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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
1976réf. 010516Sauk City Wi: Arkham House 1976. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Complete Five Volume Set. Volume I covers 1911 to 1924 published 1965 Volume II 1925 to 1929 published 1968 Volume III 1929 to 1931 published 1971 Volume IV 1932 to 1934 published 1976 and Volume V 1934 to 1937 published 1976 . Bound identically in Holliston Black Novelex with gilt lettering to the spine from Linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. First Edition as a Set. These copies are Fine lacking the dust jackets. Gray end papers. Prior owner bookplates on front end papers. Verso of Vol. I gray end page rubbed at hinge. . Arkham House Hardcover
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
1969réf. 010224New York City: Exposition Press 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny rubs at the corners front flap price-clipped. "Hot on the heels of 'Man on the Moon' comes 'Math on Mars' Charles A. Spiegel's creative new form of writing - the text-book novel. This innovation combines fantasy with scientific fact try and separate the two! examines conventional notions about old-fashioned math explores the new math and sandwiches in a strange story of fear and loss a story that penetrates the mind the body - and the planet Mars." from the front flap. SCARCE . Exposition Press Hardcover
1986réf. 010236London: Virgin Books 1986. Book. Illus. by Jean Marc Cote. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A Lucy-Carroll Book illustrated by Jean Marc Cote 96 pages. This British First Edition in hardcover and in dust jacket is an Asimov RARITY; the American First Edition was published by Henry Holt only in paperback. . Virgin Books Hardcover
1964réf. 010125New York: The Limited Editions Club 1964. Book. Fine. Cloth. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. # 615 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Joe Mugnaini at colophon page of both volumes. Fine books in a Near Fine slipcase spine and top edge of slipcase a bit soiled and spotted. Monthly Letter of the Club laid in the letter with creases. Lacking the fragile unprinted glassine jackets. The Limited Editions Club Hardcover
1886réf. 010143London: Longmans Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three First Edition books bound in one volume consecutively Underwoods Chatto and Windus 1887; The Dynamiter Longmans Green & Co. 1885 and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Longmans Green & Co 1886. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards marbled end papers top edge gilt the bookplate of the Constitutional Club Library at front paste down. The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club established in 1883 and disbanded in 1979 that was closely aligned with the Conservative Party and at one time counted P.G. Wodehouse as a member. Very Good horizontal closed tear at p. 109 of The Dynamiter boards rubbed occasional widely scattered toning. xv 138 1 half-title 207 title 141 pp. Basis for every Dr. Jekyll movie. Longmans, Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus Hardcover
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
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
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
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
1922réf. 009266New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In RARE dust jacket Near Fine top edge lightly soiled prior owner blindstamp front end page in Very Good dust jacket front flap lower corner price-clipped spine a bit darkened and dulled small chips at spine ends and folds. One of de la Mare's finest occult stories a tale of Walter Lawford who after napping in a cemetery becomes trapped between the two worlds two different realities. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
1980réf. 009133New York: Doubleday 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page in year of publication -"To Frank Hoffmann best wishes Isaac Asimov Jan. '80" Near Fine tiny rubs at corners and spine ends in Near Fine dust jacket light wear at edges. A Doubleday Crime Club selection. Doubleday Hardcover
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
1911réf. 008664Munchen: Georg Müller 1911. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Eighteenth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Achtzehnte Auflage 18th edition stated at half-title page SCARCE in any early German edition. In original mustard decorative cloth Art Deco geometrical decorative end papers double illustrated title page 460 pages 4 unnumbered leaves of plates ribbon marker. text in German. Very Good Plus small tear to cloth at spine light soiling to boards. From the library of noted German conductor Helmuth Wolfes former conductor of the Berlin State Opera his signature in ink at half-title page. Basis for 5 films between 1918-1952. The 2nd book in the Frank Braun trilogy in which " Braun uses artificial insemination to breed from the dregs of society - by impregnating a whore with the semen of an executed criminal - the eponymous soulless female whose name reflects in German her likeness to a mandrake root and whose vampirical powers prove almost fatal to the Ubermensch experimenter". SFE - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Georg Müller Hardcover
1930réf. 008761Chicago: Everyday Mechanics Publications Inc. 1930. Magazine. Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE> Three issues from Vol. 2 Nos. 5 6. and 8 including the November issue featuring a space ship on the front cover and article on space flight by Hugo Gernsback the "Father of the Pulp". Near Fine. some light soiling to covers. Everyday Mechanics was published by Gernsback starting in 1929 and changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics as of the October 1931 issue. Everyday Mechanics Publications, Inc. Paperback
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
1954réf. 008285Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company 1954. Journal. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in collectible condition Near Fine wrappers lightly rubbed. New Age journal devoted mainly to UFOs and alien life forms. New Age Publishing Company Paperback
1953réf. 008284Chicago: Charles Freudenthal and Edward Wood 1953. Journal. Very Good Plus. Soft cover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. The fourth and last issue of "The Journal of Science Fiction" the four numberes published 1951-1953. Articles by Hugo Gernsback and Robert Bloch and many photographs of the Tenth Anniversary World Science Fiction Convention held in Chicago. Also includes 1952 Magazine Index by Edward Wood featuring detailed index for 33 different science fiction magazines published that year. Very Good Plus minor stains to rear cover. Charles Freudenthal and Edward Wood Paperback
2000réf. 008023Centreville VA: Shadowlands Press / a Subsidiary of Bereshith Publ. 2000. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Printin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. # 122 of 500 copies printed Stories and artwork based on sculptures of Lisa Snellings. Illustrated with 16 plates by Lisa Snellings. SIGNED by Lisa Snelling Edward E. Kramer Harlan Ellison Caitlin R. Kiernan Charles De Lint Neil Gaiman Robert J. Sawyer Chet Williamson John Shirley Michael Bishop Gene Wolfe Jack Dann Janeen Webb Edward Bryant S.P. Somtow Nancy A. Collins Nina Kiriki Hoffmann Brad Linaweaver Fred Olen Ray Richard Lee Byers David Niall Wilson Darrell Schweitzer and Peter Crowther. Shadowlands Press / a Subsidiary of Bereshith Publ. Hardcover
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
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
1998réf. 015776Portland OR: Shagnasty Books 1998. Softcover. Very Good. 229pp; Covers clean & bright with 3-D lenticular photo illustration to front text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. "Demented! Disgusting!" sci-fi written by punk rocker who played guitar for Portland 1980s band SLA. From back cover: "You'll get a hernia laughing as you follow the shocking and outrageous exploits of the original space bastards. Two fun craving sleezeball infect the perilous outer fringes of the galaxy swindling hicks on pathetic planets with pyramid scams invented back on Earth in the 20th century. While constantly on the search for new drugs new drinks and new solvents these low-tech low-lifes leave a wake of hysteria chaos and even discomfort. Shagnasty Books paperback
1989réf. 007216No Place: Morpheus International 1989. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 19" x 25". Original publisher's promotional poster 19" w x 25"h featuring the same vivid artwork by Jacek Yerka as the book's dust jacket. Beneath the artwork is the quote by Harlan Ellison -" Like a hungry beast in a sacred jungle I have been given the honor of stalking through Jacek Yerka's divine imagination describing what I see. Together we will draw blood." Near Fine faint creasing at edges. An uncommon poster well suited for framing distributed in short supply at the ABA trade show in 1989. All posters shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. Morpheus International unknown
1992réf. 007444Signet 1992. Poster. Fine. Poster. First Printing. 15 1/2" x 2 1/2". SCARCE publisher's promotional poster15 1/2"w x 2 1/2"h advertising both the 1992 Signet book and the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola Columbia Pictures film. Fine as issued published in limited numbers for the ABA trade show in 1992. A poster well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Signet unknown