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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 637 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 2006000487 ; ISBN 9781890650186, 1890650188 OCLC 62888967 ; LC PR1309.S5 P37 2006 Dewey 823/.0108 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Rikki Ducornet --Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher -- Son of Chimera / Leena Krohn -- Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Ever and anon / Kate Kasten -- Lithia Park / William Luvaas -- Third Jungle Book : A Mowgli story / Michael Moorcock -- White girl / Maureen N. McLane -- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Third initiation: A gift from the land of dreams / Mary Mackey -- Side effects / Janice Law -- Concert pianist's flight / Carole Rosenthal -- Making faces / Stephen Shugart -- Town news / Justin Courter -- Midnight lover / Carol Schwalberg -- Night reconnaissance / Tom La Farge -- Short-term Memorial Park / Shelley Jackson -- Magnificent carp of Hichi Street / Paul Pekin -- Tears of Niobe / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Lettuce / Rikki Ducornet -- Night of love's last dance / Randall Silvis -- Five letters from an Eastern Empire / Alasdair Gray -- Beginnings, endings, and middles ball / Anna Tambour -- Jack Kerouac disembodied school of poetics / Rudy Rucker -- Nobody's home / Ira Sher -- Ice cream vendor / Leena Krohn -- Jubilee dreams / Karen Heuler -- An accounting / Brian Evenson -- Armegedn, or The end of the word / K. Bannerman -- Gardener of heart / Bradford Morrow -- Maryolatry / Laura Moriarty -- Cloud room / Kevin W. Reardon -- Tree / Noelle Sickels -- Nobody walks in London / Terry Gates-Grimwood -- Tiger's eye / Gladys Swan -- Skunk / Justin Courter -- Old flames in new bottles / Michael Andre-Driussi -- Power couple, or love never sleeps / Charlie Anders -- Who's there? / Rikki Ducornet -- Secret paths of Rajan Khanna / Jeff VanderMeer -- Dream catcher / Mercedes Sanchez -- B, Longing / Robin Caton -- Three tales / Laird Hunt -- About the Henbane City / Leena Krohn -- Losing the war / Stepan Chapman -- Flowers / Mark Wallace -- White man / Jeffrey Ford -- Finding the words / Michael Constance -- English/History / Laura Mullen -- Birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Cake / Michael Moorcock. ; Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist--with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet's "Lettuce," a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; "Birthday of the World," by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to.; FINE. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st inaugural Limited Edition, limited to 500 copies the first 200 being are numbered and initialled by the Editor. This is #162SCJ. Contents clean. Scientific papers, translations, book reprints, indices, oral histories, literature and poetry, articles about native peoples, reprints, books and reviews, obituaries, notes and correspondence. A fascinating collection. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3394.

Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. 8vo pp.512, the 1985 Issue. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good condition. First. 364 pages. With papers, translations, book reprints, indices, oral histories, literature and poetry, articles about native peoples, reprints, books and reviews, obituaries and notes and correspondence. Inlaid with a business card from a copy center in Wasilla, Alaska, a news clipping about an encounter by Arctic explorer David Hempleman-Adams with a 750-pound polar bear, a paper titled "Please Post" announcing The Journal of Polar History and a letter signed by Jackson on Journal of Polar History letterhead and dated 19 July 1983 to Leslie Melvin asking if he had any unpublished materials pertaining to polar exploration, citing Melvin's solo trip across the top of Alaska during the winter of 1931-32. An ambitious undertaking. 8vo, 364pp, illustrations. Very small tear bottom of spine; internally very clean and bright.