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DEAD LINES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A novel of life after death . . . a haunting thriller that blends modern technology and old-fashioned terror." SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-448375.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corner bumped)
Book ID: 63278More details Price: $31.50 -
WHO MADE STEVIE CRYE? A Novel of the American South.
Edition: First printing.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical horror novel of a young woman, recently widowed and attempting to support herself and her two children as a freelance writer only to find herself harrassed by demons from hell. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Jeffrey K. Potter. 310 pp. Striking wraparound dust jacket art by Glennray Tutor. ISBN: 0-870540998.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 82116More details Price: $14.50 -
COMPLETE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH: Volume One: Final Reckonings.
Edition: First thus- trade paperback.
New York: Citadel Twilight / Carol Publishing, (1990.). First edition - Although best known as the author of 'Psycho' Bloch was also a masterful writer of short stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Contains 25 stories which had been unavailable for decades. 371 pp. Cover art by Kevin Kelly. ISBN: 0-806511443.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56078More details Price: $20.00 -
THE IDES OF TOMORROW: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Edited and with an introduction by Terry Carr.SIGNED by Alan Brennert at his story "Jamie's Smile.: Other contributors include George R.R. Martin, Brian Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Steven Utley, and Cherry Wilder. x, 229 pp. ISBN: 0-316-129704.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket edgewear to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 46635More details Price: $30.00 -
SLEEPWALKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's second "novel of terror." A group of anthropologists on a dig in York find themselves plagued by unsettling accidents. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-312049951.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13363More details Price: $18.00 -
THE JUDAS GLASS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - A novel of 'revenge and deliverance and love beyond the grave,' one which celebrates the freedom of being a vampire. INSCRIBED on the title page with a small drawing. 310 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37370More details Price: $25.00 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 37652More details Price: $12.50 -
NIGHTLIGHT.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. dj. Hardcover - First horror novel by the award-winning poet. ISBN: 0-312-038976.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (dot on lower edge.)
Book ID: 13362More details Price: $16.00 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket (faint yellow remainder line, short tears and associated creasing to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 78181More details Price: $14.50 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A successful musician and artist, living a life of spendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-881848018.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (faint yellow remainder line )
Book ID: 4300More details Price: $16.50 -
GHOSTWRIGHT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page 'with thanks for all your help' and with a small drawing of a ghost, dated in the year of publication. A successful musician and artist, living a life of splendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 34881More details Price: $30.00 -
NIGHTLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - First horror novel by the award-winning poet. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-312-038976.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34519More details Price: $12.50 -
SLEEPWALKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's second "novel of terror." A group of anthropologists on a dig in York find themselves plagued by unsettling accidents. SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-312049951.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 75662More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HORSES OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco - Kirkus Reviews called this a "asubtly shaded (and sometimes opaque) tale that flickers between illusion and reality, psychological and occult terror: Did Stratton Fields sell his soul for power--or are the deaths of his enemies and the triumph of his career due not to infernal intervention but to his own homicidal madness?" SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-881849308.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69603More details Price: $30.00 -
NIGHTLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - First horror novel by the award-winning poet. ISBN: 0-312-038976.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (glue remnants on pastedowns under flaps)
Book ID: 2136More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FACE THAT MUST DIE.
Edition: First unabridged UK printing.
London: Macdonald, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first hardcover UK edition and the first complete one of this classic horror novel of a psychotic, homophobic killer in Liverpool (originally issued in abridged form as a paperback in 1979 ) - Also includes a long autobiographical essay and a short story "I Am It And It Is I" and an afterword. xxxiv, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-356202240.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38408More details Price: $30.00 -
COUNT OF ELEVEN.
Edition: First edition.
London: Macdonald, (1991.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel with a good deal of very black humor. One of a numbered limited edition of 250 copies, in full bungundy leather, all edges gilt, marbelized endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. SIGNED and numbered on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-356-20216X.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 53984More details Price: $75.00 -
LOST BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This account of a family's move to a small town in North Carolina is a 'powerful, uplifting tale of loss and redemption around an American family's bittersweet triumph over a welter of dark forces, both natural and supernatural.' Very different from Card's other works, and at least partially inspired by his own move to NC with his wife and 3 children. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0166932.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 54794More details Price: $17.50 -
HOMEBODY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A change of pace for this science fiction writer, a supernatural tale of renovating an old house, set in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Card now lives. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176555.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 43901More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WOODEN SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of realism and the uncanny, as the police chief of a small upstate New York town begins to encounter strange and unsettling omens. ISBN: 0-312-878230.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25812More details Price: $22.00 -
FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (1994.). First edition - A brilliant dark fantasy - selected as a NY Times Notable book, finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. 212 pp.
Condition: Very good in pale grey printed wrappers (a bit of wear to covers, corners slightly bumped.) An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 50764More details Price: $25.00 -
BONES OF THE MOON.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Avon, 1990. Author's wonderful third novel, which was praised by such diverse writers as Stephen King ('a gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel'), Pat Conroy ('I think he's an absolute original, a novelist of rare and terrifying power') and Stanislaw Lem ('amazing, perplexing and unforgettable.') . ISBN: 0-380-706881.
Condition: Just about fine (rem line, no creasing, appears unread.)
Book ID: 23516More details Price: $10.00 -
THE GHOST IN LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another quirky, but wise, fantasy from this author - it is about what happens when we take fate in our own hands, no excuses, no one else to blame -but it is also about love, ghosts that are gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and more. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0374161866.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64370More details Price: $17.50 -
BONES OF THE MOON.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Arbor House, 1988. dj. Hardcover - His third novel. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Stephen King ('a gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel'), Pat Conroy ('I think he's an absolute original, a novelist of rare and terrifying power') and Stanislaw Lem ('amazing, perplexing and unforgettable.') 217 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-9374.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (a not too noticeable stain to fore-edge of dj.)
Book ID: 30967More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WOODEN SEA.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR, 2001. First edition - A combination of realism and the uncanny, as the police chief of a small upstate New York town begins to encounter strange and unsettling omens. 302 pp
Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 18570More details Price: $25.00 -
BONES OF THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Stephen King ('a gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel'), Pat Conroy ('I think he's an absolute original, a novelist of rare and terrifying power') and Stanislaw Lem ('amazing, perplexing and unforgettable.') SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-9374.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60599More details Price: $45.00 -
SLEEPING IN FLAME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - a "sophisticated supernatural thriller that collapses the boundary between fantasy and reality." SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-385-24957-8.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60481More details Price: $50.00 -
THE WOODEN SEA.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR, 2001. SIGNED first edition - A combination of realism and the uncanny, as the police chief of a small upstate New York town begins to encounter strange and unsettling omens. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp
Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 61443More details Price: $35.00 -
BONES OF THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Stephen King ('a gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel'), Pat Conroy ('I think he's an absolute original, a novelist of rare and terrifying power') and Stanislaw Lem ('amazing, perplexing and unforgettable.') 217 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-9374.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 35349More details Price: $20.00 -
SLEEPING IN FLAME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - a "sophisticated supernatural thriller that collapses the boundary between fantasy and reality.". ISBN: 0-385-249578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket - an attractive copy of a book becoming increasingly more difficult to find.
Book ID: 17434More details Price: $30.00
