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I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: Available Copies

, , good, chipped spine ends and corners, darker rear jacket only, NO BOOK

FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, orange heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light fading & bruising to edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light foxing)

great copy no nicks or faults vg++ book in near fine dw 1st hardcover Eyre and Spottiswoode 1965 . In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (16s). Fantasy and Time Stories. Jacket has faults - namely patchy edge/shelf wear, numerous small marks, patchy browning (including to spine), a few very small (approx. 2mms) tears, little creasing/rubbing to edges, a little patchy loss to top surface, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, a little pushing/bumping to corners (which has resulted in tiny loss in a couple of places), a little patchy browning/odd spots of foxing/small marks to reverse (white side), little creasing/rubbing/browning/small marks/minor foxing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd very small mark and a little pushing/rubbing/fading to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/(quite) heavy foxing to top edge of pages. Couple of creases to half-title page. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. End-papers tanned with the odd small mark. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Collects ten fantasy and sf stories.The US edition was issued two years earlier, and is uncommon, This UK hardcover is very uncommon. Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

Contents are tight and clean, with no inscriptions, no foxing, and no remainder mark. Some tanning to pages. Cover is in excellent condition, with an uncreased/unbroken spine. An excellent condition book, perfect for any collector of sci-fi/fantasy/horror books. 172pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Pan Books. 1968. First edition in paperback. Covers are slightly sunned, spine slightly creased and pages a little browned o/w a very clean and sound copy of a scarce item.

A smart first UK edition of this collection of science fiction and fantasy stories from American author Jack Finney. First UK edition. Uncommon as the UK first. A collection of ten short stories from Walter Braden "Jack" Finney, an American writer best known for his science fiction and thrillers. Finney's greatest success came with his science fiction novel Time and Again (1970) which involves time travel to the past, a theme he had experimented with previously in short stories. Containing a selection of his fantasy and time-based stories, including: Where the Cluetts Are, Prison Legend, Time has No Boundaries, The Coin Collector, and The Love Letter. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. The odd small mark to the panels with a 1" closed tear to the head of the spine sympathetically repaired with tape to the internal side. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine

1st edition, 1st printing. Fine in near fine jacket. DJ is price clipped, minor colour transfer to edges. Book comes protected in mylar cover.

Near fine first printing. The binding is tight and square. Previous owner's name in pen on front end paper and previous owner's embossed stamp to bottom corner of title page. Otherwise pages unmarked. Very good jacket has been price clipped. Minor loss to bottom of spine. One inch closed tear to top of back cover. Overall a very nice collection of fantasy stories by Finney.

------------( 1st printing of the First paperback Edition ) --- paperback, a solid Very Good to Very Good+ copy, a bit of very light wear, a hint of age toning to paper, signed by Finney on the title page without inscription, a rare paperback and even more so signed ( I would suspect that there cannot be more than a few signed copies of this paperback), this contains: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; Love Letter; Coin Collector; Intrepid Aeronaut; Time Has No Boundaries; Prison Legend; Possible Candidate for Presidency; Hey Look at Me; Where the Cluetts are; Love, Your Magic Spell is Everywhere, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 4.5w x 7h Inches