| Catherynne M. Valente | The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two | Much-in-Little 2014 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''September misses Fairyland... little does she know that this time she will be spirited away... and find herself faced with saving Fairyland from a moon-Yeti with great and mysterious powers.'' Third in the series |
| Boris Vallejo | Boris Vallejo Fantastic World - 6 Postcards | ???? | Edges a little rubbed/rough-cut, corners slightly bumped - Near Fine postcards in slightly worn and creased card sleeve | 7.50 | 6 of Boris' best known illustrations produced (in Russia?) as postcards - possibly unlicensed. Full text on sleeve cover, in Russian. |
| Boris Vallejo | Boris Vallejo Fantastic World - 8 Postcards | ???? | Edges a little rubbed/rough-cut, corners slightly bumped - Near Fine postcards in slightly worn and creased card sleeve | 10.00 | 8 of Boris' best known illustrations produced (in Russia?) as postcards - possibly unlicensed. Full text on sleeve cover, in Russian. |
| Jack Vance | Monsters In Orbit | Dobson 1977 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine Book in slightly marked Dust Jacket | 50.00 | ''Though still quite young , Jean Parlier had already had an active interplanetary life. Wanted on her native world, she had escaped to Earth on wits and courage. A very pretty girl, she had a very unusual type of personal vitality which captivated men. But her aim was not a man, but first getting her hands on a million dollars... '' |
| Jeff VanderMeer | Veniss Underground | Tor 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly worn at top of spine, corners a little rubbed and a few page corner tips creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''On a far-future Earth where vast deserts... surround walled city-states, the mysterious Quinn manipulates biological engineering to create semi-sentient species for use as both toys and manual labour... Nicholas pays Quinn a visit, he... will discover just how dangerous it is to know Quinn... '' His first novel. |
| Peter Vansittart | Landlord | Peter Owen 1970 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and rear free end paper a little rough-cut (production fault) else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... ostensibly a variation on the theme of the comic boarding house, the provincial simpleton tossed mercilessly by the vagaries of city life. But its ribald gaiety, lyrical insights and astringent characterisation make it a singular mixture of wistful comedy and sardonic social comment.'' |
| Various | Science Fantasy | New Worlds 1964-66 | Generally Good to Very Good copies | 2.00 | Each Nos.65, 77 & 80 - 3 Issues |
| Elizabeth Vaughan | Warprize | Gollancz 2007 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Xylara is a Daughter of Xy, brought up to do her duty to her country... Lyra's... incompetent half-brother... is on the throne... But the once-great kingdom... is falling to the Warlord... the Warlord has claimed tribute... Xylara... his Warprize... '' |
| Mark Cotta Vaz | The Art of Beowulf | Chronicle 2007 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed - else Fine Book in Dust Jacket lightly bumped at base of the spine | 10.00 | Preface by Robert Zemeckis. Foreword by Neil Gaiman. ''... Long before a single shot... was recorded, Doug Chiang's talented design studio... explored the look and feel of a turbulent dark age world in hundreds of illustrations, sketches and digital paintings... illuminated by quotes from the production designers, artists, actors, and filmmakers.'' |
| Marian Veevers | Bloodlines | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Three women, separated by time but drawn together across the years by one nightmare, a curse so strong that it threatens kings and babes alike... '' |
| Steve Voake | The Starlight Conspiracy | Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | A little rubbed at the extremities - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''... Alone and on the run from Social Services, 14-year-old Berry has nowhere to go. Until she meets an old man who entrusts her with a package containing a mysterious item that has unbelievable power... other people also want the item and will stop at nothing to get it... '' |
| Paul Voermans | And Disregards The Rest | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket Signed and Warmly Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''Australian writer... extraordinary achievement, treating the themes of alien contact, time and alternate realities with verve and freshness... '' His first book |
| Paul Voermans | The Weird Colonial Boy | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, end papers lightly browned and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Nigel finds a way of following the fish... He's still in Australia. It's still 1978. but who is this English King Rupert at war with the European Community?... There are prison camps and public executions... Understanding it all could mean the death sentence for... Nigel... '' |
| Cynthia Voigt | When She Hollers | Scholastic 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The knowledge hurts. It claws at her insides like a disease, like a tumour. The shame burns. Like acid eating at her stomach. Like a fire that ignites in this air, engulfing her... that's why Tish got the knife. She feels it cool against her ankle... she is not going to take it from him anymore... '' |
| Elisabeth Vonarburg | Blood Out of a Stone | Nanopress 2009 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine Book with (simulated?) leather binding | 20.00 | Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Poligloti; Eon; The Museum of Impermanence; To Die, a Little; Pas de deux; The Beginning of the Circle; Blood Out of a Stone and With Open Eyes |
| Jonathan Waite | Passionate and Confused Jottings from Smallship One | Self Published 2011 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book | 10.00 | ''... a very careful selection of the best bits and bobs from my blog... here are some of the posts that moved people, amused people, or simply started arguments... '' |
| Jonathan Waite | Three Windows Selected Mediumish Stories | Self Published 2009 (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book | 10.00 | Introduction; The Sallow Man - At a country house weekend... an eerie call reaches out... ; The Shop - A humdrum shop in an ordinary mall sells goods that are out of this world; Loose Threads: A Tale of the Truesingers - in the far future, the fate of a planet may hang on the music of a three-girl group... |
| Jonathan Waite | Two Magicians | Self Published 2009 (Paper) (Print on Demand? No ISBN) | Fine Book | 10.00 | ''When Mordecai... Court Magus... woke up that morning, he had no special plans... If he had known that within a matter of hours he would be... bereft of his magic... caught up in a palace revolution... on the run from a murderous master criminal... saddled with a skinny, smelly, unreliable apprentice... '' |
| Andrew Wallace | Celebrity Werewolf | NewCon Press 2019 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Paperback Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Pre-Lim Page | 5.00 | ''Suave, sophisticated, erudite and charming, Gig Danvers seems to be too good to be true. He appears from nowhere and sets about revolutionising science and promoting humanitarian causes, using his growing influence for the good of all mankind; but are his critics right to be cautious?... '' |
| Sean Wallace | The Tall Adventurer The Works Of E. C. Tubb | Beccon 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Book | 12.00 | Trade paperback original. Full bibliographical listing, plot synopses, pseudonyms, series, non-SF, and indexes... |
| Sean Wallace | The Tall Adventurer The Works Of E. C. Tubb | Beccon 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges a little bumped, marked and creased else Fine book Signed by Phil Harbottle and Ted Tubb and Roger Robinson (publisher) | 12.00 | Trade paperback original. Full bibliographical listing, plot synopses, pseudonyms, series, non-SF, and indexes... |
| Sean Wallace | The Tall Adventurer The Works Of E. C. Tubb | Beccon 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine Book | 12.00 | Trade paperback original. Full bibliographical listing, plot synopses, pseudonyms, series, non-SF, and indexes... |
| Hugh Walpole | Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair A Romantic Macabre | Macmillan 1925 First Edition First Printing - Trade Issue | Slightly bumped and slightly worn at base of spine, bruised and worn at top, and top front corner slightly bumped, page edges slightly foxed and marked Very Good to Near Fine book . | 10.00 | ''... I will invoke the great names of Hoffmann and Hawthorne for its God-fathers... But the word allegory is, in these days, a dangerous one, and some one will soon be showing me that we have, each one of us, his Sea-Fog, his White Tower, and that it is the fault of his own weakness if he does not fling out of the window his Red-Haired Man...'' |
| Minette Walters | The Dark Room | Macmillan 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance... Leo has since disappeared - together with Jinx's best friend... But when she wakes from her coma, Jinx can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. Then the memories begin to surface... of utter desperation and absolute terror... '' |
| Jo Walton | Among Others | Corsair 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with pink spine panel faded to pale pink | 15.00 | ''What happens after you have saved the world but discovered the world doesn't care? Morwenna Phelps and her twin sister live in Wales, raised by a half-mad mother who dabbles in magic. There Mori finds refuge in two worlds: while she lays with spirits who live among factory ruins, her mind finds freedom and promise in the fantasy and science fiction novels ... '' |
| Nick Warburton | Zartan as told to Nick Warburton by Armpits the Second | Black 1988 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Peter Cottrill | 5.00 | ''As an ant Zartan is a washout. Not surprisingly, being brought up by ants in the jungle has confused him. But, fortunately, Lord Greycoat mounts an expedition in search of his long lost son... '' |
| Paul Ware | Flight Of The Mariner | Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed, browned and slightly bumped - Very Good book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Shushuan, world of the Vinh. Across a gulf of space and time that cannot be measured by Earth's science, the ancient, forgotten birthplace of humankind still calls to its long-lost offspring. But only a handful of those descendants, a special few in whom the race-memory still lies buried, are able - or willing - to respond... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Canis Major to Rainby: The Carraway Connection | Self Published 2011 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | ''He is a talented poet, a master of words, whose songs play on the hearts of his admirers with seemingly supernatural potency. But his own heart is in turmoil, enthralled by a vision of unattainable beauty... his quest to know and claim his beloved will bring him face to face with a truth he cannot handle... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Daydar IV: The Kniva Project, Book Four: Harvest of the World | Self Published 2011 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Light spine creasing else Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 7.50 | ''Severin Torrent, Governor of Salak and Commander Elect of Security in the Fringes, has come to Daydar IV on a state visit, and to reclaim his pet, MERSHANE BRINGER. What he finds will shock him to his core... '' Last in the tetralogy. |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Daydar IV: The Kniva Project, Book One: StormChild | Self Published 2009 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | One spine crease and a small split at base of spine, front cover corners lightly rubbed and short crease to top corner, a few page top corners a little creased - this copy appears to have been used for proofing, with corrections in pencil on a number of p | 7.50 | ''A budding Urthan colony that hides a deadly secret plays host to a coterie of exotic visitors, the last remnant of the defeated Harket race. But they are not all they seem. Their leader... is in fact MERSHANE BRINGER, a prince of the Rhagan Empire. driven... to put right a long-forgotten wrong... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Daydar IV: The Kniva Project, Book Three: DragonLord | Self Published 2011 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | ''Daydar IV is under water, its Urthan colonists evacuated to an outlying orde station in the hills. Now MERSHANE BRINGER and his Circle must find a more hospitable place for them. And there are a few other little problems still to solve... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Daydar IV: The Kniva Project, Book Two: StormLord | Self Published 2011 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Front cover corners lightly rubbed else Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | ''... a deeper problem has come to light, a dangerous instability in the planet's crust, held at bay only by Kniva's ancient kephera technology. If Mer and his Circle deactivate the machines, the human colony and all its people will be lost. Meanwhile, Mer has his own problems... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Rainby to Salak (and back): Bracelets, Bells and Dragon Dice | Self Published 2009 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Base of spine lightly rubbed else Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | ''The planet RAINBY - where all the bigotry and prejudice of the Urthan Unity is taken to its most hideous extreme. And yet it was on Rainby that MERSHANE BRINGER encountered two men who would become his staunchest allies and closest friends... Rainby would learn to rue the day these three souls were thrown together... '' |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Salak to Rha: Betwixt and Between | Self Published 2010 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | 'MERSHANE BRINGER has been many things in his life - Trader, smuggler, pirate, slave. But always... the mysterious planet RHA, has called him to come home... these stories... range from Mer's earliest forays into Unity space to the eve of his departure for DAYDAR IV... |
| Janet M. Warner | The Chronicles of Mershane Salak: Blood on Bookwalk | Self Published 2010 (Paper) (Print on Demand?) | Fine Book (Note: Lacks Bar-Code on rear cover) | 10.00 | ''... as murder erupts on peaceful Bookwalk, Mer must find and defuse a psychic time bomb which could reignite the flames of war... fist volume of the Chronicles of Mershane to appear in print... '' |
| Freda Warrington | A Dance In Blood Velvet | Macmillan 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine - Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 100.00 | ''For the love of her vampire suitor Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Her only contact with people now, is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her but its fulfilment brings ecstasy... '' Volume Two in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington | Dark Cathedral | Signet 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Upper front corner lightly creased and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 20.00 | ''For all of their childhood, young Beth Herne and her brother Luke have lived in fear - beaten and terrorised because of their mother's religious beliefs. Until one summer... Beth discovers independence. And her descent into darkness begins... '' |
| Freda Warrington | Darker Than The Storm | New English Library 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges very slightly rubbed and lower front corner bruised - Near Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 4.00 | ''Prince Ashurek... looked up amazed. the towers of Niankan-Siol soared skywards, all blue gold and glass, seemingly as light as air. Walkways, weightless and swaying, threaded between the pinacles and spires, while winged creatures and transports flitted and looped among the glittering heights... beyond the teeming city the whole land was dissolving into Chaos and darkness... '' |
| Freda Warrington | Elfland | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Rosie Fox is a daughter of the Aetherials, an ancient race from the Spiral - the innermost realm of the Otherworld - who live secretly among us... Auberon and Jessica are the warm heart of Cloudcroft and of Rosie's loving family. But on the hill lives the mysterious, aloof Lawrence Wilder, Gatekeeper to the inner realms of Elfland...'' |
| Freda Warrington | Midsummer Night | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''Decades ago, at a remote British estate where the veil between our world and the world of the Aetherials - the fair folk - is too easily breached... true Aetherials crossed into our world... Decades later... a young woman... stumbles through a portal into the Otherworld... '' Sequel to Elfland |
| Freda Warrington | The Blood Trilogy | Macmillan 1992-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines - Fine copies in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Pages | 300.00 | ''Karl... though vampire, is completely in the power of his maker, Kristian... Karl is determined to kill him - but vampires are indestructible. Madeleine Neville is eighteen: it is 1923. Her father... has filled Parkland hall with guests for her birthday... Among them is... Karl...'' The Three Volumes of her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - these are the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington | The Dark Blood of Poppies | Pan 1996 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Covers slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 15.00 | ''The ballerina Violete Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and led her to a terrifying realisation; that she has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires... '' |
| Freda Warrington | The Dark Blood of Poppies A Vampire Fantasy | Macmillan 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 50.00 | ''The sequel to A Dance In Blood Velvet; a sensual and erotic vampire novel. The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and leads her to a dreadful realisation; that she has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires... '' Volume Three in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington | The Rainbow Gate | New English Library 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 25.00 | ''...The land of the Chalcenians ripples with sunlight, energy and laughter; the home of the Domendrans is dark and dank... When Helen's friend Rianna begins to make exquisite dolls to sell... Helen finds herself drawn back to the strange other-world she and Rianna knew as children... they must play their part in an age-old conflict... which will save or destroy our own world.'' - one of the Author's own copies. |
| Freda Warrington | The Sapphire Throne | Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''The war appears to be over. Helananthe, granddaughter of the mad king, Garnelys, has gathered her forces and defeated the Amber Citadel of Parione and its evil Bhahdradomen advisers... but matters are not so simple... '' Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. |
| Sylvia Waugh | The Mennyms | Julia MacRae 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner damp marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with damp-marking at lower front corner on the inside (no show-through). | 10.00 | ''The Mennyms are a devoted family living together at No. 5 Brocklehurst Grove. It is a big household in which five children are eternally fussed over by their mother... No. 5 is home to a stunning deception... It isn't just the elusive Miss Quigley, lurking in the cupboard under the stairs... It is a far more dangerous secret... '' First of the series. |
| Beth Webb | Star Dancer The Book of Air | Macmillan 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The Goddess has warned the druids of evil to come... an untimely shower of stars will mark the birth of one who can stem the tide... Raven-haired and green-eyed, her name is Tegen... a ruthless enemy plots to destroy the Star Dancer and let evil out... '' First of the series. |
| David Weber | A Call To Arms Book II of Manticore Ascendant A Novel of the Honorverse | Baen 2015 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. | 5.00 | ''Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately, he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them... '' |
| David Weber | A Call To Duty Book I of Manticore Ascendant A Novel of the Honorverse | Baen 2012 First Edition Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... Travis Uriah Long yearned for order in his life... enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy... But... the Navy is possibly on the edge of extinction... But... The universe is not a safe place... And... Travis... will find his calling... '' |
| David Weber | A Mighty Fortress | Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Young Cayleb Ahrmahk... 's won the most crushing naval victories in human history... and won the hand of beautiful young Queen Sharleyan... But... The Group of Four, the clique that controls the Church of God Awaiting... has decreed their destruction... Their mighty fleet, equipped with... new weapons, will soon be launched... '' |
| David Weber | A Rising Thunder | Baen 2012 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Cold War and hot, the Republic of Haven has been the mortal enemy of Honor Harrington's Star Kingdom since she entered the Academy... She and the Star Empire of Manticore have won that peace... but not in the way she expected... ended one war only to face another, even more terrible conflict... '' |
| David Weber | By Heresies Distressed | Tor 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and four top page corners a little bumped and creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun... Empress Sharleyan faces the great challenge of her life unaware of all that task truly entails... '' Third in the Safehold Series |
| David Weber | March To The Stars | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock has had a really bad year... A warrior prince who want to have a few choice words with ... Lady Mother, the Empress of Man. But to have them, you, your marines, and your Mardukan allies must cross a demon-haunted ocean, face a civilisation... and 'barbarians'... again battle against impossible odds... '' |
| David Weber | March Upcountry | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a hint of wear at the upper tip of the rear fold | 7.50 | ''Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock... was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man... so why wouldn't anyone at Court trust him?... a saboteur tried to blow up his transport... Roger found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduc, whose jungles were full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, torrential rain... '' |
| David Weber | Midst Toil and Tribulation | Tor 2012 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket, with a tiny (ca. 1mm) tear at the top of the spine panel. | 10.00 | ''... the populous Republic of Siddarmark is sliding into chaos... the Church of God Awaking has engineered a rebellion against the Lord Protector... civil war stalks the nation... '' Sixth in the Safehold Series |
| David Weber | Torch of Freedom | Baen 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a fine superficial scratch on the rear panel | 7.50 | ''... the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch... a dangerous mission to uncover the truth concerning a wave of mysterious assassinations... Meanwhile powerful forces in the Solarian League are maneuvering against each other... '' Sequel to Crown of Slaves |
| David Weber | War Of Honor | Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With The Honorverse CD-ROM | 5.00 | ''NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR... Unfortunately, what they wanted didn't matter... '' Tenth book in the series. |
| David Weber | We Few | Baen 2005 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, with a fine surface cut at the base of the spine panel. | 5.00 | ''... Prince Roger is coming home, but home isn't what it was when he left. Traitors have murdered his brother and sister, his nieces and nephews. His mother, the Empress, is still alive, but in the hands of Roger's own biological father, who controls her through drugs and physical and psychological torture... '' Book Four in the 'March' Series |
| David Weber | Wind Rider's Oath | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, spine slightly 'dished' and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... just what is Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer hradani doing in the middle of the Sothoii Wind Plain? Trying to stay alive, of course. But that's not going to be easy... the huge magically-engineered horses with human-level intelligence... evil wizards, hordes of undead demons, at least two Dark Gods, assassins and... '' |
| Robert Weinberg | From The Golden Age | Pulp Press ca 1975 (Paper) (Each limited to 100 copies) | B/W photocopies, A5 centre-stapled - Spines slightly browned - Near Fine Copies except # 14 which has lower corner of last page (but no story) missing - ca 15 % | 10.00 | Each, Except #14 - £5. Robert J. Hogan - #14 G-8 and His Battle Aces: Satan Paints the Sky - Jan 38; #24 G-8: Flight of the Green Assassin - Sept 37; #27 Maxwell Grant The Shadow: The House That Vanished - Oct 35; #41 Kenneth Robeson Up From Earth's Center - Summer 49; #42 Robert Sydney Bowen Dusty Ayres: Black Lightning - July 34 |
| Robert Weinberg | From The Golden Age | Pulp Press ca 1974 (Paper) (Each limited to 100 copies) | Lightly creased A4 spine-stapled booklets | 10.00 | each - transcribing the original magazines, with B & W photocopied covers - #2 The Spider Master of Men! The City That Dared Not Eat. Full-length Spider Novel (and revelation of The Spider's origin... ) & #4 Secret Service Operator |
| Margaret Weis | Dragons Of The Fallen Sun The War of Souls Volume One | Wizards of the Coast 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Forty years have passed since the devastating Chaos War... powerful dragons have seized control of Ansalon... Heroes of the past have gone to their well-deserved rest... new heroes take their place to continue the battle... '' |
| Mort Weisinger | Thrilling Wonder Stories Volume 8 #2 October | Beacon Magazines 1936 | Around 1cm of spine panel missing at top and base, cover creased, a few short edge tears, a few store stamps, pages browning - Good Magazine | 10.00 | Ray Cummings' Shadow Gold; Hal K. Wells' Man-jewels for Xothar; Ralph Milne Farley's Liquid Life; Arthur J. Burks' Dictator of the Atoms; Edmond Hamilton's Cosmic Quest; A. Merritt's Rhythm of the Spheres; Paul Ernst's The Microscopic Giants; D. L. James' Crystals of Madness; Max Plaisted's Zarnak and lots, lots more... |
| Angus Wells | Exile's Challenge | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners, and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short (3mm) tear at the lower edge of the front panel With Publisher's Review Slip | 5.00 | ''The People have found sanctuary from the wrath of the Breakers in the world beyond the arch, their gateway defended by the Grannach... But Davyd's dreams still come, dreams that speak of destruction coming to this new untainted world... '' |
| Angus Wells | Exile's Children | Millennium 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''From beyond the Mountains of the Maker comes a threat that the People know not how to counter... All that their dreams vividly portend is battle and death... '' |
| Mark Wernham | Martin Martin's On The Other Side | Cape 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at top of spine and light cover crease else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''An episode of Porn Disco, the latest luxury Dermo Shower, a day's work at the Security Department and fistfuls of drugs: this is the daily life of Jensen Interceptor, 'ace' government spy... charged with the unfavourable task of infiltrating... the Martin Martinists.. What Jensen discovers will turn the world upside down, literally... '' |
| Rebecca West | Sunflower | Virago 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned and small mark on lower page edges else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Suppressed by the author during her lifetime... astonishing fictionalised account of her obsessive love for Lord Beaverbrook and of the disintegration of her relationship with H. G. Wells. Although it was never finished, the novel, planned and writtin in the 1920s, makes a remarkably coherent whole... '' |
| Robert Westall | Love Match | Methuen 1997 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Love as war, love as a game of tennis, love as worship... Making the wrong choice, falling in love at the wrong time... Loving the unattainable, love when you do not even know it is love... '' Love Match; The Concert; The Women's Hour; Claudine; Lulworth Cove; Fatty France and First Death |
| Robert Westall | The Night Mare | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing | Eroded at top of rear panel adjacent to spine (and affecting this corner of 13 pages) else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''Miss Crimond was sitting in Dad's chair which had once been Grandpa's chair; and Billy hated her. To Billy and all the families who rented houses in Back Tennyson Street, Miss Crimond was the arch enemy. Billy and his gang declare war... But Billy's campaign has unexpected consequences when he sees the night mare, the horse of his dreams... '' |
| Scott Westerfeld | The Last Days | RazOr Bill 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, a littler marked on the inside (no show-through). | 15.00 | ''The summer is stifling and strange things are happening in New York City... A weird, black, oily substance is oozing from fire hydrants and faucets. A mysterious epidemic is turning people into raving cannibals. And the signs say that worse is coming... '' Sequel to Peeps. Scarce. |
| David Western | Fear Issue No. 9 September | Fear 1989 | Covers a little creased and rubbed - Very Good Magazine | 2.00 | News; Interview with Michael Stewart; Movie Mainline; Videos; Article about James Hong; Phantasm II; Book Reviews; Interview with Alan Grant; Forbidden Planet examined by Stan Nicholls; John Bolton; Charles L. Grant; Graham Masterton; Brian Mills; Philip Alton Garner; Judith Coulter; Chris Watson; Kay Callahan; Alison Brooks; Duncan Adams and more |
| Michael Weston | The Cage | Bodley Head 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, corners a little rubbed, page edges marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. in creased and slightly worn proof Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | '''Whose was the skull in the remaining fragment of an iron cage that the half-crazed road mender dug up at Hangman's Cross... The question absorbed the reverend Ralph Fletcher, who devoted much of his life to the reconstruction of the events... '' |
| Chris Westwood | The Silence | Piatkus 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed. | 10.00 | ''The past is forever closing in, however hard you try to escape it. And when it finds you - when the telephone rings and a voice you hoped never to hear again speaks your name - the silence that follows can be deadly... '' Scarce. |
| Weta | The Crafting of Narnia: Art, Creatures, and Weapons from Weta Workshop | HarperCollins 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... This book... chronicles the stunning concept drawings, designs and props that helped... shape the world of Narnia... hundreds of never before seen drawings and sculptures, and commentary from the artists and craftspeople... discover the intricate work and exhaustive research and details... beautifully illustrated collectors' edition... '' |
| Django Wexler | The Thousand Names Book One of the Shadow Campaigns | Del Rey (UK) 2013 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | '' 'Give me the Thousand Names.' The ancient voice trailed off into a fading whisper... A new sound filled the cavern. A hiss, rising from the shadows in every direction at once... echoing and re-echoing until the whole fast temple seemed top be alive. 'Kill them,' Mother's voice said, echoing louder and louder until it thundered through the hiss of the smoke. 'Kill them all.' '' |
| Edith Wharton | To Be Read By Candlelight Two Tales of Suspense | Parsimony Press 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book | 5.00 | Two of Edith Wharton's haunting tales: The Triumph of Night and The Eyes. 63 page booklet bound in red. Although the second impression is relatively common the first printing is scarce. |
| Ian Whates | Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon | Newcon Press 2021 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Cover Ilustration by David A. Hardy | 7.50 | Introduction by Roger Peyton. Stories (many from the annual Novacon booklets) by Ian M. Banks, Stephen Baxter, Eric Brown, Jaine Fenn, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul McAuley, Juliet E. McKenna, Ian R. Macleod, Anne Nicholls, Justina Robson, Geoff Ryman, Martin Sketchley, Kari Sperring and Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Kennilworthy Whisp (ps J. K. Rowling) | Quidditch Through the Ages | Bloomsbury 2001 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A few light cross-spine creases, lower front corner slightly creased and rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine Paperback | 10.00 | ''If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch comes from, how the Bludgers came into existence or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need... '' Issued for Comic Relief in 2001 |
| John Whitbourn | A Dangerous Energy | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''England 1967: ruled by the power of the Catholic Church, as it has been since the failure of the Protestant Reformation. In this England there are steam trains, but no internal combustion engine, rifles but no electricity; heresy but no democracy. And in this England, magic works... '' This author's first book. |
| John Whitbourn | A Dangerous Energy | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in creased Dust Jacket Signed, Dated and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''England 1967: ruled by the power of the Catholic Church, as it has been since the failure of the Protestant Reformation. In this England there are steam trains, but no internal combustion engine, rifles but no electricity; heresy but no democracy. And in this England, magic works... '' This author's first book. |
| John Whitbourn | Popes And Phantoms | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Admiral Slove was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension... in his sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim, walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with the Pope might be mirrored, exactly, by one with the Devil. Reality shifts could cause a King to see his capital city shimmer into another Realm entirely...'' |
| John Whitbourn | Popes And Phantoms | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and a couple of speckles on the page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author | 7.50 | ''Admiral Slove was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension... in his sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim, walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with the Pope might be mirrored, exactly, by one with the Devil. Reality shifts could cause a King to see his capital city shimmer into another Realm entirely...'' |
| John Whitbourn | To Build Jerusalem | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''One morning in 1995, Jonah Ransome, clothier, is going about his everyday business when he meets a beautiful demon in his storecupboard. At around the same time, the King of England with his entire court, vanishes abruptly before the astonished eyes of his public... Even in an England where the Reformation failed... such events could be described as unusual... '' |
| Frances White | Voyage of the Damned | Michael Joseph/Illumicrate 2024 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on Tipped-In Page | Fine book in like Green Dust Jacket, with decorated end-papers and page edges | 15.00 | ''For a thousand years, Concordia has maintained peace between its provinces... the emperor's ship embarks upon a twelve-day voyage... Abord are the heirs of the twelve provinces... each graced with a unique and secret magical ability... a beloved heir is murdered, everyone is a suspect... the bodies pile higher... will the empire... fall?'' |
| Aliya Whiteley | Skyward Inn | Solaris 2021 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine, one very light spine crease and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a light curl to the front flap. | 10.00 | ''... dream of a better Earth. Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita... Qita surrendered... when Earth invaded; Innkeepers Jem and Isley... disturbed when a visitor... comes... asking for help... Did humanity really win the war?'' |
| Kit Whitfield | Bareback | Cape 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a hint of wear at the base of the folds. | 7.50 | ''For those born feet-first, life is normal... every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first... locked in his or her human skin... first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity... '' |
| Charles Whiting (Also as Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler and Klaus Konrad) | Bloody Bremen Ike's Last Stand | Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... In his vivid and fast-moving account of the last few weeks of the war... presennts a sorry picture of the confusion that reigned as the Top Brass squabbled among themselves while Europe crumbled. Surprisingly enough, it was the one man, Monty, to whom the American generals were most anxious to deny the laurels... who ended up stealing the headlines.'' |
| Leonard Wibberley | Merchant of Rome A Novel Of Christ and Caesar | Cassell 1974 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and boards a little worn else Near Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''On the day when Caligula, Emperor of Rome, obsessed with thoughts of his own divinity, demanded of Theophilus: 'Admit it, admit it. Am I not greater than the Nazarene?' the fate of Theophilus lay in the balance... '' |
| Ronald Wickers | Venture Science Fiction (UK) | Atlas Publishing 1963-5 (14 Issues) | Generally Very Good or better copies | 15.00 | the lot or £2 each. - Nos. 1-7, 10, 14-15, 18- 20 & 22 - Please note that no. 22 is the Australian issue dated 8/65 but otherwise the same as the UK 6/65 issue |
| Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm Lockett also as Cherry Barbara Grimm) | Cruel Designs | Piatkus 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (5mm) tear at the top of the rear fold. | 4.00 | ''... a tour du force, combining the horror of the supernatural with that of the all too real... there are horrifying echoes from the house's past and visitations from its femme fatale who will not be laid to rest until... '' |
| Cherry Wilder | The Luck Of Brin's Five | Angus & Robertson 1979 First Australian Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, lower board edges a little shelf-worn, a few page corner tips creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''Life was peaceful on the planet of Torin. Those who lived there, the Moruia, were an ancient people, but... life seemed to go on as it always had. But one winter night... this dreamtime changed forever. The navigator of a bio-survey team from Earth crashed... '' |
| Kate Wilhelm | Cambio Bay | St. Martin's Press 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''Rich in mythology and in the human spirit, Cambio Bay is a warm-hearted tale of truth and power and all that we can be.'' |
| Kate Wilhelm | The Hills Are Dancing | Corroboree Press 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 20.00 | ''We are all searching... Dick and I are sharing a search; we are looking for something elusive, something important to both of us... about boundaries... mothers and sons... continuity... It has to do with time... and change. Impermanence. Continuity. Where will my people be in ten thousand years?'' Photography and philosophy in Oregon |
| Nancy Willard | Sister Water | Knopf 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Jessie Woolman first saw the angel of death when she was a girl. That was before she married Henry... Now Henry is gone... and Jessie's two grown daughters... wondering how best to care for their mother... Into their lives... come the mysterious creatures of the river... that joins the worlds of the living and the dead... '' Sequel to Things Invisible to See. |
| Elizabeth Willey | A Sorcerer And A Gentleman | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges slightly dusty else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Once there was only the land of Phesaotois, with a cold and baneful Stone at its magical heart. Much later came the land of Pheyarcer, younger and hotter, with its Well of Fire inextricably bound up with its ruler, the great Panurgus. Then Panurgus died, touching off a bitter struggle between his sons... '' |
| Billy Dee Williams | PSI/Net | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Former Air Force Major Trent Calloway... marriage ruined in the aftermath of his psychic spying... was drugged during his remote-viewing sessions years ago... ever-increasing side effects in him and the other government psychic spies... their psychic abilities are still expanding at frightening rates... '' |
| Mazarkis Williams | The Tower Broken Tower and Knife, Book Three | Jo Fletcher 2013 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and of spine and three page tips creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Months have passed... the God's wounds fester... Sarmin is powerless to stop the damage spreading... High Mage Gownan strives to save Nooria... by passing into the realm of fire to broker a deal with the efreet... Yrkmir marches ever closer... Time is running out... '' |
| Mazarkis Williams | The Tower Broken Tower and Knife, Book Three | Jo Fletcher 2013 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and once on top edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 7.50 | ''Months have passed... the God's wounds fester... Sarmin is powerless to stop the damage spreading... High Mage Gownan strives to save Nooria... by passing into the realm of fire to broker a deal with the efreet... Yrkmir marches ever closer... Time is running out... '' |
| Michael Williams | Allamanda | Hodder 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, a few page corner tips creased and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Pursued by a power more terrifying than any magic they can summon, the Hawken family flees to somber Allamanda to find a way to recapture their besieged home ... Leading the refugees is Garrick... too young for the awesome responsibility... '' Sequel to Arcady. |
| Nigel Williams | Black Magic | Hutchinson 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket Illustrations by Julek Heller | 7.50 | '''Once upon a time... ' a father starts to tell his children a story. It concerns a black magician whom nobody likes, and his plot to do something vile to his popular brother... not only does the story itself, almost against its teller's will, take on a resonance he never expected, but his whole life and marriage come under its sway... '' A Hutchinson Novella |
| Sean Williams | The Blood Debt Books of the Cataclysm Two | Pyr 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket lightly rubbed at the tips of the folds | 7.50 | ''One millennium after the death of Seth Castillo... Sal Hrvati and Shilly... are conscripted into a hunt for... a Homunculus with a mission... and a past that stretches back to the Cataclysm... Meanwhile, in a remote city on the edge of two worlds, where blood has power and water is more precious than freedom... '' Sequel to The Crooked Letter |
| Tad Williams | Caliban's Hour | Legend 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly creased Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Request | 3.00 | ''Caliban is a monster... But what drove him to evil?... One night, twenty years after Prospero and his daughter Miranda sailed away from their island, a dark visitor arrives in Miranda's room - Caliban. Threatening to kill her in revenge for her father's ill-treatment, he tells her the magical and terrible things which led him to his villainy... '' |
| Tad Williams | Otherland Volume One City of Golden Shadow | Legend 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Promotion Sheets | 4.00 | ''... takes us to our own near future when a global conspiracy at the highest levels threatens to sacrifice our Earth for the promise of a far more exclusive place - Otherland, a universe where any fantasy can be made real, but which is ruled by Earth's wealthiest and most ruthless power-brokers, The Grail Brotherhood... '' |
| Tad Williams | The War Of The Flowers | Orbit 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''In the great city, in a dimly lit office... two deadly creatures meet. A dark bargain is struck... The child must die... In our own world, a young man, Theo, discovers a manuscript... a strange fairy tale of fantastic creatures and a journey to a magical realm... written as a diary... '' |
| Henry Williamson | Salar The Salmon | Tauchnitz 1936 European Copyright Edition (Paper) (Volume 5243) | Bruised and slightly eroded at top and base of spine, card covers and page edges browned and slightly marked, with a 25mm tear at the base of spine/front panel and some insect damage on the last (advertising) page - Good book | 5.00 | ''At full moon the tides swirling over the Island Race carry the feelings of many rivers to the schools of fish which have come in from their feeding-ledges of the deep Atlantic. The returning salmon are excited and confused. Under broken waters the moon's glimmer is opalescent; the fish swim up from the ocean's bed and leap to meet the sparkling silver... '' |
| Philip G. Williamson | Dinbig Of Khimmur | Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... the first novel in one of the most exciting and ambitious fantasy saga-series of the decade... a world of the imagination presented in rich and convincing detail, populated by characters who display fascinating magical powers but who always remain entirely credible in their actions and relationships... '' |
| Philip G. Williamson | Enchantment's Edge | Hodder & Stoughton 1996-8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges slightly browned else Fine copies in Fine Dust Jacket - Vol. 3 priced. | 20.00 | ''... an outstanding work of high fantasy... a tense, intricately woven saga of conflict, mystery, magic and betrayal set in an exotic land where the fabulous and the unexpected are the norm and anything is possible... '' |
| Bill Willingham | Peter & Max A Fables Novel | Vertigo 2009 First Edition First Printing ? (Note: No edition information on Copyright Page) | Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Illustrated by Steve Lialoha | 7.50 | ''... in the heart of The Black Forest, Peter Piper and his older brother Max encounter ominous forces that will change them both... an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day... '' With The Price of a Happy Ending - an 8 page bonus story |
| Robert Charles Wilson | Tesseracts #Ten A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction | Edge 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and lightly creased | 4.00 | Robert Charles Wilson; Scott Mackay; Sandra Kasturi; Stephanie Bedwell-Grime; Wendt Warring; Allen Moore; Sarah Totton; Greg Bechtel; Jason Christie; Michele Laframboise; Matthew Johnson; Matthew Hughes; Victoria Fisher; Nancy Bennett; Scott Mackay; Lisa Smedman; Susan Forest; Yvonne Pronovost; Rene Beaulieu; Mark Duchuk & Rhea Rose |
| Stanley Winchester (John Christopher) | Men With Knives | W. H. Allen 1968 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and top few mm faded at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket slightly marked on the inside (no show-through) with the top tip of the rear flap partly mi | 7.50 | Medical thriller written by Sam Youd, better known as John Christopher and only recently revealed to have written four books under the name of Stanley Winchester. This is the second. ''... a group of surgeons in a Dublin clinic, held in check by a newly appointed Surgical Director, a man whose temperament and views soon clash with their own conservatism... '' |
| John Wingate | Avalanche | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a little rubbing at the upper tip of the front fold | 7.50 | ''... This telex from London starts a haitr-raising chase from the Middle East to a remote Austrian village for two emplotyees of British Bank in the Lebanon. Their mission is to deliver the vital international codes to the bank's London representative... '' |
| John Wingate | Below The Horizon | Arthur Barker 1974 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and small bruise to lower board edges and page edges slightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short crease in the front flap | 7.50 | ''This compelling novel foreshadows the desperate conflict that could break out as the world food shortage grows more acute... the reality of fishing off Iceland... the human story of the trawlerman who put to sea, day in, day out, throughout the year... '' |
| John Wingate | Go Deep | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... the story of one submarine fo the Tenth Flotilla... set against the background of the Siege of Malta, 1940-44... '' |
| John Wingate | Red Mutiny A Diary | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1978 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with a small piece missing from the top edge of the rear panel. | 5.00 | ''... In 1975... a crack Soviet destroyer, the Storozhevoy... mutinied... '' |
| John Wingate | The Sea Above Them | Arthur Barker 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and bruised and slightly stained at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a split at the top edge of the rear corner and the lower corner of the front flap removed | 10.00 | ''The Hunter-Killer nuclear submarine HMS Mars, on surveillance patrol in Russian territorial waters... bottoms after losing control. A fatal chaion of errors... results in collision as she surfaces; she is split in half... '' |
| John Wingate | The Windship Race | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... what happens when a band of far-seeing... men decide to forestall, and to profit by, the next imminent oil crisis... '' |
| John Wingate | William the Conqueror An Historical Novel | Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1983 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... tyrannical, just; odiously cruel, magnanimous; harsh, forgiving; immensely energetic, prudent; greedy, generous; suspicious, trusting... The Bastard... '' |
| John Wingate, D.S.C. | Jimmy-The-One A Submariner Sinclair Story | Newnes 1960 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, previous owner's details on title page and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in worn and torn (essentially complete) Dust Jacket, stained on the inside and with the price removed | 5.00 | ''... the second book about... Peter Sinclair, R. N. now promoted to First Lieutenant... on an amazing escapade behind the German and Italian lines... '' |
| John Wingate, D.S.C. | Nuclear Captain The Fourth Story of Submariner Sinclair | MacDonald 1962 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, board lightly marked and pages slightly marked Very Good book in slightly worn Dust Jacket, with a crease in the rear flap | 15.00 | ''... given the command of H. M. Nuclear Submarne Rugged... '' |
| David Wingrove | Chung Kuo Book One The Middle Kingdom | New English Library 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and a couple of signatures differentially browned (as usual) else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed. | 5.00 | ''... now at the turn of the twenty-second century,... the Empire of the Han has encompasses all of the world. War, famine and political instability are things of the past. The Council of Seven - Han lords each more powerful than the greatest of the ancient Emperors - rule... with absolute authority, their boast that they have ended Change and stopped the Great Wheel turning... '' |
| David Wingrove | Son of Heaven Chung Kuo Book 1 | Corvus 2011 First Edition Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 10.00 | The first of a 20 book completely revised sequence, set in 2065, and the reawakened economic power-house of China |
| Douglas E. Winter | Prime Evil | Bantam Press 1988 First UK Trade Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | Original stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Whitley Streiber, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Cady, Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant, M. John Harrison, Paul Hazel, Thomas Ligotti, David Morel and Thomas Tessier |
| David Wishart | The Horse Coin | Hodder 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a tiny tear and a little creasing at the base of the front panel | 15.00 | ''The scars of Roman conquest are still livid... Marcus Julius Severinus, a young cavalryman in the Roman army, respects the Britons... Governor Paullinus... attempts to cheat Boudica... wave of rebellious fury... pay a terrible price... '' |
| Paul Witcover | Everland and Other Stories | PS 2009 First Edition First Printing | Cover edges rubbed/worn and spine cross-creased twice and page edges slightly marked - Good Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Fusing elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and fairy tales... Everland collects twelve of his best stories... including the Nebula Award finalist 'Left of the Dial'... five appearing here for the first time... |
| Paul Witcover | The Emperor of All Things | Bantam 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and small bump at top edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''1758. The Age of Enlightenment... England is embroiled in a war that stretches from her North American colonies to Europe and beyond... Daniel Quare... tasked with seeking... a pocket watch rumoured to possess properties that have more to do with magic than with any known science... a French spy who will stop at nothing... '' |
| Gary K Wolfe | Bearings Reviews 1997-2001 | Beccon 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Cover Illustration by Judith Clute | 16.00 | Introduction by Peter Straub. Second in the series of collected Locus reviews, covering most of his review columns from the beginning of 1997 up to the end of 2001 - nearly 200 books. |
| Gary K Wolfe | Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006 | Beccon 2011 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Cover Illustration by Judith Clute | 17.00 | Third in the series of collected Locus reviews, covering over 200 books. Including Barth Anderson; Margaret Atwood; Stephen Baxter; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Terry Bisson; Ray Bradbury; David Brin; Damien Broderick; Fredric Brown; Tobias S. Buckell; Mark Budz; Octavia E. Butler; Jack Cady; John W. Campbell Jr; Orson Scott Card; Jonathan Carroll and many others |
| Gary K Wolfe | Sounding: Reviews 1992-1996 | Beccon 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book. | 20.00 | His first collection of reviews - these originally appeared in Locus. |
| N. Lee Wood | Faraday's Orphans | Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and small bump to lower edge of front board and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Succeeding where all man's efforts have failed, the Earth has created its own, massive eco-holocaust through a geo-magnetic reversal of the poles. The face of the planet has been changed irrevocably; civilisation, where it survives at all, does so in high-tech domed cities, islands of plenty in the wilderness...'' |
| Patrick Wood | Viaduct Child | Scholastic 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 6.00 | ''The orphaned Dushma lives in the arch of a railway viaduct with her unsympathetic Aunt Megan. Officially a non-person... she spends her time exploring the tangle of streets beneath the viaduct and the outlandish, labyrinthine St Gotha's Cathedral... When police raid her home, Dushma... finds refuge in the forgotten passageways of the city's underground railway... '' |
| Patrick Wood | Viaduct Child | Scholastic 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a short scratch on the front panel | 5.00 | ''The orphaned Dushma lives in the arch of a railway viaduct with her unsympathetic Aunt Megan. Officially a non-person... she spends her time exploring the tangle of streets beneath the viaduct and the outlandish, labyrinthine St Gotha's Cathedral... When police raid her home, Dushma... finds refuge in the forgotten passageways of the city's underground railway... '' |
| Clive Woodall | One For Sorrow Two For Joy | Ziji/Duckworths 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Light crease to rear cover, page edges lightly differentially browned and slightly marked else Fine paperback Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''Welcome to Birddom - a land where magpies rule. Dark forces are at work. An evil intelligence is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dominance has been achieved by systematic genocide and slaughter... Birddom needs a hero. a bird to fight the darkness, and bring light back to the land. But what can one bird do, in the face of such evil?'' |
| Chris Wooding | Poison | Scholastic 2003 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly bumped and rubbed and small felt pen cross on cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Poison has always been a wilful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when she discovers that her younger sister is has been snatched by the phaeries, she decides to seek out the Phaerie Lord herself to get her back... '' |
| Chris Wooding | The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray | Scholastic 2001 First Edition First Printing | Lower front edge and corner bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author & With Publisher's advertising sheet | 100.00 | ''Inspired by Gormenghast and H. P. Lovecraft... a Gothic adventure set in Victorian London, all gas-lit and creepy, where wych-hunters roam the streets at night, seeking out the dreadful creatures who terrorise the capital's citizens. Thaniel Fox is only an apprentice... with an uncanny nose for anything from the dark side... '' Silver Smarties Winner |
| Chris Wooding | The Skein Of Lament | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly, differentially, browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | Book Two of the Braided Path ''The hold of the Weavers on Saramyr's ruling families is growing tighter. And all the while the blight that they have brought to the land grips ever more harshly... '' |
| Chris Wooding | The Weavers Of Saramyr | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Cover lettering lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author & With Publisher's advertising sheets and Bio/Bibliography | 7.50 | Book one of The Braided Path - ''... the story of an empire that rules over a land being overwhelmed by evil... that comes from within the empire's centre, a sect of magicians close to the throne intent on killing and child born with magic powers. But now the empress has given birth to such a child and revolution is brewing... '' |
| Persia Woolley | Queen of the Summer Stars | Poseidon Press 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with two small tears With Publisher's Review slip | 7.50 | ''... a wonderfully personal view of King Arthur's Round Table, as seen through the eyes of his tomboy wife... Deftly blending historical fact and Arthurian romance... vividly captures the scope and drama of the legend... '' |
| Patricia C. Wrede | The Mislaid Magician or Ten Tears After being the Private Correspondence between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm | Harcourt 200 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one page corner creased and a few page corners no longer quite parallel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, lightly rubbed and creased | 7.50 | ''Ten years after the adventures they shared in Sorcery and Cecilia and The Grand Tour, cousins Kate and Cecy are at it again. To untangle a plot that threatens the very unity of the kingdom, they must learn the secret shared by a night prowler, a mute girl, and a missing magician... '' |
| Eric Wright | A Fine Italian Hand | Doubleday 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Actor Alec Hunter has been found knifed and strangled at... the kind of place where drug deals and hour-long rentals are common... What was Alec doing in such a sleazy place? And who was the Italian-looking gentleman who registered for the room?... '' |
| Ronald Wright | A Scientific Romance | Anchor 1997 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at base and lightly rubbed at top of spine and page edges browned - Very Good to Near Fine book | 7.50 | ''It is... 1999... David Lambert, jilted lover, lapsed archaeologist and reluctant curator of a museum specialising in Victorian machinery, receives startling information about the return of H. G. Wells's time machine... he investigates and propels himself deep into the next millennium... '' |
| Sean Wright | Dark Tales of Time and Space | Crowswing 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page and with a cartoon | 5.00 | ''Nineteen year old Joey Steffano is dead... murdered with a single silver dollar... He is on a slow train to the mysterious Journey's End, accompanied by the newly dead... '' |
| Sean Wright | Jesse Jameson and the Curse of Caldazar | Crowswing 2004 First Edition First Printing Limited State (No 501/2500) | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... is the third... Jesse, enters the Spiral Gate to the unknown fairy kingdoms to search for a cure to awaken her grandmother, but there are dark, bloodsucking forces desperate to stop her... '' |
| Sean Wright | Jesse Jameson and the Golden Glow | Crowswing 2003 First Edition Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, front free end paper damp-rippled else Fine book in like, slightly crumpled, Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''Although Jesse Jameson is not a wizard or a witch, she has two rather unusual gifts for a child who is almost eleven. Firstly she can see into the future... Secondly... she finds out that she is a changeling... '' |
| Sean Wright | The Twisted Root of Jaarfinder | Crowswing 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | For the two. ''Lia-Va is an eighteen year old addict - a black sword-wielding princess who has claimed her throne... by killing her father in bloody battle... '' |
| Janny Wurts | Peril's Gate The Wars of Light And Shadow Volume 6 Third Book of the Alliance of Light | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page corners slightly bumped, a couple of small, faint marks on the edge of the front free end paper and page edges age-darkened else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''On the world of Athera, two half brothers gifted of Light and Shadow defeated the Mistwraith. Its revenge left them cursed to life-long enmity... Lysaer and his Alliance of Light have raised new forces and touched on the lore of blood magecraft to bring down Arithon, Master of Shadow... '' |
| Janny Wurts | Shadowfane | Grafton 1990 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges lightly marked and small faint stain across ca. 20 page fore-edges else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Ivainson Jaric, heir to Firelord's legacy, must assume the powers that destroyed his father. If he survives, if he can free the Stormwarden from a prison of ice, then wind and water, fire and earth, will once more stand united against Lord Scait and his demon hordes... '' Book 3 of the Cycle of Fire. First Printings are quite scarce. |
| Janny Wurts | To Ride Hell's Chasm | Voyager 2002 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''When Princess Anja fails to appear at her betrothal banquet, the tiny, peaceful kingdom of Sessalie is plunged into intrigue... Two warriors are charged with recovering the distraught king's beloved daughter. Taskin, Commander of the Royal Guard... and Mykkael, the rough-hewn newcomer who has won the post of Captain of the Garrison - a scarred veteran... '' |
| Jonathan Wylie (Julia & Mark J. A. Smith.) | Other Lands | Little, Brown 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Even after a terrible road accident leaves Michael in a deep coma, he still somehow manages to call to her... But if Zoe is to understand his messages and break into his world, then she must risk everything. And she has to embark on a strange and dangerous journey - into another land and another life... '' |
| Philip Wylie | Babes and Sucklings | Knopf 1929 First Edition First Printing | Quite badly worn and slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners slightly bumped and worn, slight spine lean and page edges age-darkened - ?Good book with trimmed rear Dust Jacket panel glued to front fixed end paper | 7.50 | ''... a story of two young lovers who were old in our American sophistication before they exchanged their first unwondering kiss, of two other lovers equally wise, and of their separate life in the metropolis... skyscrapers for trees, subways for chattering brooks, Freud instead of Keats... But... not a sordid novel... '' |
| Philip Wylie | Footprint of Cinderella | A. L. Burt 1931? | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners slightly rubbed, page edges, boards and spine age-darkened - Good to Very Good Book | 10.00 | ''... a woman torn between decency and evil. Chloe Laforge-Leigh, as everyone in Rittenhouse Square knew, was a pillar of society. And yet, was there another Chloe? A dark and evil presence that sought a strange vengeance on a dead beauty and an innocent young girl? The answer lay somewhere behind the stately curtained windows of Number 9, Rittenhouse Square.'' |
| Philip Wylie | Generation of Vipers | Rinehart 1946 First Edition Thus First Printing (Prefatory material excised and 15 page chapter 'Postscript, 1945' added) | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and worn at base of spine, end papers a little marked and page edges age-darkened - Very Good book | 10.00 | A Survey of Moral Want; A Philosophical Discourse suitable only for the Strong; A Study of American Types and Archetypes and a Signpost on the two Thoroughfares of Man: the Via Dolorosa and the Descensus Averno; together with sundry Preachments, Epithets... Moodal Adventures... Political Impertinences... Allegories... Aspirations... Visions and Jokes as well as certain Homely Hints for the care of the Human Soul |
| Philip Wylie | The Answer | Rinehart 1955 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at base of spine, previous owner's name and date on front free end paper and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and slightly worn, creased and torn Dust Jacket, with a small piece missing fro | 7.50 | ''... a simple fable for our age, but its meaning, its message... is of vast implication... the answer is... certainly not new... '' |
| Philip Wylie | They Both Were Naked | Doubleday 1965 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, corners bruised and rubbed and page edges lightly browned/age-darkened else Fine book in slightly worn and creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket, frayed and slightly eroded at top and base of the spine pan | 7.50 | ''... the biography of a tycoon and his empire... benevolent façade covered a multitude of unscrupulous motivations and forbidden carnal lusts... affluence has a way of making things attainable which would otherwise be impossible... provocative, and shocking expose of the drives, dissipations and erotic foibles of a large segment of the modern affluent society... '' |
| John Wyndham (Also as John Beynon & Johnson Harris) | The Day Of The Triffids | Michael Joseph 1951 First Edition in the UK & Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, covers very slightly faded and page edges browned and slightly marked - Very Good Book - lacking Dust Jacket | 120.00 | ''When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere... '' |
| Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge | Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower rear corner slightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 2.00 | ''When the Ring aliens first thought to contact other worlds, they gave no consideration to the fact that other species might be constructed differently from themselves. Deep-space dwellers, more like large and complex bundles of genetic information than physical entities, they sent their probes off into the night hoping to build a bridge between their dark and beautiful society and others... '' |
| Jim Young | Armed Memory | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top & base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... America is caught on a cusp between social breakthrough and total breakdown. Sanity cops try to stem the chaos as a revolution in genetic engineering offers anyone the chance to change shape at will... The Hammerheads are the most dangerous creatures who have ever lived, with the brilliant cunning of human criminals... and insatiable hunger of killer sharks... '' |
| Jim Young | Armed Memory | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... America is caught on a cusp between social breakthrough and total breakdown. Sanity cops try to stem the chaos as a revolution in genetic engineering offers anyone the chance to change shape at will... The Hammerheads are the most dangerous creatures who have ever lived, with the brilliant cunning of human criminals... and insatiable hunger of killer sharks... '' |
| Jim Young | Armed Memory | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | A couple of light cover creases else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''... America is caught on a cusp between social breakthrough and total breakdown. Sanity cops try to stem the chaos as a revolution in genetic engineering offers anyone the chance to change shape at will... The Hammerheads are the most dangerous creatures who have ever lived, with the brilliant cunning of human criminals... and insatiable hunger of killer sharks... '' |
| Helen Zahavi | Dirty Weekend | Macmillan 1991 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, a little eroded at the top flap edges | 10.00 | ''... Bello... woke up one morning and realised she'd had enough... men with thin skulls shouldn't try to involve randomly selected women in their fantasies. Even brittle little Bella can lift a hammer.'' /her first novel |
| Sarah Zettel | A Sorcerer's Treason Book One of the Isavalta Trilogy | Voyager 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Top front and lower rear corners a little rubbed/curled and page edges a little marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Bridget Lederle, a lighthouse-keeper... at the end of the nineteenth century... ostracised by the local community... rescues a tattooed foreigner... this stranger tells... that he is from another world... in which she is a great magical force... Only she can save the Dowager Empress... '' |
| Sarah Zettel | Sword Of The Deceiver A Novel Of Isavalta | Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''For five hundred years... Hastinapura has flourished, ruling the world of Isavalta... Princess Natharie of Sindhu... the empire demands... she is the only one who can satisfy the emperor's wishes... plots threaten to pit Natharie's homeland against Hastinapura in a disastrous war... '' |
| Marc Scott Zicree | Magic Time Ghostlands | Eos 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The epic climax of the Magic Time saga... quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway... the Source of the Change that overthrew the world... in the depths of the Ghostlands... '' |
| Stephan Zielinski | Bad Magic | Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small paper tear near top of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Magic is real. Strange forces and uncanny creatures abound. Cosmic evil is loose in the world... along with transcendental evil, primordial evil, simmering evil... In San Francisco a motley group... have banded together to fight evil. They're an uncanny mix of alchemists, thaumaturges, necromancers... working their wildly different magics... '' |
| Paul Zindel | The Doom Stone | Bodley Head 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.50 | ''A deadly predator is roaming Salisbury Plain and Jackson Cawley, a fifteen year old American, is abruptly plunged into the hunt to kill it before it kills again... With the help o a local girl, Alma, Jackson endeavours to discover the lair of the beast. But to do so, they must first unravel the secret of its power and the connection it has to the vast and mysterious Stonehenge. ... '' |
| David Zindell | The Ea Cycle | Voyager 2001-5 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket Book One Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 35.00 | ''On the island continent of Ea it is late in the Age of the Dragons. It is a dark time of chaos. war, and the dashed dreams of long-lost ages. Once again Morjin, the fallen angel, is seeking the Lightstone. With it he will eventually find a way to free Angra Mainyu, the Lord of Lies, the dark archangel imprisoned for a million years... '' |
| David Zindell | The Idiot Gods | Harper Voyager 2017 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''When Arjuna of the Blue Aria Family encounters three signs of cataclysm, he leaves his home in the Arctic Ocean to seek out the Idiot Gods and ask us why we are destroying the world. But the whales' ancient Song of Life is beyond our understanding, and we know nothing of the Great Covenant... '' |
| David Zindell | The Lightstone Book One of the Ea Cycle | Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''On the island continent of Ea it is late in the Age of the Dragons. It is a dark time of chaos. war, and the dashed dreams of long-lost ages. Once again Morjin, the fallen angel, is seeking the Lightstone. With it he will eventually find a way to free Angra Mainyu, the Lord of Lies, the dark archangel imprisoned for a million years... '' |
| Donald Zochert | Murder in the Hellfire Club | Holt Rinehart 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''When Ben Franklin arrives in London in 1757, he is intent upon little more thn renewing old friendships... Instead he is drawn into the bizarre doings of London's notorious Hellfire Club... when the porter at the Vulture Tavern is found dead in a room bolted from within, his body unmarked by any sign of violence. Franklin alone calls it murder... '' |
| M. H. Zool (Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group) | Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy | Bloomsbury1989 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Cover edges lightly rubbed, lower front corner creased and page edges lightly browned (as usual) else Fine book | 4.00 | Clute ''... a compact and knowledgeable biographical and bibliographical dictionary... '' with authorial summaries and highlights, and a very useful 'if you liked that you will probably like this' recommendation section. Scarce and very good. |
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