The Black Phone by Joe Hill (199 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. D j has edgewear at corners and two short tears at either side of spine tail . Black book with title and author imprinted in gold on spine . 222 pages. still feel a lot of bitterness. It's been a long time, but to me it was just yesterday. I'll never forgive him. I don't believe the truth has been told. I don't know the truth. None of us knows the truth. It's still a mystery . . . . There was just too much deception, too much double talk and cover up. -- Joseph Kopechne, Women's News Service This then is the real horror of the case. Mary Jo in the bottom of that upside-down car, wedged in, clawing, clutching and straining for air and for life in the total blackness at the bottom of Poucha Pond with water creeping higher and higher. Completely terrified, she waited for help from Senator Kennedy - who was on the phone seeking help not for Mary Jo, but for Senator Kennedy. From Death at Chappaquiddick On July 19, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, leading to the death of his young female companion and, the authors contend, an extensive cover up to protect Kennedy's political ambitions. The Tedrow recreates the unexplained events of that fateful night, examine the self-admitted panic of a U. S. senator, and point by point puncture Kennedy's sieve-like account of the tragedy. The authors' exhaustive investigation produces solid answers to curious questions. Most damning of all, they present evidence that Kennedy fled the scene in panic, then spent hours telephoning cronies seeking political protection while a helpless Mary Jo Kapechne slowly suffocated in a pocket of air inside the submerged auto. Richard L. Tedrow served for 17 years as Chief Commissioner of the U. S. Court of Military Appeal and is the author of the standard reference for U. S. military court martials. Thomas Tedrow is a freelance writer in Houston, Texas.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller--the remarkable 2007 debut from the #1 New York Times bestselling author."The shocks in Hill's riveting debut novel can be lurid and blood-drenched, or as quietly chilling as a casual phone call from an old, dead friend." -- Entertainment WeeklySooner or later, the dead catch up . . . Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman's noose, a snuff film. Many of these objects were gifts from the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich. But not all. When his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude knew he had to have it for his private collection. He didn't think twice. He should have. Jude has spent a lifetime evading ghosts--his abusive father; the bandmates he betrayed; Anna, the suicidal girl he loved and abandoned. But this spirit is different. This one means to chase him to the edge of sanity. His new acquisition--delivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped box--is the restless soul of Anna's vengeful stepdaddy. Craddock McDermott swore he would settle with Jude for ruining his daughter's life. Soon, everywhere Jude turns, Craddock is there: behind the bedroom door; in Jude's restored vintage Mustang; outside his window; on his widescreen TV. Waiting--with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. If ever there was a case of buyer beware, this is it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring "The Black Phone," soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse ProductionsImogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post). This award-winning collection of short fiction by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box" leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Carlsbad, California: Hay House, 2002. (xiii) 416 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on white boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; decorated endpapers; illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by author who was the lawyer representing the family of Nancy Cruzan in right to die litigation in Missouri. Near fine in like dustjacket. No marks or folds. The Chapters are: PART ONE: 1983 - 1986: Krummel Nursery Road; Phone Calls; Simple Surgery; Feeding Nancy; Chigger Hill; Christmas 1984; Going Public. PART TWO: 1987 - 1988: Pro Bono Case; Lunch with the Judge; Friendly Suit; 501 Main Street; Seeing Nancy; Motion to Dismiss; Expert Witness; Under Oath; The State Expert; Trial Begins; Brain Scans; A Valentine's Card; Family Matters; The Cruzans on Nightline; The State's Case; Hostile Witness; Throwing Mud. PART THREE: 1988 - 1989: Joe's Mailbox; The Decision; Electrocerebral Silence; Front Row Seats; False Alarm; Writing Governor Ashcroft; June Opinions; Friends and Foes; Solicitor General Starr; The Supreme Court of the United States. PART FOUR: 1990: Eight Words; New Witness; A New Trial; December Decision; Operation Rescue; Saying Goodbye; and Nancy's Christmas Gift. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xiii) 416 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on white boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; decorated endpapers; illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a few small dents in the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. This follows an ordinary family's extraordinary journey to the United States Supreme Court. It looks behind the scenes at the painful human cost exacted in a highly public legal battle. The Chapters are: PART ONE: 1983 - 1986: Krummel Nursery Road; Phone Calls; Simple Surgery; Feeding Nancy; Chigger Hill; Christmas 1984; Going Public. PART TWO: 1987 - 1988: Pro Bono Case; Lunch with the Judge; Friendly Suit; 501 Main Street; Seeing Nancy; Motion to Dismiss; Expert Witness; Under Oath; The State Expert; Trial Begins; Brain Scans; A Valentine's Card; Family Matters; The Cruzans on Nightline; The State's Case; Hostile Witness; Throwing Mud. PART THREE: 1988 - 1989: Joe's Mailbox; The Decision; Electrocerebral Silence; Front Row Seats; False Alarm; Writing Governor Ashcroft; June Opinions; Friends and Foes; Solicitor General Starr; The Supreme Court of the United States. PART FOUR: 1990: Eight Words; New Witness; A New Trial; December Decision; Operation Rescue; Saying Goodbye; and Nancy's Christmas Gift. Size: 8vo. Book.

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 5th or later Edition. This is a UK paperback reissue and later printing of this title, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts. IT IS SIGNED BY JOE HILL TO THE TITLE PAGE. The book is in Very Fine condition with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. The copyright page confirms the 10th printing of this edition. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - These 100 new puzzles rom easy to fiendishly difficult ome with a warning: They are seriously addictive.You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience.Beware of pale imitations. These are the original and official Su Doku puzzles by Wayne Gould¿New York Post's Su Doku puzzle master and one of Time magazine's Most Influential People. 192 pp. Englisch.

Hardback. Condition: Near mint. PROLOGUE: Charlie Talent Manx III, a man who suffers a series of major disappointments in life. A difficult childhood with a whore for a mother. The stock market crash and the Great Depression. An angry housewife. The final blow is being taken in by a scam that leaves him destitute: He is told by a man named Nick LeMarc (a bad pun) that he is investing in Christmasland, a theme park in the Colorado mountains that will make him a ton of money. Manx buys a nice car, the Rolls Royce Wraith of the title, and dresses as a chauffeur to drive his two daughters and his understandably angry wife to the theme park. When they arrive, he finds two large candy-cane decorations acting as an entrance to an empty lot with all the trees chopped down. Only then does he realize he's been scammed. However, Charlie mysteriously connects with the Wraith: They have a combined power capable of imagining into existence a terrifying Christmasland theme park. He ferries children to this place and they become something else-little monsters with white skin and razor-sharp teeth, that can neither age nor die. CHAPTER 1-THE GET-AWAY: Desperate men will will resort to desperate measures. It was desperation that drove Chess Llewelyn to commit a crime that bought him seven years hard time.and it's desperation of another sort that drives Denis Sykes, A.K.A. the King Geek, to attempt a jailbreak of staggering ingenuity and violence. Chess will find himself hauled along for the ride: a ride so terrifying it could almost be one of the attractions in scenic Christmasland! CHAPTER 2-DARK PASSAGE: Following a bloody car crash, the three escaped convicts-Chess, Sykes, and Hansom-are looking for a set of wheels that can carry them to freedom. Charlie Manx arrives, courtesy of a well-placed phone call by Hansom, with just the ride they need.but when they get to Christmasland, they'll wish they went to prison instead. Ten years of hard time looks pretty easy compared to twenty-four hours in a frozen graveyard disguised as the world's coldest, cruelest amusement park. CHAPTER 3-FASTBALL: The calliope plays a lunatic waltz; the rides run at breakneck speeds; Christmasland is open for business and Charlie Manx's children are closing in on Chess Llewelyn and Officer Agnes Claiborne. Corrections Officer Kevin Coombes dies of blood loss when the demonic children attempt to amputate his legs. Hansom's hand is severed with a sword. Dark magic waits around every corner.but just maybe Chess has a trick of his own up his sleeve. CHAPTER 4-RULES OF THE GAME: The hunt has begun. Christmasland's prisoners are scattered and on the run. Dewey Hansom is slaughtered among the park's dark amusements. The only way out has vanished, darkness is coming, and Charlie Manx's children are everywhere. Chess Llewellyn and Agnes Claiborne have one hope-to figure out the rules of this new, impossible landscape and find a loophole that will allow them to fly away. King Geek gets the drop on Charlie Manx. CHAPTER 5-SHOOT THE MOON: A laughing malevolent moon rises over Christmasland, and turns red snow black, as Agnes Claiborne and Chess Llewellyn make a final doomed, desperate run for freedom. Every cruel child is on the hunt for them; every cruel ride is engineered for their destruction. As if that wasn't bad enough, King Geek is looking to claim a new title for himself. as the new Lord of Christmasland! However, when Sykes turns the keys to start the Wraith, it jump-starts Manx, bringing him back to life. Chess and Agnes use the glowing balloons to engineer a death-defying escape. EPILOGUE-PHANTOMS: Tom has worked the big grift his whole life, conning a fortune off the rubes and always on the run from enemies, shadows, and phantoms. But no one outruns the Wraith.not with Charlie Manx behind the wheel. 172 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 10th Anniversary UK edition of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, from PS Publishing (the original publishers back in 2005). Trade edition in blue protective slipcase. Full color wraparound cover art, as well as full color endpapers illustrating two of the stories -- a truly gorgeous book. Dust jacket in archival Brodart cover. When you receive this book, you'll feel like climbing a tree with an old blanket draped down your back, and then leaping from the highest limb -- yeah, you'll be flying! Received direct from the publisher and placed in archival bag for protection. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Book is Unread . LIMITED UK First Trade Paperback (one of 1000) . Front/Back: New . Pages: New . Page Edges: New & Unread . Jacket: n/a . Spine: New . Printing: 1 . NOT price-clipped . Year: 2005.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Vincent Sammy (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Lividian Publications is pleased to present our signed and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, which set the print run at 1750 unnumbered copies never to be reprinted. This special edition includes a brand-new introduction by Christopher Golden, new story notes by Joe Hill, and sixteen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy, plus a clever piece of "hidden" spot artwork. Special Features: . Sixteen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy, plus one piece of spot art (fans of the book will know where to find it!) . "The Importance of Wearing Glasses," a new introduction by Christopher Golden . The original introduction by Christopher Golden . Updated acknowledgments by Joe Hill . Two-color interior offset printing . Printed on an acid-free specialty paper stock . Deluxe leatherette binding . Hot foil stamping and "blind" heat burnishing on the front cover and spine . Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding . Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume . Colored head and tail bands . High-quality, four-color faux marbled endpapers . Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker . Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden . Custom-made slipcase wrapped with a woven cloth and stamped with hot foil About the Book: "An inventive collection. brave and astute." - New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill comes this award-winning collection of short fiction that launched him into the bright lights of the literary world's big stage fifteen years ago. Imogene is young, beautiful. and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. Table of Contents: The Importance of Wearing Glasses by Christopher Golden Original Introduction by Christopher Golden Best New Horror 20th Century Ghost Pop Art You Will Hear the Locust Sing Abraham's Boys Better Than Home The Black Phone In the Rundown The Cape Last Breath Dead-Wood The Widow's Breakfast Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead My Father's Mask Voluntary Committal Revised and Updated Acknowledgments by Joe Hill This copy still in publisher's original shrinkwrap as issued. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. VERY FINE. Sealed and mint without any flaws. Personally signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden. Lividian Publications 2020. Joe Hill 20th Century Ghosts . The special deluxe slipcased limited edition. Illustrated by Vincent Sammy (17 Full-Color Interiors!). This item is currently Out of Print from the publisher and will not be available for purchase again. Very Fine without any flaws in slipcase the same. FROM THE PUBLISHER: LetterPress Publications is pleased to be publishing our signed and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, which was offered as a Preorder Only Limited Edition, meaning the orders received between April 6 and April 30 set the print run. This special edition includes a brand-new introduction by Christopher Golden, new story notes by Joe Hill, and seventeen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy. Publication Date: December 2020 Special Features: Seventeen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy A brand new introduction by Christopher Golden Brand new story notes by Joe Hill Two-color interior printing Printed on an acid-free specialty paper stock Deluxe leatherette binding Hot foil stamping and blind heat burnishing on the front cover and spine Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume Colored head and tail bands High-quality, four-color faux marbled endpapers Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill, Christopher Golden, and Vincent Sammy Custom-made slipcase wrapped with a woven cloth and stamped with hot foil Limited to just 1,750 copies produced in a one-time printing, never to be reprinted! About the Book: An inventive collection brave and astute. New York Times Book Review (Editor s Choice) From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill comes this award-winning collection of short fiction that launched him into the bright lights of the literary world s big stage fifteen years ago. Imogene is young, beautiful and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945 Francis was human once, but now he s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of 77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds The past isn t dead. It isn t even past Table of Contents: The Importance of Wearing Glasses by Christopher Golden. Original Introduction by Christopher Golden. Best New Horror. 20th Century Ghost. Pop Art. You Will Hear the Locust Sing. Abraham s Boys. Better Than Home. The Black Phone. In the Rundown. The Cape. Last Breath. Dead-Wood. The Widow s Breakfast. Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead. My Father s Mask. Voluntary Committal. New Story Notes by Joe Hill. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. in blue fountain pen ink, 426 North Bristol Avenue, Los Angeles 24, California, November 15, 1954. 1 page, 8vo. Together with the original typed mailing envelope, stamped and postmarked Nov. 20, 1954, Los Angeles, Calif. Crawford's letters to other actresses are uncommon. To Hollywood actress and Joan's longtime friend Virginia Grey 4542 Densmore Ave. Encino, California "Virginia, darling: I'm delighted that you got the part in 'THE ROSE TATOO' [sic] - God bless you! I'm, living at U-I at the moment. Let's get together when you're free after you come back from Miami, Florida - let me know and we'll have dinner at the Sportsman's - O.K.? Pick up the phone - the number's Sunset 2-2171. Good luck - as if you needed it - and God bless. Joan (post script in Crawford's hand) P.S. - Since I dictated this, I've talked to you. See you soon - Love, Joan." "The Rose Tattoo" was released in 1955, directed by Daniel Mann from a play by Tennessee Williams, starring Anna Magnani (Academy Award winner Best Actress), Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey, Jo Van Fleet, Sandro Giglio, Mimi Aguglia and Florence Sundstrom. Joan Crawford was working on the 1954 Universal International film "Woman on the Beach" with co-star Jeff Chandler. Provenance: from the estate of actress Virginia Grey. Crawford (1904-1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, March 23, 1904, San Antonio, Texas; died May 10, 1977, New York City; American leading lady and one of Hollywood's most durable stars; film career 1925-1970: "Our Dancing Daughters" 1928; "Grand Hotel" 1932; "Possessed" 1947; "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" 1962; winner of Best Actress Academy Award for "Mildred Pierce" 1945. Grey (1917-2004), born March 22, 1917, Los Angeles, California; died July 31, 2003, Woodland Hills, California; films include: "Test Pilot" 1939; "Idiot's Delight" 1939; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1940; "The Big Store" 1942; "Tarzan's New York Adventure" 1943; "Jeanne Eagles" 1960; "Portrait in Black" 1960; "Flower Drum Song" 1961; "Back Street" 1961; "Airport" 1970. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. VERY FINE hardcover book with a VERY FINE dust-jacket. VERY FINE- slipcase with a minor wrinkle to one corner. A wonderful bring clean copy without any marks, writings , or stamps. Clean & straight boards. No attached bookplates or indication of any removed. Personally signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden. Limited to only 200 units PS Publishing 2005. Joe Hill "20th Century Ghosts" Slipcased Signed Limited Edition. Personally signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden directly onto the limitation page. This is number 173 of only 200 copies produced. Hardcover with wrap-around dust-jacket. Introduction by Christopher Golden. The dust-jacket is protected in a new archival acid-free Brodart sleeve. This is a highly worthwhile rarity since it represents the hardest to find format of Joe Hill's most important work FROM THE PUBLISHER: Cover, Endpapers, and Slipcase Art: Vincent Chong Anyone out there heard of this cat Joe Hill? Yeah, of course you have. And I ll bet ya heard of Joe s Ray Bradbury s Fellowship award for the story 20th Century Ghost and maybe you heard he also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for Better Than Home and the 2006 World Fantasy Award for Voluntary Committal . His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Postscripts, Subterranean Magazine and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies. Well, it s 10 years since, overloaded to the back teeth with projects, CD Head Honcho Richard Chizmar sent Joe our way to ask if PS might be interested in publishing his collection of tales, wrapped around the title of that Bradbury Fellowship story. On the night Joe responded to my suggestion that he send me his three best yarns. I read Ghost , Pop Art (sheer genius and containing a killer closing line) and, heck, you know, I don t recall the third one. I do recall dropping him a line first thing the next morning and asking for a phone number and I called and we spoke and we made a deal and, well, you know the rest 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, GUNPOWDER, HORNS, plus a little something special just down the pike that we ll talk about a little later. But before that, just to re-whet your whistle, here s the 10th Anniversary edition of the book that started the ball rolling and which notched up in quick succession the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild. This book was published in the following 4 states: 1. Trade (Cinema Dustjacket): Total of 774 unsigned copies, housed in a plain slipcase (In stock now) 2. Trade (Last Breath Dustjacket): Total of 774 unsigned copies, housed in a plain slipcase (In stock now) 3. Limited: 200 signed, by Joe and Vinny, numbered copies, in illustrated slipcase 4. Lettered Edition 26-copy lettered and traycased edition signed by Joe, Ramsey Campbell, and artist Vinny Chong. THIS LISTING IS FOR STATE 3. ABOUT THE BOOK. Joe Hill s award-winning story collection, featuring The Black Phone, soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . . The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . . The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Chong, Vincent [Wrapper Art] (illustrator). First Edition. Stated First Edition. The true first printing of Joe Hill's first published book. Signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden at limitation page. Stated at limitation page: "20th Century Ghosts, 'Joe Hill', 'Christopher Golden'. This edition is limited to 200 numbered slipcased hardcover copies signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden. This is copy '42'." Black textured cloth boards, gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages fine. Bind fine, square. Beautiful pictorial dust wrapper, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Collage cover art and dynamic design by Vincent Chong. Preserved in original custom black case, gilt impressed titles matching font design, slight shelf wear. This superb limited edition represents the rarest format of Joe Hill's most important volume. The perfect example of Hill's highly intriguing and key collection of stories. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy for Best Fiction Collection, et Al. Fine signed limited edition in slipcase. Contents include: "An Introduction by Christopher Golden; Best New Horror; 20th Century Ghost; Pop Art; You Will Hear the Locust Sing; Abraham's Boys; Better Than Home; The Black Phone; In the Rundown; The Cape; Last Breath; Dead-Wood; The Widow's Breakfast; My Father's Mask; and, Voluntary Committal". 341 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Author.