Category: New Books

New Books

New Titles Posted, February 2009 (1st)

Calvin & Hobbes
The Dumbest Moments in Business History (2004)
Art & Artifice and Other Essays on Illusion (Gaiman Intro)
The Best American Sex Writing 2004
Best Food Writing 2005
Best Food Writing 2006
The Further Adventures of Beowulf: Champion of Middle Earth
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death by Ramsey Campbell
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions by H.P. Lovecraft
How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Queer by William Burroughs
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons by Manfred Lurker
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Henry and June: the Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) by Anais Nin
A Beginner’s Guide to the World Economy (1995)
The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny by Jostein Gaarder
Red As Blood (or Tales From the Sisters Grimmer) by Tanith Lee (HB)

Calvin and Hobbes: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Calvin and Hobbes: The Days Are Just Packed
Calvin and Hobbes: There’s Treasure Everywhere
Calvin and Hobbes: It’s a Magical World
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams (Hardbound Omnibus 6-in-1)
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (Hardbound, The Fairy Tale Series)
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (HB)
Extremes: Reflections on Human Behavior by A.J. Dunning
Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing.. by Mark Kurlansky
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers are Like Gossip
A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
The Best American Poetry 1992 (Edited by Charles Simic)
Traveler’s Tales: The Fire Never Dies by Richard Sterling
The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
Understanding Manga and Anime by Robin E. Brenner
Traveler’s Tales: The Fire Never Dies by Richard Sterling
The Science of the X-Men (Out-of-Print)

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For Auction:

Monopoly

Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (Book One)
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (Book Two)
The Storm: Stories & Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-ups
JLA: Liberty and Justice (Alex Ross & Paul Dini)
The World’s Great Handguns: From 1450 to the Present Day (HB)
The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design
Freud for Beginners (Comic Book Form)

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Technology in the 20th Century by Alex Chase
Psychiatry for Beginners (Writers and Readers)
Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einsteins, & Beyond
500 Manga Heroes & Villains by Helen McCarthy
Superman: Sunday Classics 1939-1943 (Hardbound)
Anne Rice: The Sleeping Beauty Novels (COMPLETE!)
Death: At Death’s Door (Sandman, Comics)

Thanks and happy shopping!

New Titles Posted, January 2009 (1st)

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The Lurker at the Threshold by H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature’s Hidden Classics
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley
Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (HB)
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Collector’s Edition of Victorian Lesbian Erotica
The Oyster Volumes I & II (Victorian Erotica)
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 5
The Mammoth Book of New Terror (Edited by Stephen Jones)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2005)
The Cat Inside by William Burroughs
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Walking the Black Cat: Poems by Charles Simic
In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke
Neruda: On the blue shore of silence – Poems of the sea (HB)

Chance

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
Secret Messages: Concealment Codes & Other Types of Ingenious Communication (HB)
The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved by Colin & Damon Wilson
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War I
The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison
Mathematical Circus by Martin Gardner
The Little Book of Conspiracies: 50 Reasons to Be Paranoid
Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius by Nancy C. Andreasen
Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading by Nancy M. Malone
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
The Theory of Almost Everything by Robert Oerter
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market…
Book Finds by Ian C. Ellis (Updated 3rd Edition, 2006)
Best Food Writing 2003 (edited by Holly Hughes)
Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport by Frederik Pohl

Thanks and happy shopping!

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New Titles Posted, December 2008 (2nd)

New Books Posted.

Collected Erotica

Shopping:

Clown Girl by Monica Drake
Seeing by Jose Saramago (Blindness)
Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (Edited by Al Sarrantonio)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
Dune by Frank Herbert (40th Anniversary Edition)
Poet’s Choice by Edward Hirsch
Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems by Lawrence Raab
The Collected Erotica: An Illustrated Celebration of Human Sexuality Through the Ages
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica (Edited by Maxim Jakubowski)
The Science of Harry Potter by Roger Highfield
The Science of Anime: Mecha-Noids and AI-Super-Bots
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?
A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
Fire: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937
Number: The Language of Science
The C.S.I. Effect by Katherine Ramsland
Chances Are…: Adventures in Probability
The Art of the Steal by Frank W. Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
13: The Story of the World’s Most Notorious Superstition

Science of Anime

For Auction:

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Book Thriller)
Dream Makers Vol. 2: The Uncommon Men & Women… (Sci-Fi)
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (Hardbound)
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (French)
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Belinda by Anne Rice: Writing as Anne Rampling
The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Bowden, Eggers)
Field Guide to Tools by John Kelsey
The Directory of Possibilities (Colin Wilson & John Grant)
Hollywood Urban Legends by Richard Roeper
The Mammoth Book of Crime Scene Investigation
Traveler’s Tales: The Fire Never Dies by Richard Sterling
Law & Order in the 20th Century
The Beginner’s Guide to Calligraphy by Margaret Morgan
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Ayn Rand Library)
Unsolved Mysteries of American History (Deluxe Edition HB)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Uncle Johns Triple Ply Bathroom Reader (Vol. 1-3)
The Elements of Expression by Arthur Plotnik
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess (Hardbound)
Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Redemption (Manga)
Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept 2007 (Ted Chiang)
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Anthology 1979 Vol. 1

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