The Big Time
by Leiber, Fritz
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0727802186
- ISBN 13
- 9780727802187
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Severn House Publishers, 1976., 1976. Hardcover. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo. 171 pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A very clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions; cover cloth bright. Jacket has a few minor nicks & creases to edge otherwise also near-fine. Hugo Award- winning time travel adventure.
Synopsis
The Big Time (1957) is a short science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber. It won the Hugo Award in 1958. The Big Time is a vast, cosmic back story, hidden behind a claustrophobic front story with only a few characters. The storyline involves two factions which both have time travel who are at war with each other. Their method of battle involves changing the outcome of events throughout history. The two sides are nicknamed the Spiders and the Snakes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3477
- Title
- The Big Time
- Author
- Leiber, Fritz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0727802186
- ISBN 13
- 9780727802187
- Publisher
- London; Severn House Publishers, 1976.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....