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The Reefs of Earth: Available Copies
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The Reefs of Earth by Lafferty, R.A.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780978621025
Publisher: Locus Press (2018)
Seller: PlumCircle (West Mifflin, PA, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $3.79
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $8.78
New item in gift quality condition. 99% of orders arrive in 4-10 days. Discounted shipping on multiple books.
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The Reefs of Earth by Lafferty, R.A.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780978621025
Publisher: Locus Press (2018)
Seller: HPB-Diamond (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.25
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $10.00
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Seller: Chamblin Bookmine (Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $18.00
Shipping: $6.99
TOTAL Cost: $24.99
144pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, binding has slight cant, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, sunning; foxing on inner covers and textblock edges, page patina throughout.
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THE REEFS OF EARTH by Lafferty, R[aphael] A[loysius]
Paperback
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Publisher: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [New York] (1968)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $32.00
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion X1528. A family of Pucas, human-like creatures from an alternate world, are on Earth, persecuted and misunderstood. Earth's inhabitants are in peril, for if the Puca children can make up an appropriate death-rhyme, they can destroy their persecutors. The author's second book. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-460. A fine copy. (#88020)
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage (Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $60.00
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TOTAL Cost: $60.00
Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Cover shows moderate edgewear and creasing; Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Seller: This Old Book, Inc (Grayslake, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $55.00
Shipping: $5.99
TOTAL Cost: $60.99
Light edge wear and creasing to the cover. Some discoloration. Price penciled on the top right corner of the first page. Otherwise, the pages are clean. Bibding tight.
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The Reefs of Earth by R. A. Lafferty
Paperback
ISBN: 9780978621025
Publisher: LOCUS PUBN Mai 2018 (2018)
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $23.06
Shipping: $69.93
TOTAL Cost: $92.99
Neuware - The Dulanty family can pass for human, but they're actually alien Pucas, stranded on the remote backwater planet Earth in the tiny (and corrupt) Appalachian town of Lost Haven. The six Dulanty children (seven, if you count the disembodied Bad John) get tired of being spurned, scorned, and scapegoated by the townsfolk, and hit upon the obvious solution: they'll murder every human in the world, using hatchets, rifles, and the otherworldly killing verses known as Bagarthach, and transform the planet into a paradise for the Dulantys alone. Fortunately for the human race, the Dulanty children aren't very adept at murder, but their attempts at wholesale homicide make for a read that's alternately harrowing, hilarious, and heartwarming. Come visit the Reefs of Earth, and experience the incomparable imagination of visionary author R.A. Lafferty, a writer Jo Walton called 'very weird, very clever, and impossible to forget.' Praise for R.A. Lafferty R.A. Lafferty was a genius, an oddball, a madman. His stories are without precedent. -Neil Gaiman Bold, literary, and profoundly weird. -Michael Swanwick What a word slinger: what a richness of idea and image, in Irish-cadenced prose! Show don't tell The pleasure's in the telling. -Terry Bisson Lafferty is one of a kind, a magician of strange images made fleetingly recognizable, of familiar emotions made strange and new and haunting. -Nancy Kress
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The Reefs of Earth (Signed First Edition!) by R.A. Lafferty
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Berkley (1968)
Seller: Clarkean Books (Stoney Creek, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $150.00
Shipping: $14.00
TOTAL Cost: $164.00
First edition/printing (1968 Berkley X1528) paperback original (PBO) in Very Good Plus condition. No U.S. hardcover edition. Signed by Lafferty! "In The Reefs of Earth (his first-completed novel) a passel of Alien children bumptiously attempt to rid Earth of humans, and fail." [JC] Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Ed. Internet.
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THE REEFS OF EARTH by Lafferty, R. A.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Dobson (1970)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $174.00
Shipping: $12.50
TOTAL Cost: $186.50
THE REEFS OF EARTH, Dobson, 1970, first English edition and first hard-cover edition, minor scattered foxing to the t.p.e.'s, else fine in like dust-wrapper.
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The Reefs Of Earth by Lafferty, R.A.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Dennis Dobson, London (1970)
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks (London, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $165.54
Shipping: $29.40
TOTAL Cost: $194.94
First edition/First printing published by Dennis Dobson, London 1970. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Clean cloth covers. Dustjacket clipped but with Dobson price sticker of £2.00 net price. Clean and bright. Protected in archive cover.
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