Anthony Boucher Intro (7 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. 1st printing. Cover: Charles Frank. Light wear, tanning. Slightly rolled. Clean, tight copy. G+.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very goog 1958 mass market paperback. "Genuine Cardinal Edition" #C-319. Lehr, Paul (cover) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and torn, with chips at the spine ends and folds. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, with small tears at the spine head. Page block and page edges are tanned. Label remnant and writing to the FEP. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Very good with slightly bumped corners. No markings or bookplate. Usual age-toning to paper. In FAIR ONLY dust jacket. Front and rear panels are complete, but there are some long tears and chipping at spine ends, abrasions and small paper loss. Not price-clipped. Stated first printing.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A pleasing first edition copy of this anthology of science fiction stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Anthony Boucher, and many others. The first edition, third printing of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. A super collection of twelve science fiction stories, edited by Murray Leinster, who has also contributed a story to the anthology. Clifton Fadiman provides the introduction. Other contributors include: Michael Fessier, Ralph Milne Farley, Will F. Jenkins, Cleve Cartmill, Malcolm Jameson, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore, Oscar J. Friend, Lewis Padgett, Anthony Boucher and Theodore Sturgeon.List of recommended stories to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for remnants of tape to the end papers. Dust wrapper remains bright and smart, with a little sunning and light shelf wear to the spine. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Signed Limited Edition. Hard cover, 4to in black half linen buckram over cloth, titles blocked in gilt to spine, with vignette design in blind to front board of a top-hatted observer lurking in a landscape. In the original slipcase. Top edge stained red, red endpapers, rubricated title page featuring vignette wood engraved illustration by FELIX HOFFMAN. Colophon numbers this as No. 51 of 1500 copies and features artist's signature. With publisher's prospectus laid in. [3], xi,[5],410pp [2], [3]. Printed by A. Colish, Mount Vernon, New York. **Irish author BRAM STOKER's (1847-1912) classic tale of vampiric adventure is brought to life as a series of journal entries, newspaper reports and diary entries of the visitors and inhabitants of the Carpathian wilds of Transylvania. Anthony Bouche's introduction covers Stoker's early education and civil service career, suggesting exposure to the theatrical world influenced his novel writing, and marvels at the enduring legacy of this basically one-hit wonder of horror. Other contemporary sources of vampire literature are also explored. Swiss graphic artist and illustrator FELIX HOFFMAN (1911-1975) captures the macabre tenor of the story in a series of thirty three wood engraved illustrations, some seven of which are in full page with color. **CONDITION: Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase with a few minor scuffs. Felix Hoffmann (illustrator). Signed by artist. Book. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran Publishers, 1961. First Edition, printed in a run of 2,052 copies (2000 stated). Octavo. 199 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed with a few shallow nicks and toning to spine and edges. Corners of boards lightly bumped and rear board bows slightly. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. [Derleth M6; Jaffery 63].…