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Science Fiction Showcase: An Anthology edited by Mary Kornbluth
by Kornbluth, Mary, editor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. 264 p.; 22 cm. Light blue cover with red spine and cover titles. Top page edges red. Dust jacket designed by Richard Powers. "Doubleday Science Fiction" -- on dust jacket. "Book Club Edition" -- on front dust jacket flap. Contains works by Damon Knight, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Paoul Anderson, Jack Williamson, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick. Richard Matheson, and Robert Bloch. Book is in Near Fine Condition: former owner's stamp on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: closed 3-cm. tear from upper edge with internal repair; several closed tears from edge of 1 cm. or less; chipped at ends of spine; slightly sunned over spine.
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- Seller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 009232
- Title
- Science Fiction Showcase: An Anthology edited by Mary Kornbluth
- Author
- Kornbluth, Mary, editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
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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...
- 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....
- Fine
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