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China Mieville The Scar
Random House Publishing Group New York 2002 0345444388 / 9780345444387 First - First edition Trade Paperback Near Fine Trade Paperback
A clean, tight copy with no marks and no creasing to spine. " En route to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon, a ship carrying prisoners, slaves, and a few travelers, each with their own reason for leaving the city, is attacked by pirates, who bring the surviving passengers to a strange floating city constructed upon the hulls of pirated ships, whose leaders are hiding a sinister agenda. By the author of Perdido Street Station."
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9.95 USD
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Hunt, Stephen The Court of the Air
Tor Fantasy New York 2009 0765360225 / 9780765360229 First - First printing Mass Market Paper Fine Mass Market Paper
Book is clean and tight - as new with no creasing to spine. "When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack. For Molly is a special little girl, and she carries a secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state. Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered existence in the backwater home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder he is forced to flee for his life, accompanied by an agent of the mysterious Court of the Air. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life. Soon Molly and Oliver will find themselves battling a grave threat to civilization, an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago. Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but the two orphans are also aided by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue, and adventure."
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5.95 USD
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Mieville, China The Scar
Random House New York 2002 0345444388 / 9780345444387 First - BCE Hardcover Very Good good + Hardcover
Book club edition. The BCE was the first hardcover edition printed in the US. Book is solid and tight - boards square. Wear to edges; inside clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has creasing to top back edge; creasing and some chipping to head of spine. Wear and creasing to bottom edge and corners. "Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage
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19.95 USD
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Mieville, China The Scar - SIGNED
Del Rey Books Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. 2004 0345460014 / 9780345460011 Mass Market Paperback As New Mass Market Paperback Signed by Author.
Signed by Author. Book is clean and tight; brand-new, no creasing to spine. Signed by China Mieville on title page. Winner of the British Fantasy Award. "This is the story of a prisoner's journey. The search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger."
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19.95 USD
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Pullman, Philip Lyra's Oxford
Knopf New York 2006 0375828192 / 9780375828195 hardcover New
No dust jacket, as issued. 2nd Printing. New and unread; light shelf wear. Lovely, tight copy. "An exciting new tale set in the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials saga. This collectible hardcover volume includes a short story by Mr. Pullman, plus a fold-out map of Oxford and various "souvenirs" from the past. The book is illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations by John Lawrence."
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9.95 USD
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Pullman, Philip The Amber Spyglass, His Dark Materials Book 3
Knopf New York 2000 0679879269 / 9780679879268 First Hardcover New New
Brand new copy of this collectible first hardcover edition of The Amber Spyglass. Full number line on copyright page. No flaws, dust jacket protected in mylar cover. "Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel's audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play--and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed. Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--to depend on Lyra and Will."
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19.95 USD
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Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass, His Dark Materials, Book 1
Random House New York 2006 0375838309 / 9780375838309 Hardover new new
Brand new, 2nd printing of this deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition of The Golden Compass, which includes a new appendix of Lord Asriel's papers. Dust jacket is protected in mylar - a lovely collectible copy. " Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty, Oxford. The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant. Set in an England familiar and strange, Philip Pullman's lively, taut story is a must-read and re-read for fantasy lovers of all ages. The world-building is outstanding, from the subtle hints of the 1898 Tokay to odd quirks of language to the panserbjorne, while determined, clever Lyra is strongly reminiscent of Joan Aiken's Dido Twite."
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19.95 USD
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Pullman, Philip The Subtle Knife, His Dark Materials Book 2
Knopf New York 1997 0375823468 / 9780375823466 Trade Paperback Very Good +
A solid, tight and clean copy - very nice with no creasing to spine. Bumping to head of spine, shelf wear, and red remainder mark on bottom of text. " In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compass, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld?Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat--and the shattering truth of their own destiny."
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4.95 USD
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Stephenson, Neal The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle
William Morrow & Co Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 2004 0060523867 / 9780060523862 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + Very Good Hard Cover
Book is clean and tight; boards square. Remainder mark (black line) on bottom, and light shelf wear on bottom edge of text, else fine. Dust jacket is bright and clean. Wear to edges, and rolling to top and bottom edge of spine. In mylar cover. "In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended."
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19.95 USD
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