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HEMLOCK BAY

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Minor bump to head and tail of book spine caused in transit.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once very carefully.

A Rachel Savernake novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “The first rule of murder:  know your victim.  Basil Palmer plans to murder a man called Louis Carson.  The problem is he d....

WAITING OUT WINTER

First US edition Pocket-sized (113 pages) paperback.  Unread.

Chapbook #6 in Thunderstorm’s Elementals series.

SYNOPSIS:  “Nick and the boys return from the summer’s last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pi....

WAITING OUT WINTER

First US edition Pocket-sized (113 pages) paperback.  Unread.

Chapbook #6 in Thunderstorm’s Elementals series.

SYNOPSIS:  “Nick and the boys return from the summer’s last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pi....

IT WALKS BY NIGHT

This is a Penguin paperback from 1961.  The title was first published in 1930.  The book is in poor condition.  Slant to spine.  The covers are very grubby and there is a crease across the top and bottom corners of the front cover and the top left-hand corner of the rear cover.  The covers are scuffed and chipped and have generally seen better days.  The front cover is stained on the cent....

POSTSCRIPT TO POISON

This is a B format paperback edition.  The title was originally published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1938.   Read once very carefully.

The first Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “When Dr Tom Faithful receives the third anonymous letter, he knows it is time to call the police.  His wealthy patient, Cornelia Lackland, is recovering steadily from a serious ....

DODGER

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Minor bump to base of book spine.  Age tanning to pages.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price.  Some slight signs of wear to the extremities.

SYNOPSIS:  “Dodger is a tosher – a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London.  Everyone who is nobody....

THE LONG REACH OF NIGHT

This is a trade paperback edition.  Originally published in 2011 this is a later, undated reprint.  Unread.

The Voidal Trilogy Book Two.

SYNOPSIS:  “Once more the cursed warrior, The Voidal and his bizarre familiar, the incorrigible Elfloq, travel through the nightmare regions of the omniverse in search of a way to break the grip of the Dark Gods on their destiny, to free....

INFERNAL MYSTERIES or a Compendium of Gothic Reveries & Dolorous Tales (Limited Edition)

A first UK limited edition hardback (limited to 420 copies only).  Published without a dust jacket.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Featuring a gloriously grotesque and moon-soaked selection of new writings whose intent it is to capture and expand upon the darkness and sheer strangeness of first-wave Gothic literature.

Never mind the cosy conventions into which the Gothic has settle....

SUDDEN FEAR: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of DEAN R KOONTZ

This is a first US edition trade paperback in very nice condition for its age.  Tanning to pages.  Faint crease across the bottom right hand corner of the front cover.  Rear  cover a little grubby and very tiny bump to head of book spine.

Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism #24.

SYNOPSIS:  “Here is the first, full-length book  on America’s favourite new author....

THE PERFECT HOST Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

A first US edition hardback with a 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing.  In very good condition for its age.  Slight bump to head of book spine and some foxing at the base of the spine and on edges of boards.  Foxing also to top edges of pages but not affecting page faces.   The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price, but is showing some signs of wear.  There is ....

Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. (Exclusive Publisher’s Edition)

First UK edition hardback with a stated Exclusive Edition.   This is an Exclusive Edition has different cover artwork and different boards from the Standard Edition. The Exclusive Edition has grey boards rather than blue.  Unread.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

SYNOPSIS:  “This massive collection of forty stories and over 650 pages, covering 10 yea....

THE EVOLUTIONARY VOID

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Some tanning to pages.  Bumped at head and tail of book spine.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities;  creased to match the bumps on the spine.

The 3rd book in The Void Trilogy.

SYNOPSIS:  “Having final....

MY LIFE AS AN ALIEN (Limited Edition)

A First limited edition hardback (300 copies only).  Unread.  Attractive boards.

Author’s debut novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “It’s an extraordinary sensation to be finally on the wing when everything else is falling apart. It’s like I’ve been abducted by extraterrestrials and beamed away from this doomed world.

So begins Seraj Ass’’s brilliant ....

DEAD ON TARGET

A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  The title was first published in 2023 in hardback.  Read once very carefully.

An Agatha Raisin Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “A visit to the local fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the loca....

TIME OUT OF JOINT

This is a UK paperback edition with a 5 to 10 number sequence indicating a 5th printing of this edition.  The title was originally published in 1959 by Lippincott and then by Penguin in 1969 – this is an undated 5th printing of the 1969 edition.  Roc is an imprint of Penguin.

The covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Tiny crease at the bottom left-han....

TREACLE WALKER

This is a B format (130 x 198mm) paperback with a single #6 indicating a 6th printing.  Some tanning to pages.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye.  Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Tre....