Search Results: Titles starting with T from Lame Excuse Books

First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with remainder speckling at heel, bumping at heel and head, and what looks to be an extremely faint triangular sticker ghost to inside front cover near gutter, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight bumping at head and heel, slight dust soiling to white rear dust jacket, and long, mild, non-breaking crease to inner edge of front flap. Story of two earthlings signing up for duty in an intergalactic war after first contact. "Working name of Mexican-born US translator and author José Mario Garry Ordoñez Edmondson y Cotton....T.H.E.M. (1974) – the acronym refers to Alien invaders known as the Theriomorphic Hellbent Enemy Mission, who subject Earth civilization to tough-love Uplift...fluently written..." - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Cthulhu Mythos anthology, featuring a few familiar names (Don Webb, W. H. Pugmire, etc.).

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar protected dust jacket. Fantastic tales of the Yucatan. Fine/Fine unfaded copies of this seem to have gotten scarcer as of late. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 166. Nielsen, Arkham House Books A Collector's Guide 172.

First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of bend at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with a thin line of dust staining along rear spine join and just the barest trace of wear at head, heel and top points. Short story collection. Utpatel jacket. Joshi/Schultz/Conners, Clark Ashton Smith: A Comprehensive Bibliography A.22.a. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 78. Derleth, Thirty Years of Arkham House 78. Jaffrey, Horrors and Unpleasantries 82. Nielsen, Arkham House Books 84. Chalker/Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, page 34. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1488. $120

Trade paperback reprint, a Fine copy, new and unread, with publisher's review material laid in.

Tor, 1998. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dj, new and unread. Cyberpunk murder mystery set in virtual reality.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. inscribed by Cadigan. "For Jim/Here's to you!/Bottom's Up! Pat Cadigan / 17/10/98 / Future Fantasy."

Easton Press, 2001. Hardback. Fine. First edition hardback thus ("Collectors Edition"), a Fine leatherbound copy, new and unread, sans dj, as issued. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel. This edition contains a new introduction by James Gunn, as well as original artwork. Easton Press "Collector's Notes" laid in.

First hardback edition and first thus (preceded by the Berkley PBO, but the contents differ), an Ex-Library copy, with an all-but-complete (and not priceclipped) dust jacket taped AND glued to boards under plasticized wrapper, with a T-shaped chip at top-rear board join, perhaps 1.5" wide by about 1/16" across the top of spine, front and back top and 1/2" deep x 1/8" wide chip on the vertical portion of the T, with lesser chipping at points, exterior tape across top of spine, and slight general grubiness and wear (and a slender portion of rear bottom dj flap, not affecting any text, folded over under the plasticized wrapper itself) with obvious glue-darkening from pocket removal on front-free endpaper, spine lean, slight staining and general grubiness to page block edges; call it a Good+/Very Good- Ex Library copy, with a largely intact dust jacket you'll never be able to pry loose for another copy. Early short story collection, including
the title story and "The Drowned Giant." Goddard and Pringle,… Read More

First edition hardback, one of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with tissue paper closure sticker laid in. SST just issued a low stock warning for this title.

Atlantic Large Print/Chivers Press, 1991. Hardback. Very Good- (Ex-Lib). First hardback edition, an Ex-Library copy, clean and without stamps internally, but wear and about 1/2" semi-closed split at head, and one piece of tape left in place at head, with three tiny notations to inside rear cover, and a bit of general wear; call it a VG- Ex-Library copy, in plasticized decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Right up there with Molly's Sexual Follies as one of the most elusive Lansdale titles; this is only the second copy I've ever chanced across in twenty years of looking. Precedes the Subterranean Press limited edition.

First edition hardback, #186 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

Old Earth Books, 2007. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition hardback (preceded by an 80 copy run of a trade paperback uncorrected proof edition with numerous errors sold at the 2006 World Fantasy Convention), one of only 300 hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, this copy specially signed by Waldrop. Something of a best of Waldrop collection. 300 is a pretty small hardback run. LAST COPY!

An "Advance Uncorrected Proof" of the first hardback
edition, Fine with a glue bump at heel (as bound) and a blue ballpoint pen
correction to the zip code on the cover (presumably by the publisher).

Subterranean Press, 2016. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First limited edition hardback thus (the Del Rey trade edition precedes), #443 of 750 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Now sold out from the publisher, and I only have one.

Reprint of a 2008 release of 6 CDs, in a Fine white plastic library binding. Unabridged audiobook version of Zelazny's Hugo-winning novel, apparently produced for the library market (at a hefty list price of $79.97). Though earlier versions of this are listed in the Kovacs bibliography, this one is not, possibly because it came out the same year the bibliography was published.

First hardback edition (the Ace PBO precedes), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel, traces of foxing along gutters and first few pages near top gutter, with "Roger Zelazny" on spine faded from red to orange, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight wrinkling along front fold join, on rear cover near spine (looks like a 1" non-breaking indention), very slight wrinkling along top of rear cover, and a touch of grubbiness along edges and folds. Zelazny's first novel and a Hugo winner for Best Novel (tied with Dune). A pretty nice copy of an important Hugo winner. Levack, 34b. Kovacs, I.40.b. Currey, page 571.

First edition hardback, one of 1,000 copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Vance's engaging and Hugo-award winning autobiography. Long out of print.

Harcourt Brace, 1994. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First edition hardback F/NF, with scratches and abrasions to back dj.

First edition hardback, one of 1,000 signed copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Two science fiction novellas. These sold out pretty quickly when it was published, and I'm not seeing another copy on Bookfinder.