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Book cover ofThe Explorers Guild
  • THE EXPLORERS GUILD (Volume One)

  • Authors: Jon BAIRD Kevin COSTNER
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Comments:

    First US edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated first printing October 2015.  Unread.  Price in $ on the dust jacket flap and a sticker on the rear cover showing the price in £ (£25).  Atria Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.  The Explorers Guild Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Developed by Acad....

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Book cover ofWhen We Were Animals
  • WHEN WE WERE ANIMALS

  • Author: Joshua GAYLORD
  • Publisher: Del Rey
  • Comments:

    First UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  UNREAD.

    SYNOPSIS:  “As a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, Lumen Fowler knows she is different.  While the rest of her peers are falling beneath the sway of her community’s darkest rites of passage, she resists, choosing to hole herself up in he....

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Book cover ofMurder of a Lady
  • MURDER OF A LADY

  • Author: Anthony WYNNE
  • Publisher: British Library
  • Comments:

    This is a larger sized B format paperback (130 mm x 198 mm). Originally published in 1931 by Hutchinson, this is a new edition and includes an introduction by crime fiction expert Martin Edwards. The book has been read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands.  Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the lai....

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Book cover ofThe Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland
  • THE GIRL WHO SOARED OVER FAIRYLAND AND CUT THE MOON IN TWO

  • Author: Catherynne M VALENTE
  • Publisher: Much-In-Little
  • Comments:

    First UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Bump to the top of the book spine.  Price still on dust jacket which has suffered some minor creasing at the top edge caused in transit.  Much-In-Little is an imprint of Constable and Robinson.

    SYNOPSIS:  “September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday....

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Book cover ofA Fatal Inheritance
  • A FATAL INHERITANCE

  • Author: Cora HARRISON
  • Publisher: Severn House
  • Comments:

    First UK edition hardback with a stated “This First World Edition published in Great Britain in 2015.”  Unread.  Pictorial boards.  The dust jacket is un-priced but this is now the norm for Severn House books.  A Sixteenth Century Burren Mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  “When a woman’s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Far Breige, the....

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Book cover ofJottings from a Far Away Place
  • JOTTINGS FROM A FAR AWAY PLACE

  • Author: Brendan CONNELL
  • Publisher: Snuggly Books
  • Comments:

    First UK edition paperback.  Larger-sized (142 x 216 mm).  Unread.  

    SYNOPSIS:  “Ranging on the fringes of imagination and erudition, forming a mosaic of stories, maxims and sketches, at once fragmentary and cumulative, Jottings from a Far Away Place co....

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Book cover ofBlue on Blue
  • BLUE ON BLUE

  • Author: Quentin S CRISP
  • Publisher: Snuggly Books
  • Comments:

    First UK edition paperback.  Larger-sized (142 x 216 mm).  Unread.  Please note the author is Quentin S Crisp (not Quentin Crisp of The Naked Civil Servant fame).

    SYNOPSIS:  “In an artificially engineered loop of parallel time called the Alternative States of the American Fifties, Victor Winton, a talented but unfulfilled ca....

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Book cover ofBlue on Blue
  • BLUE ON BLUE

  • Author: Quentin S CRISP
  • Publisher: Snuggly Books
  • Comments:

    First UK edition paperback.  Larger-sized (142 x 216 mm).  Unread.  Please note the author is Quentin S Crisp (not Quentin Crisp of The Naked Civil Servant fame).

    SYNOPSIS:  “In an artificially engineered loop of parallel time called the Alternative States of the American Fifties, Victor Winton, a talented but unfulfilled ca....

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Book cover ofEurope at Midnight Proof
  • EUROPE AT MIDNIGHT (Uncorrected Proof)

  • Author: David HUTCHINSON
  • Publisher: Solaris
  • Comments:

    This is an uncorrected proof copy  B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.   Unread.  Faint quarter inch crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover and a larger crease across the bottom left-hand corner of the rear cover.

    SYNOPSIS:  “In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.  For an intelligence officer like Jim, it’....

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Book cover ofThe Haunted Season
  • THE HAUNTED SEASON

  • Author: G M MALLIET
  • Publisher: Constable
  • Comments:

    First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Read once very carefully.  A Max Tudor mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Usually, the lord and lady of the manor are absent for most of the year, but this year they have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the good old days, when ....

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Book cover ofManners & Mutiny
  • MANNERS & MUTINY

  • Author: Gail CARRIGER
  • Publisher: Atom
  • Comments:

    First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  B format paperback (130 x 198 mm).  Read once very carefully.  The 4th book in the Finishing School series.

    SYNOPSIS: Espionage lessons aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia’s sweet sootie Soap nearby.  She would rather by using her skills ....

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Book cover ofDeath of a Cosy Writer
  • DEATH OF A COSY WRITER

  • Author: G M MALLIET
  • Publisher: Constable
  • Comments:

    First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  (First published in the USA by Midnight Ink in 2008).  Read once very carefully.  A St Just Mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting ....

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