Search Results: Vampires from Minotavros Books

New York: DC Comics, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (super). Unpaginated, [200 p.p.]. Black paper boards with titling in blind to spine and front board. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to top edge, else fine. As the first vampire conceived on American soil, he's not your usual creature of the night - stronger, fiercer, and powered by the sun, Skinner Sweet is the first of a new breed of bloodsucker. Forty-five years after rising from his grave, Sweet finds himself in 1920s Los Angeles, where the young and beautiful are drawn like moths to the burning lights of Hollywood. "At a time when vampire stories engulf pop culture, this one's actually fresh and original." - Entertainment Weekly.

New: William Morrow, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter purple paper, red paper boards. 309 pp. Fine.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 296 pp. [8] pp. B&W illustrations. Light age toning to interior. Fine condition. A century after Bram Stoker made the vampire one of the most potent images in all literature, the cult of the undead is as alive as ever. In Children of the Night, Tony Thorne provides the ultimate account of the history, meaning and resonance of the vampire, drawing upon hitherto unknown information uncovered in eastern Europe, the very latest theories of vampire origins, and exclusive interviews with living vampires, the very latest incarnations of a phenomenon which simply will not die.

New York: Arbor House Publishing Co., Inc, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. 206 p.p. Quarter black cloth and orange boards with yellow titling to spine. Sunning to head and foot of boards. A few stains to text block edges. Illustrated dust jacket has sunning to spine, wear to front bottom corner and tail of spine, no loss, bumping to spine head, small tear to rear at foot. Dust jacket is price clipped, sticker of Seville Bookshop, Washington D.C., to front flap. Jacket has protective lamination to outer edges, and is in a mylar sleeve. Ex-libris stamp to front pastedown and ink inscription of same owner to FFEP. Here is an assemblage of first-person, first-hand documents revealing the full story of the Hungarian nobleman who became history's most notorious vampire, Count Dracula.

Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 269 p.p. Quarter bound in blue cloth with marbled blue leather boards. Title in silver on spine. Spine ends lightly sunned. Light wear to spine ends of DJ. Small damp stain to rear pastedown. Otherwise a near fine, clean copy. B&W decorative initials.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Krupowicz, R.J.. 8vo. 205 p.p. Black cloth with red lettering on spine, white spotting and chafing to boards. Illustrated dust jacket, 14 full page black & red illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers and reverse of dust jacket. Small tear to foot of jacket. Text clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. First paperback edition. The Vampire Chronicles. Soft cover. 430 pp. Fine.

USA: HC Publishers, 1971. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. 192 p.p. Paperback. Light wear to spine. Small marks to covers. Inscription from previous owner to title page. Otherwise, clean. This classic from Glut is bringing to life to tales of historical vampires taken from contemporary chronicles dating from the Roman Empire up through the Twentieth Century.

Manchester: A Five Star Paperback, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback, 128 p.p. Some minor bubbling to spine and wear to joints, else a very nice copy.