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KEITH ROBERTS. Anita. PAVANE author. Stephen Fabian art. 1st US HC. Expanded ed

ANITA by KEITH ROBERTS. Owlswick Press, 1990. 1st edition of the revised version. Hardcover. A pristine copy just out of shrink-wrap, from the publisher’s old stock. (The reason I have to open the shrink-wrap is that they come wrapped in bundles of 4 or 5 copies. But it is a completely pristine copy until I do.) Reprint of a legendary classic, a cycle of stories about a teenaged witch in rural England. Anticipates BUFFY, CHARMED, quite a bit else. A work of vast charm, with sinister touches. By the author of the science fiction classic PAVANE. I have seen the original British hardcover (Millington) of this selling for $500.00. When the book was out of print and virtually impossible to find in any form, a friend of mine spent ten years trying to find the Ace paperback and was finally offered one for $100.00. I once sold the paperback for $50.00. This is a runaway bargain. The original price on the jacket is $20.25. ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHEN FABIAN. This is the definitive edition, with many corrections by the author, and an introduction and one new story added. Always happy to combine shipments on multiple wins. Please note that the foreign postage prices are a guess. If they prove too high, I will refund the difference.

AMRA 69 Conan, Schweitzer, John Myers Myers, de Camp.UNCIRCULATED COPY. Like new

AMRA 69 Jan 1981. The 2-time HUGO winning journal published by GEORGE SCITHERS, devoted to Robert E. Howard, sword & sorcery, and related matters. As new copy from the publisher’s stock. Cover by ROY KRENKEL. L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP on Stirrups (continuing a scholarly debate on the development of the stirrup and its impact on warfare), JERRY POURNELLE on Richard the Lion-Hearted; Bill Warren gives a status report on the upcoming CONAN film; a swordly story, “The Pretenses of Hinyar” by DARRELL SCHWEITZER; limerick by JOHN M. FORD etc.; verse by JOHN MYERS MYERS which purports to be a translation from ancient Greek, although I am unsure that it is. Always happy to combine shipments on multiple wins.

L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP The Hand of Zei CARTIER, KELLY FREAS

THE HAND OF ZEI by L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP. Owlswick Press, 1981. First complete edition. Hardcover. With illustrated boards but without jacket, as issued by the publisher. I am offering virtually as-new copies from the publisher’s leftover stock, which are (as I have them) still in the original shrink-wrap in bundles of 4 books each. So you will not get a copy in shrink-wrap, but you can know that I just got it out of wrap, and so it is virtually pristine, with no wear. Despite this a lot of copies seem to have a couple brown foxing specks on the edges of the pages. The original retail price of the book was, if I recall correctly, $20.50. Owlswick book prices always ended in odd like that so that if a check got loose from its order you could always tell what it was for. The story is a “sword and planet” adventure, an attempt by de Camp to do a Burroughs/Barsoomian sort of story, only more intelligently and with scientific plausibility. It is a major novel in his series set on the planet Krishna. The novel was serialized in ASTOUNDING in 4 parts in 1950. It was then broken into two short volumes, with some rewriting to give the first one a false ending, and published in hardcover by Avalon in the later ’50s. The Ace Double of THE HAND OF ZEI and THE SEARCH FOR ZEI of 1963 follows the Avalon versions. This is the first book publication of the ASTOUNDING serial text, and is intended to be definitive. It reproduces all the original (very nice) ED CARTIER illustrations from the magazine serial. The cover was repainted by KELLY FREAS from one of four color roughs submitted by Cartier to ASTOUNDING, although not the one ASTOUNDING used. So it is a kind of “alternate Cartier” painting that Cartier never finished. Always happy to combine shipments on multiple wins. Please note that the foreign postage prices are a guess. If they prove too high, I will refund the difference.