THE M.D. A HORROR STORY by Disch, Thomas M - 1991

Berkley Books: Berkley Books. 1990. paperback. B008623; 466 pp paperback, good contents, good wraps .

SOFTBACK ?NO 2 IN THE STARBUCK SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges, spine & corners. Light reading creases to spine not to hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some age and marks to prelims & to page edges. VG* Illustrations: Two page line-drawn map at front.* Pages: 490pp. text. vi pp. Historical notes & ads at rear.* Product Description: The second book in Bernard Cornwell?s bestselling series on the American Civil War. Copperhead was the name given to Northern sympathisers of the Confederacy, after a venomous species of North American snake. It is a name that sticks to Nathaniel Starbuck, a preacher's son who has run away from family, college and a foolish love affair, taking shelter in the Falconer legion from… Read More

THOMAS M. DISCH. THE M.D. A HORROR STORY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991. First Edition. Condition: Fine /Near Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright with no markings, no foxing, no tears, no stains and binding tight. A about fine pristine copy. Dust jacket is unclipped with the original $22.00 price on inner flap. Dust jacket still has its original gloss with only mild shelf wear and micro ships to edges as to be expected for a vintage DJ of this age. Not ex-library, not a BCE (Book Club Edition), not a reprint and no remainder marks. Disch is praised by writers Steven King and Dean Koontz for this book on the dust jacket. Thomas Disch wrote the early novels; "The Genocides" and "Mankind Under the Leash" a Ace Double paperback, his work was also published in New Worlds Sci-Fi magazine with writer Michael Moorcock as editor in the mid 1960's. Cover art by Archie Ferguson. Uncommon classic horror title from Thomas Disch, collectible. 401 pgs. Large 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Bowed and toned else very good. Copy 15 of 50 copies Signed by the author and specially bound.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition, limited edition of 50 SIGNED copies (38 in half leather and 12 in full), this being one of two (?) author's copies, lettered ("AC2") on the limitation page. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in half leather and marbled boards by Denis Gouey. Fine. First edition, limited edition of 50 SIGNED copies (38 in half leather and 12 in full), this being one of two (?) author's copies, lettered ("AC2") on the limitation page. 1 vols. 8vo. Author's Copy. The longest of Disch's Supernatural Minnesota novels. Billy Michaels grows up to be a doctor and investment wizard whose childhood pact with a demon enables him to cure AIDS, only to unleash an even more devastating plague. He embarks upon a plan to turn a rural county in Minnesota into a medical concentration camp for plague victims before events move beyond his ability to control them. "Because of his intellectual audacity, the chillingly distanced mannerism of his narrative art, the austerity of the pleasures he affords,… Read More

New York: Knopf. 1991. Stated First Edition. 039458662X . Fine/Fine; 4to, half black cloth over boards, 401pp. , DJ, AN ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DISCH TO ONE OF THE CENTURY'S GROUNDBREAKING SF NOVELISTS, AND HIS FORMER ROOMMATE: "FOR GEORGE EFFINGER- (THOUGH I REMEMBER PIGLET) - SOME COALS TO NEWCASTLE. I HOPE THEY MAY WARM YOUR HEARTH. FOND REGARDS, TOM DISCH" "....beautifully written, poignant and deeply, cruelly comic" - Locus May 1991. "...as a requiem for an an ethical indictment of the US this century, it is as punishing as any of the more conspicuously radical works from the beginning of his career. " - CN SF Encyclopedia, pages 339-41. 1992 Bram Stoker finalist for best novel. .