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Vergil in Averno: Available Copies

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. 1st edition with review copy card laid in. 8vo hardcover. 184pp. Near Fine book and Near Fine dust jacket. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science fiction, paranormal) Inquire if you need further information.

Used hardback with dustwrapper in very good condition. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Minor chips to extremities of dustwrapper. Dustwrapper not price clipped. 184 pages. Without packaging this book weighs 320gms. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. ISBN: 0385197071. ISBN/EAN: 9780385197076. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001302.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987. [4], 184 pp. Original white paper covered boards. [21.5 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Just a hint of faint foxing or soil to edges of spine; some very faint tanning to endpapers; minor dust soiling to top edge. Jacket is a trifle age-toned and has a tiny closed tear to the head of the front panel with neat repair on verso, a minor scuff to the front panel, and slight evidence of soiling to the extremities. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. His presentation inscription begins on the front free endpaper: "For Eva McKenna, with the compliments and affection of the Author." It is continued on the half-title: "-- but this is not `the sequel to the Phoenix and the Mirror,' though it will form with it parts of the trinity of trilogies, The Ennead entitled `Vergil Magnus;' and may we both live to see it. A.D." The book is signed by the author on the title page, which also bears his manuscript subtitle ("Or, the Very Rich City") and his symbol, which is repeated on the following page and on a rear endpaper. The recipient of the inscription was Eva Mae (nèe Grice) McKenna (1921-1988), a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the wife of the author, Richard McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." Contrary to Davidson's expressed hope, neither he nor Eva McKenna lived to see the publication of the third volume of the Vergil Magnus trilogy, which was issued posthumously in 2005.

1st ptg., 8vo full white "cloth," the sequel to The Phoenix and the Mirror, Inscribed by Davidson on the front free endpaper and signed with his sigil on the title page. Inscribed by the author.

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. White cloth with black lettering to spine. Fore edges untrimmed. Inscibed to Judith Merril on the front endpage, with a further insciption on the half-title: "Far from being 'The Sequel to the Phoenix and the Mirror' this book is likelier a prequel to a prequel of the Phoenix and the Mirror; both forming parts of that trinity ot trilogies, The Ennead of Vergil magus - AD." as well as a further inscription to the title page, which adds a subtitle beneath the title.

Fine, unread, SIGNED inscribed, first edition. Light foxing on top page block. All book jackets in mylar wraps.

Perfect, unread, SIGNED inscribed, first edition. All book jackets in mylar wraps.

1st ed. Fine in Fine dj. INSCRIBED by the author on front lfy