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The Paradise Game: Available Copies

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

"Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description,m it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. . . . But this world, like the original paradise, had a serpent of its own." Spine and covers show a little creasing, ordinary shelf wear,; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall

The Paradise Game

111 , very good -fine, reading crease, PBO. Cover by Kelly Freas. Star-Pilot Grainger #4. , paperback,

Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

111 , almost near fine, faint crease, PBO. Cover by Kelly Freas. Star-Pilot Grainger #4. , paperback,

First British and first hardcover edition bound in black cloth. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Rubs to the jacket's spine tips and corners. Rubs to the folds. The jacket's spine is faded.

First Edition. FIrst printing.

8.3 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches

The Paradise Game: Hooded Swan, Book Four 0.58

CB4 - A first UK edition hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has old price label adhered on the front flap, some wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered rubbing and scratches, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.25"x5.25", 158 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

A very good paperback first edition copy with no spine creases, wear to covers shown in picture. Book store stamp on front free end paper

New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000

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The Paradise Game by Brian M. Stableford (First Edition) A firm clean copy. Bright gilt to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor rubbing to panels. Minor wear to bottom spine end. States, "First published in Great Britain 1976" The fourth book in "THE HOODED SWAN" series.

DAW Books, New York 1974. First printing. 158 pp. Paperback. Good, cover slightly worn.

1974 First edition Daw paperback, no 111. When the Hooded Swan lands on Pharos, the crew were to learn that this would-be world of paradise had a serpent of its own, and the apple of its tree of knowledge might be found too late to save.Interior clean, devoid of inscriptions, marks, tears or folds. All pages tight within binding. Covers a little worn, rubbed to spine edges but still clean.

Signed by the author on the first page. In a galactic economy, the sheer abundance of everything makes tangibles almost worthless. The real fortunes, that buy and well words and suns and peoples, are not founded upon the trading of things but on dealing in services. The Paradise Game was a golden stairway to power because it sold ways of life. Black boards have wear at edges, rubbed. Dust jacket has wear at edges with some tears, rubbed with some white showing, some soiling, some creases. Size: 5 " x 8"

UK hardback first impression. Near fine with a few speckles to page edges, in Fair jacket, that appears VG, but has a stain to reverse at head of spine

Good copy with some wear to the cover. Previous owner's inscription on FFEP. Books ship from the US and Ireland.

First Hardcover Edition. The fourth book in "THE HOODED SWAN" series. Book Condition: Fine: A sharp tight unread copy. / DJ Condition: Fine: Rubbing to front tips of dust jacket, trace of rubbing to back of dust jacket otherwise fine. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and scored, and edges are creased and nicked. Light foxing noted on the jacket, page block head, and a few of the pages within. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Pages are clear throughout. LW