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The Panic Hand: Available Copies

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 1.1

The book is 100% readable but visibly worn, and damaged. This may include stains, tears, rips, folded pages, binding damage, dents, scuffs, scratches and sticker residue. The book also may contain heavy highlighting and notes. Please ask for photos as our books are donations and may not contain above mentioned defects.

Clean, crisp, first edition hardcover in very good condition; faint shelf wear, faintly stained fore-edge. Very good DJ in mylar cover; light edge wear.

First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have the tiniest bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well packaged, All-Ways fast service.

Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.1

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

First Edition USA (1996), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: The Book shows a tiny, very faint stain at the bottom edge of the text block; the binding leans ever so slightly, while remaining perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". The DJ shows just a hint of crimp at the head of the backstrip; price intact; mylar-protected. Virtually "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo.(8.5 x 5.85 x 1 inches). 295 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.416.5 ounces. First published in the UK in 1995 by HarperCollins. Hardback with DJ. Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born in 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that might best be termed 'magic realism', 'slipstream' or 'contemporary fantasy'. He has lived in Austria since 1974. His tales are often told by unreliable narrators in a world where the fantastic is viewed as natural. The Panic Hand is a collection of stories [an expansion of the 1989 German language edition); the 1996 US edition adds the novella Black Cocktail. First Edition USA (1996), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in the UK in 1995 by HarperCollins.

First U.S. edition, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, and slight bumps to spine ends and upper cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight VG+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has moderate rubbing to back cover, faint sunning to spine, and very slight bumps to spine ends and corners. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), 295 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Through the course of his eight unforgettable novels, Jonathan Carroll has earned comparisons to writers as diverse as Herman Hesse, Stephen King, Mark Helprin, Shriley Jackson, C. S. Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and John Milton. As this volume of shorter fiction demonstrates, however, Jonathan Carroll is one of a kind. The twenty stories collected here transmit the same intense charges of intellect and emotion that characterize Carroll's longer works. Literature, Horror, Anthology, Macabre, Fiction.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

239 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover first edition - First US printing. First collection of short fiction by this inventive and award-winning writer. Includes the novella 'Black Cocktail' and the award-winning 'Friend's Best Man.' 295 pp. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to lower corner of rear dj flap).

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Top edge is a little dirty and has two small indentations, othewrwise fine in myalr jacket cover.

very very light browning to internal pages, other wise very clean and sound.

Octavo, 295 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial black and white with red and white lettering. Exterior has slight wear including mild scuffing, faint age toning and minor edge wear. Boards have slight wear including mild sunning to the spine and light edge wear. Mild cocking to the spine. Text block has very slight wear including light edge wear. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1390414. FP New Rockville Stock.

Signed by author. Fine first in fine DJ. Horror; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.2 inches; 240 pages; Signed by Author

Pages toning slightly; First British edition. Dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Fine in Fine dustjacket ; 6.25x9.5"; 240 p.

Publisher: HarperCollins, London, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. NOT remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

No writing or tears, 1 tiny 5cm jag on the cover

Signed by the author. No inscription, but also former owner's name. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS

First edition , first printing, 1996. A fine bright book in the original binding. In a fine bright dust jacket. First British, in fine condition.

Hardcover with DJ. Black paper over boards with gilt stamping on spine. Pictorial covers with black and red lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1995. 239 pages. In very good condition. Covers are clean and crisp. Signed on title page by author Jonathan Carroll (just his name, no inscription). Binding is stiff. Pages free of marks or tears. A very good, clean copy that has been signed by the author.

First edition. Slightly bowed boards else near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in.

A FINE FIRST IN DJ.SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Short story collection. Preceded the US edition by one year. Browning along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

HarperCollins 1995 First Edition First Printing Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket ''. Here, for the first time in English, are Carroll's collected stories, a wide-ranging showcase for his talents, and in particular for his extraordinary ability to turn a situation disturbingly and terrifyingly on its head in an instant. See for yourself in these prize-winning small doses. '' Expanded from the similar collection issued in German. Scarce.

A fine first edition hardcover in a fine dust jacket with no remainder marks, good straight tight bindings. A very nice collectable copy

Hardcover, first edition, first impression, in plastic protected unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author in pen on title page. Page block and edges of pages are lightly tanned and spine is a little cocked, no other notable flaws. AD