Born with a set of gills, webbed fingers, and flippers, Giles Peach, an ingenious, imaginative young man addicted to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, becomes convinced that he is an exiled native of the center of the earth and sets out to return home
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This novel written in the style of Ray Bradbury is about an idiosyncratic character who has the power to realize his fantasies. The author presents us with a modern day Hieronymous Bosch cityscape in which the central figure lives his unrealistic existence, viewing life from a novel perspective. The author has won the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K.Dick Memorial Award for previous novels.
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Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a fine, Ferret, dustwrapper in a fine slipcase 1st edition, SIGNED, slipcased limited edition. Blaylock's brilliant masterpiece of modern fantasy about a group of eccentrics on a race to the center of the hollow Earth in 1950's California. Seller Inventory # FY25.066
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Red cloth boards with black lettering under black illustrated dust jacket, within red cloth slipcase, 8vo, 290 pp. Signed by all four contributors on limitation page, this is #141 of 310. Fine copy of a Los Angeles-based lost world novel. Signed by author. Seller Inventory # 201360
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Ferret (illustrator). 1st Edition, Signed, Limited. First edition, hardcover, signed by Blaylock, Powers, Jeter, and Ferret, and marked no. 77/310 on the publisher's tipped in limitation page. The book has a minor skew to the binding, and mild wear to the spine ends. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, bright Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has very slight wear to the spine ends and corners. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover, and the item is housed in a matching Very Good+ slipcase, which has areas of faint rubbing, and very small bumps to the corners. Seller Inventory # 106994
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Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 1010 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, Tim Powers, K. W. Jeter, and artist Ferret. This issue adds two articles, "The Pigs Have All Gone to France" by Powers, pages 279-281, and "The Invisible Book" by Jeter, pages 285-290. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and cloth slipcase. (#99115). Seller Inventory # 99115
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Hardcover. First Edition. One of a limited edition of three hundred ten copies. Tiny spot inside dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket in cloth slipcase. With two articles by Tim Powers and K. W. Jeter not included in the trade edition. Illustrations by Ferret. Signed by Blaylock, Powers, Jeter and Ferret on the limitation page. ; Octavo; Signed by All Authors. Seller Inventory # 12608
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