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12 Classic Ghost Storiesby John GraftonISBN 0486404307 (0-486-40430-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Mendor T. BrunettiISBN 0451524535 (0-451-52453-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues under the Sea'Book summary:A thrilling-and prophetic-voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea explores the limitless possibilities of the imagination-and the darkest labyrinth of human nature...
Translated and with an introduction by Mendor T. Brunetti.
With a new afterword by Walter James Miller. [via]More editions of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0451527747 (0-451-52774-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0460873598 (0-460-87359-8)
Softcover, Everyman - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 046005029X (0-460-05029-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0451527747 (0-451-52774-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0460873598 (0-460-87359-8)
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Angel of Darknessby Samuel M. KeyISBN 0515104221 (0-515-10422-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel of Darkness'Book summary:Chad Baker was a rock star once, a real '60s hitmaker. Now he serves as benevolent angel of the Ottawa music scene, helping new bands make demos--and sometimes, secretly, helping a young beauty into his second, hidden recording studio. This is where Baker, a serial killer, records his victims' dying screams. When he combines the agonized vocalizations, he creates a hellish new music. Music that summons a different sort of angel--an unearthly and brutally vengeful Angel of Darkness.
Originally published in 1990 under the pen name Samuel M. Key, fantasy master Charles de Lint's Angel of Darkness betrays its early-novel status. The pacing is uneven. The Stephen King influence is occasionally too strong. And there are more characters involved than the younger, less experienced author was capable of juggling. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451526341 (0-451-52634-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452264901 (0-452-26490-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452277507 (0-452-27750-7)
Softcover, Plume - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452284244 (0-452-28424-4)
Softcover, Plume - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451524667 (0-451-52466-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452262771 (0-452-26277-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
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- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451526341 (0-451-52634-1)
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The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin GardnerISBN 0517029626 (0-517-02962-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:This is the first and only edition of Lewis Carroll's two masterpieces, ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, that contains the full text, together with all original Tenniel illustrations in their correct places. [via]
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- The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: ISBN 0452010411 (0-452-01041-1)
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- The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: ISBN 0452010411 (0-452-01041-1)
Are All the Giants Dead?by Mary NortonISBN 0460066714 (0-460-06671-4)
Hardcover, Dent
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Ayesha: The Return of Sheby H. Rider Haggard, Maurice GreiffenhagenISBN 0486236498 (0-486-23649-8)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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The Blue Fairy Bookby Andrew Lang, Henry J. Ford, G. P. HoodISBN 0486214370 (0-486-21437-0)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Fairy Book'Book summary:The first volume in Lang's fairy tale series features some of the finest stories from around the world, most of them old favorites: 37 in all including "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "The Arabian Nights," "Beauty and the Beast," "Hansel and Gretel," "Jack the Giantkiller," and "Puss in Boots." Includes original 138 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of The Blue Fairy Book:
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Blue Moonby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Moon'Book summary:Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presencesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0452264804 (0-452-26480-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Burnt Offeringsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134473 (0-515-13447-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burnt Offerings'Book summary:In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, it's often hard to tell the good from the evil. Just ask Anita Blake. She seems to be developing a soft spot in her heart for vampires-one in particular. So, when an arsonist's flames begin licking at St. Louis's undead, it's up to Anita to save the very monsters she's sworn to destroy... [via]
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515136816 (0-515-13681-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Circus Of The Damnedby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134481 (0-515-13448-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circus Of The Damned'Book summary:The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.
Mystery fans will love the tightly plotted, Paretsky-esque action, and horror fans will love just about everything in this unusual series. [via]
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Talesby Valerie ParadizISBN 0465054919 (0-465-05491-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Talesby Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 051709293X (0-517-09293-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:L. Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages. [via]
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0452005485 (0-452-00548-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Crimson Fairy Bookby Henry J. Ford, Andrew LangISBN 048621799X (0-486-21799-X)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Fairy Book'Book summary:One of England's top folklorists presents another volume in his much-loved "rainbow" series of fairy books. These 36 stories originated in Hungary, Russia, Finland, Iceland, Tunisia, the Baltic, and elsewhere. They include "The Cottager and His Cat," "The Crab and the Monkey," "Little Wildrose," "The Gold-bearded Man," and others. 53 illustrations.[via]More editions of The Crimson Fairy Book:
The Diamond Throneby David EddingsISBN 0517067765 (0-517-06776-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agencyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517023377 (0-517-02337-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Thea KlirosISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later.More editions of Dracula:
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Essential Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Classic Novelby Leonard Wolf, Michael Lark, Robert L. StevensonISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Classic Novel'Book summary:Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Essential Frankenstein: The Definitive, Annotated Edition of Mary Shelley's Classic Novelby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher H. BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein: The Definitive, Annotated Edition of Mary Shelley's Classic Novel'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0517117215 (0-517-11721-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Favorite Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books in Many Colors: Red Green and Blue Fairy Tale Booksby Andrew LangISBN 048623407X (0-486-23407-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott Abbott, Valerie M. SmithISBN 0451529766 (0-451-52976-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460871498 (0-460-87149-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
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Ghost Stories and Mysteriesby J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Everett F. BleilerISBN 0486207153 (0-486-20715-3)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Stories and Mysteries'Book summary:Mystery and supernatural fiction by writer many consider the greatest ghost story writer of all time. "The Room in the Dragon Volant" (the finest historical mystery of the Victorian era) and "The Evil Guest"; also "The Murdered Cousin," the first sealed-room story known. Most stories unavailable elsewhere.[via]More editions of Ghost Stories and Mysteries:
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Gods, Men and Ghostsby E.F. Bleiler, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Sime, Sidney, HerbertISBN 0486228088 (0-486-22808-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Golemby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486250253 (0-486-25025-3)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golem'Book summary:"A favorite of connoisseurs of works of fantasy for many decades." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, and profound terror, this is the most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. 13 black-and-white illustrations. "Not to be missed." Los Angeles Times.[via]More editions of The Golem:
The Golem and "the Man Who Was Born Again" Two German Supernatural Novelsby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486233278 (0-486-23327-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Green Tea and Other Ghost Storiesby J. Sheridan Le FanuISBN 048627795X (0-486-27795-X)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories'Book summary:4 chilling tales by great Victorian master. Famous title story concerns an English clerics bouts with a malignant spectral illusion. Also included are Squire Tobys Will, The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh and Sir Dominicks Bargain. LeFanu brought high craftsmanship, literary skill and psychological penetration to his stories, qualities which elevate them above most work in the genre. This is an excellent introduction to his oeuvre. New introductory Note.[via]More editions of Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories:
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Guilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513449X (0-515-13449-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guilty Pleasures'Book summary:Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.
Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive. [via]
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0451528522 (0-451-52852-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A dazzling mind and driving ambition has carried Griffin into territory never before explored: he has discovered how to make himself invisible. What sacrifice now can be too great? Yet even as Griffin attains his dream, his nightmare begins. This edition contains an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Well's life and times. [via]
Jabberwocky and Other Poemsby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486415821 (0-486-41582-1)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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Kwaidanby Lafcadio Hearn, Yasumasa F. LewisISBN 0486219011 (0-486-21901-1)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japanby Lafcadio Hearn, Yasumasa Fujita, Oscar LewisISBN 0486450945 (0-486-45094-5)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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Last and First Men and Star Makerby Olaf StapledonISBN 0486219623 (0-486-21962-3)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last and First Men and Star Maker'Book summary:The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.[via]More editions of Last and First Men and Star Maker:
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The Laughing Corpseby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134449 (0-515-13444-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laughing Corpse'Book summary:Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing. [via]
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 046001045X (0-460-01045-X)
Hardcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Tableby Thomas Malory, Keith Bains, Robert GravesISBN 0451625676 (0-451-62567-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table'Book summary:New rendition of the classic tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. [via]
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The Lunatic Cafeby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513452X (0-515-13452-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunatic Cafe'Book summary:The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets. [via]
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Merlin and Companyby Alvaro Cunqueiro, Colin SmithISBN 0460877313 (0-460-87731-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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Narcissus in Chainsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515133876 (0-515-13387-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Of Saints and Shadowsby Christopher GoldenISBN 0515113883 (0-515-11388-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 0486407837 (0-486-40783-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale of the 'boy who wouldn't grow up.' As a baby, Peter Pan fell out of his carriage and was taken by fairies to Neverland. There, he can fly and is the champion of the Lost Boys and a friend to the fairy Tinker Bell. Revisiting England, Peter becomes involved with Wendy Darling and her younger brothers, all of whom accompany Peter to Neverland. The children have many adventures and vanquish the pirate Captain Hook. The Darlings eventually return home with the Lost Boys, leaving Peter Pan to his perpetual boyhood.
Since Peter Pan first appeared as a play in 1904, the boy hero has achieved mythological status in the English-speaking world. The story's emotional truths about youth, freedom, and responsibility continue to touch the heart and thrill the imagination. [via]
Phantastesby George MacDonaldISBN 0460017322 (0-460-01732-2)
Softcover, Dent & Sons, J. M.
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0486445674 (0-486-44567-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantastes: A Faerie Romance'Book summary:An enchanting early masterpiece of fantasy fiction, Phantastes tells the story of a young man's journey to, and adventures in, a fairy tale netherworld. Outstanding for its imaginative characters, vivid action, and subtle yet powerful moral messages, this is the book that earned MacDonald recognition as "The Grandfather of Modern Fantasy."[via]More editions of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance:
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She: A History of Adventureby H. Rider Haggard, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451525841 (0-451-52584-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She: A History of Adventure'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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She, King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermainby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0486206432 (0-486-20643-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She, King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain'Book summary:"She" is the great mythic creation of the 19th century, while "King Solomons Mines" and "Allan Quatermain" are surging tales of adventure, full of sensational fights, blood-curdling perils, and extraordinary escapes.[via]More editions of She, King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire HarmanISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Tarzanby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486295303 (0-486-29530-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan'Book summary:Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.[via]More editions of Tarzan:
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0451524233 (0-451-52423-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 046001319X (0-460-01319-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole . . .as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villians ever created, takes his revenge on all society.
More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Bob Blaisdell, W. W. DenslowISBN 0486285855 (0-486-28585-5)
Softcover, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451530292 (0-451-53029-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: ISBN 0486422488 (0-486-42248-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: ISBN 0517122049 (0-517-12204-9)
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The Wyvern Mysteryby Joseph S. Le FanuISBN 0486440729 (0-486-44072-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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