The Best of Whispers (Inscribed By the Author to Roger Zelanzy with a Long Inscription and Also Signed By Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelany, Ramsey Campbell and 20 others)
by Schiff, Stuart David
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About This Item
Baltimore: Borderlands Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Octavo. 470 pages. Limited to 500 copies of which this is the proof copy for Stuart David Schiff. His inscription to Roger Zelazny says: "For Roger with greatest thanks for everything as always whoever dedicated a book to me." Stuart David Schiff, Preface / Stuart David Schiff -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- The Chimney / Ramsey Campbell -- The Button Molder / Fritz Leiber -- The Dead Line / Dennis Etchison -- The Barrow Troll / David Drake -- At the Bottom of the Garden / David Campton -- Paging Dr. Death / S.N. Dyer -- Lex Talionis / Russell Kirk -- The Francis File / William F. Nolan -- The Screaming Woman / Ray Bradbury -- The Bones Wizard / Alan Ryan -- Dr. Aldrich's Head / Jerry Sohl -- Substitution trick / Connie Willis -- Fingers / Melanie Tem -- Where the Snowmen go / Scott Middleton -- One for the Horrors / David Schow -- From the Lower Deep / Hugh B. Cave -- A Fly One / Stephen Sneyd -- Leaks / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The Horses of Lir / Roger Zelazny -- I Walk the Night / Whitley Strieber -- Beyond any Measure / Karl Edward Wagner -- The Golden / Lucius Shepard -- The End / Stuart David Schiff and an Afterword / Stuart David Schiff. Bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, a bit of rubbing along bottom edges, very tiny speckles to page edges, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Lee Brown Coye. Very nice. (picture of the inscription is on the dark endpaper).
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028421
- Title
- The Best of Whispers (Inscribed By the Author to Roger Zelanzy with a Long Inscription and Also Signed By Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelany, Ramsey Campbell and 20 others)
- Author
- Schiff, Stuart David
- Format/Binding
- Inscribed to Roger Zelasny
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Borderlands Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1994
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Horror; Dark Fantasy; Ray Bradbury; Roger Zelanzty; Whitley Strieber;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.