"The first collection in seven years from one of America's most celebrated and admired writers--ten wonderful short (and long) stories that allow us to explore and enjoy once again the many facets of John Gardner's unique fictional world. Here are enchanting tales about queens and kings and princesses in magical, timeless lands; marvelously warm and funny stories that move, amuse, and enlighten us as they probe the mysterious and profound relation between art and life." This is a hardcover edition of The Art of Living and Other Stories, written by John Gardner and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1981. It is a self-stated First Printing, with stunning woodcuts by Mary Azarian.

In a time when the dark clouds of chaos covered the land and the roads were filled with death, Voltan The Dark One rode out … Against him stood one man, armed with the legendary mindsword whose blade moved at the speed of thought. Hawk The Slayer. The warrior marked by destiny to cut down The Dark One …

The Scientists have the technology. All they need is a volunteer for a bound in time. Modern man’s most persistent and powerful dream is about to come true. He is ready to travel through time. And who better to take the leap than Mark Elverson, a man with an inoperable heart condition? The far future can only be an improvement for him...or can it?

The sighting of a UFO leads the Three Investigators to uncover a bizarre confidence game.

While Berry Fleming’s interest in history has produced two books of non-fiction, one of which dealt with the Civil War (Autobiography of a City in Arms), The Affair at Honey Hill marks the first time he has used the Civil War as a setting for any of his novels. The story is presented through the eyes of Edwin Daws, a 56 year old Confederate soldier, from his present day (winter, 1864) awareness, as well as his memories, both recent and past. Assigned with his militia company, The Silver Grays, to repel an assault on the railroad leading into Savannah near Honey Hill Plantation, he recalls the month he spent there 18 years earlier, working as a scribe for the Reverend Trezevant Ferebee, and of his growing love for the Reverend’s enigmatic daughter-in-law, Julia. What is to become of them now with Sherman’s forces moving fast to attack the city? Where is Julia? Can he find her in all this desperate confusion and extricate her? The Affair at Honey...

JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN • • •“COLLABORATING”—Michael BishopA young man bom with two heads discovers that it’s hard work competing for one body— especially when one of him falls in love….“FATE’S PURSE”—Russell KirkIf money is the root of all evil, perhaps it is also the cause of terror? After all, people sometimes murder for money … why shouldn’t spirits?“RENT CONTROL”—Walter TevisAn affluent New York couple realizes that they can make time stand still when they make love —with chilling consequences… .“THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGESOF AMÉLIE BERTRAND”—Joanna RussA passenger in a French railway station, hurrying for his train, enters a passageway—and discovers the gateway to another world… .

Sisters Sarita and Deborah, Reverend Durham’s daughters, live in a remote Sussex rectory where tyrannical Lord Pergrine keeps them impoverished and in danger. But the breakdown of a coach brings spritely Lady Phillippa, plump Lady Imogene, and haughty Lady Brienne to the rescue. In their search for adventure, these three elderly ladies caused mayhem—and matchmaking. Georgian Romance by Joan Vincent; originally published by Dell Candlelight

Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg, he is deflected into more immediate concerns, caught up in the rip-tide of history.

RAZOR-TIPPED ARROWS, A SWORD OF TEMPERED STEEL AND AN UNSHAKABLE COURAGE WERE HIS WEAPONS …ROBERT PARKER—Naval chopper pilot whose crash in the frigid Antarctic catapults him into a mysterious future world where he must fight to survive.KAETHA—the lovely, statuesque Relori woman who could hold Parker a prisoner to her love, but would risk her life to help him find his way back in time.VOULA—an exotic young beauty from the fabulous land of Par’z, her magic samra seeds had the power to rob Parker of all desire to escape.CAPTAIN BYERYAS—a Terasian with a twisted soul, who took Parker prisoner and set a monstrous price on his freedom.NISSRAL—dreaded high priest of the evil Terasians, he planned a gruesome death for Parker and for all who befriended him.

Hong Kong is used to strange sights, but none as extraordinary as those served up by the annual All-Asia Science Fiction and Horror Movie festival.  The streets are jammed with fans decked out in costumes such as Spiderman, The Green Slime, Star Wars extra-terrestrials, and, most terrifying of all, The Spaceman, who carries a ray gun that proves capable of instantly incinerating real objects, including people. Nothing that Harry Feiffer's cops have confronted before could have prepared them for what they find when they reach the end of The Spaceman's trail of charred bodies.Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer's Yellowthread Street cops may operate out of a shabby station in the back alleys of Hong Kong, but in their devotion to solving crimes they are as British as the best that Scotland Yard can muster.  "These Yellowthread Street books constitute an exotic type of procedural, and Marshall has maintained a high standard in all of them." - The New York Times Book ReviewHong Kong is used to strange sights, but non as extraordinary as those served up by the annual All-Asia Science Fiction and Horror Movie festival.  The streets are jammed with fans decked out in costumes such as Spiderman, The Green Slime, Star Wars extra-terrestrials, and, most terrifying of all, The Spaceman, who carries a ray gun that proves capable of instantly incinerating real objects, including people.  Nothing that Harry Feiffer's cops have confronted before could have prepared them for what they find when they reach the end of The Spaceman's trail of charred bodies.

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over the centuries, he has become one of the most famous people in the history of visual culture. Spring 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death in May 1519, with exhibitions and events planned across Europe and the United States. This lavishly illustrated volume by Martin Kemp—one of the world's leading authorities on da Vinci—offers a fresh way of looking at the master's work. Kemp focuses on 100 key, broadly chronological milestones that cover an extraordinary range of topic across Leonardo's many fields of discipline: painting, where he brought new levels of formal and emotional grandeur to his works, including The Last Supper and Portrait of...