Search Results: Titles starting with B from TristanBooks

First Hardcover edition of Robert McCammon's first book, and for a long time the only hardcover edition issued until the Sub Press edition. Very difficult to find!

Baal by Robert R. McCammon (author of Swan Song) Hardcover First Hardcover Edition Firecrest: Chivers Press UK 1985 (true first was a paperback original issued from Avon US and Sphere UK, 1979)
Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. A near-perfect copy save just a hint of crimping to the bottom edge of the text block, maybe affecting three leaves at most, and the typical toning to the pages, common with UK editions.

NOTE on edition: Baal was Robert McCammon's first published book, published as a paperback original in 1979 by Avon Books US and Sphere UK. Subsequently, most of McCammon's books were released as paperback originals by Pocket Books with a few titles published in hardcover by Kinnell UK. Firecrest: Chivers Press UK published Baal in hardcover in 1985 which was the only hardcover trade edition of this book in English for over 35 years until… Read More

First edition of the second Sleeping Beauty book of erotic novels by Anne Rice. NOTE: This is NOT a BC edition and not a reprint!
Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure Hardcover First Edition - First Printing New York: Dutton, 1984 (issued simultaneous in the UK by Macdonald) with early 20th century impressionist like dust jacket art. $14.95 cover price. States "First Edition" on the copyright page with number-line down to "1", indicating a first edition/first printing. (NOTE: There are reprints of this book with laminated covers without jackets. This is a bona fide first edition/first printing in red covers and jacket.)
Fine in Fine- Dust Jacket. Book itself is a fine nearly perfect example in an almost-perfect jacket with one tiny repaired slit at one corner, almost imperceptible. Priced to sell.
NOTE on Edition: Except for her vampire novels, several of Rice's other novels, such as "Cry to Heaven" about the Italian castrati singers of the 18th and 19th centuries, did not sell… Read More

The Blood of Roses by Tanith Lee Hardcover First Edition - First Printing London: Legend UK, 1990. (never released in the US) Signed and dated by the late Tanith Lee. Cover illustration by Jeff Willis.
Fine- in Fine Dust Jacket. A beautiful copy. The boards are clean, corners, straight, binding solid. The lettering on the spine is bright and clean (the scan doesn't do it justice.) The main shortcoming is some superficial soiling and a superficial damp stain to the bottom edge of the text block, not affecting the inner pages at all. For some reason, copies seem to be prone to soiling on the text block edge, a notorious problem for this edition.
Tanith Lee (1947-2015) may be the most underrated modern fantasy writer of the 20th and early 21st century. Her prose style reads like poetry and her themes were often mythological usually medieval in inspiration. Sadly Tanith Lee left us in 2015. Many of her early books had small print-runs, but quite a few have remained in print. Her first book was the Dragon… Read More

Books of Blood Volume 3 III First UK Hardcover Edition with cover art by Clive Barker (author of Weaveworld, The Hell-Bound Heart (aka Hellraiser), Imagica, Abarat, etc). Part of the definitive hardcover set. Near Fine in Near Fine+ dust jacket. A nice copy, not perfect, typical age-toning to the text-block. Age-toning is common with UK hardcover editions published circa 1980 to 2000. Corners tender but not really bumped, and a tiny hint of bowing out of the front board, not too noticeable. The jacket would be near-perfect save a nick to the lower right-hand corner. Still a smart copy. Copies of this edition are difficult to come by right now. Priced to sell. NOTE on edition: The definitive hardcover six-volume set with jacket cover art by Clive! Simultaneously released in a signed-limited edition. Originally released as paperback originals by Sphere UK in 1984. Also published by Scream Press in four volumes, the first volume combining the first four books and equivalent trade editions where volume 4… Read More

The Broken Land (aka Hearts, Hands and Voices in the UK) by Ian McDonald (Desolation Road, Necroville, King of Morning Queen of Day, River of Gods) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Bantam 1992. Fine in Fine Dust jacket. An absolutely perfect copy.