Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1sy, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.
London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light spine fade. The author's scarce second novel.
Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 483 pages. INSCRIBED BY STRAUB ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Minor fading to dust jacket spine. Light wear overall. Clean, tight copy. First printing of Straub's eerie and artful fifth novel, a critical and popular success whose film adaptation starred Fred Astaire in his last role.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket shows a touch of age yellowing, however is otherwise in very good condition. Edges show a touch of foxing/age-yellowing. Clean inside. In good condition.
Hardcover. West Kingston, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. Northridge CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy. This book is actually 3 stories linked together by a common theme compiled into a novel that beautifully illustrates how our decisions might really be what determines our destiny.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ELLISON on the title page. Ellison's sixteen previously uncollected stories and new novella further his reputation as an intrepid explorer of odd psychological corners and a master of pure horror and black comedy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ny, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "Collection of stories including scientific romances, contes philosophiques and stories of the supernatural. The most important of the latter is the novella Dromenon, in which an antiquarian discovers the true nature of medieval Christian worship by means of a restored church organ". Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, with pastedown plate on cover, gilt stamping. The creator of Sherlock Holmes dabbled in many other genres including science fiction, and in this 1912 fantasy he transported readers to the wilds of the Amazon for a rollicking adventure among dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The Lost World is the first and best of Arthur Conan Doyle's five stories about the eccentric paleontologist Professor Challenger. This splendid hardcover edition reprints the tale as it first appeared in The Strand Magazine and includes the original brush-and-wash illustrations by Golden Age masters Harry Rountree. Doyle, using his Maple White alias, provides artwork as well. No dust jacket issued.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Oneiric Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages. Bound in original dark red cloth with lettering in black.
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.
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. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Tight coy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Hardcover in slip case, no dust jacket. NUMBERED 319 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Black cloth covered slip case, and cover boards. Spine heavily faded with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.