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The Downstairs Room: Available Copies
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Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction by Wilhelm, Kate
Paperback
ISBN: 9780440021292
Publisher: Dell Books; New York (1970)
Seller: Half Price Books Inc. (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.00
Shipping: $3.49
TOTAL Cost: $9.49
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The Downstairs Room Dell 2129 by Wilhelm, Kate
Paperback
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Publisher: Dell, New York (1970)
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA (Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $22.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $28.00
New York: Dell, 1970. First edition, first printing, stated. 12mo. Mass market paperback, 222 pp. All edges stained green. Speculative fiction iincluding the Nebula Award-winning story, The Planners. No writing inside. Uncreased spine. Fold mark to corner of rear cover. Minor shelf wear. Near fine. Size: 12 mo.
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The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction by Kate Wilhelm
Hardcover
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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY (1968)
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books (Winfield, KS, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $30.00
Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1968. Stated First Edition. Doubleday Science Fiction Book. Retired small town library book. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked but for library stamps on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good; checkout pocket on RFFP; scrapes and tape residue on pastdowns from library taping of DJ to boards; dust staining to textblock top; staining to board top and bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); light suntoning to spine; index sticker on spine; moisture warp to bottom of rear panel. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 215 pp 8vo. This book is the author's first collection of short stories for Doubleday. Come into the special world of Kate Wilhelm where fear inhabits every unlit corner, unreality and madness are constantly shifting shadows just beyond the next doorway. Fourteen chilling short stores. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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The Downstairs Room by Wilhelm, Kate
Paperback
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Publisher: Dell Books, New York, NY, U.S.A. (1970)
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III (Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $30.00
Publisher's code #2129. 14 Stories. Cover by Ron Walotsky. Signed by Walotsky on the half-title page and by Wilhelm on the title page. Never read but light crease on front cover along spine
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Kate Wilhelm Two (2) Paperback Book Lot, including: The Downstairs Room, and; Abyss by Kate Wilhelm
Paperback
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Publisher: Dell/Bantam ()
Seller: Clarkean Books (Stoney Creek, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $23.00
Shipping: $11.00
TOTAL Cost: $34.00
Excellent pair of Wilhelm paperback first paperback edition/printing collections, each in Fine, unread condition: Downstairs (1970 Dell 2129) no UK edition and new Walotsky cover art with opening crease, and; Abyss (1973 Bantam N7234) no UK edition. Two books, one shipping price.
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THE DOWNSTAIRS ROOM by Wilhelm, Kate
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Doubleday (1968)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $58.00
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $70.50
THE DOWNSTAIRS ROOM, Doubleday, 1968, first edition, apparent binding flaw of the text block being attached to the covers and spine on a bit of an angle, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper. Review copy with accompanying review slip laid in. From the library of Science Fiction Grand Master Harry Harrison.
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