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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Light wear. Ink Date on cover as pictured. Hannes Bok Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. Digest size pulp magazine, a solid Good copy, light rubbing and stress marks, some age toning to paper, a nice copy with cover art by Hannes Bok, contents include: The Pacifist by ACC; A Way of Life by Bloch; First Law by Asimov; Matter of Culture by Jones; She Only Goes Out at Night by Tenn; Messenger by Slesar; Where Hesperus Falls by Vance; Poor Little Saturday by L'Engle; Universe in Books by Santesson; Daedulus Was Not a Myth by Lewis; The Second Sphere by North.…

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Good Plus. A wonderful collection of "novelets", short stories, and features. CONTENTS: As You Were (Kuttner), New Bodies for Old (Vance), The Weariest River (West); Battling Bolto (Hubbard), Spacemate (Sheldon), A Walk in the Dark (Clarke); The Round-the-World Bomber (Ley). 162 pages. CONDITION: a solid copy with bright front cover, its pages unmarked but age-toned, with an old tape-repair on the spine and its cover edges untrimmed - thus showing numerous small creases and tears (see accompanying scan image.) The spine is chipped at both ends, but without any text loss or intrusion. This remains an attractive, collectible copy - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with sturdy backing board. [NOTE: diagonal striping in the scan image in NOT the cover, but rather a scanning anomaly. Earle Bergey (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xiv) 352 pp. Quarter-bound in Navy blue cloth on blue boards; blue endpapers; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj by Stanislaw Fernandes. This anthology contains: Colony - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; The New Prime - a novelette by Jack Vance; Home Is the Hunter by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore; No Woman Born - a novella by C. L. Moore; Four in One - a novelette by Damon Knight; Fondly Fahrenheit - a novelette by Alfred Bester; The Monsters by Robert Sheckley; Common Time by James Blish; Scanners Live in Vain - a novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Hothouse - a novelette by Brian W. Aldiss; The Little Black Bag - a novelette by C. M. Kornbluth; Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw; and Day Million by Frederik Pohl. Size: 8vo. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Condition. 1st Edition First Edition. Signed & Inscribed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers. Rubbing on wraps, very good. Contributions by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, Leigh Brackett, Joseph Shallit, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, and William Ratigan.

Wraps. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. XXXVI, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue. [Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr.] Cover art by Bergey. Includes "As You Were" (novelet) by Henry Kuttner; "New Bodies for Old" (novelet) by Jack Vance; "The Weariest River" (novelet) by Wallace West; "Battling Balto" by L. Ron Hubbard; "Spacemate" by Walt Sheldon; "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke. Special Feature: "The Round-the-World Bomber" by Willy Ley. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "Science Fiction Book Review"; "The Frying Pan". Illustrated by Virgil Finlay, Napoli, and others. Letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John W. Jakes, Lin Carter, A. J. Budrys, Robert Silverberg, Betsy Curtis, and more. Front cover glued on at hinge; creasing; loss to lower front spine corner (see scan); marks on cover; old tape at heel; standard wear and tear. Magazine. …

Softcover. Condition: Good. Single issue. 98pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages and wrappers stained and worn, page 37 has penned checkmark, a good only copy. Contributions by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, Leigh Brackett, Joseph Shallit, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, and William Ratigan. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. XXXVI, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr.] Cover art by Bergey. Includes "As You Were" (novelet) by Henry Kuttner; "New Bodies for Old" (novelet) by Jack Vance; "The Weariest River" (novelet) by Wallace West; "Battling Balto" by L. Ron Hubbard; "Spacemate" by Walt Sheldon; "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke. Special Feature: "The Round-the-World Bomber" by Willy Ley. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "Science Fiction Book Review"; "The Frying Pan". Illustrated by Virgil Finlay, Napoli, and others. Letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John W. Jakes, Lin Carter, A. J. Budrys, Robert Silverberg, Betsy Curtis, and more. Tanning; losses at spien ends; edge and corner wear with minor tears and losses; pencil mark on front. Magazine. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 258pp. Corners lightly rubbed, else fine. Essays, interviews, poems, fiction, and reviews with contributions by Lewis P. Simpson, M.L. Rosenthal, Glenn Cannon Arbery, James C. Cobb, W.T. Bandy, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Louis Simpson, Kathleen Atkins, Andrew Hudgins, Catharine Savage Brosman, Maureen Bloomfield, W.D. Snodgrass, Neal Bowers, Priscilla Sneff, Rosemary Gates, Lewis Horne, Michael Burns, Heather Tosteson, Walter Griffin, Maurya Simon, Henry W. Russell, David Citino, Catherine Brewton, David Case, Anne Whitney Pierce, Vance Bourjaily, Barbara Leith, Clyde Edgerton, Joyce Renwick, Daniel Hoffman, and R.L. Barth. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. XXXVI, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr.] Cover art by Bergey. Includes "As You Were" (novelet) by Henry Kuttner; "New Bodies for Old" (novelet) by Jack Vance; "The Weariest River" (novelet) by Wallace West; "Battling Balto" by L. Ron Hubbard; "Spacemate" by Walt Sheldon; "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke. Special Feature: "The Round-the-World Bomber" by Willy Ley. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "Science Fiction Book Review"; "The Frying Pan". Illustrated by Virgil Finlay, Napoli, and others. Letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John W. Jakes, Lin Carter, A. J. Budrys, Robert Silverberg, Betsy Curtis, and more. Tanning; minor pencil marks on contents page; minor creasing, edge and corner wear. Magazine.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Earle Bergey. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Typical wear at yapped edges, abrasions on front cover, very good. Includes: "Battling Bolto" by L. Ron Hubbard, "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke, "As You Were" by Henry Kuttner, "New Bodies for Old" by Jack Vance, letters from Arthur C. Clarke, Algis ("A.J.") Budrys, Lin Carter, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Silverberg, artwork by Virgil Finlay, and more.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

First Edition. THRILLING WONDER STORIES, Better Publications of Canada, Ltd., August 1950, first edition, some modest chipping to small areas of the full color pictorial covers and spine, else a bright very good to very good plus copy. Contains original contributions by Henry Kuttner (As You Were); Wallace West (The Weariest River); Jack Vance (New Bodies for Old); L. Ron Hubbard (Battling Bolto); Walt Sheldon (Spacemate); Arthur C. Clarke (A Walk in the Dark); Earle Bergey and Willy Ley (The Round-the-World Bomber). From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn. …

Condition: new. Pages: 296 Language: Estonian. Kahe maailmasõja vahel lõi ulmeklassik RobertE. Howard (1906-1936) ameerika pulpajakirjade veergudel pea ainuisikuliseltfantaasiakirjanduse ühe põnevaima ja värvikaima zhanri - kangelasfantaasia(heroic fantasy) ehk mõõga ja maagia (sword & sorcery) kirjanduse.Tegelikult ei loonud ta seda siiski päris üksinda ning ulmeajakirjades WeirdTales ja Unknown hakkasid 1930-1940ndail aastail mõõga ja maagia jutte avaldamaka Howardi kaasteelised ning nooremad kolleegid Clark Ashton Smith, C. L.Moore, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber jt. Käesolev jutuvalik tutvustabki eestiulmehuvilistele mõõga ja maagia kirjanduse sündi läbi selle kuulsaimateesindajate esimese põlvkonna. Mõõga ja maagia kirjandus vastandub teravalttolkienlikule kõrgfantaasiale, olles tihti mänguline, süüdimatult põnev javärvikas, julm, erootiline ega häbene oma ajaviitekirjanduslikke juuri. 9789916956854. …

First Edition. THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME: VOLUME TWO A and B. The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America, Doubleday, 1973, first edition, some light brown staining to small areas of the top page edges with some modest bleed through, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper 's. Contributions by John W. Campbell, Jr., Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, H. G. Wells, Jack Vance, E. M. Forster, Clifford Simak, Fred Pohl, James Schmitz, Poul Anderson, Jack Williamson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, et.al.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1978 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 550 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 550 Volume 865 (1978) - 899 (1981).…