introduction patrick mcgrath (10 résultats)

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Very Good to Very Good+. Jon Lomberg (front cover) (illustrateur). First Edition. ----------paperback. A 150-page first edition paperback original science fiction anthology of stories by first-time writers, probably Canadian. Spine and reading creases, edgewear, a VG to VG+ copy.

Paperback. Etat : New. A dead child appears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature in revolt against man's abuse turns a harmless species into a force that threatens humankind; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. In these stories, chosen from the entire span of du Maurier's career, the stuff of everyday life - grief, the limitsof self-knowledge, battles between the sexes, and environmental degradation - burst through the ordinary into the realm of the permanently uncanny. A New York Review Books Orginal. 368p.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 384 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Pp.96. Glenstal remembered 2002. Numerous contributors from past pupils of Glenstal Abbey School. AMong them Dan Binchy, Don Carroll, Peter Cunningham, Peter Harbison, Mark Patrick Hederman, John Jorgan, Richard Kearney, John M. Kelly, Des Keogh, Jaemse Liddy and more. Handwriting in biro on front cover. Else good. Scarce.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Illustrated by Helen Smithson (illustrateur). Second Printing. Still stiff to open, and about new; in clean black slipcase. ; 331 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 2nd Edition. This Is A NEW FACTORY SEALED Folio Society Book : Published In 2007 : This Copy Is The 2nd. Printing 2009 Edition : Black Binding In Full Buckram : Gorgeous Illustrations By , ' HELEN SMITHSON ' : Includes A Black Slip-Case : A Hard Book To Find : Overall , A Very Nice Folio Book :

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Finn Campbell-Notman (illustrateur). Reprint. Occult classic, five stories ostensibly from the papers of quack doctor Hesselius, including the vampire tale Carmilla, inspirational to Bram Stoker. Attractively bound, the first Folio printing as pictured, with suitably atmospheric color plates. Minor wear to book, corners lightly rubbed, otherwise clean & unmarked. Slipcase shows minor scuffs. Size: Large Octavo.

First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original three quarter brown cloth, paper covered illustrated upper board, titles in silver to the spine. With a full page colour frontispiece and eight further colour plates, one of which is double page. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. A fine copy. Housed in the black card slipcase. Originally published in three volumes by R. Bentley and Sons in 1872. This newly illustrated edition follows the text of the first edition, with minor emendations. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. This is copy (numbered) 121 of a limited edition of Gash Gold-Vermilion, printed by McKerns, Limerick, and bound in calfskin and presentation slipcase. Signed by both editors. Gilt embossed calfskin binding. Red decorative endpapers. All edge gilt. Contents: pages very good+ and clean throughout. Binding: boards in lovely, bright condition. Spine lightly sunned. Slip-case: light uneven sunning to a couple of edges, otherwise very good. Superb, tight binding. An attractive edition. 96 pp.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited Edition. Signed by the author and illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine and illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Harry Brockway illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. With a frontispiece and four full page black and white illustrations by Harry Brockway. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is free from fading, loss or tears. Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 111 and signed by the author Patrick McGrath, illustrator Harry Brockway, editor Danel Olson and author of the introduction Joyce Carol Oates in black ink on the colophon. "Writing Madness is a new, massive collection of short fiction, novellas, and essays by Patrick McGrath. It features the complete contents of McGrath's brilliant 1987 debut collection, Blood and Water and Other Tales, the three novellas of Ghost Town, six previously uncollected short stories, seven essays, and over 20 of McGrath's insightful and engaging introductions and book reviews from over the years." - publisher's blurb. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).