Worlds Beyond Jack Vance (4 results)

Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 1, No. 3. Final issue. Edited by Damon Knight. Cover art by Von Dongen for "The Deadliest Female" by Lester del Rey. Includes "Brain of the Galaxy" (novelette) by Jack Vance; "Valley of Doom" (novelette) by Halliday Sutherland; "Like a Bird, Like a Fish" by H. B. Hickey; "The Old Brown Coat" by Lord Dunsany; "The Acolytes" by Poul Anderson; "Forgotten Tongue" by Walter C. Davies[C. M. Kornbluth]; "Clothes Make the Man" by Richard Matheson; "The Rocket of 1955" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Rock Diver" (1st story) by Harry Harrison. Department: "The Dissecting Table". Interior illustrations by Harrison, Jannace and Napoli. Tanned; small loss at lower front foredge corner; marks on covers; a little wear and tear and spine ends; light lean. Magazine. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 1, No. 3. Final issue. Edited by Damon Knight. Cover art by Von Dongen for "The Deadliest Female" by Lester del Rey. Includes "Brain of the Galaxy" (novelette) by Jack Vance; "Valley of Doom" (novelette) by Halliday Sutherland; "Like a Bird, Like a Fish" by H. B. Hickey; "The Old Brown Coat" by Lord Dunsany; "The Acolytes" by Poul Anderson; "Forgotten Tongue" by Walter C. Davies[C. M. Kornbluth]; "Clothes Make the Man" by Richard Matheson; "The Rocket of 1955" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Rock Diver" (1st story) by Harry Harrison. Department: "The Dissecting Table". Interior illustrations by Harrison, Jannace and Napoli. Tanning; stress cracks; minor tear at heel; corner wear with minor creasing. Magazine. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 1, No. 1. Edited by Damon Knight. Cover art by Paul Calle. Includes "The Smile of the Sphinx" (novelette) by William F. Temple; "Six-Legged Svengali" by Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown; "An Epistle to the Thessalonians" by Philip Wylie; "Simworthy's Choice" by Larry Shaw; "The End of the Party" by Graham Greene; "The Big Contest" by John D. MacDonald; "The Hunter Gracchus" by Franz Kafka; "The Mindworm" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Invasion Squad" bu Battell Loomis; "Wow" by William Seabrook; "The Loom of Darkness" by Jack Vance. Department: "The Dissecting Table". Interior illustrations by Calle and Harrison. Tanning; creasing; small scars at mid-hinge, presumably from ad label which originally had been attached by publisher; a little bent from poor stacking; minor corner chips. Magazine.…

First Edition. WORLDS BEYOND, Hillman Periodicals, Inc., December, 1950, first edition, Volume 1, #1, vg in full color pictorial wraps. Contains original contributions by Fredric Brown, Graham , John D. MacDonald, Philip Wylie, Cyril Kornbluth, Jack Vance, et.al. The Vance contribution is from the authors first book, THE DYING EARTH. We have not been able to establish in which month that book was published and thus do not know if this complete excerpt predates it or not.…