliothane Dominion now rules... the solar system. But its worst enemy, Cowl, an artificially forced advance in human evolution has escaped into the past... The torbeast, Cowl's pet, is growing vast and dangerous, shedding its scales wherever its master orders. These 'tors' are designed for bringing human samples back to Cowl... then the beast feeds... '' |
Neal Asher | Orbus | Tor (UK) 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 12.50 | ''In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn't know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the past, is rapidly catching up with him. His old enemy Prador Vrell... is now seeking to exact vengeance... '' |
Isaac Asimov (Also as Paul French) | Child Of Time | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, signature of Clute & details on front free end paper and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Timmy is a little boy. He's four years old. And he was born forty thousand years ago... the story of a Neanderthal child snatched from his own time... in a daring and controversial scientific experiment... '' Based on the short story The Ugly Little Boy. |
Isaac Asimov | Nemesis | Doubleday 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, lower rear corner creased and some page edges browned/marked - very good Uncorrected Proof in like, creased, Proof Dust Jacket with a tiny chip missing at the base of the spine. | 30.00 | ''... a dwarf star, pinkish-red, the colour of blood and destruction. Circling nemesis is a planet. Circling the planet is a satellite. and circling the satellite, Rotor... one of Earth's hundred space colonies... the fate of Earth, and maybe even Rotor itself, rests with a fifteen-year-old girl... who possesses unique and uncanny mental gifts... '' |
Isaac Asimov (Also as Paul French) | Nightfall | Gollancz 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Covers and page edges slightly marked - Very good Uncorrected Proof, in creased Proof Dust Jacket With Publisher's review request slip and reviewer's notes | 25.00 | ''...in collaboration with Robert Silverberg, Asimov has expanded his story into a novel... exploring what happens after the cataclysmic events of the original story... '' |
Peter Atkins | Morningstar Or The Vampires Of Summer | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... in each case, the cause of death was a massive rupture to the heart, caused by the insertion of a sharpened wooden stake... in each case the victim's mouth was stuffed with garlic... It falls to Donovan Moon, reporter, to meet the man behind the murders, and who claims to be eliminating a community of vampires... '' |
Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Chatto 2019 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''... You hold in your hands a dangerous weapon loadede with the secrets of three women from Gilead. they are risking their lives for you. For all of us... '' |
Jean M. Auel | The Plains Of Passage | Crown 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Near Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe... the woman... talks to animals with their own sounds... The tall, yellow-haired man... is... held in awe... for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower... Together they... must reach that place on earth they can call home... '' |
Fiona Avery | The Crown Rose | Pyr 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the story of Isabelle of France, born heir to the throne... the year is 1240... a time of intense chivalry and faith... one man enters Isabelle's life...becoming her icon, her soul's other half, and her destiny - a man who may... be much more than an ordinary man.. he is far, far older than he appears... '' |
Hilary Bailey | Polly Put The Kettle On | Constable 1975 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner bruised and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a tiny 'nick' at the base of the spine panel | 15.00 | ''Polly Kops is redheaded, clever, turbulent and, above all, illegitimate. She lives in stylish squalor in a broken-down Gothic house near Portobello Road. There, too, her heavy-rock songwriter/writer husband, Alexander, their twin daughters, Polly's pregnant cousin, a malevolent old abortionist, a drug addict.. rock musicians, groupies and hangers-on...'' Apparently based on her life with Mike Moorcock. Her first book - scarce. |
Kage Baker | In The Garden Of Iden | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page top corners lightly creased and a few page fore-edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 100.00 | ''Mendoza... Rescued as a child from the Spanish Inquisition's dungeons... adopted by a twenty-fourth century corporation which has unlocked the secrets of time travel... using them to plunder the past... Mendoza's body has endured genetic manipulation and continual surgery to create a woman with staggering intelligence and a virtually indestructible body... '' |
Kage Baker | Mendoza in Hollywood | Harcourt Brace 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small wear spot at the top of the spine. | 10.00 | ''At a stagecoach inn on the road to Los Angeles (Cahuenga Pass, 1862), botanist Mendoza meets her fellow cyborgs. Porfirio, the security tech, has broken the rules by maintaining contact with his mortal family... we learn that Mendoza is being haunted in her dreams by the man she loved and lost three centuries ago. Then his ghost is unexpectedly reincarnated... '' |
Kage Baker | The Anvil Of The World | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a tiny wear spot at the top of the rear fold. | 10.00 | ''... a journey across a landscape filled with bizarre creatures, human and otherwise... the tale of Smith... of the Children of the Sun... a race given to blood feuds... he agrees to be the master of a caravan ... to the seaside town of Saleh. The caravan is dogged by murder, magic and the brooding image of the Master of the Mountain, a powerful demon... '' |
Kage Baker | The House Of The Stag | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... Before the Riders came to their remote valley, the Yendri led a tranquil pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, just a few escaped to the forests. Only one of them possessed the necessary rage to fight back: Gard the foundling, half-demon, who began a one-man guerrilla war against the Riders... '' |
Nicholson Baker | The Fermata | Random House 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing | Corners bruised and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Arno Strine likes to stop time and take women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata. It proves in the telling to be a very provocative, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work.'' |
Will Baker | The Raven Bride | Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The time: an uncomfortably close tomorrow. The place: one of the wildest and remotest on the planet Earth... Here a beautiful young woman, Satchi, half Russian and half Koryak, is drawn reluctantly into the primal, sometimes horrific way of life of the native reindeer herdsmen when they take her from a wrecked research outpost... '' |
J. G. Ballard | News From The Sun | Interzone 1982 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 682/750) | Possible slight fading to spine else Fine A5 centre-stapled booklet | 25.00 | Short story given free to all charter subscribers of the SF magazine Interzone. |
J. G. Ballard | The Day Of Creation | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... '' |
J. G. Ballard | The Kindness Of Women | HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada; then after marrying and settling happily into family life, his world is shattered by domestic tragedy... '' |
Edwin Balmer (Also as Leatrice Homesley) | Five Fatal Words | Stanley Paul (1933) First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, spine a little faded, two page corner tips roughly separated, a little scattered foxing and page edges lightly age-darkened - Very good book | 100.00 | ''When old Mr. Cornwall died he left his vast fortune to his children... as each one died, that share was to be equally divided between the others... Then comes the news of first one death, followed by another, each from apparently natural causes... '' Rare. |
Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks) | The Business | Little, Brown 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket, with the front corners a litle rubbed | 5.00 | ''Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church... Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments... Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime... '' |
Iain Banks | The Quarry | Little Brown 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 6.00 | ''Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from 'highly gifted'... to 'nutter'... his father is dying, and old friends are gathering... because they want something. Kit, too... Before his father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the mysterious tape they're all looking for... '' |
Iain Banks | The Steep Approach To Garbadale | Little, Brown 2007 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is... persuaded to attend the... Extraordinary General Meeting... '' |
Iain Banks | Transition | Little, Brown 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''It begins on a train, the highest train in the world... with a man in a cheap business suit walking from one swaying carriage to another, his gait a little unsteady as he holds a small oxygen cylinder with one hand and an automatic handgun in the other... '' |
Iain Banks | Transition | Little, Brown 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, faint scrape (?) to rear panel and ''pn prog'' written in pen on Title Page (? Promotion Programme?) - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | 15.00 | ''It begins on a train, the highest train in the world... with a man in a cheap business suit walking from one swaying carriage to another, his gait a little unsteady as he holds a small oxygen cylinder with one hand and an automatic handgun in the other... '' |
Clive Barker | Everville The Second Book of the Art | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No 1898/2000) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine , pressure mark at the upper corner tip of the front board (with a small paper puncture) and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that opens onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity. And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact... '' |
John Barnes | Earth Made Of Glass | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small portion of the silver tarnished | 5.00 | ''... twelve years after the events of A Million Open Doors... their task is to bring into the community of the Thousand Cultures the one human world that has yet to build a springer - the terrifyingly hostile world of Briand... '' |
John Barnes | Earth Made Of Glass | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, lower page edges slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''... a thousand years hence, humanity's hundreds of settles worlds are finally coming back into regular contact... Reknitting mankind's diversity is a challenging task... '' |
Steven Barnes | Blood Brothers | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine & page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Austin Tucker was a Green Beret... Derek Waites was once an outlaw computer hacker... Two hundred years ago, an African sorcerer bought his freedom by teaching his white master the secret of immortality... the two men are brothers in blood... if tucker and Waites can resolve their differences long enough to work together, they can defeat this ancient evil... '' |
Neal Barrett, Jr. | Prince Of Christler-Coke | Golden Gryphon 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 15.00 | ''It's a truly splendid day. With Asel's marriage to the lovely Loreli the two great Houses of Christler-Coke and Pepsicoma-Dodge will become as one - a union that will finally swallow all of America East... Ducky Du Pontiac Heinz has other ideas... black choppers descend... in a hostile takeover that brings both families to ruin... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Chiron | B. S. F. G. 1993 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) No 312/400 | Fine A5 centre-stapled card-covered booklet Cover by David A Hardy | 7.50 | Short story published to celebrate Stephen Baxter as Guest of Honour at Novacon 23 |
Stephen Baxter | Flux | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket Signed, located and dated by the Author on the Title Page (1995 - and more of a signature than usual!) & with Publisher's Review Slip | 150.00 | ''Michael Poole has spent many years grappling with the concepts of quantum physics in the construction of an extraordinary device - a spacetime wormhole, linking present, past and future worlds and making time travel possible... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Moonseed | HarperPrism 1998 First Edition in the US First Printing (Note: HarperPrism title page, HarperCollins on cover) | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear cover corner lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 10.00 | ''From the Moon to the Earth... tons of mineral samples were brought back... No one suspected the awesome secret it contained... When the Moon rock accidentally comes in contact with lava... he witnesses solid rock turning to seething dust. This is the... Moonseed: it eats planets, and it's here... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Raft | Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed, located and dated by the Author on the Title Page (1995 - and more of a signature than usual!) & with Publisher's Review Slip | 350.00 | ''Imagine a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Human beings have detectable gravity fields. Stars are only about a mile across, and burn out within a year of their formation... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Ring | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little rubbed and browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page | 175.00 | ''... The age-old battle of light and dark takes on a new and deeply disturbing aspect... as a few frail humans reach bravely into the future to confront the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Timelike Infinity | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges lightly rubbed and marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 100.00 | ''Michael Poole has spent many years grappling with the concepts of quantum physics in the construction of an extraordinary device - a spacetime wormhole, linking present, past and future worlds and making time travel possible... '' |
Stephen Baxter | Titan | Voyager 1997 First Edition First Printing | Light bruise and touch of wear at the base of the spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof With Publisher's Press Release, Publicity News and other material | 10.00 | ''... NASA's Cassini probe will reach Saturn in 2004: Titan is the amazing story of a visionary's response to Cassini's discovery of life on Saturn's moon... The epic saga of one woman's will to succeed and the triumph of a dream over bureaucracy and fear...'' |
Stephen Baxter | Traces | Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | Traces; Darkness; The Droplet; No Longer Touch the Earth; Mittelwelt; A Journey to the King Planet; The Jonah Man; Downstream; The Blood of Angels; Columbiad; Brigantia's Angels; Weep for the Moon; Good News; Something for Nothing; In the Manner of Trees; Pilgrim 7; Zemlya; Moon Six; George and the Comet; Inherit the Earth; In the MSOB and Afterword |
Elizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) | The Edda of Burdens | Tor 2008-11 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine books in like Dust Jacket | 30.00 | ''She is starlight made immortal flesh, and her soul lives inside her sword of light. She is Muire, the last of the Valkyrie... Millennia have come and gone. Human civilisation has risen to technological heights, and then fallen into desolation... Only one city remains on Valdyrgard, kept alive under its dome by the... Technomancer... '' Prequel, A.T.W.S. and Sequel - the Trilogy |
Elizabeth Bear | The Eternal Sky | Tor 2012-14 All Are First Edition First Printing (3 Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines S. P. with a small cloth tear at the head of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 20.00 | ''Once, one hundred moons rose every evening with Mother Night across the Eternal Sky. Once, there were one hundred sons and grandsons of the Grand Khagan who rules the steppes from one edge of the world to the other. Now, the flame of civil war is burning, and Temur's iron moon is one of only a handful remaining in the Eternal Sky... '' |
Greg Bear | Darwin's Radio | HarperCollins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Christopher Dicken, 'virus hunter' of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, joins an emergency Taskforce on the order of the President. Around the world, what were thought to be ancient junk genes in human DNA have been stimulated to assemble encoded proteins and RNA into an infectious virus... it attacks only women - and it kills unborn children... '' |
Greg Bear | Dinosaur Summer | Warner 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Illustrations by Tony DiTerlizzi | 7.50 | ''... the Lothar Gluck Circus, once the world's foremost dinosaur attraction, has gone bankrupt... now two filmmakers and the circus trainer plan to return the giants to... the Lost World, the plateau of El Grande in Venezuela... '' With 5 full-colour and many black-and-white illustrations |
Greg Bear | Vitals | Del Rey 2002 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed and previous owner's name (author and critic) on front free end paper else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought-after discovery in human history: the key to short-circuiting the ageing process... Across the country, scientists are being inexplicably murdered... Suddenly Hal is trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations... '' |
Pamela Belle | The Silver City | Pan 1995 First Mass Market Edition First Printing (Paper) | A little edge and corner rubbing, covers and spine lightly creased - Very Good to Near Fine book | 3.00 | ''The Ska'i, savage barbarians intent on slaughter, are massing in the hills... Only Halthris of the nomadic Tanathi can warn the beautiful city... a chance encounter on the steppe throws her into a terrifying world of decadent royalty, sinister political intrigue and lethal magic... '' First in the trilogy - scarce. |
Gregory Benford | Beyond The Fall Of Night | Ace/Putnam 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, place & date on prelim page and top page edges lightly foxed and marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... for Alvin of Loronei, the first child born in Diaspar in 4,000 years, there are no barriers. With the aid of robots unknowingly old, Alvin fulfils his dream and escapes... he finds another inhabited city on the far side of the planet... '' Foreword by Arthur Clarke |
Gregory Benford | Cosm | Orbit 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Light spine crease and edges/corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's promotion slip | 5.00 | ''... something goes wrong with a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment... the explosion has left something behind: a sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science...'' |
Gregory Benford (Also as Sterling Blake) | Furious Gulf | Gollancz 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Greg Benford's eagerly awaited Galactic Centre novel... draws us into a vortex of wonder and danger at the heart of the galaxy... Containing the remnants of humanity from the planet Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward an uncertain destiny. But there are whispers of mutiny... and the hostile 'mechs'... pursuing the Argo are drawing ever closer... '' |
Mitch Benn | Terra | Gollancz 2013 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''ever felt like an outsider? Terra is about to go to school for the first time. She's never felt more alone. The school is out of this world and Terra is a pupil like no other. Alien? Human? Depends on your perspective. But... Terra is about to change a world...'' |
Alfred Bester | The Deceivers | Severn House 1984 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and fixed end papers lightly browned else Fine book in price-clipped Dust Jacket, with a litle internal damp-marking at the base of the spine | 5.00 | His last science fiction novel. |
Lauren Beukes | Broken Monsters | HarperCollins 2014 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''... Detective Gabi Versado still somehow believes in justice after eight years working homicide. But she's never seem anything like this. He is a broken man. The ambitions that once drove him are dead. Now he has new dreams - of flesh and bone made monstrously, beautifully real... '' |
Lauren Beukes | The Shining Girls | HarperCollins 2013 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Chicago, 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret... it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his... 'shining girls' through the decades - and cut the spark out of them... Chicago, 1992... Kirby Mazrachi... a brutal attempt to murder her... she finds the other girls - the ones who didn't make it. The evidence is... impossible... '' |
Lucia Bibolini | Wizardess Born | Publish Britannica 2004 First Printing (Paper) | Fine book | 5.00 | ''A dark shadow hangs over the peaceful kingdom of Tanseen. An evil is about to be unleashed... Born at the joining of Prithvi's twin moons, Avaishya... wields the greatest magic, Prithvi has seen in generations... The gods have chosen another three companions to aid the young wizardess... '' |
Ambrose Bierce (Also as Dod Grile and William Herman with Thomas A. Harcourt) | Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Books for Libraries 1970 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly foxed and lightly marked else Fine book | 5.00 | Soldiers - A Horseman In the Sky; An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge; Chickamauga; A Son of the Gods; One of the Missing; Killed at Resaca; The Affaire at Coulter's Notch; A Tough Tussle; The Coup de Grace; Parker Addison. Civilians - A Watcher By the Dead; The Man and the Snake; A Holy Terror and 6 others. Set from the Steele 1891 First Edition |
David Bilsborough | A Fire In The North: Annals Of Lindormyn Two | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, old biro price on front free end paper and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Things are not so easy-going for Bolthe the wanderer... he... has begun to remember something of his past... at last seems committed to seeing this whole, inexplicable, terrifying mission through right to the end... A sword in the shape of a flame , the fear of death with the black despair that accompanies it, and a descent in to Hell itself... '' Sequel to The Wanderer's Tale |
David Bilsborough | The Wanderer's Tale Annals of Lindormyn Volume I | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''Nobody likes rawgrs.Call them hellhounds or demons... they're a bad lot... Even those that were supposedly destroyed five centuries ago... the lordly Peladanes are offering good money... to kill a rawgr that's already dead... ancient fortresses, vast, dark forests, lands of giants, lands of fire and ice, lands never before visited by men... '' |
Michael Bishop (Also as Philip Lawson with Paul di Filippo) | A Little Knowledge | Putnam 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly browned and creased Dust Jacket, a little torn and eroded at the top of the spine. | 5.00 | ''In the domed city of Atlanta, after the breakup of the United States, a young writer... is in trouble... on the city newspaper... finds himself assigned to cover the first public appearance of the alien Cygnusians... a Christian revivalist dictatorship rules Atlanta... one of the aliens chooses to appear... '' |
Michael Bishop | Transfigurations | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly foxed else Fine book in lightly marked Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pin-wheels. Egon Chaney, in his... study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how their life-style has degenerated from a level of complex technological sophistication... '' |
Michael Bishop | Within The Walls Of Tyre | Kerosina 1989 First Edition Limited State - Issued Without Dust Jacket (No. Pc/300(Editor) | Fine Hardback | 10.00 | Screenplay: based on the story of the same title first published in Weirdbook magazine (No.13 in 1978). 47 pages |
Michael Bishop | Within The Walls Of Tyre | Kerosina 1989 First Edition Limited State - Issued Without Dust Jacket (No. Pc/300(Editor) | Card covers slightly faded else Fine Booklet | 2.00 | Screenplay: based on the story of the same title first published in Weirdbook magazine (No.13 in 1978). 47 pages |
Ralph Blum | The Simultaneous Man | Little, Brown 1970 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket, with a crease running the length of the front flap | 4.00 | Clute - ''US writer involved in early drug research, which is reflected in his sf novel... A convict’s mind is erased and the memories and identity of a research scientist are substituted... The relationship between the scientist and his 'twin' is complex, and ends tragically for him in the USSR, where he himself becomes a subject for experimentation'' |
Michael Blumlein | The Movement Of Mountains | St. Martin's Press 1987 First Edition First Printing | Small mark at front cover edge else Fine Uncorrected Proof, with Publisher's sticker inside front cover | 10.00 | ''Jules Ebert is a physician living in a near-future world on the brink of economic crisis... his lover... Jessica persuades Jules to travel to the colonised planet of Eridis... to take up practice there, administering to a race of genetically engineered slaves... huge and corpulent creatures with five-year life-spans; their bodies recycled to create each succeeding generation... '' |
Alice Borchardt | The Dragon Queen | Del Rey 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Guinevere possesses power... dazzling power to rival even that of Merlin... she travels from an Underworld to an Otherworld of the Past... calling on ancient powers to aid her... Seeking revenge, Merlin banishes Arthur... Now Guinevere must face Merlin's wrath without him... '' First volume in The Tales of Guinevere trilogy. |
Alice Borchardt | The Silver Wolf | Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and age-darkened else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Decadent Rome in the Dark Ages... comes Regeane, a beautiful young woman distantly related... to Charlemagne... Possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself, Regeane is a shapeshifter... '' First in the trilogy. |
John Bowle | Henry VIII A Biography | Allen & Unwin 1964 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small pale spot on front board and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket, a little frayed at the head of the spine | 4.00 | ''... he changed the future of England... Of all the English kings, he is the most formidable and versatile... a complex personality... a tyrant... but a splendid and able prince... '' |
T. C. Boyle | A Friend Of The Earth | Bloomsbury 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front and lower rear corners bruised also some signatures slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''It's 2025. Tyrone O' Shaughnessy Tierwater is ekeing out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star's private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving animals in the world. Global warming is a reality, Once... Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as an ecoterrorist... he had endangered the lives of both... his daughter... and his wife... '' |
Scott Bradfield | The History Of Luminous Motion | Bloomsbury 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board a little dulled by damp else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a little damp marking at the lower edge (no show-through). | 3.00 | ''... a seven-year-old... Philip likes... A life of random driving and random men... So when his Mother meets Pedro, and Philip finds himself with a room of his own, going to school and trembling under the threat of a birthday party, he is not the best pleased. His revenge, when it comes, is terrible and slow... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Black Trillium | Grafton 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review sheet | 5.00 | ''... Late one stormy night three infant princesses are born. As each baby is placed into her mother's arms, so the Archmage Binah bestows on her a gift of great power: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct Black Trillium. One day that power will be all that protects the princesses from certain doom... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Falcons Of Narabedla | Severn House 1991 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lightly rubbed at base else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | '' - where the Rainbow Cities gleam in every colour imaginable, under the light of twin suns - Where lush flowers croon a song of death in the gardens of Karamy the Golden... and their victims are never found - Where falcons with human intelligence hunt in the forests, but seek no ordinary prey... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Lady Of Avalon | Viking 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket on which the foil inlay is slightly tarnished | 5.00 | ''... spans the creation of Avalon itself and foreshadows the birth of the legendary King Arthur. Here. we meet three remarkable holy women who steer the fortunes of Roman Britain as they struggle with their on destinies... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Priestess Of Avalon | HarperCollins 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''As the Merlin of Britannia keeps his vigil atop the Tor of Avalon, Rian, the High Priestess of Avalon, dies giving birth. The girl... shall stand at the turning of the Age, the gateway between two worlds... '' Last of the Avalon series, completed by Diana L. Paxson. |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Firebrand | Simon & Schuster 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and faded at top and base of spine, top front corner slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... brilliant re-creation of the famous legend, the fall of Troy unfolds in a new and daring way... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Shadow Matrix A Novel Of Darkover | Daw 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and spine slightly 'dished' else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... When she began to hear fragments of speech, words which had never been voiced, Margaret learned that she had the Alton gift - forced rapport and compulsion - one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited laran gifts... '' Sequel to Exile's Song |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Tiger Burning Bright | Morrow/AvoNova 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, spine slightly twisted and one small speck on top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Long has the House of the Tiger ruled Merina - guiding the tiny merchant city/state wisely and skillfully in times of peace and prosperity. But now the Emperor Balthasar has come to devour and destroy... Three courageous women stand between the Emperor and his triumph... '' |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | Traitor's Sun A novel of Darkover | Daw 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''It has been fifteen years since Marguerida Alton returned to Darkover. Fifteen years since she discovered the terrifying powers of her special laran, met and fell in love with Mikhail... heir designate to the throne of Darkover, and journeyed back in time to the Ages of Chaos to answer the call of a long-dead keeper... '' |
Rebecca Bradley | Lady In Gil | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 5.00 | ''For more than seventy years the magical statue of the Lady In Gil has laid hidden as the island kingdom groans under the barbed heel of the accursed Sherank... the exiled Scions of Oballef... armed with the Heroic Code... disappeared into the maw of the Gilgard, never to be seen again... '' Followed by Scion's Lady and Lady Pain. |
Rebecca Bradley | Lady Pain | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with one small tear. | 4.00 | ''... At the dawn of the world. the Old Ones called it the Harashil. A thousand years before, Oballef called it the Lady in Gil. Tigrallef calls it the Pain - when he's being polite. For more than twenty years he has carried it inside him, a private demon dutifully bent on bringing down the world and everything inside it... '' Third in the Trilogy |
Rebecca Brand (Suzy McKee Charnas) | The Ruby Tear | Forge 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Including word-processed, 2-page, stapled review with hand-written comment signed Susie Mc | 7.50 | ''... actress Jessamyn Croft... has almost recovered from the accident that nearly crippled her... her fiancé, Nicolas Griffin... won't answer her calls or letters... doing everything he can to keep her out of his new play, The Jewel... this must all have something to do with the curse on Nicolas's family... and the mysterious... gemstone known as... The Ruby Tear.'' |
Paul Brandon | Swim the Moon | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Scottish fiddle-player Richard Brennan... scratches out a living playing music. The land welcomes him like a prodigal returned. And he meets Alish, the enigmatic young woman whose ethereal singing haunts the bay by moonlight. And, one by one, the hidden secrets of the past are unlocked... both terrifying and fantastic... '' |
Chaz Brenchley | Paradise | Hodder & Stoughton 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... an inner city danger-zone, starved of resources, starved of hope... Then, a miracle... a dying boy made well, healed by the touch of a charismatic young man... But where there are powers of light, there are also powers of darkness... '' |
Chaz Brenchley | River of the World Book Two: Selling Water by the River | Ace 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the base of the rear fold | 7.50 | ''Possessing an affinity for water unparalleled by any of his people, Issel has led a small band of resistance fighters across the river from Sund to Maras in an attempt to break the magic binding the lands. Hunted by enemy soldiers... '' |
Chaz Brenchley | Rotten Row | PS Publishing 2011 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) | 10.00 | ''Heading outward is heading onward; your journey never needs to end... We call them terminals... it's a label... A 'chute supplies another node; it's a link in the network... It can always fling you further, somewhere else... You never need to go back. And then there's Rotten Row... We call it the Terminus... '' |
Chaz Brenchley | The Refuge | Hodder & Stoughton 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 15.00 | ''... Mandy Thompson is fifteen and pregnant... Tia Sharif is sixteen and about to be sent... to meet the husband they have arranged for her to marry... Keri Hughes is also sixteen and terrified... meet in the refuge... Owned by a mysterious doctor. run by... a young man with demons of his own... the nightmare is only just about to begin... '' |
Chaz Brenchley | The Samaritan | Hodder & Stoughton 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bruised, spine lettering tarnished and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a tiny piece missing near the base of the front fold | 15.00 | ''... the last thing Paul Fenner needs is to get dragged into a murder case... When a friend becomes a victim, he has to be. The only clue he finds leads him to the Samaritans, and he confides... to a senior worker... but5 Linden has some deep and dark secrets of his own... '' |
Madeleine Brent (Peter O'Donnell) | The Long Masquerade | Souvenir Press 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly differentially aged else Fine book in slightly browned unpriced Dust Jacket with a short tear (12 mm) at the lower edge of the rear panel | 20.00 | ''1t is 1897, and a small ship sails the Caribbean, trading between the islands. This is the only home of a man and a girl who are runaways bearing false names, living constantly in fear of arrest for murder... story of mystery, romance and high adventure .'' A romance by the author of the Modesty Blaise books. |
David Brin | Earth | Macdonald 1990 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, short tear to spine paper else Fine Uncorrected Proof in creased Dust Jacket, with a short tear to the lower edge of the rear flap With Publisher's letter to the reviewer and promotion sheet with some notes toward | 7.50 | ''It's fifty years from tomorrow, and a black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core... '' |
Keith Brooke (Also as Nick Gifford) | Expatria | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Lightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 3.00 | ''The descendants of Expatria's first colonists from Earth have rejected technology. When Mathias Hanrahan, heir to the primacy of newest Delhi, wants to re-introduce the old ways he is framed for his father's murder and forced to flee... After a millennia-long silence, Earth has re-discovered its colony; but the intentions of the visitors are far from clear... '' |
Terry Brooks | High Druid Of Shannara Jarka Ruus | Earthlight 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Twenty years have passed since the events told in The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannara trilogy... '' First of the trilogy |
Terry Brooks | High Druid Of Shannara Straken | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Young Penderrin Ohmsford has been charged with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned... '' |
Terry Brooks | Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace | Del Rey 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring... '' |
Terry Brooks | The Elf Queen Of Shannara | Legend 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and front corners bruised and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket | 3.00 | '' ' Find the Elves and return them to the lands of men!' the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The elves had been gone... for more than a hundred years... No one in the Westlands knew of them - except, finally, the Aldreshag... '' Book Three of The Heritage of Shannara |
Terry Brooks | The Talismans Of Shannara | Legend 1993 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... the Shadowen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic... '' The final volume of The Heritage of Shannara. |
Terry Brooks | The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara | Earthlight 2001-2 First Edition in the UK First Printings (Three volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines, page edges a little browned, volume one with light spine creases and a slight spine lean else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''When the body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world... '' |
Eric Brown | New York Nights Book One in the Virex Trilogy | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, lightly rubbed at the tips of the folds. | 5.00 | ''2040. New York is crowded with the lost. Refugees from the radioactive eastern seaboard, the splintered remains of a society in freefall... when Hal is asked to find a missing computer tech... he is pulled into a bizarre world of counter-cultures intertwined with exotic virtual reality domains... '' |
John K. H. Brunner (Also as Henry Crosstrees, Jr., Ellis Quick & Keith Woodcott) | Life In An Explosive Forming Press | Poets Trust 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book From the Library of the Author with his bookplate inside fronr cover | 25.00 | Twenty Eight poems in 31 pages... scarce. |
John K. H. Brunner | The Days Of March | Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed By The Author (No. 9/200) | Fine book in Dust Jacket and box in sealed plastic - but with the spine panel red light-faded | 25.00 | ''Their names where Micky and Gordon, Junius, Dave. Ordinary enough folk perhaps; but with a burning conviction in their cause. In support of it, they marched; with their jazz bands and their babies, their banners and their faith. They marched for the future... '' Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first Aldermaston CND March |
John K. H. Brunner | The Stone That Never Came Down | Doubleday 1973 (Later Issue with P17 on page 206) | Bruised at base of spine, boards a little mottled and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket, with a couple of dark splashes on the front panel From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the fr | 7.50 | ''... Europe trembles on the brink of holocaust; unemployment, inflation, and poverty are rampant; cities crumble from neglect; incompetent governments topple to military coups; bands of 'godheads' bearing crosses they are all too willing to use as clubs commit acts of vandalism, violence, even murder. The only hope... lies in a mysterious new drug... '' |
John K. H. Brunner | The Stone That Never Came Down | Doubleday 1973 (Later Issue with P17 on page 206) | Bruised at base of spine, boards mottled and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket. From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the front free end paper. | 10.00 | ''... Europe trembles on the brink of holocaust; unemployment, inflation, and poverty are rampant; cities crumble from neglect; incompetent governments topple to military coups; bands of 'godheads' bearing crosses they are all too willing to use as clubs commit acts of vandalism, violence, even murder. The only hope... lies in a mysterious new drug... '' |
John K. H. Brunner | The Wrong End Of Time | Doubleday 1971 First Edition Later Printing (Code C11 on P. 184 = March 1972) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, boards laminated (not cloth) and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and lightly marked Dust Jacket From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper. | 10.00 | ''... an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world... into this armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist... Superior intelligent life... has been detected near the planet Pluto... these Aliens are about to destroy the planet Earth. The only person who can provide a solution is a brilliant and clairvoyant young American black... '' |
Col Buchanan | Farlander The Heart of the World Book One | Tor (UIK) 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''The Heart of the World is in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sateen, ruthlessly maintains control... The Mercian Free Ports are the only confederacy yet to fall... it's only a matter of time... '' |
Emma Bull | Territory | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine, small brown mark on top page edges and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a crease in the rear flap | 5.00 | ''Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881... veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power... Above the ground... A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place his friends between himself and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory... '' |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Master Mind of Mars | Tarzana 1948 | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, boards a little marked end papers slightly browned, rear fixed end paper with dried glue spots and page edges lightly foxed and marked - Very Good Book Illustrated by J. Allen St John | 7.50 | Sixth in the Barsoom series |
S. C. Butler | Queen Ferris Book Two of the Stoneways Trilogy | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a little rubbing at the tips of the folds | 7.50 | ''... Reiffen and his mother willingly return to Ussene, the dread fortress of the Three... To fool the Wizards. Gain their knowledge, find their weak points, fight and defeat them so that he might regain the throne that is rightfully his... this is the only way to defy them... '' |
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