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TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His highly praised third novel (including comments from Thomas Pynchon and Tom Robbins) about a very different 20th century - and a revival of Hitler's lost dream. SIGNED on the facing title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-671-649213.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (some crinkling to the lower corner of the textblock.)
Book ID: 65435More details Price: $30.00 -
TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His highly praised third novel (including comments from Thomas Pynchon and Tom Robbins) about a very different 20th century - and a revival of Hitler's lost dream. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-671-649213.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 37570More details Price: $40.00 -
1634: THE GALILEO AFFAIR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Baen Books, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A title in the Ring of Fire series, involving both alternate history and time travel - in this novel, the Thirty Years War is continuing to ravage 17th century Europe. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, 549 pp. Cover art by Tim KIdd. ISBN: 0-7434-88156.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (spotting to outer edge of textblock).
Book ID: 65286More details Price: $25.00 -
1634: THE GALILEO AFFAIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Baen Books, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A title in the Ring of Fire series, involving both alternate history and time travel - in this novel, the Thirty Years War is continuing to ravage 17th century Europe. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, 549 pp. Cover art by Tim KIdd. ISBN: 0-7434-88156.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73483More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DANCE OF TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Baen Books, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final book in the Belisarius Saga. SIGNED by Eric Flint on the title page. Maps. Glossary, 468 pp. ISBN: 1416509315.
Condition: Ex-library with only a few markings but noticeable toning to the pages, some reading wear, in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 66944More details Price: $18.50 -
CHILD OF THE LIGHT, the Madagascar Manifesto.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 1992. First edition - Described as 'an alternate Holocaust fantasy.'
Condition: Fine in printed gray wrappers.
Book ID: 1509More details Price: $15.00 -
STRANGE DEVICES OF THE SUN AND MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fantasy novel which recreates the world of Elizabethan London, a city of spies and booksellers, alchemists and playwrights, witches and plague. SIGNED on the title page. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-312854609.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76911More details Price: $30.00 -
FRONT LINES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - An alternate history novel for young adults - a World War II where young women are called up to fight alongside men. this is the story of Rio Richlin and her friends as they go into battle against Hitler's forces. Bibliography. 547 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67095More details Price: $17.50 -
STARS & STRIPES TRIUMPHANT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69543More details Price: $40.00 -
WEST OF EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in the "West of Eden" trilogy, a saga of a world where the age of reptiles never ended, and intelligent dinosaurs and primitive humans battle for dominance and survival - a rigorously researched work of alternate history. Illustrated by Bill Sanderson. 483 pp. ISBN: 0553-050656.
Condition: Fair condition only in a fair dustjacket (spine slant, edge of textblock bumped, short tears and edgewear to the dj - a first edition, but in reading copy condition only)
Book ID: 38421More details Price: $12.50 -
STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in his alternative history series based during the Civil War - "at the dawn of the U.S. Civil War, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. packet ship. In retaliation, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and took up arms against England." Now England is massing on the Mexican border with plans to invade Texas, and a war weary Lincoln has sent Grant to the border. " SIGNED on the title page. Illustrations by Angela Tomlinson. List of characters. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-345409353.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69558More details Price: $40.00 -
THE PROTEUS OPERATION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - An alternate history novel in which the German Third Reich won the Second World War and democracy is almost extinct. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-553-050958.
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (some crinkling and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 49195More details Price: $12.50 -
THE PROTEUS OPERATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history novel in which the German Third Reich won the Second World War and democracy is almost extinct. SIGNED on the title page. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-553-050958.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear at the top of the spine, other minor edgewear, price-clipped.).
Book ID: 57415More details Price: $45.00 -
THE PROTEUS OPERATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history novel in which the German Third Reich won the Second World War and democracy is almost extinct. SIGNED on the title page. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-553-050958.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (spine of dj folded slightly off-center).
Book ID: 62667More details Price: $50.00 -
THE COMING OF THE DEMONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A historical science fantasy, in which aliens come to 13th century Naples, and are seen as either angels or demons. The author's first novel and the first in a proposed trilogy. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-668-007767.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear at lower corner)
Book ID: 17975More details Price: $17.50 -
THE COMING OF THE DEMONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A historical science fantasy, in which aliens come to 13th century Naples, and are seen as either angels or demons. The author's first novel and the first in a proposed trilogy. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To--- with affection and best wishes" and dated in 1994. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-668-007767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58003More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOST KINGDOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scholastic, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history adventure by this Edgar-winning author: "In 1753, noted American naturalist John Bartram and his son Billy join an expedition to search the frontier in the di Terzi, a flying ship powered by Òvacuum balloonsÓ and wind. Their mission is to find the centuries-old Kingdom of Madoc, a Welsh settlement rumored to be on the frontier. Along the way they encounter the young George Washington, hostile French troops, a herd of enormous incognitum (mastodons), and a terrifying bear-wolf." SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 348 pp. ISBN: 9780545274265.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58517More details Price: $31.50 -
THE LAST PRESIDENT.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Borgo Press, 2013. SIGNED - A thriller and an alternative history, one which creates a world in which the Watergate burglars were not caught and the paranoid but powerful American president goes out of control. Originally published in 1980 in hardcover - but perhaps even more relevant now than it was then. SIGNED by Michael Kurland on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1479400140.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some wear to edges of back cover, no creasing to spine, appears unread).
Book ID: 86638More details Price: $21.50 -
ESCAPEMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history fantasy where Queen Victoria still rules New England and her American possessions and the Royal Navy rules the skies with their mighty airships. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-17095.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45618More details Price: $30.00 -
ESCAPEMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An alternate history fantasy where Queen Victoria still rules New England and her American possessions and the Royal Navy rules the skies with their mighty airships. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-17095.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (tape ghosts on boards, sticker remnant on front endpaper, crease to lower edge of back cover.)
Book ID: 63855More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, described as 'magical historical fiction' - the story of an 8 year old savant, an orphan, who becomes an advisor to the Sultan himself, a story opening in 1877 in the last years of the Turkish empire, SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71031More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, described as 'magical historical fiction' - the story of an 8 year old savant, an orphan, who becomes an advisor to the Sultan himself, a story opening in 1877 in the last years of the Turkish empire, SIGNED on the title page and dated October 19, 2010 before publication. Includes several pages of questions and answers from the author on "the story behind the book." 300 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps, in a gold foil lined folding purple slipcase (some creasing to one end of the slipcase). An uncommon and attractive advance issue.
Book ID: 65175More details Price: $35.00 -
CLAREMONT TALES II
Edition: First printing.
Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An innovative collection of short stories ranging from Lovecraftian horror to a Sherlock Holmes tale as told by Kerouac to alternate history in which the Roman Empire did not fall. Includes one story 'Green Ice' written especially for this volume. Foreword by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrations and wraparound dust jacket art by Nicholas Jainschigg. One of only 3000 copies. xv, 298 plus colophon and 1 pp ads. ISBN: 193084607x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50768More details Price: $30.00 -
BUSTED FLUSH: A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A Wild Cards Novel, set in an alternate 2008, a world which came into existence after an alien virus accidently released in 1946 rewrote human DNA. Written and edited by Martin and Snodgrass, and with contributions by Carrie Vaughn, Caroline Spector, John Jos. Miller, Ian Tregillis, Stephen Leigh, Victor Milan, Kevin Andrew Murphy and Walter Simons,. SIGNED on the title page by BOTH George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-765317818.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 66086More details Price: $75.00 -
INSIDE STRAIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Wild Cards Novel, set in an alternate 2008, a world which came into existence after an alien virus accidently released in 1946 rewrote human DNA. Written and edited by Martin and Snodgrass, and with contributions by Daniel Abraham, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt, Caroline Spector, John Jos. Miller, Ian Tregillis, S. L. Farrell. SIGNED on the title page by Melinda Snodgrass. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-765317818.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54836More details Price: $30.00 -
INSIDE STRAIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Wild Cards Novel, set in an alternate 2008, a world which came into existence after an alien virus accidently released in 1946 rewrote human DNA. Written and edited by Martin and Snodgrass, and with contributions by Daniel Abraham, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt, Caroline Spector, John Jos. Miller, Ian Tregillis, S. L. Farrell. SIGNED on the title page by FIVE authors: George R. R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Daniel Abraham, Carrie Vaughn and Ian Tregillis. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-765317818.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48863More details Price: $50.00 -
PASQUALE'S ANGEL.
Edition: First printing.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Florence in 1518, this is a novel about the Renaissance as it might have been - part thriller, part historical novel, and part speculative fiction. 286 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Jim Burns. ISBN: 0-575-054891.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48716More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MOON AND THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history novel set during the reign of Louis IX of France, the Sun King. Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from such writers as Ursula Le Guin (who called it the 'finest alternate history ever.. a luminous radiant novel.), Nicola Griffith, Jean Auel and others. Basis for the (supposedly) forthcoming movie of the same name featuring Pierce Brosnan and William Hurt. Author's afterword. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-671-567659.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64446More details Price: $45.00 -
OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART.
Edition: First printing.
Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as an "apocalyptic fable" and as "a combination of political thriller, a sci-fi romp and a poetic medititation on history [which] confronts America's nuclear legacy and present lunacy with furious satire and haunting grace." In this novel the three scientists most responsible for the atom bomb - Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard - are displaced to modern America at the moment the first mushroom cloud formed over New Mexico, and are taken in by a reference librarian and her doting gardener husband. SIGNED on the title page. 489 pp. ISBN: 1932360859.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56492More details Price: $45.00 -
REX REGIS: The Eighth Book of the Imager Portfolio.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in the Imager fantasy series set in an alternate early modern era. Double page map, list of characters, 455 pp. Dust jacket art by Donato Giancola. ISBN: 978-0765336347.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75705More details Price: $17.50
