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Fantasy
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Chronicles of the Cheysuli: Book 3
Book Blurb
The third book in the Chronicles of the Cheysuli continues a tale of magical warriors and shapeshifters as they battle the sorcerers that threaten their existence
For decades, the magical race of shapeshifters called the Cheysuli have been feared and hated exiles in their own land, a land they rightfully should rule. Victims of a vengeful monarch's war of annihilation and a usurper king's tyrannical reign, the Cheysuli clans have nearly vanished from the world.
Now, in the aftermath of the revolution which overthrew the hated tyrant, Prince Donal is being trained as the first Cheysuli in generations to assume the throne. But will he be able to overcome the prejudice of a populace afraid of his special magic and succeed in uniting the realm in its life and death battle against enemy armies and evil magicians?
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Chronicles of the Cheysuli: Book 2
Book Blurb
For five long years the land of Homana had been strangling in the grasp of a ursurper king—its people ravaged by strife, poverty and despair; its magical race, the Cheysuli, forced to flee or face extermination at the hands of their evil counterparts, the sorcerous Ilhini.
The time had come for Prince Carillon, Homana's rightful ruler, to return from exile with his Cheysuli liege man, free his land from the evil dominantion of the tyrant Bellam and his villainous magicians, restore the Cheysuli to their rightful position of grace, and claim his birthright. To do this, he would not only have to raise an army, but overcome the fear and prejudice of an ignorant population and answer the call of a prophecy he never chose to serve!
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Chronicles of the Cheysuli: Book 1
Book Blurb
The first book in the Chronicles of the Cheysuli spins a tale of magical warriors and shapeshifters as they battle the sorcerers that threaten their existence
They were the Cheysuli, a race of magical warriors gifted with the ability to assume animal shape at will. For centuries, they had been allies to the King of Homana, treasured champions of the realm. Until a king's daughter ran away with a Cheysuli liege man and caused a war of annihilation against the Cheysuli race.
Twenty-five years later the Cheysuli were hunted exiles in their own land, feared for their sorcery, their shapeshifting.
This is the story of Alix, the daughter of that ill-fated union between Homanan princess and Cheysuli warrior, and her struggle to master the call of magic in her blood, and accept her place in an ancient prophecy she cannot deny,
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
In a grand medieval city where all change has been outlawed, a roguish young actor tempts fate and dinosaurs, all in the name of love.
By law, nothing can change in Malacia—a teeming, eternal city of dukes, players, wizards, merchants, beggars, ape-men, lizard-boys, and courtesans—but that is of no great consequence to Perian de Chirolo. An out-of-work actor and unabashed rogue, he is well satisfied with his lot as long as there’s coin, eager young women to bed, and the occasional adventure.
Perhaps it is this thrill-seeking spirit—or simply the lure of noble beauty—that makes Perian imprudently agree to take part in a mad inventor’s illegal experiments, since such foolishness will never be tolerated in Malacia. But Perian’s rash actions will only lead him on to further indiscretions, winning him first fame and then notoriety, causing him to be hunted, hounded, martyred, and trapped in a fight to the death with a razor-toothed Ancestral Beast on the outskirts of the city. And perhaps most frightening of all, Perian de Chirolo will find himself in love.
Sci-fi
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
The Way: Book 2
Book Blurb
A visitor from the end of time comes to take a handful of strangers into space, where they must destroy the ultimate marvel of science in this powerful sf classic."Modern mainstream SF of the highest order...Bear rockets the story ever onward and upward". -- Chicago Tribune
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
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-traveller and 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, poison drenched countryside are all characteristic of Knowle's world; only in Africa is the soil still fertile and the people still relatively vital. On the coast of Africa, near Walvis Bay, Knowle runs his freighter aground; and there he meets Justine and the destructive destiny that purges him of guilt and frees him from hallucination.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
In a grand medieval city where all change has been outlawed, a roguish young actor tempts fate and dinosaurs, all in the name of love.
By law, nothing can change in Malacia—a teeming, eternal city of dukes, players, wizards, merchants, beggars, ape-men, lizard-boys, and courtesans—but that is of no great consequence to Perian de Chirolo. An out-of-work actor and unabashed rogue, he is well satisfied with his lot as long as there’s coin, eager young women to bed, and the occasional adventure.
Perhaps it is this thrill-seeking spirit—or simply the lure of noble beauty—that makes Perian imprudently agree to take part in a mad inventor’s illegal experiments, since such foolishness will never be tolerated in Malacia. But Perian’s rash actions will only lead him on to further indiscretions, winning him first fame and then notoriety, causing him to be hunted, hounded, martyred, and trapped in a fight to the death with a razor-toothed Ancestral Beast on the outskirts of the city. And perhaps most frightening of all, Perian de Chirolo will find himself in love.
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Lord Prestimion: Book 1
Book Blurb
The Long-Awaited Prequel! A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the Majipoor Cycle explores another grand epic in a world conceived on a truly epic scale.
On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change. The aged Pontifex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount, is dying. The Coronal Lord Confalume, who will become Pontifex, begins the Funeral Games before his own replacement is chosen. It is no secret that the next Coronal will be Prince Prestimion. By law and custom, the blood son of the present Coronal, Korsibar, an avid hunter'cannot rule. But Korsibar has a secret quarry'the Starburst Crown. Visited by an oracle, Korsibar has heard a prophecy that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration and alter destiny itself: "You will shake the world!"
Outstanding Praise for The Majipoor Cycle
"Plotted like a Shakespearian play.... With a brand new cast of characters and engaging conflicts of heart and soul, Silverberg'one of the world's finest stylists and storytellers'breathes fresh life (and quality) into sci-fi's sister genre."
-- "San Antonio Express News"
"Boasting Machiavellian plot twists, underhanded and power-hungry backstabbers, and plenty of literary allusions, Sorcerers of Majipoor serves as a fine historical foundation for a wondrous world. Readers, both old and new, will want to accompany him in exploring this treasure trove of imagination."
--Des Moines (IA) Sunday Register
"Silverberg has created a big planet, chock-a-block with life and potential stories."
-- "The Washington Post"
"There are two things that abide: absolute awe at Silverberg's capacity for creating images ... he makes yousee, believe, be there witnessing ... and [the] overarching compassion that colors every word and all the souls in his enormous planet."
-- "Los Angeles Times"
"I was happy to visit Majipoor again, and to know there's room on that great and grand world for even more events to be chronicled."
-- "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" "A grand picaresque tale by one of the great storytellers of the century."
--Roger Zelazny
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Lord Prestimion: Book 2
Book Blurb
Prestimion should be jubilant. As the new Coronal Lord of Majipoor, the Starburst Crown is his at lost. But the victorious lord is burdened with a great he gained the throne through a bloody civil war -- a war no one remembers! With the aid of a phalanx of sorcerers, Prestimion dropped the awesome Spell of Oblivion over his people to heal his war-torn land. Forgotten now are the betrayals, the intrigues, and the slaughter. Only Prestimion and two of his surviving comrades-in-arms know anything happened at all. Yet Prestimion must still account for his world's devastation and do the bring to justice the kinsman who languishes in the dungeon because no one can recall his unforgivable crime. And in his hour of triumph, Prestimion will face a threat to his kingdom for more insidious than war -- a twisted madness that cannot be controlled....
Thriller
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
New York, 2026. In the aftermath of a terrorist A-bomb, private investigator Keith Savage searches for the missing daughter of a crime-busting politician. Tracking her down leads him to a place where her fascination with insects collides with his fears.Ever since the Brooklyn Blast in 2021, the human bedbugs and cockroaches of a traumatized society have crawled out of the woodwork. Cash-strapped and struggling with his own PTSD, New York investigator and exterminator-for-hire Keith Savage suddenly catches a case.A beautiful LA journalist wants him to retrieve a younger sister who’s vanished from their Long Island home. Runaway or kidnapped, there’s a huge find-and-return fee to get Marielle back home before the weekend when her father, who’s running for mayor, returns from a strategy retreat to launch his anti-corruption campaign.But it’s complicated. Marielle is paraplegic, a reclusive artist whose in-demand paintings feature insects. The housekeepers on whose watch she disappeared are an odd couple with a hidden agenda. Her only online friends are an astrologer and an angry young chess devotee, a paraplegic who recently underwent experimental limb replacement.New York in 2026 is nasty and brutish. Between the toxic environment, turf wars between corrupt police and Russian mobsters, and a semi-deranged populace swinging from shakedown to breakdown, Savage is bitten and stung everywhere he turns. Within a day, he stirs up a wasp’s nest of trouble. From poisonous jumping spiders to a swarm of giant Asian hornets, the trail of insects leads to a clinic where a radical entomologist is pushing the frontiers of science and morality by using 3D printing to build human limbs with insect tissue.Savage’s extract Marielle from the web that binds her before she submits to a metamorphosis of no return.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Hallam Cane, a British engineer, arrives at desolate Cape Agulhas-the southernmost tip of Africa-to join a geological research team in their search for undersea energy. All is not as it appears at first sight. Why has the project been beset by so many unexplained accidents? Why has the Russian diving team trying to salvage the wreck of a ship sunk in 1904? Why is an American scientist prepared to pay well over the odds for a stretch of barren land? In an atmosphere of fear and suspicion Hallam and his girlfriend, Maris, struggle against great odds before they reach the answers. An unusual and imaginative thriller by the author of "A Ravel of Waters." "Geoffrey Jenkins can write with rare compelling fervour."
Times Literary Supplement
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Richard Marritt, a veteran New York City Police detective, investigates a series of murders by a charming, cold-blooded killer.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
The Eight: Book 1
Book Blurb
Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Three different people--an American missionary, a British police chief, and a Chinese secret agent--try different tactics to knock out an underground society in Hong Kong
Horror
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Amanda: A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came - taunting, teasing - until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Michelle: Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends...until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists - the hand of a blind child. She is asking for friendship...seeking revenge...whispering her name...
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Medium Paperback (12.9 cm x 19.8 cm)
Book Blurb
Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected.
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Medium Paperback (12.8 cm x 19.8 cm)
The Dark Tower: Book 4
Book Blurb
Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Enter the domain of chaos, insanity and death... In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting, to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York writer David Wake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathon Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box. To unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within us all...
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Three unwitting travelers are driven by a blizzard to seek refuge at a country house hotel, where the 'guests' live in a diabolical world of lunacy and madness, where demented creatures prowl the corridors, where putrefying flesh lies in the cellar and blood curdling screams echo from the bedrooms. Amidst the horrors, the monstrous spawn of a subnormal girl awaits a virgin sacrifice to bring the Prince of evil to Life.
General Fiction
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Large Paperback
Collection
Book Blurb
A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world
When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls.
T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself.
As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery.
All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find.
T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.
Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Medium Hardcover (12.8 cm x 19.8 cm)
Biggles
Book Blurb
Biggles Learns to Fly - Fall 1916, Bigglesworth 16, learns to fly in England, after 15 air hours sent to France. Downed twice, drops French spy, fights Aces and circuses.
Biggles Flies East - Mistaken for traitor Brunow, Captain James suspects von Stalhein is spy chief El Shereef for Germany, and Sterne for Britain.
Biggles in the Orient - Biggles leads his squad against Jap secret weapon downing all but two pilots on Calcutta to China run.
Condition: Enchanted Tome
Size: Large Hardcover (23.2cm x 15cm)
The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels: Book 3
Book Blurb
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins' War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses.
The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.
Through collaboration with the dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret agrees to a betrothal between Henry and Elizabeth's daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the Cousins War once and for all by founding of the Tudor dynasty.
Condition: Enchanted Tome
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
Three young people begin to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding a series of deaths at the Ministry of Defense. “The novel, set in England, moves quickly; the characters are developed fully; and the theme of chemical and biological warfare offers interesting subject matter for individual or group response. Rose captures the structure of the mystery well, builds strong emotional ties among the three primary characters, and provides a compelling theme for young adult readers.”-English Journal
Collector Editions
Individual Books
Condition: Ancient Relic (May and September editions - pages falling out)
Size: Small Magazine (19.5 cm x 14 cm)
Analog Science Fiction Magazine, 1952
Edition Blurbs:
February
City of the Phoenix by M. C. Pease
March
Day of the Moron by H. Beam Piper
April
Galactic Gadgeteers by Harry Stine
May
That Share of Glory by C. M. Kornbluth
June
Firewater by William Tenn
July
Space Fear by James H. Schmitz
August
Gunner Cade by Cyril Judd
September
Dumb Waiter by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
October
Blood’s A Rover by Chad Oliver
November
The Specter General by Theodore M. Cogswell
December
The Emissary by Jim Brown
Individual Books
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Magazine (19.5 cm x 14 cm)
Analog Science Fiction Magazine, 1963
Edition Blurbs:
January (small edition)
The Hard Way by Gordon Dickson
March
Natural Resource - The Gas Mine in the Sky
April
“What’ll You Give?” by Winston P. Sanders
May
The Duelling Machine by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis
June
The Trouble with Telstar by John Berryman
July
The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison
August
The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
September
Industrial Revolution by Winston P. Sanders
October
Where I Wasn’t Going by Walt and Leigh Richmond
November
Take the Reason Prisoner by John J. McGuire
Individual Books
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Magazine (19.5 cm x 14 cm)
Analog Science Fiction Magazine, 1964
Edition Blurbs:
March
Spaceman by Murray Leinster
April
Sunjammer by Winston P. Sanders
May
Undercurrents by James H. Schmitz
June
Stuck by John Berryman
July
Sleeping Planet by William R. Burkett, Jr.
August
Genus Traitor by Mack Reynolds
September
A Case of Identity by Randall Garrett
October
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes by Mack Reynolds
November
Gunpowder God by H. Beam Piper
December
Plague On Kryder by Murray Leinster
Individual Books
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Magazine (19.5 cm x 14 cm)
Analog Science Fiction Magazine, 1965
Edition Blurbs:
June
Hydrogen Fusion Reactor by Edward C. Walterscheid
July
Trader Team by Poul Anderson
August
Half A Loaf… by R. C. Fitzpatrick
September
Space Pioneer by Mack Reynolds
October
Overproof by Johnathan Blake MacKenzie
November
Down Styphon by H. Beam Piper (the last story)
December
Beehive by Mack Reynolds
($5.00 per book)
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Magazine (19.5 cm x 14 cm)
Analog Science Fiction Magazine: January - December, 1962
Edition Blurbs:
January
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
Black Man’s Burden by Mack Reynolds
February
The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones
March
Power Supplies for Space Vehicles by J. B. Friedenberg
April
Mercenary by Mack Reynolds
May
Breakthrough! The Fourth Law of Motion - New fundamental theory for true space drive! by Dr. William O. Davis
June
The Weather Man by Theodore Thomas
July
Listen! The Stars! by John Brunner
August
The Toughest Opponent by Christopher Anvil
September
A Life for the Stars by James Blish
October
Ethical Quotient by John Phillifent
November
Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
December
Blind Man’s Lantern by Allen Kim Lang
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Chronicles of the Cheysuli: Book 4
Book Blurb
Niall, Prince of Homana, key player in a prophecy that spans generations, should have been the treasured link between Cheysuli and Homanan. Yet neither of the peoples he is destined to someday rule feel anything but suspicion of Niall. Homanans fear him for his Cheysuli heritage, while Cheysuli refuse to accept him as their own because he has acquired neither a lir-shape nor the lir companion which is the true mark of the Cheysuli shapechangers.
And now, despite his precarious situation within the kingdom, Niall must undertake a journey to fulfill yet another link in the ancient prophecy. He must travel through war-torn lands to claim his bride—a mission which may prove his doom. For searching for both his destiny and his lir, Naill is about to be plunged into a dangerous maelstrom of intrigue, betrayal, and deadly Ihlini sorcery...