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Hardcover. NY, Rinehart and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in red and black. No dust jacket. The author's second novel ("The Haploids" was the first), a science fiction about an unseen race living among us, the Capellans, that for millions of years have harvested a crop of their own planting - the thought forces released by humans at death. Now that source is threatened by the advance of science. 244 pages. A tight copy, usual tanning to the pages. Small worm hole to top edge, margin, not affecting text. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Gollancz, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages. A fantasy novel, first published in 1948, under the pseudonym George U. Fletcher. The land of Dalarna is under the heel of the Vulkings, whose heavy taxation is forcing the Dalecarl yeomen out of their holdings. The protagonist, Airar Alvarson, is one of the dispossessed. On the advice of his mentor, the magician Meliboe, he joins the underground Iron Ring resistance, only to face defeat and failure. Captured and enslaved by the free fishers on the Gentebbi Islands, he goes through a series of adventures in which he gradually rises from a homeless fugitive to a great war leader. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, faded on spine, 315 pages. Science fantasy adventure involving the resurrection of a Viking woman, who has been frozen for a thousand years, by a lost community of Vikings in the far north.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. His work is an extraordinary mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into three parts - Culture, Woman and Philosophy - the Reader not only provides careful explications of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework. The essays on woman offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. In fact, at this collection dazzlingly demonstrates, Zizek provides us with one of the most limpid and persuasive readings so far produced of Lacan's difficult thought. Name on inside of front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Green cloth cover, light wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to edges, heavy in one corner. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 220 pages, b&w illustrations by Vincent DiFate. Red genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Del Rey Ballantine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 337 pages. Mysterious, incredibly superior alien beings assemble a new Earth out of bits and pieces of the old one, which they snatch from various eras. So a UN helicopter crew from 2037, a crew of astronauts from the same era, Genghis Khan and his Horde, Alexander the Great and his army, a British Indian outpost where Rudyard Kipling (rendered here in all his youthful complexity) is visiting, and a remnant of Babylon end up coexisting. Not at all peacefully, either, especially when one astronaut, a ruthless and foul-mouthed American woman, decides to aid and abet the Mongols in their career of world conquest, which can be halted only by the other civilized time travelers joining forces with a very well portrayed Alexander. In the end, civilization's prospects have been propped up, and one of the UN crew is off to find the aliens. CD-ROM included.

Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth, blue lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Spectra, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 434 pages. Winner of the 1999 Hugo award for best Science Fiction novel of the year,

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages, B&w and color illustrations. The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made the performances exceptional - carefully examining the actor's craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. This title looks at Hollywood icon Tom Cruise. First cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983), he gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott's Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors, Cruise has oriented his career to blockbusters, with a predilection for action and science fiction, starring in such movies as Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005), the Mission: Impossible series (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011) and Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (2013). Still in publisher'sshrinkwrap.

Hardcover. London, Harper Collins , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth, purple lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Orbit Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. In great shape. No rips or tears. Binding tight. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war." Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 511 pages, b&w illustrations. Britain's most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the escape to other dimensions, flights to other planets, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation. Examining the great writers SF has produced, and the images that have become the cultural wallpaper of the present day, this comprehensive expedition is for buffs and tenderfoots alike. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Softcover. Urbana, IL, Golden Gryphon Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages. Pictorial cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. #43 in signed copy series limited to 500.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages in color. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Lourie skillfully describes the delicate three-way relationship that exists among the Inupiat of Alaska, the bowhead whales, and the scientists who are there to collect data and study the animals. The Inupiat have hunted bowheads for thousands of years and their very existence depends upon the harvesting of the leviathans. The scientists are there to determine whether the whaling done by these communities is sustainable and not decimating the bowhead population. Using a day-in-the-life format, Lourie follows one particular scientist, John Craighead George, as he goes about collecting the necessary data. The biologist is careful not to disturb the integrity of the harvest and, in fact, works closely with the Inupiat to do what he needs to do. Interwoven throughout this daylong saga are historical information, scientific facts, and cultural tradition. Crisp color photographs on every page provide a lush complement to the engaging, informative text. Young readers will come away with a stronger appreciation of the bowhead whales, the people who both hunt and respect them, and the scientists who straddle the traditional and modern worlds to gather important information. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 391 pages, poor dust jacket tattered with a chunk gone from spine and rear panel. An anthology edited by Derleth, collecting previously published stories by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Theodore Sturgeon, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Grey cloth with green titling and decoration, with b&w illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. Spine square. Binding sound. Clean copy.