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The Loves Of Lucy.

By: Furlough, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Beacon Books/Softcover Library: NY.: 1965.

Seller ID: 14943

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

1960s sleaze paperback original (S 75148): ''tricked out of her virginity, she learned to crave wild sex!''. Very uncommon paperback.
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Doomed Nation Of The Skies.

By: Future, Steve (pseudonym)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: C. A. Pearson Ltd: London.: 1953.

Seller ID: 43862

Condition: Staples rusting, page edges browned, a good copy.

SF novel. Ron Turner cover. Part of the Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library, 19 paperback volumes published in total 1954-1955. . In: Harbottle & Holland: British SF Paperbacks And Magazines 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide, A 189, pp.56. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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Bikini Planet (signed by the author).

By: Garnett, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orbit: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 10372

ISBN: 1857239504

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF novel, followed by SPACE WASTERS (2001). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. In the early 1990s Garnett initiated (and edited) - with the approval of Michael Moorcock - a new incarnation of New Worlds, this time in anthology form, published as trade paperbacks from Victor Gollancz - comprising New Worlds (1991), New Worlds 2 (1992), New Worlds 3 (1993) and New Worlds 4 (1994), plus an unnumbered final volume, New Worlds (1997).''UK writer, author of a large number of books, many of them novels, in various genres and under various names. To differentiate himself from the elder David Ga...
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Warhammer: Warblade (signed by the author).

By: Garnett, David S. (writing as "David Ferring")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Boxtree: London.: 1993.

Seller ID: 39173

ISBN: 1852838604

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF/Fantasy novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AS ''DAVID FERRING''.
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Warhammer: Shadowbreed (signed by the author).

By: Garnett, David S. (writing as "David Ferring")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Boxtree: London.: 1993.

Seller ID: 39174

ISBN: 1852838558

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

SF/Fantasy novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AS ''DAVID FERRING''.
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Invaders From Mars.

By: Garton, Ray

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY.: 1986.

Seller ID: 32567

ISBN: 0671626973

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Movie novelisation.
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The World Of Star Trek.

By: Gerrold, David (STAR TREK)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY.: 1973.

Seller ID: 35352

ISBN: 0345234030

Condition: Small sticker on front cover, a VG+ copy.

''The Show The Network Could Not Kill!'': 276 pages. Includes 64 pages of b/w stills.
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The Spinster's Secret.

By: Gilbert, Anthony

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fontana: London.: 1962.

Seller ID: 46954

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Spine lean, page edges browning, else a near fine (NF) copy.

Fontana 707. Thriller. First published in hardcover in 1946. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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Black Narcissus.

By: Godden, Rumer

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Four Square/Landsborough Publications Ltd: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 46975

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A little spine lean, a VG copy.

Four Square 85: ''five nuns find peril in the Himalayas''.
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The Great Waldo Pepper (film tie-in).

By: Goldman, William

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Dell: NY.: 1975.

Seller ID: 46979

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG copy, spine a little faded.

Dell 4631. Illustratedthroughout. Film tie-in: ''the story in words and pictures. Photos from the sensational movie, original screenplay by William Goldman based on a story be Goerge Roy Hill''.
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The Jury Disagree,

By: Goodchild, George (& C. E. Bechhofer Roberts)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Jarrolds: London.: Nd (c. 1939)

Seller ID: 46219

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, else a VG+ copy (as issued in a fairly good dustjacket with a large chip (4.5cm x 2cm max.) along the bottom spine edge,

First published in hardcover in 1934. No 5 in the Jackdaw Crime series issued by Jarrolds 1939-1940. This paperback edition issued with a dustjacket. Very uncommon UK paperback.
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The Horde.

By: Green, Joseph

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Laser Books: Ontario.: 1976.

Seller ID: 33610

ISBN: 0373720270

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Laser 27. SF novel.''Canadian sf imprint initiated in 1975 by Harlequin Books, the US publisher of Mills & Boon romances, under the editorship of Roger Elwood. The books were restricted to a formula which specified a male protagonist, an upbeat ending, no sex or atheism, and a minimum of long words. All Laser Book covers were the work of Frank Kelly Freas. The series was suspended early in 1977 after fifty-seven books had appeared. The Laser formula made it unlikely that books of any literary quality would be published, but some were interesting, including K W Jeter's debut, Seeklight...
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The Loafers Of Refuge.

By: Green, Joseph

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1967.

Seller ID: 33636

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Pan X651. SF novel. First published by Victor Gollancz in hardcover in 1965.''although many of his 70 stories to date (not all sf) have appeared in the USA - along with popular-science articles in Astounding that demonstrate the lucid gift of exposition visible also in his fiction - it was in the UK that he first established his name, and there that most of his books were first published. THE LOAFERS OF REFUGE (stories April 1962 - July 1963 New Worlds; fixup 1965), his first novel, chronicles the gradual coming together, to their mutual benefit, of colonizing humans and humanlike na...
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Conscience Interplanetary.

By: Green, Joseph

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 33669

ISBN: 0330242091

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SF novel. First published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1972.''CONSCIENCE INTERPLANETARY (stories April 1965 - October 1971 various mags, fixup 1972), the uneven story of a Conscience whose job it is - in an unhappy replay of the protagonist's role in The Loafers of Refuge - to adjudicate as to the Intelligence of alien species before allowing human beings to exploit their planets'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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The Power And the Glory.

By: Greene, Graham

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1962.

Seller ID: 47008

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Penguin 1791. First published in hardcover by Heinemann in 1940.
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The Quiet American.

By: Greene, Graham

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1962.

Seller ID: 47020

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy, alittle spine edge wear.

Penguin 1792. Thriller. First published in hardcover in 1955.
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Dream Time: Spiritfeather.

By: Greenland, Colin

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Dolphin: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 10371

ISBN: 1858817102

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Young adult fantasy novel.
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Dream Time: Spiritfeather (signed by the author).

By: Greenland, Colin

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dolphin/Orion: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 18326

ISBN: 1858817102

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Obsession.

By: Gurr, Tom (& H. H. Cox)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ace Books/Harborough Publishing Co.: London.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47003

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, creasing to bottom front cover corner tip, a VG+ copy.

Ace H367. First published in hardcover in 1958. Novel based on the famous New Zealand Parker-Hulme murder involving lesbian love between two young girls (one of whom later became a successful crime writer) leading to the murder of one of the girls mothers. Filmed by director Peter Jackson in 1994 as HEAVENLY CREATURES. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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The Monster Trap And Other True Mysteries (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Haining, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Armada: London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 45300

ISBN: 0006911633

Condition: Name and address on first page, page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

Young adult collection of ''true life'' supernatural mysteries. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials rubber-stamped on the inner rear cover.
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The Clans of Darkness: Scottish Tales of Fantasy and Horror (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sphere: London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 45310

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a little spine wear, a VG+ copy.

21 stories with a three page Glossay (of Scottish dialect words translated into - dare I say - English): introduction by Angus Wilson. First published as a Gollancz hardcover in 1971. With Hugh Lamb's initials HL rubber-stamped on the inner rear cover.
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The Spot Of Life.

By: Hall, Austin

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY.: Nd (1964).

Seller ID: 33334

Condition: Almost fine (NF) copy.

Ace F-318. SF novel, sequel to THE BLIND SPOT (1951), originally serialised in Argosy magazine in 1932.''possibly confused by the collaborative process, The Blind Spot (14 May-18 June 1921 Argosy; 1951) with Homer Eon Flint cloaks a central plot - involving an interdimensional portal into a Parallel World - in layers of unresolved melodrama. Cruelly, Damon Knight quoted extensively from it in a critical piece (reprinted as part of Chapter 3 of In Search of Wonder, coll 1956; exp 1967; exp 1996) to demonstrate its infelicities. The second volume in the Blind Spot sequence, THE SPOT OF ...
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Plantation King.

By: Hall, Gramm

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1972.

Seller ID: 43986

ISBN: 0450012654

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

Title change: first published by Lancer Books in 1971 as MACHISMO: ''two men ruled the world of the plantation, but which one was slave?''. Both editions are uncommon.
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The Cold Embrace And Other Stories (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Hamilton, Alex (ed)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 45296

Condition: Page edges browning, a little spine lean, a VG copy.

Corgi Horror GN7508: eighteen ''stories of the macabre'', all written by women. Includes the title story by M. E. Braddon, plus stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Agatha Christie, Margaret Irwin, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Shena MacKay, Christianna Brand, Janet Frame, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor and others. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials rubber-stamped on the inner rear cover. The only edition published of this book.
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Battle For The Stars.

By: Hamilton, Edmond

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Mayflower: London.: 1963.

Seller ID: 46742

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (as new) copy.

SF novel, first published in hardcover in 1961.
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The Red Brain And Other Thrillers.

By: Hammett, Dashiel (ed)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Four Square: London.: 1965.

Seller ID: 31944

Condition: Page edges browning, else a near fine (NF) copy.

Abridged contents: collects ten of the 20 stories collected in CREEPS BY NIGHT (1931) which were split up into two volumes for UK paperback publication, the companion volume titled CREEPS BY NIGHT (1966). This UK paperback is much scarcer than the 1961 Belmont paperback of the same title (and same contents). Four Square 1328.
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Vultures of the Void: A History of British Science Fiction 1946-1956 (inscribed by the author).

By: Harbottle, Philip (& Steve Holland)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Borgo Press: CA.: 1992.

Seller ID: 27759

ISBN: 089370315X

Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).

128 pages. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1993/''to Andy with best wishes, from Phil Harbottle 13/3/93''. A very uncommon hardcover (most of the print run was paperbound), though superceded by the much expanded (410 pages) - and much more affordable - 2011 Cosmos Books trsade paperback edition.
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Fantasy Annual 3: New Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

By: Harbottle., Philip (& Sean Wallace, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cosmos Books: Tyne & Wear.: 1999.

Seller ID: 03874

ISBN: 0966896823

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Third annual volume: 132 pages, Ron Turner colour cover. Original stories by Philip E. High (two), Sydney J. Bounds (two), E. C. Tubb, Stephen Laws, Eric C. Williams, Norman Lazenby and others.
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Safari With Fear! (Sexton Blake Library #430).

By: Hardinge, Rex

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Amalgamated Press Ltd: London.: 1959 (May).

Seller ID: 25915

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for slight rusting to rear staple.

Sexton Blake Library no 430. Price 10p.
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He Should Have Died Hereafter.

By: Hare, Cyril

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1961.

Seller ID: 47007

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Penguin 1486. Crime novel set on Exmoor. First published in hardcover by Faber in 1958.
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Tenant For Death.

By: Hare, Cyril

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: 1960.

Seller ID: 47013

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Penguin 1081. Thriller. The author's first novel, first published in hardcover in 1937.
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The Rose.

By: Harness, Charles L.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Roberts & Vinter, Ltd/Compact: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 27609

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Collects the short novel THE ROSE, plus two stories, ''The Chess Players'' and ''The New Reality''. Introduction by Michael Moorcock. Compact F295.''the first phase of his career (1948-1953) may well have ended because of his failure to sell the remarkable novella ''The Rose'' (1953 Authentic SF; title story of THE ROSE [Compact 1966 UK], to a US market. This striking allegory of the opposed worldviews of science and the arts is a memorable exemplar of the particular kind of superman story which represents future human evolution in metamorphic terms. Its reprinting in the 1960s was t...
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Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World Of Vintage Adult Paperbacks.

By: Harrison, John

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Headpress: London.: 2011.

Seller ID: 44148

ISBN: 1900486482

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

392 pages.
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Herne The Hunter 2: River Of Blood.

By: Harvey, John (& Laurence James, writing together as "John J. McLaglen")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1976.

Seller ID: 41919

ISBN: 0552103101

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a touch of edge wear.

Western. ''John M. McLaglen'' is a pseudonym used by the writing team of Laurence James and crime writer John Harvey.
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The Reluctant Sorcerer.

By: Hawke, Simon

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Warner: NY.: 1992.

Seller ID: 29735

ISBN: 0446362603

Condition: A little spine lean, page edges browned, a VG+ copy.

''legal name of US writer who first published under his former name Nicholas (Valentin) Yermakov. In 1984 he stopped using the NY name, and as Simon Hawke, soon became a reliable and prolific author of adventure sf, best known for the Timewars sequence -- Timewars: The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984), #2: The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984), #3: The Pimpernel Plot (1984), #4: The Zenda Vendetta (1985), #5: The Nautilus Sanction (1985), #6: The Kyber Connection (1986), #7: The Argonaut Affair (1987), #8: The Dracula Caper (1988), #9: The Lilliput Legion (1989), #10: The Hellfire Rebellion (1990), #11: The ...
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The Neighbours.

By: Hayes, Mary-Rose

Price: £5.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1978.

Seller ID: 43453

ISBN: 0450040127

Condition: Spine lean, page edges browning, a VG copy.

Supernatural novel. First published as a Pinnace paperback original in 1977.
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Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction.

By: Hendrix, Grady (& Will Errickson)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Quirk Books: Philadelphia, USA.: 2017.

Seller ID: 43411

ISBN: 1594749817

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

254 pages.
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Midnight Cowboy.

By: Herlihy, James Leo

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1969.

Seller ID: 43171

Condition: VG+ copy.

First published in 1965, andfilmed as MIDNIGHT COWBOY in 1969.
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Stories That Scared Even Me: Book Two (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Hitchcock, Alfred (ed)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1971.

Seller ID: 45370

ISBN: 0330027786

Condition: Page edges a little browned, spine fade, a near fine (NF) copy.

First published in hardcover in 1967, and split into volumes for UK paperback publication. Hugh Lamb's copy, with his initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover.
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The Ghost Pirates (Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult) (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Hodgson, William Hope

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Sphere: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 28640

ISBN: 0722146140

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

First published in 1909. New introduction by Dennis Wheatley. The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult Volume 33.
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Scourge of the Steel Mask: A G-8 Air-War Thriller.

By: Hogan, Robert J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dimedia: IL: 1985.

Seller ID: 06722

ISBN: 0893002402

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Reprint of a short novel from the January 1937 issue of G-8 and his Battle Aces pulp magazine.
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The Fetch (inscribed by the author).

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Orbit: London.: 1991.

Seller ID: 05520

ISBN: 0356196992

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket showing a touch of edge wear and a little background spine fade (not affecting black and white lettering).

SF/fantasy novel. Wonderful Jim Burns wraparound colour dustjacket. WARMLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Uncommon UK hardcover.''a young boy with amazing - and incredibly dangerous - psychokinetic powers is able to travel into the past and, with guidance from a shadowy spirit, return with artifacts of great value. But, unknown to him or his family, each trip into the past brings him closer to a terrifying fate, a fate that only a psychic investigator may be able to change''
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Bulman: A Novel Written From Scripts By Murray Smith.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 10252

ISBN: 0708825486

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little browning along page edges.

Novelisation of television crime series.
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Bulman 2: One Of Our Pigeons Is Missing: A Novel From Scripts Written By Murray Smith.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 10253

ISBN: 0708827160

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Novelisation of television crime series.
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Bulman 2: One Of Our Pigeons Is Missing: A Novel From Scripts Written By Murray Smith.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 44167

ISBN: 0708827160

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy with a little browning along page edges.

Novelisation of television crime series.
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Necromancer.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Futura: London.: 1978.

Seller ID: 26685

ISBN: 0708814069

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

Supernatural novel.
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Raven 1: Swordsmistress Of Chaos.

By: Holdstock, Robert (writing as "Richard Kirk")

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1978.

Seller ID: 00596

ISBN: 0552106941

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for touch of browning along page edges,

Heroic fantasy: co-written by Holdstock with Angus Wells, and released under the ''Richard Kirk'' pseudonym. Second in the five-volume Raven heroic fantasy series, three of which were written by Robert Holdstock, two by himself and this one with Angus Wells as co-author, the other two by Angus Wells on his own.
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Nighthunter 3: The Ghost Dance (signed by the author).

By: Holdstock, Robert (writing as "Robert Faulcon")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1983.

Seller ID: 36779

ISBN: 0099317907

Condition: Page edges a little browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

The third of six volumes published in the occult supernatural Night Hunter series, all published as paperback originals 1983 - 1987 under the pseudonym ''Robert Faulcon''. SIGNED BYTHE AUTHOR.
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Nighthunter 5: The Hexing (signed by the author).

By: Holdstock, Robert (writing as "Robert Faulcon")

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 36781

ISBN: 0099399601

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG copy.

The fifth of six volumes published in the occult supernatural Nighthunter series, all published as paperback originals 1983 - 1987 under the pseudonym ''Robert Faulcon''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Dust Before The Wind.

By: Homan, Robert

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Four Square/New English Library: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 43859

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine (unread) copy.

Adventure novel . First published in hardcover in 1960. Four Square 1491. Very uncommon paperback.
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