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DOWN THESE STRANGE STREETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. 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. 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: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacke (short tear to fold of dj).
Book ID: 88993More details Price: $19.50 -
RIVER MARKED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth Mercy Thompson novel - by day, she is a car mechanic, but at night, as a shapeshifter, she lives in the world of witches, vampires and werewolves. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0441018192.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65269More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BLUE GIRL
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in his fictious town of Newford, by one of the pioneers of 'urban fantasy.' 368 pp. ISBN: 0-670-059242.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58316More details Price: $17.50 -
MUSE AND REVERIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth collection of short stories set in the magical town of Newford by this master of urban fantasy. Includes an author's note and thirteen stories - Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box, Refinerytown, A Crow Girls' Christmas, and more. 350 pp. Dust jacket art by John Jude Palencar. ISBN: 978-0765323408.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, gift inscription, crease on spine of dj)
Book ID: 84289More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CITY'S SON: The Skyscraper Throne, Book One.
Edition: First US printing.
Woodbury, MN: Flux, (2012.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel and the first in a planned trilogy, an "alternately glittering and gritty urban fantasy" set in a future London which has become a battleground. Laid in is the starred review from PW Weekly. 460 pp. Dust jacket art by Chris Nurse. ISBN: 9780738734309.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 56371More details Price: $18.00 -
GREYWALKER.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: ROC / Penguin, (2006). The first book in this urban noir fantasy series. "Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead for two minutes. When she comes to in the hospital, she sees things that can only be described as weird-shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist, snarling teeth, creatures roaring. But Harper's not crazy. Her "death" has made her a Greywalker- able to move between the human world and the mysterious cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist." 341 pp. ISBN: 0-45146107x.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages and edges of textblock, otherwise fine)
Book ID: 76435More details Price: $10.00