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NEW RELEASE Special Order: The author has agreed to sign/inscribe books for a $5 fee. If you should like to add this to your order, please send a note whether you would like a simple autograph or a custom inscription—perfect for gifts! First Edition, First Printing. Unpaged [189 p.] From the back: Abhorrent: A Collection travels down dark, twisted pathways. The collection of thirteen stories does not tread lightly and clutches at the depths of the macabre. Readers be warned, these are not for the faint of heart. These stories tend to make the heart race and the mind question the strangers that walk beside us. [NOTE: Book is shipping from USA, so orders in the USA will have the shipping discounted to $8.50 and orders in Canada will require an extra shipping charge of $4.00.]

First edition, first printing, with bookplate from publisher stating it is a review copy.

229 p. : ill., 8 plates; 21 cm.

Handsome blue hardcover with debossed title, black spine with gilt lettering, exhibits some edgewear and the textblock is completely cracked between 134-137, but is otherwise quite Fine. Please see pictures. Pictorial dust jacket is price-clipped and shows expected wear as well as minor chips/tears to edges.

From the rear:

HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW?
Where was Camelot? What are the gigantic mathematical lines spotted from the air on the Nazca Desert in Peru? Has fabled Atlantis finally been located? Were the Egyptian pyramids really ancient astronomical observatories? Was the dividing of the Sea of Passage part of a cosmic catastrophe which struck the whole earth?

Shrouded in mystery and obscured by legend, man's prehistory is still largely an enigma. Each year new archaeological and scientific discoveries change our view of the past. Rupert Furneaux's ANCIENT… Read More

39 p.; one illustration.Stain to p.vi (see image) and very mild shelfwear, otherwise Near Fine. From the back: A young man named Atrum has a haunting dream that he cant seem to understand. As he tries to understand this recurring dream, the events in his life takes a similar turn. He meets a girl named Stella, who he realizes is the only focus of his dream. As he spends more and more time in her company, his life takes an epic turn. Tragedy hits and Atrum slowly learns what he needs to, to make his reality less of a nightmare and to start controlling his own life, and to live his dreams. Alongside his friends Ray , Stella and Hao, Atrum changes the fate of everyone's lives. Question is, if Atrum is saving everyone from the beasts that spawned from darkness, who will save him from his own dark mind?

First thus, first printing stated. Holographic front cover. 213 p. and 10 leaves of bonus material, including an interview, discussion points, and a preview of the sequel. Some shelfwear, internally Near Fine. From the back: A statue. A coin. An old book.They look as dusty as everything else in Faulkner's Antique Books. But when Sam Faulkner slipsthe coin into the statue, he's swept back to Scotland in 800 A.D.—he age of the Vikings!—where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to escape. It's the first journey in an adventure that will take him to World War I, medieval Europe, and even ancient Egypt. . .and a mystery that will end only if Sam can find his father in Time.

317 p. Mild wear to extremities and spine (see images, the top was missed in scan, but is in a similar state as bottom edge/heel) with faint "6" stamp to bottom foredge and faint water stains to top and bottom corners, otherwise Very Good+ with pages remaining clean, clear, and tightly bound. From front cover: What were the doctors doing to the children? The scariest medical thriller since Coma! From back cover: THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE AFRAID TO IMAGINE Fritz and Beth Engstrom wanted to know what had happened to their child whom the clinic pronounced dead–for Beth was sure she still lived. Writer Pete Collins wanted to know what the little lost boy he had found was trying to tell him–and what was behind the terror in his tortured eyes. Attendant Julie Lind wanted to know what was really going on in the place where she worked, and why the behavior of the children there seemed so strange. All of them would do anything to find out the terrifying secret that no one would believe....

Presumably first edition. 119 p.; ill. Small 1 cm tear and sticker residue to dust jacket with minor edgewear. Pastedowns have manufacturing flaw (slightly wrinkled) but book is otherwise in Fine condition. Edited by Barbara Kaufman and Michal Schonberg. Illustrated by Paul S. Weldon. From the dust jacket: The Dybbuk is the classic drama of the Yiddish theatre. Written in the early twentieth century by S. Ansky, the play is set in an isolated Polish community of Hassidic Jews, and tells the story of Leah, a young Jewish maiden who becomes possessed by the tortured soul, the dybbuk, of her beloved. The Dybbuk is a haunting love story, steeped in Jewish folklore, mysticism and Old Testament morality. John Hirsch has translated and adapted The Dybbuk for the modern stage and the modern audience. "I tried to uncover its values, expand and reshape them through a modern sensibility that would make them as accessible to a non-Jewish as a Jewish audience," says Hirsch. The result is a strong and moving… Read More

First printing stated.157, [3] p.; ill. Original dust jacket has minor closed tearing and a chip to top edge, otherwise Very Good over a beautiful red hardcover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, top page edges in red, and illustrated endpapers. (See images.) This aesthetic book in Fine condition was designed by Kadi Karist Tint, whose masterful calligraphy is found throughout, along with many black and white illustrations by Jennifer Coleman. From dust jacket: The Dybbuk is a classic story of exorcism, possession and love in a religious Jewish community of Eastern Europe. Credence is a dybbuk, the wandering soul of a dead person who can enter and control one's body, was part of the folklore and everyday belief of Hasidim, whose lives hovered between the two worlds of reality and the supernatural. So when a pious and gentle young woman, on he eve of her marriage, speaks out with the voice of the dead cabala student who loved her, the people of her simple village are horrigied by the belief that… Read More

The Jewel in the Skull [ISBN 0-88677-175-7]223 p. Very minor shelfwear, but otherwise Fine, being a copy which has obviously never been read.From back cover: "Those who dare swear by the Runestaff must then benefit or suffer from the consequences of the fixed pattern of destiny that they set in motion. Several such oaths have been sworn in the history of the Runestaff's existence..."—The High History of the RunestaffDorian Hawkmoon, late the Duke of Koln, fell under the power of the Runestaff, a mysterious artifact more ancient than Time itself. His destiny, shaped by a vengeful oath sworn by the maddened Baron Meliadus of the Dark Empire, pitted Hawkmoon in battle against his own allies and forced him, by the Black Jewel embedded in his skull, to betray his very heritage. Michael Moorcock's Runestaff novels are among the great modern classics of fantastic adventure. DAW Books is proud to bring them back to print, in these editions, authorized and revised by the author.The Mad God's Amulet [ISBN… Read More

1106 p. Red-letter Bible (words of Jesus in red font) with bookmark ribbon and original box. Includes table of Weights and Measures, and a Concordance. From the box: The Complete English Standard Version Bible word-for-word accuracy and precision; literary beauty and readability Complete ESV Classic Concordance: with more than 12,000 references Premium Bonded Leather Red Letter Text words of Christ in red The English Standard Version (ESV) is an "essentially literal" translation of the Bible, emphasizing word-for-word accuracy and precision along with literary beauty and readability. Based on these classic principles of translation, the ESV Bible is ideally suited for personal reading, for public worship, for in-depth study, and for Scripture memorization—a Bible translation for all of life.

Advance review copy (ARC). 246 p. Light shelfwear with author's contact sticker on rear, otherwise Fine. From the back: The new novel by the author of The Little Russian, featuring young Polish girl and her friendships with Madame Curie and Eusapia Palladino. In the early 1900s, Lucia Rutkowski leaves a Warsaw ghetto and a life trapped in the textile mills to escape to the bustling city of Paris. She eventually finds work in a home run by two scientists consumed by their groundbreaking research. Lucia soon bonds with her eccentric employers, watching as their insight into radioactive materials is increasingly noticed by the world, then rising to fame as the great Marie and Pierre Curie. Soon, all of Paris is alit with the news of an impending visit from Eusapia Palladino, the world's most famous medium. Spiritualism and the series of sittings offered by Palladino draws great interest from the Paris scientific community. It is through her now famous employers that Lucia attends Eusapia's gatherings,… Read More

Advance reading copy (ARC). 271 p. Very very slight shelfwear, otherwise Fine. From the back: The latest by Angie Abdou: young EIi invokes the spirit, and themistakes, of his great-great-grandfather. In Angie Abdou's fifth work of fiction, Eli and his parents have returned to their family home in a small mountain town named Coalton. The parents, Nicholas and Lucy, hope that by escaping their hectic city lives, they will restore calm and stability to their marriage, but they find that once-charming Coalton is under pressure from real-estate developers, and a high-end subdivision has disturbed a historic graveyard, drawing negative press from national media. Coalton is no longer the remote idyll they remembered.While Nicholas works long hours at the local coal mine and Lucy battles depression, Eli explores his new home. When he meets Mary,a troubled Ktunaxa girl who lives next door, they discover that they both have a foot in multiple worlds, where they are challenged to account for their past lives of… Read More

First thus, first printing. 441 p. Light shelfwear with mild discolourations to foredge, but otherwise Fine, in unread condition. From the back: Kit Marley, poet, playwright, and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His poetry and plays were infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule, and the Prometheus Club—a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England—has chosen William Shakespeare to assume Marley's role. But Shakespeare is unable to create the magic his queen and country need to hold their enemies at bay. England's only hope resides in Faerie. Kit Marley, resurrected by enchantment, must serve Queen Morgan. Caught between two worlds and two allegiances, Kit knows that the only way to save both is to assist Will in the art of magic...and to reveal the traitor within the Prometheus Club responsible for his death.May require small amount of extra shipping due to thickness of book.

58 p.; ill. (colour). Covers slightly bowed, with mild wear, but internally Fine. See images for preview of contents. From the back: Here's to you and yours and to mine and ours, And if mine and ours ever come across you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours, As mine and ours have done for you and yours!

First printing stated, First Edition.157 p.; ill. Very minimal signs of external wear, but no creasing to spine and otherwise Fine. Perfect gift for a die-hard D&D fan.From the introduction: In this story, you are Sparrow, a young juggler who, together with his brother, Jay, travels from town to town performing your act at inns and fairs in order to scratch out a meager existence. It's a hard life, and nothing exciting ever seems to happen to you – until today, that is . . . .Pick a Path to Adventure™ in this vintage Dungeons & Dragons™ Endless Quest® with a map given to you by a mysterious stranger who lay dying beneath a rowan tree. You must set free the spirit of a tormented king in order to gain a hoard of treasure!For those unfamiliar "Choose Your Own Adventure" types of books, they are great for rereading: the story presents the reader with choices in key situations, each choice leading to a different page and, ultimately, a different ending.

Autographed copy, presumably First Edition. 159 p. ; illustrated ; contains bibliography and index. Minor edgewear and slight curl to cover, otherwise Near Fine. Plantations included are: Myrtles, Rosedown, Frogmore, Loyd Hall, Chretien Point, Oak Alley, San Francisco, Ormond, Destrehan, La Branche, Pitot House, Woodland, and the burnt plantations La Petit Versailles (Valcour), Cottage, and Viala. From the back cover: New Orleans has been called the most haunted city in America, and with good reason. But there are more ghosts in Louisiana than can be held in one city and the plantations of this state, with their luxurious buildings and centuries old trees, are the ideal resting ground for spectral inhabitants. In come places there are questions about the existence of ghosts. At Louisiana's plantations the question is how many? In this collection of thirteen chilling tales you will explore ghosts along the River Road at some of Louisiana's best-known plantations, and also along the back bayous of the… Read More

First Edition stated. Minor wear to extremities and slight curl to front cover, with a faint "8" stamp to bottom foredge, otherwise Near Fine, clean, clear and tightly bound. From back cover: Every old house has a legacy. And through the spirit of a single, small girl the legacy of a single, old house will stand revealed in all its raw and murderous evil. Nothing can put the evil to rest except one solitary, unnameable act. An act that, whatever the terror, whatever the cost, only the innocent can accomplish.

240 p.; ill. (diagrams); 18 cm. A vintage mass market paperback, shows moderate wear to covers, including spine creasing, there is the expected discolouration of paper, and the previous owner's details in pen to the inside of the front cover. There was a small stain noted on one page (see pictures) but otherwise the book seems to be in Near Fine condition.From the rear: EDGAR CAYCE'S INCREDIBLE HEALING POWER is recorded fact. Thousands of microfilms filed at the foundation for psychic research at Virginia Beach testify to Cayce's ability to diagnose, prescribe, and cure the ills of people whose names and locations he was given, but whom he had never seen. Known as "The Miracle Man of Virginia Beach," his successes astonished medical authorities—and the world. MANY MANSIONS is Dr. Cerminara's account of these healings—and an affirmation of the age-old belief in reincarnation. She tells how Cayce saw past the barriers of space and time, how he penetrated the "previous" lives of his subjects, and… Read More

First two books of trilogy. Book 1 - 382 p. ; generously illustrated. Near Fine, very minor edgewear in some places and corner of rear cover has slight dogear.Book 2 - 428 p. ; generously illustrated. Fine / As New. From the back cover of Miss Peregrine's...:"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story." —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss… Read More

4 leaves [unnumbered]; ill. (colour). Mild shelfwear and some erased pencil numbers inside, but all stickers are in Fine condition. 16 stickers of sixteen different paintings by Modigliani, including Paul Guillaume, The Swedish Girl, The Little Milkmaid, Reclining Nude, and others. From inside/back: Perhaps the greatest Italian artist of the twentieth century, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) created a number of memorable paintings during the last five years of his life that revealed an intriguing distortion of form and a sensitive use of color. Modigliani was an individualist whose paintings couldn't be categorized into any art movement. He was, however, influenced by Fauvism, Cubism, and African art. His artwork consists of portraits and nudes with simple forms and lines—many of them with elongated faces. To use the stickers, simple peel and apply.

Presumably first edition. 249 p.; frontispiece. Very worn brown cloth hardcover, shaken, with hinges cracked but holding, previous owner's name in pen to ffep, aged pages, and two pages have corners torn (see images).