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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 1st International Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/New. Billeis cover art; B&W map. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt trade paperback, first international edition, first printing. Cover art by Billeis; B&W map. CONTENT: Aurelia is a princess, but they call her a witch. Surrounded by spirits and burdened with forbidden magic, she lives in constant fear of discovery by the witch-hunting Tribunal and their bloodthirsty mobs. When a devastating assassination attempt reveals her magical abilities, Aurelia is forced to flee her country with nothing but her life. Alone and adrift in an enemy kingdom, Aurelia plans her revenge against the Tribunal, desperate to bring down the dark organization that has wrought terror upon her people for hundreds of years. But there's something deeply amiss in her new home, too, and soon she finds herself swept into a deadly new mystery with a secretive prince, the ghost of an ancient queen, and a poison vine called… Read More

UK: Viking, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Very Good+. Chris Van Allsburg color paintings. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1996 Viking large hard cover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Beautiful color plates by Van Allsburg. Young adult delightful fiction. Problem: some pale tanning to DJ and page tops with a short repaired tear bottom DJ panel edge. CONTENT: Driven to avenge the murder of her royal parents and reclaim their lost kingdom, the daring young heroine and would-be queen journeys to the besieged city on the plain to seek out its evil conqueror, the Usurper. Mark Helprin's spellbinding tale reveals a city veiled in snow, at once divine and deadly. Van Allsburg's stunning illustrations supply a palpable richness which captures all the exhilarating expanse of the story. 13 color illustrations.

? Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers;, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Frank Miller illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Simon & Schuster hardcover (black boards with silver foil sword) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Title on DJ in embossed black foil. B&W illustrations and color illustrations by Frank Miller. Decorated end pages. With packaging, this book will weigh about 3 pounds. CONTENT: The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City). Featuring 8 full-color and 30 black-and-white pieces of original artwork by Frank Miller. Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King. But what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her… Read More

Razorbill/Penguin, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Michael Heath dust jacket art. CONDITION: AS NEW due to pale small remainder dot bottom edges. 2018 Razorbill/Penguin hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Michael Heath. CONTENT: Book 2 of the series. Fallon and her warrior sisters return in this powerful tale of treachery, Roman secret societies, and gladiatrix. Fueled by the desire to regain control of the Ludus Achillea from the Son of Dis, Fallon enlists the help of the legendary Amazon and two Roman Legionaries in this page-turning sequel to The Valiant. Strong female characters lead this Ancient Roman story that captures the political subterfuge and geographical diversity characteristic of Caesar's Rome. The strength of family, both blood relatives and family by choice, permeate as the gladiatrix of the Ludus Achillea put themselves in danger in order to rescue their leader, friends, and training academy. The… Read More

Albert Whitman & Co., 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Alice Bereton DJ cover art. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Albert Whitman hardcover (green boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Wrap-around DJ art by Alice Bereton. CONTENT: For 13-year old Rose, it feels like a dream come true to have a friend who can perform magic, change shape, and fly her away from the predictability of smalltown life. But secrets have a price, and the more Rose learns about the world of dragons, the more dangerous her life becomes. Helped only by her fantasy-obsessed friend and a local occult enthusiast, Rose soon finds herself risking her life to help Jade recover a mysterious fragment of a meteorite called the Harbinger which has the power to awaken countless dragons from their 65-million year slumber. But Jade isn't the only one who wants the Harbinger. The most powerful man in Las Vegas is actually another dragon who wants the stone to fulfill his own ambitions. The fragile bond between Rose… Read More

Wednesday Books, 2019. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Jacket art by Larry Rostart; full-page B&W illustrations throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 Wednesday Books hardcover (navy boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first US edition, 1st printing. The DJ finished with a blue "foil" with raised gold foil lettering - that's why the protective mylar cover I'll put on it. Decorated end pages. PROBLEM: tiny remainder dot bottom edges at spine. B&W illustrations throughout. CONTENT: Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal" life, (not that she'd want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren't things most eighteen year olds can do. Small town star quarterback and quintessential dreamy boy next door, Tate "Nighthawk" Taylor has never thought much about his extra abilities. Sure, his night vision comes in handy during games, but who wouldn't want that extra edge? From the moment Foster… Read More

Wednesday Books, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Antonio Bifulco tri-color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Wednesday Books trade paperback, graphic novel, first edition, 1st printing. Tri-color illustrations by Antonio Bifulco. Cover art by Echo Chernik. CONTENT: Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal" life, (not that she'd want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren't things most eighteen year olds can do. Small town star quarterback and quintessential dreamy boy next door, Tate "Nighthawk" Taylor has never thought much about his extra abilities. Sure, his night vision comes in handy during games, but who wouldn't want that extra edge? From the moment Foster and Tate collide, their worlds spiral and a deadly tornado forces them to work together, fully awakening their not-so-natural ability - the power to control air. As they each deal with the tragic loss of loved ones, they're caught by… Read More

United Kingdom: Gollancz, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Gollancz (UK) trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. #2 in the Belles series. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, The Belles, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace. The evil queen Sophia's imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep Camille, her sister Edel, and her loyal guard, Rémy, from returning Charlotte to the palace and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called the Iron Ladies--a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely--and the backing of alternative newspaper the Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers, her connections, and her cunning to outwit her greatest nemesis, Sophia, and attempt to restore peace to Orléans.… Read More

DAW Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Steve Stone DJ art; Chapter decorations. CONDITION: What makes this book "AS NEW?" Small remainder dot bottom edges near spine. UNREAD 2018 DAW hardcover (grey boards) and dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful DJ art by Steve Stone. Embossed title & Author embossed on DJ. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: Kerida Nast and her companions have succeeded in finding Jerek Brightwing, the new Luqs of Farama, and uniting him with a part of his Battle Wings, but not all their problems have been solved. Farama is still in the hands of the Halian invaders and their Shekayrin, and it's going to take magical as well as military strength to overcome them. Unexpected help comes from Bakura, the Princess Imperial of the Halians, whose Gifts have been suppressed. As the Voice of her brother the Sky Emperor she has some political power over the Halian military, and she will use it to aid the Faramans, if Kerida can free her from… Read More

Titan Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Titan Books Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Appropriately scary cover by Amazing 15. CONTENT: Of course, Drearcliff Grange School was haunted. Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever the limping ghost is seen, terror strikes. And the lopsided, cracked-face, glass-eyed creature might well be the most serious threat the Moth Club have ever faced.

Weinstein Books, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Weinstein Books hardcover (gold boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: Sequel to the Hawkweed Prophecy. Poppy is discovering a purpose for her powers in Africa, but she is haunted by a vision of her own death. Taken in by a boy and his great-grandmother, a healer, they vow to keep her safe-even if that ultimately means holding her captive. But Poppy never stops longing for Leo and, when she feels his magic begin to spark, she will do anything to be reunited with him. Desperate to regain Poppy's trust and bring her home, Charlock embarks on a plan to reunite Leo with his mother. What Charlock doesn't foresee are the string of consequences that she sets into motion that leave Ember all alone and prey to manipulation, the clan open to attack from other witches, Sorrel vulnerable to Raven's ghost, Betony determined to protect her son from his father's fate, and which leave both Leo… Read More

HarperCollins, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Stephen Gilpin (DJ art and Cast of Characters); B&W map. CONDITION: NEW 2020 HarperCollins hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Jacket art & interior cast of characters art by Stephen Gilpin. B&W map. CONTENT: Dungeons & Dragons meets Jumanji in the second book in the laugh-out-loud adventure series Homerooms and Hall Passes! Months after saving suburbia from destruction, our heroes are back to their old lives of dungeon delving and magical quests. All except the wizard Albiorix, who has given up adventuring and uses his time trying (unsuccessfully) to create his own board game. When the party finds their old friend June Westray's smartphone for sale in a Bríandalörian bazaar, however, they fear the Realm of Suburbia is under threat. Thus, the five young adventurers must travel back into Homerooms & Hall Passes, a role-playing game where they assume the characters of average American kids.… Read More

Harlequin Teen, 2010. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2010 Harlequin Teen trade paperback, first thus, first printing. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: #2 of 7 books (so far) in the Iron Fey series. Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey-ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her. Worse, Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron, Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.

UK: One Line Books, 2021. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. Henry Chancellor B&W illustrations. CONDITION: INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. UNREAD 2021 One Line Books (UK) hardcover (blue boards; gold foil text) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, printing not provided, assumed first. B&W illustrations and DJ by the Author. Decorated end pages. Chapter Decorations. CONTENT: When 12-year-old year old Jack Joliffe is summoned to St. James's Palace to become a Royal Keeper, no one is more surprised than SHE. Hidden deep underground Jack discovers a secret world of dragons and fairies, jabberwocks and ghosts. . . and in a lonely tower a sickly prince the same age as her, who never wants to be king. . . There are lives to be saved, dragons to be slain, ancient magic to be outwitted, and games of Jackernapes to be won. Join Jack as she tells her amazing adventure from the bottom of the palace to the top, and beyond . . . Review by Jane Mac: "The story is set just round the corner from… Read More

Viking/Penguin, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Shatterstock. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Viking hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful dust cover collage by Shatterstock. CONTENT: Paris - 1693. A lush, slow-burn romance set in 17th century France, and based on the history of the Hope Diamond. Her story begins . . . in Paris. The only daughter of the King's crown jeweler, Juliette marvels at the large, deep-blue diamond Louis XIV has commanded her father to make shine like the sun. But Jean Pitau has never cut a diamond quite like this, and shaping it is a risky endeavor. As Jean spirals into depression, Juliette takes it upon herself to cut the stone, and with every misstep, brings her family closer to ruin. Her story resumes . . . in a cold, dark cell of the Bastille prison. Charged with stealing the King's diamond, Juliette has but one chance to convince him that her motives were pure. If she fails, this night may very well be her last.… Read More

Greenwillow Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Leo Nickolls DJ art. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Greenwillow Books hardcover (black boards), first edition, first printing. The DJ art is just plain beautiful and I am protecting it by placing a mylar cover over it. Title in embossed silver foil. No illustrations within. CONTENT: High school senior Anders Thorson is a heavy metal star in his small town, but keeping his music "pure" becomes difficult when a famous reviewer calls him a prodigy and predicts a deal with a major label. Anders knows his skills suddenly improved after an expensive Ibanez guitar was given to him by a stranger, and he senses that something isn't quite right with the way new songs come to him as finished pieces. New to their small Minnesota town and niece of a woman branded a witch by locals, Thea is fixated on Anders, never missing his performances at a local coffeehouse. Chapters alternate between the narratives of Anders and Thea, her superhuman skills… Read More

TOR, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. John Howe DJ art. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1994 TOR hardcover (vanilla boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Problem with DJ: edge wear bottom spine with loss of color and a tiny (really) repaired tear bottom edge with light edge wear top DJ edge at spine. The main panels are untouched. DJ art is beautiful and by John Howe. I bought this new off the shelf and in all these years never made time to read it. de Lint is a great writer. CONTENT: From World Fantasy Award-winning author Charles de Lint, a tale of love, courage, and the transforming power of imagination. Isabelle Copley's visionary art frees ancient spirits. As the young student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, she discovered she could paint images so vividly real they brought her wildest fantasies to life. But when the forces she unleashed brought tragedy to those she loved, she turned her back on her… Read More

London: Titan Comics, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Alex Alice color illustrations (graphic novel_. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Titan Comics hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), first edition, first printing. Text by both Alex Alice & Xavier Dorison, but color art only by Alex Alice. CONTENT: Conrad of Marburg and his companion Elisabeth continue on their quest for the Third Testament. But to find the relic they must first escape the dark island where they are held captive and then reach the monastery of St Luke which seems to hold the answer to many of their questions. But as they progress in their quest, many more questions seem to arise. Who is the mysterious leader of the horde of warriors chasing them and what exactly is the role of the Knights Templar in all of this?

Tangerine/Scholastic, 2008. First Thus 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Mike Taylor/Art Agency color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Tangerine/Scholastic large paperback, first thus (or 1st American edition, if you like), 2nd printing. Text by Gerrie McCall and fantastic color illustrations by Mike Taylor/Art Agency/London. CONTENT: Discover the stories behind the world's scariest characters from ancient myth, legend, and literature - from the three-headed dog Cerberus to Dracula and the Headless Horseman. This collection of more than 40 characters will scare, thrill, and entertain with stunning, colorful artwork. Maps show the location of each monster and villain. Information boxes describe fascinating facts about each terrifying creature. [Gasp at will.]

Scholastic Pess, 2011. First Thus 2nd Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Mike Taylor/Art Agency color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2011 Scholastic soft cover (no DJ issued), first thus or first American edition if you like, second printing. Fantastic color illustrations by Mike Taylor/Art Agency/London. PROBLEM: 2 "near-creases" (doesn't go through to back of front cover) top near edge. Actually, it appears to be more of a binding error, but . . . CONTENT: Discover the truth about the world's most terrifying mythical creatures that have been scaring people for generations, from Beowulf's Dragon to Frankenstein and Bigfoot. Features ancient legends and folklore, mythological monsters, movie monsters, and modern monsters. This collection of more than 40 creatures will scare, thrill, and entertain with stunning colorful artwork. Includes maps and information describing the background to the myth that created the monster. Great fun - and actually… Read More