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New York: Doubleday, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. like new/like new. Doubleday, New York, 2015. HC, 1st edition and printing with a 1 in the number line. Palahniuk has a beautiful signature taking up most of the second page! VG condition with a remainder mark on the bottom page block and a tiny spot on the top page block. Slight bump to the top of spine. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. In Expedition, fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club . And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in Zombies, the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze:… Read More

Paris: COMPAGNIE DE CHEMIN DE FER METROPOLITAIN DE PARIS, 1931. !st edition. Hardcover. Good/no DJ as issued. The Paris Metro in the 30's. With many photos and 4 color plates, metro plans. COMPAGNIE DE CHEMIN DE FER METROPOLITAIN DE PARIS & Les Ateliers A.B.C., Paris, 1931. Illustrated silver hardcover, 58 pages. 12.5 x 10 inches. Elegant publication printed in heliogravure illustrated with numerous B/W photos, 4 color plates, network diagrams and plans, vignettes and tailpieces, color illustrated endpapers. Good condition, with an unusual metallic looking cover and great graphic design of the book. Pages very slightly browned, but very clean. No markings, no damage to pages. The cover has some shelf-wear (scratches, bumped corners, abrasions to small parts of spine/ top and bottom). Table of contents / ----- Foreword: the metropolitan and the colonial exhibition --------The past: from 1856 to 1898 / the metropolitan of 1900 / the metropolitan from 1900 to 1930--------------The present: - the… Read More

Audio CD. Very Good. Audio CD Very Good 2 CD-Box in slipcaseCD and cover like new condition Ships from Hawaii.

Pesaro: Printed By In Aedibus Gavelliis, Sumtibus Academiae Pisaurensis, 1743. 1st edition. Leatherbound. Lucernae fictiles musei Passerii. ("The ceramic lanterns of the Passerii Museum") Pesaro, In Aedibus Gavelliis, 1739-1743, 2 vols. (of 3), (16),XXVIII,92; (10),XII,73p., 2 identical. engraved title-vignettes, portrait, 211 full-page engravings with blank versos. First title in red and black; second title only in black, both with wood-engraved title-vignette by Io. Bapt. Passerius & V(incenzo) F(ranceschini); engraved vignettes to all titles. The plates and head- and tail-pieces are engraved after Giuseppe Menabuoni, mainly by Vincenzo Franceschini. Contemporary uniform. calf, large 4to. - Without the 3rd vol. (publ. 1751); both vols. with a few scattered (library) stamps and first blanks loose(ning); some foxing; hinges slightly weak. Bindings slightly worn; spine-ends dam. = Illustrated overview of Giovanni Batista Passeri's collection of "antique" oil lamps. First edition of this celebrated… Read More

Princeton University Press, 2007. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Princeton University Press, 2007, 496 pages, 8.25 x 1.5 x 10 inches. NEW, ships from Hawaii. Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home to nearly sixty taxonomic families of bivalves such as clams and mussels--roughly half the world's bivalve family diversity. The first in a series of three volumes on the molluscan fauna of the Keys and adjacent regions, Seashells of Southern Florida: Bivalves provides a comprehensive treatment of these bivalves, and also serves as a comparative anatomical guide to bivalve diversity worldwide. Paula Mikkelsen and Rüdiger Bieler cover more than three hundred species of bivalves, including clams, scallops, oysters, mussels, shipworms, jewel boxes, tellins, and many lesser-known groups. For each family they select an exemplar species and illustrate its shell and anatomical features in… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. 698 pages. First English edition. (US edition was published in 1998) Signed by Pears on the title page. As new book in an as new dust jacket + Mylar cover. Ships from Hawaii. -- A bibliomystery set in Oxford in the 1660s.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. no. 13 of 300. decorated paper boards. Like New/Like New. Like New condition, Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979. 39 pages. First limited edition. No. 13 of 300 copies. Signed by Percy on the limitation page. Decorated paper boards. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom..An O instead of Q for Questions on the title page.

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1987. 1st edition, 1st printing. Full leather binding with gilding. very good/verygood. Frontispiece by Jim Spanfeller. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1987. Limited first edition, signed by the author. Bound in green leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. All gilding and the book in very good condition. == Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. very good/verygood. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971, 1971. 1st Edition, 1st printing (stated), cloth, vg w/dj in Mylar cover, 403 pps, 8vo, 'The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World' Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Top edge stained. One small spot with light soiling on lower paper edge. == Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade.

"A deftly presented Bio-Comic that illuminates New York's mid-century Underground Press Movement" — The Washington PostFor the first time ever, this widely praised documentary comic series is collected together in one volume, with numerous extras. Featuring first-hand accounts of the creation of: THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER, and THE UNDERGROUND PRESS SYNDICATE. Includes 100s of Cameos, including Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, and Many Others.As selected in Houghton-Mifflin's Best American Comics series, this is a lavishly illustrated, extensively researched documentary comic book of real stories of the underground press, based in New York City, 1954-1972.Considered by many to be among the best comic series of the last ten years, John Wilcock introduces you to Wilcock himself, who participated in a seven year interview for this project. Provides many of his own documents, including OTHER SCENES. This comic book is a celebration of his cool "behind the scenes" life.This is the… Read More

Paperback. Fine. Paperback Fine Art and literature can be like that We can appropriate the great figures and works that have fed our culture, and even add a little of our own art, respecting it and making it grow, too Here you will find a real, but different, Fernando Pessoa João Viegas adds a touch of humour to the universal author and creates cartoons that show the writer that we all (may or may not) know, giving him a new look He is no longer the occultist, brilliant student, obsessive, depressive, or misogynist, much less the genius who prepared everything so that in the final phase of his life he could dominate the literary world, and who died when he was about to launch his plan (this is material for cartoons in itself) He is transformed into a rather more mundane, modern-day, closer and sometimes surreal sight, but absolutely always with great humour Fernando, Fernandinho and his friends are turned into characters in his own work, as a reflection of what he wrote Here, Pessoa is part of the… Read More

Germany: Edel Books, 2011. Hardcover. New. Hardcover New large format hardcover, thick and heavey, mainly photos from Kinski's wondrous life Ships from Hawaii. Peter Geyer leitet seit 12 Jahren den Nachlass der Schauspiellegende und erlaubt nun erstmals einen intensiven Blick hinter die Kulissen. Zusammen mit dem Artdirector OA Krimmel reiht er Preziosen aus Klaus Kinskis lebenslanger Schaffenswut zu einer Perlenkette, deren atemberaubende Schönheit ebenso verblüfft wie die tiefe Einsicht in das Innenleben eines Getriebenen, der aus seinen Selbstinszenierungen als letzter deutscher Filmstar mit Kultstatus hervorging. Unveröffentlichte autobiografische Texte, Erzählungen, Briefe, Fotos, Zeichnungen und allerlei Privates zeigen den Mann mit den vielen Gesichtern einmal ganz ungeschminkt. Aufwendig gestaltet und erhellend kommentiert präsentiert dieses Buch Klaus Kinskis Hinterlassenschaft an die Welt: sein Vermächtnis.

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2013. New/New. NEW No 85 of an edition limited to only 250 Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic international bestsellerThe ExorcistNow Blatty gives us Dimiter,a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novel in the grand tradition of Morris West's The Devil's Advocate, and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene Dimiter opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security An unsettling presence, he maintains an eerie silence though subjected to unimaginable torture He escapes, and, on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission The prisoner is Dimiter, the American agent from hell The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of unusual characters All become… Read More

Hermosa Beach, CA: Walt Phillips Productions, 1962. Both pieces fine.. Two Walt Phillips surf film flyers/posters, California 1960, 1962 2 pictorial flyers: 1/ Flyer for Walt Phillips' Surf Mania. 6x6½"(16x16.5 cm). Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave printed in blueish-green against a white background. The filmmaker would personally narrate the film when it was screened at various small venues. 1960. 2/ Poster for Walt Phillips' Psyche Out! Features photos of surfers surfing. Printed in red and blue against a white background. 12x9" (30.5x23 cm). Classic early poster from the heyday of surf culture.Hermosa Beach, CA: Walt Phillips Productions, 1962. ---- Fine examples of scarce ephemera from the earliest days of the surfing scene. ---- Both pieces fine.

Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2021. Signed, limited edition of 300. Hardcover, die cut dustjacket with printed front panel. NEW, shrink-wrapped/NEW. Ben Baldwin. NEW, shrink-wrapped. Signed, no 91 of an sold- out edition limited to 300. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within the US. Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Charles Platt, Ben Baldwin, and Ramsey Campbell. New introduction by Ramsey Campbell. New introduction by Charles Platt. Reprint introduction by José Philip Farmer. New artwork by Ben Baldwin. Reprint of original paperback cover, in color. Die cut dustjacket with printed front panel, Ribbon marker, head and tail bands. Book size 5½ × 8½ inches, Number of pages: 328. Charles Platt's The Gas is a classic early 1970s sexually explicit (to put it mildly) horror novel. Now available in a new hardcover edition with cover artwork by Ben Baldwin and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, this can only be considered the definitive edition, with a new lengthy… Read More

Leather Bound. Very Good. Leather Bound Very Good Priced to sell! nice leatherbound edition, light rubbing to parts of gilded design on back cover, otherwise very good, with the lithographs by Hugo Steiner Prag ships from Hawaii.

London: Self-Published on Kickstarter, 2020. First Edition with additional postcard set. Hardcover. new/no dj as issued. Lindsey Carr and Angharad Jefferson are working together under the name 'Fright Beaver', they are a pair of artists and bibliophiles who make books. Vile Creatures began life as a private studio joke about our worst romantic endeavors. We called it 'A Natural History of our Ex Boyfriends' until we started taking other people's stories to make a complete cast of bad eggs. Gold Diggers, Lotharios, Thieves, Voyeurs, Sneaky Mistresses and more. The book became an affectionate and satirical look at modern romance in all its messy glory. The book is a 56 page hardback bound in cloth with foil and blind embossing. With coloured end papers and fine uncoated inner papers featuring full colour illustrations. London, 2020, 48 pp8.5 x 6 in, The Book + a complete set of all 10 creatures on postcards. NEW, great printing quality of the illustrations), (the gilded title on the front cover is… Read More

London: Self-Published on Kickstarter, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. new/no dj as issued. Lindsey Carr and Angharad Jefferson are working together under the name 'Fright Beaver', they are a pair of artists and bibliophiles who make books. Vile Creatures began life as a private studio joke about our worst romantic endeavors. We called it 'A Natural History of our Ex Boyfriends' until we started taking other people's stories to make a complete cast of bad eggs. Gold Diggers, Lotharios, Thieves, Voyeurs, Sneaky Mistresses and more. The book became an affectionate and satirical look at modern romance in all its messy glory. The book is a 56 page hardback bound in cloth with foil and blind embossing. With coloured end papers and fine uncoated inner papers featuring full colour illustrations. London, 2020, 48 pp8.5 x 6 in, NEW, great printing qiality of the illustrations), (the gilded title on the front cover is not well done, looks like a slight production flaw). Ships from Hawaii with free Priority… Read More

Audio CD. Very Good. Audio CD Very Good Very good condition Ships from Hawaii with 1stclass mail.