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New York and Cleveland: Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1994. 8vo. 318 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Clean and unmarked. Yellow boards black with copper lettering at spine. Beautifully color illustrated endpapers. Jacket art by Darrell Sweet. A book in the Xanth series, Gloha, offspring of a goblin and a harpy, goes on a quest in search of truth, friendship and hopefully her one true love. ISBN 0312853904. #126.. ISBN: 0312853904. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Darrell Sweet. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Piers Anthony, Harpy Thyme, Harpy Time, Darrell Sweet, Xanth, first edition, science fiction, modern first, Fiction. more information

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New York: HarperCollins, 1996. 8vo.447 pgs. Fine Hardbound in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with no discernable defects. A story about a wildlife photographer, Will Rabjohns, who has made his reputation photographing endangered species, and a fateful trip to the Arctic where a mystical encounter with a bear leaves him all but dead. A journey of self-discovery leads him back to AIDS-plagued San Francisco, New York, and the Scottish moors, where he penetrates the ultimate mystery, "The "Domus Mundi" and discovers the secret that links his destiny to that of all the innumerable creatures on the planet. ISBN 006017949X. #362.. ISBN: 006017949X. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Gene Mydlowski. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clive Barker, Sacrament, Gene Mydlowski, fiction, science fiction, horror, fantasy, mysticism, first edition, Environmental Fiction, modern Firsts. more information

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MO: Andrews and McMeel, MO. 1996. First Edition., 1996. 8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition softcover. A biographical, bibliographical resource and reference guide. Thematically organised in five sections plus appendices: The Real World of Anne Rice, The Unreal World of Anne Rice, On Anne Rice, Chiaroscuro - Anne Rice and the Cinema and A Look at the Books. ISBN 0836210360. #676.. ISBN: 0836210360. First Edition.. Softbound Pb. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. biography, reference, bibliography, book collecting, Anne Rice, vampires, fiction, horror, fantasy, Checklist. more information

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New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Company., 1947. ix.372pgs. Very Good + condition black cloth hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. Gilt decoration of a pierced heart to the front board, gilt lettering to spine. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, previous owner name on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked, binding sound.Dusk jacket with price intact has general darkening of paper and some rubbing and small chips along edges and corners, overall quite presentable and now protected in a clear archival cover. Cover illustration of a woman with a stake piercing her heart. The author is a renowned anthologist and illustrator who has provided illustrations throughout the text for each of the short stories. Contents: Preface, Acknowledgments, Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Brother Lucifer by Chandler W. Whipple, The Metronome by August W. Derleth, Uncanonized by Seabury Quinn, The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch, Clay-Shuttered Doors by Helen R. Hull, Amour Dure by Vernon Lee, School for the Unspeakables by Manly Wade Wellman, The Adventures of the German Student by Washington Irving, The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft, Second Night Out by Frank Belknap Long, Clarimonde by Theophile Gautier, The Seed From the Sepulcher by Clark Ashton Smith, For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford, The Story of Ming-Y by Lafcadio Hearn, The Quick and the Dead by Vincent Starrett, Satan's Circus by Eleanor Smith, Miss Mary Pask by Edith Wharton, Septima by Marcel Schob, Count Magnus by M.R. James, And He Shall Sing by H.R. Wakefield, Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Pierce, The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson. #1902.. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Illus. by Elinore Blaisdell. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Undead, Vampires, Tales, Visitants, Elinore Blaisdell, Anthology, Vampyre, Nosferatu, Gothic Horror, Vintage, Occult, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Tales, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Carmilla, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Brother Lucifer, Chandler W. Whipple, The Metronome, August W. Derleth, Uncanonized, Seabury Quinn, The Feast in the Abbey, Robert Bloch, Clay-Shuttered Doors, Helen R. Hull, Amour Dure, Vernon Lee, School for the Unspeakables, Manly Wade Wellman, The Adventures of the German Student, Washington Irving, The Tomb, H.P. Lovecraft, Second Night Out, Frank Belknap Long, Clarimonde, Theophile Gautier, The Seed From the Sepulcher, Clark Ashton Smith, For the Blood is the Life, F. Marion Crawford, The Story of Ming-Y, Lafcadio Hearn, The Quick and the Dead, Vincent Starrett, Satan's Circus, Eleanor Smith, Miss Mary Pask, Edith Wharton, Septima, Marcel Schob, Count Magnus, M.R. James, And He Shall Sing, H.R. Wakefield, Doom of the House of Duryea, Earl Pierce, The Room in the Tower, E.F. Benson. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR)/ St. Martin's Press., 1994. 8vo. 350 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. February 1994 First edition. Black boards and spine, gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Jacket illustration by Boris Vallejo. ISBN 0312854471. #147. ISBN: 031285447. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Boris Vallejo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, Orion, Mars, science fiction, Boris Vallejo, Ben Bova, first edition , modern Firsts. more information

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Chicago, Ill.: Shasta Publishers, 1951. 230pgs. Very Good tan cloth hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. This is the second edition, following release of the R.K.O. motion picture "The Thing From Another World", set in Antarctica and starring James Arness as the alien creature. The movie was based on the title story "Who Goes There?". Jacket art by Malcolm Smith reflects the movie tie-in. Light rubbing to cloth on lower spine edge and bottom corners. Top edge of textblock colored green. Jacket has original price intact and paper is a bit rubbed along edges and corners, small chips at spine ends and corners, one inch closed tear at left bottom corner of front panel. Two smaller closed tears at top edge of rear panel. There are cellophane tape shadows on inner side of jacket at each upper corner. Tape no longer present, and jacket quite presentable, protected in clear archival cover. Internally clean and binding sound. Following an informative commentary in the introduction by the author, the stories in this anthology are: Who Goes There?, Blindness, Frictional Losses, Dead Knowledge, Elimination, Twilight and Night. #1971.. Signed by Author. Second Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Illus. by Malcolm Smith. Small 8vo.. The Thing, John W. Campbell, The Thing From ANother World, Astounding Science-Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Horror, Anthology, Twilight, Night, Elimination, Frictional Losses, Dead Knowledge, Blindness, Motion Picture, R.K.O., Malcolm Smith, Signed. more information

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London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. 4to.312 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for Non-fiction. An informative, richly illustrated reference covering a diversity of multi-media sci-fi aspects including a chronology, bibliography of sci-fi literature, biographies of 19th and 20th century authors, historical contexts, themes associated with the chronology of the genre, pulps, classics, illustration trends, films and television. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book. ISBN 0789401851. #834.. ISBN: 0789401851. First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Science Fiction, Reference, Illustration, John Clute, Encylopedia, Fantasy, Art, Illustrated, Chronology, Bibliography, Graphic Art, Genre Film, Sci-fi, Non-Fiction, History of Science Fiction, Hugo Award. more information

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New York: Pyramid Books , 1956. 190 pgs. Very Good condition vintage paperback. Slight rubbing to paper at spine edges and a shallow partial crease to front cover vertically along woman pictured, else externally pristine, square and tight. Text block edges are red. Internally clean and unmarked, paper uniformly age-toned. First four pages have a small 1/2 inch closed edge tear to right margin. Cover art by Bob Lavin. From the back cover: "The Vikes were in the saddle riding high-peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only one man stood between them and a world gone mad...". #1879.. Softcover, Pb. Very Good. Illus. by Bob Lavin. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Hunt Collins, S.a. Lombino, Ed McBain, Curt Cannon, Richard Marsten,ezra Hannon, John Abbott, Sci-fi, Futuristic, Vintage Paperback, Cults, Vikes, Pyramind, Science Fiction, Bob Lavin, Satire. more information

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New York: Tor., 1996. 8 vo. 254 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. A novel of contemporary magic realism. By the author of American Book Award Winner "The Red Magician". June 1996 first printing. ISBN 0312861753. #732.. ISBN: 0312861753. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, first edition, modern first, fantasy, magic, labyrinth, Magician, Lisa Goldstein, Walking the Labyrinth. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. 206 pgs. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. Rust colored boards, gilt lettering to spine, minimal signs of shelfwear to edges and corners, very light foxing to edges of textblock, internally pristine. Yellow jacket has original British price intact, very slight darkening of paper at spine and edges, three 1/4 inch edge. Overall very nice collectible copy. Post atomic war novel set in a futuristic submarine. This is the first British edition of the author's first book. Later re-named "21st Century Sub" in subsequent publications. Winner of the International Fantasy Award tied with William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" and Professor Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". #1877.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Author's First Book. Frank Herbert, Dune, Dragon in the Sea, Science Fiction, First Edition, Fantasy, Futuristic, International Fantasy Award, Atomic War, Post Nuclear, Disaster Fiction, 21st Century Sub, Submarine, novaya Zemlya. more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster., 1996. 8vo. 319 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Green boards, tan cloth spine. Frontis illustration and black and white drawings throughout text by Ruth Pollitt. Set in the nature reserve of La Selva in Costa Rica, a study of ant life interspersed with the perspectives of individual ants. Each chapter begins with excerpts and an illustration. Appendices, including a chronology, Glossary, Guide to common and Latin names, Bibliography, Acknowledgements and Index. ISBN 0684810867. # 582N.. ISBN: 0684810867. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Ruth Pollitt. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. non-fiction, natural science, zoology, animal behaviour, insects, ants, antz, science, Nature, Natural History, Ecology, Conservation, Ecosystems, Erich Hoyt, Cost Rica, La Selva. more information

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New York: Viking., 1995. 8vo. 420 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Dustjacket has shallow ding near bottom of spine. Black cloth and boards, red metallic lettering and detail. Frontis illus. by Mark Geyer. Jacket photo. George Kerrigan. Author photo Tabitha King. ISBN 0670858692. #153.. ISBN: 0670858692. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Mark Geyer. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition, fiction, horror, modern Firsts, Stephen King, Rose Madder, Spousal Abuse, Suspense, Supernatural. more information

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Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 529 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and pristine. A haunted love story. ISBN 0684853507. #1744.. ISBN: 0684853507. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Stephen King, Bag of Bones, FICTION, Novel, Haunted, Love Story, HORROR MAINE NOONAN MIKE. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Alfred A. Knopf, NY. 1994. First trade edition., 1994. 8vo. 481 pgs. Fine hardcover in near fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very faint rubbing to paper edge at back top spine corner. Black boards and cloth, gold lettering on spine and front. ISBN 0679425241. #200.. ISBN: 0679425241. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dean Koontz, Dark Rivers of the Heart, fiction, horror, first Edition. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994. 8vo. 481 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. First trade edition 11/94. Black boards and cloth, clean and unmarked. ISBN 0679425241. #151.. ISBN: 0679425241. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition, fiction, horror, modern first, science Fiction, Dean Koontz, Dark Rivers of the Heart, NOBN. more information

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New York: Warner Books., 1995. 8vo. 561 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. First edition May 1995. Black boards and cloth, silver lettering. Jacket illustration by Fernando and Angelico/Fotografica. A compilation of two complete novels, and twelve novelettes and short stories. Contents: Strange Highways, The Black Pumpkin, Miss Attila the Hun, Down in the Darkness, Ollie's Hands, Snatcher, Trapped, Bruno, We Three,Hardshell, Kittens, The Night of the Storm, Twilight of the Dawn, Chase,, Notes to the Reader. ISBN 044651974X. #152.. ISBN: 044651974X. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition, fiction, horror, modern First, Dean Koontz, Strange Highways, Short Stories, Novel, Novelette. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Ballantine Books, 1993. 8vo. 508 pgs. First Edition October 1993. Near Fine condition black cloth hard cover in Near Fine jacket. Both clean and unmarked. Jacket has tiny shallow ding to paper on back edge at spine, in archival cover. Classic chronicle, glossary and guide book to the vampiric fiction of Anne Rice. Illustrated throughout. Includes glossary, time lines, vampire atlases (ancient world, modern world, San Francisco, New Orleans and the French Quarter, France, Paris, The Gathering of Immortals, Voyage of the QE II. Bibliography. ISBN 0345379925. #1054.. ISBN: 0345379225. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Laura Hartman Maestro. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anne Rice, Vampires, Vampire, Vampiric, Fiction, Armand, Akasha, Lestat, Interview With the Vampire, Glossary, Handbook, Vampire Chronicles, Vampire Lestat, New Orleans, French Quarter, Horror, Gothic, Katherine Ramsland. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Warner Books., 1995. 8vo. 284 pgs. Very good + condition, with slight wrinkle to top corner of cover, else fine. Softbound, pb. Companion book to The Celestine Prophecy. ISBN 0446671223. #181. ISBN: 0446671223. 4th Printing. Softbound Pb. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Redfield, Celestine Prophecy, non-fiction, spirituality, self-improvement, Metaphysics. more information

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Nashville, TN, U.S.A.: Cumberland House Publishing, 1997. 8vo. 224 pgs. Near Fine condition softcover pb, clean and unmarked with minimal shelf wear. Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgments; New Hampshire: "Investigating Jericho" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Massachusetts: "The Brotherhood of Blood" by Hugh B. Cave; Connecticut: "Chastel" by Manly Wade Wellman; Maine: "The Doom of the House of Duryea" by Earl Pierce, Jr.; Vermont: "Moonlight in Vermont" by Esther Friesner; Connecticut: "Secret Societies" by Lawrence Schmeil; Massachussets: "Luella Miller" by Mary Wilkins-Freeman; New Hampshire: "When the Red Storm Comes" by Sarah Smith; Connecticut: "The Beautiful, The Damned" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Rhode Island: "The Sunned House" by H.P. Lovecraft. ISBN 1888952504. #1523.. ISBN: 1888952504. First Printing. Softcover, Pb. Near Fine. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Vampire, Vampyre, Short Stories, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Hugh B. Cave, Manly Wade Wellman, Earl Pierce, Jr., HORROR TALES Esther Friesner, Lawrence Schmeil, Anthology, Mary Wilkins-Freeman, Sarah Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, H.P. Lovecraft, NEW ENGLAND FICTION VAMPIRES Bloodlines. more information

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New York: Dutton, 1990. 8vo. 358 pgs. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust Jacket. White cloth spine, peach boards. Slight fading to top edge of boards, remainder mark bottom of textblock near spine, else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has faint watermark along bottom edge, visible only from inside. In archival cover. ISBN 0525249249. #926.. ISBN: 0525249249. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction, Suspense, Horror, Peter Straub, Houses Without Doors, Violent Death, Supernatural, First Edition, Modern First. more information

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New York: A.L Burt Company, 1924. 310 pgs. Very Good condition green cloth hardcover. Light wear to cloth at edges and corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine a bit faded. Binding sound, Clean and unmarked with the exception of a paraphrase of a quotation by Edward Wallis Hoch written on the front endpaper: " There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us...". An odd tale admixing a bit of spiritualism and the occult in a nevel set in pre-Depression Era New York City. The lives and careers of two Wall Street investment banker partners become tumultuous after one of them encounters a doctor who promises to return his youthfulness through a series of therapeutic treatments with various colored light rays and hypnosis. The doctor is assisted by a capable but mysterious nurse and a Negro assistant whose skin color was transformed from black to white. The result is not quite the chakra tune-up he was expecting. By the author of "The Pointed Tower", "The Night Watchman and Other Poems", "Eat and Grow Thin", "The Scarlet Iris" and others. #1959.. Later Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Vance Thompson, The Green Ray, The Pointed Tower, The Scarlet Iris, Fiction, Vintage, Fantasy, Occult, Critic, Novelist, Poet, Color Therapy, Rays, Hypnosis, Charlatain. more information

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Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.: iUniverse, Incorporated, 2000. 8vo, 309 pgs. As New condition trade paperback, clean, crisp and unmarked with no wrinkles, rubs or creases. An immense interstellar vessel buried deep beneath the Wyoming mountains is reactivated by an earthquake, trapping the humans within as its computer takes steps to rescue itself and exterminate the intruders on board. ISBN 0595146597. #1509.. ISBN: 0595146597. Softbound Pb. As New. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Steve Vance, space Ship, Science Fiction, Suspense, outer Space, Space Ship, Wyoming. more information

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New York: Random House, The Modern Library, 1972. 8vo. Modern Library Giant format. xix. 1080 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Modern Library Giant. Brown boards with shallow bump to top spine. Owner name on front endpaper, else unmarked. An anthology of 52 tales of terror and the supernatural from de Balzac and Poe through Wells and Lovecraft. #718.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Poe, De Balzac, H.G. Wells, Lovecraft, Conrad Aiken, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hawthorne, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Isak Dineson, fiction, short stories, anthology, horror, supernatural, Modern Library, Macabre. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Doubleday and Company, 1978. 8vo. 208 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket, clean and unmarked with light shelf wear. Blue cover hardback, black lettering on spine. Book Club Edition. Jacket design by Gary Friedman. The first chapter in this book originally appeared as a short story "False Dawn", in the book "Strange Bedfellows", editied by Thomas N. Scortia and published by Random House in 1973. I a brutal and wasted world there was only one law-survival at any cost. #178.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gary Friedman. BCE. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gary Friedman, False Dawn, fiction, science fiction, mystery, suspense, fantasy, Horror, False Dawn, Saint-Germain. more information

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