ARKHAM HOUSE REVIEW COPY: The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith ( with As I Remember Klarkash-Ton / and / Memories of Klarkash-Ton, By Haas ) by Smith, Clark Ashton (aka Timeus Gaylord, Clérigo Herrero, Klarkash-Ton, Christophe des Laurières, C A Smith ) , Foreword By Marvin H Hiemstra with Two Memoirs By George F Haas / ARKHAM HOUSE REVIEW COPY - 1979

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Hardcover. 277 pp. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York (1906). First Edition thus. Early Printing. October, 1906 on CP. First American Edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations. Block lightly soiled. Some foxing, mostly at end papers. Light pencil marks on first few pages. No ads. Very Good+. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.

Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.
Synopsis: The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, Bantock, Nick. Published by Chronicle Books/Raincoast Books, San Francisco and Vancouver, 1991-1993. Each volume signed by author to title page without inscription. Vol. I: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence; Vol. II: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues; and Vol. III: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes. Volumes 2 and 3 are First printings; Volume 1 is a later printing. Each volume is in fine condition; dustjackets have very light edge ruffling; dustjacket of Volume 1 is clipped and has light fading to spine.

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.

Three Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by Wanda Ga'g, author of "Millions of Cats". 1943 Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, Stated Fifth Printing Thus. RARE in the original dust jacket. Exlib. Good+/Good- DJ protected in mylar wrap. Green decorated library binding. A solid, clean copy in a Rare/Scarce original unclipped $2.00 dust jacket. BRIGHT RED jacket is not sunned. The dj spine is missing 1 inch of the top of its spine, otherwise very nice. Back panel states: Books By Wanda Gag list from Millions of Cats through More Tales From Grimm. Coward-McCann, Inc.

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.

The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, Bantock, Nick. Published by Chronicle Books/Raincoast Books, San Francisco and Vancouver, 1991-1993. Each volume signed by author to title page without inscription. Vol. I: Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence; Vol. II: Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues; and Vol. III: The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes. Volumes 2 and 3 are First printings; Volume 1 is a later printing. Each volume is in fine condition; dustjackets have very light edge ruffling; dustjacket of Volume 1 is clipped and has light fading to spine.

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.