Chris Drumm Books

new book ordering now

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Just when I thought maybe I was no longer sending orders out to publishers, I did get a couple done. Haffner books arrived today (three Hamiltons). NESFA are on the way. PS and Golden Gryphon I have new-found incentive to procure. I won't be getting many, if any, extras from what might already be spoken (or whispered) for, so anyone wanting to jump in with something for me to get -- do let me know (or remind me). Rule of thumb is that small-press/indie publishers I give a 20 discount.
The bigs, which I've been successfully navigating away from, to get out of Amazon's wake, are generally still 30%. Even if I've been avoiding new releases, there are plenty still listed in my catalog listings. And if a book is 20 years old and listed as "new", the discount applies. The condition of the book will generally still be "new" as well. Being all mail-order, I don't get browsers to manhandle the books. And I bag/wrap the books to keep moisture and dust away. Not always printed on the best paper, some aging will inevitably occur.
I am trying to keep up/catch up with people who contact me, but I've been woefully derelict on a few scores. I hope to be rectifying this.

more book sale pick-ups

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Back to big Planned Parenthood today. View pick-ups here.

book sale pick-ups

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Polk City has city bus service once a week: Thursdays -- by happenstance on the opening day of the big semi-annual Planned Parenthood book sale. So there I was in the big long line waiting to get in a couple hours early. Some big book hounds go crazy in there, but somehow it takes me a while to get in the swing of the proceedings. Eventually, though, I ended up with a fair quantity (if not quality) of books. View their covershots here.

feature discovered

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:21:00 +0000

I've noticed a feature in Google Documents I hadn't noticed before: the ability to indent paragraphs. No hanging-indent like I used to have in my print catalog; but at least this can set off multiple-book listings for authors -- and relieve the monolith of print to a certain extent. It's tempting to sit around and indentify everything, to the exclusion of doing anything else for a great while. I will try to limit myself to whatever screenful is up when adding to listings.

new-book arrivals

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:44:00 +0000

Not much new stuff making its way here lately, but in the past few weeks some things have trickled in:

Whittington, Harry TO FIND CORA / LIKE MINK LIKE MURDER / BODY AND PASSION, Stark House Noir Classics, 6/09, (David Laurence Wilson intro; bibliography), new 19.95 [view covershot with back cover depicted as well as front]
SPACE AND TIME #107: The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction, sum/09, (Drago, Arrelle, Turzillo; Part One of Peter S. Beagle interview) • ---#108, fall/09, (Edelman, Jeshonek, Krasnoff; Part Two of Peter S. Beagle interview), new each, 5.00 [looks like I forgot to catalog #107 when it first came in -- I wonder how much else I've missed]
TALEBONES: Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy #38, sum/09, (Kowal, Edelman, Russo, Hibert, etc.), new 7.00
CEMETERY DANCE #61, '09, (The Magazine of Horor and Suspense; Peter Straub special issue), new 5.00
Harvey, William Fryer THE DOUBLE EYE, Tartarus '09, 1st, (brings together all thirty of author's uncanny tales, and his curious Introduction to Moods and Tenses; a feast of thrills, chills and uneasy entertainment for lovers of the supernatural story; Richard Dalby intro), new in dj 55.00
Russo, Patricia HEARTS STARVE, A Not One of Us Special Publication, 7/09, (stories; 62 pages of small but readable type), booklet, new 3.50
Moore, C.L. MIRACLE IN THREE DIMENSIONS and Other Stories, Howling Wolf/Isle, (Lost Pulp Classics #1; these nine stories have been virtually unpublished since their original appearance in the pulp magazines of the 30's and 40's), new 16.95
Long, Frank Belknap THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS, Isle, 3/09, (Lost Pulp Classics #2; reproduces the text of the Arkham House edition), new 12.95

---These can also be found in New to Catalog Listings, a lot sooner than here, as well as a number of used titles I've been to lazy to drag here, but that I have been adding to the inventory off and on from time to time.
---The above, of course, are subject to discount, mostly 20%. (Tartarus: 15%). Rule of thumb: small press items are 20%; major publishers and major-distributed smalls (which it looks like I've about quit taking in new): 30%. Still plenty of back-stock though, a lot of it LOP (long out of print), some highly-priced by other sellers these days. Books still listed as "new" twenty or twenty-five years later you might be surprised to find still in the same condition as when it arrived here. (All books are stored in plastic and not those mylar dj covers -- causing wrinkling and don't protect from dust and humidity)... but I don't like to go on about such stuff, preferring performance to do the talking.)

catalog listings not shared?

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:53:00 +0000

I went to my Google Documents dashboard just now and for some reason everything shows as "not shared" -- so I've gone through and re-set them to be available for view by anyone with the links. I will test the old ones to make sure they still work, but meanwhile here's what they give me for the links to publish now:

Later: I tested one of them and it still works. So who knows why they became unshared. Maybe something I accidentally clicked on...

back from vacation

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:18:00 +0000

Not much action here for awhile -- sorry, if you've been checking up. Partly it was being away for the better part of a couple weeks. Returned from San Francisco last Friday. Only bought two books (at a library where we stopped for a bit of wi-fi) the whole trip. Tried to stop at an indie bookstore (Stacy's) in Frisco, but it was kaput -- how it goes, I guess, these days.
But when I got back to Polk City there was a box of used books from a consignor waiting on the front porch. Check out the covershots if curious, while I try to get 'round to cataloging them. I'll try to get caught up on other fronts too. (If you think you've been forgotten by me, do keep pestering me. Sometimes it might be what I need to get my priorities right.)

new book arrivals from Tartarus

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:33:00 +0000

I've been mightily delinquent in a plenitude of ways, not least the posting of new-arrival listings here, scant as they have been. The listings do go up in my "New Arrivals" document, which should be searchable, but not necessarily through Google. I will try to do a little catch-up here now. To start with, books from Tartarus:

WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #12, spr/09, Tartarus, (on Harlan Ellison, Wilkie Collins, etc.), new 14.00

Strong, L.A.G. THE BUCKROSS RING and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Tartarus '09, one of 300 copies, (author's strange and supernatural stories are collected together in one volume for the first time here; Richard Dalby [ed & intro]), new in dj 50.00

and I forgot to list earlier:

Maupassant, Guy de TALES OF TERROR, Tartarus '08, one of 300 copies, (collects together 32 of Guy de Maupassant's best tales of terror, in Arnold Kellet's glitteringly clear and precise translations; Ramsey Campbell foreword), new in dj 50.00

(discount 15%)

new issue of Cemetery Dance

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Here today:

CEMETERY DANCE #60, '09, (Tananarive Due, Ray Garton, Jeff Long, Thomas Sullivan, Thomas Tessier), new 5.00

discount: 20%

new arrival from Ash-Tree

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:00 +0000

Here now:

Sinclair, May THE VILLA DESIREE and Other Uncanny Stories, Ash-Tree '08, (collects all of author's supernatural, strange, and weird tales in one volume for the first time, and is complemented by Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff's detailed introduction), new in dj 49.00

(discount: 20%)

returned to book sale

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Went back to book sale yesterday for another load.

books from nesfa here

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:34:00 +0000

Finally managing to get cataloged the NESFA books that have been here for a while now:

Zelazny, Roger THRESHOLD: The Collected Stories of..., Volume One, NESFA, 2/09, 1st edn, (short works from author's early years through the mid 1960s; the first of a projected six volumes; Silverberg intro; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
Zelazny, Roger POWER & LIGHT : The Collected Stories of..., Volume Two, NESFA, 2/09, 1st edn, (covers the mid 1960s, the author's most prolific period; Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Walter Jon Williams intros; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
Anderson, Poul THE COLLECTED SHORT WORKS OF…, Volume 1: Call Me Joe, NESFA, 3/09, 1st edn, (Bear intro; 510 pages), new in dj 29.00
Coville, Bruce THE ONE RIGHT THING , NESFA, 2/08, 1st edn, one of 800 numbered copies, (filled with wit and wisdom and laughter and joy and a touch of the eerie), new in dj 25.00
Blish, James WORKS OF ART : Selected Short Works, NESFA, 2/08, 1st edn, (literarily ambitious; Feeley intro; 524 pages), new in dj 29.00
Merril, Judith & C.M. Kornbluth SPACED OUT : Three Novels of Tomorrow, NESFA, 10/08, 1st edn thus, (collects Outpost Mars, Gunner Cade & Shadow on the Hearth; purposely eschews the escape for which science fiction is so notorious), new in dj 29.00
Oliver, Chad FROM OTHER SHORES : An Omnibus, NESFA, 3/07, 1st edn, (collects Shadows in the Sun, Unearthly Neighbors & The Shores of Another Sea; Zebrowski intros), new in dj 26.00

---These are some very well-made, ample, and well-edited books. Even without the 20% discount I give they would be bargains.

nesfa books ordered

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:58:00 +0000

I haven't been ordering from publishers much lately, especially since my printed-paper catalog sending ground to a halt. A few standing orders are still erect, but not by much. I did manage to send a small one out to NESFA Press yesterday, however, catching up on titles they have published since my last order a couple years ago. There are other publishers I wish I were still getting more regularly -- and maybe I will -- but a lot of what I might have been stocking in the past is probably best to left to Amazon to sell.

books cataloged lately

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:14:00 +0000

Here are some listings of used books compiled since last such post:

Ace pb 33700 Norton, Andre HIGH SORCERY, ('70), (PBO; Warlocks of other worlds -- or scientists of times unknown), vg+ 3.50
DAW 5 Tubb, E.C. MAYENNE, 2nd, (A Dumarest space novel), vg 3.50
Bal 540 Russell, Ray SARDONICUS and Other Stories, ('61), (PBO; Gothic horror and monstrous deeds; movie tie), g-vg 8.00
Bal 308K Pohl, Frederik (ed) STAR SCIENCE FICTION No. 5, ('59), (PBO; nine top original stories), vg $3
Bal 353K Pohl, Frederik (ed) STAR SCIENCE FICTION No. 6, ('59), (PBO; OA), g-vg $2
Avon 18846 Zelazny, Roger THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, THE LAMPS OF HIS MOUTH and Other Stories, 3rd, (Title story, winner of the Nebula Award), vg+ 3.00
DAW 207 Goulart, Ron A WHIFF OF MADNESS, 8/76, (PBO; In the Barnum System -- the whackiest of all the colonized galazy), g-vg 2.50
Berkley F1169 Thomas, Theodore L. & Kate Wilhelm THE CLONE, 12/65, (PBO; It moved through houses and stores and spread into the streets, absorbing all that lay in its path -- nothing could stop it...), vg 3.00
Ace pb 79559 Smeds, Dave THE SCHEME OF DRAGONS, 3/89, (PBO; astonishing sequel to The Sorcery Within), vg-f 2.50
Bal U 2176 Pohl, Frederik & Jack Williamson STARCHILD, 11/65, (PBO; Starchild #2; A magnificent dream of man's future), vg 2.50
Ace G- 723 Norton, Andre STAR HUNTER & VOODOO PLANET, nd, vg-f 2.50
DAW 34 Trimble, Louis THE WANDERING VARIABLES, 12/72, (PBO; They played with a whole world's variables; Interplanetary hide-and-seek), vg+ 2.00
Baen 65411 Niven, Larry (creator) THE MAN-KZIN WARS, 3rd(12/88), (with Poul Anderson & Dean Ing; Known Space is aflame with war!), vg+ 2.50
Baen 69811 Pournelle, Jerry PRINCE OF MERCENARIES, 3/89, (PBO; a novel of Falkenberg's Legion), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 94252 Norton, Andre YEAR OF THE UNICORN, nd, (the Were-Riders wore the bodies of men, but they were not humankind), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 91170 Bradley, Marion Zimmer THE WORLD WRECKERS, ('71), (PBO; a Darkover novel; Under the red sun, a galaxy's telepaths face finality), vg+ $3
Ace pb 30590 Trimble, Louis & Jacquelyn Trimble GUARDIANS OF THE GATE, ('72), (PBO; They knew the legend -- they were to meet the alien reality), vg 2.00
Del Rey 33173 Cole, Allan & Chris Bunch REVENGE OF THE DAMNED, 2/89, (PBO; STEN Adventure #5), vg+ 3.00
Ball 02905 Swann, Thomas Burnett WOLFWINTER, 11/72, (PBO; world of fauns, sibyls, dryads and the ancient, powerful Gods...), vg+ 3.00
Berkley 02476 Transue, Jacob TWILIGHT OF THE BASILISKS, 12/73, (PBO), vg+ 2.00
Baen 69833 Niven, Larry (creator) MAN-KZIN WARS II, 8/89, (PBO; Known Space is again aflame with war; Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle & S.M. Stirling; Niven intro), g $2; vg-f 3.00
DAW 4 Van Vogt, A.E. THE BOOK OF..., ('72), (PBO), vg+ 3.00
Dell pb 1940 Sheckley, Robert DIMENSION OF MIRACLES, 6/68, (PBO; wild metaphysical farce that presages Douglas Adams), vg+ 4.00
Laser 36 De Weese, Gene JEREMY CASE, 7/76, (PBO; No one dared to explain the terrifying power that he suddenly possessed), vg+ 4.00
Laser 40 Hoskins, Robert MASTER OF THE STARS, 9/76, (PBO; bitter hatred of his home world and longing for revenge on its rulers), vg+ 3.00
Laser 38 Sky, Kathleen ICE PRISON, 8/76, (PBO; the entire colony was being terrorized by a fourteen-year-old girl), vg+ 3.50
Laser 35 Sohl, Jerry I, ALEPPO, 7/76, (PBO; How could anyone capture characters from dreams -- mere figments of the imagination?), vg+ 4.00
Laser 39 Funnell, Augustine BRANDYJACK, 8/76, (PBO; if he was to leave Earth, he must first travel across it, a journey far more challenging than the voyage through space), vg+ 3.00
Laser 37 Bone, J.F. THE MEDDLERS, 8/76, (PBO; if Warren is to defeat those who would destroy his world, he too must destroy -- a life-style), vg+ 4.00
Avon V 2300 Ellison, Harlan THE BEAST THAT SHOUTED LOVE AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD, 7/69, (PBO; stories), g-vg $3; vg-f 8.50
Ace Double 89250 Bradley, Marion Zimmer / Rackham, John THE WINDS OF DARKOVER / THE ANYTHING TREE, ('70), (PBOs; Whose mind directed his thoughts, whose anger his sword? / On Jensen's World, the Tree is master and man the servant), vg+ 4.00
Ace Double 37250 Bradley, Marion Zimmer / Rackham, John THE BRASS DRAGON / IPOMOEA, ('69), (PBOs; What he'd forgotten could change the world! / Science is never neutral -- and neither are the stars!), vg $2; vg-f 3.00
Ace pb 86180 Tubb, E.C. VERUCHIA, 6/73, (PBO; Dumarest; Their choice: live in tyranny or rule Dradea -- with death a part of the bargain), vg+ 2.50
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE STRANGE, MYSTICAL, & UNEXPLAINED, Gramercy, 2nd, (Over 500 Entries in A-Z format; A browser's delight, offering a wealth of stories, theories, histories, and explanation behind the mystical tradition; Marion Zimmer Bradley intro), as new in dj 6.00

---10% discount on all the above, as usual.

new arrival from Midnight House!!!

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:44:00 +0000

Here today:

Brennan, Joseph Payne THE FEASTER FROM AFAR, Midnight House '08, one of 500 numbered copies, (The Selected Weird Tales, Volume One; Dziemianowicz & Pelan [eds]), new in dj 45.00

---Looks like Darkside has let their domain name lapse to the spamsiters, so no publisher link at least for now. Discount still 20%.

new arrival from Ash-Tree

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:26:00 +0000

Here now:

Roden, Barbara & Christopher Roden (eds) SHADES OF DARKNESS, Ash-Tree '08, 1st, (New tales of the supernatural and macabre), new in dj 49.00

[discount: 20%]

new arrivals from Hippocampus

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:39:00 +0000

Finally, a new batch from Hippocampus is here:

Cook, W. Paul THE WANDERING LIFE OF A YANKEE PRINTER, Hippocampus ('07), 1st edn, (selected writings by and about W. Paul Cook, friend and publisher of H.P. Lovecraft; Sean Donnelly [ed]), new 15.00
Hall, Leland / Young, Francis Brett SINISTER HOUSE / COLD HARBOUR, Hippocampus ('08), 1st edn, (Two Complete Novels, bound dos à dos; in Lovecraft's Library series; S.T. Joshi intros), new 15.00
Joshi, S.T. & Rosemary Pardoe (eds) WARNINGS TO THE CURIOUS: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James, Hippocampus ('07), 1st edn, (features a wealth of material old and new about the scholarly author and his supernatural writing; includes memoirs of James by such friends as Stephen Gaselee and Shane Leslie, and early criticism by H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Butts, and others), new 20.00
Lovecraft, H.P. COLLECTED ESSAYS Volumes 1-5, Hippocampus ('08), (incorporates not only the text of the entire five volumes, with annotations, bibliographical citations, and introductions, but also the complete texts of Lovecraft's own journal The Conservative, plus actual scans of the entire run of the journal; fully searchable with hyperlinks), CD-ROM disc, new 65.00
LOVECRAFT ANNUAL No. 1 & No. 2, Hippocampus '07-'08, (New Scholarship Plus Reviews and Briefly Noted; S.T. Joshi [ed]), new each, 15.00
Miniter, Edith DEAD HOUSES and Other Works, Hippocampus ('08), 1st edn, (friend of H.P. Lovecraft; collects author's finest short fiction; includes essays about her life and work by Lovecraft and other of her contemporaries, as well as modern scholarship on Mrs. Miniter – revealing her as a fascinating emblem of a vanished period in literature; Kennth W. Faig, Jr. & Sean Donnelly [eds]; 380 pages), new 15.00
Searight, Franklyn LAIR OF THE DREAMER: A Cthulhu Mythos Omnibus, Hippocampus ('07), 1st edn, (included in this long overdue single-author collection is his unpublished Mythos novel, Lair of the Dreamer, along with his posthumous collaboration with his father, “The Mists of Death”; Robert M. Price [ed]), new 20.00
Sidney-Fryer, Donald THE ATLANTIS FRAGMENTS: The Trilogy of Songs and Sonnets Atlantean, Hippocampus ('08), 1st thus, (poems of an unearthly beauty; this massive, 550-page poetry omnibus is the most elaborate book ever published by Hippocampus -- its color frontispiece, printed end papers, profusion of interior illustrations, Smythe sewn signatures and illustrated dust wrapper destine it to be a collector’s item; limited edition of 300 copies), new in dj 55.00
Smith, Clark Ashton THE HASHISH-EATER, Hippocampus ('08), 1st thus, (expanded edition of Donald Sidney-Fryer's rare scholarly work, an annotated version of CAS's epic poem in variant texts; significant related writings and a letter by CAS; exhaustive commentary), with bonus audio CD of Sidney-Fryer dramatically reading the poem, new 15.00
Thomas, Jonathan MIDNIGHT CALL and Other Stories, Hippocampus ('08), 1st edn, (bizarre conceptions by a powerful new writer of weird, horrific, and supernatural fiction; foreword by S.T. Joshi), new 15.00

---A couple titles I failed to order enough to list now, so already a new order to the publisher is in order. Discount: 20%.

new arrival from Stark House

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Here today:

Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay THE OLD BATTLE-AX / DARK POWER: Two Complete Mystery Novels, Stark House Mystery Classics, 11/08, 1st thus, (adds story "The Matador" from Munsey's 6/23; novels first published in 1943 & 1930 respectively; intro by Gregory Shepard), new 19.95

[discount: 20%]

couple of magazines

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:29:00 +0000

Here now:

INTERZONE #219, 12/08, (Jeff Spock, Jason Sanford, Mercurio D. Rivera, Aliette de Bodard, Gord Sellar, Alexander Marsh Freed; plus art, interviews, news, book and film reviews), new 10.50
[not actually carrying this here again yet, but if this listing garners any response I might well -- only one copy in stock]

TALEBONES #37: Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, win/08, (James Van Pelt, William F. Nolan, M.K. Hobson, etc.; 111 pages), new 7.00

(20% discount on either)

books cataloged lately

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:35:00 +0000

Here are the latest used-book listings I've managed to do (mostly pbs):

Berkley N1714 Ellison, Harlan (ed) DANGEROUS VISIONS #3, 7/69, (adds new intro), vg $2; vg+ 2.50
Berkley N2275 Alban, Anthony THE DAY OF THE SHIELD, 1/73, (PBO; America's existence in a world gone to ruin depends on The Shield - but now The Shield must come down!), vg $2; vg+ 2.50
Ace Double 79975 Tubb, E.C. A SCATTER OF STARDUST / TECHNOS, ('72), (PBOs; A skyful of science fantasy gems / To find Earth, volunteer as a slave for the Technarch!), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
DAW 18 Tubb, E.C. CENTURY OF THE MANIKIN, ('72), (PBO; Beware the cryogenic lady from woman's lib!), g $2; vg 2.50
Berkley N1704 Ellison, Harlan (ed) DANGEROUS VISIONS #2, 6/69, (adds new intro), vg 2.50
Ace Double 81610 Grinnell, David / Tubb, E.C. TO VENUS! TO VENUS!/ THE JESTER AT SCAR, ('70), (PBOs; S.O.S. from an analogue of hell / He sought the needle of eternal youth in the haystack of quick deaths), vg+ 2.50
DAW 74 Tubb, E.C. JONDELLE, 10/73, (PBO; A Dumarest Space Novel), vg $2; vg+ 3.00
Pap Lib 52320 Elwood, Roger (ed) ALIEN WORLDS, 9/64, (PBO; The incredible future that awaits us on Alien Worlds), vg+ 3.00
Belmont 692 Tralins, Robert THE COSMOZOIDS, 6/66, (PBO; When is a man not a man? When his body and mind have been invaded by The Cosmozoids), vg $2; vg+ 3.00
DAW 27 Swann, Thomas Burnett GREEN PHOENIX, '72, (PBO; The last stand of the prehumans), vg+ $3; vg-f 4.00
Ball 03262 Toomey, Robert E., Jr. A WORLD OF TROUBLE, 5/73, (PBO; Only a madman would want to work as a galactic industrial spy!), vg+ $2; vg-f 3.00
Gibson, William & Bruce Sterling THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE, Spectra, 4/91, 1st US edn, (visionary steam-powered heavy-metal fantasy), vg in dj $10
Llosa, Mario Vargas THE TIME OF THE HERO, Noonday, 4th('91), (author's first novel, published in 1962; translated by Lysander Kemp), vg 4.00
Bantam X2092 Landsburg, Alan & Sally THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION, 7/75, (PBO; Astonishing new proof that we are not alone in the universe!; Foreword by Rod Serling; 32 pages of photos), vg+ 3.00
Laser 29 Malcolm, Donald THE IRON RAIN, 5/76, (PBO; planet almost destroyed by millions of meteorites), vg-f 3.50
Laser 30 Bischoff, David & Christopher Lampton THE SEEKER, 5/76, (PBO; moving friendship with strange being), vg-f 4.00
Laser 32 Nelson, R.F. THEN BEGGARS COULD RIDE, 6/76, (PBO; a journey through the ages), vg-f 5.00
Laser 31 Berry, James R. THE GALACTIC INVADERS, 6/76, (PBO; everyone in the vast galactic empire of the Earth is in peril), vg+ 2.50
Laser 34 Carver, Jeffrey SEAS OF ERNATHE, 7/76, (PBO; Terry Carr intro; author's first novel), vg 5.00

[discount on used books: 10%]

Arkham House books back in stock

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:50:00 +0000

No new activity on the Arkham House publishing front, but I did have occasion to bring these back into my inventory:

Lovecraft, H.P. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and Other Novels, Arkham House, Corrected 9th printing, (all the novels of H.P. Lovecraft in one volume, uniform in size with The Dunwich Horror and Others; contains the complete texts of At the Mountains of Madness, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, together with The Shunned House, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Silver Key, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key; edited by S.T. Joshi), new in dj 27.95

---DAGON and Other Macabre Tales, Arkham House, Corrected 9th printing, (All the remaining fiction by H.P. Lovecraft, here published in chronological order together with his long essay on macabre fiction; culmination of a monumental project - the bringing into print of Lovecraft s stories in their definitive form, based on manuscripts and notes; edited by S.T. Joshi), new in dj 27.95

---THE DUNWICH HORROR and Others, Arkham House, Corrected 11th printing, (contains what the editors of Arkham House believe to be the best stories by Lovecraft; includes a new long introduction; edited by S.T. Joshi), new in dj 27.95

---THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM and Other Revisions, Arkham House, Corrected 5th printing, (brings together all of author's revisions of others - many complete rewritten - and in the main belongs solidly in the Lovecraft canon; edited by S.T. Joshi), new in dj 27.95

[discount: 20%]

new book arrivals

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:43:00 +0000

Still not many new books coming in of late, and the few that have I've put off cataloging until they posed for their covershots. It's been a bit cold on the sunroom, however. Finally, though, here are the few:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel THE SNOW-IMAGE and Other Stories of the Supernatural, Tartarus '08, 1st thus, (Richard Dalby intro; 417+xvi pages), new in dj 65.00

WORMWOOD #11, aut/08, Tartarus, (Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent), new 19.00

Tennant, Emma HEATHCLIFF'S TALE, Tartarus ('05), pb edition, (brings together a ghost story, a depiction of the marriage of Heathcliff and Isabella, and a satire on Brontë academic studies), {hc in dj still available @ $45}, as new 20.00 [OP from publisher]

CEMETERY DANCE #59, '08, (Brian Keene, Sarah Langan, Stephen Mark Rainey, Steve Vernon), new 5.00

[Tartarus discount: 15%; Cemetery Dance: 20% (as well as for new books in my catalog listings -- for both publishers)]

used and "as new" books cataloged

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Here are the latest books added to the catalog. It feels funny adding non-fantastical books to the inventory, but I'm doing it anyway:

Shirer, William L. THE NIGHTMARE YEARS, 1930-1940: A Memoir of a Life and the Times, Little Brown '84, 1st edn?, (20th Century Journey vol. 2; includes indexes; 654 pages), ex-libr else vg in dj 5.00
Remnick, David KING OF THE WORLD: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Random House, 8th, ex-libr else vg in dj 4.00
Crichton, Michael TIMELINE, Knopf '99, 1st trade edn, (about historians who time travel to 14th-century France), vg+ in dj 10.00
King, Stephen SONG OF SUSANNAH: The Dark Tower VI, Donald M. Grant ('04), 1st trade edn, (Darrell Anderson illus; 413 pages), vg+ in dj 18.00
Bradley, Marion Zimmer THE MISTS OF AVALON, Del Rey, 27th, (The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne...; 876 pagest), vg 4.00
Barker, Clive IMAJICA, HarperCollins '91, 1st (US) edn, (a novel of vast panoramas and imntimate, obsessive passions; 824 pages), vg in dj 10.00
Barker, Clive SACRAMENT, HarperCollins '96, 1st edn, (troubling and passionate masterwork), remainder mark, vg+ in dj 5.00
Connelly, Michael THE CLOSERS, Little Brown, 5/05, 1st edn, (spellbinding thriller), vg+ in dj 3.00
Coben, Harlan THE INNOCENT, Book Club, (mystery), vg-f in dj 3.00
Dick, Philip K. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, Vintage, 5th, (Hugo-winning novel), vg+ $6
Coe, Michael D. THE MAYA: Third Edition, Thames and Hudson, 2nd('86), (with 141 illustrations), ex-libr else g 3.00
Boyle, T. Coraghessan TALK TALK, Viking '06, 1st, (a novel), as new in dj 10.00
Tosches, Nick KING OF THE JEWS, Ecco '05, 1st edn, (sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein), as new in dj 10.00
Rankin, Ian THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES, Orion '05, 1st thus, (collects A Good Hanging, Beggars Banquet, plus a brand new Inspector Rebus story; 529 pages), as new in dj 12.00
Wharton, Edith THE PORTABLE EDITH WHARTON, Penguin Classics, 3rd, (656 pages), as new 5.00
Glass, Ira (ed) THE NEW KINGS OF NONFICTION, Riverhead, 10/07, 1st, (some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction), remainder mark, as new 5.00
Baxter, Stephen AGES IN CHAOS: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time, Forge, 8/06, 1st pb, (farmer's son from Scotland who changed our view of humanity's place in the universe foerever), as new 5.00
Thurlo, David & Aimée BLOOD RETRIBUTION, Forge, 9/04, 1st edn, (A David Nez Novel; second in series about Navajo vampire), as new in dj 4.00
Henry, April LEARNING TO FLY, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 4th, (thriller), as new in dj 4.00
Primack, Joel R. & Nancy Ellen Abrams THE VIEW FROM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos, Riverhead, 8/07, 1st pb, remainder mark, (deeply inspiring book that should be required reading for everyone; posits that humans actually are central to the universe in unexpected ways), as new 5.00
Iyengar, B.K.S. LIGHT ON LIFE: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, Rodale '05, 1st (pb variant), (rich in philosophy and methodology by one of the world's masters), as new 5.00
Gamow, George MR. TOMPKINS GETS SERIOUS: The Essential George Gamow, Pi '06, 1st, (The Masterpiece Science Edition; classic writings by the theorist behind the Big Bang and the cracking of DNA), as new in dj 6.00
Kimmelman, Michael THE ACCIDENTAL MASTERPIECE: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, Penguin, 5th, (surprisingly refreshing view of art and artists by chief art critic of NY Times), as new in dj 6.00
Kaplan, Michael & Ellen Kaplan CHANCES ARE...: Adventures in Probability, Viking, 2nd, (charts one of humanity's most ambitious and poignant endeavors: the struggle against randomness; wonderfully erudite), as new in dj 6.00
Oerter, Robert THE THEORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics, Pi, 2nd, (tour de force of science writing), as new in dj 7.00
Dunning, John TWO O'CLOCK, EASTERN WARTIME, Scribner '01, 1st, (is like going to radio lovers heaven), label over barcode, as new in dj 5.00
Griffiths, Jay WILD: An Elemental Journey, Tarcher/Penguin '06, 1st, (stunning exploration of all that is untamed and unnamed; includes bibliographical references and index), remainder mark, as new in dj 6.00

more books cataloged

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:01:00 +0000

Seem to be getting up a head of steam, because I have these added to the catalog since last post:

Edelman, David Louis INFOQUAKE, Pyr '06, 1st, (takes speculative fiction into alien territory, the corporate boardroom of the far future; author's debut), vg-f 7.50
Harrison, M. John NOVA SWING, Spectra, 10/07, 1st US?, (part broken love story, part noir, part far-reaching SF; proves that SF can be literature), PR laid in, vg-f 7.00
Grimwood, Jon Courtenay 9TAIL FOX, Gollancz '05, 1st (pb variant), (compelling literary melding of noir crime, SF and oriental legend), vg-f 7.50
Moriarty, Chris SPIN CONTROL, Spectra, 7/06, 1st, (chaotic posthuman future in which the final frontier may well be extinction; hard SF), PR laid in, vg-f 6.00
Smith, Michael Marshall ONE OF US, HarperCollins UK '99, (REMtemp working the night hours caretaking people's dreams and memories), vg-f 7.50
Lovegrove, James DAYS, Phoenix '97, 1st, (the world's first and [some still say] foremost gigastore), vg-f 8.50
Sawyer, Robert J. ROLLBACK, Tor, 4/07, 1st edn, (A Sci Fi Essential Book; explores morals and ethics on both human and cosmic scales), vg-f in dj 8.50
Roberts, Adam POLYSTOM, Gollancz, 2nd('03), (two universes, one reality), vg-f 6.00
Scalzi, John OLD MAN'S WAR, Tor, 1/06, A Sci-Fi Essential Book, (sidesteps most of the clichés of military SF), vg-f 6.00
Barry, Max JENNIFER GOVERNMENT, Abacus '04, (A brilliant satire on globalisation and marketing hype; the best novel in the world ever), vg-f 6.00
Scott, Tim OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE, Spectra, 6/07, 1st, (surreal alternative future where appliances talk back and cities are divided into zones based on musical tastes; author's debut), PR laid in, vg+ 6.00
Signet T4275 White, Ted BY FURIES POSSESSED, 6/70, (PBO; Ted Dameron's mind is blown beyond his wildest dreams by an interstellar agent of destruction), vg $2; vg-f 3.00
Lancer 74509 Van Arnam, Dave STAR BARBARIAN, '69, (PBO; in the tradition of the magnificent Conan with an exciting difference), vg 2.50
Ace G- 641 Williamson, Jack BRIGHT NEW UNIVERSE, ('67), (PBO; Earth calling all stars - - - S.O.S.; other races... other evils?), price sticker, else vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 78424 Hamilton, Edmond STARWOLF, 6th(6/86), (The classic space adventure trilogy in one volume), g-vg 2.50
Ace pbk 00018 Anthony, Patricia COLD ALLIES, 4/94, (brilliant portrait of men and women being driven to Armageddon; author's debut), vg 2.50
Spectra 28565 Tepper, Sheri S. GRASS, 8/90, (subtle, complex meditation on ecological disaster; a NY Times Notable book), vg 2.50
Timescape 83692 McIntyre, Vonda N. THE ENTROPY EFFECT, 4th, (A Star Trek Novel; The universe has less than a century left...unless Spock can change history!), vg 2.00
Pyramid R1664 Laumer, Keith THE INVADERS, 8/67, (PBO; First in a thrilling new series based on the smash ABC-TV hit; A one-man war against aliens from outer space!), vg $2
Tor 55286 Saberhagen, Fred THE FIFTH BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: Coinspinner's's Story, 9/90, (the Sword of Chance), vg+ 2.50
Ace Double H- 21 Vance, Jack/ Wayman, Tony Russell THE LAST CASTLE / WORLD OF THE SLEEPER, ('67), (PBOs; Winner of the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Short Novel / Take your choice of any world or time -- but at your own peril!), vg $4; vg-f 5.00
Tor 51118 Saberhagen, Fred THE SIXTH BOOK OF LOST SWORDS: Mindsword's Story, 6/91, (It is up to Prince Mark of Tasavalta: his wife and kingdom, and the world, all may be lost to the Mindsword), vg+ $2
Ballantine 02108 Mason, Douglas R. SATELLITE 54-ZERO, 1/71, (PBO; It was a privately owned research station -- and it was also fully armed...), vg $2
Berkley 02601 Herbert, Frank DUNE MESSIAH, 16th, (Dune #2), vg+ 1.00
Ace Double D-322a/b Williams, Robert Moore THE BLUE ATOM / THE VOID BEYOND and Other Stories, ('58), (PBOs; Who controls it, controls all / Amazing tales of future super-science), fr-g (cracked binding) $3; vg-f 6.00
Bard 35428 Reed, Ishmael FLIGHT TO CANADA, 10/77, (A revisionist riff on the great American myth of the Civil War), g-vg 2.00
Curtis 07081 Williams, Robert Moore WHEN TWO WORLDS MEET: Stories of Men on Mars, ('70), (PBO; Earthman against Alien in a space age confrontation to decide the fate of the Universe), p-fr (loose pages) 2.00
Faw Cr P1829 Asimov, Isaac THE GODS THEMSELVES, 6/73, (won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973), g-vg $2; vg 2.50
Spectra 56887 Nasir, Jamil THE HIGHER SPACE, 7/96, (PBO; Science, shamanism, and a town pushed to the edge of reality), g 1.50
Pap Lib 63253 Vale, Rena TAURUS FOUR, 1/70, (PBO; descendants of a lost 20th-century hippie colony in the year 2270 A.D.), g-vg $2
DAW 447 Phillifent, John T. KING OF ARGENT, 4th, (A rebuilt man for a life-hostile planet), fr-g 1.50
Lancer 74941 Williams, Robert Moore ZANTHAR AT THE EDGE OF NEVER, '68, (PBO; Easy Eye edn; In the womb of time itself, men battle for the future!; Zanthar #3), g-vg 2.50
Pop Lib 02511 Williams, Robert Moore THE RETURN OF JONGOR, ('70), (PBO; ©1946; The mighty jungle giant and his friends penetrate a land of deadly beast-men), vg+ 4.00
Ace Double M-101 Brackett, Leigh PEOPLE OF THE TALISMAN / THE SECRET OF SINHARAT, ('64), (PBOs; Find the Gates of Death - and live! / Behind the banner of eternal life lies eternal horror ), fr 2.50
Avon 44057 Le Guin, Ursula K. THE DISPOSSESSED, 9th, (magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia), vg-f 3.00
Warner 60733 Meltzer, Brad DEAD EVEN, 3/99, (529-page legal thriller), fr-g 1.00
Bantam A1369 Huxley, Aldous BRAVE NEW WORLD, 3rd, (The mighty novel of a soulless, streamlined Eden - and the two who escape it), vg+ 3.00
Avon 40519 Haldeman, Joe (ed) STUDY WAR NO MORE: A Selection of Alternatives, 10/78, (Ten masters of science fiction write of future wars and wolds without war), g 2.00
Ace pb 66901 Vance, Jack THE DIRDIR, ('69), (PBO; Planet of Adventure #3), vg+ 5.00
Lancer 73766 Williams, Robert Moore THE BELL FROM INFINITY, '68, (PBO; The ringing came from everywhere and nowhere, and Perth had to stop it before it destroyed the Solar System), g $2
Berkley 15290 Parker, Robert B. THIN AIR, 4/96, (Spenser mystery), g-vg 1.50
Tor 54162 Farland, David THE RUNELORDS: The Sum of All Men, 3rd, (Runelords #1; The very Earth is in pain; Its wounds must be healed; There must arise a new king: the Earth King must be reborn; Only then will humanity have a chance to survive), vg 2.00
DAW 353 Norton, Andre QUAG KEEP, 9/79, (Of dragons and dungeons; war games), g $1
Faw GM T2159 Deindorfer, Robert G. (ed) THE SPIES, nd, (Great TRUE Stories of Espionage; Introduction by Ladislas Farago), g (inconsequential water damage) 1.50
Ace pb 10704 Le Guin, Ursula K. CITY OF ILLUSIONS, nd, (the glory that had been Terra's in the golden age of the League of Worlds lost to ruthless conquerors), vg+ $2
Ace 66953, Le Guin, Ursula K. PLANET OF EXILE, 4th(12/74), (the eerie, murderous snowghouls were beginning to appear), vg 2.00
Berkley 03910 Le Guin, Ursula K. THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST, 5th, (The mind-stunning SF masterpiece), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 47805 Le Guin, Ursula K. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, 14th(6/77), (adds new introductory essay by author), vg+ 2.50
Pocket 82930 Young, Jim THE FACE OF THE DEEP, 12/79, (PBO; Bok II can know every human feeling - every one but mercy), vg 2.50
DAW 365 Vance, Jack EMPHYRIO, 12/79, (Was he the legendary liberator, or tomorrow's space pirate?), vg 4.00
DAW 361 Vance, Jack THE FACE, 11/79, (PBO; Demon Princes #4), vg-f 6.00
Tor 55015 Roessner, Michaela THE STARS COMPEL, 9/00, (sequel to The Stars Dispose), g-vg (Dollar General label) 2.00
Signet E8937 Paul, Barbara BIBBLINGS, 11/79, (PBO; The federation was out to recruit a new member world - a mineral-rich planet where madness was a way of life...), vg 3.00

latest catalogings

cdrummbks@gmail.com (CHRIS DRUMM) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Here are a bunch of used (& a few "as new") books I've managed to catalog since list entry:

Pap Lib 53680 White, Ted THE SPAWN OF THE DEATH MACHINE, 7/68, (PBO; Was he a barbaric superman - or a computer-created monster?), vg 3.00
Belmont 751 White, Ted THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN, 4/67, (PBO; You walk through the door into the void...), vg 3.00
Pyramid X1787 White, Ted & Dave Van Arnam SIDESLIP, 4/68, (PBO; Alien invaders ruled all Earth - so how come I'd never heard of them?), vg+ 3.00
Avon 42869 Simak, Clifford D. THEY WALKED LIKE MEN, 3/79, (One Man Against An Encroaching Alien Doom!), vg-f 2.50
Ace Double F-227 Brunner, John THE SPACE-TIME JUGGLER / THE ASTRONAUTS MUST NOT LAND, ('63), (PBOs; They'd left as men, but what were they now? / He tampered with the future of worlds), vg+ 5.00
DAW pb UE1502 Van Vogt, A.E. THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES, 5th, vg-f 2.50
Pocket pb 82975 Laumer, Keith A PLAGUE OF DEMONS, 12/79 (Canada printing), (From another world they come - to feed on the brains of men), vg 2.50
Pullman, Philip THE AMBER SPYGLASS, Knopf, 10/00, 1st US edn, (His Dark Materials #3), vg-f in dj 12.00
Ace Double F-119a/b Dickson, Gordon R. DELUSION WORLD / SPACIAL DELIVERY, ('61), (PBOs; If you don't look, she'll go away! / Rendezvous with a double-sized Goliath), vg+ 5.00
Ace pb 73293 Le Guin, Ursula K. ROCANNON'S WORLD, nd, (Rallying the primitive natives around him, Rocannon set out to prove that technology was no match for courage and love of freedom), vg+ 2.50
Avon 38299 Le Guin, Ursula K. THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, 6th, (highly acclaimed novel of a brilliant vision of our possible futures), vg+ 2.00
Dell pb 0462 Williams, Robert Moore BEACHHEAD PLANET, 1/70, (PBO; He fought the invasion of the brain-snatchers), vg+ 2.00
Lancer 73528 White, Ted THE SORCERESS OF QAR, '66, (PBO; sequel to Phoenix Prime; strange, paradoxical world of Qanar, where a weird, age-old magic exists as everyday reality), g-vg $2
Lancer 73476 White, Ted PHOENIX PRIME, '66, (PBO; A superman on Earth, Max Quest was powerless in a savagely alien world), vg+ 3.00
Borges, Jorge Luis LABYRINTHS: Selected Stories & Other Writings, New Directions, 22nd, (representative selection; biographical & critical introduction by editors), g-vg 4.00
Lessing, Doris THE FOUR-GATED CITY, Plume, 10/76, 1st thus, (A complete novel from author's masterwork Children of Violence; fifth in five-book sequence), g-vg (probably really vg) 5.00
Dunne, Dominick THREE COMPLETE NOVELS: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, People Like Us & An Inconvenient Woman, Wings '94, 1st thus, (unabridged texts reset for this volume), vg+ in dj 6.00
Bennett, Arnold THE WOMAN WHO STOLE EVERYTHING and Other Stories, Cassell '27, 1st, front free endpaper cut out, g (pages browned, generally worn, but clean and readable; no dj) 20.00
Ace pb 91355 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLDS BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Third Series, nd, (orig: World's Best Science Fictin: 1967), vg+ 2.50
Signet Classic CP217 London, Jack THE SEA-WOLF And Selected Writings, 4/64, (with an Afterword by Franklin Walker), g-vg 1.50
Spectra 27822 Bradbury, Ray THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, 85th, (in The Grand Master Editions series), vg-f 3.00
Signet Classic CP120 Yeats, W.B. THE CELTIC TWILIGHT and a selection of early poems, 3/62, (Introduction by Walter Starkie), g-vg 2.50
DAW 852 Reichert, Mickey Zucker BY CHAOS CURSED, 6/91, INSCRIBED by author: "To Griffin - The guy with the great name", (PBO; The Bifrost Guardians #5), vg+ 5.00
DAW 333 Cherryh, C.J. THE FADED SUN: SHON'JIR, 4/79, g 2.00
Bal U 5063 Saberhagen, Fred BERSERKER, 1/67, (PBO; linked stories; first in Berserker series), g $1; g-vg 2.00
Baen 87845 Bujold, Lois McMaster MEMORY, 10/97, (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel; space opera at its dramatic best), vg 3.00
Tor 53446 Carver, Jeffrey A. PANGLOR, 7/96, (stunning prequel that launches author's famed Star Rigger Universe), g-vg 2.00
Bantam a 02877 Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. MONUMENT, 5/78, (The terrifying novel about the final battle between a sensual paradise and a death-dealing civilization), vg 2.00
Bantam S5268 Bradbury, Ray A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY, 13th, (stories of wonder, fantasy, and delight; orig: 1959), vg 2.50
Ball 25557 Foster, Alan Dean STAR TREK: Log Nine, 2/77, (PBO; adapted from the animated series created by Gene Roddenberry; BEM, from script by David Gerrold), vg 3.00
Collins, Wilkie TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL, Dover '72, (Selected & introduced by Herbert van Thal), vg 5.00
Sheed, Wilfrid MAX JAMISON, Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana '86, 1st thus, (adds introduction by Jack Kroll; orig: 1970; high comedy on the edge of despair), vg+ 5.00
Grove B-120 Brecht, Bertolt GALILEO, 13th, (Evergreen Black Cat edn; play translated by Charles Laughton; Eric Bentley [ed & intro]), vg 2.00
Monarch 443 Fontenay, Charles THE DAY THE OCEANS OVERFLOWED, 5/64, (PBO; A Handful Of People Fight For Survival Against A Violent Upheaval Of Nature), vg 3.00
Avon V 2411 McIntosh, J.T. FLIGHT FROM REBIRTH, 7/71, (PBO; with the intelligence of a moron, Benny is disqualified for rebirth), vg $2
DAW 420 Cherryh, C.J. DOWNBELOW STATION, 7th, (Hugo Award novel), g-vg 2.00
Bantam T7499 Pedler, Kit & Gerry Davis MUTANT 59: The Plastic Eaters, 2/73, (a biological time bomb), vg 2.00
Berkley 03680 Anderson, Poul THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, 4/78, (The fantasy classic of a modern warrior, an ancient realm of sorcery and a sword that sang of slaying), g-vg 2.00
Berkley S2069 Kelley, Leo P. THE COINS OF MURPH, 10/71, (PBO; For once Mankind made Decisions; now Murph has ordered a change in the ways of Man), g-vg 2.00
Ace G- 766 Hamilton, Edmond STARWOLF #3: World of the Starwolves, ('68), (PBO; stellar adventure featuring Morgan Chane, the Starwolf; epic), vg+ 2.50
Berkley S2101 Lem, Stanislaw SOLARIS, 12/71, (a sentient ocean; translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin & Steve Cox), vg 3.00
Ace sp 65050 Shaw, Bob THE PALACE OF ETERNITY, ('69), (PBO; a novel of man's farthest future), vg 4.00
Ace pb 86064 Saberhagen, Fred THE VEILS OF AZLAROC, 10/78, (PBO; brings together a number of characters from a multitude of different generations as a result of a mysterious physical phenomenon that annually can capture visitors to the planet and makes them prisoners in time), vg 3.00
Penguin 2376 Dick, Philip K. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, '65, (If Germany had defeated Russia..If Japan had beaten the U.S.A....), g-vg (a bit of water damage) 4.00
Manor 12410 Dick, Philip K. NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR, '76, (She had tried other drugs, but JJ180 promised a greater thrill), g-vg 5.00
Rorem, Ned WINGS OF FRIENDSHIP: Selected Letters, 1944-2003, Shoemaker & Hoard ('05), 1st, (texts of self-invention), as new 6.00
Merwin, W.S. SUMMER DOORWAYS, Shoemaker & Hoard ('05), 1st, (tells the story of the poet's youth a few years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952), as new in dj 6.00
Glass, Julia THE WHOLE WORLD OVER, Hutchinson '06, 1st, (another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary complexities of love, by the author of Three Junes; 513 pages), as new in dj 6.00
Merwin, W.S. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: Essays, Shoemaker & Hoard ('04), 1st, (unique journeys by poet, and naturalist, writing at the top of his form), as new in dj 6.00
Raine, Craig T.S. ELIOT, Oxford Lives and Legacies, Oxford '06, 3rd, (brilliant exploration), as new in dj 5.00
Ellroy, James THE BLACK DAHLIA, Mysterious, 6th, (crime masterpiece; afterword by author), remainder mark, as new (but with a few pages mistrimmed) 4.00
Galliono, Rev. Antonio TORTURES AND TORMENTS OF THE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS, Feral House ('04), 1st thus, (new edition inclues historic and contemporary illustrations, and a forensic investigation into the Crucifixion that inspired Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ), as new 6.00
Byron, Robert THE ROAD TO OXIANA, Oxford '07, (first published in 1937; adds 2006 preface by Rory Stewart; certainly the wittiest book, and perhaps the wisest, written in English about Iran), as new 5.00
Conee, Earl & Theodore Sider RIDDLES OF EXISTENCE: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics, Oxford, 3rd, (makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun), as new in dj 7.00
Woodruff, Paul REVERENCE: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue, Oxford, 7th, (An elegant meditation; reveals how awe for things greater than oneself can, and must, be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity; ranges widely over diverse cultural terrain), as new 4.00
Berry, Wendell A CONTINUOUS HARMONY: Essays Cultural and Agricultural, Shoemaker & Hoard ('04), 1st thus, (author's second collection of essays, first published in 1972), as new 4.00
Berry, Wendell THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE, Shoemaker & Hoard '04, (author's first collection of essays, first published in 1969), as new 5.00
DAW 486 Piserchia, Doris THE DIMENSIONEERS, 6/82, (PBO; she had always been able to link minds with an equally weird mutated lion and skip into the worlds of the fourth dimension), vg 2.50
Pyramid T2237 Smith, E.E. "Doc" SKYLARK OF VALERON, 5th(6/70), (Skylark #3; Adventures beyond the Universe - Skylark in a world of four dimensions), vg+ 3.00
Monarch 354 Hatch, Gerald THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE, 6/63, (PBO; Mankind Was Facing A Terrible New Ice Age And No One Knew How To Halt The Deadly Event), vg 3.00
Dell pb 8527 Janifer, Laurence M. POWER, 9/74, (PBO; Earth had grown great - and corrupt; A rebel spaceship - in a gamble that would either save or destroy Empire Earth), vg 2.00
Ace H- 26 Davidson, Avram (ed) THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 13th Series, nd, (stories from 1962-4; Bester, Vance, Ballard, Henderson, Harrison, Davidson, etc.), vg+ 3.00
Del Rey 29696 Silverberg, Robert UP THE LINE, 4th(6/81), (The sensuous time traveler could make love down trough the ages - unless he grew careless along the way), g 2.00
Pocket pb 83296 Anderson, Chester THE BUTTERFLY KID, 8/80, (orig: 1967; When the intergalactic battle begins, the world will be won by wit, imagination and Chester Anderson!), vg-f 15.00

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