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Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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Smire: Available Copies
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Smire: An Acceptance in the Third Person / By Branch Cabell by Cabell, James Branch
Hardcover
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Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company (1937)
Seller: Booksavers of Virginia (Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.00
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $19.99
Binding tight, pages unmarked except for numbers on front endpaper and bookplate inside front cover. Age-toned, some light foxing. Cover shelf worn, bumped corners. No dj. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
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The nightmare has triplets : an author's note on Smire / Branch Cabell 1937 [Leather Bound] by James Branch Cabell
Hardcover
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Publisher: (2024)
Seller: S N Books World (Delhi, India) New Book
Book Price: $29.49
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1937 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English
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Smire, an Acceptance in the Third Person by Cabell, (James) Branch
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Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY (1937)
Seller: Lorraine Street Books (Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $30.50
311pp. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Light soil, spine ends bent and lightly frayed, corners lightly bent. Pages toning, interior unmarked. No dust jacket.
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L'INCUBO. ("Smirt, Smith, Smire"). Con 16 illustrazioni di Fabrizio Clerici. by BRANCH CABELL James.
Hardcover
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Publisher: Mondadori, Milano (1949)
Seller: studio bibliografico pera s.a.s. (LUCCA, Italy)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $16.82
Shipping: $43.54
TOTAL Cost: $60.36
Prima edizione nella collezione. Unica traduzione autorizzata di Olga Ceretti Borsini. Cm.20,5x13,5. Pg.608. Legatura in tela editoriale con sovracoperta policroma. Collezione "Il Ponte", n°20. 900 gr.
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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: $58.00
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $70.50
SMIRE, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first edition, fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with several tiny nicks to the base of the rear dust-wrapper panel. The final volume in the SMIRT & SMITH sequence.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $39.92
Shipping: $32.97
TOTAL Cost: $72.89
nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - '[Cabell's] most substantial post-Biography fantasy was 'The Nightmare Has Triplets,' a sequence comprising Smirt: An Urban Nightmare, Smith: A Sylvan Interlude, and Smire: An Acceptance in the Third Person. This explicitly emulates the logic and geography of dreams . . . successfully mistly and dreamlike . . .' --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $57.75
Shipping: $33.68
TOTAL Cost: $91.43
nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - '[Cabell's] most substantial post-Biography fantasy was 'The Nightmare Has Triplets,' a sequence comprising Smirt: An Urban Nightmare, Smith: A Sylvan Interlude, and Smire: An Acceptance in the Third Person. This explicitly emulates the logic and geography of dreams . . . successfully mistly and dreamlike . . .' --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $45.66
Shipping: $53.33
TOTAL Cost: $98.99
Über den AutorAmerican writer James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is renowned for his original works of satire and fantasy fiction from the early 20th century. Cabell, who was born in Richmond, Virginia on April 14, 1879, was raised in .
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Smire: An Acceptance In The Third Person by Cabell, James Branch
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co.: NY (1937)
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS (Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $110.83
Shipping: $19.45
TOTAL Cost: $130.28
''First Edition'' stated on copyright page. Third in the fantasy trilogy, following Smirt (1934) and Smith (1935), all as by ''Branch Cabell''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.
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Seller: Turgid Tomes (Nashville, TN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $150.00
Shipping: $6.75
TOTAL Cost: $156.75
Greenwood Press, circa 1970. Hard cover, first edition. Ex-library copy with the usual markings, otherwise Good condition with no dust jacket, as issued.
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