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CORSETS & CLOCKWORK

A First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.  Some light tanning to pages.

Edited by Trisha Telep.

SYNOPSIS:  “13 Steampunk Romances.

When good hearts battle evil, resistance is automated.  From magical outcasts to kindred spirits, feisty heroines to genius inventors, to war zones an....

THE END SPECIALIST

A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.  Author’s debut novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “2019.  Humanity has witnessed its greatest scientific breakthrough yet: the cure for ageing.  Three injections and you’re immortal – not bulletproof or disease-proof, but you’ll never have ....

HOLMES: THE DARLINGTON SUBSTITUTION

A UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback novella (91 pages).  Unread.

Another  adventure featuring Boro’s greatest Detective.

SYNOPSIS:  “With Watson’s stories of his adventures with Holmes fast becoming cult classics, he secures a slot on local radio to publicise his new book.  When his interview isn’t aired, he disregards this snub to his confi....

HOLMES VOLUME 1

A UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback originally published by Sixth Element Publishing in 2015.  This is a later 2018 printing.  Unread.

Six short stories inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.

SYNOPSIS:  “HOLMES.  ENIGMA, DETECTIVE, BORO LAD.

What if Sherlock Holmes, with his dry wit and natural predilection for data, deduction and logic, had been....

OUR MEMORY LIKE DUST (Uncorrected Proof)

This is a trade paperback sized (152 x 230mm) uncorrected proof.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “An aid worker is betrayed while helping thousands escape a massacre.  A secretive businessman wages clandestine war against a ruthless energy cartel.  An air convoy – its illicit cargo destined for hostile militants – vanishes over the Sahara.  And as millions fleeing famine, geno....

PAX BRITANNIA: PAX OMEGA

A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.

A Pax Britannia Novel.

SYNOPSIS:  “A galaxy spanning adventure.

Doc Thunder – the gold-bearded, bronzed-muscled Hero of New York – in his last stand against a deadly foe whose true identity will shock you to your core!

El ....

OSIRIS

A First UK edition trade (large sized 152mm x 230mm) paperback.  Unread.  There is a production fault at the top of the spine which has caused some rippling.  Author’s debut novel.

Book One of The Osiris Project Trilogy.

SYNOPSIS:  “Osiris is a lost city.  She has lost the world and the world has lost her…

Adelaide Rechnov, wealthy socialite and grand....

THE BELTING INHERITANCE

This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1965 by Collins.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War.  Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Beltin....

TOYS

A UK paperback edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition (previously published in 2011 by Century).  Unread.   Co-written with Neil McMahon.

SYNOPSIS:  “Hays Baker and his wife Elizabeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks and two beautiful children. Of course they do – the are Elites, endo....

EXCELLENT INTENTIONS

This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1938 by Faber & Faber.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “Great Barwick’s least popular man is murdered on a train.  Twelve jurors sit in court.  Four suspects are identified – but which of them is ....

THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY

This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1939 by George G Harrap & Co.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories.  The appear unstoppable, but the Trojans – a side of....

OKSA POLLOCK THE HEART OF TWO WORLDS

A first UK edition hardback with a 001 number sequence indicating a first printing.   Bumped at head and tail of book spine.  Some light tanning to pages.  The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price, but is showing signs of storage wear to the extremities.

Translated from the French by Sue Rose.

SYNOPSIS:  “The magical land of Edefia is dying R....

DRAGON’S TREASURE

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing.  In very good condition for its age.  Age tanning to pages and minor bumps to head and tail of book spine.  The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing signs of wear at the extremities.

Sequel to Dragon’s Winter.

SYNOPSIS:  “In the province of Ippa, th....

THE CASE OF THE HAIL MARY CELESTE

A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.   The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price, but is showing some minor signs of wear at the extremities.

The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective…

SYNOPSIS:  “Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detec....

TATIANA

A UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.   Unread.  In nice condition for its age but is showing some signs of storage wear to the covers.

An Arkady Renko novel

SYNOPSIS:  “The brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the sam....

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF

A UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback in very good condition for its age.  This is a 2008 re-issue of the 2006 Puffin edition with #33 as the number sequence indicating a 33rd printing.  Tanning to pages and the covers are showing some signs of wear at the extremities.  There is a crease at the top edge of the rear cover adjacent to the spine.

SYNOPSIS:  “Look, I didn’t want....