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The Third Level: Available Copies

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1

D 274

First paperback printing (previously published in hardback), Dell D274, cover price $0.35. Wraps very good with light shelf-wear and edgewear. Slight wrinkle to spine; no reading creases. Binding sound. Pages toned, text unmarked. Featuring cover art by Richard Powers.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.74

This is a Book Club Edition, bound in black boards with red lettering on the spine. Features several of the most popular short stories from Finney (1911-1995), including "Such Interesting Neighbors" and "I'm Scared." The book is unmarked; spine slant; corners and spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not priced; edgewear at spine ends and corners; fading to the spine; Brodart protected.

A 1st print (stated) of a late 1950s Dell edition of a sci-fi novel from the late 1940s. Dell Book D274. "An eerie shadow-land, halfway between desire and reality, where nothing is quite as it seems". Light edge wear with reading creases to the covers. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Rinehart, NY, c.1957, BCed., 8vo., hardcover, 188pp., G in chipped dj $

Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Dell book #D274 with price .35. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a light crease to the top front corner, and tiny crack to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: The Third Level, Such Interesting Neighbors, I'm Scared, Cousin Len's Wonderful Adjective Cellar, Of Missing Persons, SOmething in a Cloud, There is a Tide, Behind the News, Quit Zoomin'; Those Hands Through the Air, A Dash of Spring, Second Chance, Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets.

fine book, in a fine price clipped dust jacket , bookclub, slight bumping, rear soiling

Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Foxing across page edges. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.74

Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are clear from notations. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.74

192 pages. >>> Stories include; The Third Level, Such Interesting Neighbors, I'm Scared, Cousin Len's Wonderful Adjective Cellar, Of Missing Persons, Something in a Cloud, There Is a Tide., Behind the News, Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air, A Dash of Spring, Second Chance, Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets; RICHARD POWERS painted cover; >> Creasing to backcover. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

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First edition THUS, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the covers and spine. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.2

First edition with publishers "R" symbol on copyright page. Page block somewhat yellowing. A bit of corner wear. Missing the jacket

8 x 5.5", cloth backed boards, 256pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, spine ends bumped, spine lightly creased, old ink date (57) and inkstamp from bookstore on front fly, pp toned, but still a good, readable copy of the FIRST EDITION.

First paperback ed. Good condition, moderate over all wear, price and previous owner's name on first page. Cover by Powers.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01

(1959). First paperback edition, first printing. A rumor of a reader's crease, else an extraordinary, as-new, very fine, unread copy in wraps featuring superb cover art by Richard Powers; green page-edge tint bright and fresh. Unparalleled collection of quintessentially Finney tales, including the title story, "Of Missing Persons," "Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air," "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets," "I'm Scared," more.

Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. SMALL AMOUNT OF SPINE LEAN. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.74

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 189 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. A collection of stories by the author of "The Body Snatchers". A very good + book or better. Faint pencil marks on ffep, small faint pink stripe on bottom edge, possibly remainder mark? DJ is very good + or better, unclipped (12s 6d). Small closed tear at the top of the front cover and an abrasion next to the word TIME on the front cover.

First paperback edition/printing (1959 Dell D274). Very Fine, unread condition! Typically great collection of tales by Finney mostly about time travel - with new and great Powers cover art for this edition - sharp, uncommon, and collectible in this condition.

Book club edition in jacket showing light chip and closed tears. Tight binding no marks. A62 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1957. First Edition, with Rinehart logo on copyright. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); 256pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade sunned, long vertical ballpoint pen line the length of front jacket flap, corners and spine ends gently tapped, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else a Very Good, still quite presentable copy overall. Collection of short stories by the author of The Body Snatchers (1955).

First printing of the first edition (as indicated by the company's circles "R" on the copyright page). A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket minimal wear at the folds and a few small chips and scrapes to the top of the spine area. Photos upon request. LR

Octavo, Hardcover. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-164]. Very good plus in very good dust jacket, rubbing to edges, shelf wear to head and heel of spine panel, small chip missing from base of lower rear panel. (750)

THE THIRD LEVEL, Rinehart, 1957, first edition, just about fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some fleking to the front dust-wrapper panel and slight rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel.

8 x 5.5, two-tone boards, 256 pp, covers edge worn and darkened, hinges loose, contents heavily browned (as usual), in darkened and edge worn dust jacket. FIRST ED (Rinehart seal on copyright page), INSCRIBED "For Alex -- Sincerely . . . " AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

256pp. Cloth backed boards. Collects twelve stories. Laid is in a overstock return slip from Marshall Field & Company dated 1958. Text block toned along the edges else a fine copy in very good- dustjacket with a faded (but still perfectly readable) spine panel, light fading to the lower edge of the front panel, and mild soiling to the rear flap. ; Octavo.