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SOFT COME THE DRAGONS / DARK OF THE WOODS

This is a first US edition paperback.  Ace double 13793.

Heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  The tanning doesn’t show up particularly well in the photos.  The book covers have been encased in a plastic cover at some time in their life and this has left tape marks on the first and last pages of the book and has caused some discoloura....

THE SLEEPING BOMB

A first UK edition paperback with a stated First NEL paperback December 1970.  (The title was later published as The Cambri Plot in the USA).  NEL 2813.

Age tanning to pages.  The inside of the covers is a little grubby.  Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Chip at head of book spine.  Mark running about half way across the top edge of pages not affect....

NEW WORLDS SF 167

A first UK edition.  Undated but probably from October 1966.  Edited by Michael Moorcock.

Heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  Some red staining across the top edges of the pages which does not affect the page faces but has bled slightly across the top edge of the front cover.  Covers showing some signs of wear to the extremities and are ....

TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE

This is a pocket-sized hardback. Undated.

Age tanning to pages.  The front end paper and the half title page are becoming detached from the rest of the text block along the gutter and the same is happening at the rear.  Foxing to page edges and there are the occasional spots throughout the book.  Diagonal crease across the contents page.

The boards are rubbed at the edges, espe....

THE PRIME OF BERTIE POLLOCK

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

Price still on dust jacket.  UNREAD.

A 44 Scotland Street novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from.

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori di Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know m....

THE PRIME OF BERTIE POLLOCK

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.

A 44 Scotland Street novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from.

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori di Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisi....

A LION’S RANSOM

A first UK edition hardback with a stated First World Edition published in Great Britain and the USA in 2026.  Pictorial boards.  Price still on dust jacket.

Read once very carefully.

Book 16 in the Owen Archer Mystery series.

SYNOPSIS:  “York, 1377.  A costly lion created by the goldsmiths of York as a gift for King Richard’s coronation is stolen.  The des....

THE LANGUAGES OF PAO

A US paperback edition – Ace 47401.  Undated.

Some tanning to pages.  The coloured edges of the book have bled a little into the edges of the page faces.  The book covers have been encased in a plastic cover at tome time in their life and this has left tape marks on the first and last pages.  It has also caused some discolouration to the inside of the front and back covers.  A....

DOCTOR WHO: BELTEMPEST

A first UK edition paperback.

Age tanning to pages and some minor foxing to page edges.  Covers are showing only very slight signs of wear.

Featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam.

SYNOPSIS:  “The people of Belannia II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse.  When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star....

DOCTOR WHO AND THE DOOMSDAY WEAPON

This is a UK paperback with a stated second impression 1974.

Heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  Some tanning to insides of covers.  The covers are showing signs of wear to the extremities and are a little discoloured.  Rubbing to edges.  Crease across bottom right hand corner of front cover and both corners of rear cover.  Some indenta....

THE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

A UK limited edition hardback (400 copies only)

First Tartarus edition.  The title was first published by George Bell & Sons in 1900.

Illustrated and decorated by W Heath Robinson and an introduction by R B Russell.  Beautiful boards, end papers and illustrations.

SYNOPSIS:  “A haunting meeting of poetry and illustration, this new edition of The Poems of Edga....

UP THE LINE

A first US edition paperback with a stated first printing August 1969.  Ballantine Books 01680.

Age tanning to pages.  The book covers have been encased in a plastic cover at some time in their life and this has left an indentation on the first couple of pages and tape marks on the first and last pages of the book.  This plastic sleeve has also resulted in some discolouration to the i....

KELLORY THE WARLOCK

A first US edition hardback with a stated first edition published by Doubleday (Doubleday Science Fiction).  Rough cut leading edges.

Tanning to pages and some foxing to edges not affecting page faces.  Bumped at head and tail of book spine and at bottom right-hand corner of front board.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price.  It is showing some slight signs of wear ....

HORROR WEARS BLUE

This is a first US edition hardback with a stated first edition, published by Doubleday (Doubleday Science Fiction).

Some age tanning to pages.  Minor bump to base of book spine and at all four corners of the boards.  The dust jacket is complete (encased in a plastic sleeve) and still shows the price.   It is a little grubby internally.  Small nick at the top edge of rear panel.

THE SCENT OF SHADOWS

A first UK edition paperback with a single number 1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.

Age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  Covers showing some slight signs of storage wear to extremities.  Small crease at bottom right hand corner of front cover.

The First Sign of The Zodiac book.

SYNOPSIS:  “Before....

GUNS OF DRAGONARD

This is a first printing of the Corgi re-issue from 1981.  The title was previously published by Souvenir Press in 1979.

Age tanning to pages.  Some discolouration to the inside of the front and back covers where a protective sleeve has been removed.  Small chip at head and tail of spine.

Book six in the Dragonard Series.

SYNOPSIS:  “Violence and unrest seethed th....