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VAMPIRE LOVE BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by unknown artist. If you know the Artist, please let me know. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us with your name preference. 4.0" H x 2.5" W. Content: This bookplate presents a romantic look at the Vampire. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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ANACKIRE (The Novels of Vis, Book 2)
by Tanith Lee. Sanjulian cover art with B&W map. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1983 DAW paperback (# 548), third printing. Tiny edgewear with a pale shelfwear hinge crease from browsing, and light tanning. Better than it sounds. Content: Decades had passed since the mighty Raldnor had swept across the Continent with fire, sword and earthquake. A new Storm Lord ruled in fabled Dorthar. But in tiny Ankabek, shrine of the goddess Anackire, a child was born. Sired in a forbidden union, born - impossibly - of a dead woman. She was portent of a new stirring in a violent, thunderous age. Reviewer: "This is characteristic of Lee's earlier work: fantasy as it should be. Decadent and bizarre, yet with plenty of action to hold the reader's interest, Anackire is a must read." [1 copy available]
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BITING THE SUN (Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine)
by Tanith Lee. Kinuko Craft cover art. Condition: Good+, 1999 Bantam Spectra paperback, first printing. Pale spine creases with tiny edgewear with a very slight roll. Beautiful cover art. Content: Tanith Lee is one of my favorite authors. I always think of her as "Anne Rice on acid." Lee, winner of the August Derleth Award and several World Fantasy Awards, is best known as a fantasy and horror writer, but she has written several fine SF novels, two of which, Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine, form a duology now available in the single volume Biting the Sun. The far future has brought freedom not only from material want but also from rules, responsibilities, and risk. You can change bodies and genders like clothes, make love with whomever you want, live forever, and kill yourself as often as you like. You can have everything, except a meaningful life. Then one day a restless soul discovers an act so shocking and terrifying that human society has forgotten its existence. [1 copy available]
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BLACK UNICORN
by Tanith Lee. Dennis Nolan cover art and Heather Cooper interior B&W illustrations. Condition: UNREAD 1993 TOR paperback edition, first printing. Content: Tanaquil may be the daughter of a sorceress, but she can't do any magic--or so she thinks--and she finds life in her mother's castle very dull and lonely. Her one skill, that of mending things, leads her to piece together a pile of old bones found in the desert and unknowingly bring back to life a black unicorn that needs Tanaquil to help it return to its own, more perfect world. In the process of doing this, Tanaquil finds a sister, and discovers what her own powers really are. The plot of the book is in no way as simple as this description. It is complex and twisting, and while readers may not be sure where they're going, they'll never be bored. Lee's lush and highly visual style and her down-to-earth sense of humor are a constant entertainment. Her imagination is boundless, whether in recreating the life of desert nomads or describing a castle full of magical devices all gone slightly awry. The static cover illustration, with rearing unicorn does not begin to convey the special flavor of this stylish, humorous fantasy. [1 copy available]
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THE BOOK OF THE MAD (The Secret Books of Paradys IV)
by Tanith Lee. Wayne Barlowe cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Overlook Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: In this book, a seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the city -- Paradis, Paradys and Paradise. Connected by a labyrinth of ice whose dangers are amplified by the will and emotion of its lunatic travelers, whose cities provide the stage for a drama of mythical proportions, setting up a dazzling finish to the series. [1 copy available]
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COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD: Wondrous Tales of Adventure and Quest
by Tanith Lee. Wrap-around cover art - no credit given. Condition: Pre-read 1979 Bantam paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with light tanning to page edges. Content: This book gives us two novellas - The Chalice and The Ring, The Jewel, The bone. The Chalice: Kachil the brigand, Feluce the rogue, and Havor the gallant - a night of blood and blood-red flames unites them in grim siege, fabulous theft, and a journey fraught with peril. For their prize is the jeweled and golden cup of Avillis, and their road will not end till the Force of Darkness destroys them . . . or yields to a far greater Power. The Ring, The Jewel, The Bone: These are the Relics. They Mysteries of the Shrine, known only to the priestess. Only to Oaive. Yet he knows of them - the wolflike stranger from beyond the mists. And when he profanes them, there begins a game of cold sorceries and burning shadows to be played through all eternity . . . one way or another. Reviewer: "[the novellas] are surprisingly good and very different as well as original. Both are full of intrigue, and really caught my attention quickly. I have never encountered anything quite like them. I throughly enjoyed them, and would recommend them to anyone and everyone. Lee is a very accomplished writer with a vivid imagination and a talent for putting it into words." [1 copy available]
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CYRION
by Tanith Lee. Ken Kelly cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read (to page 23) 1982 DAW paperback (# 499), first printing. Light edgewear cover fore edge with short "repaired" cut). Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Cyrion is a series of short stories about a hero-nomad-wanderer set in the high middle eastern civilization of Arabian Nights. It will leave you wanting more. Lee's style is mystical and dreamy. Her descriptions lift you out of your world and draw you into the book like few others I have read. Read these stories late at night, and you will find yourself looking up and blinking at the normalcy of your surroundings after ther first few pages. Cyrion travels the desert as in a dream, wholly competent and capable, going and coming in a foggy vision as though he appears and dissapears into the sand itself. The setting in Middle Eastern folklore is refreshing." [1 copy available]
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DELUSION'S MASTER (An Adult Fantasty): Tales From the Flat Earth
by Tanith Lee. Ken Kelly cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read to page 20, 1981 DAW paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with a handwritten note inside front cover. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "In the third book of the Tales of the Flat Earth, Tanith Lee once again takes us into the dark and mystical world where five Lords Of Darkness reign over the inhabitants of the Flat Earth. One is Azrharn, Night's master, whose beauty and cruelty riddle the lives of the mortals with living nightmares and sensuous wickedness. Another, Uhlume, Lord Death...and a third - Delusion's Master. He is Prince Chuz, and he plagues the world with madness. When his sights are set on touching Azhrarn with a bit of lunacy, he begins a war of the titans, which cannot be resolved until justice has been served." "From the first scene of the woman cradling the finger bone of her dead son to the final stoning in the city of dreams, this book is what fairy tales and fantasy should have been all along. Mystical this book puts you into a completely different universe and wakes you to possibilities unimagined. More profound is the painter's aesthetic running through the book. Color, lights, shading, description without running into the awful Victorian novel trap. Tanith Lee is definitely a voice to be reckoned with.". [1 copy available]
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DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE
by Tanith Lee. Don Maitz cover art. B&W fronticepiece drawing. Condition: Gently pre-read 1977 DAW original paperback, third printing. Tiny edgewear with pale tanning to page edges. Content: The sequel to Don't Bite the Sun. Four-BEE was an utopian city. If you didn't mind being taken care of all your long long life, having a wild time as a "jang" teenager, able to do anything you wanted from killing yourself innumerable times, changing bodies, changing sex, and raising perpetual hell, it could be heaven. But for one inhabitant there was always something askew. He/she had tried everything and yet the taste always soured. And then he/she succeeded in committing the one illegal act - and was thrown out of heaven forever. "It's one of the best sci-fi books i've read, dealing with the human problems of who and what you are, and most of all, the meaning of life and it's purpose. It's also a sad story (and of course, coming from Lee, romantic)." [1 copy available]
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A HEROINE OF THE WORLD
by Tanith Lee. Yvonne Gilbert wrap-around cover art. Condition: Good only, 1989 DAW paperback, first printing. Content: When the barbarians of the northern empire invade her homeland, young Ara embarks on a journey of self-discovery--first as a captive of the foreign warlords, then as a conqueror of their hearts, and finally as a fugitive in pursuit of her own heart's desire. Lee's exotic sensuality and richness of detail combine with her storytelling expertise to create a heroic fantasy that belongs in most libraries. [1 copy available]
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THE SILVER METAL LOVER
by Tanith Lee. Kinuko Craft cover art. Condition: Very good, gently pre-read 1999 Bantam Spectra paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear with pale spine crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: This is a classic tale of transforming love. It's a keeper, a book that gets reread 'til it falls apart. Fans petitioned to get it reprinted, and after 10 years of waiting, here it is. Oddly, the book is seldom mentioned when Tanith Lee's work is discussed, perhaps because Lee's usual milieu is horror, and this is a poignant romance requiring at least two hankies before the end. Robots have replaced human labor on earth, causing massive unemployment in a world devastated by pollution and natural disasters. Then Electronic Metals releases a new line: performing artists and sexual companions designed to entertain human partners. Jane, a rich, lonely, and insecure 16-year-old, meets one, the minstrel Silver, and falls passionately in love, despite revulsion at the idea of preferring a mechanical man to a human. She gives up everything she has known for him, and discovers herself. Silver becomes more and more "human" in loving her -- a clever illusion created by his programming. Or is it? This unstable society can't afford any evidence that some robots might be indistinguishable from humans. Tragedy is inevitable. Read it and weep--and don't forget to put it on the keeper shelf. --Nona Vero [1 copy available]
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THE SECRET BOOKS OF VENUS III & IV: A BED OF EARTH and VENUS PRESERVED
by Tanith Lee. Wonderfully detailed Gary Lippincott cover art. Condition: NEW 2003 Science Fiction Book Club hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: A Bed of Earth: the Gravedigger's Tale: The third book in Lee's compelling series based on alchemy and the elements focuses on the element of earth. It is a haunting journey to a parallel version of sixteenth-century Venice, where a fierce territorial rivalry between two noble families - the della Scorpias and the Barbarons - unearths a supernatural force from beneath the placid surface of the canals and rotting understructure of the city. Venus Preserved: Il Libro dell' Angelo: Lee concludes her compelling Venus quartet with a haunting and suspenseful tale set in her brilliantly reimagined alternate Venice. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of computers that regulate weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all - air. [1 copy available]
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SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED
by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Editors). Thomas Canty cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 AvoNova paperback, 8th printing with pale spine crease - everything else is perfect. Interior clean & tight. Content: "A return to the origins of the fairy tale, no holds barred." - NY Times Book Review. Horror Fairy Tales by: Like A Red, Red Rose (Susan Wade); The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep (Charles de Lint); The Frog Prince (Gahan Wilson); Stalking Beans (Nancy Kress); Snow-Drops (Tanith Lee*); Little Red (Wendy Wheeler); I Shall Do Thee Mischief In the Woods (Kathe Koja); The Root of the Matter (Gregory Frost); The Princess in the Tower (Elizabeth Lynn); Persimmon (Harvey Jacobs); Little Poucet (Steve Tem); The Changelings (Madeline Tem); Springfield Swans (Caroline Stevermer & Ryan Edmons); Troll Bridge (Neil Gaiman); A Sound, Like Angels Singing (Leonard Rysdyk; Puss (Esther Friesner); The Glass Casket (Jack Dann); Knives (Jane Yolen); The Snow Queen (Patricia McKillip); Breadcrumbs & Stones (Lisa Goldstein). Great stories! Fairy tales become nightmares! [1 copy available]
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SOMETIMES, AFTER SUNSET
by Tanith Lee. Wonferful cover art by Don Maitz. Condition: Gently pre-read 1980 Doubleday hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Edition. DJ shows edgewwear. Content: This book contains two of Lee's best Vampire stories: "Sabella, or The Blood Stone" and "Kill the Dead." [1 copy available]
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THE STORM LORD (The Novels of Vis, Book 1)
by the great Tanith Lee. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1976 DAW paperback (#UJ1361), 5th printing. Light edgewear with a pale shelfwear hinge crease. Light rubbings front cover near fore edge. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: The hero Raldnor is born the rightful heir to the Storm Lord's throne. (In this novel the youngest, not the oldest, son is legal heir because of a belief that a son still in the womb at the time of the Storm Lord's death will be born with the reincarnated soul of the old Storm Lord.) But because his mother is a woman of a despised and subjugated race, she is put out of the way by the old Storm Lord's wife who wants her own infant son to ascend the throne. Raldnor is believed dead and grows up knowing only that he is a half-breed, with the dark skin and eyes of his father and his mother's tell-tale blonde hair. He dyes his hair black and takes service as one of the Storm Lord's soldiers. When he rises to become his half-brother's trusted right-hand man (and his only real friend), his identity is discovered and the rest of the book unfolds in a complex pattern of fate, treachery, passion, and revenge. Lee's sense of irony elevates Storm Lord well above the usual run of sword-and-sorcery; most of them don't contain anything like the emotional intensity found here. I wish this book hadn't gone out of print! But trust me, it's worth tracking down." [1 copy available]
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VAZKOR, SON OF VAZKOR (Sequel to The Birthgrave
by Tanith Lee. Beautiful cover art by Gino D'Achille. Condition: Gently pre-read 1978 DAW (# 272) paperback original, first edition, first printing. Tiny "clip" top front corner tip with light edgewear and a light hinge crease. Interior clean & tight with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Vazkor (Tuven/Mordran - the guy has as many names as his mother) slowly frees himself from the brutal tribe where the heroine of Birthgrave left him and begins to interpret the visions that haunt his dreams. Of course, you already know that he's going to discover his heritage - including his father's bid for power and his mother's witch life - but the fun is how he's getting it all wrong. And when he dreams the same dream that the mother dreams in the first book (the one where he's calling her out and accusing her of ruining him as a warrior in a tribe about to die) it's both expected and unexpected. Similar to the first book, this is the story of a man learning about who he is and why he's the way he is with powers that he cannot even begin to understand. He can heal fast and he can shoot white power from his eyes but he doesn't know why. In fact, he attributes these powers to his father - whose origins he only learns after the third way mark. As Tanith Lee revisits the places that the mother traveled in the first book - including the brutal tribe, the cities and the gentle people that took in the heroine towards the end of Birthgrave - you are both mesmerized and surprised that she manages to find new insights into these people through their interactions with the strange protagonist that they also consider divine. You see what's happened to them since the first book and you see them in a different perspective. Of course, this is a middle book between the mother's story and the story of the confrontation between mother and son, but it stands well on its own." [1 copy available]
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VAZKOR, SON OF VAZKOR (Sequel to The Birthgrave
by Tanith Lee. Beautiful cover art by Ken W. Kelly. Condition: Gently pre-read 1978 DAW (# 272) paperback original, first edition, third printing. Edgewear with pale diagonal crease top front cover corner; and light tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "Vazkor (Tuven/Mordran - the guy has as many names as his mother) slowly frees himself from the brutal tribe where the heroine of Birthgrave left him and begins to interpret the visions that haunt his dreams. Of course, you already know that he's going to discover his heritage - including his father's bid for power and his mother's witch life - but the fun is how he's getting it all wrong. And when he dreams the same dream that the mother dreams in the first book (the one where he's calling her out and accusing her of ruining him as a warrior in a tribe about to die) it's both expected and unexpected. Similar to the first book, this is the story of a man learning about who he is and why he's the way he is with powers that he cannot even begin to understand. He can heal fast and he can shoot white power from his eyes but he doesn't know why. In fact, he attributes these powers to his father - whose origins he only learns after the third way mark. As Tanith Lee revisits the places that the mother traveled in the first book - including the brutal tribe, the cities and the gentle people that took in the heroine towards the end of Birthgrave - you are both mesmerized and surprised that she manages to find new insights into these people through their interactions with the strange protagonist that they also consider divine. You see what's happened to them since the first book and you see them in a different perspective. Of course, this is a middle book between the mother's story and the story of the confrontation between mother and son, but it stands well on its own." [1 copy available]
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THE WARS OF VIS
by Tanith Lee. Beautiful cover art by Carl Lundgren. Condition: Gently pre-read c. 1984 DAW/Nelson Doubleday Book Club Edition large hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Cover has done its job and protected the book - has rubbings along front flap and back panel. Moderate edgewear to DJ. Interior clean & tight Content: This book contains two books of Vis: The Storm Lord and Anackire. [1 copy available]
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