Tim Powers Introduction (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seattle: The Axolotl Press. Fine. 1986. First edition. White printed wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, 31+ 8 pages. This version limited to 400 paper bound copies [bound dos-a-dos like the Ace Double Novel format] signed by both James P. Baylock and Tim Powers and also signed by both Charles de Lint and Ed Bryant who wrote the introductions. Fine copy. See Photos whbx 2E.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 268 pages, 8vo. Special signed edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is copy 354. SIGNED by James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers on limited page. Minor shelfwear. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing; Limited Signed. "First Edition" statement to the copyright page, $30 to the jacket's flap. Limited to 1,000 deluxe, hand-numbered copies SIGNED to the limitation page by the five contributors: Philip K. Dick and two-time World Fantasy Award winning author, James P. Blaylock; Tim Powers; Adriana Campoy, Brittany Cox, and Alex Haniford. This is number 558. Comprises three stories co-written with Blaylock with three of his creative writing students, each with the premise that a man enters a house that is not quite his own, in which he opens doors into rooms on the borderland of reality and illusion. Fine, square, very tight, and firm in fresh violet linen with metallic-violet embossed titles to the spine, cream-yellow headband and tail-band, cranberry end-papers; in a fine dust jacket with front panel art by Tim Powers; original printed $30 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 63 pages; afterword by Blaylock; note by William Ashbless (Powers & Blaylock). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by author and two other contributors to page preceding half-title, but not a numbered copy. In brown cloth with gilt to type on spine. Some discoloration/soiling to boards. Bump to top front corner. Some wear to spine ends. Foxing to page ends. Scuffing to a couple pages that apparently happened at printer, some discoloration to signature page and creases to a couple page edges. Jacket is unclipped with light edgewear and a couple creases to flaps. No slipcase. 1st Printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. First printing of the limited edition, of the two-in-one flip-over of "The Shadow on the Doorstep" and "Trilobyte". A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket spine is lightly toned, and has a couple spots (as pictured). This limited edition is one of just 300 that has been numbered and SIGNED on both limitation pages by Blaylock, Shiner, Bryant, and Powers. (as pictured). Sci-Fi. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Gahan Wilson (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Cloth, Limited 1st ED: #199 of 250. Signed by Tim Powers. 351 pp. Dark blue boards with gilt at spine. Illustrated DJ. Lacks slipcase. AS NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. On Pirates by William Ashbless (Limited First Edition) Signed Firm square copy. #207/250. Special signed edition limited to 1000 numbered chapbooks, 250 numbered hardcovers, and 26 deluxe lettered hardcovers. Signed by Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock. Tim Powers(Introduction) James P. Blaylock(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Walt gets cranky when Lew stops keeping his donut shop open all nite; he and his wife spat over shoes. Blaylock was one of a small group of California writers mentored by Philip K. Dick. Deluxe edition of this short story, #156 of 224 hardcover copies, SIGNED by all contributors. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, near fine, some cockling from the four real photos glued in. Size: Octavo. Viki Blaylock, Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Limited edition of only 26 lettered copies, this being copy "W" and signed on the limitation page by James P. Blaylock, Tim Powers, Dean Koontz, and Phil Parks who illustrated the front cover plate. Small, oblong quarto bound in dark blue, simulated leather with a color plate mounted on the front cover, in a publisher-issued clamshell box bound in the same material as the book. Inside the box is a mounted, signed, handwritten page of text. The author has also signed the half-title page, and there's a color frontispiece photo of him opposite the title page. As new in as new clamshell box. Pages: [v], 54. Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seattle: The Axolotl Press 1986. Signed Limited First Edition. Copy #17 of 100 numbered cloth-bound copies signed by the author and by Tim Powers. World Fantasy Award winner. Green cloth with gold gilt lettering, 26+ pages. Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. See Photos Clph/E.…

First English hardcover edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original tan cloth, with titles in black and metallic red to the upper board and in black and metallic pink to the spine. Top edge pink. With a black and white frontispiece by Christina Duffy and Anne Trembley. A better than very goof copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips and a tiny tear to the lower front spine joint, and a small mark to the upper board. The topstain is darkened towards the fore-edge. The contents, with a bookplate to the front free endpaper and eight tiny spots to the fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "For Jared! - / Hoping you like dark beer! / Cheers, / Tim Powers". The recipient is an editor and publisher of genre fiction. Issued in an edition of 825 clothbound copies, from which this example is numbered 765, and signed by Tim Powers, the author of the introduction K. W. Jeter, and the author of the afterword James P. Blaylock in black ink on the colophon. The author's first major novel and third overall publication, originally published in 1979 by Del Rey / Ballantine Books in New York and nominated for the 1980 Locus Award for 'Best Fantasy Novel'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Doyle Jimmerson discovers a disconcerting shop after his estranged wife dies. Includes an introduction by Powers and a somewhat fanciful afterword by Koontz. Blaylock was one of a small group of California writers (including Powers) mentored by Philip K. Dick. Deluxe edition of this short story, #40 of 150 hardcover copies, SIGNED by all contributors on a special limitation page (the author's signature on the title page is printed). Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, about fine, [6], 54 pages, color photo of the author pasted in, cover art by Parks. Size: 10¼" by 8¼". Phil Parks (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Special Edition. This is copy "R" of a lettered, collectors edition, of which there are only 26 copies. This slim octavo volume is bound in black leather with gilt lettering and has a color plate mounted on the front cover. It's housed in a folding black leather chemise which is similarly lettered in gilt with a color plate mounted on its front panel. Inside the front panel of the chemise is a mounted, signed color photo of the author; inside the rear panel of the chemise is a handwritten page of manuscripts, signed by the author at the bottom. All participants in the making of this book have signed it on the limitation page. There is a clear, hard plastic shell inside the chemise which holds the book in place. Illustrated with color photographs and B&W drawings. All are in as new condition. 57 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Doughnuts: An Original Short Story by James P. Blaylock 1st LTD Signed Copy S A sharp tight bright copy and folding case. One of 26 Collectors copies. Lettered and Signed. This is copy lettered "S". Signed on the limitation page by by James P. Blaylock, Viki Blaylock, Phil Parks, Lewis Shiner, Tim Powers, Lucius Shepard, and Lewis Shiner. Black leather binding with gilt lettering and illustration plate to cover. Signed photo, and signed original handwritten page, both framed and mounted to the inside covers of the leather folding slipcase. Case also with mounted illustration plate and gilt lettering. Lewis Shiner(Introduction) Lucius Shepard(Appreciation) Tim Powers(Afterword) Phil Parks(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as issued. LIMITED EDITION. Oblong 8vo. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, number 9 out of 150 deluxe copies (of 576 total), SIGNED by listed contributors including Stephen King. Light edgewear to covers. Slight fading to cloth binding. Minor soiling to covers. Light blue pen mark to front cover near spine. Pencil ghost to first blank page. Slight fraying to cloth binding on rear cover near spine. Fading with slight soiling to slipcase. Red pen stain to rear panel of slipcase in middle of panel. Slight rubbing and fading to slipcase. Slight fraying to top and bottom edge of slipcase. Fading and rubbing to spine of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase.…

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the author of the introduction and the illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt and red titles to the spine, with pictorial onlay to the upper board, in the Grant Griffin wraparound-illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black and dark brown cloth slipcase, with gilt and red titles to the backstrip. Top edge dark brown. Burgundy satin ribbon page marker. Illustrated endpapers. With a colour frontispiece and six colour plates by Grant Griffin, and a black and white photograph of the author to the rear. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper which remains without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase that has some light marks to the sides. Issued in a deluxe limited edition of just 50 copies, from which this example is numbered 48 and signed by the illustrator Grant Griffin and the author of the introduction Tim Powers in black ink on the tissue-guarded colophon. A facsimile of Fritz Leiber's signature is printed in black. Volume three of 'The Chronicles of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser', the multi-award winning author Fritz Leiber's classic sword and sorcery fantasy series about the adventures of two unlikely heroes and friends, the gargantuan barbarian Fafhrd and the diminutive thief Gray Mouser. The series is made up of novellas and vignettes that were first published in magazines (most frequently in 'Fantastic' magazine) before being collected into the 'Swords' series in book form. Leiber is considered a master of the sword and sorcery genre and popularized the term himself in 1961. A 'Bonus Content' section at the rear contains two essays by Leiber and two letters to Leiber from H. P. Lovecraft. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…