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  • ALIAS THE CAT

  • Author: Kim DEITCH
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Comments:

    This is a first UK edition trade paperback graphic novel  with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Facsimile signature on the title page.

    Unread.  Covers showing some slight signs of storage wear to the extremities and page edges at the bottom are a little grubby.  Small chip at head and tail of book spine.

    SYNOPSIS:  “At the centre of Alias the....

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  • GREEN EYES

  • Author: Lucius SHEPARD
  • Publisher: Grafton
  • Comments:

    This is a first UK edition paperback which comes complete with a review slip from the publisher.

    The covers are in very nice condition and are showing only very minimal wear to the extremities.  Tiny crease across the top left hand corner of rear cover.  Very heavy age tanning to pages making them very brown.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about....

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  • THE CORPSE ON THE BRISTOL TRAIN

  • Author: Edward MARSTON
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a stated First Edition.  Price still on dust jacket.

    Read once very carefully.

    The Railway Detective Series Book 25.  Stated on front cover “The Grand Finale of the Railway Detective Series”.

    SYNOPSIS:  “1868.  On the last train of the day from London Paddington to Bristol, a young woman drifts into what appears to be a....

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  • THE ISLE OF GOOD KARMA

  • Author: Alexander MCCALL SMITH
  • Publisher: Polygon
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.

    Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:  “It’s never too late to make a change.  Single and approaching middle age, Maeve Macdonald feels she has reached a point at which, if she doesn’t do something drastic soon, life will have passed her ....

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  • THE FUTURIANS

  • Author: Damon KNIGHT
  • Publisher: ReAnimus Press
  • Comments:

    This is a trade paperback edition.  Although the book has a 1-10 number sequence, it is NOT a first edition.  It is an undated reprint (through Amazon) of the 2015 edition.

    Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Small crease at the bottom of the rear cover adjacent to the spine.

    SYNOPSIS:  “The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen s....

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  • PEOPLE OF THE TALISMAN / THE SECRET OF SINHARAT (Ace Double)

  • Author: Leigh BRACKETT
  • Publisher: Ace
  • Comments:

    This is a first US edition paperback – stated on front cover First Book Publication of Talisman and Complete Novel on the cover of Sinharat.  Ace Double M-101.

    The book is very grubby and is definitely a reading copy only.  Heavy age tanning to pages making them very brown but still eminently readable.  Reading creases to spine.  Chipped at top of spine.

    The covers are s....

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  • IN PLACE OF FEAR

  • Author: Catriona MCPHERSON
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.

    Price still on dust jacket.  Unread.  Bumped at base of book spine.  Some minor creasing to top edge of rear panel of dust jacket all caused in transit.

    Book one of the Edinburgh Murders Series.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Edinburgh 1948.  Helen Crowther leaves a crowded tenement hom....

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  • CONDEMNED TO DEATH

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

    First UK edition hardback with a stated “This First World Edition published 2014 in Great Britain and 2015 in the USA.”

    Unread.  Pictorial boards. Price still on dust jacket.  Some light tanning to pages.

    A Sixteenth Century Burren Mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  “When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to a sandy beach on the western fringe of the kingdom of ....

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  • MR CAMPION’S FOX

  • Author: Mike RIPLEY
  • Publisher: Severn House
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a stated “This first world edition published 2015 in Great Britain”

    UNREAD.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.  Pictorial boards.  Un-priced dust jacket which is the norm now for Severn House books.

    MARGERY ALLINGHAM’S ALBERT CAMPION RETURNS…

    SYNOPSIS:  “As a favour to the Danish am....

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  • THE EDINBURGH MURDERS

  • Author: Catriona MCPHERSON
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.

    Price still on dust jacket.  Unread.

    Book two of the Edinburgh Murders Series.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Edinburgh 1948.  Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker.  Last yea....

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  • THE DISASTER AREA

  • Author: J G BALLARD
  • Publisher: Panther
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition paperback.  (Previously published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 1967).

    Heavy age tanning to pages making them very brown but still eminently readable.  Some tanning to inside of covers.  The covers are showing signs of wear to the extremities and are discoloured/grubby.  Some damage to top edge of front cover.  Reading creases to spine.   Light vertical crease....

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  • THE KRAKEN WAKES

  • Author: John WYNDHAM
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Comments:

    A first UK paperback edition.  Published in the US as Out of the Deeps.

    Age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable and some tanning to insides of covers.  Bumped at head and tail of book spine.  The covers are a little grubby.  Rippling to spine.

    SYNOPSIS:  “The title of the book is taken from a poem by Tennyson and is the story of the aw....

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