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ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Hugo-award winning writer. Set in near-future San Francisco, in a world careening into chaos, this is the story of two former teenage friends - one a scientist and an engineer, the other a gifted magician - who come together again, despite their differences, to save the world. Winner of the Nebula award and the Locus Award, nominated for the Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-0765379948.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (creasing to half title page, toning to edges textblock)
Book ID: 86858More details Price: $75.00 -
THE MAPMAKER'S SONS.
Edition: First printing.
Beacon Falls, CT: Move Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in the Mapmaker's Sons series. "Tom Hawkins must find the most powerful weapon ever created and save the world . . . with many a sword fight, swamp dog, and dragon along the way.. . slim, action-packed tale." (Kirkus) Illustrated by Jon Berkeley. Double page map. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. 167 pp. ISBN: 978-0985481001.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated boards a like dustjacket (erasure on half title page)
Book ID: 90069More details Price: $25.00 -
AN INCIDENT AT BLOODTIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 11th adventure featurin g the dwarf Mongo Frederickson, who "uses superior intellect, circus tricks, karate, magic, and metaphysical folderol to foil the loathsome Sacra Silver, who's intent on breaking up the marriage of Mongo's brother and sister-in-law, and illegally polluting the Hudson by dumping chemicals from his daddy's fleet of tankers." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-892964642.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82604More details Price: $30.00 -
WILD MAGIC.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1991). First edition - A book which returns to the universe of the Drinker of Souls trilogy - the first in a new series - a magical novel that explores a whole new domain in an enchanted world where rival gods vie for mastery by manipulating both the forces of nature and their own devoted mortal worshipers. DAW Book Collectors number 863. 364 pp. Cover art by Jody A. Lee. ISBN: 0-886774969.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 81804More details Price: $11.00 -
MANUEL COMPLET DE SORCIERS, ou La Magie Blanche Devoilee par les decouvertes de la chimie, de la physique et de la mecanique. . . Precede d'une Notice Historique sur les Sciences Ocultes par M. Julia de Fontenelle.
Edition: Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee and augmentee et orne des figures.
Condition: Very good in a contemporary embossed dark green binding with gilt lettering and borders. Marbled endpapers and edges of the text block (wear to ends of spine and corners.)
Book ID: 52878More details Price: $300.00 -
SNOW GLOBE WISHES.
Edition: First printing.
Ann Arbor: Sleeping Bear Press, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - As the worst snow storm of the year causes traffic jams and power outages, one family hunkers down together in a cozy blanket fort for the night. A little girl makes a wish on a snow globe and, in the morning, the sun rises on a winter wonderland - beckoning all outside. "What if, on this snow globe day, families shake their busy lives, heavy doors swing open wide - and everyone comes out to play?" A charming story of community and wonder, SIGNED on the title page by the author and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated in full color by Claire Shorrock. Unpaginated, large square format. ISBN: 978-1534110311.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 81013More details Price: $27.50 -
THE SHADOW OF THE LION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Baen Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1537 in an 'other-worldly, new-age' Venice, a city where magic thrives, a bastion of independence and toleration, and riddled with corruption and intrigue. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, family tree, list of characters, glossary. 825 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-35230.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64432More details Price: $30.00 -
THIS ROUGH MAGIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Baen Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this series, set on Corfu in the sixteenth century. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, list of characters, glossary. 822 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-71490.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (crease to upper corner of a few pages).
Book ID: 64433More details Price: $30.00 -
IGRAINE THE BRAVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scholastic - The Chicken House, 2007. SIGNED first edition - A fresh take on chivalry, knights and magic with a feisty heroine by the author of INKSPELL and THE THIEF LORD. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Illustrated with drawings by the author SIGNED on title page. A rather uncommon advance issue, especially so signed, and this is presumably the earlier of two variants with the illustration on the front cover, but not the title. 212 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81097More details Price: $50.00 -
IGRAINE THE BRAVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scholastic - The Chicken House, 2007. SIGNED first edition - A fresh take on chivalry, knights and magic with a feisty heroine by the author of INKSPELL and THE THIEF LORD. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Illustrated with drawings by the author SIGNED on title page. 212 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue, especially so signed
Book ID: 57725More details Price: $45.00 -
THE OLD COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New Milford, Connecticut: Roaring Brook Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story for older children by this Caldecott winning author - a "novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country, where 'all the fairy tales come from, where there was magic -- and there was war.' There, Gisella stares a moment too long into the eyes of a fox, and she and the fox exchange shapes." 130 pp. Dust jacket illustration by the author. ISBN: 1596430478.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66849More details Price: $14.50 -
RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 88858More details Price: $35.00 -
CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes color illustrations of magic posters. SIGNED on the title page. 483 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67345.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but one corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 58645More details Price: $50.00 -
CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes color illustrations of magic posters. 483 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67345.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45326More details Price: $20.00 -
CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes color illustrations of magic posters. SIGNED on the title page. 483 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67345.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44877More details Price: $45.00 -
CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
London: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes black and white illustrations of magic posters. SIGNED on the title page. 563 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67345.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight toning to textblock as is common with UK editions)
Book ID: 86835More details Price: $75.00 -
BREACH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ace Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A Cold War Magic novel, the author's first novel and the first in a new Cold War fantasy series, "where the Berlin Wall is made entirely of magic. When a breach unexpectedly appears in the wall, spies from both sides swarm to the city as World War III threatens to spark." SIGNED by the author on the half title page and dated 8/18/18 (that is, before the official publication date) at Worldcon 76. 357 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75294More details Price: $25.00 -
KING & RAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a tale of magic and intrigue set in the world of King Arthur. "Micah of Greenfarm, nicknamed "Raven," is a younger son of a large family on one of the tenant farms that surround Camelot. As a poor farm lad, he is more distant from King Arthur than if they were separated by a vast ocean. But when his beloved sister is raped and murdered by four of Arthur's drunken nights, Raven swears an oath of vengeance far above his station." 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-858701.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56767More details Price: $18.00 -
WARLOCK AT THE WHEEL and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight fantasy stories for older children featuring an incompetent warlock, a plague of peanuts, dragons, pink toadstools, an eccentric aunt, and more. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-688043054.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 85583More details Price: $15.00 -
DIVINE ENDURANCE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York Arbor House, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, described as 'astonishly good' - a science fiction novel set in 'a spooky frontier country between history and myth, distant past and far future..'-The Guardian. ISBN: 0-87795-8564.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 31112More details Price: $12.50 -
THE ADVENTURES OF FLASH JACKSON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy for the UK edition (trade paperback format. )
London: Doubleday, (2003.). First edition - His third novel, the story of sixteen-year-old tomboy Haley "Flash Jackson" Boomhauer who, confined to her room after breaking her leg, unexpectedly finds her boredom allieviated by her peculiar grandmother who teaches her the magical arts. 310 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy green wrappers.
Book ID: 56792More details Price: $18.00 -
HUMMINGBIRD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 85891More details Price: $19.50 -
ANGEL KILLER: A Jessica Blackwood Novel.
Edition: First printing - a trade paperback.
New York: Bourbon Street Books (Harper Collins), (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by a real illusionist, the first thriller featuring "FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0062348876.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83122More details Price: $24.50 -
AKATA WITCH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Speak / Penguin, (2015). SIGNED - A story of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world by this award winning fantasy author. "Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she's albino. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing - her latent magical power." SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 344 pp plus an excerpt from 'Akata Warrior.'. ISBN: 978-0142420911.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers crease to lower corner of back cover, straight spine)
Book ID: 90107More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER AT WITCHES' BLUFF: A Novel of Suspense and Magick.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000. First edition - Novel by a practicing Wiccan, Clan Head of the Black Forest family. ISBN: 1-56718-7277.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 21648More details Price: $10.00 -
NDEMBU DIVINATION: Its' Symbolism and Techniques, Rhodes-Livingston Papers, Number 31.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, (1961). First edition - A preliminary analysis of the raw data, rather than a finished work - one which focuses on the symbolic objects, especially as they are used by two diviners - Muchona and an Angolan diviner. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 85 pp plus bibliography and list of other publications.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped, some toning to spine of wrapper)
Book ID: 80923More details Price: $30.00 -
BOUND: Book One in the Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery Series.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Misterio Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - "Bound by magic, bound by love, bound by murder... The Bonheim triplets live seemingly ordinary lives, hiding their magic from their neighbors in the small, mountain town of Doyle, California." But when a body is found in Jayce's coffee shop, and the sheriff with a grudge, no-nonsense Karin must prove her sister innocent. The first book in the Doyle Witch trilogy, each will be told from a different sisters point of view. SIGNED on the title page. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-1944767167.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (upper corner bumped).
Book ID: 86077More details Price: $21.50 -
SISTER EMILY'S LIGHTSHIP and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty-eight tales, many in the form of folk or fairy tales, including three brand new ones written especially for this collection. Included are Jane Yolen's two recent Nebula Award winners, 'Lost Girls', which revisits Peter Pan's Neverland with a feminist twist, and the title story, 'Sister Emily's Lightship', about the poet Emily Dickinson. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2005. Includes an afterword in which Yolen discusses the inspiration behind her stories. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-312873786.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83649More details Price: $30.00