[very nice tight copy, the faintest bit of spotting on top edge, appears unread; jacket pristine, looks like it's been in protective cover from Day One]. Sci-fi/fantasy/time travel novel, set largely in early Los Angeles and Hollywood. View More...
[light soiling to top of text block, no other signficant wear or blemishes; jacket has a tiny chip, a couple of small closed tears and some associated creasing at bottom of front panel, a couple of tiny edge-nicks and light soiling to rear panel, shallow chip at top of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title: "To ____ -- / Without whom, / who knows? / Howard." "The story of a man caught in an underground existence; the world as it is after the population explosion has forced Man to destroy himself. The world of Alex Parnell, as he was newly christened after ... View More...
[minimal wear to book, previous owner's name plus date & place & explanation of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper (six lines of writing), check marks (in both ink and pencil) next to all title in table of contents; the jacket is kind of a mess, although the worst of it is confined to the spine, in which several missing strips have been filled in by amateurish internal tape-repair (which has also been applied all across the top and bottom edges of the jacket); the front panel is substantially complete, with just some wear at the corners]. (pen and ink drawings) Uncommon anthology of und... View More...
[a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge, slight exposure of board at bottom front corner; jacket is edgeworn with various small tears, ragged diagonal tear at top of front panel (with some bleed-through staining from old internal tape-repair), narrow strip torn away at top of rear panel, extending a bit into top of spine]. Collection of 13 fantasy/SF-ish stories, the first book by this prolific pulp-fiction writer who later branched out into radio and television. The title story, about a milquetoasty little man and his invisible compansions, was Bond's first big success; it originally appeared in... View More...
(no dust jacket, likely as issued) [a handsome copy in attractive marbled boards, with a firm binding and just a bit of bumping at several corners]. Fantasy novel with heavy spiritual overtones, about a group of six characters (including a bank cashier absconding with some stolen securities, an unsuccessful playwright and his unfaithful wife; and a Vermont farm couple) who all die in one way or another, and upon finding themselves "passed over" into the world of the afterlife, spend the better part of the novel trying to figure out what it all means. Many of this New Hampshire-born au... View More...
[a very nice copy, tight and clean, with just a trace of surface wear to the jacket]. (B&W drawings) "A collection of unicorn stories that unicorn lovers will treasure for a lifetime. This fantastical volume includes works by award-winning writers, including Gregory Maguire, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Sean Stewart, and, of course, Bruce Coville. There are beautiful illustrations from award-winning artist Alix Berenzy. Each story takes the reader on a journey to find the magic in life [and the book] will make everyone who reads it a true believer." (My guess is that the hardcover pri... View More...
[light shelfwear, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, previous owner's name + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), a couple of tiny stains on fore-edge, one diagonally-creased upper page corner; the jacket shows some wrinkling at the upper part of the spine extending a bit onto the rear panel, some surface-scuffing along the left edge of the rear panel, but overall in nice condition especially given the thin uncoated paper on which it's printed]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the editor on the front end... View More...
[clean/tight/unread, minimal shelfwear to bottom edge, bookstore name/address stamped on ffep; jacket bright and attractive, mild wear along top edge, one tiny closed tear at base of spine, another at bottom of rear panel, fainti soiling to rear panel]. "A haunting novel of fantasy and horror, [the novel] tells the story of six members of a carnival sideshow, victims of fate and of their own freakishness, now trapped in the belly of a truck teetering on the edge of a cliff. As they struggle desperately to escape, each peers into the abyss of his own heart, recalling secret passions and fea... View More...
(no dust jacket; top edge gilt, "Acme" devices on spine (gilt) and front cover (embossed in black)) [shelfworn along bottom edge but otherwise a good sound copy, binding/hinges fully intact, slight bumping to corners, some wear to cloth at spine ends, minor dampstaining to top edges of several illustration plates (no impact on actual illustrations)]. (frontispiece + 15 B&W plates) Novel about a man's obsessive romance with a beguiling ghost, originally published in France in 1866 (subtitled "nouvelle fantastique"), and subsequently in the U.S. by D. Appleton in 1877. (A slightly later issue o... View More...
[good sound copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight bumping to top corners; jacket edgeworn and moderately soiled, small chip at top front hinge, 2-inch tear and associated creasing at bottom of rear panel, light staining to flaps, etc.] "A novel of the year 2040," in which "a typical American of our time takes advantage of a scientific experiment to sleep for a century," and when he wakes up he discovers, among other things, that "he recognizes with satisfaction the triumph of human intelligence." (I wish I could think that that's the direction we're headin... View More...
(price-clipped) [good solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, slight age-toning to top edge and fore-edge, one-time owner's signature on ffep, partially on top of which has been pasted another one-time owner's bookplate; jacket is worn, with numerous chips along top and bottom edges, slight sunning to spine]. Spiritually-themed novel, about a motley group of people on a merchant ship that's crossing the Indian Ocean: an aristocrat and her military husband, the son of an American millionaire, a chewing-gum manufacturer, a couple of missionaries and their kids, a tyrannical Senator and his w... View More...
[extremely light wear at spine extremities; jacket shows just a touch of wear at the top corners, otherwise flawless]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, for a charity auction: "For the LASFS auction -- / This tale about weird / events in Northeastern / California. As we all / know -- in real life, most / of the really good weirdness / is in the southern part / of the state. Dean R. Koontz / 5/23/89." Set in fictional Snowfield, California, formerly "a charming little town," now "a place of nightmares," as hundreds of the town's residents have ... View More...
[tight and clean, just a trace of wear at spine ends; jacket rubbed a bit along edges, slight wear at corners, a little wrinkling at both ends of spine, but all in all a nice example of this very wear-prone jacket]. Ex-Mets shortstop Eddie Keenan (.342 in the team's second consecutive pennant-winning season) becomes Warrior Iddikinnin, drafted by Earth and dispatched across the galaxy to civilize the feudal economy of the planet Melon. "Allen Kim Lang has produced a hilarious blend of baseball, exobiology, ethnology, and pure fun in this glorious, slam-bang adventure, the story of baseball... View More...
[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... View More...
[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"; ... View More...
(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 ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, just the teensiest bumping to the lower front corner; the jacket is virtually flawless, downgraded from Fine only because of the price-clipping and a touch of soiling to the rear panel]. "John Soames is thirty years old and, physiologically speaking, alive. But by some trick of fate he has never become conscious. He is awoken and brought to full consciousness by a surgeon's knife, a newborn baby with the body of a healthy young man." Basis for the 1970 British-American film of the same name, starring Terence Stamp and Robert Vaughn; a critical and box... View More...
[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 ... View More...
[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 ... View More...
[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... View More...
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