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A Rose for Ecclesiastes: Available Copies

Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers rubbed at edges, scratch on front cover, no inscriptions. 189 pages + 3 pages of publisher's adverts

paperback, 189pp, pages browning, text otherwise clean and sound, cover edges rubbed, light creasing on spine. Good condition. ISBN: 0586029206

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Ace M-155; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 191 pages; [SIGNED] 1966 Ace Books M-155. Mass market paperback in glossy color pictorial covers from art by Jack Gaughan. 1st book printing of Zelazny's Nebula Award winning novelette, The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth. Signed by the author in ballpoint on the title page. Light shelf rubbing to cover edges and trace soiling to covers. Solid clean copy, uncommon in signed examples. VG ; Signed by Author

A superb copy of this paperback from 1969. It is almost unread looking. Clean and tight, and firm bound. No loose pages or names written inside. Great 1960s cover design. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng

First UK edition hardcover. Spine a bit ridged, slight shelfwear and soil, endsheets toned. The DJ in mylar is price clipepd, worn to spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages

Book leans slightly to the right. Red boards and spine, silver printing on spine. Spine slightly stained and faded at head and tail. Indentation in top left corner of back cover. Edges, endpapers and some pages foxed and stained. Pages browned and thumbed. Else book is in good condition. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed, with some staining and foxing, most noticeably on flaps. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Collects four long stories: introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. The author's third book and first short story collection, issued earlier as a paperback original in the USA as FOUR FOR TOMORROW (1967). Top of page edges shows light scattered spotting, part-browning to both free endpapers, an almost fine copy in a VG+ pictorial (bright, unfaded) dustjacket. First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

207pp.; HB lt.burgundy w/silver; some rub w/lt.fox,forede; lt.sun on spine w/clean,tight pgs. DJ orange w/blk.&white-pic.cover; slight rub w/lt.fox on flaps, corner-cut. Four Stories: The Furies; The Graveyard Heart; The Doors of His Face, Lamps of His Mouth; & A Rose for Ecclesiastes

Octavo, boards. The author's third book and first short story collection, issued earlier as a paperback original in the U.S. as Four For Tomorrow (1967). [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-514]. Tape ghosts to paste downs with some stains to front and rear covers, a very good copy in a fine dust jacket with no tape markings. (31728) First British (and first hardcover) edition.

Octavo, boards. The author's third book and first short story collection, issued earlier as a paperback original in the U.S. as Four For Tomorrow (1967). [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-514]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a 12 mm closed tear to the upper left rear panel, a touch of rubbing to extremities and slight foxing to the flaps, a bright copy. (7419) First British (and first hardcover) edition.

First UK edition. "First published in Great Britain 1969" on the copyright page. Issued earlier in the US as Four For Tomorrow. Sm 8vo. 207 pp. Red cloth boards with silver titles to the spine. Orange, price-intact jacket. Signed by Zelazny on the title page. Fine in a fine jacket. Ref: Currey-Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors. From the Georgia Sales Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Collection.

A ROSE FOR ECCLESIASTES, Rupert Hart Davis, 1969, first English edition and first hard-cover edition of the work published in the U.S. as FOUR FOR TOMORROW, some light dust-soiling to the t.p.e.'s, else just about fine in fine dust-wrapper.

Fine Book & Jacket, 1st ed UK 1st pt, Signed to title page ,in a protective cover

Signed; Inscribed by Author(s). Book is lightly browned around the page block. Unclipped dust jacket (30s. net). Inscribed "To Joan - All best Roger Zelazny" on the title page. This is the 1st hardcover edition of a pbo entitled "Four for Tomorrow".