Black Easter Faust Aleph Null by James Blish (17 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 17, No. 10. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Castellon for "Ocean on Top" (pt. 1 of 3) by Hal Clement. Includes "Enemy of the Silkies" (novelette) by A. E. van Vogt; "Winter of the Llangs" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp; "Faust Aleph-Null" (pt. 3 of 3) by James Blish; "Conquerer" by Larry Eisenberg; "Mu Panther" by Donald J. Walsh. Special Feature: "The Food of Mars" by Max H. Flindt. Features: "Editorial: What Space Is For" by Frederik Pohl; "Fans Down Under" by Lin Carter; "Hue and Cry". Illustrated by Castellon, Gaughan, Finlay, and Morrow. Tanning; minor creasing. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 17, No. 9. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Morrow for "Bride Ninety-One" by Robert Silverberg. Includes "The Fortunes of Peace" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp; "To Serve the Masters" (novelette) by Perry A. Chapeldaine; "Venus Smiles" (novelette) by J. G. Ballard; "A Bowl Bigger Than Earth" (novelette) by Philip Jose Farmer; "Invader" (novelette) by Harl Vincent; "Faust Aleph-Null" (pt. 2 of 3) by James Blish. Features: "Editorial" by Frederik Pohl; "Friday at the Fanoclasts" by Lin Carter; "Hue and Cry." Illustrated by Finlay, Gaughan, Morrow, and Bode. Tanning; minor creasing and stress. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 17, No. 10. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Castellon for "Ocean on Top" (pt. 1 of 3) by Hal Clement. Includes "Enemy of the Silkies" (novelette) by A. E. van Vogt; "Winter of the Llangs" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp; "Faust Aleph-Null" (pt. 3 of 3) by James Blish; "Conquerer" by Larry Eisenberg; "Mu Panther" by Donald J. Walsh. Special Feature: "The Food of Mars" by Max H. Flindt. Features: "Editorial: What Space Is For" by Frederik Pohl; "Fans Down Under" by Lin Carter; "Hue and Cry". Illustrated by Castellon, Gaughan, Finlay, and Morrow. Tanning; minor tears at spien head and over upper rear staple. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. "A novel about black magic." Black Easter by James Blish is a dark, intellectually driven novel that blends theology, occultism, and speculative fiction. The story follows a wealthy industrialist, Baines, who hires a black magician, Theron Ware, to perform a terrifying experiment: to release all the demons of Hell for one night-Walpurgisnacht-just to see what will happen. Ware, a professional and cautious practitioner of ritual magic grounded in historical grimoires, reluctantly agrees. As the ritual unfolds, demons are summoned under strict magical control. However, things go disastrously wrong when the forces unleashed cannot be contained as expected. The novel builds toward a chilling revelation: the supernatural order governing good and evil may not function as humanity assumes. In a shocking theological twist, the consequences suggest that Hell may no longer be constrained at all. Rather than focusing on horror action, the book explores: The logic and structure of ritual magic; The moral responsibility of knowledge and power; Deep questions about faith, free will, and divine absence. It's a cerebral, unsettling work-more philosophical than sensational-often compared to religious or metaphysical thought experiments. THIS scarce volume has some heavy cover damage (chipping) from humidity (covers of two different books stuck to it) and a small chunk missing out of top of cover and first few pages. Pages are nearly new otherwise. Binding is clean and tight. No writing. Paperback edition. 160 pages. Dimensions: 4.25" by 7". Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York Copyright 1968, 2nd printing, 1969. Multi-Color binding. Cover defect(s): Some tears. Some scratches/scuffing. Some chipping. 0.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): Black Magic / Witchcraft / Supernatural / English. (B079).

softcover. Condition: fair. Barlowe, Wayne D. (illustrator). Fair condition. Moderate to heavy wear. Binding is starting to loosen, pages age toned. Former bookstore stamp inside. Pictures available upon request.?? ND.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Penguin pb 1972, David Pelham cover - slight wear to edges, pages tanning, otherwise tight binding and clean text.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pelham, David (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. First published in the UK by Faber in 1968. Originally published in the US by Doubleday in 1968. The spine has some rubbing to the edges. Light edge rubbing and surface wear to the covers. Browning to the page edges. There is some page browning but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover illustration by David Pelham.

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Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Binding sound and tight, name in biro on flyleaf and repeated on inside pastedown, no other markings and text clean and free of spotting, folds or such. Black cloth unfaded, corners crisp, no wear, bright gilt spine titling. The dust jacket is tight and tear-free, unclipped. The front panel and spine are covered in some kind of speckled glaze which has tinted the paper cream yellow on the front panel and darker on the spine panel. Its hard to tell if this is added by the publisher or later, anyway, quite unusual, and it's applied to the edge of the inner front flap but not the rear flap or flap top and bottom edges, so not something that happened while the dust jacket was on the book. Other than that, the speckling is uniform on the front panel and the rear panel is normal paper with a few marks near the spine hinge and some age darkening. 165pp + double blank rear flyleaf. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. First British edition (& 1st printing). SF novel, third in the After Such Knowledge series. In Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books no 83. In Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels no 41. Inked name and date on front free endpaper, small bookstore label affixed along bottom edge of front pastedown, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for a touch of edge wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1954) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. First Edition Penguin. Very good inside and out. Fabulous cover art! No creases on spine, no discolouration, light corner crease, name inside cover.

Original decorated wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus; First Impression. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; 11 x 18 x 1 cms; 126 pages.

Dust-jacket only. Condition: Dust-jacket only. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First UK edition. 8vo. Dust-jacket only. Rubbed, and creased. Not price-clipped £1.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1968. A Good copy in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 165 pp., bound in brown cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $3.95. Ex-library with all faults. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth for a single day. The novel initially depicts the assassination of a Governor of California (a fictionalized version of Ronald Reagan) by a black magician working as a contract killer. The same magician is then hired to release every demon in Hell for a brief time period. However, the demons can not actually return to Hell by the end of the novel. Their traditional opponent, God, has already died and nobody else can compell them to return to Hell. - Wiki.

fester Einband. . Schwarzer Leinen-kaschierter Einband mit Rückenbeschriftung, illustrierter Schutzumschlag, 19 x 13 cm, 165 Seiten. * Schutzumschlag angebräunt, fingerfleckig, Vosatzblätter leicht fleckig, ansonsten guter Zustand (K0e). 270 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gutter Code J21. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally toned. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Blish's dark fantasy about demons summoned to earth to wreak havoc. Together with The Day After Judgment, this work forms the second part of Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy.

1 vols. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Third novel in Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy, which includes the Hugo-award winner A Case of Conscience (1959), and Doctor Mirabilis (1964). Black easter was nominated for the Nebula award. Currey p. 40 Black cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket.