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  Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.

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A Borrowed Month: Available Copies

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A Borrowed Month and Other Stories
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh (1900)


    Seller: Montreal Books (Westmount, QC, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $4.95
    TOTAL Cost: $24.95

Gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. PO signature. Spine slightly cocked. Text clean and bright, binding solid.

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A Borrowed Month and Other Stories
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh (1900)


    Seller: RPBooks (Champlain, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $6.95
    TOTAL Cost: $26.95

Gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. PO signature. Spine slightly cocked. Text clean and bright, binding solid.

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A Borrowed Month and Other Stories
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh (1900)


    Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB (London -- Birr, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $19.78
    Shipping: $10.95
    TOTAL Cost: $30.73

Original gilt decorative green cloth hardcovers. Some very slight rubbing and soiling to covers. Top edge gilt (bright) and others uncut. Foxing to edges, endpapers and proximate leaves. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. 276pp. Size: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall

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A Borrowed Month and Other Stories
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas (1888)


    Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $26.41
    Shipping: $6.08
    TOTAL Cost: $32.49

1888. No edition remarks. 276 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

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The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton: Stories. [v.] 1: The lady or the tiger? The discourager of hesitancy. The transferred ghost. The spectral mortgage. Every man his own letter-writer. That same old coon. Our story. Derelict. On the training of parents. A borrowed month. The baker of Barnbury. The watchmaker's wife 1900 [LeatherBound]
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: (2023)


    Seller: True World of Books (Delhi, India)
    New Book
    Book Price: $37.56
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $37.56

LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from , edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 319

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The Lady or the Tiger & A Borrowed Month and Other Stories. "Author's" editions.
    by STOCKTON, FRANK R

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Edinburgh: David Douglas & 1887 (1884)


    Seller: Bristow & Garland (Shaftesbury, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $32.50
    Shipping: $13.19
    TOTAL Cost: $45.69

Two works bound in one volume. 12mo, pp. 302:276, contemporary half calf; binding very rubbed, inner joints cracked but very firm, some foxing.

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A Borrowed Month and Other Stories
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh (1900)


    Seller: Besleys Books PBFA (Diss, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $23.40
    Shipping: $22.72
    TOTAL Cost: $46.12

Soft leather binding. 276pp. Gilt title and illustration to spine. Gilt top edge. Spine rubbed. Extremities worn. A little spotting to edges. A decent copy. (bs35c)

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A Borrowed Month and Other stories
    by Stockton Frank R

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh (1892)


    Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA (Gloucestershire, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $19.50
    Shipping: $31.56
    TOTAL Cost: $51.06

All books outside UK sent airmail and over £40 tracked and inside UK sent signed for. PayPal accepted. First Edition thus. Author's edition small 8vo. Seven stories in all. Original green cloth with gilt paper label to spine.

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