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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club editions. Front hinges of first and last volumes weakening, minor wear to corners. Pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1962 Hard Cover. xiv, 849; xvi, 603; xiii, 495; xii, 340 pp. Dozens of prize-winning science fiction stories, along with transcriptions of speeches at the award conventions, introductions by Isaac Asimov, and complete lists of the award winners. Includes: The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell; Exploration Team by Murray Leinster; The Star by Arthur C. Clarke; Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson; The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak; The Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch; Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes; The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson; The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance; No Truce with Kings by Poul Anderson; Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson; "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison; The Last Castle by Jack Vance; Neutron Star by Larry Niven; Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey; Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer; Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber; I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison; Nightwings by Robert Silverberg; The Sharing of Flesh by Poul Anderson; The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison; Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany; Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber; Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon; The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson; Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven; The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin; Goat Song by Poul Anderson; The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth; Eurema's Dam by R.A. Lafferty; The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.; The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison; The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin; A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin; Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13'' W by Harlan Ellison; The Hole Man by Larry Niven; Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny; The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven; Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber; By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson; Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.; The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov; Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman; Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson; Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge; Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison; The Persistence of Vision by John Varley; Hunter's Moon by Poul Anderson; Cassandra by C.J. Cherryh; Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear; Sandkings by George R.R. Martin; The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin; Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson; The Cloak and Staff by Gordon R. Dickson; Grotto of the Dancing Over by Clifford D. Simak; The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson; Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny; The Pusher by John Varley.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bantam Pathfinder # EP63. Clean text. Minimal wear along the edges and corners. Small tear at the top of the cover. Former owner's name on top edge.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Robert Bloch on table of contents to 'Stathis.' Stathis Orphanos was a noted photographer and half of the publishing duo Sylvester and Orphanos. First Edition thus, the first collected volume of Hugo Award-winning stories and novellas dating from 1955-1961. xvi, 318pp. Black finished cloth silver-gilt spine letter, deckled fore edge. Some minor wear to covers, a bit of rubbing to tail edges, otherwise clean and sound. Dust Jacket is clipped to front flap, Spine is a bit sunned with some small chips to head and tail. Bloch's story, 'The Hell-Bound Train' is a Faustian tale told with his 'cosmic horror' inflection. A brilliant tale reminiscent of Camus's Sisyphus, the main character finds a macabre freedom by embracing his dark fate. Notably, this volume also includes Daniel Keyes's 'Flowers for Algernon,' and the first hardcover appearance of Walter Miller's 'The Darfsteller.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Isaac Asimov(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. The Hugo Winners by Arthur C. Clarke (Editor) First Edition, 1962 A firm copy with sharp corners A sharp bright jacket. Not price-clipped, original $4.50 printed price intact. Clear protective cover. First Edition, stated. LCCCN 62-14132. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to the spine. 318pp. Edited by Issac Asimov. Contents include the first hardcover appearance of Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s novella DARFSTELLER, Poul Anderson's novella THE LONGEST VOYAGE, and Daniel Keyes's novella FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON. Very uncommon book. BOOK.