Edited by Brian James Freeman - DETOURS, copyright 2017, published by Cemetery Dance, both the lettered edition and the limited edition sold out pre-publication in the first 72 hours after the book was announced (and there appears to be no plans for a normal trade hardcover edition), includes articles by DEAN KOONTZ ("When I was Twenty-Four and Dinosaurs Rules the Earth"), STEPHEN KING ("Memory"), WILLIAM BLATTY, CLIVE BARKER, PETER STRAUB, KELLEY ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL KORYTA, DAVID MORRELL, MICHAEL MARSHALL, MICHAEL SMITH, CHET WILLIAMSON, POPPY BRITE, STEWART O'NAN, AND OWEN KING.  In this book, each author provides a back story of when they took a "detour" while writing a new novel to write something else, copyright 2017, published by Cemetery Dance, light blue endpapers, black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine & front cover, with Dust Jacket (not published with a slipcase for some odd reason().  SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION #427/1000 - Signed by 13 contributors.

    Book has no former ownership markings inside, no creased page corners, no soiling or staining to boards, no bumped board corners, DJ has no spine fading, no soiling or staining, no edge wear, no wear to spine tips, no tearing or chipping or creasing to DJ.

     Overall a N-FINE book in N-FINE condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a rare Dean Koontz related Signed & Numbered edition book.  I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Dean Koontz 1st printing hardcover/paperback/magazine appearances up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture.

     NOTE - MEDIA MAIL ROUTINELY TAKES 3-4 WEEKS (REGARDLESS OF WHAT EBAY MAY SAY - THEY DON'T CONTROL THE POST OFFICE).  For U.S. buyers, both priority mail (3-5 days) and media mail (3-4 weeks) shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice (or if the book is a paperback or small magazine both 1st class mail (5-7 days) and media mail shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice) - SIMPLY CLICK ON THE BLUE 'OTHER SHIPPING OPTIONS' LINK IN THE INVOICE TO SEE BOTH SHIPPING OPTIONS/COST.


     DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IS NOT TRACKING (despite what ebay and paypal want to call it - again they don't control the U.S. post office).  Delivery confirmation is merely what it says it is - it confirms delivery to prevent fraudulent chargebacks of claimed unreceived items (which is why I don't charge for delivery confirmation in the shipping costs).  Also, since I print shipping labels from home (as opposed to purchasing shipping at the post office), the delivery confirmation number IS NOT SCANNED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THIS END.  Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you).   Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package.

     I  DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE  ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail). 

       As for returns -All items are used (not new) books and therefore are sold as-is, which is why I try to provide a fairly detailed description of the item itself (i.e. what it is and what it is not) as well its specific condition, noting any significant defects (for collectible items).  Book grades are provided in the posting, however book grading standards/categories very widely from seller to seller, so please do not rely solely on the grade that I have given a book or ebay's provided "condition" box description, without considering the specific condition/defects described for that particular book.  I do, on occasion, miss a significant defect in an item or simply make a cut/paste error in the description (i.e. an error in the description from using a prior posting as the "shell" for this book's description), and for collectible items, if that happens, on a case-by-case basis I do issue a full refund (including the cost of return shipping) depending upon the collectible significance of the undisclosed defect.