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The Complete Magnus Ridolph: Available Copies
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The Complete Magnus Ridolph by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780934438988
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, San Francisco, CA (1984)
Seller: Third Season Books (Modesto, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $175.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $181.00
Clean, square volume in blue cloth with bump to one board corner. Jacket bright, free of tears, traces of edgewear and slight crinkles to extremities. Nice to handle in new archival protector.
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THE COMPLETE MAGNUS RIDOLPH by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780934438988
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, San Francisco, CA (1984)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books (EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $193.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $193.00
Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.5 in., pp. 204. Midnight blue cloth-covered boards with silver title to spine. Very light rubbing to bottom of boards, and to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the WorldCon in Orlando, Florida; and in 1997 he was named a SFWA Grand Master. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as 'one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.'" (from Jack Vance FB site). Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus
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Seller: Maxwell's House of Books (La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $250.00
Shipping: $4.65
TOTAL Cost: $254.65
A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition and in protective mylar cover. No. 36/200 signed and numbered limited edition copies. Photos available upon request. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.
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THE COMPLETE MAGNUS RIDOLPH by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Hardcover
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Publisher: Underwood-Miller, San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA (1984)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $250.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $257.00
Octavo, cloth. One of 500 copies of the trade edition. The definitive Magnus Ridolph collection, collects the contents of THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH (1966) plus 4 additional stories, one published in hardcover for the first time. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A27j]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (27171) First U. S. hardcover edition and expanded edition.
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The Complete Magnus Ridolph (signed/limited) by Vance, Jack
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780934438988
Publisher: Underwood-Miller: USA (1984)
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS (Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $378.23
Shipping: $20.03
TOTAL Cost: $398.26
Collects all ten stories together for the first time (only six had previously been collected in book form). LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. This is no 102. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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THE COMPLETE MAGNUS RIDOLPH by Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack Vance."
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Underwood-Miller, San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA (1984)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $450.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $457.00
Octavo, cloth. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. The definitive Magnus Ridolph collection, collects the contents of THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH (1966) plus 4 additional stories, one published in hardcover for the first time. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A27j]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (21611) First U. S. hardcover edition and expanded edition.
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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: $458.20
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $470.70
THE COMPLETE MAGNUS RIDOLPH, Underwood-Miller, 1984, first edition, a hint of foxing to the top page edges, else near fine in fine pictorial dust-wrapper. 1/200 copies SIGNED by the author.
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