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Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1992. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.The companion series to The Complete Crumb Comics, this is a chronological reprinting of Crumb's personal sketchbooks from his late teens on.

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1992. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, slight discoloration on white background of front cover.The companion series to The Complete Crumb Comics, this is a chronological reprinting of Crumb's personal sketchbooks from his late teens on.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, light scuffing noticeable on black areas of covers.Includes articles, interviews, photography, and excerpts from and by William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle, Terry Wilson, Jon Savage, Rieki, V. Vale, and others.Burroughs' The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, Cities of the Red Night (excerpt), and excerpts from Revised Boy Scout Manual, Early routines, and Place of Dead Roads.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight nick at spine ends, scuffing noticeable on back area of covers.The J.G. Ballard issue including interviews, fiction, no-fiction, bibliography, an excerpt from Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, biography, and critical essays by and from Ballard, Graeme Revell, William S. Burroughs, and others.

Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1999. Second edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and creasing along spine, price sticker on rear cover.Minor underlining.From the publisher: A comprehensive overview of government policies and academic theories that affect the way race and ethnic relations are structured and interpreted in Canada.

Vintage, New York. 8th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.In the late 1960's a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science Fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. And Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also happen to be God — an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President.In this novel Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's… Read More

Berkley, New York, 1999. First edition. Condition: Good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing and scuffing, a well-read book.At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, well known from several of Clancy's novels as a master of secret operational missions. Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face in Rainbow Six.
Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.
Each episode seems separate, discrete, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection?… Read More

Scholastic, New York, 2012. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and slight creasing at top corner.

Vintage, New York, 1984, First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, creasing along lower rear cover, price sticker.The most comprehensive bilingual anthology of modern French poetry ever published, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry includes substantial selections form the work of 48 poets, ranging from Apollinaire, Jacob, Larbaud, Fargue, Cendrars, St.-John Perse & Reverdy through Tzara, Breton, Eluard, Aragon, Desnos, Michaux & Ponge, to Follain, Char, Jabes, Bonnefoy, Dupin & the leading younger poets of the late 20th century.

Vintage, New York. 6th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Oprah's Book Club. Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

Reader's Digest Books, 1982. Presumed 5th printing of the 2nd edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint scuffing on cover.Foreword by Judd Buchanan.

Macmillan, New York, 1965. 8th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creases, spine has tearing at bottom, scuffing on covers, well read but no underlining.

Scholastic. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, no interior writing or markings.Freddy's class is competing in a read-a-thon, and the student who reads for the most minutes will win five free books -- and the class will win an author visit, too! Freddy plans to win this contest . . . even if it means staying up all night!

Orbit, New York, 2008. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing.In 2600 CE the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp.But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it The Reality Dysfunction. It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since… Read More

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine, else fine.Introduction by Marv Wolfman.

Tor, New York, 1988. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing.Come here to the magical America that might have been and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.

Anchor, Toronto, 2007. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint crease at bottom right edge.After three years of sipping, spitting, and slogging her way through bushy vine leaves and cellar cobwebs, award-winning writer Natalie MacLean takes readers behind the scenes of the international wine world, exploring its history, visiting its most evocative places, and meeting some of its most charismatic personalities.

Citadel Press, New York, 1990. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.This collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores--is widely recognized as an underground classic.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, no writing or underlining.How to turn average prospects into red-hot customers and how to make more sales at higher prices is what most salespeople want to know. The advice in this book is offered by a red-hot entrepreneur who has taken his business from zero to $100 million in just over 10 years.

Underwood Books, 1997. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends, light discoloration at side page ends.Chronicling the events and key ideas from the second half of the 20th century in both the world of science fiction and the world at large, this collection of insights and musings from a Grand Master of the genre offers a unique perspective with the edge of honed artist. Robert Silverberg offers up essays on unique scientific ideas as well as on real characters and society that contemplates the end-of-world empires, resonating with contemporary news and headlines but also taking into account the role of the writer who seeks inspiration in true events. The author also takes stock of his contemporaries, providing an inside look at the lives of other greats such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree Jr., and Jack Vance.