| Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace To Stop War Poem | Temporary Culture 2008 (Paper) | Paper covers lightly creased else Fine A5 centre-stapled booklet Colour cover and black-and-white internal etchings by Judith Clute | 10.00 | First published as a hand-made book with original etchings printed by the artist in October 2008. This edition printed in November 2008 for distribution to members of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives and worldwide to promote peace |
| Barbara Hambly | Icefalcon's Quest | Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''While chaos reigned in the Eastern lands, the Keep of Dare stood as a bastion against war and bandits and the spawn of unnatural sorceries. Then twin blows rocked the citadel... Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed general Vair... he had learned that the royal child possessed forbidden wisdom: a secret with which... Vair intended to conquer the world... '' |
| Laurell K. Hamilton | A Kiss Of Shadows | Ballantine 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why... '' |
| Laurell K. Hamilton | A Lick Of Frost | Bantam 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | 'I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie... To be crowned queen, I must first continue the royal bloodline and give birth to an heir... yet for all our eager carnal efforts, I remain childless... '' |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Manhattan In Reverse | Macmillan 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | Introduction; Watching Trees Grow; Footvote; If at First... ; The Forever Kitten; Blessed by an Angel; The Demon Trap and Manhattan In Reverse |
| Peter F. Hamilton | Night Without Stars Chronicle of the Fallers | Macmillan 2016 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''The planet Bienvenido is in crisis. It has finally escaped the Void... But it's millions of light-years from Commonwealth assistance, and humans are battling with the Fallers for control of their world... A mysterious figure known as the Warrior Angel leads a desperate resistance... '' |
| Thomas Harlan | The Gate Of Fire Book Two of the Oath of Empire | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... following the increasingly deadly war, both military and sorcerous, between Rome and Persia... Prince Maxian... has raised both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great from the dead. Now, with the power that their legends can offer him, he considers how to free Rome... '' |
| Thomas Harlan | The Shadow Of Ararat Book One of the Oath of Empire | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In what would be A.D. 600 in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Augustus Heraclius, to lift the siege of Constantinople and carry a great war to... the Shahanshah of Persia... '' |
| Thomas Harlan | The Storm Of Heaven Book Three of The Oath Of Empire | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... the great three-sided war continues. Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. The tide is turning against the Eastern Empire... Rome lies devastated by the long-pent eruption of Vesuvius... and in Judea, young Dwyrin is coming into his full powers... '' |
| Andrew Harman | A Midsummer Night's Gene | Legend 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Professor Crickson has seen the future - and it tastes like chicken. The Prof. can unite vegetarians and carnivores by implanting the genes of said flavour into those of corn. Chicken Fed Corn... When the local Chief Inspector's daughter is abducted... and mysterious strands of DNA begin appearing in the amniotic tanks, it would seem that the Truth has become mightily bored hanging around Out There... '' |
| Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz) | An Ice Cold Grave | Berkley 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Hired to find a boy gone missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver... discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years... Harper soon finds them - eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground... '' |
| Charlaine Harris | Dead in the Family | Gollancz 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket, rubbed along the lower edge. | 4.00 | ''Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar, she has a love life, albeit pretty complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy... her brother Jason's... about to turn into a were-panther... a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population... '' |
| Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz) | Dead Reckoning | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. It's a job which has its own challenges, but now the vampires and shapeshifters are finally 'out', you'd think the supernaturals would get on with each other... '' |
| Charlaine Harris | From Dead to Worse | Ace 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and with short split in the material at the top and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is reeling from two hard blows - the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the man-made horror of the explosion at the vampire summit the month before... Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed... her weretiger boyfriend, Quinn, is among the missing... '' |
| Charlaine Harris | Grave Sight | Gollancz 2006 Third Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Harper Connelly is honest, ethical and loyal - and ever since a bolt of lightning zapped her... she's had an extra special talent: she can find dead people... as Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead, while bringing some closure to the living... '' |
| Joanne Harris | The Evil Seed | Warner Books 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine, corners & front cover creased, pages lightly browned, WITHDRAWN & SOLD stamped on prelim page - Good book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 30.00 | ''... When Alice Farrell is drawn to a Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when her former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and certain of her evil... '' Very scarce - her first book. |
| Thomas Harris | Hannibal | Delacorte 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with one crease in the front flap | 10.00 | ''... Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody... '' |
| Thomas Harris | Hannibal Rising | Heinemann 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck... he has brought his demons with him... Hannibal's uncle... brings him to France... But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn... '' |
| J. B. Harris-Burland (John Burland Harris-Burland also as J. B. Harris Burland & Harris Burland) | The Lion's Claw | Hutchinson [1919] First Edition First Printing (Pale Purple Boards, Black Lettering) | Slightly bumped at top of spine and slightly bumped and slightly worn at base, rear board slightly damp-faded, page edges browned, with first and last few pages foxed, hinges partially cracked and weak, inscription on front fixed end paper - Good in sligh | 65.00 | A Detective-Thriller from an author well-known for his Science Fiction. Hutchinson planned 10 volumes in this series consolidating H-B's detective stories for the 'millions of readers' who'd enjoyed their appearance in serial form. Scarce. |
| Harry Harrison | Stars and Stripes Forever | Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''In 1861 the American Civil War was in its first lethal year... when a Union warship stopped a British ship at sea and took off two Confederate diplomats... there was a very real threat of war between Britain and the Union. Would Britain have invaded the United States? And if she had - what would have been the result?...'' Book 1 of the Stars and Stripes Trilogy. |
| Harry Harrison | The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You | Michael Joseph 1978 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, lightly browned Dust Jacket. | 20.00 | ''Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is still recovering from his efforts to save the world, when he is confronted with an even bigger problem. Saving the galaxy. Can he do it? He had better, for every alien race - untold billions of slavering, slimy, horrible creatures, attacking in monster space battleships - is closing in on mankind... '' |
| M. John Harrison (Also as Gabriel King with Jane Johnson) | Empty Space A Haunting | Gollancz 2012 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine book With the Publisher's Press Release | 7.50 | ''We thought we had filled space with a civilisation spread across the stars... But there is a lot of empty space in the universe... The vast empty space inside every atom... The aching empty space between a mother and a daughter in a quiet west London suburb... The empty space of the Kefahuchi Tract, hanging above us... '' |
| John Twelve Hawks | The Traveller | Bantam (UK) 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins - a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect... Travellers... '' |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Haunting Tales Of Nathaniel Hawthorne | John Calder 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | Includes Rappaccini's Daughter; The Hollow of the Three Hills; Howe's Masquerade; Edward Randolph's Portrait; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment; The Gray Champion; Ethan Brand; The Christmas Banquet and Young Goodman Brown together with an Introduction by the Editor |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Destiny | Gollancz 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & bruised at base of spine & lower page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | The triumphant conclusion to the Rhapsody trilogy - ''... the world is crossing the threshold of disaster and faces utter oblivion... '' |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Prophecy Child Of Earth | Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Fleeing the demonic F'dor, Rhapsody, a Singer of talent and beauty, Achmed, the enigmatic assassin and Grunthor,. The deadly Firbolg Warrior... During their epic journey centuries have passed, their homeland has been destroyed and their people scattered across the world. Everyone they ever knew has long since passed away... Now the three companions must split up... '' |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Prophecy Child Of Earth | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and binding slightly strained else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short (2-3 mm) tear at the top of the rear fold | 3.00 | ''... Driven by a prophetic vision, Rhapsody races to rescue the religious leader of her new homeland while Achmed and Grunthor seek evidence of the F'dor. These three may be their world's only hope, the heroes spoken of in the Prophecy of the Three, but their time is running short... '' Sequel to Rhapsody: Child Of Blood. |
| Elizabeth Haydon | Requiem For The Sun | Gollancz 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and lower page edges browned else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... When the Dowager Empress dies, along with her successor, the instability of this mountainous, forbidding land allows for the rise of a new evil, igniting the spark of war that will threaten to overwhelm the known world... '' |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | Queen of Kings | Bantam 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With the Publisher's Information Sheet | 5.00 | ''What if Cleopatra hadn't died in 30BC? What if she couldn't die? What if she became immortal?... a blood-craving, shape-shifting immortal: a not-quite-human manifestation of a goddess who seeks to destroy the world... the first book in an ambitious trilogy... '' |
| William Heaney (Graham Joyce) | Memoirs of a Master Forger | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 20.00 | ''... a dissolute bookseller, happily penning forgeries of classic works of literature to flog to gullible collectors... also a poet composing verse for his more attractive Asian friend... a drink problem... And William sees demons... Shadowy figures which lurk on the shoulders of everyone... except... '' First Printings of this are very scarce. |
| Howard V. Hendrixs | Better Angels | Ace 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... From California's La Brea tar pit, an artifact is unearthed that resembles an angel's shoulder blade - radiocarbon dating to tens of thousands of years in the past... Jim's immersion in the mystery... takes his mind... into the realm of a galactic consciousness unlike anything the universe has ever known... '' |
| Howard V. Hendrixs | Empty Cities of the Full Moon | Ace 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The biotech pandemic of 2032-33... empties cities and devastates human population worldwide... an apocalypse... revelatory... a genetically engineered virus precipitating shamanic manias of drumming, dancing, dreaming and shapeshifting... something new: A postapocalyptic world under the sway of the full moon... '' |
| Tom Henighan | The Well of Time | Collins 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''From the snow-covered forests of primitive Canada, land of myth and magic, comes a tale of incest, lust and murder, of a young girl's quest to save her people.'' |
| James Herbert | Ash | Macmillan 2012 First Edition First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a small area of varnish delamination on the rear panel | 5.00 | ''... high on a craggy cliff top on the wind-battered western coast of Scotland is a remote, secluded, ancient castle... that holds secrets that would shake the world... David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, is sent there to investigate... '' |
| Russell Hoban | Pilgermann | Cape 1983 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine in Dust Jacket, with orange spine background a little faded (as usual) | 7.50 | ''... This remarkable book, however, is not strictly a historical novel; rooted in the actualities of its time and every time, it is a narrative of marvels and mystery spoken directly into our ears... '' |
| Mark Hodder | A Red Sun Also Rises | Del Rey (UK) 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... My name is Aidan Fleisher. I was forced from my home, moved among the victims of Jack the Ripper, was tortured by a witch doctor, and awoke on another planet.. On Ptallaya, we were welcomed by the Yatsill... we found a new home beneath the world's twin suns. But a red sun also rises... and with it comes an evil more horrifying than any on Earth.'' |
| P. C. Hodgell | Dark of the Gods | Meisha Merlin 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lightly rubbed at base of spine and upper rear corner bruised else Fine Book | 7.50 | ''Jame is a Kencyr, one of the people chosen by the Three-Faced God to battle the demonic being Perimal Darkling which has broken into the Chain of Creation... '' |
| P. C. Hodgell | Seekers Mask | Meisha Merlin 2001 First Printing (Paper Issue) | Lightly rubbed at top of spine else Fine Book | 10.00 | Introduction by Charles De Lint: ''... the bare bones of the plot undoubtedly sound like any one of literally dozens of derivative fantasy novels... but... Pat works with the archetypes of myth and high fantasy and uses them as a means of confronting and dealing with the real world... '' |
| Eva Hoffman | The Secret A Fable for our Time | Secker & Warburg 2001 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 | 5.00 | ''... about a peculiarly powerful mother-daughter bond and about a haunting, about a young woman's quest for individuation and the challenges posed by contemporary science to our deepest notions of individuality. Using the near future... Hoffman has written a tale that grapples with the oldest riddles of identity... '' This author's first novel. |
| Lee Hoffman | The Caves Of Karst | Dobson 1970 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges badly foxed else Fine book in lightly browned Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Deep in the water-filled caves of Karst, even if you had implanted gills, the thin line between life and death was stretched taut. Any ordinary mistake could spell finis... So Griffith wasn't all that surprised to find the body of another diver. until he realised the man had been deliberately killed... '' |
| Cecelia Holland | Dragon Heart | Tor 2015 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and some page edges lightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a trace of damp inside at the base of the spine. | 5.00 | ''Where the Cape of Winds juts into the endless sea... dwells the royal family that has ruled... from time immemorial... But there is an Empire growing in the east... Queen Marioza must marry one of the Emperor's brothers... Jeon and Tirza... their ship is attacked by a shocking and powerful dragon, red as blood and big as the ship... '' |
| Tom Holland | Deliver Us From Evil | Little, Brown 1997 First Edition First Printing | Edges a little rubbed and a few page corner tips creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Deep winter... 1659. A killer is abroad on Salisbury Plain... Bodies... horribly mutilated, dumped upon ancient holy pagan sites. Captain Foxe,,, is called upon to investigate... A long-buried evil, it seems, is awakening... from the very depths of Hell... '' |
| Guy Holmes | P.E.A.C.E. | Simon & Schuster 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and lower edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''The New York City of the not-too-distant future is a surveillance state... Police Enforced Anti-Crime Environment... Mac Wells... one of New York's elite undercover agents... strange and random acts of violence persist... a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of the police department... and the government... '' |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker) | Earth, Air, Fire and Custard | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly differentially browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''J. W. Wells seemed to be a resprctable establishment, but the compant now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it... but death is never far away... '' |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker) | Flying Dutch | Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little swig from an oddly shaped-bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting round the world with your similarly immortal crew, unable to stay in port for very long owing to side effects... Worst of all, Richard Wagner writes an opera... '' |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker) | Little People | Orbit 2002 First Edition First Printing | Small darkish mark on lower page edges and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | '''I was eight years old when I saw my first elf'... Michael's unfortunately (but accurately) named girlfriend Cruella, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people, but... they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it is his own stepfather who is responsible for causing them so much misery... '' |
| Tom Holt | My Hero | Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, | 5.00 | ''Writing novels? Piece of cake, surely... Or so Jane thinks. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. Better still, change her name and flee the country. The one thing she shouldn't do is go into the book herself. After all that's what heroes are for. Unfortunately, the world of fiction is a far more complicated place than she ever imagined... '' |
| Tom Holt | Valhalla | Orbit 2000 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 | ''As everyone knows, when great warriors die their reward is eternal life in Odin's bijou little residence known as Valhalla. But Valhalla has changed. It has grown. It has diversified. Just like any corporation, the Valhalla Group has had to adapt to survive. Unfortunately, not even an omniscient Norse god could have prepared Valhalla for the arrival of Carol Kortright, one-time cocktail waitress... '' |
| Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker) | Wish You Were Here | Orbit 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with tiny rubs at the upper tips of the folds | 4.00 | ''It was a busy day on Lake Chicopee. But it was an eclectic bunch of sightseers and tourists that had the strange local residents rubbing their hands with delight... most promising of all, there was Wesley Higgins... who was there because he knew the legend of the ghost of Okeewana. All he had to do was immerse himself in the... lake and he would find his heart's desire... '' |
| Tom Holt | You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here, But It Helps | Orbit 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine. lower front corner and lower edge of rear board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad... the business is in trouble... a plan to turn things round... but... the devil is in the detail... perhaps his new friend from... J. W. Wells & Co. can help.'' |
| William Horwood | The Wolves of Time I Journeys to the Heartland | HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page lower corners bruised and page edges a little rubbed and lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... The time has come for the wolves of Europe to take back their ancient Heartland. For centuries it has been corrupted and poisoned by the Mennen and by the evil Magyar wolf-pack. Only then can the true gods be reborn and the natural order restored... '' |
| Tanya Huff | Smoke and Shadows | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small spot on top page edges (no, not a remainder) else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a short (5 mm) sealed tear at top of spine adjacent to rear panel | 5.00 | ''... It began with shadows - shadows that seemed to be where shadows didn't belong, shadows that almost seemed to have an existence of their own... '' A return to the world of Vicki Nelson and vampire Henry Fitzroy, |
| Tanya Huff | The Silvered | Daw 2012 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top of rear and base of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... It began with the prophecy... that had Emperor Leopold's army bent on conquering... Aydori... ruled by the Hunt Pack - shape changers who took the form of wolves... and the Mage-pack - masters of the six disciplines... the emperor's new weapons... hot air balloons... guns loaded with silver bullets... deadly to the Pack... '' |
| Stephen Hunt | The Court Of The Air | HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a few page edges bruised/rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood... '' |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Crusade | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... the same ancient philosophy of the zor race that prophesied the 'Dark Wing' has also foreseen a hero that will meet the new menace... '' Book 4 |
| Walter H. Hunt | The Dark Wing | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a little rubbing at the base of the front fold | 5.00 | ''... the zor decide to mount a surprise attack against the human colonies... a controversial scholar by the name of Marais... claims to have a plan to deal with them... Marais is put in charge of the battlefleet... '' Book 1 |
| Charlie Huston | Sleepless | Orion 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 5.00 | ''... An epidemic of sleeplessness is sweeping LA, and as the afflicted gradually lose their minds, the border between reality and nightmare is getting awfully hard to keep in focus... Haas spends his days... posing as a drug dealer in a quest to find the source of Dreamer, the black market narcotic that provides relief for the sleepless - before it kills them... '' |
| Dave Hutchison | Europe At Midnight | Solaris 2015 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A few page fore-edges bruised and page edges lightly browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly... '' The author was unaware that Solaris produced Uncorrected Proof Copies. |
| Shaun Hutson | Hybrid | TimeWarner 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''For fifteen years Christopher Ward has known only success as a writer... Now, though, the good times are over... Struggling to complete a new novel Ward finds himself sucked into a vicious cycle: the further into the book he gets, the harder it becomes... Then the incidents begin. Strange unexplainable events... '' |
| Alan Hyder | Vampires Overhead | Ash-Tree Press 2002 First Printing (Paper) | Fine Book | 100.00 | Introduction by Jack Adrian. ''From somewhere out of space through the stratosphere. from the unknown, dropping through a silence with bleak eyes fixed greedily towards the inhabited earth. They might have bred here unseen, unheard of, in some darkly warm unexplored tropical fastness... '' Originally published in 1935 - a very scarce vampire novel. |
| Alexander C. Irvine (Also as Alex Irvine) | The Narrows | Del Rey 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and top front cover corner creased else Fine book | 3.00 | ''... World War II... Dtroit, where Henry Ford's factories have been retooled for America's grand war effort... a top-secret effort to produce golems... the devilish dwarf known as the Nain Rouge... a shape-shifting Indian shaman... a cataclysm of mythic and sinister proportions... '' |
| Kate Jacoby (Tracey Oliphant) | Black Eagle Rising Third Book of Elita | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Robert has spent the last five years in hiding... Nash has been draining the lifeblood from magic-users to regain his own powers... times are changing... '' Following Exile's Return and Voice of the Demon. |
| Charlie Hamilton James | The Matewix | HarperCollins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Titty raced down the green corridor and leapt out of a first floor window, crashing to the ground three-and-half feet below. She leapt to her feet and shot off, not even apologising to the woman whose Yorkshire Terrier had died softening her landing. She rounded a corner or two... 'Where now, Operator?' she shouted down her phone... '' |
| Donald James | The Fortune Teller | Century 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one light spine crease and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with Signed by The Author sticker on the front panel. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''... Murmansk... early in the new century... Inspector Constantin Vadim... young wife... hasn't come back... a second missing woman... the dark power of Russian myth and prophecy... an abductor who is at once devilishly clever and bafflingly deranged.'' |
| Mark Jansen | Apers | Dailey Swan 2006 First Edition First Printing (Complimentary Copy) | Fine book Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Time: Near future Place: California... Mission: Create a new order of life as a source of manual labor... unintended consequence... high level of intelligence... '' Based on the screenplay by Barbara Day Zinicola and Mark Jansen |
| Mike Jefferies | Palace of Kings | Collins 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, and pages slightly browned, else Near Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... even as Thane claims his grandfather's magic sword to kill the Nightmare enemy, Krulshards eludes him... where he prepares a terrible revenge. Thane is pledges to follow... but King Holbian waits... as seething Nighbeast hordes swarm against the walls. The fate of Elendium hangs on Thane's choice... '' |
| Mike Jefferies | The Road To Underfall | Collins 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''it is many generations now since the Battle Owls, the Warhorses and the Border Runners answered the war trumpets of the kings of Elundium. The corruption of the Chancellors surrounding the throne has allowed Krulshards, Master of Darkness, to gather his forces... All Elundium is poised for destruction... '' |
| T. M. Jenkins | The Waking | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine & a couple of light pressure marks across the front panel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''... 2070: sixty-four years after his own violent death Nate is resuscitated, using the body of an anonymous donor... all too soon, an investigative journalist blows the cover... threatens both to expose the identity of the mysterious donor and unravel the truth behind Sheehan's murder all those years ago... '' |
| Wolfgang Jeschke | Midas | New English Library 1990 First Edition First Printing | Paper covers faintly marked else Fine small centre-stabled promotional booklet Signed by the Author on the front cover | 4.00 | The first three of thirteen chapters from the novel. |
| Wolfgang Jeschke | Midas | New English Library 1990 First Edition First Printing | Paper covers slightly grubby else Fine small centre-stabled promotional booklet | 2.00 | The first three of thirteen chapters from the novel. |
| Geoff Johns | Prelude to Blackest Night | Eaglemoss 2017 First Collected Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with top corners very lightly creased | 10.00 | Graphic Novel ''Hal Jordan wields the willpower-fuelled light of the GREEN LANTERN - but that's just one of the clashing colours in the war... The crimson rage of... the RED LANTERNS. The YELLOW terror of the SINESTRO CORPS. The STAR SAPPHIRES... BLUE LANTERNS... INDIGO TRIBE... and ORANGE Light of Avarice'' |
| Milton Johns | Patriot Future | Lyford Books 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine & small mark on front free end paper else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... part Bladerunner, part 1984... America... 2021... Federal Police Narcotics Detective Matt Sherida... struggles every day to stem the tide of an insidious new narcotic... a second role... to infiltrate a rebel political movement... '' |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Everard's Ride | NESFA 1995 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 25/185) | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket and Fine Box. Dust Jacket art by Ruth Sanderson | 200.00 | Published to commemorate Diana Wynne Jones' appearance as Guest of Honour at Boskone. Introduction by Patricia Wrede. Collects two never-before-published novella's, ''Everard's Ride'' and ''The True State Of Affairs'', plus six stories and an article on Tolkien |
| Gwyneth Jones (Also as Ann Halam) | Band Of Gypsys | Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small bump to page fore-edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... Ax Preston, former dictator, returns to England to take up the Green President job... he finds some outrageous details in the contract, so the Triumvirate decamps for Paris... embarrassing the English government over conditions in the new-slavery labour camps... '' Fourth volume in the sf/fantasy series. |
| Gwyneth Jones | Bold As Love: The Backstory | B. S. F. G. 2001 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 185/300) | Fine Booklet | 4.00 | 19 Page centre-stapled booklet - published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group to celebrate her appearance as Guest Of Honour at Novacon 31, November 2001 Autobiographical notes about the creation of her novel Bold As Love |
| Gwyneth Jones | Flowerdust | Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine & page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''Flowerdust is not a sequel to... Divine Endurance. It is a story within a story, an episode that doesn't quite fit within the confines of that original myth and yet illuminates it.'' |
| Gwyneth Jones | Flowerdust | Tor 1993 First Edition in the US First Printing | Covers slightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''Flowerdust is a companion to Divine Endurance, set in a strange and distant future southeast Asia. A powerful drug, Flowerdust, is causing trouble... Derveet, a charismatic political leader, sets out to stop the spread of the drug and... uncovers a secret plot... '' |
| Gwyneth Jones | Grazing The Long Acre | PS Publishing 2009 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 10.00 | 13 stories: Gravegoods; The Eastern Succession; Blue Clay Blues; Identifying the Object; Balinese Dancer; Grazing The Long Acre; La Cenerentola; Destroyer of Worlds; The Fulcrum; The Voyage Out; Saving Tiamaat; The Tomb Wife & In The Forest Of The Queen |
| Gwyneth Jones | Phoenix Cafe | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly little marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... Twenty-third-century Paris is a violent place, its air charged with dark eroticism and the anger of the dispossessed. But through the pounding beat of the cafe's music there sounds a note of graceful disengagement: a meditation on the unstable nature of reality; an acceptance of boundaries always in negotiation... '' Last book of the Aleutian trilogy |
| Gwyneth Jones | The Exchange | Macmillan 1979 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the price removed | 15.00 | ''If it hadn't been for Claire, Debbie would never have agreed to The Exchange. She didn't want to spend the summer holidays in Paris... why The Exchange was so desperately important to Claire, Debbie was only to discover when they missed the Paris plane and decided to make their own way to France... '' |
| J. V. Jones | A Sword From Red Ice Book Three Of Sword Of Shadows | Orbit 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised, and with a light crease, at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | 'The Long Night has begun. The Endlords and their dark army of Unmade prepare to unleash... destruction upon the world. Every Sull warrior must step forward and fight... Key to mankind's survival is the sacred warrior Ash... she must discover her powers... ''. |
| J. V. Jones | Watcher of the Dead Book Four of Sword Of Shadows | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Clan Blackhail... is in disarray. A usurper wages war in the clan's name... Raif Sevrance, who possesses the legendary sword Loss, may be the prophesied warrior who can reunite the clans... But... Raif is captured... ''. |
| J. V. Jones | Watcher of the Dead Book Four of Sword Of Shadows | Orbit 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a small area of varnish missing (sticker removal). | 5.00 | ''The Long Night has begun and the world moves inexorably toward the final apocalyptic battle... Raif Sevrance, Watcher of the Dead, has endured many trials to lay claim to the renowned sword known as Loss. But the price of wielding the legendary weapon is high... ''. |
| Jenny Jones | The Blue Manor | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... In one of those secret places... the Blue Manor waits... it is a place of power, where sin is exposed and purged: a litmus paper for evil. it harbours within its walls years of brutal, violent, perverse secrets... which compel its inhabitants to re-enact a terrible story... '' |
| Jenny Jones | The Edge of Vengeance Volume Two of Flight Over Fire | Headline 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of edge-wear. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 5.00 | ''''The two masked figures echoed down the corridors of reality and dream, Their hatred reverberated over aeons, spanned universes... Their battle-ground was humanity... On Peraldon the vengeful sun burns over a raw landscape. The Desert Rose, a carnivorous, sentient jungle, roams an arid kingdom of dust... '' |
| Stephen Lloyd Jones | Written in the Blood | Headline 2014 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 7.50 | ''... Leah Wilde is about to gamble her life to bring a powerful man an offer. A promise. Leah has heard the dark stories... and knows she is walking into the lion's den... her options are running out. Her rare lineage, kept secret for years, is under terrible threat... unless Leah and her mother, Hannah, are prepared to join up with their once deadly enemies... '' |
| Robert Jordan | The Fallon Blood | Forge 1995 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Near Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | Originally published in paperback in 1980 this is a non-fantasy, historical novel set in the American South before, and during, the American revolution. By the author of The Wheel of Time and others. |
| Graham Joyce (Also as William Heaney) | Dark Sister | Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper tips of the folds With Publisher's letter | 10.00 | ''... Maggi's experiments in herbalism plunge her into a frightening, awe-inspiring world of magic... And when Bella reaches out from the pages of her diary, searching for peace from beyond the grave, Maggie's sanity is suddenly under siege and the lives of her children left at the mercy of an ancient terror... '' |
| Graham Joyce (Also as William Heaney) | Smoking Poppy | Gollancz 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Danny Innes is the wrong side of forty... estranged from his wife... kids have grown up and he's lonely and bitter. But you never stop being a father... up into the mist shrouded jungle uplands... in a land of opium, vicious drug gangs and spirit-haunted villages finds his daughter. And some painful truths... '' |
| Graham Joyce | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | Gollancz 2012 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket Limited to 1,500 copies, thus. | 25.00 | ''... Peter Martin gets an unexpected phone call from his parents... His sister, Tara, has come back home... But twenty years ago Tara took a walk in the woods and never came back... full of stories... travelling the world... But her stories don't quite hang together... looks no different from the young woman who walked out the door... a haunted, otherworldly quality... '' |
| Graham Joyce | The Facts Of Life | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''... the story of the Vines, an extraordinary family of seven sisters... Presided over by an indomitable matriarch the sisters live out tangled and fraught lives... From the hallucinatory horror of the night the Luftwaffe levelled Coventry, via the everyday tensions of a family just scraping through in wartime, to a bizarre interlude in a post-war communist collective... '' |
| Richard Kadrey | The Wrong Dead Guy | Harper Voyager 2017 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''Coop, a master thirf sort of gone legit, saved the world from an ancient doomsday device - heroism that earned him a gig working for the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government agency that polices the odd and strange... Now Woolrich, Coop's boss... has Coop breaking into a traveling antiques show to steal a scarcophagus... '' |
| Anna Kashinka (Also as Ann Porridge) | The Princess of Dhagabad Book 1 The Spirits of the Ancient Sands | Herodias 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Before she dies, the old sultaness presses her signet ring the wax that seals the ancient bronze bottle... the exotic world of a young Arabian princess, whose coming-of-age is guided by her special friendship with Hasan, the all-powerful djinn who becomes her mentor and steadfast companion... '' |
| Fedor Kaul | Maniu | Bles 1935 First Edition First Printing (Second State - Green Boards) | Bruised at top of spine, spine irregular, boards a little rubbed and lightly stained, boxed, front free end paper removed and page edges browned with a small stain on top page edges - Good? book | 7.50 | ''It was at a street-fair in an obscure quarter of Berlin that Christopher Leng... first met the clairvoyant, Maniu, who was to exercise such power over the lives of Christopher and others... this thrilling and original novel... traces Maniu's strange history from a fortune-teller's booth in a shabby Berlin street until, as a millionaire in Monte Carlo, he found that his power was broken.'' |
| Paul Kearney | Hawkwood's Voyage Book 1 of The Monarchies of God | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corner tips rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 3.00 | ''... The Western World is in flames, the cities and cathedrals of the Faithful put to the torch, their defenders crucified by the invading Merduks... For a freebooting man of the sea like Richard Hawkwood escape seems the only answer... '' |
| Paul Kearney | Riding The Unicorn | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Lower edge of rear board a little bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Slip | 5.00 | ''John Willoby is a prison officer... hearing voices and strange sounds: the clash of swords, the thunder of horses' hooves... hallucinations... visions of another world... a wild, strange, primitive place... more attractive than the bleak modern world... '' |
| Paul Kearney | The Way To Babylon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... The traveller needs a guide, for a walking tour; Riven, indifferent, agrees to go along - and finds himself lead into a another world. His world, the land he created. Minginish... '' His first book. |
| Paul Kearney | The Way To Babylon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Top front corner lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof With Publisher's Review Slip | 4.00 | ''... The traveller needs a guide, for a walking tour; Riven, indifferent, agrees to go along - and finds himself lead into a another world. His world, the land he created. Minginish... '' His first book. |
| James Patrick Kelly | The Wreck Of The Godspeed | Golden Gryphon 2008 First Edition First Printing | Fine Book in Fine dustjacket | 10.00 | Introduction by Bob Eggleton; The Wreck Of The Godspeed; The Best Christmas Ever; Men Are Trouble; Luck; The Dark Side of Town; The Leila Torn Show; Mother; Dividing the Sustain; The Edge of Nowhere; The Ice is Singing; Serpent; Bernardo's House; Burn. |
| Thomas Kenealy | A Dutiful Daughter | Angus and Robertson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with part of the 'm' and 'a' I the author's name of the front panel lifted through price sticker removal. | 10.00 | ''... When Barbara Glover reached puberty, her parents suddenly assumed bodily forms so unnatural that they had to be kept from the world and tended like animals... she has found herself bound in dominance over them... the mother has a fatal disease... and the brother... is trying to break into a life and love outside the family... @@ |
| Elizabeth Kerner | Redeeming The Lost | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges a little marked and a number of page corners once creased (to mark place?) - Very Good to Near Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''The prophecies are coming true, and the ancient race of Kantri, or true dragons, have come back to the world of Men... Their haven destroyed, the Kantri... have chosen to return to the land of their greatest defeat and to the fear of the people who rejected their aid... They bring ancient power and knowledge... '' Last in the trilogy - scarce. |
| Katharine Kerr | Freeze Frames | Tor 1995 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''The women in Maggie Corey's family are strong. They have to be… Young and beautiful, Maggie is used to being watched by men - but she's never encountered anyone like the mysterious Nick Harrison... wherever they go, Nick will watch her and generations of her daughter's daughters... until he's ready to... take action... '' |
| John Kessel | Corrupting Dr Nice | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small brown mark at the lower edge of two facing pages else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter Genevieve, are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem at the time of Christ... '' |
| John Kessel | Corrupting Dr Nice | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Small bump to a few top page edges else Fine book in Dust Jacket a little rubbed at the top of the rear fold | 3.00 | ''August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter Genevieve are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem, at the time of Jesus Christ... '' |
| Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) | Road Kill | Headline 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''... Carole doesn't want to do it but murder seems like the only solution. The only way to solve the problem of her ex - drunken, sadistic, clever... how else will she ever be free?... Her lover, Lee, has the baseball bat but she's the one with the rock - and the nerve and desperation to crush a man's skull and pitch him off a mountain... '' |
| Greg Keyes (J. Gregory Keyes) | The Charnel Prince The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone: Book Two | Ballantine 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges no longer quite parallel and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... The Briar King has woken and, with the aid of monsters formerly found only in folk tales, is destroying the forest... the king's forester has been assigned the impossible task of killing the fearsome newcomer... '' Sequel to The Briar King |
| Greg Keyes | The Charnel Prince The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone: Book Two | Tor 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and lower page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... The Briar King has woken and, with the aid of monsters formerly found only in folk tales, is destroying the forest... the king's forester has been assigned the impossible task of killing the fearsome newcomer... '' Sequel to The Briar King |
| J. Gregory Keyes | The Waterborn | Del Rey 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and across lower board edges else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears | 5.00 | ''... Everywhere he touched the River God held dominion. And in Nhol, the fabled city at the heart of the world, an emperor ruled as the living aspect of the god... Hezhi was an imperial princess... When her favourite cousin disappeared, Hezhi searched... And the magic within her began to grow... '' |
| Greg Kihn | Shade of Pale | Forge 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Manhattan psychiatrist Jukes Wahler... trying to track down his sister, Cathy. She's disappeared with her abusive boyfriend... who pals around with Padraig O'Connor... Convinced that O'Connor must know where Cathy is, Wahler sets out after him... He has begun to hear the mournful, inhuman wail of the Banshee... '' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Archangel | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''It's 2002, and there's a demon abroad in London, a soul so corrupt and foul that Satan himself has recruited him from the legions of the dead. Only one entity in Heaven can counter his power, an Archangel, an angel of the highest rank... the most awesome power ever seen by human eyes - blazing with Divine light and as volatile as a nuclear bomb... '' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | Gemini God | Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and pages browned else Fine book in lightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed | 4.00 | ''... experimenting with telepathic communication between twins... leaves Earth for... that strange world a shadow-line civilisation... in perpetual slow motion to avoid the intolerable daytime heat... primitive aliens... driven... towards... its stunning climax...'' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | In The Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave A Novel And Seven Stories | Bodley Head 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket damp-marked on the inside (no show-through) | 4.00 | ''... an enigma is unravelled to reveal a strange cultural and emotional core. This central theme is explored in various ways in many of the short stories accompanying the novel, from an investigation into mendacity, in Blood Orange and The River-Sailor's Wife, to the incestuous movements behind Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of Fitzcarraldo... '' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | Spiral Winds | Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and card at head of spine delaminated else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | 7.50 | ''...has evoked the harsh, mythical landscapes of the South Arabian deserts...with its intense heat and extreme cold, and the uncompromising demands made upon those who enter it. The eerie, inexplicable emotions...will haunt the reader for a very long time.'' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Princely Flower Book II of the Navigator Kings | Orbit 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''Kieto's destiny, set in the heavens, is to conquer the Land of Mists, the mysterious island discovered by Kupe, one of the great Polynesian voyagers. But he knows it won't be easy: the wild native tribes, particularly the Scots and Picts, have two formidable advantages - iron and horses... Pursued by sea-fairies, vengeful gods, power hungry priests... confronting their worst fears and supernatural horrors, the friends finally face the awesome wrath of the mighty Maori...'' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Roof of Voyaging: Book I of The Navigator Kings | Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, rear cover a little damp-wrinkled and covers and page edges slightly marked Good to Very Good Uncorrected Proof in slightly creased and worn, unpriced (but bar-coded) Dust Jacket With Publisher's Letter | 5.00 | ''Delighting in the rich and colourful detail and myth of Polynesian life, Garry Kilworth has written a marvellously ambitious fantasy. Funny, moving and epic... the first part of a wonderful tale which will become a landmark of fantastic fiction.'' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth | The Roof of Voyaging: Book I of The Navigator Kings | Orbit 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in unpriced, unbar-coded Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''Delighting in the rich and colourful detail and myth of Polynesian life, Garry Kilworth has written a marvellously ambitious fantasy. Funny, moving and epic... the first part of a wonderful tale which will become a landmark of fantastic fiction.'' |
| Gabriel King | The Knot Garden | Century 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened and no longer quite parallel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by 'Gabriel King' on the Title Page. | 25.00 | ''At the foot of Crowbury Plain lies the idyllic hamlet of Ashmore. But dangers lurk beneath its apparently tranquil surface... Only the cats who patrol the wild roads, whose task it is to hunt both the scurrying fragments of human fantasies and the wild, dark impulses of human nature understand Ashmore's true shape... '' Scarce. |
| Gabriel King (M. John Harrison & Jane Johnson) | The Wild Road | Century 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page. | 15.00 | ''... Tag, stolen from his home to join a mysterious quest... Once tame, now he must navigate the wild roads, the animal highways which bind our world... tells of the secret history of cats, and the perils of sharing a world with humankind... '' Only a few of the hardbacks were printed - scarce. |
| Gabriel King (M. John Harrison & Jane Johnson) | The Wild Road | Century 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | 15.00 | ''... Tag, stolen from his home to join a mysterious quest... Once tame, now he must navigate the wild roads, the animal highways which bind our world... tells of the secret history of cats, and the perils of sharing a world with humankind... '' Only a few of the hardbacks were printed - scarce. |
| Gabriel King (M. John Harrison & Jane Johnson) | The Wild Road | Century 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''... Tag, stolen from his home to join a mysterious quest... Once tame, now he must navigate the wild roads, the animal highways which bind our world... tells of the secret history of cats, and the perils of sharing a world with humankind... '' Only a few of the hardbacks were printed - scarce. |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | Dolores Claiborne | Book Club Associates 1992 First Edition First Printing (Code CN 6975) | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 50.00 | Acknowledged as the First issued edition - predating even the Hodder & Stoughton facsimile-sgned limited edition. First printings are very scarce. |
| Stephen King (Also as Richard Bachman) | The Institute | Hodder & Stoughton 2019 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (W. H. Smith Collector's Edition - with Yellow Bridge end papers and Purple Jacket) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 20.00 | "Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect... But great events can turn on small hinges... |
| Lucy Kissick | Plutoshine | Gollancz 2022 | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 15.00 | ''... WELCOME TO PLUTO Engineer Lucian builds suns - of a sort. Through solar mirrors and captured asteroids, he and his team are set to flood this frozen worldlet with warmth and light... What nobody factored in was a saboteur... Nou guards a secret, and what she has to say could change the terraforming forever - and transform our understanding of the Universe.'' |
| Fletcher Knebel | Trespass | W. H. Allen 1969 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, old price in biro on front free end paper and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket, lightly damp-marked on the inside. | 5.00 | ''To most white Americans, the Blacks of February 21st was a shadowy organisation... To Tim Crawford, it was four armed men occupying his home... an ingenious blueprint for revolution... about an imaginary future that could easily become tomorrow's reality... '' |
| Kelvin Knight | Miniature Magic+More Miniature Magic+Mutational Magic | Self-Published 1994 All are First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lightly marked A5 centre-stapled booklets With Publisher/Author letter, paperwork and personalised and/or Signed by the Author | 10.00 | ''... an off-beat collection of fantastical short stories...'' Homeward Bound; The Arcane Academy; The Dragons' Domain; Literally Magic; Ancient Evil; A Mystical Reunion; Unicornality; A Fear Filled Family; Wide-Awake and Watching |
| Dean R. Koontz (Also as Brian Coffey; K. R. Dwyer; Leigh Nichols, Owen West & Aaron Wolfe) | Darkness Comes | W. H. Allen 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, a couple of page tips creased and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in rubbed Dust Jacket, with some wear at the upper fold tips, a short internal paper tear at the base of the front fold and some internal da | 50.00 | ''... Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York... with a mission to break the Mafia's stranglehold on the city's drug traffic - and take it over... He doesn't need conventional weapons for he has another kind of power - magical, ancient and horrifyingly brutal... the power of voodoo... '' |
| William Kotzwinkle | Christmas At Fontaine's | Andre Deutsch 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper tip of the front fold. | 7.50 | ''... a palace... a huge and celebrated department store... but Mr Fontaine and his designers have created something more beautiful and strange than they realise. There is something - or someone? - hiding in the store, a teasingly half-glimpsed figure, a flash of silver... Who has freed the parakeets... conjuring mysterious gifts... '' |
| William Kotzwinkle | Elephant Bangs Train | Faber 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing ? | Bruised at top and base of spine a touch of shelf-wear on lower board edges and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | 20.00 | '''... a remarkable series of short stories. His imaginative command of character and atmosphere is astonishing... a deprecating humour and sly, appealing humility. His world is peopled with legendary figures from all times and places... '' |
| William Kotzwinkle | Hermes 3000 | Pantheon 1972 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With separate photo of the author as used to illustrate the rear panel of the Dust Jacket | 20.00 | ''... a magnificent tapestry of human emotion... glamorous and bizarre... following the characters along their separate paths, which crisscross... we are gradually led to... the secret of Hermes, god of the roads... '' This author's first novel. |
| William Kotzwinkle | Swimmer in the Secret Sea | Aidan Ellis 1976 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket. | 15.00 | ''... The brief cycle of a baby's life - labour, delivery, death, burial -m in the snow-covered isolation of a Northern landscape... the substance of an acute reading experience... '' |
| William Kotzwinkle | The Game of Thirty | Houghton Mifflin 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''A wealthy Madison Avenue antiquities dealer is murdered while playing a game that the pharaohs once played - the Game of Thirty. Enter Jimmy McShane, hired to find the killer. But instead McShane finds that the killer is playing the Game of Thirty with him, and all Manhattan is the board... '' |
| Nancy Kress (Also as Anna Kendall) | Brain Rose | Morrow 1990 First Edition First Printing | Cross-spine crack, covers lightly browned and faintly marked and a couple of page edges bumped else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''... Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren and Robbie Brekke meet at a hospital where each has signed up for a new - and fashionable - procedure: Previous Life Access Surgery, which enables patients to access memories from previous incarnations. Their journeys... turn out to have... horrifying relevance to the future of human life on earth.'' |
| Nancy Kress | Crossfire | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''... the story of a human colony... as this diverse group of thousands of people comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens... the evidence seems to indicate that the aliens aren't native to the planet... '' |
| Nancy Kress (Also as Anna Kendall) | Probability Sun | Tor 2001 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. | 10.00 | ''... the human race is losing an interstellar war against the mysterious alien Fallers. A shipload of scientists from Earth is sent to study the enigmatic artifact... while the military... is secretly holding prisoner, for study, the only live Fallen ever captured... '' |
| Katherine Kurtz | Death Of An Adept A Novel of The Adept | Ace 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background a little faded | 7.50 | '... 'Sir Adam Sinclair... leader of a secret brotherhood at war with the dark and unholy Powers that menace our world... Now evil is rising once again... born of ancient elemental magic and twentieth century ambition... Adam Sinclair will facie the most unthinkable crime against his kind: the murder of an Adept.'' Fifth book in the Adept series. |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Adept | Severn House 1992 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a little shelf-wear at the top edge of the rear board else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket | 40.00 | ''He is Adam Sinclair: nobleman, physician, scholar - and Adept. A man of learning and power, he practices ancient arts unknown to the twentieth century. he has had many names, lived many lives, but his mission remains the same: to protect the Light from those who would tread the Dark Roads... '' |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Harrowing Of Gwynedd Volume I of The Heirs of Saint Camber | Del Rey 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The evil times had come for the Deryni... King Cinhil was dead, and the weak boy-king Alroy reigned. But the real rulers were the Regents, evil, power-hungry men who sought the total destruction of all Deryni... '' |
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