Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 1 Anthologies 1 Jack Adrian : Strange Tales From The Strand Magazine (Editor) 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 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 £7.50 Jacket with the ends of the front flaps little worn and the price removed 2 Charles L. Grant : Shadows (Editor) ''An innovative collection of new and original horror stories: quietly eerie tales based on entirely new mythologies of terror... The result - quietly foreboding lullabies whose after images linger... and whose demons refuse to be dismissed.'' Doubleday 1978 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, top page edges lightly foxed, bottom page edges remainder £5.00 sprayed else Fine book in slightly browned Dust Jacket with a little remainder spray at lower edge of front flap and a long closed tear at the lower edge of the rear panel 3 Andrew M. Greeley : Emerald Magic Great Tales of Irish Fantasy (Editor) Introduction by the Editor. The Little People: stories by Diane Duane, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple, Judith Tarr' Elizabeth Haydon, Charles de Lint, Ray Bradbury, Andrew M. Greeley. Literary Fantastics: stories by Jane Lindskold, Fred Saberhagen, Peter Tremayne, Celia Dart-Thornton, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Jacqueline Cary & Morgan Llywelyn TOR 2004 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket £4.00 4 Stephen Jones : The Anthology of Horror Stories (Editor - a.k.a. The Mammoth Book of Terror) Stories by Clive Barker; David S. Schow; Hugh B. Cave; Dennis Etchison; Lisa Tuttle; R. Chetwynd-Hayes; Ramsey Campbell; Karl Edward Wagner; Basil Copper; Brian Lumley; Robert Bloch; David Compton; Manly Wade Wellman; Charles L. Grant; F. Paul Wilson; David A. Riley; Stephen Laws and Graham Masterton Tiger 1994 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued £5.00 5 Jessy Marie Roberts : Bloody Carnival (Editor) ''... Rediscover carnivals, amusement parks, county fairs, the circus, rodeos and more in this gruesome tribute to the fun, fanfare and frivolity of festivals. Freak shows, rusted rides, demonic ringmisstresses, demented clowns, melting beauty queens. Flesh-eating fun-seekers, ghosts, gremlins and other terrors... thirty-four short stories.'' Pill Hill Press 2010 First Edition First Printing (P.O.D.) Signed and personalised by the Author on the Title Page A few edges and corners very lightly rubbed and page edges lightly marked else Fine Book £10.00 6 Franz Rottensteiner : View From Another Shore (Editor) European Science Fiction: Acknowledgements; Introduction by the Editor and stories by Stanislaw Lem; Gerard Klein; Herbert W. Franke; Wolfgang Jeschke; Joseph Nesvadba; Vadim Shefner and others, and Notes on the Authors Liverpool University Press 1999 Second Edition First Edition Thus (Paper) Corners slightly rubbed - Very Good book £5.00 7 Robert Silverberg : Far Horizons All New Tales From The Greatest Worlds Of Science Fiction (Editor) ''...includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds: The Ekumen - Ursula K. Le Guin The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Ender Series - Orson Scott Card The Uplift Universe - David Brin Roma Eterna - Robert Silverberg The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons... '' and others by Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Gregory Benford, Anne McCaffrey & Greg Bear Orbit 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/browned else Fine book in like £4.00 Dust Jacket, with the fold corners slightly worn 8 Jonathan Strahan : Under My Hat Tales from the Cauldron (Editor) Witch stories by Diana Peterfreund; Frances Hardinge; Garth Nix; Holly Black; Charles de Lint; Tanith Lee; Neil Gaiman; Ellen Klages; Ellen Kushner; Delia Sherman; Patricia A. McKillip; Tim Pratt; M. Rickert; Isobel Carmody; Jane Yolen; Jim Butcher; Peter S. Beagle and Margo Lanagan. Introduction by the editor. Hot Key Books 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 Page 2 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 9 Sheree S. Thomas : Dark Matter Reading The Bones (Editor) Twenty-four stories and three essays by Nalo Hopkinson; Samuel R. Delany; Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; Charles R. Saunders and others. Includes Her Pen Could Fly: Remebering Virginia Hamilton by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; Introduction; Contributors; Copyright and Permissions and Acknowledgements Warner 2004 First Edition First Printing Signed and warmly personalised by the Author to Vastiana (probably Belfon) on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine, small spot to front board, couple of small shallow indentations to rear board and £15.00 page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket lightly rubbed at the upper fold tips. 10 Martin Tudor : Overload featuring the work of Brian W Aldiss, Iain Banks, Harry Harrison and Bob Shaw (Editor) Short fiction pieces published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 25, to celebrate 25 years of Novacons, and their special author guests. B. S. F. G. 1995 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 15/500) Cover by David A. Hardy. Interior illos by Dave Mooring Slightly rubbed at the top of the spine and top rear corner a little creased else Fine card-covered centre-stapled A5£10.00 booklet 11 Douglas E. Winter : Millennium (Editor) Original horror mixing ghost stories and chapters linking together to form a fix-up novel: Contributions by Clive Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, F. Paul Wilson, Poppy Z. Brite, and Christina Faust, Charles Grant, Whitley Strieber, Elizabeth Massie, Richard C. Matheson, David S. Schow and Craig Spector, Ramsey Campbell and the Editor Voyager 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing Spine corners bruised else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a light curl to the lower edge of the front panel £4.00 Magazines 12 Ken Amos : Nightshade 5 A Fanzine About Fantasy April 1st (Editor) Editorial; David Lindsay and the Quest for Muspel-Fire by Galad Elflandsson; An Alphabetical Listing of Ballantine Adult Fantasy books with cover artist and publication dates; Book reviews; Fanzine Reviews; Nightshade Contributors' Biographies; The Development of a Novel: Thomas Burnett Swann's The Gods Abide; Letters and more Nightshade Press 1979 With photocopy chronological list of Ballantine Adult Fantasy books Corers slightly bumped and creased - Very Good A4 stapled, card-covered heavy paper magazine £5.00 13 Beccon : Beccon 87 Programme Book Illustrated programme book for the convention - includes An Appreciation of the Recent Fiction of Keith Roberts; Keith Roberts bibliography since January 1984, and appreciation of Jane Gaskell (Special Guest), an article: Corfe Revisited by Keith Roberts, articles, notes, puns, etc., Although un-numbered the print-run was limited to around 600 copies - for the Convention members Beccon 1987 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Illustrated by Keith Roberts and others Fine booklet £5.00 14 Howard Browne : Amazing Stories (UK) Vol. 1 No. 4 (Editor) Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s Death of a Spaceman; Dan T. Moore's The Double Spy; Robert Arthur's Ring Once For Death; Jerome Bixby's The Draw; William P. Salton's Operation Lorelie; Fredric Brown's Keep Out; Ross Rocklynne's Sorry, Wrong Dimension; Eric Frank Russell's Appointment At Noon and more Ziff-Davis 1953 Spine leaned and a bit torn, front cover creased and page edges lightly age-darkened - Good magazine £1.00 15 Allan Bryce : The Dark Side The Magazine of the Macabre and Fantastic (Editor) Editorial; Interviews with Elke Sommer, Madeline Smith and David Cronenberg; Jay Slater on The Stink of Flesh; John Martin on the Italian Stalk and Slash thriller; Dark Side Horror Guide, DVD Library, Reviews and more Stray Cat 2005 Spine creases, corners rubbed and creased - Good A4 Magazine £1.00 16 Algis Budrys : Tomorrow Speculative Fiction No 23 Vol. 4 No. 5 November (Editor) No. 23 - fiction magazine with stories by Michael Shea; Yves Maynard; Jamie McEwan; Terry Jeeves; A. M. Dellamonica; George S. Walker; William Sanders; Thomas A. Easton; Lori Negridge Allen; Linda D. Addison Unifont Company 1996 Near Fine magazine £1.00 17 Andy Cox : Black Static Issue #50 Jan/Feb (Editor) Comment from Stephen Volk: Coffinmaker's Blues & Lynda E. Rucker's Notes From the Borderland; stories by Ray Cluley, Georgina Bruce, V. H. Leslie, Tim Casson, Tyler Keevil and Garry Budden. Interview with Simon Bestwick; Book and DVD/BLU-RAY Reviews TTA Press 2016 Lower front cover corner lightly rubbed else Fine magazine £2.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 3 18 Andy Cox : The 3rd Alternative Issue 36 Autumn (Editor) Guest Editorial by Justina Robson; The Park Sweeper by Lucius Shepard; The Dodo has Landed by Allen Ashley; Trevor Hoyle Interviewed; The Automatic Circus by David Ira Cleary; Column by Christopher Fowler, Column by John Paul Catton; The Films of Sam Raimi by Jaspre Bark and stories by Karen Fishler, Andrew Humphrey and Martin Simpson The 3RD Alternative 2003 Top corners a little rubbed else Fine Magazine £2.00 19 Catherine Girczyc : On Spec The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing Spring & Summer (Editor, with many others) Fiction by Erik Jon Spigel; M. A. C. Farrant; Lyle Weis; Robert Boyczuk; Jason Kapalka; John Skaife; Michael Hetherington; D. L. Schaeffer; Robert J. Sawyer; Bill Wren; Marian L. Hughes; Alison Baird; Bruce Barber; Nicholas de Kruyff; High A. D. Spencer with poetry, editorials, convention listings and more... Copper Pig 1993 Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked - Very Good Magazines £2.00 20 H. L. Gold : Galaxy (Editor, with James Baen, Fred Pohl & Ejler Jakobsson) each - 4/63, 10, 11 & 12/76; 4, 8 & 9/77 Galaxy/Universal 1976-77 - US Issues Generally Very Good or better copies £2.00 21 Cele Goldsmith : Amazing Science Fiction Stories Vol. 34 No. 6 June (Editor) James Blish's ... And All The Stars A Stage (Part 1); Robert Bloch's The Bald-Headed Mirage; John Brody's If At First You Don't... ; Rosel George Brown's Step IV; C. C. MacApp's Tulan and more Ziff-Davis 1960 Spine torn and chipped at top, front cover creased and price-stamped, biro and stamps on first page and page £1.00 edges lightly browned and slightly marked - Good Magazine 22 David G. Hartwell : Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 1, No. 3 Sept. (Editor) Phyllis Gottlieb's Sunday's Child; Robert Borski's The Apocalypse of Harry Jones; Brian W. Aldiss' Horsemen; Joe Haldeman's All The Universe in a Mason Jar; Richard A. Lupoff's The Child's Story; Norman Spinrad's Blackout; Sherwood Springer's The Wayward Flight of the Teety-Oh; with Robert Silverberg, Charles N. Brown, Ginjer Buchanan and more Baronet 1977 Spine creased and slightly torn, rear cover creased, 25p stamp on front cover and pages lightly browned - Good £2.00 Magazine 23 David G. Hartwell : Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 1, No. 4 Nov. (Editor) George R. R. Martin's Bitterblooms; Robert Thurston's Wheels Westward; Mary Jean Tibbils' The Alphabet System; Michael Bishop's At The Dixie Apple; Robert Chilson's O Ye of Little Faith; Felix Gottschalk's Sir Richard's Robots; Samuel R. Delany's Essay on Star Wars; with Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Ginjer Buchanan and more Baronet 1977 Spine torn, rear cover damp-marked and creased, 25p stamp on front cover and pages lightly browned - Good £2.00 Magazine 24 Stephen Jones : Fantasy Tales Vol. 8 No. 16 (Editor, With David Sutton) Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Manley Wade Wellman, Richard Christian Matheson, Peter Tremayne, Hugh B. Cave, David Case, Josepha Sherman & others Fantasy Tales 1986 (Winter) Cover Illustration by J. K. Potter Top and base of spines slightly rubbed - Near Fine Copy £2.50 25 Terry Martin : Murky Depths Issue #7 The Quarterly Anthology of Graphically Dark Speculative Fiction. Interview with Chris Moore; Black & White heavily illustrated fiction/graphic stories or articles - 82 pages House of Murky Depths 2008 First Edition First Printing (Paper) A couple of light cross-spine creases and a light curl - Very Good to Near Fine Book £4.00 26 Paul McCall : Aces # 12, 14 & 15 (Editor) Colour Covers & B& W internal illustrations: Fanzine devoted to 1920's & 30's style illustrators, profiles of 'Ham' Brooks, Pat Savage, Frank Tinsley, Frank R. Paul, Edd Cartier (with bibliography), Norman Saunders, Pseudonyms by Will Murray, interview with A. Merritt & Frank R. Paul (reprints), Art in S.F by Terry Jeeves etc.. McCall 1999 First Edition First Printing (Nos. 100/100; 17/25 & ??/??) With Signed Letter from the Editor A little creasing else Fine A4 spine-stapled booklets £15.00 27 Kim Mohan : Amazing Stories Vol. 67 No. 5 Whole Number. 573 August (Editor) Roger Zelazny's 30th Anniversary: Kim Mohan's The Artful Roger and Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love, Passion Play and How I Spent My Last 30 Years by R. Z.; Alexander Jablokov's The Logic of Location, Robert Frazier's Furious Weathers, Martha Soukup's Last Wish and more... T. S. R. 1992 Curl to lower page corners, upper front corner lightly rubbed, lower cover corners creased - Very Good Magazine £4.00 Page 4 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 28 Sarah Newton : BFS Journal #13 (With Ian Hunter) Stephen Theaker's Unlucky Thirteen, BFS News, Results From the President's Survey, Advice From Former Chairs, Interview with Lavie Tidhar and My Fantasycon 2014; with pieces by Phil Lunt, Suzanne J. Willis, Tina Rath, Allen Ashley, David Gullen, Mark Williams, Robin Hickson, Sarah Doyle, S. Marcus Jones and much, much more BFS 2014 Slightly bumped at top of spine and a few corner tips lightly rubbed else Fine magazine £3.00 29 James L. Quinn : If Worlds of Science Fiction/Worlds of If (Editor, with Frederik Pohl and Ejler Jakobsson) Each - UK Issues: 11 &12/69 (#141 & 142) & 9-10/72 (# 162) & US Issues - 3/65, 4,7,9 & 12/67; 4,5,8,10 & 11/68; 1,2 & 4/69 If 1969-72 Good or better copies £1.00 30 Various : Science Fantasy (Editor) Each Nos.65, 77 & 80 - 3 Issues New Worlds 1964-66 Generally Good to Very Good copies £2.00 31 Various : The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Editor) £2 each or 10 or more in a 'run' for £1 each - 10 & 11/67; 1/69; 2/76, 9 & 10/87; 1-3 & 9/88; 7,8,10 & 11/90 The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1967-1977 Very Good or better copies £2.00 32 Andy Watson : Journal Wired 3 Summer/Fall (Editor, with Mark V. Ziesing) Lucius Shepard; Colin Greenland; Jonathan Lethem; Patrick McGrath; Paul Di Filippo; Paul Williams, William S. Burroughs; William Gibson and more... 353 pages Ziesing 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Corners slightly rubbed - Very Good to Near Fine Magazine £2.00 33 David Western : Fear Issue No. 9 September (Editor) News; Interview with Michael Stewart; Movie Mainline; Videos; Article about James Hong; Phantasm II; Book Reviews; Interview with Alan Grant; Forbidden Planet examined by Stan Nicholls; John Bolton; Charles L. Grant; Graham Masterton; Brian Mills; Philip Alton Garner; Judith Coulter; Chris Watson; Kay Callahan; Alison Brooks; Duncan Adams and more Fear 1989 Covers a little creased and rubbed - Very Good Magazine £2.00 Young Adult and Childrens' 34 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 (Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, NY Times Notable Book & Horn Book award winner) ''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... '' 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 35 Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl ''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. Puffin 2001 First Edition First Printing (Note: 'Viking' on spine & ISBN 0-141-31212-2 on Copyright Page) Signed by the Author on the pre-lim Page A couple of small, light wrinkles in the spine panel, top front corner slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned£80.00 else Fine Uncorrected Proof with decorated card covers - as issued 36 Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony ''... 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. 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, £10.00 slightly bumped at base of front fold. Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 5 37 Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox ''... 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... '' Puffin 2008 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Promotional Sheet Fine Uncorrected Proof. £7.50 38 Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident ''... 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... '' 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 39 Eoin Colfer : Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception ''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. '' Puffin 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Lower page edges lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. £15.00 40 Eoin Colfer : Half Moon Investigations ''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... '' Puffin 2006 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Dedication Page Bruised at top and base of spine and corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof £7.50 41 Eoin Colfer : The Legend of Spud Murphy ''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... '' Puffin 2004 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof £10.00 42 Eoin Colfer : The Supernaturalist ''... 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... '' Puffin 2004 First Edition First Printing Corners lightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. £5.00 43 Susan Cooper : Ghost Hawk ''In the winter of his eleventh year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three-month test of solitude and survival, which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. English settlers are landing on the shores of the New World... Little Hawk's fate becomes irreversibly entwined with that of... a young English boy... '' Bodley Head 2013 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly rubbed else Fine book in lightly rubbed £7.50 Dust Jacket. 44 Roald Dahl : James and The Giant Peach A Children's Story ''... the strange little man thrust a white bag full of magical 'tiny green things' into James's hands and scurried away - but James stumbles and drops the bag, and watches helplessly as all his lovely magic wriggles away into the earth underneath the old peach tree... then Aunt Spiker notices a beautiful large peach growing at the very top... '' Allen & Unwin 1973 Third Impression - Issued Without Dust Jacket Illustrated by Michel Simeon Bruised at top and base of spine, spine corners and top rear corner worn, a couple of short lamination wrinkles, £7.50 previous owner's details 'writ large' on front fixed end paper in red felt pen (with a couple of spots offset onto free end paper and page edges lightly marked - Good? book in laminated boards - as issued 45 Stephen Deas : The Warlock's Shadow ''Berren is... Trapped in a temple, forced to learn how to read... to write... all he wants is to be given a sword... Dragon Monks - exotic warriors and the best swordsmen in the world... one... turns out to be a girl of his own age... plunged into a world of danger, intrigue and terror... sometimes, you have to know who to fight... '' Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 Page 6 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 46 Peter Dickinson : The Blue Hawk ''... 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... '' Gollancz 1976 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by David Smee Publisher's file copy and so stamped on front end papers, prelim bearing 'ARCHIVE COPY' - Bruised at top and £10.00 base of spine and couple of creases to front free end paper else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket 47 Peter Dickinson : The Blue Hawk ''... 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... '' Gollancz 1976 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by David Smee Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £15.00 48 Peter Dickinson : The Ropemaker (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature 2002) ''...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?... '' 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 £4.00 age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 49 Craig Shaw Gardner : Batman The book of the film - with 8 pages of colour photographs. Macdonald 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. £5.00 50 Debi Gliori : Pure Dead Magic ''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 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 51 Debi Gliori : Pure Dead Wicked ''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 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 52 John Gordon : Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories Well-regarded and scarce collection: Never Grow Up; Catch Your Death; If She Bends, She Breaks; Joby's Pint; Half A Crown; The Girl Outside; Oh, My Bairn; Little Black Pies; and The Pot of Basil. Scarce. Patrick Hardy 1984 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Illustrated by Jeremy Ford Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, spine panel slightly faded, a few small wear spots at corners, one page £15.00 with a small (ca. 3mm) edge tear and another page lower corner creased - Very Good book in laminated boards - as issued 53 Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones): The Alder Tree ''... 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... '' 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 lunpriced £6.00 Dust Jacket 54 Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones): The Fear Man ''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.'' 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 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 7 55 Ann Halam : The Fear Man ''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.'' Orion 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page Covers slightly rubbed and scratched else Fine book in laminated boards - as issued £4.00 56 Frances Hardinge : Deeplight ''... On the jumbled streets of the island of Lady's Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. something valuable. Something dangerous... '' Macmillan 2019 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Pre-lim page Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a ca. 10mm tear and crease at the lower edge £7.50 of the front panel and with Waterstones Signed Exclusine Edition sticker 57 Frances Hardinge : Fly By Night ''One runaway orphan and one homicidal goose. Unlikely heroes on an extraordinary quest. After her father dies Mosca Mye flees the hamlet where she grew up. With her goose companion and a smooth-tongued swindler, Eponymous Clent, she heads towards the city of Mandelion - and a better life... '' Macmillan 2005 First Edition First Printing Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 58 Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein): Across The Nightingale Floor Tales of the Otori Book One ''In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard... young Takeo knows only the ways of peace. But, unknown to himself, he possesses the supernatural skills of the Tribe... '' Macmillan 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust £7.50 Jacket 59 Lian Hearn : Grass For His Pillow Tales of the Otori Book Two ''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... '' 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 £10.00 Jacket 60 Nina Kiriki Hoffman : A Fistful Of Sky ''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... '' 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 £7.50 in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. 61 Brian Jacques : Martin The Warrior ''Tyrant! Badrang, evil Lord of the eastern coast looks out over his domain... While he rules over a band of ruthless hoardebeasts, his slaves labour night and day... But among Badrang's slaves is an indomitable young mouse, Martin... he... plots his escape... '' Sixth novel in the Chronicles of Redwall Hutchinson 1993 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by Gary Chalk Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine book £7.50 in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket with two pin-pricks in the front panel 62 Brian Jacques : The Long Patrol A Tale of Redwall ''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... '' Hutchinson 1997 First Edition First Printing Book illustrated by Allan Curless, dust jacket by Fangorn Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket £5.00 63 Reif Larsen : The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet ''T. S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana... T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps... He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees... he has won a major scientific prize they don't suspect... that he is twelve... So begins T.S.'s life-changing adventure... '' Harvil Secker 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Lavishly illustrated Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in laminated boards £7.50 Page 8 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 64 William Mayne : Hob and the Goblins ''... 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 Dorling Kindersley 1993 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by Norman Messenger Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and top page edges slightly marked else Fine £4.00 book in in laminated boards (as issued) and like, slightly creased Dust Jacket 65 Cliff McNish : The Doomspell ''... 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... '' 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 £5.00 Dust Jacket with the spine panel very slightly faded 66 Patrick Ness : Monsters of Men Chaos Walking: Book Three ''... Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each with the intent of destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape... '' Walker 2010 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and creased at top and base of spine, top rear corner bruised, rear board bowed and page edges £10.00 lightly browned and no longer quite parallel else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and lightly scratched printed acetate film Dust Jacket 67 Jenny Nimmo : Midnight For Charlie Bone ''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 Egmont 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Lower front, and upper rear cover corners lightly creased else Fine book £40.00 68 Jenny Nimmo : Midnight For Charlie Bone ''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. Random House 2002 First Australian Edition First Printing (Paper) One spine crease and page edges lightly browned else Fine book £7.50 69 Susan Price : Here Lies Price ''... 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 Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing Jacket Illustrated by P. J. Lynch Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket £7.50 70 J. B. Priestley : The Thirty-First Of June ''... how Sam Penty, of Wallaby, Dimmock, Paly and Tooks, fell in love with Princess Melicent, daughter of King Meliot of Peradore. Its realism and keen critical spirit, Mr Priestley confesses, are doubtful. He also declares that it has a limited audience: it is unsuitable for readers under twelve and over ninety. He thinks it must be funny... '' Heinemann 1961 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine, purple boards a little faded and page edges age-darkened else Fine book in bright Dust £15.00 Jacket, lightly worn at the spine ends and with a short tear and small chip at the lower edge of rear panel adjacent to the spine 71 Rick Riordan (Richard Russell Riordan, Jr): Heroes of Olympus The Blood of Olympus ''... 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 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 £7.50 Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 72 J. K. Rowling : Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Original Screenplay ''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... '' Little, Brown 2018 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Illustrations and Design by Minalima Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, bruise at lower edge of front board else Fine book in slightly £10.00 rubbed Dust Jacket. Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 9 73 J. K. Rowling : Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindlewald The Original Screenplay ''... The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindlewald has been captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But... Grindlewald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers... Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt... '' Little, Brown 2018 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Illustrations and Design by Minalima Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £10.00 74 Helen Simpson : Mumbudget ''In Ireland the fairies are of different kinds, and William was a boy who met them... '' Six stories - her first book for children. Rare in Dust Jacket Heinemann 1928 First Edition First Printing With 8 full colour plates by Molly McArthur Slightly bumped, worn and faded at top and base of spine, spine panel and board fore-edges a little faded and £40.00 foxed, upper rear corner slightly bumped, and page edges quite badly foxed and age-darkened - with pages 30-31 marked - ?Good? book in slightly torn Dust Jacket, with spine panel age-darkened, eroded at top and small pieces missing from base, with slightly rubbed/scratched 'Gollywog' illustration on front panel. 75 Paul Stewart : Beyond the Deepwoods The Edge Chronicles (With Chris Riddell) ''Dark and deeply mysterious, the Deepwoods are home to many fantastical peoples and creatures... beyond the Deepwoods lie further harsh and perilous lands: the Edgelands, a barren wasteland of swirling mists and nightmares, the enchanting but treacherous Twilight Woods, the stinking, desolate landscape of the Mire... '' Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author and Illustrator and with Publisher's Promotional Letter Fine Uncorrected Proof in Proof Dust Jacket, a little crumpled and creased where Jacket extends over the proof. £100.00 76 Jonathan Stroud : The Bartimaeus Trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand+The Golem's Eye+Ptolemy's Gate) ''... 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... '' 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 £22.50 like Dust Jacket 77 Catherynne M. Valente : The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and led the revels there ''September returns to Fairyland after her first bestselling, breathtaking, award-winning adventure there.'' Sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Much-in-Little 2013 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) Signed by the Author on the Title Page Lower front corner slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. £5.00 78 Catherynne M. Valente : The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two ''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 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 79 Cynthia Voigt : When She Hollers ''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... '' 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 80 Patrick Wood : Viaduct Child ''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... '' Scholastic 2002 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Slightly bumped at top spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £6.00 Non-Fiction 81 Anonymous : Science-Fiction Fantasy Horror The World of Forrest J. Ackerman At Auction Mainly black & white illustrations, brief description and price estimates for over 2000 items: Manuscripts, Costumes, Artifacts and Ephemera, Artwork, Books, Magazines, Film Posters and Lobby Cards. Forry's expectation was in excess of $500,000... Guernsey's 1987 (Paper) With Filmfax interview with Forry and Michael D. Stein who purchased the Monster Museum and a copy of the review of the disaster from File 770 Silver covers badly creased, a little rubbed small abraded area on rear cover - Good Book £20.00 Page 10 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 82 Gerald Bishop : Science Fiction Books Published in Britain January 1979 Vol. 1 No. 6 Publishing data for UK books: Author/Title/Publisher/Price/ISBN for November and December 1978 and forthcoming for January, February and March for 1979. Aardvark House 1979 Lightly creased, lightly marked and tiny tear at the base of the fold - A4 centre-folded sheet with A5 addition £1.00 83 Cy Chauvin : A Multitude Of Visions (Editor) Essays on SF: Editor's Introduction: Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Bruce Gillespie, Bob Rickard, Stanislaw Lem, Sheryl Smith, Jeff Clark and James Blish. 67 pages . T-K Graphics 1975 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Fine Book £7.50 84 John Clute : Canary Fever: Reviews ''... a collection of reviews... science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times... the fourth such collection... Every review has been edited. Errors and incoherencies have been removed when possible... One piece, on John B Watson and Behaviorism, is previously unpublished.'' Beccon 2009 First Edition First Printing - Paperback Issue Cover Illustration by Judith Clute Fine book £16.00 85 John Clute : Canary Fever: Reviews ''... a collection of reviews... science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times... the fourth such collection... Every review has been edited. Errors and incoherencies have been removed when possible... One piece, on John B Watson and Behaviorism, is previously unpublished.'' Beccon 2009 First Edition First Printing - Paperback Issue Cover Illustration by Judith Clute. Signed by the Author on the Title Page Fine book £16.00 86 John Clute : Pardon This Intrusion Fantastika in the World Storm ''...gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute... The addresses and essays in Part One... reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. ... Six essays, some of considerable length, are now published for the first time.'' Beccon 2011 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Cover Illustration by Judith Clute Fine book £16.00 87 John Clute : Scores Reviews 1993-2003 ''... There are jokes in Scores, and curses and tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word in every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world... '' Beccon 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper Issue) Signed by the Author on the Title Page Fine paperback £14.00 88 John Clute : Scores Reviews 1993-2003 ''... There are jokes in Scores, and curses and tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word in every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world... '' Beccon 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper Issue) Fine paperback £14.00 89 John Clute : Stay ''... John Clute's fifth collection of reviews and other pieces... Part One presents 100,000 words of reciews from late 2008 to now, none previously collected... Part Two contains short fiction published between 1987 and 2004. Part Three contains the unaltered reprinting of a well-received short book from 2006... The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror... '' Beccon 2014 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Fine book £16.00 90 Thomas G. L. Cockcroft : Index To The Weird Fiction Magazines Volumes I & II Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Strange Tales, The Thrill Book, Oriental Stories & The Magic Carpet Magazine, Strange Tales (English) and Golden Fleece Indexed by Title Self Published 1962 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Front cover a little creased and fore-edge marked/foxed - Good to Very Good centre-stapled booklet £4.00 91 Michael R. Collings : The Annotated Guide To Stephen King A Primary And Secondary Bibliography of America's Premier Horror Writer Starmont Reference Guide No. 8. Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Part One: Primary Bibliography A. Book-Length Fiction B. Collections of King's Fiction C. Short Fiction and Poetry D. Non-Fiction, Criticism, and Reviews E. The Audio-Visual King Part Two: Secondary Bibliography F. Bibliographic Studies G. Book-Length Critical Studies and Newsletters... Starmont 1986 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Lower front corner lightly rubbed else Fine Paperback £10.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 11 92 Joseph Connolly : Children's Modern First Editions Their Value To Collectors 20th century books: Introduction; Index of Authors; The Books; Index of Illustratiors; Acknowledgements.. Each author assessed, UK & US issued year and valuation, some with identification notes. Macdonald 1988 First Edition First Printing With Interpretive Pricing Bookmark and many black-and-white and some colour photographs Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in lightly £4.00 creased Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper tips of the folds 93 Joseph Connolly : Modern First Editions Their Value To Collectors 20th century books: Introduction; Condition; This Book;Index of Authors Listed; Scale of Values Used throughout the Book;The Authors;Acknowledgements.. Each author assessed, UK & US issued year and valuation, some with identification notes. Orbis 1985 With Interpretive Pricing Bookmark and some black-and-white and colour photographs Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, light crease in front free end paper and page edges £4.00 lightly/browned else Fine book in lightly browned Dust Jacket, with a hint of wear at the tips of the folds 94 Jonathan Cowie : Essential Science Fiction A Concise Guide (With Tony Chester) ''... criteria for inclusion in the guide are... what the many... consider best... Hugo Award-winning novels and films, or Locus Awards... the Blackwood film poll... a systematic distillation of a mass of primarily Anglophone literature, cinematic production, TV series and graphic SF... '' Introduced by Vinc Clarke, with checklists, Index and notes. Porcupine Books 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Can be signed by Publisher if wanted Fine book £5.00 95 Jonathan Cowie : Essential Science Fiction A Concise Guide (With Tony Chester) ''... criteria for inclusion in the guide are... what the many... consider best... Hugo Award-winning novels and films, or Locus Awards... the Blackwood film poll... a systematic distillation of a mass of primarily Anglophone literature, cinematic production, TV series and graphic SF... '' Introduced by Vinc Clarke, with checklists, Index and notes. Porcupine Books 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Signed by both Authors (& Publisher if wanted) Fine book £10.00 96 Tony Curtis : Lyle Price Guide Printed Collectables From Aeronautical to Womens Magazines via Childrens Books; Comic Books; Comics, American; Comics, British; Horror Magazines; Paperbacks: Detective, Science Fiction, Sensational, Teen Gang; Science Fiction Magazines and lots and lots of other things you didn't know people collected! Lyle 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners lightly rubbed and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine £5.00 book in laminated boards - as issued 97 John Davey : Michael Moorcock A Reader's Guide Foreword by Michael Moorcock; Introduction; Titles and retitles; Omnibuses, Collections and Non-Fiction; The Series; Unconnected Novels; Collections (again); Appendices: - Reading order list (for completists only), Some Notes, Pseudonyms; Index; Acknowledgements Self-Published 1992 Second Edition Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No. 23/300) Additionally Signed by Michael Moorcock Card cover cut-out a little torn and creased, comb-binding a little strained, pages a little creased - Very Good A4 £10.00 booklet 98 James S. Dietz, Jr. : Price Guide and Introduction to Movie Posters and Movie Memorabilia Over 6000 posters evaluated; Original release dates for all titles; The work of noted poster artists identified; Chapters on poster history, dating, preservation, terminology and prospecting, Concise coverage of related memorabilia; Listings, cross-referenced by actor and director Baja Press 1985 Second Edition First Edition Thus First Printing (Paper) Lower front cover corner lightly curled/creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine Book £5.00 99 Kevin Hancer : The Paperback Price Guide Over 400 pages of prices realised for books in the preceding years, but sorted by publisher and number this book provides a thorough guide to the books issued by those publishers. With many black and white illustrations and eight colour pages. Overstreet 1980 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Spine creased, lower corner of rear cover creased, cover edges/corners lightly curled/rubbed and page edges age- £5.00 darkened and marked - Good paperback 100 Philip Harbottle : Vultures of the Void A History of British Science Fiction Publishing, 1946-1956 (With Stephen Holland, Edited by Daryl F. Mallett) Acknowledgements; Introduction: Forgotten Fantasies; Chronologies; Chapters 1-13: The History; Index; About the Authors. With six black and white illustrations by Ron Turner. Later expanded as Vultures of the Void: The Legacy Borgo Press 1968 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Signed and Personalised by the Author (to Vince Clarke) Slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine, front cover creased and page top corners slightly bumped and £15.00 creased - Good Book Page 12 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 101 Carl Hines : The B. F. S. Bulletin Vol. 8 No. 1 to Vol. 8 No. 4/5 plus Vol. 9 No. 6 The Lot. Editorials; books received; book, film and TV reviews; articles; interviews; artwork; surveys; news; letters and more B. F. S. 1980-1982 (5 issues) Generally Very Good 16-32 page A5 centre-stapled paper booklets £7.50 102 Stephen Jones : James Herbert By Horror Haunted (Editor) ''... an exploration and tribute... '' With Interviews, essays, articles, reviews and artwork by Stephen King; Stephen Jones; Victor Olliver; James Herbert; Dave Hughes; Douglas E. Winter; Mike Ashley; Neil Gaiman; Adrian Cole; John Gilbert; Jo Fletcher; Michael A. Morrison; John Fraser; Stephen Laws; David J. Howe; Stephen Gallagher and many others. Scarce. New English Library 1992 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket £10.00 103 H. R. F. Keating : Crime & Mystery The 100 Best Books ''... Mr Keating casts his net wide... The author argues convincingly that, at its best, the mystery story transcends its genre to present an evocation of human experience... The essays are arranged in chronological order so that the book builds into a fascinating history... and details of first editions are provided making it an invaluable reference... '' Xanadu 1987 First Edition First Printing Page edges lightly marked else Fine Book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket with acquisition details inside the rear flap £7.50 104 Paul Kincaid : Call And Response Introduction: What is Literary Criticism for?; Brian W. Aldiss; Paul Auster; Christopher Barzak; The Best; Arthur C. Clarke; John Crowley; Samuel R. Delany; Philip K. Dick; Hal Duncan; Steve Erickson; Lisa Goldstein; Jon Courtenay Grimwood; M. John Harrison; Robert Holdstock; Gwyneth Jones; Paul McAuley; Ian McDonald; Ken MacLeod; China Mieville; The New; Christopher Priest; Alastair Reynolds; Keith Roberts; Secret Histories; Lucius Shepard; Jo Walton; H.G. Wells; Gene Wolfe; Index Beccon 2014 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Fine Book £16.00 105 Gordon Larkin : The British Fantasy Society Bulletin Vol. 5 No. 3 to Vol. 6 No. 2 and Vol. 6 no. 6 (With Dave Reeder) The Lot: Vol. 5 No. 3 to Vol. 6 No. 2 and Vol. 6 No. 6. Editorials; books received; book, film and TV reviews; artwork; surveys; news; letters and more B. F. S. 1977-1979 (8 issues) Generally Very Good 12-24 page A5 centre-stapled paper booklets £12.00 106 Mark Owens : The Index to the The Science-Fantasy Publishers A Bibliography of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Speciality Houses (Compiled and Edited with Jack Chalker) Introduction; How to Use the Index; The Index - Main Text (Advent to Visionary Press); The Also-Rans; Cross Index: Title & Author; Appendices A & B (Geographic Breakdown & Numerology - Books Published or Solely Distributed by) Anthem 1966 First Printing Second Edition (Paper) (Actually First Issued Edition - No. 51/300) A little wear at the base of the spine, plain blue card covers a little creased - Very Good A4 - probably a rebound £30.00 photocopy 107 Mark Owens : The Index to the The Science-Fantasy Publishers A Bibliography of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Speciality Houses (Compiled and Edited with Jack Chalker) Introduction; How to Use the Index; The Index - Main Text (Advent to Visionary Press); The Also-Rans; Cross Index: Title & Author; Appendices A & B (Geographic Breakdown & Numerology - Books Published or Solely Distributed by) Anthem 1966 First Printing Second Edition (Paper) (Actually First Issued Edition - No. 293/300) With Index Suppliment No. 1 Covers lightly creased, marked and discoloured, a number of pen marking against specific edtions/stories and £40.00 page edges lightly age-darkened , - Very Good A4 book 108 David Pringle : Bibliography Very detailed listing of J. G. Ballard's works: Books; Short Fiction; Miscellaneous; Short Non-Fiction ??? 2009? Black and white photocopy of an illustrated A4 top-left-stapled 13 page unnamed magazine (?) article with the £10.00 corners lightly curled/creased 109 David Pringle : Modern Fantasy The Hundred Best Novels An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987 Foreword by Brian W. Aldiss, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Brief Bibliography, one hundred plot summaries, assessments and first edition details and an Index Grafton 1988 First Edition First Printing With publisher's review slip Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners bruised and faint splash mark to top page edges and £7.50 page edges lightly marked and slightly bumped else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 13 110 David Pringle : The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy The Definitive Illustrated Guide (Editor) The Origins of Fantasy; Fantastic Story Types and Themes; Fantasy Movies; Fantasy Television; Who's Who of Fantasy; A-Z of Fantastic Characters; Fantasy Games and Fantastic Worlds Carlton 2006 Second Printing (Revised for this edition) Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, gutter paper near top of spine torn and repaired and board £3.00 edges bruised - Good? book in torn creased and rubbed Dust Jacket 111 David Pringle : The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction The Definitive Illustrated Guide (Editor) '... Illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, it explains the nature of sf's astounding stories, and gives you a comprehensive guide to the great craftsmen in science fiction, as well as the heroes, villains they created. It also charts the meteoric rise of sf from its earliest pulp fiction status to that of the largest grossing film and television genre ever... '' JG Press 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the £5.00 tips of the folds 112 Adam Roberts (Also as A. R. R. R. Roberts, A R R R Roberts, A3R Roberts and Robertski Brothers): Science Fiction Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Defining Science Fiction; The History of Science Fiction: From Beginnings to the 1960s; Gender; Race; Technology and Metaphor; Conclusion Routledge 2003 Rear cover creased else Fine Paperback £3.00 113 Paul Simpson : Farscape The Illustrated Companion (With David Hughes & Ruth Thomas) ''... the only fully authorised guide to the series, packed with exclusive cast and crew interviews, photos and design art, an in- depth look at all the special effects wizardry of the Creature Shop and a comprehensive... episode guide... '' Titan 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printings (Paper) Lower rear spine corner lightly rubbed else Fine book £4.00 114 Paul Simpson : Farscape The Illustrated Season 2 Companion (With David Hughes & Ruth Thomas) ''... the only fully authorised guide to the series, packed with exclusive cast and crew interviews, photos and design art, an in- depth look at all the special effects wizardry of the Creature Shop and a comprehensive... episode guide... '' Titan 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printings (Paper) Top edge of rear cover lightly rubbed else Fine book £4.00 115 Phil Stephensen-Payne : James Blish Author Mirabilis Introduction; Awards and Pseudonyms; Prose Fiction; Prose Fiction Books; Series; Poetry and Drama, Poetry and Drama Books; Articles; Miscellaneous; Non-Fiction Books; Edited Books; Other Media; Articles on James Blish; Reviews; Books about James Blish; Phantom and Forthcoming Titles; Related Items by Other Authors; Textural Variations, Chronological Index Galactic Central 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Front cover lightly creased and small mark on lower page edges else Fine A5 Book £10.00 116 Charles Stross : Japan 2007 Short non-fiction piece published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 37, 2007 to celebrate his appearance as Guest Of Honour. 250 numbered copies printed (all but a handful were given away to attendees at the Convention). B. S. F. G. 2007 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. 30/ca 250) Signed by the Author on the Title Page Fine card-covered centre-stapled A5 booklet £25.00 117 David Sutton : Fantasycon V Programme Booklet Feb 23..25 (Editor) Article by Karl Edward Wagner, Bibliography and long Interview (by Steve Jones); Film notes by Ramsey Campbell; British Fantasy awards 1978; notes on Speakers: Terri Beckett, Ken Bulmer, Adrian Cole, Pat McIntosh and Keith Walker; Membership; Committee and programme Fantasycon 1979 Page edges foxed and contemporary addresses added in pen for Adrian Cole and Jim Pitts - Very Good card- £4.00 covered A5 22 page centre-stapled booklet 118 Grant Thiessen : The Science-Fiction Collector 1 Contains full ace double listings, Alpha-Numerical Checklist; Author Index; Awared Winning Novels; Non-SF of Interest; A Personal Appraisal; Editorial; Gregory Kern's Real Identity; In Future Issues. 48 pages James Grant 1976 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Pages browned, a few short tears, 'dog-ears', small spot and price-sticker 'ghost' on front cover - Good but fragile £5.00 A4 glued-spine booklet Page 14 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 119 Virgil Utter : Stanton Arthur Coblentz Poet and Science Fictioneer (With Gordon Benson, Jr.) Introduction; Awards and Pseudonyms; Prose Fiction; Prose Fiction Books; Series; Poetry & Drama; Poetry & Drama Books; Articles; Miscellaneous; Non-Fiction Books; Publications Edited by Stanton A. Coblentz; Reviews; Other Media; Articles on Stanton A. Coblentz; Reviews; Books about Stanton A. Coblentz; Phantom and Forthcoming Titles; Textural Variations..., Chronological Index of Prose Fiction Galactic Central 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Front cover crease running parallel to spine else Fine A5 Booklet £10.00 120 Kate Wilhelm : The Hills Are Dancing (With Richard Wilhelm ''We are all searching... Dick and I are sharing a search; we are looking for something elusive, something important to both of us... about boundaries... mothers and sons... continuity... It has to do with time... and change. Impermanence. Continuity. Where will my people be in ten thousand years?'' Photography and philosophy in Oregon Corroboree Press 1986 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £20.00 121 Philip Wylie : Generation of Vipers A Survey of Moral Want; A Philosophical Discourse suitable only for the Strong; A Study of American Types and Archetypes and a Signpost on the two Thoroughfares of Man: the Via Dolorosa and the Descensus Averno; together with sundry Preachments, Epithets... Moodal Adventures... Political Impertinences... Allegories... Aspirations... Visions and Jokes as well as certain Homely Hints for the care of the Human Soul Rinehart 1946 First Edition Thus First Printing (Prefatory material excised and 15 page chapter 'Postscript, 1945' added) Bruised at top and slightly bumped and worn at base of spine, end papers a little marked and page edges age- £10.00 darkened - Very Good book 122 M. H. Zool (Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group): Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Clute ''... a compact and knowledgeable biographical and bibliographical dictionary... '' with authorial summaries and highlights, and a very useful 'if you liked that you will probably like this' recommendation section. Scarce and very good. Bloomsbury1989 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Cover edges lightly rubbed, lower front corner creased and page edges lightly browned (as usual) else Fine book £4.00 Pictorial and Illustrated 123 Anonymous : Star Trek 8 Deluxe Posters to Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before! Centre-stapled large booklet of posters - 42.5 x 28 cm, each printed with character descriptions on the reverse. Hawk Books 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Spine slightly creased, else Fine booklet £5.00 124 Charles Dixon : The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien Graphic Novel adaptation - Illustrated in full colour throughout and accompanied by the carefully abridges text... this handsome authorised edition will introduce new generations to a magical masterpiece... HarperCollins 1991 First Edition in the UK Second Printing (Trade Paper) Fine Book £7.50 Fiction 125 Ben Aaronovitch : Lies Sleeping ''Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice... '' Gollancz 2018 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and some page edges no longer quite parallel else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. £10.00 126 Douglas Adams : Mostly Harmless ''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... '' Heinemann 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges no longer parallel and page edges a little browned else Fine £5.00 book in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a crease running the length of the front flap Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 15 127 Osric Allen (P. J. Allen a.k.a. Rodney Scruggs, Charlie Chimp or Hyperbole G. Malestrom): The Dark Tunnel A Comedy ''... Set in a world that has never been, but is a distillation of our world... a single family: three brothers, their sister and their father - who is perhaps a King... Freed from circumstances by their royal birth, they are able to pursue untrammelled the paths that are suggested by their natures... mysterious, darkly comic, thoughtful, lyrical and terrifying... '' Robert Temple 1994 First Edition First Printing With Publisher/Author's Promotion Sheet, and Two Signed Letters addressed to Peter Haining with attached review Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket £10.00 128 Roger MacBride Allen : Isaac Asimov's Inferno ''... On the decaying Spacer world of Inferno, amidst the technological sophistication of the Limbo terraforming station, the no-law robot Caliban finds himself intermediary in the complex relations between robots and humans. But when a key politician is murdered, fear of Caliban as the robot without guilt or conscience... escalates - and crisis begins... '' Millennium 1994 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little bruised and marked else Fine book in Dust £7.50 Jacket with a tear at the base of the spine and a long crease extending along the lower edge of the rear panel 129 Kevin J. Anderson : Ignition (With Douglas Beason) ''The launching of the shuttle Atlantis will make history. Another triumph for the space programme, and a political coup: a Russian cosmonaut is scheduled to perform the first spacewalk from an American unit... The mission is proceeding like clockwork.. No one knows the real danger... '' Tor 1997 First Edition in the US First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and one page corner tip creased else Fine book in £4.00 like Dust Jacket with a short staple scratch on the front panel 130 Kevin J. Anderson : Ill Wind (With Douglas Beason) ''A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco... to avert an ecological... disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill. A virus that spreads like wildfire on the wind, destroying anything made of petroleum... As America descends into savagery... a daring plan to restore order. But... '' Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and faint mark on lower page edges else Fine book in slightly edge- £4.00 rubbed Dust Jacket, with a 15mm tear at the base of the rear panel 131 Kevin J. Anderson : The Edge Of The World & The Map of All Things Terra Incognita Books One & Two ''Two nations, traditional enemies, have finally forged an uneasy peace. But all it takes is a single tragic accident... and the world is once more cast into the fires of war. But while war rages... a great quest will defy the storms and sea- serpents to venture beyond the horizon... 'here be monsters'... '' Orbit 2009-10 All Are First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) (Two Volumes) Page corners of book two slightly bumped else Fine copies £6.00 132 Poul Anderson : Brainwave ''The neuronic response of all earthly animal life is suddenly speeded up: I.Q.s soar to a norm of around 500... and the brighter animals begin to attain the lower levels of former humanity... Could society stand the strain? And could the individual?... every phase of the equation is beautifully worked out... '' Scarce Heinemann 1955 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners, a little damp-marking to top page edges and pages £10.00 quite badly foxed - ?Good? Book 133 Piers Anthony : Harpy Thyme ''Gloha was the only creature of her kind in all the wide, wonderful world of Xanth, the beautiful young offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin... she wondered where she would find the one true love with whom she would share her life... a perilous quest in search of truth, friendship, and, just possibly, happiness as well... '' Tor 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like £4.00 Dust Jacket 134 Piers Anthony : If I Pay Thee Not In Gold (With Mercedes Lackey) ''In the age of the Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day... great for dieting... but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket... over a would-be rampaging male... No uppity males in Mazonia!... '' Baen 1993 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket, a little £3.00 marked on the inside and with a short ripple/crease in the back panel Page 16 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 135 Piers Anthony : Rings Of Ice ''The wide white rainbow meant one thing: Noah's flood, only worse. Three men and three women trapped in a motor- home, battle a global flood that spells the end of civilisation... '' Millington 1975 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed and marked Dust Jacket with a 20mm tear on £7.50 lower edge of back panel 136 Tom Arden : Sultan of the Moon and Stars Third Book of THE OROKON ''... Rich in horror and high adventure, outrageous comedy and aching romance... a lush and startling tapestry of dreams and dangers... '' Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board and page edges lightly browned and marked else £4.00 Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 137 Tom Arden : The Harlequin's Dance First Book of THE OROKON ''The god Orok gave to his five children crystals of surpassing beauty, to be embedded in a circle on the Rock of Being And Unbeing, whence had sprung the gods, the earth and all its peoples... until the dark god Koros plucked his crystal from the rock and plunged the world into chaos and despair... the first book in a sweeping fantasy epic...'' Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges faintly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £3.00 138 Tom Arden (David Rain): The King and Queen of Swords Second Book of THE OROKON ''... Rich in magic, mystery, horror and humour... vividly depicts and eighteenth-century world of armies and assassins, brothels and bandits, love and longing, ransom and rape - and looming over it all, the ancient riddle of the King and Queen of Swords.'' Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked and slightly stained else Fine book in like Dust £4.00 Jacket. 139 Catherine Asaro : The Moon's Shadow ''... a thrilling new chapter in this galaxy-spanning epic, as the titanic conflicts which have raged across the cosmos at last come to a climax... '' Eighth in the series Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 140 Sarah Ash : Flight Into Darkness Book Two of the Alchemyst's Legacy ''... a clash of kingdoms and rebels, of magicians and inquisitors... two young mages must find the resolution and courage they need to save the world... and themselves... '' Conclusion of the Alchemyst's Legacy Bantam 2009 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, 3mm band at base of spine light-faded and page edges lightly age- £7.50 darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 141 Isaac Asimov (Also as Paul French): Nightfall (With Robert Silverberg) ''...in collaboration with Robert Silverberg, Asimov has expanded his story into a novel... exploring what happens after the cataclysmic events of the original story... '' Gollancz 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing With Publisher's review request slip and reviewer's notes Covers and page edges slightly marked - Very good Uncorrected Proof, in creased Proof Dust Jacket £25.00 142 Isaac Asimov : The Positronic Man (With Robert Silverberg) ''... When NDR 113 came off the assembly line... it was no more than a Positronic brain encased in more-or-less humanoid-looking housing... But NDR 113 - or Andrew Martin... was no ordinary robot... His difference aroused passion in human beings - admiration, fascination - and fear. For Andrew Martin was an artist, a creator... '' Gollancz 1992 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. £6.00 143 Hilary Bailey : Polly Put The Kettle On ''Polly Kops is redheaded, clever, turbulent and, above all, illegitimate. She lives in stylish squalor in a broken-down Gothic house near Portobello Road. There, too, her heavy-rock songwriter/writer husband, Alexander, their twin daughters, Polly's pregnant cousin, a malevolent old abortionist, a drug addict.. rock musicians, groupies and hangers-on...'' Apparently based on her life with Mike Moorcock. Her first book - scarce. Constable 1975 First Edition First Printing Lower front corner bruised and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a tiny 'nick' at the £15.00 base of the spine panel 144 J. G. Ballard : News From The Sun Short story given free to all charter subscribers of the SF magazine Interzone. Interzone 1982 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 682/750) Possible slight fading to spine else Fine A5 centre-stapled booklet £25.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 17 145 J. G. Ballard : The Day Of Creation ''...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... '' Lester & Orpen Denys 1987 First Canadian Edition First Printing Top board edges slightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 146 J. G. Ballard : The Drowned World ''... an extraordinary of the earth as it is some time in the future, after a great increase in the sun's heat. The seas have risen, through the melting of the ice caps, and the temperature has driven the remnant of humanity to areas like northern Greenland. The action, however all takes place... around London - where silting, sea and jungle have returned... '' Gollancz 1962 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Ex Lib. - Slightly bumped at top and base of spine - Dust Jacket has been taped to book with heavy tape glue £50.00 stains to end papers, pre and post-lims, plate remains on front free end paper with a little surface tearing, and ink date stamps offset onto fixed end paper, page edges browned, stained and marked - Poor Book in tape-stained, rear-reinforced, slightly torn Dust Jacket, with the lower edge of the spine and front panel part-eroded 147 J. G. Ballard : The Terminal Beach (Contents different to the earlier Berkley Paperback) 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 Gollancz 1964 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped brown boards with trace of label removal from front board - probable Boots library rebind with £40.00 marked pages/edges and one signature slightly offset - Poor Book 148 Iain Banks (Also as Iain M. Banks): The Business ''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... '' 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 £5.00 Jacket, with the front corners a litle rubbed 149 Iain Banks : The Quarry ''Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from 'highly gifted'... to 'nutter'... his father is dying, and old friends are gathering... because they want something. Kit, too... Before his father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the mysterious tape they're all looking for... '' Little Brown 2013 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 150 Andrew Bannister : Creation Machine A Novel of the Spin ''In the vast artificial galaxy called The Spin, a rebellion has been crushed. Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the victorious Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his own daughter... Fleare Haas has had time to plan her next move... to the very frontiers of war... '' First in a trilogy of standalone novels. Bantam 2016 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Fine Uncorrected Proof printed specially for Mancunicon 2016 Eastercon £7.50 151 John Barnes : A Million Open Doors Clute - ''... instantaneous matter transmission... each formerly isolated planet is going through intense culture shock. Giraut, who comes from a high-tech, pseudomedieval culture... finds himself employed on Caledony, a grim, no-frills world... The clash of cultures is fascinating... '' Millennium 1993 First Edition in the UK Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 152 John Barnes : Earth Made Of Glass ''... twelve years after the events of A Million Open Doors... their task is to bring into the community of the Thousand Cultures the one human world that has yet to build a springer - the terrifyingly hostile world of Briand... '' Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 153 John Barnes : Finity ''Lyle Pripart's world is coming apart...he was a settled Professor at the University of Auckland... descendant of American expatriates... doesn't care for the Reichs that have dominated the world since the Axis victory over a century ago... His fiancée turns out to be a gun-toting weapons expert... grew up in a world... in which America surrendered to the Soviet Union in the 1970's... '' Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 Page 18 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 154 John Barnes : Kaleidoscope Century ''... in the late 1980's Joshua... a 'non-critical' spy, was unknowingly subjected to scientific experimentation - injected with a virus tailored for bodily renewal. And every fifteen years, he regains ten... Every time... his virus makes him very sick; and when he emerges from his fever... most of his memories have disappeared... he keeps... a hypertext account of the lives he has lived... '' Millennium 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing With Publisher's promotional sheet Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corner tips creased else Fine book in like, lightly creased, Dust £5.00 Jacket. 155 John Barnes : Mother Of Storms Clute - ''his most impressive novel... a powerful and complex portrait of a near future world wracked by the eponymous self-fuelling storm, and on the verge of numerous cusps, ethical and practical. Through virtual reality, sex has become extraordinarily present in everyone's consciousness, and genetic engineering helps point the way to the stars. Meanwhile the storm continues... '' Millennium 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 156 John Barnes : One For The Morning Glory ''... Young Prince Amatus... secretly sipped the forbidden elixir, leaving him literally half the lad he'd once been... his left side vanished without trace... But a year and a day later, four mysterious strangers appeared... As Amatus grew to manhood, the four Companions helped him cope with his curious curse and guided him on a perilous quest to discover his true destiny... '' Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 157 John Barnes : The Merchants of Souls ''Girault Leones, special agent for the shadowy instrumentality in charge of reintegrating humanity's sundered fragments, had been betrayed by his closest friend and superior. The result was the destruction of the planet Briand and the end of Girault's marriage... '' Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £10.00 158 Pamela Belle : The Silver City ''The Ska'i, savage barbarians intent on slaughter, are massing in the hills... Only Halthris of the nomadic Tanathi can warn the beautiful city... a chance encounter on the steppe throws her into a terrifying world of decadent royalty, sinister political intrigue and lethal magic... '' First in the trilogy - scarce. Pan 1995 First Mass Market Edition First Printing (Paper) A little edge and corner rubbing, covers and spine lightly creased - Very Good to Near Fine book £3.00 159 Mitch Benn : Terra ''ever felt like an outsider? Terra is about to go to school for the first time. She's never felt more alone. The school is out of this world and Terra is a pupil like no other. Alien? Human? Depends on your perspective. But... Terra is about to change a world...'' Gollancz 2013 First Edition First Printing Fine Uncorrected Proof. £7.50 160 Mitch Benn : Terra ''ever felt like an outsider? Terra is about to go to school for the first time. She's never felt more alone. The school is out of this world and Terra is a pupil like no other. Alien? Human? Depends on your perspective. But... Terra is about to change a world...'' Gollancz 2013 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Information Sheet Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 161 Raymond Benson : The Man with the Red Tattoo ''... an important British businessman and his family are killed in Tokyo by a virulent strain of West Nile disease... James Bond suspects a mass assassination... with... Tiger Tanaka... Bond's discoveries lead him to believe that two powerful factions Putnam 2001 First Edition in the US First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust £7.50 Jacket, with a short tear, and associated creasing at the top of the front fold 162 Alfred Bester : Golem e100 ''... In the American mega-city of the future, a group of charming ladies... attempt to raise the Devil... these enchanting ladies manage to create a new one... a manifestation of their collective unconscious that goes on a rampage of rape, torture and murder... '' Sidgwick & Jackson 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing Illustrated by Jack Gaughan Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners, light spine lean and page edges foxed - Good book in £5.00 slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 19 163 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. : Watchers Of The Dark ''Sinister, invisible forces of a secret mental weapon known only as 'The Dark' are threatening the entire Primores galaxy... a bizarre Mr Smith comes to the... office of Jan Darzek... whole planets have been laid waste... Darzek is offered a million dollars by Smith to accept a job that will almost certainly be fatal... '' Fourth in the 'Dark' series Rapp & Whiting 1966 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, boards slightly bowed and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in £5.00 slightly worn and marked Dust Jacket with a ca 15mm tear at the base of the front fold. 164 Michael Bishop : Transfigurations ''In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pin-wheels. Egon Chaney, in his... study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how their life-style has degenerated from a level of complex technological sophistication... '' Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges slightly foxed else Fine book in lightly marked Dust Jacket. £4.00 165 James Blaylock : Night Relics ''... a chilling tale of unusual emotional power... a story of the ghosts that haunt us all... lost memories that whisper in the wind... '' Ace 1994 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked and with a short remainder line £7.50 else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 166 James Blaylock : The Last Coin ''Two thousand years ago, there lived a man who sold some valuable information for a fee of thirty silver coins. his name was Judas Iscariot, and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still exist - and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them... '' Grafton 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, three page edges bumped with short tears and page edges slightly marked and £4.00 lightly browned - Very Good book in Near Fine Dust Jacket 167 James Blish : A Torrent Of Faces (With Norman L. Knight) ''In the world of eight hundred years in the future, one thousand billion people are kept reasonably content in a complex and completely automated society. But now the approach of a fifty million megaton meteor threatens a vast natural disaster and the destruction of peace and order... '' Faber 1968 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised and very slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in £7.50 like Dust Jacket, with the price removed 168 Scott Bradfield : Greetings From Earth New and Collected Stories ''...psychologically compelling and unique fictions that are both inventive and hilarious, particularly when he mixes the otherworld or the sensational with the mundane. Each of these twenty-one stories demonstrates his singularly rich language and imagination... '' Picador 1993 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's review request slip Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 169 Scott Bradfield : The History Of Luminous Motion ''... a seven-year-old... Philip likes... A life of random driving and random men... So when his Mother meets Pedro, and Philip finds himself with a room of his own, going to school and trembling under the threat of a birthday party, he is not the best pleased. His revenge, when it comes, is terrible and slow... '' Bloomsbury 1989 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board a little dulled by damp else Fine book in £3.00 slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a little damp marking at the lower edge (no show-through). 170 Scott Bradfield : The Secret Life Of Houses ''In this outstanding collection of short stories Scott Bradfield bears witness to the alien and desperate dreams we create and inhabit in the wasteland of our transient, acquisitive society. Funny and disturbing... '' '... his best stories appear in The Secret Life of Houses (expanded later as Greetings From Earth)... '' - Clute Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 171 Chaz Brenchley : The Samaritan ''... the last thing Paul Fenner needs is to get dragged into a murder case... When a friend becomes a victim, he has to be. The only clue he finds leads him to the Samaritans, and he confides... to a senior worker... but5 Linden has some deep and dark secrets of his own... '' Hodder & Stoughton 1988 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bruised, spine lettering tarnished and page edges browned else £15.00 Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a tiny piece missing near the base of the front fold Page 20 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 172 Terry Brooks : High Druid Of Shannara Straken ''Young Penderrin Ohmsford has been charged with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned... '' Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 173 John K. H. Brunner (Also as Henry Crosstrees, Jr., Ellis Quick & Keith Woodcott): Life In An Explosive Forming Press Twenty Eight poems in 31 pages... scarce. Poets Trust 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) From the Library of the Author with his bookplate inside fronr cover Fine book £25.00 174 John K. H. Brunner : The Wrong End Of Time ''... an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world... into this armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist... Superior intelligent life... has been detected near the planet Pluto... these Aliens are about to destroy the planet Earth. The only person who can provide a solution is a brilliant and clairvoyant young American black... '' Doubleday 1971 First Edition First Printing (Code M41 on P. 204 = Sept. 1971) From the Library of the Author - with his bookplate on the front fixed end paper. Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine and upper corners, page edges and end papers gutter foxed £15.00 else Fine book in lightly browned and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket 175 Steven Brust : Five Hundred Years After (Volume 2 of The Khaavren Romances) ''... a glittering sequel to his bestselling The Phoenix Guards, reuniting our heroes Khaavren, Pel, Aerich and Tazendra in Dragaera City, five hundred years after the events of the previous book... just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself... '' Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine book in Dust £5.00 Jacket, slightly faded at the edge of the folds. 176 Steven Brust : The Lord of Castle Black Book Two of the Viscount of Adrilankha ''Journeys! Intrigues! Sword fights! Young persons having adventures! Beloved older characters having adventures, too! Quests! Battles! Romance! Snappy dialogue! Extravagant food! And the missing heir to the Imperial Throne!... '' Sequel to The Paths of the Dead. Afterword by Neil Gaiman Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine, lower board edges a little faded/marked and page edges lightly marked else £4.00 Fine book in Dust Jacket, slightly worn at the upper tips of the folds. 177 Steven Brust : The Phoenix Guards (Volume 1 of The Khaavren Romances) ''... a very different tale that takes place almost a thousand years before Vlad's birth... a delightful fantasy homage to the swashbucklers of Dumas and Sabatini... Khaavren... is a landless son of fallen nobility, possessor of a good sword, and 'tolerably well acquainted with its use.' Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out adventure and romance... '' Tor 1991 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners bruised and page edges marked else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket. 178 Col Buchanan : Farlander The Heart of the World Book One ''The Heart of the World is in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sateen, ruthlessly maintains control... The Mercian Free Ports are the only confederacy yet to fall... it's only a matter of time... '' Tor (UIK) 2010 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 179 Orson Scott Card : Ender's Shadow ''... Ender was not the only young general trained to defend Earth from a terrifying alien threat... No one knew his real name, but they called him Bean. His early life was a fight just to survive. Even living on the streets, however, his extraordinary talents did not escape the attention of the Battle School recruiters. For in him they recognised a master strategist... '' Orbit 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 180 Orson Scott Card : Maps In A Mirror The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Split into 5 'Books' Each with an Introduction and Afterword: The Hanged Man Tales of Dread; Flux Tales of Human futures; Maps in a Mirror Fables and Fancies; Cruel Miracles Tales of Death, Hope and Holiness and Lost Songs The Hidden Stories - 46 stories 675 pages. Quite scarce. Orbit 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, 'FILE COPY' faintly stamped on front free end paper and page edges £7.50 lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 21 181 Orson Scott Card : Maps In A Mirror The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Forty-six stories separated into five 'books': eleven tales of dread; seven tales of human futures; ten fables and fantasies; six tales of death, hope, and holiness and twelve Hidden Stories... 675 pages Tor 1990 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust £25.00 Jacket 182 Orson Scott Card : Shadow Of The Giant ''... Bean... served the Hegemon as strategist and general... Now he and his wife... yearn for a safe place to build a family... there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies... Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps... and look to the stars.'' Tor 2005 First Edition in the US First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 183 Orson Scott Card : Shadow of the Hegemon ''... Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. earth faces a new danger, and this time the enemy is much closer to home. '' Orbit 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust £5.00 Jacket. 184 Orson Scott Card : Shadow Puppets ''... Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again... seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School... '' Orbit 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned/age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 185 Orson Scott Card : The Tales of Alvin Maker Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (Vol. 1 - Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1988) (Seventh Son+Red Prophet+Prentice Alvin) Clute - ''... set on... an alternate-world version of the USA... seems to come as close as humanly possible to the telling of an sf tale as Mormon parable... The early 19th-century USA... has never experienced a Revolution; certain forms of magic are efficacious; and Alvin may become a Maker, one who can delve to the heart of things and transform them... '' Tor 1987-89 (Volume 1 Second Printing Volumes 2 & 3 First Edition First Printings) Slightly/bumped at top and/or base of spines and a few corners, and spines leant - Very Good copies in Near Fine £20.00 Dust Jacket 186 Jonathan Carroll : After Silence ''... What do you do when you know your beloved is the worst kind of criminal? What should you do when the right and moral choice will ruin the rest of your life - as well as those you most love?... '' Macdonald 1992 First Edition First Printing With letter of submission to the Arthur Clarke award Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 187 Jonathan Carroll : From The Teeth Of Angels ''Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... '' Doubleday 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Covers bruised and rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof £15.00 188 Simon Clark : Darkness Demands ''When writer John Newton receives a mysterious note containing the bizarre request that he should leave a bar of chocolate on one of the gravestones in the local churchyard, he doesn't take much notice. But, as he is about to discover, the consequences of not complying with the anonymous demand can be truly appalling... '' Hale 2002 First Edition in the UK Second Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, lightly creased, Dust Jacket. £7.50 189 Arthur C. Clarke : Against The Fall Of Night/Beyond The Fall Of Night (With Greg Benford) ''... the story of a young man, Alvin... born in the enclosed city of Diaspar... not... the only city left on an Earth turned to desert. There is another city... In Benford's sequel Alvin's discoveries have lead to a renaissance... But along with creativity, evil has returned to the Earth.'' Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Compliments Slip Bruised at top and base of spine and one tiny fleck and a light bump to the page fore-edges else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket Page 22 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 190 Paul Cornell : The Severed Streets ''... London: a city in turmoil... The bodies of rich white men are found in circumstances similar to those that set London awash with fear... the Whitechapel murders. Even with their abilities to see the supernatural, accepting that Jack the Ripper is back from the dead is a tough ask... '' His second urban fantasy novel, following London Falling Tor (UK) 2014 First Edition First Printing Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket, with a small wear spot at the base of the rear fold. £5.00 191 John Crowley : Beasts ''Against the charged and anarchic atmosphere of a fragmented America in the not-too-distant future, to events unfold... inexorably marking the fall of man... and the rise of the animal kingdom... '' Doubleday 1976 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges foxed and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like £10.00 Dust Jacket with a touch of fading to the extreme spine edge of the front panel and a hint of wear to the lower front fold tip. 192 Seamus Cullen (????): Astra And Flondrix Clute - ''...a relatively rare presentation of eroticism in fantasy. The king of a fantasyland kingdom on post-holocaust earth impregnates his elf bride; their son Flondrix matures into a shapeshifter and sexual athlete, and inadvertently awakens a malign sleeper... '' Allen Lane 1976 First Edition First Printing A few speckles on boards and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust Jacket withy the fold tips £7.50 rubbed 193 Roald Dahl : Kiss Kiss Eleven inimitable stories: The Landlady; William and Mary; The Way Up To Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat; Royal Jelly; Georgy Porgy; Genesis and Catastrophe; Edward the Conqueror; Pig; The Champion of the World Michael Joseph 1960 First Edition in the UK Second Impression Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and lowest mm of spine light faded, gift inscription on front £20.00 free end paper and page edges lightly browned - Very Good book in worn, torn, rear-reinforced and lightly browned, creased and marked Dust Jacket with the price removed 194 Dennis Danvers : Circuit Of Heaven ''... 'the bin': a vast network of silicon crystals into which twelve billion people have uploaded their personalities to live in crime-free, disease-free... deathless virtual societies, leaving the dangerous and unpredictable Earth to a few remaining stragglers, the creeps and the crazies... Outsiders may visit the Bin... once they decide to stay... it's forever... '' Avon 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a tiny (ca. 2mm) split at the base of the rear fold. £6.00 195 Dennis Danvers : End of Days ''... returns us to this technological Eden - and to Earth, the ghost planet that humanity abandoned... '' Sequel to Circuit Of Heaven Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background slightly faded. £7.50 196 Dennis Danvers : The Fourth World ''... Santee... meets Margaret in Central America... he is technically still working for NewsReal - as a living camera hired to... enhance the virtual experience of millions of Web slaves. But Santee has lost his taste for the job... Margaret recognises a kindred spirit... Until Santee vanishes into the lush and dangerous wilds of the Third World... '' Avon 2000 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 197 Charles De Lint : Forests of the Heart ''In the Old Country they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed... only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou... generations have passed... but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets... and dream of power... '' Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 198 Charles De Lint : Memory and Dream ''... the story of Isabelle Copley, a young artist who once lived in the bohemian quarter of... Newford... she discovered an awesome power - to craft images so real that they came to life... twenty years later... Isabelle must come to terms with the shattering memories... and unlock the slumbering power of her brush... '' Tor 1994 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 £7.50 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 23 199 Charles De Lint : Moonheart Clute - ''... set in an Ottowa crosshatched into an otherworld itself intricately interpenetrated by fleshy manifestations of various mythological traditions... involves complex interactions between its female protagonist and various Native American and Celtic mythagoes... dominated by... a large edifice which surrounds a garden at whose heart grows a version of the world-tree... '' Pan 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) Edges lightly rubbed, some page corners bumped and creased - Very Good Book £10.00 200 Charles De Lint : Spiritwalk ''Tamson House... is a place of hidden power, for the house is a door to other lands through which diverse magics mingle and leak into our own. The walls of Tamson House breathe wonder, mystery sleeps in its enclosed garden... the overgrown garden path leads to a vast primal wood... '' Macmillan 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Trade Paper Issue) With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine Book £10.00 201 Charles De Lint : Trader ''... compelling story of a change of souls... inexplicably wake up one morning in each other's bodies... a journey that will take him... to an otherworld of dreams and spirits - where he must confront... his own deepest fears... '' Macmillan 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and page edges lightly browned and slightly £5.00 marked else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket 202 Charles De Lint : Trader ''... Trader is solitary, quiet, responsible. Devlin is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Devlin gleefully moves into Trader's comfortable and stable existence... Penniless, friendless, homeless, Trader begins a journey that will take him beyond the streets of Newford to an otherworld of dreams and spirits... '' Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and short felt pen (remainder?) line across top page edges else Fine book in £5.00 Near Fine Dust Jacket. 203 Samuel R. Delany : Nova ''... a heterogonous group of people under the leadership of Captain Lorq Von Ray, set out on a desperate adventure... to pluck from outer space a supply of Illyrion, which is immensely valuable as the source of power for carrying ships between the worlds and the stars... '' Gollancz 1969 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at base of spine, bookplate of author and fan Sam J. Lundwall on front fixed end paper and page edges £25.00 lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly worn Dust Jacket, with the price overstickered with 1.50p and a short tear at the top of the front panel, adjacent to the spine. 204 Bradley Denton : Lunatics ''Each month, when the moon is full, Jack strips naked and waits outside for his lover. He has to: Lily can only find him by the light of the moon. (It's one of those things about being the moon goddess)... '' St. Martin's Press 1996 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly £4.00 worn Dust Jacket 205 Philip K. Dick : Cosmogony And Cosmology Introduction by Paul Williams: In Chapter Two of VALIS the narrator describes Horselover Fats as laboring month after month on an ''exegesis'' - notes on his encounter with God. In fact Philip K. Dick did work earnestly on just such a project... Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No. P/C/500) Fine A5 card-covered bound booklet £30.00 206 Philip K. Dick : In Milton Lumky Territory ''Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western USA (chiefly Nevada and Idaho) and psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the travelling salesman... a vivid picture of small-town American life in the late 1950s; but from its straightforward realistic beginnings it journeys, ultimately, towards Dick's more characteristic concerns... Gollancz 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, lightly £15.00 rubbed at the top of the front fold. 207 Philip K. Dick : Martian Time-Slip ''... undoubtedly one of Philip K. Dick's best novels. His profound insight into psychological states, particularly schizophrenia, and his characteristic fascination with the nature of reality are explored through the relationships of the main characters.'' New English Library 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, boards a little faded, corners bruised and page edges lightly browned and £50.00 foxed - Very Good Book in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket with a couple of short tears Page 24 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 208 Philip K. Dick : The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer ''... the story of the life and death of Bishop Timothy Archer and his circle and of the California they inhabited, which shaped their end. Archer... is a charming man who seeks belief through reason and pursues it with such single- minded diligence that nothing can stand in his way - not organised religion, not the safety of his loved ones, eventually not even his own sanity... '' Gollancz 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners, around 80 top page corners quite badly bumped and so creased£10.00 and page edges lightly age-darkened - ?Good? book in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with the spine panel background part faded. 209 Thomas M. Disch : The M. D. A Horror Story ''A mesmerising novel of suspense and supernatural horror - set in the recent past and a near future grislier than anyone could possibly imagine...'' Knopf 1991 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and top edge of front board a little light-faded else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £10.00 210 Tony DiTerlizzi : The Search For WondLa ''... Eva Nine has never seen the actual sun before, or walked outdoors... She has never even seen another living person in all twelve years...That changes... a huntsman destroys her underground home and sends her fleeing... She is desperate to find someone else who is like her, and a single clue gives her hope: a crumbling picture of a girl, a robot, and a human... '' Simon & Schuster (UK) 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing Illustrated by the Author Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, and boards and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in £7.50 like Dust Jacket. 211 Stephen R. Donaldson (Also as Reed Stephens): Reave The Just And Other Tales ''... eight stunning stories that reveal a mastery of the shorter form, and display all the remarkable imagination, storytelling skills and gift for the unexpected... stories rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace... '' Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 212 Stephen R. Donaldson : The Gap Into Power A Dark And Hungry God Arises ''...third volume in the Gap sequence... a society of staggering complexity and alarming corruption, filled with intense, passionate characters only Stephen Donaldson could create... '' HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 with a little rubbing at the tips of the folds 213 Dave Duncan : Sky of Swords A Tale of the King's Blades ''The Princess Malinda was a lonely and unloved child growing into young womanhood in the cold intrigue-ridden court of King Ambrose. At an early age she learned to fight for what was rightfully hers. But even her great courage and matchless wits could not withstand her father's treacheries... '' Eos 2000 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/marked else Fine book in like Dust £5.00 Jacket 214 David Eddings : Belgarath The Sorcerer ''... A magnificent epic of unparalleled scope revealing for the first time the true origin of the struggles of gods and men that were to last for seven thousand years... '' The prequel to The Belgariad HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one spine crease, a few page corner tips creased and page edges £5.00 lightly browned - Very Good book in Fine Dust Jacket 215 Rosemary Edghill : Book Of Moons A Bast Mystery ''Bast (nee Karen Hightower) is a modern-day witch and amateur detective... a series of puzzling thefts... a murder whose origins lurk centuries in the past... Every witch has a Book of Shadows... when many of Bast's friends report their own Books lost or stolen... when a kindly bookstore owner is savagely murdered... one very old, very special Book... '' Forge 1995 First Edition First Printing Bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 216 Harlan Ellison : Ellison Wonderland (Earthman, Go Home - One Story Exchanged) His first collection, from 1962, in hardback for the first time. Includes All the Sounds of Fear, The Very Last Day of a Good Woman, Nothing For My Noon Meal, In Lonely Lands and 12 others... and an introduction not in the original... '' Science Fiction Book Club 1979 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus (Red Board Variant - no known priority) Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine book in lightly browned £7.50 Dust Jacket. Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 25 217 Steve Erickson : Tours Of The Black Clock ''... a journey through another twentieth century, eliding conventional borders of time and place to conduct a mesmerising exploration of the underside of civilisation... At the centre of this novel is Banning Jainlight... he becomes Hitler's private pornographer... glimpses the face of Hitler's lost erotic dream... most evil man of all time... change history, establish himself as a god... '' Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing With Publisher's Review slip and photocopy of NYT review Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 218 Steven Erikson (Steve Rune Lundin): Deadhouse Gates A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen ''... the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of chaos... the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the monumental Malazan Book of the Fallen... '' Bantam 2000 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) One lightish crease in front cover, page edges lightly browned & last few page corners bumped - Very Good Plus £30.00 book 219 Steven Erikson : Gardens Of The Moon (Special Limited Edition CD Signed by the Author ) Promotional limited edition CD especially signed by the author, featuring an extract from the novel read by the author. Scarce. Bantam 2000 Fine CD as issued in case. £30.00 220 Steven Erikson : The Devil Delivered and Other Tales (The Devil Delivered+Revolvo+Fishin' with Grandma Matchie) Set in the near future, The Devil Delivered is a powerful, apocalyptic story... a hole in the ozone layer the size of the Great Plains...Revolvo takes place on an alternate Earth.. and... allows self-proclaimed artists to survive without an audience... In Fishin' with Grandma Matchie a nine-year-old-boy recounts... a fantastical journey into imagination... '' Bantam 2012 First Combined Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and small bump at top edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 221 Chris Evans : A Darkness Forged in Fire Book One of the Iron Elves ''... an Empire teetering on the brink of war... Konowa Swift Dragon, former commander of the Empire's elite Iron Elves... court-martialed... his beloved regiment disbanded... banished in disgrace... The mysterious and alluring Visyna Tekoy... seeks him out... with a royal decree... For in the east, a falling Red Star heralds the return of a magic long vanished from the earth... '' Pocket Books 2008 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 222 Neil Ferguson : Bars of America ''A cityscape of gas stations and banks, interstate freeways, rundown motels, fast-food eats, diners and downtown bars. The USA in the Eighties... It is as sharp as a gimlet and as polished as the bartender's first glass of the day.'' Not Science Fiction. Hamish Hamilton 1986 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and pages browned else Fine in like Dust Jacket £5.00 223 Jasper Fforde : The Fourth Bear ''The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case... until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-'Vu Club... '' Hodder & Stoughton 2006 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket. 224 Eric Flint : 1634: The Bavarian Crisis (With Virginia DeMarce) ''... The USE has the know-how... but needs iron and steel... the expedition sent to revitalise the mining industry in the upper Palatinate walks into the middle of a ferocious battle... '' Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, rear board lightly marked and page edges lightly browned and marked £7.50 else Fine book in Dust Jacket, slightly worn at the base of the rear fold 225 Neil Gaiman : Anansi Boys ''... a scary, funny sort of story, which isn't exactly a thriller, and isn't really horror, and doesn't quite qualify as a ghost story (although it has at least one ghost in it), or a romantic comedy (although there are several romances in there and it's certainly a comedy, except for the scary bits)... '' Includes readers guide, a deleted scene, interview with Gaiman & discussion questions. Headline/Review 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Bruised at top and base of spine, a few page lower corner tips creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine £7.50 book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Page 26 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 226 Neil Gaiman : The Ocean at The End of the Lane ''... forty years ago... the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers... Dark creatures... are on the loose... His only defence is three women... at the end of the lane... The youngest claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang... '' Headline 2013 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly £10.00 rubbed and creased Dust Jacket, with ca. 1mm nick near the head of the spine and 'As heard on BBC Radio 4... ' sticker on the front panel. 227 Anne Gay : The Brooch Of Azure Midnight ''Spiderglass is a vast interplanetary combine... Karel is the youngest member of the Board, and learned early... to trust his family even less than outsiders... Karel creates a double-edged weapon... But then the Gate is discovered... Instantaneous matter-transmission... will change humanity... '' Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine, upper corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine £4.00 book in like Dust Jacket. 228 David Gemmell (Also as Ross Harding): The Swords Of Night And Day ''A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Drenai... But what if the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void... the ageless evil of the Eternal threatens... two legendary heroes will once again lead the way to freedom... '' Bantam 2004 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 229 Stella Gemmell : The City ''Built up over the millennia, layer upon layer, the City is ancient and vast. Over the centuries, it has sprawled beyond its walls... laying waste to what was once green and fertile. At the heart of the City resides the emperor. Few have ever seen him. Those who have remember a man in his prime and yet he should be very old... '' Bantam 2013 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Press Release Bruised at top and base of spine, four page edges bumped, torn and creased and page edges lightly browned else £5.00 Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. 230 Mark S. Geston : Lords Of The Starship ''The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and was to have a wing-span of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory...'' Michael Joseph 1971 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and one largish spot of foxing on page edges else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 231 Gary Gibson : Nova War Second Book of the Shoal Sequence ''Found adrift near a Bandatti colony world far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso found themselves prisoners of the Bandatti - the alien race from whom Dakota stole the film suit technology, and for which they now want payment... '' Tor (UK) 2009 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, short section of three page top edges bruised and page edges lightly £5.00 browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 232 Colin Greenland : Other Voices ''In this dark, dramatic novel of power and deprivation Colin Greenland takes us away from the prairies and jungles of his previous book The Hour of the Thin Ox, up into the mountains, and the no-man's-land between the living and the dead.'' Unwin Hyman 1988 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked and foxed else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. £3.00 233 Peter F. Hamilton : The Neutronium Alchemist ''The second volume in the Night's Dawn trilogy... On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy , the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night...'' Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked with a little heavier marking on the bottom page £10.00 edges - Near Very Good book in slightly worn Dust Jacket, with a tear at the head of the spine 234 Geraldine Harris : The Seven Citadels Part I Prince of the Godborn Clute - ''... the quest of the young son of the ruler of the Empire of Galkis in his attempt to find seven sorcerers who hold seven keys to open seven gates that bar him from the potential saviour of the land... the slow maturation of the protagonist... into full adulthood neatly makes possible the healing of the land.'' Macmillan 1982 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 27 235 William Heaney (Graham Joyce): Memoirs of a Master Forger (BFS Derleth Award Winner 2009) ''... a dissolute bookseller, happily penning forgeries of classic works of literature to flog to gullible collectors... also a poet composing verse for his more attractive Asian friend... a drink problem... And William sees demons... Shadowy figures which lurk on the shoulders of everyone... except... '' First Printings of this are very scarce. Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Top page edges partly lightly browned else Fine book £15.00 236 James Herbert : The Spear ''Ever since it pierced the side of Christ on the Cross some 2000 years ago, the Spear of Longinus has been a symbol of legendary mystical power... an idealistic young Nazi, helped Himmler... smuggle the Spear to England, where it is now in the hands of... a fanatical neo-Nazi cult who plan... to change the course of history... '' New English Library 1978 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned, slightly marked and rubbed else Fine book in £20.00 slightly worn Dust Jacket, with erasure marks across the price on the front flap 237 Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm): Shaman's Crossing The Soldier Son Trilogy One ''Young Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son... Nevare will follow his father... into the cavalry, to the frontier... to the enigmatic Speck people... the last vestiges of magic in a world which is becoming progressive and technologised... '' Voyager 2005 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly rubbed else Fine book in like, £5.00 slightly creased Dust Jacket. 238 Robert Holdstock (Also as Ken Blake; Robert Black; Chris Carlsen; Steven Eisler; Richard Kirk & Robert Faulcon): Celtika Book One of the MERLIN CODEX ''Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveller on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys he encounters Jason, whose search for the Golden Fleece he joins. It is a decision that will cost him dear!... '' Book One of The Merlin Codex. Simon & Schuster 2001 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust £10.00 Jacket 239 Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker): Earth, Air, Fire and Custard ''J. W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it... but death is never far away... '' Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 240 Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker): Expecting Someone Taller ''When Malcolm Fisher, a mild and unattached young Englishman, accidentally runs over a badger somewhere in the West country, he finds himself accidentally hurtled into the world of Wagnarian myth. For the badger turns out to be a giant, disguised and in hiding for several centuries... '' Macmillan 1987 First Edition First Printing Bruised and a little rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, £20.00 slightly creased Dust Jacket with a crease in the rear flap 241 Tom Holt (Also as Thomas Holt & K. J. Parker): Flying Dutch ''It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little swig from an oddly shaped-bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting round the world with your similarly immortal crew, unable to stay in port for very long owing to side effects... Worst of all, Richard Wagner writes an opera... '' Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine, upper and lower board edges a little worn and page edges lightly age-darkened £5.00 else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket. 242 Tom Holt : Nothing But Blue Skies ''There are very many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, mad, or both - but all of them are wrong... The real reason why it rains perpetually from January 1st to December 31st (incl.) is, of course, irritable Chinese Water Dragons... '' Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing Page edges browned and slightly bruised else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the top edge of £4.00 the rear panel 243 Tom Holt : Wish You Were Here ''It was a busy day on Lake Chicopee. But it was an eclectic bunch of sightseers and tourists that had the strange local residents rubbing their hands with delight... most promising of all, there was Wesley Higgins... who was there because he knew the legend of the ghost of Okeewana. All he had to do was immerse himself in the... lake and he would find his heart's desire... '' Orbit 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 Page 28 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 244 Wolfgang Jeschke : Midas The first three of thirteen chapters from the novel. New English Library 1990 First Edition First Printing Paper covers slightly grubby else Fine small centre-stabled promotional booklet £2.00 245 Wolfgang Jeschke : Midas The first three of thirteen chapters from the novel. New English Library 1990 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the front cover Paper covers faintly marked else Fine small centre-stabled promotional booklet £4.00 246 K. W. Jeter : Blade Runner 3 Replicant Night ''... Speed-Death productions are shooting a movie off-planet - the story of Rick Deckard. Desperate though Deckard is for money, watching his hunt for the replicants being repeated on the set is doing weird things to his mind... '' Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, pressure marks on board edges and page edges lightly marked else £4.00 Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. 247 K. W. Jeter : Death Arms ''In a devastated Los Angeles of the near future most of the population have fled from THE FEAR, leaving the city inhabited by freaks and dropouts, policed by the powerful and mysterious SCRAP organisation. Into this stark world Legger is thrown... '' Morrigan 1987 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 248 K. W. Jeter : Death Arms ''In a devastated Los Angeles of the near future most of the population have fled from THE FEAR, leaving the city inhabited by freaks and dropouts, policed by the powerful and mysterious SCRAP organisation. Into this stark world Legger is thrown... '' Afterword: The Young Man Comes To The City not present in the trade edition. Morrigan 1987 First Edition Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 112/250) Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small speck on top page edges and Author's signature partly offset onto £10.00 opposite page else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 249 K. W. Jeter : In The Land Of The Dead ''Cooper is having trouble telling the living and the dead apart - and he doesn't have much time to figure out the difference... California during the Great Depression... Vandervelde, a citrus grower with a... taste for games that end in bloodshed... Fay, a girl who believes she can talk to the dead... Cooper... 'll find out what life is really like... in the land of the dead.'' Morrigan 1989 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 250 K. W. Jeter : Wolf Flow ''The desert souls and parched dreams within this book are real and frightful, and demonstrate the exceptional literary prowess that has made K. W. Jeter one of today's most important young writers.'' St. Martin's Press 1992 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Slightly bumped at top & base of spine & page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly worn & torn £7.50 Dust Jacket a little eroded at the top of the front fold. 251 Jenny Jones : The Blue Manor ''... In one of those secret places... the Blue Manor waits... it is a place of power, where sin is exposed and purged: a litmus paper for evil. it harbours within its walls years of brutal, violent, perverse secrets... which compel its inhabitants to re-enact a terrible story... '' Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 252 Jenny Jones : The Edge of Vengeance Volume Two of Flight Over Fire ''''The two masked figures echoed down the corridors of reality and dream, Their hatred reverberated over aeons, spanned universes... Their battle-ground was humanity... On Peraldon the vengeful sun burns over a raw landscape. The Desert Rose, a carnivorous, sentient jungle, roams an arid kingdom of dust... '' Headline 1991 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of edge-wear. £5.00 253 Robert Jordan : The Conan Chronicles (Conan The Invincible+Conan The Defender+Conan The Unconquered) ''... less than nineteen years old... the young Conan must join forces with Karela, a dangerously seductive female bandit... Conan braves the traps and treacheries of the Royal Palace of the Dragon... Conan defies the sorcerous power of the Cult of Doom for the sake of a beautiful young woman... '' Legend 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket, with a little damp- £7.50 marking inside the spine panel (no show-through). Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 29 254 Robert Jordan : The Conan Chronicles 2 (Conan The Magnificent+Conan The Triuphant+Conan The Destroyer) Together with Conan The Indestructible: a history of Conan and his times by L. Sprague de Camp Legend 1997 First Combined & Hardback Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, faint damp-marking at the lower edges of the boards and page edges lightly £10.00 browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, damp-marked inside along the lower edge (no show-through). 255 Robert Jordan : Winter's Heart Book Nine of the Wheel of Time ''... the Wheel of Time turns again, and the remarkable tale that is mesmerising an entire generation of readers continues... '' Orbit 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust £3.00 Jacket 256 Graham Joyce : Leningrad Nights 48 page novella: introduced by Peter Straub. ''... a phantasmal, haunted version of Leningrad... An orphaned boy named Leo dodges through the rubble, doing whatever he must to survive... '' PS Publishing 1999 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) (No 143/500) Signed by the Author on the Limitation Page Back cover slightly rubbed else Fine A5 booklet £5.00 257 Hyman Kaner : People of the Twilight ''Professor Hayton discovers a drug which enables him and his friend to enter an amazing new world, the people of which lead a wonderful, idyllic existence. The Professor with his flair for experimentation, shatters the peace and happiness of this new world... '' Kaner 1946 First Edition First Printing Bumped and slightly rubbed at base and bruised at top of spine, top corners bruised, previous owner's name and £15.00 date on title page - Very Good book in slightly torn and creased Dust Jacket with asmall chip at the base of the spine panel. 258 Guy Gavriel Kay : Lord Of Emperors Book II of the Sarantine Mosaic ''... This eagerly-awaited conclusion to the magnificent sequence begun with Sailing to Sarantium finds a huge cast of characters from all walks of life caught up in rumours of war and perilous intrigue as all the threads of the tale come spectacularly together in a time shaped by violent upheaval - and the memory of fire in the streets.'' Scarce. Earthlight 2000 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket £3.00 259 Guy Gavriel Kay : The Last Light Of The Sun ''... The setting is the northlands, the cold lands of mist and myth... Alun ab Owyn... young, impulsive... His life shattered at the hands of the raiders, he's consumed by a need for revenge... Bern Thorkellson... seeks a place among the raiders... the man who holds his people together. King Aeldred... must confront... '' Set in the same fantasy world as The Sarantine Mosaic. Viking 2004 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a small triangular £5.00 surface flake missing at the top pf the spine adjacent to the front panel 260 Guy Gavriel Kay : The Lions Of Al-Rassan ''''... The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have indeed come from the desert sands, pure in their worship of the stars, but over centuries amid the seductive beauty of their conquered land the desert warriors have evolved into a decadent, sensuous people... an exhilarating epic adventure and a moving story of fierce passions... '' Viking 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised and slightly worn at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket £7.50 261 Gabriel King (M. John Harrison & Jane Johnson): The Wild Road ''... Tag, stolen from his home to join a mysterious quest... Once tame, now he must navigate the wild roads, the animal highways which bind our world... tells of the secret history of cats, and the perils of sharing a world with humankind... '' Only a few of the hardbacks were printed - scarce. Century 1997 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page. Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £15.00 262 Stephen King : Dolores Claiborne Acknowledged as the First issued edition - predating even the Hodder & Stoughton facsimile-signed limited edition. First printings are very scarce. Book Club Associates 1992 First Edition First Printing (Code CN 6975) Top page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £50.00 Page 30 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 263 Damon Knight : Beyond The Barrier Professor Gordon Naismith has duplicated himself nine times, and when an unusual student triggers a series of violent events, the professor begins to wonder if there was a tenth Gordon Naismith. The answer lay far in the future. - Expansion of 'The Tree of Time' - first published in F&SF. - Gollancz 1964 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, lower corners and board fore-edges, spine lettering dulled, trace of plate £4.00 removed from rear fixed end paper and page edges browned and marked - Good book in brown boards 264 William Kotzwinkle : Hermes 3000 ''... a magnificent tapestry of human emotion... glamorous and bizarre... following the characters along their separate paths, which crisscross... we are gradually led to... the secret of Hermes, god of the roads... '' This author's first novel. Pantheon 1972 First Edition First Printing With separate photo of the author as used to illustrate the rear panel of the Dust Jacket Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like £20.00 Dust Jacket. 265 William Kotzwinkle : The Game of Thirty ''A wealthy Madison Avenue antiquities dealer is murdered while playing a game that the pharaohs once played - the Game of Thirty. Enter Jimmy McShane, hired to find the killer. But instead McShane finds that the killer is playing the Game of Thirty with him, and all Manhattan is the board... '' Houghton Mifflin 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket £7.50 266 Mercedes Lackey : Beyond Worlds End (With Rosemary Edghill) ''... world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life... unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs... '' Sequel to Bedlam's Bard Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board and front board lightly creased else Fine £5.00 book in like Dust Jacket 267 Mercedes Lackey : Brightly Burning ''... Valdemar - at a time when this magical kingdom faces war with its most powerful enemy... a young man emerges who has abilities never seen before - a Gift so terrifying that even the Heralds... fear him... '' Daw 2000 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 268 Mercedes Lackey : Changes Collegium Chronicles Book Three ''Mags was a Herald Trainee in the brand new Heraldic Collegium in Haven, Valdemar's capital… his background of unimaginable poverty... set him apart... he had found his own special group of friends... there were mysterious agents in the city... who sought to bring down the kingdom... '' Following Foundation and Intrigues Daw 2011 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and black felt pen remainder line across lower page edges else Fine £5.00 book in like Dust Jacket 269 Mercedes Lackey : Darian's Tale (Owlflight+Owlknight+Owlsight, With Larry Dixon) ''... the tiny village of Errold's Grove... on the borders of Valdemar... the mage-storms came... transforming many... creatures, warping the... land, and shattering the laws of magic... Darian is... apprenticed to Wizard Justin... who lost most of his powers... Darian has 'talent... Pursued by barbarians, alone and helpless Darian flees... '' Daw 1997-9 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) Interior illustrations by Larry Dixon Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spine, Owlknight spine creased and page edges lightly age- £15.00 darkened else Fine books in like Dust Jacket 270 Mercedes Lackey : Exile's Valor A Novel of Valdemar ''Alberich was a Herald of Valdemar, but once he had been a captain in the army of Karse. It hadn't been easy for Alberich to transfer his loyalties to the kingdom he had considered an enemy all his life... '' Daw 2003First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and a couple of page fore-edges rough-cut - one of which is £5.00 creased - else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 271 Mercedes Lackey : Four & Twenty Blackbirds Bardic Voices Book IV ''A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never Churchmen and they commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed... only one small piece of a bigger and much nastier puzzle... '' Baen 1997 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 31 272 Mercedes Lackey : Owlknight (With Larry Dixon) ''... six years have passed... Darian... has grown into a mature, responsible adult... a Master Mage... head of a new community... he has found the young woman he hopes will be his life-mate... she repeatedly refuses to marry him... he is haunted by the pain of not knowing what happened to his parents... '' Daw 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at the top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel £4.00 and front panel; edges a little faded. 273 Mercedes Lackey : Phoenix and Ashes The Elemental Masters, Book Three ''... Eleanor was forced to endure a painful and frightening ritual... during which the smallest finger of her left hand was severed and buried... For her stepmother was an Elemental Master of Earth... not just an ordinary Master - a Master who practised the darker blood-fuelled arts... '' Daw 2004 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 274 Mercedes Lackey : Spirits White As Lightning (With Rosemary Edghill) ''Can Eric stop Aerune's latest plan? Only if he finds out about it... but between babysitting a visiting Healer, training a banjo-playing Bard... dealing with a dragon... Eric's got his hands full. Saving the world's never been more necessary - or come at a higher price.'' Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed and creased, Dust Jacket £5.00 275 Mercedes Lackey : The Eagle & The Nightingales Bardic Voices Book III ''... the Church is becoming ever more overtly hostile to non-human sentients... Nightingale will join forces with T'tyrr, a birdman with the visage of a raptor and the voice of an angelic choir... the Eagle and the Nightingale will... become if not quite lovers then far more than friends... '' Baen 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of one page and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like £4.00 Dust Jacket. 276 Mercedes Lackey : The Fire Rose ''Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago. Unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man... '' Baen 1995 First Edition First Printing (Second State Dust Jacket) Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower rear corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 277 Mercedes Lackey : The Gates of Sleep ''... Marina... seventeen years... fostered... ward of three bohemian artists in turn-of-the-century England... a free thinker... she and her foster parents were Elemental Masters of magic... learning to control her growing powers... a fledgling Water Master of enormous potential... '' Book 2 of The Elemental Masters Daw 2002 First Edition First Printing (Note: Copyright Page shows 2001 erroneously) Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper fold tips £5.00 278 Mercedes Lackey : The Phoenix Unchained Book One of The Enduring Flame (With James Mallory) ''...For a thousand years... the world has known peace... the world is Balanced between Light and Dark. When Bisochim, a Wild Mage... finds that the Balance has shifted too far toward the Light, he knows he has discovered his life's mission - he will return Darkness to the world... '' Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the base of the front £5.00 fold. 279 Mercedes Lackey : The Robin And The Kestrel Bardic Voices Book II ''... Together, the Robin, the Kestrel and the Ghost will foil a plot to drive all music forever from the state of Gradford - and from the rest of the land, too... But first the Robin and the Kestrel must tame the killer Ghost.'' Baen 1993 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 280 Mercedes Lackey : The Serpent's Shadow ''... her mother was a sorceress - a former priestess of the mystical magics fuelled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods... 'Yours is the magic of your father's blood, not mine... ' ... But Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power which had murdered her parents... '' The Elemental Masters, Book One. Daw 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, slightly rubbed along £5.00 top edge of front panel Page 32 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 281 Mercedes Lackey : The Silver Gryphon The third book in the Valdemar : Mage Wars fantasy series. ''the heroic Black Gryphon, legend of the Mage Wars, is now more the elder statesman than the conquering avenger. His twin sons, however, are more than keen to take on their father's legendary mantle, but their eagerness to enter the political arena pits them against horrific remnants of the Wars'' Daw 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small triangle of paper at the tip of the top front corner missing else £5.00 Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket 282 Mercedes Lackey : The White Gryphon Book Two Of The Mage Wars (With Larry Dixon) '' It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm which destroyed the twin strongholds of two of the world's most powerful Mages... Now... human and non-human alike - live in a terraced city... a secure stronghold... until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor... '' Sequel to The Black Gryphon. Daw 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, a little rubbed at the top of the spine £5.00 283 Mercedes Lackey : Winds Of Fury Book Three Of The Mage Winds ''... stunning conclusion to The Mage Winds trilogy... Valdemar is once again in peril, threatened by... a dangerous enemy who has... found a way to set in motion a magical strike... the like of which hasn't been attempted in more than five hundred years... no one in Valdemar has the knowledge to withstand... '' Daw 1993 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by Larry Dixon Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine £4.00 background a little faded 284 Jay Lake (Joseph Edward Lake): Pinion ''Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria still rules... the Royal Navy challenges the Chinese in the skies with their mighty airships, and Earth still turns on God's great brass gears of heaven... Paolina Barthes, young sorceress, is crossing the Equatorial Wall; since she cannot remove her magical talent... she must remove herself... '' Third in the Clockwork Earth trilogy Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges age-darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust £7.50 Jacket. 285 Mark Lawrence : The Liar's Key Book Two of The Red Queen's War ''... Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the longed-for luxuries of his southern palace... the Viking is ready to challenge all of Hel to bring his wife and children back into the living world. He has Loki's key - now all he needs is to find the door ... the Dead King plots... so that the dead can rise and rule.'' HarperVoyager 2015 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with a couple of fine £20.00 superficial scratches 286 Ann Leckie : Provenance ''A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and to regain lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned... '' Orbit (UK) 2017 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and small spot to page fore-edges else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a shortish £4.00 V-shaped tear in the front panel 287 Sharon Lee : Balance of Trade A Liaden Universe Novel (With Steve Miller) ''... good old-fashioned coming-of-age space opera in the tradition of Heinlein and Norton... how an ordinary Terran became the pivot point in galactic clash of cultures... how the more he tried to be just like his father, the less the universe seemed inclined to help... '' Meisha Merlin 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Lower rear cover corner lightly rubbed and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book £5.00 288 Sharon Lee : Carousel Tides ''... pulls you into the chill foggy reality of peeling-paint sand-grit coastal Maine outside of tourist season... the hidden world lurking in shadows... where Black Dogs hunt the night and selkies toss unpleasant truths over their shoulders... one of the spookiest carousels this side of Ray Bradbury... '' Baen 2010 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Fore-edge of rear cover lightly creased and page edges lightly browned else Fine Book £5.00 289 Sharon Lee : Crystal Dragon Book Two of the Great Migration Duology (With Steve Miller) ''You can't go home again... when home is a conspiracy that's been discovered and destroyed?... means working for the destroyers of galaxies?... is a spaceship that's calling out to the enemy?... and how do you fight an Enemy whose major form of attack is the de-crystallisation of everything around itself?... '' Sequel to Crystal Soldier Meisha Merlin 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top & slightly bumped & rubbed at base of spine & page edges a little marked else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 33 290 Tanith Lee : Being A Daring Tale Of A Singular Girl's Adventure Upon The High Seas Piratica Presented Most Handsomely by The Notorious ''... the world of this book is very like ours and also, it isn't... this isn't exactly a historical novel - but it's not exactly a fantasy either. And it takes place in a time we never had... '' Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing A couple of page lower corners creased else Fine Uncorrected . £7.50 291 Tanith Lee : Personal Darkness Second in the Blood Opera Sequence ''The House is destroyed, the Scarabae dead or scattered. And the youngest and most dangerous of them, voracious for destruction is free... '' Follows DarkDance and precedes Darkness, I Little, Brown 1993 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in slightly £4.00 rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket 292 Fritz Leiber : The Wanderer (1965 Hugo Award Winner) ''... It came without malice, an elemental force, a climatic power greater than any the Earth had ever seen... a phenomenon which reduced this planet to the size of an ant-hill pushed out of the way by a bulldozer... death for millions... a terror, to upset the certainties of science, to wreck the world, but to open up the hearts and minds of mankind.'' Dobson 1967 First Edition in the UK and First Hardback First Printing (First state dust jacket - No Seacon Seal) Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, boards slightly marked and page edges lightly age-darkened £15.00 and with light foxing - Near Very Good book in lightly age-darkened, slightly worn Dust Jacket with a few short tears 293 Jonathan Lethem : Amnesia Moon ''... The Wizard of Oz remade as road noir. Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming, is a sick town, full of mutants and sexual deviants. Chaos lives... trying to blot out his present, unable to remember his past... Kellogg... reveals to him... that the bombs never fell. The truth is a little more complicated... '' Harcourt Brace 1995 First Edition Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 294 Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons): Dark Dominion (Dominion) ''... high school student Dion Semele has just moved to Napa with his mother, and he soon notices that something is amiss. For Dion begins having bizarre, incomprehensible dreams... the source of all the strange occurrences is the winery at which his new girlfriend Penelope lives with the five women she calls her 'mothers'.. '' Headline 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £10.00 295 Bentley Little (Also as Phillip Emmons): Evil Deeds (a.k.a. Death Instinct as by Phillip Emmons) ''... The idea of someone actually living in the Lauter house made her shiver. It seemed strange for people to be there, wrong almost. She had only been six when Keith Lauter had killed both himself and his wife, but she remembered the events as clearly as if they'd happened yesterday... '' Scarce Headline 1994 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust £7.50 Jacket. 296 Jack London : The Assassination Bureau (Completed by Robert L. Fish) ''... Imagine a syndicate that murders for money and that you yourself decide if each killing is justified. Imagine if an apparently bona-fid customer accepts any price you may ask if you will agree to a killing before you are told the name of the victim. And then the person marked for death is you... '' Andre Deutsch 1965 Second Impression Bruised at top and base of spine, light shelf-wear and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, £7.50 slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a ca. 2mm tear at the top of the spine adjacent to the rear panel 297 William Robert Loosley (David Langford): An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871 (Edited and with commentary by David Langford) ''It was in October 1871 that Loosely... saw in the night sky what appeared to be a slowly moving star cross in the sky... What he discovered was far beyond his wildest speculations... '' David & Charles 1979 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page and p.p. W. R. Loosley Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £15.00 Page 34 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 298 Katherine MacLean : Missing Man Clute - ''... deals with the exploits of an Esper whose telepathy is a kind of sonar device enabling him to trace people emitting emotional distress signals; he cooperates with New York's Rescue Squad to go to their aid... '' Expansion of the 1971 Nebula-winning The Missing Man. Berkley 1975 First Edition First Printing Cover by Richard Powers Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, slight spine lean, around 30 pages have been affected by £7.50 water and are wavy and page edges age-darkened ?Good? Book in slightly worn, creased, marked Dust Jacket a little frayed at the top of the spine 299 Ian R. Macleod : Breathmoss And Other Exhalations Introduction by the author; Breathmoss; Verglas; The Chop Girl; The Noonday Pool; New Light on the Drake Equation; Isabel of the Fall and The Summer Isles Golden Gryphon 2004 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £10.00 300 Ken MacLeod : The Star Fraction ''In a Balkanised world where the peace process is deadlier than the wars, the US/UN's spy satellites and laser weapons have everybody in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans... Spectres of a betrayed revolution haunt the fight for space and freedom, as the Army of the New Republic prepares its fourth 'final' offensive and the green barbarians close in... '' Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed Dust £3.00 Jacket 301 Barry N. Malzberg (Also as Mike Barry; Francine Di Natale; Claudine Dumas; Mel Johnson; Howard Lee; Lee W. Mason; K. M. O'Donnell & Gerrold Watkins): Screen ''...draws his readers over the precipice of rationality into a realm where the dreams are real - a realm in which the hero... finds himself married to Sophia Loren, seducing Elizabeth Taylor and seduced by Brigitte Bardot - all in one tortured weekend.'' Olympia Press 1970 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, and top page and board edges badly foxed and page edges lightly browned £4.00 Good book in slightly browned and lightly foxed and rubbed Dust Jacket 302 Jan Mark : The Eclipse of the Century ''... a young man has a near death experience and finds himself, as many have apparently done before, at the end of a long tunnel. He thinks at first he must be in heaven or at least receiving a glimpse of the afterlife. He is greeted by strangers who tell him he is in Quantoum and that they will meet him there again 'under a black sun at the end of a thousand years'... '' Scholastic 1999 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few page fore-edges a little bumped else Fine book in like Dust £5.00 Jacket, a little rubbed at the top of the front fold. 303 George R. R. Martin : A Dance With Dragons Book Five of A Song Of Ice And Fire ''... the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance... '' Bantam 2011 First Edition in the US First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, with a couple of tiny material tears at the top and page edges lightly £5.00 marked and lower edges with a bump - Very Good book in like Dust Jacket 304 George R. R. Martin : Dreamsongs Volume II Twelve Stories in Four sections with introductions by the Author and a Fiction Checklist - 740 pages: A Beast for Norn; Guardians; The Road Less Traveled; Doorways; Shell Games; The Journal of Xavier Desmond; Under Siege; The Skin Trade; Unsound Variations; The Glass Flower; The Hedge Knight; Portraits of His Children. Bantam 2007 First Edition Thus First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the £10.00 upper tip of the rear fold 305 Graham Dunstan Martin : The Soul Master ''In Tethesta, the laws of the universe no longer operate. Human emotions can turn shiny like glass and as hard and resistant as rock. Fear and pain can create an impenetrable wall... The souls of men are controlled by a single consciousness... who seeks to become a God... Yet the more absolute the power, the more glaring its weakness... '' Allen & Unwin 1984 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in £7.50 slightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a short (ca. 2mm) tear at the lower edge of the rear panel 306 Graham Masterton (Also as Alan Blackwood, Thomas Luke, Anton Rimart & Katherine Winston): Charnel House ''... Seymour Wallis... insisted that his house was breathing... The disbelievers investigated... until their reason was shattered by the shrieking unseen being that threatened to take their lives. By then it was too late to halt the towering malevolent force from finding its way into the world again... to resume its eternally evil mission of cruel annihilation... '' Bailey Bros. & Swinfen 1979 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £25.00 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 35 307 Graham Masterton : Demon's Door ''... psychic Jim Rook has been feeling out of sorts... things only get worse when he... runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles... But... Korean student Kim... arrives with a living, healthy cat... Tiddles. The Korean sprit Kwisin... is saying 'thank you' in advance... '' Severn House 2010 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and like £7.50 Dust Jacket 308 Graham Masterton : Descendant ''Californian James Falcon's Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that... he's an expert on the strigoi, the vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But... US counterintelligence recruit him. James hunts down strigoi Nazi assassins in war-ravaged Europe... '' Severn House 2006 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 309 Richard Christian Matheson : Created By ''... Suppose there was a TV series that broke all the rules and gave the public... Gratuitous nudity and sex, doused in plenty of state-of-the-art blood... it's here and all America is watching... News stories begin to mirror what's happening on screen. And then... Plots that haven't even been written yet begin to blood-blossom on the streets... '' Macmillan 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised and lightly rubbed at top and base of spine and corners lightly rubbed else Fine book in Dust Jacket, £5.00 slightly creased at the top of the spine 310 Paul J. McAuley : Child Of The River The First Book Of Confluence ''Confluence: an artificial world orbiting an obscure star beyond the edge of the galaxy, a flat strip twenty thousand kilometres long... home to thousands of alien races, shaped and raised to intelligence by god-like descendants of humanity who long ago retreated... into an artificial Black Hole... abandoned by its creators, its stagnant civilisation threatened by the heresies of the last humans... '' Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 311 Paul J. McAuley : Secret Harmonies (Of The Fall) ''... Elysium had boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains. Its primitive aborigines seemed harmless... Yet all was not well... Citizens... benefited from the new technologies brought by every ship... but feared... the expansion plans of the new settlers... When the revolution against the city's tyranny finally came, not everyone caught up in the struggle was human...'' Gollancz 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing With Publisher's Review Slip Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the yellow spine panel slightly faded (as usual) £5.00 312 Paul J. McAuley : Shrine of Stars The Third Book of Confluence ''Ten million years in the future, humans have evolved into the God-Like Preservers and have fled the universe, but are still worshipped by the servant races they raised to intelligence and gifted the vast world of Confluence... the epic conclusion... '' Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket £5.00 313 Paul J. McAuley : The Invisible Country ''In a fifteenth-century Venice subtly different from our own, a physician chasing the image of his lost daughter encounters a forerunner of Baron Victor Frankenstein; in near-future Holland and France the use of genetically engineered dolls in combat games and the sex industry poses hard ethical questions... His second short-story collection...'' Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of £5.00 wear at the upper tips of the folds 314 Paul J. McAuley : The Secret Of Life ''A Chinese expedition finds microbial life deep under Mar's polar cap and secretly brings it back to Earth. Chinese biotech companies want to exploit the extraordinary potential of this tough, ancient life, but industrial espionage leads to the escape of a genetically altered version, the Chi, into the Pacific Ocean. Able to adapt and change at high speed... '' Shortlisted for the Arthur Clarke Award 2002 Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and centre of the lower edge of the rear board and page edges lightly browned £4.00 else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 315 Paul J. McAuley : White Devils ''... Nicholas Hyde is a volunteer working with a humanitarian charity in the chaos of the new Africa, a continent torn apart by civil war, plague, and rogue biotechnology. While investigating a fresh massacre... Nick's team is ambushed. Small, ape-like creatures - pale, fierce and preternaturally strong... '' Simon & Schuster 2004 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 Page 36 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 316 Paul J. McAuley : Whole Wide World ''LONDON, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE INFOWAR Then: terrorists bombed the City, brought down the Internet and equalised the nation's bank accounts at zero. Now: surveillance cameras on every street-corner. Censors patrolling the borders of the internet. A young woman murdered before the gaze of eager voyeurs... '' HarperCollins 2001 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket £5.00 317 Anne McCaffrey : All The Weyrs Of Pern ''When AIVAS - the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System - was first discovered at Landing, the entire planet of Pern was awed at the knowledge it divulged. The total history of the early settlers, of their flight through space, their colonisation and near-destruction by thread, and the ultimate creation of dragons... '' Bantam 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine, light spine crease and page edges lightly differentially browned else Fine book £5.00 in lightly creased Dust Jacket 318 Anne McCaffrey : All The Weyrs Of Pern ''... when the people of Pern.. excavated the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered the colonists voice-activated artificial intelligence system... And the computer had incredible news... There was a chance... that they could... annihilate Thread once and for all!!'' Del Rey 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 319 Anne McCaffrey : Crisis On Doona (With Jody Lynn Nye) ''... the historic Decision at Doona... was to last for a quarter of a century. Now that contract has run out and is up for renewal. Everything that Human and Hrruban has worked for - particularly the delicate alliance itself - is in peril and could be destroyed utterly...'' Orbit 1993 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket £5.00 with a little wear near the top of the front fold. 320 Anne McCaffrey : Damia's Children ''... Together Man and Mrdini worked to create prosperous worlds and guard against the terrible threat of the annihilating Hivers. And now, in the depths of Space, Mrdini scouts had crossed the path of three Hiver ships... bearing the queens and workers... It was the four elder children of Damia... who were to play their part... '' Bantam 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, spine leaned and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly £4.00 creased Dust Jacket 321 Anne McCaffrey : Dragon's Fire (With Todd McCaffrey) ''... Tenim is in league with Tarik, a crooked miner... who helps him steal coal... but Tenim soon realises there is a lot more to be made from firestone, the volatile material that enables the dragons of Pern to burn Thread out of the sky. Trenim doesn't care what he has to do... in order to corner the market... When the last remaining firestone mine explodes... '' Bantam Press 2006 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with a short scrape £4.00 and a tiny triangular chip (ca. 3 x 2 mm) missing from the top of the spine panel. 322 Anne McCaffrey : The Chronicles Of Pern First Fall ''... the first-ever Pern short-story collection!... Let the queen of dragons... take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history... '' The Survey: P.E.R.N., The Dolphins' Bell, The Ford of Red Hanrahan, The Second Weyr and Rescue Run Del Rey 1993 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £10.00 323 Anne McCaffrey : The Dolphins Of Pern ''... the dragonriders... were on the verge of ridding their planet of Thread forever. But T'lion... was not old enough... relegated to conveying people from place to place - until he and Readis... made contact with the legendary 'shipfish'... Del Rey 1994 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket £4.00 324 Anne McCaffrey : The Ship Who Won (With Jody Lynn Nye) ''... Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Her brawn is a guy named Keff. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings... '' Baen 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in slightly creased Dust £5.00 Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 37 325 Anne McCaffrey : The Skies Of Pern ''A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit or the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past... But... further dangers are beginning to emerge... the Abominators plot together to destroy all learning... a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected... '' Scarce. Bantam 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 326 Anne McCaffrey : The Tower And The Hive ''Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonisation... '' Bantam 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and lightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 327 Anne McCaffrey : The Worlds Of Anne McCaffrey (Restoree+Decision At Doona+The Ship Who Sang) The Ship Who Sang specially revised for this edition. Andre Deutsch 1981 First Combined Edition & Thus First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £60.00 328 Walter M. Miller, Jr. : Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman (With Terry Bisson) ''In the midst of a post-nuclear dark age, the Catholic Church, riven by internal strife, is still involved in a bitter power struggle with the temporal leaders of the devastated USA... the Church embarks on the ultimate Crusade... '' Orbit 1997 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in £4.00 like Dust Jacket, with the gilt lettering partly tarnished. 329 L. E. Modesitt, Jr. : The Death Of Chaos ''... the world is in turmoil... the distant Empire of Hamor has sent invading forces... they mean to conquer the world... Lerris is drawn back into action and forced to exercise and strengthen his magical powers to become the greatest wizard of all time - or see his world destroyed... '' Orbit 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and faintly marked else Fine book in Fine Dust £4.00 Jacket. 330 L. E. Modesitt, Jr. : Viewpoints Critical Selected Stories Introduction; The Great American Economy; Second Coming; Rule of Law; Iron Man, Plastic Ships; Power to... ?; Precision Set; Fallen Angel; Black Ordermage; Understanding; News Clips Recovered from the NYC Ruins; Beyond the Obvious Wind; Always Outside the Lines: Four Battles; The Pilots; The Dock to Heaven; Ghost Mission; Spec- Ops and three others. Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 331 Sarah Monette : The Tempering of Men (With Elizabeth Bear) ''... the war against the trollish invasion has been won... at least for a while... Isolfr and his wolf-sister... have established their own wolfheall... the human pack has two war leaders... in the way of the pack, these two young men must come to terms with each other, must become brothers instead of rivals... '' Sequel to A Companion to Wolves Tor 2011 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one page fore-edge slightly bumped and with a tiny (ca. 1mm) tear £7.50 else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 332 Elizabeth Moon : Change of Command ''Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs... Neighbour states fear the aggressive expansion of the Famillias Regnant... Esmay Suisa's family fear that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position... Fear begets violent reactions... and nothing escapes the resulting bloodbath unscathed... '' Sequel to Rules of Engagement Baen 1999 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, £5.00 slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket 333 Elizabeth Moon : Marque and Reprisal (Moving Target) ''Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine... is back in business... someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport... In short order, most of Ky's family is killed... leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive... '' Volume Two Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 Page 38 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 334 Elizabeth Moon : Rules of Engagement ''... Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat... when Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself in disgrace... '' Sequel to Once A Hero. Baen 1998 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped & rubbed at top & base of spine & slight spine lean else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 335 Michael Moorcock : The City In The Autumn Stars ''... Ritter Manfred von Bek flees from the excesses of the French revolution pursued by the vengeful Montsorbier. His destination is the neutral, prosperous Germanic city-state of Mirenburg, en route... '' Sequel to 'The Warhound and the World's Pain'. Grafton 1986 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the top edge of the rear panel £5.00 crumpled 336 Michael Moorcock (Also as Bill Barclay, James Colvin & Roger Harris): The Opium General and Other Stories ''... a collection of Michael Moorcock's most ambitious recent fiction... The Alchemists Question is a complete novel - the final Jerry Cornelius story... The Opium General is the story of a young woman who has fallen in love with an ex- rock star turned drug dealer... Going to Canada, Leaving Passadena and Crossing into Cambodia are told... by a Russian KGB agent describing the gradual build-up to World War... '' Harrap 1984 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket.£10.00 337 Andre Norton : Breed To Come ''When desperate measures failed to control what they had begun and could not stop, men fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Unlike men, whom the disease had destroyed, the animals of the planet thrived, each generation more forceful and intelligent than the last... '' Longman 1973 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly £15.00 rubbed Dust Jacket 338 Naomi Novik : Empire Of Ivory ''More than a year has passed since Temeraire and Lawrence departed for the Orient... but after many adventures... Britain's welcome shores are in sight... Something is very wrong... '' Fourth volume in the fantasy Temeraire series. HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition in Hardback and the UK First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in lightly creased Dust Jacket with the upper tip of the rear fold slightly £25.00 rubbed 339 Naomi Novik : Temeraire: Black Powder War ''... urgent new orders. the British Government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire, now require Lawrence and Temeraire... to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England... before they hatch... '' Third in the series. Voyager 2007 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like, lightly rubbed, £15.00 Dust Jacket. 340 Naomi Novik : Temeraire: The Throne Of Jade (Temeraire: Throne Of Jade) ''The battle for Europe rages upon land and sea... and in the skies. Squadrons of aviators rain fiery death upon their enemies... from the very guts of the beasts they are flying: dragons... Temeraire was intended to be a companion to the Emperor Napoleon... But tidings... have reached the Chinese, and they furiously demand their dragon's return... '' Voyager 2006 First Edition in the UK & Hardback First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 341 Naomi Novik : Victory of Eagles ''The long-dreaded invasion of Great Britain is at hand. Napoleon's vast armies have consolidated his hold on Europe, and he is poised to attack across the English Channel... Will Lawrence has been jailed for treason, and his dragon, Temeraire, is consigned to the breeding grounds... '' Ballantine/Del Rey 2008 First Edition First Printing Covers a little worn and torn - around Very Good Uncorrected Proof £5.00 342 Mervyn Peake : Titus Alone ''... the tenderness and tragedy always underlying the exuberance of the earlier books, has been brought to distinctive maturity: for here Titus passes beyond Childhood's End.'' Overlook Press 1982 Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, price clipped, £7.50 Methuen Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 39 343 Ronald Pearsall : Sherlock Holmes Investigates The Murder In Euston Square ''One Mutilated body One Unlikely suspect Twelve Accounts of the crime. The inspector, the accused, the prostitute, the asylum-keeper and eight other witnesses give their evidence... based on a real-life murder case... Sherlock Holmes... guides us through the evidence and accusations, while you decide 'who dunnit?' '' David & Charles 1989 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in slightly creased £7.50 344 Tom Piccirilli : Headstone City ''On the streets of Brooklyn, a haunted man must settle his accounts with the living - and the dead... '' Bantam Spectra 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Corners and edges slightly worn - Very Good to Near Fine Advance Reading copy £5.00 345 Tim Powers (Also as William Ashbless with James P. Blaylock): Earthquake Weather ''Set in a California which is like the one we know and yet inhabited by ghost-eaters, Greek gods and dead psychopaths who are not quite dead enough, his fantastical visions have the power of mythology, of genius.'' Scarce. Legend 1997 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust £7.50 Jacket. 346 Tim Powers (Also as William Ashbless with James P. Blaylock): The Stress Of Her Regard (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1990) ''On a rainswept night alive with lightning and thunder, a doctor staggers, drunken, through the streets, and slips a wedding ring on the finger of a bewitching statue... she whom Keats called la belle dame sans merci... as beautiful as she is evil, an eons-old power that has sparked a hundred myths... '' Ace 1989 First Edition First Printing Trade Issue Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust £15.00 Jacket with a touch of wear at the lower tip of the front fold 347 Terry Pratchett : Carpe Jugulum ''Mighty Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest... he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches... And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema... '' Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, lower front and upper rear corners slightly bumped and page edges lightly £5.00 rubbed and browned else Fine book in like, price clipped, Dust Jacket with a small scrape near the top edge of the rear panel 348 Terry Pratchett : I Shall Wear Midnight ''Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk. even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much, well, magic. Or sleep. But somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up... '' Doubleday 2010 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and with two small flecks on £5.00 top page edges else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket 349 Terry Pratchett : Jingo ''... A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called 'war'... '' Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges no longer quite parallel and lightly browned/marked else Fine £4.00 book in lightly creased Dust Jacket 350 Terry Pratchett : Nation ''... Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it... The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there's just Mau... a trouser-man girl... and an awful lot of big misunderstandings... '' Doubleday 2008 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 351 Terry Pratchett : The Long Earth (With Stephen Baxter) ''... this was the office of the transEarth Institute, an arm of the Black Corporation... This wasn't Joshua's world. None of it was his world. In fact, when you got right down to it, he didn't have a world, he had all of them. All of the Long Earth... '' Doubleday 2012 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and like Dust Jacket £5.00 Page 40 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 352 Terry Pratchett : The Shepherd's Crown ''Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad... '' Doubleday 2015 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket £10.00 353 Terry Pratchett : Unseen Academicals ''The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things - wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime - but athletics is most assuredly not on the list... so when Lord Vetinari... strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and... put forth a football team... '' HarperCollins 2009 First Edition in the US First Printing? Small adhesive 'bleed' on front and rear boards and fine pen line on top page edges (not remainder) else Fine £5.00 book in like Dust Jacket 354 Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock): The Extremes (BSFA Award Winner 1998) ''... a mesmeric and extraordinarily powerful novel about the human capacity for violence and the way society is willing to package it as entertainment.'' Simon & Schuster 1998 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased and rubbed £20.00 Dust Jacket with a fine slit in the rear panel 355 Christopher Priest : The Space Machine A Scientific Romance ''... The year is 1893, and the workaday life of a young commercial traveller is enlivened by... his ladyfriend, and she takes him to the laboratory of Sir William Reynolds... building a Time Machine... it is but a small step into futurity... the beginning of a series of adventures that culminate in a violent confrontation with the most ruthless intellect in the Universe... '' Faber 1976 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly creased and £45.00 browned Dust Jacket with a little rubbing at the base of the spine 356 Andrew Pyper : The Guardians ''Don't all kids imagine there's a haunted house in their neighbourhood? Can you remember yours? But what if you knew something bad really had happened in that house? What if you saw it? What if you tried not to think about it for the next thirty years? What if, one day, you had to back into that house... '' Orion 20101 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Press Release Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof. £5.00 357 Robert Rankin : Knees Up Mother Earth ''... There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy Griffin Park, the borough's beloved football ground... Horror! Shock! Outrage! Something must be done... Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination... '' Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket £7.50 358 Robert Rankin : Raiders of the Lost Car Park ''Cornelius Murphy and his tiny companion Tuppe, the stuff of epics and so forth, have a plan: enter the Forbidden Zones, rescue Hugo Rune (mage, inventor, close personal friend of Einstein, author of The Book of Ultimate Truths and father to Cornelius) and find some of the boundless wealth reputed to be stored there... '' Doubleday 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50 359 Robert Rankin : Snuff Fiction ''Society's plug is about to be pulled, big time. At the stroke of midnight on 31 December 1999, computer systems all over the world will crash and plunge us into chaos... forget about impending doom and enter the glamorous world of snuff-snorting. Oh, and don't forget to bring a hankie... '' Doubleday 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 short £5.00 (5mm) split at the base of the rear fold. 360 Robert Rankin : The Book Of Ultimate Truths ''He had walked the Earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Caligliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vesta on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert and Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down in tears... '' Doubleday 1993 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower board edges and page edges a little browned else Fine book £5.00 in slightly creased Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 41 361 Robert Rankin : The Brightonomicon ''When our teenage hero takes his beloved one, Enid Earles, away for a dirty weekend in Brighton, things do not go as he might have wished. Instead of a night of passion... He narrowly escapes... drowning... brought ashore by the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon... Hugo Rune.. '' Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened and marked else Fine book in like £7.50 Dust Jacket 362 Robert Rankin : The Greatest Show Off Earth ''Raymond's had a rough couple of days. snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus... the professor has a little job for Raymond... save Planet Earth from extinction by Friday... '' Doubleday 1994 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board and page edges a little browned else Fine book in £5.00 like Dust Jacket with a telephone number written inside the rear flap 363 Robert Rankin : The Toyminator ''Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town... There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion... strange signs and portents... With the body count rising... it is time for a hero... Eddie Bear... and his loyal sidekick, Jack.'' Sequel to Hollow Chocolate Bunnies... Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Press Release Corners slightly creased/rubbed/curled else Fine Uncorrected Proof £5.00 364 Robert Rankin : The Witches of Chiswick ''... We have al been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past... The War Of The Worlds was a true account of real events... Captain Nemo's Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea... there really was an invisible man... Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson... '' Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket £4.00 365 Robert Rankin : Waiting For Godalming ''... God is dead. He died in mysterious circumstances while on a fishing trip to Norfolk, leaving a wife, three children and a great deal of valuable property... he left his beloved planet Earth to his youngest son, Colin. Which seems mightily suspicious as the meek were expecting to inherit it. Colin is all for flogging it off to the highest bidder... '' Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £4.00 366 Robert Rankin : Web Site Story ''... The Millennium Bug... a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species crosssover from machine to mankind... The Black Death was spread by rats... this plague will be spread by a mouse... '' Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 367 Kit Reed (Also as Kit Craig & Shelley Hyde): Armed Camps ''... a portrait of young Martha Ewald and her coming of age. Mart has lived all her life as a virtual prisoner in the world's biggest correctional facility... which her father runs... Her mother is dead... Mart's great wish is for her father to give it all up... she pours out her story to a tape recorder... Mart's ascent through purgatory, a journey that ends in shocking tragedy... '' Hutchinson 1968 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in very lightly rubbed Dust Jacket, with a lamination blister over £7.50 the front gutter 368 Alastair Reynolds : Blue Remembered Earth 'Geoffrey and Sunday Akinya want no part of their family and its wealth... But when their Grandmother dies she leaves behind a secret that throws Geoffrey and Sunday into a desperate race against their family. A race run beneath the unblinking eye of The Mechanism.'' Gollancz 2012 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £5.00 369 Alastair Reynolds : Galactic North Collecting all the Revelation Space universe stories (so far): Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwalder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North and Afterword Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and one page top corner creased else Fine book £5.00 in like Dust Jacket. Page 42 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 370 Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure): Blood And Gold The Vampire Marius ''... one of the oldest vampires of them all... Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires... haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca... the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept'... '' Chatto & Windus 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, one lower page corner creased and page edges browned else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket. 371 Adam Roberts (Also as A. R. R. R. Roberts, A R R R Roberts, A3R Roberts and Robertski Brothers): The Real-Town Murders ''Alma is a detective in a near-future England... Her partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every four hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the five minute window her lover will die... Alma is called to a car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup... '' Gollancz 2017 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 372 Keith Roberts : Anita ''Most people think witches are old and ugly - but ANITA isn't. ANITA doesn't cackle and hiss as she works dark curses, either. Oh, she casts witch's spells and incantations, but not the usual kind. ANITA's main interest is boys... '' 15 short stories - Very Scarce. Ace 1970 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Signed, located, dated and personalised by the Author inside the cover Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, light cross-creases to spine and a few pressure marks, covers£25.00 lightly creased and internally browned (as usual) - Very Good book. 373 Keith Roberts : Kaeti On Tour ''... Kaeti branches out, moves further from her beloved London. In the process she makes a whole range of new, intriguing friends; and lands herself in some scrapes startling even by her standards. The shadows she sprays on the pavements... come alive to haunt her; later, the magic Tiger Sweater... does more than haunt the subjects of her wrath... '' Sirius 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of erosion at the upper tip of the rear fold. £5.00 374 Keith Roberts : Ladies From Hell ''... five long stories... not stories of spaceships and alien worlds; rather... studies of imminent social change, written out of the passionate concern about the directions in which our society may be heading... stories about people: believable, defiant individuals struggling against oppressive forces.'' Gollancz 1979 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £25.00 375 Keith Roberts : The Lordly Ones ''... The title story is a vision of near-future Britain collapsing in social disorder told from the viewpoint of a slow-witted lavatory attendant... a remarkable and poignant tour de force... 'The comfort station' approaches a similar situation from a quite different perspective... in other stories we see Roberts in a more light-hearted vein... '' Gollancz 1986 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page Page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £20.00 376 Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Also as Kristine Grayson, Kris Nelscott and with Dean Wesley Smith, Kathryn Wesley & Sandy Schofield): The White Mists Of Power ''An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. it is nothing like he imagined. Hands pound against his carriage... The streets teem with merchants... magicians, half-mad preachers... But it is the last journey of his life as a prince. soon he will be abandoned and declared dead... '' Millennium 1992 First UK & Trade Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket, with the corners a little rubbed. £5.00 377 Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Also as Kristine Grayson, Kris Nelscott and with Dean Wesley Smith, Kathryn Wesley & Sandy Schofield): Traitors ''Two people love Emilio Diate - the Golgoth, the king who raised the refugee boy as his own; and Sheba, second to the throne of the Golgoth's deadly enemy, the Kingdom. Both believe he will betray the other side... '' Millennium 1993 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and binding slightly strained else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 378 Eric Frank Russell : Dreadful Sanctuary ''When the seventeenth rocket to Mars, like its sixteen predecessors, unaccountably explodes... one man decides to try to find out... he hires a private investigator... The results... are surprising, to say the least.'' Dobson 1972 First Edition in Hardback Thus First Printing (Follows the revised text prepared for the 1967 Four Square paperback) Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened and slightly marked else£20.00 Fine book in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket, with a short tear (ca. 4mm) at the top of the rear panel adjacent to the spine Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 43 379 Mary Doria Russell : Children of God ''... The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission... Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio... '' Villard 1998 First Edition First Printing (Has words 'First Edition' on Copyright Page with number line ending 2) Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a part crease in the rear flap £10.00 380 Mary Doria Russell : The Sparrow (1997 BSFA & 1998 Arthur Clarke Winner) ''... the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to a newly discovered extra-terrestrial culture... but nothing can prepare them for the civilisation they encounter or for the tragic misunderstanding that brings the mission to a catastrophic end... '' Villard 1996 First Edition Second Printing (Otherwise identical to the First this copy lacks the words 'First Edition' on Copyright Page) Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, priced, Dust Jacket, with a tiny 'nick' at the top and£20.00 base of the front fold 381 Ray Russell : Princess Pamela Being the Personal Journal of Miss Pamela Summerfield of Berkley Square Mayfair London edited, with an Afterword by ''... 1837, and she is eighteen... a Victorian thriller... the revelation of a stunning secret... '' Non fantastical novel. Houghton Mifflin 1979 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/marked else Fine book in lightly rubbed £7.50 Dust Jacket. 382 Geoff Ryman : The Unconquered Country A Life History ''When Third was a little girl, the Unconquered Country was tranquil, ordered and happy, its traditions proud and strong. But then one day the Neighbours came, armed with weapons given to them by the Big People. And with them came the Sharks. They invaded and occupied the Unconquered Country and brought pain, terror and great change in their wake...'' Allen & Unwin 1986 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page and dated 12th Aug 1986 (pre- publication) Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket £10.00 383 Geoff Ryman : The Warrior Who Carried Life ''By magic she transforms herself into a male warrior. But she finds that to defeat her enemies, she must break the cycle of violence, not continue it. In order to defeat them, she must make them immortal... '' Allen & Unwin 1985 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the title page Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket £7.50 384 Geoff Ryman : 'Was...' A NOVEL (Was) ''... the story of Dorothy. Orphaned in the 1870s, she goes to live in Kansas with her Aunty Em and Uncle Henry. They face drought and poverty. They face each other. Alone, abused, Dorothy meets an itinerant actor called Frank and inspires a masterpiece... '' HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author with drawings and Publisher's Press Release Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, a few top page edges slightly bumped and page edges lightly age- £5.00 darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. 385 Nick Sagan : Idlewild ''... It is the late twenty-first century and a deadly virus has seeped into humankind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped us off the face of the planet... teams of scientists, geneticists and programmers race to find a cure, our only hope lies in a... desperate gamble... '' Bantam 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £4.00 386 David J. Schow : The Kill Riff ''Lucas dreams it every night... the glittering rockshow... an insane mob storms the stage... his beloved daughter, dying trampled beneath the frenzied fans... he cradles revenge to his breast. His ultimate target: Whip Hand's lead singer. Neither man is what he seems... In their confrontation, there will be no winner.'' This author's first novel. Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like £4.00 Dust Jacket. 387 Roy Sheldon : Atoms In Action (H. J. Campbell) ''... another Shiny Spear story... Shiny and his partner, Dirk Manners, are sent on leave to a far-away star system from which come strange radio pulses... plunged into a nightmare of perilous adventure... in which roamed creatures unutterably strange and alien... '' Hamilton/Panther (1953) First Edition First Printing Faint part-browning to free end papers and page edges lightly age-darkened - else Fine Book in very slightly worn £20.00 and creased Dust Jacket with a short tear at the top edge of the front panel Page 44 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 388 Lucius Shepard : Barnacle Bill The Spacer and Other Stories (Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories) ''... Hugo Award winning 'Barnacle Bill the Spacer' a science fiction that is both eerie and enchanting, forward looking and nostalgic. The six further works demonstrate in spectacular fashion the breadth of Shepard's unique imagination... '' There is evidence that Hardbacks with ISBN 0752816098 & no price on DJ were issued for export markets a year later. Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing (First State - ISBN 185798501X & £16.99 on DJ) Bruised at top and base of spine, lower front and upper rear corners else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a short £10.00 tear at the lower end or the rear fold. 389 Clifford D. Simak : The Fellowship Of The Talisman ''Through a wilderness blighted by horror rode Duncan, son of the noble House of Standish... with him went a strange fellowship: a brawny man-at-arms, a banshee, a hermit, a ghost, a turncoat demon, a goblin and a witch. Opposing them came forces of supernatural malignancy... And all this takes place in England in the 1970s... '' Del Rey 1978 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly browned Dust £4.00 Jacket, with a short (ca 3mm) tear at the top of the spine 390 Clifford D. Simak : The Fellowship Of The Talisman ''... a strange fellowship: a brawny man-at-arms; a banshee; a hermit; Ghost... turncoat demon... goblin, and a witch.. the Dark Ages never ended. There had been no Renaissance... Duncan Standish had been sent on a dangerous mission... through a land where the monstrous servants of the Evil held sway... '' Sidgwick & Jackson 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the £5.00 price removed 391 Dan Simmons : Lovedeath Five Tales of Love and Death ''... Showing perfect mastery of his craft, Dan Simmons explores his themes of love and death in five novellas of intense power and imagination... destined to garner further acclaim for an author already regarded as one of the most exciting talents in the field.'' Headline 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket £6.00 392 Dan Simmons : The Hollow Man ''Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he has been cursed with the unwanted ability to read minds... For years his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the intrusive thoughts of those around him... But now Gail is dying... and Jeremy comes face-to-face with the horror of his own omniscience... '' Bantam 1992 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 393 Dan Simmons : The Hollow Man ''All his life, Jeremy Bremen has been cursed with the unwanted ability to read minds... For years his wife Gail has served as a shield between Jeremy and the world's neurobabble... But now Gail is dying and Jeremy comes face to face with the horror of his own omniscience... '' Headline 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like £5.00 Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the upper fold tips. 394 Iain Sinclair : Downriver (Or, the Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales ''... Through the fantastic events... runs also a strong vein of savage Swiftian satire and irony. Setting hallucinatory visions of extraordinary vividness alongside telling, unnervingly graphic descriptions of urban despair and desolation, the author exposes many of the worst lies and deceits underpinning the rotten edifice of modern British society... '' Paladin 1991 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like £15.00 Dust Jacket. 395 Brian Stableford : Sexual Chemistry Sardonic Tales Of The Genetic Revolution ''The latest technology of genetic engineering has brought us to the threshold of an amazing new phase in human evolution... The inventive and provocative stories in this book set out boldly to explore the possibilities of this fundamental revolution... '' Simon & Schuster 1991 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. £7.50 396 Neal Stephenson : The Confusion Vol. II Of The Baroque Cycle ''It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot... an enormous cache of Spanish gold... a daring scheme... they succeed - leaving behind some very unhappy men... Meanwhile... '' Heinemann 2004 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 45 397 Bruce Sterling : Holy Fire ''Mia Ziemann, 93 years old, with decades of living before her... the body and mind of a thirty year old, but she's seen it all and done it all... what next?... In Prague, Mia confronts not only her boredom, her fear of entropy, but a whole new philosophy that challenges her very sense of self. Pleasure, creativity, joie-de-vivre - with 'holy fire' in your blood, anything is possible.'' Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing With the author's name misspelled as 'Stirling' on the title page. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Near Fine Dust Jacket £3.00 398 S. M. Stirling : Conquistador ''... 1946. ex-soldier John Rolfe... with a flip of his shortwave radio switch, a thunder crack of sound, and a blinding light... a portal to an alternative world where European have never set foot on the land he knows as America... '' Roc 2003 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, faint thin smear on title page and page edges a little marked - £4.00 Very Good book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 399 S. M. Stirling : The Sword of the Lady A Novel of the Change ''Rudi Mackensie has journeyed long and far across the land that was once the United States of America, seeking the shore where the sun rises, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as the Change. Finally his goal is at hand... '' Roc 2009 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper rear corner bruised, one page corner damp-crinkled and page £5.00 edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket 400 Charles Stross : Singularity Sky ''... the discovery of faster-than-light travel and the creation of the Eschaton, an artificial intelligence that achieved independent sentience. Four hundred years later... the New Republic... want no part of the Eschaton... are attacked by an information plague that calls itself The Festival... the colony slips into revolutionary turmoil... '' Ace 2003 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £20.00 401 M. Suddain (Matt Suddain): Theatre of the Gods ''... being the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas: explorer, physicist, transmariner. Who travelled beyond the borders of his universe, was shipwrecked there... and returned... '' Cape 2013 First Edition First Printing With Publisher's Press Release Page edges bumped and small tear at front cover edge - Good Uncorrected Proof. £5.00 402 Steph Swainston : The Year Of Our War ''All mortals dream, it seems, of joining the Castle Circle. Always pushing for immortality. Always seeking to stop the spin of the wheel of fortune, as it rips through their hands, leaving splinters. How splendid it would be to be eternal. and safe. But at the same time it is daunting to join such a fellowship. '' Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower spine corner slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. £7.50 403 Emma Tennant : Wild Nights ''... Aunt Zita's annual visits... herald every wild night of the imagination: here fabulous feasts precede fantastic flights on the wind's back over the sleeping village to all the glittering balls and exotic colours of an unknown world... startling blend of the real and the fantastic transports the reader to the lost world of childhood dreams and imaginings... '' Cape 1979 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edge stain slightly faded and page edges lightly marked/foxed else £4.00 Fine book in lightly rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket 404 Henry Treece : Electra ''On a windswept hillside in ancient Greece, a sick and half-crazed old woman confides to her doctor the strange doom-driven story of Agamemnon... her memory plays back and forth over her childhood in the Palace of Mycenae... we sense the strange hulking monsters, the curious taboos and rituals... '' Bodley Head 1963 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked and age-darkened - Good book in lightly£10.00 rubbed Dust Jacket 405 Henry Treece : I Cannot Go Hunting Tomorrow Short Stories Children: Old Johnson; How Beautiful They Are; Mr. Wheatley; The Visitor; Miss Pearl; Fantasy: Green Murder; The Dream Under The Bridge; The Greatest Story In The World; The Pilgrim and the Soldier; The Black Dress; Situation: Two at the Table; The Holiday; The Barren Pear-Tree; The Possessors and three others Grey Walls Press 1947 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened/foxed - Very Good in £7.50 slightly worn, torn, creased, marked and eroded Dust Jacket, with a ca 20mm piece missing from the top of the spine panel Page 46 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 406 Henry Treece : The Return of Robinson Crusoe (The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) The Man With The Black Patch... Hulton Press 1958 First Edition First Printing Illustrated by Will Nickless Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, fixed end papers slightly discoloured and page edges lightly £5.00 browned and marked - Good to Very Good book 407 George Turner : The Sea And Summer (1988 Arthur Clarke Winner) (Drowning Towers) ''In the twenty-first century poor nations sink in accumulated debt... Industry embraces automation to cut costs, so unemployment rises... Population rises inexorably... And over the planet the Greenhouse Effect makes chaos of weather and food production... set in drowning Melbourne... totally real people in a totally convincing setting... '' Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine, adhesive show-through at front end paper gutter and page edges browned else Fine £10.00 book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket 408 George Turner : Vaneglory ''... Beloved Son was the first volume in what is now recognised as one of the outstanding science fiction achievements of the past decade. Vaneglory is its successor; and, though completely self-contained, it develops with gripping imaginative brilliance the characters and situations already established in Beloved Son.'' Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £3.00 409 George Turner : Yesterday's Men ''... third in a series of novels concerning the reconstructed world of the twenty-first century. On Earth the aims of the Ethical Culture... are under fire from thinking men, and an extraordinary experiment is designed to examine the real natures of the despised ancestors who had ruined the world with violence and greed... recreate the New Guinea wartime conditions... and sit back to observe human nature in the raw... '' Faber 1983 First Edition First Printing Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £5.00 410 Lisa Tuttle : The Mysteries ''Laura Lensky's daughter has been missing for two years. For the police it's a closed case... Laura hires a private Investigator Ian Kennedy. Drawn by strange parallels to an obscure Celtic myth... Ian takes the job. But his imagination is about to be stretched to its limit, for there are darker and more devious forces at work here than any of them could ever have imagined.'' Jo Fletcher 2014 First Edition in Hardback in the UK First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust £7.50 Jacket. 411 Jack Vance : The Palace Of Love ''Kirth Gersen has dedicated his life to revenge - to killing... each of the Demon Princes who had murdered his parents... Gersen tracks down the elusive Falushe at the strange pleasure temple known as the Palace of Love where at last their deadly confrontation takes place... '' Demon Princes No. 3. Dobson 1968 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, lightly £10.00 browned price-clipped Dust Jacket, with a 2mm tear and crease in the top edge of the rear panel and publisher's sticker on the front flap roughly removed 412 George Sylvester Viereck : Salome The Wandering Jewess (With Paul Eldridge a.k.a. Salome The Wandering Jewess My First Two Thousand Years of Love) ''This is the story of the Eternal Woman, who for two thousand years battles to free her sex from its biological shackles, to place women on an equal footing with men... '' History, philosophy, sexual (and erotic) politics discussed in detail - middle volume of the 'Two Thousand Years' trilogy but easily readable as a stand-alone. Duckworth 1930 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped and faded at top and base of spine, and page edges and end papers foxed and lightly browned £40.00 and slightly marked/foxed - Very Good book in slightly age-darkened and marked Dust Jacket with a few tape reinforcements, a little eroded at the corners and with a thin surface tear on the front panel 413 Howard Waldrop : Them Bones ''... a subtle and disarming story, plainly and directly told from the various points of view of several protagonists distributed across four divergent alternate histories, past and future... The interwoven mysteries unfold from three triangulating sources, converging ultimately on conclusions whose timelessness span all four... Louisianas past, present and future... '' Ziesing 1989 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Signed and Personalised by the Author on the Title Page Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, lower board edges lightly rubbed and page edges a little age-£15.00 darkened else Fine book in lightly rubbed Dust Jacket Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 47 414 Freda Warrington : A Dance In Blood Velvet ''For the love of her vampire suitor Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Her only contact with people now, is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her but its fulfilment brings ecstasy... '' Volume Two in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. Macmillan 1994 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Bruised at top and base of spine - Fine book in like Dust Jacket £100.00 415 Freda Warrington : Dark Cathedral ''For all of their childhood, young Beth Herne and her brother Luke have lived in fear - beaten and terrorised because of their mother's religious beliefs. Until one summer... Beth discovers independence. And her descent into darkness begins... '' Signet 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Edges slightly rubbed, one page corner tip creased and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine book £7.50 416 Freda Warrington : Dark Cathedral ''For all of their childhood, young Beth Herne and her brother Luke have lived in fear - beaten and terrorised because of their mother's religious beliefs. Until one summer... Beth discovers independence. And her descent into darkness begins... '' Signet 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Signed by the Author on the Title Page Upper front corner lightly creased and page edges lightly browned - Near Fine book £20.00 417 Freda Warrington : The Blood Trilogy (A Taste of Blood Wine+A Dance In Blood Velvet+The Dark Blood of Poppies) ''Karl... though vampire, is completely in the power of his maker, Kristian... Karl is determined to kill him - but vampires are indestructible. Madeleine Neville is eighteen: it is 1923. Her father... has filled Parkland hall with guests for her birthday... Among them is... Karl...'' The Three Volumes of her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - these are the Author's own copies. Macmillan 1992-5 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) Signed by the Author on the Title Pages Bruised at top and/or base of spines - Fine copies in like Dust Jacket £300.00 418 Freda Warrington : The Dark Blood of Poppies A Vampire Fantasy ''The sequel to A Dance In Blood Velvet; a sensual and erotic vampire novel. The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and leads her to a dreadful realisation; that she has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires... '' Volume Three in her Vampire Trilogy. Scarce - this is one of the Author's own copies. Macmillan 1995 First Edition First Printing Signed by the Author on the Title Page Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £50.00 419 David Weber : A Rising Thunder ''Cold War and hot, the Republic of Haven has been the mortal enemy of Honor Harrington's Star Kingdom since she entered the Academy... She and the Star Empire of Manticore have won that peace... but not in the way she expected... ended one war only to face another, even more terrible conflict... '' Baen 2012 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket £10.00 420 David Weber : Crown of Slaves (With Eric Flint) ''The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs... In desperation, Queen Elizabeth tries to defuse the situation... '' Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in Dust £5.00 Jacket with a long slit in the rear panel 421 Django Wexler : The Thousand Names Book One of the Shadow Campaigns '' 'Give me the Thousand Names.' The ancient voice trailed off into a fading whisper... A new sound filled the cavern. A hiss, rising from the shadows in every direction at once... echoing and re-echoing until the whole fast temple seemed top be alive. 'Kill them,' Mother's voice said, echoing louder and louder until it thundered through the hiss of the smoke. 'Kill them all.' '' Del Rey (UK) 2013 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £7.50 422 Edith Wharton : To Be Read By Candlelight Two Tales of Suspense Two of Edith Wharton's haunting tales: The Triumph of Night and The Eyes. 63 page booklet bound in red. Although the second impression is relatively common the first printing is scarce. Parsimony Press 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket Fine book £5.00 Page 48 Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 423 Kate Wilhelm : Huysman's Pets ''Stanley Huysman was a brilliant geneticist.. He was also famous for experiments in which he seemed to drastically raise the intelligence of chimpanzees... dismissed... as mere sensationalist hype, and his studies of twins, in which he proved ESP powers, were seen as a wrong turning... '' Bluejay 1986 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. £10.00 424 Kate Wilhelm : The Dark Door ''... A malfunctioning alien space probe is running amok on Earth, leaving in its wake a trail of destruction, madness, and death. Pursuing the probe is an arsonist, whose vain attempts to stop the impending catastrophe result in a series of disastrous fires. Enter two detectives... '' St. Martin's Press 1990 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, faint stain to top edge of front free end paper and page edges £5.00 lightly age-darkened else Fine book in rubbed/slightly worn Dust Jacket. 425 Kate Wilhelm : The Hamlet Trap Charlie and Constance in their first case... ''... With its superb characterisation, colourful background and intriguing plot... a crime novel to satisfy the most demanding of readers... '' Gollancz 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing Page edges lightly marked Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine background yellow very slightly faded £4.00 426 Tad Williams : The Heart of What Was Lost A Novel of Osten Ard ''The world was nearly destroyed, but now knows hope again... In the wake of the Storm King's fall, Ineluki's loyal minions... retreat north to... an ancient citadel which holds a priceless artifact... They are pursued... '' Following the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series Hodder 2017 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and a few page corner tips creased else Fine book in Dust £5.00 Jacket, with a little wear at the upper tip of the rear fold. 427 Philip G. Williamson : Enchantment's Edge (The Orb and the Spectre+Orbus's World+The Soul of the Orb) ''... an outstanding work of high fantasy... a tense, intricately woven saga of conflict, mystery, magic and betrayal set in an exotic land where the fabulous and the unexpected are the norm and anything is possible... '' Hodder & Stoughton 1996-8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges slightly browned else Fine copies in Fine Dust Jacket - Vol. £20.00 3 priced. 428 David Wingrove : Chung Kuo Book One The Middle Kingdom ''... now at the turn of the twenty-second century,... the Empire of the Han has encompasses all of the world. War, famine and political instability are things of the past. The Council of Seven - Han lords each more powerful than the greatest of the ancient Emperors - rule... with absolute authority, their boast that they have ended Change and stopped the Great Wheel turning... '' New English Library 1989 First Edition First Printing Bruised at base of spine and a couple of signatures differentially browned (as usual) else Fine book in slightly £5.00 rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed. 429 David Wingrove : Son of Heaven Chung Kuo Book 1 The first of a 20 book completely revised sequence, set in 2065, and the reawakened economic power-house of China Corvus 2011 First Edition Thus First Printing With Publisher's Promotion Sheet Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. £10.00 430 S. Fowler Wright (Also as Sydney Fowler & Anthony Wingrave): The World Below ''... a story of the far-distant future... the Time Traveller, a man of our own era, who wanders through a strange and fantastic civilisation, accompanied by an Amphibian woman... '' Part I of the novel, which was originally published in 1929, complete in itself, Part II being entitled The Dwellers. Hamilton (1953) First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, end papers mis-applied over gutters and page edges and end papers £15.00 lightly browned else Fine book in very slightly rubbed, creased and age-darkened Dust Jacket. 431 Philip Wylie : Babes and Sucklings ''... a story of two young lovers who were old in our American sophistication before they exchanged their first unwondering kiss, of two other lovers equally wise, and of their separate life in the metropolis... skyscrapers for trees, subways for chattering brooks, Freud instead of Keats... But... not a sordid novel... '' Knopf 1929 First Edition First Printing Quite badly worn and slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners slightly bumped and worn, slight spine £7.50 lean and page edges age-darkened - ?Good book with trimmed rear Dust Jacket panel glued to front fixed end paper Porcupine Books Last Catalogue - February 2021 Page 49 432 Philip Wylie : Footprint of Cinderella (9 Rittenhouse Square) ''... a woman torn between decency and evil. Chloe Laforge-Leigh, as everyone in Rittenhouse Square knew, was a pillar of society. And yet, was there another Chloe? A dark and evil presence that sought a strange vengeance on a dead beauty and an innocent young girl? The answer lay somewhere behind the stately curtained windows of Number 9, Rittenhouse Square.'' A. L. Burt 1931? Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, corners slightly rubbed, page edges, boards and spine age-darkened - £10.00 Good to Very Good Book 433 Philip Wylie : The Answer ''... a simple fable for our age, but its meaning, its message... is of vast implication... the answer is... certainly not new... '' Rinehart 1955 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and worn at base of spine, previous owner's name and date on front free end paper and page £7.50 edges lightly browned else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) and slightly worn, creased and torn Dust Jacket, with a small piece missing from the top of the spine panel, and the price removed 434 Philip Wylie : They Both Were Naked ''... the biography of a tycoon and his empire... benevolent façade covered a multitude of unscrupulous motivations and forbidden carnal lusts... affluence has a way of making things attainable which would otherwise be impossible... provocative, and shocking expose of the drives, dissipations and erotic foibles of a large segment of the modern affluent society... '' Doubleday 1965 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, corners bruised and rubbed and page edges lightly £7.50 browned/age-darkened else Fine book in slightly worn and creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket, frayed and slightly eroded at top and base of the spine panel 435 Philip Wylie : Three To Be Read The Smuggled Atom Bomb - Duff Bogan, whose talents for physics and lock-picking... put him on the track of an amazing conspiracy... ; Sporting Blood - Crunch and Des story in which a family of sporting blue-bloods meet up with a champion... ; Experiment In Crime - takes a pedantic young college professor down a lot of pegs... Rinehart 1951 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, corners bruised, tape 'ghosts' and some marking on free end £7.50 papers and page edges lightly browned - Very Good book in slightly worn and torn, spine faded, Dust Jacket, a little frayed at the top and base of the spine panel 436 Jane Yolen : A Sending Of Dragons ''Jakkin and Akki, now possessing a strange kinship with dragonkind, are forced into exile in the wild mountain country of the planet Austar... Why is the dragon they meet mindless with fear... a compelling finale to the Dragon Trilogy... also a fantasy adventure which is complete in itself.'' Julia MacRae 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in lightly creased Dust £4.00 Jacket. 437 Timothy Zahn : The Third Lynx ''It's not the first time former government agent Frank Compton has had a friend die within moments of meeting him. It's just that they usually have the decency to do it somewhere quiet and out of the way.. '' Sequel to Night Train to Rigel Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £5.00 438 Roger Zelazny : The Hand Of Oberon ''... Family blood has been spilled on the magic pattern that created Amber, throwing the whole kingdom into chaos as it inevitably begins to disintegrate... '' Faber 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing Page edges a little age-darkened else Fine book in price-clipped Dust Jacket with £4.95 net overprinted on flap £7.50 (as usual) 439 David Zindell : The Lightstone Book One of the Ea Cycle ''On the island continent of Ea it is late in the Age of the Dragons. It is a dark time of chaos. war, and the dashed dreams of long-lost ages. Once again Morjin, the fallen angel, is seeking the Lightstone. With it he will eventually find a way to free Angra Mainyu, the Lord of Lies, the dark archangel imprisoned for a million years... '' Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket £7.50