Geo Buck (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of a novel, a novelet and five short stories. Featured are The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg (1 of 3 parts), 25 Crunch Split Right on Two by Geo Alec Effinger (novelet), White Wolf Calling by CL Grant (short story), The Milewide Steamroller by Raylyn Moore (short story), Decay by Jon Fast (short story) Pop Goes The Weasel by Robert Hoskins (short story) and Please Close the Gate on Account of the Kitten by Doris Pitkin Buck (short story). Slight edgewear. Age toning to the cover and pages. In Near Fine Condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2º. [4], 107, [1], 113-150, [8] pp. With portrait frontis. Leaf K4 is blank. Includes index. An imprint variant of the 1646 edition. In a later gilt-ruled, diced calf, re-cornered and backed, with original spine pieces laid down. Portrait frontis window-mounted into an original free endpaper. Title-page torn with loss to fore-edge corner of tail, supplied in facsimile (see pictures). Front free endpaper with calligraphic dedication "Amelia Durtnall Dec. 12th 1862". Volume has been fully conserved, fragile edges supported, end-bands re-sewn and all original paste-downs retained. Sir George Buck was an English antiquarian, historian, scholar and author. This, his major prose work, was left in rough draft at his death in 1622. His great-nephew extensively altered it and finally published it in 1646 as his own work. The authentic text of Buck's History was not published until 1979 by the editor Arthur Kincaid. A very good, complete copy, rare in any condition. Other images of the conservation of this volume are available on request. Wing B5307. ESTC R23817.…