Search Results: Authors starting with P from Interesting Tomes

London: Victor Gollancz, 1997. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. London England: Victor Gollancz (UK). Very good/Very Good. No inscriptions, dustjacket unclipped. Slight knocks to corner of boards. Slight creasing to dustjacket at top of spine. 1997. First Edition. From the dustjacket blurb: "A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big there's no law against it. It's called 'war' He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him...that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got Die under 'Things To Do Today'. But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way ti the battlefield with a… Read More

London: Doubleday, 2000. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Josh Kirby. Very slight creasing to top of spine of the unclipped DJ. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discword's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the Truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...

London: Victor Gollancz, 1996. Third impression. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Victor Gollancz, London, first edition, 1996.Very Good in very good dustwrapper with no inscriptions Slight creasing to top of spine on DJ. 288 pp. From the DJ Blurb: "It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys... He's gone. Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hangovers. Worse still, someone is coming down the chimney. This time he's carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regrettably familiar Ho. Ho. Ho. It's true what they say. 'You'd better watch out...HOGFATHER is the twentieth Discworld novel.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1995. Second impression. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 285 pp. 1995; Victor Gollanz; London. Second impression. Very good in very good unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions. Slight bump to top and bottom of spine. Some creasing to top of dj. From the DJ blurb: " The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... a huge rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings... where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than a metaphor... where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress... Where... there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the gods and looking up at the big chandelier and saying things like 'There's an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one.' Yes... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night out at the opera. So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a… Read More

London: Doubleday, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Some creasing to dustjacket at top, and slight bump to corners of boards at bottom. UK First impression. Tight unmarked pages but slightly aged, dj is unclipped. From the dj blurb: "Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought that he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side. There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying 'I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?' They've got style and fancy waistcoats.… Read More

London: Gollancz SF, 1990. First UK edition. Book. Very Good/very good. 279 pp.Very good in very good dustjacket with slight creasing to top of spine. Very tight pages, slightly age yellowed. Not price clipped, no inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the alien cliches of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out... THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel "I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising... SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day... EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of 'Blown Away', the oddest Civil War picture ever made... A Passionate Saga Set… Read More

London: Doubleday, 2006. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Paul Kidby. Some creasing to top of spine on DJ. TIght white pages and dj is unclipped. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: " Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool!... And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting the chores. So she must look after Miss Treason, who's 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop Annagramma Hawkin from becoming an embarrassment to all witches, avoid Nanny Ogg giving her a lecture on sex, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath - Crivens! - oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles, whether she wants it or not. It's unfair, but as Granny Weatherwax… Read More

London: Doubleday, 2003. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Paul Kidby. Some creasing to top of DJ, otherwise fine. DJ is unclipped. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time... And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well... they have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of... the Monstrous Regiment.

London: Doubleday Uk, 1999. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. London: Doubleday, 1999. Fine in fine unclipped dustjacket. Excellent tight pages. Very light scratch to back of jacket. The 24th Discworld novel. From the DJ blurb: "Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath...." First Edition/First Printing.

London: Doubleday, 2005. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. London, Doubleday Children's Books, 2005 Hardcover complete with dust jacket. 362 pages. Very Good+/Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped, no inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh...and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do." Black cloth covered boards with gilt… Read More