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Space Chantey: Available Copies
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Pity About Earth / Space Chantey by Hill, Ernest; Lafferty, R. A.
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace (1968)
Seller: The Book Bin (Salem, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $15.50
Ace Double H-56. Cover price $0.60. Two books bound dos a dos: 'Pity About Earth' by Ernest Hill, and 'Space Chantey' by R. A. Lafferty. Pity had previously appeared in a hardback edition but this is its first paperback appearance; this is the true first edition of 'Space Chantey.' Wraps very good with light toning and light shelf-wear. Spine uncreased. Binding sound. Pages toned, text unmarked. Cover art and interior illustration by Vaughn Bode for 'Space Chantey,' and for 'Pity About Earth' by Frank Kelly Freas.
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Space Chantey / Pity About Earth (Ace Double, H-56) by R. A. Lafferty,Ernest Hill
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace Books (1968)
Seller: Once Upon A Time Books (Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $17.55
Shipping: $3.95
TOTAL Cost: $21.50
This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
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Seller: AwesomeBooks (Wallingford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.56
Shipping: $6.47
TOTAL Cost: $22.03
R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Space Chantey & Pity About Earth by LAFFERTY, R. A. & Ernest Hill
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace, New York (1968)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $23.50
Very good minus paperback. 2 titles in one book. Name on endpapers. Pages light brown, clean text. About one inch on bottom end of spine top layer peeled off.
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Seller: Bahamut Media (Reading, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.56
Shipping: $9.05
TOTAL Cost: $24.61
Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
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Space Chantey / Pity About Earth, Volume H-56 (Ace Double) by Lafferty, R. A. (Author); Hill, Ernest (Author)
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Ace Books, New York, New York (1968)
Seller: Adventures Underground (Richland, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $20.50
Shipping: $5.99
TOTAL Cost: $26.49
Very light shelf wear, rippling to the spine, and light creasing to the rear hinge with faint rubbing to the front cover and slight tanning to the inside of the covers.
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R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels : Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
Paperback
ISBN: 9781473213418
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Sep 2018 (2018)
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $23.08
Shipping: $33.03
TOTAL Cost: $56.11
Neuware - Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty drew more from traditional oral storytelling techniques than from the usual pulp roots of SF. His inventive style and fondness for tall tales marked him out from his contemporaries, and writers of the calibre of Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe acknowledge him as a major influence and force in the field. His fiction has garnered numerous award wins and nominations and he has been given the prestigious SFWA Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. This volume contains three of his early novels: the Hugo- and Nebula-shortlisted Past Master, space opera re-telling of The Odyssey, Space Chantey, and Fourth Mansions, also shortlisted for the Nebula.
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Space Chantey by Lafferty, R A - Vaughn Bode (illustrator)
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dennis Dobson (1976)
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo (Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $75.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $81.50
First hardcover edition with chapter head illustrations by Vaughn Bode. Thumb-soil mark to foredge of pages, VG in jacket with 2 tiny tears to rear panel, not price clipped.
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Space Chantey. by Lafferty (R.A.)
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Dennis Dobson (1976)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $53.41
Shipping: $32.41
TOTAL Cost: $85.82
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, each chapter with a headpiece by Vaughan Bode, pp. 123, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge slightly dusty, one or two spots to edges, dustjacket with a design by Richard Weaver, price-clipped, very good. Also the first hardback edition of a story that first appeared as an Ace Double in 1968.
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Space Chantey by Lafferty, R. A.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London (1976)
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS (Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $73.44
Shipping: $19.45
TOTAL Cost: $92.89
SF novel. First published as half of an Ace Double paperback (H-56) in 1968: this UK hardcover includes the Vaughn Bode illustrations from that edition. Page edges show light spotting, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket showing just a little edge. First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
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Space Chantey by Lafferty, R A
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dennis Dobson (1976)
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA (Portland, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $100.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $105.50
First edition stated. Black cloth boards under Richard Weaver illustrated dust jacket priced at 2.75. Owner's name, date, and place to front endpaper, else a fine copy. DJ has mild fading to spine panel (letters are dark yellow instead of orange.)
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Space Chantey by Lafferty, R. A.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Dennis Dobson: London (1976)
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS (Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $110.83
Shipping: $19.45
TOTAL Cost: $130.28
SF novel. First published as half of an Ace Double paperback (H-56) in 1968: this UK hardcover includes the Vaughn Bode illustrations from that edition. fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
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Space Chantey by Lafferty, R.A.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dobson, London (1976)
Seller: Transformer (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $106.83
Shipping: $33.71
TOTAL Cost: $140.54
123pp. 8 inches. Unused unread book. Black buckram, silver titles spine. As new with lightly bumped top of spine, foxed tops and sparse speckle to fore-edges. Internally pristine. In pictorial jacket, minor shelfwear to edges, faint age-spotting, fox spots to back leaf-fold. Jacket art by Richard Weaver, interior illustrations by Vaughn Bode. chapter heading vignettes. Comedic apace opera loosely referencing Homer's Odyssey. Scarce. 300g. (Science Fiction, Comedic, Space Opera) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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SPACE CHANTEY by Lafferty, R[aphael] A[loysius]
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dennis Dobson, London (1976)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $150.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $156.00
Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-624. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#3080)
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Space Chantey (Dobson Science Fiction series) by LAFFERTY, R. A.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780234770962
Publisher: Dobson, 1st UK edition, 1976 (1976)
Seller: Sutton Books (Norwich, VT, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $245.00
Shipping: $4.50
TOTAL Cost: $249.50
Hbk 128pp 1st UK edition illustr dj lightly rubbed at extremities with a toned line along dj flap where perhaps a piece of tape was laid down but not price-clipped (£2.75) and otherwise clean and bright and now in protective sleeve brown boards with silver-gilt spine titles showing very tiny bumps at corner tips a white sticker has been affixed to the publication data page (perhaps covering over a previous ownerÕs stamp) otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy becoming hard to find; in stock in the USA and available for immediate dispatch
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