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Unsorted:

Dot Dot Dash: Designer Toys, Action Figures And Character Art (Hardbound)
The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth (Hardbound)
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice
The Voice at 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic
Harvest Poems 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg
Honey and Salt by Carl Sandburg
101 Things You Don’t Know About Science….
The Ecstatic Moment: The Best of Libido
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
JPod by Douglas Coupland
Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
History’s Last Stand by Gerard and Patricia Del Re
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1964 Nobel Prize Winner)
Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (1972)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
How to Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel H. Wilson
E.B. White: Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976
Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
Dada: The Revolt of Art by Marc Dachy
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Food Lover’s Tiptionary (1994)
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Dave Eggers)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Dave Eggers)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Dave Eggers)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (and other stories)
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
101 Things To Do Before You’re Old and Boring by Richard Horne
Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones (Hardbound)

Back in stock:

The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
Dune by Frank Herbert (40th Anniversary Edition)
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica (Edited by Maxim Jakubowski)
The Mammoth Book of International Erotica
Identity by Milan Kundera
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

We have a new category – Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga (http://bit.ly/b2dHwl). Please check it out.

Babymouse: Queen of the World! by Jennifer & Matthew Holm
The Golden Age of DC Comics : 365 Days (Hardbound)
The Year’s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga (2005)
North Country: A Graphic Novel by Shane White
X-Men: First Class, Vol. 1: Tomorrow’s Brightest
Marvel Adventures Hulk Vol. 1: Misunderstood Monster
40oz Collected by Jim Mahfood

Happy Shopping!

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The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (Hardbound)
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (Hardbound)
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game, HB)
Witpunk (Silverberg, Ford, Morrow, Cadigan)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (non-movie cover)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2003, Vol. 14)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (RARE Advance Reading Copy)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
His Dark Materials Vol. 1-3 Set, by Philip Pullman
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Hardbound)
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Advance Reading Copy)
The Gunter Grass Reader
Slowness by Milan Kundera (Hardbound)
The Gryphon by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
Sixty Poems by Charles Simic
Walking the Black Cat: Poems by Charles Simic
Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Encyclopedia of Ignorance (Duncan/Weston-Smith)
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
Cocaine by Dominic Streatfeild
Quickies: Fascinating Facts About the Facts of Life (Sex)
The Mammoth Book of The History of Murder by Colin Wilson

Back in Stock:

Blindness by Jose Saramago (Movie Cover)
Seeing by Jose Saramago
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Innocent Erendira and other stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck -Centennial Edition
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Movie Cover)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Hardbound)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Movie Cover)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Other Woman by Jane Green
The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart (Daily Show)
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno
Bettelheim
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes (Under The Tuscan Sun)
Are You Really Going to Eat That? Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (Dave Eggers)

Happy Shopping!

www.avalon.ph

These books are fresh out of the box and being prepared for processing/posting. They are not yet posted on the www.avalon.ph website.

Some overstock, some used and some already reserved. Just click on any of the image below to enlarge. For inquiries please send message to: support (at) avalon.ph. Thank you very much!

A total of 402 entries were counted and submitted to Random.org List Randomizer. The winner of a brand new Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner 2010 is…

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Update: Please make it easy for us to track your twitter accounts. As long as you use the format provided below you will definitely be counted. For protected accounts, you may leave a message in the comments below that you tweet about this so I can “follow” you, or just follow @avalonph. If you use a comment user name that is different from your twitter name, do inform us. In short, make it easy for us to track you. Thanks!

The year 2009 has been an excellent year for the Moleskine notebook. They’ve expanded their product line, and more people Philippines included, are using it to expound their creativity.

Avalon.ph has been a regular destination for competitively priced Moleskine notebooks. We’ve quickly sold out our stocks of the Moleskine 2010 planner — except for one.

To thank all those who have patronized our website the past 11 years (yes we’re that old), as well as a welcome to those who are visiting Avalon.ph and its blog for the first time, we’re giving away the last Moleskine 2010 planner we have!

Now, let’s get straight to the point!

Win One (1) Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner in 12 Notebooks 2010: 12 different soft coloured covers + hard cover case.

Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner in 12 Notebooks 2010 (link from Moleskine.com), retails for Php2,750.00 locally. This is your chance to own one for FREE!

Just answer:

What are you thankful for this 2009?

a) Answering directly in the comments section below gives you one (1) point.

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b) Answering in your blog with a link back to this post gives you three (3) points. You must indicate in the comments section below where to find your blog (with your answer). AND, very important, you must spell Moleskine properly in your blog post, do not forget the “E”.

c) One (1) point when you use your active twitter account (as of 11/30/09) and tweet about this contest. Make sure you include the #avalonph hashtag for me to easily track your tweet. Please take note that I cannot track ‘protected’ twitter accounts. If you have one and intend to avail of this extra point you should know what to do (follow avalonph). Exact format of tweet should be as written below in order to qualify:

RT @avalonph: Win a Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner 2010! Check out details at www.avalon.ph. #avalonph

You may tweet using your own variation as some of you like to share stuff like this on twitter, however they will not count as an entry. No spamming, no twitter cheating (using both personal & corporate/shared accounts). In short, play fair.

d) if I like your entry, you get plus two (2) points. This is purely my unbiased, unbribable and fair discretion.

All entries for additional points should be verifiable. Maximum available points is six (6). All entries will be summarized before the electronic raffle to be done through random.org’s List Randomizer or something similar.

Too much work? Satisfied to submit a silly, rushed, boring entry just for the sake of submission? Think again, up your chances to win this:

This contest/sweepstakes will run from December 1, 12:01am until December 15, 9:00pm Manila time. Sweepstakes is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers.

Sweepstakes winner will be announced before 8:00am December 16. Winner must give their contact information before 12nn December 18. We will exert best effort to communicate with the winner, but if efforts fail we will use our discretion in choosing a new winner. Remember, this is a 2010 Planner so it is essential that the winner receives the item before 2010! We hope that’s clear for everyone especially those planning a long vacation this Holiday season.

Loophole or oversight regarding rules- common sense apply. Avalon.ph is the SOLE arbiter to decide on issues with regards to this contest/sweepstakes.

Good luck everyone!

Image credit: Journaling Arts (Beautiful Living) & Amazon.com

UPDATE: SOLD!

PICTOPLASMA: The Character Encyclopaedia

by: Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin

date: November 2006
editor: Peter Thaler, Lars Denicke

pages: 396
size: 18.4 x 22.3 cm / 7.24 x 8.78 in
features: full colour, special hardcover

ISBN: 3-9810458-3-1

Avalon.ph Price: Php3,500.00

Sold out from the publisher! Probably your only chance to get a copy locally, exclusive on Avalon.ph.

Condition: Some light scratches on cover (visible on image), very good condition, unread copy. Only opened (carefully) for images.

From Pictoplasma Publishing website:

“With this long awaited follow-up publication Pictoplasma delivers an in-depth exploration of the latest tendencies in current character design and art, spanning from drawing, design and painting to its use in installations and sculpture.