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  • GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: Crosstime Traffic, Book One. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: Crosstime Traffic, Book One.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Crosstime Traffic novel, set in an alternate time where the states never united into a single country. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-765-314851.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57743
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  • BLOOD AND IRON: American Empire, Book One. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    BLOOD AND IRON: American Empire, Book One.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Ballantine, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy." SIGNED on the title page. 567 pp. ISBN: 0-345-40565X.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (short closed tear, rubbing to dj,)

    Book ID: 57817
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  • Settling Accounts: THE GRAPPLE. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    Settling Accounts: THE GRAPPLE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third volume in this epic alternate history series about World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 616 pp. ISBN: 0-345-405501.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)

    Book ID: 62921
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  • RULERS OF THE DARKNESS. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    RULERS OF THE DARKNESS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of World War - and magic. 576 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-765300362.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79824
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  • AMERICAN EMPIRE: THE VICTORIOUS OPPOSITION. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    AMERICAN EMPIRE: THE VICTORIOUS OPPOSITION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (2003). Hardcover first edition - The third book in his American Empire series - one which began with a simple question: "What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict." 496 pp. ISBN: 0-345-44423x.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80320
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  • INTO THE DARKNESS. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    INTO THE DARKNESS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the World at War - the first book in this series set in a world where magic works. 540 pp. Map endpapers. Dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-312868952.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket. (small nick at base of spine of dj)

    Book ID: 81007
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  • THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: American Empire, Book Two.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy" - and in 1924, it is a time of rebuilding, of restoring the monuments in Washington and reclaiming the devasted cities. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Maps. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-345-444213.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81219
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  • BLOOD AND IRON: American Empire, Book One. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    BLOOD AND IRON: American Empire, Book One.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ballantine, (2001). SIGNED first edition - "Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy." SIGNED on the title page. 503 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

    Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers.

    Book ID: 81220
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  • ADVANCE AND RETREAT. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    ADVANCE AND RETREAT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Baen Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history book, which turns "the American Civil War literally upside-down, a fantasy which brings to life a war to free the blond serfs of the North and raise them to equality beside their swarthy masters. Turtledove not only swaps South for North but replaces rifles with crossbows, horses with unicorns and railways with magic carpets." (PW) SIGNED and dated on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-743435761.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81221
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  • COUNTING UP, COUNTING DOWN. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    COUNTING UP, COUNTING DOWN.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (2002). First edition - A collection of science fiction, fantasy and alternate history stories. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-345-442661.

    Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages, some crinkling to upper corner of textblock)

    Book ID: 76849
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  • "Vilest Beast" in ANALOG MAGAZINE: SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FACT, Vol. 74 No. 1 September 1985. by Turtledove, Harry (Eric G. Iverson), signed. Schmidt, Stanley, editor.
    Turtledove, Harry (Eric G. Iverson), signed. Schmidt, Stanley, editor.
    "Vilest Beast" in ANALOG MAGAZINE: SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FACT, Vol. 74 No. 1 September 1985.

    Edition: First printing, a digest magazine.

    New York: Davis Publications. 1988. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Harry Turtledove at his novelette 'Vilest Beast' as both Eric Goddam Iverson (Harry Turtledove). Also includes fiction by Gordon Dickson, William F. Wu, and others, nonfiction by James E. Oberg. Cover by Bob Walters.

    Condition: Near fine (no mailing label.)

    Book ID: 43319
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  • "Designated Hitter" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol.78 No.6 June 1990. by Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    "Designated Hitter" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol.78 No.6 June 1990.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. 1990. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Harry Turtledove at his story 'Designated Hitter.' Also includes fiction by Ral Aldridge, Judith Moffett, Kit Reed and others.

    Condition: Very good (mailing label.)

    Book ID: 43313
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  • "Batboy" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 75 No.6 December 1988. by Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    "Batboy" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 75 No.6 December 1988.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. 1988. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Harry Turtledove at his story 'Batboy.' Also includes fiction by Ian Watson, Ray Aldridge, Robert Reed and others. Cover by Steven Gervais.

    Condition: Very good (mailing label.)

    Book ID: 43314
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  • "Vermin" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 84 No. 3 March 1993. by Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    "Vermin" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 84 No. 3 March 1993.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. 1993. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Harry Turtledove at his novelet 'Batboy.' Also includes fiction by David Brin, Rob Chilson and others, nonfiction by Orson Scott Card, Gregory Benford, John Kessel. Cover by Jill Bauman.

    Condition: Very good (small peeled spot on front cover.)

    Book ID: 43315
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  • "The Last Article" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 74 No. 1 January 1988. by Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    Turtledove, Harry, signed.
    "The Last Article" in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Vol. 74 No. 1 January 1988.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. 1988. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Harry Turtledove at his novelet 'The Last Article.' Also includes fiction by Pat Cadigan, Dean Whitlock and others, nonfiction by Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison. Cover by Jill Bauman.

    Condition: Very good (mailing label.)

    Book ID: 43316
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  • WORLDS THAT WEREN'T. by Turtledove, Harry, signed; Mary Gentle, S.M. Stirling and Walter Jon Williams.
    Turtledove, Harry, signed; Mary Gentle, S.M. Stirling and Walter Jon Williams.
    WORLDS THAT WEREN'T.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: New American Library - ROC, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Four novellas of alternate history from the Spartans in ancient Greece to Tombstone, Arizona. SIGNED by Turtledove on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-451-458869.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57716
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  • LOVERS & KILLERS. by Turzillo, Mary (aka Mary T. Brizzi)
    Turzillo, Mary (aka Mary T. Brizzi)
    LOVERS & KILLERS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, (2012). First edition - A new collection of thirty-seven poems by this Nebula Award winning author Mary Turzillo - "Mary Turzillo sees the bones beneath the skin, and lays bare the nerves. Like shiny scalpels her sardonic and lovely words mordantly reinterpret botany and biology, astronomy and mythologies, crimes and passions, pungently, poignantly." (Ian Watson) 74 pp. ISBN: 978-1937128326.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 84982
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  • Tusquets, Esther
    THE SAME SEA AS EVERY SUMMER.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, but not published in Spain until 1978, when she was 42, and after the ending of the censorship of the Franco regime - this was still controversial for its exploration of women's sexuality and especially for its portrayal of a lesbian relationship in a positive manner. Translated, and with an afterword, by Margaret E. W. Jones. Winner of the 1989 Kayden National Translation Award. ISBN: 0-8032-44223.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 7292
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  • STRANDED. by Tusquets, Esther.
    Tusquets, Esther.
    STRANDED.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this important and unconventional Spanish feminist writer, one who explores eroticism from the point of view of women. Translated and with an afterword by Susan E. Clark. 230 pp. Attractive cover art reproduces "A Mermaid" (1901) by J.W. Waterhouse. ISBN: 0-916583-83X.

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (closed tear to upper edge of back cover.)

    Book ID: 45230
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  • Tuttle, Lisa.
    LOST FUTURES.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format.)

    New York: Dell, 1992. First edition - Horror novel, published as a paperback original.

    Condition: Very near fine in stiff yellow wrappers (appears unread, but with an 'A' on the bottom edge of the textblock)

    Book ID: 18127
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  • SIMBI AND THE SATYR OF THE DARK JUNGLE. by Tutuola, Amos.
    Tutuola, Amos.
    SIMBI AND THE SATYR OF THE DARK JUNGLE.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1988.). Originally published in the UK in 1955, this is the story of Simbi, the most beautiful girl in the village, daughter of the wealthiest woman, who tires of her privileged existence and goes in search of Poverty and Punishment. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-87286-2143.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 41488
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  • Tutuola, Amos
    THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Grove Press, (1982.). A novel originally published in 1953, perhaps the best known work by this important Nigerian writer. Cover praise from Dylan Thomas who called it a 'brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching story.' 130 pp. ISBN: 0-394-172353.

    Condition: Good only (prev owner's name, toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 42852
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  • MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS. by Tutuola, Amos (1920-1997)
    Tutuola, Amos (1920-1997)
    MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    London: Faber & Faber, (1964). The second novel by this Nigerian author, who based his books on Yoruba folktales and traditions. First published in 1954, this tells the story of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a wild and grotesque African forest, where he is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs. With a foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder. 174 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name - that of the poet Elizabeth La Place [Harrod] on the first page).

    Book ID: 78953
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  • HUCKLEBERRY FINN. by Twain, Mark.
    Twain, Mark.
    HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    Danbury, CT: Grolier Enterprises Corp, n.d. (ca 1978). Hardcover - A title in The World's Great Classic series. Includes a critical and biographical profile of Twain by James M. Cox. xx. 387pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in beige cloth with terra cotta panels with silver and copper illustrations and lettering, all edges gilt.

    Book ID: 60367
    Keywords: Classics
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  • MARK TWAIN IN THE WEST: State of California Department of Education, Bulletin No. 21, November 1, 1935. by [Twain, Mark] Benson, Ivan
    [Twain, Mark] Benson, Ivan
    MARK TWAIN IN THE WEST: State of California Department of Education, Bulletin No. 21, November 1, 1935.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers, a slim pamphlet.

    Sacramento: California State Printing Office, (1936). First edition - A "bulletin prepared for the public schools in the hope that a brief story of his life and travels here and in Western Nevada will add interest to his books." Illustrated with photographs, chronology, calendar of his travels in the West, books about Mark Twain. vii, 30 pp.

    Condition: Good only (some dampstaining and bleeding to upper edges of several pages)

    Book ID: 87223
    Keywords: Ephemera
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  • ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: Retold for Boys and Girls. by [Twain, Mark] Clemens, Samuel L.
    [Twain, Mark] Clemens, Samuel L.
    ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: Retold for Boys and Girls.

    Edition: First thus.

    Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc. (1940.). Hardcover first edition - A title in the 'Little Big Classics' series. Illustrated by A. Rusk. Small format - 17cm tall by 13 cm. 92 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards (remnants of prev owner's name on back cover, spine starting to tear, usual toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 80312
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  • [Twain, Mark] Cooper, Robert.
    AROUND THE WORLD WITH MARK TWAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Arcade Publishing, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 100 years after Mark Twain, 59 years old and deeply in debt, set out on a world-wide lecture tour, boarding a night train from Elmira to Cleveland on July 14, 1895, Cooper set out to retrace Twain's footsteps and the result is the first full-length book treatment of this journey since Twain's own. Twain's trip took him across North America and to Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. Based on journals, letters and newspaper accounts, this is a combinationof travel writing, social history, historiography and biography. Photographs, extensive notes, references, index. 420 pp. ISBN: 1-55970-5221.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (faint embossed stamp of prev owner)

    Book ID: 29106
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  • THE BIRDS AND BEASTS OF MARK TWAIN. by [Twain, Mark] [Editor]; Rodney, Robert M. and Minnie M. Brashear, editors.
    [Twain, Mark] [Editor]; Rodney, Robert M. and Minnie M. Brashear, editors.
    THE BIRDS AND BEASTS OF MARK TWAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Excerpts from Mark Twain's writing showing his humorous and touching treatment of animals, from domestics to Western to exotics. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and drawings by Robert Roche. xiv, 117 pp plus colophon.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine of dj)

    Book ID: 85684
    Keywords: Classics
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  • THE GREAT LANDSLIDE CASE: Three Versions. by Twain, Mark; Editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch.
    Twain, Mark; Editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch.
    THE GREAT LANDSLIDE CASE: Three Versions.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: The Friends of Bancroft Library, 1972. First edition - Number 20 in the Keepsakes series produced for members of The Friends of the Bancroft Library. Three different scenarios of a mining incident in Nevada Territory are presented - the final version is Chapter 34 in Twain's Roughing It. Includes background historical material and editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch. No. 20 in series of Keepsakes of Friends of the Bancroft Library. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated. Fold-out page reprint from the Daily Call with a letter from Mark Twain attached inside back cover. 64 pp.

    Condition: Very good in tan wrappers with yapped edges (small spot on front cover)

    Book ID: 74473
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  • WAS HUCK BLACK? Mark Twain and African-American Voices. by [Twain, Mark] Fishkin,Shelley Fisher.
    [Twain, Mark] Fishkin,Shelley Fisher.
    WAS HUCK BLACK? Mark Twain and African-American Voices.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover - A study on how African American voices, folklore and rhetorical traditions of his time influenced Twain's writing, and especially the character of Huck Finn. Extensive notes, works cited, index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-195082141.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 88682
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