Rare books from A Flare For Books

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. J.K. Potter. Book is new, unread. Signed on the title page by Willis. First edition, first printing. Winner of the Hugo Award for best novella in 2008. 126 pages. Illustrated by J.K. Potter. First edition, first printing.

United States: Arbor House, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book has a green cloth boards with light cornerwear, jacket has light wear and sunning to the head and heel of the spine, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Grant, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tim Kirk. Book has cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine, mild shelfwear and foxing to the outer pages. Jacket is lightly soiled and toned. First illustrated edition, one of 732 copies.

United States: Bantam Books, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Book is new, but jacket has corner-wear and the head of the spine is bumped. Signed on the title page in person by George R.R. Martin. Contains short stories by Joe Lansdale, Michael Moorcock and Liz Williams among others.

Spain: W. Strahan and T. Cadell , 1779. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Full calf leather complete in three volumes, third edition, printed W. Strahan and T. Cadell in The Strand; and J. Balfour and W. Creech Edinburgh, 1779. Pages are tight to the binding, a previous owner's name is inked at the top of the title page, end pages are toned, text is clean.

United States: Knopf, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book is clean and tight with no marks or stamps, jacket has mild shelfwear to the head and heel of the spine. Signed on the front end paper by Sacks.

China: Pantheon, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Art Spiegelman. Book is new, unread. Signed and dated in my presence by Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for his two volume work Maus: A Survivors Tale. This is his personal and artistic rendering of the fall of the World Trade Center. First edition, first printing.

United States: Bloomsbury, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Portia Rosenberg. Book is new, unread. There are three dark spots to the outer pages that seem to be part of the paper itself, otherwise clean. Signed in my presence by Clarke. The black and white American covers with red end-papers were printed simultaneously and are both true first editions. Later printings lack the red end-papers. The American edition precedes the British edition by three weeks. Winner of the 2005 Hugo awards for best novel as well as the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

United States: Simon and Schuster, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book has two light corner bumps to the bottom of the boards, else clean and tight, jacket is clean and bright. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Breashears, Jon Krakauer who wrote the foreword and Lene Gammelgaard the first Swedish woman to summit Mount Everest and was a part of Scott Fischer's Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition on May 10th 1996.

United States: Del Rey, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Book has a tiny bit of cornerwear to the front cover, else clean and tight with no marks or stamps. Signed inscribed and dated on the title page. Signature acquired in person. First edition first printing.

United States: Ziff-Davis, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. A full year of the 1963 Amazing Stories in used condition, some edgewear and light creasing to a few covers. Contains original stories and author profiles from some the most influential SF authors of the 20th century.

United States: Bell Publications, 1953. Soft cover. Very Good. Malcom H. Smith; Robert Gibson Jones. Magazines have some edgewear, spine creases and toned pages. There is a small closed tear on the front cover of the first issue as well a small tape repair on the bottom of the spine. Issue #2 has a date stamp on the rear cover. Volumes 1, 2, 4, 7 and 9. Original cover price is 35 cents.

United States: Hillman Periodicals, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. December vol. one has mild edgewear, toned pages and the magazine band is still attached. January vol. two has mild edgewear and two pages have closed tears that does not effect the text. February vol. 3 has edgewear and spine creases. This is the complete run.

United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.

United States: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Book is new, unread. This is the collector's first edition, signed on a tipped in page by Clare. Also comes with a collector's bee pin and two paper doll cutouts, one of Cordelia Carstairs and one of James Herondale. First edition, first printing with full numberline.