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Hi all,

New books posted, lots of poetry and some independent comic books.

Unsorted:

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
The Godfather by Mario Puzo (CML, HB)
New Spring: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (HB)
Salmon of Doubt, The by Douglas Adams (HB)
A Cross of Centuries: 25 Imaginative Tales About the Christ
The BEST Case Scenario Handbook (Parody! Funny!)
Wet: More Aqua Erotica (Waterproof Book)
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Our Friends From Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick
Deception Point by Dan Brown (Hardbound)
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
Last Dragon, The by Silvana De Mari (Uncorrected Proof)
Great and Secret Show, The by Clive Barker
The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles 1-10
Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet.. by Mike Resnick
Girl Anatomy by Rebecca Bloom (HB)

Food Lover’s Tiptionary, The (1994)
Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader (1st)
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader (7th)
Selfish Gene, The by Richard Dawkins
Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Samuel B. Griffith)
Capitalism for Beginners (Comic Book Format)

Hey, Mister: Afterschool Special by Pete Sickman-Garner TPB
Hey, Mister: The Fall Collection by Pete Sickman-Garner TPB
Bygone/The Sisters d’Espard (Comics TPB)
Bughouse by Steve Lafler (Comics TPB)
Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-Woman (TPB)
Hulk: Incredible (Marvel All Ages)
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Timothy Zahn, Comics TPB)

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters (Poetry)
One Day, The: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall
Sweet Machine: Poems by Mark Doty
100 selected poems by e.e. cummings
Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
Pablo Neruda: Late and Posthumous Poems: 1968-1974
Birthday Poems: A Celebration (Edited by Jason Shinder)
Lawrence Raab: The Probable World (Poems
The Garden: Selected Poetry & Prose by Bella Akhmadulina
Allen Ginsberg: Selected Poems 1947 – 1995

Thanks!

Jasper
www.avalon.ph

Hi all,

New titles posted, auction items ending Thursday, 21 Feb 2008.

Fiction:

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (Nobel Prize 1998)
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Barnes
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez (1974)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Collected Stories
Ring by Koji Suzuki (Hardbound 1st Ed.- The Ring movie!!)
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Bedroom Serets of the Master Chefs, The by Irvine Welsh
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (Hardbound, Curious Incident..)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Hardbound)
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Hardbound)
Dubliners / A Portrait… by James Joyce (HB 2-in-1)
Liquors by Poppy Z. Brite
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (Movie Cover)
Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (Norton Critical Ed.)
Predators (Koontz Hoch Laymon/ Terror Stories)
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis/ Penal Colony/ Other Stories
Jennifer Government by Max Barry (Popular Sci-Fi)
Final Solution, The by Michael Chabon
Otherwise: Three Novellas by John Crowley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (HB, CML)
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (used)
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Dreaming Comics Lot (#1-40, missing #2 #8)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Centennial Edition)
A Magic-Lover’s Treasury of the Fantastic (LeGuin, Bradbury)

Non-Fiction:

God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
Organize Your Business Travel! by Eisenberg & Kelly
A Brief History of the Smile by Angus Trumble
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino (Hardbound)
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader (5,6,7)
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (Non-Movie Cover)
The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent
Computers on Star Trek, The
Dragon Hunter’s Handbook, The: Field Guide to Paranormal
U.F.O. Hunter’s Handbook, The: Field Guide to Paranormal
The Onion Ad Nauseam: Volume 13
The Onion Ad Nauseam: Volume 14
The Onion Ad Nauseam: Volume 15
When Do Fish Sleep? by David Feldman (Imponderables Book)
Zobmondo: The Outrageous Book of Bizarre Choices
The Dragon Chronicles Jigsaw Book (Hardbound)
The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors

Jasper
www.avalon.ph

Hi all,

New books posted, auction items ending Thursday, 7 Feb 2008 around noontime.

Unsorted:

LIMITED 1/1000 Coraline signed by Neil Gaiman /Dave McKean
Iron Chef: The Official Book (2004)
Traveler’s Tales: The Road Within
More Wandering Stars: Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & SF
The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds by Fred Wolf
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (HB, no DJ)
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant -PB Set 1-3
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
Adventures in Time & Space (Asimov, Heinlein, 1,000pp!)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by Garner (HB)
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik (UK)
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave
Franz Kafka: Diaries 1910-1913
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (Hugo & Nebula Award Winner)
Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
The Next Fifty Years: New Essays from 25 Scientists (2002)
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss (History of Love)
Vintage Sacks (Oliver Sacks)
Vintage Cisneros (Sandra Cisneros)
The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Immortality by Milan Kundera
The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century History
Triumph of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams (Trivia)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs (Ancient Warfare)
Complete The Wheel of Time + Prequel Set! Read!!
Bored of the Rings by The Harvard Lampoon (Parody)

Thanks!

Jasper
www.avalon.ph