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Abbey, Lynn - Rifkind 1: Daughter of the Bright Moon - Ace - 4130466   € 3,50 Fantasy - 1980 - first ACE printing - pocket - illustrated - 410 p. - The author's first book. (VG-, name inside) |
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Abbey, Lynn - Rifkind 2: The Black Flame - Ace - 9130389 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1980 - first ACE printing - paperback - illustrated - 376 p. - Rifkind is a priestess, healer, warrior, witch and heroine. Alone she faced the strange new world of 'civilization'. She is tough and oblivious but also thoughtful and full of mistakes. Lynn Abbey has a good turn for the descriptive page. (G, name inside, some wear on spine) |
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Abbey, Lynn - Siege of Shadows - Ace - 9110937 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1996 - first printing - pocket - 462 p. - Aristocratic twin siblings - Kyle, a young Hart-lord, and his sister Kiera, haunted by a dream of Rapture - set out to solve the mystery of the Siege of Shadows, a golden throne rumored to hide the mystery of life. (VG) |
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Abbey, Lynn - The Guardians - Ace - 121870 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1982 - first Ace printing - pocket - 380 p. - There's a witch on Riverside Drive... (VG) |
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Abbey, Lynn - The Guardians - Ace - 9112775 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1982 - first Ace printing - pocket - 380 p. - There's a witch on Riverside Drive... (VG-, some wear) |
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Abbey, Lynn - Walensor 1: The Wooden Sword - Ace - 110936 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1991 - first printing - pocket - 247 p. - Berika is a shepherd from Gorse who wants to avoid marriage to Hirmin, a man disfigured in body and mind, and she prays for any way out of it. What she gets is Dart, who might be a fetch, a kind of demon, but is in fact the long-lost brother of the Donitor, Fenklare's political leader. Berika and Dart leave Gorse to find their destiny, but suddenly Berika is reluctant to go... (VG) |
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Abbey, Lynn - Walensor 2: Beneath the Web - Ace - 111254 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1994 - first printing - pocket - 313 p. - For ages the Walensor Web hung above the Earth. Its purpose was to join together the gods above and the men below in peace. But now the web is dying. Walensor's fate lies in the hands of a young shepherdess, Berika, who is just beginning to master her talent for magic. (VG) |
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Abnett, Dan - Triumff, Her Majesty's Hero - Angry Robot - 4112764 € 6,50 Essef - 2009 - paperback - 349 p. - A witch's brew of alternate history, hocus pocus, cracking action and cheesy gags. Reads like Blackadder crossed with Neal Stephenson. (VG+) |
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Adams, Douglas - Mostly Harmless - Pan - 4083781 € 4,00 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 219 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 5. In the fifth "Hitchhiker" adventure, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their cohorts again ride to everywhere from New York City to the edge of the Universe. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - Mostly Harmless - Ballantine - 4133957 € 7,00 Essef - 1993 - 5th printing - paperback - 277 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 5. In the fifth "Hitchhiker" adventure, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their cohorts again ride to everywhere from New York City to the edge of the Universe. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - Mostly Harmless - Ballantine - 4143096 € 4,75 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 218 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 5. In the fifth "Hitchhiker" adventure, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their cohorts again ride to everywhere from New York City to the edge of the Universe. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - So Long, and thanks for all the Fish - Pocket Books - 101230 € 4,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 204 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 4. Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. This is volume four in the Trilogy of five. (VG+) |
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Adams, Douglas - So Long, and thanks for all the Fish - Pan - 4101231 € 4,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 191 p - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 4. Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. This is volume four in the Trilogy of five. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - So Long, and thanks for all the Fish - Pan - 4143559 € 3,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 191 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 4. Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. This is volume four in the Trilogy of five. (VG-, light cover fold) |
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Adams, Douglas - The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide (Omnibus with book 1 - 4) - Wings Books / Random House - 9155522 € 11,50 Essef - 1989 - HC with dust jacket - 624 p. - Based on the famous radio series. The series follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman who, with his friend Ford Prefect, an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and researcher for the eponymous guidebook, escapes the demolition of Earth by a bureaucratic alien race called the Vogons. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Pocket Books - 4112725 € 4,00 Essef - 1982 - first Pocket Books printing - pocket - 250 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 2. (VG) |
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Adams, Douglas - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Picador - 4150053 € 4,00 Essef - 2002 - paperback - 200 p. - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy part 2. (VG-) |
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Adams, Douglas - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Wings Books / Random House - 9075478 € 9,50 Essef - 1996 - HC with dust jacket - 815 p. - The complete series plus a bonus story. (VG-, short text inside, some browning) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Penguin - 101239 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1976/77 - reprint - pocket - 526 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (VG) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Avon - 9150038 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1976 - 1st Avon ed. - 2nd printing - pocket - 620 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (VG-) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Avon - 9101238 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1976 - 1st Avon printing - pocket - 620 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (VG-, light corner cover fold) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Book Club Association - 062859 € 6,00 Fantasy - 1976 - HC with dust jacket - 526 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (VG-, dust jacket not perfect) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Penguin - 101240 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1976 - reprint - pocket - 526 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (VG-, name on first page) |
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Adams, Richard - Shardik - Penguin - 4152712 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1976 - reprint - pocket - 526 p. - An instant classic by the author of the famous 'Watership Down'. His pelt singed and burnt by the forest fire, Lord Shardik the bear stumbles towards Ortelga, the land of his people. His wounds are dressed by the priestess-healer and he is again recognized as a divine power. (G, geplastificeerd) |
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Adams, Richard - The Plague Dogs - Penguin / Allen Lane - 9143275 € 8,50 Fantasy - 1977 - 1st printing - hardcover edition, with dust jacket - illustrated - 461 p. - A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of 'Watership Down', Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (VG) |
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Adams, Richard - The Plague Dogs - BCA - 9136904 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1978 - reprint - hardcover edition - illustrated - 461 p. - A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of 'Watership Down', Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (VG) |
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Adams, Richard - The Plague Dogs - Fawcett Crest - 9101244 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1978 - reprint - pocket edition - 480 p. - A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of 'Watership Down', Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (VG-) |
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Adams, Richard - The Plague Dogs - Penguin - 4154828 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1978 - reprint - pocket edition - 461 p. - A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of 'Watership Down', Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (G, faded spine, mild foxing) |
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Adams, Richard - Watership Down - Puffin - 4155280 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1974 - reprinting - pocket - 478 p. - The celebrated novel... Fiver could sense danger - something terrible was going to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel could sense it too. They had to leave the warren, and they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. And so a band of rabbits begin a long and perilous journey. One of the most remarkable and bizarre British novels of the 1970s, 'Watership Down's success has been so great that it is one of the very few books that can be described as having changed a generation's view of the world. (G+, light cover fold, name inside) |
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Adams, Robert - Castaways in Time 3: Of Quests and Kings - Signet - 4121726 € 2,75 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 237 p. - Could the future technology withstand the challenge of creatures out of legend? (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Castaways in Time 5: Of Myths and Monsters - Signet - 4122043 € 2,75 Essef - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 237 p. - Could the future technology withstand the challenge of creatures out of legend? (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 01: The Coming of the Horseclans - Pinnacle - 4101252 € 2,50 Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 180 p. - A violent, lusty saga of barbaric nomads on their journey to reclaim their homeland in the 27th century. The story is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 02: Swords of the Horseclans - Pinnacle - 4101253 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - first printing - pocket - 182 p. - Taking place after a nuclear apocalypse, the swords of the horseclans is a continuation of the story of the High Lord Milo and his horseclans. He and his allies have to face an army coming from the south and face the evil Witchmen (20th century scienctists) once again. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 03: Revenge of the Horseclans - Pinnacle - 4122044 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - first printing - pocket - 182 p. - For 700 years, the Undying High Lord Milo has been building his confederation, leading the Horseclans slowly across the lands once known as the United States, absorbing city-states and nomadic tribes alike, some by peaceful . A savage, earthy tale of the wars to consolidate a federation of nomads in 27th century, post-holocaust America! (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 04: A Cat of Silvery Hue - Signet - 4121737 € 8,25 Essef - 1979 - first printing - pocket - 166 p. - Time conquors all. And in the far-distant future, in the war-torn lands once known as the United States of America, all that remains are scattered tribes like the Horseclans and city-states ruled by the Ehleenee, the decadent practioners of an ancient religion. Led by Lord Milo Undying One, a twentieth-century mutant gifted with immortality, the men of the Horseclans are slowly reuniting the continent through the strength of their swords and their dreams of power - dreams that have led them into a full-scale religious war of conquest. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 05: The Savage Mountains - Signet - 4121736 € 2,25 Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 164 p. - The Horseclans are on the move again. For the Undying High Lord Milo Moray is ready for the next step in his master plan to re-unite all the tribes which once formed the United States.... Before the Confederation forces lie the savage tribes of the Armehnee mountains. But a more dangerous enemy is waiting: the Witchmen - scientists from the ancient times who have achieved immortality by stealing the living bodies of men while destroying their soles - have been at work in the mountains. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 06: The Patrimony - Signet - 4123324 € 8,25 Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 184 p. - The Thonheeks of Sanderz-Vawn is dead. And the black pall of conspiracy hangs over Sanderz Hall. For Tim Sanderz, exiled long years ago, has returned from the Horseclans to reclaim his inheritance. But his stepmother has other plans... Before Tim's half-brother and the Undying High Lord Milo can send aid Sanderz Hall has become an armed camp where Ehleen battles Horseclansman with cunning, treachery and sword -swinging might... (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 07: Horseclans Odyssey - Signet - 4101251 € 3,25 Essef - 1981 - first printing - pocket - 241 p. - The story is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. In the first six Horseclans volumes, the narrative moves forward in time. However, this seventh book of the series (and the next few which follow) all take place before the great migration. The call has gone out and the clans are gathering to hear Milo's words of prophecy which promise and end to their wandering... (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 07: Horseclans Odyssey - Signet - 4116101 € 2,25 Essef - 1981 - first printing - pocket - 241 p. - The story is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. In the first six Horseclans volumes, the narrative moves forward in time. However, this seventh book of the series (and the next few which follow) all take place before the great migration. The call has gone out and the clans are gathering to hear Milo's words of prophecy which promise and end to their wandering... (VG-) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 09: The Witch Goddess - Signet - 4121743 € 2,50 Essef - 1982 - first printing - pocket - 201 p. - The tale is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. Much of California and the East Coast have sunk into the sea. What remains of the eastern states, from Canada to Georgia, has been settled by waves of dark-skinned and dark-haired adventurers from Europe (Spaniards, Greeks, Armenians, etc.) called the Ehleenee. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 10: Bili the Axe - Signet - 4121738 € 2,25 Essef - 1983 - first printing - pocket - 185 p. - With the help of powerful inhuman allies Bili and his warriors defend New Kuhmbuhluhn and ride into a trap of the Witchmen. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 11: Champion of the Last Battle - Signet - 4121739 € 2,25 Essef - 1983 - first printing - pocket - 201 p. - Only one thing stands between the Skoshuns and victory. The deadly challenge of Bili the Axe and his warrior band... (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 12: A Woman of the Horseclans - Signet - 4121741 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - first printing - pocket - 196 p. - Shunned by her own folk, as a creature of Evil, Bettylou Hanson found and instant welcome among the people of the Horseclans. Young healthy, intelligent and gifted with powerful mindspeak potential she was everything Milo Morrai's people looked for in a clan member. But even Milo himself couldin't have foreseen the powerful role Bettylou was to play in the future. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 13: Horses of the North - Signet - 4121744 € 2,50 Essef - 1985 - first printing - pocket - 253 p. - In the evil time after civilization fell apart, the Undying High Lord Milo Morai gathered together as many children as he could save and set about teaching them the laws of survival. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 14: A Man called Milo Morai - Signet - 4121745 € 5,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 221 p. - For some time, trouble had been brewing between clans Linsee and Skaht. Many men and women had been killed in raids and the feud between them threatened to spill over and engulf all the Kindred Clans. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 15: The Memories of Milo Morai - Signet - 4121734 € 2,25 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 221 p. - Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans, journeyed with a select band to explore unknown territory. On the trail they now rode lurked nightmare creatures hungering for the blood of men. (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 16: Trumpets of War - Signet - 4121740 € 2,50 Essef - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 223 p. - The High King Zastros and his evil witch had met their match. Yet with Zastros destroyed only choas now reigned... (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Horseclans 17: Madman's Army - Signet - 4122042 € 2,50 Essef - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 222 p. - When Milo Morai's Confederation forces defeated the army of the tyrannical King Zastros, the High Lord offered a peace settlement his defeated foes could scarce believe, welcoming them as full members of the newly formed Confederation of Eastern Peoples. Sending some of his most trusted agents before him, backed by those doughty warriors, the Horseclansmen, Milo hoped to see the decimated kingdom rapidly reorganized into a thriving realm... (VG) |
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Adams, Robert - Stairway to Forever 1: Stairway to Forever - Baen - 4121742 € 2,50 Essef - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 265 p. - Book 1 in a grand new series by the creator of the Horseclans! (VG) |
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Adlard, Mark - Tcity 1: Interface - Orbit - 109392 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 191 p. - The Twenty-Second Century is a time of plenty: food, clothing, shelter, every entertainment and diversion - no matter how exotic or erotic - all are available for the asking. Technology's promise of limitless, automated abundance has at last been fulfilled. Sounds like Paradise? It is a Nightmare. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Adlard, Mark - Tcity 2: Volteface - Orbit - 4120945 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 210 p. - The executives have regained power; the revolt of the people is over. They can resume their luxurious and cultured existence. But mental and physical illness is on the increase in Tcity... (VG) |
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Adlard, Mark - Tcity 2: Volteface - Orbit - 4109419 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 210 p. - The executives have regained power; the revolt of the people is over. They can resume their luxurious and cultured existence. But mental and physical illness is on the increase in Tcity... (VG-, faded spine) |
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Adlard, Mark - Tcity 3: Multiface - Orbit - 108071 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 184 p. - After the failure of total leisure to produce happiness in Tcity, the executives have re-introduced work to the citizens, and with it a specially programmed element of inefficiency to encourage a sense of purpose. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Aguirre, Ann - Corine Solomon 1: Blue Diablo - ROC - 4135827 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2009 - 1st printing - pocket - 324 p. - Corine Solomon is a handler - when she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing - which is why people never stop trying to find her. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corine's gift to find someone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as it leads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies - and black magic... (F) |
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Aguirre, Ann - Sirantha Jax 3: Doubleblind - Ace - 4130554 € 5,00 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 310 p. - As a “Jumper” who navigates ships through grimspace, Sirantha Jax is used to kicking ass. So why is she suddenly chosen as an ambassador of peace? |
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Aiken, Joan - The Whispering Mountain - Puffin - 4134293 € 3,00 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 1970 - pocket - 222 p. - In the small town of Pennygaff, where Owen has been sent to live after his mother's death, a legendary golden harp has been found. Knowing of the prophesy of the Harp of Teirtu, Owen must prevent the magic harp from falling into the evil clutches of its reputed owner, the sinister and diabolical Lord Mayln. But it won't be easy. Owen and his friend Arabis are plunged into a hair-raising adventure of intrigue, kidnapping, exotic underground worlds, savage beasts... even murder. (VG) |
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Aine, J.-H. Rosny - Helgvor of the Blue River - Black Coat Press - 8150869 € 12,75 Essef - 2010 - paperback - 296 p. - The last in a series of seven volumes presenting the classic works of J.-H. Rosny Aine, the second most important figure in French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny's final, action-packed prehistoric adventure novels chart the domestication... (F) |
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Aine, J.-H. Rosny - The Mysterious Force - Black Coat Press - 8150868 € 12,75 Essef - 2010 - paperback - 332 p. - J.-H. Rosny Aine is the second-most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. This is the third in a series of seven volumes, six of which are translated and annotated by Stableford, devoted to presenting the classic works... (F) |
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Ainsworth, W. Harrison - The Elixir of Life - NEL - 4147524 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1975 - pocket - 122 p. - The Stolen liquid propelled him into a nightmarish world... Flashes of light passed before Auriol's eyes, and strange noises smote his ears. The furnace breathed forth flames and mephitic vapors; the spiral worm of the alembic became red hot, and seemed filled with molten lead; the skeletons grinned and gibbered; the monstrous sea-fish belched forth fire and smoke... (VG-, name inside) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 04: Swordships of Scorpio - Orbit - 4148435 € 2,50 Essef - 1975 - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - illustrated - 191 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - IV. The pirates of Kregen... What does a man do when fate makes him the protector of the royal head of the land of his enemies? If it is Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares, he sets aside his quest to do his duty. (VG-, name inside) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 17: Captive Scorpio - Daw - 4108575 € 2,50 Essef - 1978 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 190 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - XVII. Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful world circling the twin suns of Antares, had risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck could not always sustain him. When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally, converged, it was to produce the darkest hour of his long career... (VG) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 18: Golden Scorpio - Daw - 108574 € 2,00 Essef - 1978 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 207 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - XVIII (G+, wear) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 19: A Life for Kregen - Daw - 108573 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 215 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - XIX. The world Kregen circles the twin suns of Antares, far distant from the skies of Earth. Yet Kregen is the ground on which the Earthman Dray Prescot must stand and fight for all he holds dear. For Prescot is the unwilling battle arm of the mysterious Star Lords who contend for that planet with the powerful Savanti... (VG-) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 20: A Sword for Kregen - Daw - 4108572 € 2,25 Essef - 1979 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 206 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - XX. The most popular game among the many peoples of Kregen, world of Antares, is one that resembles chess, called Jikaida. Jikaida is a battle of wits and war game pieces that suited well the tension charged atmosphere that enveloped Dray Prescot. For reconquering Vallia was assuming the aspect of such a game - move versus countermove, horde against horde! Then Dray Prescot found himself no longer in control of just a game... (VG-, minor wear) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 26: Allies of Antares - Daw - 4108568 € 2,50 Essef - 1981 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 189 p. - Beneath the two suns of Antares, the planet Kregen is truly the wonder of the universe. For there, at the inscrutable planning of unseen powers, are gathered members of the great races of the galaxy. There, too, were natural humans, and...(VG) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 27: Mazes of Scorpio - Daw - 4108567 € 2,50 Essef - 1982 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 176 p. - Beneath the emerald and ruby glow of the double suns of Antares lies a marvelous and brilliant world of savagery and beauty. The planet Kregen, where Dray Prescot, Earthman agent of the superhuman Star Lords struggles to bring peace to the... (VG) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 28: Delia of Vallia - Daw - 108566 € 2,25 Essef - 1982 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 192 p. - The world of Kregen, revolving around the double suns of Antares, holds many wonders. There are warrior men and warrior beasts with mighty fraternities of valor and courage. There are whispers of similar organizations among the high-born... (VG-) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 29: Fires of Scorpio - Daw - 108789 € 2,25 Essef - 1983 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 173 p. - The saga of Prescot of Antares - XXIX (VG-, minor fading on cover) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 29: Fires of Scorpio - Daw - 4122346 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 173 p. - Triple trouble always follows Dray Prescot, especially when he thinks he has things under control. This time, while involved with setting things right on the continent of Pandahem, the Star Lords yank him away from his friends and dump him,... (VG) |
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Akers, Alan B. - Dray Prescot 30 : Talons of Scorpio - Daw - 4108788 € 3,00 Essef - 1983 - first printing - ps. of Kenneth Bulmer - pocket - 173 p. - Finishing the job of destroying the hideous cult of the Leem is just one of the problems confronting Dray Prescot. For he must also rally all the world's forces to combat the onslaught that is on its way from the unexplored Southern... (VG) |
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Albert, Melissa - The Hazel Wood - Flatiron Books - 8153635 € 6,75 Fantasy - 2018 - paperback - international edition - 359 p. - Welcome to the Hazel Wood - the fiercely stunning contemporary fantasy everyone is raving about: Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels.... (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. + Wellman, Manly Wade - Bow down to Nul + The Dark Destroyers - Ace - 101256 € 20,00 Essef - 1960 - pocket - Ace Double - # D-443 - Catalogue Lovisi $40 (VG) - 145+111 p. - collectible paperback - Two complete novels. Aldiss: When Earthman Gary Towler is off work, he is a pariah. For his task as chief interpretor for the corrupt and tyrannical nuls makes other humans avoid him as a traitor. Nor is he trusted by the three-armed mammoth rulers themselves, especially when they learned that an envoy was on the way from their distant planetary headquarters to investigate charges of corruption on Earth... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - An Age - Sphere - 4121003 € 3,00 Essef - 1972 - pocket - 187 p - This splendid piece of psychological science fiction represents a sustained act of imagination. It operates on several different levels, right from the opening scenes on a prehistoric shore, to Buckingham Palace (where, in a moment of black comedy, Bush disappears up Queen Victoria's skirts), to the alien perspectives of uncreated time. (VG-, name inside) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Bow down to Nul - Ace - 4150729 € 4,50 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 145 p. - When Earthman Gary Towler is off work, he is a pariah. For his task as chief interpretor for the corrupt and tyrannical nuls makes other humans avoid him as a traitor. Nor is he trusted by the three-armed mammoth rulers themselves,... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Cryptozoic - Avon - 121004 € 2,75 Essef - 1969 - first printing - pocket - 191 p. - 'The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.' The time traveller Bush's adventure takes him through 1930, 1851, the Jurassic and 2093, on the way exploring a modern crisis that remains our own. (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Cryptozoic - Sphere - 4132823 € 2,75 Essef - 1972 - reprinting - pocket - 187 p - 'The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.' The time traveller Bush's adventure takes him through 1930, 1851, the Jurassic and 2093, on the way exploring a modern crisis that remains our own. |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Earthworks - Signet - 4032640 € 2,25 Essef - 1967 - pocket - first printing - 128 p - Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which J. Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong. Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending the bare, poisond renched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle's world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people still relatively vital... (VG-, name inside) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Finches of Mars - The Friday Project - 4150130 € 8,00 Essef - 2014 - paperback - 203 p. - Set on the Red Planet, this book follows the stories of a group of colonists and the problems they have in setting up a new society. Life can be sustained by technology but new life will not prosper - the woman on the planet only ever give... (F) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Frankenstein Unbound - Pan - 4155162 € 3,00 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 157 p. - Science Fiction of a high order: Joe Bodenland, a 21-st century American, passes through a "timeslip" and finds himself face-to-face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger, inhibiting a complex world... (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Galaxies like Grains of Sand - Signet - 4114104 € 4,00 Essef - 1960 - first printing - pocket - 144 p. - Collection of eight stories. (Published in the USA as 'Canopy of Time') The Law of Transience: Nothing is intended to last. So what will happen over the next forty million years? These linked stories take us there, into a far future where our decaying universe is overtaken by a new order of creation. We travel on a masterly journey through time and space, a journey at once eloquent, elegant and disconcerting? (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Galaxies like Grains of Sand - Signet - 4152596 € 4,00 Essef - 1960 - 2nd printing - pocket - 144 p. - Collection of eight stories. (Published in the USA as 'Canopy of Time') The Law of Transience: Nothing is intended to last. So what will happen over the next forty million years? These linked stories take us there, into a far future where our decaying universe is overtaken by a new order of creation. We travel on a masterly journey through time and space, a journey at once eloquent, elegant and disconcerting? (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Greybeard - Panther - 076227 € 2,25 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 219 p. - From the author of DRACULA UNBOUND and A ROMANCE OF THE EQUATOR, a science fiction novel in which humanity on earth has become sterile because of radiation from atomic testing in space, and the ageing population ekes out an existence in the face of nature which now reclaims the towns and villages with wild vegetation. (G, wear, weak spine) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Spring - Triad/Panther - 9154793 € 4,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 555 p - This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Spring - Triad/Panther - 8101266 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 555 p - This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel... (VG-, browning of edge) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Winter - Triad/Panther - 9101271 € 5,00 Essef - 1986 - overseas edition - pocket - 390 p. - Part 3 of the epic Helliconia trilogy, the enthralling masterwork of one of the last century's greatest masters of imaginative fiction. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it - and against the phagors, humanity's ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them. (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Winter - Triad/Panther - 4154841 € 4,50 Essef - 1986 - 4th printing - pocket - 390 p. - Part 3 of the epic Helliconia trilogy, the enthralling masterwork of one of the last century's greatest masters of imaginative fiction. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it - and against the phagors, humanity's ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them. (VG+) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Neanderthal Planet - Avon - 4150735 € 3,50 Essef - 1970 - First Avon printing - pocket - 192 p. - This collection contains four stories: Neanderthal Planet, Dange: Religion!, Intangibles Inc., Since the Assassination. (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Neanderthal Planet - Avon - 4155158 € 3,00 Essef - 1970 - 2nd printing - pocket - 192 p. - This collection contains four stories: Neanderthal Planet, Dange: Religion!, Intangibles Inc., Since the Assassination. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Science Fiction Art - NEL - 9136426 € 22,50 Essef Art - 1975 - huge size - illustrated - 128 p. - Science Fiction Art from 1926 to the 1970s with 115 illustrations in full colour and 173 in black and white, compiled and introduced by Brian Aldiss, an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. This book is most excellent and a "must-have" for any sci-fi buff. (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Starship - Avon - 4121462 € 3,25 Essef - 1972 - 2nd Avon printing - pocket - 224 p. - In the savage world of the Greene tribe, losing a woman was unforgivable, and Roy had lost his while hunting in the jungle called "the ponics". Disgraced, isolated, he joined the disreputable priest Marapper on a forbidden expedition through Deadways to find the legendary land of Forwards. They were to meet mutants, giants, regimented rats and telepathic rabbits, and the fabled Outsiders... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Starship - Signet - 4148324 € 4,00 Essef - 1960 - first printing - pocket - 160 p. - In the savage world of the Greene tribe, losing a woman was unforgivable, and Roy had lost his while hunting in the jungle called "the ponics". Disgraced, isolated, he joined the disreputable priest Marapper on a forbidden expedition through Deadways to find the legendary land of Forwards. They were to meet mutants, giants, regimented rats and telepathic rabbits, and the fabled Outsiders... (VG-, name inside) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Starswarm - Signet - 4114110 € 4,00 Essef - 1964 - first printing - pocket - 159 p. - Collection of 8 'Sector' stories. Two moons circle the dead planet Earth... but the race of man who eons ago escaped its withered crust live lives of bizarre variety on Starswarm. A part of the neo-human species who populate the far-flung sectors of a wondrous galactic cluster, they struggle to survive, to shape their destiny, to control forces they themselves have brought into being... (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Airs of Earth - Four Square - 4032633 € 2,25 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 190 p - There are eight imaginative excursions in this classic collection that will take you out of this world and out of time, posing such questions as: how would the human mind react in a non-human body, and would universal laughter save the world? The collection includes Basis for Negotiation, in which Britain is the neutral country in a Third World War; The Game of God, a true science fiction about parasitology; and Old Hundredth, which was written for the centenary edition of New Worlds, Britain's oldest science fiction magazine. (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Canopy of Time - Four Square - 114103 € 5,00 Essef - 1963 - first Four Square edition - pocket - 191 p. - The Law of Transience: Nothing is intended to last. So what will happen over the next forty million years? These linked stories take us there, into a far future where our decaying universe is overtaken by a new order of creation. We travel on a masterly journey through time and space, a journey at once eloquent, elegant and disconcerting? (VG-, faded spine) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Canopy of Time - Four Square - 4148297 € 3,75 Essef - 1963 - first Four Square edition - pocket - 191 p. - The Law of Transience: Nothing is intended to last. So what will happen over the next forty million years? These linked stories take us there, into a far future where our decaying universe is overtaken by a new order of creation. We travel on a masterly journey through time and space, a journey at once eloquent, elegant and disconcerting? (G, creases, name inside) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Dark Light Years - Signet - 4114105 € 4,50 Essef - 1964 - first printing - pocket - 128 p. - Suppose a race evolving over centuries from the muddy waters of some delta, in a planet light years away... Suppose, too, an encounter with man, for both races have evolved spaceflight, though along totally different lines. Inevitably there is a clash... A gulf of understanding separates utod and man... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Malacia Tapestry - Panther - 4144847 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 292 p. - As festering violence threatens to explode in the opulent and magical city of Malachia, Renaissance man Perian de Chirolo finds himself at the center of the maelstrom. (VG-) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Malacia Tapestry - Ace - 9114394 € 5,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - illustrated - 401 p. - As festering violence threatens to explode in the opulent and magical city of Malachia, Renaissance man Perian de Chirolo finds himself at the center of the maelstrom. (G, some foxing) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - The Primal Urge - Ballantine - 4118926 € 2,75 Essef - 1961 - BB original - pocket - 191 p. - If reticence is a feature reserved for the British, what would possess well bred, reserved, thoroughly 'British', James Solent, to dash off for a night of reckless passion with a complete stranger? The answer is a gadget... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Who can replace a Man - Signet - 101280 € 2,50 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 1st printing - 215 p. - A collection of stories. (VG) |
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