A DANGEROUS ENERGY. by Whitbourn, John - 1992

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0575053550 . 8.60 X 5.40 X 1.30 inches; 320 pages .

London.: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1992. 317pp.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

England: Orion Publishing Co, 1992. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1ST. A Nice Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Tiniest Bit Of Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy..

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. First Edition, First Printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Peter Mennim, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket, board spine ends are bumped, and page block is slightly tanned. Otherwise, as unread. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

Victor Gollancz: London, 1992. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. The author's first novel, winner of the BBC Bookshelf/Gollancz First Fantasy Novel Competition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Gollancz Fantasy, London, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Peter Mennim -- Dustwrapper. 317 pp., illustrated dustwrapper. A neat and tidy copy. "His first novel won the 1991 First Fantasy Novel Competition jointly organized by BBC Radio 4's Bookshelf and the publishers Gollancz. The novel is set in an alternate world UK, ingeniously outlined through a history examination paper, where Royalists won the Civil War and the stern guardianship of the Catholic Church has, as in Keith Robert's Pavane (1968), retarded technology; this Church controls and polices magic. The selfish, amoral anti-hero Oakley is magically initiated by elves, enters the Church, and proves brutally effective in "crusades" against England's heretical Protestant "Levellers". He advances himself by misusing demons, source of all major magical power; these and their conjuration exude an effective stench of wrongness, as in James… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1992. 317pp. Book clean. Mildly cocked. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Trivially bumped head and heel of backstrip. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated [Peter Mennim] dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. The author's debut novel, which won the 'BBC Bookshelf/Gollancz First Fantasy Novel' competition . . . The setting: England, 1967-ruled by the power of the Catholic Church . . . Young Tobias Oakley, out on an illicit night-time expedition, meets an Elven woman-and is chosen for initiation into the secrets of necromany.Showing powerful talent, he is recruited by the Thaumaturgical Division of the Church. So begins . . . a journey to the depths, and ultimately confronting a savage irony.Contents, in 'books', include: 1. August 1962-March 1979. 2. May 1982-November 1985. 3. August 1990. 4. November 2003-November 2026. Book weight approx. 550g.. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.