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Chateau D'If: Available Copies
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Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $9.25
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $13.00
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Chateau D'If: And Other Stories by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780887330988
Publisher: Underwood Books, Novato, CA - Lancaster, PA (1990)
Seller: NWJbooks (Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $30.00
Shipping: $10.00
TOTAL Cost: $40.00
First printing. White covers in a pictorial dust jacket - protected in a clear wrapper. Ex-library book with the usual markings - but none on the very impressive dust jacket!
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CHATEAU D'IF AND OTHER STORIES by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780887330988
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, San Francisco, CA (1990)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books (EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $50.00
Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 284. White cloth-covered boards with blue title to spine. Very light rubbing to board edges. Very light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. Contains five, short science fiction novellas: 1) Abercrombie Station; 2) Cholwell's Chickens; 3) Chateau D'If; 4) Gift of Gab; 5) Rumfuddle. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the WorldCon in Orlando, Florida; and in 1997 he was named a SFWA Grand Master. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as 'one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.'" (from Jack Vance FB site). Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus
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Seller: Barsoom Books (torrance, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $47.93
Shipping: $5.95
TOTAL Cost: $53.88
1st ed/1st printing, 1990. Book is lovely, square and solid, apparently unread, with lovely dust jacket in protective mylar Brodart cover. The only flaws: some age-spotting to the top and sides of the pages, and edges of the boards, top and bottom. You'll feel like you could jump a tall building with a single bound when this book arrives at your doorstep!
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CHATEAU D'IF: AND OTHER STORIES by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Hardcover
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Publisher: Underwood-Miller, Novato, California, Lancaster, PA (1990)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $57.00
Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. Trade edition. Collects five novellas, four of the five are early works from the 1950s. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A83]. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some mild rubs to the spine panel. (21660)
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CHATEAU D'IF AND OTHER STORIES by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780887330988
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, Novato, CA (1990)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $60.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $67.00
Octavo, 284 pages; VG-/VG; spine pictorial, with red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; price uncut '$29.95'; mild soiling to boards; some soiling to upper edge of textblock; pages clean; shelved below Front Counter. 1350952. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $65.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $72.00
Octavo, 284 pages; Very Good/Very Good; spine blue and patterned with red lettering; dust jacket protected in mylar covering, price uncut '$29.95'; minor shelfwear, including age-toning to jacket flaps; light foxing to top of textblock; shelved under Front Counter. 1366343. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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CHATEAU D'IF: AND OTHER STORIES by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, Novato, California, Lancaster, PA (1990)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $75.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $82.00
Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. Trade edition. Collects five novellas, four of the five are early works from the 1950s. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A83]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (27231)
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CHATEAU D'IF: AND OTHER STORIES by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, Novato, California, Lancaster, PA (1990)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $75.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $82.00
Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. Trade edition. Collects five novellas, four of the five are early works from the 1950s. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance A83]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (27200)
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