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BACHMAN,RICHARD (pseud Stephen KING.): THE REGULATORS.
LONDON.HODDER& STOUGHTON,1996.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0340671769. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,, no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy, colour wrap-around illustrated artwork by Chris Moore dw/dj, with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip.(Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman, circuler sticker to top wrap.)Top+fore-edges lightly aged, but generally clean, contents bright, tight and clean also - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Green paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and pale green eps.8vo, 3-327pp (paginated). (Book ref. rja360910) £20.00
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SMITH,GUY.N[ewman]: LOCUSTS.
LONDON.HAMLYN,1979.. UK,12mo, paperback original,p/b 1st edn.. Wraps.. VG++./No dw/dj,as issued,card wraps.. 12mo. 0600355640. UK, 12mo paperback original, p/back 1st edn.(True UK,1st with Australian price, $2.95 to rear wrap, and listing the author's Night of the Crabs - no other later titles listed.) VG++.No owner inscrptn, appears an unread copy - no spine/backstrip reading creases.Glossy laminated, colour pictorial wrap-around art-work illustrated by Josh Kirby; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners, spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges aged - as usual/normal - but clean, contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to page corners - but page-edge tanning.12mo [approx 7" tall by 4.50" wide], 1-230pp includes half-title+title pages, 18 chapters, 2pp publisher advert to rear. It seems the start of a glorious summer as Alan Alton and his family settle into their new home in the Shropshire hills.Then the insects start to appear.First there's one.then hundreds.thousands.millions.A smothering tide of destruction covers the land. LOCUSTS.As the heat-wave continues mercilessly week after week, the horde of invaders grows - a hideous, red-eyed devastation spreading across town and country.Biting, stripping, devouring.and hating.Before this onslaught the human population turns to flight.As panic grows, the death-toll also rises and the whole country is plunged into chaos. Britain is being eaten alive. Can nothing stop the locusts? Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja34909) £4.99
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HARRIS,THOMAS**: HANNIBAL RISING.
LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,2006. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. 8vo. 0434014087. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, colour illustrated dw/dj with red+gilt lettering, with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears - virtually as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright tight and pristine.Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain, black eps.8vo,2-323pp [paginated] includes prologue, Pts 1-3 comprising 60 chapters, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, b/w Chinoise-style illustrated frntis, and acknowledgements and note about author to rear. He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature.At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotix wife, Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal.With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest ever person admitted to medical school in France. But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him.When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy. (Book ref. rja34379) £17.99
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HERBERT,JAMES**: THE SECRET OF CRICKLEY HALL.
LONDON.MACMILLAN,2006.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. Thick 8vo. 1405005203. UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, illustrated dw/dj and silver+gilt embossed lettering, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally clean, contents bright, tight and clean also.Bright, unblemished, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and black epa.Thick 8vo, 3-599pp [paginated] includes 81 chapters+epilogues, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.Novel set in North Devon. There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay.The house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding.It's rumoured to be haunted.It's thought to hold a secret.Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon.But all is not well with the house.They hear unaccountable noises. A cellar door they shut every night is always open again in the morning.They see things that cannot be real.The house is the last place the Caleighs should have come to. 'The Secret of Crickley Hall' is James Herbert's finest novel to date (then 2006.).It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural.With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. (Book ref. rja33399) £11.00
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PITT,INGRID - foreword by Uri Geller: THE INGRID PITT BEDSIDE COMPANION FOR GHOSTHUNTERS.
LONDON.B.T. BATSFORD,1999. UK,8vo wraps,softback original,1st edn.. Colour,photographic wraps.. FINE./No dw/dj,as issued,card wraps.. 8vo. 0713484446. UK, 8vo wraps, softback original, 1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn.As new,unread copy, no creases to spine/backstrip.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated b/w+colour photographic wraps, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright, tight and pristine.8vo, 5-192pp [paginated] includes foreword by Uri Geller, intro+38 chapters, profuse b/w drawings by Jim Bailey interspersed throughout the text and the book, b/w contemporary photograph/stills from the best ghost movies to rear, plus [unpaginated] title-page and contents list. Ingrid Pitt follows up her BEDSIDE COMPANION FOR VAMPIRE LOVERS with her complete lowdown on ghosts, spooks, spectres, shades, phanthoms, wraiths, apparitions, poltergeists - and where to find them.The book deals with spooks of today as well as yesteryear.An almanac of where and how to track down the dear departed, the book also covers the most spooky movies ever made. Ingrid Pitt is known to her fans for her starring roles in such classic movies as Where Eagles Dare, The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula, The House That Dripped Blood, Who Dares Wins, THE WICKER MAN, WILD GEESE II etc.A screenwriter and novelist, her most recent (then 1999) book is Batsford's The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Vampire Lovers and her autobiography, Life's A Scream. (Book ref. rja32879) £12.00
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KING,STEPHEN**: WIZARD AND GLASS:The Dark Tower Beckons.
LONDON.BCA,1997.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. No ISBN. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn thus.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, unclipped dw/dj - no publisher price - book club edn.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, silver lettered and illustrated dw/dj by Bob Warner, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/tanned, grubbed mark to foot of fore-edge, else contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain reddish cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, headband and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, vi-xiv+3-672pp [paginated] includes argument, prologue, Pts 1-4 comprising 5, 10, 10, 5 chapters respectively, interlude between Pts 2+3, afterword, and b/w line illustrated Pts head-pieces by Dave McKean, plus [unpaginated] b/w line illustrated half-title+title, and dedication pages and contents list/table. Apart from the UK, HB, Ltd, Numbered+Signed edition by Hodder, 1997 this is the only other UK, HB edn, BCA (UK), and published simultaneously. A stand-alone novel and the 4th volume in the best-selling The Dark Tower series. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. . . And in a terrifying journey Roland determines to reach his destiny with the companions he has gathered along the road; wheelchair-bound Susannah Holmes, narcotic prisoner Eddie Dean, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy, are all willing participants in the harrowing quest. Through the scarred, devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle.On and on, the malevolent monorail hurtles, threatening destruction as the pilgrims desperately bargain for survival. Hidden dangers lie at every junction of their destined path: from the terror of Roland's relentless, cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. Still the tower waits. (Book ref. rja32628) £15.00
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KING,STEPHEN**: WIZARD AND GLASS:The Dark Tower Beckons.
LONDON.BCA,1997.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. No ISBN. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn thus.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, unclipped dw/dj - no publisher price - book club edn.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, silver lettered and illustrated dw/dj by Bob Warner, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly aged/tanned; fore-edge brighter and less so, contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain reddish cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, headband and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, vi-xiv+3-672pp [paginated] includes argument, prologue, Pts 1-4 comprising 5, 10, 10, 5 chapters respectively, interlude between Pts 2+3, afterword, and b/w line illustrated Pts head-pieces by Dave McKean, plus [unpaginated] b/w line illustrated half-title+title, and dedication pages and contents list/table. Apart from the UK,HB, Ltd,Numbered+Signed edition by Hodder, 1997 this is the only other UK, HB edn, BCA (UK), and published simulataneously. A stand-alone novel and the 4th volume in the best-selling The Dark Tower series. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. . . And in a terrifying journey Roland determines to reach his destiny with the companions he has gathered along the road; wheelchair-bound Susannah Holmes, narcotic prisoner Eddie Dean, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy, are all willing participants in the harrowing quest. Through the scarred, devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle.On and on, the malevolent monorail hurtles, threatening destruction as the pilgrims desperately bargain for survival. Hidden dangers lie at every junction of their destined path: from the terror of Roland's relentless, cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. Still the tower waits. (Book ref. rja32618) £15.00
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RICE,ANNE**: THE WITCHING HOUR.
LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1991.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. VG++./VG++.. 8vo. 0701135832. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner inscrptn, but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top wrap some stippling/indentations down through to upper bd beneath it, less indentations to rear wrap and bds unaffected by any, beneath.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight and clean, apart from light page edge tanning - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, 5-965pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising 54 chapters+epilogue, plus [unpaginated] b/w publisher's colophon vignetted half-title page, b/w illustrated double-paged title-page by Patricia Hardin, and dedication. Rowan Mayfair is a brilliant and beautiful neurosurgeon with an extraordinary power to heal - or to harm.Sailing off the coast of California, she rescues a drowning man, Michael Curry, whose brush with death leaves him with strange sensory powers, and images which bewilder him. These two form a passionate alliance, as they set out to find the key to his unwelcome gift and to her mysterious past.We are taken on a journey which moves from contemporary New Orleans to 17thC Scotland, Amsterdam and France, where the Comtesse de Montcleve throws herself from the parapet of a cathedral to cheat the flames of the Inquisition. . . .and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made, to Civil War New Orleans and the establishment of the American line. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us along the circuitous, twilight paths taken by the Mayfair dynasty - to the present.And brooding over it all is the magical and bewitching city of New Orleans, the setting for the startling climax to Rowan and Michael's own dramatic story. 'The Witching Hour' is yet another magnificent new departure for Anne Rice and demonstrates once again her unique gift for storytelling.This extraordinary family saga brings to life women of power and enchantment - encompassing dramas of tenderness and cruelty, murder and incest, innocence and corruption, within a powerfully seductive love story. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight [approx 1.4 Kg unpackaged] of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja32278) £22.00
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RICE,ANNE**: THE MUMMY OR RAMSES THE DAMNED.
LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1989.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. VG++./VG++.. 8vo. 0701135387. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner inscrptn, but although price-clip to dw/dj, publisher's adhesive price sticker in situ, alongside.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, colour pictorial/photographic wrap-around illustrated dw/dj, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some light scoring/indentation to upper wrap, three indents through to upper bd below.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/tanned but bright and clean, contents bright, tight and near prisitne - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped, gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, unblemished, plain white eps.Two bumps/indents to lower, central edges of both front+ rear bds, but corners sharp, head+foot of spine/backstrip with usual but miniscule bumping and reciprocal creasing. [It's only the dw/dj indents/scoring and the bd's bumping that prevent it's description of FINE/FINE.] Described hard, but honestly and fairly - not as bad as it seems to read!! 8vo, 3-436pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 11+12 chapters respectively, plus [unpaginated] b/w publisher colphon vignetted half-title, b/w Egyptian-style geometric motif illustrated title-page (borders+artwork by HOLLY JOHNSON), dedication, note about author to rear, along with 2pp blanks.This edition preceded the US first, and IS therefore the true first edition.The only other hardback edition, being an American book club edn, as the US,1st edn was issued in wraps. Ramses the Great lives. . . . . .in this electrifying entertainment where Anne Rice, author of the best-selling Vampire Chronicles, has surpassed herself, taking to glorious limits the theme she has explored to such chilling effect - the interplay of the undead with their mortal brethren. Ramses the Great reawakens in the drawing rooms of Edwardian London and becomes infatuated with adventurous and beautiful Julie Stratford, heiress, since her father's recent death in Egypt, to a shipping fortune, and centre of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites of their own to appease. Though Ramses is immortal, he is all too human.Once back in Cairo - as Dr Ramsey, expert in Egyptology - he is haunted by memories of his last reincarnation as Cleopatra's lover.His longing for the Queen of Egypt drives him to commit an act which wreaks havoc with the hearts and minds of those around him, putting all their lives in gravest danger. Gripping and entertaining, terrifying and erotic, 'The Mummy or Ramses the Damned' is a tour de force of storytelling. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight and the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja32268) £85.00
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FURTH,ROBIN - foreword Stephen King: STEPHEN KING'S THE DARK TOWER:A CONCORDANCE - VOLUME 1.
LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2003.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 034083062X. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated, pictorial, gold+black silhouette wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged but clean,,fore-edge also slightly aged but with light, partial thumbing/grubbing with some miniscule snicking+creasing to some page edges - no loss though, contents else, bright, tight and clean.Bright, clean, unblemished, publisher's original, plain dark red cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, sharp corners - not bumped - and immaculate, plain white eps. 8vo, xi-xxx+1-358pp [paginated] includes Stephen King foreword, author's note about the book, abbreviations+text guide, key, Door, Gilead Fair Days, Mid-World Moons, intro, 4 chapters, appendices (4, - 3 paginated,the 4th not, but comprising 3 double-page b/w Mid-World maps), plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication, contents list/table, b/w Tarot reading illus, and 5pp publisher's advert for 5 other published titles in this series. 'The Dark Tower' is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career.Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as JRR Tolkien's epics, Robert Browning's poetry, and Sergio Leone's Westerns, this is the tale that Stephen King has never abandoned.When he typed the first sentence in 1970, King feared the telling might take several lifetimes, but two thousand pages and four books later, the end is in sight. This concordance is the definitive guide to the first four books in Stephen King's bestselling epic fantasy series, 'The Dark Tower'.It is published in anticipation of the fifth novel in the series, ' Wolves of the Calla.' With the hundreds of characters, the Mid-World geography, and the High Speech lexicon, this comprehensive handbook is one no 'Dark Tower' fan will want to be without.It is the perfect way in for readers new to the series, or the perfect way back in for longtime fans who read the first four books years ago. (Book ref. rja32258) £12.99
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JAMES,PETER: HOST.[Author SIGNED copy.]
LONDON.SIGNET/PENGUIN BOOKS LTD.,1994.. UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn.. Paperback,1st edn.. FINE./No dw/dj,as issued,card wraps.. 12mo. 0451179951. Author SIGNED copy. UK, 12mo p/back ,SIGNED,1st edn thus.FINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's bold, blue ink signature - without dedication, to title-page, no dw/dj - card wraps as issued.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated card covers with white+silver gilt lettering, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - as new.No reading creases to spine/backstrip - as book was wrapped+protected from day of purchase/issue - therefore an UNREAD copy.Top+fore-edges lightly aged - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight and clean.12mo, ix-xii+1-623pp [paginated] includes author's foreword, acknowledgements, 83 chapters, prologue+epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages, dedication, 3pp publisher advert to rear. Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality. Through a combination of artificial intelligence and the freezing of bodies, Joe hopes to be able to defeat death itself.When he meets and falls for Juliet Spring, a gifted young researcher who claims to have stumbled on a way to transfer human consciousness into a computer, he believes the final breakthrough is near. Then tragedy strikes and it seems as if the quest is doomed to failure.But as Joe is caught up in a series of bizarre and increasingly sinister accidents, he finds himself facing the terrifying consequences of his own obsessions. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja31558) £12.00
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JAMES,PETER: HOST.[Author SIGNED copy.]
LONDON.SIGNET/PENGUIN BOOKS LTD.,1994.. UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn.. Colour,pictorial card covers.. FINE./No dw/dj,as issued,card wraps.. 12mo. 0451179951. Author SIGNED copy. UK, 12mo p/back, SIGNED, 1st edn thus.FINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's bold, blue ink signature - without dedication, to title-page, no dw/dj - card wraps as issued.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated card covers with white+silver gilt lettering, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.A small dog-ear crease to top wraps' top, right-hand corner - also affecting internal pages upto ppxii, incurred during the signing process, otherwise no other faults and as new.No reading creases to spine/backstrip - as book was wrapped+protected from day of purchase/issue - therefore an UNREAD copy.Top+fore-edges lightly aged - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight and clean.12mo, ix-xii+1-623pp [paginated] includes author's foreword, acknowledgements, 83 chapters, prologue+epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication, 3pp publisher advert to rear. Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality.Through a combination of artificial intelligence and the freezing of bodies, Joe hopes to be able to defeat death itself.When he meets and falls for Juliet Spring, a gifted young researcher who claims to have stumbled on a way to transfer human consciousness into a computer, he believes the final breakthrough is near. Then tragedy strikes and it seems as if the quest is doomed to failure.But as Joe is caught up in a series of bizarre and increasingly sinister accidents, he finds himself facing the terrifying consequences of his own obsessions. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja31548) £10.00
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MORRIS,MARK: Toady.
LONDON.PIATKUS,1989.. UK,thick 8vo+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./NFINE.. Thick 8vo. 0861888553. UK, thick 8vo+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE?NFINE.No owner inscrptn, dw/dj unclipped - due to absence of publisher's price - an export copy? Bright, crisp, clean, glossy, laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Ken Leeder illustrated upper wrap with red+white lettering, author/b/w portrait photographic rear wrap, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean, contents bright, tight and clean also - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain maroon cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.Thick 8vo, v+ 1-522pp [paginated] includes dedication, Pts1-3 comprising 9 chapters+epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Welcome to the Horror Club; a world of werewolves and poltergeists, pyschpaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead. . . . A fantasy world,of course, for Richard, Robin and Nigel, the club's members, are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos, books and comics.And then they admit a fourth member to their club - Toady, a far from ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life.From the moment he lures the others into a nerve-jangling seance in a house with a chilling reputation, their lives are blighted by worse horror than they have ever imagined. In a fusion of nightmare and reality, terror stalks the familiar streets of a sleepy seaside town and waits to invade the safest home.The pervasive stain of evil spreads like ripples on a pond, leaving a trail of sacrilege and death in its wake.One by one the members of the Horror Club are overcome and forced into a netherworld, halfway between illusion and reality.It is up to the final member to fight alone against the evil they have unleashed - until,in the final battle, he is joined by an unexpected ally. 'Toady' is a staggering achievement from a young first novelist.Mark Morris takes all the established horror conventions and reworks them in a way that is completely fresh and inimitably his own.Not since Clive Barker has there been such a mesmerising debut. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the bulkier weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja31008) £15.00
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FOWLER,CHRISTOPHER**: PYSCHOVILLE.
LONDON.WARNER BOOKS,1995.. UK,8vo p/back original+dw/dj,1st edn.. Original wraps.. FINE./FINE.. 8vo. 0751514322. UK, 8vo paperback originail, p/b+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase - an unread copy.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated b/w photographic illustrated upper wrap, glossy red+yellow photographic illustrated upper card cover and author b/w portrait photographic rear cover, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.No reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges slightly aged - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight and near pristine.8vo, 1-417pp [paginated] includes prologue, Pts 1+2 comprising 50 chapters, an epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication, acknowledgements, contents list/table, and 3pp publisher adverts to rear. The cruel and heartless hand of the urban planner forced fourteen-year-old Billy March and his family to leave their home in the city and settle in the suburban new town of Invicta Cross.Initial prospects for a fresh start soon dashed, Billy watched as his family was destroyed by petty-minded and hostile neighbours.Though he managed to befriend a young girl as damaged as himself, he experienced pain that changed his life forever. Ten years later, as Invicta Cross is voted Britain's Favourite New Town, a smart young couple move into the area.Glamorous and wealthy, they're instantly popular with the neighbours.Then the vicious pranks begin. . . .As one neighbour after another goes missing, no one suspects that the perfect couple in Balmoral Close might know something more than they're telling.Then a suspicious reporter sets out to discover the truth. . . . . 'Pyschoville' is a suburban nightmare that delves behind the net curtains to reveal the truth about housewives, bloodstains and the damage you can inflict with a Morphy Richards iron. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja30688) £10.00
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RAMSLAND,KATHERINE: THE VAMPIRE COMPANION:THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO ANNE RICE'S THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES.
LONDON.LITTLE BROWN & CO,1994.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./NFINE.. Thick 8vo. 0316909017. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner isncrptn, but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated,colour illustrated upper wrap with gilt, green+white letters, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - though there are some score marks+ indentations to rear panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean, contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any page's corners - an unread copy? Clean, unblemished, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, vii-xvii+3-507pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, acknowledgements, intro, abbreviations list/table, entries A-Z, time line, Vampire Atlas (8 b/w maps), profuse b/w photographs and illustrations throughout the text and the book, and a biblio. With her bestselling epic saga of the lives and loves of a dynasty of the undead, Anne Rice has reinvented, and changed forever, the legend and literature of one of fiction's most popular and captivating archetypes.Now, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice's biographer, has created the ultimate guide to the world of the unforgettable Lestat and his kind. Written with the full co-operation of Anne Rice, 'The Vampire Companion' perceptively offers an exploration, appreciation and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the four volumes of The Vampire Chronicles.Everything that readers might want to explore further is annotated and analysed in this entertaining and enlightening work:the indelible characters of Louis, Lestat, Claudia, Akasha and Armand: ancient vampire lore, the literary aspirations that echo through the novels; and Anne Rice's own thoughts and feelings about aspects of her work. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps, The Vampire Chroncles is as captivating as the phenomenal saga it explores.It is an essential guide to the breathtaking world of Anne Rice. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight - nearly 1.3Kg unpackaged - of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja28798) £20.00
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SMITH,GUY.N[ewman]**: THE ISLAND.
LONDON.ARROW,1988.. UK,12mo p/b original,p/b 1st edn.. Paperback Original.. NFINE./No dw/dj,as issued,card wraps.. 12mo. 0099564106. UK, 12mo paperback original, p/back 1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no dw/dj:as issued.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy colour pictorial wraps with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.An unread copy - no reading creases to spine/backstrip, though there are some light indentations to both front+rear wraps.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal, contents bright, tight, clean and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.12mo, 7-190pp [paginated] plus half-title+title pages, b/w map, 24 chapters+1pp publisher advert to rear. Long ago,the Laird of Ulver, angry that he had no heir, abandoned his wife and four daughters to a hellish fate on the isolated Isle of Ulver.Their bodies were never found - or so the legend said. Now Frank Ingrams owns that island, living his dream of solitude and harmony. Until one storm-lashed night his peace is interrupted by the arrival of five frightened women. Can they really be shipwrecked in the middle of winter? Or have the daughters of Ulver returned from their watery grave to claim their inheritance? Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja27737) £5.99
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LAYMON,RICHARD**: FLESH.
LONDON.W.H. ALLEN,1987.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0491034873. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean, glossy laminated, crisp (non-accredited) artwork illustrated upper wrap, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and minimal bumping to corners.Rear wrap some light scoring/indentations.Small water-stain has internally affected upper wraps top edge with some minimal bleeding, front pastedown also minimally affected and causing the approx first 58pp+ffe to lightly wrinkle.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean and unmarked; contents bright, tight and clean also - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Apart from already mentioned water-stain to upper bd, bright, clean, publisher's original, plain,red cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with plain white eps.8vo, 7-333pp [paginated] +half-title+title pages, and 37 chapters and 2pp blanks to rear. No one had ever seen anything like it before:a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh, with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth.But the real horror was not what it looked like, or even what it did to you when it burrowed greedily into your flesh, but what it made you do to others. As soon as it got into Ron Smeltzer he turned from a docile, loving husband into a ravening, murderous beast - and within minutes he'd blown his wife's head off with a shotgun and feasted on her bloody corpse. But the nightmare started when it got into Roland, the harmless college weirdo.Roland's mind, already warped and twisted by a steady diet of pornography and explicit horror movies, was like a deadly weapon just waiting to be used, the perfect home for the parasite-killer.Soon no one in town was safe - especially if they were young,pretty and female. . . . One of the author's earliest horror novels, having previously published the highly acclaimed 'The Cellar' in 1980. (Book ref. rja27687) £30.00
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LAYMON,RICHARD**: ONE RAINY NIGHT.
LONDON.HEADLINE,1991.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0747204071. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean, glossy laminated, crisp, non credited artwork illustrated upper wrap, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and minimal bumping to corners.Rear wrap some light scoring/indentations.Head+ foot of spine/backstrip and two top corners minisculely rubbed with miniscule loss, and bumped with reciprocal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged/tanned, but clean, fore-edge also aged/tanned with a couple of small marks; contents bright, apart from page-edge tanning, tight and clean.Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, 3-308pp [paginated] +half-title+title pages, 23 chapters and an aftermath comprising 4 chapters. It begins with the kind of murder that men are accustomed to - and then comes the rain and the kind of killing that none can understand. The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby.Warm, viscous and unnatural, it coats the inhabitants in an unending torrent - and turns them into crazy, hate-filled maniacs.A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a customer's throat and squeezes thr trigger.An entire cinema queue smashes its way inside the movie house to slice up the dry people within.A loving wife hurls herself at her husband and bounces his skull on the marble floor until it sounds like the back of his head has turned into sloppy wet meat. . . . The rain falls on custmers as they enter Bixby's ritziest restaurant - and hurl themselves on the diners within like a pack of starving wolves.It falls on Maureen as she delivers pizza - she delivers a haymaking punch with a rock in her fist instead.And as pretty Denise opens the door to her boyfriend who has come to help her babysit, it falls on him too. . . . (Book ref. rja27677) £25.00
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LAYMON,RICHARD**: IN THE DARK.
LONDON.HEADLINE,1994.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0747209944. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.(Originally published as 'Tread Softly' (W.H.Allen, 1987), under the pseudonym Richard Kelly, in the UK, then republished as 'Dark Mountain' [UK, HEADLINE, 1993] under own name, Richard Laymon.He also published another pseudonymous novel, 'Midnight's Lair' (W.H.Allen, 1987).NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean, glossy laminated, crisp (no pun intended!) artwork by Steve Crisp illustrated upper wrap, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and minimal bumping to corners.Head+foot of spine/backstrip and two top corners minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean and unmarked; contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, 1-313pp [paginated] +half-title+title pages, and 48 chapters. Nothing much happens in Donnerville, at least not in the public library.Then the new librarian, Jane Kerry, receives a strange envelope.Inside is a fifty-dollar bill and a note instructing her to 'Look homeward, angel.' Mystified, Jane pulls Thomas Wolfe's novel of that title off the shelf and finds a second envelope.This one contains a one-hundred-dollar bill and a clue to another pay-off.Like the first note it is signed 'MOG (Master of Games)'.Suddenly Jane is hooked, this is one game she must play to the end. The Game requires more and more of Jane's strength and ingenuity.It destroys her relationship with Brace Paxton, a professor at the local university.It forces her, more than once, to defend her life.And it pushes her into actions that she knows are crazy, immoral, criminal. Then a scene of horrible violence makes her realise that things have gone too far.Jane wants to quit.But the Master of Games has other ideas. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja27667) £35.00
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LAYMON,RICHARD**: IN THE DARK.
LONDON.HEADLINE,1994.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.. Hardback.. NFINE./NFINE.. 8vo. 0747209944. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.(Originally published as 'Tread Softly' (W.H.Allen, 1987). under the pseudonym Richard Kelly, in the UK, then republished as 'Dark Mountain' [UK, HEADLINE, 1993] under own name, Richard Laymon.He also published another pseudonymous novel, 'Midnight's Lair' (W.H.Allen, 1987).NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean, glossy laminated, crisp (no pun intended!) artwork by Steve Crisp illustrated upper wrap, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and minimal bumping to corners.Rear wrap some light scoring/ indentations.Head+foot of spine/backstrip and two top corners minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing - no nicks or tears present.Top edge bright and clean- one small thumb mark, fore-edges bright and clean and unmarked; contents bright, tight and near pristine - apart from tiny, tiny page-edges nick to last 6pp and the rear endpaper - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo, 1-313pp [paginated] +half-title+title pages, and 48 chapters. Nothing much happens in Donnerville, at least not in the public library.Then the new librarian, Jane Kerry, receives a strange envelope.Inside is a fifty-dollar bill and a note instructing her to 'Look homeward, angel.' Mystified, Jane pulls Thomas Wolfe's novel of that title off the shelf and finds a second envelope.This one contains a one-hundred-dollar bill and a clue to another pay-off.Like the first note it is signed 'MOG (Master of Games)'.Suddenly Jane is hooked, this is one game she must play to the end. The Game requires more and more of Jane's strength and ingenuity.It destroys her relationship with Brace Paxton, a professor at the local university.It forces her, more than once, to defend her life.And it pushes her into actions that she knows are crazy, immoral, criminal. Then a scene of horrible violence makes her realise that things have gone too far.Jane wants to quit.But the Master of Games has other ideas. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja27657) £30.00
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