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City Lights, San Francisco, 1984. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, light soiling on edges.The word m'hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of "behashished" or "full of hashish") is used not only in a literal sense, but also figuratively, to describe a person whose behavior seems irrational or unexpected. The tales here deal with some of the possible results, desirable and questionable, of being in that state.Mohammed Mrabet was born in Tangier in 1936. Since meeting in the early 1960's, Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Café & Look & Move On (autobiography), and The Big Mirror (novella). After moving back to Tangier after living in New York for four years, Mrabet resumed his role as a fisherman and began painting.

Penguin, London. 35th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, one long crease at bottom corner, spine nicks and creases, creasing and price sticker at rear cover.'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2005. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed, limited edition: number 321 of 500. From the publisher: two novellas by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Conference with the Dead.

Elephant/Dee Publisher, Chicago, 1998. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, dust shadow.Madeleine is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings towards his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted--he termed it the central drama of his existence--yet deliberately shrouded in mystery. This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide's first visit to Algeria. In his Journal, Gide refers to her as Emmanuele or as Em. Only in this book, published a few months after his death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal the nature of their life together. All of Gide's vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to write what he believed to be true about himself. In Madeleine this act of confession reaches a crowning point. It is a complex tale by a complex man about a… Read More

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005. First edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, light wrinkling near spine and on rear cover.Includes stories and articles by Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, Elizabeth Hand, Jeffrey Ford, Joe Haldeman, Gene Wolfe, Paolo Bacigalupi, Matthew Hughes, Esther M. Friesner, Dale Bailey, Jaye Lawrence, Steven Utley, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, Michelle West, Lucius Shepherd, Paul Doherty, Pat Murphy, and Douglas A. Anderson. Art by Bill Long, Joseph Farris, Danny Shanahan and Arthur Masear.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008. First edition.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear, light wrinkling near spine and on rear cover.
Includes stories and articles by Rachel Pollack, Albert E. Cowdrey, Alex Jeffers, M. Rickert, George Tucker, Robert Reed, S.L. GIlbow, Paul Di Filippo, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Kathi Maio, and David Langford. Art by Bill Long, Danny Shanahan and Arthur Masear.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, very light edge wear.
Includes stories and articles by Dean Whitlock, Charles Coleman Finlay, Carol Emshwiller, Barry B. Logyear, Jerry Oltion, Albert E. Cowdrey, Michael Meddor, Jim Aikin, Patricia Ferrara, Chris Moriarty, Charles de Lint, Kathi Maio, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Art by Tom Cheney, J.P. Rini, Bill Long, Arthur Masear, and Max Bertolini.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine.
Includes stories and articles by Bruce McAllister, Terry Bisson, Matthew Hughes, Robert Reed, Micaela Roessner, Tony Sarowitz, Matthew Corradi, Charles de Lint, Kathi Maio, Elizabeth Hand, Bud Webster. Art by Max Bertolini.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine.
Includes stories and articles by Richard Boews, James L. Cambias, Ron Goulart, Matthew Hughes, Steven Popkes, Ann Miller, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Lucius Shepard, Peter Tremayne. Art by Arthur Masear and Kent Bash.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, very slight wear at edges and corners.
Special Gene Wolfe issue. Neil Gaiman, Michael Swanwick, Michael Andre-Driussi, David Gerrold, Donald Mead, David D. Levine, Sophie M. White, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint, Lucius Shepard, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Art by Joseph Farris, Arthur Masear, and Mondolithic Studios.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine.
Includes stories and articles by Albert E. Cowdrey, Alex Irvine, John Morressy, Robert Reed, Mike Shultz, Trent Hergenrader, Ef Deal, Charles de Lint, Kathi Maio, Robert K.J. Killheffer, Gregory J. Koster. Art by Tom Swick, Joseph Farris, Danny Shanahan, and Mark Evans.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008. First edition.
Condition: Very good, very light creasing on spine, slight crease at top edge, small corner creases.
Includes stories and articles by Albert E. Cowdrey, K.D. Wentwoth, Alexander Jablokov, Richard Mueller, Richard Paul Russo, Nancy Springer, Charles de Lint, Michelle West, Kathi Maio, Paul Di Filippo, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, Bud Webster. Art by Bill Long, Arthur Masear, S. Harris, and Vincent Di Fate.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, light wear at corners.
Includes stories and articles by M.K. Hobson, Lucius Shepard, Lawrence C. Connolly, P. E. Cunningham, Ray Vukvevich, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Graham Andrews. Art by Bill Long, Arthur Masear, and Kent Bash.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 20111. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, slight wear at edges and corners.
Includes stories and articles by Scott Bradfield, Alexandra Duncan, Steven Popkes, Robert Reed, Carter Scholz, Kate Wilhelm, Chet Williamson, Don Webb, S.L. Gilbow, Ken Liu, Maria A. Alonzo, Albert E. Cowdrey, Paul Di Filippo, Charles de Lint, Chris Moriarty, Kathi Maio, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Art by Arthur Masear, Danny Shanahan, Bill Long, and Tomislav Tikulkin.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine.
Includes stories and articles by Charles Coleman Finlay, Matthew Hughes, Terry Bison, M. Rickert, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, Robert Reed, Albert E. Cowdrey, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Kathi Maoi, Paul Di Filippo, Dennis Lien. Art by S. Harris, J.P. Rini, Arthur Masear, Bill Long, and Michael Dashow.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine.
Includes stories and articles by Robert Reed, Marc Laidlow, Daniel Abrham, Robert Bloch, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Bloch, Michelle West, Charles de Lint, Paul Di Filippo, Kathi Maio, Davind Langfor. Art by Bill Long, Arthur Masear, and Jill Bauman.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, back cover has top corner crease.
Includes stories and articles by Bruce Sterling, Sean McMullen, Lawrence Connolly, Matthew Hughes, Yoon Ha Lee, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Nancy Springer, Rand B. Lee, Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, Sophie M. White, Tina Kuzminski, Jessie Thompson, Albert E. Cowdrey, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Lucius Shepard, Patricia A. Martinelli. Art by John Jonik, Tom Cheney, J.P. Rini, Bill Long, S. Harris, Danny Shanahan, Arthur Masear, and Cory and Catska Ench.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, slight wear at edges and corners.
Includes stories and articles by K.D. Wentworth, Ian R. MacLeod, A.A. Attanasio, Paolo Bacigalupi, Don Webb, Paul Di Filippo, Charles de Lint, James Sallis, Kathi Maio, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, David Langford. Art by Arthur Masear, Bill Long, and Mark Evans.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, slight wear at edges and corners.
Includes stories and articles by Leanor Arnason, KJ Kabza, Paul Di Filippo, Harvey Jacobs, Tim Sullivan, Rus Wornom, Adam Rakunas, Chen Quifan, Oliver Buckram, Ken Altabef, Harry R. Campion, Charles de Lint, James Sallis, Kathi Maio, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, Mark Esping. Art by Barry Corbett, Arthur Masear, J.P. Rini, and Kent Bash.

Spilogale Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009. First edition.
Condition: Near fine, very light creasing on spine, very light wear at edges.
Includes stories and articles by Carolyn Ives Gilman, Terry Bisson, John Kessel, Robert Reed, Wayne Wightman, Mike O'Driscoll, John Varley, Gary Jennings, Albert E. Cowdrey, Chris Moriarty, Charles de Lint, Kathi Maio, Graham Andrews. Art by M. Nadler, Danny Shanahan, Arthur Masear, and Ron Miller.