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Strange Seas and Shores: Available Copies

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fine , in a fine dust jacket , remainder specals, 1971,

Contains 17 stories by Davidson. The author won the Hugo Award and the Edgar Award. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book. Rubbing to the dust jacket, but there are no chips or tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages

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

The jacket is protected with a mylar sleeve.

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

1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNATURE of author attached to front end page on cut return address sheet: "Avram Davidson, PO Box 693, Snoqualmie WA 98065". Remainder spackle on bottom. DJ rubbed, $4.95 price on DJ flap.

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

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. 0.9

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

"First Edition" on its copyright page. This book is in very good condition, marred only by wear on its spine ends, plus some spine lean. Its binding is sound. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in near fine condition: whole, bright, and unmarked, with traces of wear on the ends of its spine and flap folds, but otherwise unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

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.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. 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. Purple remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169491)

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. 0.9

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)