Search Results: LITERARY CRITICISM - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Harbrace Sourcebooks. Audience: General/trade.

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Urbana: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1980. 296pp. Extremities rubbed & chipped; small crease on front cover. Several page corners creased. Notes; biblio.; index.. 2nd Ed. Paperback. VG-.

New York: Continuum, 2006. 214 pages, biblio., index, bottom corner of rear cover lightly bumped.. Pb.. VG+.

Paperback. 106 p. general/trade
Scifi-fantasy

Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to, 208 pages, pictorial wrappers Compiled by Sweden's foremost champion of science fiction. Greatly illustrated.

New York: Coward-McCann, ( 1953). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 294 pages, red cloth; nicks, small tears to othewise fresh dj. Chapters by John W. Campbell, Anthony Boucher, L.Sprague de Camp, Asimov,Philip Wylie. Don Fabun's chapter is "Science Fiction in Motion Pictures, Radio, and Television".

Canberra City, Australia: Graeme Flanagan, 1979. First edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. 12mo, 62 pages, pictorial stapled wrappers. Contributions by Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Bloch's sister, Mary Elizabeth Counselman.

St. Martin's Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. Reilly, Kevin. Large, heavy, thicker book, dark red boards, bright gilt lettering on spine, 531 lightly browned pages. Lightly browned inside covers and adjacent end papers. DJ glossy with color-illustration of Gandalf and dwarves on horseback in forest by Joseph Zucker. DJ has very tiny tear at top front tip, tiny tear and micronicks along bottom front edge, tiny near-chip at bottom front, very tiny tear at bottom front spine indentation, microtear at spine top left edge with tiny creases, microtear at spine bottom edge and top back edge. Near Very Good DJ/Near Very Fine book.

USA-2nd Imp.: USA-2nd Imp.: University Of South Carolina, 1991. Good. Hardcover. 1991. pp 216 ex/library but d/j has been protected .

Very Good HC, no DJ. Red cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on front cover and spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; light dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; lightly bumped at text block lower fore corner slightly creasing 6 leaves; bright, clean interior. 'AAR Academy Series 40'. 8vo, 247 pp; index, biblio.

UK: Octopus Books. Good. Hardcover. 1978. 219 pages. heavy book check postage with us .

New York: St.Martins, 1976. First Editiion . Hardback. Near Fine/About Fine.

Los Angeles, CA: GENERAL PUBLISHING GROUP, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover - 1st. Print - FINE/FINE (As New) - The wonderful Forry Ackerman's history of Science Fiction in film and literature - Lavishly illustrated!!! - Preface by A.E. Van Vogt - Foreword by John Landis!!!!.

Los Angeles: Underwood-Miller, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [17], i-xxxvii, [3], 514, [4] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on front flap of jacket. A tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock, else Fine in a close to Fine jacket.

Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 1996. Hardcover. 031329612X . Part of the Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers series. Second printing. As new in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. .

Greenwood Press, reprint 1986. hbk 119pp ISBN 0313250413 inscrn on fep no dj as issued excellent clean tight text

NY: Methuen , 1984. Trade Paperback. GOOD-. Reading copy. Tight, bright, faint age soil to covers, clean pages but has bumped and folded corners. Owner's name on title page. 213 indexed pages. "rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis…ranges form the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, from the Odyssey to the nouveau roman..." 0.9

Colorado Springs: Gauntlet Press, 2006. First edition, limited issue of 750 numbered copies signed by Bradbury on the limitation page. Copy #729. Edited by Donn Albright. Preface by Bradbury. Foreword by Richard Matheson. Introduction by William Touponce. Textual essay by Jonathan Eller. Illustrated. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.