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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 -
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 Charlaine Harris on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015221.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67186More details Price: $28.50 -
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 very 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: $13.50 -
SHADOWS 2 (Two.)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in,
Book ID: 52120More details Price: $40.00 -
SHADOWS 2 (Two.)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and significant reading wear, but in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 57138More details Price: $19.50 -
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 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 -
DOWN THESE STRANGE STREETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An all-new collection of urban fantasy stories - strange cases of death and magic in the city - by Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon, Simon R. Green, S. M. Stirling, Carrie Vaughn, Glen Cook, Bradley Denton, M.L.N. Hanover, Conn Iggulden, Laurie R. King, Joe R. Lansdale, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Melinda Snodgrass, and Lisa Tuttle. SIGNED twice by Joe Lansdale - on the table of contents and at his story "The Bleeding Shadow." Introduction by George Martin in which he describes urban fantasy as the "bastard stepchild" - the heroes have their roots in hardboiled mystery, while the villains are straight out of horror. xii, 478 pp. ISBN: 978-0441020744.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69619More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
THE BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY STORIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Del Rey, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Includes stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, Nicholas A. DiChario, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Jack L. Chalker, Ward Moore, Poul Anderson, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner, Allen Steele and Brad Linaweaver. SIGNED by TWO authors - by Turtledove on the title page and by Gregory Benford at his story "Manassas." Introduction by Harry Turtledove. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-739422375.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (small chip to upper edge, other edgewear)
Book ID: 70080More details Price: $24.00 -
TOM SWIFT AND HIS SPECTROMARINE SELECTOR: Tom Swift, Jr series #15.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1960). Hardcover - Illustrated by Graham Kaye. Lists through #20 in this series in the front of the book and on the back cover. 184 pp.
Condition: Good condition in illustrated boards with gold spine and back cover (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 79430More details Price: $11.50 -
THE DEATH DEALERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Avon, (1958). First edition - From the back cover: "I found Ralph's body in the chemistry laboratory. The policy called it suicide. But I knew better. It was murder - cold-blooded, calculated murder! The trouble was, though, that if I told the police what I knew it would make me SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. . . the mystery-writing debut of one of the great science fiction writers of all-time." Avon Book # T-287, cover price 35c, good girl cover art. 189 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80624More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
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: $10.00 -
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: $13.50 -
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 -
ESCAPE FROM THE CARNIVALE: A Never Land Book.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The adventures of Peter Pan's friends on Mollusk Island. The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first written for younger children. SIGNED by BOTH authors - by Ridley Pearson on the half title page and by Dave Barry on the title page. Not illustrated. Disney editions. 115 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 43043More details Price: $27.50 -
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