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When a millipede from Aldebaran who can see the future visits Earth, it predicts that Cirque, an ancient city on the edge of the Abyss will become an interstellar Mecca
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Cirque
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Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis And New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0672520141
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Bill Tinker (illustrator). There is some rubbing and minor chipping to the dustjacket. ; The dustjacket is in a protective mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 38882
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Cirque: A Novel of the Far Future
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ISBN 13: 9780672520143
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Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bill Tinker (illustrator). 1st Edition. 187 pages. (SL#52C/1). Seller Inventory # SB5330
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CIRQUE
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Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited, Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Bill Tinker (illustrator). fine hardcover copy in a very good, Bill Tinker, dustwrapper. There a closed tear/bump to the heel of the spine. Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1977) 1st edition. This was his best novel, a trippy little high-concept piece that's well-plotted and pretty well developed. Seller Inventory # FN25.015
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Cirque: A novel of the far future
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Condition: Very Good. Bill Tinker (illustrator). 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Dustjacket has some nicks but is otherwise in good condition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KCD0005480
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Cirque: A novel of the far future
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Condition: Very Good. Bill Tinker (illustrator). 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Dustjacket has some nicks but is otherwise in good condition. . . . . Seller Inventory # KCD0005480
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Cirque: A novel of the far future
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ISBN 10: 0672520141
ISBN 13: 9780672520143
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Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bill Tinker (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket. Very light wear at spine ends of jacket. Seller Inventory # 036650
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Cirque: A Novel of the Far Future
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Seller: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 187 pp. Only light edge wear to jacket. ".in the Abyss there lives the Beast, loathsome to imagine, frightening to confront, for it was formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a Beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. And now, after centuries, it is climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own. Seller Inventory # 002122
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Cirque: A Novel Of The Far Future
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Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Bill Tinker (illustrator). First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel. 1977 Nebula nominee for best novel: ''''there were also two minor novels -- Invasion from 2500 (1964) with Ted White under the joint pseudonym Norman Edwards, and Warlord of Kor (1963) -- as well as one ambitious and substantial work, CIRQUE (1977), a religious allegory, elegiac in mood, set in the far future . Because he was not very prolific, his writing is in general somewhat undervalued'' (Malcolm J Edwards & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF)''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for faint spotting along top page edges. Seller Inventory # 23356
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Cirque
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ISBN 13: 9780672520143
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Hardback: 8½" x 5½". Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover Art: Bill Tinker (illustrator). 1st Edition. © 1977: A stand-alone novel by Terry Carr. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Several millenia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet ignored by others in it's galaxy. It's one jewel is Cirque, the City on the Abyss, into which the River Fundament falls in magnificent cataracts. It is a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast: loathsome to imagine, frightening to confront; for it is formed of the cast off hates of the people of Cirque. A Beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is as black as sin. And now, after centuries, it is climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own. The Cirquians' feeble weapons are no match for the Beast's slimy encroachment on the city. When it breaches the defenses of the Cathedral of the Five Elements and is confronted by Salamander the High Priestess and Gregorian the fire sculptor, the Beast's true nature flowers, to make Cirque forever after the Mecca of the Galaxy:- (original cost $8.95). Seller Inventory # 17.009.00015
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bill Tinker (illustrator). Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors. Foxing to top page edge. Square page corners. Light wear to top of dust jacket. Base of spine shows shelving wear. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001049