Fantasy from Capricorn Books

Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1990. 559 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Once upon a time, there was a shammas full of years and stories. Night after night, like some kabbalistic Scheherazade, this amiable fellow tells stories to soothe his rabbi who cannot sleep. This is the premise of 'Night Tales Remembered', a wise, witty, and wonderfully rich platter of… Read more about this item

Alcester, Warwickshire: Pook Press, 2015. 112 pp, 10" H. Colour and b&w illustrations by artists of the Golden Age of book illustration, including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, Margaret Tarrant, Harry Clarke and others. "Contains seven different versions of the story of Bluebeard. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as… Read more about this item

New York: Signet / ROC, 1989. 4 volumes of the Strands of Starlight series (numbers 1, 2, 4 & 5) - mass market paperbacks, 6 7/8" H. **Please note: Volume 3, 'Shroud of Shadow', is not included in this grouping.** 1. Strands of Starlight - 371 pp, 1989 Signet, ISBN 0451163710. "Miriam is a frail young outcast whose healing… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 379 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(G)athers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays, which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Blizzard Entertainment, 2010. 176 pp, 10 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and sepiatone. Contents: Legacy of Destruction: Deathwing; The End of All Things: Twilight's Hammer; A Changing World: Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms; Lock the Doors: Gilneas; Message in a Bottle: Kezan and the Lost Isles; Forgotten Depths: Vashj'ir; Mysteries in the Sand: Uldum; Realm of… Read more about this item

Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron, 2019. 210 pp, 8 1/2" H. "Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work - characters, landscapes, and events - to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest." Anne Knudsen, 'Weekendavisen'. Contents: Introduction; Faery or the Collective Unconscious; The Archetype of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Exile Editions, 2017. 125 pp, 8" H. Inscribed on half title page: "To: Shauna / Thank you! / Michael Mirolla / April 10, 2018". "(T)ells us stories that blend the explicable with the inexplicable. As if a camel were actually passing through the eye of a needle, these stories pass what is commonplace through a hyper-realistic lens into… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1976. 311 pp, 7 3/4" H. "Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of 'The Mabinogion' passed through generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we now read them. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and of the shadowy otherworld, the tales are… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1996. 3 volumes, 8 3/4" H - all first editions/first printings. **Volume 2 (Scion's Lady) is signed by the author on the title page - signature only.** 1. Lady in Gil - 288 pp, 1996, ISBN 0575062592. "For more than seventy years the exiled Scions of Oballef, the direct descendants of the first Priest-King in Gil,… Read more about this item

New York: Daw, 1972. 11 assorted volumes, 7" H - mass market paperbacks. Listed here using their series numbers, they include odd volumes from the Havilfar, Vallian and Spikatur cycles, plus two additional titles. 1. Transit to Scorpio - 190 pp, 1972 7th printing, ISBN 0879978201. "On the planet Kregen that circled the brightest star of the Constellation of… Read more about this item

Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995. Volumes 1 & 2 of the "Immortal Eyes" trilogy, 7" H, mass market paperbacks. **Please note: Volume 3, "Court of All Kings" is not included in this group.** 1. The Toybox - 379 pp, 1995, ISBN 1565048601. "To mortal eyes, it is just another cheap antique. But to faerie eyes, the trunk sitting in… Read more about this item

Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1996. 363 pp, 7" H (mass market paperback). "They were changelings, faerie spirits trapped in mortal flesh. They were six oathmates, sworn to each other and to the completion of a quest. Together they would search for four powerful faerie treasures that would open a lost gateway back to their timeless home, the land of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 392 pp, plus exerpt from "Unravel the Dusk", 8 1/2" H. "On the fringes of the Great Spice Road, Maia Tamarin works as a seamstress in the shop of her father, once a tailor of renown. She dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she… Read more about this item

New York: Ace / Firebird, 1985. 3 volumes set - 6 7/8" H. 1. The Secret Country - 293 pp, 1985 first Ace printing, ISBN 0441757391. "The Secret Country was full of wizards, witches, unicorns, a magic ring, the Dragon King . But then the Secret Country became real - the magic was real, the intrigue was real, the… Read more about this item

Flinders Park, South Australia : Era, 1996. Unpaginated (approx. 45 pp.), small 4to (10 1/2" H). Wonderfully detailed full page b&w illustrations, every text page bordered by monochrome illustrations of insects. Young Caleb van Doorn is a genius, obsessed with insects. One day, he disappears and some think he may have been murdered - but his college roommate thinks… Read more about this item

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, 1984. The final three volumes of the Ni-lach series (quartet), 6 7/8" H. **Please note: this grouping does not include 'Where the Ni-Lach', the first volume in the series.** 2. Shadow Singer - 245 pp, 1984 first printing, ISBN 0345317769. "Humans have long shared the planet Ver-draak with the Ni-lach people -… Read more about this item

Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1985. 10 5/8" H - 2 three-fold card screens (Dungeon Master's Screen / Player's Reference Screen) in printed paper folder. "This all new edition of the ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Dungeon Master's Screen has been redesigned. Consisting of two durable cardstock screens, it places all those much used tables at your fingertips. One screen for… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam / Del Rey/Ballantine 4 volume set, 6 7/8" H. 1. Daggerspell - 461 pp, Bantam, 1993 revised edition, first printing, ISBN 0553565214. "Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920. 159 pp, 10 3/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, medium blue band and circular pictorial pastedown on front board. Pictorial endpapers, 8 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards bearing captions (including frontispiece) - all present, all clean and bright, without tears or creases. Contents: The… Read more about this item

London: Carlton, 1998. 256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Colour and b&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Types of Fantasy; Fantasy Cinema; Television Fantasy; Who's Who of Fantasy; A-Z of Fantasy Characters & Entities; Fantasy Games; Fantasy Worlds; Fantasy Magazines; Glossary; Index. "(A)n extensive survey of the whole genre." Book is Fine. Dust jacket has… Read more about this item