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False Value
Gollancz 2020 First Edition First Printing. Bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket a little rubbed along upper and lower edges Waterstones edition, Signed on tipped-in page and with additional story A Dedicated Follower of Fashion.
¶ ''Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Leaving his old police force job behind, he takes a job with Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's new London start-up: the Serious Cubernetics Corporation... a secret is hiding somewhere in the building... ''"
¶ ''Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Leaving his old police force job behind, he takes a job with Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's new London start-up: the Serious Cubernetics Corporation... a secret is hiding somewhere in the building... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 121759
GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 21 US$ 22.42 | JP¥ 3473]
The October Man
Gollancz 2019 First Edition in the UK First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Waterstones edition with additional story Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List.
¶ ''... Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germeany's oldest city... a man is found dead with his body covered in fungal rot... Enter Investigator Tobias Winter... With the help of a frighteningly enthusiastic local cop... quick to... realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century... ''"
¶ ''... Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germeany's oldest city... a man is found dead with his body covered in fungal rot... Enter Investigator Tobias Winter... With the help of a frighteningly enthusiastic local cop... quick to... realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 121760
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 US$ 15.57 | JP¥ 2412]
Thieves World: Turning Points (Editor)
Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and board and page edges faintly damp-marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ Introduction and afterword by the Editor and stories by Mickey Zucker Reichert; Andrew Offutt; Diana L. Paxson; Selina Rosen; Dennis L. McKiernan; Robin Wayne Bailey; Jody Lynn Nye; Lynn Abbey; Jeff Grubb and Raymond E. Feist"
¶ Introduction and afterword by the Editor and stories by Mickey Zucker Reichert; Andrew Offutt; Diana L. Paxson; Selina Rosen; Dennis L. McKiernan; Robin Wayne Bailey; Jody Lynn Nye; Lynn Abbey; Jeff Grubb and Raymond E. Feist"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 111411
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.72 | JP¥ 1350]
Tornado Pratt A Novel
Gollancz 1977 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... Readers will find that Paul Ableman's recreation of the mind of a tycoon has the impact of experience rather than fiction. We do not so much read the adventures - great, small, frequently erotic - of this fine writer's stormy hero. Rather we share them with Tornado as he probes the key incidents of his past, trying to dicover what all men seek, the truth about their lives.''"
¶ ''... Readers will find that Paul Ableman's recreation of the mind of a tycoon has the impact of experience rather than fiction. We do not so much read the adventures - great, small, frequently erotic - of this fine writer's stormy hero. Rather we share them with Tornado as he probes the key incidents of his past, trying to dicover what all men seek, the truth about their lives.''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 50545
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.72 | JP¥ 1350]
Doctor DW Who The Silent Stars Go By
BBC Books 2011 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine, one page fore-edge a little creased and top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... For centuries the Morphans have worked... to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth... as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops... it's not the time to welcome unexpected guests... The Doctor, my and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain... And then... the Ice Warriors make their move... ''"
¶ ''... For centuries the Morphans have worked... to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth... as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops... it's not the time to welcome unexpected guests... The Doctor, my and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain... And then... the Ice Warriors make their move... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 113642
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 US$ 15.57 | JP¥ 2412]
The Girl In A Swing
Allen Lane 1980 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at base of spine & top page edges a little dusty else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket .
¶ Not the ''Suppressed'' First State with the lead female called Kathe Gutner, (which seems to have been sent to Australia/Canada) this state has the name changed to ''Karin Forster'' as being 'easier' for an English-speaking audience (and perhaps avoiding a lawsuit?). A haunting love-story..."
¶ Not the ''Suppressed'' First State with the lead female called Kathe Gutner, (which seems to have been sent to Australia/Canada) this state has the name changed to ''Karin Forster'' as being 'easier' for an English-speaking audience (and perhaps avoiding a lawsuit?). A haunting love-story..."
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 87022
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.72 | JP¥ 1350]
The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, lightly browned Dust Jacket .
¶ ''When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow... shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility... the IRA... the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushes out a statement... it is simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God?... ''"
¶ ''When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow... shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility... the IRA... the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushes out a statement... it is simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God?... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 114168
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7 US$ 7.47 | JP¥ 1158]
Mostly Harmless
Heinemann 1992 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 little erosion at the base of the front fold .
¶ ''It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills... ''"
¶ ''It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 115402
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.72 | JP¥ 1350]
Strange Tales From The Strand Magazine (Editor)
Oxford University Press 1991 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly marked and age-darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the ends of the front flaps little worn and the price removed .
¶ Foreword by Julian Symons. 29 stories by Graeme Greene; J. B. Harris-Burland; Hugh Walpole; Rina Ramsay; F. Tennyson Jesse; Beverley Nichols; W. W. Jacobs; Sapper; W. L. George; B. L. Jacot; D. H. Lawrence; Villiers de L'Isle Adam; L. T. Meade; H. Greenbough Smith; Ianthe Jerrold; C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne and ten others"
¶ Foreword by Julian Symons. 29 stories by Graeme Greene; J. B. Harris-Burland; Hugh Walpole; Rina Ramsay; F. Tennyson Jesse; Beverley Nichols; W. W. Jacobs; Sapper; W. L. George; B. L. Jacot; D. H. Lawrence; Villiers de L'Isle Adam; L. T. Meade; H. Greenbough Smith; Ianthe Jerrold; C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne and ten others"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 116363
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.83 | JP¥ 1833]
Eeny Meeny Miny Mole
Arlington Books 1980 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket .
¶ ''The British Secret Service is in chaos. It is rumoured that a new generation of moles has penetrated the higher echelons of the British Government... then the Stationmaster... Head of British Intelligence, disappears... Hugh Grimly, former Stationmaster, now 75 and living quietly in retirement, must be recalled... Grimly is the best molecatcher of them all... '' Satire on Le Carre?"
¶ ''The British Secret Service is in chaos. It is rumoured that a new generation of moles has penetrated the higher echelons of the British Government... then the Stationmaster... Head of British Intelligence, disappears... Hugh Grimly, former Stationmaster, now 75 and living quietly in retirement, must be recalled... Grimly is the best molecatcher of them all... '' Satire on Le Carre?"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 50568
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 8.72 | JP¥ 1350]
Leviathan
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket .
¶ ''On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandirin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, to hunt for the murderer... ''"
¶ ''On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandirin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, to hunt for the murderer... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 99314
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7 US$ 7.47 | JP¥ 1158]
Turkish Gambit
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 First Edition First Printing. Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need... all his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love... '' Published 2 months before the US Random House edition."
¶ ''... Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need... all his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love... '' Published 2 months before the US Random House edition."
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 93751
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.83 | JP¥ 1833]
Bestsellers Vol. 3 No. 9 Best of Aldiss (Edited by Deborah Musselwhite)
Viaduct Publications 1983 First Edition First Printing. One light cover crease, a little spine creasing and page edges lightly browned else Fine A4 Centre-stapled magazine .
¶ Introduction by B. W. A.; Oh For a Closer Brush with God; An Appearance of Life; The Small Stones of Tu Fu; The Game With The Big Heavy Ball; A Romance of the Equator; Three Revolutionary Enigmas; The Blue Background; A Private Whale; Consolations of Age; The Girl Who Sang. Selected by B. W. A. as being his best."
¶ Introduction by B. W. A.; Oh For a Closer Brush with God; An Appearance of Life; The Small Stones of Tu Fu; The Game With The Big Heavy Ball; A Romance of the Equator; Three Revolutionary Enigmas; The Blue Background; A Private Whale; Consolations of Age; The Girl Who Sang. Selected by B. W. A. as being his best."
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 112031
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7 US$ 7.47 | JP¥ 1158]
Cracken At Critical (The Year Before Yesterday)
Kerosina 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing Limited State & Thus Signed by the Author (No 55/300). Fine book in like Dust Jacket and box, together with The Magic of the Past (unsigned) .
¶ ''... It is 30 years since Brian Aldiss' first science fiction book was published, and Cracken at Critical is the author's own sardonic glance at the formative years of his career as a writer. For those who appreciate serious SF, this book will come as a welcome dose of light relief... ''"
¶ ''... It is 30 years since Brian Aldiss' first science fiction book was published, and Cracken at Critical is the author's own sardonic glance at the formative years of his career as a writer. For those who appreciate serious SF, this book will come as a welcome dose of light relief... ''"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 121540
GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 28 US$ 29.9 | JP¥ 4630]
Decade the 1940's (Editor, with Harry Harrison)
Macmillan 1975 First Edition First Printing. Top page edges lightly foxed and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... the eighty-year history... the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.'' A. E. Van Vogt's Cooperate... Or Else!; Isaac Asimov's Reason; Fredric Brown's Arena; Hal Clement's' Fireproof; Paul Carter's The Last Objective; Clifford Simak's Huddling Place; Eric Frank Russell's Hobbyist and Philip Latham's The Xi Effect"
¶ ''... the eighty-year history... the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.'' A. E. Van Vogt's Cooperate... Or Else!; Isaac Asimov's Reason; Fredric Brown's Arena; Hal Clement's' Fireproof; Paul Carter's The Last Objective; Clifford Simak's Huddling Place; Eric Frank Russell's Hobbyist and Philip Latham's The Xi Effect"
Porcupine BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 113007
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.83 | JP¥ 1833]
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