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Fantasy novel. LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 25.''An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureau...
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The Sorcerer's House (signed/traycased).

By: Wolfe, Gene

Price: £250.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2010.

Seller ID: 52808

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Fantasy novel: introduction by Tim Powers. LIMITED EDITION: 500 copies printed (300 signed just by Gene Wofe) of which this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by both Wolfe and Tim Powers, and traycased. This is no 25.
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The Urth Of The New Sun.

By: Wolfe, Gene

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1987.

Seller ID: 03953

ISBN-13: 9780312930332

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Sequel to the (the 4-volume series) Book of the New Sun. The UK Victor Gollancz edition was published in August and launched at the Brighton World SF Convention the same month: this Tor edition was published three months later ('November 1987' stated on the American edition copyright page).''the sequel (to the 4 volume Book Of The New Sun series) The Urth of the New Sun, takes Severian through reality levels of the Universe to the point-ambiguous in time and space, though related to the Omega Point posited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) -- where he will be judged as to his Autarch...
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There Are Doors.

By: Wolfe, Gene

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1988.

Seller ID: 00388

ISBN-13: 9780312930998

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Fantasy/sf novel.

''is again haunted by the Goddess, travelling between alternate realities in his search for her, visiting increasingly bleak versions of the same city which constitute a series of recognitions that he must travel through; in the end, it seems he is given a chance to emigrate, finally, in her direction. The novel can instead be read as a fantasy of perception, with the alternate realities being born from the mind of the protagonist'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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The Woman Who Lives In The Earth.

By: Wolfe, Swain

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Thorsons: London. : 1996.

Seller ID: 39426

ISBN-13: 9780722533598

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Fantasy novel.

''targeted by her people because of her imaginative fascination with nature, Sarah is proclaimed a demon by the Lizard Woman and sentenced to burn, but a foxlike creature helps her use the powers of nature to save herself''.
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Up There And Other Strange Directions (signed/slipcased)..

By: Wollheim, Donald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: NESFA Press: MA. : 1988.

Seller ID: 05292

ISBN-13: 9780915368921

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects sixteen stories - ranging from hard sf to eldritch horror - some of which have never been reprinted since their original magazine appearances. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 copies printed in total, of which this is one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and issued in slipcase. This is no 149.
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Elvissey.

By: Womack, Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 23166

ISBN-13: 9780246138392

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Almost fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

SF novel, fourth in the Jerry Oster series beginning with AMBIENT (1987).

''US writer whose first five novels are stylish and potent exercises in a post-cyberpunk urban idiom, and comprise instalments in a loose ongoing series about the near future state of the USA. The sequence, reminiscent at points of the baroque New York detective fictions of Jerry Oster, consists of Ambient (1987), Terraplane (1988), and Heathern (1990), ELVISSEY (1993), Random Acts Of Senseless Violence (1993) and Going, Going, Gone (2000)'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Going, Going, Gone.

By: Womack, Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Voyager/HarperCollins: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 48572

ISBN-13: 9780006511052

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Sixth novel in the sf New York Terraplane series.''US author whose first five novels are stylish and potent exercises in a post-Cyberpunk urban idiom, and comprise the first instalments in the loose ongoing Terraplane series about the state of America; the sixth volume followed later. These comprise Ambient (1987), Terraplane (1988), Heathern (1990), Elvissey (1993), Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993) - and the final volume, GOING, GOING GONE (2000), whih twists the screw even tighter, set in an Alternate History continuation of the version of America romantically addressed in Terraplan...
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Heathern.

By: Womack, Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Unwin Hyman: London. : 1990.

Seller ID: 00269

ISBN-13: 9780044406914

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

SF novel, third in the Jerry Oster/Ambient series''US writer whose first five novels are stylish and potent exercises in a post-cyberpunk urban idiom, and comprise instalments in a loose ongoing series about the near future state of the USA. The sequence, reminiscent at points of the baroque New York detective fictions of Jerry Oster, consists of Ambient (1987), Terraplane (1988), and HEATHERN (1990 UK), which returns to New York and to Thatcher Dryden, who on this occasion must try (he fails) to make sense of a messiah figure whose fate in this venue is dourly predictable and whose humaneness...
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Terraplane.

By: Womack, Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Unwin Hyman: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 02041

ISBN-13: 9780044403029

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel, the author's second book, sequel to AMBIENT (1987) and second in the Ambient/''US writer whose first five novels are stylish and potent exercises in a post-cyberpunk urban idiom, and comprise the first instalments in a loose ongoing series about the near-future state of the USA. The sequence, reminiscent at points of the baroque New York detective fictions of Jerry Oster, consists of Ambient (1987), set in the complexly desolated warzone which New York has become in the early 21st century, evokes comparisons with James Joyce and Anthony Burgess in its sensuous, choked, eloquent, lin...
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Amy Girl.

By: Wood, Bari

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New American Library: NY. : 1987.

Seller ID: 24096

ISBN-13: 9780453005340

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF/horror novel.
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We Alien Seed.

By: Wood, Jonathan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 47133

ISBN-13: 9780709170761

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Spotting along top page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with rubbing to rear (white) panel.

SF novel. Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title. Robert Hale was a UK publishing firm which from 1936 - 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in hardbound editions, primarily for the library market. A large majority of titles originating with the firm were uniform in length (192 pages) and routine in substance, most being Space Operas varied with occasional Dystopias, though other forms of sf also featured'' (John Clute & David Langford...
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The Revelation of Father Hankey.

By: Wood, Robert

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Poplar Press: London. : 1986.

Seller ID: 06074

ISBN-13: 9780907657118

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The author's first book.

''a divine black comedy, an apocalyptic fantasy, hilarious and profane'' .
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The Motive Key (+ two different dustjackets).

By: Woodford, Jack

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Dawn Press: Buffalo, NY. : 1956.

Seller ID: 34648

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Endpapers a little marked, else a fine copy in a fine yellow dustjacket ($2.50) but for a touch of edge wear: also with a completely different near fine pictorial gray and black dustjacket (priced $2.00) which is slightly larger than the book and so has

Thriller with fantasy/supernatural elements. Very uncommon (Chalker and Owings state that only fifty copies of the 1000 copy print run were hardbound - though the paperbound edition is equally uncommon). Probably most sheets remained unbound?). With two dustjackets, each very different colours and designs and with different prices.
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Poison.

By: Wooding, Chris

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Scholastic: London. : 2003.

Seller ID: 11532

ISBN-13: 9780439981620

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for faint spotting along top page edges.

Young adult fantasy novel.

''when Poison's beloved baby sister is snatched by the phaeries, she leaves her suffocating hometown, deep in the marshes of the human realm, to rescue her. Many dangers await, including the horrifying Bone Witch, the capricious phaerie king, and Lady Asinastra, queen of the spiders''.
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The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray.

By: Wooding, Chris

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Scholastic: London. : 2001.

Seller ID: 14675

ISBN-13: 9780439998963

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Young adult supernatural novel. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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The Skein Of Lament (signed by the author).

By: Wooding, Chris

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 12375

ISBN-13: 9780575074439

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for some browning along page edges.

Book Two of the Braided Path: second volume in the fantasy trilogy that began with THE WEAVERS OF SARAMYR (2003) and finished with THE ASCENDANCY VEIL (2005). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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In the Wake of Bernard Heuvelmans. An Introduction to the History and Future of Sea Serpent-Classification.

By: Woodley, Michael A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: CFZ Press: Bideford, Devon. : 2008.

Seller ID: 47227

ISBN-13: 9781905723201

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

160 pages: introduction by Dr. Karl P. N. Shuker.
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Legends And Traditions Of Cheshire (and) Further Legends And Traditions Of Cheshire (each inscribed by the author).

By: Woods, Frederick

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shiva Publishing: Cheshire. : 1982/1983.

Seller ID: 19366

ISBN-13: 9780906812303

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Two volumes. BOTH VOLUMES ARE PRESENTATION COPIES, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN OCTOBER 1982.
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Words And Visions: first seven issues.

By: WORDS AND VISIONS, (ed. Adam Dutkiewicz)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Words & Visions Publications: Dulwich, Australia. : 1979-early 1980s.

Seller ID: 49968

Binding: Magazines.

Condition: Fine (unread) copies.

First seven issues of Australian literary magazine. Word And Visions magazine ran for 17 issues in the early-mid 1980s. It was described as an 'arts showcase', featuring mostly writers and visual artists from Adelaide initially, then a wider national and international contributor list as the magazine evolved. The magazine was later referred to as WAV and that was used as the moniker for the small press, that extended into publishing books of poetry and short stories by mostly South Australian writers.
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World Of Horror: An Anthology Of The Macabre From Films & Fiction vol 1 no 8.

By: WORLD OF HORROR, (ed. Boudicea K. Bathory)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Dalruth Publishing: London. : 1975.

Seller ID: 42894

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Issue no 8. Short-lived UK film monster magazine, nine issues published in total 1974-1975. Editor ''Gent Shaw'' had left after issue 7, and this issue was edited by (surely a pseudonym?) ''Boudicea K. Bathory''. Includes fiction by David A. Sutton.
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World Of Horror: An Anthology Of The Macabre From Films & Fiction vol 1 no 8.

By: WORLD OF HORROR, (ed. Boudicea K. Bathory)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dalruth Publishing: London. : 1975.

Seller ID: 46924

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fairly good copy.

Issue no 8. Short-lived UK film monster magazine, nine issues published in total 1974-1975. Editor ''Gent Shaw'' had left after issue 7, and this issue was edited by (surely a pseudonym?) ''Boudicea K. Bathory''. Includes fiction by David A. Sutton.
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World SF Journal no 1.

By: WORLD SF JOURNAL, (ed. Aldiss, Lundwall, Harrison etc)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: : 1987.

Seller ID: 47060

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

First issue (were there any more?) of 'The Journal of the World Science Fiction Association of Professionals'. Includes Jack Williamson ''When Wonder Was - Woodpulp And Wonder 1930/1931'', Brian Aldiss ''The Downward Journey: Orwell's 1984'', Daniela Guardamagna (Gulliver's Travels: From Satire To SF'', Carlo Pagetti ''Where Angels Tread: Fable and SF in Victorian Fiction'', Oriana Palusci ''Barsoom: Mapping A New Frontier'' and Thomas Le Blanc ''An Inventory of West German Science Fiction''.
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Worlds Lost...Time Forgotten no 3.

By: WORLDS LOST...TIME FORGOTTEN, (ed. John W. Smith)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: John W. Luce & Co.: Boston. : 1981.

Seller ID: 39511

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

3rd issue. Small-press fantasy/sf pulp fiction magazine: 148 pages.
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Dream Or The Simian Maid.

By: Wright, S. Fowler

Price: £95.00

Publisher: George C. Harrap & Co Ltd: London. : 1931.

Seller ID: 37611

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, part-toning to endpapers, an almost fine copy in a fairly good pictorial dustjacket with shallow chipping along the top spine edge, and other edge wear.

Original red cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black: ''prehistoric fantasy novel in which several people go back in 'dream' a million years and undergo adventures which result in their being able to resolve their 20th century problems''. Very uncommon in dustjacket.''...a third series, the Margaret Cranleigh trilogy begins with Dream, or The Simian Maid (1931), which carries Wright's overriding philosophical arguments to further extremes in telling the story of a woman whose consciousness is transported back to a lost prehistory, where incarnated as an evolved primat...
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New Wave of Speculative Fiction: The What If Factor (signed by the editor).

By: Wright, Sean (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Crowswing Books: King's Lynn, Norfolk.. : 2005.

Seller ID: 47796

ISBN-13: 9781905100026

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collects 13 original sf stories - authors include Paul Finch, Andrew Hook and Allan Ashley. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Limited to 300 copies.
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M31 A Family Romance.

By: Wright, Stephen

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Harmony Books: NY. : 1988.

Seller ID: 03803

ISBN-13: 9780517568699

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel.''US writer whose only novel of sf interest, M31: A Family Romance (1988), is a fabulation in an agglutinative style reminiscent of that used by William Gaddis in 'The Recognitions' (1955). Abandoned by their parents -- Dot and Dash, who claim descent from the inhabitants of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) -- the protagonists of the book ricochet numbly through the nightmare shopping malls and 7-11s of the modern ''rural'' USA. The vacuum family they make together and the horrors they commit contribute to an extremely distressing vision of the latter moments of the 20th century'' (John Clu...
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Goodlow's Ghosts.

By: Wright, T. M.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 05874

ISBN-13: 9780575055117

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publisher's press release laid in.

Psychic detective novel.
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The Best Of T. M. Wright.

By: Wright, T. M.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2019.

Seller ID: 51144

ISBN-13: 9781786363558

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects 34 ghost/horror/fantasy stories, edited with an introduction by Steven Savile.
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World Horror 1998 Convention Souvenir Book (signed by various).

By: Wrightson, Berni (illustrator)

Price: £95.00

Publisher: : 1998.

Seller ID: 52347

Binding: Oversize pictorial covers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

36-page booklet, front cover by (GoH) Berni Wrightson. THIS COPY SIGNED BY WRIGHTSON ON THE FRONT COVER, PLUS CONTRIBUTORS/ATTENDEES BRIAN LUMLEY (GoH), JACK KETCHUM, EDWARD LEE, RICHARD LAYMON, EDWARD BRYANT, JOHN STEAKLEY (Toastmaster), AND FIVE OTHERS.
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The Dark Bright Water.

By: Wrightson, Patricia

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 23154

ISBN-13: 9780091361808

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Slight wear to bottom corner of front and rear board, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Second book in the Wirrun trilogy, following The Ice is Coming (1977), and followed by Behind the Wind (1981).'' her central work of fantasy is the Wirrun trilogy: The Ice is Coming (1977), The Dark Bright Water (1978) and Behind the Wind (1981). The central conflict - between ancient ice spirits and encroached-upon humanity - is here rendered in more subtle terms, because the human protagonist, Wirrun, is himself an Aborigine. In the first volume his alliance with the most ancient Nargun of all, to oppose the advent of the new ice age, is necessary to maintain a balance in the world between ...
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Science Fiction From China.

By: Wu, Dingbo (& Patrick D. Murphy, eds.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Praeger Publishers: NY. : 1989.

Seller ID: 51054

ISBN-13: 9780275933432

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

176 pages: collects eight stories with an introduction by Frederik Pohl. With a 32 page introduction by editor Dingbo Wu.
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By: Wylie, Philip

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Doubleday: NY. : 1972.

Seller ID: 09158

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

Sf novel of ecological disaster.
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The Outward Urge.

By: Wyndham, John (& Lucas Parkes)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY. : 1959.

Seller ID: 49289

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Ballantine 341K. Sf novel, first published by Michael Joseph earlier the same year. Note: Lucas Parkes is a pseudonym of the author, in fact they are two of his middle names. Cover art by Paul Lehr.
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The X-Flies Prepaid Phone Card.

By: X FILES,

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1995.

Seller ID: 46881

Binding: Phone card.

Condition: As new, still in it's sealed/unopened plastic printed card..

What more can I say?
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Xenos no 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 [7 issues].

By: XENOS, (ed. Stephen Copestake)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: : 1997-1998.

Seller ID: 50714

Binding: Stapled printed wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copies.

UK small-press sf/fantasy A5 magazine. These later issues were subtitled 'The Premier International Short Story Magazine' but up to no 42 (or 43, 44, not sure) it had been subtitled 'Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum Magazine'. In the editorial for no 49 (June 1998), the editor states that the magazine has been nominated in four categories for that years British Fantasy Society awards - one for best small-press magazine, one for best editor, and two for best short story (both by David L. Stone). I think (but am not certain) that no 51 was the final issue.
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By: Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (writing as "T. C. F. Hopkins")

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Tor/Forge: NY. : 2006.

Seller ID: 52294

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Historical novel, written by Yarbro writing as ''T. C. F. Hopkins. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AS BOTH HOPKINS AND YARBRO.
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