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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: VOLUMES I & II: ALTERNATE EMPIRES, ALTERNATE HEROES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Alternate history stories by Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, James P. Hogan, George Alec Effinger, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, James Morrow, Barry Maltzberg, Karen Joy Fowler, Frederik Pohl, and Larry Niven, Judith Tarr, Walter Jon Williams and others. SIGNED by FOUR authors: by Benford on the title page, and by Harry Turtledove at his story 'Counting Potsherds', Kim Stanley Robinson at 'Remaking History' and James Morrow at "Bible Stories for Adults: No 31 The Covenant." 542 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (bookplate)
Book ID: 49166More details Price: $40.00 -
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: VOLUMES I & II: ALTERNATE EMPIRES, ALTERNATE HEROES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Alternate history stories by Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, James P. Hogan, George Alec Effinger, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, James Morrow, Barry Maltzberg, Karen Joy Fowler, Frederik Pohl, and Larry Niven, Judith Tarr, Walter Jon Williams and others. SIGNED by FOUR authors: Gregory Benford on the title page, Harry Turtledove at his story 'Counting Potsherds'; Kim Stanley Robinson at 'Remaking History' and James Morrow at "Bible Stories for Adults: No 31 The Covenant." 542 pp.
Condition: Good only in good dust jacket (shelfwear to boards, corners somewhat bumped, tear to front cover of dj, other edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 34343More details Price: $35.00 -
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: VOLUMES I & II: ALTERNATE EMPIRES, ALTERNATE HEROES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Alternate history stories by Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, James P. Hogan, George Alec Effinger, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, James Morrow, Barry Maltzberg, Karen Joy Fowler, Frederik Pohl, and Larry Niven, Judith Tarr, Walter Jon Williams and others. SIGNED by SIX authors: Harry Turtledove at his story 'Counting Potsherds' and Karen Joy Fowler at 'Game Night at the Fox and Goose' and Rudy Rucker at 'Instablity' and Kim Stanley Robinson at 'Remaking History' and James Morrow at "Bible Stories for Adults: No 31 The Covenant" and Benford on the title page. 542 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 25695More details Price: $45.00 -
WAR FEVER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of short stories - some are disturbing scenarios of life in the near future. The title story is set in war-ravaged Beirut, Lebanon. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-374-286450.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57348More details Price: $20.00 -
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: $16.50 -
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 -
NAVIGATOR: Time's Tapestry 3.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in this alternate history epic - this set during the time of William the Conqueror. Map frontispiece. Afterword. 323 pp. ISBN: 9780441015924.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 53017More details Price: $20.00 -
WEAVER: Time's Tapestry 4.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth book in this alternate history epic, set during World War II. Map frontispiece. Afterword. 312 pp. ISBN: 9780441015924.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 53016More details Price: $20.00 -
STONE SPRING: The Northland Trilogy.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: RoC, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Alternate history set 10,000 years ago. "Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. Then Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho-a city that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible..." and so begins the building of a wall that will take decades and span hundreds of miles, and change the history of the world. The third volume in the Northland trilogy. Map, author's afterword. 499 pp. ISBN: 978-0451464187.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 72748More details Price: $16.50 -
HITLER VICTORIOUS. 11 Stories of the German Victory in WWII.
Edition: Book club ediiton.
New York: Garland Publishing, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of alternate history science fiction stories, Includes a preface by Benford, an introduction by Spinrad, and stories by Spinrad, Brin, Bear, Kornbluth, Sheila Finch, etc. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Benford on the title page and by both Greg Bear and David Brin at their stories. 278 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (remainder line, slight sunning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 45866More details Price: $30.00 -
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: VOLUMES I & II: ALTERNATE EMPIRES, ALTERNATE HEROES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Alternate history stories by Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, James P. Hogan, George Alec Effinger, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, James Morrow, Barry Maltzberg, Karen Joy Fowler, Frederik Pohl, and Larry Niven, Judith Tarr, Walter Jon Williams and others. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Benford on the title page, and by Harry Turtledove at his story 'Counting Potsherds' and by Kim Stanley Robinson at 'Remaking History.' 542 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 48472More details Price: $35.00 -
DEVILS UNTO DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83847More details Price: $30.00 -
TERRITORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. "Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Ike Clanton. You think you know the story? You don't." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0312857356.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74660More details Price: $19.50 -
ALVIN JOURNEYMAN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, IV.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Card on the half title page. The fourth book in this series based on American history, folklore and religion - a series that has been called the 'most important work of American fantasy since Donaldson's original Thomas Covenant trilogy.' Winner of 1996 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-312-850530.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 37477More details Price: $25.00 -
ALVIN JOURNEYMAN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, IV.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Card on the half title page. The fourth book in this series based on American history, folklore and religion - a series that has been called the 'most important work of American fantasy since Donaldson's original Thomas Covenant trilogy.' Winner of 1996 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-312-850530.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45454More details Price: $27.50 -
ALVIN JOURNEYMAN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, IV.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth book in this series based on American history, folklore and religion - a series that has been called the 'most important work of American fantasy since Donaldson's original Thomas Covenant trilogy.' Winner of 1996 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. Map endpapers. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-312-850530.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 25986More details Price: $15.00 -
PRENTICE ALVIN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, III.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1989. The third book in Card's unique fantasy series set in early 19th century America. This volume opens in 1811 and deals with fugitive slaves from the Crown Colonies. Winner of the 1990 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. ISBN: 0-812-502124.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 24345More details Price: $10.00 -
ALVIN JOURNEYMAN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, IV.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Card. The fourth book in this series based on American history, folklore and religion - a series that has been called the 'most important work of American fantasy since Donaldson's original Thomas Covenant trilogy.' Winner of 1996 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. 381 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-850530.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 22131More details Price: $30.00 -
PRENTICE ALVIN: The Tales of Alvin Maker, III.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in Card's unique fantasy series set in early 19th century America. This volume opens in 1811 and deals with fugitive slaves from the Crown Colonies. Winner of the 1990 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. 342 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-931417.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 79736More details Price: $16.50 -
THE IMPEACHMENT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is both an imaginative reconstruction of what might have happened if Lincoln had survived the assassination attempt at Ford's Theatre, a tense courtroom drama and a story of murder, intrigue and conspiracy. Author's note. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0307272638.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder dot.)
Book ID: 63901More details Price: $16.50 -
CALL OF FIRE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Harper Collins / Harper Voyager, (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A resourceful young heroine must protect the world from her enemies and her own powe rin this sequel to 'Breath of Earth', an imaginative blend of alternative history, fantasy, science, magic, and adventure. When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate 1906, the young geomancer flees the city with her friends, Cy, Lee, and Fenris. She is desperate to escape Ambassador Blum, the cunning and dangerous bureaucrat who wants to use Ingrid's formidable powers to help the Unified Pacific - the confederation of the United States and Japan - achieve world domination." SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp. ISBN: 978-0062422118.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83574More details Price: $25.00 -
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65886More details Price: $16.50 -
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 70316More details Price: $21.00 -
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70388More details Price: $25.00 -
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (crinkling to front cover of dj).
Book ID: 65591More details Price: $14.50 -
AEGYPT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by the author of "Little Big" and the first book in his four volume alternate history cycle called Aegpyt - a novel which "shapes itself around unorthodox historian Pierce Moffett, who seeks to explain the secret histories of the world, the old notions of science, religion and philosophy that have survived in astrology, myths and superstition; not the real, geographical Egypt, but AEgypt, the cognate country of the imagination from which the gypsies came. . . Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful, this [is an] extraordinary philosophical romance." Nominated for the World Fantasy Award. 390 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (appears unread)
Book ID: 85462More details Price: $65.00 -
THE DEVIL'S DIADEM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy novel set in a fictional twelfth century England - a country on the brink of disaster - by this Australian writer. Maps, list of place names. Glossary. (xiv) 522 pp. ISBN: 978-0062004338.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 63351More details Price: $18.50 -
RESURRECTION DAY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An alternate history novel set in 1972, ten years after the Cuban missile crisis erupted into a full-blown nuclear war between the United States and Russia. Lee Child calls this "the best 'what if' novel in years." SIGNED on the half title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-316-646458.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 43257More details Price: $25.00 -
GUNSLINGER GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Jimmy Patterson Books / Little Brown, (2018). First edition - James Patterson presents the author's debut novel introducing a bold new heroine, Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West. 17 year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones has been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great.... a novel set in once again wild West after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. 356 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to the edges of the textblock, some roughness to the edge of the front cover).
Book ID: 84337More details Price: $18.00 -
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