Author:Whitbourn, John

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To Build Jerusalem (signed by the author).

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 00060

ISBN: 0575058714

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''..returns to the England of 'A Dangerous Energy', where a new demon from beyond the hierarchy explored by Oakley (who briefly appears) capriciously aids the Levellers and has abducted the King and his court to a demonic otherworld. This is investigated by an elite Vatican emissary and assassin who, reversing the spiritual progress of Oakley in the earlier book, is already dehumanized at the outset but during the action, skirmishes, conjurations, portal-crossings and battles against monsters, moves some way towards ordinary empathy. The author writes w...
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A Dangerous Energy.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 04450

ISBN: 0575053550

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The author's first novel, winner of the BBC Bookshelf/Gollancz First Fantasy Novel Competition.

''his first novel won the 1991 First Fantasy Novel Competition jointly organized by BBC Radio 4's Bookshelf and the publishers Gollancz. The novel is set in an alternate world UK, ingeniously outlined through a history examination paper, where Royalists won the Civil War and the stern guardianship of the Catholic Church has, as in Keith Robert's Pavane (1968), retarded technology; this Church controls and polices magic. The selfish, amoral anti-hero Oakley is magically initiated by elves, ent...
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To Build Jerusalem.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1995.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 04455

ISBN: 0575058714

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

''..returns to the England of 'A Dangerous Energy', where a new demon from beyond the hierarchy explored by Oakley (who briefly appears) capriciously aids the Levellers and has abducted the King and his court to a demonic otherworld. This is investigated by an elite Vatican emissary and assassin who, reversing the spiritual progress of Oakley in the earlier book, is already dehumanized at the outset but during the action, skirmishes, conjurations, portal-crossings and battles against monsters, moves some way towards ordinary empathy. The author writes well, with dry wit'' (David Langford/ENCY...
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More Binscombe Tales: Sinister Sutangli Stories (signed by the author).

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ash-Tree Press: Canada.: 1999.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00401

ISBN: 1899562729

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for sun-fading along the white spine panel (not affecting black lettering).

Contains the final twelve stories in the Binscombe saga - five previously unpublished - plus an introduction by the author, and also a lengthy afterword in which he discusses plots and ideas for several Binscombe Tales which (he says) will never, alas, be written. 500 copies printed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Popes & Phantoms (signed by the author).

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Haunted Library Publication: Chester.: 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 01806

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First publication of two of the author's Admiral Slovo tales, later published (1993) as part of the novel from Victor Gollancz of the same title. 'Psychic Sleuths' Booklet no 4. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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A Dangerous Energy (signed by the author).

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 00032

ISBN: 0575053550

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The author's first novel, winner of the BBC Bookshelf/Gollancz First Fantasy Novel Competition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''his first novel won the 1991 First Fantasy Novel Competition jointly organized by BBC Radio 4's Bookshelf and the publishers Gollancz. The novel is set in an alternate world UK, ingeniously outlined through a history examination paper, where Royalists won the Civil War and the stern guardianship of the Catholic Church has, as in Keith Robert's Pavane (1968), retarded technology; this Church controls and polices magic. The selfish, amoral anti-hero Oakley is magically ...
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Popes And Phantoms (signed by the author).

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1993.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 00055

ISBN: 0575056533

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Fantasy novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''is a blackly witty picaresque whose protagonist Admiral Slovo plays games with already skewed Renaissance history as agent of secret masters, encountering revenants, Borgias, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Henry VII, Martin Luther, Satan, etc.'' (David Langford/Encclopedia of SF).
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Popes And Phantoms.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1993.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 05400

ISBN: 0575056533

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel.

'is a blackly witty picaresque whose protagonist Admiral Slovo plays games with already skewed Renaissance history as agent of secret masters, encountering revenants, Borgias, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Henry VII, Martin Luther, Satan, etc.'' (David Langford/ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SF).
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Rollover Night.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Haunted Library Publication: Chester.: 1990.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 13689

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Collects three Binscombe tales.
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The Royal Changeling.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Earthlight/Simon & Schuster: London.: 1998.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 23187

ISBN: 0671017853

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Historical fantasy.

''invading England after Charles II's death, the Duke of Monmouth comes face-to-face with an old friend -- Theophilus Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe, in common with only a handful of others, knows Monmouth's background fully -- not only that he is Charles's son, but also that he has elven blood, and has allied himself with evil powers in order to take England's crown. In fact, he is being used as a cat's paw by one far more steeped in evil than himself...King Arthur, who would return to rule Britain and the entire world. Through London, Glastonbury, Sedgemoor, and many stran...
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More Binscombe Tales: Sinister Sutangli Stories.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Ash-Tree Press: Canada.: 1999

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 24027

ISBN: 1899562729

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ copy with light spotting to rear (white) panel and (less so) to front panel.

Popes & Phantoms.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Haunted Library Publication: Chester.: 1992.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 34598

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First publication of two of the author's Admiral Slovo tales, later published (1993) as part of the novel from Victor Gollancz of the same title. 'Psychic Sleuths' Booklet no 4.
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Binscombe Tales: Sinister Saxon Stories.

By: Whitbourn, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ash-Tree Press: Canada.: 1998.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 44112

ISBN: 1899562400

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects fifteen stories with a short preface by the author and an introduction by Professor E. Griffiths. 500 copies printed.
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Author:Whitbourn, John

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