Esther Shepard (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 8 pieces of writing including novelettes and short stories. Featured are Dowser by Orson Scott Card (novelette), The House on Cemetery Street by Cherry Wilder (novelette), Deus Ex Machina by Lisa Mason (novelette), A Midwinter's Tale by Michael Swanwick (short story), Lady with Teddy Bear by RV Branham (short story), The Way It Sometimes Happens by Lucius Shepard (short story), Winter Solstice by Dean Whitlock (short story) and Wake-Up Call by Esther M Friesner (short story). In Fine Condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 306 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; some aging on the inside of the covers; no interior markings. Cover art by Carl Lundgren. This anthology contains: The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin; Walk Like a Mountain by Manly Wade Wellman; The Troll by T. H. White; The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucuis Shepard; Draco, Draco by Tanith Lee; The Black Horn by Jack Dann; Treaty in Tartessos by Karen Anderson; The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus by Gene Wolfe; The Sleep of Trees by Jane Yolen; The Hardwood Pile by L. Sprague De Camp; The Blind Minotaur by Michael Swanwick; Landscape with Sphinxes by Karen Anderson; Simpson's Lesser Sphynx by Esther M. Friesner; God's Hooks by Howard Waldrop; A Leg Full of Rubies by Joan Aiken; The Valor of Cappen Varra by Poul Anderson; Return of the Griffins by A. E. Sandeling; and The Last of His Breed by Rob Chilson. Carl Lundgren; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Spilogale, Inc.; 2002; 7.5 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches; Paperback; Fine; Like new, mailing label on front cover. Promptly shipped in sturdy mailer.;; Volume 102, No. 4; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Editions. 331, 326 pp. Trade paperback format. Both books have light rubbing on the corners with flat uncreased spines; no interior markings. Covers by Lisa Katz, Colin Samuels on Killing and Jake Rajs, Tatsuya Morita on Dying. KILLING ME SOFTLY contains: Unchosen Love by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Gardner by Mary Rosenblum; The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard; She's Not There - by Pat Cadigan; The Affair by Robert Silverberg; Hard Drive by Nancy Kress; Relationships by Robert Sampson; Waltzing on a Dancer's Grave by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; In the Air by Maureen F. McHugh; North of Diddy Wah Diddy by Michael Swanwick; Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee; Chihuahua Flats by Michael Bishop; The Two Headed Man by Nancy A. Collins; The Joy of Hats by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario; and The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin. DYING FOR IT contains: Another Story by Pat Cadigan; Once More with Feeling by Steven Utley; Cain by Tanith Lee; Olders by Ursula K. Le Guin; Saved by Andy Duncan; The Abbess's Prayers by L. Timmel Duchamp; The Ashes of New Orleans by Tony Daniel; Multiples by Robert Silverberg; Goo Fish by Robert Reed; Yesterday's Hostage by Michael Bishop; Johnny's So Long at the Fair by Nancy Kress; Abelard's Kiss by Madeleine E. Robins; The Map to the Homes of the Stars by Andy Duncan; Silent Love by Esther M. Friesner; Brody Love the Masai Woman by Ian MacDonald; Another Country by K. D. Wentworth; and Nevermore by Ian R. MacLeod. Size: 8vo. Lisa Katz; Colin Samuels; Jake Rajs; Tatsuya Morita; (illustrator). Book. …

Paperback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover has some light edge and corner; Over 40 b/w Illustrations. Illustrated bt Rockwell Kent. ; 6.25" x 9"; 233 pages Very Good wear. No Markings, Inside or out. Illustrated by Kent, Rockwell (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Three books with Rockwell Kent illustrations: (1) Paul Bunyan by Esther Shepard. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1924. 8vo. [xv] 233pp. (1). Early edition. Very good plus book in very good dust jacket. Clean cream cloth covered boards with blue text on spine. Many full page and in-text b&w illustrations. Tail of board spine is creased. Internally clean and with sound text block. Dust jacket spine is sunned. Chips across upper edge and corners at head of jacket spine and corners on tail of spine. Fore-edge corners are rubbed. Uniform corner clips on inside folds, price of $3.75 is intact. (2) The Mountains Wait by Theodor Broch. Published by Webb Book Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN, 1942. 325pp. Very good plus book in very good dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFEP. Blue cloth covered boards with darker blue-stamped illustration of an anchor on the front panel; gilt lettering and graphics on spine against a dark blue banner background. Black and white illustrations at chapter heads and last pages. Following text is a "Scrapbook," a selection of maps and photographs from the author's personal file and other sources." Minimal scuffs on edges at head and tail of board spine. Age-toning to external page edges and text pages, else internally clean. Text block is snug. Dust jacket is scuffed overall, spine is sunned. Upper edge at head of jacket spine has loss from several chips and rubs, along with several adjacent closed tears, creases and rubs on the upper edge of the back panel. Lower edge at tail of jacket spine is creased and chipped to a lesser crease; adjacent lower edge of the back jacket panel is also creased and chipped. Fore-edge folds are creased and scuffed and with a small rub-through on the back fold. Fore-edge corners are rubbed. Price of $3.00 is intact. (3) The Book of Noble Thoughts, edited by Louis Untermeyer. Published by American Artists Group, New York, 1946. First edition. [12] 121pp. Very good plus book in very good dust jacket. Tan decorative paper covered boards; light brown cloth on spine with gilt-stamped lettering. Horizontal crease at head of board spine; corners at head and tail of board spine are scuffed and with barest of fraying. Each two-page Noble Thought begins with a brown-tone Rockwell Kent illustration. Internally clean and with snug text block. Dust jacket is scuffed and lightly soiled overall. Edges at head and tail of jacket spine are chipped and rubbed but with minimal loss. Fore-edge corners are rubbed. Inside flaps are not clipped. No price is shown. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).…