Search Results: Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction from Grimalkin Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. This Stated First Trade Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in As New, unread condition, with an As New, unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) The book is bound in gray boards with a black spine and silver lettering. This suspense novel deals with questions as to why a commercial twin-jet airliner crashed, and, as usual, Crichton was prophetic of things yet to come. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 353 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Hyperion, 2009. This hysterical continuation of the late Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide brings back Arthur Dent, Zaphod, and others. This new and unread book is a Stated First Edition, with a "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is bound in deep blue boards with die-stamped gilt spine titles. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 5/8 inches and includes 273 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Hurst & Company This rare science fiction adventure title from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon is in Good condition (click on photo). Although the book is not dated, the covers suggest that the book was published around the turn of the century. The front panel and spine have Americanized Art Nouveau floral designs. The front panel has a pastedown of a Gibson-girl type beauty. The book is bound in red cloth and shows wear and discoloration, including rubbing and fraying at the edges and corners, and a crease in the spine cloth. As for the interior, the binding is secure, even though there is a hinge split before the Contents page. The pages themselves have only light age toning, and are for the most part clean, with an occasional small margin stain. The book measures 5 ¼ by 7 ½ inches and includes 286 pages. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2006. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) includes the complete "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in Brand New condition, with a Brand New dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book is bound in gray paper-covered boards with a deep green spine and die-stamped silver spine titles. The book features a reenforced binding. This conclusion to the Trilogy follows The Amulet of Samarkand and The Golem's Eye. The destinies of Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty converge, as the reader catches a glimpse into the Other Place -- the world of demons. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 5/8 inches and includes 501 pages.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2004. This 7th Printing is in Brand New condition, with a Brand New dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book is bound in gray paper-covered boards with a red spine and die-stamped silver spine titles. The Golem's Eye continues all the magic, adventure, and political shenanigans of the first book. Nathaniel, now 14, must again receive the help of the powerful 5000-year-old djinni to quelch a rebellion and deal with an evil golem. The book measures 5 7/8 by 8 5/8 inches and includes 562 pages.. . Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. The exquisite illustrations by author-painter Jonathan Hunt have made this book on mythological beasts a rare, hightly collectible children's book since it was first published 12 years ago. Rarer still is this Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) that also includes the complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. (The copyright information is located at the rear of the book on the Bibliography Page.) The book features full-page as well as double spread color paintings of various mythical medieval beasts, with descriptive paragraphs, including the Amphisbaena, the Basilisk, the Catoblepas, the Dreaded Black Dog of Ireland and Scotland, the Echeneis, the Firedrake, the Griffin, the Hippocampus, the Ichneumon, the Javelin Snake, the Kraken, the Leucrocuta, the Manticore, the Nycticorax, the Ozaena, the Phoenix, the Questing Beast, the Roc, the Unicorn, the Vegetable… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. This book club edition is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket (click on photo). This science fiction classic concerns earth's last days as it's about to collide with another planet, and how individuals as well as nations prepare for the end, regaining their values and humanity in the process. The book is bound in green cloth with red spine titles and top-edge red stain. The binding is tight and pages are clean, bright, and sparkling throughout. The dust jacket has some edge rubbing, tiny tears and light shelf rubbing at spine tips and corners, plus a tiny hole on the spine. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 221 pages.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. This book club edition is in Fine, unread condition with a close to Fine dust jacket (click on photo). This science fiction classic concerns earth's last days as it's about to collide with another planet, and how individuals as well as nations prepare for the end, regaining their values and humanity in the process. The book book is bound in green cloth with red spine titles and top-edge red stain. The binding is tight and pages are clean, bright, and sparkling throughout. The dust jacket has a tiny closed tear and light shelf rubbing at the bottom edge. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 221 pages.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. This Stated First Edtiton from September, 1998 (and unless it's stated, it's not) is also a First Printing, with the required "number line" ending with a "1". In this taut thriller, a series of rape-murders impacts upon a young woman with her own tragic history of abuse and who may soon be victimized one last time! The book is in New condition, with a new, unclipped dust jacket. The book is bound in black boards with silver spine lettering. The book measures 6 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 336 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Arbor House, William Morrow, 1988. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. A New York woman begins to experience fantasy dreams that start to merge with a nightmarish reality. Jonathan Carroll's third novel, "Bones of the Moon" is a First Edition, First Printing with unclipped dust jacket. The author added several paragraphs to the novel's ending for this first U.S. edition that were missing from the British first that preceded it. I have placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. See photo.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chap Book.

New York: Vertigo DC Comics, 1999. Published in September, 1999, this beautifully illustrated comic traces the life of Molly, who wanted nothing of magic until her boyfriend, Tim Hunter, dragged her into his fairy kingdom world. This is one of the rarest and hardest-to-find entries in "The Books of Fairie" series. This DC Comic measures 6 5/8 by 10 1/4 inches and contains 23 pages, plus ads. It is in Near-Fine condition.. First Edition. Oversized Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Hermann Mejia. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1908. This handsome set of Poe (click on photo) is in Very Good Plus condition. Known as The Library Edition, it is bound in brick red cloth covers with die-stamped gilt spine lettering and top-edge gilt. Shelf rubbing is minimal. It has rough-cut pages, most of which are uncut and unread. Only two volumes of tales and one of poems show page-cutting by the original owner. Several pages in Volume II only have small margin stains. (I should point out that Werner also published a less expensive alternate cloth binding in pale gray that used paper labels and did not have re-enforced bindings or colored endpapers. Although the contents are identical in both editions, the gray binding is far less attractive and the paper labels are inferior to the die-stamped gilt found in this more collectible version.) Each volume contains a frontis and other illustrations, all with tissue guards. There are 36 illustrations in all. This century-old set was manufactured with re-enforced… Read More

New York: A Peter Glassman Book/SeaStar, 2001. This First U.S. Edition is in As New condition, with an As New price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. In Book Two of the Deptford Mice Trilogy, the mice had fled the horrors of the rat-infested city to the countryside, only to find themselves embroiled in a mystery in which one by one they are being murdered. The book features black-and-white drawings by the author, who is also a gifted artist. The book includes a reenforced binding with black, paper-covered boards and a light-blue spine with metallic blue spine titles. The book measures 6 3/8 by by 9 1/4 inches and includes 250 pages.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Robin Jarvis. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Ace Books, 2006. This Stated First Edition from May 2006 (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine, unread condition, with a Fine, price-unclipped dust jacket. The book also has the required "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The dust jacket does have a minor manufacturing flaw that makes this copy even rarer. Embossment of the titles on the front panel do not match up exactly with the gilt and purple lettering itself. Most people would not notice this unless they were looking for it. I've placed this rare dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. In this, the sixth Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series novel, Sookie must deal with the aftermath of her first cousin Hadley's second death (having died once before to become a vampire and who is now "definitely dead."). In addition, there are problems with Bill, her attraction for the wereleopard Quinn, her trouble with some werewolves, and her… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. This author's first novel is in Fine, probably unread condition, with a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) The book is a Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) and has a complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is bound in black boards with silver spine titles. The dust jacket has two small closed tears. The book measures 6 3/4 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 263 pages. There is a small remainder dot on the top edge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. This oversized softcover is in As New condition. (Click on photo.) The following is taken from the rear panel: "In this epic tale of terror spanning centuries, a young woman, Rachel Belgrave, discovers that it is her destiny to stop a cold-blooded killer... or die in the attempt. With the help of two men who love her, one a psychic; the other, a police detective, Rachel takes a harrowing journey into a supernatural world where she must do battle with a demon goddess -- an ancient force, immortal, blood-thirsty, and indestructible." According to Perry Brass, author of "The Substance of God, a spiritual thriller": "Whoever the real Jack the Ripper was, Ripperologists will whistle at the author's cleverness in making connections between the Ripper's signature crimes and earlier, until now unrelated horrors. This intricately structured horror novel unfolds like a well-layered mystery in which the hapless heroine must fight for both her… Read More

Boulder, Colorado: Sentient Publications, 2005. Although this is a Stated First Edition, the "number line" indicates that it's actually a Fifth Printing. It may also be a BCE. At any rate, the book is in New, unread condition and comes with a New dust jacket, which I've placed into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book includes a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. The author was a court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors, and this book deals with human depravity, torture and murder in the name of scientific research and misplaced patriotism. Photos are included. (Readers should have strong stomachs.) The book is bound in black covered boards with die-stamped silver titles on the front panel and spine. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 318 pages. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. The is the first Grosset & Dunlap edition, published October, 1925 (stated). The book is in Very Good condition. It has red cloth covers with black lettering on the front panel and spine. There is some rubbing of the corners and spine tips, plus light spine creasing. No dust jacket. It's a clean copy (see photo). The binding is tight and secure. A penciled signature of a former owner has been erased. The binding is tight and secure, and the pages are clean and bright. The frontis illustration has a slight crease. The book contains 316 pages, with ads in the rear. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Stated First Edition, First Printing trade hardcover is in As New, unread condition, with an As New unclipped dust jacket. "Everville" is a continuation of the fantasy world Barker created in "The Great and Secret Show." Book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 697 pages. See photo.. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chap Book.

New York: Ace Books, 2008. This is the eighth novel in the Sookie Stackhouse series, a.k.a. the Southern Vampire series. It is a Stated First Edition from May 2008 and includes the complete "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in Fine condition but with a small erasure mark on the front endpaper. The price-unclipped dust jacket is also in Fine condition. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This novel follows the explosion at the vampire summit in Rhodes and new threats to Sookie's life and to those of her friends in the supernatural community. Readers get to meet cousin Hadley's son Hunter, only a child but one who shares Sookie's telepathic abilities. The book measures 6 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 359 pages. . Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.