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Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition including an exclusive chapbook by Joe Hill, Thumbprint with a cover by Vincent Chong. All original stories by Kage Baker, Poppy Z. Brite, Mike Carey, Joe Landsdale, Patrick Rothfuss, Tim Powers, Mike Resnick, Rachel Swirsky, Darren Speegle, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and William Browning Spencer.

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. DJ has slight edge wear. Signed, numbered, and limited edition: number 295 of 500. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage. From the publisher: The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Book 2.

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: Good, slight staining on front and back covers, one wrinkle on front, a few bumps on spine and corners. Softcover. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Signed and inscribed by Robinson "For ---- - assuming you've survived Clarion...Good luck! Yaws, Spider Robinson". More pictures available upon request.The person inscribed to could have been one of the instructors at Clarion Writer's workshop in 1992 as the first name is similar to one of the instructors. More information available upon request.Short stories by one of Canada' best-known science fiction authors.

Ace, New York, 1953. First edition. Condition: Very good plus; book has slight edge wear and creasing along spine, slight darkening on interior pages. Ace Double Books D-15.Burroughs' classic "confessions of an unredeemed drug addict". His first published book. A very nice copy of this famous example of "write what you know".

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine.Signed, limited edition, #128 of 300 copies. Near fine (slight bowing and very small bumping at top corners) in publisher's lightly rubbed acetate jacket.One of Bukowski's greatest works of poetry.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First, signed edition. Condition: Near fine in clear acetate dust jacket as issued by the publisher. A few very light bumps at corners, small mark at bottom corner of a few pages around the middle of the books, could be ink bleed. Acetate dust jacket has slight rubbing. Signed by Bowles and numbered, number 233 of 350 copies.Synopsis: Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles' most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures—recurrent themes of Bowles' writings—The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Knopf, New York, 1946. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning from age, discoloration along top edges but it does not bleed onto pages. Dust jacket has several tears and nicks, creasing along spine. $2.00 indicated on dust jacket. Tan/beige cloth with maroon lettering on spine.Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.The story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. The classic novel of the absurd.

John Lehman, London, 1952. First edition, UK. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning, unobtrusive previous owners name in ink on last page, slight bumping at corners and spine. Dust jacket has edge wear and creasing, dust shadow and light soiling on rear cover, tears at top edge, price clipped. Blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine.In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2004. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Comes in a felt-lined slipcase which has light bumping at corners. Signed and lettered edition, letter UU of 52 copies.Includes a hardcover chapbook, In the Shadow of the Master, also signed by Morrell.By the author of Rambo.In each of the stories in this collection there is a theme: obsession and determination. A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and he does everything possible to carry through, no matter how difficult. Written with the haunting emotional intensity and lightning pace that has made David Morrell the master of high-action suspense writing, this collection of stories will leave you dazzled.

Capra, Santa Barbara, 1988. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.These essays and letters are among Miller's best writing. Composed during his Paris days, when he wrote the book Tropic of Cancer but, they reveal his far-ranging passions for life, literature, books, and the arts. Edited by Michael Hargraves.