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The War of Dreams: Available Copies

------------( 1st printing of this Edition ) --- softcover, a Near Fine example, unread, looks new, collects 3 novels by AC, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5w x 8h Inches

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2

First paperback edition. Very good-. Rubbing to the edges and creases on the front cover near the spine, with other signs of occasional wear. Unmarked interior.

EX-LIBRARY with usual marks, barcodes, pockets, etc 2nd Printing No highlighting, underlining or writing 2e3

Paperback. Bard Books 31948. Erotic fantasy. Very good condition. Minor edge-wear on front cover. Slight yellowing on spine. Small tear on upper left corner of spine. Faint rubbing-wear on upper-right corner of back cover.

1st US printing/edition. Probably exlib copy. Rear endpaper has what appears to be a removed pocket. No other library markings seen. The jacket has been clipped along bottom so its a bit less than half a centimeter short otherwise it is bright and clean

A very uncommon book. Published in the UK in hardcover as The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.

Bard/Avon pb 1977 - slight wear, cover and pages a little tanned, otherwise tight binding and clean text. US edition of 'Infernal Desire Machines.'

Quite good condition. Some writing on back of and front endpaper but otherise clean condition. Neat collectable. I almost kept this one.

1.2000

286pp. Black cloth boards, silver, blue and green titles on spine. Slight raveling to lower front corner, binding otherwise strong. Small black spots in about 2" area along front page ends, but no evidence of spotting internally. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket crisp and intact, not price clipped, with small crease next to price on front jacket flap and mild wear at spine ends. Jacket in mylar sleeve. Carter's 1974 picaresque draws on surrealism, Romanticism, critical theory and continental philosophy in the service of delivering Desiderio's account of Doctor Hoffman's reality-distorting machines. Published in the UK as The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Scarce American first. Size: Octavo

First American edition, first printing. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise a fine clean tight unmarked copy in full black cloth. Unclipped dust jacket shows the original price of $6.95, minor edgewear to jacket. Uncommon in this first edition.

Light tap indentation top spine, fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover; Originally published in the UK as The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.

New York, HBJ, 1972. First edition. First printing (with full letter line to the B, centered under FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, as was the Harcourt custom at that time in indicate a first edition) Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with some very slight wear to head and foot of spine. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($6.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. THE WAR OF DREAMS was published in the U.K. under the tile The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Jeff VanderMeer has described The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman as "the finest surrealist novel of the past 30 years. It perfectly captures the ideas and ideals of surrealist beauty."

First American edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (Edges very lightly foxed. ) Choice copy of one of the author's best books.