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1) Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bach, Richard

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Macmillan 1970. Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Full cloth binding with very slight fading of upper board edges. Book is tight and bright. DJ with a small, closed tear of back; in a clear protective cover. Richard Bach's classic of freedom and flight. Nicely illustrated with photographs by Russell Munson. more information

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2) Lives of the Monster Dogs
Bakis, Kirsten

Lives of the Monster Dogs
Warner 1998. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "They come to New York from an isolated town in the Canadian wilderness. Captivating and elegant in their top hats, tails, and bustle skirts, the highly intelligent dogs with artificial voice boxes and prosthetic hands become instant celebrities. They gather wealth and fame, and their lives seem gracious and charmed, but their origins remain unknown." more information

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3) The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 - The Book: Including How to Not Die and Other Good Tips
Brooks, Mel and Carl Reiner

The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 - The Book: Including How to Not Die and Other Good Tips
Cliff Street / HarperCollins First Edition 1997. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price-clipped - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. "The 2000 Year Old Man knew everyone from Jesus to Shakespeare, Cleopatra to Paul Revere. He was there when men discovered women, and he dated Joan of Arc. The feisty raconteur had been married several hundred times. He had 42,000 children - 'and not one comes to visit me'." more information

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4) Man on the Mountain
Carroll, Gladys Hasty

Man on the Mountain
Little, Brown First Edition 1969. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A novel of fantasy set in a future in which the generations have lost contact with one another. more information

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5) Kar Kalim
Christian, Deborah

Kar Kalim
Tom Doherty Associates First Edition 1997. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The authors first book. "...a vivid, imaginative fantasy, rich in evocative imagery." more information

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6) Timeline
Crichton, Michael

Timeline
Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 1999. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Set in a world on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey. more information

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7) The Chronicles of Krystonia
Dix, Beau and Mark Scott

The Chronicles of Krystonia
Mildonian 1987. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Leatherette binding with gilt spine and front board lettering. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Illustrated by Mark Newman. more information

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8) Lord of the Isles
Drake, David

Lord of the Isles
Tom Doherty First Edition 1997. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with very slightest of edge wear; in a clear protective cover. Fantasy adventure. more information

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9) Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Garner, James Finn

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Macmillan First Edition 1995. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Spurred by the overwhelming success of the million-copy best seller Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner continues his quest to liberate "classic" fairy tales from their archaic sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices. more information

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10) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times
Garner, James Finn

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times
Macmillan Sixteenth Printing 1994. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In olden days, these stories (Snow White, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and others) were."sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere." Now James Finn Garner has enlightened and liberated these classic tales. more information

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11) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories / Once Upon a More Enlightened Time
Garner, James Finn

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories / Once Upon a More Enlightened Time
Macmillan Quality Paperback Book Club Edition 1995. Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. This volume contains two of James Finn Garner's classic satires of political correctness: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times and Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. In olden days, these stories (Snow White, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and others) were..."sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere." Now James Finn Garner has enlightened and liberated these classic tales. more information

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12) The Autobiography of Santa Claus
Guinn, Jeff

The Autobiography of Santa Claus
Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin Fourth Printing 2003 . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. This enchanting holiday treasure combines historical fact with glorious legend as Saint Nicholas himself reveals the definitive story of Santa Claus. more information

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13) Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
Haining, Peter (edit.)

Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
Barnes & Noble 1995. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, Great Irish Tales of Horror includes twenty-four of the most powerful examples of horror ever conceived." more information

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14) The Chess Garden or The Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
Hansen, Brooks

The Chess Garden or The Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Edition 1995. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small tear at base of spine and a tiny corner chip; in a clear protective cover. "In the tradition of J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis, Brooks Hansen offers a tale of spiritual progress disguised in the most exotic visions of the imagination." Illustrated by Miles Hyman. more information

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15) Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic
Jones, Terry

Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic
Ballantine 1998. Near Fine Trade Paperback. The very slightest wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen's tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong...Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure, and disappears. Except everything's got to be somewhere. Coming home that night, on a little-known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house... more information

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16) The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People
Keightley, Thomas

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People
Avenel / Crown 1978. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Originally published in 1880. Gnomes, fairies, and elves of every imaginable size, shape, color and demeanor spring to life in this marvelously illustrated guide to the fairy realm. more information

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17) The Briar King
Keyes, Greg

The Briar King
Ballantine 2003. Fine Advanced Reading Copy in wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A new fantasy epic of war and virtue by the award-winning author. more information

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18) Mordred's Curse
McDowell, Ian

Mordred's Curse
Avon 1996. Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed tear; now well held in a clear protective cover. In this dark and delightful tour de force, Ian McDowell offers a distictive new voice in the venerable canon of Arthuriana. Mordred's Curse is told from the jaundiced point of view of Mordred - Arthur's reviled bastard son. more information

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19) The Moon and the Sun
McIntyre, Vonda N

The Moon and the Sun
Pocket Books First Edition 1997. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A novel of fantasy and alternate history set in the seventeenth-century France of the Sun King, Louis XIV. more information

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20) Queen of the Sun: A Modern Revelation
Michael, E.J

Queen of the Sun: A Modern Revelation
HarperSanFrancisco First Edition 1995. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. Book has bottom edge remainder mark - else As New. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Part teaching tale, part edge-of-your-seat adventure story, this relentlessly gripping modern-day spirit quest delivers a celestial message of warning - and hope - from the Mother of the World." more information

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21) Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Miller, Walter M., Jr

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Bantam 1997. Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with very slight edge wear and a tiny, closed tear of back; in a clear protective cover. The sequel to the bestselling classic A Canticle for Leibowitz. In a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness - a world torn between love and violence, good and evil - one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter not only his destiny but the destiny of humankind as well... more information

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22) Expiration Date
Powers, Tim

Expiration Date
Tom Doherty Associates First Edition 1996. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Powers has created a strange and wonderful Los Angeles in which to set this novel: a city of ghosts - and full, too, of unpleasant characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead. more information

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23) Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Complete and Unabridged)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Complete and Unabridged)
Book Essentials 1994. Near Fine Mass Market Paperback. Tiny scrapes of wraps from sticker removal - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. What started out as an evening's entertainment of telling ghost stories culminated in one of the most haunting horror stories ever written. more information

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24) A Blessing on the Moon
Skibell, Joseph

A Blessing on the Moon
Berkley 1999. New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. "When Chaim Skibelski is shot dead and tossed into a pit along with all the other Jewish citizens of a small town in wartime Poland, his trials are only beginning. Scrambling up from this mass grave, the spectral Chaim wanders the countryside (at times guided by his rabbi, who has turned into a crow), his afterlife a remarkable journey of discovery that leads a long way from a peaceful, nurturing eternity...Chaim's journey illuminates the horror of history through the energy and wisdom of fantasy and myth..." more information

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25) Thinking About Magritte
Sterns, Kate

Thinking About Magritte
Pantheon First American Edition 1992. Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small top edge remainder mark-else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A modern fable of love, loneliness, and human nature set in a city built for acrobats. more information

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26) The Prince and the Pilgrim
Stewart, Mary

The Prince and the Pilgrim
William Morrow First Edition 1996. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small lower corner tear; in a clear protective cover. more information

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27) Ladder of Years
Tyler, Anne

Ladder of Years
Alfred A.Knopf 1995. Very Good Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name written small inside front wrap. Gentle, small corner creasing of back wrap. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "A deft, wry comment on the human need for fantasy." more information

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28) The Book of Merlyn
White, T.H

Shaftesbry Second Printing 1977. Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Slight discoloration of bottom corners of leaves and highlighting of one page number. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with a small chip and several small, closed tears; in a clear protective cover. The later discovered true conclusion to White's classic, THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. more information

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29) The Book of Wizards: Stories of Enchantment from Near and Far
Willis, Jennifer Schwamm (edit.)

The Book of Wizards: Stories of Enchantment from Near and Far
Thunder’s Mouth 2004. New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. You’re off to see the wizards - lots of them, in Oz and beyond - in this dazzling and delightful collection drawn from classics of the whimsical and fantastical. more information

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30) Witches
Wilson, Colin with Una Woodruff (Illustrator)

Witches
A & W First U.S. Edition 1981. Near Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Slight lower corner wear of binding and a faint trace of edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Witches" is a fully illustrated history of witchcraft and the black arts, written by the well-known authority on the occult, Colin Wilson, and illustrated by the established artist, Una Woodruff, who also has a particular interest in the subject. Strikingly illustrated. more information

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