Anthology from Turtleman Used Books

No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards show wear along the edges and at the corners. The fabric is worn through at the two upper corners. Some fraying of the fabric at the head and tail of the spine. Previous owner's name on the front illustrated endpaper in two places, and one more time on the page following the endpaper.… Read more about this item

A collection of literature, both fiction and nonfiction, from well over 200 authors, organized by language of origin. Hinge splits showing binding fabric have occurred inside of the endpapers in the front and rear (see photos #3 and 4). Red fabric covered boards are faded over the spine but show little other wear. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked,… Read more about this item

Dust jacket is badly worn and shows water stains. The book cover showed the impact of that somewhat muddy water, until I cleaned it up. Looks much better now. The water appears not to have reached the pages, which are clean, tight and unmarked. A fairly scarce book.

Stated first edition. A collection of submissions from about 800 poets, most getting one page to provide 1-3 poems. Presented alphabetical by author, from Virginia C. Abbott to Jose Zakus. In a random search I found about one in eight to have published any significant other works of poetry. Vantage Press was a notorious vanity publisher, found in 1990… Read more about this item

First edition thus. A retrospective of Searle's first 20 years of exceptional cartooning. All illustrations in black and white. No dust jacket (likely as published). Very little wear. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with decorated endpapers.

A collection of thirteen mystery short stories, ranging from six to 74 pages in length, all sharing the qualification of being about crimes set in the world of books. This book is quite recent, moderately scarce and well valued. Most copies seem to be asking near cover price or more, but mine, with very little wear, is still… Read more about this item

Volume three of ten in Funk & Wagnall's series The World's One Thousand Best Poems. Blue fabric covered boards with nearly invisible gilt print on the spine. Fabric shows mild wear at the corners. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Photo #3 shows the first of four pages of the table of contents. Includes five poems each from Lewis… Read more about this item

Volume five of ten in Funk & Wagnall's series The World's One Thousand Best Poems. Blue fabric covered boards show wear at the corners and edges and a small soiled area on the rear cover. Gilt on the spine is almost worn off. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The third photo shows the first of five pages of… Read more about this item

Volume two of ten in Funk & Wagnall's 1929 series The World's One Thousand Best Poems. This volume contains poems from the Bible and 32 other poets. Photo #3 shows the first of four pages in the table of contents. If you have part of this series, here's another, or maybe you can start collecting with this one. I have… Read more about this item

Nothing worse than having an incomplete set of books. Here, I have some volumes to help you fill out your set. This is Volume IV. I also have volumes V, VIII, and IX. The fabric is faded over the spine and there is a little wear atthe corners. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Contains 10 short stories. (When you… Read more about this item

Nothing worse than having an incomplete set of books. Here, I have some volumes to help you fill out your set. This is Volume IV. I also have volumes V, VIII, and IX. This particular volume has a split in the from endpaper and both front and rear covers have creases running top to bottom. … Read more about this item

Stated first edition. Paper covers with purple cloth over the spine. Gilt decoration on the cover and gilt print on the spine. Little wear to the cover other than a bit of edgewear at the lower edge of the spine. The pages appear to be clean, tight and unmarked, and the binding is solid. Looks as if a name has… Read more about this item

A collection of twelve scifi vampire stories by Ray Bradbury, Dean Ing, Roger Zelazny and others. Little wear, with a few chips around the edges and a single crease on the square spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked.

Wear includes chips along the edges and a single shallow crease on the spine, which remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with a bit of tanning. Page edges are dyed yellow all around. A collection of ten fantasy short stories by Parke Godwin, Tanith Lee, Jor Jennings, Michael Shea, John Kessel, Suzette Haden Elgin,… Read more about this item

25 stories of real medical work in places arouond the world. Some names and details are changed for the sake of privacy, but all are true stories. The book shows very little wear. Spine square and uncreased. Owner's name inside the front cover. Pages are clean, tight and bright.

Book begins with a twenty page biography of the author and ends with some notes on the works of the same. In between are eleven short stories by Chekhov, many with illustrations. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The cover of green fabric covered boards shows very little wear and has gilt printing on the spine. The dust jacket shows… Read more about this item

This is the second trilogy in Galsworthy's 9-violume Forsyte Chronicles. This book contains the novels The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon and The Swan Song. These novels were originally published in 1924, 1925 and 1928. The dust jacket is no more, but one flap has been preserved inside the front cover (see photo #3). A fairly… Read more about this item

Minor wear to the covers. Spine has one crease and is skewed by about 10º. Cover art by Kelly Freas. DAW Books UE1614; cover price $2.50; complete number line. Fairly rare book.

Minor wear at the corners. Spine has a couple of creases and is a little curved. Pages clean and tight. A collection of twelve Science Fiction stories about women, by women. A rather rare book.

This is the complete set of four rather rare science fiction anthologies. The collection of short stories by a variety of well-known science fiction writers follows a common theme and ties together by the end of the fourth volume. The books all have wear at the edges and corners. One and two have a spine crease while one and three… Read more about this item