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Standard used acceptable condition. Wear and creasing to cover and spine. Delivery Confirmation with every order.
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near fine
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HardCover in DustJacket. VERY GOOD PLUS/VERY GOOD PLUS. Xlib. Clean and Bright. Binding Tight; slight slant.
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SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
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First edition, first printing. A fine copy in a near fine DJ. The book is fine but has remainder spray on the bottom edge. The DJ is bright and sharp but has a soil line along one spine edge. No marks or damage. See my photos, more available upon request. All books are in my possession and ship securely packed in cardboard boxes.
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fine in a fine dust jacket remainder specals, 1971,
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The jacket is protected with a mylar sleeve.
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Contains 17 stories by Davidson. The author won the Hugo Award and the Edgar Award. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book. Rubbing to the dust jacket, but there are no chips or tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Seventeen story collection, 219 pages. Remainder speckling to bottom page edges, light edge wear, light soiling to covers, in jacket with light wear. See photos bx7E
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Stated first edition. Remainder spray on bottom edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket. B001R64SCW
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STRANGE SEAS AND SHORES, Doubleday, 1971, first edition, two innocuous stains to the rear cover, else near fine in like dust-wrapper.
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vg+ 1st Ace 1981 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
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Book is in excellent condition, with light wear to covers only, uncreased spne and covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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vg++ 1st Ace 1982 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
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Collection of short stories
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Octavo, cloth. First edition. Seventeen SF and fantasy stories (mainly fantasy, and mainly from the 1960s), including some of this offbeat author's best, such as 'Take Wooden Indians' and 'The Sources of the Nile.' Witty, knotty, sometimes exasperating." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 355. "Damon Knight once suggested that Avram Davidson was. at his best, the finest short story writer in English since John Collier . Davidson's best stories have been compared to Collier,Saki, Lord Dunsany (in his Jorkens mode), and to R. A. Lafferty, but his effects are, not surprisingly, uniquely his own . Davidson may be always doomed to be under appreciated, but he remains a true original, and, in his own subtle way, one of the greats." - Darrell Schweitzer, David Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 141-142. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-130. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-82. Purple remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169491)
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Remainder spray to the bottom of the page edges, else a sharp copy of the First Edition in jacket. INSCRIBED twice by Davidson. SIGNED twicw and initialed once! Humorous short Inscriptions. ; 220 pages; Signed by Author
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Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription to David G. Hartwell on the front paste-down: "For David Hartwell / with best wishes / Avram Davidson / Seattle, March 20 / 82." Additionally signed on the title page by Davidson. Seventeen SF and fantasy stories (mainly fantasy, and mainly from the 1960s), including some of this offbeat author's best, such as 'Take Wooden Indians' and 'The Sources of the Nile.' Witty, knotty, sometimes exasperating." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 355. "Damon Knight once suggested that Avram Davidson was. at his best, the finest short story writer in English since John Collier . Davidson's best stories have been compared to Collier,Saki, Lord Dunsany (in his Jorkens mode), and to R. A. Lafferty, but his effects are, not surprisingly, uniquely his own . Davidson may be always doomed to be under appreciated, but he remains a true original, and, in his own subtle way, one of the greats." - Darrell Schweitzer, David Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 141-142. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-130. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-82. Mild discoloration along the gutter margins of the endpapers (common interaction of paper with binding glue), a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at lower spine end and age-darkening to spine panel, mostly internal. (#157316)
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