Hardcover Books

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1993, special genuine leather bound collector's edition, in very fine condition; a tight, clean unread copy, still like new with all corners sharp.  Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches, 361 pages. Silk ribbon pagemarker attached to binding and Collector's Notes included, issued without a dustjacket, and bound in full red leather, with distinctive raised spine bands. The cover design and edges are accented with 22k gold.  Frontispiece illustration by DAVID DEITRICK, with a special introduction by T. A. SHIPPEY.    This book usually sells for $40-100 when copies are available; our price is $50 and includes all shipping costs.

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1992, special genuine leather bound collectors edition, in very fine condition; a tight, clean unread copy, still like new with all corners sharp.  Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.0 inches, 210 pages.  Silk ribbon pagemarker attached to binding and Collector's Notes included (folded in half as issued), issued without a dustjacket, and bound in full red leather, with distinctive raised spine bands. The cover design and edges are accented with 22k gold. Frontispiece illustration by DEBBIE HUGHES, and special introduction by BRIAN ALDISS. Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year. "The Alteration belongs to the alternate-history tradition of SF. It asks: how would the world have been different if the Protestant Reformation never happened and Europe remained under a kind of Catholic totalitarianism? The novel incorporates insights into the human condition as well as humanity's relationship to the universe."    $40 price includes all shipping costs.

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA, 2011, 1st edition, hardcover, in new condition in illustrated boards, issued without a dustjacket. Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 x 1.0 inches, 226 pages. Cover art by CARL BARKS. Introduction by DONALD AULT. This book contains twenty full color comic stories, written and illustrated by CARL BARKS.  Collects four Donald Duck adventure stories, plus nine short stories, and seven gag shorts, originally appearing in One Shot and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (comic-format magazines) beginning in December 1948 through August 1949. The stories are: Lost in the Andes, The Golden Christmas Tree, Return to the South Seas!, Voodoo Hoodoo, Toyland, The Crazy Quilt Show, Truant Officer Donald, Donald Duck's Worst Nightmare, Pizen Spring Dude Ranch, Rival Beachcombers, The Sunken Yacht, Managing the Eco System, Plenty of Pets, Jumping to Conclusions, The True Test, Ornaments on the Way, Too Fit To Fit, Sleepy Sitters, Slippery Shine, and Tunnel Vision.    "From 1942 to 1966, CARL BARKS was the most prolific and beloved creator of comic book stories featuring Donald duck, Scrooge McDuck, and all the rest of Duckburg's denizens. Lost in the Andes is the premiere release in a series of volumes dedicated to reprinting Barks's classic stories, with fully restored original coloring and fascinating historical and critical essays by a hand-picked group of Barks experts."    Retails for $24.99; our price is $20 and includes all shipping costs.

Baronet, NY, 1979, 1st edition, hardcover, one of 3000 limited, numbered SIGNED editions (this is # 2631), near fine in bright silver boards, issued without a dustjacket. Although this is an unread copy, it does have some slight bumping on spine ends and lower corners, and very light shelf wear (very light rubbing to silver boards), yet overall condition is still very attractive and almost new in appearance.  4to - Dimensions 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches - exact page count unknown (but probably about 170 pages).  This is number 2631 of 3000 copies, part one of a two volume set.  Graphic-styled version of one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, illustrated in full color by HOWARD CHAYKIN, with an introduction by BYRON PRIESS.  Signed by author ALFRED BESTER, the illustrator HOWARD CHAYKIN, and initialed by the publisher, BYRON PRIESS, on a special illustrated page in the front of book.    $25 price includes all shipping costs.

Abrams, NY, 1981, 1st edition, hardcover, in fine condition in white cloth boards and dustjacket; still clean and tight. 4to - Dimensions: 12.0 x 9.2 x 1.0 inches, 240 pages. Dustjacket art by J. ALLEN ST. JOHN.   "A treasure-house of long-hidden or forgotten Sherlockiana. Countless examples of fabled but long-unseen American Sherlockian art: story illustrations, comic strips and cartoons, motion picture advertisements and business advertisements incorporating the Holmes image. Includes stories-- hilarious American burlesques of Doyle's Great Detective; and critics' reviews of old and new Holmes stage productions, and the many Holmes films, gems of Holmes poetry, letters and news items, and serious Sherlockian commentary aplenty. Over 500 illustrations, including 67 in full color."    $40 price includes all shipping costs.

Fantagraphic Books, WA, July 2010, 1st printing, hardcover, very fine condition in dustjacket except for one very small nick/scrape on front board (dj not effected). All else like new and dustjacket protected by plasticene wrapper.  Dimensions: 12.5 x 9.0 x 1.0 inches, 220 pages.   "This is a coffee table art book, biography, and critique of one of the 20th century's most influential and unjustly neglected Golden Age comic book artists. Mort Meskin's comics career spanned almost 30 years, from the 1940s to the 1960s. His drawing, chiaroscuro technique, and storytelling are considered by connoisseurs of the form to be among the most sophisticated of his time-- on par with peers such as JOE KUBERT and STEVE DITKO. Meskin was the first artist to draw Sheena of the Jungle, and worked in various genres such as romance, crime, and Western comics. This book compiles for the first time the best of Meskin's art from  his comic book career, his post-comics advertising career, and his fine art-- including many pages reproduced from original art." Introduction by JERRY ROBINSON.    Retails at $39, our price is $20, and includes all shipping costs.

Lippincott, 1936, 1st edition, hardcover, in about good condition overall in orange cloth boards, without dustjacket.  Lost Race adventure novel set in the Himalayas; includes a mysterious city, a British intelligence officer (Colin Gray), his beautiful wife, a fiendish villain, an ape-man, a mountain that exhales poisonous gases, Mongolian hordes, and human sacrifices.  An old fashioned adventure thriller. "The climax of this amazing story is one of the most thrilling ever put between the pages of a book."   $12 price includes all shipping costs.

Bloomsbury, NY, 2004, 1st edition, hardcover, in very fine condition in dustjacket, almost like new; an unread copy. Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 2.3 inches, 782 pages. Illustrated by PORTIA ROSENBERG. Winner of the 2005 HUGO Award for best science fiction novel of the year. "Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me..." "Elegant, witty and flawlessly detailed, Susanna Clarke's magisterial first novel draws readers into a fantastic and utterly convincing vision of a past world (1806)." "An instant classic, one of the finest fantasies ever written."-- Kirkus Reviews.    $40 price includes all shipping costs.

Knopf, New York, November 1980, 1st trade edition, very fine, near new in dust jacket (and protective mylar cover), an unread copy, and superior in all aspects. Dustjacket design by PAUL BACON.  "Three daring adventurers trek into the jungle-- into the very heart of the Congo, through cannibal country, past flaming volcanoes-- in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Pure H. Rider Haggard, but with the incomparable Crichton difference! This is Michael Crichton doing what he does best: turning a classic genre upside down by introducing and making us understand-- while he tells a great story-- the miraculous gadgetry and grand designs that dazzle us on the frontiers of science."   $100 price includes all shipping costs.