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Future Tense: Available Copies
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Future Tense by Jack Vance
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine (U2214) ()
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.49
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $7.49
Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2
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Future Tense by Jack Vance
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, New York (1964)
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC. (Torrington, WY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $6.50
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $11.50
G/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, 160pp. Interior clean, no marks except several scuff marks on the inside of the upper wrap. Binding firm. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners slightly rounded. There are faint numbers 6-18 at the top edge of the upper wrap. U2214. Contains four short stories
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Future Tense by Jack Vance
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, NY (1964)
Seller: LONG BEACH BOOKS, INC. (Long Beach, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $8.00
Shipping: $4.50
TOTAL Cost: $12.50
Ballantine book #U2214. Four science fiction short stories. Wear at edges, reading creases, some soiling, rubbed, light interior browning. Size: 4 1/4" x 7"
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Seller: The Book Abyss (St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $9.99
Shipping: $4.90
TOTAL Cost: $14.89
Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- A collection of stories by Jack Vance. . .See photos for additional content. . .
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FUTURE TENSE by Vance, Jack
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc., New York (1964)
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA (Talent, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $17.00
Ballantine book number U2214, with 50¢ price. Cover are by Richard Powers. Collects four of Vance's stories. A very good copy.
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FUTURE TENSE by Vance, Jack
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine (1964)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $11.60
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $24.10
FUTURE TENSE, Ballantine, 1964, first edition, vg in full color pictorial wraps. From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn.
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Seller: SkylarkerBooks (DAYTON, NV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $25.00
An Excellent Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Covers Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. No Store Stamps. Not Remaindered. Thanks And Enjoy.
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Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY (Vars, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $10.72
Shipping: $15.25
TOTAL Cost: $25.97
Mass Market paperback in good + condition, squared, well bound with an unmarked interior text. Scuffing and edgewear with the previous owner's name written on the front free end paper, offsetting to the backsides of the covers. "Four brilliant diversities in science fiction." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages B002BYJQRG
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Seller: John McCormick (Mississauga, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $26.00
Shipping: $5.99
TOTAL Cost: $31.99
----------paperbacks. 5 books, all Jack Vance first edition paperback originals (To Live Forever had a simultaneous hardcover printing). Live Forever has modest edgewear, a glue spot and a tiny chip on the spine, appears unread, and is VG+. Blue World appears unread and is near fine. Future Tense has modest shelfwear and is VG+. Marune has a slight spine tilt, spine and reading creases, and is VG. Space Opera has a price stamp to the bottom pages edge, a faint reading crease, and is VG+.
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FUTURE TENSE by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York (1964)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $45.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $51.00
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books U2214. Collects four novellas, including "Ullward's Retreat," an overpopulation dystopia, and "Dodkin's Job," a computer ruled conformist dystopia. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 270-71 and p. 273. A fine copy. Cover art by Richard Powers. (#87498)
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Future Tense. (signed! first printing!) by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York (1964)
Seller: Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries (Groningen, Netherlands)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $44.85
Shipping: $21.77
TOTAL Cost: $66.62
Paperback, transparant dustjacket. 160 pp. .
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Future Tense - Signed! (aka Dust of Far Suns) by Jack Vance
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ballantine (1964)
Seller: Clarkean Books (Stoney Creek, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $60.00
Shipping: $11.00
TOTAL Cost: $71.00
First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1964 Ballantine U2214 - no hardcover edition. G. Hall Printer File Copy. Very Fine, unread condition. Signed by Vance! Sharp copy of this collection.
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