Look Away

Effinger, George Alec

Published by Axolotl Press, Eugene, 1990

About this Item

Gregory Benford has written the 6 page introduction to this 90 page work of fiction. He remarks that the American South has long concentrated its writing skills on the results of the Civil War and has thereby ignored the Sci-Fi genre. Effinger breaks with that tradition. Read more about : chicken coop, Episcopal enlightenment, Ali Pasha, well-fed Yanks, v Geneva Decree of 1864, sweet potatoes, and Colonel Sapt. Benford has signed the ontroduction and Effinger the 2'nd half-title. This is # 85 of a limited edition of 300 copies thus. Cond : Boards are burgundy with gilt lettering. White end-papers. D.J. is dusty grey with not-quite black lettering and graphics. Cover art shows a musket toting soldier with a modern day gas mask. Volume is in all senses crispy and bright. D.J. has a minor chip on upper edge. Collectible and UNcommon. Quote (p. 43) : " The veteran took out a pipe and a small bag of precious tobacco. He vlit the pipe, but didn't offer his new friend any. ` Now, beat all Hell, my tobacco's run out,' he complained a few ._._._. .' Size: Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Look Away
• Publisher: Axolotl Press, Eugene
• Publication Date: 1990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Donna Gordon
• Edition: Limited Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction