Fiction

Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men | Last Men in London ( 2 in 1) - PB - Penguin Classics- 1972

A 2 in 1 edition, 1972, originally published in 1930 and 1932 respectively.  Two science fiction novels, written during the nineteen thirties, chronicle the future of civilization, foretelling such events as the worldwide fuel shortage and man's...

Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train (Vintage Penguin Crime 1952)

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed...

Homer - The Iliad - Translated by E.V Rieu - Penguin Classic PB 1953 - Illustrated Clothbound

This is perhaps the definitive modern translation of the Iliad by Homer, translated for the Penguin Classics edition by E.V Rieu, and first published in 1952.  This book was originally issued as a paperback, but consumer demand meant that...

Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay (and other stories) - PB - 1994

Paperback, published by Harper Collins UK , 1994 ( THIS PARTICULAR BOOK WAS PART OF A LARGER SET)  A collection of 8 short stories, mostly originally publsihed in the 1930's 

Alan Dean Foster - Star Trek : Log Ten - PB - Ballantine USA - 1977

  A reprint TV tie in edition, 1978 , based on the Star Trek Animated TV Series. BUMPS TO UPPER EDGES OF BOOK, , SPINE IS FADED SLIGHTLY ( IF UNIFORMLY).  Moderate to heavy creasing, bumps. 

Alan Dean Foster - Star Trek : Log Nine - PB - Ballantine USA - 1977

  A reprint TV tie in edition, 1977 , based on the Star Trek Animated TV Series. Small puncture mark to front cover, penetrates 3 pages in,  page block edges in yellow.  Moderate to heavy creasing, bumps. 

James Blish - Star Trek 10 - Vintage PB - Originally 1974 3rd Printing- Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, first published 1974, a 3rd printing , page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.    An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by...

Alan Dean Foster - Star Trek : Log One - PB - Ballantine USA - 1975 ( 10th Printing)

  A reprint TV tie in edition, 1975 ( originally 1974) , based on the Star Trek Animated TV Series. Light edgewear only, page block edges in yellow.  Moderate to heavy creasing, bumps and compression marks to back cover. 

James Blish - Star Trek 3 - Vintage PB - (1973 1st UK PB Printing- Corgi)

Published by Corgi UK 1973, first published USA 1972, a 1st UK PB printing Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  Creasing to back cover, less so to front.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by Rodenberry , short...

James Blish - Star Trek 11 - Vintage PB - 1975 1st PB Printing- Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, first published 1975, a 1st PB printing , page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  Creasing to back cover, less so to front.  An adaptation...

James Blish - Star Trek 7 - Vintage PB - Originally 1972 ( 11th Printing 1977 - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, first published 1972, An 11th printing , page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by...

James Blish - Star Trek 6 - Vintage PB , Originally 1972 ( 7th Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, first published 1972, A 7th printing , page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by Rodenberry...

James Blish - (All New) Star Trek 4 - Vintage PB , Originally 1971 ( 9th Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, first published 1971, A 9TH printing( CIRCA 1975) , page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts...

James Blish - (All New) Star Trek 2 - Vintage PB 1968 ( 3rd Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, 1968, A 3rd printing, page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate creasing, ageing and edgewear. Mark on front cover where an old price label was.  An adaptation by Blish of original work...

James Blish - Star Trek 8 - Vintage PB 1972 ( 7th Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, 1972, A 5th printing, page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate creasing, ageing and edgewear.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by Rodenberry ,  short stories/...

James Blish - Star Trek 5 - Vintage PB 1972 ( 7th Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, 1972, A 7th printing, page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate creasing, ageing and edgewear.  An adaptation by Blish of original work and scripts by Rodenberry , 7 short stories/...

Jean Plaidy - The Queen From Provence - HB - 1979 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1979, the 6th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

Jean Plaidy - Epitaph for Three Women - HB - 1981 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1981, the 12th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

Jeffrey Archer / Nothing Ventured (Large Paperback)

William Warwick #1 Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles : introducing Detective William Warwick. But t his is not a detective story, this is...

William Shakespeare / Hamlet -Prince of Denmark ( Illustrated) (Coffee Table Book)

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original...

Michael Grant / Who's Who In Classical Mythology (Hardback)

Product Description Who's Who in Classical Mythology is an indispensable guide to all the Greek and Roman mythological characters, from major deities such as Athena and Bacchus, to the lesser-known wood nymphs and centaurs. Also included, of course, are...

Graham Dury / VIZ Comic - The Bag of Slugs ( Coffee Table book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

R.F. Kuang / Babel: An Arcane History (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Graham Dury / VIZ Comic - The Bear Trapper's Hat (Coffee Table book)

From the pages of Viz, here's the new 2004 annual. Now you can enjoy all the best Viz moments from 2003 in the eighteenth annual compendium. All your favourite characters are here, from the Fat Slags to Billy No Mates, from Roger Mellie to Biffa...

Chris Donald / VIZ Comic - The Butcher's Dustbin (Children's Coffee Table book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead - HB SIGNED NUMBERED 2OTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - 2020

Hardcover, a handsome hardcover red cloth edition from Sphere UK, with printed text to page block ends ( NIGHT NIGHT), SIGNED AND NUMBERED (this being copy 868 of the numbered 1000) signed by the author in black ink, undedicated.  Peelable price...

Adrian Kenny - Mint and Other Stories - PB -

These skilled portraits form chapters in a man’s life. He knows the characters ‒ in Dublin, the West of Ireland, London, provincial England ‒ and they know him. The descriptions are intimate, sympathetic; their lives are sharply drawn. A young...

James Plunkett - Strumpet City - Vintage Granada PB Reprint 1977

Originally published in 1969 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.   First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of all time. Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers...

Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember - Vintage PAN PB ( Originally 1972)

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of...

Agatha Christie - Cards on the Table ( Vintage Pan PB )

 Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about excepting a party...

Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules - PB ( A Hercule Poirot Novel)

Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake. In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he...

Agatha Christie - A Carribbean Mystery - Vintage Fontana PB 1967

1967 reprint, tanning to page block, lowerr/h front corner slightly dogeared.  Binding tight, spine uncreased,  A Caribbean resort.  Strangers thrown togetherIs there evil in paradise? Major Palgrave enjoys an audience, and, in Miss...

Agatha Christie - Cat Among the Pigeons - Fontana PB Reprint, 1985

Schooldays can be tough. Who will learn the fatal lesson? Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light while the rest of the school sleeps. In the sports pavilion, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the...

Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds - Vintage Fontana Paperback - 1974

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated...

Christian Jacq / The Place of Truth (Large Paperback)

The Stone of Light #4 The beloved Master of the Place of Truth has been savagely assassinated, and the artisans of the magnificent, hidden village are deep in mourning. But even in their grief, their devoted work on the tombs of the Pharaoh...

Endre Ady / Neighbours of the Night: Selected Short Stories (Large Paperback)

NEIGHBORS OF THE NIGHT Selected Short Stories by Endre Ady, selected, translated and with a preface by Judith Sollosy 1994 Softcover 7 3/4 x 5 inches 175 pages Corvina Books Ltd.   175 pages, Paperback   This book is second hand,...

Joseph Roth / The Radetzky March (Large Paperback)

Von Trotta Family #1 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Introduction)     The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta...

Cho Nam-Joo / Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Large Paperback)

  Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. She is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. A female preyed upon by male teachers at school. A daughter whose father blames her when she is...

Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace (Large Paperback)

Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace, presented here in the first new English translation in forty years, is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching...

Jan Carson - No Vacancy : Hotel Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

No Vacancy is a short collection of micro-fiction inspired by Jan Carson's various (and numerous) hotel visits of recent years. Whether it's winning ownership of the Isle of Man in a game of pool or decoding the messages of a one-eyed man in Norwich,...

Zoltán Danyi - The Carcass Remover - PB - BRAND NEW

A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man’s trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground – terror...

Charlotte Elizabeth McManus - The Professor I

This Ireland I find myself in is unlike the Ireland I was taught about when I was at school ... A German scholar exploring ruins in Dungannon hits his head in a fall. He wakes to find himself in a parallel universe: an Ireland that never was, free of...

Martina Devlin - Glorious Monsters - PB - BRAND NEW

Aideen Howard - Dream Big : New Plays from the Ark 2019-2025 - BRAND NEW

Since opening its doors in 1995, The Ark has operated in Dublin city as a dedicated cultural centre for children – making and sharing fun, ambitious work that aims to realise every child’s right to participate freely in the arts. At the heart...

Fred Johnston - True North - HB - 1997

Hardcover, published by Salmon Poetry 1997. 

Patrick Chapman - Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights - HB

Hardcover, published by Salmon Press Poetry.  Slight edgewear to the dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition, internally unmarked. 

Michael Gorman - Up She Flew - PB - Poetry - 1991

A 1991 Salmon Poetry collection from the Sligo born poet Michael Gorman.  Includes a compilation of poems from previous works ( Postcards From Galway) - 1980 and Waiting For the Sky to Fall ( 1984)  Light tanning to page block, edgewear to...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice - Twenty One Sonnets - HB

Published by Salmon Press, Clare, 2007. Hardcover , illustrated by Brenda Fitzmaurice.    Condition, these are 2007 editions, and while they were acquired by us in bulk from another bookshop , and have thus not been sold or have signs of use,...

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr Quin - Vintage Fontana PB 1966 ( Originally 1930)

A 1966 Fontana Books edition of The Mysterious Mr Quin, first published in 193 Usual browning/tanning  to page block. creasing to spine.    The enigmatic Mr Quin is a harbinger of love - and death. His friend Mr Satterthwaite must help...

Desmond O'Grady - Tipperary - PB ( Poetry) 1991

Paperback, published by Salmon , 2011. Desmond O'Grady was a Limerick born poet, novelist and translator. The title of this collection - Tipperary, is a reference by the poet to the county's name in Irish Tiobraid Arann meaning the 'fountain of...

Casey McQuiston - The Pairing - HB - SIGNED - 2024

A hardcover UK SIGNED EDITION, published by Macmillan UK , ISBN differs from standard hardcover edition ( to denote publisher's signed copy edition)  As new, apart from a small blue speck of blue colour bleed (from the cover? on the page block...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be quite a good...