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Gollancz, London, 2011. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light corner wear, slight fading of back cover on white background. All men are islands. A stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator… Read more about this item

Condition: Very good, light edge wear, spine creasing, light nicks at ends of spine. Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying… Read more about this item

Ace, New York, 1978. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine creasing. Well read. 1887 London, Queen Victoria's Jubilee approaches, a mad man of science prepares to unleash thousands of plague infected rats, a bizarre killer is leaving a trail of bloodless corpses. The Count joins the World's Greatest Detective in an effort to avert public disaster and… Read more about this item

Gollancz, London, 2007. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, faint crease at spine, light nicks at spine ends, price sticker on rear cover, small crease at bottom rear corner. In 1999, history author Stuart Gratton is intrigued by a minor mystery of the European war which ended on 10 May 1941. The British-German armistice… Read more about this item

Tor, New York, 2012. First paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease. It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a… Read more about this item

Ballantine/Spectra, New York, 2011. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear. 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and… Read more about this item

Tor, New York, 1989. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine has light creasing. The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of… Read more about this item

Tor, New York, 1988. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing. Come here to the magical America that might have been and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its… Read more about this item

Little, Brown And Company, Boston, 2009. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear. The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what they don't expect is a monstrous predator lurking behind the Arctic ice. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a horrifying end, Captain Francis… Read more about this item

Penguin, London, 2000. First edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge wear. Published exclusively for the Millennium Experience. Includes, the enitre script, over 89 photos, behind the scenes revelations, and other hilarious stuff like Blackadder's insult generator and stunning designs for Baldrick's Dome.

Arrow Books, London, 1996. 23rd printing. Condition: Very good, edge wear and spine creases. A controversial study regarding the origins of Christianity, the Knights Templars, the Priory of Sion and their connections to the Grail legend.

William Morrow & Company, New York, 2004. First edition. Condition: Near fine, dust jacket has slight edge wear, price sticker on rear cover, creasing along spine. Synopsis: In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A… Read more about this item

Tor, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear on dust jacket. From the publisher: Return to a magical America that might have been. The Tales of Alvin Maker Volume 6.

Baen, New York, 1990. Book club edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge nicks and bumping at corners. From the publisher:The authors of the Amber and Berserker sagas now offer a fascinating alternate history of Edgar Allan Poe.

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge nicks at corners. Deluxe hardcover edition. In a transformed mid-nineteenth century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Main, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him… Read more about this item

Tor Books, New York, 1998. First edition thus. Condition: Near fine softcover, slight nicks at corners, light sunning at spine. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. More pictures available upon request. From the publisher: In this new episode of the Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin's wife Peggy, whose knack is to read the heartfire of other people and know their futures,… Read more about this item

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. 2nd printing. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition. Second printing. From the publisher: A short novel of The Company. The year is 1934, the scene is a Wood Near Athens... temporarily relocated to the environs of the Hollywood Bowl, as German theater impresario Max Reinhardt attempts to stage his famous production of… Read more about this item

Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2009. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good minus dust jacket. DJ has small creases and slight tear near spine. Drood is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life. On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express… Read more about this item

Tor, New York, 2012. First edition. Condition: Near Fine in near fine dust Jacket. First Edition. Very slight wear to corners. Volume two of the Milkweed tryptich.