Shambleau and Others
by C. L. Moore
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Shambleau and Others is a 1953 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. The book was originally announced by Arkham House but never published by them. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
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This book was one of the earliest hardback collections of science fiction from a woman who was a master of pulp fiction from the 1920's and later. Catherine Moore developed one of the earliest archetypes of the surly antihero of the spaceways-- his name was Northwest Smith, and we see his like today in the name of Han Solo. Moore also created another character, Jirel of Joiry, a woman sword fighter in a vaguely renaissance french landscape who travels into the underworld in search of vengenace. Both characters are represented in multiple stories from this venerable old collection from the 1950's classic publisher Gnome Press.
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- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1716382541DPB
- Title
- Shambleau and Others
- Author
- C. L. Moore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gnome Press Inc
- Date Published
- 1953
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