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The Lime Twig

Hawkes, John · 1961 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New Directions Trade softcover. Published NY:New Directions, 1961, sixth printing. 8vo. wrappers, xiv+175pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 5th or later Printing NY 8vo

Who Guards a Prince?

Hill, Reginald · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Felony & Mayhem First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Felony & Mayhem, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 338pp. Fine. Who would sever a tongue from a living mouth? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or frighten a young doctor into silence? The questions are pil...

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince

De Saint-Exupery, Consuelo · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Random House Publishing Group First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Random House , 2003, third printing. 8vo. wrappers, 308pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Ding impression/closed tear at top corner of front cover and several front sheets, else very good. Very Good No ...

The Empire of Isher: The Weapon Makers / The Weapon Shops of Isher

Van Vogt, A. E. · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Orb Books First edition, first printing. First Orb Edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Orb Books, 2000. 8vo. wrappers, 352pp. Fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 288

The War Against the Rull

A. E. Van Vogt · 1999 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Doherty (Tom) Associates, Orb Books First edition, first printing. Trade softcover. First Complete Edition. First Orb Books Edition. Published NY: Doherty (Tom) Associates / Orb Books, 1999. 8vo. wrappers, 269pp. Fine. When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories o...

Ringworld

Larry Niven · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Gollancz First edition, later printing. Trade softcover. Published London: Gollancz, 2005. 8vo. wrappers, 288pp. Fine. Book 1 of 4 - Ringworld Pierson''s puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part ...

The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales: Selected and Introduced by Aimee Bender

Maxwell, William · 2016 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Catapult First edition, trade softcover. Published Berkeley: Catapult, 2016, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 164pp. Fine. In these tales, with one foot firmly planted in the present, Maxwell brings a certain sophisticated urbanity to the oral traditions of the fable and fairy...

Marius the Epicurean

Pater, Walter · 1985 · The Wild Muse

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Soho First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Soho, 1985, first printing. Thick 8vo. wrappers, 467pp. Age tone to paper, else very good plus, straight, tight copy. It was as a critic and a humanist that Pater (1839-1894), a teaching fellow at Oxford, became a powerf...

Guy Deverell

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan · 1984 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Dover Pubns Trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1984. 8vo. wrappers, 414pp., illus. frontis. Fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued NY 448

Homer's Daughter

Graves, Robert · 1982 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Academy Chicago Publishers First edition thus, trade softcover. Published Chicago:Academy Chicago Publishers, 1982, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 283pp. Near fine, clean, bright copy. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing Chicago 8vo 283

The One from the Other: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Kerr, Philip · 2009 · The Wild Muse

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

Penguin First edition thus, trade softcover. Published NY: Penguin, 2009, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 400pp. Spine a bit turned. Very good. Book 4 of 14 - Bernie Gunther. In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther-a former pol...

Re Joyce

Burgess, Anthony · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

W. W. Norton & Company Trade softcover. Published NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 276pp. Fine. Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joy...

Thousand Cranes (Vintage International)

Kawabata, Yasunari · 1996 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Vintage Trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage, 1996. 8vo. wrappers, 147pp. As new. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents' deaths, Kikuji encounters his father's former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nat...

Simonetta Perkins (Hesperus Classics)

Hartley, L. P. · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Hesperus Press First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Hesperus Press, 2004, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, x+87pp. As new. Considered by Hartley to be the most accomplished of his works, Simonetta Perkins is a brilliantly observed tale of desire and guilt. Set agai...

The Black Swan

Mann, Thomas; Straus, Nina Pelikan (intro.); Trask, Willard R. (trans.) · 1990 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

University of California Press Trade softcover. Published Berkeley: University of California Press 1990, fourth printing. 8vo. wrappers, xiv+141pp. As new. Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Ven...

Anatolian Tales

Kemal, Yasar · 1983 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Writers & Readers First edition, trade softcover. Published London and New York: Writers & Readers, 1983, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 160pp. Mild age tone to the paper. Fine. Seven somber short stories depicting the lives of oppressed Anatolian peasants are compassionatel...

Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet (British Library Science Fiction Classics)

Mike Ashley; H. G. Wells; W. S. Lach-Szyrma; George C. Wallis; P. Schuyler Miller; Stanley G. Weinbaum; Ray Bradbury; Marion Zimmer Bradley; E. C. Tubb; Walter M. Miller; Jr.; J. G. Ballard · 2018 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

British Library Publishing First edition, trade softcover. Published London :British Library Publishing, 2018, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 302pp., illus frontis. As new. Book 1 of 12 - British Library Science Fiction Classics. These ten short stories from the golden age of...

Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

Meredith, Sharon · 2020 · Black Rock Books

$37.00 (€33.57 | £28.00 | ¥5,909)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Routledge 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Originally published 2015; this is the first pbk edition.

Frankenstein; Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Shelley, Mary; David H. Guston, Ed Finn, Jason Scott Robert [eds.]; Charles E. Robinson [intro.] · 2017 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$15.94 (€10.14 | $11.17 | £8.46 | ¥1,784)

Cambridge The MIT Press pp. xxxv, 277. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink underlining and marginalia; very good.

Now and On Earth

Thompson, Jim · 1994 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$15.94 (€10.14 | $11.17 | £8.46 | ¥1,784)

New York Vintage pp. x, 306. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good.