Search Results: Titles starting with A from Top Shelf Books

Freak Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Original horror anthology featuring original horror in a Southern California setting. Published by former speciality publisher Freak Press. Edited by Jeremy Lassen. Contributors include: Christa Faust; Michael Scott Bricker; Stephen Woodworth; Dana Vander Els; Lisa Morton; Denise Dumars; Robert Guffrey; Brian Hodge; Nancy Holder; Michael D. Frounfelter; James Van Pelt and Jak Koke..

Doubleday, 1993 Book. Illus. by Werner, Honi. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing and first US edition. (First published in 1992 in the UK by Macdonald.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Carroll is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Land of Laughs, Bones of the Moon and Sleeping in Flame. "[Carroll] has produced oddly affecting novels, always walking an uneasy tightrope between literary affectation and all-out horror." - Maxim Jakubowski, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide, Neil Barron (ed), 1990, pg. 232..

Tor, 1993 Book. Illus. by Barlowe, Wayne. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Not a book club, remainder nor ex-library copy. Very small (0.2 cm in size) bump to side edge of back jacket panel, else very fine (urnread) book in fine dustjacket. Original collection of stories by the author of "Becoming Alien"..

Tor, 2016 Book. Illus. by Staehle, Will. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition with "1" present in complete number line. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Light scuffing at jacket edges and tips (typical with un-laminated jackets), else a fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. A straight, square copy in clean jacket without marks or price-clipping. Award History: 2017 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel; 2017 Locus Poll Award Winner for Best Fantasy Novel; 2017 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (lost to The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin)..

Tor, 2016 Book. Illus. by Staehle, Will. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition with "1" present in complete number line. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. <b>Signed by Charlie Jane Anders on the title page. Rare thus, because the author usually signs on the half title page because of the tree illustration covering both leaves of the title page.</b> Fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. A straight, square copy in clean jacket without marks or price-clipping. Award History: 2017 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel; 2017 Locus Poll Award Winner for Best Fantasy Novel; 2017 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (lost to The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisi)..

Altair Publishing, 1998 Book. Illus. by Bleckly, Rob. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First printing, trade paperback. Faint creasing near spine, faint rubbing mark at top right tip and faint tape residue (left by a removed price sticker), on lower corner of back panel, else near fine (unread) copy. SF magazine in trade paperback format. <b>Limited edition signed by Robert Stephenson, the senior editor, and hand-numbered 769/1000. Also signed by contributors Joe Haldeman, Charles de Lint (and dated "'04") and Sean Williams (inscribed "To Sean/Sean Williams."</b> First issue of a new SF/Fantasy semi-annual magazine subtitled: "Alternative airings of speculative fiction." All original fiction and non-fiction. Contributing authors include: Joe Haldeman, Robert J. Sawyer, David Bischoff, Charles de Lint, Sean Williams and Simon Brown..

Baen, 2002 Book. Illus. by Blair, Dru. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. First Printing stated on copyright page with "1" present in complete number line. Fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. <b>Signed by the editor Harry Turtledove and by contributor S.M. Stirling on the Contents page.</b> Edited by Harry Turtledove, the second anthology in the fascinating alternate history series speculating on the historical "what if" focusing on famous generals through history. Interesting reading. Contributing authors include: Jim Fiscus, Michael F. Flynn, Harry Turtledove, Noreen Doyle, Judith Tarr, Roland J. Green, Chris Bunch, S. M. Stirling, Richard Foss, Susan Shwartz, R. M. Meluch, Joel Richards, Esther M. Friesner and William Sanders..

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Book. Illus. by Ellison, Harlan. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Full number line with "1" present. Collects 17 of Ellison's short fiction stories, several are award-winning stories (including "Soft Monkey" and "Palladin of the Lost Hour" that won the 1986 Hugo Award), with an Introduction by Ellison. Faint jacket wear at edges and head of spine panel, with faint age-related wear on page block (normal handling for a book this age). Jacket is complete without tears and $18.95 price intact. A straight, square copy in excellent condition for collectible title such as this one. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Award History: 1988 Bram Stoker Award Nominee (lost to Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont); 1989 Locus Poll Award Winner for Best Collection and 1989 World Fantasy Award Winner for Best Collection. .

HarperFlamingo, 1998 Book. Illus. by Geshick, Joe. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Stated First Edition with "1" present in complete number line. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. A clean, straight unclipped copy not price-clipped. Difficult to find copies in very fine condition without remainder marks. Award History: 1998 World Fantasy Award Winner for Best Novel..

Orbit, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. (The first US edition was published in January 2002 by Tor.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. "Whether this is pretentious adolescent obscenity, a synesthetic masterpiece which redefines the genre, or a honker of a shaggy dog story is a debate primed to run for years." - Gary S. Dalkin. "Renaissance philosophy, the complicated evolution of religion, art history, even alchemy, get a heretical new spin as Clute keeps bursting through the confines of space opera, heading somplace different." - Locus, May 2001. Awards: NY Times Best SF Books of 2002 List..

Tor, 1995. Book. Illus. by Schmehl, Brad. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Lightly bumped at head and heel of spine panel, else fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. Fascinating and detailed alternate history and murder-mystery novel set in post-WWI 1920's Minneapolis, after a devastating plague decimates whites and leaves the black population immune and struggling to carry-on civiliation. Against this backdrop vampire-like murders are occuring in the city that are begin hushed-up. A second novel by this Nebula-winning author, it includes rich narratives on jazz music, pirate radio, prejudice and social breakdown. "[A] tour de force." - Publisher's Weekly. "Conner's dystopic vision of a nation wracked by fear and prejudice serves double duty as a modern parable and a taut sf thriller. This disturbingly thought-provoking novel belongs in most sf collections." - Library Journal..

Little, Brown & Company, 2011 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition on copyright page with "1" present in complete number line. Not book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Minor scuffing on top edge of page block, else square and bright without dents. Jacket nicked and chipped at tips and corners, else a straight, square copy in very good jacket with $25.99 price intact..

Bantam Spectra, 1993 Book. Illus. by Lee, Pamela. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book Club edition, first printing and first hardcover edition. (Originally published in 1992 as a serial in Analog magazine. Subsequently published as a paperback. This is the first hardcover edition.) Page block shows light, handling related edge wear. Light jacket chipping at upper tips and crinkling at lower edge of spine panel, else the jacket is bright and intact. No inscriptions or previous owner's marks. A near fine copy in near fine jacket. Award History: 1994 Locus Poll Award Nominee (lost to Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson); 1994 Nebula Award Nominee (lost to Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson)..