Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - September 1964

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.

First Edition. First Printing. A run of only 50 copies, 30 of which are numbered and signed by the author and available here. 267 pages, a fine paperback with an original cover painting by the author ink printed on Breathing Color Velvet, interior pages on Cougar with 14 color illustrations, also by the author. Ivesian Arts Publishing's premiere offering. The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses is an impassioned tribute to one of the most popular and enduring novels by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy.
​From his provocative reflection on the importance of McCarthy's dramatic prose-poetry in "How Cormac McCarthy Saved Civilization," to close readings of small moments that open up worlds of discovery, Josyph changes our perspective on this seminal work by one of our greatest living authors. In what he calls "a reader's memoir," Josyph invites noted McCarthy scholars such as Marty Priola and Wesley Morgan, as well as McCarthy's award-winning Portuguese… Read More

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.

This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.

First Edition. First Printing. A run of only 50 copies, 30 of which are numbered and signed by the author and available here. 267 pages, a fine paperback with an original cover painting by the author ink printed on Breathing Color Velvet, interior pages on Cougar with 14 color illustrations, also by the author. Ivesian Arts Publishing's premiere offering. The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses is an impassioned tribute to one of the most popular and enduring novels by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy.
​From his provocative reflection on the importance of McCarthy's dramatic prose-poetry in "How Cormac McCarthy Saved Civilization," to close readings of small moments that open up worlds of discovery, Josyph changes our perspective on this seminal work by one of our greatest living authors. In what he calls "a reader's memoir," Josyph invites noted McCarthy scholars such as Marty Priola and Wesley Morgan, as well as McCarthy's award-winning Portuguese… Read More