- Keyword = Science Fiction, fantasy, horror, science fiction anthologies
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AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A modern day Alice Through the Looking Glass - but the looking glass is now a hole in the universe created by a team of physicists - they call it 'Lack.' "The novel is at the same time an astute and wise portrait of unrequited love (albeit of a very unusual kind) a hilarious academic parody, a novel of ideas and a social satire." Boldly SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-385485174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75610More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SIXTH DAY AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1990, dj. Hardcover first edition - Short fantasy tales, exploring the evolution of our popular culture and Levi's search for a more perfect world, as he conjures up remarkable new machines. Originally published in Italy in 1966 and 1977. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-671626175.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 8679More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SIXTH DAY AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1990, dj. Hardcover first edition - Short fantasy tales, exploring the evolution of our popular culture and Levi's search for a more perfect world, as he conjures up remarkable new machines. Originally published in Italy in 1966 and 1977. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-671626175.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 79762More details Price: $17.50 -
GET IN TROUBLE: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2015). First edition - The third collection of short stories by this Nebula award winning writer, whose stories combine elements of fantasy with sly humor and understanding. Michael Chabon called her Òthe most darkly playful voice in American fictionÓ; Neil Gaiman said she was Òa national treasureÓ; and Karen Russell described her as ÒFranz Kafka with a better understanding of ladiesÕ footwear and bad first dates.Ó 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers covered with praise for Link.
Book ID: 66784More details Price: $20.00 -
HAUNTED HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to her novel 'Gad's Hall' - one which looks at the evil in the attic of this old Suffolk home, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-340-228628.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (sunning to the spine of the dj, very short tear to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 51468More details Price: $28.00 -
THE PRINCESS IN THE OPAL MASK .
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
Philadelphia: Running Press Teens, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel with strong female characters: "Every Fairy-Tale Ending Has a Price. . . .Orphaned as a child in the crumbling village of Tulan, Elara is determined to learn her true identity, even if it means wielding a dagger." SIGNED by the author on the title page. 350 pp. ISBN: 9780762451098.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Promotional card laid in.
Book ID: 58670More details Price: $20.00 -
AFTER THE AFTERNOON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1944, chip to upper end of spine of dj, some discoloration to the edges of the dj.)
Book ID: 50299More details Price: $21.00 -
PENDRAGON: The Merchant of Death.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Aladdin, 2002. The first book in a new fantasy series: Bobby Pendragon, a seemingly normal 14 year old boy , is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron. 375 [[/. ISBN: 0-7434-37314.
Condition: Fine (as new)
Book ID: 76626More details Price: $11.00 -
SCREEN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Olympia Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - Malzberg's first novel published under his own name (but without the N. which he used for his science fiction novels) A fantasy erotica story of a man who can pass through the screen and have sexual contacts with actresses like Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren. Copyright page notes that this was produced for members of the Olympia Book Society only. Small format, approx 4 by 7 inches. 180 pp.
Condition: Very good in black cloth binding, with silver titles and decoration to front board in a good only dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing and wear to the folds, and chipping to the top of the spine but with the original price of $3.95 intact.
Book ID: 82407More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DICTIONARY OF IMAGINARY PLACES.
Edition: First thus.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - An updated and expanded edition of a work originally published in 1980. Contains descriptions of more than 1,200 worlds invented by storytellers throughout history, from Homer's Wandering Rocks in the Odyssey, More's Utopia, C. S. Lewis's Narnia, Coleridge's Xandu to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Rowling's Hogwarts and even to the Beatles' Pepperland from Yellow Submarine. Over 220 maps and illustrations.Index. xvi, 755 pp. A slightly oversized and very heavy book. ISBN: 978-1435125384.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a like dustjacket (a bit of wear to the top edge of the front cover)
Book ID: 83558More details Price: $28.50 -
THE DEAD RUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Voyager / Harper Collins, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One thing is sure - any novel by Mansback, the author of 'Go the F**ck to Sleep' is going to be unpredictable - and this one sure is. "An edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border. . . On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface.> . . an eerie high-concept thriller, mixing horror, the supernatural, and suspense in a chilling, high-octane read." SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 9780062199652.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58701More details Price: $40.00 -
WORLDS OF WEIRD.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Pyramid Books, (1965). First edition - Collects 7 stories, all originally published in Weird Tales, by Clark Ashton Smith, David Keller, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Howard, Edmund Hamilton, Seabury Quinn and Nietzin Dyalhis. Introduction by Sam Moskowitz and brief notes preceding each story. Cover art and internal black and white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. 50c. Pyramid Books No.R-1125, cover price 50 cents. 158 pp plus 2 pp ads.
Condition: Fair condition only (some creasing and wear to the covers, usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 85394More details Price: $11.50 -
THE WEIGHER OF SOULS & THE EARTH DWELLERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan Company, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Two ironical science fiction novellas by this noted French author best known for his biographies. This edition includes an autobiographical introduction "In the Twilight of My Life" in which he talks about how he came to write these stories and he notes that 'The Weigher of Souls' (first published in English in 1931) was one of his few works of fiction which found success. Epilogue by Jacques Choron; translated from the French by Hamish Miles, and illustrated with seven black and white plates by Leonard Everett Fisher. Includes a bibliography listing Maurois' works with both their first French and first English publication. 187 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some reading wear in a good dj with wear to top edge, spine label.
Book ID: 85410More details Price: $20.00 -
KILLISHANDRA.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (1986.). A crystal singer novel, a blend of fantasy, adventure and romance. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-345-316002.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 55805More details Price: $9.00 -
A FACE AT THE WINDOW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, a ghost story that explores the boundaries of illusion and real horror. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-553-066943.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37031More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAST YEAR.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Pegasus Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the chaos which takes over when it appears that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-9673123-53.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (crinkling to bottom edge of textblock)
Book ID: 58257More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LAST YEAR.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Pegasus Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the chaos which takes over when it appears that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-9673123-53.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 73368More details Price: $24.50 -
BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book, a collection of 13 elegant, bizarre and perverse short stories. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication (with the additional notation "Willimantic, CT." 192 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671-64405x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9509More details Price: $50.00 -
BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book, a collection of 13 elegant, bizarre and perverse short stories. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Clive Barker, Graham Swift and Gordon Lish. 192 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671-64405x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48615More details Price: $40.00 -
BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover - His first book, a collection of 13 elegant, bizarre and perverse short stories. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Clive Barker, Graham Swift and Gordon Lish. 192 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671-64405x.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 49295More details Price: $12.50 -
BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, a collection of 13 elegant, bizarre and perverse short stories. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Clive Barker, Graham Swift and Gordon Lish. 192 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671-64405x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 64356More details Price: $21.50 -
SHADOW BONES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A collection of short stories (the first book of fiction, preceded by some poetry books) by this Rhysling Award winner and Fishtrap Fellow - stories which "glance through sci-fi and fantasy on into other magical and imaginative spaces, never ceasing to pose the central ontological question 'What does it mean to be human?' " SIGNED on the title page. A title in The Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series. 116 pp. ISBN: 1-877655287.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76412More details Price: $28.50 -
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 -
THE TRUTH TRACKERS.
Edition: First printing - a trade paperback original.
Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing, (2001.). First edition - Science fiction, with supernatural overtones, for children ages 10-14. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-828014620.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 38122More details Price: $8.50 -
FEEDBACK: A Newsflesh Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse." Novel set in the near future by this award-winning writer (the first book in this series - originally a trilogy - was nominated for the Hugo.) 489 pp. ISBN: 978-0316379342.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 87399More details Price: $21.50 -
CROSSFIRE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Kodansha, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third to be published in English by this award winning writer. Young Junko Aoki has "an extraordinary ability - she can start fires through sheer force of will. When she begins using her gift of pyrokinesis to take the law into her own hands and punish violent criminals, her executions attract the attention of two very different groups: the Guardians, a secretive vigilante organization that tries to recruit her, and the arson squad of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department." Translated from the Japanese by by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki. 188 pp. ISBN: 4-770029934.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (upper corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 86874More details Price: $21.50 -
THE NOMAD OF TIME: THE WARLORD OF THE AIR, THE LAND LAVIATHAN, THE STEEL STAR.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Omnibus volume of these alternative history novels, featuring Oswald Bastable, formerly a captain in the Royal Lancers. First chapter begins in 1903 with the opium eater of Rowe Island. SIGNED by Moorcock on the title page. Code M47 on page 440. 441 pp. Dustjacket painting by Fred Labitzke.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some wear to the ends of the spine and the corners of the folds, usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 67456More details Price: $65.00 -
MOTHER LONDON.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony (Crown), (1989.). SIGNED first edition - Described on the back cover as Moorcock's 'centennial novel', this is one of his best - the story of 3 Londoners, patients at the same mental clinic and survivors of the German V2 bombings during World War II. Angela Carter described this as a 'vast, uncorseted, sentimental, comic, elegiac salmagundi of a novel' while Richard Burns called it 'wise and wistful, authentic and authoritative, intelligent and informed. It is a masterpiece.' SIGNED on the title page. 496 pp.
Condition: Near fine in light gray printed wrappers.
Book ID: 72332More details Price: $50.00 -
THE POISON ARTIST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. First edition - The author's very highly praised third novel - a story of obsession and deadly mystery - Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain, who becomes entangled in a serial-murder investigation. Lee Child called this Patient, stylish and incredibly suspenseful. while Stephen King said it "is an electrifying read, building from shock to shock. The final chapter is an absolute stunner." 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85948More details Price: $20.00 -
CREEPERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: CDS Books,
(2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Co-winner of the Bram Stoker award. SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp. ISBN: 159315237x.Condition: Good only in good dust jacket (corners bumped, shelfwear to boards, and edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 61211More details Price: $21.50
