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Strange Seas and Shores: Available Copies

near fine jacket only, NO BOOK

Remainder spray to bottom edge of textblock. BU.

fine in a fine dust jacket remainder specals, 1971,

fine book, fine jacket remainder specals

G/VG, jacket in mylar, 1st edition, leaned, sticker on copyright, some abrasion to endpapers, flaps trimmed, probably a cleaned up withdrawn library

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Seventeen story collection, 219 pages. Remainder speckling to bottom page edges, light edge wear, light soiling to covers, in jacket with light wear. See photos clphE

STRANGE SEAS AND SHORES, Doubleday, 1971, first edition, two innocuous stains to the rear cover, else near fine in like dust-wrapper.

Stated first edition. Remainder spray on bottom edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket.

First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, faint spine crease, some light creasing to back cover, slight spine lean, some marks to cover, remainder hole to front cover upper right.

Book is in excellent condition, with light wear to covers only, uncreased spne and covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Keywords: Goobers, Aliens, American Dental Association, Chinese Snuffbox

vg+ 1st Ace 1981 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

vg++ 1st Ace 1981 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Signed. First Edition. first edition, signed by the author on the title page, also dedicated and signed by the author on the ffep. dj shows minor wear, tear, and rubbing. pages clean.

Octavo, cloth. Seventeen SF and fantasy stories (mainly fantasy, and mainly from the 1960s), including some of this offbeat author's best, such as 'Take Wooden Indians' and 'The Sources of the Nile.' Witty, knotty, sometimes exasperating." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 355. "Damon Knight once suggested that Avram Davidson was. at his best, the finest short story writer in English since John Collier . Davidson's best stories have been compared to Collier,Saki, Lord Dunsany (in his Jorkens mode), and to R. A. Lafferty, but his effects are, not surprisingly, uniquely his own . Davidson may be always doomed to be under appreciated, but he remains a true original, and, in his own subtle way, one of the greats." - Darrell Schweitzer, David Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 141-142. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-130. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-82]. Spine ends a little bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slight wear at the spine ends a small rub mark at lower right front corner. Publisher's review slip laid in. (33294)

First Edition. First edition 1971, Review copy with publishers publicity slip laid inside. Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription to David G. Hartwell on the front paste-down: "For David Hartwell / with best wishes / Avram Davidson / Seattle, March 20 / 82." Additionally signed on the title page by Davidson. Seventeen SF and fantasy stories (mainly fantasy, and mainly from the 1960s), including some of this offbeat author's best, such as 'Take Wooden Indians' and 'The Sources of the Nile.' Witty, knotty, sometimes exasperating." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 355. "Damon Knight once suggested that Avram Davidson was. at his best, the finest short story writer in English since John Collier . Davidson's best stories have been compared to Collier,Saki, Lord Dunsany (in his Jorkens mode), and to R. A. Lafferty, but his effects are, not surprisingly, uniquely his own . Davidson may be always doomed to be under appreciated, but he remains a true original, and, in his own subtle way, one of the greats." - Darrell Schweitzer, David Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 141-142. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-130. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-82. Mild discoloration along the gutter margins of the endpapers (common interaction of paper with binding glue), a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at lower spine end and age-darkening to spine panel, mostly internal. (#157316)

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the pastedown: "For David Hartwell / with best wishes / Avram Davidson / Seattle, March 20 / 82." Additionally signed on the title page Collection of 17 stories by outstanding American science fiction author Avram Davidson, incuding two his his finest novellas "Take Wooden Indians" and "The Sources of the Nile." "Witty, knotty, sometimes exasperating." - David Pringle. "very quickly established a reputation for sometimes obtrusive literacy, considerable wit, and the estranged, sidling worldliness that has evoked comparisons of his work with writers like Jorge Luis Borges, and which justifies a sense that later writers, like Gene Wolfe, found him exemplary" - SFE. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-130 Blue cloth. Fine copy in very good plus dust jacket (spine panel slightly toned). Inscribed by the author