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The Digging Leviathan: Available Copies

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Moderately read paperback, with small triangular chip missing from bottom of front panel. U-7212

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Stated Ace original, 1984. Very Good condition. Rubs to the book's corners and spine tips. 2 1/4" diagonal crease at the front cover's upper right corner. Some stress creases at the front spine seam. Tanning to the covers' versos. Mild tanning to the page margins. Cover art by James Gurney.

An uncommon book. Interiors fading. Bookstore stamp.

276pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, sunning; foxing on inner covers, endpapers and textblock edges, page patina throughout, bookstore stamp on frontleaf.

1st pr. SIGNED by AUTHOR on the title page. Book is square, solid, and unread. Once in receipt of this beauty, you'll feel as though you've journeyed over the hills and far away, beyond the field we know -- you'll be THAT enchanted! In protective archival bag! NOTE: Age-toning and a little evidence of handling. At the extreme upper lefthand corner of the cover is a faint, beige stain where the removal of a decades-old sticker left a 'ghost-stain.' There are two spots about to chip that could be fixed with tape either visibly or invisibly, one at the bottom edge of the front cover, and one on the left edge of the back cover (but I leave this up to the buyer).

Condition: 'Very Good' Notes: SF novel. VG. Spine creased. Creases, wear.

PB original in pictorial wrappers. 1st Printing. Inside of the covers browned, otherwise a near fine copy in wraps.

near fine paperback,

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Paperback Original. SIGNED / dated (10/30/09) on title page. James Gurney cover art. VG; inside covers browned.

Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing

1st pr. SIGNED by AUTHOR on the title page. Book is square, solid, and unread. Once in receipt of this beauty, you'll feel as though you've journeyed over the hills and far away, beyond the field we know -- you'll be THAT enchanted! In protective archival bag! NOTE: Age-toning and a little evidence of handling; also, upper lefthand corner of back cover has a little chip missing.

First trade paperback edition, first printing. "September 2002" statement to the copyright page, $18.95 to the rear cover. Selected as one of the prestigious Pringle's 100 best fantasy novels of all time. Blaylock was dubbed the father of steampunk due greatly to this delightful fantasy romp spiced with flying bicycles, mermen, and enormous ancient creatures, and is set in very recognizable Southern California streets and areas, featuring two smart teens who are influenced to build a digging leviathan after reading Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Fine, square, tight and firm in glossy stiff-card wraps with front cover art by Lydia C. Marano, with white titles to the spine; original printed $18.95 price still intact to the rear cover. No remainder mark.

Cover art by Jim Gurney. A fine and bright unread, as new copy.

Morrigan Publications 1988-01-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover

Book is in great condition. Text clean & unmarked, solid binding. in the mail within 24 hours. Minor shelf/edge wear.

Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

vg Ace Book 1984 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Very Good 1st Paperback Edition with uncreased spine, very lightly bumped to ends. Some very light edge-wear. Edges stained yellow. Internally, shadowed to inside covers. No writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Nice, square copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages

Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "A complicated adventure story that plays affectionately with supposedly antiquated pulp ideas, including the hollow Earth . Breezy homage to the delights and eccentricities of pulp SF, witty and well written" (Brian Stableford). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169455)

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. ".the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86]. A fine copy with a touch of shelf wear. (28476)

Bath: Morrigan Publications:, 1988. First hardcover edition, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 275 pp. Cover artwork by: Ferret First hardcover edition, Fine in Fine dust jacket,

SF novel. ''Ace original/September 1984'' on copyright page. Cover art by Jim Gurney. In Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #86. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Inner covers browning, else a fine (unread) copy.

First hardcover edition.

Octavo, boards. ".the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169455) (30084)

1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dustjacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. When you receive this book, you'll feel as though you've stumbled into a cave and come across.an elven sword named Glamdring -- or the crown of the fabled Prester John -- a ring of invisibility, or even a Magic Lamp, prosaic as that may sound! You MAY even cartwheel with glee! NOTE: The FAINTEST traces of handling to the sides of the pages and to the tops, three micro-dots of foxing.

ISBN 1870338200. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.