Chris Drumm Books

2011-12-18T13:09:00.000-06:00

Another new arrival belatedly cataloged:

WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #17, aut/11, Tarturus, (on Lovecraft, d'Annunzio, Hodder, Bramah, Armour; An Overview of American Decadence; more), new 15.00

book cataloged

2011-11-28T21:36:00.001-06:00

Here's another book I neglected to catalog when if first came in:

Keene, Day DEAD DOLLS DON'T TALK / HUNT THE KILLER / TOO HOT TO HOLD: Three Complete Thrillers, Stark House Mystery Classics, 1st thus, 8/11, (pb originals first published in 1951 & 1959; David Laurence Wilson intro), new 23.95

---I've canceled my standing order with Stark House (too many cheaper copies on Amazon), but not without a degree of regret. The link above is to the publisher's description, here's a link to my covershot of the original pb edition of Dead Girls Don't Talk. Also, I see that I have one for Too Hot to Hold as well.

new arrival

2011-11-23T14:41:00.001-06:00

Book here today:

Hirschhorn-Smith, John (ed) DELICATE TOXINS: A Collection of Strange Tales (An Anthology Inspired by Hanns Heinz Ewers), Side Real '11, 1st, one of 350 numbered copies, (all new tales taking the life, work and cultural milieu of Hanns Heinz Ewers as their inspiration), new no dj as issued (pictorial boards) 50.00 [discount, if any, to be determined when I receive invoice]

Also, this:
SPACE AND TIME #115, fall/11, (Don D'Ammassa, Kim Antieau, Robert Jeschonek; Harry Turtledove interview; etc.), new 5.00 -- on hand too are nos. 114 and 113, not yet cataloged, but not exactly at hand right now. I'm sure they will turn up!

feed fix

2011-11-23T09:29:00.001-06:00

I see that the Locus Blinks feed at the bottom of this page needs to be updated. I haven't been around these premises much lately. I bet plenty more needs to be updated as well. Google tells me this is a popular site -- an assertion that if true actually kind of shames me -- and they want me to join their Adsense program. If it were a cash cow I'm sure I'd do it, but I really don't know what kind of a cow it might be. I doubt cash. So I haven't bothered. Meanwhile I will try to dicker around with this site -- not to add visuals, you can find those everywhere else you look -- but to maybe fix or update links or feeds that have been too long neglected -- and maybe add content sometimes.

Now I've removed the "Shared Items" feed that was here, because that's been phased out by Google. My current "sharings" (read time wastings) can be found as +1s. All my previously shared crap can be downloaded in a handy zip file, openable in a web browser, I assume (i.e. a bunch of tiny .html files) -- if you really get the urge. I haven't, as of yet. Anyone giving it a go, if you select all and then hit "open", let me know what happens -- but don't blame me if a thousand tabs or windows are created. Update: I just tried selecting four and indeed four windows popped open. I guess there's no limit to how many you can open and it would probably be pretty quick, but if you have to close them all by hand one at a time, it might not be a good idea to go the whole hog route.

Long time no post, I know.

2011-11-19T08:57:00.000-06:00

Long time no post, I know. I've been referred to as "the late Chris Drumm" and I can imagine why. I wonder myself sometimes. There's probably plenty to catch up on or try to explain away, but I'd rather start getting in the habit of at least pasting book listings as they occur. I could dump a clump from my new listings document, and maybe I will, but for now, here's the first of what I hope to be several:

Aickman, Rober & Elizabeth Jane Howard WE ARE FOR THE DARK: Six Ghost Stories, Tartarus '11, limited to 350 copies, (three stories each by the two authors; first published in 1951; new intro by R.B. Russell is based on interview with the surviving author; 258+xii pages), new in dj 50.00

And a used book:

Ballantine U6128 Gross, Henry (interviews conducted by...) THE FLOWER PEOPLE, 5/68, (PBO; hippies in NYC's East Village, 1967; 16 pages of photographs), fr-g (decent reading copy) 8.00

I'm also revising/revisiting older listings as the books cross my lap, adding links to covershots. These I hope to be able to remember to paste in my Notes blog that should have a feed below.

document trouble still?

2011-05-06T15:26:00.000-05:00

I've had some problems with the document file for New Arrivals. After I broke it into two pieces, the old one (half as big) seems to make my browser crash using Firefox 4 with my Mac Mini. I don't know how many others may have tried looking at it and had problems, but I copied the text from that document and dropped it into a new one. So far it's opened okay once. Here's the new URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1257E5HZ1dBiqe1xHsVMj-v4M97a_L_2JRcCFa8YbLOA/edit?hl=en. Seems like Google has changed the pagination options, so maybe my documents will show up more successfully now -- but I probably still need to go through and divide them up so they will load better (if at all).

dividing up documents

2011-04-30T17:32:00.004-05:00

new directions / lafferty developments

2011-03-05T07:20:00.000-06:00

Nothing from me here in this space in way too long a time. I know. Nothing much going on, I guess. But I've been thinking about the new directions I find myself going down. I've just about stopped carrying new books. Between Amazon doing a better job than I could do carrying new books from general publishers, and the specialty/small press publishers doing a better job selling direct to customers, often giving better discounts to customers than they do to booksellers, and offering bonus tidbits to direct buyers that booksellers can't offer, I'm thinking I might just cancel the few remaining standing orders I have and even stop doing special orders for new books. There might still be some exceptions in special cases, but I think I will be just about stopping getting in new books -- not that I've been getting in that many for quite a while now. I keep getting in used books (can't help it) -- more than I can manage to catalog -- and I still have a backlog of new books to list. I think if I concentrate on dealing with this material from now on I'll have plenty to keep me going.

Sorry too that I've been less than responsive in many cases to requests for my reminiscences, and contacts, concerning R.A. Lafferty. I've even been dragging my feet filling orders for my own publications, which I still have in stock, albeit in dwindling quantities. My plan is to try to bestir myself to work back through my tasks list for things I should have dealt with long before now. So don't be surprised if you do hear from me, even if you've given up hope.

Meanwhile, there is news to report on the Lafferty front. Yesterday I received an email from the Lafferty Literary Estate. I'll just go ahead and copy it here along with my response to it. Anyone who has been interested in publishing Lafferty themselves (there have been a few of you) -- now might be a good time to let the Estate know of your interest, probably through the Virginia Kidd Agency.

Here goes:

Sent: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 3:46 pm
Subject: Sale of R.A. Lafferty literary rights

Hi Chris,

     I wanted you to be among the first to know that on May 1 the

Lafferty Estate state will sell the rights to the entire literary output

of the science fiction writer, R.A. Lafferty, to the Locus Science

Fiction Foundation for $70,000 plus 50% of any future profit from the

Lafferty rights in excess of $30,000 in any single year.

     If you know of anyone who might be interested in purchasing the

Lafferty literary works on more favorable terms, please have them

contact me at LaffertyEstate or 919-286-9519 and I will

provide additional information to help them decide whether they would

like to make a better offer before May 1.

      As you may know, R.A. Lafferty has received some of the highest

awards for science fiction writing, both in the U.S. (e.g. Hugo, World

Fantasy Lifetime Achievement) and overseas (e.g. the Japanese Seiun

Award), and he continues to have a devoted following.

      This sale will include the rights to approximately 21 published

and 13 unpublished novels, approximately 297 published and 96

unpublished short works such as short stories, essays and poems,

approximately 8 published and 4 unpublished book-length collections of

short works and approximately 24 published trade paperbacks or booklets.

   The complete description of the rights being offered for sale is

contained in my "Letter to Potential Bidders", which I will provide upon

request.

Thank you,

Betsy

Elizabeth Kennington, Executor

The Estate of R.A. Lafferty

1415 Pennsylvania Avenue

Durham, NC 27705

919-286-9519

My reply:

Sounds like a pretty good move. I don't know how it will impact my selling the booklets I still have on hand (in limited numbers), but I'm sure it will be good for getting Lafferty books back in print, plus maybe some of his never-published things finally seeing the light of day. I feel bad I didn't get my little agreement/contract thing written that I promised. I did a first draft and meant to knock it out, but I didn't get it done. Plus I had a royalty check all written, ready to include. So that's been collecting dust [not interest] in my checkbook register all this time. I could add that amount to whatever has accrued in the meantime and send another check out. Where should that go now?
I had been thinking about trying to carry on with the IN A GREEN TREE novels I started, but just couldn't seem to get back to it, much as I want it to be out there. Actually, I'd prefer a more conventional publisher to really do it. Locus will bring an expertise in publishing modes (eBook, on-line, print, POD, etc.) as well as a knowledge of the markets and the sci-fi world that should go a ways toward satisfying what I see as a pent-up demand for Lafferty works.
I've been getting a few inquiries about who and where to contact for reprint/publishing inquiries, and I was wanting to get that info updated before responding -- another thing I've been sitting on doing, and which I feel bad about.
Anyway, it looks like maybe things are taking a good turn for Lafferty readers and enthusiasts. Financially I have no idea if it's as good a deal as you could find -- but it looks to me like it should be a great thing for the Lafferty body of work.
Can I reprint your letter in my blog and forward it to people who might be interested in RAL publishing, as well as my reply here?
Really good to hear from you. I had a draft of an email written that I meant to send weeks/months ago -- but I just seem to put it off. At least now this is something.

Reply from the Estate lawyer (Ned Kennington) who forwarded the email to me from Betsy:

Hi Chris,

It's good to hear from you. Glad to hear that you seem to be doing O.K.

If you want to try to get your contract straightened out with the
Virginia Kidd Agency before the sale to Locus, we are willing to use
what influence we have with the Agency to get them to cut you a fair
deal. You might send me a copy of whatever you send the Agency, if you
want us to put in a good word for you. If you don't get around to doing
it until after the sale, if you can deal with Liza Trombi, she seems to
be a good person who would treat you fairly.

If you want to send royalties, they should go to Virginia Kidd
Agency until the sale (and maybe afterwards if Locus does not change
agents). Let me know if you need an address for them.

Please do let other people know about the sale, including publishing my letter in your blog, if you would like.

Whoever the rights are sold to, I hope that heightened attention to
Lafferty will benefit everyone publishing him.

Take care,

Ned

And my response:

Dear Ned [and Betsy]:
Yeah, I do seem to be doing okay -- at least for a lazy old codger like myself. I will try to hunt down the people who have been wanting to get Lafferty info through me and let them know what's up.
Here's the address I have for Va. Kidd:
The Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.
538 E Harford Street
P.O. Box 278
Milford PA 18337
I assume that's still correct. I'm not sure about the email, but I've made a printout of the agreement I've drafted to send them, so we'll have something in writing. Maybe, I hope.
FYI, here's what I came up with:

TO THE EXECUTORS OF THE R.A. LAFFERTY LITERARY ESTATE and ITS AGENTS:
This is to indicate that I would like to continue with the agreement I originally had with R.A. Lafferty when I published a number of his then-unpublished stories. According to this agreement, I keep track of sales and gave him 25% of gross wholesale sales (or 15% of retail). I still have a number of these booklets that I am still selling, albeit at a trickle pace. But I do still keep track of sales and I will continue paying royalties to the Lafferty Estate. I do not plan to reprint any of the booklets beyond their original print-runs (up to 1000 copies), but I have been keeping a couple titles nominally in print by photo-copy (FOUR STORIES, MY HEART LEAPS UP chapters 1&2, LAUGHING KELLY [the latter two, always a photo-copy production].)
I do not claim to own any reprint rights for any of these stories, and they can be republished as the rights owners see fit without any problems from me. However, if you want to photo-reprint using my (crude but accurate) typesetting, perhaps some recompense might be in order [perhaps in copies of the publication].
I had been undertaking to publish Lafferty’s tetralogy IN A GREEN TREE as a series of booklets, but on reaching one booklet into the second novel it seemed that the project would be better if undertaken by a more conventional publisher -- and one with better marketing and production skills than myself. So I would like to indicate here that I would like to see this project be accomplished, but by someone besides myself, and that I do not retain any claims to it.

Signed: (Chris Drumm)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Virginia Kidd Agency:
Above is what I come up with in terms of an agreement for me to continue selling the Lafferty publications I still have in stock. Sorry it’s taken me so long to get that simple thing accomplished. Additionally, I had a royalty check ready to send with it when I was asked to write up the agreement. I’m not sure I still have the printout of the sales breakdown but I can probably find it somewhere on my computer, if you want it. I will include a printout of sales figures since that unsent check was written and add that amount to the previous amount. Sorry I’m so slipshod, but I do take care to tick off every sale when it occurs and enter it into my spreadsheet.
I hope you are okay with the proposed sale of the rights to Lafferty’s works to Locus Publications. I don’t know how they propose to proceed, but it would seem that it could only help in getting Ray’s great works back in print, and hopefully have some of his unpublished things finally see the light of day.
Let me know how I can be of any assistance, and I hope the continuation of my agreement with Ray as delineated above will be agreeable.

I probably can find a current email address and contact person at Virginia Kidd, but I'd have a ascertain that it is indeed current. Anyone interested, contact me and I'll try to get it for them. Meanwhile, if you want to try to beat out Locus's offer, write to LaffertyEstate. I will try to do a better job responding to people, and try to catch up on the responses I've been tardy with.

I know. I know. I know.

2010-07-08T13:36:00.003-05:00

I've been horrid about answering emails, posting to blog, etc. etc. etc. It's not advertant that's for sure. Me getting old and lazy? No excuse. I'm just good at putting things off. And putting them off. Seemingly forever. But I am trying to mend my ways. Problem is everything doesn't happen all at once. I can take care of one thing but that still leaves 99 more things I'm still leaving let slide. I don't like to be proclaiming intentions -- rather be just getting things done. Too often I don't follow through on things I say will do. I know this makes me kind of crumby person to deal with. But like I say, I'm trying to mend my ways. If you are someone who thinks I've totally forgotten about them, you are probably wrong, despite how it seems. I'm trying to work toward getting to you, but you can still send me a message to let me know you are still waiting on me -- it might even get me stirring in the right direction.

word from Ash-Tree Press

2010-03-11T19:24:00.002-06:00

No sooner do I post the grab-bag list of latest-cataloged books than I hear from Ash-Tree (in the form of invoice pdfs) that two new titles are now on the way here:
EXOTIC GOTHIC 3 and PIECES OF MIDNIGHT

latest book listings

2010-03-11T19:12:00.004-06:00

Let's see how many new listings I may have managed since last time I dragged some over here from my New Arrivals listings.
---Here are the new books (in order of cataloging):

Valentine, Mark & John Howard THE COLLECTED CONNOISSEUR, Tartarus '10, 1st thus, (collects all the adventures of the aesthetical detective extraordinaire from two previous Tartarus volumes, along with four further tales published elsewhere), new 25.00
TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED #30, '10, (The Anthology of TOTU Ink; Arnason, Dedman, Hood, Bowne, Russo, Mingin, Sanford, Lundoff, etc.; featuring the art of Jules Hart; 134 pages), new 14.95
SPACE AND TIME #110, spr/10, (The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction; Richard Parks, Josepha Sherman, Darrell Schweitzer, Chet Gottfried), new 5.00
Oppenheim, E. Phillips THE AMAZING JUDGMENT / MR. LAXWORTHY'S ADVENTURES, Stark House Mystery Classics, 12/09, 1st edn thus, (collects two novels first published in 1897 & 1913 by one of the originators of the thriller genre; Daniel Paul Morrison intro), new 19.95
Zelazny, Roger THE COLLECTED STORIES OF…, Volume 5: Nine Black Doves, NESFA, 12/09, 1st edn, (Melinda Snodgrass & George R.R. Martin intros; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
Zelazny, Roger THE COLLECTED STORIES OF…, Volume 6: The Road to Amber, NESFA, 12/09, 1st edn, (Lindkold, Hausman & Dozois intros; 591 pages), new in dj 29.00
Bellairs, John MAGIC MIRRORS: The High Fantasy and Low Parody of..., NESFA, 7/09, 1st edn, (collects author's adult fantasy and humor), new in dj 25.00
Blish, James FLIGHTS OF EAGLES: Selected Fiction, NESFA, 10/09, 1st edn, (collects Jack of Eagles, Welcome to Mars, Get Out of My Sky & four short stories; 455 pages), new in dj 29.00
Anderson, Poul THE COLLECTED SHORT WORKS OF…, Volume 2: The Queen of Air and Darkness, NESFA, 9/09, 1st edn, (Resnick intro; 503 pages), new in dj 29.00
Del Rey, Lester SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF…, Volume 1: War and Space, NESFA, 8/09, 1st edn, (Pohl intro; 572 pages), new in dj 29.00
WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #13, aut/09, Tartarus, (on Shiel, Aickman, Pendarves, Maupassant; a play by Maupassant; Stableford's "The Decadent World-View"), new 15.00

[just about all the above are subject to 20% discount; Tartarus titles are 15%]

---And the used books:

Strunk, William, Jr. & E.B. White THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE: Third Edition, Allyn and Bacon, 2nd('96), (With Revisions, an Introduction and a Chapter on Writing by E.B. White; index), vg-f 2.50
Maddy, Yulisa Amadu NO PAST, NO PRESENT, NO FUTURE, Heinemann/African Writers Series '96, (coming-of-age novel that vividly exposes the imperial legacy), vg-f 5.00
Shea, Lisa HULA, Delta, 4/95, (a novel; secret life of little girls hurtling out of childhood; winner of the Whiting Writers' Award), vg-f 3.00
DAW 958 Lackey, Mercedes STORM WARNING, 21st, (The Mage Storms #1), vg+ 2.00
DAW 1035 Lackey, Mercedes STORM BREAKING, 17th, (The Mage Storms #3; ancient magic), vg-f 2.50
Verdelle, A.J. THE GOOD NEGRESS, HarperPerennial, 3rd('96), (a stunning debut), vg-f 3.00
Gilb, Dagoberto THE LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE OF MICKEY ACUNA, Grove Press '95, 1st pb edn, (a bleak fable of a low-rent outlaw on the lam from someone who may only be himself; a 1994 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year), vg-f 5.00
Tor 34102 Niven, Larry RINGWORLD'S CHILDREN, 4/05, (the fourth Ringworld novel), vg+ 2.00
Vonnegut, Kurt PLAYER PIANO, Delta, 5th, (totally automated American society of the future; author's first novel), vg 6.00
Donaldson, Stephen R. THE RUNES OF THE EARTH: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Ace, 9/05, (epic fantasy; glossary; map; 533 pages), vg 6.00
Ace 01217 McDevitt, Jack A TALENT FOR WAR, 7th, (Alex Benedict #1; military SF), vg-f 4.00
Hyperion 8966 Pearson, Ridley THE FIRST VICTIM, nd, 1st mass-market printing, (Lou Boldt is back and entering dark new territory; gripping police thriller), vg 2.00
Del Rey 49160 Moon, Elizabeth COMMAND DECISION, '08, (Vatta's War #4; jaunty far-future romp), vg+ 3.00
Ballantine 41762 Crichton, Michael TIMELINE, 6th, (futuristic quantum technology kicks into reverse), vg-f 2.00
Pocket 41033 McBain, Ed FAT OLLIE'S BOOK, 12/03, (87th Precinct novel; mystery), vg 2.00
Vance, Jack LURULU, Tor, 12/04, 1st edn, (sequel to Ports of Call), vg-f in dj 10.00
Steinmeyer, Jim CHARLES FORT: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher/Penguin ('08), 1st, (seminal biography of one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana), remainder mark, vg-f in dj 10.00
Roszak, Theodore FLICKER, Chicago Review Press '05, 1st thus, (expanded edition, featuring never-before-seen documents excluded from the original edition; the perfect film buff's novel; 608 pages), vg+ 8.00
Rennison, Nick SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Unauthorized Biography, Atlantic Monthly Press '06, 1st US edn, (a fine addition to the canon and a flawless melding of scholarship with fiction), vg-f in dj 8.00
Westfahl, Gary (ed) SCIENCE FICTION QUOTATIONS: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits, Yale '05, 1st, (massive, comprehensive; Arthur C. Clarke foreword; 461 pages), vg-f 15.00
Reese, James THE DRACULA DOSSIER, Morrow '08, 1st edn, (suspense novel; Bram Stoker vs. Jack the Ripper), remainder mark, vg+ in dj 5.00
Anderson, Poul THE VAN RIJN METHOD, Baen, 9/08, 1st thus, (The Technic Civilization Saga #1; collects The Man Who Counts plus ten more stories; Miesel chronology; compiled by Hank Davis), vg in dj 8.00
Coblentz, Stanton A. THE SUNKEN WORLD, FPCI '48, 1st edn, (Charles E. McCurdy illus), vg (no dj) 15.00
Onions, Oliver COLLECTED GHOST STORIES, Dover, nd (©'71), (689 pages), Peter Smith binding, vg+ (no dj) 15.00
Forster, E.M. THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS and Other Stories, snowbooks, nd, ("A Collector's Edition -- Includes the First Short Story E.M. Forster Ever Wrote"), vg-f in dj 6.00
Bantam 14801 McCauley, Kirby (ed) DARK FORCES: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror, 12/81, (the most important horror collection of 1980; includes a terrorizing new novel "The Mist" by Stephen King; 539 pages), vg 3.50
Ballantine 449K Wyndham, John TROUBLE WITH LICHEN, ('60), (PBO; Suppose you could offer a life span of 300 years), vg-f 6.00
Ballantine Adult Fantasy 02279 Beckford, William VATHEK, 6/71, (The History of the Caliph Including The Episodes of Vathek with the Original Notes: An Arabian Tale; Lin Carter intro), vg+ 8.00
Powers, Tim THREE DAYS TO NEVER, Morrow '06, 1st, (A hurricane blowing away the stale postmodern sensibility of most fiction [according to Dean Koontz' blurb]; A pulse-pounding adventure that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural), vg-f in dj $10
Verne, Jules AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields), Mondial ('06), POD edn, (a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; translated by Cashel Hoey), vg-f 10.00
Rux, Bruce ARCHITECTS OF THE UNDERWORLD: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx, Frog ('96), (UFOs/Conspiracy; index; 518 pages), vg-f 7.50
Dell 11120 Heller, Joseph CATCH-22, new edn(8th), (an apocalyptic masterpiece), vg 3.00
Collier 17616 Wolfe, Thomas LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL: A Story of the Buried Life, 6th, (A Scribner Classic), vg-f 3.00
Spectra 57331 Stephenson, Neal THE DIAMOND AGE or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, 13th, (vividly evokes a future that barely survives a nanotech revolution), vg+ 3.00
Tor 50925 Card, Orson Scott XENOCIDE, 12th, (Ender #3), vg+ 2.00
Signet 18394 King, Stephen DIFFERENT SEASONS, 35th, (The Shawshank Redemption movie tie), vg-f 3.00
Ace 01375 McDevitt, Jack SEEKER, 3rd, (classy riff on the familiar lost-colony theme), vg-f 3.00
Avon Eos 05427 McDevitt, Jack ETERNITY ROAD, 8th, (deeply imagined America of the future), vg-f 3.00
Benford, Gregory THE GALACTIC CENTER SERIES: In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, Tides of Light, Furious Gulf & Sailing Bright Eternity, Warner Aspect '04-05, various printings, six uniform mass-market paperback books, (what now should be acknowledged as the most important and involving hard SF series yet written), vg or better, the six-volume set 25.00
Boyd, Blanche McCrary THE REVOLUTION OF LITTLE GIRLS, Vintage Contemporaries, 7th, (a hilarious feminist road map...so funny that we laugh out loud), vg-f 4.00
Brite, Poppy Z. EXQUISITE CORPSE, Simon & Schuster '96, 1st, (a novel; treats the dead human body like a communion wafer), vg+ in dj $8
Dalai Lama, His Holiness the… & Howard C. Cutler, M.D. THE ART OF HAPPINESS: A Handbook for Living, Riverhead '98, 66th, (automatically opening your inner door), vg-f in dj 6.00
Baker, Nicholson VOX, Vintage Contemporaries, 4th, (graphic, playfully erotic novel), vg+ 4.00
Leyner, Mark TOOTH IMPRINTS ON A CORN DOG, Vintage Contermporaries, 2nd, (adds two pieces not in the hardcover edition; a triumph of subversive comedy and wild style), vg-f $6
Oates, Joyce Carol HAUNTED: Tales of the Grotesque, Plume, 2/95, (presents horror that is both intellectual and visceral), vg-f 10.00
Del Rey 40562 Turtledove , Harry THE GREAT WAR: American Front, 6th, (first in series; the definitive alternate history saga of its time), vg-f 2.00
Bantam 58826 Koontz, Dean FOREVER ODD, 11/06, (Odd Thomas #2; nice young fry cook with the occult powers), vg+ 2.50
Bantam 58910 Koontz, Dean BROTHER ODD, 11/07, (Odd Thomas #3; supernatural thrills with a side of laughs), vg+ 2.50
Ace 01210 McDevitt, Jack OMEGA, 4th, (in world of The Engines of God; hard SF problem-solving; winner of John W. Campbell Award), vg 3.00
Sun Tzu THE ART OF WAR, Shambhala Dragon Editions '88, 5th, (Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership; translated by Thomas Cleary), vg 4.00
Adams, Douglas THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, Picador (Australia) '05, 1st thus, (film tie-in edition; adds photos plus an additional 100+ pages, including an afterword by executive producer Robbie Stamp), vg-f 6.00

[these are eligible for 10% discount]

Ash-Tree Press

2010-02-27T14:53:00.002-06:00

I haven't heard from Ash-Tree in a while, not since they said EXOTIC GOTHIC 3 would be shipping several weeks ago. I think they have a few titles coming out for the World Horror Convention next month in the UK, so it's quite possible they are holding off shipping me anything until they have some other titles on the verge of publication to send too. It wouldn't be the first time, and I don't mind the wait. But I'm sure everything will be coming along eventually.
Here's a paste from their Facebook page:

And to round off the hat-trick of current preparations for World Horror in Brighton, here's the jacket for Simon Kurt Unsworth's LOST PLACES collection. Photography by Wendy Unsworth (I think), and Jacket design by Jason Van Hollander.

Ash-Tree Press More preparations for World Horror in Brighton. Here's the jacket for Gary McMahon's collection PIECES OF MIDNIGHT. Jacket Art by Keith Minnion. Jacket design by Jason Van Hollander.

Ash-Tree Press We're preparing for World Horror in Brighton in March. Here's the exciting jacket for Lawrence C. Connolly's new collection, THIS WAY TO EGRESS, which we'll have with us. Jacket art is by Jason Zerrillo. Jacket design is by Jason Van Hollander

PS Publishing upcoming titles

2010-02-27T14:49:00.003-06:00

Just heard from PS Publishing and here's a list of upcoming titles, if anyone wants me to add any of these to my order. I will only be getting what I know I am selling, so chances are I won't be having any of these in my catalog. Discount is still 20%:

STANZA PRESS http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/STANZA_PRESS.html

OFF THE COASTAL PATH (£15)

NOT QUITE ATLANTIS (£12)

HALLOWEEN IN A SUBURB (£12)

SONG OF THE NECROMANCER (£12)

THE SINGER IN THE MIST (£12)

PS ARTBOOKS http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/PS_ART_BOOKS.html

TOMORROW REVISITED bookshop edition (£29.99)

TOMORROW REVISITED slipcased edition (£69.99)

TOMORROW REVISITED traycased edition (£295)

PS TITLES http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/forthcoming_titles.html

First, the two late-comers:

EDISON'S FRANKENSTEIN (Postscripts # 20/21) -- traycased signed edition (£30)

THE NIGHT CACHÉ -- signed edition (£15)

Now the titles expected during March:

A WEB OF BLACK WIDOWS unsigned edition (£12)

A WEB OF BLACK WIDOWS signed edition (£25)

ONE FOR THE ROAD slipcased signed edition (£175)

ONE FOR THE ROAD unsigned edition (£75)

HORNS slipcased signed edition (£75) (Please note that the traycased edition is

"sold out" prior to publication: if you've ordered copies already then that's fine)

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE unsigned edition (£20)

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE traycased signed edition (£50)

LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT unsigned edition (£20)

LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT slipcased single-signature edition (£50)

LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT traycased two-signature edition (£95)

ESCHER'S LOOPS unsigned edition (£20)

ESCHER'S LOOPS traycased signed edition (£50)

BLACK WINGS unsigned edition (£25)

BLACK WINGS traycased signed edition (£60)

WHAT WILL COME AFTER unsigned edition (£15)

WHAT WILL COME AFTER traycased signed edition (£35)

PELICAN CAY unsigned edition (£25)

PELICAN CAY traycased and multiple-signature edition (£60)

DARKNESS, MIST & SHADOW VOL 1 unsigned edition (£35)

DARKNESS, MIST & SHADOW VOL 2 unsigned edition (£35)

DARKNESS, MIST & SHADOW slipcased and multiple-signature two-book set (£100)

LITERARY REMAINS unsigned edition (£15)

LITERARY REMAINS traycased signed edition (£35)

THE SORCERER'S HOUSE single-signature edition (£37.50)

THE SORCERER'S HOUSE slipcased two-signature edition (£75)

computer, computer

2010-02-18T15:03:00.002-06:00

I'm in the process right now of shifting over to a new computer, since the one I'd been using did not have an advanced enough system to run an advanced enough browser to run the advancing Google Docs where I park my catalog data for all to see who might care to...by the way, are the file sizes of these ever too big to browse around in easily with the computers you all might be using?
At any rate, the new computer, a Mac Mini using my old Viewsonic monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse, looks like it is up to speed. Now I need to get there too. Or I need to figure out how to dumb-down some of the features I'm finding myself trying to grapple with, so that I can keep doing things about the way was doing them before. The biggest hurdle right now: printing mailing labels. Probably dead simple, but that probably won't make it any easier.

more newly cataloged books

2009-12-22T16:55:00.003-06:00

Well, I haven't been doing a very good job of cataloging five books a day and religiously adding the listings here -- not even the first day I resolved it. Nevertheless, here's what I've managed since last posting:

RECENTLY ARRIVED NEW BOOKS [scroll down for recently-arrived used books]:
Parker, Rosalie (ed) STRANGE TALES: Volume III, Tartarus '09, 1st, (seventeen brand new stories, representing the very best of contemporary weirdness, ranging from the mythical terror of Adam Golaski's 'The Great Blind God Passing Through Us', to John Gaskin's assured ghost story, 'Party Talk', in which an elderly lady tells her disturbing tale), new in dj 50.00
POSTSCRIPTS: The A to Z of Fantastic Fiction #14, PS, spr/08, one of 200 copies SIGNED by 11 participants (this copy with number line blank), new no dj as issued (pictorial boards) 50.00
Walton, Jo SIBYLS & SPACESHIPS, NESFA, 2/09, 1st edn, one of 250 copies, (poetry chapbook; includes a section of works commissioned for the John M. Ford Endowment Fund, Jo's entertaining Nigerian Spam poems, "Three Bears Norse," and dozens more of her works addressing subjects both timeless and topical), 46-page booklet, new 12.00
Walton, Jo LIFELODE, NESFA, 2/09, 1st trade edn, #457 of 800 copies, (this Boskone 46 Guest of Honor book is a unique fantasy novel; Sharyn November intro), new in dj 25.00

USED BOOKS (and earlier new-book listings):
Tor 51371 Jordan, Robert THE DRAGON REBORN, 15th, (Wheel of Time 3; sequel to The Great Hunt; 701 pages), vg 3.00
Tor 52047 Bear, Greg EON, 13th, (hard SF epic), vg $2
Tor 52481 Bear, Greg LEGACY, 6/96, (prequel to Eon), vg $3
Adams, Douglas DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, BBC Radio ('07), Full-Cast Dramatization, (audio book), 3 CDs (3 hrs 40 min), discs look fine, generally vg+ in paper box 12.00
Arnold, Matthew ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Second Series, Macmillan (London), Eversley Series, 10th('08) [1908], (the last volume the author put together, and it contains some of his ripest, best, most interesting writing; on the study of poetry, Milton, Thomas Gray, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Tolstoi, and Amiel), g-vg 6.00

order out to nesfa

2009-12-18T07:12:00.002-06:00

Just sent off an order to NESFA Press. Should have in hand before not too long:

ZELAZNY 5
ZELAZNY 6
ANDERSON 2 (again)
DEL REY 1 (again)
1 BELLAIRS
BLISH 2

[discount: 20%, as usual]

books cataloged over the past few weeks (months)

2009-12-17T12:46:00.002-06:00

This same information can be found in my new arrivals document, but I'll copy it here for possible extra exposure:

RECENTLY ARRIVED NEW BOOKS (or recently cataloged, anyway)
[scroll down for recently-arrived used and books]:
Shepard, Lucius THE BEST OF LUCIUS SHEPARD, Subterranean '08, 1st edn, (author's first ever career retrospective collection; 623 pages), new in dj 40.00
Živkovic, Zoran IMPOSSIBLE STORIES II, PS, 8/09, #79 of 100 SIGNED copies, (collects five more works of sharp, mind-bending prose; translated from the Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic), SLIPCASED, new in dj 82.50
TALEBONES #39, win/09, (regrettably, the magazine's final issue), new 7.00
Delany, Samuel R. DARK REFLECTIONS, Running Press, 2nd, (beautifully crafted novel and an extraordinary meditation on deformed social attitudes), as new (but bumped) 5.00
Pronzini, Bill & Martin H. Greenberg (eds) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PRIVATE EYE STORIES, Carroll & Graf '04, (revised edition; first published in 1988; 528 pages), as new 6.00
SPACE AND TIME #109, win/09, (The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction; Dennis Danvers, C.J. Henderson, Alma Alexander, etc.), new 5.00
Burnett, W.R. IT'S ALWAYS FOUR O'CLOCK / IRON MAN, Stark House Noir Classics, 11/09, 1st thus, (collects psychological study of a boxer and an experimental jazz novel from 1956 & 1958; David Laurence Wilson intro), new 19.95
Williamson, Jack GATEWAY TO PARADISE: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six, Haffner '08, 1st trade edn, (includes Reign of Wizardry; full of rarities and classics; foreword by Frederik Pohl; 573 pages), new in dj 40.00
CEMETERY DANCE #62, '09, (The Magazine of Horror and Suspense; William Peter Blatty Special Issue; tales of terror by Raisor, Morrell, Goodfellow, Southard; Part Two of a New Novella by Douglas Clegg), new 5.00
Hamilton, Edmond THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON Volume One: THE METAL GIANTS and Others, Haffner '09, 1st edn, (Robert Weinberg intro; 695 pages), new in dj 40.00
Hamilton, Edmond THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON Volume Two: THE STAR-STEALERS: The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol, Haffner '09, 1st edn, (Authorized Edition; Walter Jon Williams intro; Stephen Haffner [ed]; 755 pages), new in dj 40.00
Carlson, Eric Stener THE SAINT PERPETUUS CLUB OF BUENOS AIRES, Tartarus Contemporary Fiction '09, 1st edn, (a secret society that holds the key to the salamanca, the cave where the Devil grants all wishes . . . for a price), new in dj 45.00
WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #13, aut/09, Tartarus, (on Shiel, Aickman, Pendarves, Maupassant; a play by Maupassant; Stableford's "The Decadent World-View"), new 15.00
NOT ONE OF US #42, 10/09, John Benson, (stories and poems outside the norm; explores "otherness" from every fictional angle; the "communication" issue; Patricia Russo, etc.), 52-page booklet, new 4.50
Irving, Washington THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW and Other Stories, Tartarus '09, limited to 300 copies, (This volume is the first to assemble all of Washington Irving's short stories in the supernatural genre, and the impressive array of work on offer makes Irving a worthy pioneer of the American weird tradition; Joshi intro; 404 + xi pages), new in dj 60.00
Zelazny, Roger THE COLLECTED STORIES OF…, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain, NESFA, 7/09, 1st edn, (Gaiman and Hartwell intros; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
Zelazny, Roger THE COLLECTED STORIES OF…, Volume 4: Last Exit to Babylon, NESFA, 7/09, 1st edn, (Haldeman and Brust intros; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00

USED BOOKS (and earlier new-book listings):
Penguin Classics 4327 Zola, Emile LA BETE HUMAINE, 9th, (one of author's most violent and pessimistic novels; translated with an introduction by Leonard Tancock), fr-g 1.50
Penzler, Otto (ed) DANGEROUS WOMEN, Book Club ('05), (Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers), as new in dj 5.00
Pocket pb 64049 Bonanno, Margaret Wander STAR TREK®: Strangers from the Sky, 7/87, (PBO; the second giant Star Trek novel), vg $3; vg+ 3.50
Harvest 655141 Simenon, Georges MAIGRET'S RIVAL, '84, (mystery; vintage Maigret; translated by Helen Thomson), vg+ 2.50
Berkley N2737 Edmondson, G.C. THE ALUMINUM MAN, 1/75, (PBO; A disillusioned scientist, an angry Indian, and a beautiful girl set out to end civilization), vg-f 3.00
DAW 149 Stableford, Brian M. SWAN SONG, 5/75, (PBO; Star-Pilot Grainger #6), vg+ 2.00
Tor 54308 Klaper, Steven AGENTS OF INSIGHT, 10/86, (PBO; psi spies), vg+ $2
Tor 53616 Drake, David BRIDGEHEAD, 2/86, (PBO; time transport to stop war and save a peaceful future), vg-f 2.50
Tor 53475 Dalmas, John THE WALKAWAY CLAUSE, 10/86, (PBO; He's a professional assassin for the Galactic Confederation -- His mission was to kill a king), vg-f 2.50
Pocket 80775 Elwood, Roger (ed) VISIONS OF TOMORROW, 11/76, (PBO; An interstellar collection from the luminaries of S-F -- great tales spanning 150 years of speculative fiction), vg+ 2.50
Pocket 83155 Dozois, Gardner R. & Jack M. Dann (eds) ALIENS!, 4/80, (PBO; interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan), vg-f 3.00
DAW 408 Lee, Tanith DAY BY NIGHT, 11/80, (PBO; The planet did not rotate [or maybe it rotated once per orbit?]), vg+ 3.00
DAW 100 Farmer, Philip José HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR, 4/74, (PBO; In Tarzan's Africa -- 12,000 years ago!), vg+ 5.00
DAW 230 Stableford, Brian M. CRITICAL THRESHOLD, 2/77, (PBO; The second landing of the DAEDALUS mission), vg 2.00
Spectra 26411 Estes, Rose SAGA OF THE LOST LANDS #1: Blood of the Tiger, 12/87, (PBO; When giants roamed the earth; fantasy), vg+ 3.00
Pocket 80490 Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle INFERNO, 5/76, (PBO; One hell of a book), vg-f 4.00
Ace 24086 Drake, David & Bill Fawcett (eds) THE FLEET #1, 5/88, (PBO; In the far reaches of space they ar mankind's last line of defense against alien forces; Featuring...Poul Anderson, Gary Gygax, Margaret Weis and Others!; original stories),vg-f 3.00
Tor 48039 Houston, David & Len Wein SWAMP THING, 4/82, (PBO; novelization of Wes Craven film), vg-f 3.00
Questar 20537 Butler, Octavia WILD SEED, 12/88, (A Patternist novel), g-vg 2.50
Pocket 77718 Russell, John Robert CABU, 4/74, (PBO; dark, primitive world, where to be "only human" was to be the highest form of life), vg+ 2.50
Ballantine 24062 Rotsler, William PATRON OF THE ARTS, 7/74, (PBO; He owned the sensatron -- and it could kill him!), vg (small price sticker) 2.50
Ace 09019 O'Riordan, Robert CADRE LUCIFER, 5/87, (PBO; The Exciting Sequel to Cadre One; Nobody's safe when the most ruthless cop in the galaxy turns renegade), vg-f 2.00
Berkley N2781 Hughes, Zach THE STORK FACTOR, 3/75, (PBO; A genetic-control system enslaves America -- until a freedom-fighter is born with the powers of PSI!), vg+ (small price sticker) 2.00
Pageant 00645 Chandler, Bryn EVE'S RIB, 1/89, (PBO; Genesis was the perfect planet to raise a new crop of exo-children, genetically bred outside the womb to meet the needs of society), vg-f (teeny-tiny cover crease) 2.50
DAW 182 Swann, Thomas Burnett THE MINIKINS OF YAM, 2/76, (PBO; neo-romantic fantasy set in ancient Egypt), vg-f 3.00
Tor 53477 Dalmas, John THE VARKAUS CONSPIRACY, 2nd, (How do you stop an invasion of supermen?), vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 47420 Farmer, Philip José THE LAVALITE WORLD, 12/77, (PBO; Tiers #5), vg+ 4.00
DAW 166 Carter, Lin (ed) THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES, 10/75, (PBO; Howard, Vance, Leiber, etc.), vg-f 5.00
Pinnacle 40184 Farmer, Philip José JESUS ON MARS, 9/79, (PBO; religion-themed SF), vg 5.00
Ace pb 06226 Berry, Stephen Ames THE BIOFAB WAR, 5/84, (PBO; Earth has been invaded! The problem is nobody knows it!), vg+ 2.00
Faw GM M3188 Bryant, Edward & Harlan Ellison PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES, 2/75, (PBO; A Novel of the Starlost; 2785 A.D.; adapted from the award-winning script by Harlan Ellison), vg 3.00
Pocket 80954 Dvorkin, David THE CHILDREN OF SHINY MOUNTAIN, 4/77, (PBO; A space-age hero betrays his own planet to save the once-great Earth!), vg+ 3.00
Faw Pr P635 Hoskins, Robert (ed) WONDERMAKERS 2, 2/74, (PBO; offers a broad view of science fiction's development over the past two decades), vg-f 3.50
DAW 394 Clayton, Jo STAR HUNTERS: A Novel of the Diadem, 7/80, (PBO), vg+ 2.50
Faw GM Q3529 Sargent, Pamela CLONED LIVES, 6/76, (PBO; 2000 A.D.-2037 A.D.: The biological time bomb has exploded and a new breed of human has taken shape), vg+ 4.00
Signet E9562 Parke, Chauncey G., III THE VISITOR, 2/81, (PBO; the ultimate nightmare; a novel that will gnaw your nerves to the screaming core), vg+ 2.00
Tor 48531 Cohen, Barney & Jim Baen THE TAKING OF SATCON STATION, 7/82, (PBO; once Queen of the Skies, she's an aging hulk now, an orbiting Chinatown), vg+ 1.75
DAW 209 Chester, William L. KIOGA OF THE WILDERNESS, 9/76, (One of the really great classics of lost-land adventure; first published in 1936), vg-f 4.00
Pocket 81888 Daniels, Max THE SPACE GUARDIAN, 8/78, (PBO; A fantasy quest to the heart of the universe!), vg-f 2.50
Tor 53906 Greenleaf, William CLARION, 10/88, (PBO; fanatical cult on lost planet), vg-f 2.50
DAW 167 Defontenay, C.I. STAR (Psi Cassiopeia), 10/75, (first published in 1854; The first epic novel of interstellar civilaztion, rediscovered for today's readers; translated from French by P.J. Sokolowski; Pierre Versins intro), vg-f 4.00
Ace pb 24087 Drake, David & Bill Fawcett (eds) THE FLEET #2: Counterattack, 12/88, (PBO; original stories; They're making the galaxy safe...one world at a time; Featuring...Piers Anthony, Janet Morris, Christopher Stasheff and others!), vg-f 3.00
Pocket 82080 Dvorkin, David THE GREEN GOD, 3/79, (PBO; a planet where the grass is yellow and the people green, and a con man is mistaken for a returning messiah), vg-f 3.00
Onyx 40109 Strickland, Brad SHADOWSHOW, 12/88, (PBO; Athaniel Badon didn't warn the men, women and teenagers who streamed into the ShadowShow that it was themselves they would see acting out the horrors on the screen), vg-f 3.00
Morrow, James THE LAST WITCHFINDER, Harper Perennial '07, 1st thus, (adds P.S. Insights, Interviews & More...; richly detailed, cerebral tale about the clash between Renaissance theology and Enlightenment science, set in late-17th-century London and colonial New England; 525+18 pages), remainder mark, vg+ 6.00
Atwood, Margaret ALIAS GRACE, Anchor, 12th, (historical novel about one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century), vg 3.00
Dell pb 22268 Coben, Harlan FADE AWAY, 9th, (A Myron Bolitar Novel; Edgar Award winner), vg 2.50
Irving, Washington THE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING, Vol. 3: A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada / Newstead Abbey / Abbotsford, Co-Operative Publication Society, nd, frontis, (576 pages), g-vg (hinge starting, but a solid copy, cheap paper tanned but not brown) 6.00
Woollcott, Alexander (ed) WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER, Viking, 3rd(3/38), (another tour of certain bypaths compiled by NY Times and New Yorker critic; 1056 pages), vg (no dj) 8.00
Valin, Jonathan LIFE'S WORK, Delacorte '86, 1st, (A Harry Stoner Novel; hard-boiled but high-minded detective tackles football players in Cincinnati), vg in dj 4.00
Landolfi, Tommaso WORDS IN COMMOTION and Other Stories, Viking '86, 1st, (Kathrine Jason [trans & ed]; Italo Calvino intro), remainder mark, vg-f in dj 10.00
Beaton, M.C. INTRODUCING AGATHA RAISIN, St. Martin's Minotaur, 10/08, 1st pb thus, (mystery; collects the first two book in series, The Quiche of Death and The Vicious Vet), vg-f 4.00
Behrman, S.N. THE TALLEY METHOD: A Play in Three Acts, Random House ('41), 1st, (adult, amusing and absorbing), g-vg in fr-g dj (about a six-inch tear at flap fold) 5.00
Presidio/Ballantine 887 Murray, Simon LEGIONNAIRE: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion, 4th, (compelling firsthand account), vg+ 2.50
Wilson, Angus ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES, St. Martin's, pre-5/23/96, ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS, (satirical novel first published in 1956; author's most popular work), vg 6.00
Hartwell, David G. (ed) THE SCIENCE FICTION CENTURY, Tor, 11/97, 1st edn, (absolutely a major anthology, with some gems you aren't too likely to come across in other places; 1005 pages), vg (no dj) 5.00
Burnshaw, Stanley ROBERT FROST HIMSELF, Braziller, 3rd(8/89), (invaluable biography), vg 3.00
Smith, Martin Cruz HAVANA BAY, Random House '99, 1st edn, (fourth Arkady Renko mystery), vg-f in dj 3.00
Jordan, Judy CAROLINA GHOST WOODS: Poems, LSU '00, 1st, (startling first collection of poems), vg-f in dj 5.00
Shapiro, Karl SELECTED POEMS, Random House '68, 1st, (big volume -- containing over two hundred poems -- represents author's own generous selections from seven collections; in addition, there are 25 previously uncollected poems), vg in g-vg dj 10.00
Wells, H.G. JOAN AND PETER: The Story of an Education, Macmillan, 9/18, 1st (US), vg 10.00
Amado, Jorge HOME IS THE SAILOR: The Whole Truth Concerning the Redoubtful Adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, Master Mariner, Knopf ‘64, First American Edition [stated], (rests on a kind of philosophical or metaphysical background; translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis), vg+ in fr-g dj (with word "redoubtful" circled in pencil -- no other vocabulary words seen to be circled in text of book) 10.00
Feist, Raymond E. RAGE OF A DEMON, Avon, 4/97, 1st, (Serpentwar Saga #3; Finally, ultimate war has come to the Kingdom -- and all life is in peril), vg-f in dj 5.00
DeLillo, Don LIBRA, Book Club ('88), (novel; Lee Harvey Oswald is protagonist), trade pb, vg-f 3.00
Carter, Angela BURNING YOUR BOATS: The Collected Short Stories, John Macrae/Holt '96, 1st US edn, (gathers together four published books -- Firworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus & American Ghosts and Old World Wonders -- with early work and uncollected stories; Salman Rushdie intro; 462 pages), remainder mark, vg+ in dj 10.00
Updike, John ODD JOBS: Essays and Criticism, Knopf '91, First Edition [stated], (author's fourth collection of non-fictional prose; 920 pages), vg in dj 15.00
Haggard, H. Rider ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE ICE GODS: A Tale of Beginnings, Wildside Fantasy Classics, 4/02, (fourth and final volume in Allan Quatermain saga), remainder mark (?), vg+ 8.00
Zahn, Timothy THE COBRA TRILOGY, Baen, 6/06, 1st pb, (first unified publication; previously appeared in parts as Cobra, Cobra Strike and Cobra Bargain; 836 pages), vg+ 10.00
DeLillo, Don UNDERWORLD, Scribner '97, 1st, (an aria and a wolf-whistle of our half century; 827 pages), vg-f in dj 10.00
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (eds) HOLT ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 7th('02), (middle-school text book; anthologizes some good stories), vg-f 3.00
Milne, A.A. THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, Book Club, nd, (The complete When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six; full color illustrations by E.H. Shepard), vg-f 5.00
Bellow, Saul SEIZE THE DAY, Penguin Classics, 2nd, (Cynthia Ozick intro; 114 pages), vg-f 4.00
Southern, Terry THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, Grove Press, 4th('02), (A satire of America's obsession with bigness, toughness, money, TV, guns, and sex), vg-f 5.00
Warren, Robert Penn ALL THE KING'S MEN, Harvest/Harcourt Brace, 12th, (the definitive novel about American politics; With a foreword to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Joseph Blotner; 439 pages), vg-f 4.00
Roth, Philip THE COUNTERLIFE, Vintage International, 7th, (Zuckerman novel; winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction), vg-f 4.00
Eastman, Arthur M. (general editor) THE NORTON READER: Sixth Edition, Shorter, Norton, 2nd, (An Anthology of Expository Prose; generous sampling of essays and prose pieces; 48 selections are new to this edition; 713 pages), vg+ 5.00
Berger, Thomas LITTLE BIG MAN, Delta, 19th, (claims the Western as serious literature; Brooks Landon intro), vg+ 3.00
Wiesel, Elie NIGHT, Hill and Wang '06, 1st pb of this translation, (adds new preface by author; translation by Marion Wiesel; includes Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech), Oprah's Book Club sticker, vg-f 3.00
Marquand, John P. THE LATE GEORGE APLEY, Back Bay, 3/04, (A Novel in the Form of a Memoir; winner of the Pulitzer Prize), vg-f 6.00
Faw Cr 20506 Updike, John RABBIT, RUN, 56th, (not your typical portrayal of life in the late 50's), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 13556 McCaffrey, Anne DAMIA, 2nd, (The Rowan #2; one of the greatest telepaths ever born), vg $2
Cheever, John THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, Perennial Classics, 3rd('04), (National Book Award winner; Rick Moody foreword), vg-f 4.00
Jones, James FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Delta, 4th, (The World War II Classic and National Book Award winner; 852 pages), vg-f 5.00
Ballantine 43479 Irving, John A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, 4th, (movie tie: The Door in the Floor starring Jeff Bridges & Kim Basinger), vg-f 2.00
Hoffenstein, Samuel POEMS IN PRAISE OF PRACTICALLY NOTHING, Boni & Liveright, 5th(5/28), (includes work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories), g-vg (no dj) 6.00
Chin, Frank DONALD DUK, Coffee House '91, 3rd, (a novel; red hot chop suey laced with laughing powder and amphetamines), vg+ 4.00
Curtis 09189 Cat, Christopher (in collaboration with Countee Cullen) MY LIVES AND HOW I LOST THEM, nd, (He's Christopher Cat -- and mischief is his middle name!; previous edition © 1942 by Harper and Brothers), vg-f 2.00
Anchor 04135 Gayle, Addison, Jr. THE WAY OF THE NEW WORLD: The Black Novel in America, '76, (a provocative book -- not a standard literary criticism), vg 3.00
Whitcomb, Christopher BLACK, Little Brown, 1st edn, (novel about black ops by former FBI sniper), vg+ in dj 4.00
Powys, John Cowper PORIUS, Overlook Duckworth '07, 1st thus, (restored text; set in Wales 499 A.D., a romance of the dark ages and a gigantic work of art; new foreword by Morine Krissdótür; 751 pages), vg-f in dj 18.00
O'Brien, Tim IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS, Penguin, 10th, (It looks evil in the face and doesn't blink), vg-f 4.00
Ian, Janis & Mike Resnick (eds) STARS: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, DAW, 8/03, 1st, (Haldeman, Varley, Lackey, Benford, Sawyer, Turtledove, Card, etc.; 544 pages), vg-f in vg+ dj 8.00
Lessing, Doris THE FOUR-GATED CITY, Knopf '69, 1st edn [stated], (Children of Violence #5; immense, visionary novel), vg+ in g-vg dj 15.00
Bulychev, Kirill HALF A LIFE, Collier/Best of Soviet Science Fiction Series '78, (Stories of earth and space by one of Russia's most talented SF writers; Sturgeon intro), vg+ 6.00
Dick, Philip K. TIME OUT OF JOINT, Bluejay, 7/84, (His brilliant novel of reality displacement; Lous Stathis afterword), vg+ 9.00
Avon Eos 79556 Norton, Andre WIND IN THE STONE, 12/00, (fantasy), vg 3.00
Ace pb 71851 Foster, Alan Dean CODGERSPACE, 7/92, (PBO; geezers meet aliens), g-vg 2.00
Signet T2874 Lessing, Doris MARTHA QUEST, 3/66, (Children of Violence #1; a passionate, intelligent, and outraged young woman in jolting conflict with her world), vg 3.00
Fawcett Gold Medal k1427 Wormser, Richard BEDTIME STORY, ('64), (novelization; based on the hilarious motion picture starring Marlon Brando), g-vg 2.50
Tor 50832 Lumley, Brian THE HOUSE OF DOORS, 3/90, (PBO; horror; Your darkest nightmare awaits within...; 474 pages), vg $4
Signet Classic CD240 Maupassant, Guy De BOULE DE SUIF And Selected Stories, 6/64, (sampling of author's finest work, including supernatural tales "The Horla" and "The Wolf"; Andrew R. MacAndrew translation; Edward D. Sullivan foreword),vg 3.00
Mentor M19 The Committee on College Reading (eds) GOOD READING: A Guide to the World's Best Books, 4th(9/49), (How to Find Pleasure and Profit in the World's Great Literature; Brief Descriptions of More Than 1,000 Entertaining and Useful Volumes), vg+ (this book is exactly as old as I am -- and in much better condition) 4.00
Bantam 56943 Bishop, Michael BRITTLE INNINGS, 2/95, (may be the first baseball gothic; 517 pages), vg+ 4.00
Bodett, Tom THE BIG GARAGE ON CLEAR SHOT: Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road, Morrow '90, 1st edn, (fresh stories from the town with no name), vg in dj 4.00
Palmer, Michael SILENT TREATMENT, Book Club ('95), (medical thriller), vg-f in dj 3.00
Harris, Thomas HANNIBAL, Delacorte, 6/99, 1st, (sequel to The Silence of the Lambs), vg+ in dj 6.00
Gernsheim, Helmut LEWIS CARROLL: PHOTOGRAPHER, Dover ('69), (with 63 photographs by Lewis Carroll; unabridged and revised republication of Max Parrish '49 edition; adds new preface by author), vg 5.00
Tepper, Sheri S. BEAUTY, SFBC ('91), (book-length faery tale), vg-f in dj 3.00
Moore, Ward GREENER THAN YOU THINK, Book Club, (#10 in Classics of Modern Science Fiction series; Zebrowski intro; Asimov foreword), trade pb, g-vg (slightly chewed corners) 3.00
Bantam 57901 Smith, Michael Marshall SPARES, 2/98, (They were raised for one chilling purpose...), g-vg 3.00
Pocket pb 49175 Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, 19th, g 2.00
Leisure 6089 Keene, Brian CASTAWAYS, 2/09, (PBO; monstrous half-human creatures compete on popular reality TV show), vg 3.00
Westlake, Donald E. (writing as Judson Jack Carmichael) THE SCARED STIFF, Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf '02, 1st, (masterfully devised, antic, often hilarious, and superbly suspenseful tale), ex-libr else vg in vg (spine label) dj 4.00
Scott, Sir Walter WORKS OF WALTER SCOTT Vol XII: The Fair Maid of Perth / Anne of Geierstein or The Maiden of the Mist, National Library Company, Edition De Luxe, nd (but old), Limited to One Thousand Sets, frontis, (Chronicles of the Canongate, Second Series; 466+482+xvii+xv pages), g-vg (hinge barely starting, but a solid, clean copy) 10.00
Penguin Plays PL2 Shaw, Bernard THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS: The Devil's Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversation, 8th('62), g (browned pages) 2.50
Amis, Martin HOUSE OF MEETINGS, Knopf, 3rd(2/07), (love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape), as new in dj 6.00
Fuentes, Carlos THE EAGLE'S THRONE, Random House, 2nd, (A Novel; conflict between Mexico and the US in the near future; translated by Kristina Cordero), f in dj 6.00
Hicks, Stephen R.C. & David Kelley (eds) READINGS FOR LOGICAL ANALYSIS: Second Edition, Norton, 5th, (previous edition published as The Art of Reasoning; ideal supplement for courses in logic or critical thinking), vg-f 6.00
Peters, Tom THE PURSUIT OF WOW!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times, Vintage, 4th, (a practical guide to impractical times, containing the tactics and strategies you'll need to get on the bullet train), vg-f 3.00
Church, James A CORPSE IN THE KORYO, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur, 5th, (A Mystery; set in North Korea, written pseudonymously by veteran intelligence officer; author's debut), as new in dj 5.00
DeLillo, Don COSMOPOLIS, Scribner '03, 1st, (An all-day--and book-length--chauffeured trip across midtown Manhattan exposes author's cool, New Economy protagonist to an assortment of characters in this critique of hypercapitalism), vg-f in dj 6.00
Greene, Graham BRIGHTON ROCK, Viking '81, The Collected Edition, (classic novel of murder and menace, originally published in 1938), ex-libr else g-vg in g-vg dj 3.00
HarperEntertainment 07635 Quick, William T. PLANET OF THE APES™, 8/01, (PBO; movie novelization; color stills), vg-f 3.00
Bantam 10879 Watson, Ian THE JOHAH KIT, 2/78, (A child and a dead cosmonaut -- joined in the brain of a giant whale!), vg+ 3.00
Du Maurier, Daphne HUNGRY HILL, Doubleday '43, (the fortunes and fates of five generations of an Anglo-Irish family are bound to their copper mine on Hungry Hill), ex-libr else fr 2.00
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Harvest 634040 Lem, Stanislaw THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS, '85, (A vision of earth's future where the authorities dose the population with "psychochemicals" to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living; translated by Michael Kandel), vg+ 4.00
Del Rey 34432 Sheffield, Charles TRADER'S WORLD, 11/88, (PBO; Mike Asparian; set on an Earth recovering from a worldwide war; some sections previously published as novelets in Analog), vg+ 2.50
Anchor A608 Maurois, André FROM PROUST TO CAMUS: Profiles of Modern French Writers, '68, (graceful essays, illuminating introductions), g 3.00
Bantam A1230 Rostand, Edmond CYRANO DE BERGERAC, 3rd(new edn, 3/54), (The Classic Drama of High Heroic Romance), g (spine crack) 2.00
Ball 24010 Munn, H. Warner MERLIN'S RING, 2nd(8/74), (Arthurian fantasy; Lin Carter intro), g-vg $2
Eco, Umberto FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM, Helen and Kurt Wolff/HBJ, 2nd, (An enthralling mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and aberrations, an adventure into the modern mind; translated by William Weaver; 641 pages), vg in dj 5.00
Meltzer, Brad THE MILLIONAIRES, Warner, 1/02, 1st, (edge-of-your-seat thriller), vg-f in dj 3.00
David, Peter TRIANGLE: IMZADI II (Star Trek Next Generation), Book Club, vg-f in dj 3.00
Shetterly, Will CHIMERA, Tor, 6/00, 1st edn, (a world of genetic engineering and cloning where human and animal genes can be melded to create chimeras), vg-f in dj $10
Cherryh, C.J. EXPLORER, DAW, 11/02, 1st, (The stunning conclusion to the second Foreigner sequence), vg+ in dj 5.00
Creasey, John MURDER, LONDON-MIAMI, Scribners '69 (A-3.69 [H] on copyright page), (A Superintendant West Story), ex-libr else g in vg (clean spine) dj 3.00
Pocket 83502 Cowper, Richard PROFUNDIS, 2/81, (...And man will live beneath the waves, in zany chaos, aboard the mighty warship Profundis), vg-f 3.00
Eddings, David & Leigh THE REDEMPTION OF ALTHALUS, Del Rey, 1/01, 1st US, (epic fantasy, to be savored in the reading and returned to again and again for the wisdom, excitement, and humor that only the Eddingses can provide), vg-fin dj 5.00
Moody, Rick THE DIVINERS, Little Brown, 9/05, 1st edn, (an epic about dowsers, and much else), vg-f in dj 5.00
Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME, Doubleday '79, 1st edn, (In a crimeless society, has a master scientist turned master criminal?), ex-libr else g-vg in g-vg dj 3.00
Bellow, Saul A THEFT, Penguin '89, 1st, (novella; a subtle and tense tale; 109 pages), g-vg 5.00
Brin, David THE PRACTICE EFFECT, SFBC ('84), 1st hc? (code O37 on p. 248), (instead of objects wearing out with use, they improve), vg+ in dj 3.50
Bantam F2838 Harrison, Harry DEATHWORLD 2, 9/64, (PBO; Jason dinAlt was marooned on a planet where every man had to kill every other man -- or live a slave!), g-vg 2.00
Avon 01664 Zelazny, Roger THE HAND OF OBERON, 13th, (Amber #4), vg-f $3
Doctorow, E.L. CREATIONISTS: Selected Essays, 1993-2006, Random House ('06), 1st edn, (abounds in acute literary characterizations and mordant observations), vg-f in dj 10.00
Penguin Classics 4149 Plautus THE POT OF GOLD and Other Plays, 16th, (perhaps the supreme comic writer of the Roman world, has also proved the most influential; translated by E.F. Watling), vg 3.00
Signet T2290 Moravia, Alberto THE WOMAN OF ROME, 8th(4/63), (deals with the whores of Rome; profoundly realistic and compassionate story which continually transcends its subject, which is in effect the story of modern Italy), g-vg 2.00
Collier 019980 Fitzgerald, F. Scott BABYLON REVISITED and Other Stories, 7th, (A Scribner Classic; fully representative of author's short fiction), vg+ 2.50
Price, Robert M. (ed) THE AZATHOTH CYCLE: The Blind Idiot God, Chaosium/Call of Cthulhu® Fiction, 3/95, 1st edn, (16 Horror Tales Concerning the Ultimate Chaos; Burleson, Campbell, Cannon, Carter, Derby, Glasby, Henderson, Kuttner, Ligotti, Mackey, Myers, Price, Rainey, Singer, Spence, Studach, Tierney), vg-f 20.00
Aldiss, Brian W. SUPERTOYS LAST ALL SUMMER LONG and Other Stories of Future Time, St. Martin's Griffin, 6/01, 1st US edn, (title story inspired the Steven Spielberg filim A.I.; new foreword by the author), vg-f $8
Dick, Philip K. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, Vintage, 4th, (Hugo-winning novel), vg-f $8
Boswell, James THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, Dent/Everyman's Library No. 387, Revised Edition '58, (the indispensable supplement to the Life; Powhill intro), vg in g dj (green-shaded price level) 6.00
Wharton, Edith THE STORIES OF EDITH WHARTON, Simon & Schuster UK, 2nd('88), (representative of author's diversity; selected and introduced by Anita Brookner), vg in dj 7.50
Vance, Jack THE AUGMENTED AGENT and Other Stories, Underwood-Miller '86, ex-libr else g-vg in vg+ (clean spine) dj 8.00
Calvino, Italo COSMICOMICS, Harvest/HBJ, 7th, (enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe), vg $4
Montesquieu, Baron de PERSIAN LETTERS, Penguin Classics, 5th('83), (a sort of epistolary satirical novel with witty and profound reflections on almost every field of intellectual and human interest; C.J. Betts [trans & intro]), vg 3.50
Penguin Plays PL10 Shaw, Bernard ANDROCLES AND THE LION: An Old Fable Renovated, 5th('61), (takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values; includes "Preface on the Prospects of Christianity" which is longer than the play itself), g 2.00
Spectra 29360 Weis, Margaret KING'S SACRIFICE, 11/91, (PBO; Star of the Guardians #3), vg+ 2.00
Tor 53078 Hinz, Christopher ASH OCK, 2nd, (Paratwa #2; a thumping high-tech tale; Earth is a blistered wasteland), vg+ $3
Bantam S2338 O'Hara, John SERMONS AND SODA-WATER, 3rd, (three brilliant short novels), vg 2.00
Bantam 02494 Lessing, Doris THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR, 10/76, (a visionary's extraordinary history of the future), g-vg 3.00
Avon pb 00083 Zelazny, Roger THE GUNS OF AVALON, 11th, (Amber), g-vg 2.00
Timescape 41616 Wolfe, Gene THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR, 2/82, (Book of the New Sun #2), vg $3
St Martin's 90033 Watson, Ian DEATHHUNTER, 7/87, (creative beyond the boundaries of ordinary imagination), g $1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel HAWTHORNE'S WORKS: Snow Image / Blithedale Romance, Crowell (©1899, 1902), no statement of printing on copyright page; frontis, plates; (Katherine Lee "America the Beautiful" Bates intro; 212 + 231 + xviii + xvii pages), cheap paper but in good shape, good binding, signs of pocket or bookplate removal on front paste-down endpaper but no other ex-library indicators, gold gilt top edge, overall g-vg 10.00
Bowen, Elizabeth THE HOUSE IN PARIS, Knopf '36, (1st US), "published March 2, 1936" on copyright page; 1936 date on title page; $2.50 price on dust jacket, (one of author’s most artful and psychologically acute novels; a timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere), g-vg in fr dj 10.00
Dent, Tory HIV, MON AMOUR: Poems, Sheep Meadow ('99), (contains unflinching, graphically detailed verse accounts of her fight with AIDS, the unending medical appointments she endured and a daily existence lived in defiance of it; won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), f in vg+ dj 6.00
Tor Double 2 Bear, Greg / Zahn, Timothy HARDFOUGHT / CASCADE POINT, 11/88, (PBO; side one is the 1983 Nebula winner for best novella and side two is the Hugo Winner), vg 3.00
Harvest 684905 Lem, Stanislaw THE STAR DIARIES, '85, (stories around the character of space traveller Ijon Tichy; Michael Kandel [trans]), vg+ 5.00
Anchor A480 Ruskin, John THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF…, '65, (PBO; includes all of The Queen of the Air and about half of Sesame and Lilies; Harold Bloom [ed & intro]), g-vg 4.00
Penguin Classics L270 SPEAKING OF SIVA, '73, (lyrical expressions of love for the god Siva, written by four major saints in the tenth century A.D.; intro by translator A.K. Ramanujan), g-vg 3.00
Ace pb 68305 Robinett, Stephen PROJECTIONS, An Analog Book, 1/79, (PBO; high-flung imagination at work), vg 3.00
Burke, James Lee CRUSADER'S CROSS, Simon & Schuster '05, 1st, (A Dave Robicheaux Novel; a darkly suspenseful work of literature), vg in dj 4.00
Bradbury, Ray THE VINTAGE BRADBURY, Vintage, 10th, (author's own selection; Gilbert Highet intro), vg+ 4.00
Hughes, Robert BARCELONA, Knopf '92, 1st edn, (dramatic history of alluring metropolis by noted art critic), PR release laid in, vg in dj (underlining on at least one page and previous owners name) 5.00
CALIBAN 5, '88, (redefines the avant-garde; Lawrence R. Smith [ed]), perfectbound, vg-f 5.00
Ammons, A.R. (guest poetry editor) CHELSEA 20/21: Art ex Machina, 5/67, de Palchi, (poems having to do with science and technology; articles by Mortimer Schiff, Andy Warhol, Gordon Mumma & Gerald Oster; Roy Lichtenstein cover & back cover art; Alfredo de Palchi & Sonia Raziss [eds]), g-vg (a bit of fraying at top of spine) 18.00
Laughlin, James (ed) NEW DIRECTIONS 18, New Directions ('64), (1st), (PBO; exhibition gallery for experimental and unconventional writing; includes "The Supermale", a complete novel by Alfred Jarry, and three stories by Raymond Roussel, with an essay on Roussel's work by Rayner Heppenstall), vg+ 6.50
Agee, James SELECTED JOURNALISM, Tennessee, 2nd('85), (prescient and perceptive pieces, written between 1932 and 1948; Paul Ashdown [ed & intro]; ), vg-f in dj 10.00
Lee, Tanith THE BOOK OF THE BEAST, Overlook '91, 1st US, (Paradys #2), ex-libr else vg in vg+ dj 3.00
Justice, Donald NIGHT LIGHT, Wesleyan ('67), 1st edn, (poems), g-vg (a little bit of water damage, but not much) in dj 5.00
Ewers, Hanns Heinz NACHTMAHR: Strange Tales, Side Real '09, one of 350 numbered copies, (stories, including some newly translated works, together with Ewers essay/paean to Edgar Allan Poe first published in English in 1917; 349 pages), new no dj as issued (pictorial boards), as new 65.00
Strantzas, Simon COLD TO THE TOUCH, Tartarus '09, 1st, (tales of strangeness and surrealism), new in dj 45.00
Pocket pb 54002 Carey, Diane FIRST STRIKE, 7th, (Invasion! #1 of 4; Star Trek #79), vg 2.00
Pocket pb 54174 Smith, Dean Wesley & Kristine Kathryn Rusch THE SOLDIERS OF FEAR, 5th, (Invasion! #2 of 4; Star Trek The Next Generation #41), vg 2.00
Pocket pb 54181 ab Hugh, Dafydd THE FINAL FURY, 5th, (Invasion! #4 of 4; Star Trek Voyager #9), vg 2.00
Christine de Pisan THE TREASURE OF THE CITY OF LADIES, or The Book of the Three Virtues, Penguin Classics, 5th, (written in 1405, offers a practical survival manual for women; Sarah Lawson [trans & intro]), ex-libr else fr (good reading copy) 2.00
Bohjalian, Chris MIDWIVES, Vintage Contemporaries, 7/98, (a wicked good book), vg 3.00
Adams, Richard SHARDIK, Overlook Duckworth, 2nd, (powerful fantasy epic; Silverberg intro; 604 pages), as new 6.00
Carr, Caleb THE LESSONS OF TERROR: A History of Warfare Against Civilians, Random House '03, (Revised and Updated; provocative), vg 4.00Gibbon, Edward THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Modern Library Classics, 3rd, (Edited, Abridged, and with a Critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller; Boorstin intro; Piranesi illustrations; 1259 pages), vg 6.00
Plimpton, George, et al. (eds) THE PARIS REVIEW 154: The Poetry Issue, spr/00, (430-page mega-issue; Bly, etc.), vg+ 6.00
Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 11/05, (A classic novel of first contact), as new in dj 6.00
Waldman, Anne (ed) THE BEAT BOOK: Writings from the Beat Generation, Shambhala, 3rd, (Allen Ginzberg foreword), as new 8.00
Tanashi, Kazuaki (ed) ENLIGHTENMENT UNFOLDS: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen, Shambhala, 2nd, (chronological; the practice-realization of complete enlightenment), as new 8.00
Merwin, W.S. UNFRAMED ORIGINALS: Recollections, Shoemaker and Hoard '05, (autobiography at its best), as new 6.00
Williams, William Carlos IMAGINATIONS, New Directions '71, (five early books, first published in small editions between 1920 and 1932), g-vg 6.00
Baen 69863 McCaffrey, Anne & Elizabeth Moon SASSINAK, 3/90, (PBO; Planet Pirates #1), vg+ $3
Pyramid G624 Tabori, Paul THE GREEN RAIN, 6/61, (PBO; emergence of crackpot cults to something tragically new in race violence), vg $2; vg-f 3.50
DAW 24 Trimble, Louis THE CITY MACHINE, '72, (PBO; To create a new metropolis, press the right button -- and run!), vg+ (price sticker) 2.00
DAW 683 Zahn, Timothy THE BACKLASH MISSION, 3rd, (Blackcollar #2; conquered Earth), vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 84830 Drake, David NORTHWORLD, 4/90, (PBO; military SF; the ultimate space war begins!), vg-f 2.50
Del Rey 24590 Kurtz, Katherine CAMBER OF CULDI, 7/76, (PBO; Deryni #4), vg 3.00
Vintage V326 Cerf, Christopher (ed) THE VINTAGE ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FANTASY, 2/66, (PBO; Twenty stories in the Modern Manner), vg (browned pages) 3.50
Ace Double 76380 Temple, Willliam F. THE THREE SUNS OF AMARA / BATTLE ON VENUS, 2nd(6/73), (Where the natural laws of the universe are suspended, so is sanity / The first men on venus -- caught in a remote-controlled, thousand-year-old war), vg+ 4.00
Ace Double D-517 Simak, Clifford / Chandler, A. Bertram THE TROUBLE WITH TYCHO / BRING BACK YESTERDAY, ('61), (PBOs; Treasure Trove in the Haunted Crater / Spaceman on a Time Tangent), g-vg $3
Pocket pb 69880 Dalmas, John THE WHITE REGIMENT, 6/90, (PBO; sequel to The Regiment; pick the greatest potential warriors out of their planetary-wide database of psych profiles), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 88270 Swann, Thomas Burnett WHERE IS THE BIRD OF FIRE?, ('70), (PBO; Were the mythical monsters our ancestors spoke of so often more than fantasy?), vg+ 3.50
Ace Double D-509 Norton, Andre THE BEAST MASTER / STAR HUNTER, ('61), (abridged / PBO), vg+ 5.00
Pap Lib 52519 Elwood, Roger (ed) INVASION OF THE ROBOTS, 4/65, (PBO; how Earth will meet the fantastic challenge of...), vg+ 4.00
Pocket pb 80525 Harrison, Harry THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON, 6/76, (PBO; Malzberg intro), vg+ 5.00
Pap Lib 62009 Tubb, E.C. S.T.A.R. FLIGHT, 1/69, (PBO; Could earth survive the terrors of instant youth and perpetual life?), vg-f 4.00
Signet 16342 Quick, W.T. SYSTEMS, 12/89, (PBO; A data bank reveals secrets that can topple his world, unless the government catches John Tower, a Defense Intelligence Agent, first), vg-f 2.50
Sontag, Susan AT THE SAME TIME: Essays and Speeches, Hamish Hamilton '07, 1st UK, (powerful and intimate; preface by author's son), as new in dj 8.00
McInerney, Jay HOW IT ENDED, Bloomsbury, 2nd, (mixes grungy low-lifers with stylish loft dwellers), as new 5.00
Cott, Jonathan (ed) DYLAN ON DYLAN: The Essential Interviews, Hodder, 7th, (a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviews, stretching over forty years from 1962 to 2004), as new 7.00
Huxley, Aldous COMPLETE ESSAYS Volume V: 1939-1956, Ivan R. Dee '02, as new in dj 10.00
Huxley, Aldous COMPLETE ESSAYS Volume VI: 1956-1963, Ivan R. Dee '02, as new in dj 10.00
White, Edmund MY LIVES, Bloomsbury '06, (frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America), as new 7.00
Espen, Hal (ed) OUTSIDE 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure, Norton, 2nd, (25th Anniversary Edition; brings together the best of the best), vg+ 4.00
Tor 53331 Card, Orson Scott THE WORTHING SAGA, 11th, (the rich get to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time), vg-f 3.00
Boulle, Pierre TIME OUT OF MIND and Other Stories, Vanguard ('66), (translated from the French), ex-libr else vg+ in g-vg dj 5.00
Hobb, Robin THE FARSEER TRILOGY: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest, Spectra, 19th, 18th & 17th, mass-market paperback editions, (thrilling tale of the seaside kingdom of the Six Duchies), vg+ to vg-f, set of three 8.00
DAW 1249 Lackey, Mercedes JOUST, 5th, (Could Vetch learn the secrets of dragon taming and liberate his conquered homeland?), vg-f 3.00
Follett, Ken LIE DOWN WITH LIONS, Morrow '86, 1st edn, (suspense; exotic story of espionage, intrigue, and dangerous loves; set in Afghanistan), vg+ in dj 5.00
Pynchon, Thomas MASON & DIXON, Owl '98, (possibly the novel of our time; 773 pages), vg+ 5.00
Pronzini, Bill GRAVEYARD PLOTS: The Best Short Stories of Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's '85, 1st edn, (brings together the best of author's more than 150 criminous stories published since 1968), ex-libr else g in g-vg dj 4.50
Updike, John GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS, Knopf '00, no ©-page, (author's nineteenth novel; Hamlet prequel), ex-libr else g in g-vg dj (nice reading copy) 3.00
Rendell, Ruth PIRANHA TO SCURFY And Other Stories, Crown '01, 1st US edn, (mystery), ex-libr else g in g-vg dj 2.50
Carroll, Lewis THE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL, Spring Books/Paul Hamlyn '65, (Roger Lancelyn Green [ed & intro]; Tenniel illus; 1130 pages), vg in dj 15.00
Lang, Andrew THE CHRONICLES OF PANTOUFLIA, Godine '81, (collects Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia; two fairy tales first published in 1889 and 1893; illustrated by Jeanne Titherington), vg in dj (foxing across top edge of pages and musty smell) 8.00
St Martin's 98940 Ford, Michael Curtis GODS AND LEGIONS, 9/03, (A Novel of the Roman Empire; Emperor Julian's rise and fall), vg 2.50
Jakiela, Lori MISS NEW YORK HAS EVERYTHING, 5 Spot/Warner, 1/06, 1st edn, (everything you look for in a great memoir), vg 3.00
Atwood, Margaret CAT'S EYE, Anchor, 8th, g-vg 3.50
Pierce, Tamora PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL #4: Lady Knight, Random House '02, (sequel to Squire; fantasy heroine fighter; for teens), vg 3.50
Faludi, Susan STIFFED: The Betrayal of the American Man, Perennial '00, (sociology/gender studies; groundbreaking treatise), vg 4.00
Lee, Hermione EDITH WHARTON, Chatto & Windus, 2nd, (challenges the accepted view, showing Wharton's lifelong ties to Europe and displaying her as a tough, erotically brave, startlingly modern writer and woman; biblio; index; photos; 853 pages), vg-f in vg+ dj 10.00
Bradford, Sarah AMERICA'S QUEEN: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Viking, 5th, (the most complete, and completely convincing, life story yet written; photos), vg+ in dj 4.00
Ball 36623 Neville, Katherine THE EIGHT, 33rd, (blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery; feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark; includes an exclusive excerpt from the thrilling sequel),vg+ 2.50
David, Peter TIGERHEART: A Tale of the Anyplace, Ballantine, pre-6/08, ADVANCE READER'S EDITION (uncorrected proofs), (pays homage to the beloved tale of Peter Pan), vg-f 4.00
Hoagland, Edward BALANCING ACTS: Essays, Lyons '99, (part memoir, part travel guide by the Thoreau of our time), as new 5.00
Snyder, Gary BACK ON THE FIRE: Essays, Shoemaker & Hoard '07, 1st, (blazes with insight), as new in dj 6.00
Barnard, Robert FETE FATALE, Book Club ('85), (mixing of satire and suspense), ex-libr else vg in g-vg dj 2.00
Baker, Nicholson, VOX, Random House, 7th, (eavesdrop on telephonic pair commencing mutual seduction; increasingly impassioned levels of self-disclosure), ex-libr else vg in g-vg dj 3.00
Dunne, Dominick ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, Crown '97, 1st edn, (O.J. Simpson trial coverage), ex-libr else vg in g-vg dj 3.00
Saul, John THE DEVIL'S LABYRINTH, Book Club ('07), (supernatural thriller; Catholic boarding-school; exorcism), vg-f in dj 3.00
Case, John THE FIRST HORSEMAN, Fawcett Columbine, 8/98, 1st edn, (suspense; harrowing race to prevent nothing less than...apocalypse), ex-libr else vg in g-vg dj 3.00

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more verbiage

2009-12-16T16:56:00.004-06:00

Didn't get anything transferred over to here yesterday as I was hoping. The particular stack(s) of books I am working are actually books that were already in the catalog but had found their way up to our living area of the house. I couldn't box them up because it would be impossible to find them should they be sold. A lot of them have lately posed for their covershots, so I had links to add to their listings -- and I could add text to to the listing, perhaps tweak the price, list them on half or biblio. But they don't qualify as new arrivals per se. Still, it was good to finally get them moved along.
There had been quite a build-up of cataloged but not yet shelved books under my desk in the cellar, robbing me of leg space and comfort. Finally I went about the onerous task of distributing these books to likely locations for successful retrieval should their time come to depart the premises. As with many put-off tasks this was not nearly the gargantuan chore I had anticipated. And at least for now, I can sit properly at the desk. Hopefully this will lead to my getting done some other tasks -- like answering some important emails that for too long have been neglected.

still here

2009-12-15T16:14:00.002-06:00

Jeez, I've been lousy about posting anything in this blog. Not that I haven't been meaning to -- at least to mention that I'm still here. You can find evidence by clicking on the link above to New Arrivals and see that I have at least been cataloging books every once in a while. I really should copy the listings as they occur over to here, because I don't think searchbots check the data in Docs (even if shared publicly). I may be wrong about that, but when I tried a search one time the blog entry came up but not the doc entry. My thinking now, never to be relied on, is to make it a goal to catalog five books a day, and transfer the entry here. Ideally, I should copy and paste the whole schmear here now, and maybe I will.
When I catalog books I usually have a random stack sitting beside me, and I just run them through in order, with no preference on which might best represent my inventory. I have been ending up with quite a few books I wouldn't have tried in my printed paper catalogs of yore, but these usually interest me as much as the speculative and supernatural fiction I specialize in. I won't go into the various factors that play in what books end up in my clutches. That would be propounding the obvious, but I will say that collectibility is not as high on the list as it probably should be.
Last weekend my wife put her foot down on all the stacks that have been creeping in on our living area (as opposed to my warehouse/office are in the cellar). They had just been accumulating at a quicker rate over time than I had been dispatching them to the listings and shelving them somewhere where they could hopefully later be found for sending. I hate to box up books that have not been cataloged, because there are plenty of other boxes in the same limbo where the way things have been going I might never get back to them.
Thanks to my covershot photos I am able to see inside these boxes (and you can too), so the gone is not necessarily forgotten. Now that I've boxed up most of the recent used-book arrivals, I have it in mind to fight against the current by at least cataloging five books a day -- making how many in a year? Plenty! Of course I realize that my past is littered with such well-conceived but ill-executed schemes...so less talking about it, and more the doing of it!

new book ordering now

2009-09-15T18:28:00.002-05:00

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

2009-09-13T09:18:00.001-05:00

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

book sale pick-ups

2009-09-10T09:19:00.000-05:00

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

2009-07-26T09:21:00.002-05:00

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

2009-07-25T12:44:00.002-05:00

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?

2009-07-23T08:53:00.003-05:00

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

2009-06-14T12:18:00.002-05:00

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

2009-05-12T14:33:00.002-05:00

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

2009-04-23T14:40:00.000-05:00

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

2009-04-03T09:59:00.000-05:00

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

2009-03-30T14:40:00.002-05:00

Went back to book sale yesterday for another load.

books from nesfa here

2009-02-24T20:34:00.002-06:00

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

2009-01-31T07:58:00.002-06:00

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

2009-01-16T17:14:00.002-06:00

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!!!

2009-01-09T15:44:00.002-06:00

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

2008-12-18T12:26:00.000-06:00

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

2008-12-17T13:39:00.001-06:00

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

2008-12-13T21:15:00.000-06:00

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

2008-12-04T12:29:00.002-06:00

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

2008-12-03T12:35:00.001-06:00

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

2008-11-18T08:50:00.002-06:00

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

2008-11-18T07:43:00.002-06:00

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

2008-11-17T07:51:00.000-06:00

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

2008-11-12T17:01:00.002-06:00

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

2008-11-06T16:34:00.002-06:00

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

[all 10% discount]

new pbs cataloged

2008-11-06T16:31:00.000-06:00

A trio of new pbs that came in long ago, on hold for customers probably lost:

Roc 46069 Sarrantonio, Al (ed) FLIGHTS: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Volume II, 2/06, (sets the standard for fantasy in the 21st century), new 7.99
Ace pbk 01065 Green, Simon R. SOMETHING FROM THE NIGHTSIDE, 9th, (macabre and thoroughly entertaining tale), new 6.99
Jove 13521 Feehan, Christine DARK SYMPHONY, 7th, (paranormal romance), new 7.99

[all 30% discount]

new catalog listings

2008-10-20T22:10:00.003-05:00

---It's been a while since I transferred the latest catalog listings to here, so here they are:

Ace Double F-161 Grinnell, David / Brunner, John DESTINY'S ORBIT / TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER, ('62), (He sought an empire in the stars / Beware of the masters of "If"), vg-f 5.00
Bal U 2214 Vance, Jack FUTURE TENSE, 6/64, (PBO; Four brilliant diversities in science fiction), g 4.00
Wharton, Edith THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, Scribners, 5th, (photoreprint; in Contemporary Classics series; orig: 1913; 594 pages), vg+ 5.00
Wharton, Edith HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED, Scribners '85, 1st pb thus, (orig: 1929; provides a candid and often biting critique of New York's literary life in the 1920s; 536 pages), vg+ 5.00
Mann, Thomas THE HOLY SINNER, Knopf '51, 1st edn, (translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter), ex-libr else g in dj (pretty good reading copy) 5.00
Cady, Jack SINGLETON, Madrona '81, (captures as no other novel ever has the thrill of driving a truck), ex-libr else vg+ in vg+ dj 10.00
Andreyev, Leonid HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, French's Standard Library Edition, nd, (©1949; perhaps author's best dramatic work; translated from the Russian with an introduction by Gregory Zilboorg), vg 5.00
Simon, Neil LONDON SUITE: A Comedy, Samuel French, nd, (©'96; play), vg-f 5.00
Wolfe, Gene THE KNIGHT, Tor, 1/04, 1st edn, (Wizard Knight #1), vg+ in dj $10
Rotter, Pat (ed) BITCHES AND SAD LADIES: An Anthology of Fiction by and About Women, Harper's Magazine Press '75, 1st edn, (not just women's fiction; 432 pages), vg in dj 10.00
Coward, Noel THREE PLAYS, Grove, 2nd('81), (Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever & Private Lives; Edward Albee intro), vg 4.00
Anchor A54 Strindberg, August SIX PLAYS OF STRINDBERG, nd, (©'55; In new translations by Elizabeth Sprigge), g-vg 3.00
Fawcett Premier 30795 Oates, Joyce Carol WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?: Stories of Young America, 4th, vg 3.00
Ballantine U2191 Dick, Philip K. MARTIAN TIME-SLIP, ('64), (PBO; A deathly trap waits for the colonists on Mars), vg+ 10.00
Ace 36331 Pohl, Frederik (ed) THE SECOND IF READER OF SCIENCE FICTION, nd, (Asimov, Aldiss, Budrys, Niven, Laumer, Clement, etc.), g-vg 2.00
Ace Double 42900 Carter, Lin / Smith, George H. TOWE R OF THE MEDUSA / KAR KABALLA, ('69), (PBOs; The most dangerous thing in the universe - for the taking! / Science fights magic on Earth's twin), g-vg 3.00
Fontana 2872 Soyinka, Wole THE INTERPRETERS, 3rd(10/74), (Nigeria today... the men cynical but passionate, the women lusty, proud and raw; five peope who become reluctantly involved in an evangelical cult - with dramatic consequences; first novel by Nobel laureate), vg+ 6.00
Hoagland, Edward THE EDWARD HOAGLAND READER, Random House '79, 1st edn, (superb essays by latter-day Thoreau; Geoffrey Wolff [ed & intro]), vg in price-clipped dj 10.00
Nathan, Robert PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, Knopf, 24th(12/74), (fantasy masterpiece), vg+ in vg dj 10.00
Gilliatt, Penelope SPLENDID LIVES, Coward McCann & Geoghegan '78, 1st US edn, (stories), vg+ in dj 10.00
Márquez, Gabriel García COLLECTED STORIES, Harper & Row '84, 1st edn, (first combined edition; originally published in Spanish in three separate volumes), vg+ in dj 15.00
Stevenson, Robert Louis THE FABULOUS RACONTEUR, Juniper Forgotten Classics of Mystery Volume IV, nd, (contains The Wrecker, The Suicide Club, The Pavillion on the Links, The Sire of Maletroit's Door and Thrawn Janet), g-vg in price-clipped dj 8.00
Vinge, Joan D. THE HEAVEN CHRONICLES, SFBC ('91), (classic novellas "Legacy" & "The Outcasts of Heaven Belt"), vg-f in dj 5.00
Leiber, Fritz THE BIG TIME, SFBC ('82), (What if you were drafted into a war without end?; winner of the 1958 Hugo Award for Best Novel), vg-f in dj 5.00
Tor 53346 Barnes, John KALEIDOSCOPE CENTURY, 2nd, (dazzling, pyrotechnic vision of a harrowing future), vg-f 3.00
Ace pb 87855 Van Vogt, A.E. THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER, nd, (© 1951; Imagine an empire of the far future, dictatorial, proud, all-conquering, whose citizens could defy it at will by merely entering a store and buying a gun! The guns would be super-weapons that the Empire couldn't duplicate or defeat - and the stores would be impregnable fortresses open to everyone except soldiers and policemen!), vg $3
Avon G- 1096 Simak, Clifford THE WORLDS OF CLIFFORD SIMAK, nd, (Six science-fiction stories from the $3.75 edition), g-vg 2.50
Del Rey 25474 de Camp, L. Sprague THE BEST OF L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP, 5/78, (deft delights; Poul Anderson intro), hole punch in cover, otherwise vg 3.00
DAW 294 Bayley, Barrington J. STAR WINDS, 6/78, (PBO; The ship that sailed to Mars...and beyond), vg+ 3.00
Pop Lib 08465 Atwood, Margaret SURFACING, 9th, (The most shattering novel a woman ever wrote --), g (underlining) 2.00
Pinnacle 00388 Forester, C.S. COMMODORE HORNBLOWER, 3/75, (#8 in saga), vg-f 3.00
Penguin Classics L86 Huysmans, J.-K. AGAINST NATURE, 2nd('66), (caused a sensation when first published in 1884; translation by Robet Baldick), vg 2.50
Huxley, Aldous THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN, Book Club ('53), (brilliant historical narrative), The Bookfind News #132 leaves laid in (with info on this selection), vg+ in creased dj 5.00

---Note that I now provide links to covershots. It's a little bit extra work for me but I hope it's useful (or interesting or entertaining) being able to catch a glimpse of the actual book cover. Also note that I'm listing more non-fantastical type books. I will still have plenty of sf/f/h genre books to list, but I will stick in everything else I happen to run onto as well. Most of it is things that happened to look interesting to me, or that I thought seemed like a pretty good bargain, or that I thought someone else might be interested in getting, or perhaps a few other reasons -- some maybe not so good -- but here they are anyway. (Discount on all these is 10%, if you didn't already know that.)

new arrivals from Ash-Tree

2008-10-15T09:48:00.001-05:00

---Here today:

Olson, Danel (ed) EXOTIC GOTHIC 2: New Tales of Taboo, Ash-Tree '08, 1st, (almost viral in its adaptability, the nouveau Gothique transforms itself in these pages, feeding off broader cultural anxieties; skillfully violating conventions of horror and suspense—and opening the door to other genres including fantasy, historical account, and travel narrative—the freshness of its stories infects us with something unknown; our old expectations offer no antibodies to this latest mutation), new in dj 49.00

Finch, Paul GHOST REALM, Ash-Tree '08, 1st, (nine terrifying stories; your tour bus awaits: journey from Cornwall to Essex, from the Midlands to East Anglia, from London to Scotland, visit the North of England and Wales; one thing is certain: with Ghost Realm as your guide, any preconceptions you may have of Britain will be changed—forever), new in dj 49.00

---Discount: 20%

new Space and Time

2008-10-11T20:05:00.000-05:00

Here today:

SPACE AND TIME #105, win/08, (The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction; Darrell Schweitzer, Maurice G. Broaddus, David McGillveray, Patrick Thomas), new 5.00

[discount: 20%]

new issue of Not One of Us

2008-09-29T21:15:00.001-05:00

Here today:

NOT ONE OF US #40, 10/08, John Benson, (stories and poems outside the norm; explores "otherness" from every fictional angle; waiting or leaving issue), new 4.50

(discount: 20%)

latest catalogings

2008-09-25T20:56:00.001-05:00

Here's a hodgepodge of books just cataloged:

Tor 53206 Bova, Ben VOYAGERS II: The Alien Within, 1/87, g $1
Del Rey 32348 Hawkins, Ward SWORD OF FIRE, 10/85, (PBO; Harry Borg & Gass, the inimitable lizard-men from Essa!), g $1
Del Rey 30898 Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION'S EDGE, 11/83, (Foundation #4), g 1.50
Del Rey 30887 Drew, Wayland THE MEMOIRS OF ALCHERINGIA, 5/84, (PBO; Erthring Cycle #1; His desire for knowledge made him dangerous to his people but too valuable to kill!), g 1.50
Ace 78053 McIntyre, Vonda N. STARFARERS, 4/89, (Scientists...or renegades?), g-vg $2
Del Rey 29853 Brown, Fredric MARTIANS, GO HOME, 3rd(10/81), (They were little green men, but with a difference...and what a difference!), g-vg 2.50
Del Rey 31488 Daley, Brian JINX ON A TERRAN INHERITANCE , 12/85, (PBO; A blazing new Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh adventure), g-vg 1.50
Faw GM 3980 Goldin, Stephen MIND FLIGHT, ('78), 1st, (PBO; A searing novel of an interplanetary spy out in the cold and on the run, cursed with a telepathic gift that could both save and destroy him!), vg+ 2.50
Roberts, Adam THE SNOW, Gollancz '04, 1st (pb variant), (It falls and falls and falls...until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth), vg-f 8.00
Lancer 72-740 Williamson, Jack GOLDEN BLOOD, 7/64, (PBO; gem from the golden age of Weird Tales; science and sorcery battle in a desert of mystery - and one man fights alone against odds of unimaginable evil), vg 4.00
Oates, Joyce Carol RAPE: A Love Story, Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf '03, 1st, (assailants also killed her grandmother's longhaired orange cat), as new in dj 8.00
Morris, Wright WRITING MY LIFE: An Autobiography, Black Sparrow ('93), (brings together in one volume the memoirs of National Book Award winner), as new 10.00
Gilbar, Steven & Dean Stewart (ed) PUBLISHED & PERISHED: Memoria, Eulogies & Remembarances of American Writers, Godine '02, 1st edn, (47 well considered and often startlingly honest appraisals of great names in American literature, memorialized, eulogized, and sometimes criticized by their closest friends and peers), as new in dj 6.00

new catalog listings

2008-09-22T20:59:00.003-05:00

Being able to stick in links to covershots has got me going a little bit. Since the last couple of new books (from Ash-Tree and Stark House) were cataloged a few days ago, I've added these used books (with links to covershots):

Ace Double D-427 Williams, Robert Moore WORLD OF THE MASTERMINDS / TO THE END OF TIME and Other Stories, ('60), (PBOs), vg-f 7.50
Pyramid F829 Brunner, John THE DREAMING EARTH, 2/63, (PBO; The planet was overcrowded - until people started vanishing into thin air!), vg 3.00
Ballantine U2219 Brunner, John THE WHOLE MAN, 8/64, (PBO; He was a menace - the ultimate power in controlled telepathy!), vg-f 5.00
Ace D-530 Williams, Robert Moore THE DAY THEY H-BOMBED LOS ANGELES, ('61), (PBO; The coming of the zombies - pitiful handful of survivors), vg (binding a bit askew, otherwise vg-f) 8.00
Signet P3113 Brunner, John THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME, 2/67, (PBO; A sadistic playwright's avant-garde theater thrusts a troupe of actors into an experiment in programmed perversion), g-vg $2; vg (small price label) 3.00
Ace F- 350 Bradley, Marion Zimmer STAR OF DANGER, ('65), (PBO; Darkover; He ventured where expert spacemen never dared), g-vg $2; vg (small price label) 3.50
Ace F- 303 Bradley, Marion Zimmer THE BLOODY SUN, ('64), (PBO; Darkover; The stranger who comes home does not make himself at home but makes home strange), vg $4; vg+ 5.00
Ace pb 84601 Carr, Terry (ed) UNIVERSE 2, ('72), (PBO; all-new stories; Ellison, Wolfe, Lafferty, Silverberg, etc.), g-vg 2.50 (no link to covershot on this one - evidently I missed snapping this)
Ballantine 72019 Brunner, John DOUBLE, DOUBLE, 1/69, (PBO), g-vg $1; vg-f 3.00
Belmont Double 00081 Brunner, John / Duncan, Bruce FATHER OF LIES / MIRROR IMAGE, 10/68, (PBOs; Which is the real world? / ...And who are the real men?), vg 5.00
Lessing, Doris STORIES, Vintage, 4/80, (major collection; contains all of author's short fiction by 1978, other than the stories set in Africa), vg 5.00
Twain, Mark THE UNABRIDGED MARK TWAIN 1 & 2, Running Press, 11th & 6th printings, (contains every major piece of fiction by Twain; 1289 & 1118 pages), the pair, g-vg & vg 12.00
Wodehouse, P.G. NOTHING BUT WODEHOUSE, Garden City/Book Club, nd, (three wildly hilarious volumes in one; Ogden Nash [ed]), vg in dj 6.00
Craig, Patricia (ed) THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH DETECTIVE STORIES, Oxford '90, (gathers together a wide range of stories, many unfamiliar; the cream of crime; 554 pages), vg+ in dj 8.00
Naipaul, V.S. THE RETURN OF EVA PERON, Knopf '80, 1st edn, (with The Killings in Trinidad; essays), vg in dj 10.00
London, Jack STORIES: The Call of the Wild, The Cruise of the Dazzler and Other Stories of Adventure, Platt & Munk Great Writers Collection ('60), (with the Author's Special Report: Gold Hunters of the North; 528 pages), g (solid, clean) 4.00
Williamson, Jack THREE FROM THE LEGION, SFBC, nd (code J47 on p535), (collects The Legion of Space, The Cometeers & One Against the Legion; 536 pages), "Things to Come" (12/79) leaflet laid in, vg+ in vg dj 7.00
Drew, Wayland THE ERTHRING CYCLE, SFBC, nd (code Q35 on p656), (3-in-1 omnibus edn; collects The Memoirs of Alcheringia, The Gaian Expedient & The Master of Norriya; 659 pages), vg+ in dj 5.00

more fun with flickr

2008-09-16T08:30:00.002-05:00

Well, I wasted just about the entire day yesterday making covershots for all the books acquired lately -- mostly from the big Planned Parenthood book sale. Included in the batch were a couple new arrivals: ones from Stark House and Ash-Tree, the latest in standing orders I need to catalog -- as well as a couple from a Barnes & Noble at the shopping mall over the weekend that looked good (Five Novels, big omnibi each by James Fennimore Cooper and Bram Stoker). Total covershots taken yesterday: 233. This ran up against a limit for a free flickr account, so I went ahead and upgraded to a pro account. If you want to see the books for yourself, you can view them as a slideshow. Lots of fun! I will try to add descriptions to the books as they become available. Seems flickr in their community guidelines frowns on commercial enterprise, so I won’t include condition grading and pricing in my descriptions, but I will link from the book title in my catalog listings to the covershots on flickr.
---This morning I added another batch of internet-ready photos -- the ones I’ve uploaded to my biblio.com listings. These are already cataloged and can be found in the listings. When I get a chance I might copy some of the cataloguing information and use it in the photo descriptions.
---Now that I’m catching the (shutter-) bug again, maybe I’ll see what non-covershot pix I might have -- and maybe start carrying the camera around for a few snaps somewhere else besides on the graymat in the sunroom.

new arrival from Ash-Tree

2008-09-15T15:33:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Probert, John Llewellyn COFFIN NAILS, Ash-Tree, 7/08, 1st, one of 400 copies, (eighteen tales designed to make you gasp with horror and shudder with delight), new in dj 49.00

(discount: 20%)

covershots on flickr

2008-09-15T08:01:00.003-05:00

Fooling around with the computer this morning I took the covershots for the box of books I just opened for cataloguing and put them on flickr. I'm sure I'm far from having it all figured out, but I believe you can check them out for yourself at http://www.flickr.com/photos/30453880@N04/sets/72157607301305196/. As I catalog them, perhaps I will add the catalog entries to the descriptions.
---Speaking of covershots, I have quite a few more to take piled up in the sunroom, of books picked up at the big Planned Parenthood booksale over the past weekend. I will try to get these up on flickr too -- one of those things I will wonder why it took me so long to glom onto.

new arrival from Stark House

2008-09-13T15:16:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Miller, Wade THE KILLER / DEVIL ON TWO STICKS: Two Mysteries, Stark House Noir Classics, 9/08, 1st thus, (collects 1951 Gold Medal pb & 1949 hc reprinted by Signet in 1950 as Killer's Choice; adds intro by Bob Wade & "Bob Wade and Bill Miller: The Deadly Collaboration" by David Laurence Wilson), new 17.95

(discount: 20%)

books added to biblio listings

2008-08-14T12:35:00.001-05:00

As well as to my own catalog listings, these older pre-ISBN paperbacks have also been added to my biblio listings, where my covershot images have also been uploaded to accompany the descriptions:

Ace Double D-517 Simak, Clifford / Chandler, A. Bertram THE TROUBLE WITH TYCHO / BRING BACK YESTERDAY, ('61), (PBOs), vg+ (small price sticker) 4.00
Ace Double F-117 Chandler, A. Bertram / Bradley, Marion Zimmer RENDEZVOUS ON A LOST WORLD / THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE, ('61), (PBOs; Prisoners of a Cybernetic Paradise / Beware of the 4-D demons), vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Ace Double F-123 Silverberg, Robert / Brackett, Leigh COLLISION COURSE / THE NEMESIS FROM TERRA, ('61), (PBOs), g $2; vg (small price sticker) $3; vg+ 5.00
Ace Double F-133 Chandler, A Bertram / Brunner, John THE RIM OF SPACE / SECRET AGENT OF TERRA, ('62), (the Brunner half is a PBO; blurb: Vultures from the A-Power orbit), g-vg $3; vg (small price label) $4; vg-f 5.00
Ace Double F-153 Bradley, Marion Zimmer THE SWORD OF ALDONES / THE PLANET SAVERS, ('62), (PBOs; Darkover), g-vg 3.50
Ace Double F-187 Brackett, Leigh / Wallis, G. McDonald ALPHA CENTAURI OR DIE! / LEGEND OF LOST EARTH, ('63), (PBOs; Robot alert - stop that starship! / Only traitors talk of Terra), vg+ 5.00
Ace Double F-215 Brunner, John /Roberts, Jane LISTEN! THE STARS! / THE REBELLERS, ('63), (PBOs; Tune in on eternity - and disappear / The Population Explosion conspiracy), g-vg (small price label) $3; vg 4.00
Ace Double F-242 Brunner, John CASTAWAYS WORLD / THE RITES OF OHE, ('63), (PBOs), vg+ (small price label) 4.00
Ace Double G-592 Brunner, John / Rackham, John A PLANET OF YOUR OWN / THE BEASTS OF KOHL, ('66), (PBOs), vg+ 4.00
Ace Double M-141 Vance, Jack THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH / THE BRAINS OF EARTH, ('66), (PBOs), vg+ (small price sticker) $7; vg+ 8.00
Ace F-320 Woodcott, Keith (=John Brunner) THE MARTIAN SPHINX, ('65), (PBO; Was it a message from Mars or an interplanetary trap?), vg (small price sticker) $3; vg-f 4.00
Ace G-664 Brunner, John BORN UNDER MARS, ('67), (PBO; The two branches of humanity converged on the Red Planet), g-vg (small price sticker) $2; vg 3.00
Ace G-669 Brackett, Leigh THE COMING OF THE TERRANS, ('67), (PBO; Could Earthmen stand against the forgotten sicnece of the Red Planet?), vg+ (small price sticker) $4; vg-f 5.00
Ace G-688 Vance, Jack CITY OF THE CHASCH, ('68), (PBO; Planet of Adventure #1), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Ace S- 90 Williams, Robert Moore THE CHAOS FIGHTERS, ('55), (PBO; People were disappearing into space!; For Sale -- Homo Sapiens!), fr-g $2; g $3; vg (small price label) 4.00
Ballantine U6035 Brunner, John THE SQUARES OF THE CITY, 12/65, (PBO; sociological SF), g-vg $2; vg 3.00
Berkley F1003 Vance, Jack THE KILLING MACHINE, 11/64, (PBO; Demon Princes #2), vg 4.00
Dell 0441 Vance, Jack THE ANOME, 3/73, (Durdane #1), vg (small price sticker) $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 4.50
Lancer 72-761 Williamson, Jack THE REIGN OF WIZARDRY, '64, (PBO; The magic of the dark one enslaved the world...Theseus alone stood against it; A classic of the Unknown; orig: 1940), vg $3; vg+ (price sticker) $4; vg-f 5.00
Lancer 72-809 Williams, Robert Moore ZANTHAR AT MOON'S MADNESS, '68, (PBO; Zanthar #2; Men vanished when the mutant maidens attacked - but only Zanthar knew that the entire universe was in peril!), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Lancer 73-644 Williams, Robert Moore VIGILANTE--21st CENTURY, '67, (orig; Super-scientific weapons gave organized criminals an advantage the law couldn't match -- until one brave man fought back), vg 2.00
Paperback Library 52-811 Vale, Rena BEYOND THE SEALED WORLD, 6/65, (PBO; A remarkable novel of concurrent worlds struggling for survival - and conquest! - in some future time), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Paperback Library 63-479 Vale, Rena THE DAY AFTER DOOMSDAY, 11/70, (PBO; A Fantasy of Time Travel; What mysterious power chose this strange group of people to rebuild the shattered world?), vg+ 3.00

---I haven't figured out how to keep the covershots from being up-ended by the upload to biblio, but I'm pleased with their zoom feature.

new arrival from Spectre Library

2008-08-13T16:32:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Rousseau, Victor THE DEVIL CHAIR, Spectre Library '08, one of 200 numbered copies, (A Chronicle of the Strange Adventures of John Haynes and His Gyroscope Vehicle; hitherto unreprinted series first published in 1914 in various newspapers; Mike Ashley intro), new in dj 40.00

(discount: 20%)

newly cataloged books listed

2008-08-04T13:42:00.002-05:00

Sure enough, I've been an abject failure in my plan to add newly cataloged books to this blog more or less as they get written. From various piles underfoot that past several days I have managed to list a few. These:

Lumley, Brian BEST MYTHOS TALES: Volumes One and Two (THE TAINT and Other Novellas & HAGGOPIAN and Other Stories), Subterranean '07-8, 1st edns, SIGNED "Deluxe Hardcover Edition", (previously uncollected), the pair, as a set, as new in djs 65.00
Berkley F905 Vance, Jack THE STAR KING, 4/64, (PBO; Demon Princes #1), g-vg $3; vg 4.00
Ace Double M-125a/b Vance, Jack MONSTERS IN ORBIT / THE WORLD BETWEEN and Other Stories, ('65), (origs), vg+ 7.50
Lancer 73094 Williams, Robert Moore ZANTHAR OF THE MANY WORLDS, '67, (orig; brilliant electronics translated to another world by strange, subatomic energy vortex, where it's do...or die!; first book in Zanthar series), vg 3.00
Ace pb 84600 Carr, Terry (ed) UNIVERSE 1, ('71), (orig; never-before-published science fiction stories; first-rate), vg+ (price label) 4.00
Ace Double M-115 Brunner, John THE REPAIRMEN OF CYCLOPS/ENIGMA FROM TANTALUS, ('65), (origs), vg+ 4.50
Pinnacle 00010 Britain, Dan THE GODMAKERS, ('70), (orig; will make you squirm; whether you believe or don't believe in Survival of the Spriit - ESP - Telepathy - this book is a MUST READ!), vg+ 2.00
Cheever, John THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER, Book Club, nd, (694 pages), trade pb, vg 3.00
Oates, Joyce Carol (ed) AMERICAN GOTHIC TALES, Book Club ('96), (the definitive collection of chilling American fiction; Hawthorne, Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Bradbury, Anne Rice, Straub, King, and 38 others; 548 pages), vg+ in dj 3.00
Simenon, Georges THE MURDERER, Thorndike Large Print, nd, (psychological novel), ex-libr else vg (pictorial boards) 4.00
Mazzeo, Henry (ed) HAUNTINGS: Tales of the Supernatural, Book Club, ('68), (none of these stories is a spoof, but a comic undercurrent accompanies the chills in some; Derleth, Lovecraft, Bloch, Wellman, etc.; Gorey illus), vg in dj 3.00
Mailer, Norman THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, Owl/Holt, 4th, (great WWII novel; the debut of a prodigal and brilliant American talent), fr-g (reading copy) 4.00
Spectra 58903 Ryan, C.J. BURDENS OF EMPIRE, 9/07, (orig; final book in gorgeous and sexy Gloria VanDeen series), publicity release laid in, f 3.00
Spectra 58905 Bear, Elizabeth UNDERTOW, 2nd, (The tide is turning...; hard-edged, gritty, and wonderfully inventive military sf story that deals with international politics in a world greatly altered by global warming), publicity release laid in, f5.00
DAW 1355 Cherryh, C.J. PRETENDER, 2/07, (The exciting sequel to Destroyer; in Foreigner series), f 5.00
Tor UK 41160 Asher, Neal THE VOYAGE OF THE SABLE KEECH, '06, (PBO; ancient hive mind, ennui of immortality, nanochanger resurrection, Spatterjay virus, etc.), f 12.00

(subject to regular 10% used-book discount)

new arrival from Ash-Tree

2008-07-28T13:23:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Henderson, Mark P. ROPE TRICK: Thirteen Strange Tales, Ash-Tree '08, 1st, one of 400 copies, (will evoke that 'pleasing terror' to be found in the best supernatural tales, and with nary a creaking door or disappearing corpse in sight), new in dj 49.00

(Discount: 20%)

new arrivals

2008-07-24T08:33:00.002-05:00

Haven't been many signs of life hereabouts lately. To try to remedy this, I think I will try pasting in newly cataloged books on a daily basis as they are cataloged. Heretofore I've been waiting to get discrete batches finished and then dropping the list in here, for anyone not bothering to check my "new to catalog listings". Listing here as I go along too might give me impetus to get working harder on getting the books actually cataloged rather than creating an obstacle course in our living room. To make for a very modest beginning, here is what I cataloged this morning -- some books I picked up at a local Goodwill not too long ago:

Dietz, William C. WHEN ALL SEEMS LOST, Ace, 10/07, 1st edn, (A novel of The Legion of the Damned; military SF), vg+ in dj 6.00
Weber, David & Steve White THE STARS AT WAR, Baen Megabook, 8/04, 1st thus, (collects Crusade [1992] and In Death Ground [1997]; the Prequels to The Shiva Option), vg+ in dj 5.00
King, Stephen INSOMNIA, Book Club, (787 pages), vg+ in dj 5.00
Reilly, Matthew CONTEST, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 3/03, 1st US edn, (action-packed extravaganza that launched author's international bestselling career; previously self-published; set in New York Public Library), vg+ in dj 3.50

new issue of Space & Time

2008-07-23T13:26:00.001-05:00

Here today:

SPACE AND TIME #104, sum-fall/08, (Harry Turtledove, Ruthanna Emrys, Chet Gottfried, Richard Parks), new 5.00

(discount:20%)

another box of books

2008-07-02T16:44:00.000-05:00

Another box of books dropped in, this one 28# of mostly review copies, lots of them from the UK. Here are the bare titles:

9tailfox • ally • bloodmind • burdens of empire • carnival • darkland • days • deadstock • divergence • helix • hydrogen steel • infoquake • jennifer government • living next door to the god of love • matriarch • meq • narrows • nova swing • old man's war • one of us • outrageous fortune • polystom • pretender • rollback • snow • spin control • stamping butterflies • undertow • untied kingdom • virtual evil • voyage of the sable keech • wellstone • world before • x president

Hopefully I can get around to cataloging these before long, but I still have several other piles and boxes of books that I am trying not to find too out of the way a place to stash, lest they be completely overlooked.

Postscripts #14 here

2008-07-02T07:22:00.001-05:00

This came in exactly three weeks ago, but I've neglected to catalog it until now:

POSTSCRIPTS #14, PS, ("The Ghosts We Have Become" by Paul Jessup; Rhys Hughes, Sarah Monette, Robert Reed, Jeff VanderMeer and others), as new 12.00

(10% discount)

new arrival from Ash-Tree

2008-06-24T13:29:00.000-05:00

Here today:

O'Brien, Fitz-James THE WONDERSMITH and Others, Ash-Tree, 4/08, 1st thus, one of 400 copies, (first published in 1988 by Doubleday in two volumes; Jessica Amanda Salmonson [ed & intro]), new in dj 49.00

(discount: 20%)

more pbs covershot

2008-06-22T16:22:00.002-05:00

Sprang another couple boxes of paperbacks from storage for hopefully sooner rather than later cataloging, just about all PBOs and just about all in nice condition, heavy on Jack Vance and John Brunner (as well as Jack Williamson, Robert Moore Williams, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ted White). The bare titles (or Ace Double numbers):

ace double d-322
ace double d-427
ace double d-517
ace double f-117
ace double f-119
ace double f-123
ace double f-127
ace double f-133
ace double f-153
ace double f-161
ace double f-187
ace double f-215
ace double f-227
ace double f-242
ace double f-265
ace double f-273
ace double f-299
ace double g-592
ace double h-21
ace double m-101
ace double m-115
ace double m-123
ace double m-125
ace double m-141
anome
avengers of carrig
beachhead planet
bedlam planet
bell from infinity
beyond the sealed world
bloody sun
blue world
born under mars
brave free men
bright new universe
by furies possessed
catch a falling star
chaos fighters
city of the chasch
coming of the terrans
darkover landfall
day after doomsday
day of the star cities
day they h-bombed los angeles
double, double
dramaturges of yan
dreaming earth
evil that men do / purloined planet
father of lies / mirror image
future tense
godmakers
golden blood
hunters of the red moon
into the slave nebula
jewels of elsewhen
killing machine
martian sphinx
mile-long spaceship
phoenix prime
productions of time
reign of wizardry
return of jongor
second atlantis
servants of the wankh
sideslip
sorceress of qar
space opera
squares of the city
star barbarian
star king
star of danger
stardroppers
starmind
super barbarians
taurus four
timescoop
to conquer chaos
traveler in black
trial of terra
vigilante 21st century
when two worlds meet
whole man
zanthar at moon's madness
zanthar at the edge of never
zanthar at trip's end
zanthar of the many worlds

---Just about all of these will also go up in my biblio.com listings now, as well as my regular catalog. Before, it would have been Amazon, but I think with biblio I get to pocket a bit more of the selling price. Amazon's traffic is doubtless better, and the books I already list there I will keep up, and they do seem to sell regularly, but I also like the way I can upload my own images of each book to my biblio listings. I've only been doing this on recent listings, but it seems to be working out well without too much hassle. Of course, anyone wanting to see the covershots before then can have me send the pdf as an email attachment, or I could burn a bunch of them on a CD-R for you, so you could view them as a slideshow.

new arrival from Stark House

2008-06-21T10:33:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Powell, Richard A SHOT IN THE DARK / SHELL GAME, Stark House Mystery Classics, 6/08, 1st combined edn, (two mysteries; orig: 1950 & 1952; adds "The Powells Discover Ft. Myers" by Dorothy Powell Quigley; 276 pages), new 14.95

(Discount: 20%)

new arrival from Tartarus

2008-05-19T07:33:00.001-05:00

Here today:

Hoffmann, E.T.A. THE SAND-MAN and other Night Pieces, Tartarus '08, limited to 500 copies, (definitive collection of author's supernatural stories; translations by J.T. Bealby, A. Ewing, Thomas Carlyle, E.F. Bleiler and Helen Grant; edited and introduced by Jim Rockhill; sewn hardback book of 531+xviii pages), new in dj 70.00

(discount: 15%)

batch of paperbacks cataloged

2008-05-15T08:41:00.002-05:00

Just finished listing this batch of paperbacks:

Ace A- 10 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1967, ('67), (The finest stories of modern science fiction by Zelazny, Pohl, Dick, Aldiss, Davidson and many others), g-vg $2; vg+ 3.50
Ace A- 15 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1968, ('68), (The finest stories of the year [1967]), vg-f 3.00
Ace D- 525 Leinster, Murray THIS WORLD IS TABOO, ('61), (orig; Ships for the galactic untouchables), vg+ 4.00
Ace D- 555 Williamson, Jack THE TRIAL OF TERRA, ('62), (orig; Were the celestial judges themselves guiltless?), vg+ 4.00
Ace Double D-311a/b Silverberg, Robert / Wright, Lan STEPSONS OF TERRA / A MAN CALLED DESTINY, ('58), (origs), vg 4.50
Ace Double D-403a/b Leinster, Murray THE PIRATES OF ZAN / THE MUTANT WEAPON, ('59), (origs), g-vg $3; vg 5.00
Ace Double D-491a/b Leiber, Fritz THE BIG TIME / THE MIND SPIDER And Other Stories, ('61), (origs), vg 5.00
Ace Double F-145a/b Silverberg, Robert NEXT STOP THE STARS / THE SEED OF EARTH, ('62), (origs), vg $4; vg+ 6.00
Ace Double H- 48a/b Wright, Lan / Wobig, Ellen THE PICTURES OF PAVANNE / THE YOUTH MONOPOLY, ('68), (origs), vg-f 3.50
Ace F- 347 Wright, Lan THE LAST HOPE OF EARTH, ('65), (orig; The year nature went berserk), g-vg $1; vg+ $3; vg-f 4.00
Ace F- 420 Jones, Neil R. THE PLANET OF THE DOUBLE SUN, ('67), (orig; Professor Jameson space adventure #1; The first saga of the Zoromes -- a cosmic series in the grand manner!), vg $3; vg+ 5.00
Ace G- 631 Jones, Neil R. THE SUNLESS WORLD, ('67), (orig; Professor Jameson Space Adventure #2; Trapped in the caverns of an exploding planet!), vg+ 3.00
Ace G- 641 Williamson, Jack BRIGHT NEW UNIVERSE, ('67), (orig; Earth calling all stars - - - S.O.S.; other races... other evils?), vg+ 3.00
Ace G- 647 Leinster, Murray S.O.S. FROM THREE WORLDS, ('66), (orig; Super-Medic for interstellar catastrophes), vg+ 3.50
Ace G- 650 Jones, Neil R. SPACE WAR, ('67), (orig; Professor Jameson Space Adventure #3; The last Earthman holds the balanece of power in a war between machine-men), vg+ 3.00
Ace G- 656 Jakes, John WHEN THE STAR KINGS DIE, ('67), (orig; Was it the end of a galactic empire - or the dawn of a greater one?), g-vg $1; vg+ 3.00
Ace G- 667 McDaniel, David THE ARSENAL OUT OF TIME, ('67), (orig; xxx marks the space hoard), vg $2; vg+ 2.50; vg-f 3.00
Ace G- 719 Jones, Neil R. DOOMSDAY ON AJIAT, ('68), (orig; Professor Jameson Space Adventure #5; Even the machine men of Zor could not withstand this holocaust!), vg+ 3.00
Ace H- 15 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1966, (The year's [1965's] finest tales of wonder, by Clarke, Leiber, Goulart, Schmitz and many more), vg $3
Ace H- 38 Leiber, Fritz THE SWORDS OF LANKHMAR, ('68), (A wonder novel of Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser by the foremost master of sword-and-sorcery science-fiction...), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Ace H- 73 Leiber, Fritz SWORDS AGAINST WIZARDRY, ('68), (orig; Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser), vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Ace H- 90 Leiber, Fritz SWORDS IN THE MIST, ('68), (orig; Fafhard the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser), vg 3.00
Ace pb 62380 Zebrowski, George THE OMEGA POINT, 8/72, (orig; Sixty-one centuries of Earth rule is challenged), vg+ $2; vg-f 3.00
Ace pb 63590 Rankine, John OPERATION UMANAQ, 2/73, (orig; A war as nonviolent as a snowman -- but as deadly as the bitter cold of space), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 65125 Williamson, Jack THE PANDORA EFFECT, ('69), (orig; stories; A box of wonders from lost eons and future worlds), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Ace pb 65890 Williamson, Jack PEOPLE MACHINES (with hints for design and assembly), ('71), (orig; stories), vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 91352 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLDS BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1969, ('69), (The year's most imaginative stories; [1968]), vg 3.00
Ace pb 91358 Wollheim, Donald A. & Terry Carr (eds) WORLDS BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1971, ('71), (orig), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 91359 Pohl, Frederik (ed) BEST SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1972, 9/72, (orig; continuing the famous Ace series World's Best Science Fiction), vg $2; vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 91360 Ackerman, Forrest J (ed) BEST SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1973, 6/73, (orig; cream-of-the-crop stories by van Vogt, Pohl, Farmer, Silverberg, Spinrad and many more), vg $2; vg+ $3; vg-f 3.50
Ace S- 90 Williams, Robert Moore THE CHAOS FIGHTERS, ('55), (orig; People were disappearing into space!; For Sale -- Homo Sapiens!), fr-g 3.50
Avon 15073 Malzberg, Barry N. IN THE ENCLOSURE, 5/73, (orig; disturbingly human story of the first meeting of creatures from space with the people of Earth), vg $2; vg+ 2.50
Avon G- 1120 Leinster, Murray TALENTS, INCORPORATED, ('62), (orig; The remorseless aggressors had everything in the galaxy on their side -- except the little idiosyncrasies of the human mind!), vg+ 5.00
Avon G- 1310 Leinster, Murray MINERS IN THE SKY, 4/67, (orig; savage exploreres of forgotten moons battle for treasure in the lawless rings of outer space), vg 2.50
Avon G- 1318 Leinster, Murray SPACE GYPSIES, 6/67, (orig; Man and his galactic ancestors join forces to preserve the race), vg+ $4; vg-f 4.50
Avon S 363 Jakes, John BRAK THE BARBARIAN, 7/68, (orig; Into the thrice-fired hell of Yob-Haggoth strode the yellow-haired giant of the north), vg+ 3.00
Avon T- 345 Leinster, Murray MONSTERS AND SUCH, ('59), (orig; Seven startling stories of the inhuman and the nonhuman by the unrivaled master of the impossible), vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Avon T- 389 Leinster, Murray TWISTS IN TIME, ('60), (orig; six dazzling ifs of time guaranteed to spin the hardest head), vg+ $3; vg-f 4.00
Avon T- 483 Leinster, Murray THE WAILING ASTEROID, ('60), (orig; From space beyond man's reach the music came -- was it a dirge for our dying world?), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Award AN1149 Hughes, Zach THE BOOK OF RACK THE HEALER, ('73), (orig; It was a rigid society, based on thousands of years of unquestioning obedience to tradition - until Rack the Healer defied the most ancient of laws in a daring quest for knowledge; This is his story --), vg-f 3.00
Bal 237 Wilson, Richard THOSE IDIOTS FROM EARTH, ('57), (orig; stories; Be glad you're human...), vg+ 4.50
Bal 434K Wilson, Richard 30-DAY WONDER, ('60), (orig; In which an atom-happy Earth tackles the disconcerting problem of friendly outer-spacers: the Monolithians...), g-vg $2; vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Bal F561 Leiber, Fritz THE SILVER EGGHEADS, ('61), (orig; A headlong riot of hilarious science fiction satire), vg $5; vg+ (with review slip laid in) 7.50
Bal F657 Wilson, Richard TIME OUT FOR TOMORROW, ('62), (orig; twelve science fiction tales of vivid imagination), vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Bal U 2216 Leiber, Fritz A PAIL OF AIR, 7/64, (orig; stories; science fiction at its irreverent best), vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Bal U 2254 Leiber, Fritz THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF, 7/66, (orig; four novellas; an ironic encouragement to the peace of the world), vg $4; vg-f 6.00
Bal U 6010 Leiber, Fritz THE WANDERER, ('64), (orig; To millions of humans running like ants over the shifting crust of the Earth, the Wanderer came as terror, to overset the certainties of science, to wreck the world, but to open up the hearts and minds of mankind), g-vg $2; vg 3.00
Bal U 6125 Leiber, Fritz TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD, 4/66, (orig; movie novelization; Tarzan #25), vg+ 7.50
Ball 02179 Mason, Douglas R. HORIZON ALPHA, 3/71, (orig; rigid, stratified, the city itself threatened his life...), g $1
Ball 03366 Mason, Douglas R. THE END BRINGERS, 6/73, (orig; The androids had a built-in fail-safe method for destroying humans...), vg 2.00
Bantam A1571 Matheson, Richard THE SHORES OF SPACE, 2/57, (orig; stories), vg $5; vg+ 7.50
Belmont 1018 Jones, Raymond F. SYN, 6/69, (orig; None could be certain of his own humanity -- all feared them), vg+ 2.50
Belmont 588 Jones, Raymond F. THE NON-STATISTICAL MAN, 5/64, (orig; 4 stories; reprints from Science Fiction Stories & Future SF), vg+ 3.50
Belmont 676 Leinster, Murray GET OFF MY WORLD!, 4/64, (3 exciting tales; WARNING: This book contains...alien planets, superhuman intelligences, all that's curious and terrifying), vg 3.50
Berkley F1022 Leinster, Murray INVADERS OF SPACE, 12/64, (orig; a message from space), vg $2
Berkley F1263 Leinster, Murray CHECKPOINT LAMBDA, 7/66, (orig; collision course with the Five Comets), vg 2.50
Berkley F694 Leinster, Murray OPERATION TERROR, ('62), (Mankind faces extinction at the hands of interplanetary "visitors"), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Berkley F918 Leinster, Murray THE OTHER SIDE OF NOWHERE, 5/64, (orig; a place in the universe where up was down, where right was wrong, and where all direction was lost...), vg $2; vg+ 2.50
Berkley F974 Kapp, Colin TRANSFINITE MAN, 9/64, (orig; Dalroi: Trouble-man of the future), vg 2.00
Berkley G410 Leinster, Murray THE ALIENS, 3/60, (orig; stories exploring the weird and wonderful possibilities of life on other worlds), vg+ (almost vg-f) 4.00
Berkley G549 Leinster, Murray CREATURES OF THE ABYSS, 8/61, (orig; From the ocean depths terror stalked mankind!), g $2; vg+ 4.00
Faw Cr s282 Margulies, Leo (ed) 3 FROM OUT THERE, 3/59, (orig; 3 macabre masterpieces by Asimov, Knight, Hamilton), vg $3; vg+ 3.50
Faw Cr s362 Margulies, Leo (ed) GET OUT OF MY SKY, 3/60, (orig; Three great short novels of space and time by Blish, Anderson, Scortia), vg+ 2.50
Faw GM L1494 Kastle, Herbert D. THE REASSEMBLED MAN, ('64), (He made a fantastic bargain with creatures from another world -- the loan of his brain in exchange for an unearthly legacy), vg $4; vg+ 5.00
Faw GM s726 Margulies, Leo (ed) THREE TIMES INFINITY, 1/58, (orig; novelettes by Bradbury & Brackett, Sturgeon, Heinlein), vg+ 3.00
Faw GM S832 Leinster, Murray THE MONSTER FROM EARTH'S END, 1/59, (orig; There was nothing on the island big enough to kill a man, yet each new day brought with it another bloody death, another mysterious disappearance), vg $3; vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Faw GM T2670 Hurwood, Bernhardt J. THE MIND MASTER, 2/73, (psychic adventure about The Invisibles), vg $2
Lancer 74628 Mason, David THE SORCERER'S SKULL, ('70), (orig; Lord Owen crosses the gates of hell to return the sorcerer's talisman to its lace of birth!), vg $2; vg-f 3.50
Lancer 75072 Howard, Robert E., L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter CONAN OF CIMMERIA, '69, (orig; Conan #10; contains Queen of the Black Coast; new intro by de Camp), vg+ 3.00
Lancer 75217 Mason, David THE SHORES OF TOMORROW, ('71), (Ian Kinnon wars across the time lines to save his Earth from a new Dark Age!), vg+ 2.50
Lancer 75320 Hoskins, Robert (ed) INFINITY THREE, ('72), (Every story new!; Simak, Silverberg, Goulart, Malzberg, Koontz and many more), g-vg 3.00
Lancer 75372 Mason, David KAVIN'S WORLD, nd, (heroic fantasy; in the tradition of the immortal Conan), vg+ 3.00
Lancer 75387 Hoskins, Robert (ed) INFINITY FOUR, ('72), (new writings in speculative fiction; Leiber, Anderson, Silverberg, Koontz, Malzberg, Nolan and others), vg+ 5.00
Lancer 75486 Malzberg, Barry N. THE MEN INSIDE, ('73), (The outcasts of the world invade the darkness of earth's soul), vg 3.50
Lancer 78762 Mason, David THE DEEP GODS, ('73), (The man came from another age, to the time of the Dolphin, and he possessed the key to life's ultimate survival), vg 2.50
Macfadden 224 Leinster, Murray THE GREKS BRING GIFTS, '64, (orig; The Greks were people-haters), vg $2; vg-f 3.00
Mentor MW1236 Wilson, Robin Scott (ed) THOSE WHO CAN: A Science Fiction Reader, 9/73, (orig; A unique and provocative collection of stories - with critiques - by America's outstanding writers of science fiction), vg+ 3.50
Monarch 270 Winterbotham, Russ THE RED PLANET, 8/62, (orig; Violence and intrigue - a million miles in space), vg+ 3.00
Monarch 431 Hadley, Franklin PLANET BIG ZERO, 4/64, (orig; what could one man do against a hate-filled enemy bent on mastery of the universe?), vg-f 4.00
Pap Lib 63049 Jakes, John THE HYBRID, 2/69, (orig; He was a hybrid - half human, half Omqu - with the strange mental power to wipe out the universe as a psychedelic projector), vg+ 4.00
Pap Lib 63089 Jakes, John BRAK THE BARBARIAN VS. THE SORCERESS, 4/69, (orig; #1 in series), vg+ 4.00
Pap Lib 63184 Jakes, John BRAK THE BARBARIAN VERSUS THE MARK OF THE DEMONS, 9/69, (orig; #2 in series), g $1
Pocket 77710 Malzberg, Barry N. PHASE IV, 11/73, (orig; movie novelization; A race of super ants delivers an ultimatum to mankind - ADAPT OR DIE!), g $1
Pop Libr 00272 Wylie, Philip LOS ANGELES: A.D. 2017, ('71), (orig; A novel based on Wylie's special teleplay for NBC-TV's The Name of the Game; What will happen when man's poisoned atmosphere drives him underground?), g-vg $2
Pyramid F899 Margulies, Leo (ed) 3 IN 1, 8/63, (Sturgeon, Simak, Leinster), vg $2; vg-f 4.00
Pyramid F987 Leinster, Murray DOCTOR TO THE STARS, 3/64, (orig; Calhoun of the Med Service -- spaceman, physician, interstellar troubleshooter!), vg 3.50
Pyramid G590 Margulies, Leo (ed) THE UNEXPECTED, 2/61, (orig; 11 strange stories, reprinted from Weird Tales), vg+ $4; vg-f 5.00
Pyramid R1043 Leinster, Murray TIME TUNNEL, 7/64, (orig; The atomic era and the age of Napoleon -- linked), vg+ $3
Pyramid X1846 Leinster, Murray LAND OF THE GIANTS, 9/68, (orig; based on the spectacular ABC-TV series), vg $3
Tempo 05335 Johnston, William SAM WESKIT ON THE PLANET FRAMINGHAM, 5/70, (orig; the wackiest space mission yet!), vg+ 5.00

---Lots of these have multiple copies -- mostly they are in exceptional condition, from a humongous collection of paperback originals.

new arrival from Stark House

2008-05-09T10:16:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Rabe, Peter ANATOMY OF A KILLER / A SHROUD FOR JESSO, Stark House Noir Classics, 4/08, 1st thus, (reprints two Gold Medal paperback original mysteries; adds "Noir and Gestalt: The Life of Peter Rabe" by George Tuttle & "Peter Rabe" by Donald E. Westlake), new 14.95

(discount: 20%)

new arrivals from John Benson

2008-04-28T16:43:00.000-05:00

Here today:

NOT ONE OF US Special Publications: Clarity, 2/05 • Change, 2/06 • Midrash, 2/07 • Home and Away, 1/08, (a series of annual, variously-titled collections from the editors of Not One of Us), 32-page booklets, new each, 3.50

and recently arrived but only cataloged now:

NOT ONE OF US #39, 4/08, John Benson, (stories and poems outside the norm; explores "otherness" from every fictional angle; In this issue, the animals have taken over), new 4.50

Take a look, too, at a list of the more than 100 stories and poems from the pages of Not One of Us that have been reprinted or honorably mentioned in best-of collections.

new arrival from Tartarus

2008-04-22T09:17:00.000-05:00

Here today:

WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #10, (on Aickman, Leiber, Eich, Kenneth Grant, Michael McDowell; Stableford on The Decadent World-View; Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson), new 19.00

(discount: 15% -- although I'm not sure how the current exchange rate affects the US$ cost of this now)

new arrival from Haffner

2008-04-22T09:00:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Williamson, Jack THE WORLDS OF JACK WILLIAMSON: 1908 - A Centennial Tribute - 2008, Haffner '08, 1st trade edn, (includes canonical as well as never-before-published material. covering all facets of author's amazing career; Foreword by Frederik Pohl; Introduction by James Gunn; 695+xxiv pages), new in dj 40.00 (discount: 20%)

---this batch of copies comes with the 12-page promotional booklet "The Cat That Loved Shakespeare" by Jack Williamson.

new arrivals from Ash-Tree

2008-04-21T10:58:00.002-05:00

Here today:

Jerome, Jerome K. CITY OF THE SEA and Other Ghost Stories, Ash-Tree, 3/08, 1st, one of 400 copies, (marks the first occasion on which all of Jerome K. Jerome's 'ghost' stories have been collected in one volume; Edited, with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson), new in dj 49.00

Also, last week a couple titles came in that I didn't get a chance to catalog immediately:

Ingulphus (Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College) TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE, Ash-Tree, 2/08, one of 400 copies, (first published in 1919; includes all of the illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales from the original edition, and also presents additional material, including two fascinating papers presented by Arthur Gray to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society; Rosemary Pardoe & Mark Valentine intro), new in dj 47.00

Taylor, John Alfred HELL IS MURKY: Twenty Strange Tales, Ash-Tree, 1/08, 1st, one of 400 copies, (four of the stories see their first publication here; set in locations as far apart as the Los Angeles freeway system and the Scottish Higlands; author's first collection), new in dj 49.00

(discount: 20%)

new Space and Time

2008-04-16T08:36:00.001-05:00

Here today:

SPACE AND TIME #103, spr/08, (The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction; Josepha Sherman, Gordon Linzner, A.R. Morlan, Devon Monk), new 5.00

(discount: 20%)

Weird Tales here

2008-04-15T08:58:00.000-05:00

After a goodly gap in issues, I now have these here:

WEIRD TALES #344, 4-5/07, Wildside, (Gothic Fantasy & Phantasmagoria For the 21st Century; A Zombie's Love, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Skull Carving, Time Travelling Counter-Terrorism, George R.R. Martin) • ---#345, 6-7/07, (Escape from Elfland, Musical Torture, The Office - Haunted, Kitty's Zombie New Year, Young Tom Edison) • ---#346, 9-10/07, (Bob Bodey's Body Parts, Do Valkyries Ride Across Wisconsin?, The Drunken Mermaids; Plus: Nightmare Spiders, Mike Carey, Tanith Lee) • ---#347, 11-12/07, (Ungodly Pirates, The Necronomicon Tarot, Toad's Revenge, Desperate Measures of an Angel), new each, 5.95

--- #348, 1-2/08, (Darwin, Clones & Witches; Lovecraft of Arabia; A Bipolar Werewolf; Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely; Freaky Fish, Haunted Houses & Net Necromancy) • ---#349, 3-4/08, (Lovecraft's Arkham & Steampunk Art, An Elric Adventure by Michael Moorcock, How To Raise a Soul From the Dead, The Dark World of China Mieville, The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years!), new each, 6.99

(discount 30%)

new issue of Talebones

2008-04-14T09:14:00.000-05:00

Here today:

TALEBONES: Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy #36, spr/08, (Paul Melko: "The Cankerman Shower"; James Van Pelt, Dean Wesley Smith, Greg Schwartz, Jason D. Wittman, Mikal Trimm), new 7.00

(discount: 20%)

batch of paperbacks finally gets cataloged

2008-04-13T07:22:00.000-05:00

Here's the cataloging of the couple boxes of paperbacks I opened up way back in January, sorted by publisher:

Ace pb 00265 Reynolds, Mack ABILITY QUOTIENT, ('75), (orig; He was the first man of the new human race), fr (cover got messed up by adhesion to another book, but pages are fine) $1
Ace pb 00958 Reynolds, Mack AFTER UTOPIA, 11/77, (orig; only a few realize that the human race is destroying itself), vg-f 4.00
Ace pb 02255 Van Vogt, A.E. THE ANARCHISTIC COLOSSUS, 4/77, (orig; a future earth where anarchy has become a way of life), vg-f 5.00
Ace pb 14304 Baen, James (ed) DESTINIES vol. 2 no. 3, 7/80, (orig; featuring excerpts from Heinlein's Expanded Universe, plus all-new stories by Ing, Benford, Niven Pohl, Pournelle, Robinson, Spinrad, more!; 351pages), vg 2.50
Ace pb 14883 Dann, Jack & Gardner Dozois (eds) DINOSAURS!, 6/90, (orig; in Magic Tales Anthology Series), vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 32991 Sheffield, Charles HIDDEN VARIABLES, 7/81, (orig; superlative tales, from the absurd to the sublime), vg-f 3.50
Ace pb 38621 Kernaghan, Eileen JOURNEY TO APRILIOTH, 11/80, (orig; 439 pages), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 50414 Dickson, Gordon R. LOVE NOT HUMAN, 2/81, (orig; stories; spans space and time to explore the secrets of the human -- and inhuman -- heart), vg+ 3.50
Ace pb 55132 Sheffield, Charles MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, 8/82, (orig; eerie news that he owed his life to bits of his dead brother's brain transplanted into his own skull), vg-f 2.50
Ace pb 76860 Reynolds, Mack SECTION G: UNITED PLANETS, ('76), (orig; secret corps to overthrow governments that hold up the progress of mankind), g (back cover somewhat messed up from having adhered to another book, but front cover and text of book are fine) 1.50
Ace pb 79111 Janifer, Laurence SURVIVOR, 8/77, (orig; malicious intelligence that would not rest until every human had been eliminated), vg+ 2.50
Ace pb 80680 Lory, Robert THE THIRTEEN BRACELETS, ('74), (orig; Were the golden bracelets the key to a deadly secret?), vg+ 3.00
Ace pb 88065 Hamilton, Edmond WHAT'S IT LIKE OUT THERE? and Other Stories, ('74), vg-f 7.50
Avon 24372 Green, Roland WANDOR'S JOURNEY, 5/75, (orig; Wandor #2; prophecy of the ancients), vg+ 2.00
Avon 26518 Lang, Simon THE ELLUVON GIFT, 10/75, (orig; An injured alien brings a priceless legacy - and the terror of the unknown!), vg+ 2.00
Avon 75168 Benford, Gregory & William Rotsler SHIVA DESCENDING, 3/80, (orig; A 30 billion ton bullet on a collision course with earth!), vg 3.50
Avon 75556 Anthony, Piers THOUSANDSTAR, 6/80, (orig; Cluster #4; A spectacular space quest), vg-f 2.50
Avon 75697 Cox, Joan STAR WEB, 7/80, (orig; space mystery), vg+ 2.00
Avon 87221 Anthony, Piers BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT #2: MERCENARY, 6/84, (orig; Slave, soldier, conqueror; in a galaxy ruled by force -- he was destined to power!), vg+ 2.00
Avon 89834 Anthony, Piers BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT #4: Executive, 12/85, (orig; The colossal epic continues), vg-f 2.00
Avon pb 00878 Moorcock, Michael THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES, 8/77, (four complete novels in one volume: The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin & The Condition of Muzak), vg $4
Baen 65337 Springer, Nancy CHANCE & Other Gestures of The Hand of Fate, 9/87, (orig; title novella plus seven stories never before in book form), vg 2.00
Baen 65383 Zahn, Timothy COBRA BARGAIN, 2/88, (orig; Cobra #3; military SF), vg 1.50
Baen 65551 Zahn, Timothy COBRA STRIKE, 2/86, (orig; Cobra #2; mercenary SF), vg 2.00
Baen 65630 Caidin, Martin EXIT EARTH, 4/87, (orig; the Solar System is about to pass through a cloud of cosmic dust that will incite the Sun to a paroxysm of fury), vg 2.00
Ball 23888 Hughes, Zach THE LEGEND OF MIAREE, 4/74, (orig; …from which the thrusting race of mankind may learn to be less of a predator), vg+ 2.50
Ball 24260 Foster, Alan Dean STAR TREK LOG THREE, 1/75, (orig; Adapted from the animated series), vg-f 2.50
Ball 24330 Pohl, Frederik & Jack Williamson FARTHEST STAR, 2/75, (orig; A man could send infinite replicants of himself anywhere in the galaxy), g $2; vg+ 4.00
Ball 24338 Pfeil, Donald J. VOYAGE TO A FORGOTTEN SUN, 1/75, (orig; A rousing space opera), vg+ 2.50
Ball 25377 Pfeil, Donald J. THROUGH THE REALITY WARP, 2/76, (orig; An exciting space adventure), vg-f 2.50
Bantam 08635 Pohl, Carol & Frederik Pohl (eds) SCIENCE FICTION DISCOVERIES, 8/76, (orig; Eight brilliant journeys into the fantastic published for the first time), vg-f 3.00
Bantam 13580 Haldeman, Jack C., II PERRY'S PLANET, 2/80, (orig; The New Star Trek® Experience), f 2.50
Bantam 13805 Nolan, William F. LOGAN'S SEARCH, 10/80, (orig; Parallel Earth is a dazzling paradise of artificial delight -- of instant pleasure and infinite joy; the spellbinding climax of Logan's last terrifying run), vg+ 10.00
Bantam 14339 Harrison, Harry WHEELWORLD, 3/81, (orig; To the Stars #2), vg-f 2.00
Bantam 24370 MacAvoy, R.A. RAPHAEL, 9/84, (orig; #3 in trilogy), vg-f 2.00
Bantam N8402 Reynolds, Mack COMMUNE-2000 A.D., 1/74, (orig; rebellion against the greatest society in human history; A Frederik Pohl Selection), vg+ 2.50
Berkley 03293 Wilhelm, Kate (ed) CLARION SF, 1/77, the Kim Stanley Robinson story is signed and inscribed "for Tom, from Stan", dated 1991, and there is a note laid in that says "this is an un-marked 2nd printing -- the 1st had no cigarette ad in it, so Berkley said...", (An electrifying mind trek with the bold, new explorers of ultra experience), vg 4.00
Berkley 03467 Jones, D.F. COLOSSUS AND THE CRAB, 8/77, (orig; The Final Volume in the Colossus Trilogy), vg-f 3.00
Berkley 03839 Baker, Scott SYMBIOTE'S CROWN, 10/78, (orig; colonization of the alternate worlds), g 1.50
Berkley Z3116 Lupoff, Richard A. SANDWORLD, 5/76, (orig; Stranded on a strange planet with a race of alien vampires!), vg+ 4.50
DAW 100 Farmer, Philip José HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR, 4/74, (orig; In Tarzan's Africa - 12,000 years ago!), vg+ 4.50
DAW 114 van Vogt, A.E. THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES, 8/74, (orig; It's a brand-new novel by the Slan-man), vg+ $3
DAW 122 Gordon, Stuart TWO-EYES, 10/74, (orig; The mutant godling is risen - and the world quakes!), vg 2.50
DAW 128 Barrett, Neal, Jr. STRESS PATTERN, 11/74, (orig; Ride the wormway to no-wonderland), vg-f 4.00
DAW 134 Klein, Gerard THE MOTE IN TIME'S EYE, 1/75, (translated from French by C.J. Richards), vg+ 2.50
DAW 135 Foster, M.A. THE WARRIORS OF DAWN, 1/75, (orig; Ler #2; A cosmic odyssey of man and superwoman), vg-f 3.00
DAW 138 Carter, Lin AS THE GREEN STAR RISES, 2/75, (orig; Green Star #4), vg-f 3.00
DAW 147 Saberhagen, Fred BERSERKER'S PLANET, 4/75, (orig), vg+ 6.00
DAW 150 Carter, Lin THE ENCHANTRESS OF WORLD'S END, 5/75, (orig; The second book of the Gondwane epic), vg-f 3.00
DAW 169 Norman, John TIME SLAVE, 11/75, (orig; The author of the novels of Tarl Cabot on Gor, Earth's orbital counterpart, has turned his talent to the problem of time travel and our own world's primitive era), vg-f 5.00
DAW 223 Lake, David J. WALKERS ON THE SKY, 12/76, (orig; It's not fantasy. It's science fiction, and you never read another novel like it!), vg-f 3.00
DAW 241 Piserchia, Doris EARTHCHILD, 5/77, (orig; all-devouring protoplasmic ocean), vg+ 3.00
DAW 260 Norvil, Manning (=Bulmer) DREAM CHARIOTS, 10/77, (orig; Odan the Half-God; in the days when the Space Gods ruled the world), vg-f 4.00
DAW 279 Lake, David J. THE GODS OF XUMA or Barsoom Revisited, 2/78, (orig; Hamlet: There's a divinity that shapes our ends...; But there were indeed vital variations that would eventually trip up the self-deceived science-fiction-reading travelers from 24th Century Earth), f 4.00
DAW 295 Chandler, A. Bertram TO KEEP THE SHIP, 6/78, (orig; Commodore Grimes: sf's answer to Horatio Hornblower), vg+ 2.00
DAW 312 Vance, Jack WYST: ALASTOR 1716, 11/78, (orig; Alastor #3), vg-f 4.50
DAW 315 Landis, Arthur H. CAMELOT IN ORBIT, 11/78, (2nd in trilogy; combines the wonders of swords-and-sorcery with the science adventure of high space), vg+ 2.50
DAW 362 Carter, Lin JOURNEY TO THE UNDERGROUND WORLD, 11/79, (orig; The Adventures of Eric Carstairs in Zanthodon), trim is askew but otherwise vg-f 4.50
DAW 371 Llewellyn, Edward THE BRIGHT COMPANION, 1/80, (orig; Wanted: fifty fertile females!), vg-f 3.00
DAW 377 Asimov, Isaac & Martin H. Greenberg (eds) ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES 3: 1941, 3/80, (orig; golden treasures), vg-f 4.00
DAW 381 Vance, Jack THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH, 4/80, (orig; interstellar troubleshooter stories, mostly from Thrilling Wonder and Startling Stories), vg-f 8.00
DAW 401 Lee, Tanith KILL THE DEAD, 9/80, (orig; a weird companion to Sabella and The Birthgrave), f 5.00
DAW 403 Chandler, A. Bertram STAR LOOT, 9/80, (orig; John Grimes: Space Pirate!), vg+ 2.00
DAW 415 Purtill, Richard THE STOLEN GODDESS, 12/80, (orig; High fantasy on the lost road to Hades), vg-f 3.00
DAW 427 Johnson, James B. DAYSTAR AND SHADOW, 3/81, (orig; The last thing I wanted to do was alienate the fireworms...), vg 2.00
DAW 436 Selby, Curt (=Doris Piserchia) BLOOD COUNTY, 6/81, (orig; Horror was their heritage, for they were the people that the census dared not count!), vg+ 4.00
DAW 437 Landis, Arthur H. THE MAGICK OF CAMELOT, 6/81, (orig; 3rd in trilogy), vg-f 3.00
DAW 449 Chandler, A. Bertram THE ANARCH LORDS, 9/81, (orig; John Grimes: Planet Governor!), vg-f 3.00
DAW 490 Vance, Jack THE NARROW LAND, 7/82, (orig; stories), vg+ 15.00
DAW 670 Harness, Charles L. REDWORLD, 4/86, (orig; Science and religion, rival powers holding equal sway -- Could one man shift their balance and change the world?), vg+ 3.50
DAW 735 Ingrid, Charles LASERTOWN BLUES: The Sand Wars #2, 2/88, (orig; He'd won a place in the emperor's guard, but could he hunt down the traitor who'd betrayed his knights to an alien foe?), vg $2
DAW 87 Leiber, Fritz THE BOOK OF FRITZ LEIBER, 1/74, (orig; author's own picks), f 6.00
DAW pb UE1593 Vance, Jack WYST: Alastor 1716, 3rd, (Alastor #3; The trouble with Utopia is people), vg+ 2.50
Del Rey 27115 Kapp, Colin THE CHAOS WEAPON, 8/77, (orig; strange device that was distorting probability and threatening the entire galaxy), vg 2.00
Del Rey 27213 Rothman, Tony THE WORLD IS ROUND, 2nd(8/78), (A planet of paradoxes to drive men mad), vg 2.00
Del Rey 27495 Daley, Brian THE STARFOLLOWERS OF CORAMONDE, 2/79, (orig; Coramonde #2; an enchanting fantasy), g-vg 1.50
Del Rey 27928 Chalker, Jack L. AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER, 8/79, (orig; The end of the world was coming, and only a drunken demon could save it...), vg 3.50
Del Rey 28066 Foster, Alan Dean CACHALOT, 5/80, (orig; Man had nearly destroyed the great sea creatures - and now were they taking their revenge?), vg-f 3.00
Del Rey 28392 Glut, Donald F. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, 5/80, (orig; Star Wars; movie), vg 2.00
Del Rey 29054 Leiber, Justin BEYOND REJECTION, 9/80, (orig; someone had stolen his body), vg $2
Del Rey 29637 Eddings, David PAWN OF PROPHECY, 4/82, (orig; Book One of The Belgariad), vg+ 2.50
Del Rey 29836 Douglas, Carole Nelson SIX OF SWORDS, 7/82, (orig; in a world where magic was dying; fantasy), vg-f 3.00
Del Rey 30167 McCollum, Michael A GREATER INFINITY, 2/82, (orig; MacElroy was torn between two empires and three cultures -- but all he wanted was the best for Earth), vg-f 2.50
Del Rey 33172 Cole, Allan & Chris Bunch FLEET OF THE DAMNED, 4/88, (orig; STEN Adventure #4), vg+ 2.00
Dell pb 10801 McIntyre, Vonda N. THE BRIDE, 6/85, (orig; movie novelization), vg-f 2.50
Dell pb 11433 Spielberg, Steven CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, 12/77, (orig; movie), vg+ 1.50
Dell pb 12285 Haiblum, Isidore INTERWORLD, 4/77, (orig; A rousing blend of the hard-boiled and the zany), vg+ 2.00
Dell pb 12627 Carter, Lin (ed) FLASHING SWORDS! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians, 11/77, (orig; five great sagas by Vance, Anderson, Jakes, Kurtz, Moorcock), vg-f 3.00
Dell pb 15368 Woodley, Richard MAN FROM ATLANTIS #1, 10/77, (orig; TV tie; up from the ocean depths to turn his sea-world powers against the earth's most evil force!), vg-f 2.50
Dell pb 3123 Carter, Lin (ed) FLASHING SWORDS! #2, 2/74, (orig; Four great sagas of swords and sorcery by de Camp, Moorcock, Norton, Jakes), vg+ 3.50
Dell pb 3157 Vance, Jack THE ASUTRA, 5/74, (orig; Book III of the struggle for freedome in the world of Durdane), g-vg 6.00
Dell pb 3195 Gerrold, David (ed) ALTERNITIES, 7/74, (orig; OA; SF unfettered by strictures and taboos), vg $2
Dell pb 4551 Offutt, Andrew J. CHIEFTAIN OF ANDOR, 5/76, (orig; Cleve; Reborn in a warrior's body, he cut his way to a king's glory in a land of alien terrors), vg-f 2.00
Dell pb 4742 Shea, Robert & Robert Anton Wilson LEVIATHAN, 11/75, (orig; Illuminatus! Part III; Psychedelic supermen?), vg+ 3.50
Dell pb 7425 Laumer, Keith RETIEF: EMISSARY TO THE STARS, 12/75, (orig; The amazing new adventures of the smoothest detente diplomat in the universe), vg-f 3.50
Jove M4571 Lumley, Brian SPAWN OF THE WINDS, 7/78, (orig; in the terrifying tradition of H.P. Lovecraft), vg+ 6.00
Jove M5125 Lumley, Brian IN THE MOONS OF BOREA, 4/79, (Titus Crow #3), vg-f 3.50
Jove M5134 Anthony, Piers GOD OF TAROT, 4/79, (orig; Tarot #1), vg+ 3.00
Leisure 979 McKenna, George RITES, ('81), (A chilling novel of occult terror; island of black rites), vg-f 2.50
Manor 22125 Sirota, Mike DANNUS #2: The Conquerors of Reglathium, ('78), (saga of "Yellow-beard"), vg-f 3.00
Mayflower 12448 Farren, Mick THE QUEST OF THE DNA COWBOYS, '76, (orig; The west that's wilder than your weirdest nightmares; first in trilogy), vg-f 10.00
Owl 62436 Smith, A.C.H. THE DARK CRYSTAL, '82, (orig; movie tie-in, With 8 Pages of Color Stills from the Magical Movie!), vg 2.00
Pinnacle 41646 Jade, Symon STARSHIP ORPHEUS #1: Return From the Dead, 3/82, (orig; Expatriots of a future society, they roamed the entire galaxy, fighting the forces of evil, featuring the renegade Captain Daedalus), vg-f 2.00
Pinnacle 41647 Jade, Symon STARSHIP ORPHEUS #2: Cosmic Carnage, 4/83, (orig; the entire galaxy faces extinction), vg-f 2.00
Playboy 16572 Meredith, Richard VESTIGES OF TIME, 11/79, (Timeliner #3; Aliens have meddled with time, creating countless parallel worlds in the process), vg+ 2.50
Playboy 21036 Cleve, John SPACEWAYS #1: Of Alien Bondage, 5/82, (orig; high adventure for adults; derring-do and derring-don't), vg 3.50
Playboy 21077 Wright, T.M. NURSERY TALE, 8/82, (orig; neighborhood children start disappearing), vg-f 1.50
Playboy 21147 Zimmer, Paul Edward THE DARK BORDER Vol. 1: The Lost Prince, 9/82, (orig; epic fantasy), vg-f 2.00
Pocket 78357 Laurens, Marshall THE Z EFFECT, 2/74, (orig; A mad, demented scientist - with the power to destroy the uiverse!), vg+ 2.50
Pocket 83088 Roddenberry, Gene STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, 12/79, (orig; novelization), vg 1.50
Pocket pb 41989 Grant, Charles L. THE NESTLING, 6/82, (orig; A Riveting and Bloodcurdling Novel of Small-town Horror), vg+ 3.50
Pocket pb 42161 Greenhall, Ken CHILDGRAVE, 12/82, (orig; there are evil hungers that must be fed and always an innocent victim must be chosen), vg-f 2.00
Pocket pb 42830 Neiderman, Andrew BRAINCHILD, 12/81, (orig; An Experiment In Terror; If she could control the behavior of laboratory animals, imagine what she could do with...people), vg-f 2.00
Pocket pb 42935 Burgo, Joseph & Richard Natale BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER, 12/81, (orig; movie novelization), f 2.00
Pocket pb 45610 McIntyre, Vonda N. STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN, 7/82, (orig; novelization), vg-f 2.00
Pocket pb 54730 Hagan, Janet UHURA'S SONG, 2/85, (orig; Star Trek #21; A mysterious music holds the clues to save an alien race!), vg+ 1.50
Pocket pb 64489 Dillard, J.M. BLOODTHIRST, 12/87, (orig; Star Trek #37), g-vg $1
Pocket pb 77775 Knight, Damon (ed) A SHOCKING THING, 11/74, (orig; Hair-raising tales of the grotesque), vg+ 3.00
Pocket pb 77988 Graham, Robert ATTAR THE MERMAN #1: Attar's Revenge, 3/75, (orig; Deadly strength and evil power!), vg-f 5.00
Pocket pb 77989 Graham, Robert ATTAR THE MERMAN #2: War of Nerves, 3/75, (orig; Nerves of steel vs. nerve gas), vg+ 3.00
Pocket pb 80510 Vance, Jack THE BEST OF JACK VANCE, 5/76, (orig; A treasury of futuristic masterpieces; Malzberg intro), vg-f 8.50
Pocket pb 83014 Skal, David J. SCAVENGERS, 4/80, (orig; A mind means nothing if it cannot be shared...), vg-f 3.50
Pocket pb 83410 Goulart, Ron SKYROCKET STEELE, 12/80, (orig; cosmic danger), vg-f 3.50
Pop Libr 01593 Binder, Otto O. THE HOSPITAL HORROR, ('73), (orig; in Frankenstein Horror Series), vg+ 10.00
Pop Libr 04245 Gerrold, David DEATHBEAST, 7/78, (orig; Savage SF excitement and suspense), vg 3.00
Pyramid A3734 Malzberg, Barry N. GALAXIES, 8/75, (orig; Fortieth-century space probe!), vg+ $3; vg-f 3.50
Pyramid V4004 Smith, E.E. "Doc" with Stephen Goldin GETAWAY WORLD, 5/77, (orig; The Family D'Alembert Series #4), vg+ 2.00
Questar 20408 Baldwin, Bill GALACTIC CONVOY, 12/87, (orig; Helmsman #2; The empire's bravest space warrior), vg+ 2.00
Signet 15847 Coney, Michael G. FANG THE GNOME, 12/88, (orig; An Arthurian fantasy), vg-f 3.00
Spectra 25057 Sargent, Pamela VENUS OF DREAMS, 2/86, (orig; 537 pages), vg 3.00
Taplinger no # Strick, Philip (ed) ANTIGRAV, nd, (the Arrow UK pb with Taplinger info pasted in), vg 4.00
Tempo 12963 Hagberg, David (uncredited) FLASH GORDON Book One: Massacre in the 22nd Century, ('80), (orig), vg-f 5.00
Tempo 17215 Hagberg, David (uncredited) FLASH GORDON Book Two: War of the Citadels, ('80), (orig), vg+ 3.00
Tempo 17231 Hagberg, David (uncredited) FLASH GORDON Book Three: Crisis on Citadel II, ('80), (orig), vg+ 3.00
Tempo 17233 Hagberg, David (uncredited) FLASH GORDON Book Four: Forces From the Federation, ('81), (orig), vg+ 3.00
Tempo 17254 Hagberg, David (uncredited) FLASH GORDON Book Six: Citadels on Earth, ('81), (orig), vg+ 4.00
Tempo 35495 Reaves, J. Michael I--ALIEN: An Illustrated Novel, ('78), (Illustrated by Terry Austin/Produced by Byron Preiss), vg-f 2.50
Timescape 47315 Crispin, A.C. YESTERDAY'S SON, 8/83, (Star Trek Novel; Spock discovers his own son--living 5,000 years in the past!), vg 1.50
Timescape 83297 Correy, Lee THE ABODE OF LIFE, 5/82, (orig; Star Trek¨ novel), vg-f 2.00
Timescape 83398 Marshak, Sandra & Myrna Culbreath PROMETHEUS DESIGN, 3/82, (orig; Star Trek), vg-f 1.50
Timescape 83399 Marshak, Sondra & Myrna Culbreath TRIANGLE, 3/83, (orig; Star Trek; Kirk's soul...Spock's life), vg-f 2.00
Timescape 83692 McIntyre, Vonda N. THE ENTROPY EFFECT, 6/81, (orig; Star Trek; The universe has less than a century left...unless Spock can change history!), vg 3.00
Tor 48010 Jennings, Jan VAMPYR, 8/81, (orig; A novel of supernatural passion), publicity release laid in, vg+ 4.00
Tor 48535 Farmer, Philip José GREATHEART SILVER, 5/82, (orig; collects stories from Byron Preiss's Weird Heroes series), vg+ 4.00
Tor 52261 Windling, Terri & Mark Alan Arnold (eds) BORDERLAND, 12/92, (shared-world; Where Magic meets rock & roll; with Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Steven R. Boyett, Bellamy Bach), f 15.00
Tor 53014 Allen, Roger MacBride THE RING OF CHARON, 12/90, (orig; Can one young scientist destroy the Earth -- or save it?), vg+ 3.00
Tor 53394 Cooper, Louise THE OUTCAST, 10/86, (orig; Time Master Trilogy #2; Spawn of Darkness, Adept of Chaos, he dreams of vengeance on the Lords of Light), vg+ 2.50
Tor 53789 Fenn, Lionel AGNES DAY, 8/87, (orig; The Quest for the White Duck #3), f 3.00
Tor 54602 Vardeman, Robert E. writing as Daniel Moran THE SKELETON LORD'S KEY, 8/87, (orig; Keys to Paradise #2; fantasy), vg-f 2.00
Tor 55707 Vesser, Carolyn HELLWALKER, 12/88, (orig; He was an exile who violated the isolation edict), vg 2.00
Tor 55791 Williams, Walter Jon AMBASSADOR OF PROGRESS, 2nd(5/87), (they thought they were the center of the Universe), g-vg 1.00
Tor 56402 Costello, Matt REVOLT ON MAJIPOOR, 8/87, (orig; A Crossroads™ Adventure; in the World of Robert Silverberg's Majipoor; Power-mad terrorists threaten a world of wonders; with an all-new introductory essay by Robert Silverberg), vg-f 3.50
Troll 04078 Larson, Glen A. & Robert Thurston BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, Special Edition, (TV tie; educational edition), vg 1.00
Warner 76538 Malzberg, Barry N. OUT FROM GANYMEDE, 12/74, (stories by the master of psychological science fiction), fr $1; g $2 [a couple copies that got fused together, damaging both covers -- the front of one and the back of the other -- the text, however, is in excellent condition]
Warner 88079 Cover, Arthur Byron THE PLATYPUS OF DOOM and Other Nihilists, 6/76, (orig; Psycho science fiction at it funniest and most insightful), vg+ 6.00
Warner 90115 Jarrett, David WITHERWING, 9/79, (orig; The Swan-Cursed...; alive with swashbuckling action, uncanny excitement -- and savage truth), vg+ 2.00
Zebra 0007 James, Laurence RACK #1: Earth Lies Sleeping, 2/74, (orig; ; first in a super science-fiction adventure series starring Simon Rack, inter-galactic hero), g $1
Zebra 200 van Vogt, A.E. THE BLAL and Other Science Fiction Monsters, 8/76, (Tales of outer-unexplored systems haunted by wild beasts), vg-f 4.00

---All these listings have already appeared in my general catalog data, including the "New to Catalog" listings but here they are all sorted and in one place. They have also been listed at half or amazon -- which is partly why it's taken so long, and certainly why BORDERLAND costs $15 (other sellers knowing something I don't).

more books from book sale

2008-03-30T13:56:00.002-05:00

Made it back to the local Big Book Sale today and picked up another load. Here are the basic titles of the hcs and tpbs:

and other stories • any old iron • the association • at all costs • bad business • baudolino • bear went over the mountain • beneath the gated sky • blind voices • blonde • blood games • byrne • cain x 3 • chernobyl • chimera • christmas out west • cold service • cold six thousand • the collector • cosm • dangerous women • devil's waltz / bad love • duluth • earth abides • fault lines • fear • fierce invalids home from hot climates • foe • fortune's stroke • from the realm of morpheus • gathering of old men • giovanni's gift • gods arrive • gulag archipelago 3 • health and happiness • high road • hopeful monsters • in the heart of the country • infante's inferno • lapham rising • light of day • mageborn traitor • midaq alley / the thief and the dogs / miramar • mindstar rising • mission song • the native • the negative • new dimensions 3 • night & fear • on record • pilgermann • the plagiarist • poet's choice • rabbit at rest • rule of four • rumors of spring • secret book of paradys i & ii • seven sisters • sheep look up • signposts in a strange land • slaves of sleep & the masters of sleep • sound effects • the sparrow • spellbinder • stars & stripes triumphant • stone diaries • strange gifts • sweet anarchy • three adventure novels of h. rider haggard • three men in a boat • time's arrow • transgressions • war of honor • we were the mulvaneys • white queen • wickford point • winds twelve quarters • the woods • world of aldous huxley

And here are the basic titles of the mmpbs:

the annunciate • bellwether • captive universe • circle of light 1 • circle of light 2 • city 2000 a.d. • compleat enchanter • cornelius chronicles 2 • cornelius chronicles 3 • fine and private place • gateway • hellstrom's hive • homunculus • iron dream • long afternoon of earth • the syndic • tor double 7

big book sale picks

2008-03-27T16:53:00.002-05:00

Made it to the local Big Book Sale today and brought home these titles:

PBS:
2018 a.d. or the king kong blues • ace double 89250 • beast that shouted love at the heart of the world • best of henry kuttner • beyond the fields we know • blue star • broken sword • camp concentration • children of llyr • city • day million • dead astronaut • deryni checkmate • double pheonix • dream master • dream-quest of unknown kadath • evenor • excalibur • fuzzy papers • hyperborea • in the problem pit • kai lung's golden hours • last unicorn • lilith • little, big • lud-in-the-mist • men inside • merlin's ring • not-men • notions: unlimited • phantastes • playboy book of science fiction and fantasy • poseidonis • prince of annwyn • red alert • rest must die • sf12 • song of rhiannon • star trek fotonovel 3 • sturgeon is alive and well... • sundering flood • swords against death • swords of lankhmar • too many magicians • well at the world's end • west of the sun • witch tree • wonderful world of robert sheckley • world's desire •

HCS and TPBS:
admiral hornblower in the west indies • all the little live things • american appetites • american energies • because it is bitter and because it is my heart • books of blood • books of charles fort • the bottoms • british literature: beowulf to sheridan • cannery row • canopus in argos 1 • canopus in argos 2 • canopus in argos 3 • canopus in argos 4 • canopus in argos 5 • carol shields collected stories • cat crimes ii • cat crimes iii • cat's eye • claudius the god • collected fictions (borges) • complete original illustrated sherlock holmes • complete plays of henry james • complete poems of emily dickinson • complete short stories of ernest hemingway • complete short stories of w. somerset maugham • crime and crime again • crossing to safety • danger • devils of loudun • do nothin' till you hear from me • doris lessing reader • doris lessing stories • doris lessing stories tpb • emerald ice • english literature in the sixteenth century • fima • first circle • forty days of musa dagh • generation of vipers • george orwell omnibus • good terrorist • grimm's grimmest • him with his foot in his mouth • historian • how to be good • i, claudius • ian fleming omnibus • ides of the march • idiots first • in for a penny • is 5 • john fante reader • karl jaspers: three essays • king of the fields • kobe hotel • lady oracle • late george apley • london after midnight • love & fame • magic for beginners • magic valley travellers • man of letters • man who made friends with himself • the march • masterpieces of mystery and suspense • mauriac reader • memoirs of a survivor • merlin trilogy • more than complete hitchhiker's guide • my heart laid bare • native son • nebraska • nervous people • nightmare reader • nothing but wodehouse • novels of dashiell hammett • omnibus of science fiction • on human nature • on the river styx • one half of robertson davies • oxford book of english detective stories • palace walk • perfume • play parade • plexus • portable graham greene • rare & endangered species • redward edward papers • rl's dream • rust and bone • sagas of icelanders • satanic verses • satanic verses tpb • selected writings of ralph waldo emerson • seven famous novels by h.g. wells • seven plays by bertolt brecht • small personal voice • small vices • sphinx • summer before the dark • tales of yesteryear • theory of everything • thin air • tomcat in love • too far afield • underworld • valley of fear • we are not in this together • world of apples

I will try to get these cataloged, if only to list them on half.com or amazon. Any interest in any of them and I would be glad to forward you the jpeg and come up with some kind of quote and catalog description.

another new one from Stark House

2008-03-24T12:40:00.000-05:00

Here today:

Lambert, Mercedes DOGTOWN / SOULTOWN: Two Mysteries, Stark House Noir Classics, 3/08, 1st thus, (the first two novels in the Whitney Logan trilogy; rough, tough, and likable, set in gritty L.A.; Ken Bruen intro), new 14.95

(20% discount as usual)

new arrival from Tartarus

2008-03-22T09:27:00.002-05:00

We made it back all safe and sound from vacation visiting son Neil and my parents in California. I have set all my online selling sites back to 'returned from vacation' -- hopefully I can reset my brain similarly. While away only one book shipment arrived:

Saki SREDNI VASHTAR: Sardonic Tales, Tartarus '08, one of 300 copies, (brings together all of the sharpest, darkest, weird and macabre tales of Edwardian satirist H.H. Munro; Mark Valentine intro), new in dj 60.00

(15% discount)

new issue of Cemetery Dance

2008-03-11T14:04:00.003-05:00

Just when I was beginning to wonder if I still had a standing order, this arrives:

CEMETERY DANCE #58, '08, (Charles L. Grant Tribute Issue; Gerard Houarner, Stephen Graham Jones, T.E.D. Klein, David Morrell, etc.), new 5.00

a few from sfbc

2008-03-10T14:06:00.000-05:00

A few books from the Science Fiction Book Club arrived today:

Dann, Jack & Gardner Dozois (eds) ESCAPE FROM EARTH: New Adventures In Space, SFBC, 8/06, (if you've been lamenting the death of the juvenile, dust off a place on your bookshelf), new in dj 14.99
Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST SF 12, SFBC ('07), new in dj 12.99
Holdstock, Robert MYTHAGO WOOD, SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 6/06, new in dj (but slightly bumped) 10.99
Powers, Tim THE ANUBIS GATES, SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 4/06, as new but bumped (as per usual) 15.00
Stephenson, Neal SNOW CRASH, SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 2/07, new in dj 12.99
Willis, Connie DOOMSDAY BOOK, SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection #37, 8/07, (559 pages), as new but bumped as per usual 15.00

another tangent

2008-03-07T11:36:00.003-06:00

Once more couldn't help myself and ordered up all the CDs from Tomato that Daedalus Wholesale had on offer, plus a few other odds and ends. Here are the Tomatoes:

Armstrong, Louis BUTTER AND EGGMAN CD Tomato 2002
Armstrong, Louis C'EST SI BON CD Tomato 2002
Bloomfield, Mike WEE WEE HOURS CD Tomato 2005
Cotton, James 3 HARP BOOGIE CD Tomato 1993
Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" ROCK ME MAMA CD Tomato 2002
Grappelli, Stephane VIOLIN JAZZ MASTER CD Tomato 2005
Hooker, John Lee ALONE: Volume One CD Tomato 2003
Hooker, John Lee ALONE: Volume Two CD Tomato 2003
Hooker, John Lee BEST OF JOHN LEE HOOKER, THE… CD Tomato 2003
Hooker, John Lee EARLY YEARS: Volume One CD Tomato 2003
Hooker, John Lee EARLY YEARS: Volume Two CD Tomato 2003
Hopkins, Lightnin' IN THE KEY OF LIGHTNIN' CD Tomato 2002
Howlin' Wolf CHICAGO BLUE CD Tomato 2002
Jenkins, Leroy SPACE MINDS, NEW WORLDS, SURVIVAL OF AMERICA CD Tomato 2003
King, Albert LIVE '69 CD Tomato 2003
King, Earl NEW ORLEANS BLUES CD Tomato 2005
Louisiana Red LIVE AT MONTREUX CD Tomato 2003
Monroe, Bill & His Blue Grass Boys NINE POUND HAMMER CD Tomato 2005
Partch, Harry REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK 2CD Tomato 2003
Reverend Billy AND THE STOP SHOPPING GOSPEL CHOIR CD(+DVD) Tomato 2004
Terry, Sonny & Brownie McGhee BUT NOT TOGETHER CD Tomato 2003
Terry, Sonny & Brownie McGhee SUN'S GONNA SHINE CD Tomato 2003
Walter, Little / Otis Rush BLUES MASTERS CD Tomato 1994
Waters, Muddy & Otis Spann COLLABORATION CD Tomato 1995
Watson, Doc & Merle THEN AND NOW CD Tomato 2003
Willie, Boxcar TOMATO COLLECTION, THE… CD Tomato 2005
Wills, Bob & the Texas Playboys RADIO DAYS CD Tomato 2005

---Anyone wanting any of these, I can offer them at $5 each (the 2CDs for $10). Tomato being a roots music label ought to be Turnip or Rhutabaga, but these look like some great stuff.