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First UK Paperback edition first printing. Very light general wear. Signed by Kehlmann on the title page. Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Signed by Al-Arifi on the title page. Map artwork to endpapers. Yeeran is a warrior in the elven army and has known nothing but violence her whole life. Her sister, Lettle, is trying to make a living as a diviner, seeking prophecies of a better future. When a fatal mistake leads to Yeeran's exile from the Elven lands, they are both forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their borders. There they encounter the impossible: the fae court. The fae haven't been seen for a millennium. But now Yeeran and Lettle are thrust into their seductive world torn between their loyalty to each other, their elven homeland, and their hearts.

First UK printing. Light general wear. Signed to a previous owner, located and dated by Kehlmann on the title page.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Spiner on a tipped-in page. Featuring a cast of characters from Patrick Stewart to Levar Burton to Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, to some completely imagined, this is the fictional autobiography that takes readers into the life of Brent Spiner and tells an amazing tale about the trappings of celebrity and the fear he has carried with him his entire life.

Boydell Press. Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Minor rubbing to the corners. Signed and inscribed by Stella Mary Newton./Very good DJ. Price clipped. Very slight creasing to the edges and a few light lines on the jacket film at the front and back which looks like a production fault..

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very good+. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Light creasing to the top of the spine. Signed by Alfred Habegger/Very good DJ. Not price clipped. Light creasing to the top of the front and back covers and top and bottom of the spine..

First printing. Book has a couple of marks to the top page edges. Unclipped DJ has no wear to speak of. Signed by Marston on the title page. Halloween, 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Without warning the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the train reaches the end of the line, the passengers pour out on to the station platform. There are almost sixty of them in all, laughing and jostling, but the prevailing excitement is shattered by a cry for help - someone is missing.

Viking. Very good. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. Signed by John Mortimer/Near fine DJ. Not price clipped. Protected in an archival sleeve..

Goldsboro limited edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Number 454 of 500 copies printed. Signed by Cronin on the limitation page. Pink sprayed page edges. A mind-bending tale revolving around a small island community cut off from a rapidly deteriorating outside world, this powerful, thrilling novel blends myth, mystery and science fiction to mine the human condition and the nature of truth in impeccable prose.

British Wildlife Publishing. Very good. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Very light creasing to the bottom of the spine and light bumping to the bottom corner of the back board. The front endpaper has been removed/Very good+ DJ. Not price clipped. Light creasing to the top of the front and back covers..

Limited Edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Speegle on a tipped in limitation page. Letter C of 100 copies printed. A collection of humane and compelling stories.

Reissue hardback. Book has no significant wear. Unclipped DJ has light creasing to edges. This book discusses all the aspects of our finches - their status and history, their distribution and various habitats, their populations, breeding, feeding, flocking, roosting and nesting.

Luxury catalogue. Alligator patterned embossed leather boards with gilt lettering to front. No significant wear. No DJ as issued. Lacking the price list.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Adams on the front endpaper. A skilfully wrought and intellectually probing investigation of the most mysterious epoch in our history, The First Kingdom presents an image of post-Roman Britain whose resolution is high enough to show the emergence of distinct political structures in the sixth century - polities that survive long enough to be embedded in the medieval landscape, recorded in the lines of river, road and watershed, and memorialised in place names.

Appears to be a Book Club edition but there is no mention of this and the only evidence is the number CN 9871 on the copyright page. The ISBN still appears on the back of the DJ. Light general wear to both book and unclipped DJ, which is protected in an archival sleeve. Signed, dated and located by Gilbert on the title page. Patriotism revealed its highest manifestations in the First World War. In every army, deeds of glory were engraved in the annals of each nation. Yet in the midst of valour and enthusiasm, the seeds of disillusion and despair found a fertile ground. Men turned against their officers. Soldiers turned against their governments. Cabinet Ministers struggled to retain the loyalty of the masses. Enormous war debts were incurred, war-making spilled into new and destructive courses: on land, at sea and in the air. Long-distance shells fell on Paris, bombs on London. Behind the scenes, each would-be victor listed the hoped-for spoils. Empires were carved up on paper long before they were… Read More

First printing. Light general wear to both book and unclipped DJ. Signed, first-lined and dated by Shaw on the title page. A man Vanessa Duncan befriended is accused of being a serial killer. Using her own powers of observation and intuition, and defying the social conventions of the late 1880s, Vanessa turns detective and discovers the true identity of the murderer, saving young Arthur Weatherburn's life.

First printing. Unclipped DJ has light creasing to the top of the spine and back cover. Signed, dated and inscribed to a previous owner by Lucas on the half title page.

First Folio printing. Book has no significant wear. Near fine slipcase has minor handling and storage wear. Each day in the year there is an interesting entry from many different sources which span from the 17th to the 20th centuries and there are links between the entries which the editor explains in the introduction. So the book becomes an interesting kind of social history book for the reader.

First printing. Superb condition. Unclipped DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Signed, first lined and dated by Bishop on the title page. It has been called the first great novel of the Afghan war.

First printing. Foreword by John Fowles. Book has slight creasing to spine edges and slight tanning to the pages. Unclipped DJ which is protected in a removable protective sleeve has light creasing to the edges. Signed by Tattersfield and Fowles on the title page. Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700, when the 'Daniel and Henry' set sail from Dartmouth, bound for the Guinea coast and Jamaica.