| Ian Caldwell | The Rule of Four | Century 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine, small surface tear to front free end paper & a couple of page edges slightly damp-wrinkled else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death... of his father... who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and valuable books in the world... When a long-lost diary surfaces, it seems the two friends have found... a secret worth dying to protect... '' |
| Miles Cameron | A Plague of Swords | Gollancz 2016 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Trade Paper) | A hint of rubbing to corners else Fine Book | 7.50 | ''The Red Knight withstood the full might of his enemy, and won the day. In a victory which will be remembered through the ages, he united more unlikely allies against a more powerful foe than they had ever seen. Now he will need more allies than ever. Because behind one adversary hid another... '' |
| Miles Cameron | The Red Knight | Gollancz 2012 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Book | 4.00 | ''... Twenty-eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws shut on your helpmeet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip your head from your shoulders... The Red Knight... has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit... he hires his company out to protect an Abbess... Only it's not just a job. It's going to be war... '' |
| Alan Campbell | Sea of Ghosts Book One of the Gravedigger Chronicles | Tor (UK) 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Information Sheet | 10.00 | ''When the last of the Gravediggers, an elite imperial infiltration unit, are disbanded and hunted down by the emperor they once served, munitions expert Colonel Thomas Granger takes refuge in the unlikeliest of places. He becomes a jailer in... a prison city... Ianthe is a young girl with an extraordinary psychic talent... '' |
| Mark Canter | Down To Heaven | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a short split at the top of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''... a helicopter crash atop a remote Venezuelan tepui... a 500-year-old Chinese city hidden deep in a lush valley... its society is based, in part, on the practice of sexual yoga... dying because of a lack of male offspring... a love triangle both erotic and spiritual... strange rituals, the Mushroom of Immortality... '' |
| Edgar Cantero | The Supernatural Enhancements | Del Rey (UK) 2014 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned - else Fine Book in laminated boards - as issued | 5.00 | ''Everybody loves a ghost story... The heir to Axton House and his companion are delighted to find themselves living in one. With it come nightmares, a secret society and a curse. A ghost may soon be the least of their worries... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Enchantment | Del Rey 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty in to an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine and top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best... the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean... who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Heartfire The Tales of Alvin Maker V | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, short tear and creasing to top edge of rear free end paper and top page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who settled the North American continent, Card has created an alternate world in which that magic really works and has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Homebody A Novel | HarperCollins 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... chilling tale of a soulful loner who must overcome demons from his past - and the demons he unwittingly unleashes... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Homecoming | Tor 1992-95 First Edition First Printings (5 volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 50.00 | ''... Harmony had been settled by humans nearly forty million years before... placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, called the Oversoul... Its systems were failing... its core must be taken back to lost Earth... '' The complete set. |
| Orson Scott Card | Invasive Procedures | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, and three top page corners creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the flaps creased and a small spot of wear on the back panel. | 7.50 | ''The Healers move in secrecy through the city streets, their huge, strong bodies hidden in dark cloaks... they can cure the incurable diseases... members of a religious cult... ruled by their living Prophet... He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to 'improve' people... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Lost Boys | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and faint splash marks on top page edges else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... a powerful, uplifting tale of loss and redemption around an ordinary American family's bittersweet triumph over a welter of dark forces, both natural and supernatural.'' |
| Orson Scott Card | Lovelock The Mayflower Trilogy Book I | Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... On the Ark, a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer - or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey, engineered from conception... He is a Witness, privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Maps In A Mirror The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card | Tor 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 25.00 | Forty-six stories separated into five 'books': eleven tales of dread; seven tales of human futures; ten fables and fantasies; six tales of death, hope, and holiness and twelve Hidden Stories... 675 pages |
| Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin | Century 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower edge of front board bruised and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Alvin has returned to the town of his birth, Hatrack River, in order to become the blacksmith's apprentice. But Alvin has two arts to learn: he must also discover how to become a Maker... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin The Tales of Alvin Maker III | Tor 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners bruised, slight spine lean and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Little Peggy is now sixteen, and has seen more of the world's evil than anyone rightly should - and when she 'sees' a young girl and her infant son... Peggy's father takes the risk of bringing the two back to the guest house, and in doing sop creates the one path... that may lead to happiness for both her and Alvin... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Red Prophet The Tales of Alvin Maker II | Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner, other corners bruised and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... we learn more about... talents... the minor gifts of the white people... and the much grander gifts of the Indians, whose lives are filled with a beautiful green music... Young Alvin Miller... has extraordinary talents for a white boy... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son | Legend 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the base of the spine panel. | 5.00 | The first volume of the Tales of Alvin Maker. |
| Orson Scott Card | Shadow Of The Giant | Tor 2005 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Bean... served the Hegemon as strategist and general... Now he and his wife... yearn for a safe place to build a family... there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies... Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps... and look to the stars.'' |
| Orson Scott Card | Shadow of the Hegemon | Orbit 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. earth faces a new danger, and this time the enemy is much closer to home. '' |
| Orson Scott Card | Shadow Puppets | Orbit 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned/age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again... seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | The Call Of Earth | Legend 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... this second volume of his brilliant new series, Homecoming... continues the story of the planet Harmony and its computer guardian, the Oversoul... another masterpiece, set over forty million years in the future, with wonderful characters and a glorious backdrop...'' Homecoming Volume 2. |
| Orson Scott Card | The Call Of Earth Homecoming Volume 2 | Tor 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen, stronger, smarter perhaps, than Nafai and his allies. His name is Moozh, and he is deliberately flouting the will of the Oversoul... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | The Folk Of The Fringe | Phantasia Press 1989 First Edition Later Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Civilised people are never prepared for the collapse of civilisation... one day, without warning, there is no water in your taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare open the door. Only six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically... '' |
| Orson Scott Card | The Memory Of Earth Homecoming Volume 1 | Tor 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, a couple of page corner tips creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, a little worn at the upper tips of the folds | 4.00 | ''... The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, called Oversoul, high in orbit... but now... Its systems were failing... The Oversoul determined that its core must be taken back to lost Earth... |
| Orson Scott Card | The Shadow Saga | Tor 1999-2005 First Edition/ First Edition in the US First Printings (4 Volumes - Vol. 4 1st US Ed) | Slightly bumped/bruised at top and/or base of spines else Fine books in like Dust Jacket | 25.00 | ''... Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. Earth faces a new danger, and this time the enemy is much closer to home. '' |
| Orson Scott Card | The Tales of Alvin Maker Volumes 1, 2 & 3 | Tor 1987-89 (Volume 1 Second Printing Volumes 2 & 3 First Edition First Printings) | Slightly/bumped at top and/or base of spines and a few corners, and spines leant - Very Good copies in Near Fine Dust Jacket | 20.00 | Clute - ''... set on... an alternate-world version of the USA... seems to come as close as humanly possible to the telling of an sf tale as Mormon parable... The early 19th-century USA... has never experienced a Revolution; certain forms of magic are efficacious; and Alvin may become a Maker, one who can delve to the heart of things and transform them... '' |
| Jacqueline Carey | Kushiel's Justice | Warner 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents... are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions... Imriel returns from his adventures... what was once a mere spark of interest between himself and his cousin Sidonie now ignites into a white-hot blaze... '' |
| Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Faber 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Gift inscription on front free end paper and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly creased. price-clipped Dust Jacket with a couple of superficial scratches on the rear panel | 7.50 | ''... and old Australian slang word for a confidence trickster. Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old illywhacker... is perhaps the confidence trickster of all time: funny, deceitful, lusty, and blessed... with the art of disappearing, a trick he picked up from a Chinaman when he was only ten years old, back in the 1890s... Bubbling over with magic, jokes and inventions... '' |
| C. Robert Cargill | Dreams and Shadows | Gollancz 2013 First Edition in the UK and First Trade Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''It begins with a love story... From that love comes a child. Life is wonderful. Until something unspeakably vile scuttles out of the shadows and steals the child away. Leaving a changeling in its place. But this is no ordinary fairy tale... A tale that twines the real world with the supernatural. A tale of faerie changed. Faerie that has danced alongside our world... '' |
| Jayge Carr (Margery Krueger) | Leviathan's Deep | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J 13 on P. 212 = March/April 1979) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Delyafam is our world! And these 'human' strangers had best move warily... we are outgunned, outmanned and outscienced... yet I must somehow drive these 'guests'-who-would-be-conquerors from our blue seas. I restore equity. There-must-be-a-way... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | A Child Across The Sky | Legend 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''Web Gregston and Philip Strayhorn are best friends. They were at college together; they struggle as nobodies in Hollywood together. Weber soon becomes the most acclaimed director of his generation. Phil... makes a series of notorious horror films... Then he takes a gun and blows his head off... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | After Silence | Macdonald 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With letter of submission to the Arthur Clarke award | 5.00 | ''... What do you do when you know your beloved is the worst kind of criminal? What should you do when the right and moral choice will ruin the rest of your life - as well as those you most love?... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | After Silence | Doubleday 1993 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... What do you do when you know your beloved is the worst kind of criminal? What should you do when the right and moral choice will ruin the rest of your life - as well as those you most love?... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | After Silence | Macdonald 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 25.00 | ''... What do you do when you know your beloved is the worst kind of criminal? What should you do when the right and moral choice will ruin the rest of your life - as well as those you most love?... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Black Cocktail | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author | 20.00 | ''...a superb novella centred on friendship, the tactics of terror, and a search for identity... At once funny and chilling, full of magic and illusion... a gripping read from a writer at the height of his power to thrill and enthral.'' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Black Cocktail | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and with a non-personalised inscription by the Author on the Title Page | 20.00 | ''...a superb novella centred on friendship, the tactics of terror, and a search for identity... At once funny and chilling, full of magic and illusion... a gripping read from a writer at the height of his power to thrill and enthrall.'' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Bones Of The Moon | Century 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 20.00 | ''Cullen James' first dream was to find the perfect man - and it happened... she dreamed of being able to live with her man in Europe... and that happened... she became pregnant... But then the dreams began... of a fantastical land... Where enormous animals, the size of hot air balloons, escort Cullen and an enigmatical child companion... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | From The Teeth Of Angels | Doubleday 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Covers bruised and rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 15.00 | ''Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | From The Teeth Of Angels | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly aged and browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author | 15.00 | ''Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | From The Teeth Of Angels | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Kissing The Beehive | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket With Publisher's News Sheet | 10.00 | ''Bestselling author Sam Bayer... immerses himself in an unsolved case of murder that took place when he was a teenager... a beautiful and wild teenage girl named Pauline... Pauline's murderer reappears... endangering Sam... putting his beloved fifteen-year-old daughter in jeopardy... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Kissing the Beehive | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and binding slightly strained else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... bestselling novelist Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his Great Book... his subject the death of teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova - the 'Beehive'... Bayer's gesture of respect to his youth turns sour in the face of all that he unearths; and, for many people close to him, this leads to devastating - and fatal - consequences... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Outside the Dog Museum | Macdonald 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... From a world-renowned master of fantastical fiction and sheer inventiveness, a novel to provoke the mind and haunt the imagination.'' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Outside The Dog Museum | Doubleday 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and light bump to lower edge of front board else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... One minute I was famous, successful Harry Radcliffe... The next I was quietly but very seriously mad... But with the help of... an elderly shaman... he begins to pick up the pieces... until he is approached.... the Sultan of Saru... wants him to build a billion-dollar dog museum... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Sleeping In Flame | Century/Legend 1988 First Edition First Printing (P240+241 reversed) | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges foxed and browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Withdrawn First State with pages 240 & 241 reversed, black boards and no yellow top-edge stain. Very Scarce. | 25.00 | ''... the curious story of Walker Easterling, found abandoned as an infant in a garbage bin. When he falls in love with Maris York he unwittingly provokes a chain reaction of bizarre encounters and chilling threats from some dark otherworld of dreams and legend.'' |
| Jonathan Carroll | Sleeping In Flame | Century/Legend 1988 First Edition First Printing (Second State with P240/1 correct) | Page edges lightly browned and slightly marked, but due to production fault, spine lettering slanted and gold patch on fore-edge of front board, else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author and Review Slip | 30.00 | ''... who, really, is... Walker Easterling... abandoned as an infant and discovered by a vagrant prowling the garbage bins... in Atlanta... Maris York... brings him all the warmth and sense of belonging he has never quite experienced before. But she also provokes a chain reaction of increasingly bizarre events - threats from some dark otherworld...'' J.C. inscriptions are very scarce. |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Marriage of Sticks | Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Advance Reading Copy Sticker on D. J. front panel | 7.50 | ''... Through a series of extraordinary events, Miranda learns from both the living and the dead just who she is and how far back her history goes. It is not a happy discovery but there is the possibility of redemption. If she has the courage and imagination to recapture a life she one thought her own... But if she fails, there will be hell to pay. And more... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Marriage of Sticks | Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Through a series of extraordinary events, Miranda learns from both the living and the dead just who she is and how far back her history goes. It is not a happy discovery but there is the possibility of redemption. If she has the courage and imagination to recapture a life she one thought her own... But if she fails, there will be hell to pay. And more... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Panic Hand | HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book and page edges lightly browned in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the title page | 30.00 | ''... Here, for the first time in English, are Carroll's collected stories, a wide-ranging showcase for his talents, and in particular for his extraordinary ability to turn a situation disturbingly and terrifyingly on its head in an instant. See for yourself in these prize-winning small doses... '' Expanded from the similar collection issued in German. Scarce. |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Panic Hand | HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 25.00 | ''... Here, for the first time in English, are Carroll's collected stories, a wide-ranging showcase for his talents, and in particular for his extraordinary ability to turn a situation disturbingly and terrifyingly on its head in an instant. See for yourself in these prize-winning small doses... '' Expanded from the similar collection issued in German. Scarce. |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the comfortable life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead, McCabe finds himself thrust into a new world of unaccountable miracles and disturbing wonders... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 15.00 | ''What would happen if, in the middle of a contented middle-aged life, your seventeen-year-old self suddenly appeared? And what if he said you had done everything wrong?... But there's still hope because he's come to help. He's going to show you how to live the rest of your life the right way... and... the fate of the universe could well be determined by what you decide to do... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across top board edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''What would happen if, in the middle of a contented middle-aged life, your seventeen-year-old self suddenly appeared? And what if he said you had done everything wrong?... But there's still hope because he's come to help. He's going to show you how to live the rest of your life the right way... and... the fate of the universe could well be determined by what you decide to do... '' |
| Jonathan Carroll | White Apples | Tor (UK) 2002 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Vincent Ettrich, an engaging philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life - but he has no idea why.... Beset by peculiar omens and strange characters... he gradually discovers that he was deliberately brought back by his one true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their son...who, if correctly raised, will play a crucial role in saving... the universe.'' |
| Jonathan Carroll | White Apples | Tor (US) 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why.... Pushed and prodded by strange omens and stranger persons, he gradually learns that he was brought back by his one true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their child - a child who, if raised correctly, will play a crucial role in saving the universe.'' |
| Robert Carter | The Language of Stones | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine & page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed and Dated by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''... Gwydion is watching over the Realm. He has walked the land since before the time of the druids... when Arthur rode to war: then they called him 'Merlyn'... an England that is still-magical... Legendary beasts... criss-crossed by lines of power... there are many enemies ranged against them: men, monsters and a sorcerer as powerful as Gwydion... '' |
| Jeffrey A. Carver | Eternity's End | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a 10mm tear and crease at the base of the front fold. | 4.00 | ''After seven years of captivity at the hands of interstellar pirates, Star Rigger Renwald Legroeder escapes to the Centrist worlds... he finds himself a target of a conspiracy... that has survived interstellar war and claimed the lives of millions... '' |
| P. C. Cast | Burned Book Seven of the House of Night Series | Atom 2010 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Sheets | 5.00 | ''Zoey Redbird is the youngest High Priestess in the House of Night history and is the only person - vamp or fledgling - who can stop the evil Neferet... if she wasn't so busy being dead... '' |
| P. C. Cast | Tempted Book Six of the House of Night Series | Atom 2009 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | 7.50 | ''Dangerous secrets come between Zoey and Stevie Rae, putting their friendship - and the House of Night - at great risk... Two girls walk a tightrope between good and evil... '' |
| Emma Cave | Little Angie | Andre Deutsch 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.50 | ''She came to the cottage to start a new life and forget the old one. There was much to forget, culminating in an afternoon in the basement... the bulging bloody sack, and the head with protruding, glazed and ghastly eyes. But forgetfulness was hard... Strange and terrifying things began to happen... '' |
| Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Fourth Estate 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In the Yiddish-speaking Federal District of Sitka, Orthodox gangs in sidecurls and knee breeches roam the streets, and Meyer Landsman... discovers the body of a heroin-addled chess prodigy... '' |
| Mark Chadbourn | Destroyer of Worlds Kingdom Of The Serpent: Book 3 | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine book | 4.00 | ''In the Far Lands, the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons gather for the final battle, the one the ancient Norse legends called Ragnarok, which will lead to the passing of gods and men from the universe. the Champion of Life, Jack Churchill has gathered a mighty army, backed by the gods from the world's greatest mythologies... '' |
| Mark Chadbourn | Jack Of Ravens Kingdom Of The Serpent: Book 1 | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 12.50 | ''100 B. C. into a Celtic tribe devastated by gods and monsters walks a man fated to become a mythic hero... Jack Churchill, a flawed dreamer torn from the modern world... There is a way home across the years... so begins his long tramp across human history... bringing him into conflict with the magical beings that have secretly shaped our civilisation... '' |
| Mark Chadbourn | Nocturne | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 30.00 | ''He woke up on a New Orleans trolley car. He was wearing his best suit and carrying a wallet full of travellers' cheques, a reservation at a smart hotel and a suitcase full of bloodstained clothes. But David Easter had no idea how he had got there... he is drawn inexorably into a darkness that stretches back to the dawn of the jazz age... '' |
| Mark Chadbourn | The Devil In Green | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''A new Dark Age of superstition has fallen across the land. Faced with the sudden of magic, ancient gods and mythic creatures, our modern, technological society has crumbled... cities lie devastated, communications are limited, anarchy rages across he land... '' |
| Mark Chadbourn | The Queen of Sinister | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, boards a little rubbed and one spot on top page edges else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''With the sudden return of magic, our modern, technological society has crumbled. Cities lie in ruins, communications are limited. Ancient Gods and mythic creatures rage across the land, but in this new order good and evil are never quite as they appear. Welcome to Britain's new Dark Age... '' |
| Anne Chamberlain | The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well Book 1 of the Joan of Arc Tapestries | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the true story of Joan of Arc. The saga of her rise from obscurity to lead the armies of France... Joan's astounding destiny was predicted by ancient prophecies attributed to none other than Merlin himself... '' |
| Anne Chamberlain | The Merlin of the Oak Wood Book Two of the Joan of Arc Tapestries | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the year is 1425. France lies in bloody fragments, torn apart by decades of warfare... Gilles de Rais is a loyal soldier... driven by dreams of chivalry and sacred honour... Merlin's ancient prophecy foretells that a Maid will come... '' |
| Stephen Chambers | Hope's War | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''For the city of Hope, stability is a memory... Vel, the new and very reluctant young king, has unintentionally prompted a bloody civil war... Against the backdrop of social and political anarchy and widespread starvation, Vel must make the dangerous journey... finds... a powerful kind of computer-based portal into the future... '' The author’s first book. |
| A. Bertram Chandler | Beyond The Galactic Rim | Allison & Busby 1982 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of rubbing at the upper fold tips | 5.00 | ''The Rim Worlds - inhabited by the dregs of the galaxy and damned by the unstable dimensions of time and space. Here are four exciting space stories about the Rim Runners of the Cosmos, that delve into the mysteries of life and creation on the edge of the Milky Way: Forbidden Planet... Wet Paint... The Man Who Could Not Stop... The Key... '' |
| A. Bertram Chandler | Bring Back Yesterday Volume 3 in The Rim World series | Allison & Busby 1981 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the flaps lightly browned. | 4.00 | ''Oversleeping after a night ashore with the gorgeous llona, Petersen, second mate... misses his return flight and loses his job with Trans-Galactic Clippers. But almost at once he is recruited by a private eye to investigate the mysterious activities on the planet Wenceslaus, where a mad scientist and his beautiful daughter have developed a way of manipulating time...'' |
| A. Bertram Chandler | Bring Back Yesterday Volume 3 in The Rim World series | Allison & Busby 1981 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the flaps partly browned. With Publisher's Review Slip | 5.00 | ''Oversleeping after a night ashore with the gorgeous llona, Petersen, second mate... misses his return flight and loses his job with Trans-Galactic Clippers. But almost at once he is recruited by a private eye to investigate the mysterious activities on the planet Wenceslaus, where a mad scientist and his beautiful daughter have developed a way of manipulating time...'' |
| A. Bertram Chandler | The Rim of Space Volume 1 in The Rim World series | Allison & Busby 1981 First UK Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... The hero, Derek Calver, joins the Rimrunners aboard the aptly named spaceship Forlorn Bitch... Travelling through the darkness and loneliness... they encounter hostility, espionage, space ghosts and storms, which test their comradeship to the limit...'' |
| A. Bertram Chandler | The Rim of Space Volume 1 in The Rim World series | Allison & Busby 1981 First UK Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Slip | 5.00 | ''... The hero, Derek Calver, joins the Rimrunners aboard the aptly named spaceship Forlorn Bitch... Travelling through the darkness and loneliness... they encounter hostility, espionage, space ghosts and storms, which test their comradeship to the limit...'' |
| Vera Chapman | The Enchantresses | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Ygraine, the beautiful Duchess of Cornwall, once inflamed the lust of a king, Uther Pendragon, and of him and sorcerous trickery was born Arthur... But Ygraine's husband, Duke Gorlais, had given her there daughters, Arthur's half-sisters... Morgause... Vivian... and Morgan... born into witchcraft, and it falls to Merlin to educate them... '' |
| Blake Charlton | Spellwright | HarperVoyager 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in lightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Nicodemus... was once thought to be the Halcyon - a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse... Nicodemus couldn't spell. Every time he touched a magical text, he unintentionally corrupted it, creating a dangerous, potentially deadly misspell... Nicodemus could hold great power... that might be used as easily for evil... '' |
| C. J. Cherryh | Chanur's Legacy | Daw 1992 First Edition First Printing | Lower corners bruised and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... Hilfy Chanur is captain of her own vessel, Chanur's Legacy. It should have been an ideal existence for Hilfy, her fondest dream fulfilled. But instead, the young captain finds herself more and more deeply entangled in seemingly insoluble problems... '' |
| C. J. Cherryh | Conspirator | Daw 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''The civil war among the alien atevi has ended... But... the danger... rebels pose is far from over.. '' |
| C. J. Cherryh | Lois & Clark A Superman Novel | Boxtree 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Even Superman can't be everywhere at once. As he struggles desperately half a world away to save a village threatened by a bursting dam, Lois throws herself into the rescue effort at the collapsed hotel - and emerges a hero... Recognised everywhere and hounded constantly by the press, nothing in her life will ever be the same again... including her relationship with Clark Kent... '' |
| Zen Cho | Sorcerer To The Crown | Macmillan 2015 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 25.00 | ''In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England's first African Sorcerer Royal. He leads the eminent Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, but a faction schemes against him. Meanwhile, the Society's failing in its vital duty - to keep magic levels stable... The Fairy Court is blocking supply... Then the government demands to use the remnants in its French war... '' |
| Deborah Christian | Mainline | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Before birth Reva was exposed to a bizarre alien force that changed her genetic makeup and gave her the unique ability to see different lines of causality... When she chooses any one of them, the other possibilities fade... She uses this special talent as an assassin for hire - slipping in and out of realities... '' The author's first book. |
| John Churchward (W. J. Baker) | What Beck'ning Ghost | New English Library 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket, with the spine panel very lightly faded and the upper front fold tip a little rubbed. | 10.00 | ''Who are the ghosts of Silver Lane Mill Cottage? And why so persistent in their visitations? Jim Blake... is determined to find out... he finds himself back... in the middle of the nineteenth century... James Blake was none other than his own great-great grandfather... past and present become inextricably mixed... '' |
| Theo Clare (Also as Mo Hayder) | The Book of Sand | Century 2022 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner lightly curled, and page edges slightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 7.50 | ''Sand. A hostile world of burning sun... a group of people - a family - walk towards us... To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water... in Fairfax County, Virginia... An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life - except... she found a sand-lizard in her bed... Two very different worlds... '' |
| Simon Clark | Darker | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across lower edge of rear board and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 35.00 | ''Video scriptwriter Richard Young is looking forward to a week at home with his wife Christine and their four-year-old daughter Amy. He thinks it's going to be a pleasant time of barbecues and lazy summer days. It isn't. IT'S GOING TO BE HELL... '' |
| Simon Clark | In This Skin | Hale 2004 First Edition First Printing | Lower corner tips bruised else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Two teenage runaways... are desperate for a place of safety. Fate takes the to the Luxor which has been sealed from the outside world for decades... people are drawn here against their will... there is a pathway on the old dance floor leading to a fabulous world beyond this one. Only the path isn't just one way... |
| Simon Clark | King Blood | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned and lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''... Rick Kennedy feels good. Tonight there's going to be the party of the summer... And this is the night that Rick encounters the mysterious stranger in the wood... Soon he wakes to find 30,000 refugees... running for their lives... The ground heats up... Roads melt. Cities erupt in flame. Lakes boil... '' |
| Simon Clark | Secrets of the Dead | Severn House 2014 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, evidence of label removal on front free end paper and copyright page and page edges marked - probable Ex. Library book in laminated boards - as issued and Near Fine Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''John Tolworth is delighted when he is hired to help investigate a collection of mummified bodies found in the notorious Gold Tomb in Egypt. Not only is he intrigued by the work, but the collection is stored in an ancient castle in Devon, where John spent his childhood. But when John and his family arrive at Baverstock Castle, John starts to remember things.. '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2010 Odyssey Two | Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked and foxed - Good book in lightly creased Dust Jacket with a small internal damp stain at the lower edge of the front panel The very scarce first state - withdrawn because the author's name was misspe | 40.00 | ''Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2010 Odyssey Two | Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Second State with Author's name spelled correctly) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the price removed | 7.50 | ''Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Prelude To Space | Sidgwick & Jackson 1953 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback, Thus and First Printing (Bound in Red Cloth) | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and page edges and end papers lightly browned - Good to Very Good Book | 10.00 | ''... the story behind the launching of the first rocket-ship to the moon... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Rama II | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the top of the front fold. | 4.00 | ''... set in 2200, four years after a second approaching spacecraft has been detected, Earth is ready to mount an expedition which may answer some of the questions posed by Rama... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Ghost From The Grand Banks | Bantam 1990 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the lamination loosening around the cover's embossed letters and a surface scratch on the front panel. | 5.00 | ''In the decade before the centennial of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, two of the world's most powerful corporations... race to find a way to raise - and then preserve - the doomed luxurious ocean liner... the biggest worldwide story of the century... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Hammer Of God | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, around 25mm of one page edges creased and a little rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear and some associated creasing at the lower edge of the rear panel | 4.00 | ''It is the twenty-second century. The moon is colonised and on Mars the pioneers live in domes... an amateur astronomer is the first to spot a previously uncharted asteroid... heading into the solar system... they give it a name filled with foreboding. Kali: the Hindu goddess of destruction...'' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Light of Other Days | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''... tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Light of Other Days | Voyager 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower spine corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Review card from HarperCollins | 10.00 | ''... Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communication revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light... Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... '' |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The Trigger | Voyager 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger... his prototype, when fired up for the first time, triggered all nearby explosive material. In that moment, an end to the power of the gun became feasible. In future, a firearm - or a bomb - could be made powerless to harm the innocent... '' |
| Jo Clayton | Drum Warning | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Iomard and Glandair, two worlds which exist in separate universes, are connected by magical forces beyond the control of even the strongest sorcerer. As they move closer together, conditions on both worlds become increasingly chaotic. The Drums of Chaos rumble in the background... '' Book One of The Drums of Chaos |
| Douglas Clegg | The Vampiricon The Queen Of Wolves | Ace 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Aleric has lived many lives: the bastard son of a witch mother; Falconer, who could speak to the birds... the vampyre who became a Priest of the Blood and a messiah to his kind. Now, he must become something even greater - and more terrible... '' Third in the trilogy |
| Hal Clement (Harry Clement Stubbs) | Cycle Of Fire | Gollancz 1964 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, label glue residue on front free end paper and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine book in slightly browned and worn Dust Jacket, with a tear at the top of the front flap and a small erosion at the | 100.00 | ''... Imagine a planet that has two suns; a red dwarf and a blue giant. And because their orbits are eccentric, the environment of the planet is subject to fantastic changes... And yet on this planet there is life... '' Scarce |
| John Clute | Appleseed | Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of an Al with two minds and a krewe of helpers. And his latest commission... is routine enough... But.. A galaxy-wide data plague is infecting the spiral arm of local stars all the way from Old Earth... '' |
| Molly Cochran | World Without End | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the lost continent of Atlantis... in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle... with... the people whom time and myth-making transformed into Zeus, Hades, and the other Gods of the Greek pantheon. Trapped in the turmoil and panic of Atlantis' destruction is a modern-day man... mysteriously transported into the past... '' |
| Steve Cockayne | Wanderers and Islanders Legends of the Land: Book One | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''In the secluded house, an invisible presence watches over Victor Lazarus as he carries out the instructions of an unknown benefactor... Rusty Brown encounters a strange girl who tells him a secret that will haunt... Leonardo Pegasus tinkers with the Multiple Empathy Engine... Three tales beautifully intertwined... a wonderfully original novel of magic and mystery... '' |
| David B. Coe | Bonds Of Vengeance Book Three of Winds of the Forelands | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''For nine hundred years the Forelands knew peace, but unrest among the magical Qirsi people has blossomed into a conspiracy against the Eandi rulers... Led by a mysterious Qirsi 'Weaver' with powers that can reach into the minds of others, the rebellion is now turning Qirsi against Qirsi... '' |
| David B. Coe | Children of Amarid Book I of the LonTobyn Chronicle | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine & page edges a little foxed else Fine book in slightly creased & rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (4mm) tear at the top of the rear panel adjacent to the spine | 7.50 | ''... Tobyn-Ser is a beautiful land endowed with magic that allows those with the gift to bond with avian familiars. These are the Children of Amarid... whose magic can create and heal - or wound and destroy... But... there is a traitor among the Children of Amarid... who threatens... to destroy all of Tobyn-Ser ... '' |
| David B. Coe | The Sorcerers' Plague Book One of Blood of the Southlands | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Grinsa, a Weaver of diverse magical gifts, is in search of peace. He and his wife, Cresenne... wish to rid themselves of the pervasive fear... They yearn for... a home to raise their child. But the Southlands has its own problems... '' |
| Virginia Coffman | The Vampyre of Moura | Severn House 1997 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Anne must come to grips with the ghosts of her own memories, as well as the strangely disturbing aura at Moura... While starving and desperate wolves prowl just beyond the doors, more sinister events occur within. And despite her revulsion towards the Maitre, Anne is irresistibly drawn to him, mesmerised by his unnatural powers... '' |
| Allan Cole | The Timura Trilogy Volume 1 When The Gods Slept | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Safar is a gentle lad, so troubled by his growing magical abilities that he determines to turn his back on the world of sorcery.; then the fates intervene... an epic adventure in which Protarus will carve out the mightiest empire in history... '' |
| Allan Cole | The Timura Trilogy Volume 2 Wolves of the Gods | Hodder 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Safar Timura thinks he is safe... Then his mountain paradise is invaded by four giant wolves - shape changers - intent on murdering him and everyone he knows and loves... '' |
| Allan Cole | The Warrior's Tale | Legend 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned, foxed and marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short (1-2 mm) tear at the base of the rear fold . | 4.00 | ''Embroiled in mighty skeins of magic, the Archons of Lycanth plot once again to conquer Orissa, home of Almaric Antero. Almaric's return from the fabled Far Kingdoms with tomes of arcane sorcery had stymied their plans, but now their own new-found magic contends for mastery... But wars are not won by magic alone... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | And Another Thing... Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three | Michael Joseph 2009 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 | ''An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | And Another Thing... Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three | Michael Joseph 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Set of 6 Postcards advertising the Series - with DON'T PANIC band | 6.00 | ''An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea... '' |
| Nancy A. Collins | The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story | Roadkill Press 1991 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No. 194/500) | Fine book Illustrated by Timothy Standish | 7.50 | 25 page centre-stapled booklet. ''Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous in a round-about fashion. But that was a long time ago, and the missus don't like me talking bout the old days, so's most folks here abouts don't know I was ever anything but a dry goods merchant who come West for his health... '' |
| David Guy Compton (Also as Guy Compton & Frances Lynch) | Justice City | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''...D. G. Compton has given us a brilliantly complex mystery, set ten minutes into the future, and with a hard political edge... '' |
| David Guy Compton | Ragnarok | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's review slip | 4.00 | Clute - ''a near-future cautionary tale in a traditional vein: a scientist threatens to end human civilization unless peace is declared... '' |
| Michael Conner | Archangel | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''...an alternate... Minneapolis, in the late 1920's, after a decade of devastating plague.... that is destroying the civilised world... Danny Constantine, a young newspaper photographer, discovers a weird series of murders that look like the work of a vampire... '' |
| Storm Constantine | Sea Dragon Heir | Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a hit of wear at the tips of the folds. | 5.00 | ''... In the land of Caradore, the ruling family, the Palindrakes, are under siege from the emperor, who seeks the powers and ancient wisdom which are channelled to the eldest son of each generation through the sea dragons. Valgraven Palindrake ... is forced to submit to a rite which surrenders his heritage... '' |
| Storm Constantine | Sign For The Sacred | Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine & a few page corner tips, & page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The Church of Ixmarity is under siege - the followers of the maverick prophet Resenence Jeopardy are winning new converts daily and their heresy threatens the state itself, as well as the wealth and position of those who govern it, particularly the ecclesiarch, Wilfish Implexion. Implexion is determined to stamp out the Jeopardites by any means at his disposal... '' |
| Storm Constantine | Thin Air | Warner 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | One light front covers crease and edges/corners lightly rubbed else Fine book | 3.00 | ''Dex has made it. A wildly innovative rock star with a conscience and screw-you persona, his fans adore him... Jay - a music journalist... taken by surprise... fall in love... Dex disappears... weeks turn into months... Jay hears rumours that Dex has been spotted, and she finds herself drawn inexorably back into the dark heart of his world... '' |
| Marie Coolidge-Rask | London After Midnight Based on the scenario of the Tod Browning Production | Imaginary 2012 First Hardback Limited Edition and Thus First Printing (Unnumbered/300) | Bruised and a little rubbed at top and base of spine and corners else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket, with bat bookmark Illustrated with 13 scenes from the Photoplay - different to the 1928 editions | 30.00 | ''How long they stood there, mutely viewing the spectral manifestation, neither man could have told. The form, now vague and indistinct, now dark and clearly visible, pervaded the room like an evil spirit. There were moments when the huge, wide-spread wings hovered vulture-like, in mid-air... '' Based on the lost film and combining the text of the 1928 UK and US Editions |
| C. Everett Cooper (Robert Reginald/Michael Burgess) | Up Your Asteroid! A Science Fiction Farce | Borgo Press 1977 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Upper rear corner slightly bumped, covers a little rubbed - Near Fine A5 Centre-stapled booklet | 3.00 | ''Once upon a time to come, a little girl lived down the lane from... the peanut factory. Her name was Miss Vajinah Wolfe... mother died... in the peanut fields... father was... the famous turkey baron... who boasted of having his Missouri Fried Turkey franchises in every hovel and chapel in the universe... '' Pastiche |
| Paul Cornell | The Severed Streets | Tor (UK) 2014 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket, with a small wear spot at the base of the rear fold. | 5.00 | ''... London: a city in turmoil... The bodies of rich white men are found in circumstances similar to those that set London awash with fear... the Whitechapel murders. Even with their abilities to see the supernatural, accepting that Jack the Ripper is back from the dead is a tough ask... '' His second urban fantasy novel, following London Falling |
| Bernard Cornwell | Vagabond | HarperCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Thomas of Hookton, having survived the battle of Crecy, is sent by the King on a mission to discover more about his father's strange inheritance, which seems connected to the Holy Grail... '' Book 2 of The Grail Quest. |
| Mary Corran | Darkfell | Orion 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine book in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Ninian is heir to Arcady, the last matriarchal estate in Avardale and the wetlands, the heir to the secret of her home lake and the Tearstone. Quest has been her friend for life, her lover for moments. Now it looks like their love is souring under the pressure of Quest's ambition... '' |
| Douglas Coupland | Hey, Nostradamus | Flamingo 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing Limited State - Issued Without Dust Jacket No. 19/150 | Fine Hardback Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author on a label fixed to the Title Page | 15.00 | ''Cheryl Anyway... was pregnant, but she isn't any longer. The morning she went into school to tell her boyfriend... Jason that... was the last morning she spent alive... Moving between the present and all-too-clear memories of the school shootings and their aftermath... perhaps his most soulful, piercing and searching story yet.'' |
| Richard Cowper | Kuldesak | Doubleday 1972 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''Mel was different from other Roamers. He was always asking questions: Why are men forbidden from the upper Levels? What is 'Outside'? What is the difference between Roamers and Plants? Why are man's numbers shrinking The answer was always 'Godswill' But who was God, and where did he get his authority?... '' |
| Kit Craig (Kit Reed) | Strait | Headline 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the base of the rear fold | 5.00 | ''When urbane, attractive Will Strait comes to teach at Evard College... Clair Sailor... senses something wrong... She is right. Buried in his contorted past, behind the spurious façade of his perfect family and his perfect career, is a secret that drives Will Strait to corrupt, torture and kill... '' |
| Paul Crilley | Poison City | Hodder & Stoughton 2016 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine and corners lightly rubbed and faint mark on front panel else Fine book. | 7.50 | ''... I work for the... occult investigative unit of the South African Police Service. My life revolves around two things - finding out who killed my daughter and imagining what I'm going to do to the bastard when I catch him... the dog, my magical spirit guide. He talks. He's an alcoholic. And he's a mean drunk... '' |
| Justin Cronin | The Passage | Orion 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower rear cover corner creased, corner tips slightly rubbed and eroded, light damp-marking to inside edge of front cover (no show-through) and page edges slightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Bound Manuscript Proof. | 20.00 | ''Deep in the jungles of eastern Columbia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for - and wishes to God he hadn't, In Memphis... a six-year-old girl called Amy... wonders why her mother has abandoned her... in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again... '' |
| John Crowley | Beasts | Doubleday 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket (No remainder spray) | 20.00 | ''Against the charged and anarchic atmosphere of a fragmented America in the not-too-distant future, to events unfold... inexorably marking the fall of man... and the rise of the animal kingdom... '' |
| John Crowley | The Deep | New English Library 1977 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned (as usual) else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Wrap-around Jacket Illustration by Wayne Anderson | 85.00 | ''... a world supported by a huge pillar which is poised in the centre of the vast and mysterious Deep. In this world the Protectors own the land and are constantly feuding with the Just who wish to return the land to the Folk... the 'neutral' Grays preserve the ancient, unfathomable teachings handed down from the beginning of time... '' This edition very scarce. |
| Brian Cullen | The Valley of Shadows | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Boards slightly rubbed else Fine book in Dust Jacket with two small spots of wear at the base of the spine With Publisher's News Sheet | 5.00 | ''After months of searching, the Seekers think they may have come to the end of their search for the Chalice of Fire... But the way is overrun with bloodthirsty vampires and morbid creatures of the night... '' Sequel to Seekers of the Chalice |
| Seamus Cullen (????) | Astra And Flondrix | Allen Lane 1976 First Edition First Printing | A few speckles on boards and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the fold tips rubbed | 7.50 | Clute - ''...a relatively rare presentation of eroticism in fantasy. The king of a fantasyland kingdom on post-holocaust earth impregnates his elf bride; their son Flondrix matures into a shapeshifter and sexual athlete, and inadvertently awakens a malign sleeper... '' |
| Jack Curtis (David Harsent) | Crows' Parliament | Bantam 1989 First Edition First Printing? | Slightly bumped at base of spine & top front corner bruised & around 32 pages differentially lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Simon Guerney has a singular profession: the international rescue of kidnap victims. Well paid for this dangerous and often violent work, he is the last resort of the rich and desperate... David Paschini is no ordinary teenager and this is no ordinary kidnapping. Through a series of haunting psychic dreams he reveals his whereabouts to Guerney... '' |
| Gordon Dahlquist | The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters | Viking 2007 First Combined Edition in the UK First Printing (John Crace - No. 27/100) | A few page corner tips bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 10.00 | ''... Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband... when her fiancé, Roger Bascombe threw her over for no apparent reason, Miss Temple decided to find out why....Cardinal Chang, so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man, is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated... '' |
| Kara Dalkey | Bhagavati Blood of the Goddess III | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Thomas, a young apothecary's apprentice, was sent to collect rare herbs in Africa and India... Captured by the Inquisition... he has reclaimed his life by pretending to know the source of a mysterious powder... which can restore the dead to life... |
| Kara Dalkey | Bhagavati Blood of the Goddess III | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Thomas, a young apothecary's apprentice, was sent to collect rare herbs in Africa and India... Captured by the Inquisition... he has reclaimed his life by pretending to know the source of a mysterious powder... which can restore the dead to life... |
| Kara Dalkey | Goa Blood of the Goddess I | Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Thomas Chinnery is the young assistant to a Master Apothecary of England. He has been entrusted... with a perilous journey... East Africa and India... trade in medicinal herbs... a man and woman fleeing... alchemist... a mysterious powder.. kills the living, but it can restore the dead to life... '' |
| Kara Dalkey | The Heavenward Path | Harcourt Brace 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''Two years after the events of Little Sister, Fujiwara no Mitsuko finds herself cursed by ghosts and bad luck. The furious spirit of a dead king demands she keeps a forgotten promise, and he gives her a series of impossible tasks to complete. If she fails, the spirit will punish her by handing her over to the Lord of the Dead... '' |
| John Dalmas | The Regiment: A Trilogy | Baen 2004 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''The planet Tyss is so poor that it only has one export resource: its fighting men... Hiring their services is very expensive, but well worth it, for the Tyss secret training makes their soldiers into mystic warriors, irresistible in battle... '' |
| Tony Daniel | The Heretic | Baen 2013 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and with a couple of tiny cloth tears at the base else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Duisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, But... remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilisation and bloodthirsty barbarism. The people... have a god... a supercomputer... preventing civilisation from rising... '' A new novel in The General series |
| Dennis Danvers | Circuit Of Heaven | Avon 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a tiny (ca. 2mm) split at the base of the rear fold. | 6.00 | ''... 'the bin': a vast network of silicon crystals into which twelve billion people have uploaded their personalities to live in crime-free, disease-free... deathless virtual societies, leaving the dangerous and unpredictable Earth to a few remaining stragglers, the creeps and the crazies... Outsiders may visit the Bin... once they decide to stay... it's forever... '' |
| Dennis Danvers | The Fourth World | Avon 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Santee... meets Margaret in Central America... he is technically still working for NewsReal - as a living camera hired to... enhance the virtual experience of millions of Web slaves. But Santee has lost his taste for the job... Margaret recognises a kindred spirit... Until Santee vanishes into the lush and dangerous wilds of the Third World... '' |
| John Darnton | Neanderthal | Hutchinson 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In the wild upper reaches of the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, a guerrilla fighter vanishes, a schoolgirl is murdered, and an eminent Harvard paleontologist disappears... archaeologists and rival governments attempt to track down a relic band of human-like creatures, who have survived on the roof of the world, in part because of their mysterious telepathic ability... '' |
| Leonard Daventry | A Man Of Double Deed | Gollancz 1965 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed and pages slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with one Sellotape adhesive stain. | 10.00 | ''The year is 2090. Earth has now recovered from atomic war... Claus Coman belongs to a group of telepaths... who consider themselves the custodians of humanity... Coman encounters repeated opposition from the criminal underworld...Linnel, a female ''joker'', or telepath of limited perception... Coman has taken with him the two women... with whom he lives in a menage á trois... renders Coman's brief affair with... Linnel all the more explosive... '' |
| Peter David | Darkness of the Light | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''On the Damned World, it's every man for himself. Only it's not just mankind who inhabits this crumbling, desolate world. Twelve very different species, creatures out of Earth's mythology that live on the land, in the sea, and underground, vie for survival in a hostile land... '' Book 1 of The Hidden Earth |
| Peter David | Fall of Knight | Ace 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper front corner and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... When former first lady Gwen DeVere Queen Penn is discovered to be hale and hearty - after falling victim to a successful (and very public) assassination - the jig is finally up. Arthur Penn, aka King Arthur, reveals his true identity, and the existence of the Holy Grail, to the world... '' Third ion the Trilogy, following Knight Life and One Knight Only |
| Rjurik Davidson | Unwrapped Sky | Tor 2014 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Edges lightly rubbed, rubbed soil mark on rear cover, a few page corner tips bruised and page edges lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city's future... reflecting all the hopes and dreams of the ancient city, risk everything for a future they can only create by throwing off the shackles of tradition and superstition... '' |
| Aliette de Bodard | The Red Scholar's Wake | Gollancz 2022 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Xich Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger... captured by the feared Rice Fish... sentient ship, leader of the infamous Red Banner pirate fleet... Set against a backdrop of an interstellar war against piracy, and the five fleets' brutal fight to survive... an exciting space opera and a beautiful romance... '' |
| L. Sprague de Camp | Lest Darkness Fall A Hilarious, Fast Moving Novel of a Situation That Could Not Happen yo You | Galaxy 1955 First Paperback Edition First Printing (Galaxy Novel No. 24) | Top page corners a little curled, top edge of front cover a little creased and rubbed, one short crease to front cover lower corner and page edges lightly browned - Very Good book | 5.00 | ''An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end of the Roman Empire and makes an unsuccessful attempt to use his modern scientific knowledge to prevent the Dark Ages... '' His first novel. |
| Tom de Haven | Walker Of Worlds | Doubleday 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine & page edges lightly browned & slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | Clute - ''... a full and uninhibited fantasy. The first volume rather hectically conveys the eponymous walker, fittingly named Jack, and his seven samurai group of companions through a portal into what seems to be a secondary world (called Lostwithal), where much conflict is necessary to save King Sad Agel's throne... '' |
| Charles De Lint | Forests of the Heart | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''In the Old Country they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed... only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou... generations have passed... but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets... and dream of power... '' |
| Charles De Lint | Spiritwalk | Macmillan 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine Book With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 10.00 | ''Tamson House... is a place of hidden power, for the house is a door to other lands through which diverse magics mingle and leak into our own. The walls of Tamson House breathe wonder, mystery sleeps in its enclosed garden... the overgrown garden path leads to a vast primal wood... '' |
| Charles De Lint | Trader | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and short felt pen (remainder?) line across top page edges else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... Trader is solitary, quiet, responsible. Devlin is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Devlin gleefully moves into Trader's comfortable and stable existence... Penniless, friendless, homeless, Trader begins a journey that will take him beyond the streets of Newford to an otherworld of dreams and spirits... '' |
| Charles De Lint | Trader | Macmillan 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 5.00 | ''... compelling story of a change of souls... inexplicably wake up one morning in each other's bodies... a journey that will take him... to an otherworld of dreams and spirits - where he must confront... his own deepest fears... '' |
| Pamela Dean | Tam Lin | Tor 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 60.00 | Clute - ''... a nearly quintessential college novel, treating the college experience as a kind of transcendent Otherworld, realizing the lonely intellectual's fantasy of finding companions exactly like oneself and upping the ante by gradually introducing the supernatural element of the Elvish court drawn from the ballad Tam Lin... '' |
| Stephen Deas | The Adamantine Palace | Gollancz 2009 First Edition First Printing | Front corners slightly rubbed/curled and a couple of light bumps to page fore-edges else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''The power of the Realms depends on its dragons. Jealously guarded, nurtured by their handlers, ridden by the aristocracy, they are bred for hunting and for war. But only the alchemists and the mysterious liquid they administer to the dragons stand between the Realms and disaster... '' |
| Tom Deitz | Above The Lower Sky | AvoNova 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''in the midst of a rare Irish hurricane, an expatriate American writer admits a not-quite-human visitor into his castle... On a raven-moon night in Mexico, a Native American dancer watches in silent horror as a stranger is skinned alive... In the grisly wake of a Dolphin massacre a beautiful marine biologist dies... and lives again... '' |
| Samuel R. Delany | They Fly At Ciron | Tor 1995 | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... the story of a small, pastoral village that is invaded without warning by the armies of a distant empire sweeping across the world. Facing mortal danger for the first time in their history, the villagers must forge a pact with the strange race of flying humans dwelling high above in the mountains.'' |
| Ian Dennis | The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time | Overlook Press 1989 First Combined & US Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed, Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background a little faded. | 5.00 | ''Garbed in the literary costumes of One Thousand and One Nights and other fables, this full blown literary fantasy spins an elaborate tale of political satire and incredible deeds, of the contending forces of the political left and right as they struggle for control of medieval Bagdad... '' |
| Bradley Denton | Lunatics | St. Martin's Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Each month, when the moon is full, Jack strips naked and waits outside for his lover. He has to: Lily can only find him by the light of the moon. (It's one of those things about being the moon goddess)... '' |
| Bradley Denton | One Day Closer To Death Eight Stabs At Immortality | St. Martin's Press 1998 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | Foreword; The Territory; Skidmore; Killing Weeds; Captain Coyote's Last Hunt; The Calvin Coolidge Home For Dead Comedians; We Love Lydia Love; A Conflagration Artist; Blackburn Bakes Cookies and Afterword |
| August Derleth | The House on the Mound | Duell Sloane 1958 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Near Fine book in torn, stained, and slightly frayed Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''This historical novel of Wisconsin's first decade is based on the lives of Jane and Hercules Dousman, their years together from 1848 to 1857 in the Villa Louis - the house on the mound at Prairie du Chien.'' |
| David Devereux | Eagle Rising | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... Someone has been mad enough to revive the most terrifying evil of the last 60 years. and only one man is bad enough to stop them... Jack is back... infiltrating the closed corridors of big business to face a lethal supernatural threat... a high-powered occult group intent on giving the world back to a terror from the darkest days of the 1940s.'' |
| David Devereux | Hunter's Moon | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | '' ...you can call me Jack. I'm a musician by choice, a magician by profession, and a bastard by disposition. I'd been doing the magic thing for about five years when they found me. They said I had a talent, that I was smart enough and fit enough and enough of a shit that I could serve my country in a way most people never even get to hear about... '. |
| Paul di Filippo (Also as Philip Lawson with Michael Bishop) | Harp, Pipe, and Symphony | Prime Books 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and touch of wear to top corner of rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... Thomas the Rhymer confronts humans and faery and monsters, in a quest through lands known and unknown... but can he survive the machinations of the Faery Queen?'' |
| Philip K. Dick | Martian Time-Slip | New English Library 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards a little faded, corners bruised and page edges lightly browned and foxed - Very Good Book in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears | 50.00 | ''... undoubtedly one of Philip K. Dick's best novels. His profound insight into psychological states, particularly schizophrenia, and his characteristic fascination with the nature of reality are explored through the relationships of the main characters.'' |
| Philip K. Dick | Mary and the Giant | Gollancz 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 15.00 | One of the unpublished mainstream novels found among Philip K. Dick's effects. ''... a compellingly real portrait of small-town California in the early 1950s, and its central character, Mary Anne Reynolds, is among the most convincing Dick ever created... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | Death Of A Unicorn | Bodley Head 1984 First Edition First Printing | Lightly bumped at top of spine and covers lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Lady Margaret Millett ex-deb-of-the-year, puts a white-gloved hand to her mouth and yawns. A stranger at her elbow speaks to her, and her world changes. Within a week she has a job... A few more weeks and she has a lover. then a year of happiness and self-discovery; and then, out of the blue, wholly inexplicably, tragedy... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | Skeleton-In-Waiting | Bodley Head 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a short (5 mm) tear in the edge of the front flap and a little wear at the base of the folds. | 5.00 | ''... Peter Dickinson takes up the story of our alternative Royal Family (who but for the death of Edward Duke of Clarence in 1887 might be the real one) thirteen years on from their previous appearance in King and Joker... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | Skeleton-In-Waiting | Bodley Head 1989 First Edition First Printing | Covers and page edges lightly stained and slightly marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''... Peter Dickinson takes up the story of our alternative Royal Family (who but for the death of Edward Duke of Clarence in 1887 might be the real one) thirteen years on from their previous appearance in King and Joker... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | The Green Gene | Hodder & Stoughton 1973 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine and previous owner's details on front end paper else Fine book in slightly edge-worn Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... P. P. Humayan, computer genius and lecher... is brought from far Bombay to work... on the mysterious behaviour of the hereditary gene that gives Celts their green skins... But the banned Ogham writing is already on the walls...'' |
| William C. Dietz | For Those Who Fell | Ace 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top & bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with small fingernail puncture in the spine panel. | 5.00 | ''... the Legion of the Damned is humanity's first line of defence - and often last hope... the soldiers - both human and cyborg - who step up when the chips are down... '' |
| William C. Dietz | Logos Run | Ace 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''In a universe littered with the ruins of a once technologically advanced past, there are those who seek to restore the galaxy to its former high-tech glory - and those passionately committed to preventing that. Caught between these factions, Runner Jak Rebo can no longer stay out of the fray... '' Sequel to Runner |
| Thomas M. Disch | On Wings of Song | Gollancz 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 25.00 | ''This rich and heady novel is a marvellously imaginative and thought-provoking brew. Shot through with a sly and sharply ironic wit, it is a perfectly flighted fable of our tormented and exciting times.'' |
| Carl Djerassi | Menachem's Seed | University Of Georgia Press 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Menachem... a fiftyish Israeli nuclear engineer... sterile... Melanie Laidlaw... the childless widow of a prominent scientist... in her late thirties, Laidlaw concocts a scheme to steal her lover's sperm in order to... injection of a single sperm into an egg... pure Djerassi - an unpredictable and thrilling page-turner.'' |
| Stephen R. Donaldson (Also as Reed Stephens) | Reave The Just And Other Tales | Voyager 1998 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 | ''... eight stunning stories that reveal a mastery of the shorter form, and display all the remarkable imagination, storytelling skills and gift for the unexpected... stories rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace... '' |
| Jose Donoso | Sacred Families | Gollancz 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Very Good to Near Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket with spine faded. | 7.50 | ''... three interlinked novellas of sinister brilliance and devastating panache... suddenly we are in the thick of war: between a cover girl - and her friends - rebelling against the men who 'created' them and manipulate them, learning to use the female arsenal of cosmetics, particularly vanishing cream, to devastating effect...'' |
| Carole Nelson Douglas | Keepers of Edanvant Sword and Circlet 1 | Tor 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Slip | 5.00 | ''Silver-eyed Irissa, the Torloc seeress, has been searching for her people and for their home world, Edanvant, through years, through Gates between Worlds. Accompanied by Kendric... the human sceptic who... has gained the magical powers he utterly distrusts, Irissa finds an Edanvant far bleaker than she hoped... '' |
| Carole Nelson Douglas | Seed Upon The Wind Book II of the Taliswoman | Tor 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Fleeing the strange parallel land of Veil Alison has returned to Minnesota with the mysterious Cup of Earth... a provocative encounter draws Alison back... But much has changed in Veil... The Cup's other-world sojourn has left Veil defenceless... '' |
| Carole Nelson Douglas | Seven of Swords Sword and Circlet 3 | Tor 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, spine creased and page edges a little browned and marked - Very Good book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... forever on guard against the return of their enemy... '' |
| David Drake | Igniting The Reaches | Ace 1994 First Edition First Printing | Corners at top of spine slightly worn, covers slightly marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''... Piet Ricimer stood out like an open flame on the crowded, cluttered bridge of the Sultan as she orbited Salute. Stephen Gregg was amused by the young officer's flashy dress... '' |
| David Drake | Out Of The Waters | Tor 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional News Sheet | 7.50 | ''... the great city of Carce... a theatrical/religious event... strange and dark magic... The sky darkens... A great creature rises from the sea: a huge tentacled horror on snake legs... this illusion could signify a dreadful and cataclysmic intrusion of supernatural powers... '' Second Book of the Elements, following The Legions of Fire |
| David Drake | The Mirror of Worlds The Second Volume of The Crown of the Isles | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... The powers of magic in the Isles have flooded to a thousand-year peak, and even local magicians can perform powerful spells normally beyond their control... '' |
| Richard Dreyfuss | The Two Georges | Hodder & Stoughton 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a short tear near the top of the front fold | 5.00 | ''... an alternate 20th Century in which the subsequent War of Independence never took place... the United States of America never left the British Empire... a world in which the fastest mode of transport for civilians is the airship and even the military have only propeller-driven biplanes... '' |
| Dave Duncan | Ill Met in the Arena | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's News Sheet | 5.00 | ''For generations, the nobles of Aureity have selectively bred their children to maximise their potential for psychic talent. Women's powers, including psychic control and mind reading, make them ideal rulers. Men have superhuman strength and can teleport... young noblemen make their fortunes by competing in psychic gladiatorial contests... '' |
| Dave Duncan (Also as Sarah B. Franklin & Ken Hood) | Lord of the Fire Lands A Tale of the King's Blades | Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a light scratch on the spine panel. | 5.00 | ''... Young Wasp is no rebel, but an orphan... Yet, at the sacred ceremony of binding, he follows the lead of his friend Raider - and together the spurn the wishes of King Ambrose... Now Raider and Wasp are outlaws to King and country - fugitives hunted by the very Blades whose ranks they were a breath away from entering... '' |
| Dave Duncan | Mother of Lies | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and a few page corner tips creased else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | 'The past fifteen years have not been kind to Celebre, the greatest city on Dodec... '' Sequel to Children of Chaos |
| Dave Duncan | Paragon Lost A Chronicle Of The King's Blades | Eos 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Over time, many legends have emerged from the shadows of Ironhall... Sir Beaumont. His heart is the strongest and most pure and his mind is as keen, swift, and accurate as his sword. A glorious future seems destined... But... '' |
| Dave Duncan | Sky of Swords A Tale of the King's Blades | Eos 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the top of the spine | 5.00 | ''The Princess Malinda was a lonely and unloved child growing into young womanhood in the cold intrigue-ridden court of King Ambrose. At an early age she learned to fight for what was rightfully hers. But even her great courage and matchless wits could not withstand her father's treacheries... '' |
| Dave Duncan | Sky of Swords A Tale of the King's Blades | Eos 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The Princess Malinda was a lonely and unloved child growing into young womanhood in the cold intrigue-ridden court of King Ambrose. At an early age she learned to fight for what was rightfully hers. But even her great courage and matchless wits could not withstand her father's treacheries... '' |
| Dave Duncan | The Cutting Edge Part-One-A-Handful-Of-Men. | Del Rey 1992 Second Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine & page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Beautiful Queen Inos married the loyal stableboy Rap and made him her king. They were very much in love, and they lived happily ever after... Fifteen years went by... '' |
| Hal Duncan | Vellum The Book Of All Hours: 1 | Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No. 136/600) | Corners slightly rubbed - else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''In the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch - the unkin are gathering for war. In the Vellum, a falling angel and a renegade devil are about to come to blows. In the Vellum, blood magic made in hell is about to come face to face with nanotechnology forged in heaven... and the Vellum will burn''. |
| J. R. Dunn | Full Tide Of Night | Avon 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''They called themselves the Erinye, tormentors of man... Only one starship escaped the holocaust that consumed Earth: piloted by... Julia Amalfi... across the light-years to ice-locked Midgard... With Cariola, an immature but powerful artificial intelligence, Julia... woke Midgard... More than a century later... '' |
| David Anthony Durham | Acacia Book One The War With The Mein | Doubleday 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with two small scratches at the edge of the spine panel and lightly rubbed at the tips of the front fold | 7.50 | ''An assassin sent from the frozen North on a mortal mission. A mighty empire under siege by its oldest enemy. Four royal children in exile or captivity, bent on avenging their father's death... creates an all-enveloping and mythic world... tale of heroism and betrayal, of treachery and revenge, of primal wrongs and ultimate redemption.. '' First in the trilogy. |
| Sarah Beth Durst | The Queen of Blood Book One of the Queens of Renthia | HarperVoyager 2016 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''... the spirits that reside within this land want to rid it of all humans. One woman stands between the malevolent spirits and the end of humankind: the queen. She alone has the magical power to prevent the spirits from destroying every man, woman and child. But queens are still only human... '' First of the Trilogy |
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