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The Carnelian Cube: A Humorous Fantasy by Sprague De Camp l & Pratt Fletcher - 1948
by Sprague De Camp l & Pratt Fletcher
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The Carnelian Cube: A Humorous Fantasy
by Sprague De Camp l & Pratt Fletcher
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E-103: The Gnome Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Gnome Press. 1948. 230 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by L. Sprague De Camp to noted book collector and my friend Tony Bambace on the title page. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (rubbing to bottom edges). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It is the evening of July 8, 1939 and the scene is the mountainous district of Cappadocia, in Asia Minor. Arthur Cleveland Finch, the story's hero, is a historian and archeologist, and he and his friend, Lloyd Owens, are on a dig, examining whatever ancient artifacts they can find in the hope of expanding human knowledge. The dig is being finance by Leo Pushman, a rich movie magnate who once read Arthur's dreary, academic tome "The American Deme; a Study of Pontus and Armenia under the Byzantine Empire" and liked it. Arthur has no idea of how Pushman even struggled through the book, which he considers to be as "dull as a third-rate sermon". Why should that "unimportant piece of prose" have attracted so much attention when his book of poetry, which was liked by the critics, sold only 37 copies? The world just doesn't seem to be reasonable Arthur thinks. Arthur and Lloyd discover that Tirdat Ariminian, one of the local workers on the dig, seems to have purloined a small find: as red carnelian cube, about the size of a golf-ball, with an Etruscan inscription on it. The cube seems rather out of place here in Cappadocia and Arthur and Lloyd think it may be quite a find. But Tirdat claims that the cube is his: that he got it from a man named Iblunos in far away Nigdeh. Iblunos was an old man, "maybe three hundred years". The stone was a "dream-stone. Arthur is bemused and that night sleeps with the cube under his pillow. If only the world were more rational Arthur laments again! In the morning Arthur wakes to a very different world. It has become exactly what he asked for: a completely rational world. But will Arthur like what he asked for, and if not how will he get out of this strange enchantment? E-106; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages .
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- Date Published 1948
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Carnelian Cube, The
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The Carnelian Cube
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New York: Lancer Books. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Pages yellowed, cover edges darkening.. N.D.. Paperback. 8vo; 222 pages .
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The Carnelian Cube
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New York, NY: Lancer Books. Good Plus. 1970. No Edition Stated. Soft Cover. 4 1/4" x 7" PAPERBACK Lancer book #74676. Ancient magic opens the door to strange worlds in a universe where all dreams come true! Wear at edges, reading creases, some creases on book, some soiling, rubbed, light interior browning. .
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The Carnelian Cube
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Lancer Books, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Purple edges. Soft covers. Unread copy, I suspect..
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THE CARNELIAN CUBE
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THE CARNELIAN CUBE: A HUMOROUS FANTASY
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The Gnome Press 1948 2nd edition, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Carnelian Cube
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New York: The Gnome Press, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Some light staining on the front board, else very good lacking the dustwrapper. The first book published by the Gnome Press. Although not marked as such, from the library of Fletcher Pratt.
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Lancer, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Frank Kelly Freas. Very scarce first paperback edition/printing (after the much earlier Gnome Press true first hardcover edition) 1967 Lancer 73-662 Canadian printing with the new Freas cover art. Gorgeous and collectible copy in Very Fine, unread condition!
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The Carnelian Cube: A Humorous Fantasy
by Sprague De Camp l & Pratt Fletcher
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E-103: The Gnome Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Gnome Press. 1948. 230 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by L. Sprague De Camp to noted book collector and my friend Tony Bambace on the title page. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (rubbing to bottom edges). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It is the evening of July 8, 1939 and the scene is the mountainous district of Cappadocia, in Asia Minor. Arthur Cleveland Finch, the story's hero, is a historian and archeologist, and he and his friend, Lloyd Owens, are on a dig, examining whatever ancient artifacts they can find in the hope of expanding human knowledge. The dig is being finance by Leo Pushman, a rich movie magnate who once read Arthur's dreary,…
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