Author: Jasper

Three years later, SANDMAN AND DEATH 20TH ANNIVERSARY Bookends

Back in March 2008 we posted a blog entry regarding the release of the limited edition Sandman & Death’s 20th Anniversary Bookends.

Value upon release: USD295.00

Almost 3 years later, estimated value now: USD800-1,000

Stop and remember that moment when you didn’t buy it then…

– image from DC Direct

New Titles Posted, Jun 2011

Fiction:

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (Book One, Gormenghast)
Best Gay Asian Erotica edited by Joel B. Tan
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America
Satori in Paris and Pic: Two Novels by Jack Kerouac
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (Hardbound)
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com
The Icewind Dale Trilogy: Collector’s Edition by R.A. Salvatore
Legacy of the Drow: Collector’s Edition by R.A. Salvatore

 

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
The Arabian Nights (Translated by Husain Haddawy)
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt
Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck -Centennial Edition
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

 

Non-Fiction:

A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch
The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 (Harold Bloom)
Rimbaud: Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T.S. Eliot
Dear, Dear Brenda – The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (IV) by Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (2nd edition)
Aristotle: Poetics
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick
Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford (The Chronicles of Narnia)
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan
The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morison (Jerry Hopkins)
Heavens to Betsy! & Other Curious Sayings
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angie
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (HB)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch (HB)
Wonder Woman – The Golden Age by Les Daniels (HB)
Disco Duck and Other Adventures in Novelty Music by Ace Collins
Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of The Planet Earth (Hardbound)
Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin
Getting Lost: J.J. Abrams TV Series (Edited by Orson Scott Card)

Happy Shopping!
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#MoleskineLove2011 week two winner and this week’s giveaway!

Update (May 31, 5:00pm): Congratulations to @ybiang from Cebu! You won a Moleskine Classic Pocket Ruled Notebook! She declared her co-winner as @firedancer67, also from Cebu City.

 

 

For Week 3, everything starts fresh. All entries back to zero. We want to make things very simple so we can get most of our Twitter followers to participate.

This week, the giveaway is one (1) Moleskine Large Ruled Reporter Notebook!

Joining is as simple as one tweet and forget. Just tweet:

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#MoleskineLove2011 Moleskine & *somethingelse*. @avalonph http://bit.ly/irekKE

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– Obviously, replace *somethingelse* with one or a few words. Keep it clean, somehow relevant and no trolling.

– Contest starts May 31, 4:00pm and ends June 8 (Wednesday), 2:00pm 2011. Philippine residents only.

– One tweet = one entry. Repeating a ‘combination’ will not count. Winner through a List Randomizer or something similar.

– Bonus +four (+4) entries for creative posts. This will be our discretion.

– Negative points for people tweeting “*somethingelse*” as-is.

– No limits* to entries but do not encourage SPAM. Please be aware that SPAMMING your twitter stream might cause some of your followers to unfollow or even BAN you. Please use discretion and respect your follower’s annoyance threshold. *- if it  is obvious you are trolling, we will disqualify your tweets.

– If you are new to Avalon.ph Twitter giveaways 2011, please check our past rules and mechanics here. The specifics still generally apply.

Thank you for reading and complying. Good luck everyone and tweet away!

* Moleskine Large Ruled Reporter image from Sasha Martinez (Jan. 2009)