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Moloch [SIGNED by the jacket illustrator and dedicatee]

By: Livingston, Marjorie

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Andrew Dakers Limited: 1942

Seller ID: 23647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, spine a little turned, top front corner bumped, fading to cloth at top of spine; jacket shows wear and very shallow chipping along top edge, minor paper loss at lower left corner of front panel and at top of spine, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by Fay Pomerance, illustrator of the dust jacket, and also the person to whom the author has dedicated the book "in affectionate appreciation of her co-operation and understanding." (See below.) An unusual (and uncommon) wartime fantasy novel, about a two young men who meet untimely, war-r...
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: Lovecraft, H.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1976

Seller ID: 24516

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[slight spine roll, tiny tears at spine ends; generally a nice clean copy]. Mass Market PB Contents: "The Other Gods"; "The Tree"; "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"; "The Tomb"; "Polaris"; "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"; "Memory"; "What the Moon Brings"; "Nyarlathotep"; "Ex Oblivione"; "The Cats of Ulthar"; "Hypnos"; "Nathicana"; "From Beyond"; "The Festival"; "The Nameless City"; "The Quest of Iranon"; "The Crawling Chaos"; "In the Walls of Eryx"; ...
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At the Mountains of Madness, and Other Novels

By: Lovecraft, H.P. (selected and with an introduction by August Derleth)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1966

Seller ID: 24506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean book, minimal shelfwear, slight bumping to top front corner; jacket spine lightly sun-tanned, small chip at bottom rear hinge, a couple of tiny nicks and one small closed tear along top edge]. In addition to Derleth's introduction, "H.P. Lovecraft's Novels," and the title novel, this volume contains: "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"; "The Shunned House"; "The Dreams in the Witch-house"; "The Statement of Randolph Carter"; "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"; "The Silver Key"; and "Through the Gates of the ...
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The Shadow Out of Time, and Other Tales of Horror

By: Lovecraft, H.P., and August Derleth

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1968

Seller ID: 24507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[a nice solid clean book, the only blemish being a touch of smudging to the top of the text block; the jacket is slightly sun-tanned at the spine (as typical), but otherwise only lightly soiled, with one miniscule closed tear at the top left edge of the rear panel]. This collection includes six stories by Lovecraft, along with another ten stories and novellas attributed to Lovecraft and Derleth (having been completed by the latter after HPL's death). The Lovecraft tales are: "In the Vault"; "The Picture in the House"; "Cool Air"; "The Terrible Old Man"; "T...
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Beyond Hell

By: McKenna, Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1932

Seller ID: 22517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[water-staining along fore-edges of front and rear covers (interior of book not affected), otherwise just lightly shelfworn; jacket shows staining (internal but with some bleed-through) matching stains on book, a few small chips along bottom edge, a number of scratches on front panel, a bit of wrinkling and very shallow chipping along top edge, internally tape-reinforced along top edge]. Novel set in the then-slightly-near future (1940), about "a sociologist with radically advanced ideas" who had set up a penal colony on a remote Pacific island, with an inmate population comprised of ...
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Lamoureaux: Miss Melissa's House [SIGNED]

By: Miller, Pauline Henning

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 22571

ISBN: 0-533-00297-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy with no significant wear; jacket shows just a trace of edgewear, minor scuffing/soiling at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about "a wealthy New York interior decorator and antiquarian [who] is driving through Mississippi and Louisiana in a search for antiques" when he is caught in a storm and takes refuge in an old Southern mansion -- where he seems to have been expected. "This is the beginning of a novel in which the real and the unreal, the physical and the psychic, interweave with hauntingly irresistible impact ...
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The Wine of Violence

By: Morrow, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 9682

ISBN: 0-03-059051-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight copy, clean except for "August, 1984" in ink on ffep, top corners lightly bumped; jacket shows some wear at top corners, small tears and associated wrinkling at top of spine]. The author's first novel, an "utterly modern S-F fable of corrupted innocence." It's set in a utopian world called Quetzalia, which "is no ordinary or simple utopia. On one side of its split society, behind the most curious of fortress walls, lives a culture free of machine technology, with its moral and religious precepts based upon the mystical and more pacifistic practices of ancient...
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Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World

By: Mosley, Walter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 2001

Seller ID: 17132

ISBN: 0-446-52954-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no significant wear to book; jacket shows extremely light scuffing to rear panel]. The author's second foray into science fiction, "interlocking tales of survival [that] unfold in the world of an imminent tomorrow."
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I'd Do It All Over Again

By: Mouseglib, Pomfret; as told to Kathryn Pulver

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1996)

Seller ID: 2196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[jacket a little wrinkled across top edge]. A mouse's-eye view of the world. "Meet Pomfret Mouseglib, your narrator and all 'round amiable guide to the rodent haut monde he chronicles so lovingly... A renowned epicure, Mr. Mouseglib (who is, in fact, a mouse, as well as the faithful correspondent of his typist, Kathryn Pulver) exhibits his scrupulously refined taste and scintillating wit in this brilliant series of essays, poems, and vignettes, a chef d'oeuvre that is also his initial foray into the publishing realm. Aside from being a keen observer of the social mores and foibles of the m...
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Ride the Green Dragon

By: Norton, Andre, and Phyllis Miller

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum (A Margaret K. McElderry Book): 1985

Seller ID: 16174

ISBN: 0-689-50331-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edge, otherwise a nice clean copy; rear panel of jacket has a couple of small chips and some minor creasing, also some creasing to both jacket flaps]. "When Tracy and Jared's family moves into an old house designed like a castle, they find a former circus giant, the granddaughter of a gypsy fortune-teller, and a mysterious disappearance to solve."
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Another Present Era [SIGNED]

By: Perry, Elaine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1990

Seller ID: 9312

ISBN: 0-374-10528-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[book very slightly bowed, otherwise a nice tight clean copy; jacket ditto, with minor wrinkling at base of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Her first novel "depicts with astonishing clarity a near-future world resonant with the past. In New York City, big bands play swing on the radio live from hotel ballrooms, and television commercials offer condominiums in space. Acid rain falls on decaying skyscrapers and elevated trains. Civil-defense klaxons wail in the night, as poisonous water slowly engulfs the city." The protagonist, a woman, is "a bril...
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Expiration Date [true 1st edition, SIGNED]

By: Powers, Tim

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, HarperCollins: 1995

Seller ID: 1340

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

[covers edgeworn all around, corners somewhat dog-eared; book still square, though, and no creases in spine]. Mass Market PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED (upside-down) by the author on the title page: "For ----: One of the dozen or so people who have read the real text of ' Epitaph in Rust'* Cheers, Tim Powers. *P.S.--This is better." The true first edition, issued as a paperback original in England almost a year prior to its first American (and hardcover) appearance. The author's explanation of how this came about: "The manuscript was sent to both HarperCollins in the UK and Avon Books i...
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The Golden Compass

By: Pullman, Philip

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: (c.1996, 1995)

Seller ID: 15551

ISBN: 0-679-87924-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, book very slightly twisted on its axis, mild shelfwear, miniscule bump to bottom front corner; jacket shows only light surface handling wear]. (His Dark Materials, Book One) Series The first book in the author's "His Dark Materials" trilogy; originally published in England as "Northern Lights."
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The Great Los Angeles Blizzard [SIGNED]

By: Racina, Thom

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 22590

ISBN: 0-399-12033-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edge, spine very slightly turned, small scrape mark on ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, a couple of tiny tears/nicks at top of spine, similar tiny tears at a couple of corners and bottom of rear panel, minor spotting mid-spine]. INSCRIBED ("Think snow!") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Disaster novel about the havoc wreaked upon a "woefully unprepared" L.A. when the city is battered by a devastating snowstorm. (Considering how people here freak out, at least on the roadways, when we just get a little rain, I hate to imagine. But I don't have ...
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New Bodies for Old

By: Renard, Maurice

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1923)

Seller ID: 16064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [cloth shows a bit of wear at all edges, spine a little turned, slight bumping to all corners, teensy bit of fraying to bottom corners, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown, jacket blurb glued there as well, vintage bookseller's label (Hudson's Book Shop, Detroit) on rear pastedown; binding/hinges intact, internally clean]. Science-fiction-cum-horror novel, the author's first, originally published in France as "Le Docteur Lerne - Sous-Dieu" in 1908. An archetypal mad-scientist yarn, the book concerns a doctor who performs inter-species organ transplants, even...
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The Hands of Orlac

By: Renard, Maurice (translated and adapted by Florence Crewe-Jones)

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1929

Seller ID: 19847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[book is lightly worn, with a touch of dust-soiling and faint spotting on the top edge of the text block; the jacket, alas, is badly compromised, due to a large chunk having been torn away from the top left corner of the front panel (taking with it about half of the title)]. "Body horror" novel, about the psychological havoc wrought upon a famous pianist when his hands, mangled in an accident, are surgically replaced by those of a recently-executed murderer. Originally published in France in 1920, the novel was first filmed as a 1924 silent in Austria (directed by Robert Wiene of "Caligari" f...
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The Chanting of Children

By: Sand, Margaret

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 6874

ISBN: 0-698-10859-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is tight and clean, appears unread; jacket mildly worn along top edge, one tiny tear at top rear]. The author's first novel, in which a woman returns to her hometown to claim a family inheritance, but "finds that she must first lay to rest the tormented spirits of her youth in this harrowing novel of supernatural terror and suspense."
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A Likeness to Voices

By: Savage, Mary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company (A Torquil Book): (c.1963)

Seller ID: 20998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[a serviceable reading copy with various depredations: the book is only moderately shelfworn, but the front endpaper has been removed with consequent weakening of the front hinge, which has also contributed to a split in the binding between the first and second signatures (i.e. between pages 8 and 9); the jacket is edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears, a bit of paper loss at the spine ends, and a wide but shallow chip along the top edge of the rear panel -- but it had also apparently gotten wet at some point (at the rear panel and rear flap only) and some of the color from the blue cloth ...
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The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III

By: Saxton, Mark

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1969

Seller ID: 18127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy with no signifcant wear to book; jacket has small tears (internally tape-repaired) at both ends of spine, moderate surface wear and what looks like possible laminate-peeling]. The first of several sequels to the famous 1942 fantasy, Austin Wright's "Islandia," about "an imaginary country that has become as real to its readers as it was to its creator." This novel, which continues the "modern myth," is narrated by Lang III, grandson of the original ruler of Islandia, who "tells of the crucial events going on today in his beleaguered country."
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Zombie Field

By: Schulz, Mat

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, HarperCollins/Flamingo: 1997

Seller ID: 18393

ISBN: 0-7322-5717-4

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean book, virtually as new with with slightest bit of scuffing to the front cover]. Trade PB Novel about three brothers who leave their small home town in Australia and become, respectively: a globe-hopping, drug-dealing ne'er-do-well; a heavy-drinking would-be writer; and "a reformed gambler turned born-again Christian, [who] decides his mission in life is to save the world, starting with his younger brothers." There are, as far as I can tell, no zombies involved.
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Category: Fiction: SF/Fantasy/Horror