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NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.ORIGINAL STORIES BY EMINENT MYSTERY WRITERS. DOCTOR'S CASE by STEPHEN KING; OTHERS
Waugh, Carol-Lynn Rossel ed. doyle, dame jean conan ed, authorized; INCLUDES; LUTZ, JOHN;KAMINSKY, STUART; TUSE, GARY ALAN; KING, STEPHEN; GARDNER, JOHN; LOVESEY, PETER; HUGHES DOROTHY others.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD CONDITION,; blue titles on white paper covers showing Holmes in brown cloack , cover art by thomas kield. ; 345pg pages; 15 stories by eminent mystery writers includes the talents of Stephen King, John Gardner, Dorothy B. Hughes, Michael Gilbert, and Peter Lovesey.& OTHERS. FIRST EDITION THUS 2PT; Second printing". Illustrated by KIELD, THOMAS ART. (illustrator).…
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NY, Ace, 1982 First Mass Market Paperback Edition, First Printing 286 pages Contents page in the Photos. A near fine unread copy with light wear to the rear cover. See Photos 7/8/E.
More imagesPublished by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1960
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Seller: Aspen Book Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.Aspen Book Co.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket visible. The book is in good condition, with a sturdy hardcover binding. There is no dust jacket present. The spine and covers show minimal wear, and the pages are clean and intact. The illustrations remain vivid, enhancing the reading experience. Robin Jacques (for "The King of the Golden River") (illustrator).…

Fence 32, Volume 18, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2016) [Cover Illustration, Alexander Ross, "Urut II" (2015) (A Creature Sticking Its Tongue Out)]
Charles Valle (ed.); Aisha Sasha John; Dave King; Andrea Lawlor; Alexander Ross; Many Others
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Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Very Good. While the spine and copyright page state "Vol. 18, No. 1," the contents page states "Vol. 18, No. 2" -- I don't know what the "32" signifies, perhaps that this is the 32nd overall issue of "Fence" -- best to rely on "Fall/Winter 2016" and the cover illustration to identify this issue. ix, [5], 209 p., illustrated [u tgr alo otob: 40].…

CULTURAL HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA: LITERATURE, MUSIC AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES (CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA)
BETHELL, Leslie ED. MARTIN, GERALD; WILSON, JASON; BAYON, DAMIAN,; KING, JOHN.OTHERS
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST PUBLISHED"; DIGITAL PRINTING. VERY GOOD CONDITION .clean, solid, bright. not marked up, nor abused.; WHITE titles on brown paper covers, showing colorful painting OF WELL DRESSED CHARACTERS IN COLORFUL COSTUME. ; 538pg thick pages; essays place Latin American literature, music and visual arts in historical context, from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century. Topics include narrative fiction and poetry; indigenous literatures and culture; the development of music, sculpture, painting, mural art, and architecture; and the history of Latin. Illustrated by ARNOLD, DENNIS M. COVER DESIGN (illustrator).…

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Condition: New. pp. 256.

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Condition: New. pp. 256 Spanish & English Edition.

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Language: English
Published by The Federation, Woodstock, Ontario, 1967
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated.

New Writings in SF8
John Carnell, editor; Colin Kapp, John Baxter, Joseph Green, Vincent King, others
Published by Bantam, 1971
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Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.My Book Heaven
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Language: English
Published by The New Republic, Marion, OH, 1968
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Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.Adams Shore Books
Contact seller4-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Age-toning with previous owner's information on the front wrapper. Top corner is dog eared. Book Review: Lyndon Johnson in Literature by Larry King Eugene McCarthy's "Complaints" by the Editors. Southern Democracts: Not what they used to be by Paul Wieck North Atlantic Free Trade? Stephen Hugh-Jones.…

The London Review Winter 1970/71 No.7 / Includes "Anti-Genres or Marvell's Erotic Garden" by John Boulton; "Pope's Epistle to Burlington and Augustan Unity" by Terence Wright; "George Meredith and the Liberals of 1906" by David Hopkinson; "Imperialism and Ancient Mysteries in Kipling's 'The Man who would be King'" by H Moore Williams.
John Chalker & Others (Editors) / "Anti-Genres or Marvell's Erotic Garden" by John Boulton; "Pope's Epistle to Burlington and Augustan Unity" by Terence Wright; "George Meredith and the Liberals of 1906" by David Hopkinson; "Imperialism and Ancient Mysteries in Kipling's 'The Man who would be King'" by H Moore Williams.
Published by The London Review, 1970
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 54 pages. Includes "Anti-Genres or Marvell's Erotic Garden" by John Boulton; "Pope's Epistle to Burlington and Augustan Unity" by Terence Wright; "George Meredith and the Liberals of 1906" by David Hopkinson; "Imperialism and Ancient Mysteries in Kipling's 'The Man who would be King'" by H Moore Williams. (U.P.).…
The Evolution Of Horror
David G. Harwell (editor), Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates; others
Language: English
Published by Tor, 1987
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Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.Next Chapter Books SC, LLC
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Present as described. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine gilt. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New, save minor edgewear. No clipping to the dustjacket (no preprinted price). Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.…
More imagesMulch #5 ( Fall 1974 )
John Wieners and Diane di Prima, Donald Phelps, Basil King, Michael Stephens and others
Published by Mulch Press, 1974
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Literary Journal. 8 x 5 inches. First printing. 64 pages with black/white illustrative art throughout. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding square, without stress creasing and firm. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. But for price sticker to back cover, not marked and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.…

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - bk912
Featuring Stories by Stephen Baxter, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and many others
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Seller: winni´s antiquariat, St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde, Austriawinni´s antiquariat
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Language: English
Published by London, 1926
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with general wear.
ALL-AMERICAN BLUES, VOLUME TWO: the ORIGINAL BLUES STANDARDS *
HAAG, John L.; JOHNSON, Robert; HOPKINS, Lightnin'; MUDDY WATERS; JAMES, Elmore; HOUSE, Son; KING, B. B.; HARPO, Slim, and many others.
Published by CREATIVE CONCEPTS Publishing Corp., * * * * *
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B00K: Near Fine/, $39.03 ALL-AMERICAN BLUES, VOLUME TWO: the ORIGINAL BLUES STANDARDS HAAG, John L.; JOHNSON, Robert; HOPKINS, Lightnin'; MUDDY WATERS; JAMES, Elmore; HOUSE, Son; KING, B. B.; HARPO, Slim, and many others. CREATIVE CONCEPTS Publishing Corp. Year Not Stated. Tall Wide S/c. Black Spine With Title In Blue Letters, Soft Cover B00K: Near Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 104 Numbered Pages Printed On Off-White Paper, In Fine/ Condition, Lightly Viewed, Clean And Tight To The Spine. D/j: None. Description Applies To This B0K, Only. This B0k Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift For The Collector / Reader. WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE.…
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. An anthology which gathers together some of the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades by renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by John Joseph . A book which explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in a postapocalyptic world. "Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving." SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Nancy Kress at "Inertia"; James Van Pelt at "The Last of the O-Forms" by Doctorow at "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth." Each story contains an introduction by Adams. List of futher readings. 333 pp plus publisher's ads. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages) Uncommon signed.…

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Stephen King, John Gardner & others. Edited by Martin Greenberg & Carol Lynn Rossel-Waugh
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK 1990. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref h23. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Stephen King, John Gardner & others. Edited by Martin Greenberg & Carol Lynn Rossel-Waugh.…
Published by The American Mercury, Inc Lawrence E Spivak, New York, NY, 1950
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 15 # 77 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1950. Contains stories by John Dickson Carr (The Gentleman From Paris), Graham Greene (The Third Man), Rufus King (You Must Ride with the Wind), Margery Allingham (The Lieabout), Anthony Berkeley (The Avenging Chance), Andre Paul Duchateau (Partners in Crime), Katherine Fullerton Gerould (The Wine of Violence), John Granger (Small Murder), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine. Browning to the pages and the edges of the front cover. Diagonal crease at the top right of the front cover. A good to very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…
Published by The Kansas Geological Society., 1966
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1966 PUBLICATION; well logs placed within individual pockets in three-ring binder; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Book.

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Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United KingdomDavid Bunnett Books
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SOFTCOVER. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, 78pp on thick art paper, pp, colour plates, etc. Price list and errata leaf both loosely inserted . [CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Language: English
Published by Country Press, Greenwich, 1940
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. "First Edition". "Second Edition" is actually printed on the title-page, but we believe that this probably means that it is the second annual edition, rather than the second printing of this edition. Very good in original illustrated wrappers. This copy is in very good condition with some soiling to the wrappers and wear at the spine extremities. Approximately 64 pages of single-panel cartoons. Uncommon.…
Language: English
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Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United KingdomJ J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk
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Add to basketHalf Leather Marbled Boards. Condition: Fair (WELL BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. 1892 Edition. 8 1/2 inches of the original 11 inches of the spine remains but is detached , rubbed boards , foxing to first and last few pages. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Fred Barnard , Frank Carless , John Dinsdale & Many Others (illustrator). "R. Butler" Bookplate.…
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
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Add to basketCondition: VG. Cambridge 1963. Complete issue of the Harvard Review. Authors include: R. Randle Edwards, Dwight H. Perkins, William W. Hodes and Edgar Snow. 8vo., 72pp., some photo illustrations, wraps. VG, light soiling.
More imagesBOOK OF THE DEAD. (16 SHORT STORIES)
Editors = SKIPP, JOHN (born 1957) and SPECTOR, CRAIG (born 1958), (Forword by George R. Romero) (original fiction by Stephen King, Robert R. McCammon, Ramsey Campbell & others)
Language: English
Published by Bantam Books, Canada (published simultaneously in USA & Canada), 1989
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Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. First Edition By This Publisher. 390 pages. AI notes = " Book of the Dead - Complete Contents (Edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector, foreword by George A. Romero) Stories Foreword - George A. Romero Introduction: Of Wakes and Waking - Skipp & Spector Short Stories "Home Delivery" - Stephen King "The Old Man and the Dead" - Mort Castle "A Sad Last Love at the Diner" - Edward Bryant "Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead" - Joe R. Lansdale "The Good, the Bad, and the Dead" - Rick Hautala "Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy" - David J. Schow "Eat Me" - Robert R. McCammon "Dead Giveaway" - Brian Hodge "The Visitor" - Jack Ketchum "Like Pavlov's Dogs" - Steven R. Boyett "The Spirit of the Season" - Nicholas Royle "Midnight Sun" - Ronald Kelly "The Butcher's Daughter" - Richard Laymon "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" - Karl Edward Wagner "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" - Joe R. Lansdale "Dead Weight" - Matt Shaw (in some later printings; not in the original 1989 hardcover) Essays / Extras "Dead End: Notes on the Making of Day of the Dead" - John Skipp & Craig Spector Contributor Bios" John Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. John Skipp collaborated with Craig Spector on multiple novels; >>Very Nice, un-read copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Embossed Titles & authors name; & picture. (illustrator). Book.…

Delitti quasi perfetti
Polillo, Marco, ed.; Dickson Carr, John; King, Rufus; Queen, Ellery and others
Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1978
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Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Printing. Omnibus Mondadori. Includes stories by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, John Dickson Carr, Thomas Burke, Rufus King, Ellery Queen, Michael Innes and Quentin Patrick. Text block slightly age-toned, mild fading to front panel. A near fine copy. Text in Italian. Cover art by Ferenc Pinter. ; Octavo.…
More imagesPublished by Monte Beauchamp, Chicago, IL, 1986
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Seller: Steve Krupp's Curio Shoppe, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.Steve Krupp's Curio Shoppe
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rare 1st printing (#1354 from only 1,500 self-published). Predates the later Kitchen Sink Press edition. Content is well-known underground cartoonists (most cited above) all describing how they discovered and appreciated ED Comics. From the estate of New York/Northampton/Paris rare book dealer and collector Norman Witty.…

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Softcover. Condition: gut. 2013. Apatite: The Great Pretender In englischer Sprache. pages. William W. Besse; Joe Budd; Jordi Deusedes; Josè Arce Diaz; Jordi Fabre; Bob King; Don Komarechka; Jesse La Plante; Robert F. Martin; Alana McConnon; John Schneider; Jeff Scovil; Brad Wilson (illustrator).
More imagesBravest Deeds / Stories of Courage and Valor / Selections from The Youth's Companion (CONTAINING THE FIRST PUBLICATION IN BOOK FORM OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S ARTICLE 'WINNING THE VICTORIA CROSS')
Kipling, Rudyard; Gen. Charles King, Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. John Gibbon, others
Language: English
Published by Youth's Companion / Perry Mason Company, Boston, Mass., 1901
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eight years before publishing "Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind" -- a full decade before his "Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography" -- David Alan Richards delivered to the Kipling Society Annual Luncheon, May, 1999, a talk on "Collecting Kipling." "Bibliographies are customarily no indicators of rarity," Richards pointed out. "You will not learn from Livingston that 'The Seven Nights of Creation' (1886, Livingston 9, Stewart 2) exists in only three copies (Stewart said two, and one was his!). Other examples of breathtaking rarity abound. Kipling also suppressed The Smith Administration (1891, Livingston 73, Stewart 92), with only 6 known copies surviving out of the original 3,000. . . (The copy bought at the Charles Plumptre Johnson auction in New York in 1927, purchased by legendary bookseller Dr. Abraham Rosenbach for General Electric chief executive Owen D. Young and now in the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, sold for $14,000, the highest price ever paid for the work of a living author, equivalent to about $125,000 today.) But are we downhearted, knowing that these books -- and I could expand the list of 'Kipling impossibles' by literally another two dozen titles -- are almost certainly never to be obtained?" Richards asks. "No! Why? The fascination with chance, the hope -- even the belief -- that in some attic, or scrapbook, or box of discarded volumes, an old Kipling rarity will surface -- or even a new one, unknown to all prior collectors and bibliographers. And I have hard evidence for that belief. Let me describe to you what I have been fortunate enough to find in the five years I have been collecting." Mr. Richards mentions a copy of Lippincott's Magazine for January 1891, containing the first appearance of "The Light That Failed," published December 1890, "which is the deemed to be the earliest printing of all; I know of no other example in any Kipling collection." And then there are "the complete surprises, the Kipling first editions which have been discovered, that no one knew existed. In the words of St. Luke, 'Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost," including "a paperback booklet produced in Boston by the children's magazine publisher Perry Mason Company entitled 'Bravest Deeds,' a compilation of items previously appearing in its monthly numbers, which is the first book edition of the story 'Winning The Victoria Cross,' uncollected by Kipling until 1923; this title may indeed be found in Livingston and Stewart, in a hardback under the date 1902, but my wrappered copy is dated 1901, and appears to be the only remaining copy." Well, not quite. Here's another -- presumably the second reported -- in gray wraps printed in red & black, firmly bound with four staples showing some rust, small damage and stain to rear wrap, also a small tidemark to bottom of title page only, dated 1901 to the title page with no later dates showing. It's 64 pp. with Kipling's "Winning the Victoria Cross" occupying pp.43-52, featuring several period illustrations and including his somewhat droll account of the incident of the regimental chaplain who was honored with the medal for rescuing two British cavalrymen "all mixed up with their horses in a watercourse" from "a knot of Afghans who were hurrying to attend to them." "I do not think he quite cared for the publicity," Kipling observes. Though the chaplain's citation did not mention HOW he discouraged the pursuers, "Afghans do not leave wounded men without the strongest sort of hint," Kipling notes, leading him to conclude the unofficial account (that the chaplain -- though officially a noncombatant -- somehow brought a revolver into play) "seems very possible." 64 pp. Reduced from $2,000.…