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A LITTLE WAY AHEAD
Edition: First US printing
New York: Dutton, 1930. Red patterned cloth lettered in black. pp 316, [2]. Spine lightly darkened, else a VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names. A fantasy novel. "An ordinary man, suddenly becoming prescient, makes money on the Stock Exchange, but is doomed by personal flaws; and after his gift deserts him has one final vision: of himself as a suicide." - SFE / The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. AMICUS locates this American edition at LAC only.; Octavo
Book ID: 49345More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
A NIGHT WITH JUPITER and other fantastic stories
Edition: First UK printing
London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. Blue cloth. Yellowing to page edges and lightly to text , else fine. Jacket is only fair - yellowed and rubbed spine has a small hole, large chips to ends; chips along top edges of panels. Book designed by Parker Tyler. Short stories by Henry Miller (2), Miguel Asturias, Clay Perry, Giorgio di Chirico, Paul Childs, Montagu O'Reilly, Ramon J. Sender, Leo Poch, Lydia Cabrera, Leonora Carrington (2), Paul Bowles (at age 8 plus 2 translations), Alva N. Turner, and Raymond Roussel. Illustrations by Alexander Calder, Pavel Tchelitchew, Yves Tanguy Man Ray, Klee, Ernst, others. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53538More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE (SIGNED)
Edition: First Canadian issue
Book ID: 7526More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
A SENSE OF REALITY
Edition: First US printing
New York: Viking, 1963. Cream and light blue cloth, green top page edges. Slight sunning to green top edges, else fine, now owner names. Dust jacket has just a touch of rubbing to tips of ends of only faintly yellowed spine; light dust soiling to white rear panel; else fine. An unusually nice copy of this collection of four stories, some with fantasy elements.
Book ID: 2884More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
A SPECTER IS HAUNTING TEXAS
Edition: First printing
New York: Walker, 1969. Black boards, pink top page edges. Page edges tanned, as usual, else fine in fine jacket, flap price intact, no owner names. Jacket art by Jack Gaughan. ; Octavo
Book ID: 39686More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A TOUCH OF INFINITY / THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES
Edition: First printing
New York: 1960. Mass market paperback, Ace Double D-413. Very small splits to spine folds at ends, very small chip to top inner corner of THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES; small abrasion to lower inner corner of A TOUCH OF INFINITY, with a tiny corner chip and corner crease to first leaf of same; VG clean copy otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 46914More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography. With Annotations by Darrell Schweitzer, Janny Wurts, Jeff Levin and Tom Whitmore.
Edition: First Edition
San Francisco: Underwood / Miller, 1983. Pictorial cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (152). Illustrated. Fine copy. There were 500 copies in hardcover. This is one of the 300 regular copies, and though not called for, it is SIGNED BY ZELAZNY on the title page.; Octavo.; Signed by Author 0934438404
Book ID: 51047More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
ANGEL WITH THE SWORD
Edition: First pinting
New York: DAW, 1985. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, black cloth & boards. Text paper lightly toned, as usual, else a fne copy. Dust jacket has creases to the surface lamination along the spine (manufacturing flaw), else fine, flap price intact. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. ; Signed by Author
Book ID: 37949More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ANGRY CANDY
Edition: First trade printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Black cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has minor rubbing, near fine. The Easton Press edition preceded by one week. 0395483077
Book ID: 46608More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
AYESHA: the return of She
Edition: First Canadian issue
Book ID: 43177More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
BINSTEAD'S SAFARI
Edition: First printing
London: Faber, 1983. Author's third novel. Tan boards. Fine in fine jacket. "Following a decade of silence, Ingalls began to produce works which boldly wed an absorption in the subtle nuances of quotidian experience with a strain of eerie, exalted fantasy. MRS CALIBAN (1982) and BINSTEAD'S SAFARI (1983) both evoke the conflicted romantic coupling of a bored, alienated housewife with a supernatural entity -- a froglike humanoid in the former book, a shapeshifter tribal shaman in the latter." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 499.; Octavo 057113016X
Book ID: 55174More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
BLOOD AND WATER and other tales
Edition: First US printing
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Jacket has slight yellowing to flaps, else fine. Author's first book.
Book ID: 43067More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS
Edition: First US printing
New York: Random, c1971, 1974. Blue cloth & mauve boards. Edges of boards lightly sunned; damp spots to lower front board and inside of front panel of jacket, VG otherwise in near fine jacket, flap price intact.
Book ID: 43146More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
BROTHERS: a novel
Edition: First printing
New York: Bantam, 1996. Uncorrected proof in light green non-pictorial card covers. Spine sunned; bruise to upper outer corner of front cover and softly to first half of text; VG clean, tight and unworn otherwise. A science thriller in which it is discovered how to regenerate failing organs within the living body, delivering the possibility of human immortality.
Book ID: 39448More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
CHAINS. Translated from the French by Stephen Haden Guest
Edition: First UK edition
London: Cape, 1925. Octavo. Two volumes, red cloth, spines gilt lettered. Spines lightly sunned; private owner rubber stamp and 1928 ink name to front endpapers of each volume; yellowing to endpapers; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless pair. Not in Bleler. Reginald 859. "French writer, best known for his strongly realistic fiction, especially that concerning WWI. Les enchaînements (1925; trans as Chains in 2 vols US) attempts - like many novels from the first third of the century - to present a panoramic vision of mankind's prehistory and history, in this case through the trancendental experiences of a single protagonist who is stuck by his significant visions while in the middle of a staircase." - Clute, Ency. of SF. Reginald 859. 1.5 kg parcel
Book ID: 27282More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CONSIDER HER WAYS
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 36585More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
Dark of the Moon
Edition: First printing
New York: Atheneum, 1985. Brown cloth. Fine copy, map card laid in. Price-clipped jacket has a crease to front flap, else fine. 0689311710
Book ID: 38128More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
DARLING TOM and other stories
Edition: First printing
London: Methuen, 1952. Blue boards. Yellowing and foxing to page edges and a bit of foxing to text margins early and late, else fine, no owner names. Thin jacket has edge nicks, creases to rear panel and rear flap, VG otherwise, no chips, flap price intact. A collection of 24 stories, one of which has supernatural interest ("Let Me Go"). Contains a long introductory essay by the author on the short story.
Book ID: 43231More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
DAYBREAK: a romance of an old world. With drawings by Walter C. Greenough
Edition: First printing
New York: George H. Richmond, 1897. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Pp [2], viii, 399, [3] + frontispiece with tissue guard and 3 other plates. Top edges gilt, fore edges partially rough trimmed, bottom edges rough trimmed. Lacking the front free endpaper; spine lightly darkened with mild wear at ends; front cover lightly soiled; fore and bottom page edges yellowed; scattered light foxing; else a VG tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Adventures on the moon, a moon maiden, and a trip to Mars. Bleiler (1978), p. 51. Reginald 03486. Wright III 1225. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp 203-05. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 109.
Book ID: 39210More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
Death is a Lonely Business
Edition: First printing
New York: Knopf, 1985. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a few nicks, VG+ otherwise. 0394547020
Book ID: 44005More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80