Covers slightly creased, spine slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear. Signed by author on title page. "Rome, 262 AD It had been the capital of the greatest civilization on Earth. Now both city and civilization are dying. Germans flood across the borders from Britain to the Bosphorus, leaving a trail of rape, carnage, and ashes. In the cities, mobs riot; in the countryside, cults seek salvation in dark rituals. Imperial unity has shattered into a mosaic of separatists and usurpers, squabbling among themselves as greater enemies gather to swallow them all. One man stands between hu... View More...
234 pp. Saalfield Every Child's Library #3001. Front board detached at pastedown, but still attached at rear pastedown, corners a bit bumped. Text browned with 3/8" bookworm hole (I'm not kidding) affecting pp.16-56. One page dogearred. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has scuff mark on front, small chips at spine and flap ends, some edgewear, PO name on front flap. Florence Williams' full-page black and white illustrations and chapter head silhouettes make this a charming early reprint of this beloved 1877 classic.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Black boards with silver lettering, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, dent to bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 551 pages; "Beka Cooper is no longer a Puppy. She's a Dog now - a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, which keeps the peace in Corus's streets. Beka's natural skills of observation and tenacity are augmented by her unusual magical talents, which allow her to gather information both from pigeons and from the eddies of dirt and dust that swirl on street corners. But even her magic isn't very usefu... View More...
Spine slanted, olive green boards with gold lettering and scene on front board depicting mountains and sheep grazing. Gold along top edge. Edges worn and corners a little chipped. Black and white glossy frontispiece and glossy illustrations throughout text. Webbing exposed at front pastedown, cracked at p 174, dampstain along top edge, but otherwise text is light and clean. Set in the Daleland, this is the story of Bob, son of Battle, the last of the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir—a story of the great sheep-dog trials, the Shepherds’ Trophy, the mystery of the Black Killer, and Owd Bob o’ Kenmuir, t... View More...
Covers slightly soiled, crease on back. A nice, unmarked copy. Frances' parents have a problem. Whatever Mother serves, Frances wishes it was bread and jam and proclaims accordingly in rhyme. So one day Mother serves her just what she wants-bread and jam for every meal! Soon Frances is not quite as thrilled as she expected to be. A charming book of reverse childhood psychology which children will appreciate on one level and every parent who ever had a stubborn child to contend with will appreciate on quite a different level. Cute color illustrations by Lillian Hoban add so much to this ... View More...
Corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked, some signatures detaching from spine at top. Jacket shows edgewear, some scuffing/darkening. "The sole survivor of a spaceship battle, Kurt Morgan's survival capsule finds an Earth-type planet in this unknown system. Stranded for life, he must adapt quickly to the strange terrain and even stranger inhabitants. . . or face extinction. But would it be possible for him to learn the ways of this totally alien culture. . . to entirely adapt his human reactions to their fabulous civilization and complex mores? Kurt didn't know it yet, but before long he... View More...
New, never read. SIgned by author at IllogiCon 2014.
"The Amazing Conroy has taken his hypnosis act beyond Human Space. "It should be show business as usual, except for the bigger-than-a-planet energy being that eants to study him, the rival aliens pulling him in opposite directions, his buffalito lapping up liquid gravity, and the small matter of a hypnotized ghost. . . "; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author View More...
Top corner crease to back cover and last few pages, otherwise near fine. SIgned by author at IllogiCon 2014. "The Amazing Conroy is a stage hypnotist who has parlayed an alien buffalo dog, a creature that eats anything and farts oxygen, into a powerful corporation worth billions. An ambitious plan to use these buffalitos to clean up toxic waste sites places him in direct conflict with a radical anti-alien ecoterrorist organization, and before long, Conroy is on the run with only his pet buffalito, Reggie, and his gambler pal, Left-John Mocker, to aid him. "Conroy must elude terrorist... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, slight edge wear, a few pages with corners bumped. Jacket shows a little edge wear. An attractive copy. Sequel to the Posleen series about a future alien invasion of Earth. "For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. While her father was fighting the invading Posteen she had been raised by her grandfather, practically on the front-lines of a war that had erased five billion humans from the earth. In the final stages she had officially 'died' and been recruited into the Bane Sidhe, a group of underground warriors dedicated to breaking th... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, edges darkened, front board somewhat loose at spine, considerable wear at top 1/2" of spine/front board, green boards show some soiling. Pictorial cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Black & white glossy frontispiece.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Spine somewhat creased, light reading crease, minor edge wear, minor cover creasing and soiling, store sticker on back cover. Interior a bit tanned but clean and unmarked. A solid copy. ; 6" - 7" Tall; 408 pages; Third in the original Dune trilogy, following "Dune" (Nebula and Hugo Awards) and "Dune Messiah". The desert planet Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life giving spice is abundant. The nine year old royal twins, possessed of their father's supernormal powers are being groomed as Messiahs. But there are those who think the Imperium does not need M... View More...
Spine slightly slanted with one crease, corners a little bumped. A bright, attractive copy. "The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all... View More...
1523739568 Trade paperback, 291 pp. New, never read. ; Signed by several of the authors: John C. Hartness, Gail Z. And Larry Martin, Misty Massey, and Emily Leverett. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 291 pages; " The Corset. "" Rarely has any garment held such allure, such mystery, so much attraction for men and women alike. From a simple foundation garment to a fashion statement all its own, the corset has held the imagination for centuries. " This collection of stories from some of the brightest fantasy writers in the world run the gamut from steampunk to horror, from steamy romance... View More...
Diane Goode sumptuously illustrates this classic fairy tale of a mistreated kitchen maid, her fairy godmother, and (of course) a prince charming. Est Level: 3rd - 6th grades; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Spine slanted, edgewear. Ex-library with one stamp and pocket residue. DJ in protective wrap. A bright, attractive copy. "Several millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in its galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque, the City on the Abyss, into which the River Fundament falls in magnificent cataracts. It is a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, loathsome to imagine, frightening to confront, for it was formed from castoff hates of the Cirquians: a Beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is bl... View More...
Black cloth over black boards, silver lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, small black dots on bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; Sequel to Live Free or Die. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 389 pages; "Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy - the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon - Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic milieu. "But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally, it bec... View More...
0380499088 Spine a bit creased, some edge wear and chipping, a little cover creasing and scuffing. Overall a nice copy. ; Omnibus edition containing all four volumes in the Cities in Flight series. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 605 pages; "The epic cyclic history of the future is now brought together in one volume. In the tetralogy, James Blish has structured an entire universe in which mankind is no longer bound to the Solar System, but has become both conqueror and victim of the stars. "Blish's scale is the whole galaxy, a view that has to be awe-inspiring if he can only make you see it:... View More...
This was a school textbook rather than ex-library, with a pupil signup sheet pasted inside cover. Corners are bumped with a fair amount of edge wear, chipping, and scurffing to boards. Some fading. Pages show some foxing and soiling. Pages 9 and 69 have pieces torn out that include some text, otherwise I would grade it about Good -. Some other small tears to a few pages, but they don't affect the text. Originally published in 1930, this is a charming first-grade reading primer from 1940 with lovely color illustrations of the period. Chapter titles range from "Bubbles" to "Paintin... View More...
Corners bumped, slight spine slant. Jacket has some edge wear/chipping, spine sunned. "Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harassed earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter's fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin, and Desmond (as alike as podded peas) are blissfully unaware of each other's existence. . . Till some aw... View More...
Slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Third in the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series, which was the basis for the HBO series True Blood. ; Sookie Stackhouse; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 292 pages; "There's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that's Bill. But recently he's been a little distant - in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss, Eric, has an idea where to find him. Next thing Sookie knows, she is off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. It's a dangerous little haunt where the eliti... View More...
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