Fantasy from Lame Excuse Books

First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine- copy with slight edgewear. Includes original fantastic cat stories from Norton, Charles De Lint, Mercedes Lackey, etc.

First paperback edition, a Fine- copy with invisible spine creasing, otherwise tight and square. The second Master Li and Number Ten Ox novel. Highly recommended.

First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine- copy with just a trace of edgewear, otherwise tight, square and apparently unread. Fifth book in The Parasol Protectorate series.

First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine copy, tight, square and apparently unread. First book in The Parasol Protectorate series. Recommended.

First edition paperback original (PBO), a Fine copy, tight, square and apparently unread. Third book in The Parasol Protectorate series.

First edition hardback, one of 1392 trade copies (as per Hewett), a Fine- copy with a very slight bump at head and two very faint ink dots on the back of the full-color frontispiece illustration (looks like from the printing process), in a Fine-, Mylar-protected dust jacket, with a slight bump at head, signed by Jack Vance. Not perfect, but… Read more about this item

First edition hardback, one of 1,000 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher's plastic bag.Includes out of print and previously uncollected work, including the essay "How to Have An Absolutely Hilarious Heart Attack" and the story "Beam Us Home." I believe this is now out of print from the publisher.

First edition hardback, one of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher's plastic bag. Supplements the first Best of Swanwick volume Subterranean did back in 2008. $50.

First edition hardback, one of the copies with a signature page signed by both authors laid in, a Fine copy in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with one tackhead sized abrasion to rear cover, and slight edgewear at head, along top back cover, on front flap fold, and at points. Novel of time travel and magic. $30.

First edition hardback, #643 of 1,000 (stated; actually 3,000) copies printed, this one being the state (A) featuring a naked woman on page 19, and I think Currey binding state A (smooth rather than pebbly), but I wouldn't swear to it, a Good+ only copy with ends of spines fraying and middle starting to split, with wear at head, heel… Read more about this item

First hardback edition, a Near Fine+ copy with slight bumping at head and heel, traces of wear there, slight wear at points and on bottom edge, some light stray lines to bottom page block, and a small circular sticker ghost to inside front cover, otherwise a tight, square copy of this key Lafferty work. Either the first or the… Read more about this item

Book club hardbacks, all about Very Good+/Very Good+, with small tears, abrasions, rubs, creases, stains, etc., but nothing major. Read once, by me, when they came out, and schlepped around for some 40+ years until I just replaced them with signed firsts. Sold as sturdy reading copies. Add $2 extra in shipping for the extra volumes.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Second book in the Aegypt sequence.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket, inscribed by Blaylock: "For Gaines:/Hope you like this one./Lotsa laughs./Cheers,/James P. Blaylock." Possibly Blaylock's best novel.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket. Steampunk Langdon St. Ives adventure. Formerly my copy, since replaced by a signed copy, read once, carefully. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 179. Nielsen, Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide 185.

First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, inscribed by Blaylock: "Gaines:/This was written by my/Children, and I stole it./Cheers,/James P. Blaylock."

First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with about 1/16" loss at the very edges of all four tips and slight edgewear, otherwise a nice, square copy. Cugel the Clever Dying Earth book authorized by Jack Vance, taking place after the event of The Eyes of the Overworld.

First edition paperback original (no statement of printing on copyright page and 40¢ price, as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with a crease along rear cover at spine and a trace of edgewear. Currey, page 131.

First edition trade paperback original, simultaneous with the hardback run, a Fine- copy with just a couple of pinpricks of wear to the bottom front edge. Critical companion to Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard, including a forward from Wolfe.

First edition trade paperback original with flaps (simultaneously with two ridiculously small hardback runs that were already sold out when I heard about it), one of 300 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Poetry collection, now out of print from the publisher. My last Arte edition, The Case of Death and Honey, didn't last long, and unlike this one, it… Read more about this item