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Washington Square Press/Pocket, New York. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine creasing.

Orb, New York, 2007. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life.But Crane's body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pete and Angelica Sullivan, and their adopted son, Koot Hoomie. Kootie is destined to be the next Fisher king, but he is only thirteen years old--too young, his mother thinks, to perform the rituals to assume the Kingship. But not too young, perhaps, to assist in reuniting Scott Crane's body and spirit, and restoring him to life.

Eclipse Enterprises/Comics, New York, 1981. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear, tiny crease at bottom corner.Number 2.Includes art and stories by Michael Golden, Howard Cruse, Don McGregor, Billy Graham, Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik, Steve Leialoha, Trina Robins, Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty.

Bantam, New York, 1989. 31st paperback printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint crease at bottom edge and top corner, slight spine nicks.Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.

Augener, London, no date noted. 14th hardcover printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine nicks at ends, slight rubbing on front cover, musical notations on interior pages, inside front cover has a short note from previous owner, no dust jacket.Book presents the elements of music in a way that is pedagogically clear and comprehensible in an antiquarian way.

Harper Perennial, New York, 2015. 24th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint creases at bottom corner, spine has creasing.Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.

Del Rey, New York, 1993. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, faint crease at spine, light nicks along edges."Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren.It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Esterland knew of them -- except, finally, the Addershag.The blind old woman had given instructions to find a place on the coast of the Blue Divide, build a fire, and keep it burning for three days. "One will come for you."Tiger Ty, the Wing Rider, had come on his giant Roc to carry Wren and her friend Garth to the only clear landing site on the island of Morrowindl, where, he said, the Elves might still exist, somewhere in the demon-haunted jungle.Now she stood within that jungle, remembering the warning of the Addershag: "Beward, Elf-girl. I see… Read More

Allison and Busby, London, 1999. First printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and slight corner bumps.In this, the second of Margaret Irwin's great trilogy about the life of 'Good Queen Bess', Elizabeth I, the imperious, high spirited heroine of Young Bess finds herself the prey of her sister Mary's jealous suspicions. The death of her young brother, Edward IV; the accession of Bloody Mary; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; her own imprisonment in the Tower of London; and the arrival of Philip of Spain to marry Queen Mary provide the powerful background to Irwin's masterful novel as Elizabeth strives to achieve her ambition, the Crown of England.

Vintage, Toronto, 2000. First edition. Condition: Good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine creases and nicks at end.A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Elizabeth and After masterfully wraps us up in the lives of Carl and his family, and the other 683 odd residents of this snowy Canadian hamlet.

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creasing, spine has nicks along staples, rear cover has creasing and light scuffing. A well read magazine.16 pages of super-color, action photos of Elvis in concert. Pictures on Elvis' cars. gold Cadillac limo, Stutz Blackhawk, and his custom tour bus.

Condition: Good, edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing and nicks, scuffing on covers, well read, large magazine format.A picture-filled recounting of Elvis' last few concerts.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has creasing and nicks, back cover has light soiling, magazine size.A thin, scarce tribute to The King by super-fan and super-collector Paul Lichter, who also wrote Elvis in Hollywood, a Simon & Schuster book. Black and white photos throughout, taken over time.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and creasing at corners and spine, price sticker, slight scuffing on rear cover.Unique collectors' edition with centerfold and moveable disc still attached.

Condition: Good, magazine has edge wear and creasing at corners, spine has nicks at staples. a complete but well read magazine.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has light nicks, cover has slight scuffing. No interior writing and crossword is clean.Published by and for Elvis' British fans and friends.

Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, scuffing along covers, spine creasing, well read complete magazine.Includes 36 covers of other Elvis magazines in small format and a couple of pin up pages.

Ace, New York. 5th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, slight nick at bottom spine end.King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb.Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote. And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader. Jorg plans to change that. He's uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won't hesitate to use it.But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced—a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.

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.

Del Rey, New York, 1999. ARC, first edition thus. Condition: Near fine softcover, slight nicks at corners. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. More pictures available upon request.From the publisher: The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death...