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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Sidoine Beresford-Browne (illustrateur). London: Orion (Victor Gollancz):, 2007. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine, 400 pp. Cover artwork by: Sidoine Beresford-Browne "America, 1984 - not our version of America, but an America that calls itself the Real, an America in which the invention of Turing Gates has allowed it access to sheaves of alternate histories. For ten years, in the name of democracy, the Real has been waging clandestine wars and fomenting revolution, freeing versions of America from communist or fascist rule, and extending its influence across a wide variety of alternate realities." Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 448pp., xiii. Black boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine; endpapers still bright white, edges and text block uniformly toned around perimeters of pages, moe than in text area; small bump to top right corner spine, else As New: tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped ([BPS] 17.99), illustrated with mountain landscape in background, "Empress" magically destroying some critter in the foreground; minor wear at top corners only (now backed by archival tape); slight ruffling across spine ends: describes worse than it is. No previous owner names. Clean text.

Paperback: 8½" x 5½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 2000 Edition. © 1970: A stand-alone novel by Poul Anderson. 1st printing of 2000 edition. A shorter version of this novel appeared in 'Galaxy Science Fiction', June & August 1967 under the title 'To Outlive Eternity'. A part of the Gollancz SF Collectors' Edition series of books:- Synopsis: The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. For those on board, because the ship will accelerate to close the speed of light, subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. But a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreparably and soon, remorselessly, she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown. Enormously exhilarating, gripping and enjoyable, Tau Zero is the ultimate sense-of-wonder story. Fuelled by daring scientific speculation and tense human drama, it underlines Poul Anderson's place as one of the foremost SF writers:- Review(s): "Magnificent. A sense of timelessness, human eternity, and the order of the cosmos. Builds to an overpowering climax" - Barry Malzberg / "Imaginative and at times brilliant" - The Sunday Times / "The ultimate hard science fiction novel" - James Blish:- (original cost £9.99).

Paperback: 9¼" x 6". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Fred Gambino (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 2000: 2nd in the 'Raven: Chronicles Of The Raven' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Denser has cast the apocalyptic spell Dawnthief, the Wytch Lords are banished and Balaia can turn to defeating the teeming hordes of Wesman. But something has gone horribly wrong. The spell has created a rip between the dimensions, a dirty roiling patch of nothingness in the blue sky. It casts a shadow at noon. And, day by day, the shadow is growing. As the Wesmen storm through Balaia, The Raven must answer a bizarre call from the awesome dragon Sha-Kaan. The brood Kaan are fighting a losing battle against the other broods of the dragon dimension to prevent them pouring through the ever-widening dimensional rip to lay waste to Balaia. And somehow The Raven must help them:- Review(s): "Action fantasy at its best" - SFX:- (original cost unmarked).

Paperback: 9¼" x 6". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Fred Gambino (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1999: 1st in the 'Raven: Chronicles Of The Raven' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: The Raven have fought together for years, six men and an elf carving out a living as swords for hire in the wars that have torn Balaia apart, loyal only to themselves and their code. But when they agree to escort a Xeteskian mage on a sinister mission they are pulled into a nightmare web of politics and ancient secrets that will change their lives forever. How is it that they are fighting for the Dark College of magic? Searching for the location of Dawnthief; a spell to end the world, a spell that must be cast. Isolated, betrayed, in a land on the brink of catastrophe, The Raven are given no choice but to believe in a man who, cloaked by deceit and with a demon as a familiar, spins a wild story of a mortal threat so old it has passed into folklore:- Review(s): "'Dawnthief' is a greathearted book written on a grand scale, and with The Raven, a close knit fellowship of veteran mercenaries, a new fantasy legend is born. An enthralling novel: gritty, down-to-earth and delightful, invoking tears and laughter by turn. This is the best new fantasy I've read in years" - Maggie Furey:- (original cost £9.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : New: A new, unread book. Cover Art: Josh Kirby (illustrateur). 2011 Edition. © 1990: 9th in the 'Discworld' series of books. 1st printing of 2011 edition. With an introduction by Adam Roberts. A part of the Gollancz 50 Collection series of books:- Synopsis:- Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, Eric calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and his extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory, the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish that he'd never been born:- Review(s): "He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style" - Daily Telegraph / "To say Pratchett is popular is a bit like saying the Arctic Circle is a bit nippy" - Sunday Express:- (original cost £8.99).

Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Cover Art: Kevin Jenkins (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1999: 3rd in the 'Orokon' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: The vision came in the wilderness long ago, commanding the Sultan's ancestor to lead his peoples to the place that would be called the Sacred City. There, deep within a rocky cavern, there burns an immense, roaring column of fire: the Sacred Flame. Worshipped by millions, it is the source of the Sultan's power. But the flame harbours a terrible secret - and so does the Sultan. For generations, the Sultans of Kal-Theron have held their desert realm in a cruel, implacable grip, but now, as a ruthless invader threatens, not even the Sacred Flame may save the ancient empire. Into this seething hotbed of political machinations and rebellion stumbles Prince Jamany, son of Ejland's deposed king and true heir to the throne, as he plunges into the next stage of his perilous quest, seeking the long-lost crystals of the Orokon. Already the anti-god, Toth-Vexrah, has burst free from the Realm of Unbeing and is working his evil upon the susceptible and easily swayed. Only Jem stands in his way, but now he faces dangers closer at hand. In an Arabian Nights world of eunuchs and genies, magic carpets and mysterious veiled women, dark magic is stirring. Cut off from his companions, Jem is trapped in the bizarre, horrifying dreamworld of the enchanter Almoran. Meanwhile, his lost love Cata becomes embroiled with the Shimmering Princess, the idol of millions, whose fate holds the key to the Sultan's empire - and to the whereabouts of the pulsing red crystal of the fire god Theron. Rich in horror and high adventure, outrageous comedy and aching romance, 'Sultan Of The Moon And Stars', the third volume in Tom Arden's compelling fantasy epic, is a lush and startling tapestry of dreams and danger, marvels and mystery, treason and tyranny, where luxury meets squalor, innocence meets depravity, and gods descend into the human world:- (original cost £16.99).

Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Cover Art: blacksheep (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 2000: 2nd in the 'Polar City' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing. Previous owners neat name sticker to front endpaper:- Synopsis: The Republic: a human-run interstellar government caught between the Carli Confederation and the H'Allevae Coreward Alliance, trying to maintain its independence in the face of two huge galactic powers. A political incident is brewing on Polar City, which might cost the Republic it's autonomy. A Carli artifact is missing along with a bureaucrat from the Confederation Embassy. And Yosef Mbaye, a troubled athlete from the successful Polar City Bears, is being blackmailed to carry something with him to the Galactic Series on Arah, the capital planet of the Republic. When Yosef refuses to let Bobbie Lacey help him find the blackmailer, and the blackmailer turns up dead, Bobbie can't leave it alone. Whatever Yosef is carrying could lose the Bears - and everyone else - a whole lot more than the Galactic series. 'Polar City Nightmare' is an unputdownable thriller set in a future at once familiar and alien, an intricate setting brought alive by the brilliant combined talents of Katherine Kerr and Kate Daniel:- (original cost unmarked).

Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Cover Art: Kevin Jenkins (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 2000: 4th in the 'Orokon' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: In a time lost in legend, the many Isles of Wenaya were united in worship of Javander, goddess of the seas. From her vast, fantastical palace beneath the waves, Javander presided over a caste of priestesses, linked in a thrumming psychic web. Then the web was broken, Javander's people turned to false gods and the priestesses who once served her so well became the evil Sisterhood of the Blue Storm. Ten boys on the cusp of adulthood arrive on the empty tropical island of Xaro to undergo their Manhood Trial, an age-old ritual meant to build character as they leave childhood behind. They thought they could survive alone. But that was before the killing began. That was before the Blue Storm. To this island of dark magic come Jem and his companions, pursuing their mystic quest for the long-lost crystals of the Orokon, desperate to find Javander's blue jewel before Jem's evil rival, the anti-god Toth-Vexrah, gets there. Never has the quest been so perilous. Meanwhile the beautiful young Triarch's daughter, Selinda, determined to escape ritual murder, begins a strange odyssey of her own that soon entangles her in Jem's quest. And so begins a bizarre and phantasmagorical tale, where slave galleys, ghost ships, shipwrecks and sea monsters are only preludes to Jem's confrontation with the evil Sisterhood. Bursting with marvels and strange magic, 'Sisterhood Of The Blue storm', the fourth volume in Tom Arden's enthralling fantasy epic, is a whirling fantasia of swashbuckling adventure, tragedy and triumph, of comedy and romance, of heart-stopping action and unforgettable, larger-than-life characters, caught up in a quest on which hangs the fate of the world:- Review(s): "It's grim. It's witty. The story is so cleverly written, the characters are so engaging/enraging. Vastly entertaining on several levels" - The SF Site / "Witty, stylish and gloriously convoluted" - Dave Langford, Amazon_co_uk / "Altogether, great fun" - Interzone:- (original cost £17.99).

Paperback: 8½" x 5½". Etat : Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Sue Michniewicz (illustrateur). 2000 Edition. © 1968: A stand-alone novel by John Sladek. 1st printing of 2002 edition. A part of the Gollancz SF Collectors' Editions series of books:- Synopsis: Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren't selling like they used to. In fact, they aren't selling at all, and the only alternative to winding up the company is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research Laboratories and project 32 come into being. The plan is to produce self-replicating mechanisms; identical cells equipped to repair intracellular breakdowns, convert power from their environment and create new cells. But suddenly the nondescript grey boxes are crawling around the laboratory, feeding voraciously on any metal they come across - and multiplying at an alarming rate. John Sladek's first SF novel, 'The Reproductive System' announced the arrival of one of the most imaginative and funniest of all modern American SF writers. Tinged with melancholy and imbued with insight, it is a classic novel that explores the relationship between humans and robots:- Review(s): "Tremendously funny and farcical. Torrents of invention and good-humoured malice" - Brian W Aldiss / "Brilliant" - J G Ballard / "Superb entertainment. It is full of invention, wit and subtly sad comedy. Will surely become a classic" - Sunday Times:- (original cost £9.99).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed by Joyce on the title page, the book has a minor skew to the binding, very slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and yellowing to the page edges. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has small bumps to the spine ends and corners, very faint sunning to the spine, and a hint of edge wear. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Paperback: 11" x 8". Etat : Near Mint. Cover Art: Dave McKean (illustrateur). 1989 Edition. © 1989: A graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. Originally serialised in the UK style magazine The Face, beginning in 1989, and collected as a graphic novel in 1992:- Synopsis: How do you make sense of your life? Somewhere in London a film director is dying of cancer. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 AD approached - the midnight which the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he's still pointlessly working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No-one but us:- Review(s): "'Signal To Noise' does not entertain. It scratches, it provokes, it frightens. It tells you things you don't want to know but then twists you inside out by saying, look harder and see the poignance, the beauty of light dancing on life's edge, truth that is as simple and direct as death" - Jonathan Carroll, from his introduction:- (original cost £9.99).

Hardback: 8¾" x 5¾". Etat : Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Cover Art: Splash (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1994: 2nd in the 'Crane's View' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: "Just the smallest twist of the dial away from normal - one click - and everything we know for certain vanishes". Returning to her class reunion after fifteen years, Miranda Romanac has her heart set on meeting James Stillman once again. Her first boyfriend, her life's never quite measured up to the ideal he represented for her. She is devastated, therefore, to learn of his death three years before, in a car crash. Her life settles back into its routine in New York, but things start to change when she meets the fabulous Frances Hatch, mistress of many of the great artists in Paris in the twenties. At the same time, Miranda starts an affair with Hugh, a married man. Then she sees James Stillman again, waving to her across the street. Is it possible? Oh yes, and things are just beginning for her. Through a series of extraordinary events, Miranda learns from both the living and the dead just who she really is and how far back her history goes. It is not a happy discovery but there is the possibility of redemption. If she has the courage and imagination to recapture a life she once thought her own, there is a chance. But if she fails, there will be hell to pay. And more:- (original cost £16.99).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 9780752868837. Contains xii, 339 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 6½'' x 4½'' 180, vi [pp]. ISBN 0575077190. Monochrome illustrations to the rear. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. David Farren(Jacket Illustration) (illustrateur). First Edition. Child of Time by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg (First UK Edition) A sharp tight copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. States, "First publish in Great Britain 1991 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.". BOOK.

Paperback: 8½" x 5½". Etat : Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 2000 Edition. © 1957: A stand-alone novel by Frederik Pohl & C M Kornbluth. 1st printing of 2000 edition. A part of the Gollancz SF Collector's Edition series of books:- Synopsis: The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway planet, whose inhabitants - enigmatic, utterly alien Pyramids - have their own plans for Earth's resources. And humankind, depending for warmth on a constantly renewed but woefully inadequate Moon, wracked by hunger and ruled by a slavish conformity to tradition is dying out. But there are those who defy convention and refuse to give in. Feared and persecuted by the ordinary citizens, these 'Wolves' are preparing to fight back against the Pyramids, o take back control of Earth's destiny. And one, unlikely man holds the key to survival:- Review(s): "Brilliantly inventive, dazzlingly surreal, 'Wolfbane' is a strange and powerful collaboration from two of the giants of SF" / "A joy, brilliantly detailed and acutely convincing in the working out of all its fertiley conceived ideas" - New York Herald Tribune / "Pohl's sensibility and Kornbluth's ruthlessness combine to make wonderful science fiction" - Edmund Crispin / "A work of sheer, exuberant imagination" - Arthur C Clarke:- (original cost £9.99).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression, with number line '35 7 9 10 8 6 4'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 313pp. The eleventh Sookie Stackhouse novel in Charlaine Harris's acclaimed 'True Blood' series.

Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : As New: An unread, like new, b. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Cover Art: Yasuo Seki (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1999: A stand-alone novel by Greg Egan. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Prabir Suresh is nine years old and the son of two scientists specialising in entomology. They live on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian ocean. The island has no real name, but Prabir calls it Teranesia and populates it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Thirty years into the third millennium, the discovery of bizarre new species on and around Teranesia draws Prabir's biologist sister Maddy back to the island. Prabir has reasons of his own for fearing what she might find there and persuades a pharmaceutical researcher on the lookout for biological bounty to take him along as her guide. Who will get there first, Prabir or Maddy? And what will they find? An evolutionary leap forward, a new humanity or the evanescent ghosts of past lies?:- Review(s): "One of the genre's great ideas men" - The Times / "Egan's future fascinates" - SF Eye / "Achieves what the fiction of ideas should always aspire to" - The Modern Review / "The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. Rewards the reader with ever expanding vistas of wonder" - New Scientist / "Science fiction as it should be" - Odyssey / "Contains far too many ingenious notions to list. Egan is a fiendishly clever fellow" - David Langford, SFX:- (original cost £16.99).

Paperback: 7¾" x 5". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Les Edwards (illustrateur). 1999 Edition. © 1937: A stand-alone novel by Olaf Stapledon. 4th printing of 1999 edition. SF Masterworks Series I (#21):- Synopsis: One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon's other great work, 'Last And First Men', pales in ambition next to 'Star Maker', which is nothing less than a history of life in the universe, encompassing billions of years:- Review(s): "There is nothing else in all of literature quite like Stapledon's two cosmological novels. Every few pages contain all the material of an ordinary science fiction novel, condensed to something like prose poetry; and their profound view of our place in the scheme of things is a joy to experience" - Kim Stanley Robinson / "A prodigious novel" - Jorge Luis Borges / "Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written" - Arthur C Clarke:- (original cost £6.99).

Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : Fine: Very small signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Cover Art: Fangorn (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1999: 2nd in the 'Mammoth' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: It is sixteen thousand years before the birth of Christ. And every human alive wakes to the calls of mammoths. A vast sheet of ice sits on the North Pole, immense, brooding. Glaciers jut from the ice cap like claws, pulverising rock layers and carving out fjords and lakes. South of the ice, immense plains sweep around the planet, darkened by herds of mighty herbivores. And chief amongst them are countless mammoths. Secure in their ancient history, fearing no other animal, the mammoths little suspect that their time is nearly over. Separated from his family, the young bull Longtusk begins a lonely odyssey that will take him into the heart of a new, alien culture. Captured and trained by The Lost - pale predators sweeping up from the South - Longtusk faces a bleak future. But it is a future that will take him to the ends of his ice-bound world, a destiny that will see him immortalised in mammoth legend. And all the generations to come will owe everything to Longtusk - the only bull to be mentioned in the great story cycle of the mammoths:- Review(s): "A stunning talent" - Locus:- (original cost £16.99).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some very slight edge wear to top of spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 564pp. A major literary novel set against the end of the First World War, the inter war years, and the start of the Second World War. The narrative is the life of Yves Beauchamp, told as he lies dying in a Vancouver hospice. From his education at a brutal British public school, the story moves to his battle experiences in France as a junior officer in 1917, to his involvement in the post war resurgence of Germany, and his debauched tour through the ruins of Europe in 1946. Yves' auditor is a troubled architect, a volunteer at the hospice, preoccupied by marital turmoil, but increasingly overwhelmed by the old man's narrative. Yves' story centers on his relationship with a German officer, Werner Schacht, whom he meets during the last days of the war in 1918, then again in Paris during the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Their difficult friendship, and Yves' romance with a German speaking French nurse from Alsace, bring out the lethal flaw at the heart of the Treaty. As the peace unravels, Werner and Yves make an attempt to stay the tyranny of events, ending in disaster for them both. The story includes descriptions of the Battle of Cambrai of 1917, the politics of the Treaty, the failed coup against National Socialism in 1938, and the almost successful plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. The hideous fate of Werner Schacht as one of the plotters captured after the failed attempt is the climax of the book, based on a reel of film made to satisfy Hitler's revenge, but later lost in the chaos as the War ended. A description of the shocking celluloid images has never before been attempted, here recreated by Grieve from German archives and witness statements. The author's acclaimed debut novel.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 327pp. The eleventh Sookie Stackhouse novel in Charlaine Harris's acclaimed 'True Blood' series.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£9.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks almost unread. 376pp. The third book in Ryan's series of acclaimed supernatural thrillers.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Richard Carr (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First published in 1969, this is a first edition first impression of the revised and updated edition (published to coincide with the films) of 2003. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, not price clipped (£6.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 188pp. Lin Carter introduces readers to Tolkien's epic trilogy then takes them on a scholarly yet populist journey through the massive web of myths and legends that Tolkien drew on for both imagery and themes during his life's work. Carter's book places Tolkien's trilogy in the context of world mythology and legend and is a tribute to Tolkien's power of assimilation and original vision. It is the ideal introduction to the background of the LORD OF THE RINGS for the legions of new fans.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, possibly subsequent edition with strange number line '99 5 4 3 2 1'. Very minor creasing to top of spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£15.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 319pp, illustrated. The reticulated python is thought to be the longest snake in the world. After the capture of a 28-foot member of the species in the swamps of South East Asia in 1912, President Roosevelt established a $1000 reward for the capture of a 30-foot python. Eighty-seven years later the award remains unclaimed (having risen in increments to $50,000) and Robert Twigger, after being apprenticed to a bunch of former headhunters turned expert snake catchers, heads into the remote jungles of Indonesia armed with only a tin of High Toast Snuff (deadly if sniffed by a snake) in search of his prey. Along the way, he investigates the legendary beautiful women of Sulawesi, treads in Nabakov's footsteps through the remote area of Bone, looks for giant snakes beneath the sewers of Kuala Lumpur, and spends time with a variety of snake catchers and cults. After being caught up in anti-Chinese riots, surviving on greasy civet cat in the jungle, Twigger finally comes face to face with the big one. But the final capture is not what he quite had in mind.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Jacket by Splash (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, in almost 'as new' condition, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 319pp. Professor Hayden Zalapek is long dead to the world, a name forgotten by all who know him. Only as his daughter is dying is he summoned back from his half life, and brought face-to-face with the grandson he doesn't know.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket after Monte Schumacher (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, crease to inside front flap, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 343pp. Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl in the black cloak appearing from nowhere and punching an ivory spike into the man's head on the other hand. Nijie has stolen fifteen million dollars, she's on the run, she's just killed a man and she has a cat who knows more than it should. It's a lot to deal with when you haven't even left school. But Nijie is really Lady Neku. And it is time for her to stop mewling in the darkness. And suddenly, the girl who became Lady Neku understands she's never really been anyone else. And in a sentient castle at the end of world Lady Neku otherwise known as Baroness Nawa no ukiyo, Countess High Strange and chatelaine of Schloss Omga realizes that a man called Kit has stolen some of her memories.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 327pp. The twelfth Sookie Stackhouse novel in Charlaine Harris's acclaimed 'True Blood' series.