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Price still on dustjacket. First UK edition with a single number 1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. From the co-creator of Red Dwarf. “The generation ship Willflower is on a mission to colonize the stars. Crewed by only the cream of humanity, the best of the very best, its voyage will take several lifetimes to complete. Children born on board are trained from infan....
Price still on dustjacket. First UK edition with a full 1-10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Tanning to pages making them quite yellow. A Richard Jury novel. “Was it suicide or was it murder? Arrows point in all directions. And in the case of the death of Jane Holdsworth, one is aimed right at Richard Jury, among the last people known to have seen her alive.” IN S....
First UK paperback. This is an A Format (approx 110 x 178mm). in very good condition for its age. Reading creases to spine. Crease across top right hand corner of front cover. “Prince Rodrigo was born to rule, but the spoiled young heir of Caledon has paid little attention to duty, compassion or the power that will be his. And when the death of his mother orces him into exile, Rodrig....
This title was first published by Penguin Books in 1937. This copy is an 18th reprint. This is a much later undated edition to tie in with the TV Series, Campion featuring Peter Davison. The book is in very good condition for its age (1980s). Age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable. Bump to base of book spine. The covers are showing signs of wear: creased ....
An A format paperback (110 x 178mm). An Inspector Rebus novel. This is a re-issue which includes a new introduction from the author. “And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you…? That sort of thing is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad e....
Second impression. January 1967. In very good condition for its age. Age tanning to pages. Previous seller’s price label covers one third of the rear cover. Scuffing to covers. Reading creases to spine. Generally scruffy but eminently readable. “Callaghan had been pitchforked into a world of bad women with good looks… where blondes were using bullets rather than words an....
An A format paperback (110 x 178mm). A Lord Peter Wimsey nove. “All the was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body … An accident said the police and the widow. Murder said Lord Peter Wimsey.” This title was originally published in 1939. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
First UK paperback edition. This is an A Format (larger sized paperback approx 110 x 178mm). Conclave of Shadows Book One. “For four days and nights Kieli has waited upon the remote mountain peak of Shatana Higo, for the gods to grant him his manhood name. Exhausted and despairing, he is woken by the sharp claws of a rare silver hawk piercing his arm, though later he is not sure if it e....
Larger sized A format (110x178mm)paperback. First printing of this edition. In nice condition. “In the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, an airliner crashes killing all on board. Helping pull bodies from the water, reluctant investigator Thorn is drawn into a bizarre conspiracy. Someone has developed a jamming device of devastating potential. Now the prototype has gone missing an....
A first UK edition hardback. Read once very carefully. The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price.
A No 1 Ladies Detective Agency novel.
SYNOPSIS: “Mma Ramotswe reached for the letter opener and slid its blade under the flap of the envelope. Inside was a flimsy piece of paper torn, it seemed, from a cheap notebook. She unfolded it and held it up to the light....
First UK edition. Full 1-10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. Follow-on from her bestselling novel, Chocolat. “Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the do....
Some slight damage to the top of the front cover next to the spine. A Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne mystery. This unlikely pair – the younger son of a duke and a journalist committed to the Communist Party – find common ground as they seek the truth behind the murder of a general…
A First UK edition mass market paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. The title was first published in the USA in 1988. In nice condition for its age. Some slight signs of storage wear to covers.
A Hamish Macbeth murder mystery.
SYNOPSIS: “Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a real Highland summer, but as the rain rolls i....
First edition trade (large sized) paperback. Subtitled Tales of Mystery and Regret,it contains a collection of fiction and poetry. Introduction by Brian A Hopkins. SIGNED by James Dorr on the first page. The stories are: Paperboxing Art; Swarms; The Walking; The Pool Culture; Hives; Ballet of the Dolls; There Was an Old Man; King Rat; The Master of Time; The First Hundred Years; The Great ....
An A format (110x178mm) paperback. In very nice condition. “March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may b a spy inside Bletchley. Jericho’s girlfr....
Subtitled Tales of Mystery and Regret, this first trade paperback edition contains a collection of fiction and poetry. Introduction by Brian A Hopkins. SIGNED by James Dorr on the first page. The stories are: Paperboxing Art; Swarms; The Walking; The Pool Culture; Hives; Ballet of the Dolls; There Was an Old Man; King Rat; The Master of Time; The First Hundred Years; The Great Man; Rat Girl....