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réf. 001091Crowell 1986 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. F. Cloth. As New. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-690-04545-X. Presentation by illustrator original art a Monster by Brown. Crowell, 1986 Hardcover books
2006réf. 2221678First edition. 7 1/4" x 11 1/4". Numerous color plates. Edited by Doug Drexler and Margaret Clark. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 175 pages. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Kevin Barbee Reach For The Stars! Mike Okuda Denise Okuda.Dave Ross." Pocket Books hardcover books
1951réf. 005444New York: Doubleday 1951. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing 1951 title page 1950 copyright page. Price of $2.50 front flap. His 1st book. Very Good small tear to cloth bottom edge of spine slight spine lean in a Good dust jacket large chip at head of spine affecting title smaller chips at base of spine and edges of rear panel. The same dust jacket art as the First Edition. NOT the Young Moderns edition nor a Book Club most likely a 2nd printing of the First Edition. Doubleday Hardcover books
1970réf. 006256Los Angeles: The American St. Hill Organization 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Third Edition. Thin 8vo. SCARCE early edition. Third Edition stated 1970. Near Fine slight rubs at spine ends initial P top edge front end page in a Near Fine dust jacket light edge wear and a bit of toning to rear panel. The American St. Hill Organization Hardcover books
1983réf. 009228New York: Doubleday & Co. 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket old tape mend bottom edge of spine rear panel uniformly toned light wear at edges. 30 mystery short stories not previously collected in a book. Doubleday & Co. Hardcover books
1967réf. 008463Berkeley: Bill Donaho 1967. Brochure. Fine. Pamphlet. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Progress Report 1 September 1967 illustrations by Johnny Chambers 8 unnumbered pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. Mostly containing the schedule for the upcoming convention. With Anthony Boucher listed as Toastmaster and Parliamentarian significant because inside rear cover of Progress Report 3 contains memorial tribute to Boucher. Progress Report 3 June 1968 cover illustrations by Vaughan Bode 28 unnumbered pages stapled illustrated wrappers full page map of Berkeley. From the collection of noted science fiction artist illustrator and writer Henry M. Eichner with original mailing envelope addressed to him. Both Reports are Fine. RARE Baycon ephemera with excellent sci-fi provenance. Bill Donaho Paperback books
2006réf. 008026Burton MI: Subterranean Press 2006. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. # 804 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR Robert Silverberg. Near Fine small spots fore and bottom edges soiling at gutter front board 1" dia. spot rear board in Fine dust jacket. Collects 16 of Silverberg's stories published between 1950-1959. Subterranean Press Hardcover books
2002réf. 50260NY: Hyperion/Talk Miramax 2002. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Colfer on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Includes the publisher's promotional "Artemis Fowl Arctic Freeze" mint in foil wrap. The second novel in Colfer's Artemis Fowl series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hyperion/Talk Miramax Hardcover books
1963réf. 010497Sauk City Wi: Arkham House 1963. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition with matching dates to Title Page and Copyright page. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. This copy is Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket designed by Robert E. Hubbell tiny spot of soiling rear panel. Gray end papers. One of 2500 copies printed by the Collegiate Press George Banta Company Inc. Mensha Wisconsin from Linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex. Arkham House Hardcover books
1988réf. 010041Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing with complete number line 10-1. Near Fine faint ink linr fore edge of page block in Fine dust jacket. Volume VI in The History of Middle Earth. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1979réf. 003050Great Britain: Paper Tiger 1979. Book. Illus. by Froud Brian. Fine. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Signed by Authors. First English Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Alexander Theroux on the copyright page. First English Edition precedes the Harper &Row U.S. edition. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket small chip bottom edge front wrapper at spine gutter. Wonderful Brian Froud illustrations. Paper Tiger Hardcover books
2010réf. 008027East Yorkshire England: PS Publishing 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHORS all 31 of them on 5 leaves tipped in at front Special signed edition limited to 200 numbered copies this copy left unnumbered. Fine in Fine dust jacket in Near Fine publishers clamshell case two tiny corner bumps. Illustrations by Mark Geyer and Jill Bauman. PS Publishing Hardcover books
1912réf. 002536New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1912. Book. Illus. by Shrader E. Roscoe. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition First Printing. Near Fine top edge lightly dusted and front boards a few tiny rubs. In blue-gray cloth boards with yellow and black stamped decorations and lettering. Book is square and tight contents are clean and unmarked. A truly lovely copy of this mystery/sci-fi/Western collection of connected short stories featuring scientific detective Calvin W. Sprague. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1996réf. 010053Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1996. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 11th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Number row ends in 11. Near Fine tiny top corner bump in Near Fine dust jacket tiny crease at top edge. Book appears unread. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1974réf. 010509Jersey Channel Islands Great Britain : Neville Spearman Jersey Limited 1974. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First U.K. Edition containing an Introduction by the author. A collection of 21 fantasy and horror short stories. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. This copy is Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket designed by Reg Boorer. Dust jacket has minimal rubbing/chipping around the edges. Small book seller label to bottom of front paste down. Uncommon in this edition. First published by Arkham House in 1945 this was Bloch's first book. . Neville Spearman (Jersey) Limited Hardcover books
2001réf. 50266NY: Hyperion/Talk Miramax 2001. First US edition first prnt. Signed and dated "6/4/01" by Colfer on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. The first of Colfer's Artemis Fowl series of novels. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hyperion/Talk Miramax Hardcover books
1955réf. 004929Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. 1955. Book. Illus. by Alex Schomburg. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Near Fine small mark top edge of page block in a Very Good Plus dust jacket 1/4" chip top edge at spine smaller chip bottom edge of spine. Jacket and end page illustrations by Alex Schomburg. A lovely copy indeed ! Part of the classic Winston Science Fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Eric North is a pseudonym for author Bernard Charles Cronin. John C. Winston Co. Hardcover books
1947réf. 010523Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1947. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Second Printing 1947 stated. Green cloth covered boards with silver lettering to the spine. This copy is Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket . Very slight rubbing to edges. Shallow bumps to a couple of tips. Dust jacket medium rubbing to panels; 1/4" chipping at spine ends; small chipping and creasing at tips edges and back spine joint; several old internal tape mends. RARE with dust jacket. . Princeton University Press Hardcover books
1974réf. 009147London: Chatto & Windus 1974. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The third book in the Dark Is Rising series. Uncommon in the 1st British edition. Near Fine tiny top corner bump prior owner name and address hidden by front flap 4 dates in ink rear and page. In a Near Fine dust jacket small crease top corner front panel. Chatto & Windus Hardcover books
1971réf. 010503Sauk City Wi: Arkham House 1971. Book. Fine. Cloth. Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The first 10 issues and the complete run of this newsletter beginning with Number One Summer 1967 and ending with Number Ten Summer 1971. Each issue with separate title/first page of text. Black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine with " The Arkham Collector Vol.1 Arkham House" . Fine no jacket as issued. . Prior owner name date and place in ink at top of front paste down. The house organ of the important horror publishing company founded by August Derleth which published work by H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith Carl Jacobi Joseph Payne Brennan Brian Lumley Gary Myers and others. Issue 10 Summer 1971 included the first published story by Alan Dean Foster. This hardbound volume in an edition of 676 copies issued without dustjacket collecting the entire run of ten issues was published by Arkham House in 1971. . Arkham House Hardcover books
1988réf. 010508New York : St.Martin's Press 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated. First Printing with complete number row 1-10. Gray hard cover with burgundy cloth spine . Silver lettering to the spine. This copy is Fine in a Fine dust jacket illustrated by Frank Morris. Filmed in 1991 The Silence of the Lambs became the third film in Academy history to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards for producing directing acting and screenwriting. A pioneering true crime and criminal profiling classic that made Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling cinematic icons. . St.Martin's Press Hardcover books
1884réf. 008072London: Reeves and Turner 1884. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition Thus with Preface by A.H. Bullen. Two volumes in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards raised bands gilt top edge gilt marbled end papers the small bookplate of Herbert M. Allen Cambridge front paste downs. Near Fine light rubs at corners and raised bands. Paltock's classic imaginary voyage originally published in 1751 this edition especially desirable for Bullen's reviews of the history of its writing publication and its influence on later writers like Dickens Hunt Lamb Coleridge et al. After creating this wonderful world of winged women exotic creatures and fanciful civilizations Paltock tried his hand at a similar work featuring a dog-bird see Bleiler but for some reason it never took off. Bleiler p.162. Reeves and Turner Hardcover books
1989réf. 010038Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1989. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing with complete number line 10-1. Near Fine slight push to cloth at top edge of spine prior owner gift inscription front colored end page in a Near Fine dust jacket front flap price clipped. Scarce in the First American Edition. Book VII in The History of Middle Earth. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1965réf. 191371965. Burgess Anthony. A Clockwork Orange 1965 first mass-market paperback edition brought Burgess's dystopian novel of juvenile violence state punishment behavioral conditioning and individual choice to an American paperback readership six years before Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film adaptation. Burgess constructs the novel around Alex and his teenage gang whose violence leads to Alex's imprisonment and compulsory submission to the Ludovico Technique a state conditioning program intended to make violent behavior physically intolerable to him. The conflict between Alex's brutality and the government's attempt to eliminate his capacity to choose gives the novel its central question: whether enforced good behavior can constitute moral goodness when the individual no longer possesses the freedom to act otherwise. Burgess Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. New York: Ballantine Books 1965. First mass-market paperback edition. 191 pages. Illustrated wrappers with cover art by Mozelle Thompson. The front shows a young man in sunglasses and black leather riding a motorcycle with two additional leather-clad men and a blonde woman grouped behind him. Ballantine explicitly marketed the novel through contemporary anxiety about juvenile delinquency placing above the title the line "Terrifying Shocker of a World Dominated by Teen-age Gangs." Thompson's imagery and the publisher's tagline differ markedly from the visual vocabulary subsequently associated with Kubrick's film preserving an American commercial interpretation of Burgess's novel before Alex and his droogs became inseparable in popular culture from the film's costumes and imagery. Published in paperback during a decade of sustained public debate over juvenile delinquency crime punishment and behavioral control this Ballantine edition shows how Burgess's novel was initially presented to American mass-market readers: not principally through the later film's imagery but as a sensational narrative of teenage gang violence. Minor scuffing and creasing to wrappers with an orange line beneath "Orange" in the title discoloration to rear wrapper and bumping at foot of spine. A few pencil notes occur throughout the text. Cover colors remain bright and crisp. Overall very good condition. First mass-market paperback edition with Mozelle Thompson's pre-Kubrick artwork and Ballantine's original emphasis on the novel's teenage gang culture. unknown books
1978réf. 223151978. Sci-FiAfrican AmericanLiterature Butler Octavia E. Mind of My Mind. New York: Avon 1978. First Avon Mass market paperback edition with striking psychedelic-style cover art depicting a green-skinned woman with glowing eyes and intersecting telepathic beams of light underscoring the novel's speculative and psychic themes. The second book in Butler's groundbreaking Patternist series Mind of My Mind centers on Mary a powerful telepath whose emergence signals a new evolutionary leap for humanity. Mary's narrative is deeply intertwined with African diasporic identity and the complexities of inherited power. As Mary asserts her own psychic authority she challenges patriarchal and racial legacies embedded in her father's centuries-long domination. The novel's intersection of speculative fiction and Black feminist thought marks Butler as one of the genre's most visionary figures. With its themes of collective consciousness reproductive agency and telepathic connection the book anticipates later scholarship on Afrofuturism and queer futurity. As literary scholar Sandra Govan noted Butler's Patternist series "presents a vision of a black future that transcends traditional genre boundaries" Govan 1986. Spine creased moderate edgewear and rubbing to wrappers some toning and corner creasing to rear. Text block uniformly toned but internally clean and unmarked. Overall very good condition. Mind of My Mind remains a pivotal work in Black speculative fiction exploring psychic liberation and the creation of a matriarchal future. unknown books
