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Bread and Jam for Frances

By: Hoban, Russell

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1977

Seller ID: 003028

ISBN: 0590478435

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

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 t...
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Brothers of Earth

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New Haven, Conn., Doubleday & Company: 1976

Seller ID: 001283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

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...
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Buffalito Contigency (Amazing Conroy Series # 2)

By: Schoen, Lawrence M.

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Overland Park, KS, Hadley Rille Books: 2011

Seller ID: 008243

ISBN: 0982946775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

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
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Buffalito Destiny (Amazing Conroy Series # 1)

By: Schoen, Lawrence M.

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Overland Park, KS, Hadley Rille Books: 2009

Seller ID: 008242

ISBN: 0981924336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 te...
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Cally's War

By: Ringo, John; Cochrane, Julie

Price: $24.50

Publisher: New York, Baen Books: 2004

Seller ID: 005070

ISBN: 0743488458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

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 brea...
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Carl Hall of Tait

By: Tomlinson, Everett T.

Price: $9.25

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1916

Seller ID: 002998

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

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
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Centaur Aisle (Xanth Series #4)

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, Del Ray / Ballantine: 1982

Seller ID: 000674

Condition: Very Good+

0345297709 Corners bumped, some shelf wear. "Dor was having troubles growing up to be the next Magician-King of the magic Land of Xanth. He wanted no part of running the kingdom. But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to non-magical Mundania, home of such weird beasts as horses and bears, so Dor had to take over as King for a week. A week passes. No Trent. Then three weeks. King Trent still hadn't returned. Surely, something terrible had happened; he was apparently held captive in some foul dungeon, unable to escape. Dor was left with the burden of ruling -- and wi...
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Children of the Mind (Ender Quartet, Book 4)

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 1997

Seller ID: 006113

ISBN: 0812522397

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

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 ...
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Cinched [Signed by Multiple Authors] Imagination Unbound

By: Hartness, John C. (editor) ; Martin, Gail Z. ; Martin, Larry; Massey, Misty; Leverett Emily Levin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Charlotte, NC, Falstaff Books: 2015

Seller ID: 8777

ISBN: 1523739568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

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 s...
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Cinderella

By: Perrault, Charles

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1988

Seller ID: 001003

ISBN: 0394996038

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Owner's name/sticker on front FEP. 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
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Cirque

By: Carr, Terry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1977

Seller ID: 003296

ISBN: 0672520141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

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...
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City and Country - New Citizenship Reader

By: Ringer, Edith Hope; Downie, Lou Chase

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1940

Seller ID: 002079

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

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 "Pain...
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Clone

By: Cowper, Richard

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 001833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

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...
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Cockleburr Quarters

By: Baker, Charlotte

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Camelot Books: 1973

Seller ID: 000935

ISBN: 0380154617

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine/covers well-creased, scuffed. Bottom corner of front cover was torn and has been taped together. "Dolph was kicking cans the afternoon he found the puppies under the Cockleburr Street Kingdom of Heaven Church. Eight puppies guarded by a gotch-eared, half-blind mammy dog. Eight hungry puppies that nobody wanted -- nobody except Dolph and his younger sister, Myrtis. Together they plan and worry and bargain, take risks, make mistakes, work up sweat and blisters, discover their will and determination. And, in the end, in the most believable way, Dolph makes the unbelievable happen!&#...
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Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris Series # 2) (Signed)

By: Hines, Jim

Price: $32.50

Publisher: New York, D A W Books: 2013

Seller ID: 008245

ISBN: 0756408164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

New, never read. Bottom corners dented, otherwise fine. Signed by author at MarsCon 2014. "Isaac Vainio's life is just about perfect. He should know it can't last. Living and working as a part-time librarian in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Isaac has finally earned the magical research position he has dreamed of with Die Zwelf Portenaere, better known as the Porters. He is seeing a smart, fun, gorgeous dryad named Lena Greenwood. He has been cleared by Johannes Gutenberg to practice libriomancy once again, reaching into books to create whatever he chooses from their pages. Be...
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Conan of the Isles

By: De Camp, L. Sprague; Carter, Lin

Price: $4.50

Publisher: London, Sphere Books Limited: 1976

Seller ID: 003505

ISBN: 0722147198

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, minor edge wear, some rubbing, crease along front hinge. An attractive copy. "The adventure that started here, the royal Hall of Justice in Tarantia. . .was to be Conan's strangest and most fantastic of all the many that thronged his far-famed and peril-filled career."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Conan the Conqueror

By: Howard, Robert E.

Price: $6.45

Publisher: New York, Lancer Books: 1967

Seller ID: 003469

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, some edge wear, darkening. Some yellowing, but text is unmarked. A nice copy. "Conan's awakening was abrupt and crystal-clear. He possessed full knowledge of the battle in the mountains and he had a good idea of where he was. He lay on a velvet couch, his limbs loaded with chains even he could not break. "What the devil did you do to me?" demanded Conan. "I blasted your consciousness," answered Xaltotum. "How, you would not understand, Call it Black Magic, if you will." Conan felt a chill along his spine...."; 12mo - over 6¾" ...
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Conan: The People of the Black Circle (The Authorized Edition)

By: Howard, Robert E. (edited By Karl Edward Wagner)

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, Berkley Publishing Corporation: 1977

Seller ID: 006178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

215 pp., frontispiece and full-page illustrations. Spine slightly slanted, top corner bumped, foxing along edges. DJ shows some edgewear including 2 small chips at spine. A nice, attractive copy. Edited and with an introduction by Karl Edward Wagner, this is billed as "The Authorized Edition" -- as opposed to the series published in the 1960s by Lancer, which had a little editing done to the stories. This is the 2nd volume. "Each volume includes, from the pages of 'Weird Tales', the unaltered words of the greatest master of heroic fantasy, Robert E. Howard . . . with so...
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Conquest of Earth

By: Banister, Manly

Price: $3.40

Publisher: New York, Airmont Books: 1957

Seller ID: 004420

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very minor shelfwear. A clean, unmarked copy. "Earth's elusive masters tolerated only one planet-wide organization --- the Scarlet Order of Men. Only the most favored of the People could enter the Institute, as children, to undergo rigorous training. Those unfit for the Order became Blue Brethren, servants and guides of the People, aiding and instructing them as loyal members of society, under the rule of the benevolent Trisz."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Conscience Interplanetary

By: Green, Joseph

Price: $4.40

Publisher: New York, NY, DAW Books: 1974

Seller ID: 000273

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

"Armed with the required five master's degrees, among other outstanding accomplishments, you are a member of the elite Practical Philosopher Corps, a handful of galactic roamers trained to detect intelligent life-forms on the hundreds of newly colonized planets. As mankind's "Conscience" you are a brilliant blend of scientific realism and unfettered imagination . . . [your] twin duties to planetary conservation and your own aggressive, expanding race. For when a Conscience declares a world to cradle intelligent life, man must, regardless of cost, abandon it to its own destiny."...
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Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy