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Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [6], 296. Bound in publisher’s black boards. The binding, dust jacket and interior pages are all clean and fresh. "From an unknown point in the universe, an inscrutable blue light approaches our solar system. When it reaches Earth, it transforms those it strikes, causing them instantaneously to evolve beyond the present state of humanity… "Blue Light" is the story of these people…The novel traces the desperate conflict of the ‘Blues’ with one of their own, a man who – struck by the light at themoment he expired – has become the living embodiement of death" [from the dust jacket].[

New York: Ace Books [ 1960's ], 1960. Paperback. See Description. 2 vintage paperbacks. "Impossible yet it happened (Ace Star F-137) copyright 1947, but printed later (c. late 1950’s – early 60’s). Stranger than life (Ace Star K-168) copyright 1955, but perhaps printed a bit later. Minor rubbing and wear. Vg+ Both books recount various strange events and occult phenomena with chapters on ghosts, reincarnation, flying saucers, psychic healing, vanished continents, etc.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description. (U.S. edition Aug. 1995). pp. [8], 488. Bound in quarter dark gray cloth with gray boards. Binding and dust jacket are clean and tight. "In a remote ski resort town high in the Canadian Rockies, something is going terribly wrong. A young police officer is found murdered and strangely mutilated. A truck driver is found frozen solid in his truck, doors and windows closed, with snowdrifts inside the cab. A hotshot skier is found dead and bloody in deep snow, with no human footprints anywhere near the body. Fear begins to spread that a bizarre and ingenious serial killer is on the loose." [From the dust jacket]. First published in London, 1994.

New York: Viking, 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. pp. [12], 452. Bound in quarter dark blue cloth with light blue boards. Binding and dust jacket are both clean and fresh. Description from the dust jacket: "A serial killer is on the loose in Minnesota, snapping young women’s necks with each change of the seasons. "Within twenty-four hours of the first murder, TV weatherman Dixon Bell, a hulking eccentric, warns his viewers that a tornado is about to strike. The National Weather Service hasn’t called it, but Dixon Bell does because he sees it coming in his mind." Novel, Suspense, Thriller, Horror.

New York: Pyramid Books 1962 / 1963, 1962. First Edition. . Paperback. See Description. Two paperback edition books by Susy Smith: (Pyramid Books X-776) "ESP" contains chapters on "what is extrasensory perception?", "Who has ESP?", "The history of ESP", "Does ESP occur spontaneously?", "The problem of mediumship", etc. (Pyramid Books R-871) "World of the strange" includes sections on ghosts, witchcraft, magic, miracles, etc. Both are first Pyramid paperback printings. …Tight, clean, near fine copies with some fading to the top of the text block miniscule signs of wear.

New York: Dutton, 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Printing, June, 1992."pp. [6], 522. Bound in quarter black cloth and black boards. Binding and dust jacket are both clean. Serial killer, detective-suspense novel. "Sweeping in scope, riveting in its inside look at sophisticated law-enforcement techniques, ‘Just Killig Time’ takes you into the gruesomely chilling ‘you are there’ depths of the most harrowing serial killer in fiction since Hannibal lector…" [from the dust jacket].

New York: Leisure Books, Dorchester Publishing, 2001. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. pp. [6], 377, [1]. Bound in dark brown cloth with dust jacket. Tight copy in clean dust jacket. "Harrow is haunted, they say, the mansion is a place of tragedy and nightmares, evil and insanity. First it was a madman’s fortress; then it became a school. Now it lies empty. An obsessed woman named Ivy Martin wants to bring the house back to life. And Jack Fleetwood, a ghost hunter, wants to find out what lurks within Harrow. Together they assemble the people who they believe can peirce the mansion’s shadows…" [From the dust jacket].

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. xiv, 105, [1]. Red cloth. Vg+ / About Fine. Without glassine wrapper. An annotated survey bibliography listing 402 works dealing with fifteenth-century English printing.

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1979. First UK edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. xiv, 160. Bound in red publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. Binding and dust jacket are both fresh and clean. Interior pages are clean. Originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. "Coering the years 1000-1520, the author, a master of the original sources, illuminates an important aspect of Church history: the relations between papal and local authority in the later Middle Ages and their effect upon the repression of heresy" [from the dust jacket].

New York: Julian Press, 1969. Second printing. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. viii, [4], 461, [1]. Bound in black publisher’s cloth. Binding is generally clean and tight with only very mild rubbing and fading to the outer extremities. The dust jacket is price clipped and well-worn with tears, rubbing, chipping, creasing etc. Interior pages are clean. This book "’Reincarnation through the ages’ explores what great thinkers through the ages have said on the subject… Opening with introductory essays on reincarnation by four distinguished educators, the volume is intriguingly arranged in six parts: I. reincarnation in myth and symbol; II. Reincarnation in the world’s religions; III. Reincarnation in Theosophy and Masonry; IV. Reincarnation among peoples of the world (African, American Indian etc.); V. western thinkers on reincarnation – the largest section of the book. VI. Scientists, psychologists and philosophers on reincarnation" [from the dust jacket].… Leer más

Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1964. Hardcover. See Description. Later edition. 8vo. pp. [4], 211, [9]. Bound in publisher’s blue cloth. No dust jacket. Miniscule bumping to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Binding is generally clean. The title page shows very mild stress to the upper corner. A very faint indent or mark of bumping is present near the upper edge on some leaves. Interior is otherwise clean. Contains numerous bibliographic articles by various authors – i.e. "Establishing a Text: The Emily Dickinson Papers." By Thomas H. Johnson; "The Copy for the First Folio Richard II." By Richard E. Hasker; "Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century" by Philip Gaskell; "Baskerville and James Whatman." By A.T. Hazen; "The Printing of Jefferson’s Notes, 1793-94." By Coolie Verner and P. J. Conkwright; "A Sheaf of Whitman Letters." By Walter Harding.

New York: Grolier Club, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. pp. XV, [1], 424, [2]. One of 1,650 copies. Bound in black and beige cloth with slip case. Fine condition. Contains numerous scholarly articles on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell as well as articles on Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc . Fine condition.

[Paris]: Hachette, 1968. First Edition. . Soft cover. See Description. First edition. 8vo. 288p. With frontispiece map of "des provices de l’Est (1724)." Bound in publisher’s paper wraps. VG+ condition. The bottom corner and edge of the rear wrap shows some bumping or very mild creasing. Interior pages are clean. A history of witchcraft, magic and superstition in the eastern provinces of France.

Mansfield Centre, CT.: Martino Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the New York, 1888 edition. 8vo. pp. [2], 94, vii, [1]. Bound in publisher’s light gray buckram. The binding and the interior are fresh and clean. …An essay on the bibliography of 15th century Bibles including chapters discussing manuscripts, block books, the Gutenberg Bible, the Metz Psalter, the Bamberg Bible, the Mentelin Bible etc.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. First American edition8vo. (24 cm). pp. [6], 376, [2]. Bound in publisher's half black cloth with black papered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Eleven-year old Marianne Cadogan lives with her stern and often absent father in a big house by the sea. As she roams the bleak and empty coastal landscape, Marianne clings to a child's vision of what it must be like to be loved. When one day a stranger rescues Marianne from the riding tide, she believes she's found a friend at last. And then, Marianne and her rescuer, Ryan O'Donnell vanish" [From the dust jacket]. Stephen Gallagher has written a number of novels and short stories. He has also written teleplays for the science fiction series Doctor Who. His novel "Nightmare with angel" was first published in Great Britain in 1992.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. (242 mm), 384 pages. Bound in quarter aqua blue publisher's cloth with blue boards. Faint toning and miniscule spotting are present to the upper edge of the text block (including one tiny aqua blue speck). Binding and dust jacket are in practically as-new condition. Interior pages are clean. "In his most profoundly felt - and terrifying novel yet, Dean Koontz compels us to explore the meaning of death, the nature of sociopathic evil, and the transcendent power of love. Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance, Hatch and his wife, Lindsey, approach each day with a new appreciation for the beauty of life - until a series of mysterious and frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown. Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an Afterlife during the period when his… Leer más

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1961. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 175, [1]. 1 page map and 7 pages of illustrations including the frontispiece. Maroon cloth with dust jacket. Deaccession stamp on inside front cover. No other marks present. Book is Vg+. Dust jacket is about Fine. An account of Thomas Brown's relationship with the Shakers and other millenarian sects in America.

New York: Samuel Weiser, 1971. First American edition. . Paperback. See Description. 18.5 cm. 64p. Bound in illustrated stiff paper wraps. Generally a fresh and clean copy with only some very miniscule spots of wear. Interior pages are clean. Includes chapters on "the structure of the aura", "the circuit of force", "developing auric sight", etc. British occultist W.E. Butler founded the Servants of Light school. He was associated with Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light and with Gareth Knight.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [2], vi, [2], 225, [1] + 14pp of B&W illustrations in the rear. Bound in red cloth. Very Good - Fine. Reprint of the original 1905 edition. An annotated bibliography of the incunabula in the Trinity College Library, Dublin.

Auburn WA: Obsidian Books, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. pp. [2], 222. With illustrations. Limited edition #117 of 5oo copies. Signed by the author and by the illustrators Alan M. Clark and Jamie Oberschlake. Bound in black publisher’s cloth. Binding and dust jacket are both fresh and clean. Jessie Tauber, a recovering alcoholic, allows "a man she just met, the enigmatic Simon, with his penchant for secrecy and bondage games, into her life… Soon Jessie is enmeshed in a kind of follie á deux, as she and Simon make a terrifying trip across Colorado, throwing everything and everyone Simon sees as an obstacle to their twisted love into deadly peril" [from the dust jacket].