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The Graveyard Game
Harcourt Brace 2001 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and bruised and lightly rubbed at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a tiny 'nick' near the top of the rear fold. .
¶ ''You wouldn't take Lewis for a an immortal cyborg... And Joseph... his parents drew the Neolithic cave paintings in the Cevennes... They're looking for Mendoza, our heroine, who was banished Back Way Back... Soon they will begin uncovering some extremely hush-hush stuff about what the Company has been doing... ''"
¶ ''You wouldn't take Lewis for a an immortal cyborg... And Joseph... his parents drew the Neolithic cave paintings in the Cevennes... They're looking for Mendoza, our heroine, who was banished Back Way Back... Soon they will begin uncovering some extremely hush-hush stuff about what the Company has been doing... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 114184
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 12.16 | JP¥ 1898]
The House Of The Stag
Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... Before the Riders came to their remote valley, the Yendri led a tranquil pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, just a few escaped to the forests. Only one of them possessed the necessary rage to fight back: Gard the foundling, half-demon, who began a one-man guerrilla war against the Riders... ''"
¶ ''... Before the Riders came to their remote valley, the Yendri led a tranquil pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, just a few escaped to the forests. Only one of them possessed the necessary rage to fight back: Gard the foundling, half-demon, who began a one-man guerrilla war against the Riders... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 114196
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 US$ 16 | JP¥ 2498]
In The Garden Of Iden
Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page top corners lightly creased and a few page fore-edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''Mendoza... Rescued as a child from the Spanish Inquisition's dungeons... adopted by a twenty-fourth century corporation which has unlocked the secrets of time travel... using them to plunder the past... Mendoza's body has endured genetic manipulation and continual surgery to create a woman with staggering intelligence and a virtually indestructible body... ''"
¶ ''Mendoza... Rescued as a child from the Spanish Inquisition's dungeons... adopted by a twenty-fourth century corporation which has unlocked the secrets of time travel... using them to plunder the past... Mendoza's body has endured genetic manipulation and continual surgery to create a woman with staggering intelligence and a virtually indestructible body... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 115518
GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 141 US$ 153.62 | JP¥ 23977]
Mendoza in Hollywood
Harcourt Brace 2000 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 wear spot at the top of the spine. .
¶ ''At a stagecoach inn on the road to Los Angeles (Cahuenga Pass, 1862), botanist Mendoza meets her fellow cyborgs. Porfirio, the security tech, has broken the rules by maintaining contact with his mortal family... we learn that Mendoza is being haunted in her dreams by the man she loved and lost three centuries ago. Then his ghost is unexpectedly reincarnated... ''"
¶ ''At a stagecoach inn on the road to Los Angeles (Cahuenga Pass, 1862), botanist Mendoza meets her fellow cyborgs. Porfirio, the security tech, has broken the rules by maintaining contact with his mortal family... we learn that Mendoza is being haunted in her dreams by the man she loved and lost three centuries ago. Then his ghost is unexpectedly reincarnated... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 114193
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 US$ 16 | JP¥ 2498]
The Raven Bride
Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''The time: an uncomfortably close tomorrow. The place: one of the wildest and remotest on the planet Earth... Here a beautiful young woman, Satchi, half Russian and half Koryak, is drawn reluctantly into the primal, sometimes horrific way of life of the native reindeer herdsmen when they take her from a wrecked research outpost... ''"
¶ ''The time: an uncomfortably close tomorrow. The place: one of the wildest and remotest on the planet Earth... Here a beautiful young woman, Satchi, half Russian and half Koryak, is drawn reluctantly into the primal, sometimes horrific way of life of the native reindeer herdsmen when they take her from a wrecked research outpost... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 79449
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.96 | JP¥ 1399]
The Day Of Creation
Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... ''"
¶ ''...The parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa... Then an apparent miracle occurs. In front of Mallory's eyes... water bubbles to the surface: first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood... and a sizeable river seems to be forming... to the obsessed Mallory the river is in some way his creation... to be explored... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 112337
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.96 | JP¥ 1399]
The Kindness Of Women
HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada; then after marrying and settling happily into family life, his world is shattered by domestic tragedy... ''"
¶ ''... we follow the narrator, Jim, to England after the war. He tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada; then after marrying and settling happily into family life, his world is shattered by domestic tragedy... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 52897
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 12.16 | JP¥ 1898]
News From The Sun
Interzone 1982 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 682/750). Possible slight fading to spine else Fine A5 centre-stapled booklet .
¶ Short story given free to all charter subscribers of the SF magazine Interzone."
¶ Short story given free to all charter subscribers of the SF magazine Interzone."
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 116619
GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 35.25 US$ 38.4 | JP¥ 5994]
The Terminal Beach (Contents different to the earlier Berkley Paperback)
Gollancz 1964 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped brown boards with trace of label removal from front board - probable Boots library rebind with marked pages/edges and one signature slightly offset - Poor Book .
¶ A Question of Re-Entry; The Drowned Giant; End-Game; The Illuminated Man; The Reptile Enclosure; The Delta at Sunset; The Terminal Beach; Deep End; The Volcano Dances; Billennium; The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon; The Lost Leonardo"
¶ A Question of Re-Entry; The Drowned Giant; End-Game; The Illuminated Man; The Reptile Enclosure; The Delta at Sunset; The Terminal Beach; Deep End; The Volcano Dances; Billennium; The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon; The Lost Leonardo"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 116413
GBP 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.5 US$ 61.45 | JP¥ 9591]
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.
¶ ''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?... ''"
¶ ''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?... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 87113
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.96 | JP¥ 1399]
Five Fatal Words (With Philip Wylie)
Stanley Paul (1933) First Edition in the UK First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine, spine a little faded, two page corner tips roughly separated, a little scattered foxing and page edges lightly age-darkened - Very good book .
¶ ''When old Mr. Cornwall died he left his vast fortune to his children... as each one died, that share was to be equally divided between the others... Then comes the news of first one death, followed by another, each from apparently natural causes... '' Rare."
¶ ''When old Mr. Cornwall died he left his vast fortune to his children... as each one died, that share was to be equally divided between the others... Then comes the news of first one death, followed by another, each from apparently natural causes... '' Rare."
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 116238
GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 141 US$ 153.62 | JP¥ 23977]
Mage Hunter Castle of Doom
Egmont 2012 First Edition First Printing. Upper front and lower rear corners lightly curled, else Fine Uncorrected Proof. .
¶ ''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... ''"
¶ ''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... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 112165
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 7.68 | JP¥ 1199]
The Algebraist
Orbit 2004 First Edition First Printing. Lower front corner lightly rubbed - Fine Uncorrected Proof. .
¶ ''It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak... is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years... with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known... ''"
¶ ''It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak... is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years... with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 113854
GBP 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.5 US$ 61.45 | JP¥ 9591]
The Business
Little, Brown 1999 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket, with the front corners a litle rubbed .
¶ ''Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church... Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments... Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime... ''"
¶ ''Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church... Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments... Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 115119
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.96 | JP¥ 1399]
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 .
¶ ''... 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... ''"
¶ ''... 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... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 32576
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.96 | JP¥ 1399]
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