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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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Mandrake: Available Copies
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Mandrake (Penguin Books. No. 2491.) by Susan Cooper
Paperback
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Publisher: Penguin (1966)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $47.06
Shipping: $6.53
TOTAL Cost: $53.59
1966. Reprint. 237 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $174.00
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $186.50
MANDRAKE, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964, first edition, some soil and light staining, else vg in wraps. Uncorrected proof of the authors first book. Quite scarce.
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Mandrake. by Cooper, Susan.
Hardcover
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Publisher: London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. (1964)
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA. (Whitley Bay, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $1045.93
Shipping: $20.24
TOTAL Cost: $1066.17
First edition. Octavo, pp., 253, [1]. Publisher's original black cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in the original unclipped fuscia dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock. Top edge dyed red. Light spots of foxing to jacket verso, light soiling to lower panel, small indentation to upper corner. Corners slightly bumped but cloth clean and gilt bright. Small, neat ownership signature in blue ink to front free end-paper, otherwise internally clean. A very good, or better copy in like jacket. The debut novel by the renowned Susan Cooper better known for her acclaimed Dark is Rising series of children's fantasy novels. One of Cooper's few works of speculative fiction for adults the novel depicts a dystopian future England led by the dictatorial Prime Minister Mandrake. The rare first edition of the author's first novel.
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