COLD MOUNTAIN.
Frazier, Charles.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner. Basis for the feature film.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner. Basis for the feature film.
New York: Random House, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Suspense novel.
New York: Viking, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Hannah Van Doren mystery. Babcock was a Black Mask author.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Signed by Shepard on the title page. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-999.
Minneapolis, MN: The Midwest Company Publishers, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-294 [295-296], original red moire patterned cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A scientist rejuvenates a sixty-nine year old man who has...
Cambridge: Edgewood Press, 2000. Octavo, First edition. Collects sixteen stories, including the World Fantasy Award-winning title story, "The Pink of Fading Neon," "Paper Dragons," "The Shadow on the Doorstep, and others.
New York: The Dial Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "On a world of long, slow seasons, the winter queen tries to perpetuate her rule into the summer by means of cloning and other...
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover art by M[argaret] Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by C. L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Paul Ernst, Robert E. Howard ("People of...
London: Century Publishing, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel and first hardcover book. The second title in the Drenai series, following LEGEND. "His strengths as a fantasy author are immediately evident: a....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1996]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first mystery.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 2 of "Methuselah's Children" by Robert A. Heinlein. Also Theodore Sturgeon and Jack...
New York: Del Rey, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription as Head and Canaday. (Canaday was an author of art history books and art critic for the New York Times). The first Mary...
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Wizard of Crime" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould short...
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the posthumous publication of the story "Murderer's Grog," a wild Bill Clanton story using the pseudonym Sam Walser.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Chizmar, introducer Douglas E. Winter, and the twenty-five contributors. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard...
New York: Crown, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sherlock Holmes versus Aleister Crowley.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1971. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three short stories, plus a 3-page introduction, "How the Stories Came to Be," by Tevis Clyde Smith. "Red Blades of...
[Willimantic, Connectucut: Published by Mark V. Ziesing, 1988.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Short fantasy novel, indirect sequel to "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule."
New York: Perma Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3097. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery novel.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. and First combined editions. Two fantasy novellas aimed toward the youger audience. "Lee's books for children, in fact, have a clarity and directness which make...
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the Willis on the title page. 1993 Nebula award winner for best novel. 1993 Co-winner of the Hugo Award. "It's one of...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel.
London: Macdonald, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. First published in an abridged format in New Worlds. 1969 Nebula award and 1970 Hugo award nominee for best novel. BUG JACK BARRON "is a story about...
New York: Tor, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first science fiction novel, concerns a A.I. terraformed planet which will not allow any technological advancements stand. As years have passed the colonists are on...
[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Clarke on the front free endpaper. Expanded and rewritten as THE CITY AND THE STARS (1956). This earlier version utilizing the...
[Springfield, PA: Gauntlet, Inc., 1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Trade paperback format. Stephen King special issue. Also includes some Ray Bradbury material.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Muller on the title page. A Joanna Stark mystery.
[London]: Macmillan, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Modern space opera on an epic scale. Book one of "The Night's Dawn Trilogy." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-489.
NY: Short Stories, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by John Arfstrom, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, Michael Avallone, Henry S. Whitehead and others.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with variant titles from original publications. Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy...
New York: Tor, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Original anthology with sixteen stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, and others.
New York: Ace Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Collects the first Earth's End sequence; THE BROKEN LANDS (1968), THE BLACK MOUNTAINS (1971) and ARDHEH'S WORLD (a.k.a. CHANGELING EARTH (1973), all...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-319 [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John and twelve full-page St. John illustrations in the text, original orange cloth...
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