Roald Dahl

Excellent condition hardcover first edition published by Viking (2000). No chocolate factories in this one! A fun shift away from the children’s literature you know Dahl for. This collection of short stories was published following Dahl’s death. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maine

This fiendishly clever collection of 13 tales introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl, described as one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived.

Skin and Other Stories (1st ed.)

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Some staining to cover, rolling of page corners, and marking inside cover. Otherwise a very lovely large edition, written in French, with 35 original woodcuts by S. Lecoanet. Published by Artheme Faust’s & Cie. (1933). It’s worth the purchase for the woodcuts alone!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

La Paix Chez Les Bêtes

Good condition jacket, excellent condition book. Tears at base and front corner of jacket, marked interior page. Alfred A. Knopf (1963) first edition hardcover copy. 

Telephone Poles and Other Poems (1st ed.)

1950 Universal Library First Paperback Edition. Good condition copy of a fairly scarce edition these days. 1.5 inch long slice but not cut through on the outer edge of cover towards the center. Some creasing along spine. Fading on the from of first leaf after opening the cover. Due to an original news clipping from Lowell, MA announcing Kerouac’s burial in town. Two pieces of history for the price of one! A great edition of Kerouac’s first novel!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Town And The City (1st paperback ed.)

Walter Sullivan

Jack is in poor condition, but has been wrapped to prevent further wear. Everything else is in very good condition. Anchor/Doubleday (1979) third printing. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Edge of Space, the End of Time

Speculations and discoveries that have convinced many leading minds of science that black holes exist and may even make up a large part of our universe.

Black Holes

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Poor condition dust jacket, however the book itself is in excellent condition. Fairly scarce hardcover third printing Triangle Books Edition (October 1940). Jacket has been wrapped in Mylar to prevent further deterioration. 

The Stray Lamb 

Amy Sedaris

A good condition, signed first edition copy. Wear to edges and corners, stickers on cover. Some classic, crazy Amy Sedaris! Buy it!

Crafts for Poor People

Describes how to make unconventional crafts from simple materials and offers humorous advice on finding inspiration for crafts, creating a craft room, avoiding the most common crafting accidents, and cooking edible crafts.

Simple Times (Signed, 1st ed.)

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Graeme Macrae Burnet

Very good condition. First edition hardcover copy, Skyhorse Publishing (2016). An odd little title that I quote liked. It had a very nihilistic feel to it not dissimilar to The Stranger. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)

Man Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller! Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times! In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls “thought provoking fiction,” a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime? Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative—centered around an unreliable narrator—will keep the reader guessing to the very end. His Bloody Project is a deeply imagined crime novel that is both thrilling and luridly entertaining from an exceptional new voice.

His Bloody Project (1st ed.)

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John Varley

A pretty crusty early book club edition. However, it’s a relatively scarce edition and the cover still really pops and has lasted the damage incredibly well. That alone is worth the price of admission here. 

The satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed.

Demon

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The title speaks for itself with this one. Let Swami Prabhupāda take you for a ride with this one. 

Easy Journey to Other Planets 

Alice Munro

Some very very faint staining on the jacket by the authors surname, otherwise a very good condition 1st edition copy published by Alfred A. Knopf (2004). A lovely collection of short stories from one of the true masters of short fiction who sadly passed fairly recently. Pour one out for Alice, but keep the rest of the bottle for yourself because her stories are bound to bring about some melancholy. 

Stories

A collection of short fiction captures the lives of women of all ages and circumstances, as they deal with the limits and lies of passion, unfulfilled dreams, motherhood, betrayal, and the bonds of love.

Runaway (1st ed.)

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George Lucas

Alan Foster

Pretty fair condition other than the elephant in the room. Clipped cover is a bummer but everything else is in good condition. 1977 published by Random House. 

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

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Agatha Christie

Some bends and creases but overall a very solid copy. If Poirot is EVER around you, GET OUT. There is no doubt someone will be murdered in short time when that little Belgian is around. This time it’s on a boat. 

Death on the Nile

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Compiles seven stories that examine the relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective.

The Yellow Wallpaper

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Kurt Vonnegut

Creased cover and some markings but a tight little pocket sized copy. Some classic  Vonnegut. 

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Cat's Cradle

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A collection of many original Freemason Naterials! All hardcover, 4 are 5.4 x 3.4 inch, 1 is 5.9 x 4.1 inch. 

Includes:

Official Cipher - Published by Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, F. & A. M. 1948

The Ritual of Craft Masonry: As Practised in the Province of Sussex - Published by Lewis Masonic Books (1974). Book seems to have been used by a mason and is full of notes and deciphering of passages. 

Stability Ritual: As taught in the Stability Lodge of Instruction - Published by Lewis Masonic Books (1993). 

Alnwick Ritual - Privately Printed for Alnwick Lodge (1992). 

A Glossary of Craft and Holy Royal Arch Rituals of Freemasonry. By Brigadier A. C. F. Jackson CVO CBE. Published by Lewis Masonic Books (1992). 

This is a really incredible collection and fantastic way to get your hands on some primary source Masonic materials! Please reach out with inquiries and for further pictures should you wish. 

Collection of Original Freemason Documents

Thomas Ligotti

Jeff VanderMeer

Some classic oppressively depressing Ligotti. It’s so fucking good. Such a great horribly dark worldview! Buy it now!

In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness below - an ordeal from which one may perhaps return, but never to be the same.


Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti crafted his own brand of existential horror, which shocks at the deepest levels. In decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes tormented by the lunatic pageantry of masks, puppets, and obscure ritual, Ligotti's works lay bare the sickening madness of the human condition.
From his dark imagination emerge stories like "The Frolic" and "The Last Feast of Harlequin," waking nightmares that splinter the schemes validating our existence. In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness below-an ordeal from which one may perhaps return, but never to be the same


Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

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H. P. Lovecraft

S. T. Joshi

Good condition modern collection of some classic Lovecraft bangers. 

A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

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Clive Barker

A slight rolling upwards of the pages at the front due to thorough reading. A fantastic collection from a singular voice in the horror fiction genre. Great read. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A landmark collector's edition of short stories by an immensely popular horror writer brings back the terrifying tales with which he first gained acclaim. Reprint.

Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3

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Excellent condition 1st edition copy. Burgess’s two-part response to 1984. 

1985 (1st ed.)

Damaged jacket but a great book club collection of stories published by Harcourt, Brace & World (1965). Lovely collection by one of the sci-fi greats. 

Prelude to Mars 

Very good condition 1st US edition, Castle Books (1965) copy. Missing dust jacket. Great price for a 1st edition Henry Miller!

The Rosy Crucifiction Book Three

NEXUS (1st US edition)

Aside from the small tear at the bottom of the front of jacket this one is in excellent condition. Sadly don’t have the records for it. Making people time travel with hypnosis. Lit. 

How man can experience and relive history

Encounters with the Past 

1st edition of the John Lane The Bodley Head 1930 illustrated version with frontispiece and 11 plates done by Sonia Woolf. Light wear to tip with light fixing on a few pages. Fantastically captivating drawings paired with an early drug memoir originally published in 1822. Rare find and a true work of art!


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Roald Dahl

Skin and Other Stories (1st ed.)

Colette

La Paix Chez Les Bêtes

John Updike

Telephone Poles and Other Poems (1st ed.)

Jack Kerouac

The Town And The City (1st paperback ed.)

Walter Sullivan

Black Holes

Thorne Smith

The Stray Lamb

Amy Sedaris

Simple Times (Signed, 1st ed.)

Graeme Macrae Burnet

His Bloody Project (1st ed.)

John Varley

Demon

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Easy Journey to Other Planets

Alice Munro

Runaway (1st ed.)

George Lucas; Alan Foster

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

Grand Lodge

Collection of Original Freemason Documents

Thomas Ligotti; Jeff VanderMeer

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

H. P. Lovecraft; S. T. Joshi

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

Clive Barker

Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3

Anthony Burgess

1985 (1st ed.)

Arthur C. Clarke

Prelude to Mars

Henry Miller

NEXUS (1st US edition)

Peter Moss; Joe Keeton

Encounters with the Past

Thomas De Quincy; Sonia Wolf

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1st ed. thus)

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