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Ascendancies: Available Copies

First Award Books Edition. Good clean copy. Edge wear. Tanning along fore edges. Some rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases.

Paperback, in Near Fine condition, straight spine without creases, no stamps or writing, paper is tanning with age, nice shape for an older book,

Reading copy. May have signs of wear and previous use scuffs, library copy, highlighting, writing, and underlining . Dust jacket may be missing. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if youâre not satisfied with purchase.Ships USPS Media Mail

Mass market paperback, 224 pages; gently used, not abused, but spine creased and slanted, rubbing along cover edges, two store stamps inside front cover, pages age toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Compton's Chronocules, and his very scarce Nomansland (buy two or more and save on postage!).

From the heavens fell a wondrous substance - and a deadly plague! 224 pages. CONDITION: a bright, tight, square, unmarked, uncreased, likely unread copy with negligible shelf-wear - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.

Advance reading copy. Faded spine; bumped a little at the heel of the spine.

Crease on the back inside flap of the DJ.

JANUARY 1985 EDITION. COVER HAS READING CREASES ALONG SPINE WITH LIGHT SHELF WEAR. "Z' STAMPS ON TOP OF PAGE ENDS. 224 PAGE TEXT HAS VERY LIGHT WEAR. SCIENCE FICTION. 4.25'' X 7''. WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation / G. P. Putnam's Sons 1980 Hardcover. 0399124845 First US edition. "It is 1998. For fifteen years, Earth has been blessed with a gift from the gods: Moondrift, a monthly fall of a dustlike substance which, if collected and processed within forty-eight hours, provides a perfectly clean, safe source of energy". 224 pages. Owner's name stamped to the top edge else Near Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. See photos clph Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Rubs to the dus t jacket's corners and to the base of its spine.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine book in fine dj.

Prompt Shipment, in Boxes, Tracking First Editions are First Printings. . Science Fiction; Good used mass market paperback, may have some tanning due to age, clean pages, prompt shipping and tracking

Prompt Shipment, in Boxes, Tracking First Editions are First Printings. . First edition. Very good in torn lightly soiled dust jacket.

Prompt Shipment, in Boxes, Tracking First Editions are First Printings. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition

[1st printing](1980) Dj photo by Alexander Wilensky. Tanning; edgewear.

First edition. Very good or better in an about Very good dust jacket. Tiny ink mark on end paper. Dustwrapper rubbed with tearing along edges, browning, some wear.

Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. "Energy-giving 'manna' falls from the sky. The world's economy booms, but then people start disappearing mysteriously." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 20. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-142. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#1510)

Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U.S. edition. "Energy-giving 'manna' falls from the sky. The world's economy booms, but then people start disappearing mysteriously." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 20. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-142. A fine copy. (#22024)

Referenced in Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1987, 4-142. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with light crimping at the head of the spine panel.

Review slip laid in. As new, never read.

First edition, hardcover, has a minor lean to the binding, very shallow bowing to the covers, and slight bumps to the spine ends and upper cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has a moderate bump with a touch of creasing to the head of the spine, mild shelfwear to the cover edges and corners, and some faint rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1987, 4-142. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.

VERY good first issue hardcover in pristine, unfaded, unclipped dustjacket from a remarkable collection of Gollancz fiction. Apparently unread and unopened for several decades. CE

Shelf 454 Text clean; book tight; DJ has a wee bit of very light browning; Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS.

Octavo, boards. First edition. "Energy-giving 'manna' falls from the sky. The world's economy booms, but then people start disappearing mysteriously." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 20. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-142. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#1509)

Octavo, boards. First edition. "Energy-giving 'manna' falls from the sky. The world's economy booms, but then people start disappearing mysteriously." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 20. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-142. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169578)

Ascendancies by D. G. Compton (First UK Edition) Gollancz File Copy A sharp bright unread copy. A bright yellow jacket with a minor closed tear to cover edge.

A fine copy. 

COMPTON, D.G. ASCENDANCIES. NY: Berkley Publishing Company, [1980]. 8vo., black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Compton on the title page. A novel by one of England's foremost creator's of speculative fiction. Near fine (faint dampstain lower edge of rear cover); related shallow dampstain to the bottom edge of the rear panel d/j. $85.00.