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Past Master: Available Copies
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Past Master by Lafferty, R. A.
Paperback
ISBN: 9781598536461
Publisher: Library of America (2019)
Seller: Falling Waters Booksellers (Morganton, GA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $8.00
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $12.99
An unread copy with a light bump to the top of the spine.
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Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace (1968)
Seller: Inklings Books (Germantown, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $9.00
Shipping: $5.57
TOTAL Cost: $14.57
Ace H-54 60 cents -- Ace paperback original first printing. This copy is solid and tightly bound. Aside from a penciled price on the fly, the pages are clean (if tanned) and tight. Cover has some ancient rain spots, a bumped bottom corner, and some minor flaws. Otherwise, I might have called this one "Fine". Scarce in the first printing.
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Past Master by Lafferty, R. A.
Paperback
ISBN: 9781598536461
Publisher: Library of America, The (2019)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.23
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $15.23
Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Past Master by Lafferty, R. A.
Paperback
ISBN: 9781598536461
Publisher: Library of America, The (2019)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.23
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $15.23
Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Past Master (Paperback) by R.A. Lafferty
Paperback
ISBN: 9781598536461
Publisher: The Library of America, New York (2019)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.00
Paperback. Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of AmericaWolf HallmeetsThe Man in the High Castlein this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of AmericaPlucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered?The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel-but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty "a genius, an oddball, a madman"; Gene Wolfe calls him "our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience. "Past Master copyright A1968 by R. A. Lafferty." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio by Lafferty, R. A.; Russ, Joanna; Delany, Samuel R.; Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781598535020
Publisher: Library of America (2019)
Seller: Omaha Library Friends (Omaha, NE, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: As New
Book Price: $15.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $21.50
The Library of America #322. No dust jacket, no slip case. Book is like new in all respects. Decorative endpapers and silk ribbon bookmark. Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.
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Seller: Barsoom Books (torrance, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $15.97
Shipping: $5.95
TOTAL Cost: $21.92
1st printing. This book is square, solid, unread with a perfect spine. You'll be so thrilled when you receive this book you'll feel as though you've wandered over the hills and far away, beyond the fields we know. In protective archival bag! NOTE: The book is lightly age-toned and has a little light edge wear, very minor.
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Past Master by Lafferty, R. A.
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Library of America, New York (2019)
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare (Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $24.50
A fine copy. ; Octavo.
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American Science Fiction : Four Classic Novels 1968-1969: Past Master/ Picnic on Paradise/ Nova/ Emphyrio by Wolfe, Gary K.; Lafferty, R. A.; Russ, Joanna; Delany, Samuel R.; Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781598535020
Publisher: Library of America (2019)
Seller: GreatBookPrices (Columbia, MD, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $26.63
Shipping: $2.64
TOTAL Cost: $29.27
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322) : Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio by Vance, Jack, Russ, Joanna, Delany, Samuel R., Lafferty, R. A.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781598535020
Publisher: Library of America, The (2019)
Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $29.41
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $29.41
Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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American Science Fiction : Four Classic Novels 1968-1969: Past Master/ Picnic on Paradise/ Nova/ Emphyrio by Wolfe, Gary K.; Lafferty, R. A.; Russ, Joanna; Delany, Samuel R.; Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781598535020
Publisher: Library of America (2019)
Seller: GreatBookPrices (Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: As New
Book Price: $27.15
Shipping: $2.64
TOTAL Cost: $29.79
Unread book in perfect condition.
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Past Master by Lafferty, R.A.
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace Books, Inc, New York, NY, USA (1968)
Seller: Bay Used Books (Sudbury, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $14.50
Shipping: $17.57
TOTAL Cost: $32.07
Fair condition. Moderate to heavy wear. Binding is starting to loosen, pages age toned. Discoloration of inside front & back cover, possibly from water damage. Pictures available upon request. . nd.
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