Mercedes Lackey | Changes Collegium Chronicles Book Three | Daw 2011 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and black felt pen remainder line across lower page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Mags was a Herald Trainee in the brand new Heraldic Collegium in Haven, Valdemar's capital… his background of unimaginable poverty... set him apart... he had found his own special group of friends... there were mysterious agents in the city... who sought to bring down the kingdom... '' Following Foundation and Intrigues |
Mercedes Lackey | Exile's Valor A Novel of Valdemar | Daw 2003First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a couple of page fore-edges rough-cut - one of which is creased - else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Alberich was a Herald of Valdemar, but once he had been a captain in the army of Karse. It hadn't been easy for Alberich to transfer his loyalties to the kingdom he had considered an enemy all his life... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | Owlknight | Daw 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at the top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel and front panel; edges a little faded. | 4.00 | ''... six years have passed... Darian... has grown into a mature, responsible adult... a Master Mage... head of a new community... he has found the young woman he hopes will be his life-mate... she repeatedly refuses to marry him... he is haunted by the pain of not knowing what happened to his parents... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | Owlknight | Daw 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at the top and slightly bumped at base of spine, boards and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel and front panel; edges a little faded. | 4.00 | ''... six years have passed... Darian... has grown into a mature, responsible adult... a Master Mage... head of a new community... he has found the young woman he hopes will be his life-mate... she repeatedly refuses to marry him... he is haunted by the pain of not knowing what happened to his parents... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | Owlsight | Daw 1998 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 | ''It has been four years... Darian has found his calling and has begun training... to become a Healing Adept... Darian returns to Errold's Grove... to warn... that another tribe of barbarians is approaching... '' The second book in the Dariens Tale trilogy |
Mercedes Lackey | Phoenix and Ashes The Elemental Masters, Book Three | Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual... during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried... For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth... not just an ordinary Master - a Master who practised the darker blood-fuelled arts... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | Storm Warning Book One of The Mage Storms | DAW 1994 First Edition Second Printing | Slightly bumped/bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by Jody Lee, Larry Dixon and Victor Wren | 5.00 | ''... a war-ravaged Valdemar... when Queen Selenay is attempting to effect a fragile new alliance with... Karse... it is a venture that must not fail... But Karse and Valdemar have been enemies for generations... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | The Gates of Sleep | Daw 2002 First Edition First Printing (Note: Copyright Page shows 2001 erroneously) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper fold tips | 5.00 | ''... Marina... seventeen years... fostered... ward of three bohemian artists in turn-of-the-century England... a free thinker... she and her foster parents were Elemental Masters of magic... learning to control her growing powers... a fledgling Water Master of enormous potential... '' Book 2 of The Elemental Masters |
Mercedes Lackey | The Mage Storms Trilogy | DAW 1994-6 All are First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and/or base of spines, a light damp-mark top of spine and smudge on front free end paper of SW and page edges lightly marked else Fine books in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Jody Lee, Larry Dixon and Victor Wren | 15.00 | ''... a war-ravaged Valdemar... when Queen Selenay is attempting to effect a fragile new alliance with... Karse... it is a venture that must not fail... But Karse and Valdemar have been enemies for generations'' |
Mercedes Lackey | The Phoenix Unchained Book One of The Enduring Flame | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | 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. | 5.00 | ''...For a thousand years... the world has known peace... the world is Balanced between Light and Dark. When Bisochim, a Wild Mage... finds that the Balance has shifted too far toward the Light, he knows he has discovered his life's mission - he will return Darkness to the world... '' |
Mercedes Lackey | The Serpent's Shadow | Daw 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed along top edge of front panel | 5.00 | ''... her mother was a sorceress - a former priestess of the mystical magics fuelled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods... 'Yours is the magic of your father's blood, not mine... ' ... But Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power which had murdered her parents... '' The Elemental Masters, Book One. |
Mercedes Lackey | Winds Of Fury Book Three Of The Mage Winds | Daw 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine background a little faded Illustrated by Larry Dixon | 4.00 | ''... stunning conclusion to The Mage Winds trilogy... Valdemar is once again in peril, threatened by... a dangerous enemy who has... found a way to set in motion a magical strike... the like of which hasn't been attempted in more than five hundred years... no one in Valdemar has the knowledge to withstand... '' |
R. A. Lafferty | Lafferty In Orbit | Broken Mirrors Press 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 60.00 | Nineteen stories first published in Damon Knight's Orbit series. Introduction by Damon Knight: Old Foot Forgot; All Pieces of a River Shore; Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream; Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread; The Hole on the Corner; The Skinny People of Loptophlebo Street; Continued on Next Rock; Entire and Perfect Chrysolite... |
Jay Lake | Green | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, two pages damp (?tea?) wrinkled and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... In the Court of the Pomegranate Tree... she was taught the ways of a great lady, the ways of the courtesan... named emerald... She calls herself Green. The world she inhabits is one of political power and magic, where gods meddle in the ways of mortals... the Duke is not all-powerful, and he has not outlived all his enemies... '' |
Jay Lake | Last Plane to Heaven The Final Collection | Tor 2014 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | Introduction by Gene Wolfe ''... he published more than three hundred works of short fiction... we have minnowed that down to thirty-two of the best of them... Aliens and angels... love and laughter, serious terror, and lighthearted stunt-writing... a feast of short stories by a master of the form, science fiction and fantasy both... '' |
Jay Lake (Joseph Edward Lake) | Pinion | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges age-darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria still rules... the Royal Navy challenges the Chinese in the skies with their mighty airships, and Earth still turns on God's great brass gears of heaven... Paolina Barthes, young sorceress, is crossing the Equatorial Wall; since she cannot remove her magical talent... she must remove herself... '' Third in the Clockwork Earth trilogy |
Claude Lalumiere | Objects of Worship | ChiZine Publications 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine Book Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 4.00 | ''Twelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice... Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants... '' |
Mark Lawrence | The Girl and the Stars Book One of the Book of the Ice | HarperVoyager 2020 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book with black page edges in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Front Free End Paper and with printed letter from the Author | 25.00 | ''... On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. To endure months of night when even the air begins to freeze requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is different... Yaz must carve a new path for herself in a world whose existence she bnever suspected... '' |
Tim Lebbon | Coldbrook | Corsair - Constable & Robinson 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Front cover edges slightly rough-cut else Fine card covered paper booklet | 5.00 | 59pp Sampler/Teaser for the novel - ''The end of the world is only the beginning'' An unedited, early version of the final text... '' |
Ann Leckie | Provenance | Orbit (UK) 2017 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and small spot to page fore-edges else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a shortish V-shaped tear in the front panel | 4.00 | ''A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and to regain lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned... '' |
Anne Leckie | The Raven Tower | Orbit 2019 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''A usurper has claimed the throne. Invaders amass at the borders. And they have made their alliances with enemy gods... For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by a god known as the Raven. But in their hour of need, the Raven seems to have abandoned its people... '' |
Sharon Lee | Balance of Trade A Liaden Universe Novel | Meisha Merlin 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower rear cover corner lightly rubbed and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book | 5.00 | ''... good old-fashioned coming-of-age space opera in the tradition of Heinlein and Norton... how an ordinary Terran became the pivot point in galactic clash of cultures... how the more he tried to be just like his father, the less the universe seemed inclined to help... '' |
Sharon Lee | Crystal Dragon Book Two of the Great Migration Duology | Meisha Merlin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & slightly bumped & rubbed at base of spine & page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''You can't go home again... when home is a conspiracy that's been discovered and destroyed?... means working for the destroyers of galaxies?... is a spaceship that's calling out to the enemy?... and how do you fight an Enemy whose major form of attack is the de-crystallisation of everything around itself?... '' Sequel to Crystal Soldier |
Sharon Lee | Eidolon Adventures in the Liaden Universe #14 | SRM 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine A5 centre-stapled booklet Signed by the Authors on the Title Page | 7.50 | Shadow Partner: When Ceola's bar-partner sister find interest in the business waning... the tavernista needs help... her sister has abandoned a young lover known to his friends as Shadow... & Persistence: Joshu is a salesman with a mission: he wants to keep his comfortable arrangement with Beba. But... '' & About the Authors |
Sharon Lee | Sword of Orion | Phobos Impact 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Upper rear and lower front corners bruised else Fine Book | 5.00 | ''Shortly after the birth of Jerel... the galaxy changed around her. The Oligarchy that had ruled... The Sword of Orion was overthrown by... Jerel's parents... Sixteen years later, Jerel... is kidnapped by agents of the not-quite dead Oligarchy... '' Book One of Beneath Strange Skies |
Tanith Lee | Being A Daring Tale Of A Singular Girl's Adventure Upon The High Seas Piratica Presented Most Handsomely by The Notorious | Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing | A couple of page lower corners creased else Fine Uncorrected . | 7.50 | ''... the world of this book is very like ours and also, it isn't... this isn't exactly a historical novel - but it's not exactly a fantasy either. And it takes place in a time we never had... '' |
Paul Levinson | The Consciousness Plague | Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''...how the loss of memory... can subtly undermine and play havoc with everything... Dr. D'Amato, NYPD forensic detective, investigates a spate of unusual cases of memory loss and finds evidence of a bacteria-like organism that has lived in our brains since our origin as a species... A new antibiotic... kills this essential bug... '' |
Paul Levinson | The Pixel Eye | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... terrorism is more threatening than ever... underground concourses have multiplied... law enforcement and civil liberties groups clash over... public safety and personal freedom... NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato is called in to investigate an urgent case - squirrels missing from Central Park... '' |
Shariann Lewitt | Interface Masque | Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, bumped in centre of lower edge of front board and slightly bumped in centre of lower edge of rear board else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''In the ancient and future city of Venice, poised above the drifting tides of her canals, is house Sept-Fortune: a guild specialising in the making and breaking of data systems. Cecile is a senior apprentice... on the brink of her adult career. it is time for Cecile's last test.. a very secret, very private, very dangerous quest to discover the real nature of her world... '' |
Shariann Lewitt | Memento Mori | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and a couple of top page corners bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''The colony world of Reis was once a prosperous, glittering center of manufacturing and trade. But now... a terrible plague... quarantined... no one knows who will live or die... What do you do... while you're waiting to find out?... it's the end of the world... What can you make of it but art?'' |
Jacqueline Lichtenberg | Sime-Gen: The Unity Trilogy | Meisha Merlin 2003 First Combined Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Book | 5.00 | House of Zeor+Ambrov Keon+Zelrod's Doom with Maps, Characters, Glossary, Afterword & About the Authors ''Following a cataclysm, humanity has been divided into two mutant forms... the Gens... bodies produce selyn, an energy that Simes can't live without. The stronger and faster Simes... extract selyn... kills the Gen in the process... '' |
Maurice Lincoln (?Esmond Condy?) | The Man From Up There | Hamilton 1928 (Red Cloth Black Letters - possible later printing) | Bruised at top and base of spine, a little wear at top, boards and spine lightly mottled/faded and page edges and end papers lightly browned and with some scattered foxing - Good Book | 7.50 | Clute - ''a... duo discovers - and attempts to profit from - a Cyclopean giant from the Moon, whose arrival on Earth has stopped all radio communications for days. Eventually, after a stint in vaudeville, the giant returns home.'' |
Jane Lindskold | The Dragon of Despair | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine upper corners and top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Raised far from humans by intelligent, language-using wolves, then brought back to the court of Hawk Haven, Firekeeper has had to learn to cope with human society... '' Sequel to Through Wolf's Eyes and Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart |
Jane Lindskold | Wolf Captured | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and top corners else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket slightly worn at the base of the folds | 5.00 | Sequel to Through Wolf's Eyes; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart and The Dragon of Despair ''... the story of Firekeeper, a young girl raised by sentient, language-using wolves who is plunged back into human society, where her training as a pack animal stands her in good stead amid political and dynastic intrigues... '' |
Holly Lisle | Hawkspar A Novel Of Korre | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''Stolen away from their families, they are slaves, women with no names and no futures. Every moment... controlled by the avatars of the stone... the most powerful of them all is Hawkspar, the Eyes of War and Time. Kings and despots come to her to know their futures, and she wades in the river of time, pulls apart its sticky threads, to arrange the world to her satisfaction... '' |
Holly Lisle | Vengeance Of Dragons | Gollancz 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... The second volume of The Secret Texts, a fantastic epic adventure of ancient curses, dark curses, and soul-devouring magic.'' Preceded by Diplomacy Of Wolves |
Bentley Little | Houses | Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing | Page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''A young man bumming around the West. An unemployed family man... A high-school teacher... None of these people have ever met an they have nothing in common. Except that they have all started dreaming about frightening but tantalisingly blurred events... the identical homes of their childhoods are connected to a bizarre series of supernatural events... '' |
Tom Lloyd (Tom Lloyd-Williams) | Moon's Artifice | Gollancz 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | 10.00 | ''In a quiet corner of the Imperial City, Investigator Narin discovers the result of his first potentially lethal mistake. Minutes later he makes a second... a plot of gods and monsters, spies and assassins,,, a grief-stricken young woman,, an old man haunted by the ghosts of the past and an assassin with no past... '' |
William Robert Loosley (David Langford) | An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871 | David & Charles 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page and p.p. W. R. Loosley | 15.00 | ''It was in October 1871 that Loosely... saw in the night sky what appeared to be a slowly moving star cross in the sky... What he discovered was far beyond his wildest speculations... '' |
Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes) | I Am Number Four | Michael Joseph 2010 First Edition First Printing (Adult Edition) | Fine Uncorrected Proof in slightly bumped and rubbed Box without Dust Jacket - as issued | 20.00 | ''In the beginning we were a group of nine. There are six of us left. The first three were killed in the order of their numbers. They won't stop until they've killed us all. I am number 4. I know that I am next.'' |
Pittacus Lore | The Power of Six | Michael Joseph 2011 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (Adult Edition) | Lightly bumped at base of spine and covers lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Hardback Proof - without Dust Jacket - as issued | 20.00 | ''They caught number one in Malaysia. Number two in England. And number three in Kenya. They tried to catch number four in Ohio... and failed. There are six of us left. And we're ready to fight.'' |
Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes) | The Power of Six | razOr bill/Penguin 2011 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (Young Adult Edition) | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and a few page edges bumped (with tiny tears) else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... They caught number one in Malaysia. Number two in England. And number three in Kenya. They tried to catch number four in Ohio... and failed. I am Number Seven. One of six still alive. And I am ready to fight.'' |
Pittacus Lore | The Rise of Nine | Michael Joseph 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (Adult Edition) | Bruised at top and lightly bumped at base of spine and one page edge with a 2mm 'nick' else Fine Book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful... I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more... They want to finish what they started. But they'll have to fight us first.'' |
Pittacus Lore | The Rise of Nine | razOr bill/Penguin 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously (Young Adult Edition) | Bruised at top and at base of spine else Fine Book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''They know the charm is broken. They know we're all in danger. They are determined to find us before We find each other. We are Lorien and Earth's only hope, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything. '' |
Simon Louvish | The Days of Miracles and Wonders | Canongate 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Richard the Lionheart rises from his tomb... minus his heart and his guts, to mingle with the tourists of early 1990s Europe... failed novellist Danny Hohenlohe contemplates murderous revenge against his London publisher... Avram Blok... has begun a new life... the Western powers are about to embark on their modern crusade against Saddam Hussein... '' |
Simon Louvish | What's Up God? A Romance of the Apocalypse | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... The Kingdom of God is proclaimed on Christmas Day 1998, by the Archangel Gabriel, on global TV. The Resurrection is set for April 30th, 1999. The Day of Judgement will follow seven days later... Jerry Davis is a professional stand-up comedian... He has peeked in the databanks, and knows which way he is headed. Is there a way out?... '' |
James Lovegrove (Also as Jay Amory and J. M. H. Lovegrove) | The Foreigners | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and small spot on top page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the Foreigners were everywhere... They brought... the technological marvel of Crystech... They banished all our worries and heralded a new utopia... they asked... that we sing to them... And now... one of the Foreigners has been found dead... '' |
James Lovegrove | Untied Kingdom | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 6.00 | ''... the United Kingdom has finally fallen foul of the International Community. Ostracised and bombed at random the country has fallen apart... In the small town of Downbourne... a London-based gang... kidnap...of... the wife of the schoolmaster, Fen Morris... a journey through an England at once terrifying and magical... '' |
Helen Lowe | The Heir of Night The Wall of Night: Book One | Orbit 2011 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''... Malian is being trained to rule. Her people garrison the mountain range known as the Wall of Night against an ancient enemy... Malian... 's known little of real danger until... the Keep of the |Winds becomes a bloodbath... creatures with twisted magic flowing in their veins... Malian flees... Then... her own hidden magic flares into life... '' |
Brian Lumley | Necroscope: Avengers | Hodder & Stoughton 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned and lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''They're on the run! Now that their monstrous vampire 'gardens' under London, in Australia and on the Greek island of Krassos have been razed, two 'Lords' and a 'Lady' of the Wamphyri... have joined forces, leaving a trail of undead destruction as they flee headlong from Ben Trask's E-Branch and the dead-waking Necroscope, Jake Cutter... '' E-Branch Volume 3 |
Richard A. Lupoff (Also as Addisson E. Steele) | The Classic Car Killer | Offspring Press1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The unlikely detective team of insurance adjustor Hobart Lindsay and Berkeley police officer Marvia Plum... are back... Somebody has made off with an automobile insured by Linsday's company, a 1928 Duesenberg Phaeton... A car to love. A car to kill for... '' |
Elizabeth A. Lynn | A Different Light | Gollancz 1979 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, binding slightly strained, page edges a little browned and rear end papers not bound into this copy else Fine book in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket with a couple of small scrapes. | 4.00 | ''... her first novel, 'A Different Light'... the existence of hyperspace, used here both to facilitate storytelling and as an existential cusp for her protagonists -- like the cancer-stricken artist in the novel, who must decide whether or not to seize the day by travelling where he needs to go by hyperspace, even though such travel will mortally intensify his illness... '' - Clute |
Elizabeth A. Lynn | Dragon's Treasure | Tor 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In the province of Ippa, the twin sons of Kojiro, the Black Dragon, warred with sorcery and fire to decide which of them would rule their father's kingdom. After his brother's death, Haradur... becomes the master of Dragon's County... Meanwhile... '' Sequel to Dragon's Winter |
Scott Mackay | Outpost | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... a distant planet in the far future, a young woman... Felicitas... imprisoned... mind controlled by a dreaming machine... she begins to awaken... huge, dinosaurian beasts... escape... army of zombies... Felicitas is the key... '' |
Ian R. Macleod | The Light Ages | Earthlight 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Spine creased, covers slightly creased, corners slightly rubbed and page edges lightly marked - Good to Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''... Through the power of aether, and through the secrets and mysteries of the guilds that wield it, England has created a mighty Industrial Age... '' |
Ken MacLeod | The Cassini Division | Orbit 1998 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''Ellen May Ngwethu is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge. The world she knows is about to end. Orbiting around Jupiter, the forts of the Cassini Division... are the front line in the centuries-long conflict with post-human AIs - whose intentions are unknown, but whose powers once extended to shattering Ganymede and building a wormhole bridge to the far future... '' |
Ken MacLeod | The Cassini Division | Orbit 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Ellen May Ngwethu is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge. The world she knows is about to end. Orbiting around Jupiter, the forts of the Cassini Division... are the front line in the centuries-long conflict with post-human AIs - whose intentions are unknown, but whose powers once extended to shattering Ganymede and building a wormhole bridge to the far future... '' |
Ken MacLeod | The Sky Road | Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship yard, Clovis Colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past... '' |
Philip Mann | The Fall Of The Families Book Two of the Story of Pawl Paxwax, the Gardener | Gollancz 1987 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 | ''... develops into an extraordinary interstellar revenge tragedy, moving towards a conclusion which is both unexpected and deeply poignant... '' |
Diana Marcellas | Twilight Rising, Serpent's Dream | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''The young shari'a witch Brierley once thought that she was the last of her kind - powerful witches who lived in peace and harmony, using their powers for good... Her people had flourished for millennia, guided by the elemental beings who embodied the very forces of nature... Then the fierce Allemanii people came... '' |
Leo Margulies | The Flags Were Three A Novel of Old New Orleans | Hurst & Blackett ca 1949 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, and foreign body under front fixed end paper resulting in indentation to first few pages else Fine book in worn and slightly torn and marked, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the story of Juliette Michaux a convent-bred orphan, who grew up in the days when the fabulous governor, de Vaudreuill, brought to the crude French settlement... the luxury and licentiousness of a ''little Versailles''... her daughter, Adrienne, who during the great fire... fell deeply in love with a Spanish nobleman... and... when the War with England reached New Orleans... young Francisca fell in love with... a Yanqui... '' |
Jan Mark | The Eclipse of the Century | Scholastic 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page fore-edges a little bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, a little rubbed at the top of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''... a young man has a near death experience and finds himself, as many have apparently done before, at the end of a long tunnel. He thinks at first he must be in heaven or at least receiving a glimpse of the afterlife. He is greeted by strangers who tell him he is in Quantoum and that they will meet him there again 'under a black sun at the end of a thousand years'... '' |
Louise Marley | The Child Goddess | Ace 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and small felt pen dot on lower page edges else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''A priest of the Order of Mary Magdalene and a skilled anthropologist, Isabel Burke has been called offworld to the barren planet of Virimund. The ExtraSolar Corporation... has encountered an 'incident' that has stopped their work... There are children on Virimund who do not age... ExtraSolar... hopes to discover the secret... '' |
Nick Marsh | Past Tense | Immanion Press 2010 P.O.D. (Paper) | Lower edge of front cover and subsequent pages a little damp-marked and lightly rippled - Very Good Book | 3.00 | ''Last year, Alan Reece, an unassuming animal doctor in the West Country, was surprised to find that he had become the 'Conduit', a link between reality and the strange world beyond... ripples from his unwitting transformation have freed a dark and terrible creature.. Burrowing into the past, it plots revenge from Ancient Britain... '' Sequel to Soul Purpose |
Michael Marshall (Michael Marshal Smith) | Bad Things | HarperCollins 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''On a beautiful summer's afternoon four-year-old Scott Henderson walked out onto a jetty over a lake... in Washington State. He never came back. John Henderson's world ended that day, but three years later he's still alive... Getting by. Until one night he receives an email from a stranger who claims to know what happened... '' Thriller. |
Michael Marshall (Michael Marshal Smith) | Blood Of Angels | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small amount of the clear lacquer missing (sticker removal?) | 4.00 | ''... Ward Hopkins has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend... when Nina's boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case... the Upright Man has escaped from custody... The shadows are gathering... '' Thriller, following The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead. |
Michael Marshall | We Are Here | Orion 2013 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page edge with short (3mm) tear and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''We're out there in the shadows, watching, waiting... When David knocks into a total stranger in New York he hears two words that change his life forever... Now mysterious, unexplainable things keep happening... A thriller like no other.'' |
Gail Martin | The Summoner Book One of the Chronicles of the Necromancer | Solaris 2007 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and a few small marks to page edges else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''The world of Prince Martris Drayke is thrown into sudden chaos and disorder when his brother murders their father and seizes the throne. Cast out, Martris... must seek retribution and restore his father's honour... the living are arrayed against him. Martris must call on... the ranks of the dead.'' |
George R. R. Martin | Dreamsongs Volume II | Bantam 2007 First Edition Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper tip of the rear fold | 10.00 | Twelve Stories in Four sections with introductions by the Author and a Fiction Checklist - 740 pages: A Beast for Norn; Guardians; The Road Less Traveled; Doorways; Shell Games; The Journal of Xavier Desmond; Under Siege; The Skin Trade; Unsound Variations; The Glass Flower; The Hedge Knight; Portraits of His Children. |
Manuela Dunn Mascetti | Chronicles of the Vampire | Bloomsbury 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little edgewear and a few small pieces of the plastic lamination missing | 5.00 | ''... an odyssey into the darkest recesses of our fearful imagination... these chronicles record, in intimate and gruesome detail, the physical nature of vampires, the obsessions and desires that possess them, the experiences that transport a man from humanity into the supernatural world... '' |
Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston) | Charnel House | Bailey Bros. & Swinfen 1979 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 25.00 | ''... Seymour Wallis... insisted that his house was breathing... The disbelievers investigated... until their reason was shattered by the shrieking unseen being that threatened to take their lives. By then it was too late to halt the towering malevolent force from finding its way into the world again... to resume its eternally evil mission of cruel annihilation... '' |
Graham Masterton | Demon's Door | Severn House 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... psychic Jim Rook has been feeling out of sorts... things only get worse when he... runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles... But... Korean student Kim... arrives with a living, healthy cat... Tiddles. The Korean sprit Kwisin... is saying 'thank you' in advance... '' |
Graham Masterton | Descendant | Severn House 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Californian James Falcon's Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that... he's an expert on the strigoi, the vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But... US counterintelligence recruit him. James hunts down strigoi Nazi assassins in war-ravaged Europe... '' |
Richard Matheson | Shadow on the Sun | Evans 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... These two bodies could plunge everyone in Picture City into bloody nightmare again. No human could possibly have done that to the Corcoran brothers. It just wasn't possible.'' Matheson's fourth Western. |
Adrian Mathews | Vienna Blood | Cape 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards | 5.00 | ''It is 2026. Sharkey, a Viennese newspaper columnist, spends a tiresome evening with Leo, a drunken computer nerd. Nearly three months later... he is called by the man's unexpectedly glamorous widow... Against his better judgement, and entirely out of his depth, Sharkey begins a... dangerous search through the cyber-highways, and the frozen city... '' |
Robin Maugham (Robert Cecil Romer Maugham) | The Man With Two Shadows | Longmans 1958 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, end papers lightly browned and page edges lightly browned and slightly rubbed - Very Good to Near Fine Book in worn and slightly chipped and browned Dust Jacket. Signed and Personalised by the Author on the front free end | 25.00 | ''... not only a study of that strange and frightening phenomenon of the mind known as 'dissociation of personality,' but is also an enthralling story of adventure, love and intrigue in North Africa. The hero's appalling disability, as a result of a head wound during the war adds immeasurably to the danger of his already hazardous work... '' Not fantastic. |
John R. Maxim | Haven | Avon 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''...the woman they called 'Black Angel' a ruthless and efficient assassin... Martin Kessler, himself hunted, touched her heart... A teenage girl is about to be kidnapped... unwittingly holds the key to a planned act of terrorism so horrific that an all-out war could be the only result... And nowhere on earth will be safe... no haven.'' |
Julian May | Conqueror's Moon The Boreal Moon Tale: Book One | HarperCollins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, one page corner creased, a couple of page corner tips creased and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket, with a short scratch on the rear panel, and a touch of | 5.00 | ''... Conrig Wincantor, Prince Heritor of Cathra, has a vision, to unite all four provinces of the island of High Blenholme under Cathran sovereignty. He has so far been thwarted in this ambition... '' Scarce |
Julian May | Ironcrown Moon | Voyager 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''King Conrig Ironcrown now rules the entire island of High Blenholme. But the peace he achieved after ruthlessly uniting its four quarrelling kingdoms into a Sovereignty is about to be challenged by enemies both mortal and supernatural... '' |
Julian May | Perseus Spur An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... So one minute there I was, subbing around Brillig Reef watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, making enough of a living to afford a little rotgut Danaen whiskey now and again; the next thing I know, some giant sea-toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!... '' |
Julian May | Sagittarius Whorl An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Helly still believes there's a dangerous lie hidden behind the Haluk ambassador's smiling declaration of peace and friendship... he is free to continue his search for evidence of a planned invasion with which to persuade a disbelieving world... '' The last book in the Rampart Worlds Trilogy |
Julian May | The Boreal Moon Tale | HarperCollins 2003-6 First Edition/in the UK First Printing (1st two 1st, 3rd 1st UK) | Slightly bumped/bruised at top and/or base of spines, Vol. 3 with a number of page corners bumped and a little creased and a few small marks to page edges and Vol. 1 page edges browned else Fine books in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 20.00 | ''... Conrig Wincantor, Prince Heritor of Cathra, has a vision, to unite all four provinces of the island of High Blenholme under Cathran sovereignty. He has so far been thwarted in this ambition... '' Scarce |
Ardath Mayhar | How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon | Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J35 on P.180) | Slightly bumped at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) | 4.00 | Clute - ''In the Kyrannon books, folk of transparent decency must resist a tyrant whose disruptive influence threatens to sour the harmony between human beings and nature.'' Her first novel. |
Ardath Mayhar | The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn | Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K20 on P.187) | Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) | 7.50 | ''Teleport yourself into the land that holds the Three Secrets as you wander through the corridors of the Tower of Truth. Shar-Nuhn is the land of pilgrimage, a mystically bizarre world... filled with forgotten races, beautiful aliens, evil wizards, mysterious and terrible curses, and two courageous heroes... '' Same world as How the Gods Wove... |
Ardath Mayhar | Warlock's Gift | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M12 on P.187) | Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a tear at the base of the rear fold | 10.00 | ''... Karas Lantir, once the prince of his father's mighty and happy kingdom, dreams of deposing the frightfully evil warlock who stole control... With the aid of only a few loyal men - and the power of his fiancee... Karas embarks on a perilous journey into the warlock's seemingly impregnable fortress... '' |
Paul J. McAuley | Child Of The River | Avon 1998 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a couple of bumps to top page edges else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... a world that stands distinctly apart: a place of savagery, secrets and war; the home of ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines ruled by universal devotions to absent gods; a realm of merchants, ghouls, heretics, bureaucrats and feral machines; a world called Confluence... '' |
Paul J. McAuley | The Secret Of Life | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''A Chinese expedition finds microbial life deep under Mar's polar cap and secretly brings it back to Earth. Chinese biotech companies want to exploit the extraordinary potential of this tough, ancient life, but industrial espionage leads to the escape of a genetically altered version, the Chi, into the Pacific Ocean. Able to adapt and change at high speed... '' Shortlisted for the Arthur Clarke Award 2002 |
Paul J. McAuley | The Secret of Life | Tor 2001 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean, a strange fungus-like organism that may ultimately threaten Earth's entire food chain... contains unique DNA unlike any other lifeform on the planet... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Acorna The Unicorn Girl | HarperPrism 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... She was just a little girl. With a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones... Acorna's rough-and-ready 'uncles'... took their foundling... all the way to the bandit planet... where no questions are asked, and a girl might grow up free.'' First of the trilogy. |
Anne McCaffrey | Acorna's Quest | HarperPrism 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at the top and bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Acorna has become a young woman, with all of youth's dreams and sorrows. She still has the tiny, translucent horn in the center of her forehead... 'funny' feet and hands, her beautiful silver hair, as well as her miraculous ability to purify air and water, make plants grow and heal human sickness... '' Second in the series |
Anne McCaffrey | Acorna's Rebels | Eos 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have started to reclaim their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal alien Kkleevi. But the expedition has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari people... '' Sixth in the series |
Anne McCaffrey | All The Weyrs Of Pern | Del Rey 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... when the people of Pern.. excavated the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered the colonists voice-activated artificial intelligence system... And the computer had incredible news... There was a chance... that they could... annihilate Thread once and for all!!'' |
Anne McCaffrey | All The Weyrs Of Pern | Bantam 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine, light spine crease and page edges lightly differentially browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''When AIVAS - the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System - was first discovered at Landing, the entire planet of Pern was awed at the knowledge it divulged. The total history of the early settlers, of their flight through space, their colonisation and near-destruction by thread, and the ultimate creation of dragons... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Black Horses for the King | Doubleday 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Galwyn hates working for his cruel uncle on board ship until some very special passengers - Lord Artos and his companions - set sail, bound for foreign lands in search of the finest black horses known to man... for his army to be able to drive the invading Saxons out of Britain once and for all... '' Her first historical novel for young adults. |
Anne McCaffrey | Changelings Book One of The Twins of Petaybee | Del Rey 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... now Petaybee is changing in mysterious, unprecedented ways, and the return of off-world scientists threatens the amazing planet and its equally amazing inhabitants... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Changelings Book One of The Twins of Petaybee | Bantam Press 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Yana and Sean are now the parents of twins... their destiny is deeply entwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human... each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet's creatures... Meanwhile Petaybee is changing...'' |
Anne McCaffrey | Crisis On Doona | Orbit 1993 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket with a little wear near the top of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''... the historic Decision at Doona... was to last for a quarter of a century. Now that contract has run out and is up for renewal. Everything that Human and Hrruban has worked for - particularly the delicate alliance itself - is in peril and could be destroyed utterly...'' |
Anne McCaffrey | Damia | Bantam 1992 First Edition Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small spot on front free end paper (manufacturing fault) and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest, and the one who had inherited the greatest Talent from her parents... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Damia | Ace/Putnam 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Unquestionably the most brilliant of the Gwyn-Raven children, Damia is also the most tempestuous... enormous telepathic powers... an incoming alien armada of such strength... Damia and Afra must find a way to save their planet.'' |
Anne McCaffrey | Damia's Children | Bantam 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, spine leaned and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Together Man and Mrdini worked to create prosperous worlds and guard against the terrible threat of the annihilating Hivers. And now, in the depths of Space, Mrdini scouts had crossed the path of three Hiver ships... bearing the queens and workers... It was the four elder children of Damia... who were to play their part... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Dragonsdawn | Del Rey 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 3.00 | ''... Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Lyon's Pride | Bantam 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... The four children of Damia... were Primes amongst the Talents, and all their skills were desperately needed, for the Hiver's terrible Sphere ships were still thrusting through space, unfathomable, impenetrable and carrying death in their labyrinthine depths... '' Fourth in the series. |
Anne McCaffrey | Nimisha's Ship | Del Rey 1999 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... It was on a test of her Mark 5 prototype that things went wrong. In an empty space field, suitable for test runs, she was suddenly confronted with the boiling white pout of a wormhole, and was sucked in, only to be thrown out into an unknown dimension... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Pegasus In Flight | Del Rey 1990 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in a fine Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''As Director... telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for the psychically gifted Talents... Feisty and streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary gift for languages... Young Peter, paralysed in a freak accident... were discovered to have some very unusual... abilities... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | Powers That Be | Del Rey 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, corners bruised and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a portion of the orange front cover roundel faded. | 3.00 | ''... Strange things were happening on Petaybee, it seemed. Unauthorised genetically engineered species had been spotted. Geologic survey teams sent to locate newly discovered mineral deposits were either coming up empty - or disappearing altogether. And the locals weren't talking... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | The Chronicles Of Pern First Fall | Del Rey 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... the first-ever Pern short-story collection!... Let the queen of dragons... take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history... '' The Survey: P.E.R.N., The Dolphins' Bell, The Ford of Red Hanrahan, The Second Weyr and Rescue Run |
Anne McCaffrey | The Chronicles Of Pern First Fall | Del Rey 1993 First Edition Second Printing | Fine copy in a fine Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... the first-ever Pern short-story collection!... Let the queen of dragons... take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history... '' The Survey: P.E.R.N., The Dolphins' Bell, The Ford of Red Hanrahan, The Second Weyr and Rescue Run |
Anne McCaffrey | The Renegades Of Pern | Del Rey 1989 First Edition Second Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread... some, like Jayge's trader clan... simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of the Holds... Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | The Skies Of Pern | Bantam 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit or the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past... But... further dangers are beginning to emerge... the Abominators plot together to destroy all learning... a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected... '' Scarce. |
Anne McCaffrey | The Tower And The Hive | Bantam 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and lightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonisation... '' |
Anne McCaffrey | The Worlds Of Anne McCaffrey | Andre Deutsch 1981 First Combined Edition & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 60.00 | The Ship Who Sang specially revised for this edition. |
Wil McCarthy | The Collapsium | Gollancz 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few top page corner tips bruised else Fine book in lightly bumped Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol three things form the backbone of Civilization. WELLSTONE: programmable matter of almost magical properties. COLLAPSIUM: a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes indispensable for the transmission of matter and information... RIVALRY: a bitter competition between Her Majesty's two most brilliant scientists... '' |
Lyn McConchie (Also as Elizabeth Underwood) | The Questing Road | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a couple of page top edges slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | 7.50 | ''Acolytes of a dark god have crossed the gulf between worlds to abduct an innocent tariling not even a year old, dooming it to become a sacrifice in a ceremony that will unleash an army of supernatural creatures upon an unsuspecting kingdom. Yoros and Karryl know that this is no mere animal... With their warrior niece Ashara, they follow its trail... '' |
Sandra McDonald | The Outback Stars | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds | 5.00 | ''Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and scars to prove it... and she's bored... she takes a berth on the next ship out... a mistake... Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals... Jodenny comes face-to-face with something powerful... love.'' |
Sandra McDonald | The Stars Down Under | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly faded at top, and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Chief Terry Myell and Lieutenant Commander Jodenny Scott... have been assigned to duty on... Fortune, away from the huge ships that carry colonists from the wreckage of... Earth. But there's another way... to travel...Wondinja Spheres... alien artifacts that link places and times... Now... shut down... '' |
Sophia McDougall | Romanitas | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''... A single state holds absolute sway from the Eastern border of India across the Atlantic: magnetic railways span the globe... Slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf... The sixteen-year-old heir to the throne is about to learn a secret that threatens the security of the greatest power on earth... This is the Roman Empire. Now.'' First of the trilogy |
Sophia McDougall | Rome Burning | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the base of the spine. | 7.50 | ''The Roman Empire stretches across the Atlantic and far into Asia, yet... Strange fires burn out of control, the Emperor falls suddenly ill, and a massacre... brings the world to the brink of a global war. At this critical moment... the young heir... must take command... '' Second book of the trilogy |
Terry McGarry | The Binder's Road | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board, and lowest 8mm of spine panel a little faded else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Six years after a conflict that extinguished all magelight, Eiden Myr is in chaos. Wilding weather is destroying the crops. Drought bakes some regions while others are flooded; mountains quake; poisoned river rise; disease and pestilence spread. In a dying trader town... '' Sequel to Illumination |
Seanan McGuire (Also as Mira Grant) | The Unkindest Tide An October Daye Novel | DAW 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the seas for as long as she allowed it, anmd when the tme came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those peope were wrong.... '' Thirteenth in the series of urban fantasies set in and around San Francisco - with an all-new novella. |
Maureen F. McHugh | Half The Day Is Night | Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''... a gripping tale of intrigue and complicity in the undersea cities of the 21st century. War veteran David Dai has come to ocean-bottom Caribe to work as a bodyguard to Maya Ling, banker... but... she draws the attention of terrorists who threaten to plunge her, and David, back into the nightmare of his own violent past...'' |
Fiona McIntosh | King's Wrath Valisar: Book Three | HarperVoyager 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | 7.50 | ''... As the empire threatens to tear itself to pieces, former enemies must now work on the same side and friends become the hunted to protect the imperial line. At all costs royal blood must prevail... even when it pitches Valisar against Valisar.'' |
Vonda N. McIntyre | The Crystal Star | Bantam 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''With the New Alliance firmly established, Princess Leia Organa has taken a strong leading role in government... As Luke Skywalker and Han Solo... follow rumours of a lost enclave of Jedi Knights, Leia's and Han's children are kidnapped... Leia and Chewbacca follow a trail of clues... '' |
Dennis L. McKiernan | Silver Wolf, Black Falcon | Roc 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | '' ... The progeny of an Elf and a shape-changing Baeran, Bair is cursed with a destiny that places him in mortal danger, for according to prophecy, Bair is the Hope of the World... '' |
Robin McKinley | Dragonhaven | Putnam 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top of the rear fold | 10.00 | ''... Jake lives with his scientist father at the Makepiece Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park... home to about two hundred of the few remaining Draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild... they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On Jakes first overnight solo in the park, he meets a dragon... '' |
John C. McLoughlin | The Helix And The Sword | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, cloth damp-marked - Very Good book in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket, damp-marked on the inside, with a little show-through on the rear panel | 4.00 | ''Rolling out nearly six millennia into the future... a time when colossal empires flourish in the void... mastery of synthetic life... animal and plant life... tools, weapons, and nations are all alive and all too well armed as they speed through space - toward war... '' |
Donna McMahon | Dance Of Knives | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''Vancouver in the 22nd century remains a vibrant seaport city despite the global economic collapse and massive sea level rise... divided between its prospering Guild citizens and the starving descendants of American refugees... '' The author's first novel. |
Sean McMullen | Glass Dragons | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine a few page top edges a little creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short crease in the rear flap. | 10.00 | Sequel to Voyage of the Shadowmoon ''... continues the tale of Laron, the chivalrous seven-hundred-year-old vampire, the appallingly dangerous and beautiful Vlander, and the long-suffering Terikel as they investigate a secret project of arcane magic... so dangerous it could destroy their world... '' |
Sean McMullen | The Time Engine: The Fourth Book Of The Moonworlds Saga | Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, upper front corner bruised and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear and erosion at the upper tips of the folds | 10.00 | ''... Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. The inspector knew about time travel because he had once met his future self. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future, and wind up on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat... '' |
Sean McMullen | Voidfarer | Tor 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... At first, Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought that the huge oval thing that had fallen from the sky was a dragon's egg. When it opened, however, he knew it was much, much worse. His world was being invaded by pitiless sorcerers from Lupan, who cold sweep whole armies aside and even defeat the invulnerable glass dragons... '' A Tale Of The Moonworld's Saga. |
John Meaney (Also as Thomas Blackthorne) | Black Blood | Bantam 2009 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... an intoxicating blend of futuristic noir and gothic fantasy that carries a cop with a personal vendetta across the barrier between life and death... in a morbidly lush necropolis, he must stop a conspiracy of killers whose power is fuelled by spilling black blood... '' |
John Meaney | Bone Song | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page fore-edges slightly bumped and with a few tiny tears else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Tristopolis. Death's City. Countless dead lie in the catacombs beneath the streets. The remains of thousands of Tristopolis' former citizens, stacked neatly inside the necroFlux generators which draw psychic energy from their bones to power the city... haunted by wraiths, has people who make a living from crime... '' |
John Meaney | Bone Song | Bantam 2008 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... in a city of the dead where desire is very much alive and murder a pleasure for connoisseurs, an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses... '' |
David Means | Hystopia | Faber 2016 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 | 10.00 | ''At the bitter end of the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy is entering his third term of office. The Vietnam War rages on, and the president has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene... This destabilised version of American history is the vision of twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen... '' |
Brian Merriman | The Man Who Talked Babytalk | Brian & O'Keefe 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened and marked else Fine book in rubbed and slightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Michael Griffin, a young American philologist... researches in 'zophonolgy', the study of animal communication, lead him to the language of babies, animals, fairies and dolphins... strewn with thorny metaphysical encounters with the questions of language, identity and communication.'' Scarce. |
Karen Michalson | Enemy Glory | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and against the side of the spine panel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... a dark, atmospheric fantasy world where the realm of the supernatural lies in the north while warring kingdoms and a complex religion devoted to gods and goddesses of good and evil dominate the south. Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child.. solaced by an ailing local hedge witch, who lies to him... '' |
Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Scribner 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly worn at the extremities. | 7.50 | ''Firethorn flees a life of drudgery to live alone in the forest, relying on her knowledge of herb lore to survive... she returns transformed, indebted to the god who saved her life, and blessed - or cursed - with uncanny abilities and a nagging sense of destiny...'' |
Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and a couple of page edges slightly damp-wrinkled else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''''Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities.'' |
Sarah Micklem | Firethorn | Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and light pressure mark on cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''''Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities.'' |
Haydn Middleton | The Lie of the Land | Macmillan 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top page edges lightly browned and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel background lightly faded | 5.00 | ''... David Nennius - a gigantic 40-year-old electrician - believes he must die a ritual death... a single catastrophic incident lies at the heart of Nennius' problem... He has built a myth around it: a fusion of fact and fantasy centred on Albion... the dark underside of the island of Britain... in order to save him... she must enter his myth... '' |
China Mieville | The Scar | Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges lightly marked and browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a short tear at the top edge of the reear panel | 10.00 | ''This is the story of a prisoner's journey. The search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger... '' |
Frank Miller | Batman The Dark Knight Returns | Titan 1986 Fourth Printing (Paper) | Corners a little rubbed/worn, edges lightly bumped - Very Good to Near Fine Book Illustrated by Lynn Varley | 7.50 | Introduction by Alan Moore; The Dark Knight Returns; The Dark Knight Triumphant; Hunt The Dark Knight; The Dark Knight Falls |
Karen Miller (Also as K. E. Mills) | The Falcon Throne Tarnished Crown Book One | Orbit 2014 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''Every crown is tarnished by the blood of ambition... A masterful tale of the thirst for power and the personal cost of betrayal - packed with political intrigue, explosive action and compelling drama... '' |
Karen Miller (Also as K. E. Mills) | The Falcon Throne The Tarnished Crown Book One | Orbit 2014 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a hint of rubbing at the upper tips of the folds | 10.00 | ''... A bastard lord, rising up against his tyrant cousin, sheds more blood than he bargained for... A royal child, believed dead, sets his eyes on regaining his father's stolen throne... A duke's widow, defending her daughter, defies the ambitious lord who'd control them both... And two brothers, divided by ambition, will learn the true meaning of treachery... '' |
David Mitchell | Slade House | Sceptre 2015 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Neal Murren. Signed by the Author on a tipped-in page | 12.50 | ''Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open... every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House... The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs... '' |
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | Princeps A Novel in the Imager Portfolio | Tor 2012 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 | ''Rewarded for his heroism in Scholar... young Quaeryt is elevated to Princeps of Tilbor... second only to the governor and still hiding his powers... when a volcanic eruption devastates the old capital. Now Quaeryt and his bride must restore order... a neighboring ruler... sees... an opportunity for invasion... '' |
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. | The Octagonal Raven | 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 lightly creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... a far-future SF adventure set in a society whose foundations are about to crumble... '' |
Sarah Monette | The Tempering of Men | Tor 2011 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one page fore-edge slightly bumped and with a tiny (ca. 1mm) tear else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''... the war against the trollish invasion has been won... at least for a while... Isolfr and his wolf-sister... have established their own wolfheall... the human pack has two war leaders... in the way of the pack, these two young men must come to terms with each other, must become brothers instead of rivals... '' Sequel to A Companion to Wolves |
David Moody | Autumn The City | Gollancz 2011 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in a slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a spot of wear at the base of the front fold. | 7.50 | ''A virulent disease has ripped across the face of the planet, killing billions of people in under twenty-four hours... A small group of survivors have been cowering in fear in the desolate remains of a silent city,,, when a company of soldiers appears... '' Sequel to Autumn. |
Elizabeth Moon | Change of Command | Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a hint of wear at the ends of the front fold | 5.00 | ''Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs... Neighbour staters fear the aggressive expansion of the Famillias Regnant... Esmay Suisa's family fear that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position... Fear begets violent reactopns... and nothing escapes the resulting bloodbath unscathed... '' Sequel to Rules of Engagement |
Elizabeth Moon | Rules of Engagement | Baen 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short (ca 5 mm) tear at the base of the front fold. | 4.00 | ''... Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat... when Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself in disgrace... '' Sequel to Once A Hero. |
Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | Blood A Southern Fantasy | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly, lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The luscious and seductive southern states... and the mysterious universe of the Second Ether, where nothing is quite as it seems... Jack and Sam, their lovers Colinda and the Rose, are jugaderos, the very best at their trade, enjoying a special status unthreatened by even the most ferocious and cynical of warlords... '' |
Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris) | Blood A Southern Fantasy | Millennium 1994 First Edition First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped, small tear at base of spine - Very Good Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''The luscious and seductive southern states... and the mysterious universe of the Second Ether, where nothing is quite as it seems... Jack and Sam, their lovers Colinda and the Rose, are jugaderos, the very best at their trade, enjoying a special status unthreatened by even the most ferocious and cynical of warlords... '' |
Michael Moorcock | The Fortress Of The Pearl An Elric Tale | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Lost in the immensities of the Sighing desert, Quarzhasaat is a city of elaborate intrigue... When Elric... arrives there he is weak and close to death, and is easily forced into agreeing to a mysterious quest: to find the pearl at the Heart of the World, which will convey much power on its owner, but which lies concealed in the in the hidden Fortress of the Pearl... '' |
Michael Moorcock | The Revenge Of The Rose | Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... To escape a mystic doom that will condemn him to an eternity of anguish, Elric must quest across the dimensions of the multiverse for the rosewood soulbox containing the soul of Sadric, his father... '' |
Michael Moorcock | The War Amongst The Angels | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in price-clipped Dust Jacket with a couple of 7mm tears at the top edge of the front flap and associated creasing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 7.50 | ''Rose von Bek travels many of London's byways glimpsing many lives and many worlds. At times she meets with knights of the road Dick Turpin and Colonel Jack, a man better known to his mukhamirim fellows as plain Sam Oakhurst... But London is one of many such scales of existence... '' |
Daniel Keyes Moran | The Ring based on a screenplay by William Stewart and Joanne Nelsen | Doubleday 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... that most priceless of all science fiction creations: an entire, vividly detailed, breathtakingly original world... a towering adventure spanning galaxies and centuries, straddling the human present and the cosmic future... the spellbinding tale of a ring of great power... '' |
P. R. Moredun | The Balance Between | Rookstone Publishing 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''1895. The discovery of a dead woman in a derelict Norfolk country house... 1910... a young lad, James Kinghorn, discovers an ancient ceremonial archway that transports him to... the magical and arcane world of Eldaterra... the greatest threat that mankind has ever faced... '' Unearthly History Volume One |
Richard Morgan | The Steel Remains | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Ringil Eskiath, hero to anyone who doesn't know him, and a corrupt degenerate to anyone who does, wielder of the kiriath blade Ravensfriend... lives in exile nursing his rage. But now a family member has come calling with an offer he can't refuse... '' |
John Morressy | Frostworld And Dreamfire | Sidgwick & Jackson 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Slip | 5.00 | ''On the desolate frostworld of Hraggellon, the inscrutable Onhla tribe - half human, half animal - has flourished for centuries. Then, suddenly, a mysterious plague wipes out the entire Onhla population, leaving only one survivor, a youth named Hult. But... a small group of Onhla... had been taken away... to... another world. If Hult can find them... the Onhla will live again...'' |
Mark Morris (Also as J. M. Morris) | Mr Bad Face | Piatkus 1996 First Edition First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''In 1943 RAF pilot John Straker is hideously disfigured when his Lancaster bomber crashes on landing... Twenty years later a group of children... set fire to the house of the neighbourhood 'bogeyman' and reduce it - and its owner - to ashes... But then the real nightmare begins... '' |
Bradford Morrow | The Diviner's Tale | Corvus 2011 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's promotional sheet | 7.50 | ''Cassandra Brooks is a single mother-of-two, schoolteacher and water diviner. Deep in the woods... she is confronted by the body of a young girl, swinging from a tree, hanged. When she returns with the authorities, the body has vanished... a girl turns up in the woods, alive, mute... Cassandra's hanged girl... '' |
James Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | Century 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review slip | 4.00 | ''Murray Katz makes a sperm donation and unwittingly generates the latest Child of God, Jesus' half-sister. Julie. God, this time, played Mother and supplied the ovum. Murray doesn't want his daughter going into that line of work. He knows what happens to saviours, especially Jewish ones... '' |
Peter Morwood (Robert Peter Smith) | Prince Ivan | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and pages edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... a tale of a Russia that never existed... of great heroes and beautiful princesses, or sorcerers both good and evil. All set beyond the steppes where the horizon goes on forever, and within forests that could swallow Europe... Prince Ivan... sets out on the bridal quest that will lead him to the fairest princess in all the Russias... '' |
Natasha Mostert | Season of the Witch | Bantam 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Gabriel Blackstone is a... computer hacker... a remote viewer... But reading people's minds is something he does only with the greatest reluctance... Gabriel visits Monk House in Chelsea... increasingly bewitched by... the beautiful, enigmatic Monk sisters... one of whom is a killer... to protect a terrifying secret as old as time... '' |
Haruki Murakami | 1Q84 | Harvil Secker 2011 First Edition First Printing (Two Volumes) | Slightly bumped/bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges browned else Fine books in like Dust Jacket Translated by Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel | 20.00 | ''The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo... she is a hurry to carry out an assignment... but... starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world... Tengo... becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize... the world has grown strange... they are indispensable to each other... '' |
Pat Murphy | Wild Angel by Mary Maxwell by Max Merriwell | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Lower edge of front cover lightly rippled else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''''When Sarah McKensie's parents are murdered, the young girl is saved by a mother wolf and raised in the pack. Part Mowgli, part Tarzan of the Apes, Sarah becomes the Wild Angel of the Sierras... '' |
Pat Murphy | Wild Angel by Mary Maxwell by Max Merriwell | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''''When Sarah McKensie's parents are murdered, the young girl is saved by a mother wolf and raised in the pack. Part Mowgli, part Tarzan of the Apes, Sarah becomes the Wild Angel of the Sierras... '' |
John Myers Myers | Doc Holliday | Jarrolds 1957 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, top front corner bruised, tape stains to end papers and page edges lightly age-darkened and slightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, price clipped Dust Jacket, with some sellotape staini | 10.00 | ''Wyatt Earp, famous frontier marshall, summed up his... friend Doc Holliday: 'Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler... a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean, ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever saw.'' |
Robert J. Myers | The Cross Of Frankenstein | Hamish Hamilton 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly marked Dust Jacket with the price removed | 4.00 | ''... written in the Victorian Gothic tradition and faithful to the style and mood... brings the haunting Promethean legend to wilderness America... Victor Frankenstein, a doctor like his father... is kidnapped to America where he is forced to heal the wounded monster who is... planning to raise an army of the dead... '' |
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