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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 12012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 40th anniversary edition of this novel of murder and mayhem in Houston. This edition includes a short story featuring one of the characters in Act of Love as well as an interview with the author. This is one of 200 numbered copies, signed by Lansdale on a tipped in… Read more about this item

Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Collecting The Year's Best Horror Stories, volumes XIII, XIV, and XV. Authors include Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, and other writers. This is one of 350 numbered copies signed by about 30 authors. 704 pages. First edition. Bound… Read more about this item

West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first US hardbound edition of William Gibson's debut novel, a cyberpunk classic that won both the Nebula and Hugo awards as a paperback original in 1984. This edition includes a new, two-page introduction by the author that was published for the first time here. The UK… Read more about this item

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A complete set of the limited edition reprints of Cornell Woolrich's 1940s noir detective novels with the word "black" in the title. All six volumes have new introductions. The books are The Bride Wore Black (introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz); The Black Curtain (Jack Seabrook); Black Alibi (John Pelan); The Black… Read more about this item

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Fourteen short stories, published in an edition of 320 copies signed by Stefan Dziemianowicz, the author of the introduction, as well as the jacket artist (Matt Mahuris) and the cover designer (Jacob McMurray). 485 pages. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket, with very minor corner wear.… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of ten previously published short stories of dark fantasy and horror. Each story is illustrated with newly commissioned artwork. The contributors include Stephen King ("One for the Road"), Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, David Morell, Peter Straub, Robert Bloch, William F. Nolan,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The author's last novel. This is one of 300 numbered copies, printed on special paper and signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good example of the original clear acetate dust jacket, which is missing a small chip from the top… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. A limited edition of 1500 copies with lithographs by Lynd Ward printed over solid color backgrounds. Signed by Ward on the colophon. A near fine copy, with mild fading to the tartan-cloth binding. The slipcase has minor wear to the corners. The LEC monthly notes are laid in. Copy no.… Read more about this item

Hill House and Cemetery Dance, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 52 lettered copies collecting short stories and novellas from some of the best-known writers in the genre, including William Peter Blatty, Stephen King ("The Road Virus Heads North"), Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, F. Paul Wilson, Eric Van Lustbader, Tim Powers, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell,… Read more about this item

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A vampire novel, first published in 1981 in paperback. This is one of 500 copies of the first hardcover edition signed by McCammon and the two illustrators, Charles Lang and Wendy Lang, on the limitation page. 412 pages, including a two-page essay by McCammon about… Read more about this item

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 2050 numbered copies signed by King and the illustrator Don Maitz. King called this a "mirror" of the novel The Regulators, published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym. The two books share characters but not in exactly the same fictional universes. A TV movie adaptation… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Milne's own selection of his greatest hits, excerpted from the four Pooh books, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The House at Pooh Corner, with the original illustrations by E. H. Shepard and a new introduction by Milne. This is one… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. One of King's best books, and the rare example of a longer, uncut version that may actually be better than the original (most books would be improved if they were shorter-following Elmore Leonard's dictum, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip"). This signed,… Read more about this item

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second Straub-King collaboration in which a retired Los Angeles homicide detective is asked to help with a series of grisly murders. This limited edition, illustrated by Rick Berry, was issued in an edition of 1500 copies, signed by King, Straub, and Berry. A fine copy… Read more about this item

Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The deluxe version of King's novel, with illustrations by Phil Hale. Limited to 1250 numbered copies signed by King, Hale, and the book's designer, Arnie Fenner. [x], 591 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy 520 of 1250. In… Read more about this item

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 2050 numbered copies signed by King and the illustrator Don Maitz. King called this a "mirror" of the novel The Regulators, published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym. The two books share characters but not in exactly the same fictional universes. A TV movie adaptation… Read more about this item

San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New poems, 1980 to 2005. A substantial collection from a leading Chicana poet, incorporating some of the 1998 collection of the same name (which was limited to 10 copies), with many previously unpublished poems. This limited edition, in a faux quarter-leather binding, was published in a… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author; a sequel to Catch-22. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase (small scratch, small area of sticker residue on the front).

Santa Cruz: Scream / Press, 1985. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. This book from Scream/Press is often cited as one of the best-looking Stephen King limited editions. It was supposed to come out before the Putnam's edition (and that trade edition says it was preceded by this edition, but production delays pushed back the date of the signed edition). This… Read more about this item

West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in which Asimov begins to link his Robot and Foundation series. This is one of 750 signed and numbered copies of the limited first edition. Color frontispiece and dust jacket art by Paul Lehr. Asimov, the author of hundreds of books, found huge commercial… Read more about this item