Hussey, Charmian.

The Valley of Secrets

Cornwall, St. Piran Press, 2003

First printing of the small press paperback edition published simultaneously with the limited edition hardback and launched, appropriately, at Cornwall's Eden Project.
Very Near Fine (minor surface mark on rear cover)

Christopher Crump's illustrations enhance the head of each chapter.

SIGNED by author on title page.

Small print run (3000)and scarce.
Hodder has  published the first trade edition of this book to good reviews.

Ibbotson, Eva

The Star of Kazan

London, Macmillan, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Silver Smarties Award Winner 2004. Gold Smarties Award Winning author of Journey to the River Sea.

Kay, Elizabeth.

The Divide

Chicken House, Frome, Somerset, 2003.

Fine as issued in colour printed boards with integral board flaps which close to encase the book. Stunning artwork by Ted Dewan. No dustjacket as issued.

SIGNED by author on title page.

Teenage fantasy fiction. Barry Cunningham, who discovered J.K. Rowling, writes in introduction: "I was actually thrilled when I read this book. It's exciting, unexpected and wild".

Kay, Elizabeth

Back To The Divide

Frome, Somerset, Chicken House, 2004.

Fine as issued in boards with folding front flaps which close to encase the book.
Sequel to The Divide, which was one of only 10 British books to win the prestigious White Raven at the 2004 Bologna Book Fair.
Signed by author on title page.

Langrish, Katherine.

Troll Fell

London, Collins, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

SIGNED by author. Launched in the wake of much publicity, this first novel by a Yorkshire-born novelist features "Adventure, gold and troublesome trolls".

McNish, Cliff.

The Silver Child

London, Orion, 2003.

Fine in Fine protected dustjacket (unread). SIGNED by author on title page.
First in a projected new fantasy series for children.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOMSPELL SERIES.

Mieville, Dominic.

The Mysterious Burnchester Hall

Norfolk D M Productions, 2003.

First softback edition (no hardback edition), children's edition. First novel - privately published and small print run quickly became impossible to find in bookshops. Fine (unread) in printed wraps.

Reeve, Philip.

Mortal Engines

London, Scholastic, 2001.

Simultaneous paperback edition. Signed by author Fine in printed wraps.

Reeve, Philip.

Mortal Engines

London, Scholastic, 2001. Fine in Fine dustjacket.
Signed  by author. Promotional postcard laid in.

Much acclaimed mechanistic fantasy winner of Gold Smarties Award and shortlisted for Whitbread award. First in a series of four books (one yet to be published).

Rosoff, Meg

How I Live Now.

London, Puffin, 2004.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author on title page at last year's Cheltenham Festival event.
Outstanding first novel of US-born author who now lives in London.

Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Winner of Michael L. Printz Award for Excellent in Junior Adult Literature. June 2005:  Winner of Branford Boase Award for best first children's novel.

Author is writing the screenplay for the film.

Singer, Nicky.

Feather Boy

London, Collins, 2002.

 Award winning PBO (no hardback edition issued).

Wood, Patrick.

Viaduct Child

London, Scholastic, 2002.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

 Signed by author. Promotional booklet laid in.

Woodall, Clive.

One for Sorrow

Ziji Publishing, 2003 (actually released late March 2004 ).

Paperback original true first printing.

Fine (unread) in printed covers.

Sold to Disney for a reported 1 million dollars prior to publication.

Gardner, Sally

I, Coriander

London, Orion, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

"The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher."

16th December 2005.  I, Coriander announced as Winner of the Nestle Gold Medal (formerly Smarties Gold Award) for 9 - 11 year olds.

Grindley, Sally.

Spilled Water

London, Bloomsbury, 2004.

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

The story of a young girl's bravery in China  - second novel which won a Gold Smarties award.

Harris, M. G.

The Joshua Files.  The Invisible City

London, Scholastic, 2008

Paperback original.  Fine in striking orange fluorescent plastic sleeve.

Scholastic secured the option on this first novel in a two-book deal, fighting off bidding from four other publishers.

 One Boy - One Deadly Prophecy  -  One Heart-Stopping Adventure.  Set in the Mexican jungle.

Recommended.

For more info, see the Book Trailer for The Joshua Files on YouTube

Hill, Stuart

The Cry of The Icemark

Frome, Chicken House, 2005.

Signed, slipcased, limited and numbered edition. 

 Fine as issued in fine dustjacket and slipcase  - only 1,000 copies in this edition.

Winner of the First Ottakar's Children's Book Award

Recently published in the United States to critical acclaim.

Iggulden, Conn.  Iggulden, Hal

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Harper Collins, 2006

Fine in red boards as issued.   Small print run and now hard to find as a first printing.

Jarvis, Robin

Deathscent

London, Collins, 2001

First edition, first printing.

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

Signed by the author.  Promotional booklet included.

Book 1 of the Intrigues of the Reflected Realm.  (Teenage fiction)

Julia Golding

Secret of The Sirens.

Book 1 of the Companions Quartet.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006

New children's series set in Dartmoor.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author in her customary gold ink.   Hatchard's bookshop bookmark laid in (where the signing took place).   Looks good.

Kieve, Paul

Hocus Pocus.  A Tale of Magnificent Magicians and Their Amazing Feats.

London, Bloomsbury, 2007.

Fine in illustrated boards (no dustjacket as issued).   Introduction by Daniel Radcliffe.

Signed by the author.

Paul Kieve is the magician/illusionist who acted as magic consultant for the film of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

The book is inspired by master magicians from the past with hints and tips for magic tricks included - for a young audience.

Malley, Gemma

The Declaration

London, Bloomsbury, 2007

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

First novel (young adult fiction) set in the near future -  receiving good reviews.  The sequel, The Resistance,  has recently been published.

McAllister, M.I.

Urchin of The Riding Stars

London, Bloomsbury, 2005.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author on title page.

First in the Mistmantle Chronicle series.

 The hero, Urchin, is an orphaned squirrel. 

 Shortlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize. Miramax has bought the rights to this first book.

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Peter Pan in Scarlet

Oxford University Press, 2006

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Laid in is promotional bookmark.  PLEASE NOTE that this is a SECOND PRINTING (the first printing comprised the limited edition of 1500 copies) and it is reported that there were 3,000 copies of the second printing.

Morpurgo, Michael

The War of Jenkins' Ear

London, Heinemann, 1993

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Set in the 1950s in a prep school in Sussex.

Morpurgo, Michael

Born To Run.  The many lives of one incredible dog.

London, Harper Collins Children's Books, 2007

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Paver, Michelle.

Spirit Walker.  Book 2 in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.

London, Orion, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by author.

Paver, Michelle.

Wolf Brother.  Book 1, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness,

London, Orion, 2004

Fine in Fine dustjacket. 

 Signed by the author by means of an attached publisher's bookplate.

Paver, Michelle

Ghost Hunter.  Book 6, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.

Fine (unread) in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author on title page in purple ink.  Sixth and last novel in this popular series.

Peet, Mal

Tamar

London, Walker Books, 2005.

Fine as issued.  Paperback original - no hardback edition.

Second novel from the award-winning author of "Keeper".   Explores the world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland in the Second World War.  Published to excellent reviews.

 May 2006:  shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

7 July 2006:  Winner of the Carnegie Medal, beating four former winners of the Medal (David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Jan Mark and Geraldine McCaughrean).

Pullman, Philip. (Lawrence, John - illustrator)

Once Upon A Time in The North

Oxford, David Fickling, 2008

Fine in cloth boards without dustjacket as issued.  Also included in a pocket at the rear of the book are two inserts: Peril of The Pole (a game) and a card press-out wind compass.

Sage, Angie

Queste.  Septimus Heap Book 4

London, Bloomsbury, 2008

Fine with printed boards in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Spare dustjacket for Queste included.

Said, S.F.

Outlaw Varjak Paw

Oxford, David Fickling, 2005.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Signed by the author.

The sequel to Gold Smarties Award Winning Varjak Paw, once again with brilliant illustrations by Dave McKean.

Walden, Mark

H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute for Villainous Education)

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

Webb, Catherine

The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle.

London, Atom, 2006.

Signed by author.

Horatio Lyle is described as "crossed with Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Edison as described by Terry Pratchett."  Catherine Webb is a student at the London School of Economics.  First in a projected series.

Winterson, Jeanette

Tanglewreck

London, Bloomsbury, 2006

Fine as issued in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author.

First novel for children from a Whitbread Award-winning author.

Nobody knows what to do when the Time Tornadoes start.  Some days are long, some are short.  Time stops, then jerks forward.  People are getting caught in Time Traps - locked in the past, then pushed into the future.

Wooding, Chris.

Poison.

London, Scholastic, 2003.

Fine/Fine (unread).

SIGNED bookplate loosely laid in.

Winner of the Dracula Society Children of The Night Award 2003 for the best novel published in the Gothic genre. Latest novel from the Author of the Smarties Award winning "Alaizabel Cray".

Wooding, Chris.

Poison

London, Scholastic, 2003.

Fine in Fine, protected dustjacket.

Signed by author on title page.

Winner of the Dracula Society Children of The Night Award 2003 for the best novel published in the Gothic genre.

Gaiman, Neil

Coraline

London, Bloomsbury, 2002

Slight toning of page edges, else Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Signed by the author, who has also added a sketch of a rat.

Gaiman, Neil

The Graveyard Book

London, Bloomsbury, 2008

Fine in Fine dustjacket.  Children's edition with illustrations by Chris Riddell.

Signed by the author.

Winner of the Newbery Medal.