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Condition: Very good, light edge war and corner bumps, spine has slight creasing, light wear at back cover.Introduction by Gloria Steinem. An anthology containing over 500 daily Doonesbury cartoons and 80 Sunday strips on the subject of life under the Reagan administration.

Random House, Toronto, 1996. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Clear acetate dust jacket slight edge wear and scuffing.From the publisher: For over forty years, Leonard Cohen endured the ups and downs of an international career that alternately identified him as the 'Prince of Bummers' and Canada's best known and most respected poet and performer.Given access to Cohen's private archive of unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings, and incorporating interviews with Cohen and his closest friends and colleagues, Ira Nadel gives us a meticulously detailed and insightful portrait of this singular artist.

Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 2010. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, slight creasing at rear corners.Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the nebula and Hugo nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."

Scholastic, Toronto, 2009. First printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps else fine.Step away from the wand...We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.In fact, she hates being a fairy.She hates her itchy tutu school uniform and she hates flying the fairy flock to school every morning, she would much rather take her cool skateboard.She's fed up with her baby sister who accidentally makes magic happen, when she can never make her wand do what she asks. Elly has already been expelled from two prestigious fairy academies; once, for turning her teacher purple (it was an accident!), and another time for catching a flyrus (which so wasn't her fault!).What's a fairy to do?Elly meets Jess, a human girl who is not at all interested in fairies (but handy with wand repairs). Finally, Elly makes a friend who understands her; even though Jess is only human.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. 2nd printing. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition. Second printing. From the publisher: A short novel of The Company. The year is 1934, the scene is a Wood Near Athens... temporarily relocated to the environs of the Hollywood Bowl, as German theater impresario Max Reinhardt attempts to stage his famous production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Fortunately for Reinhardt, he has immortal assistance in the person of Literature Specialist Lewis, a cyborg working undercover for Dr. Zeus Incorporated, masters of time travel. Lewis is tasked with preserving Reinhardt's prompt books for future Company profits at auction. Unfortunately for Reinhardt, there are complications... For Joseph, Lewis's fellow cyborg, is on the case as well, attempting to salvage a botched mission of his own. It involves the lost treasure of the Cahuenga Pass, a missing diamond, a third-century pope, burglary, disguises, car chases, and a legendary Hollywood… Read More

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe Edition, signed by Baker and limited to 2000 unnumbered copies according to the publisher.His name is John James - at least, that's the name he gives to anyone asking. He's a former pirate just back from Port Royal from the sack of Panama, and he has every intention of settling down and leading a respectable life. First, though, he must honour a promise and deliver a letter to the mistress of one of his dead comrades. But the lady is much more than she seems...

Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 2006. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear, else fine,A short story collection from Kage Baker, including an original novella set in her ongoing series of The Company, "Mother Aegypt."

Piranha Press, New York, 1990. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and corner bumps, very light nicks at top of spine.Cranky Columnist Anne Merkel is only happy when she's complaining...about her editors, about being single in New York City, about running out of Scotch. But when her long-lost sister shows up claiming to be Queen of the Leather Astro-Girls of Saturn, Anne's going to wish she'd never complained about anything...

Scholastic Inc., New York, 8th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine nicks and creasing, creasing on covers, previous owners name and scribbling on inside front cover. Well read.A biography of a strong and dedicated woman who successfully worked for the recognition of women in the field of medicine in both the United States and Great Britain.

Laurel/Dell, New York, 1986. 2nd paperback printing. Condition: Good, light edge wear, cover is starting to detach due to poor gluing."There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its… Read More

Picador, New York. 7th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.Contents:The Concentration City (1957)Manhole 69 (1957)Chronopolis (1960)The Voices of Time (1960)Deep End (1961)The Overloaded Man (1961)Billennium (1961)The Garden of Time (1962)Thirteen to Centaurus (1962)The Subliminal Man (1963)The Cage of Sand (1962)End-Game (1963)The Drowned Giant (1964)The Terminal Beach (1964)The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D (1967)The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered… Read More

Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Slight nicks on dust jacket edges along with very slight yellowing and price sticker residue.From the publisher: Shortly after eight on the morning of June 25, 1988, the thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children abducted without so much as a trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Advisor to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold...

First edition, illustrated.
Condition: Near fine book in very good plus dust jacket, the dust jacket has light edge creases, slight crease at spine. This is a large book and may require additional postage.
From the discoverer of the Titanic. Packed with stunning paintings and photographs of the Bismarck in 1941 and as she looks today, plus fascinating full-color maps and diagrams.
The lights from Ballard's underwater camera sled Argo shone down on the sunken battleship. It's guns pointed crazily upward as if still ready to fire. Huge shell holes gaped in her wooden decks, and eerie giant swastikas glimmered through the darkness. Nearby stood an open doorway...the same door that Hiltler had walked though nearly half a century before.
Tells the thrilling story of the life and death of this famous ship through the eyes of four young German sailors who actually sailed on her-and survived the sinking. We then experience Ballard's suspenseful search and dramatic discovery of the Bismarck with Argo, the same… Read More

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has chipping at top spine edge. Presumed first edition but there is no numbering line at all and no mention of edition or printing.

Condition: Near fine, very slight spine wear and top edge creases. Advance uncorrected proof which has some proofing marks on several pages margins so it seems this might have been a slightly later copy of the proof.J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical tale of World War 2 and it's effects on a young boy in Shanghai. Made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring a young Christian Bale and John Malkovich.

Dent and Sons, London, 1992. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light soiling on white part of rear cover, price sticker on rear cover.First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal city-scape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed—both physically and psychologically—by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this "powerful and beautifully clear"… Read More

Abacus, UK, 2010. 31st trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.… Read More

Sourcebooks, Naperville, 2014. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light wear and corner creasing, price sticker on rear cover.Breathtaking ocean views, tranquil beaches, delicious food, and warmhearted people...these are just a few of the reasons why Jennifer Barclay loves the Greek islands. But her dreams of living there full-time seem out of reach, until a break-up turns her world upside down...a glimpse of life on a tiny Mediterranean island...

Tor, New York, 2001. Book club edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear on dust jacket.From the publisher: The continuation of the interstellar epic begun in A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Grass. Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again - but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures - where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens - it's a monstrous crime. If Giraut cannot stop Earth from ratifying its plans, the tenuous structure of interstellar human civilization will collapse.

Scholastic, Toronto, 2007. 2nd paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear. NO writing or markings.