| Mabel Esther Allan | The Flash Children | Hodder 1983 Second Impression - Issued Without Dust Jacket? | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the front free end paper. | 4.00 | ''The Briggs children were utterly dismayed when they saw their new house. It was modern and ugly, quite different from their beautiful house in Shropshire... Nit by bit they learneed about their new surroundings, and found thety could help Brian, handicapped by poor sight... '' Illustrated by Gavin Rowe |
| David Almond | Clay | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges/corners lightly rubbed/bumped else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''With fascination, Dave and his best friend Geordie watch the arrival of a new boy, Stephen Rose, in their town ... he seems to have come from nowhere... to live with his distant aunt... 'Crazy Mary'... perhaps he's the answer to Dave and Geordie's prayers - a secret weapon in their war against the monstrous Mouldy and his gang.'' |
| David Almond | Clay | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''There's a stranger in town - Stephen Rose. He's got waxy skin, haunting eyes, a sickly smell. No parents. No friends. He's come to live with Crazy Mary. There are so many tales and rumours about him. One thing's certain: there's magic in the weird creatures he makes with clay... '' |
| David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Hodder 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''It's easy. Running away from Whitegates. Erin and her running-away friend January do it all the time. But this time they're going down river. This time they might never come back. This time they're looking for a tiny corner of paradise. How could they imagine that what they'd find there would be Heaven Eyes... This girl who should have drowned at sea... '' |
| David Almond | Kit's Wilderness | Hodder 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 15.00 | ''In Stonygate there was a wilderness, an empty space between the houses and the river where the ancient coal pit had once been. In the wilderness Kit met Askew, with his wild dog, Jax. Askew - who ran the game called Death. the wilderness where Kit begins to confront death - and life... '' |
| David Almond | Secret Heart | Hodder 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 4.00 | ''Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can't be that. His school wants him to stop truanting, and he can't do that. His one friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and he can't learn that. Joe's mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees around him, on the songs and whispers he hears on the air... '' |
| David Almond | The Fire-Eaters | Hodder 2003 First Edition First Printing | Edges/corners lightly rubbed/bumped, a light spine crease and page edges lightly marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He sipped from a bottle, breathed across a torch, and fire and flames leapt from his lips. The air was filled with the scent of paraffin. he breathed again, a great high spreading flag of fire. He glared. He roared like an animal |
| David Alric | The Promised One | Faber 2006 (Paper) | Edges/corners lightly rubbed, else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Illustrated by David Dean | 5.00 | ''Lucy thinks she's just an ordinary schoolgirl - she's wrong. For Lucy is about to discover that she has an amazing power. A power upon which the very future of the planet may depend... '' |
| M. T. Anderson (Also as Matthew T. Anderson) | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources Volume 1 The Pox Party | Candlewick Press 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their household assigned names... '' |
| Allen Andrews | The Pig Plantagenet | Hutchinson 1980 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by Michael Foreman | 7.50 | ''When the feudal lords of Poitou decide... to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet... who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin... and plays a key role in the wild animals' escape plan... leading up to the great pitched battle...'' |
| Anonymous | 2000 A. D. Annual 1986 Light Years Ahead | IPC Magazines 1985 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine, touch of wear to the extremities - Near Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 4.00 | Ace Trucking Co; Shako Book I; Judge Dredd; Rogue Trooper Quiz; Design a Dredd Costume; Diary of a Mad Citizen; Shako Book II; Countdown to the Apocalypse War; The Apocalypse War; The Milton Keynes Muties!; Strontium Dog; Shako Book III; Judge Death Versus The Mekong! and Rogue Trooper |
| Anonymous | Lion Annual 1966 | Fleetway Publications 1965 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Spine edges a little rubbed, lower rear corner of spine a little worn, slight spine lean, price overstickered with 9/6 and page edges lightly browned - Very Good Book | 10.00 | Karl the Viking; Menace of the Flying Mini; The Little King; Robot Archie - The Metal Monster; Two Rapiers for Revenge; Rommel Raiders; Paddy Payne and the Ghost Squadron; Pic Quiz; Guess What?; Vic Gunn and the Plot to Kill; Now You Know; One of the Fearless; Longsword; Churchill - The Warrior; Rory McDuff and lots more... |
| Louise Arnold | The Invisible Friend | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''Grey Arthur is a ghost. Not a chain-rattling, dramatic-wailing type of ghost. He's a hazy, grey and not very ghost-like at all... Tom is a very normal boy... But somehow people at school don't seen to think that... People call him weird... Grey Arthur... decides he's going to be Tom's official Invisible Friend and help him solve his problems.'' |
| David Arscott | A Flight of Bright Birds | Allen & Unwin 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''When Jack reached the age of fifteen his guardians... gave him an envelope... an address and a fragment of ceramic... Go he did... but... he ran off to join Tusker's Travelling Theatre... Walter... stole away in the night, moved by a sense of destiny... Two lives cross and become intertwined... the world of the Red Blade... '' Sequel to The Frozen City. |
| Avi | The Christmas Rat | Atheneum 2000 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''''He is one weird Christmas visitor - his hair and moustache an unearthly white-blond, his voice a gruff rumble. he fills the apartment doorway. From two metal cases he produces what a boy would expect from an exterminator: Toxic roach powders and poisonous frog bombs. But a crossbow?... '' |
| Tom Baker | The Boy Who Kicked Pigs | Faber 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges a little browned and covers slightly rubbed else Fine book in laminated boards Illustrated by David Roberts | 5.00 | ''Robert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realises just how much he loathes the human race - and his revenge is truly terrible... '' By the ex. Dr. Who actor |
| Blue Balliett | Chasing Vermeer | Chicken House 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Plain matt black covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Illustrated by Brett Helquist | 5.00 | ''I love mysteries - and especially when it's the adults who are bemused, befuddled... and finally outwitted! Blue Balliett sets you a cracker - with wonderful villains and an intriguing puzzle solving solution. Are you smart enough?... '' |
| Jared Bane | Mage Hunter Castle of Doom | Egmont 2012 First Edition First Printing | Upper front and lower rear corners lightly curled, else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''In a land where magic is outlawed, one boy has the power to save the world. A hundred years have passed since the five Dark Mages tore apart the Kingdom of Tyrellion... Now the evil wizards have returned... The fate of the kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young street thief... '' |
| Lynne Reid Banks | The Key to the Indian | Collins 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Omri's dad has found Omri's greatest secret... the magic cupboard that turns plastic toy figures into real live little people from the past; and the key made by his 'wicked' great-great aunt, that can transform certain containers into time-machines and take present-day people back into the past... Omri and his father... go back two hundred years to the time of Little Bull... '' |
| John Barrowman | Conjuror | Head of Zeus 2016 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... three things... seventeen-year-old Remy would guard with his life: his gold pendant, his blues harmonica and his mother's journal. This is all he has left of his murdered family... these... will lead him to their killers. But... He needs Matt and Em... twins who can bring art to life and travel through paintings... like them Remy has supernatural powers. He is a Conjuror... '' |
| Stephen Baxter | The H-Bomb Girl | Faber & Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corner tips and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post war city; a music that electrifies, a music that promises to change everything... But in Cuba... nuclear tensions are at breaking point... fourteen-year-old Laura Mann. She's on the run, hunted by strange forces fighting over the future... the H-Bomb Girl... '' |
| Stephen Baxter | The Web | Dolphin 1997-8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Six Volumes) | Spine ends slightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine copies Gulliverzone, Spiderbite & Lightstorm signed by Stephen Baxter, Graham Joyce & Peter Hamilton respectively, on the title pages | 15.00 | The first six in The Web series: Gulliverzone by Stephen Baxter; Dreamcastle by Stephen Bowkett; Untouchable by Eric Brown; Spiderbite by Graham Joyce; Lightstorm by Peter F. Hamilton and Sorceress by Maggie Furey. Adventures in the year 2027 in and around The Web! |
| Stephen Baxter | The Web Gulliverzone | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author and the cover artist (Fangorn) on the title page | 10.00 | ''February 7th 2027, World Peace Day. All over the world the celebrations are in full swing. there's even free access to the Web today... A chance for Sarah to leave behind the realities of life with her father and enter the fantastic world of the GULLIVERZONE. February 7th 2027, a day of danger beyond imagination.'' |
| BB | The Wizard of Boland | Kaye & Ward 1977 Third Impression | Bruised at top and base of spine and boards slightly bowed else Fine book in slightly creased and browned Dust Jacket Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford | 35.00 | ''... the Forest of Boland and the creatures who live there - scheming gnomes, black cats, dragons, cowzies, and, most exciting of all, the Wizard. In the valley nearby... a little goosegirl called Helda... upsets the Wizard and he, irritated, decides to cast a spell... '' |
| Nina Beachcroft | A Spell Of Sleep | Heinemann 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly worn, price-clipped, Dust Jacket, overprinted £2.90 net. | 5.00 | ''There is something distinctly odd about the Baxters, the middle-aged couple who move into the other half of the semi-detached house where the Turner family live... Peter... has seen them before... is haunted by dreams of some half-remembered time... the dreams begin to fit together and in some strange way take over from reality... '' |
| Robin Bennett (Also as R. S. Harding) | Mousch the Crooked Small Vampires Volume II | Monster Books 2013 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners lightly rubbed else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued With Publisher's Press Release | 4.00 | ''Corbeau craves a revolution... he begins... with the ruthless murder of all Vampire children... Mousch survives... he swears revenge... Mousch and his friends embark on a ragged quest... to England, China and their roots on Earth... The Devil (the Thin Man) and the Tree of Life are all woven into a compelling allegory... '' |
| Luc Besson | Arthur and the Minimoys | Faber 2005 First Edition First Printing | Corners and edges slightly rubbed, light crease to rear cover, one corner creased and lower page edges marked - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Translated by Ellen Sowchek | 5.00 | ''... Minimoys... are less than an inch tall... Arthur has three days to discover the Minimoys, recover stolen treasure, fight a force of mosquito-riding warriors, defeat an evil wizard and return to save the family home All the more difficult if you've been shrunk to the size of a Minimoy... '' Published 2 months before the US Hardback edition |
| Holly Black | The Good Neighbors | Graphix 2008-10 First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines else Fine Graphic Novels in laminated boards (as issued) and like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Ted Naifeh | 35.00 | ''The human realm and the faerie realm have always been good neighbors. But all that is about to change... '' |
| Malorie Blackman (Oneta Malorie Blackman) | Cloud Busting | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, and page edges a little marked and bumped - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''... Davey is the new boy - he has holes in his jumper and strange ideas in his head. Sam can't stand him; he thinks Davey's a first-class, grade A, top-of-the-dung-heap moron. But when the two boys are thrown together, Sam finds that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more exciting, until... '' Told in verse |
| Malorie Blackman | Noble Conflict | Doubleday 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with 'Signed by Author' and 'Includes extra chapter exclusive to Waterstones' stickers on front panel Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels is plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians... to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy... Kaspar joins the Guardians... '' |
| Thomas Bloor | Beast Beneath The Skin | Faber 2006 First Edition First Printing | Edges lightly rubbed/bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Illustrated by the Author | 5.00 | ''Sam wants to be an ordinary fourteen-year-old boy. But he's... the victim of a terrible curse... he's being watched, stalked by... a murderous cult who need Sam to fulfil and earth-shattering prophecy... Sam is drawn into a twisted world of barbaric rituals... where the only chance of survival lies in using the powers he hates.'' |
| Anne-Laure Bondoux | The Princess and the Captain | Bloomsbury 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Translated from the French by Anthea Bell | 4.00 | ''Malva is the Princess of Galnicia... On the eve of her wedding, she escapes from the place and sets sail for Lombardaine... a huge storm leaves her shipwrecked... Orpheus McBott is disappointed by life... Galnicia needs him to sail on a mission to find the Princess... an epic tale full of drama, magic and excitement... '' |
| Herbie Brennan | Faerie Wars | Bloomsbury 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small surface tear to front gutter else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with matching tear through jacket. | 5.00 | ''When a rebel prince comes into conflict with some demons and a group of unscrupulous faeries of the night, things get very exciting. On top of this, court intrigue and a cunning plot to kill an Emperor send the faerie realm to the brink of chaos... '' |
| Herbie Brennan | The Purple Emperor | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, faint cover crease, faint mark to page edges - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''Even a Faerie Prince must follow in his father's footsteps. But what happens if your father comes back from the grave?... the Purple Emperor has become an ally of the Faeries of the Night... Madness is unleashed and the old order is seriously under threat... Henry arrives from the human realm to help... '' Sequel to Faerie Wars. |
| Herbie Brennan | The Purple Emperor | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with top edge slightly rubbed and two tiny scrapes on rear fold | 5.00 | ''Even a Faerie Prince must follow in his father's footsteps. But what happens if your father comes back from the grave?... the Purple Emperor has become an ally of the Faeries of the Night... Madness is unleashed and the old order is seriously under threat... Henry arrives from the human realm to help... '' Sequel to Faerie Wars. |
| Theresa Breslin | The Nostradamus Prophecy | Doubleday 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the base of the spine, and a short slit at the edge of the front fold. Signed by the Author on the Title Page and with appropriate Edinburg | 7.50 | ''... Nostradamus... is certain that Fate links him and Melisande... as the Angel of Death approaches, the soothsayer gives into her safekeeping some very special parchments... that the titled heads of France would do anything to see... '' |
| James Brogden | Hekla's Children | Titan Books 2017 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously? (Paper) | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 5.00 | ''A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned, Olivia, starved, terrified... with no memory of where she’d been... a body is found... but is soon identified as a Bronze Age warrior... Olivia reappears, desperate that the warrior’s body be returned to the earth... he is... keeping a terrible evil at bay... '' |
| Edwy Searles Brooks | Expelled! | Howard Baker/Greyfriars Library 1972 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and old price in pencil on front free end paper else Fine book in slightly faded, rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''The Remove versus the Fourth of St Frank's... starts as a series of practical jokes but the 'jokes' become vicious and violent... Walter Church of the Remove is threatened by ruthless enemies... the school is told that 'Church' has died and he is smuggled away... '' Originally published as 8 booklets in 1927. |
| Kevin Brooks | Being | Penguin 2007 First Edition First Printing | Upper rear corner bruised and page edges slightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotional Letter | 4.00 | ''Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine procedure has gone wrong... Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is... Robert goes on the run... desperate for answers... '' |
| Kevin Brooks | Black Rabbit Summer | Penguin 2008 First Edition First Printing | Upper rear corner bruised else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Letter | 4.00 | ''We weren't kids anymore... And when Pete and his childhood friends get together again for one last time and everything starts to go wrong, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what it was... What used to be fun isn't fun any more, and what's meant to be fun now makes you feel so sick that you wish you'd never been born... '' |
| Francis Bryant | Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island | Orion 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by Peter Bailey | 5.00 | ''... Jim Hawkins, the cabin boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countryside... one day, ten years after his return, a beautiful stranger and her young son come looking for Jim Hawkins, and he is lead back to the south seas, to even greater danger than before... '' |
| Linda Buckley-Archer | The Tar Man being Book II of The Enlightenment of Peter Schock | Simon & Schuster 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet & Compliments Slip | 4.00 | ''... a bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the 18th century whilst a terrifying villain, The Tar Man, takes his place and explodes onto 21st century London. Meanwhile Kate's attempt to rescue Peter lands her - and Peter's dad - in 1792, where events are about to take a turn for the worse... '' |
| Melvin Burgess | Bloodsong | Penguin 2007 (Paper) | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet & CD of Author's Preview Reading | 5.00 | ''Forced into the clutches of a bloodthirsty dragon, Sigurd is fighting not only for his life, but for the survival of an apocalyptic Britain. For Sigurd is the chosen one; the golden warrior boy. In a world where power and corruption is all consuming, can he fulfil his destiny and overcome the tyranny that threatens to destroy him?'' Sequel to Bloodtide |
| Philip Caveney | Sebastian Darke Prince of Fools | Bodley Head 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof | 4.00 | ''Sebastian Darke has the world on his narrow shoulders. The son of a human father and an elvish mother, he is desperately trying to become the family breadwinner as a jester and self-styled 'Prince of Fools'. Trouble is, Sebastian can't tell a joke... '' |
| Henry Chancellor | The Remarkable Adventures of Tom Scatterhorn The Hidden World | Oxford University Press 2009 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 7.50 | ''It's the start of the summer holidays, and Tom is back at the Scatterhorn Museum... Pearl Smoot... needs Tom's help. Urgently. There is evil afoot in the shape of Tom's old enemy, Don Gervase Askary. he has captured Pearl's father and brother... Tom's parents too... '' |
| Cinda Williams Chima | The Exiled Queen | HarperVoyager 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south... hunted every step of the way by the Bayars, a powerful wizarding family... Han meets Crow, a mysterious wizard who agrees to tutor Han in the darker parts of sorcery... '' The Seven Realms Trilogy - Book Two |
| Steve Cockayne | The Good People | Atom 2006 First Edition First Printing | Tiny bruise at base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''Deep in the English countryside, Kenneth Storey and his older brother have discovered the land of Arboria - a kingdom of adventure waiting for them... the world outside plunges deeper into global conflict... the Arborians wage their own war against the Barbarians... But, for Kenneth, Arboria is... more important than the real world... he may be right.'' |
| Steve Cockayne | The Good People | Atom 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, lightly marked, Dust Jacket with a 20mm tear at the base of the front panel. | 4.00 | ''Deep in the English countryside, Kenneth Storey and his older brother have discovered the land of Arboria - a kingdom of adventure waiting for them... the world outside plunges deeper into global conflict... the Arborians wage their own war against the Barbarians... For Kenneth, Arboria is more important than the real world... '' |
| Stephen Cole | Doctor Who The Feast of the Drowned | BBC Books 2006 Third Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 4.00 | ''When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances... all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend... was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to saved from the coming feast... the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London... the Doctor and Rose are drawn in... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Airman | Puffin 2008 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... A story of high adventure, romance, science fiction and betrayal, set on an island that I had been watching on the evening horizon for my entire life. The alternate and bloody history of the Saltee Islands... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | Puffin 2001 First Edition First Printing (Note: 'Viking' on spine & ISBN 0-141-31212-2 on Copyright Page) | A couple of small, light wrinkles in the spine panel, top front corner slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned else Fine Uncorrected Proof with decorated card covers - as issued Signed by the Author on the pre-lim Page | 80.00 | ''Twelve year old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom, once he's cracked the fairy code and exposed the secrets... But leprechaun technology is more advanced than Artemis anticipates... '' Supplied with the 'Crack the Code' competition slip. |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, small bump on lower edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly bumped at base of front fold. | 10.00 | ''... When Artemis discovers that there is a fairy civilisation below ground, he sees it as a golden opportunity. Now there is a whole new species to exploit with his ingenious schemes. But Artemis doesn't know as much as he thinks about the fairy People... '' Apparently one of the scarcest of the series. |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox | Puffin 2008 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet | 7.50 | ''... Now his mother is gravely ill. Artemis Fowl must travel back through time to steal the cure from the clutches of the young criminal mastermind... Artemis Fowl... It's Artemis versus Artemis. And there can be only one winner... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident | Puffin 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Someone has been supplying Class A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that the person responsible is her arch-enemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl... Artemis has his own problems... his father is being held to ransom and only a miracle will save him... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception | Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The fairy People have wiped all knowledge of their world from the brain of the only human they're scared of: criminal genius Artemis Fowl. But now the evil pixie Opal Koboi is back on the scent and the People need Artemis - and fast. '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception | Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Lower page edges lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 15.00 | ''The fairy People have wiped all knowledge of their world from the brain of the only human they're scared of: criminal genius Artemis Fowl. But now the evil pixie Opal Koboi is back on the scent and the People need Artemis - and fast. '' |
| Eoin Colfer | Half Moon Investigations | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Dedication Page | 7.50 | ''Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | The Legend of Spud Murphy | Puffin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''Spud Murphy keeps order in her library with a myriad of tricks and rumours of a gas-powered spud gun. Will brothers Marty and Will be bored senseless by summer-holiday afternoons in the library where a titter could get you spudded? Or will they discover a new interest... '' |
| Eoin Colfer | The Supernaturalist | Puffin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Fourteen-year-old Cosmo... longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys... his chance comes... he grabs it, but things go fatally wrong. Cosmo feels his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue parasite... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in... '' |
| Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Runaway Robot | Macmillan 2019 First Edition First Printing Marked 'Limited Edition' | Top edge of rear board with light bruise else Fine Book in like Dust Jacket with SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR sticker on the front panel Signed, with author robot sketch, on pre-lim/limitation page | 25.00 | ''When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there's a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He's super strong - but super clumsy. He's convinced that he's the latest technology, when he's actually nearly a hundred years old... '' Illustrated by Steven Lenton |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland | Arthur At The Crossing-Places | Orion 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''It is 1200 and young Arthur de Caldicot is all set to accompany Lord Stephen de Holt on the fourth crusade... There is a murder. There is a girl... The exciting and bewildering events in Arthur's own life are reflected in his magical seeing stone, where he sees and steps into stories revolving around his namesake, the young King Arthur... '' Second in the Arthur trilogy. |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland | Arthur King of the Middle March | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and upper front corner and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Thousands of knights and footsoldiers are mustering in Venice for the launch of the Fourth Crusade. Among them is a young Arthur de Caldecot, soon to be dubbed a knight... '' Third in the Arthur trilogy. |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland | Viking Myths of Gods and Monsters | Orion 2002 First Edition Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in lightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The Norse myths are a great chain of linked stories that describe the battles, betrayals, passions and squabbles that took place between gods, giants and men... '' From The Creation to The Last Battle |
| Chris Curley | The Doorkeepers | Oxford University Press 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... What Robbie doesn't know is that there's already an adventure hiding in their house. Pocket, the fairy, demands their help... then all sorts of strange things begin to happen... their wishes come true - but never in the way they mean! And adults soon get very suspicious... '' |
| Jane Louise Curry | The Birdstones | Kestrel 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Soon after school opened in Apple Lock that autumn a series of inexplicable and seemingly unrelated happenings plunged Mike... and his friends into a mysterious adventure that had its beginnings sixteen hundred years before on a small island in the Ohio River...'' |
| Anna Dale | Whispering to Witches | Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top of spine and covers slightly worn - Very Good Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''... Joe is travelling to stay with his mother and stepfather for Christmas... Before the journey is over he finds himself part of a dramatic conspiracy surrounding an ancient book of magic, and embroiled in a world of witches, spells and cunning plots... '' |
| Annie Dalton | Night Maze | Methuen 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine, lower edge of rear board water-marked, & a few faint glue (?) marks on boards, narrow split in gutter between front end papers & page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Gerard Noone has spent most of his childhood in a succession of foster-families and children's homes. But suddenly, just after his fourteenth birthday, he receives a summons from his dead mother's wealthy family.. the curse that overshadows all the Noones... Using the ancient riddle and the secret of the forbidden Night Maze... to lift the curse... '' |
| Annie Dalton | Out of the Ordinary | Methuen 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine & top page edges slightly bumped & browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | '''Ordinary is written all over me,' thinks Molly Gurney, 'and probably all through me too, like seaside rock!'... Inexplicably, her hastily scribbled advert for a holiday job ('Quests undertaken, lost things found, enchantments broken... ') is transfigured into Words of Power that reach beyond the Gurney's shabby kitchen to touch another world - and change Molly's for ever... '' |
| MaryJanice Davidson (MaryJanice Davidson Alongi) | Undead and Unappreciated | Berkley 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Most women would love to live as royalty, but Betsy has found that being a vampire queen has more problems than perks, except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales... her wicked stepmother... lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister... the devil's daughter... destined to rule the world... '' Book 3 in the series |
| MaryJanice Davidson | Undead and Unreturnable | Berkley 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner tip, slight spine lean and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... I had... died in the spring. Rose in the early dawn hours... and gone on an undead walkabout... It's Christmastime in the Kingdom of the undead... Betsy isn't going to let a little thing like death and blood-drinking stop her from enjoying the holidays or planning her upcoming spring wedding... '' Book 4 in the series |
| Joseph H. Delaney | The Spook's Battle | Bodley Head 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by David Wyatt | 5.00 | ''... In Pendle the witches are rising and the three most powerful witch clans are rumoured to be uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil... the Devil himself... '' Book 4 |
| Joseph H. Delaney | The Spook's Mistake | Bodley Head 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by David Frankland | 5.00 | ''... when the Fiend sends his own daughter... Tom finds himself facing his enemies alone... '' |
| John Dickinson | The Cup of the World | David Fickling 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Postcard Promoting The Widow And The King | 3.00 | ''... Phaedra, Daughter of the Warden of Trant, puts her trust in a man she has only met in dreams. He can see far, and speak far, and pass where no man should be able to pass. With him she may escape to a new beginning... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | The Blue Hawk | Gollancz 1976 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by David Smee | 15.00 | ''... Tron, a boy with a hawk on his wrist, tame only for him. From the moment when he first touches the bird, the destiny of a nation seems to be woven into his actions. He hears the Gods whisper in his heart; he obeys their word and the world changes. This is a story of... a civilisation which might exist in the distant past or far future, a time when... Gods rule and are obeyed... '' |
| Peter Dickinson | The Ropemaker | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page lower edge with a tiny (ca 2mm) tear and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''...Tilja and Tahl... must set out on a desperate quest... to find the one man who can renew... ancient power... to utter his name means death... a mysterious stranger... appears in many disguises. friend? Or deadly enemy? And is he the magician who will command the secrets that weave and unweave the rope of time itself?... '' |
| Joe Donnelly | Jack Flint and the Redthorn Sword | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... Corriwen Redthorn, dangerous with her twin daggers, is the orphaned daughter of a Temair chieftain. Her wicked Uncle Mandrake has seized the Redthorn sword and plans to use it to raise the deadly Morrigan... Jack, Kerry and Corrie must save the kingdom and themselves. The Book of Ways will lead them... '' First in the series... |
| Tobias Druitt (Diane Purkiss & Michael Dowling) | Corydon and the Island of Monsters | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold | 5.00 | ''Corydon is a young shepherd, banished from his village for being born with a goat's leg. Captured by pirates and put into a freak show with other monsters, he meets Medusa, the Minotaur, the Sphinx and other fabulous creatures. Stealing... a magical staff... manages to free them all and lead their escape... '' |
| Sarah Beth Durst | Fire & Heist | Crown 2018 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... stealing your first treasure can be complicated - especially when you're a wyvern, a human capable of transforming into a dragon... Sky's mission uncovers deep secrets about... a dark truth about were-dragon society... more valuable and dangerous than gold or jewels could ever be.'' |
| Stephen Elboz | The House of Rats | Oxford University Press 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket, a little damp-marked on the inside, with 'Winner of the 1992 Smarties Young Judges Book Prize' sticker on front panel | 7.50 | ''One damp foggy morning, the man who called himself the master threw down his napkin and strode out of the great house never to return... Esther, Zachary, Carl and Frankie are happy... until suddenly the master vanishes... The safe routines disappear. The wolves... become a threat; while inside the house, other people start to take over their lives... '' |
| Sylvia Engdahl | Beyond The Tomorrow Mountains | Atheneum 1974 Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners, end papers a little faded and discoloured (?by st6icker glue and lower corner of rear fixed end paper faded - Very Good book in slightly worn, torn and damp-marked Dust Jacket, with a small chip near the t | 7.50 | ''Noren had accepted... that society on the planet on which he lived had to have three distinct groups: villagers who knew little and farmed; Technicians who worked the complicated machines that kept the land fertile and the water safe; and Scholars who alone knew that existence on their hostile, metal-poor planet depended on the Machines... '' |
| Jamieson Findlay | The Blue Roan Child | Chicken House 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof With Publisher's Letter | 3.00 | ''... Syeira, an orphaned girl, lives and works in King Hulvere's river stable... Arwin, a wild and beautiful mare whose two colts have been taken by an evil warlord... they set out to find the stolen horses... across dangerous waters and through enchanted forests... '' |
| Anne Fine | The Tulip Touch | Hamish Hamilton 1996 First Edition Second Printing (With later State D. J. marked Children's Book of the Year) | Bruised at base of spine and 'DAMAGED' stamped on lower page edges and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket rubbed at the base of the spine. | 5.00 | ''Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling the most awful lies... Natalie finds Tulip exciting... But as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous. Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Much too far... '' Not fantasy? |
| Winifred Finlay | Beadbonny Ash | Harrap 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, lower boards edges slightly marked and a couple of page corners creased else Fine book in price-clipped, overprinted Dust Jacket worn at the base of the front fold. | 3.00 | ''... the Celtic culture of the sixth century, with Argyll, Mull and Iona as its principal setting. A party of modern teenage girls and boys find themselves magically transported to this distant world... to the times of the Picts, the Kingdom of Dalriada and the coming of St Columba to Argyll.'' |
| Catherine Fisher | The Soul Thieves | Bodley Head 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else fine book in laminated boards - as issued. | 7.50 | '''The thing you love best, that thing I will have... ' On the day of Wulfgar's wedding, Gudrun's chilling threat is carried out. In a devastating spell-storm she attacks... Eventually they all wake, except Signi, Wulfgar's bride. Gudrun has stolen her soul... '' Last in the Snow-walker trilogy. |
| Pauline Fisk | Midnight Blue | Lion Books 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and lightly foxed else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 7.50 | ''... the story of Bonnie and her struggle to find a home. Running away from her grandmother's cruelty and her mother's unhappiness, she finds a mysterious but kinder world, another family and new friends... But trouble follows her. Though she is helped by the strange Shadowboy and others, she discovers that there are costly choices that only she can make... '' |
| Becca Fitzpatrick | Hush, Hush | Simon and Schuster 2009 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan... Not until Patch came along... Nora is drawn to him against her better judgement... she finds herself near a truth that is... unsettling... For Nora is right in the middle of a centuries-old battle between the immortal and those that have fallen... '' First book in the tetralogy. |
| Charlie Fletcher | Silver Tongue | Hodder 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed & Personalised on a prelim page | 15.00 | '''There are many things worse than war,' said the Queen. 'Some of them live beyond the Stone Mirrors. One of them followed us back here and now things long feared, things that have never happened, will happen. And there will be Hell to pay.''' Third in the trilogy - Scarce |
| Charlie Fletcher | Stone Heart | Hodder 2006 First Edition First Printing | Top front corners bruised, lower front corner slightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 7.50 | ''Deep in the city something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look... '' |
| Colin Foreman | To The End of the World & Killer in the Dark | Myroy Books 2005/6 First Edition Second/First Printing (Paper) | Fine books KITD Signed by the Author | 5.00 | For the two. ''A snowstorm, a mysterious man... Ancient, secret dangers come to life and the Battle of Pinner High School, a battle for the future of the world, begins.'' ''The adventure continues. Odin's secret agents arrive in Corfu to kill the last Stone Keeper... '' First two of a projected five book series |
| Toby Forward | The Flaxfield Quartet: Volume One Dragonborn | Walker 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Shortish (9 mm) tear at the top edge of the front panel near the spine and top front cover corner lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof in pictorial covers | 4.00 | ''... Sam, a 12-year-old apprenticed to a powerful wizard... After Flaxfield's sudden death, Sam will find that he has a great destiny... The battle lines are drawn... and Sam must play a crucial part if the forces of light are to triumph.'' |
| Cornelia Funke | Dragon Rider | The Chicken House 2004 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine, upper corner of rear cover lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof in Dust Jacket, creased where this extends over the Uncorrected Proof. Translated by Anthea Bell & Oliver Latsch | 10.00 | 'Firedrake, a brave young dragon, his loyal brownie friend Sorrel and a lonely boy called Ben... embark on a magical journey to find the legendary place where silver dragons can live in peace... they discover extraordinary new friends in unlikely places and a courage they never knew they had. Just as well... '' |
| Sally Gardner | I, Coriander | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''I looked back into the bedchamber. The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear voices calling me from far away. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone.'' |
| Jamila Gavin | I Want To Be An Angel | Methuen 1990 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges browned and slightly marked and covers slightly rubbed else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 10.00 | Four children with dreams: Little Effie has one last chance to be an angel in the nativity play, Jasmine Grey wants a family to call her own; Rajiv wants his sister to come back from India, Dawlish Dobson is the boy children hate and adults love... I Want To Be An Angel; The Private World of Rajiv Ray; Dawlish Dobson & My Name is Jasmine Grey. Scarce |
| Joshua Gaylord (Also as Alden Bell) | When We Were Animals | Del Rey (UK) 2015 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... in the town where I grew up, when the boys and girls reached a certain age, the parents locked themselves up... and the teenagers ran wild... Lumen Fowler knows she is different... Her mother never 'breached' and she knows she won't either... But... she may not know herself - or her wild side - at all... '' |
| David Gerrold (Jerrold David Friedman) | Jumping Off The Planet | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Caught in the crossfire in a corporate battle for global domination, a young man must choose between his home on Earth and a new life on the lunar frontier... But too late Charles discovers that his father... is smuggling a form of synthetic intelligence that a rival corporation would kill to obtain... '' |
| Debi Gliori | Pure Dead Magic | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book - without pricing sticker on rear panel | 12.50 | ''Beasts in the basement. A gangster in a rabbit suit. And rats in the modem. Great-great-grandma in the freezer. A talking spider in the attic. And a crocodile in the moat... Add a stressed-out witch for a mum, a kidnapped dad and a nanny who puts Mary Poppins to shame... '' First in the series |
| Debi Gliori | Pure Dead Wicked | Ted Smart 2002 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book | 5.00 | ''Disaster strikes at StregaSchloss! The roof of the old castle is falling down and the Strega-Borgia family have to move out. The mythical beasts and the magical nanny come too. But the talking tarantula, the frozen granny and a trickle of tincture are left behind... '' Second in the series |
| Debi Gliori | Pure Dead Wicked | Doubleday 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at base of spine and small scratch to silver inlay on rear panel else Fine book | 10.00 | ''Disaster strikes at StregaSchloss! The roof of the old castle is falling down and the Strega-Borgia family have to move out. The mythical beasts and the magical nanny come too. But the talking tarantula, the frozen granny and a trickle of tincture are left behind... '' Second in the series |
| Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Egmont 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 5.00 | ''At the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, Covent Garden, This present day being 1st January, 1790, Will be presented The Diamond of Drury Lane (written by Miss Cat Royal)... And a hidden diamond!... '' |
| Roderick Gordon | Freefall Book Three of The Tunnels Series | Chicken House 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Light crease in rear cover & lower front cover corner, a little corner/edge rubbing else Fine book | 5.00 | ''As he plummets down a subterranean void, it looks like the end for fourteen-year-old Will Burrows. But it's just the beginning of a terrifying new adventure in which he must face giant carnivorous spiders and the deadly brights. And, much worse, , twin styx girls with a score to settle... '' |
| Jacob Grimm (With Wilhelm Grimm) | The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm | Bantam 1992 First Edition Thus (Paper) | A few page corners creased and cover corners lightly rubbed - Near Fine Book | 7.50 | The original 240 stories plus 32 Omitted Tales and 8 Selected Tales from the Annotations of 1856 |
| Margaret Peterson Haddix | Turnabout | Simon & Schuster 2000 Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''Melly and Amy Beth both lived normal lives throughout the twentieth century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger. at some point these participants are to receive another injection, which will stop the unaging process... everyone who receives the second shot dies... '' |
| Mark Haddon | the curious incident of the dog in the night-time | David Fickling 2003 First Edition First Printing (Cream and red Dust Jacket) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 6.00 | ''Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes, but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on his neighbour's lawn, he decides to solve the mystery... '' |
| Peter Haining | The Wizards' Den Spellbinding Stories of Magic And Magicians | Souvenir Press 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a tiny scratch on the spine panel | 6.00 | Peter Haining's The World of Wizardry; E. Nesbit's Professor de Lara and the Twopenny Spell; Manly Wade Wellman's School for the Unspeakable; Gillian Cross' The Demon Headmaster; Humphrey Carpenter's Ghostclusters; and others by Alan Garner; Russell Hoban; Joan Aiken; William Harvey; Jacqueline Wilson; John Wyndham; Roald Dahl; Ray Bradbury; William F. Nolan; Philip Pullman and Diana Wynne Jones |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | The Alder Tree | Allen & Unwin 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges very lightly foxed else Fine book in unpriced Dust Jacket | 6.00 | ''... things started to happen as if in the kind of nightmare where everything seems almost normal, but somehow horrible. Hints and suggestions on all sides forced Michael to believe that something very strange had escaped from under the roots of the alder tree when it came down... '' |
| Ann Halam | The Daymaker | Orchard Books 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''Zanne's untrained but compelling magic is a continued source of worry to her mother... But as Zanne reaches the age where she should make the choice journey that will determine her course in life, she becomes restless and rebellious... she sets off on a forbidden quest to the city... where the great Daymaker lies lost and hidden...'' |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | The Daymaker | Orchard Books 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small 'nick' in the centre of the rear fold. Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Zanne's untrained but compelling magic is a continued source of worry to her mother... But as Zanne reaches the age where she should make the choice journey that will determine her course in life, she becomes restless and rebellious... she sets off on a forbidden quest to the city... where the great Daymaker lies lost and hidden...'' |
| Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones) | The Fear Man | Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and boards lightly rubbed else Fine book in laminated boards. | 3.00 | ''A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why does his mother have such a fear of it? And what is the unknown presence that seems to be stalking the family at night? Constantly on the run from a father he has never known, Andrei dreams of being an ordinary boy, but Andrei is living a nightmare.'' |
| Ann Halam | The Fear Man | Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Covers slightly rubbed and scratched else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 4.00 | ''A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why does his mother have such a fear of it? And what is the unknown presence that seems to be stalking the family at night? Constantly on the run from a father he has never known, Andrei dreams of being an ordinary boy, but Andrei is living a nightmare.'' |
| Ann Halam | The Haunting of Jessica Raven | Orion 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges lightly marked else Fine book - as issued in laminated boards | 5.00 | ''Jessica Raven dreams of finding a cure for her brother Adam' s fatal illness, but she knows it isn't going to happen. Then, on holiday in France, she meets a strange band of ragged children... And... is caught up in a game that is more than a game. How can she free Jean-Luc from the terrifying children, undead guardians a! a priceless treasure?... '' |
| Ann Halam | The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy | Orion 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 3.00 | ''Stacey vanished three years ago. She's dead. It's Alan's fault. He knows. But mum refuses to believe it - her endless search for her little daughter leads them first to N.I.M.R.O.D., and then into a criminal underworld of deceit and conspiracies, burglary, blackmail and terrible danger... '' |
| Ann Halam | Transformations | Orchard Books 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... continues the story of Zanne, the heroine of THE DAYMAKER. Grown up now, she is sent... to the mountainous country of Minith on a quest for another of the hidden Makers of the past... a terrifying adventure... '' |
| Victoria Hanley | The Seer And The Sword | Scholastic 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''Flame-haired Princess Torina knows nothing of battles and conquest. Her father, King Kareed, has returned... odd gifts: a beautiful sphere in which she glimpses strange images... And a bruised and bloodied boy - a former prince... Bellandra, his home, was reputed to be invincible... '' Nominated for the Carnegie Award & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. |
| Charlaine Harris | All Together Dead | Ace 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, front free end paper slightly marked and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | '' Being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, and preternatural beings has gotten to be nothing out of the ordinary for Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse... '' The seventh book in the series. |
| Julie Hearn | Follow Me Down | Oxford University Press 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''Tom takes a leap into the early eighteenth century - to a time when 'monsters' like the Bendy Man and the Gorilla Woman appeared at Bartholomew Fair... Tom has problems of his own to contend with. Illness. Family secrets. A rift between his mum and his gran... Tom must learn to look beyond appearances... '' |
| Lian Hearn | Grass For His Pillow Tales of the Otori Book Two | Macmillan 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Takeo... has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. But he must deny the solemn oath of vengeance he made, his adopted birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede... '' |
| Pamela L. V. Henn | Nick & Slim The Legend of the Falcon Mine | White Wolf Studio 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In a new home, a new town, and a new school, Nick feels more alone than ever... With no friends to vouch for him, Nick is framed for stealing... the journal of the notorious Slim Marano, who was hanged for murder more than 100 years ago... Nick comes face-to-face with Slim's spirit... Soon Nick is travelling through time to the Old West... '' |
| Jason Hightman | The Saint of Dragons | HarperCollins 2004 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''Simon St. George has been living at the Lighthouse School since he was two years old, and has no idea what it feels like to be part of a family... suddenly two men show up, both claiming to be his father... he's actually descended from Saint George... and... he's expected to carry on the family business... dragons are alive, evil, and could be causing trouble... '' |
| Lynda Hilburn | The Vampire Shrink | Jo Fletcher 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board else Fine book in slightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... Kismet Knight... is inspired to become the vampire shrink, offering her services to people who believe they are undead. Kismet herself, as a scientist, knows it's hokum, but she's looking at it in a purely psychoanalytic light... until she meets the leader of a vampire coven, a sexy, mysterious man who claims to be a 800-year-old vampire... '' |
| Stuart Hill | The Cry of the Icemark | Chicken House 2005 First Edition First Printing | Lower rear corner bruised and top page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The blood of the Strong-in-the-Arm clan awoke roaring in Thirrin's brain, and the fighting spirit of the Hypolitan, her mother's people straightened her spine and sent a tingling excitement coursing through her veins. She was heir to the throne of the Icemark... She must defend her land and her people!'' First in the series |
| Russell Hoban | The Trokeville Way | Cape 1996 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''... On his way home he meets sometime magician Moe Nagic who has an unusual jigsaw puzzle to sell. Moe shows Nick a technique for getting into the picture but he warns him, ''You get into that picture and you'll wish you were out of it.'' Nick, however, can't resist the challenge...'' |
| Mary Hoffman | The Falconer's Knot | Bloomsbury (UK) 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine & page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with crease in top corner of front flap | 4.00 | ''Silvano and Chiara are two teenagers with a difference. Silvano has been accused of a murder he did not commit. Chiara has been abandoned by her family... they are forced to seek refuge in a neighbouring convent and friary... they are drawn to one another... Then a grisly murder - followed by another... the friends... attempt to solve the bloody crimes... medieval Italy... '' |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Fistful Of Sky | Ace 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and tiny paper split at top corner of front board else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She'd already watched her two older siblings experience the transition - the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children to mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer... '' |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Red Heart Of Memories | Ace 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Matt (Matilda) Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people... She finds a kindred spirit in Edmond Reynolds - a wandering witch on a spiritual quest to help those in need... Together, these two special people will embark on an odyssey of the imagination... '' |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Stir Of Bones | Viking 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, lower corners bruised and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 12.50 | ''Fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom seems to have a charmed life. She is blonde, beautiful and smart, the only child of wealthy, attentive parents. But there are dangerous secrets inside her expensive home... The haunted house is more than haunted, and more than a house... '' |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Past The Size Of Dreaming | Ace 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | '',... the continuing spellbinding story of the wandering witch Matilda (Matt) Black, who possesses the ability to communicate with inanimate objects and see into people's dreams - and her companion Edmund Reynolds, a young man with magic of his own... '' Sequel to A Red Heart of Memories |
| Anthony Horowitz | The Power of Five: Book Four Necropolis | Walker 2008 First Edition Thus First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''An ancient evil is unleashed. Five have the power to defeat it. But one of them has been taken....'' |
| Monica Hughes | Sandwriter | Julia MacRae 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Slip | 7.50 | ''... On the twin continents of Komilant and Kamilant, Antia has lived the pampered life of a princess. but when she crosses the Small Sea to the island desert of Roshan - ostensibly to be betrothed to Jodril, heir to Chief Hamrab - she finds a completely alien world. Antia is determined not to conform, but to keep her own identity in this strange country... full of rumours of an ancient mystery... '' |
| Brian Jacques | Castaways of the Flying Dutchman | Viking 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, to rear board and some page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with some bumping to rear panel | 4.00 | ''... what of the boy and his dog who were trapped aboard that ship?... Sent off on an eternal journey of their own by an avenging angel, the boy and dog roam the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need... their travels lead them to Chapelvale... whose very existence is at stake... '' |
| Brian Jacques | Mattimeo | Hutchinson 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and two diagonal creases in the contents page else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 60.00 | ''Slagar the fox contemplated Redwall Abbey, his twisted face hidden beneath a sinister harlequin hood. How he hated the peaceable Abbey creatures; how he hated the fearless mouse-warrior Matthias... Gathering his mercenary band of rats, stoats and weasels about him, he prepared for his hour of vengeance... '' |
| Brian Jacques | Outcast of Redwall | Hutchinson 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 4mm tear at the top of the spine panel adjacent to the back panel | 5.00 | ''An escape into the snowbound winter night starts a lifelong enmity between two young creatures - a badger and a ferret. By turns they become the hunter and the hunted in this epic tale... '' |
| Brian Jacques | Salamandastron | Hutchinson 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked - Good to Very Good book in like Dust Jacket. Book illustrated by Gary Chalk, dust jacket by Fangorn | 40.00 | ''When the mountain stronghold of Salamandastron, ruled with a paw of iron by Lord Urthstripe the Strong, is under siege... the destinies of five creatures... become intertwined. Why did Martin the Warrior's sword fall from the Abbey roof? Who is the white badger? And can the good creatures triumph over Ferahgo the Assassin?... '' |
| Brian Jacques | The Bellmaker | Hutchinson 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Book illustrated by Allan Curless, dust jacket by Fangorn | 10.00 | ''Joseph the Bellmaker is troubled. It has been four long seasons since his daughter Mariel and her companion Dandin set off from Redwall in search of adventure. Nothing has been heard of them since. Then one night Martin, legendary warrior of Redwall, appears in Joseph's dreams with a mysterious message... it becomes clear that Mariel and Dandin are in grave danger... '' |
| Brian Jacques | The Long Patrol A Tale of Redwall | Hutchinson 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket. Book illustrated by Allan Curless, dust jacket by Fangorn | 5.00 | ''To run with the Long Patrol, to join the legendary army of fighting hares who serve Cregga Rose Eyes, Ruler of Salamandastron - this is young Tammo's dream. In the heart of Mossflower Wood stands Redwall Abbey, peaceful in the gentle sun. But there is worrying news. The south wall is collapsing leaving the Abbey open to invasion... '' |
| Brian Jacques | The Pearls Of Lutra A Tale Of Redwall | Hutchinson 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... The gruesome discovery of a skeleton in Mossflower woods heralds the start of both a mystery and a quest... Emperor Ublaz, also known as Mad Eyes, sends his fearsome lizards and corsairs on a murderous mission to Redwall... '' |
| Mia James | By Midnight A Ravenwood Mystery | Gollancz 2010 First Edition First Printing | Edges lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... Welcome to Ravenwood: the prestigious, exclusive Highgate school where standards are high, fashion is everything, and it's just possible vampires lurk in the shadows. Welcome to a rollercoaster emotional ride of anger, mystery, fear and romance... '' First in the trilogy |
| Ben Jeapes | The New World Order | David Fickling 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof with wrap-around band. | 7.50 | ''... this is not quite history as you know it, for the world has turned on to a new and deadly path... an entirely alien force - the Holekhor - who have martial powers... who bring with them technology that should not have been seen in England for another three hundred years... History will never be the same again.'' |
| Ben Jeapes | The Xenocide Mission | David Fickling 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''From the first totally unexpected laser bolt, we know we are in the hands of a master storyteller. With heart stopping action sequences and unbelievably alien aliens, this amazing novel marks Ben Jeapes' arrival as a super-nova talent in science fiction... '' |
| Jane Johnson | The Secret Country | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing | Covers and spine a little creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Ben tried to step forward a pace, but something - someone? - was holding him back... It was a cat... with shiny gold eyes and a remarkably determined arm... 'Let go!' he said under his breath... The cat looked at him, unblinking. Then it said very distinctly... 'There's no way you're leaving this shop without me, Sonny Jim.'... '' |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Eight Days Of Luke | Macmillan 1975 First Edition First Printing | Ex. Public Library with plates, pocket, stamps and a little tape marking on end papers, one number stamped on copyright page, lightly bumped at base of spine and page edges marked and lightly browned ?Good? book in Dust Jacket, slightly discoloured at the | 40.00 | ''There seemed nothing strange about Luke to begin with, except the snakes... 'Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you.' Luke said, and he always was... who were the people who seemed to be looking for Luke: the man with one eye, the massively malevolent gardener... the offensively sprightly Frys... '' Very Scarce |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Dark Lord of Derkholm | Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 15.00 | ''What does it feel like to have your world devastated once a year by offworld tourists?... What does it feel like to suddenly have to be Dark Lord?... What does it feel like when most of your brothers and sisters are griffins?... What does it feel like to be Wizard Guide to a Pilgrim Party?... '' |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Islands of Chaldea | Greenwillow 2014 First Edition in the USA First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a few page edes a little bumped/creased else Fine book in lightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... Aileen comes from a long line of magicworkers... her own gifts should have been even greater. But she failed her initiation... the High King sends Eileen and Aunt Beck on a secret - and suspicious - quest... not at all what it seems... With the help of a (mostly) invisible cat. a (surprisingly) wise parrot and a ragtag band of allies, Aileen will... '' Her last book. |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Merlin Conspiracy | Collins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''... Roddy Hyde lives in a world of magic, pageantry and ritual. The daughter of two court wizards, she travels with the King's Progress, ready to take part in whatever ceremony is required... Presiding overall is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of the Blest... something is wrong... '' |
| Gwyneth Jones | The Influence Of Ironwood | Macmillan 1978 First Edition First Printing | A little edgewear to both book & jacket & jacket spine panel slightly faded else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''She hated them all... She hated being there in the first place, dumped down on the Irish branch of the family like a parcel put into Left Luggage. She hated Ireland for being so heart-wrenchingly beautiful when she wanted everything to be horrible... was there something wrong with Ironwood? Was there an... influence? Or was it just that resentment, likes misery, loves a companion?... '' Non-fantasy Y.A. novel. |
| Gwyneth Jones | Water In The Air | Macmillan 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked and browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the spine panel background slightly faded | 10.00 | ''Kathy... rescued a dead fish from a dirty river. it was a crazy thing to do; meaningless. But the fish wasn't dead. In fact if he was a fish at all, he was a very strange one, able to find as much water in the air as in any river or stream... '' Her first book - scarce. |
| Herve Jubert | Dance of the Assassins | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Translated by Anthea Bell | 4.00 | ''Welcome to the future. Welcome to nineteenth-century London: a theme park re-created for tourists. But it's not just tourists visiting this historical virtual city... Jack the Ripper, too, has returned... '' |
| Elizabeth Kay | The Divide | Chicken House 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book | 7.50 | ''... Meet Felix. He's not your ordinary hero. Though brave and intelligent, Felix is suffering from a life-threatening illness... His parents take him... to Costa Rica.. when he open his eyes... he's arrived in an amazing, back-to-front world, where magic and mythical animals are real, and humans are legend... '' |
| Brian Keaney | The Hollow People | Orchard Books 2007 First Printing (Paper) | One cross-spine crack and cover lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. with ISBN, Price & Publication date on back changed in biro | 4.00 | ''On the island of Tarnagar is an asylum where you can be locked up for dreaming. Dante is the kitchen boy... Bea is the privileged daughter of doctors. Who is Ezekiel Semiramis? What does he know about Dante's mother and the ruined city that Bea dreams of? Dante and Bea set out to discover the truth... '' First in the Dr Sigmundus Trilogy |
| Victor Kelleher | To The Dark Tower | Julia MacRae 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Awake, Tom works the cliffs in the shadow of Tower Rock, a pillar of stone that no-one has ever climbed; asleep, he is the 'Carrier', the bearer of a mysteriously beautiful child... he journeys across a seemingly timeless, winter-locked landscape in search of the fabulous 'Sleeper'... '' |
| Padraig Kenny | The Monsters of Rookhaven | Macmillan 2020 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 469/1250) | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with Signed Copy sticker on front panel - Note: spine blocking is absent Illustrated by Edward Bettison | 10.00 | ''Mirabelle has always known she is a monster. When the mnagical glamour protecting her unusual family from the human world is torn and an orphaned brother and sisterb stumble upon Rookhaven, Mirabelle soon discovers that friendship can be found in the outside world. But... evil stalks Mirabelle and her family... '' Followed by The Shadows of Rookhaven. |
| Gerald Killingworth | Hy Brazil The Elven Wars Trilogy Bok One | Matador/Troubador 2014 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and page edges lightly marked else Fine Book | 4.00 | ''... 1591 and nineteen-year-old Edward Harry sail to Ireland as secretary to... Edward Spencer... Edward Harry expects to make his fortune... when an excursion... leads to a landing on the fabled island of Hy Brazil, the Elven realm... '' |
| Garry Douglas Kilworth (Also as Garry Douglas) | The Bronte Girls | Methuen 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | 7.50 | ''... When Chris trespasses on their isolated farm in the Essex marshes, Emily Craster takes an action that smashes their world apart. She is almost fifteen and has known no other life except that with her two sisters and parents on the farm - modelled on the Brontes' parsonage at Haworth... a deeply felt and passionate story of parents and children and the uneasy frontier between love and hate...'' |
| Elizabeth Knox | The Dream Quake | Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | Edges lightly rubbed, corners rubbed Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is the talk of the country. Dreamhunter Grace Tiebold's reputation is in tatters, and Laura is in hiding. But the nightmare has only just begun... '' Part 2 of The Dreamhunter Duet |
| Elizabeth Knox | The Dreamhunter Duet | Faber 2005-7 Both are First Edition First Printing (Two Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spines and page edges a little marked and lightly browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Laura comes from a world similar to our own but for one difference... an unfathomable land filled with dreams of every kind and invisible to all but a select few: the Dreamhunters... catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace, the Rainbow Opera... '' |
| Katherine Kurtz | The Legacy Of Lehr | Walker 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by William Kaluta | 7.50 | ''Captain George Lutobo of the interstellar luxury cruiser Valkyrie isn't happy when his ship is diverted... to pick up four large, blue cats with psychic powers... Nobody likes murders, but they start happening... soon after the cats come aboard... |
| Nick Lake | The Betrayal of the Living | Corvus 2013 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket With Publisher's Press Release | 7.50 | ''Taro... has vanquished Lord Oda... but with no land and no title, he has no hope of marrying Hana... news of a murderous dragon and... large reward... not the only monsters... The dead... have begun to rise... '' Last of the trilogy, following Blood Ninja & Lord Odo's Revenge |
| Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Cape 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Fifteen-year-old Liga, emotionally and physically battered from bearing two children, one begot through incest, the other through rape, is magically granted her own heaven... there is only a beautiful little cottage in the middle of a wood. Here she brings up two daughters... But the membrane between Liga's heaven and the real world has grown thin... '' |
| Derek Landy | Demon Road | HarperCollins 2015 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart but insecure, she spends most of her time online... But when a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying family secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers and red-skinned, horned demons... Amber's only chance rests with her fellow travellers... '' First of the series. |
| Derek Landy | Demon Road | HarperCollins 2015 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with 'W. H. Smith Signed Edition' sticker, a short tear at the top of the spine panel and a superficial horizontal scratch across the front panel Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart, but insecure... a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying family secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers and red-skinned, horned demons... '' First in the Demon Road Trilogy |
| Derek Landy | Skulduggery Pleasant Last Stand of Dead Men | HarperCollins 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're to have any chance of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making....'' Eighth in the series. |
| Louise Lawrence (Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle Holden) | Journey Through Llandor | Collins 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges slightly browned and 35mm lamination split in front gutter else Fine book with laminated boards. | 10.00 | ''Chased by Craig and Carrie after school, Roderick stumbles through the forest. Almost instantly the three of them are caught up in events far beyond their control, in a world of terrifying creatures and strange beings where all their accepted standards and beliefs are turned upside down... '' First of the Llandor Trilogy. |
| Louise Lawrence (Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle Holden) | The Crowlings | Collins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... When young Ben Crowling unexpectedly finds himself leader of his clan, his one thought is to build a new life on the land granted to him by the star-people... But the wheel is completing the circle: no longer can their planet provide for its people, and its enemies grow invisibly in number - until it is too late... '' |
| Tim Lebbon | Relics | Titan Books 2017 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously? (Paper) | Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | 5.00 | ''There's an underground black market for arcane things... mummified satyrs, gryphon's claws, and more... Angela Gough's lover Vince goes missing... he was employed... providing bizarre objects... she uncovers a deadly side to the black market. It might have claimed Vince, and Angela may be next.'' |
| Lori M. Lee | Forest of Souls | Page Street 2020 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket, with bruised card 'letter' from the author illustrating the lead character Signed by the Author on a Prelim page | 10.00 | ''After years of training to become the queen's next royal spy, Sirscha Ashwyn's plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo. And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life. Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the domain of the Spider King... '' |
| Tanith Lee | East Of Midnight | Macmillan 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with one small tear Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 35.00 | ''The last thing he remembered was the darkness in the hollow below the stone, and the dogs belling overhead, cheated of their quarry - Dekteon, sometimes called Red, the rebellious runaway slave... when the cart came so suddenly out of the wood there was something strange about it too. The horse that drew it had the feet of a bear, and the man... had phosphorescent eyes... '' |
| Tanith Lee | East Of Midnight | Macmillan 1977 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the rear flap a little damp-marked | 20.00 | ''... he remembered... the darkness in the hollow below the stone, and the dogs belling overhead, cheated of their quarry - Dekteon, sometimes called Red, the rebellious runaway slave... when the cart came so suddenly out of the wood there was something strange about it too. The horse that drew it had the feet of a bear, and the man... had phosphorescent eyes... '' |
| Tanith Lee | Prince On A White Horse | Macmillan 1982 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background very slightly faded | 15.00 | ''He was a prince, he knew. And he was riding a white horse. But who he was, and how he had got there, he had no idea... '' Scarce. |
| Tanith Lee | The Claidi Collection | Dutton 2003 First Combined Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine, faint splash-mark across page fore-edges and a couple of page corner tips creased else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket, with a damp-mark inside the rear panel (no show-through). | 15.00 | ''... Her masters have called sixteen-year-old Claidi many things, but she has always known she is a slave... When a charming stranger arrives and is imprisoned, Claidi decides to risk everything to free him and deliver him home to a distant kingdom... '' |
| Anna Lewins | Dream For Danger | Blackie 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Todd and Tessa are used to aliens - New London is full of them and even one of their best friends at school is an alien. But Gilen and Luz are different, more mysterious and more powerful than any other children... their deadly enemy, the Betrayer, has been waiting for them... And the only way the children can stop everything being destroyed is to... find the Betrayer himself... '' |
| Kenneth Lillington | What Beckoning Ghost? | Faber 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''What makes a ghost walk? Emma had no idea, but after what happened to her at Marland Hall she needed to find out... she felt a sensation of sheer terror and saw - faintly but unmistakably - a ghost... '' |
| Sarah Lotz (Also as Lily Herne and S. L. Grey [with Louis Greenberg]) | Day Four | Hodder & Stoughton 2015 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''For three days, hundreds of pleasure-seekers have enjoyed tropical bliss on board the Beautiful Dreamer.. disaster strikes... the electricity fails... dead in the water, with no way to call for help... a mysterious flu... bizarre, frightening symptoms.. a young woman is found dead... someone - or something - on board that doesn't want the Beautiful Dreamer to ever reach land... '' |
| Sarah Lotz | The White Road | Hodder & Stoughton 2017 First Edition First Printing | Lower edge of front cover very lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''Simon Newman breaks into a notoriously dangerous cave in Wales... the gruesome video he shoots there goes viral, earning him overnight fame and legions of followers... his next high... the world's highest graveyard, Mount Everest. Two hundred people have died trying to reach its peak... '' |
| Richard A. Lupoff | The Forever City | Walker 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, rear board cracked, faint discoloration to front free end paper and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Bob Eggleton | 4.00 | ''On the free orbital city of Yukawa. there wasn't much work for a camera operator... The only work he could find was on a tiny spaceship bound for a rescue mission into deep and unknown space... the Oort Cloud, at the very farthest edge of the solar system... But none of its passengers expected to be thrown into another universe... |
| Wilson Macarthur | The Young Chevalier | Collins 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine book in slightly torn creased and worn Dust Jacket Illustrated by Steven Spurrier, A. R. A. | 5.00 | ''... Bonnie Prince Charlie... the tragic story of the House of Stuart's vain but valliant struggle to drive from the Throne the usurping foreigner |
| Angus MacVicar | Kilpatrick - Special Reporter | Burke 1963 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... the most junior of reporters, Kerry Kilpatrick - pale and bespectacled, with a shock of hair as red as a peat fire... the exciting adventures and the unnerving scares to which he is subjected... are shared by his sister Fiona and his old friend Hector... Together... solve a mystery and restore peace and sanity... '' |
| Margaret Mahy | Dangerous Spaces | Hamish Hamilton 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with an 8 mm tear at the top of the front panel adjacent to the spine. | 4.00 | ''... One day... Anthea finds an old-fashioned photographic viewer - a stereoscope - and a notebook belonging to her great uncle Henry, who died as a boy... later she is alarmed, and then terrified, by the ghostly nightmare into which they draw her, where the lines between waking and sleeping become increasingly blurred... Lured on by the dead Henry, Anthea is soon in tremendous danger... '' |
| Margaret Mahy | Maddigan's Fantasia | Faber 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... the greatest circus in the world... In a time not far from our own, a colourful group of travellers journey through a damaged world. They are the magicians, clowns and trapeze artists... healing the land with wonder and laughter... But when three strange children join the circus, events take a sinister turn... through the land of the Witch-Finder and across time itself... '' |
| Margaret Mahy | The Magician of Hoad | HarperCollins 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and top corners slightly bumped and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''A hero, an ageing magician, a farm boy, a noble daughter and a mad prince meet on the edge of a city of tents. So begins an intricate tale of a boy who has a troublesome eye, who is capable of extraordinary things.... In this superbly cerebral fantasy for older readers, Margaret Mahy's masterwork will surprise and thrill... '' Scarce. |
| Bessie Marchant | Greta's Domain A Tale of Chiloe | Blackie 1911 First Edition First Printing (Dark page edges; Green boards with gilt lettering and red/black/cream illustrated spine and front) | Slightly bumped and creased at top and base of spine, red on spine illustration slightly faded to orange, corners a little rubbed/worn, page edges slightly faded, a little scattered foxing and 1st prize plate (from 1912) on reverse of Frontispiece - Very | 35.00 | ''The wind, which had been blowing half-a gale all night, dropped to a calm when the sun rose; and although there was still a heavy swell still on, the tramp-steamer Western Star plied her way merrily along down the coast of Chile, rolling, as was her uncomfortable wont... '' |
| Jan Mark | Divide and Rule | Kestrel 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''...a powerful successor to The Ennead - acclaimed by many as the outstanding novel of 1978 - and once again reveals Jan Mark's remarkable versatility, wit and ability to probe her characters to extraordinary depths.'' |
| Jan Mark | Fun With Mrs Thumb | Walker Books 1993 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in Dust Jacket slightly frayed at the head of the spine panel Illustrated by Nichola Bayley | 5.00 | Simple poetry with many pictures - ''... Mrs Thumb, a genteel wooden doll, lives quietly in a prettily appointed doll's house. And then, one day, the cat comes to play. What kind of games does he have in mind? Hide and seek? Bounce and pounce? Bumpety-bumpety bump? Poor Mrs Thumb!'' Not fantastical. |
| Ari Marmell | False Covenant A Widdershins Adventure | Pyr 2012 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bruised/slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''A creature of the other world, an unnatural entity bent on chaos and carnage, has come to stalk the nighttime streets of the Galician city of Davillon... a young thief called Widdershins... she's in way over her head... no idea which way to turn... The Guard... The Church... Her own Thieves' Guild doesn't trust her... she... may be their only real weapon... '' Second in the series |
| J. P. Martin | Uncle Cleans Up | The New York Review Children's Collection 2008 First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a couple of rub spots at the upper tips of the boards else Fine book. Illustrated by Quentin Blake | 4.00 | ''It is a time of rejoicing at Homeward, the labyrinthine castle that is as magical as Oz and as full of wonders as Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Uncle, the wise, kind, generous, and fabulously rich elephant who rules over Homeward, has joined with his friends to celebrate their triumph over the ruffians in neighboring Badfort... meanwhile... '' |
| J. P. Martin | Uncle Stories | Red Fox 2000 First Printing (Paper) | Cover corners lightly creased, small nick to fore edge of title page and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine Book Illustrated by Quentin Blake | 5.00 | ''Uncle is an elephant. He's immensely rich, and he's a B.A. He dresses well, generally in a purple dressing-gown, and often rides about on a traction engine, which he prefers to a car... '' |
| William Mayne | Hob and the Goblins | Dorling Kindersley 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and top page edges slightly marked else Fine book in in laminated boards (as issued) and like, slightly creased Dust Jacket Illustrated by Norman Messenger | 4.00 | ''... Hob, the friendly house spirit, has found a new family to take care of, but... Hob is suddenly confronted with dwarfs, witches, goblins, gremlins, and a dark secret that hides the path to a crock of gold. he must use all his tricks, cunning and invisible powers if he is to see the adventure through to its hair-raising conclusion |
| M. I. McAllister | The Mistmantle Chronicles Urchin of the Riding Stars | Bloomsbury 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket with pictorial boards - as issued | 5.00 | ''''On a night of riding stars, an orphaned squirrel is found abandoned and close to death... Urchin has no idea of his powerful destiny or the way in which he will influence the island of Mistmantle... first in The Mistmantle Chronicles.'' |
| Lish McBride | Hold Me Closer, Necromancer | Holt 2010 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''Meet Sam, just your average guy rocking that fast-food career... Douglas, a powerful and violent necromancer... recognises Sam as a fellow necromancer... and he's none too happy to have a competitor... now Sam has an undead friend... and a hot werewolf girl for company... can Sam figure out how to use his mysteriously latent powers?'' Her first novel. |
| Geraldine McCaughrean | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Oxford University Press 2006 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Number 837/1500) | Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by David Wyatt | 45.00 | ''... Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of warpaint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help... '' |
| Geraldine McCaughrean | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Oxford University Press 2010 Exclusive Harrods Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket lightly worn at the tips of the folds Illustrated by David Wyatt | 40.00 | ''... Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of warpaint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help... '' At Christmas 2010 Harrods did a special Peter Pan and Peter Pan in Scarlet window display. This edition, produced for this occasion, is very scarce |
| Georgess McHargue | Stoneflight | Viking 1975 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine, boards slightly bowed, binding slightly strained and finger stain on top page edges adjacent to spine - Very Good book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket Drawings by Arvis Stewart | 10.00 | ''... During her long, lovely night flights on Griff's back he told her about the other Stonefolk - the carved stone animals scattered around New York City. And Janie had the power to quicken them to life... and then one night Janie found that anyone could turn to stone... '' Scarce |
| Eoin McNamee | The Navigator | HarperCollins 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, edges slightly rubbed, lower 50mm of spine with pressure wrinkles and one surface tear - Very Good Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''... Owen's life is turned upside-down the day he gets involved with the Resisters and their centuries-long feud with an ancient, evil race. The harsh, with their icy blasts and relentless onslaught, have a single aim - to turn back time and eliminate all life... '' |
| Cliff McNish | Angel | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''NOT FIT TO BE A DAUGHTER... NOT FIT TO BE A FRIEND... NOT FIT TO BE AN ANGEL... Two girls are inextricably linked by destiny... Stephanie is friendless, strange, a misfit. Freya can't stop seeing angels. But when one of the angels starts to stalk her... '' |
| Cliff McNish | Angel | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the spine panel. | 7.50 | ''NOT FIT TO BE A DAUGHTER... NOT FIT TO BE A FRIEND... NOT FIT TO BE AN ANGEL... Two girls are inextricably linked by destiny... Stephanie is friendless, strange, a misfit. Freya can't stop seeing angels. But when one of the angels starts to stalk her... '' |
| Cliff McNish | Breathe A ghost story | Orion 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by Geoff Taylor | 4.00 | ''Jack is used to danger... But his new home has a danger he's never known before - the spirits of the dead... Only Jack can see them. Only he can hear them. And only he can learn their secrets in time to save his mother - and himself... '' |
| Cliff McNish | The Doomspell | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised & slightly rubbed at top & base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof with decorated card covers - as issued | 10.00 | ''... Rachael and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch... Rachael discovers that she has extraordinary gifts... transform herself into a feather, or fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch can... for the Witch's victims, Rachael is their only hope... '' Scarce |
| Cliff McNish | The Doomspell | Orion 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name written on rear free end paper else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel very slightly faded | 5.00 | ''... Rachael and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch... Rachael discovers that she has extraordinary gifts... transform herself into a feather, or fly on an owl's back, just as the Witch can... for the Witch's victims, Rachael is their only hope... '' |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Top corners slightly creased, small wear spot at base of spine - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof | 7.50 | ''... Six children... are drawn to Coldharbour - an eerie wasteland of wind, rats, seagulls and rubbish tips. Emily and Freda... scuttle bright-eyed and insect-like in search of the others. They find Thomas half-starving on a food tip. They discover the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... And... the luminous Milo... '' |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''Six children... drawn to Coldharbour... Emily and Freda, the twins... Thomas... the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... the luminous Milo, whose eyes see everything and whose skin is hot and bright with silver. Each of them has a unique gift, but they must learn to use their skills fast... '' |
| Cliff McNish | The Silver Child | Orion 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Six children... drawn to Coldharbour... Emily and Freda, the twins... Thomas... the giant boy, Walter... Helen, who can read minds... the luminous Milo, whose eyes see everything and whose skin is hot and bright with silver. Each of them has a unique gift, but they must learn to use their skills fast... '' |
| Stephenie Meyer | Eclipse | Atom 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and partial spine crease else Fine book in lightly edge-rubbed and creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge... Bella... finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between... Edward and... Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf... '' |
| Stephenie Meyer | New Moon | Atom 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With red and white flower on cover) | Bruised at top & base of spine & a few page corner tips & page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the base of the front fold. | 30.00 | ''... For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined... '' Second in the Twilight Saga. |
| Livi Michael | The Angel Stone | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''... there are those who believe eternal life is the only way forward... Manchester, 1605, and Simeon is torn from his mother... In the here and now of modern Manchester, Kate's father has mysteriously vanished. Suddenly Simeon and Kate's lives are bound together by the power of the cathedral's Angel Stone. One of them must make a terrible sacrifice... |
| China Mieville | Un Lun Dun | MacMillan 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bump at base spine and to top page edges and short pencil line to top page edges else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 10.00 | ''The iron wheel began to spin... The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder... The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are leading ordinary lives until they stumble into UnLondon... '' |
| Dominic Mieville | The Mysterious Burnchester Hall | DM Productions 2004 First Edition Second Printing (Paper) (Adult Cover Variant - no priority) | Lightly rubbed at the top of the spine else Fine book | 4.00 | ''When Tyro and Jess explore their empty school, Burnchester Hall, with their friends Rick and Tom, they discover their hated teacher conducting strange experiments, abandoned tunnels under the school, and hooded figures shadowing their activities... '' |
| Dominic Mieville | The Mysterious Burnchester Hall | DM Productions 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Adult Cover Variant - no priority) | Lower rear corner a little bumped, else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Prelim Page | 5.00 | ''When Tyro and Jess explore their empty school, Burnchester Hall, with their friends Rick and Tom, they discover their hated teacher conducting strange experiments, abandoned tunnels under the school, and hooded figures shadowing their activities... '' |
| Dominic Mieville | The Mysterious Burnchester Hall | DM Productions 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Juvenile Cover Variant - no priority) | Lower front cover corner very lightly rubbed else Fine book Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''When Tyro and Jess explore their empty school, Burnchester Hall, with their friends Rick and Tom, they discover their hated teacher conducting strange experiments, abandoned tunnels under the school, and hooded figures shadowing their activities... '' |
| John Moat | Bartonwood | Chatto & Windus 1978 Second Impression | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges lightly foxed and page fore-edges lightly marked - Very Good book in like Dust Jacket With illustrations by the Author | 4.00 | ''...The hero is a boy with a gift for riddles. Supported by his odd allies - an Infanta, a sea changeling, a Viking, and the mysterious Nosso - he fights with a clan of farmers, and against their weird dogs and chain-saws for the freedom of the wood... the story reaches its haunting showdown on Christmas Eve.'' |
| Michael Molloy | The Witch Trade | The Chicken House 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Abbey and Spike are drawn into a world of witches... captive children, lost parents, and a quest to find Ice Dust - the source of magical power. With their strange new companions - Captain Starlight, Benbow he giant albatross, and Sir Chadwick Street, flamboyant Master of the Light Witches - they... do battle with an enemy darker and dirtier than they could have ever imagined... '' |
| Hugh Montgomery | The Voyage of the Arctic Tern | Walker 2002 First Edition Trade Issue | Bruised at top of spine and front free end paper a little abraded else Fine book in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket Illustrated by Nick Poullis | 5.00 | ''... the ship's skipper, Bruno, cursed to a life of eternal wandering for a moment of greed and betrayal... a battle with an ancient adversary, the villainous pirate Mad Dog Morgan... Will good triumph over evil?... Vividly narrated in stirring verse... an extraordinary and epic adventure story... '' Lavishly illustrated in black & white. |
| Joshua Mowll | Operation Red Jericho | Walker2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine book in illustrated boards and elasticated band Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''Shanghai 1920... Doug and Becca MacKensie anxiously await news of their missing parents... and stumble across a far greater mystery. England 2002: Joshua Mowll inherits a remarkable archive of documents and painstakingly pieces together the extraordinary events... ancient secret... astonishing adventure... far-reaching consequences... '' The Guild Trilogy Book 1 |
| Jenny Moyer | Flashfall | Holt 2016 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and lightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Signed Flashfall bookplate on pre-lim and appropriate bookmark | 7.50 | ''Orion is a Subpar, expected to mine the tunnels of Outpost Five... For generations, her people have chased... the only element that can shield humanity... She and her caving partner Dram work the most treacherous tunnel, fighting past flash bats and tunnel gulls, in hopes of mining enough cirium to earn their way into the protected city... '' |
| Robert Muchamore | Guardian Angel | Hodder 2012 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''Ryan has saved Ethan's life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them. Ethan's family runs a billion-dollar criminal empire and Ryan's job is to destroy it... '' Number 13 in the series |
| Violet Needham | The Changeling of Monte Lucio | Collins 1946 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top edge of front board and page edges a little foxed and faint crayon mark on front free end paper - Very Good book in slightly rubbed, marked and creased Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears Illustrated by Joyce Bru | 25.00 | ''... the story of Philip, Count of Monte Lucio, and his twin brother Hugo... His guardians and relations, who cordially dislike him, are intriguing to depose him and set his twin brother in his place... Philip... also discovers a plot to oust both himself and Hugo... '' |
| Patrick Ness | A Monster Calls | Walker Books 2011 First Edition First Printing (2012 Winner of the Carnegie Medal, British Children's Book of the Year, Red House Children's Book Award, the Kitschies and the Greenaway Medal) | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the fold tips lightly rubbed Illustrated by Jim Kay | 20.00 | ''The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Patrick's been expecting... the one from his nightmare.. This monster is something different... ancient... wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Connor. It wants the truth.'' From an idea by Siobhan Dowd |
| Patrick Ness | Burn | Walker Books 2020 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm... '' |
| Linda Newbery | Lost Boy | Orion2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruise at top of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Matt is startled to see his own initials - M.L. - on a roadside shrine... he meets Robbo and Tig, who blame Wil Jones, the old man Matt's seen roaming the hills... the confused old man mistakes him for another lost boy... How many... are there? Why does Matt feel haunted... '' |
| Robert Newman | The Shattered Stone | Hutchinson 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower board edges slightly rubbed and previous owner's name on front fixed end paper else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''There were mysteries about their life within the forest that Neva and Iv did not understand. Why did an invisible barrier hold them there? Would they ever be allowed to leave?... they were restless... they sensed that they were being prepared for something... '' |
| Sandra Newman | The Country of Ice Cream Star | Chatto & Windus 2014 First Book Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, corners lightly rubbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) | 15.00 | ''... In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children - by the time they are twenty, each of them dies from a disease they call posies. When her brother sickens, Ice Cream sets out on the trail of a cure... '' |
| William Nicholson | Noman The Third Book of The Noble Warriors Trilogy | Egmont 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''The legendary fighter monks are no more. The mighty warlord of Orlan has managed to destroy their fortress. Without a base or a leader, the Nomana's power has grown weak and the fighters have scattered... And so the hunt begins for a new leader... '' |
| William Nicholson | Seeker The First Book of The Noble Warriors | Egmont 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges lightly rubbed, front cover slightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Seeker wants glory. Morning Star is looking for her mother... the Wildman is searching for the answers to questions he doesn't even know exist... united in their desire to join the Noble Warriors... '' |
| William Nicholson | The Wind on Fire Trilogy | Mammoth/Egmont 2000-2 All Are First Edition First Printing (All with number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines and (volume 1) lower front corner else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket The Wind Singer Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 80.00 | ''In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer... '' Scarce.. |
| William Nicholson | The Wind on Fire Trilogy | Mammoth/Egmont 2000-2 All Are First Edition First Printing (All with number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket | 50.00 | ''In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer... '' Scarce.. |
| William Nicholson | The Wind Singer | Mammoth 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower front corner bruised, some page top corners slightly bumped and creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear near the fold tips. | 5.00 | ''In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer... '' First in the acclaimed trilogy. |
| Jenny Nimmo | Midnight For Charlie Bone | Egmont 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front, and upper rear cover corners lightly creased else Fine book | 40.00 | ''Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? Why now? His horrible aunts are delighted with his new talent. They have plans for him... The way Charlie's life is about to change, he'll be lucky to live till Christmas.'' First of the series - First Printings are Scarce |
| Garth Nix | Newt's Emerald | Katherine Tegen Books 2015 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 15.00 | ''On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful... Newt... will inherit her family's treasure: the Newington Emerald... bestows its wearer with. magical powers.. the Emerald disappears... Newt sets off to recover it... as a man, moustache included... a dangerous adventure that includes an evil sorceress... a waggish approach to the... Regency romance... '' |
| Dennis Nolan | The Castle Builder | Macmillan 1987 Third Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine aqnd corners bruised else Fine book in like, slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a short (10mm) tear at the lower edge of the front panel. | 4.00 | ''A little boy builds a massive elaborate sand castle on the beach. Stepping back to admire his creation, he is transported inside, where excitement and danger await... '' |
| Andre Norton | Mirror of Destiny | Avonova 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and upper corners and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper tip of the rear fold and a superficial scratch on the front panel | 7.50 | ''... The King's lottery has determined that young Twilla must marry - for only the wedded can survive the terrible fate awaiting those who penetrate the primeval forest... Twilla will not proceed unprotected... for she carries... a talisman of great power... an astonishing artefact that obscures and illuminates, that alters appearance and perception... '' |
| Mary O'Hara | Green Grass of Wyoming | Eyre & Spottiswoode 1947 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised and worn at top and base of spine and page edges and end papers badly foxed - around Very Good book in worn and slightly eroded, and page edges a little browned and marked Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''... hailed as 'the best of her incomparable horse stories'... the canvas is wider, the incidents even faster and more dramatic, there is the hint of a delightfully handled young love story, and... the writer's brilliant handling of all her people, human and animal... '' |
| Lauren Oliver | Delirium | Hodder & Stoughton 2011 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few light spine creases, a number of page corners creased and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it. Then, at last, they found the cure. Now, everything is different. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen... '' |
| Lauren Oliver | Panic | Hodder & Stoughton 2014 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine and upper corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket slightly rubbed near the base of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''Panic began... in Carp, a poor town... in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. It's a game played only by the desperate... knowing they are gambling with their lives... Heather never thought she would compete... But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for... '' |
| Kenneth Oppel | This Dark Endeavour The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein Book One | David Fickling 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''... Victor's twin, Konrad, has fallen ill, and no doctor is able to cure him... Victor enlists his beautiful cousin Elizabeth and her best friend Henry on a treacherous search for the ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life. Impossible odds, dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest... |
| Panama Oxridge (???? Also as Adrian Poxmage & Paxman O'Gradie) | The Tartan of Thyme Part Two Thyme Running Out | Inside Pocket 2011 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by the Author | 5.00 | '''Thyme Running Out 'The cool, efficient voice of the inbuilt computer commenced its countdown, but Justin wasn't listening. Oblivious to the spirals of plasma swirling round the chronopod, he wondered how many of the Rules of Time Travel he'd just broken... '' |
| James Patterson | Daniel X Watch The Skies | Doubleday 2009 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened and no longer quite parallel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Teenage alien hunter Daniel X, takes on the wildest threat the world has ever seen - an alien whose craving for fame could destroy the planet... '' Follows on from The Dangerous Days of Daniel X |
| Michelle Paver | Spirit Walker Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, a little worn at the tips of the folds Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''A cry echoed through the Forest. He froze. It was not the yowl of a vixen, or a lynx seeking a mate. It was a man. Or something that had once been a man. With a creeping sense of dread, Torak watched the light between the trees begin to fail... '' Book Two. |
| Michelle Paver | Spirit Walker Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''A cry echoed through the Forest. He froze. It was not the yowl of a vixen, or a lynx seeking a mate. It was a man. Or something that had once been a man. With a creeping sense of dread, Torak watched the light between the trees begin to fail... '' Book Two. |
| Meredith Ann Pierce | Dark Moon | Little, Brown 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and previous owner's name and date on front free end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 30.00 | ''He was the youngest prince the unicorns had ever known: Alijan son-of-Korr, Dark Moon. A silver crescent on his brow and a white star on his heel were tokens that one day he was destined to become the legendary Firebringer... a haunting, high-spirited fantasy full of magic and adventure, creating a stunning sequel to Birth of the Firebringer, the first in the trilogy...'' |
| Sarah Pinborough | 13 Minutes | Gollancz 2016 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this it wasn't an accident and I wasn't suicidal.'' |
| Daniel M. Pinkwater | Jolly Roger A Dog of Hoboken | Lothrop Lee 1985 First Edition First Printing | Slight spine lean, faint damp-marking at lower board edges else Fine book in slightly worn and damp-rippled Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''How Jolly Roger came to Hoboken and became king of the waterfront has long been a matter of speculation and rumour. now, one who was there regales us with the tale... Jolly Roger's formative days on the Matilda Magoo and... his later adventures... where he met The Kid and Marvin the Ape and lived, for a time, in a car wash... '' |
| Terry Pratchett | Dodger | Doubleday 2012 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows him. Anybody who is anybody doesn't. He used to know his future; it involved a lot of brick-lined tunnels and plenty of filth. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, things start to get really messy... '' |
| Terry Pratchett | Wintersmith | HarperTempest 2006 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. at 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy... But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winter itself... And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever... '' |
| Susan Price | Here Lies Price | Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket Jacket Illustrated by P. J. Lynch | 7.50 | ''... fourteen highly unlikely and wonderfully readable tales... funny... sad... and one or two... require a reader with strong nerves... '' The Kettle; My Great-Grandfather's Grave-Digging; The Troll Sister; Lost Vanya; The Haunted Inn; The Devil and the P.M.; The Curse on the Willow; The Horn; To Dine Eith the Devil; Mrs Sugar; The Bull; Feeding the Dog and two others |
| Maggie Prince | Here Comes A Candle To Light You To Bed | Orion 1996 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 5.00 | ''Although she hardly knows him, Emily already feels part of Seth's mysterious world... one of trapped time, full of the terrified and terrifying victims of plague-ridden seventeenth London. How can Emily release herself from this fearful past? '' |
| Sarah Prineas | The Magic Thief Book One | Quercus 2008 First Edition First Printing | Top front corner slightly rubbed else Fin book Illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo | 5.00 | ''... Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic. But for some reason he did not. Nevery takes Conn as his apprentice on the provision that the boy find a stone of his own... '' |
| Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials III The Amber Spyglass | Scholastic 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Whitbread Award Winner) | Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Lyra and Will... find themselves... facing even greater perils. But there are old friends who come to their aid... There are new allies... And there are new dangers, including a journey to the worst world of all... '' Third book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials Trilogy+The Amber Spyglass Booklet | Scholastic 1995-2000 First Printing (Vol. 1 First Edition, Vols. 2 & 3 First UK Edition) | Book 1: 6 page edges bumped (during production) and title page neatly removed Book 2: top page edges foxed Book 3: page edges lightly marked/browned. Dust Jacket of Book 1 slightly worn at the top of the first fold else Fine books in like Dust Jacket Sig | 600.00 | ''A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London... where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air... and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for... '' His Dark Materials Trilogy - one of the most significant Young Adult series to be published for decades! |
| Philip Pullman | I Was A Rat!... or The Scarlet Slippers | Doubleday 1999 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top and bumped at base of spine with a couple of spots of wear at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in laminated boards, as issued | 50.00 | ''I was a RAT! So insists Roger. Maybe it's not true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster rampaging in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A money-spinning fairground freak? He is to Mr Tapscrew. A champion wriggler and a downy card. That's what Billy hopes... '' |
| Philip Pullman | Serpentine | Penguin 2020 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Fine book in like Dust Jacket Illustrated by Tom Duxbury | 5.00 | ''Lyra Silvertongue and her daemon Panelaimon have left the events of His Dark Materials behind. Here in this snapshot of their forever-changed lives they return to the North to visit an old friend, where we will learn that things are not exactly as they seem... '' |
| Philip Pullman | The Scarecrow And His Servant | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 4.00 | ''One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rin, taking no notice... until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head. The scarecrow blinked with surprise and came to life... a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas... terrifying dangers - battle and shipwreck, brigands and tricksters... '' |
| Philip Pullman | The Scarecrow And His Servant | Knopf 2004 First Edition in the US First Printing | Corners creased, covers lightly creased, edges slightly rubbed/worn - around Very Good Uncorrected Proof | 10.00 | ''When a bolt of lightning strikes a tattered scarecrow, he blinks with surprise - and comes to life. He's a courteous fellow with a generous spirit, a passion for adventure - and a small pea for a brain. Accompanied by Jack... the Scarecrow leaves his bird-scaring duties behind and seeks a life of excitement and glory... '' |
| Philip Pullman | The Subtle Knife | Scholastic 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) | Bruised at base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the price removed | 90.00 | ''Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run... Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs... '' Scarce second book of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. |
| Lucy Daniel Raby | Nicolai of the North | Hodder 2005 First Edition First Printing | Edges slightly rubbed, and page edges a little browned - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Illustrated by Ted Dewan | 4.00 | ''One Midwinter's Eve, many centuries ago, a miracle happened at the North Pole, when out of a chasm in the earth's core, the Elfin Kingdom was born... Now the kingdom is all but destroyed. Only Nicolai, the last Elf, is saved... when the evil Magda begins her terrifying onslaught on the children of the world, it is Nicolai alone who is able to stand up to her... '' |
| Celia Rees | The Stone Testament | Scholastic 2007 First Edition Second Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and board edges and top page edges marked (?coffee stain?) else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 5.00 | ''Zillah wakes up knowing everyone in the house is dead. Across the globe, the Children of the Sixth Dawn foresaw this day as the end of the world and made their choice. But she survived. Adam never knew his parents. Watching the strange news unfold, he is about to learn the secret of his birth, and his place within ancient mystery. The oldest evil is waiting... '' |
| Celia Rees | The Wish House | Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''In the scorching summer of 1976, on holiday in Wales, Richard meets the inhabitants of the Wish House... a famous artist... His sixteen-year-old daughter, Clio... The whole exuberant, talented Dalton clan amaze Richard... and Clio entrances him utterly... '' |
| Philip Reeve | Larklight or The Revenge of the White Spiders or To Saturn's Rings and Back! | Bloomsbury 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Light spine crease, upper rear corner slightly creased, corners lightly rubbed, small mark to page edges - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof (with illustrated covers) Decorated Throughout by David Wyatt | 5.00 | ''It was just another normal morning in space when disaster struck. My sister Myrtle (who was quite irritating, as girls generally can be) and I faced the most awful peril, and we hadn't even had breakfast... '' |
| Justin Richards | The Death Collector | Faber 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 3.00 | ''When Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals George Archer's Wallet he has no idea that he is about to enter a world of grave-robbing, assassins and zombies... in George's wallet is a clue to one of the biggest mysteries of all... that has remained hidden for millions of years... '' |
| Rick Riordan (Richard Russell Riordan, Jr) | Heroes of Olympus The Blood of Olympus | Puffin 2014 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page top corner creased and lower board edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 7.50 | ''... Percy, Jason, Annabeth the rest of the crew are no closer to defeating the all-powerful Earh-Mother Gaia... her army of giants has risen... They must be stopped before the feast of Spes, when Gaia will sacrifice two demigods... in order to awaken... if Gaia wakes, it is game over. For them all.'' Fifth and last in the series |
| Katherine Roberts | Song Quest | Element 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and mark on lower edge of P. 52/3 else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with 7mm tear at top edge of rear panel and a little wear at the top of the rear fold Illustrated by Chris Down | 5.00 | ''... Trembling with excitement, she opened her eyes. At first they were only shadows under the surface, dark blurs that glimmered silver and green around the edges as they rippled closer. Then about fifty of them broke the water at once in a fountain of spray and flashing rainbow tails. Rialle caught her breath. They were even more beautiful than she'd imagined... '' |
| Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Penguin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Lower rear corner slightly creased, small 'nick' to fore-edge of front cover, corners slightly rubbed, else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Imagine the world exploding. A perfect summer blown apart. The summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part of that was because of the war... Mostly everything changed because of Edmond... It would be much easier to tell this story if it was all about a chaste and perfect love at an Extreme Time in History... '' |
| Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Penguin 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page top corner creased and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | 5.00 | ''Imagine the world exploding. A perfect summer blown apart. The summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part of that was because of the war... Mostly everything changed because of Edmond... It would be much easier to tell this story if it was all about a chaste and perfect love at an Extreme Time in History... '' |
| Rena Rossner | The Sisters of the Winter Wood | Orbit 2018 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''... a remote village... on the border of Moldova and Ukraine... sisters Liba and Laya... a troupe of mysterious men... Laya falls under their spell... dark forces close in... a family secret passed down through the generations... a magical heritage... the old fairy tales are true... and could save them all.'' |
| J. K. Rowling | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Original Screenplay | Little, Brown 2018 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, bruise at lower edge of front board else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Illustrations and Design by Minalima | 10.00 | ''Explorer and Magizoologist Newt Scamander has just completed a round-the-globe trip in search of the most rare and unusual magical creatures... Arriving in New York... some of his fantastic beasts escape into the city... '' |
| J. K. Rowling | The Tales of Beedle the Bard Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger | Children's High Level Group 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Page edges lightly browned and two pages creased else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 3.00 | Introduction; The Wizard and the Hopping Pot; The Fountain of Fair Fortune; The Warlock's Hairy Heart; Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump; The Tale of the Three Brothers; A Personal Message from Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP with additional notes for each story by Professor Albus Dumbledore. |
| Christopher Russell | Brind | Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and corners - Fine Uncorrected Proof | 5.00 | ''Discovered as a baby in a litter of hounds, kennel boy Brind is more dog than human. He understands dogs. He speaks to dogs. And most importantly, he leads them. but when Brind is torn from his pack in the midst of a bloody battle, he is suddenly thrown into a world more dangerous than the fiercest of his dogs - the world of men... '' |
| Angie Sage | Septimus Heap Book One Magyk | Bloomsbury 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and spine slightly ribbed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a short tear at the base of the front fold Illustrations by Mark Zug | 5.00 | ''An ExtraOrdinary Wizard mysteriously resigns. a young Queen is taken ill. A baby boy disappears. a baby girl is rescued from a snowy path in the woods. And all on the same night... The evil necromancer DomDaniel is plotting his comeback and a Major Obstacle resides in the Heap family... '' |
| Angie Sage | Septimus Heap Book Six Darke | Bloomsbury 2011 First Edition First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in laminated boards (as issued) and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Illustrated by Mark Zug | 5.00 | ''Septimus Heap has reached a dangerous stage in his Apprenticeship, known as Darke Week... Septimus must call on all of his wizarding skills to save the Castle and Wizard Tower from destruction... Septimus needs the help of his friends and some powerful Wizards to prevent the Darkness from spreading... '' |
| Angie Sage | Septimus Heap Book Three Physik | Bloomsbury 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in a fine Dust Jacket Illustrated by Mark Zug | 5.00 | ''When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to achieve ever-lasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus disappearance, and the talents of her son... a famous Alchemist... '' |
| Fay Sampson | The Silent Fort | Hale 2003 First Edition First Printing | Lower front corner bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''The Roman army is invading Devon. In Hillforts and sacred groves, druids and warriors quarrel over the fate of their tribe... male and female druids compete for the soul of the tribe and the Roman legion marches relentlessly closer... '' |
| Malcolm Saville | The Master of Maryknoll | Evans 1950 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, light spine crease, blue cloth spottedly faded and page edges foxed - Good book in torn Dust Jacket with a couple of small missing chips Illustrated by Alice Bush | 7.50 | ''Charles Renislau, the 16-year-old son of a famous Polish conductor... plays the violin very well... meets the Buckinghams - Juliet, 15 and very pretty, a would-be actress, and her brother Simon... decide to join forces and spend the summer holidays seeking adventure and earning what they can... '' First in the Series |
| Newt Scamander (J. K. Rowling) | Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them | Levene 2001 First Printing (Turtleback) | End papers partly browned and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine book in laminated boards - as issued | 20.00 | ''... resides in almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have a chance to learn... '' Issued for Comic Relief in 2001 with revised cover text and illustrations and prelim page omitted else paperback pages rebound in boards - First Hardback edition? |
| Newt Scamander (J. K. Rowling) | Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them | Bloomsbury 2001 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Cover corners a little creased, edges a little rubbed and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine book | 7.50 | ''... resides in almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have a chance to learn... '' Issued for Comic Relief in 2001 |
| Liesel Schwarz | A Conspiracy of Alchemists The Chronicles of Light and Shadow | Del Rey 2013 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, one page edge slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''In a Golden Age where spark reactors power the airways, and creatures of Light and Darkness walk openly... an unusual cargo drags airline-pilot Elle Chance into the affairs of the mysterious Mr. Marsh, she... must do everything in her power to stop the Alchemists from unleashing a magical apocalypse... '' |
| Hugh Scott | Something Watching | Walker 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''... When Alice's mother is clearing out the loft, ready for the family's move from their chalet bungalow to an old castle, Alice sees the leopard-skin coat for the first time. And it makes her shudder. Attached to the coat is a label insisting that it be burned... out in the darkness, there is something watching and waiting. Something evil. Something monstrous... '' |
| Marcus Sedgwick | Blood Red Snow White | Orion 2007 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''Deep in the snowy forest the great bear that is Russia wakes from a long sleep and marches to St. Petersburg to claim its birthright... the end for the Romanoffs and the dawn of a new era... One man was part of it all... Arthur Ransome... This is his story.'' |
| Marcus Sedgwick | My Swordhand is Singing | Orion 2006 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''... In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast flowing waters around their hut... Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this nor why his father carries a long, battered box... a soul-less enemy and a terrifying destiny... '' |
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Dark Flight Down | Orion 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic and deadly chases through gloomy catacombs, but he is still on the run... '' Sequel to The Book of Dead Days |
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Dark Horse | Orion 2002 First Edition First Printing | Fine book in like Dust Jacket but for tarnishing of silver cover letters | 5.00 | ''A girl snatched from the wolves, a sealed box that can only be opened by one person, a sinister stranger nearing the end of his quest, and a boy destined to lead his clan are woven together into this riveting story of betrayal and ancient magic... '' |
| Marcus Sedgwick | The Foreshadowing | Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''It is 1915. Sasha Fox is seventeen years old and she has a terrible gift. She can see the future... horrors on the battlefields... what will happen to her brothers, Edgar and Tom... trapped by her tragic power. Cursed by a fate too awful to bear - for who wants to see the end of their own story... ?'' |
| David Severn (David Storr Unwin) | Forest Holiday | Bodley Head 1946 First Edition First Printing | Lower board edges a little bumped, top page edges a little dusty and small area of spine panel slightly faded - Very Good to Near Fine book in slightly torn Dust Jacket with half-fingernail sized piece missing from bade of spine Illustrated by J Kiddell-M | 7.50 | ''Spring in the air; the forest carpeted with early flowers, and Crusoe camping out under the trees with his horse and caravan... the Easter holiday prospects were almost too good to be true!... a chain of adventures (or mis-adventures)... '' |
| Darren Shan | Birth of a Killer The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Book One | HarperCollins 2005 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, with 'WHS Signed EDITION' sticker on front panel. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 10.00 | ''When terrible events force young Larten Crepsley to flee his home he finds himself alone in the world. Then he meets the mysterious Seba Nile, who introduces him to the ways of the vampire clan... But will he turn his back on humanity and join a world from which there can be no return... ?'' First in the series of prequels to The Saga of Darren Shan) |
| Darren Shan | Death's Shadow | HarperCollins 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn't the end, and out of the destruction new life has emerged. Bec is back... After centuries of imprisonment, she's more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone... '' Book 7 The Demonata |
| Darren Shan | Demon Apocalypse | HarperCollins 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel a little faded | 4.00 | ''... One boy's life is ripped to shreds before his eyes... One wrathful demon master hellbent on revenge... An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage... It's the end of the world as we know it.'' Book 6 The Demonata |
| Darren Shan | Lord Loss | HarperCollins 2005 First Edition First Printing | Covers a little worn, creased and rubbed and page edges lightly browned - Good Uncorrected Proof | 3.00 | ''When Grubbs Grady first encounters Lord Loss and his evil minions, he learns three things the world is vicious, magic is possible, demons are real. He thinks he will never again witness such a terrible night of death and darkness. ... He is wrong.'' |
| Darren Shan | Wolf Island | HarperCollins 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''As the mysterious shadow builds an army of demons, Grubbs and his team search desperately for answers, But when they follow up a new lead, it leads them to an old, unexpected foe - the Lambs The curse of the Gradys has returned with a vengeance. Werewolves are on the loose. And they're hungry... '' Book 8 The Demonata |
| Alex Shearer | The Cloud Hunters | Hot Key Books 2012 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... the Cloud Hunters are outsiders, outcasts... In Christien's world, there are no oceans, no continents, there are only hundreds of islands, suspended in an atmosphere heavy enough to buoy them up... and just dense enough to swim in. Water is a rare luxury. Only the Cloud Hunters are brave enough to sail through the skies full of danger to find it... '' |
| Charles Sheffield | The Cyborg From Earth A Jupiter Novel | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Top corners slightly rubbed and a few page corner tips creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof | 7.50 | ''Heir to a powerful dynasty, Jefferson Kopal has never lived up to his family's expectation... Jeff should serve with distinction in the deep space navy... but... Jeff blows the entrance exam... why is he tapped by the navy for an urgent mission... to deal with the threat of rebellious cyborgs... what's really going on... '' Fourth book in the series |
| Sharon Shinn | The Safe-Keeper's Secret | Viking 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with upper fold tips slightly rubbed. | 7.50 | ''Damiana is safe-keeper in the small village... Neighbours and strangers... come... in secret, to tell her things they dare not share... a mysterious visitor... arrives with... a newborn baby. Damiana... is expecting her own child... names him Reed and raises him... with her daughter... the years pass... '' |
| Jan Siegel (Amanda Hemmingway) | Prospero's Children | HarperCollins 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a scrape/surface tear at the top edge of the front panel. | 3.00 | ''A mysterious house in the remote Yorkshire moors awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother... the old house gradually gives up its secrets their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago... '' |
| Nicky Singer | Feather Boy | Collins 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Page edges lightly browned else Fine book | 5.00 | ''... Robert is the class victim, the guy who's never picked for the team. so no-one is more surprised than Robert himself when a strange old lady sends him on a quest to solve the mystery of derelict Chance House. Legend has it that a boy once fell to his death from an upper window... To get the truth, Robert must learn what it really means to fly.'' Blue Peter book of the Year |
| Nicky Singer | The Innocent's Story | Oxford University Press 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | 7.50 | ''... When Cassina is blown up in a railway station bomb, life as she knows it is over. Except that she doesn't die. She becomes a para-spirit - a presence that can live in other people's minds. She can see their thoughts, feel their emotions. But they have no idea that she's there... '' |
| Matthew Skelton | Endymion Spring | Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing | Corners lightly rubbed and a light bump to the centre of the rear cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 4.00 | ''In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger... '' |
| William Sleator | The Spirit House | Heinemann 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the top of the front fold and a short split at the top of the rear fold. | 5.00 | ''Julie Kamen is definitely not looking forward to the arrival of her family's exchange student from Thailand... But Bia ... turns out to be handsome and sophisticated... her brother, Dominic... builds a traditional Thai spirit house... But Bia is afraid... '' |
| Gavin Smith | DogFellow's Ghost | Macmillan 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and top edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 5.00 | A new century has begun and new fields of science are shaking man's longest-held beliefs. And on a tropical island, somewhere in the Pacific, new kinds of creature have been conceived. Yet the one who made them had disappeared, and for one of his creations the loss is unbearable: neither entirely man nor wholly animal, DogFellow is both more and less than the sum of his parts. |
| Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) | A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the First A Bad Beginning | Egmont 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine and front corners very lightly rubbed else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Brett Helquist | 7.50 | ''... an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children... the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe... terrible news... a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast... '' |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Black Heart | Simon & Schuster 2009 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine book | 10.00 | ''There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake... Connor's twin sister... uncovers the truth about her family's past... she and Connor face a daunting and uncertain future... '' |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Blood Captain | Simon & Schuster 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Top and base of spine slightly rubbed, front corners slightly creased else Fine book | 7.50 | ''... For Connor, these are testing times aboard the notorious pirate ship... Meanwhile Grace and Lorcan journey to Sanctuary, a mountain retreat presided over by vampirate guru, Mosh Zu Kamal. If anyone can heal Lorca's blindness... '' |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Demons of the Ocean | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners a little rubbed and slightly bumped/creased - Very Good to Near Fine Book | 10.00 | ''The year is 2505. the oceans have risen. A new era of piracy is dawning. A vicious storm separates twins Connor and Grace Tempest, destroying their boat... Picked up by one of the more notorious pirate ships, Connor soon finds himself wielding a cutlass... Grace finds herself aboard a more mysterious ship... '' First of the series. First printings are scarce. |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Demons of the Ocean | Little, Brown 2006 First Edition in Hardback and the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed, Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Twins Connor and Grace never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirates shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before they were shipwrecked and separated... For Connor... aboard a pirate ship, there's the chance to learn to swordfight, but for Grace, aboard a mysterious ship of vampires... '' |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Demons of the Ocean | Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and lower rear cover corner creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 7.50 | ''The year is 2505. the oceans have risen. A new era of piracy is dawning. A vicious storm separates twins Connor and Grace Tempest, destroying their boat... Picked up by one of the more notorious pirate ships, Connor soon finds himself wielding a cutlass... Grace finds herself aboard a more mysterious ship... '' First of the series. |
| Justin Somper | Vampirates Tide of Terror | Simon & Schuster 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly rubbed else Fine book | 7.50 | ''... Connor Tempest may only be fourteen but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided.. Grace Tempest isn't finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that all is not well on the vampirate ship she left behind... '' |
| Simone St. James | Murder Road | Michael Joseph/Illumicrate 2024 First Printing Signed by the Author on Tipped-In Page | Bruised at base of spine and once to page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. | 10.00 | ''April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn... now they're on a long dark road, late at night... a woman... in trouble. They stop and pick her up... they see the blood... headlights appear in the distance... April and Eddie are able to escape - this time - their terrifying adventure is only just beginning... '' |
| Brian Stableford (Also as Brian Craig) | The Last Days of the Edge of the World | Hutchinson 1978 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, slight musty smell and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed at top of the spine panel | 5.00 | ''Sirion Hilversun was the last of the enchanters in the magic lands at the edge of the world... his powers were failing... Damian must... answer three questions...from an old riddle... that turned out to be a spell of terrible power... '' |
| Jill Staynes | Out of That World | Faber 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and boards slightly marked, one page top corner creased and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, slightly marked Dust Jacket Jacket Illustrated by Margery Gill | 4.00 | ''Berite had come to Longbarrow unwillingly...it was an eerie place... where Berite was strangely aware of unseen figures, dancing. Once she had picked up the elfstone she was in contact with something outside the everyday life... She had entered the life of the beautiful frightening inhabitants of the Mound.'' |
| John Stephens | The Emerald Atlas The Books of Beginning | Doubleday 2011 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with an 11 mm tear at the top of the front fold. | 4.00 | ''They were snatched from their beds... all memories of their parents have faded... in the eerily silent Cambridge Falls, the children quickly realise there is something strange going on... an old leather book... and ancient magical prophecy... the adventure of several lifetimes... to worlds outside their own... '' |
| Jonathan Stroud | Heroes of the Valley | Hyperion 2009 First Edition in the US First Printing | Covers lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. | 5.00 | ''Halli loves to hear stories from the days when the valley was a wild and dangerous place... He likes to imagine the night the legendary heroes joined together and fought till dawn to defeat the ancient foe... He is joined by Aud... every bit as reckless and headstrong... they will... discover the truth about the legends... '' |
| Jonathan Stroud | The Amulet of Samarkand Book 1 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy | Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 4.00 | ''... When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to do nothing more taxing than a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge... Set in a modern-day London controlled by magicians... '' |
| Jonathan Stroud | The Bartimaeus Trilogy | Doubleday 2003-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and page edges lightly marked/browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket | 22.50 | ''... When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to do nothing more taxing than a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge... Set in a modern-day London controlled by magicians... '' |
| Showell Styles | A Sword for Mr Fitton | Faber 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Acting-Lieutenant Michael Fitton lived and fought in the same period as Horatio Nelson... the amazing story of Michael Fitton's Caribbean sea-fights... encounters and sea-duels as desperate as any in historical fiction - yet, all of them, historical fact... '' |
| G. P. Taylor | Mariah Mundi The Midas Box | Faber 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket | 10.00 | ''Fresh out of school, young Mariah... is to assist the magician in... stage shows... Below ground, between the slimy, green-dripping walls of the basement is where the magic-show equipment is kept - and lurking in an Egyptian sarcophagus among scuttling sea-creatures is a secret that draws Mariah into the path of villainy and possible death.'' |
| G. P. Taylor | Shadowmancer | Faber 2003 First Trade Edition First Printing (Paper) (With Number Line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) | Page edges bruised else Fine book | 7.50 | ''... a world of superstition, magic and witchcraft where nothing can be taken for granted... Obediah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane... '' Highly regarded first novel. |
| G. P. Taylor | Shadowmancer | Faber 2003 First Edition in Hardback and Thus First Printing (With Number Line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) | Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket. | 5.00 | ''... a world of superstition, magic and witchcraft where nothing can be taken for granted... Obediah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane... '' With a new authorial foreword and the previously omitted final chapter. |
| G. P. Taylor | Tersias | Faber 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket | 7.50 | ''London is living through dark times and Magnus Malachi, a magician, is closely guarding his latest moneyspinner - Tersias, a blind boy who can see into the future... but is he a force for good or evil? And can he ever rid himself of the dark spirit that torments his soul?'' |
| Kate Thompson | Switchers | Bodley Head 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small strain at the lower edge of the front panel. | 4.00 | ''... Kevin knows that Tess is a Switcher, for he is one too - able to take on any animal shape he chooses and to think, feel and live as that creature. Kevin persuades Tess to join him as a rat... The rats take Tess and Kevin... to see Lizzie... who tells the children they alone can save the world... '' |
| John Rowe Townsend | King Creature, Come | Oxford University Press 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | 3.50 | '''...I think, myself, it began the day I saw the Creature prowling around the garbage...' From that day, Vector, the narrator... found all his inherited assumptions about the nature of Creatures being called into question...'' |
| James Treadwell | Advent | Hodder 2012 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Worn and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower edge of front board bumped and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued With Publisher's Press Release | 4.00 | ''Gavin has given up on the adults in his life... His father appears to hate him, his mother is scared of him... What he has is a gift - one he neither wants nor understands... In 1537, Johann Faust... lost a priceless ring.. In it was bound up all the world's magic... but now... magic is coming back... '' First in the trilogy. |
| 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 |
| 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... '' |
| 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... '' |
| 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... '' |
| 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. |
| 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... '' |
| 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 |
| 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?'' |
| 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... '' |
| 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 |
| 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... '' |
| Patricia Wrightson | The Dark Bright Water | Hutchinson 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and corners and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket | 5.00 | ''Wirrun, the Aborigine boy, was working in a pub when the summons came from his People... they had noticed strange things happening... And the spirits were wandering far from their proper places… Wirrun... had dealt with the land and its spirits before, and was known as a Hero...Wirrun was unwilling to go... he had troubles of his own... '' |
| 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. ... '' |
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