Search Results: Fiction from Minotavros Books

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. Herman, Vic. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. All edges yellow. 74 pp. Illustrated with line drawings in text. Covers lightly toned and rubbed, spine tilted. Interior age toned.

Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 208 pp. Light bumping to spine head, else fine. Karin Kallmaker has brought us romantic, passionate novels including Maybe Next Time and One Degree of Separation. There's more than romance in the air in her new collection of intense erotic tales that all take place on Halloween night.

London: Heinemann/Octopus, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full maroon leatherette. 747 pp. Light bumping to edges of dust jacket, else fine. A collection of five science fiction novels by Arthur C. Clarke.

New York: A Del Rey Book, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter navy cloth, blue paper boards, blind stamped spaceship device to foot of front board. xvii, 291 pp. Slight rubbing to title on spine, a few light scuffs and faint discolouration to front board. A few bumps to extremities of dust jacket, else fine.

New York: A Del Rey Book, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. xiii, 279 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped, else fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback. Original slipcase. In publishers shrinkwrap. Published posthumously, Roberto Bolano's [1953-2007] science fiction masterpiece is set in Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have vanished in a decade. A German author, New York reporter, a widowed philosopher and a police detective set out to solve the mystery. Fine condition.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Full green leatherette boards. 380 pp. [2] B&W plate illustrations, incl. frontis., plus B&W illustrations in-text. Bumping and rubbing to corners. Bumping to upper corners of some pages near front. Else fine.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company Publishers, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 159 p.p. Original green cloth with red titling to front cover and spine, and red stamped candle device to front board. Library shelf sticker removed from spine. Minor bumping and wear to spine ends, light chafing to corners. Colour illustrated dust jacket has some wear and chipping to spine ends, shelf number inked to spine, a few tears to rear cover, some foxing and soiling. Ex-Library, stamp of Brooklin Public Library (Ontario) to pastedowns. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers. A few spots of light foxing, else clean. A murder mystery in San Francisco and the only clue is a birthday cake with 50 candles. Biggers is recognized as one of the few outstanding writers of the American type of mystery story. First published in the Saturday Evening Post. Basis for the 1921 movie starring Bertram Grassby and Marjorie Daw.

New York: New Directions, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 281 pp. Small spot of wear to head of rear joint, light soiling to rear cover, else fine.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Popular edition. Full maroon cloth. viii, 312 pp. Spine faded, a few spots of damp staining, rubbing to extremities, light creasing to spine. Some light foxing. Crossword puzzle competition coupon laid in at front pastedown.

New York: The Viking Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, blue paper boards. 116 pp. Sunning to edges and sunned panel to front board. Dust jacket is price clipped (with some loss to text), bumped to extremities.

a la Haye: I. van Cleef, 1801. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo (small). Second edition. Quarter contemporary calf leather title and number labels to spine, paper boards. clx, 124; 250 pp. Fold-out map at rear. Light staining to boards, light wear to corners. Some light staining and yellowing to fore edges of text block. Vol. 1 lacks ffep. Pencil notation to endpapers. Originally published in 1788, this is one of the first historical fiction novels.

Toronto: Baskerville Books, 2001. Soft cover. As New. 8vo. 276 p.p. Paperback. No marks to covers. Signature by author to title page. Copy as new. This book shares the story of dancers a part of the Merculian National Dance Company and the conflicts they face when going on tour into a new land.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue paper boards. 102 pp. Dust jacket is lightly sunned to spine, a few light spots of soiling. Else fine. "Imagine the infant Christopher Columbus vaulting out of his cradle, striking his head on the world, and spawning his megalomaniacal wanderlust. Thus Robert Finley begins his exquisite prose poem...a fantasy of precise language and provocative imagery." Dava Sobel, from rear cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards. 355 pp. Slight rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to edges, lightly soiled at rear. Near fine overall.

London and Glasgow: Collins, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full red paper boards. 255 pp. Colour frontis., B&W illustrations in text. Spine cocked, lightly faded at ends. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and corners, rubbed to extremities. Once again, Anthony Buckeridge's sparkling humour and racy style have provided riotous entertainment, and what more can be said than -- this is another Jennings book!

Toronto: APT, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Soft cover. 257 pp. Some light bumping to extremities, else fine.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in red and gilt, 256pp. Light bruising to spine ends but o/w fine in d/w. Jaket a bit soiled. A novel of escape and adventure.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Orig. green cloth, ship tooled in black on front board and smaller scale on spine, a.e.g. 324 pp., illustrated with [8] plates of b/w illustrations, incl. frontispiece, title page paneled in black and orange boarder, small writing in pen at foot of title page, a small tear to lower margin of pp. 8; small stain and bruise at spine head, very light rubbing to outer edges, otherwise a very good copy.

Toronto: George N. Morang Company Limited, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth with blind tooled decorations, 544pp. Frontispiece. Name in marker on ff/ endpaper. Light bruising to spine ends, a small soil to rear board, o/w very good copy of this classic work of Victorian literature.