Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Lame Excuse Books

First American hardback edition (there are at least two binding variants (no priority known), and this is the version with a mottled teal spine), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket, with 1/16" closed tear on front cover near spine with small associated crease, and traces of wear at head, heel and points. Egan's first novel, one of quantum ontology in which the rest of the universe have blocked off our solar system because humans are the only beings in the known universe who collapse quantum wave function. The sort of novel that makes your brain hurt in all the right ways.

Little Brown (UK), 2013. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Fourth printing of the hardback first edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Banks' last novel, alas.

Paperback reprint, Very Good with long crease along bottom front corner and wrinkles along spine, and slight wear; a nice reading copy. Nice Gino DAchille cover.

Del Rey, 1986. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with previous owner's stamp (a teddy bear catching a baseball) on FFE, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight crimping and creasing at dust jacket heel, a 1 1/2" wrinkle on rear cover near heel, and slight haze rubbing on rear dj cover, must noticeable along spine join. Inscribed by Kurtz: "To Beau-Katherine Kurtz." I've never seen Kurtz at an SF convention.

First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with about 1/16" loss at the very edges of all four tips and slight edgewear, otherwise a nice, square copy. Cugel the Clever Dying Earth book authorized by Jack Vance, taking place after the event of The Eyes of the Overworld.

William Morrow, 2003. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread. The latest mammoth (900+) tome from Stephenson, this one part of the alchemical "Baroque Cycle," and which ties into Cryptonomicon (in fact, Enoch Root is one of the characters...). Signed by Stephenson.