Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Language: English
Published by Jostens Publishing Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0981891403 ISBN 13: 9780981891408
Seller: THEVILLAGEBOOKSTORE, Fall River, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. Heidi Zoesch (illustrator). HC.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or limited writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394587677 ISBN 13: 9780394587677
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Albert Pinkham Ryder; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. (xiv) 336 pp. Quarter-bound in red cloth on dark gray boards; lettered in gilt on the front panel and spine; headband. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Albert Pinkham Ryder. This anthology contains: Freniere by Anne Rice; Ovando by Jamaica Kincaid; Horrorday by Martin Amis; Newton by Jeanette Winterson; Banquo and the Black Banana: The Fierceness of the Delight of the Horror by Paul West; Blood by Janice Galloway; Didn't She Know by Scott Bradfield; Regulus and Maximus by John Hawkes; The Fish Keeper by Yannick Murphy; A Dead Summer by Lynne Tillman; Why Don't You Come Live With Me, It's Time by Joyce Carol Oates; The Dead Queen by Robert Coover; The Merchant of Shadows by Angela Carter; The Road to Nadeja by Bradford Morrow; For Dear Life by Ruth Rendell; The Smell by Patrick McGrath; The Kingdom of Heaven by Peter Straub; Rigor Beach by Emma Tennant; Fever by John Edgar Wideman; J by Kathy Acker; and The Grave of Lost Stories by William T. Vollmann. Size: 8vo. Book.
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394587677 ISBN 13: 9780394587677
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Albert Pinkham Ryder; (illustrator). First Edition. (xiv) 336 pp. Quarter-bound in brown cloth on dark gray boards; lettered in gilt on the front panel and spine; brown endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; price intact; no interior markings. Wraparound dj art by Albert Pinkham Ryder. This anthology contains: Introduction; Freniere by Anne Rice; Ovando by Jamaica Kincaid; Horrorday by Martin Amis; Newton by Jeanette Winterson; Banquo and the Black Banana: The Fierceness of the Delight of the Horror by Paul West; Blood by Janice Galloway; Didn't She Know by Scott Bradfield; Regulus and Maximus by John Hawkes; The Fish Keeper by Yannick Murphy; A Dead Summer by Lynne Tillman; Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time by Joyce Carol Oates; The Dead Queen by Robert Coover; The Merchant of Shadows by Angela Carter; The Road to Nadeja by Bradford Morrow; For Dear Life by Ruth Rendell; The Smell by Patrick McGrath; The Kingdom of Heaven by Peter Straub; Rigor Beach by Emma Tennant; Fever by John Edgar Wideman; J by Kathy Acker; and The Grave of Lost Stories by William T. Vollmann. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Random House, New York, 1991
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Albert Pinkham Ryder; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. (xiv) 336 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Albert Pinkham Ryder. This anthology contains: Ovando by Jamaica Kincaid; Horrorday by Martin Amis; Newton by Jeanette Winterson; Banquo and the Black Banana and The Fierceness of the Delight of the Horror by Paul West; Freniere by Anne Rice; Blood by Janice Galloway; Didn't She Know? by Scott Bradfield; Regulus and Maximus by John Hawkes; The Fish Keeper by Yannick Murphy; A Dead Summer by Lynne Tillman; Why Don't You Come Live With Me, It's Time? by Joyce Carol Oates; The Dead Queen by Robert Coover; The Merchant of Shadows by Angela Carter; The Road to Nadeja by Bradford Morrow; For Dear Life by Ruth Rendell; The Smell by Patrick McGrath; The Kingdom of Heaven by Peter Straub; Rigor Beach by Emma Tennant; Fever by John Edgar Wideman; J by Kathy Acker; and The Grave of Lost Stories by William T. Vollmann. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Morrow, George (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows a young girl reading a book, with the help of pixies/fairies! Angela Brazil Story is 'The Slap-Bang Boys'. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and some cover edges; chipping along cover edges. Damp mark to corner of rear cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Biro to page 29 and to contents page. Some foxing. 4 colour plates. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Language: English
Published by Richmond, Calif. : Omnidawn Pub., 2006., 2006
ISBN 10: 1890650188 ISBN 13: 9781890650186
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 637 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 2006000487 ; ISBN 9781890650186, 1890650188 OCLC 62888967 ; LC PR1309.S5 P37 2006 Dewey 823/.0108 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Rikki Ducornet --Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher -- Son of Chimera / Leena Krohn -- Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Ever and anon / Kate Kasten -- Lithia Park / William Luvaas -- Third Jungle Book : A Mowgli story / Michael Moorcock -- White girl / Maureen N. McLane -- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Third initiation: A gift from the land of dreams / Mary Mackey -- Side effects / Janice Law -- Concert pianist's flight / Carole Rosenthal -- Making faces / Stephen Shugart -- Town news / Justin Courter -- Midnight lover / Carol Schwalberg -- Night reconnaissance / Tom La Farge -- Short-term Memorial Park / Shelley Jackson -- Magnificent carp of Hichi Street / Paul Pekin -- Tears of Niobe / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Lettuce / Rikki Ducornet -- Night of love's last dance / Randall Silvis -- Five letters from an Eastern Empire / Alasdair Gray -- Beginnings, endings, and middles ball / Anna Tambour -- Jack Kerouac disembodied school of poetics / Rudy Rucker -- Nobody's home / Ira Sher -- Ice cream vendor / Leena Krohn -- Jubilee dreams / Karen Heuler -- An accounting / Brian Evenson -- Armegedn, or The end of the word / K. Bannerman -- Gardener of heart / Bradford Morrow -- Maryolatry / Laura Moriarty -- Cloud room / Kevin W. Reardon -- Tree / Noelle Sickels -- Nobody walks in London / Terry Gates-Grimwood -- Tiger's eye / Gladys Swan -- Skunk / Justin Courter -- Old flames in new bottles / Michael Andre-Driussi -- Power couple, or love never sleeps / Charlie Anders -- Who's there? / Rikki Ducornet -- Secret paths of Rajan Khanna / Jeff VanderMeer -- Dream catcher / Mercedes Sanchez -- B, Longing / Robin Caton -- Three tales / Laird Hunt -- About the Henbane City / Leena Krohn -- Losing the war / Stepan Chapman -- Flowers / Mark Wallace -- White man / Jeffrey Ford -- Finding the words / Michael Constance -- English/History / Laura Mullen -- Birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Cake / Michael Moorcock. ; Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist--with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet's "Lettuce," a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; "Birthday of the World," by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to.; FINE. Book.