Search Results: Titles starting with F from Interesting Tomes

London: Headline Feature, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Fine book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Crease to DJ on spine. No inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light is not brought about by the hands of a holy healer. No celestial trumpets announce the restoration of his vision, just as none had announced his birth. A rollercoaster has something to do with his recovery, as does a seagull. And you can’t discount the importance of Barty’s profound desire to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she died was the day Barty was born. January 6, 1965. Dean Koontz is unique among contemporary writers, venturing far beyond traditional boundaries… Read More

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: Heinemann, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. 1986 London 1st edition. William Heinemann Ltd. Price-clipped. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some wear to top and bottom of DJ. Some fading to DJ spine. Pages slightly yellowed with age, as is almost always found with this volume. Otherwise excellent. Black and white photos throughout. Some subsidy included in price for high price of posting this heavy book.From the DJ blurb: “Ford - the story of Henry Ford and the dynasty he founded - is in many ways the story of America itself, a story of energy, enterprise, raw ruthless ambition and fabulous rewards. The archetypal frontiersman, the farm boy from the Michigan woods who fought his way up to become one of the wealthiest men in the world, Henry Ford became a folk hero to his countrymen, the subject of countless legends that he himself loved to gild. Robert Lacey, author of bestsellers Majesty, The Kingdom and Princess, has written his most… Read More

Harper Collins, 2006. First UK paperback edition. Paperback. New. Harper Collins, 2006 New first UK edition paperback. The sequel to Odd Thomas. From the back cover - "In the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders... Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead - they sought him out, in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, which he can never leave. He has already lost the love of his life; and now a childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared and the worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding his friend, he discovers something worse than a dead body. Evil personified has come to visit this desert community of souls both living and dead...

London: Harper Collins, 2005. First printing. Hardback. Very Good/very good +. Very good example in very good unclipped DJ. Spine slightly cocked. No inscriptions. In the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders... In the small desert town of Pico Mundo, a childhood friend of Odd’s has disappeared. It’s feared he is dead. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body. Odd Thomas never asked to communicate with the dead - the dead sought him out. As the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he has a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it, and that’s why he has already won over hearts on both sides of the great divide. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small town which he can never leave, and where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday occurrences. Now new allies and new enemies gather around Odd, some living and some not. But the… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. First UK edition, Second printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Tight white pages. Mint condition in mint jacket. No Inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: ‘I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...’ writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting murder confession that makes up ‘1922’, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For country-loving James, that stranger is awakened when his wife proposes selling off the family farm in isolated rural Nebraska and moving to the city of Omaha... In ‘Big Driver’, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters a stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess draws on her skills as a crime writer to plot a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.… Read More