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

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A Story-Teller's Pack: Available Copies

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A Story-teller's Pack.
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (1897)


    Seller: Books From California (Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $3.99
    TOTAL Cost: $13.99

Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, tanning on the spine, erosion at the crown of the spine. Pages tanned with minor foxing.

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A Story-Teller's Pack
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: (1897)


    Seller: Library House Internet Sales (Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $8.50
    Shipping: $6.50
    TOTAL Cost: $15.00

Charles Scribner's Sons Former library book. Solid binding. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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A Story-Teller's Pack
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK (1897)


    Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop (Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $6.00
    TOTAL Cost: $16.00

decorative gilt on cover and spine, spine age toned, black and white illustrations, text block clean, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1897 EDITION: 380

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A Story-teller's Pack
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (1897)


    Seller: Books From California (Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $3.99
    TOTAL Cost: $23.99

Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and fading. Name of former owner on the ffep, ffep detached. Pages tanned with minor tidemarks.

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A Story-Teller's Pack
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Voyageur Book Shop (Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $4.25
    TOTAL Cost: $24.25

Same date on title and copyright pages. Green cloth cover with gold and lilac title and design. Light wear. Clean text.

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A Story-teller's Pack
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $25.50

First edition. Decorative blue cloth stamped in gray and gilt attributed to Margaret Armstrong. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E.W. Kemble. Slightly cocked with toning and tears and chips on the spine else good only.

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A Story-Teller's Pack
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Scribner, New York (1897)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $20.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $25.50

First edition. Very good minus/hardcover. Hinge cracked. Name on endpaper. Spine brown. Edges of spine bumped. Nice gold gilt design on cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

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A Story-Teller's Pack
    by Frank R. Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Cassell And Company (1897)


    Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $24.57
    Shipping: $6.08
    TOTAL Cost: $30.65

1897. No Edition Remarks. 380 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated by Peter Newell et al. Bookseller's stamp to title page, half title page and rear endpapers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier in places. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Water staining to some pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

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A STORY-TELLER'S PACK .
    by Stockton, Frank R[ichard]

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $25.00
    Shipping: $6.00
    TOTAL Cost: $31.00

Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [ix-x] [1] 2-380 [381-382: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank; first gathering is eight leaves], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Peter Newell, E. W. Kemble, and others, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white and gold (binding design by Margaret Armstrong), t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, second printing (laid paper endpapers). Collects ten stories, including "The Magic Egg" and other fantasies. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1543. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2107. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1001. Tymn (ed). Fantasy Literature, p. 159. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). BAL 18926. Wright (III) 5254. Spine lean, small chip from upper spine end, spine panel tanned, a sound, good copy. (#173240)

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A story-teller's pack
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Carothers and Carothers (Albany, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $30.00
    Shipping: $5.00
    TOTAL Cost: $35.00

viii p., 1 leaf, 380 p. 16 pl. (incl. front.). Publisher's decorated cloth bright, minor wear to head and foot of spine; top-edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed; previous owner's signature at half-title else contents fine. 620 grams.

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Story-teller's pack. (1912) [LeatherBound]
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: (2022)


    Seller: S N Books World (Delhi, India)
    New Book
    Book Price: $39.76
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $39.76

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Reprinted from 1912 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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: 432 Language: English Pages: 432

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A Story-teller's Pack
    by Stockton, Frank R. [Illustrated by Peter Newell, W T Smedley, Frank O Small, Alice Barber Stephens and E W Kemble]:

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Ldn: Cassell and Company, 1897. (1897)


    Seller: Bookstand (Poole, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $36.39
    Shipping: $5.17
    TOTAL Cost: $41.56

A collection of supernatural tales including "The Magic Egg" and "The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby" illustrated with 16 full page plates incl. tissue guarded frontis. Decorated green cloth covers with art nouveau style blind stamping on upper and lower covers, gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. Small library blindstamp to verso of ffep. Slight wear to extremities, page edges slightly dusty, otherwise a VG tight copy. 8vo. 380pp.

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Story-Teller's Pack. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: ()


    Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA (Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $38.50
    Shipping: $5.00
    TOTAL Cost: $43.50

STOCKTON, Frank R. A Story-Teller's Pack. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens and E.W. Kemble. Orig. decorated cloth. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First edition. BAL 18926. Binding designed by Margaret Armstrong.

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A Story Teller's Pack
    by frank R Stockton

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Scribners (1897)


    Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery (ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $45.00
    Shipping: $5.25
    TOTAL Cost: $50.25

Hardcover first edition with clean pages and firm straight spine. gold colored gilding along the top of pages. Goldstone collection plate inside front cover.

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A Story-teller's Pack
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $50.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $55.50

First edition. Decorative blue cloth stamped in gray and gilt attributed to Margaret Armstrong. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E.W. Kemble. Spine slightly cocked and sunned, else near fine. Very attractive binding.

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A Story-Teller's Pack.
    by Stockton, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1897)


    Seller: Wittenborn Art Books (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $70.00
    Shipping: $10.00
    TOTAL Cost: $80.00

8vo., 380 pp., Very Good, Decorated Green Cloth With Gilt Edges of Text Block(top portion), sun-staining, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; front board dinged near head of spine (see image); some staining on end papers; pencil scribbles on end papers; the number 164 ink-scribbled on spine; some splitting in gutters of front end papers; shelf wear. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Provenance: John Ruyle. Binding design by Margeret Armstrong. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.

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The Story-teller's Pack
    by STOCKTON, Frank R. and Bernarda Bryson

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1968)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $85.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $90.50

First edition. Tall octavo. Red cloth gilt. Gilt a little faded, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Bryson's own copy, from the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

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A Story-teller's Pack.
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Cassell, London. (1897)


    Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB (London, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $84.47
    Shipping: $18.93
    TOTAL Cost: $103.40

First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 380, [8] adverts. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated 4.97, bound in at rear. Illustrations by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens and E.W. Kemble. Original art nouveau floral-decorated cloth. Patterned endpapers. Ten stories, including "The Magic Egg" and other fantasies.Contemporary (1897) ownership signature on front pastedown. Front hinge just a little weak. Very good, bright copy.

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A Story-teller's Pack.
    by STOCKTON, Frank R.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)


    Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA (Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $125.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $130.50

viii, 380 pp. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Frontispiece and 15 plates. 12mo, later full crushed morocco, t.e.g., by Sickles. Original decorated cloth spine and front panel bound in at rear. First edition, probably second state. BAL 18926. Short cracks to front joint; joints and edges rubbed; spine sunned. Autograph letter signed by Frank Stockton, discussing his writing, Jan. 22 '86, tipped in.

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