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The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy: Available Copies
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The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy by Davidson, Avram
Paperback
ISBN: 9781955676465
Publisher: Or All The Seas With Oysters Publishing LLC. (2024)
Seller: California Books (Miami, FL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $30.00
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Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited (Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom)
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fine hardcover copy in a fine, George Barr, dustwrapper. 1st edition. Engelbert Esztherhazy, scion, of aristocracy in Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania (fourth largest empire in Europe [the Turks were fifth]), could not have cared less. He had served his country and his Emperor in war.
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Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS (Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom)
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Book Price: $60.70
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Collects thirteen sf stories featuring Eszterhazy, with a foreword by Gene Wolfe and afterword by Davidson. 366 pages. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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Seller: Last Exit Books (Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $74.95
Shipping: $6.99
TOTAL Cost: $81.94
Hardcover. 8vo. Owlswick Press, Philadelphia, PA. 1990. 366 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Still sealed in the original shrinkwrap. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This invaluable collection of Avram Davidson's resonant, witty short stories describes some incidents in the career of many-times-Doctor Engelbert Eszterhazy, loyal subject of the Triune Monarchy of Scythia- Pannonia-Transbalkania, located in a nineteenth-century Europe whose political landscape will be, after a little reflection, familiar to most fantasy readers. Enquire with Doctor Eszterhazy into curious matters--- the lurley; the old woman who lived with a bear; gingerbread men; dancing goats; and more. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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THE ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR ESZTERHAZY . by Davidson, Avram
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780913896280
Publisher: Owlswick Press, Philadelphia (1990)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $100.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $107.00
Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of thirteen Eszterhazy stories, including eight first collected in THE ENQUIRIES OF DOCTOR ESZTERHAZY (Warner Books 1975), with an introduction by Gene Wolfe and an afterword by Davidson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#175410)
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The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780913896280
Publisher: Owlswick Press, United States (1990)
Seller: Apple Grove Books (Herts, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $63.46
Shipping: $46.88
TOTAL Cost: $110.34
Book measures 24x16cm,366 pp. Bound in original publishers yellow cloth, with title lettering on spine. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in near fine condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.
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