March 29, 2018
selling some books
Attention book people! I’m selling off some (many) books again. Mostly fiction this time. Generally SF/Fantasy/Literary. Non fiction listed at the bottom.
If you want something and are in Wellington, let me know either via PM or in comments. Make an offer better than a second hand dealer will give me, which is not hard. Will let it run a week or so. Whoever makes the best offer gets the book.
Key: Author, Title, Type, Condition, (special comments)
Type: H = Hardback, P = paperback, TP = trade (large) paperback, X = ex-library
Condition: A+ = as new/very good, A = average, A- = below average (will note any noteworthy damage)
Fantasy/SF
Ian R Macleod – The house of storms HX, A,
Ian R Macleod – The Light Ages PX, A
Ellen Datlow (ed) – Supernatural Noir PX, A (short story anthology)
Charles de Lint – Muse and Reverie HX, A (short stories)
Steve Rasnic Tem – The man on the ceiling PX, A
M John Harrison – In Viroconium P, A
Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn P, A
Richard Arthur – I of the sun PX, A+ (looks real weird)
Ryu Mitsuse – 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights TP, A+ (billed as the greatest Japanese SF novel ever; it isn’t remotely like anything else)
Richard Kadrey – Dead Set HX, A+
Catherynne Valyente – Six Gun Snow White HX, A+
Joe R Lansdale – Dead Aim HX, A+
Christopher Priest – The Separation HX, A (won BSFA and Arthur C Clarke awards)
Christopher Priest – Fugue for a darkening island P, A-
Christopher Priest – The Islanders P, A (won BSFA)
Vernor Vinge – Marooned in real time P, A
Stanislaw Lem – The invincible P, A-
Stanislaw Lem – His master’s voice P, A-
Steve Aylett – The crime studio PX, A-
Michael Marshall Smith – What you make it P, A- (short stories, back cover munched)
Adam Roberts – Polystom TP, X, A
Adam Roberts – Gradisil HX, A
Theodore Sturgeon – E Pluribus Unicorn P, A- (short stories, probably rare now)
Storm Constantine – Wraethu (omnibus containing enchantments of flesh and spirit, bewitchments of love and hate, fulfilments of fate and desire) P, A
Rudy Rucker – Hylozoic HX, A+
Charlaine Harris – Dead until dark HX, A (first of the books True Blood was based on)
Pohl & Kornbluth – Wolfsbane P, A- (prob rare)
Christoper Moore – Bloodsucking freaks P, A
Daryl Gregory – Harrison Squared HX, A+
Carolyn Ives Gilman – Dark Orbit HX, A+
Steve Aylett – Only an alligator
Steve Aylett – The velocity gospel
Steve Aylett – Dummyland
Steve Aylett – Karloff’s circus (these are a set of four, all PX, A)
Roberty Shea and Robert Anton Wilson – The Illuminatus Trilogy PX, A- (legendary, every home should have one, fnord.)
Liz Williams – Snake Agent PX, A
Liz Williams – Precious Dragon HX, A
Paul di Fillipo – Ribofunk HX, A-
Greg Egan – Incandescence TP, A
Keith Roberts – Pavane P, A- (fairly sure this won the world fantasy award?)
Charlie Stross – Singularity Sky HX, A
James Blish – Doctor Mirabilis P, A- (well foxed, vivid on cover, book looks super odd)
Clive Barker – The hellbound heart P, A (hellraiser movie based on this)
Clive Barker – Chiliad: A Meditation HX, A+
Iain M Banks – Surface Detail HX, A
Ian Esslemont – Night of Knives TP, A (part of Erikson’s Malazan books world)
Ian Esslemont – Return of the Crimson Guard HX, A+
Michael Moorcock – Count Brass: the tale of the eternal champion vol 14 (omnibus containing Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorn, The Quest for Tanelorn) TP, A
Patrick Rothfuss – The Wise Man’s Fear TP, A
China Meiville – The Scar HX, A- (sequel to Perdido St Station)
Stephen Donaldson – The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (omnibus containing The Wounded Land, The One Tree, White Gold Wielder) TP, A
Legends (stories by Martin, Feist, Jordan, Le Guin, Pratchett, King, Goodkind, etc, set in their most famous worlds) TP, A
Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves HX, A
L Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt – The Compleat Enchanter (omnibus) P, A
Jack Williamson – Darker Than You Think P, A+
A. A Attanasio – Killing with the edge of the moon HX, A
Jo Walton – The King’s Name HX, A
Daniel Fox – Hidden Cities PX, A
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman – Fall of the Kings PX, A
JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Lavie Tidhar – The Bookman PX, A
Michael Moorcock – The Eternal Champion – the tale of the eternal champion vol 1 (omnibus containing The Eternal Champion, Phoenix in Obsidian, The Dragon in the Sword) P, A
Glen Cook – Water Sleeps (vol 9 of the black company) P, A-
Shaun Hick – The Army of Five Men P, A
Charlie Huston – My dead body
Charlie Huston – every last drop
Charlie Huston – half the blood of brooklyn (these 3 all PX, A)
Literary fiction/other
Alice Munro – The Beggar Maid P, A-
Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake P, A
Dambudzo Marechara – The house of hunger P, A+
Yann Martel – The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios HX, A
Robert Rosenberg – This is not civilisation HX, A
John Steinbeck – The moon is down P, A-
Darragh Mckeon – All that is solid melts into air HX, A
Allen Wheeler – The illusionless man P, A- (looks real weird)
Sir Thomas Mallory – Le Morte d’Arthur P, A (medieval epic poem version of Arthurian cycle)
Zadie Smith – White Teeth P, A
Denis Johnson – Tree of Smoke TP, A+ (National Book Award winner)
Denis Johnson – Fiskadoro P, A
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’ubervilles P, A-
Bruce Dickinson – The adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace TP, A
Bruce Dickinson – The Missionary Position TP, A (these two are toilet humour penned by Iron Maiden’s vocalist.)
William Burroughs jr – Speed H, A (no dust jacket. Not that this is NOT William S Burroughs but his son. Probably quite rare?)
Geoff Ryman – 253 P, A
Goethe – Faust part one P, A-
Andre Gide – The Immoralist P, A-
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath P, A-
Zhang Jie – Leaden Wings P, A
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient P, A (Booker prize winner)
Elliot Perlman – Seven types of ambiguity
David Baldacci – The Winner
Russell Hoban – My Tango with barbara Strozzi PX, A
Russell Hoban – Amarylis Night and Day P, A
Tibor Fischer – The Thought Gang P, A
Amos Oz – Scenes from village life P, A
Thomas Pynchon – Against the Day HX, A
Thomas Pynchon – Vineland HX, A
Thomas Pynchon – Mason and Dixon PX, A
Jose Saramago – All the names H, A+ (nobel prize winner)
Elfriede Jelinek – Women as lovers P, A (nobel prize winner)
Luisa Valenzuala – The Lizard’s Tale
Paul Ableman – I hear voices P, A
Jean Cocteau – Les Enfants Terribles P, A-
Gregory David Roberts – The Mountain Shadow HX, A+ (sequel to Shantaram)
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy P, A
Alice Munro – Lives of girls and women P, A
Fritz Zorn – Mars P, A
John Fowles – Daniel Martin PX, A
Yiyun Li – Kinder than solitude HX, A+
Jorge Luis Borges – Collected Fictions TP, A (incredible, only selling as I have two copies)
Jack Kerouac – Visions of Cody P, A-
William Faulkner – Mosquitoes P, A- (actually falling apart)
William Faulkner – The Mansion X, A
Michel Houllebecq – The map and the territory HX, A
VS Naipaul – A bend in the river (booker winner)
Anna Kavan – Asylum piece
Milorad Pavic – The dictionary of the Khazars P, A (female edition)
Victor Pelevin – Omon Ra P, a
Julian Barnes – The sense of an ending P, A (booker prize winner)
Atiq Rahimi – The Patience Stone HX, A
Doris Lessing – Briefing on a descent into hell P, A- (did she win the nobel in the end?)
Yukio Mishima – Spring Snow P, A-
Alberto Moravia – The woman of Rome P, A-
Richard Ford – The Sportswriter P, A
Michael Cunningham – Specimen Days HX, A
GK Chesterton – The Father Brown Stories (ombnibus collecting all of them) H, A (no dust jacket)
Colm Toibin – The Blackwater Lightship P, A
Charlie Huston – Caught Stealing HX, A
Dylan Thomas – Collected Poems 1934-1952 P, A-
George Macdonald – What’s Mines Mine TP, A
Henning Mankell – Chronicler of the Wind HX, A
Magnus Mills – Explorere of the new century HX, A
Victor Hugo – The Laughing Man H, A- (no dust jacket)
NZ fiction
Charlotte Grimshaw – The night book TP, X, A
Nestor Notabilis – I know someone who knows someone who knows Kevin Roberts quite well P, A
Laura Solomon – Black Light P, A
Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip P, A-
Maurice Shadbolt – The New Zealanders P, A
Elizabeth Knox – Black Oxen TP, A+
Non fiction
Glyn Daniels – The megalith builders of western Europe P, X, A-
Peter Tompkins – The secret life of plans P, A-
Timothy Garton Ash – Facts are subversive P, A
Regis Debray – Revolution in the Revolution? P, A-
Ravlich – Freedom from our social prisons HX, A
Chalmers Johnson – The Sorrows of Empire H, A+
Immanuel Wallerstein – The political economy of contemporary africa HX, A- (no dust jacket)
Bill Schul – the psychic powers of animals P, A-
Judy Mcgregor (ed) – Dangerous democracy: news media politics in NZ. P, A
Ducley Baker – GK Chesterton HX, A
Adrian Berry – Harrap’s Book of Scientific Anecdotes HX, A
Carl Sagan – The Dragons of Eden P, A-
James Belich – Making Peoples H, A (no dust jacket)
Lawrence Krauss – A Universe From Nothing P, A
Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking open the head TP, A
Hofmekler- Macimum Muscle, Minimum Fat TP, A
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – The Secret of Secrets vol 1 TP, A-
Sogyal Rinpoche – Glimpse after Glimpse: daily reflections on living and dying P, A
Ranginui Walker – Struggle Without End P, A
Carlos Castenada – The teachings of Don Juan A Yaqui way of knowledge P, A-
Caitlin and John Matthews – The Western Way: a practical guide to the western mystery tradition P, A
Susan Blackmore – The Meme Machine P, A
John Randall – Parapyschology and the nature of life P, A-
P.R Reid – The Colditz Story P, A-
Ricardo Semler – Maverick! P, A
Hans Eyseneck – Astrology: Science or Superstition? P, A
John Dower – Embracing Defeat: Japan in the aftermath of WW2 P, A+
Arnd Schneider and Oscar Zarate – Mafia for beginners P, A
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