Thomas D Disch (33 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Exploring questions of guilt and responsibility, the second book in Thomas M. Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series, The M.D., is a satisfying mix of dark humor, biting social commentary, and terrifying horror. Given the power to heal or to harm by the Roman god Mercury through a magical staff, the caduceus, young Billy Michaels embarks on a lifelong journey of inflicting good and evil on those who cross his path. Wielding the caduceus, Billy, and later the grown-up, greedy physician William, can only cure in proportion to the amount of suffering he inflicts. From paralyzing his brother and mutilating schoolmates to wreaking a nationwide plague and running for-profit concentration camps for the sick, Michaels's powers spin quickly out of control.…

Digest-size Magazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 56, No. 2. Whole No. 333. February 1979. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good+. Spine clean and tight. Light reading and shelf wear. Interior unmarked, but tanned. Mailing label ghost on front barcode. Edited by Edward L. Ferman. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller for "On Wings of Song" (1980 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel) (serial, part 1 of 3) by Thomas M. Disch. Includes "The Gathering of the Clan" (novelet) by Eric Norden; "Sorcerese" by James Hoetker; "Not to the Swift" by James Patrick Kelly; "The Pot Child" by Jane Yolen; "Comedians" by Andrew Weiner; "Old Rocking Chair's Got Me" by Suzette Haden Elgin; "A Home Away from Home" by Stephen Dixon. Departments: "Books" by Joanna Russ; "Cartoon: For some reason I keep thinking it's Wednesday!" by Gahan Wilson; "Films: Doctor Who's On First" by Baird Searles; "Science: The Road to Infinity" by Isaac Asimov; "Acrostic Puzzle" by Peter D. Pauty. Ed Emshwille; Gahan Wilson (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Exploring questions of guilt and responsibility, the second book in Thomas M. Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series, The M.D., is a satisfying mix of dark humor, biting social commentary, and terrifying horror. Given the power to heal or to harm by the Roman god Mercury through a magical staff, the caduceus, young Billy Michaels embarks on a lifelong journey of inflicting good and evil on those who cross his path. Wielding the caduceus, Billy, and later the grown-up, greedy physician William, can only cure in proportion to the amount of suffering he inflicts. From paralyzing his brother and mutilating schoolmates to wreaking a nationwide plague and running for-profit concentration camps for the sick, Michaels's powers spin quickly out of control.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of a novella, a novelet and five short stories. Featured are The Political Officer by Charles Coleman Finlay (novella), Just Another Cowboy by Esther M Friesner (novelet), Torah! Torah! Torah! by Thomas M Disch (short story), The Beast of Downy Mount by Michael Thomas (short story), The Copywriter by Alison Bowman (short story), The Planet of Youth by Jack Williamson (short story) and The Hanging Curve by Gardner Dozois (short story). Slight edgewear. In Near Fine Condition.…

Softcover. 165 - 339 pp. Volume L, Number 2 (July 1993). Softcover. Good condition; some pen underlining; on covers: touches of wear and light color rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good Book Club Edition hardcover from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy and square; boards are very good; titling remains bright and bold. Light shelfwear to jacket. Foxing to page block. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xi) 372 pp. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Barbie Murders - a novelette by John Varley; Black Glass - a novelette by Fritz Leiber; Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison; The Man Who Had No Idea - a novelette by Thomas M. Disch; Devil You Don't Know - a novelette by Dean Ing; A Hiss of Dragon by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw; To Bring in the Steel - a novelette by Donald Kingsbury; The Very Slow Time Machine - a novelette by Ian Watson; View from a Height by Joan D. Vinge; The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - a novelette by Hilbert Schenck; Vermeer's Window by Gordon Eklund; and Death Therapy by James Patrick Kelly. Book.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages and dust jacket. Sm8vo. Published in New York, 1979. 216 pages.

Softcover. 147 - 289 pp. Volume XLIX, Number 2 (July 1992). Softcover. Very good condition; on covers: touches of wear and of light color rubbing.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 13, No. 8. Edited by Cele G. Lalli. Cover art by Emsh for "When the Idols Walked" (pt. 1 of 2) by John Jakes. Includes "Land of the Yahoos" (novelet) by Adam Bradford, M.D.; "The Scent of Love" by Larry Eisenberg; "The Failure" by David R. Bunch; "Family Portrait" by Morgan Kent; "Footnote to an Old Story" by Jack Sharkey; "Dangerous Flags" by Thomas M. Disch. Features: "Editorial"; "Coming Next Month". Illustrated by Emsh, Finlay, and Schelling. Small loss at lower front foredge corner lower edge; mild tanning; otherwise slight wear. Magazine. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Small Magazine Size and Format. Square Binding. Whole #333. Newsstand edition without mailing label. AS NEW. Unread. With tanning to paper. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress marks and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very bright and clean. All items carefully packaged and sent boxed.…

Condition: FINE. Book club edition. An anthology containing stories selected by the authors themselves, each with a personal introduction by the author. SIGNED by Harry Harrison on the title page. Includes All of Us Are Dying by George Clayton Johnson; Old Hundredth by Brian W. Aldiss; Et in Arcadia Ego by Thomas M. Disch; Ullward's Retreat by Jack Vance; The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke; The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson; Fair by John Brunner; Warrior by Gordon R. Dickson; But Soft What Light by Carol Emshwiller; The Misogynist by James Gunn; Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley; The Autumn Land by Clifford D. Simak; A Sense of Beauty by Robert Taylor; and The Last Flight of Dr Ain by James Tiptree Jr. and The Man Who Loved the Faioli by Roger Zelazny. Dust jacket art by Paul Lehr. Introduction by Harrison. x, 271 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Contains Novelty Act by Dick, Return to Brobdingnag by Bradford (Wasserug), The Lords of Quarmail (Part 2 of 2) by Leiber and Fischer, The Soft Woman by Thomas, The Originorg Way by Sharkey, They Never Come Back from Whoosh! and Death Before Dishonor by Thorpe (Disch). The front cover has two price stamps and a scribble in pen along with a small chip out of the top right corner. The back cover has several inches torn from the surface with some scribbling in the same area. The pages are browned with creasing to the corners at the back and some small chips but are otherwise unmarked. Cover by Emsh and interior illustrations by, Emsh, Finlay, Adkins and Lutjens. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Emshwiller, Ed (Emsh); Finlay, Virgil; Lutjens; Adkins, Dan (illustrator).…

Condition: VERY GOOD. Book club edition. An anthology containing stories selected by the authors themselves, each with a personal introduction by the author. SIGNED by George Clayton Johnson (in red, with a box around his signature) at his story 'All of Us Are Dying' Also includes Old Hundredth by Brian W. Aldiss; Et in Arcadia Ego by Thomas M. Disch; Ullward's Retreat by Jack Vance; The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke; The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson; Fair by John Brunner; Warrior by Gordon R. Dickson; But Soft What Light by Carol Emshwiller; The Misogynist by James Gunn; Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley; The Autumn Land by Clifford D. Simak; A Sense of Beauty by Robert Taylor; and The Last Flight of Dr Ain by James Tiptree Jr. and The Man Who Loved the Faioli by Roger Zelazny. Dust jacket art by Paul Lehr. Introduction by Harrison. x, 271 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. First book club edition. Blue boards lettered in black on the spine; red upper edge; headband. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small tick marks on the contents page. Dj art by G. Ziel. This anthology contains: The Terminal Beach by J. G. Ballard; Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed; The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald; Descending by Thomas M. Disch; Decadence by Romain Gary; Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Leiber; A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell; The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson; The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke; Pacifist by Mack Reynolds; The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker; Gas Mask by James D. Houston; A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker; Sonny by Rick Raphael; The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba; It Could Be You by Frank Roberts; Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood; The Search by Bruce Simonds; The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg; The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey; A Rose for Ecclesiates by Roger Zelanzy; Problem Child by Arthur Porges; The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall; The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan; Family Portrait by Morgan Kent; The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella; The Power of Positive Thinking by M. E. White; A Living Doll by Robert Wallace; Training Talk by David R. Bunch; A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse; The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner; The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer; and Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Size: 8vo. G. Ziel; (illustrator). Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two inch crease to the bottom right corner of the front cover and the bottom corners of the first few pages. Small insect hole running all the way through the book and another small hole affecting the back of the book only. Light discolouration to the back cover. Heavy reading crease to the spine. Otherwise only light edge and surface wear to covers. Pages browned with one inch creases to the bottom corners of three pages but otherwise unmarked. Contains 'The Bad Bush of Uzoro' by Hebron, 'Just Passing Through' by Aldiss, 'Inconstancy' by Stableford, 'The Number You Have Just Reached' by Disch, 'The Pursuit of Happiness' by Jents, 'It's Smart to have an English Address' by Compton, 'Impasse' by Priest, 'See Me Not' by Wilson and an editorial and reviews by Roberts. Cover art by Agosta Morol and interior illustrations by Keith Roberts. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Roberts, Keith; Morol, Agosta (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG. Cover art by Agosta Morol.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A solid spine with no flaws, The dustjacket has light edge rubbings .Stories by: Catherine Asard, Neal Barrett,Jr., Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford,P.D.Cacek, Jack Dann, Paul Di Filippo, Thomas M.Disch, Elizabeth, Hand, Joe Haldeman, Nina Kirki Hoffman, Kahte Koja & Barry N.Malzberg , Ursula K.LeGuin, Ardath Mayhar, Micheal Moorcock, David Morrell, Larry niven, Joyce Carol Oates, Kit Reed, Rudy Rucker & John Shirley, Al Sarrantonio, Peter Schieder, Dan Simmons, Michael Marshall Smith, harry Turtledove, Robert E.Vardeman, Catherine Wells, Laura Whitton, Gene Wolfe.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Literary Magazine. Trade Paperback size and square bound. First Printing. 186 pages. VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint Edition. 158 pages. Contents = Intro by Michael Moorcock; The Ship of Disaster by B.J. Bayley; The Square Root of Brain by Fritz Leiber; In Seclusion by Harvey Jacobs; Transient by Langdon Jones; The Head-Rape by D.M. Thomas; The Source by Brian Aldiss; Period of Gestation by Thom Keyes; Dr Gelabius by Hilary Bailey; The Valve Transcript by Joel Zoss; Linda and Daniel and Spike by Thomas M. Disch; Masterson and the Clerks by John T. Sladek. >>> Minor edge wear to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Includes the FANTASY FIVE-FOOT BOOKSHELF with recommended reading lists including Karl Wagner's 13 BEST SCIENCE FICTION HORROR NOVELS shining a light on the long overlooked VAMPIRES OVERHEAD, THE DEATH GUARD and other previously neglected works. Age tanning to pulp pages, subscription label to cover, a VERY GOOD copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: See Description. Science Fiction Classics Economical Reading Lot - 10 Paperback Book Lot (See Picture for Titles) Various editions, printings, publishers, and cover artists. Generally, Good to Very Good condition range of books, all books complete - essentially reading copies economically priced! Great way to obtain books by your favorite author. Ten books, one shipping price. Various (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Philip K. Dick by Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander First Edition Firm, bright, appears unread. A small ding to back upper board edge, otherwise sharp. Sharp, bright jacket. Not price-clipped. "First Edition" stated. Black spine cloth, green papered boards. 256 pp including Index. Essays focusing on the moral, mythological, and political themes of Philip K. Dick's fiction. Publisher's Writers of the 21st Century Series. This listing includes a copy of the softcover first edition as well. Martin Harry Greenberg(Editor) Joseph D. Olander(Editor) Barry N. Malzberg(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Contains an editorial by Edwards, The Profession of Science Fiction XV by Lem, New Worlds: A Personal History by Moorcock, An Assessment of Brian Stableford's novels by Pringle, Notes Towards a Sociology of Science Fiction by Stableford, A Closer Look at Close Encounters by Disch, Myth, Symbol and Dialectic in the Novels of Olaf Stapledon by K.V. Bailey and the reviews include Gloriana by Moorcock and two books by Brian W. Aldiss and Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling. There is a trace of a price in pencil on the first page but otherwise near Fine. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Paperback. 22x14cm. 199 pages. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref D752. Transatlantic Review. Journal. Final Issue. Number 60. 1977. Jerry Stahl Interview; Iris Murdoch 3 Poems. Contributors include: William Burroughs, Harold Pinter, Paul Bowles, Iris Murdoch, T. C. Boyle, Walter Abish, Dallas Miller, Morris Lurie, Marge Piercy, D. M. Thomas, John Updike, Thomas M. Disch, John Sadek, John Banville, Jane Cooper, Bruce J. Friedman, Jonathan Strong, Yevtushenko. Edited by J. F. McCrindle. Heathcote Williams; Mia Wolff (illustrator). …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 199pp. Glossy wrappers. Lightly rubbed, near fine. The final issue including *To Talk for Joe* by Burroughs, *Reminders of Bouselham* by Paul Bowles, *Crossing the Great Void* by Walter Abish, *Problem* by Harold Pinter, an essay by John Updike. and more.…