James Blaylock Introduction (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine in stapled card covers. 1 of 200 copies signed by Blaylock, Parks, Shepard and Cynthia and Mark Ziesing. 42pp 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ in slipcase. Black cloth over boards with red and gold stamping. Black illustrated DJ with white and red lettering. Black cloth slipcase. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1988, stated first edition. 330 pages. In good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked, with some light rubbing. Corners remain sharp and tight. DJ is glossy, though slightly faded. Light shelf-wear along edges. Fits snug to boards. Slipcase is in very good condition, with only some light wear at corners. Front gutter is cracked through, revealing binding beneath. Binding otherwise appears secure; no loose pages and back cover remains firmly attached. SIGNED by author James P. Blaylock, Lucius Shepard, and illustrator Dennis Loughner. Number 498 of 750 signed limited edition copies. Pages free of marks or tears throughout. A good, signed copy. Dennis Loughner (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a double novel - with two short books bound together - in opposite directions (with the limitation page in the center). Limited to 300 numbered copies, this is number 93 and has been signed by both authors on the limitation page. The book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations. [2]He was born in Long Beach, California; studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M. A. In 1974; and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University. He taught at the Orange County School of the arts until 2013. Many of his books are set in Orange County, California, and can more specifically be termed "fabulism" that is, fantastic things happen in our present-day world, rather than in traditional fantasy, where the setting is often some other world. His works have also been categorized as magic realism." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Illustrated by Donna Gordon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. **Deluxe Signed Limited Edition** A near new stated First Edition 8vo hardcover, an as new dust jacket (with a clear cover), and a VG+, black slipcase. Limited (#235/750); Signed--no inscription--on the limitation page by author James P. Blaylock, introduction author Lucius Shepard, and illustrator Dennis Loughner. The black cloth slipcase has just a touch of dust staining. Dennis Loughner (illustrator). Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Blue printed stiff paper covers. This is an out of series, un-numbered copy (the intended limitation was 300 copies. It is signed on limitation page by Powers and Blaylock and is additionally inscribed by Powers 7/5/86 who has added a small pen sketch. 40 pages. Lightly bumped top corners otherwise near fine. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition Thus; First Printing. [Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications. 1988. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 1870338456 . Signed Limited First hardcover edition. Copy #243/300 numbered copies, of 1010 total copies, signed by James P. Blaylock, Keith Roberts and Ferret. 1987 Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award winner. 244 pages. New copy in like jacket and slipcase See Photos CelphE. Ferret (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. [Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications. 1988. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 1870338456 . Signed Limited First hardcover edition. Copy #242/300 numbered copies, of 1010 total copies, signed by James P. Blaylock, Keith Roberts and Ferret. 1987 Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award winner. 244 pages. New copy in like jacket and slipcase See Photos CelphE. Ferret (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seattle: The Axolotl Press. Fine. 1986. First edition. White printed wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, 31+ 8 pages. This version limited to 400 paper bound copies [bound dos-a-dos like the Ace Double Novel format] signed by both James P. Baylock and Tim Powers and also signed by both Charles de Lint and Ed Bryant who wrote the introductions. Fine copy. See Photos whbx 2E.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 268 pages, 8vo. Special signed edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is copy 354. SIGNED by James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers on limited page. Minor shelfwear. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing; Limited Signed. "First Edition" statement to the copyright page, $30 to the jacket's flap. Limited to 1,000 deluxe, hand-numbered copies SIGNED to the limitation page by the five contributors: Philip K. Dick and two-time World Fantasy Award winning author, James P. Blaylock; Tim Powers; Adriana Campoy, Brittany Cox, and Alex Haniford. This is number 558. Comprises three stories co-written with Blaylock with three of his creative writing students, each with the premise that a man enters a house that is not quite his own, in which he opens doors into rooms on the borderland of reality and illusion. Fine, square, very tight, and firm in fresh violet linen with metallic-violet embossed titles to the spine, cream-yellow headband and tail-band, cranberry end-papers; in a fine dust jacket with front panel art by Tim Powers; original printed $30 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 63 pages; afterword by Blaylock; note by William Ashbless (Powers & Blaylock). Signed by Author(s).…

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Collector's edition bound in leather with gilt stamped covers and edges, three backbone hubs, satin marker and decorative endpapers. Faint scratching to gilt along leading edge, otherwise fine. Masterpieces of Science Fiction collector's notes folded and laid in. 327pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Trade Edition; Fine in a fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. Winner of the Phillip K. Dick award and an early example of "Steampunk". Protected in a fresh mylar cover. Ferret (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Collector's edition. Still stiff to open bound in full tourquoise leather with gilt decoration, silk-moire endpapers, all edges gilt, and a ribbon marker still folded as it came from the publisher. About new but for nameplate to front pastedown. Collector's notes laid-in.; The Masterpieces of Science Fiction; 327 pages. Illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Deluxe SIGNED FIRST EDITION, dark green leather-bound hardcover in excellent, unmarked, unread, next-to-pristine condition (slightest hint of handling). The deluxe features include full-leather exterior, raised spine bands, bright gilt lettering and decorations, gilt page edges, silk ribbon. 376 pages. [2.1 lbs]. Mark Maxwell (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. First printing of the limited edition, of the two-in-one flip-over of "The Shadow on the Doorstep" and "Trilobyte". A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket spine is lightly toned, and has a couple spots (as pictured). This limited edition is one of just 300 that has been numbered and SIGNED on both limitation pages by Blaylock, Shiner, Bryant, and Powers. (as pictured). Sci-Fi. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Color and B&W illustrations; This book is limited to 750 copies signed by the author, the illustrator and the introducer. This book is number 293. Laid in are three 3x5 sized cards in blue cardstock with illustrations. This book is in Near Fine condition , has a Near Fine dust jacket and a Near Fine slipcase. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author & Illustrator. Illustrated by Dennis Loughner (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Gahan Wilson (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. On Pirates by William Ashbless (Limited First Edition) Signed Firm square copy. #207/250. Special signed edition limited to 1000 numbered chapbooks, 250 numbered hardcovers, and 26 deluxe lettered hardcovers. Signed by Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock. Tim Powers(Introduction) James P. Blaylock(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Walt gets cranky when Lew stops keeping his donut shop open all nite; he and his wife spat over shoes. Blaylock was one of a small group of California writers mentored by Philip K. Dick. Deluxe edition of this short story, #156 of 224 hardcover copies, SIGNED by all contributors. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, near fine, some cockling from the four real photos glued in. Size: Octavo. Viki Blaylock, Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, this being no. 2 of 150 copies and signed by Lucius Shepard, James Blaylock, Tom Joyce and Phil Parks on the title page. Octavo volume bound in red vinyl with white lettering & decoration on front & rear covers; volume is housed in clear, hard plastic slipcase. Mounted color frontispiece photo of author; numbered (2 of 150) & signed print of line drawing by illustrator loosely laid in. As new in as new slipcase. Pages: [iv], 82. Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Limited edition of only 26 lettered copies, this being copy "W" and signed on the limitation page by James P. Blaylock, Tim Powers, Dean Koontz, and Phil Parks who illustrated the front cover plate. Small, oblong quarto bound in dark blue, simulated leather with a color plate mounted on the front cover, in a publisher-issued clamshell box bound in the same material as the book. Inside the box is a mounted, signed, handwritten page of text. The author has also signed the half-title page, and there's a color frontispiece photo of him opposite the title page. As new in as new clamshell box. Pages: [v], 54. Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seattle: The Axolotl Press 1986. Signed Limited First Edition. Copy #17 of 100 numbered cloth-bound copies signed by the author and by Tim Powers. World Fantasy Award winner. Green cloth with gold gilt lettering, 26+ pages. Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. See Photos Clph/E.…

First English hardcover edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original tan cloth, with titles in black and metallic red to the upper board and in black and metallic pink to the spine. Top edge pink. With a black and white frontispiece by Christina Duffy and Anne Trembley. A better than very goof copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips and a tiny tear to the lower front spine joint, and a small mark to the upper board. The topstain is darkened towards the fore-edge. The contents, with a bookplate to the front free endpaper and eight tiny spots to the fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "For Jared! - / Hoping you like dark beer! / Cheers, / Tim Powers". The recipient is an editor and publisher of genre fiction. Issued in an edition of 825 clothbound copies, from which this example is numbered 765, and signed by Tim Powers, the author of the introduction K. W. Jeter, and the author of the afterword James P. Blaylock in black ink on the colophon. The author's first major novel and third overall publication, originally published in 1979 by Del Rey / Ballantine Books in New York and nominated for the 1980 Locus Award for 'Best Fantasy Novel'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Doyle Jimmerson discovers a disconcerting shop after his estranged wife dies. Includes an introduction by Powers and a somewhat fanciful afterword by Koontz. Blaylock was one of a small group of California writers (including Powers) mentored by Philip K. Dick. Deluxe edition of this short story, #40 of 150 hardcover copies, SIGNED by all contributors on a special limitation page (the author's signature on the title page is printed). Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, about fine, [6], 54 pages, color photo of the author pasted in, cover art by Parks. Size: 10¼" by 8¼". Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Special Edition. This is copy "R" of a lettered, collectors edition, of which there are only 26 copies. This slim octavo volume is bound in black leather with gilt lettering and has a color plate mounted on the front cover. It's housed in a folding black leather chemise which is similarly lettered in gilt with a color plate mounted on its front panel. Inside the front panel of the chemise is a mounted, signed color photo of the author; inside the rear panel of the chemise is a handwritten page of manuscripts, signed by the author at the bottom. All participants in the making of this book have signed it on the limitation page. There is a clear, hard plastic shell inside the chemise which holds the book in place. Illustrated with color photographs and B&W drawings. All are in as new condition. 57 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Doughnuts: An Original Short Story by James P. Blaylock 1st LTD Signed Copy S A sharp tight bright copy and folding case. One of 26 Collectors copies. Lettered and Signed. This is copy lettered "S". Signed on the limitation page by by James P. Blaylock, Viki Blaylock, Phil Parks, Lewis Shiner, Tim Powers, Lucius Shepard, and Lewis Shiner. Black leather binding with gilt lettering and illustration plate to cover. Signed photo, and signed original handwritten page, both framed and mounted to the inside covers of the leather folding slipcase. Case also with mounted illustration plate and gilt lettering. Lewis Shiner(Introduction) Lucius Shepard(Appreciation) Tim Powers(Afterword) Phil Parks(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing: Deluxe Collector's Limited Edition. Letter "F" of 26 copies. SIGNED by the Shepard, Parks, Blaylock and Joyce. The book is bound in dark red material with cream stamping--the pages are printed in dark red type on cream stock. Housed in a matching clamshell box. Laid within the box is a lithograph SIGNED by Shepard and Parks. Attached to the inside of the box lid is a matted hand-written beginning page to a short story--this is exclusive to the Collector's Edition. The book and all items included are fine, as new, in a fine box. The book contains a tissue-guarded glossy color photograph frontispiece of Shepard. An essay by Tom Joyce "Why I Collect Lucius Shepard" and a bibliography of Shepard's American and British first editions appears at the end of the short story. Book is 82 pages and is 10 1/4" tall by 7 1/4" wide. Lithograph is 10" tall by 7" wide. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as issued. LIMITED EDITION. Oblong 8vo. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, number 9 out of 150 deluxe copies (of 576 total), SIGNED by listed contributors including Stephen King. Light edgewear to covers. Slight fading to cloth binding. Minor soiling to covers. Light blue pen mark to front cover near spine. Pencil ghost to first blank page. Slight fraying to cloth binding on rear cover near spine. Fading with slight soiling to slipcase. Red pen stain to rear panel of slipcase in middle of panel. Slight rubbing and fading to slipcase. Slight fraying to top and bottom edge of slipcase. Fading and rubbing to spine of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase.…