Search Results: Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy from The Owl at the Bridge

293, [294-302] pages; 18 cm. Translation of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. Series: Seaside Library. Pages [294-302] and inner cover are publisher's advertisements. This early U.S. printing has the plural "seas." There is no copy of this rare popular softcover version in WorldCat. Very Good; a binder has reinforced cover and first signature, corners of front cover worn away. In slipcase. Stock#OB989 oversize.

London, Watkins, 2001. Hard Cover. 109 p.; 24 cm. First published 1903. An American who lived for many years in India, Bain used sources in the Vedic/ Sanscrit religious-philosophical tradition for his fictions. Stock#32692x. fine/ dj fine.

'First Printing'. Fourteen stories by 'a modern master of horror'. Printed on cheap wartime paper which is yellowing. Hardcover; 307 pages. Very Good in frayed dust jacket. Stock#27005/h.

London, Watkins, 2001. Hard Cover. 93 p.; 24 cm. First published 1903. Bain, an American who lived many years in India, wrote fantasies based on Indian mythology which he says were "translated from the original manuscript." Stock#32690x. Fine/ dj fine.

New American Library / Times Mirror, NY [c1975] 'First NAL printing, October 1976'. Soft Cover. 192 p., index, illus. incl. color plates; 30.5 cm. "Late Victorian and early 20th century England saw a unique flowering of book illustration as an art form. ...It was in the realms of fantasy that illustration reached its highest levels, through a happy interaction of opportunity and inspiration; developments in printing and reproduction combined with the growth of the middle class audience for books and magazines to offer a perfect medium for expressing the cultural preoccupations of the era." Sections include Methods of Reproduction, Precursors, 1860-1890, After 1890, Fairy Illustration, The Final Phase, General Bibliography (p. 23). Illustrators are presented chronologically, with brief biographical sketches at end. Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#44848.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY [1982]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 368 p. 'Friday is her name... one of the best interplanetary agents in the business. And she is an Artificial Person... Desperate for human identity and relationships, she is never sure whether she is one step ahead of, or one step behind, the ultimate fate of the human race.' Color pictorial dust jacket chipped, worn, book covers bleached in dj pattern; VG. Stock#21226/h.

New York, Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 191 p., 22 cm. Novel of a French boy who swallows a frog which lives within and dominates him.Stock# 40,134. Fine/ dj fine.  

London, Watkins, 2001. Hard Cover. 78 p.; 24 cm. First published 1903. An American who lived many years in India, Bain drew his inspiration for original fantasy fiction from Hindu mythology. Stock#32689x. Fine/ dj fine.

London, Watkins, 2001. Hard Cover. 85 p.; 24 cm. First published 1903. "Translated from the original manuscript," say the covers of these fantasy fictions based on Hindu mythology, by an American who long resided in India. Stock#32691x. Fine/ dj fine.

Boston, Little, Brown, 2002. Hard Cover. 328 p. 22 cm. This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story. ISBN (10): 0316666343. Stock#47294. Vg / dj vg.

Bantam Books, NY [July 1965]. Soft Cover. 213 p. The Machineries of Joy; The One Who Waits; Tyrannosaurus Rex; The Vacation; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh; Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!; Almost the End of the World; Perhaps We Are Going Away; And the Sailor, Home from the Sea; El Día de Muerte; The Illustrated Woman; Some Live Like Lazarus; A Miracle of Rare Device; And So Died Riabouchinska; The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge; Death and the Maiden; A Flight of Ravens; The Best of All Possible Worlds; The Lifework of Juan Diaz; To the Chicago Abyss; The Anthem Sprinters. Paper; ink owner name; good+. Stock#24718.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul [1983].. Soft Cover. xlii, 194 p.; 18.5 cm. Edited by James Redmond. First published in 1891 this is Morris's utopian romance of a socialist society set sometime in the future. Stock# 30,958. Fine/ paper. English literature.

"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society..." Seventh printing. Vonnegut's first novel, originally issued in 1952. Paperback; 320 pages; 18 cm. Good+ with minor edgewear. Stock#31441/h.

Viking [c1995]. . Hard Cover. 420 p., frontispiece illustration by Mark Geyer; color pictorial dj a bit scuffed, else VG. Story, with mythological overtones, of a battered woman’s attainment of freedom. stock#101344

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1868 // New York, Brooklyn, Wm. W. Swayne. Soft Cover. Waverley Novels Vol. 3 no. 17, pages 596-751; 23 cm. Copyright edition of the Waverley novels. Printed in red on the publisher's line of the cover is "W. W. Swayne New York and Brooklyn". Worn / illustrated paper covers; good. Stock#OB834.

NY, Stein & Day [1972]. Hard Cover. 369 p., frontis. (map); 25 cm. Bonnie Jones Reynolds grew up on a farm near Clinton and Oriskany Falls in upstate New York; this fantasy novel is set in that region. ISBN (10): 0812815092. Good+, used / no dj. Stock#47992.

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1997. Soft Cover. lxxxvi, 769 p.; 20 cm. In Italian; this translation first published 1992. All the stories of Lovecraft from the years 1931-1936. Vg/ paperback. Stock#34657.

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. Hard Cover. 2 p. l. iii-v, 284 p. front., plates. 20 cm. "The third of four books dealing with the adventure of Fred, Harry and Dr. Woodward in and around British Guiana in search of a radium deposit." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction. This is the issue bound in light green cloth. Stock# 35,499. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Putnam's Sons [1969]. An expedition to prove that Thera Island (Greece) was the mythical Atlantis. Hard Cover. 320 pages, index, diagrams, plates, maps (incl. endpaper); 22 cm. Vg/ dj chipped. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Stock#39850.