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A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First Edition - First Printing London: HarperCollins Voyager UK, 2000 (issued simultaneous to the US edition) with spectacular dust jacket art by Jim Burns. £17.99 cover price. Printing number-line on copyright page, staggered, with "1" the lowest number present indicating a first printing.
Near Fine in Fine- Dust Jacket. A fairly nice copy, by no means perfect, with some faint soiling to the boards and shelf-wear, but in a nearly perfect well-preserved jacket with some edge-wear here and there. Still a nice presentable copy for much less than a fine example.
Edition Note: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin was first published in hardcover in the UK by HarperCollins/Voyager and Bantam in the US in 1996. Some controversy exists regarding which edition appeared first. The release date of the UK edition was before the official release date for the US edition, but some copies of the US edition were made available at a science fiction convention.… Read More

NEW Folio Society UK Edition UK/First Printing of Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin! A Clash of Kings Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire (sequel to A Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First Folio Society Edition - First Printing Folio Society UK 2020. Illustrated by Jonathan Burton.Bound in
three-quarter blocked cloth with a printed
and blocked cloth front board; Set in Vendetta with Esmeralda as
display; 888 pages in total over two volumes; 12 full page and 4
double-page colour
illustrations; Printed in black & gold throughout; 8 illustrated
chapter; openers
and 9 illustrated house sigils; 5 kings in their courts and 8 family
trees in volume two; bound in blocked cloth; Printed endpapers; Coloured
tops; Blocked
and printed slipcase with printed illustration inside.

True
first edition was published by HarperCollins UK in 1996 which runs
about $2500+ followed by the Bantam first US edition which runs about
$650+ Two hardcover volumes housed in a matching… Read More

The First HBO Series Associated Tie-In Hardcover Edition Set, four first printing volumes in matching slipcase/box. With Dust Jacket designs using stills from the HBO films. One of the best editions of A Song of Fire and Ice, and only one print-run was enacted. All four beautiful volumes for about the price of the first US edition of A Game of Thrones which runs about $650, and the first UK edition which is already fetching $2000+.
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First HBO Association Tie-In Edition - First Printing Bantam 2011. (true first edition was HarperCollins UK, Bantam US, 1996). Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First HBO Association Tie-In Edition - First Printing Bantam 2011. (true first edition was HarperCollins UK, Bantam US, 1998) Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First HBO Association Tie-In Edition - First Printing Bantam 2011. (true first edition was HarperCollins UK, Bantam US, 2000)… Read More

NEW Folio Society UK Edition UK/First Printing of Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin! A Game of Thrones Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First Folio Society Edition - First Printing Folio Society UK 2019. Illustrated by Jonathan Burton with an Introduction by Joe Abercrombie. True
first edition was published by HarperCollins UK in 1996 which runs
about $2500+ followed by the Bantam first US edition which runs about
$650+ Two hardcover volumes housed in a matching slipcase without jacket
as issued, typically of FS. Even though this copy is in shrink-wrap, I
was guaranteed by the publisher that this is a first-printing copy. I
bought three copies at the same time, opened one, and it was a first
printing. The edition is still available from the Folio Society but
you'd be acquiring a later printing copy.Fine in Fine slipcase as NEW in shrink-wrap. A beautiful copy.Edition
Note: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin was first published in… Read More

Usher's Passing by Robert R. McCammon (author of Swan Song; Stinger, etc) First UK Hardcover Edition - First Printing Severn House 1989 £12.95
cover price. (Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in
1984.) A kind of sequel to "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar
Allen Poe.Fine
in Fine Dust Jacket, a beautiful copy, looks and feels new, with only
slight toning to the text-block (i.e. the pages) which is common with
many UK editions published from circa 1980 to 2000.

NOTE: The pictures are of the actual item for sale.Also: All books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.

Night Boat by Robert R. McCammon (author of Swan Song) First Hardcover Edition
Kinnell UK 1990 (true first was a paperback original issued from Avon
Books in 1980) Signed by McCammon on the title page. Fine in Fine Dust
Jacket. An absolutely superior copy in every way, appears NEW and
UNREAD. The pages are almost pure white, the binding is solid and clean.
Tiny hint of tenderness to the lower front corner, else a perfect copy.
Looks like it came right from a new bookshop in London in 1990.NOTE
on edition: This book was a paperback original published in 1980 by
Avon Books. Kinnell published the book in hardcover which was the only
hardcover trade edition of this book in English for nearly 25 years
(except for a book club edition) until Subterranean Press released a
signed-limited in 2013. For some reason, I still like the artwork on the
UK edition better than that of the later Sub Press edition.NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.ALSO: The picture is of the… Read More

First Hardcover edition of Robert McCammon's first book, and for a long time the only hardcover edition issued until the Sub Press edition. Very difficult to find!

Baal by Robert R. McCammon (author of Swan Song) Hardcover First Hardcover Edition Firecrest: Chivers Press UK 1985 (true first was a paperback original issued from Avon US and Sphere UK, 1979)
Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. A near-perfect copy save just a hint of crimping to the bottom edge of the text block, maybe affecting three leaves at most, and the typical toning to the pages, common with UK editions.

NOTE on edition: Baal was Robert McCammon's first published book, published as a paperback original in 1979 by Avon Books US and Sphere UK. Subsequently, most of McCammon's books were released as paperback originals by Pocket Books with a few titles published in hardcover by Kinnell UK. Firecrest: Chivers Press UK published Baal in hardcover in 1985 which was the only hardcover trade edition of this book in English for over 35 years until… Read More

Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers illustrated by Olive M. Long Hardcover First Edition Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company and the Riverside Press, 1902. An illustrated children's book from the very beginning of the 20th century.
Miss Muffet (Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey when along came a spider, etc.) has a Christmas party inviting many characters of children's literature: Alice of Alice in Wonderland, the Little Dutch girl Gretchen in her wooden shoes, Aladdin, Tom Sawyer, the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, even Baron Munchausen, Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels, and the Three Wise Men of the Bible! A nice snap shot into the sensibilities of children's literature at the turn of the last century, circa 1900.
Collation and Condition: Illustrated endpapers showing Miss Muffet as a spider within a web, frontispiece of Miss Muffet and her spider friend, title page, 9 chapters in 107 pages,… Read More

The Broken Land (aka Hearts, Hands and Voices in the UK) by Ian McDonald (Desolation Road, Necroville, King of Morning Queen of Day, River of Gods) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Bantam 1992. Fine in Fine Dust jacket. An absolutely perfect copy.

Harpist in the Wind
(Riddle-Master Trilogy Book Three, preceded by Riddle-Master of Hed and
Heir of Sea and Fire) by Patricia McKillip (author Forgotten Beasts of
Eld) Dust Jacket artwork by Michael Mariano. Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - Argo State
Atheneum 1979. States "First Edition" on the title page indicating a
first printing with $8.95 cover price on dust jacket flap and "An Argo
Book" on the spine. SIGNED by McKillip on the title page without
inscription.Fine
in Fine- dust jacket. A near-perfect copy with only slight edge-wear
to the jacket, mostly near the corners and spine, and tiny hairline
abrasion on the rear, else a nearly-perfect, almost impossible to find
signed.NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.ALSO: The pictures are of the actual item for sale. (The pictures are NOT stock photos.)IMPORTANT NOTE:
All sales are generally FINAL. I do NOT accept returns because of
buyer's remorse, "it was a gift but the recipient already… Read More

ECLIPSE by Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn) Hardcover - First UK Edition - First Printing ATOM 2007 (released simultaneously with the US Edition Little Brown) Slightly larger and more robust edition than the US edition, with better paper and with the same dust jacket art, and much more uncommon. Fine in Fine Dust jacket, a beautiful copy with just the tiniest hint of aging to a few spots on the page edges, almost unnoticeable, else perfect.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

ECLIPSE by Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn) Hardcover - First UK Edition - First Printing ATOM 2007 (released simultaneously with the US Edition Little Brown) Slightly larger and more robust edition than the US edition, with better paper and with the same dust jacket art, and much more uncommon. Fine in Fine Dust jacket, a beautiful copy with just the tiniest hint of aging to a few spots on the page edges, almost unnoticeable, else perfect.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

The Eternal Champion Volume 6: The Roads Between the Worlds by Michael Moorcock Hardcover First Edition - First Printing White Wolf 1996. Includes the novellas "The Wrecks of Time", "The Winds of Limbo", and "The Shores of Death" originally published in the 1960's and 1970's. Very Good+ in Fine Dust Jacket, a nice copy except for some dust spotting to the boards and slight toning to the page edges, else an acceptable copy!
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)