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THE GIRL IN A SWING.
Edition: First printing, first issue.
London: Allen Lane, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this first issue printing still has the original name of Kathe) but it was produced for the Canadian market with the price - $12.95 - in Canadian dollars. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-713913452.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74039More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GIRL IN A SWING.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed blue covers - an uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 57321More details Price: $125.00 -
GLIMRING NIGHT And Other Tales of Fantasy. Dark Regions #4. The Short Story Anthology: Magazine of Weird Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Concord, CA: Dark Regions Press, 1991. SIGNED frst edition - A magazine of weird fiction in a trade paperback format. Includes fiction and poetry as well as an article in the writer's corner by Bruce Boston on small press publishing. SIGNED by Kevin J. Anderson at his story "The Dragon Business." Illustrated by Cheryl Mandus, Alan Jude Summa and Sandra L. Johnson.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 67960More details Price: $21.50 -
THE PIG PLANTAGENET
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, "The mysteries of life are not easily understood by Plantagenet, the swiftest, the skinniest and certainly the most charming pig in all of thirteenth century France. . . A social character with the predictable yearning to belong, he cannot seem to choose between the free but frightening forest life of his cousin the boar, Grondin and his own limited but pleasant existence in the farmyard of the Maister's lovely daughter, Adele." Wraparound dustjacket art, illustrated endpapers and interior line drawings by Michael Foreman. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-670555010.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83384More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CRUSHED FLOWER and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five short stories and three novellas. Although the title story depicts the mind of a child with tenderness and pathos, other stories in this collection are much darker. Kunitz and Haycraft commented "In his work, if he resembles any other author, it is Poe - but a Poe who has crossed the border of fantasy into the realm of absolute blackness." However, during this period America was avid for anything relating to Edgar Allan Poe and, as Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. Translated from the Russian by Herman Bernstein, 361 pp.
Condition: Near fine (name inside front cover) in a very good dust jacket (tape reinforcement to interior of dj, some chipping at head of dj spine, but scarce in dj) No price on dj flap, but on the list on the back the price is shown as 1.50)
Book ID: 83669More details Price: $300.00 -
DEMONS & DREAMS: The Best Fantasy and Horror.
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (the usual toning to the pages so often found in UK editions.)
Book ID: 34990More details Price: $50.00 -
CUTTING EDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology containing twenty original stories by Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Haldeman, Marc Laidlaw, Roberta Lannes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Les Daniels, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nicholas Royle, Ray Russell, Whitley Strieber, Robert Bloch, W.H. Pugmire & Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Charles L. Grant, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Bryant, and Karl Edward Wagner. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories - Peter Straub, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Introduction by Dennis Etchison. xv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-385-234309.
Condition: Very near fine in a good dustjacket (small chip, short closed tear and a bit of rubbing to dj, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 59103More details Price: $40.00 -
SHADOWS 8.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology containing 17 stories with an introduction by Grant. SIGNED and dated by Yarbro at her short story 'Do I Dare to Eat a Peach' and by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at her story 'The Shadow of the Hawk.' Other stories include The Blind Man by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; A Demon in Rosewood by Sharon Webb; Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder; Everything's Going to Be All Right by Gene DeWeese; Cycles by Kim Antieau; The Tuckahoe by Nancy Etchemendy; Between the Windows of the Sea by Jack Dann; The Battering by Steve Rasnic Tem; Toy by Bill Pronzini; The Man Who Loved Water by Craig Shaw Gardner; Sand by Alan Ryan; and more. ISBN: 0-385-19823x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder spray bottom edge.)
Book ID: 22385More details Price: $35.00 -
SHADOWS 8.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light remainder spray bottom edge.)
Book ID: 62519More details Price: $40.00 -
SHADOWS 6 (Six.)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Laid in is a promotional card also SIGNED by Morrell.
Book ID: 52115More details Price: $50.00 -
SHADOWS 6 (Six.)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 57149More details Price: $25.00 -
SHADOWS 8.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology containing 17 stories with an introduction by Grant. SIGNED by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at her story 'The Shadow of the Hawk.' Other stories include Do I Dare to Eat a Peach' by Yarbro, The Blind Man by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; A Demon in Rosewood by Sharon Webb; Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder; Everything's Going to Be All Right by Gene DeWeese; Cycles by Kim Antieau; The Tuckahoe by Nancy Etchemendy; Between the Windows of the Sea by Jack Dann; The Battering by Steve Rasnic Tem; Toy by Bill Pronzini; The Man Who Loved Water by Craig Shaw Gardner; Sand by Alan Ryan; and more. ISBN: 0-385-19823x.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and significant reading wear, in a good unmarked dust jacket (some discoloration to the edge of the front cover and front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 56490More details Price: $15.00 -
SHADOWS 3 (Three.)
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology with 12 "fascinating and original stories of the macabre and bizarre" SIGNED by William Nolan at his story "The Partnership." Also includes stories by Davis Grubb, Ray Russell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Pat Murphy and more. Edited and with an introduction by Charles Grant. ix 211 pp. ISBN: 0-385-157770.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj)
Book ID: 83296More details Price: $31.50 -
MANY BLOODY RETURNS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Tales of birthdays with bite." A collection of vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, P. N. Elrod, Tanya Huff, and others. SIGNED by THREE authors: Harris and Kelner on the title page and by Carolyn Haines at her story "The Wish." 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015221.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87813More details Price: $45.00 -
MANY BLOODY RETURNS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Tales of birthdays with bite." A collection of vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, P. N. Elrod, Tanya Huff, and others. SIGNED by Carolyn Haines at her story "The Wish." 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015221.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64001More details Price: $30.00 -
FANTASY TALES: Volume 2, Issue No 3, Spring 1991.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of horror fiction which includes "Foreign Parts" a tale of sex and death by Neil Gaiman, Thomas Ligotti's "The Spectacles in the Drawer" and stories by Clive Barker, Kim Newman and others. SIGNED by William Nolan at his story "Gobble, Gobble." Illustrated. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-88184-733X.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 55351More details Price: $16.00 -
WHISPERS IV.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology based on the award-winning horror magazine - includes stories by Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Russell Kirk, Hugh B. Cave, William F. Nolan, Tanith Lee, Richard Christian Matheson and more. SIGNED by TWO authors: by David Drake at his story "The Dancer in the Flames" and by William Nolan at "Fair Trade." Wraparound dust jacket art by Stephen E. Fabian. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385-149670.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and significant reading wear, but in a good dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45556More details Price: $20.00 -
HOW DID WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE UNIVERSE?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 26th title in the How Did We Find Out Series. Illustrated with drawings by David Wool. Index. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-802764770.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, in a very good unmarked dj (price-clipped)
Book ID: 83677More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FOGHORN: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of four supernatural tales, consisting of two novellas and two short stories, set in California and Europe, including - in addition to the classic title story - the often-anthologized "The Striding." Two long and two short stories, the setting shifting from California to Europe. In first of the novellas - 'The Eternal Now' - a man relives his past existence in an earlier century at the height of a party he is giving in the here and now and in 'The Sacrificial Altar' a writer of crime fiction cannot prove his only crime and kills himself. 198 pp.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with red lettering in a rather poor example of the uncommon dust jacket - the book has a couple of previous owner stamps; the dust jacket has several short tears with associated creasing on the front cover and the loss of about 1 inch at the top of the spine, but the original price of 1.75 is still present.
Book ID: 83582More details Price: $75.00 -
KINGDOM OF THE GRAIL.
Edition: First edition.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in twelfth-century Wales at the climax of the Middle Ages, a time when the Crusades, troubadours, Arthurian romance, castles, and Christian fervor are at their peak. 500 pp. ISBN: 0-060179651.
Condition: very good in fine dust jacket (large prev owner's name on front endpaper).
Book ID: 80011More details Price: $16.50 -
DARK MONDAY: Stories.
Edition: First trade edition.
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of dark fantasy stories by the author of The Company novels. Includes an original novella featuring pirate captain Henry Morgan, 'The Maid on the Shore.' 231 pp. ISBN: 978-1597800518.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66889More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DAY OF CREATION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in "the parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa" where in front of the doctor struggling to bring water to the area, an apparent miracle occurs. As a tractor gouges the ground for an airstrip, "water bubbles to the surface, first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood. and a sizeable river seems to be forming." A combination of speculative and realistic fiction. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-88619-1815.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65033More details Price: $17.50 -
MIDDLE SCHOOL BITES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Holiday House, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a humorous new series for older children. "Tom can't help that he's hungry, howling and half dead. Thanks to a series of unfortunate bites, eleven-year old Tom is now part vampire, part werewolf and part zombie - just in time for the first day of middle school." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Mark Fearing. 295 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81489More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DAMNATION GAME.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Ace Books / Putnam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel "by the man Stehen King named as his own successor." 379 pp. ISBN: 0-399-132783.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 53077More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE FLESH, Tales of Terror
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short fiction - 4 pieces that have Stephen King saying that Barker is 'better than I am' 221 pp. Dust jacket by by Fred Marcellino,. ISBN: 0-671-626876.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 77567More details Price: $19.50 -
FINITY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.
Condition: Just about fine in a good dust jacket (tear to bottom edge of front cover, creasing top edge)
Book ID: 64887More details Price: $14.50 -
FINITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86620More details Price: $21.50 -
FINITY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - "A novel of many worlds." Set in Auckland, 100 years after the Reichs dominated the world. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-312-861184.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short tear at base of dj spine, slit along fold)
Book ID: 57786More details Price: $16.50 -
IRON SHADOWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller about a charismatic cult with a dark underside, SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85708x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56935More details Price: $30.00 -
PETER AND THE SHADOW THIEVES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Books for Children - Disney Editions, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The second book in this highly praised series for older children which tells of the early adventures of Peter Pan. In this, he leaves Mollusk Island and travels with Tinkerbelle to the cold, damp and dangerous streets of London. SIGNED by Ridley Pearson on the title page. 541 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 43044More details Price: $30.00