Algernon Blackwood

Great condition paperback copy of a collection of some classic Algernon Blackwood short stories. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Thirteen great stories by foremost British 20th-century supernaturalist: "The Willows," "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," others.

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

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Bobby Orr

Absolutely perfect condition copy. Mint condition hardcover hardcover 1st edition, inscribed by the titular man himself! A one of a kind book for your collection. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

My Story

A personal account by the record-breaking NHL defenseman traces his rise from a small-town youth to one of the most acclaimed names in hockey, providing coverage of such topics as the events that inspired his career, the financially ruinous betrayal by his agent and his views on the game today.

Orr (Inscribed 1st ed)

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John Kennedy Toole

Walker Percy

Andrei Codrescu

LSU Press (2000) 20th Anniversary Edition first edition hardcover copy in incredible condition. Rare find. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Confederacy of Dunces (LSU Press 1st ed)

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Alice Hoffman

A very nearly mint condition hardcover first edition copy. 

Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a legacy they both try to escape until they realize their magic is a gift, not an affliction. By the author of Turtle Moon and Second Coming.

Practical Magic (1st ed)

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Nathaniel Philbrick

A really great condition Viking (2006) signed first edition. 

A Story of Courage, Community, and War

A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the devastating impact of the King Philip's War. By the author of Sea of Glory. 450,000 first printing.

Mayflower (Signed 1st ed)

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Dag Hammarskjold

W. H. Auden

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg

Jimmy Carter

Spiritual Poems and Meditations

"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." — The New York Times A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964. Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa." It reflects its author's efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For Hammarskjöld, "the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." Markings is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left its mark on generations of readers.

Markings

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Near mint first edition copy. Don’t know a thing about this book other than that there is a decent cowboy film that shares a title with it. 

The Quick & The Dead (1st ed)

Kurt Vonnegut

Attractive little hardcover Delacorte (1985) printing. Beautiful condition at a great price. 

A Novel

"A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain."--The New York Times Book Review

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America' s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry-and all that is worth saving.

Praise for Galápagos

"The best Vonnegut novel yet!"--John Irving

"Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading."--USA Today

"A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning."--The Detroit Free Press
 
"Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny . . . Vonnegut is still in top form. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician."--Susan Isaacs, Newsday
 
"Dark . . . original and funny."--People
 
"A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic . . . a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut's entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
"Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . Galápagos is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
"A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination."--The Denver Post
 
"Wacky wit and irreverent imagination .  . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America's preeminent experimental novelist."--The Minneapolis Star and Tribune

Galapagos

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Ayn Rand

Classic Ayn Rand tropes of objectivism and architects in a tidy hardcover Macmillian (1986) printing. 

This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand's personal notes on the development of her masterwork, and a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy.

The Fountainhead

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Donna Tartt

A lovely near mint first edition copy of Donna Tartt’s under appreciated middle novel. 

Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge. By the author of The Secret History. 300,000 first printing.

The Little Friend (1st ed)

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A bit tattered, but still a very attractive hardcover edition. Great display piece. An incredible piece of history. 

Shackleton’s Valiant Voyage

Edward L. Beach

First edition copy. Jacket is in quite a state but the actual book is in very good shape. Good find. 

This is a vivid, minute-by-minute account of one of the worst shipwrecks in naval history. Edward Beach's father commanded the Memphis, one of the largest battle cruisers built by the U.S. Navy up to that time--bigger and faster than a battleship. The Memphis (originally Tennessee) was demolished by monstrous tsunami waves in Santo Domingo Harbor in August 1916, killing forty-three sailors, and Beach Jr. literally grew up with the tragedy and its effects, which are as profound today as they were eighty years ago. Based on his father's reminiscences and private papers, official documents, and interviews with survivors, Beach's reexamination of the disaster and his father's court-martial ranks among the finest analyses of the responsibilities and demands placed on the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy ship. A record-setting submarine skipper himself and the acclaimed author of Run Silent, Run Deep, Beach brought personal knowledge to a story that has become a classic in the years since its original publication in 1966. His prose was never more incisive and vigorous. In an introductory essay written for this new edition, Beach discusses the design of the Memphis, her role in the fleet that fought in World War I, and object lessons that have influenced U.S. naval history since the disaster.

The Wreck of the Memphis (1st ed)

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John Grisham

Great looking first edition copy of one of Grisham earlier ones. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb.... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client—even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

The Client (1st ed)

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Scarce second edition (1985) of a privately printed guide to the locations and stories of the ghosts of York. Contains a wonderful map and key, marking the locations of the various hauntings. Great find. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Ghost Walk of York 

Stephen King

Very damaged, but priced to sell and it comes with a vintage New England bus ticket to tie the whole lot together. 

Late Last Night and the Night Before...

...Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.

Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across.

It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...and invasion of body and soul--and mind.

The Tommyknockers

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Charles Willeford

Nice first edition, hardcover copy of a later entry in the Hoke Moseley series. Pretty good looking jacket on this copy, with only significant damage being a small red ink spot. 

When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, and considering he has his former partner, who happens to be nursing a newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn't like the situation on bit. It doesn't help matters when he is suddenly assigned to work undercover, miles away, outside of his jurisdiction and without his badge, his gun, or his teeth. Soon, he is impersonating a drifter and tring to infiltrate a farm operation suspected of murdering migrant workers. But when he gets there for his job interview, the last thing he is offered is work.

The Way We Die Now (1st ed)

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The first entry in the fantastically weird Hoke Moseley series. 1st No Exit Press Edition (1996) 

Miami Blues (1st No Exit Press Edition) 

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In retrospect, this books sister novel, written under the Bachman pen name is superior, but there’s still some fun to be had here. 

Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, Nevada, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives. Reissue.

Desperation

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The Mandela Effect likely has you thinking that this book is about a murderous dog, when in reality it’s detailed account of an advertising campaign gone brutally wrong. God, what a book. I can’t get enough of it. King was definitely still drinking when he wrote this one. 

The #1 bestseller—for King's rabid fans.

It happens innocently enough, but doesn’t it always. A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave—and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself.

A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness.

The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind.

 

Cujo

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Well loved paperback Signet Classics (1960) collection of Poe stories. Banged up but it has great cover art and character. It’s a one stop shop for all of Poe’s hits. 

And Other Tales

The Fall of the House of Usher

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Daniel Hahn

A fantastic work of modern magical realism. Originally published in Portuguese before being translated to English for this Archipelago Books (2020) edition. 

“False memories and clairvoyant dreams combine in Agualusa’s sweeping, intricately plotted tale of personal and political history in Angola . . . ” – Publishers Weekly When Daniel Benchimol—consummate dreamer—uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira, his fascination quickly develops to obsession as the sight lines between reality and dreams get harder to bring into focus Daniel Benchimol spends his dreaming hours interviewing revolutionaries and writers. In this treacherous sleepscape, we find the Angolan anti-communist Jonas Savimbi, Muammar Gaddafi, hunched and hiding in a gutter, and Julio Cortázar as a great billowing tree, speaking to Daniel through an alphabet of clouds. He dreams wild dreams of people he’s never met, squinting at them as if submerged in the hazy waters of southern Angola. When Daniel finds a camera on the beach, he becomes obsessed with the woman in the photos. Moira is a Mozambican artist with a similar preoccupation with her subconscious life – she stages her dreams in her artwork. The two meet, and together they explore the cloudy edges of their nightly visions, tugging at the fringed hem of the real. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers is a delicately crafted glimpse into the aftermath of Angolan independence, a postcard sent to prod the illusion of peace and freedom.

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

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Like new, first edition, hardcover copy. Barely a ding anywhere on this beauty! 

A different kind of bedtime story from Stephen King, as a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death. But the nightmare has only just begun...

Gerald's Game (1st ed)

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Very pretty Heritage Press edition (1956) with wood engraving illustrations throughout. Complete with slip case and leaflet. Name tag and old price in pen on front of first leaf, otherwise in like new condition. Scoop this one up and read it before you lose your eyes like Oedipus! 

Oedipus the King (Heritage Press)

Worn 1964 1st American edition of one of the finest espionage thrillers ever written. Missing dust jacket, light staining on cover, but a beautiful edition nonetheless the less. 

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Algernon Blackwood

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

Bobby Orr

Orr (Inscribed 1st ed)

John Kennedy Toole; Walker Percy; Andrei Codrescu

A Confederacy of Dunces (LSU Press 1st ed)

Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic (1st ed)

Nathaniel Philbrick

Mayflower (Signed 1st ed)

Dag Hammarskjold; W. H. Auden; L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg; Jimmy Carter

Markings

Joy Williams

The Quick & The Dead (1st ed)

Kurt Vonnegut

Galapagos

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

Donna Tartt

The Little Friend (1st ed)

Alfred Lansing

Shackleton’s Valiant Voyage

Edward L. Beach; Edward L. Beach

The Wreck of the Memphis (1st ed)

John Grisham

The Client (1st ed)

Brendan Foley

The Ghost Walk of York

Stephen King

The Tommyknockers

Charles Willeford

The Way We Die Now (1st ed)

Charles Willeford

Miami Blues (1st No Exit Press Edition)

Stephen King

Desperation

Stephen King

Cujo

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Jose Eduardo Agualusa; Daniel Hahn

The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

Stephen King

Gerald's Game (1st ed)

Sophocles

Oedipus the King (Heritage Press)

John le Carré

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1st American Edition)

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