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The Best Of Jack Vance: Available Copies

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671805104
    Publisher: Pocket Books, New York (1976)


    Seller: Memories Lost and Found (Avondale Estates, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fine
    Book Price: $7.00
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    TOTAL Cost: $12.00

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC (Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $6.00
    TOTAL Cost: $16.00

Not ex-lib. Softcover in white and brown wraps. x + 274pp. NF. Primaryreason for downgrade is small nicks and several small triangule chips off mid upper edges pp.25-28 & 69-82, entirely in upper margins well away from text; mild rubbing tip of upper corner front wrap; toning alongside hinge rear wrap. Else Fine: clean, tight, sharp and unmarked with bright artwork to front.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671805104
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1976)


    Seller: Fleur Fine Books (Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $9.95
    Shipping: $6.55
    TOTAL Cost: $16.50

Pocket Books. Used; Very Good. Pocket 1976 MMP. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers have light wear at edges. Spine is tight. Book Condition: Very Good . 1976. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.

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THE BEST OF JACK VANCE
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: Pocket (US) rpt.N/D : ( 15 other books by this author also available.) Format: paperback. Daily shipping. ()


    Seller: Mr.G.D.Price (Mansfield, United Kingdom)
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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671441869
    Publisher: Pocket Books, NY (1976)


    Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA (Decatur, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $15.00
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Paperback. First Printing. Spine slightly canted with some creasing, wraps lightly edgeworn, else very good.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Timescape, NY (1982)


    Seller: Dividing Line Books (Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $20.00

Mass market paperback. 274pp. Third mmpb printing; first thus. Light edgewear, some very minor creasing to spine, which nonetheless remains sturdy and uncracked. Uncommon Timescape edition of this collection of six Vance stories.

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Best Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671441869
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1982)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $21.84
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    TOTAL Cost: $21.84

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35

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Best Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671441869
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1982)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $21.84
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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671441869
    Publisher: Insight Editions (1976)


    Seller: Fleur Fine Books (Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $16.95
    Shipping: $6.55
    TOTAL Cost: $23.50

Insight Editions. Used; Very Good. Pocket Books 1976 MMP. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers have light wear at edges. Spine is tight. Book Condition: Very Good . 1976. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1976)


    Seller: Fleur Fine Books (Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $16.95
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    TOTAL Cost: $23.50

Pocket Books. Used; Very Good. Pocket 1976 MMP. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers have very light wear. Spine is tight. Book Condition: Very Good . 1976. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671805104
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1976)


    Seller: Hafa Adai Books (Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $22.04
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The Best of Jack Vance - Rumfuddle, The Moon Moth, Abercrombie Station, The Last Castle, Ullward's Retreat, Sail 25
    by Vance, Jack (aka: Vance, John Holbrook [Peter Held, John Holbrook, Ellery Queen, John van See, Alan Wade]; intro by Barry N. Malzberg

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671805104
    Publisher: Pocket Books # 80510, New York (1976)


    Seller: Nessa Books (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $24.95
    Shipping: $14.75
    TOTAL Cost: $39.70

-----The scan you see is the book you get. Square clean and tight, flat spine with faint crease, no names, x + 274 pages, small errant ink mark on bottom edge (minor), Near Fine condition. "His landscapes are wholly imagined, his grasp of the fact that future or other worlds will not be merely extensions of out own but intirely alien has never been exceeded. He is simply one of the best at projecting that unimaginable alien world, and the dimensions of his accomplishment grow yearly. Jack Vance is eventually going to be perceived as one of the foundation blocks of the edifice that is science fiction." (Barry N. Malzberg) Contents include: Rumfuddle / The Moon Moth / Abercrombie Station / The Last Castle / Ullward's Retreat / Sail 25. Check out the scans.

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THE BEST OF JACK VANCE
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Taplinger (1978)


    Seller: Rob & June Edwards (Salem, OR, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $42.00
    Shipping: $4.13
    TOTAL Cost: $46.13

First ed. Very good/Very good condition, moderate over all wear to book and dustjacket, bookstore price label on back cover of dustjacket. Review slip laid in.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack; Malzberg, Barry M. (Intr.)

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company, New York (1978)


    Seller: Fahrenheit's Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $40.00
    Shipping: $7.00
    TOTAL Cost: $47.00

First hardcover edition, has slight bumps to spine ends and upper corners, otherwise a bright, clean Near Fine copy in VG+ dustjacket which has slightest bumps to top of spine and corners, and some rubbing.

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THE BEST OF JACK VANCE; With an Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company, New York (1978)


    Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA (EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $50.00
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    TOTAL Cost: $50.00

Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5,.5 in., pp. x, [2], 274. Blue cloth boards over amber spine. Dark blue title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Protected in mylar. Seven selections revealing Vance' s talent." Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the WorldCon in Orlando, Florida; and in 1997 he was named a SFWA Grand Master. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as 'one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.'" (from Jack Vance FB site).

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DAS SEGEL IM SONNENWIND. Science-fiction-Stories = The best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9783442233748
    Publisher: Goldmann, München (1981)


    Seller: INFINIBU KG (Neuss, Germany)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $2.52
    Shipping: $48.66
    TOTAL Cost: $51.18

Zustand: SEHR GUTER Zustand! 220 Seiten Deutsch 132g

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: Hafa Adai Books (Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $49.56
    Shipping: $3.95
    TOTAL Cost: $53.51

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The Best of Jack Vance (First Edition)
    by Jack Vance, Jack Williamson

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: Taplinger, New York (1978)


    Seller: Heartwood Books and Art (Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fine
    Book Price: $50.00
    Shipping: $7.00
    TOTAL Cost: $57.00

The Best of Jack Vance (First Edition) A tight bright unread copy A bright dust jacket in protective clear cover. Not price-clipped. "This edition first published in the United States in 1978 by Taplinger" stated. Yellow cloth over blue paper-covered boards. Wrap-around jacket illustration, artist not credited.

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The Best of Jack Vance by Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: Taplinger, NY (1978)


    Seller: Heartwood Books and Art (Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: As New
    Book Price: $50.00
    Shipping: $7.00
    TOTAL Cost: $57.00

The Best of Jack Vance by Jack Vance Faint tanning to textblock, otherwise pristine copy. Not price clipped. In protective mylar. Moderate shelfwear with scuffing. First edition. Quarter bound blue boards with yellow publisher's cloth to spine. Pictorial dustjacket.

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The Best of Jack Vance / with an Introd. by Barry N. Malzberg
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: New York : Taplinger Pub. Co. (1978)


    Seller: MW Books (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $64.00
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Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat dust-dulled and scuffed dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 274 pages; Description: x, 274 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American. Form/Genre: Science fiction. 1 Kg.

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The Best of Jack Vance / with an Introd. by Barry N. Malzberg
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: New York : Taplinger Pub. Co. (1978)


    Seller: MW Books Ltd. (Galway, Ireland)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $50.12
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Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat dust-dulled and scuffed dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 274 pages; Description: x, 274 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American. Form/Genre: Science fiction. 1 Kg.

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: Wizard Books (Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)
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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: Barsoom Books (torrance, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $69.95
    Shipping: $5.95
    TOTAL Cost: $75.90

1st pr. SIGNED by AUTHOR on the title page. Book is square, solid, and unread. In protective archival bag. Once this treasured tome from Tanjecterly has arrived at your stately manse of Trilda, you'll retire to the parlor and a light repast of wine and cheese, melon and water fowl, before focusing your attention on its many and varied excellences, composed, as it is, of sandestin stuff - hopefully Grofinet won't choose this moment for a spontaneous lecture on the Egyptian pyramids! NOTE: VERY light evidence of edgewear and age-toning.

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THE BEST OF JACK VANCE
    by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company [1978], New York (1978)


    Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $75.00
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Octavo, cloth backed boards. Collects six stories, including "The Last Castle" and "Rumfuddle." Introduction by Barry Malzberg. Offset from the Pocket Books edition (1976). Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A51e. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear to the spine ends. (21535)

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Vance, Jack

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780800807269
    Publisher: Published by Taplinger Publishing Co., New York (1978)


    Seller: Keoghs Books (Skipton, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $45.48
    Shipping: $35.33
    TOTAL Cost: $80.81

, 274 pages, introduction by Barry N. Malzberg First Edition thus , light rubbing to spine, little mark to front board, small inscription scratched from front free endpaper, book in very good condition , dust wrapper has a small nick at head of spine, lightly rubbed, in good+ condition Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback ISBN: 080080726X

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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671805104
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1976)


    Seller: GoldBooks (Austin, TX, U.S.A.)
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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: Front Cover Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: GoldBooks (Austin, TX, U.S.A.)
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The Best of Jack Vance
    by Jack vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks (Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)
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THE BEST OF JACK VANCE
    by Jack Vance

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780671830700
    Publisher: Pocket Books (1979)


    Seller: BennettBooksLtd (LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)
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