ALTAIR: ALTERNATIVE AIRINGS OF SPECULATIVE FICTION (SIGNED)
Language: English
Published by Altair Publishing, 1998
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Top Shelf Books, Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.Top Shelf Books
AbeBooks seller since April 12, 2019
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 19.11
Quantity: 1 available
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First printing, trade paperback. Faint creasing near spine, faint rubbing mark at top right tip and faint tape residue (left by a removed price sticker), on lower corner of back panel, else near fine (unread) copy. SF magazine in trade paperback format. Limited edition signed by Robert Stephenson, the senior editor, and hand-numbered 769/1000. Also signed by contributors Joe Haldeman, Charles de Lint (and dated "'04") and Sean Williams (inscribed "To Sean/Sean Williams." First issue of a new SF/Fantasy semi-annual magazine published February, 1998 subtitled: "Alternative airings of speculative fiction." All original fiction and non-fiction. Contributing authors include: Joe Haldeman, Robert J. Sawyer, David Bischoff, Charles de Lint, Sean Williams and Simon Brown.
Seller Inventory # 000893
Bibliographic details
- Title
- ALTAIR: ALTERNATIVE AIRINGS OF SPECULATIVE FICTION (SIGNED)
- Author
- Stephenson, Robert, et al., (eds) with Joe Haldeman, Charles de Lint and Sean Williams
- Publisher
- Altair Publishing
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Bleckly, Rob
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- LIMITED EDITIONS, SCIENCE FICTION, SIGNED BOOKS
Top Shelf Books
Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 12, 2019
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 7 to 10 business days | 1 to 3 business days |
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About Top Shelf Books Top Shelf Books is a Virtual Bookshop specializing in collectible Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror hardcover First Edition books since 1991 and online since 1996. Signed editions, British (UK) editions and Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Award winners are also a specialty. Actual Signature Photos. Almost 300 signed First Edition books in our SF, Fantasy and Horror catalogs. Rare and Collectible Editions with their Award histories. In-depth and Accurate Book Descriptions and Conditions. We started as a mail order bookstore in 1991 in the San Francisco Bay Area. We published catalogs on a quarterly or semi-annual basis. Drafting, printing and mailing catalogs were extremely time consuming. Each catalog was written and edited in Word Perfect in the publishing mode, printed at the local Kinko's shop, assembled into catalog format by page number, address labels applied (printed from another program) and finally stamped with postage and carried in boxes to the Post Office for mailing to our customer list. Our last catalog before going online was our Spring/Summer 1996 catalog. Top Shelf Books was one of the first specialty booksellers to go online. We actually had to create the website, page by page, coding in HTML. Each book's jacket had to be scanned and uploaded.…
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Top Shelf Books is a Virtual Bookshop specializing in collectible Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror hardcover First Edition books since 1991 and online since 1996. Signed editions, British (UK) editions and Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Award winners are also a specialty. Actual Signature Photos. Almost 300 signed First Edition books in our SF, Fantasy and Horror catalogs. Rare and Collectible Editions with their Award histories. In-depth and Accurate Book Descriptions and Conditions.
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