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The Complete Magnus Ridolph: Available Copies

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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

Fine book, , Fine jacket, , one of 500 copies

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.

fine book, in a fine dust jacket ,

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).

SIGNED by Vance. A fine book with a trace of edge wear to the bottom edges of the boards. Jacket has a pinhead sized dot with an oval of lighter surface around it. The spine is slightly darker and there is a 1/4" smudge line at the upper rear spine edge. All jackets in mylar wraps.

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.

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.

F/NF SIGNED by Vance, limited edition. Designated Presentation Copy. The jacket has trace edge wear top and bottom of the spine and a finger tip sized slightly darker spot top rear corner at the wrap around. All book jackets in mylar wraps.

#35 of 200 signed by Vance on the limitation page. Dust jacket art by Virgil Finlay. As new, never read