2137. Abercrombie, Joe: The Heroes

Published by Gollancz, London. 2011

Hardback 1st edition. Both book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them. Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he's far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it's his own. Prince Calder isn't interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he'll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn't have to fight for it himself. Curnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him? Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No Heroes.

1007.Adams, Douglas: The Illustrated Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Published by B.C.A. 1994

Book club hardback in fine condition. The off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveller Arthur Dent are illustrated with digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns. (Image shows upper board with dust wrapper removed)

1008. Adams, Douglas: The Illustrated Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Published by Harmony Books/Crown, 1994

1st US edition hardback with clipped dust wrapper, both fine in condition. Using digital, graphic "paintbox" techniques, this book has voice chips, a mind-blowing double gatefold, 3-D effects and tricksy visual puns galore. It is an illustrated version of the story of Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, and their travels across the universe.

2411. Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Published by Pan, London, 2001

UK paperback box set, 5 commemorative editions in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks, books look new/unread. The slipcase is also fine. This is a special edition published to commemorate Douglas Adams' untimely death in 2001. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of the five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series, (described on the cover of the fifth book as "the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy", which gives an accurate description of the humour in the series), by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London in October 1979 and consistently ranks in the Internet Book List Top 30 list of books. The novel takes its name from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (based on the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.

Published by Macmillan, London. 2002

Hardback, UK 1st edition, in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also fine, not clipped or faded. Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time...Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Fry, The Salmon of Doubt & Other Writings comprises 50 pages of the late Douglas Adams' unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt which features Dirk Gently, along with writings from 3,000 unpublished files stored on his computer hard-drive. This collection is the unique last word from one of the worlds most successful and best loved science fiction writers and represents an important, fascinating and characteristically hilarious legacy. Other potential inclusions are transcripts of the radio series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future and Adams' essays, articles, and lectures.

1302. Aldiss, Brian W.: Billion Year Spree

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974

Hardback second impression. Near fine in a very good unclipped d/w. Jacket has a couple of closed tears and is now protected. The history of science fiction.

423. Aldiss, Brian: Moreau's Other Island

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1980

First edition hardback book in very good + condition, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions, the dust wrapper has rubbing to the edges and scratch marks from general wear to the back. It has been price clipped. In the early months of war in 1996, the space capsule Leda is sabotaged on its return trip from the moon, killing one person on impact and leaving three to drift in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific. Only one of these - U.S. Under-Secretary of State, Calvert Madle Roberts - survives to see the cliffs of an island dominated by a huge letter M.

1373. Aldiss, Brian: Hothouse

Published by Science Fiction Book Club, 1963

Hardback, 1st thus, book club edition. Previous owner name to front endpaper, book leans slightly otherwise near fine. The dust wrapper is slightly discoloured at the spine, a little rubbed at the edges with a few dirty marks but mostly very good. The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with brilliant imagery.

Published by Grafton, London. 1991

UK hardback, 1st edition, in very good condition. The unclipped dust wrapper is water stained on the reverse with a corresponding mark to the rear board otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or other marks. In the barren dust of the far future, the sun leaks energy in a darkening sky and the only remaining humans are imprisoned by spectral bloodthirsty beings. Back in the brilliant Utah sunlight of 1999, two ancient graves yield evidence that a species of human coexisted with the dinosaurs. Linking these scenarios is impetuous inventor, Joe Bodenland, who has just created a time machine that manipulates time to disperse of hazardous waste.

1304. Anderson, Poul: Guardians of Time

Published by Gollancz, London 1961

A very good+ hardback 1st edition in a very good dust wrapper. There are no previous owner names or marks and the jacket is unclipped retaining the original 13/6 price. Slight discolouration of the wrapper and signs of foxing at the page edges otherwise near fine in condition. The first book in the Time Patrol series. Four short stories of the unpredictable past...

370. Anthony, Piers: Heaven Cent

Published by New English Library, London, 1989

1st UK edition hardback in near fine condition. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £11.95 net price. It has some surface marks on the rear of the dust wrapper. Second in the thrilling new Xanth trilogy, 11th in the series.

365. Anthony, Piers: Harpy Thyme

Published by New English Library, London. 1993.

This 1st UK edition hardback book is in near fine condition. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition, it has not been clipped but shows no price. The 17th Xanth novel in which Gloha the harpy-goblin, aided by a rejuvenated Magician Trent, finds the right husband after an adventurous quest.  

1642. Anthony, Piers: Yon Ill Wind

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1996

1st UK edition hardback book is in near fine condition. Page edges slightly darkened; there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition; it has not been clipped but shows no price at the front flap. A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurricane to blast into Xanth, stirring up mischief and madness wherever she goes. Trapped in a preposterous form by a cosmic wager, the Demon X(A/N)th must join forces with a vexatious vixen named Chlorine to save Xanth from this terrifying and tempestuous threat.

1312. Asimov, Issac: The Robots of Dawn

Published by Granada, London. 1984

1st UK edition hardback in very good condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions, dust wrapper in very good condition. "A puzzling case of -roboticide- takes interplanetary detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora - the self-styled World of the Dawn, where humans and robots coexist in seemingly perfect harmony. There, the most advanced robot in the Universe - an awesomely human machine - has been murdered."

343. Asimov, Isaac: The Foundation Trilogy

Published by Doubleday & Company Inc, New York, 1963

This hardback book is in very good condition, there is general shelf wear and browning/foxing to the page edges. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in very good condition, rubbing to the corner edges and spine, some slight foxing and browning especially the spine. It has not been price clipped. Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, three classics of science fiction in one volume.

1545. Asimov, Isaac: Foundation and Earth

Published by Grafton Books, London, 1986

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is very good, slightly rubbed at the edge and chipped at the corners but unclipped. 5th in the Foundation series of novels. All records of Earth have been removed systematically from the libraries of Foundation worlds. Now Councilman Golan Trevize and Professor Janov Pelorat traverse the galaxy in search of humanity's ancestral planet. On worlds beyond the Foundation's influence, superstition and taboo shroud the subject of their quest. To name Earth is to utter an obscenity. Fortunately, the space travellers find allies - and Pelorat finds a lover named Bliss - among the telepaths of the planet Gaia. As they near their destination, Bliss picks up thought waves of intelligent beings. What she cannot tell is whether or not those beings are human.

1314. Asimov, Issac: Foundation

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1953

1st edition hardback, is a bit dusty, top edge with light foxing at the end papers and page edges otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is a little worn and chipped at the tips with a couple of small areas lost at the top and toe of the spine, a little grubby but generally very good and not price clipped. Scarce in any condition. Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunnelled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopaedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him?

1313. Asimov, Issac & Robert Silverberg: Nightfall

Published by Gollancz, 1990

1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. Isaac Asimov's short story, "Nightfall", tells of a planet orbiting in a system containing 6 suns, where a configuration leading to the fall of darkness occurs only once in two millennia. In collaboration with Silverberg, he has expanded the story into a novel which explores the story's aftermath.

666. Auel, Jean M.: The Shelters of Stone

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine in a like unclipped d/w. Jean M Auel's The Shelters of Stone, is the latest title in the Earth's Children series--undoubtedly one of the most celebrated works in publishing history--and includes The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters and The Plains of Passage.

1644. Baker, Ross: The Fable of Mythrian: Book 1

Published by Melrose Books, 2008

1st edition hardback. Flat signed by the author at the title page otherwise fine/as new. There is a folding map of towns and settlements of the western kingdom correlating to the book laid in. Deep in the heart of every human is the potential for good or evil; the continuous battle that rages within ourselves and that which we give out to the rest of the world. When the scales of life are tipped in one direction, then the other has to regain its ground. A time comes when those unknown are called to fulfil their destiny. They do not always accept the call nor do they see themselves as heroes. But through these troubled minds, one will make a stand. That one is Mythrian and in his hands, he must decide the fate of those on both sides, between good and evil. It was not his choice. It was his destiny. And now it must be fulfilled.

1315.Banks, Iain M.: Feersum Endjinn

Published by Orbit, 1994

1st edition hardback. Both book and dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.

332. Banks, Iain M.: Excession

Published by Orbit, London, 1996

First edition hardback in fine condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions, browning to page edges, dust wrapper in very good condition, it has not been price clipped and still retains the £15.99 net price. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

1316. Banks, Iain M.: Inversions

Published by Orbit, London. 1998

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The book leans very slightly, the jacket is price clipped and the page edges are slightly yellowing. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.

1317. Banks, Iain M.: Look To Windward

Published by Orbit, 2000 Hardback

1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are fine in condition. It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'. The light from the second may not.

2091. Banks, Iain M.: Matter

Published by Orbit, London, 2008

UK hardback 1st edition in fine condition there are no previous owner's names. The jacket is fine and unclipped. In a world renowned, within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.

298. Besher, Alexander: Chi

Published by Orbit, London, 1999

1st edition paperback in very good condition. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. Third novel in the Rim Trilogy. It is the year 2038. Wing Fat, head of South-east Asian biotech drug cartel, is siphoning off vital chi essence from enslaved humans held on plantations in the former Golden Triangle. And bootleg chi products are flooding the worlds black markets, offering global consumers everything they have always craved: super-enhanced intelligence, greater creativity, heightened sexual powers, multimedia implants and even short-term immortality.

1318. Bibby, James: Shapestone

Published by Gollancz, London. 1999

1st edition, large trade sized paperback in near fine condition. Faint creases at the spine otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Very tidy and quite scarce. Death is nasty and not a little inconvenient. Being dead even more so. Especially when you're tied to an amulet that has its own designs on the world. For the Princess Macoby the annoying ghost with the axe in his head who keeps hanging around is just plain irritating. Little does either of them know that the fate of the world is in their substantial and not-so substantial hands.

Published by Bantam Books, New York. 1993

US paperback, stated 1st edition in very good condition. Large, trade sized paperback. There is creasing at the corners of the cover but this is minimal. Internally fine. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. Contains all of Bradbury's dinosaur stories, old and new, in one volume. Includes: "A Sound of Thunder"--The classic time-travel story of five men who take a trip back in time to hunt a dinosaur and end up changing the past. "The Fog Horn"--The atmospheric tale of a prehistoric creature from the deep and its strange rendezvous with a lighthouse. "Besides a Dinosaur, Whatta Ya Wanna Be When You Grow Up?"--A fabulous fantasy in which a lonely boy harbours a longing to become a Tyrannosaurus rex. Plus, a new Ray Bradbury-Gahan Wilson collaboration; an ode to dancing dinosaurs; more. B&W illustrations by William Sout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith, and David Wiesner.

1319. Bradley, Marion Zimmer with Julian May and Andre Norton: Black Trillium

Published by Foundation, 1990

1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. The supreme fantasy epic of magic, love & treachery - Book 1. Those with the gift have the power…One stormy night, three princesses are born. As each baby is placed into her mother's arms, so the Archimage Binah bestows on her a gift of great power: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct Black Trillium. One day that power will be all that protects the princesses from certain doom…

2306. Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Firebrand

Published by Michael Joseph, London. 1988

1st edition hardback. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed and chipped at the edges but is not price clipped and otherwise very good. The pages are tanned but there are no previous owner names or other marks. The magnificent retelling of one of the most powerful myths of Western Civilisation - the legend of the fall of Troy.

1320. Brooks, Terry: A Knight of the Word

Published by Orbit, 1998

Hardback 1st UK edition. Fine book & unclipped d/w. Five years have passed since the cataclysmic events of Running with the Demon. John Ross, Knight of the Word, sworn to fight the eternal battle against mankind's demons, has moved on. Ross's years spent in the fight against the Void have taken their toll. He has lost his spirit, his belief and now it seems he has lost his magic. Working in a hostel for homeless children, his life is now spent fighting a battle in which he feels he might actually make a difference. But Nest Freemark, whose involvement in those events five years ago shattered her childhood, is about to be drawn once more into the mythic world of the Void and the Word. For she has learnt that John Ross is in great danger from a demon like no other. If she can not warn him in time - and persuade him to take up his staff of magic once more - the battle may be lost forever. . .

2073. Brooks, Terry: First King of Shannara

Published by Legend, London, 1996

Hardback 1st edition. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. The book lens very slightly and there is some slight yellowing of the page edges but no previous owner names but a small ink mark at the top edge of the map decorated front end paper, initials possibly. Set 500 years before "The Sword of Shannara", this is the story of the fall of the Druids and their city, Paranor. Using the special skills he acquired through his study of magic, Bremen, the last and mightiest of the Druids, plans a magical weapon to destroy the forces of evil.

2378. Brooks, Terry: The Talismans of Shannara

Published by Legend, London, 1993

1st edition UK hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. There's a small dint to the front hinge and a slight darkening of the page edges otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Book 4 in the Heritage of Shannara cycle tells of the culmination of the struggle between a handful of determined heroes and the insidious, pervasive evil that seeks to crush them. The descendants of the Elven house have completed their quest, but the Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands.

1321. Brooks, Terry: The Tangle Box

Published by Legend, 1994

Hardback 1st UK edition. Fine book in a like unclipped d/w. Horris Kew, conjuror and confidence-trickster, had returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover, and a chorus of disapproval rang in Ben Holiday's ears. Both Questor Thews, the court wizard, and Abernathy, the court scribe, urged Ben to lock Horris up or send him away.

1322. Brooks, Terry: The Tangle Box

Published by Del Rey, 1994

1st US edition hardback in fine condition. Slightly creased dust wrapper is otherwise very good. Horris Kew, conjuror and confidence-trickster, had returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover, and a chorus of disapproval rang in Ben Holiday's ears. Both Questor Thews, the Court Wizard, and Abernathy (the Court Scribe who had magically been transformed into a dog) urged Ben to lock him up or send him away. Fair as ever, Ben decided to consider the problem rather than act immediately. Alas, this led to disaster, for Horris had not returned of his own volition, and been Holiday soon found himself in deadly danger to which only his lady, Willow, held the key. But Willow had disappeared on a mysterious mission of her own...