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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755334353 (0-7553-3435-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0804900973 (0-8049-0097-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0812504240 (0-8125-0424-0)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0688107826 (0-688-10782-6)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0766607674 (0-7666-0767-4)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0719530113 (0-7195-3011-3)
Hardcover, J. Murray - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0755334353 (0-7553-3435-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0804900973 (0-8049-0097-3)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Eric KincaidISBN 0861129725 (0-86112-972-5)
Hardcover, Byeway Books
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
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The Amateur Cracksmanby Ernest William HornungISBN 0836931505 (0-8369-3150-5)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur Cracksman'Book summary:"Do you prefer the alternative?" asked my companion, with a sneer. "No, hang it, that's unfair!" he cried apologetically in the same breath. "I quite understand. It's a beastly ordeal. But it would never do for you to stay outside. I tell you what, you shall have a peg before we start--just one. [via]
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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardnerby Ring Wilmer LardnerISBN 0684183633 (0-684-18363-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Glass : Short Fictionsby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0805055576 (0-8050-5557-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Glass : Short Fictions'Book summary:Carry Nation is on the loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, preaching clean living to men more intent on booze and babes. And what of Tonto, ever-faithful companion of the Lone Ranger, turning 40 without so much as a birthday call from the masked man? In these and 13 other short fictions, Fowler once again demonstrates the imaginative virtuosity that is fast winning her critical acclaim Author readings . [via]
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplayby Annie ProulxISBN 0743271327 (0-7432-7132-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay'Book summary:Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. [via]
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Close Rangeby Annie ProulxISBN 0684852225 (0-684-85222-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Range'Book summary:A breathtaking collection of unabridged stories from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love.
Close Range features stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes -- confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty -- with the more benign values of the new west.
Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft. [via]
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Close Range: Wyoming Storiesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0684867265 (0-684-86726-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Range: Wyoming Stories'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winner E. Annie Proulx forays through the underside of America's beloved Wild West in Close Range, a collection of stories about hardship and more hardship in Wyoming territory. Understanding that the West's infinite spaces tended to inspire neither introspection nor contemplation, but a violent and insatiable restlessness, Proulx's eight stories are dark reflections on the lives of a handful of characters striving to define themselves against the unforgiving landscapes. The three professional actors chosen to read the text give strong, resounding interpretations of the macabre tales. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Natasha Senjanovich [via]
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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: An Omnibus Volume Containing Kiss, Kiss, Over to You, Switch Bitch, Someone like You, and Eight Further Tales of the Unexpectedby Roald DahlISBN 0718135458 (0-7181-3545-8)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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Collected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. DickISBN 0806512768 (0-8065-1276-8)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'Book summary:Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal [via]
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The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behindby David GutersonISBN 0679767185 (0-679-76718-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0679601732 (0-679-60173-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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E.T.A. Hoffman: Talesby Victor LangeISBN 0826402542 (0-8264-0254-2)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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E.T.A. Hoffmann: Talesby V. SanderISBN 082640264X (0-8264-0264-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E.T.A. Hoffmann: Tales'Book summary:The German Library Series...Volume 89. Book Very Good in heavy card covers. This volume includes 'The Visit'....'Romulus the Great'.... 'Problems of the Theatre'....'The Judge and His Hangman'....and, for the first time in English, ' A Monster Lecture on Justice and Right.' [via]
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An Edited Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's the Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett, Jeff MorganISBN 077346588X (0-7734-6588-X)
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Pr
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Iceby A. S. ByattISBN 0701168234 (0-7011-6823-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice'Book summary:A.S. Byatt's stories simmer with a sensuality and passion that, like topiary trees in a formal garden, are pruned and trained into cultivated shapes while retaining the wild scent of the orchard. In "Crocodile Tears" a woman walks away from a personal tragedy, deserting those she loves to try to reconcile herself to a death for which she feels horribly responsible. Thrown together in Nîmes with another exiled mourner, a Norwegian full of northern folktales, she ricochets between a numbed calm and a reckless urge for self-destruction. Together they begin to assemble some kind of personal solace out of fragments of European history, fiction, and myth, and so come to terms with their guilt. "A Lamia in the Cevennes" is also set in France, where another isolated English exile struggles for self-knowledge amid the shards of history and folktale. "Cold" is itself a kind of latter-day fairy story of ice princesses and sighing suitors. These are stories steeped in light and color, full of glowing landscapes and sensuous delights. Their intricately woven skeins of literary allusion and keenly observed locations bewitch the reader. Yet the figures in Byatt's landscapes seem powerless to derive pleasure or solace from their surroundings, picking their lonely way through the brilliance, carrying with them burdens of painful memories they cannot shake off. --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Encyclopedia of the Deadby Danilo Kis, Michael Henry HeimISBN 081011514X (0-8101-1514-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Ficcionesby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0802130305 (0-8021-3030-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony KerriganISBN 0714540838 (0-7145-4083-8)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fictions'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
Friend of My Youthby Alice MunroISBN 0679729577 (0-679-72957-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Front Porch Tales: Warm-Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Loveby Philip GulleyISBN 0802727522 (0-8027-2752-2)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0808520806 (0-8085-2080-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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The Hobbit: A 3-D Pop-Up Adventureby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0694014362 (0-694-01436-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit: A 3-D Pop-Up Adventure'Book summary:Delve into the incredible world of hobbits, wizards, and dragons in this exceptional visual adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy epic The Hobbit. This innovative pop-up book transports hero Bilbo Baggins, a small, quiet hobbit, through five adventures from the novel. Featuring beautiful illustrations, intricate paper engineering, and pull-out scrolls with excerpts, this unique edition is the perfect introduction to Tolkien's timeless tale and a must-have collectible for Hobbit fans of all ages. [via]
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0786251778 (0-7862-5177-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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Hotel of the Saintsby Ursula HegiISBN 0743227166 (0-7432-2716-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In Our Timeby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684822768 (0-684-82276-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Stacksby Michael CartISBN 0756777402 (0-7567-7740-2)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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It Is the Lord!: Sin and Confession Revisitedby William J. BauschISBN 0819005525 (0-8190-0552-5)
Hardcover, Fides Publishers
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Kingdoms of Elfinby WarnerISBN 0701122021 (0-7011-2202-1)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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The Knight and Knave of Swordsby Fritz LeiberISBN 068808530X (0-688-08530-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knight and Knave of Swords'Book summary:Ramsey Campbell, the highly regarded British horror author called him, "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction". Drawing many of his own themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Franz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the Fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that would describe the sub-genre he would more than help create. While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leibers fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwons grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leibers fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilizations corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. "Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are virtually a genre unto themselves. Urbane, idiosyncratic, comic, erotic and human, spiked with believable action of a master fantasist!" William Gibson "After too long a wait, the master story teller of us all returns with a huge, anecdotal adventure in the magic-drenched lives of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Glowing imagination melds with gorgeous language to make this one of Leiber's very best...which is a better best than this poor world usually has to offer. Leiber's back: rejoice!" -Harlan Ellison "It's all Fritz Leiber's fault. If he weren't such a deadly fine fantasist I wouldn't be stopping everything to read his tales. And if he weren't such a master I wouldn't occasionally look out of the window and wish he'd interrupt my routine again, as he doesn't do it often enough. The Knight and Knave of Swords came into my life and took over an otherwise fully programmed afternoon. I stop everything when a new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story comes into my hands." Roger Zelazny [via]
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The Last Defender of Camelotby Roger ZelaznyISBN 074347970X (0-7434-7970-X)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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Legendsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0765300354 (0-7653-0035-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends'Book summary:The great anthology of short novels by the masters of modern fantasy.[via]
Robert Jordan relates crucial events in the years leading up to The Wheel of Time in "New Spring."
Ursula K. Le Guin adds a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portraying a woman who wants to learn magic, in "Dragonfly."
Tad Williams tells a dark and enthralling story of a haunted castle in the age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, in "The Burning Man."
Terry Pratchett relates an amusing incident in Discworld, of a magical contest and the witch Granny Weatherwax, in "The Sea and Little Fishes." -
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141676 (0-8021-4167-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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Lost in the Cityby Edward P. JonesISBN 0688115268 (0-688-11526-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Lottery and Other Storiesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0848803698 (0-8488-0369-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lottery and Other Stories'Book summary:A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.
Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected.
The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer. [via] -
The Martian Way and Other Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 083760463X (0-8376-0463-X)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Way and Other Stories'Book summary:This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility. [via]
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The Minority Reportby Philip K. DickISBN 0806521686 (0-8065-2168-6)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Minority Report'Book summary:Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes The Minority Report, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety and The Eyes Have It. [via]
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The Minority Report and Other Classic Storiesby Philip K. Dick, James TriptreeISBN 0806523794 (0-8065-2379-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745661 (0-679-74566-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Chameleons'Book summary:In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.
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N-Spaceby Larry NivenISBN 0812510011 (0-8125-1001-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'N-Space'Book summary:On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was once asked to name his favorite writer. His answer was "Larry Niven." Countless others agree. The Baltimore Sun and Kirkus Reviews have both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of hard SF," and Gregory Benford has hailed him as "the paradigm of SF personality of the last several decade."[via]
Now Larry Niven presents us with his undisputed masterwork. N-Space contains, very simply, the best SF of his career--marvelous fiction, a wealth of anecdotes and gossip, plus Niven's own special brand of wit and excitement.More editions of N-Space:
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The Periodic Tableby Primo LeviISBN 0805210415 (0-8052-1041-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
Pigeon Feathers and Other Storiesby John UpdikeISBN 0783818564 (0-7838-1856-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Positioning: Belief in the Mid-Seventiesby William J. BauschISBN 0819006068 (0-8190-0606-8)
Hardcover, Fides Publishers
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Pure Drivelby Steve MartinISBN 078688505X (0-7868-8505-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pure Drivel'Book summary:Steve Martins talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From a wildly imaginative meditation on who Lolita would be at age fifty to a send-up of the warning labels on medicine bottles, these pieces, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, hilariously and intelligently skewer the topic at hand. Pure Drivel will have readers crying with laughterand marveling that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer. Like the fuzzy little puff of marabou on the instep of a coquettes satin bedroom slipper... Martins book of diminutive, often hilarious essays [is]... effortless and silly even as its subtly erudite. ? Salon Martin is a gorgeous writer capable of being at once melancholy and tart, achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic. He is a master at revealing the surreal poetry in pure drivel. ? Elle [via]
Raffles the Amateur Cracksmanby HornungISBN 0792701577 (0-7927-0157-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raffles the Amateur Cracksman'Book summary:A collection of stories about crime that involves sophistication, wit and genius. In this amazing anthology Hornung introduces Raffles as protagonist. A cricketer by profession, he is a skilled thief who specializes in stealing jewels yet apparently lives a respectable life. It is intriguing to see how Hornung shows that there is honour among thieves and even they live by some rules. Mind-blowing! [via]
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Rashamon and Other Storiesby Ryunosuke AkutagawaISBN 0804814570 (0-8048-1457-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rashamon and Other Stories'Book summary:This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prose subtly exposing human needs and flaws. "In a Grove," which was the basis for Kurosawa's classic film Rashomon, tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like "Yam Gruel" is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader's sympathy is thoroughly unsettled. And in "The Martyr," a beloved orphan raised by Jesuit priests is exiled when he refuses to admit that he made a local girl pregnant. He regains their love and respect only at the price of his life. All six tales in the collection show Akutagawa as a master storyteller and an exciting voice of modern Japanese literature. [via]More editions of Rashamon and Other Stories:
Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpectedby Roald DahlISBN 0679729895 (0-679-72989-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Russian Beauty and Other Storiesby Vladimir NabokovISBN 084880838X (0-8488-0838-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Seven Japanese Talesby Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard HibbettISBN 0679761071 (0-679-76107-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood Anderson, Ray Lewis WhiteISBN 0821411802 (0-8214-1180-2)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxfordby Philip K. DickISBN 0806511532 (0-8065-1153-2)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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Star Diariesby Stanislaw LemISBN 0816492832 (0-8164-9283-2)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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Strange Tales from Make-Do Studioby Songling PuISBN 0835122565 (0-8351-2256-5)
Softcover, China Books & Periodicals
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Sugar and Other Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679742271 (0-679-74227-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Swords Against Wizardryby Fritz LeiberISBN 0743475372 (0-7434-7537-2)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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Swords and Deviltryby Fritz LeiberISBN 0839823983 (0-8398-2398-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Swords and Deviltry Bk. 1 : The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouserby Fritz LeiberISBN 0743445589 (0-7434-4558-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Australia
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A Tidewater Morningby William StyronISBN 0679754490 (0-679-75449-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Unlikely Stories, Mostlyby Alasdair GrayISBN 0862417376 (0-86241-737-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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The Vintage Bradburyby Ray BradburyISBN 0679729461 (0-679-72946-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Where You'll Find Me : And Other Storiesby Ann BeattieISBN 0684815109 (0-684-81510-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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Wilderness Tipsby Atwood, Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008198 (0-7710-0819-8)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0808566245 (0-8085-6624-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:No sooner did _Winesburg, Ohio_ make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place _Winesburg, Ohio_ in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition. [via]
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The Wise Woman and Other Storiesby George MacDonald, Craig YoeISBN 0802818609 (0-8028-1860-9)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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