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Your book can be gift-wrapped (paper and ribbon), together with your message in a card.

Simply request the service when paying, indicating the recipient, recipient address and 'your message'.

Your book will then be gift-wrapped, placed in bubble-wrap and secured in a thick, corrugated card sleeve before being sent to the recipient address.

The cost is £1.25. Please add this to the p&p box on your invoice.

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Courtney Love: The Real Story ~ Poppy Z Brite

Brief blurb: Drug addict .. slut .. bitch .. feminist .. anti-feminist .. .rook wife .. rock widow .. rock chic .. riot grrrl.  Following the death of husband Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love has had labels slapped on her like a well-travelled suitcase. As first time biographer, Poppy Z Brite points out, ‘Courtney has always been surrounded by chaos, triumph, pain and glamour, Some of it she has created herself.’ Brite, the author of erotic horror like Swamp Foetus and Exquisite Corpse, is interested neither in lauding or condemning her subject but only in chronicling the first thirty-two years of a fascinating life.

Random quote: ‘I'm having the baby, it’s coming out, he’s puking, he’s passing out…’

 

Rule of Thumb: Thumbs up! – a real page-turner 

 

<guide to grades>

The following is the system I use for grading books ~

Mint ~ New or as new, clearly unread, no tanning to pages, no creasing to spine or cover, no marks or inscriptions. This is the condition you would expect to find in a high street bookstore or on mail-order.

Excellent ~ The book appears to be in fine condition. A closer look reveals some signs of previous ownership, such as shelf-rubbing and in some cases an inscription. Yet on the whole, the book is perfect.

Very Good + ~ Less than excellent condition with no more than mild tanning or foxing to pages, minor creasing to spine or cover, possible shop sticker/pencilled price or previous owner name, but no other marks or inscriptions. This is still a tight and bright copy.

Very Good ~ The book shows clear signs of previous ownership / shelf wear. There may be some tanning / foxing to pages, slight creases to spine or cover, inscriptions from previous owner (typically their name or words of presentation).

Good + ~ The book cover and contents may have faded in colour and there may be creases, wear and inscriptions. However the book is still intact and readable and there is no loosening to spine or pages.

Good ~ This is an acceptable reading copy and there may be several of the reported problems above as associated with age and/or mishandling.

Poor ~ A book such as this is sent to auction for reasons such as the edition's rarity. This will probably not make an acceptable reading copy, and is more likely to have value in relation to its collectable status.

N.B. where a double grading is given, the latter refers to the dust-jacket, wrapper or cover

This grading guide is updated monthly to save you scrolling through archives. 

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To protect your purchase, books are secured in thick bespoke corrugated card sleeve and a bubblewrap inner to stop the book bouncing in the card packet.  Standard paperbacks are shipped in a bespoke envelope (trimmed to fit the book snugly), bubblewrap and corrugated card stiffener.

Recognise this month's cover fragment? It's taken from the 1978 World & Whitman Star Trek annual. The book, sometimes attributed as 1980, includes these stories: Sport of Knaves; A World Against Itself; No Time Like the Past. The UK annuals typically reprinted stories from the American Gold Key comics. The arched eyebrow of the irrepressibly logical Mr. Spock is one of the most recognisable images from a series that also put it's stamp upon lasers, teleportation and even mobile communication devices.

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This month the Cult Fiction  auction celebrates the best of pulp fiction and beyond-- from Beat poetry to biographies of the Angry Young Men and beyond.

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