Slippage: Previously Poised, Previously Uncollected Stories (Signed)
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York/Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. xxvix, 303 pp. Fine / Fine. Association copy. Signed by author on title page (28 Sept 97, Los Angeles), with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley: "To my long-time pal, the most excellent writer and good friend 'Honest Joe' Hensley! From his still-breathing chum…" Quarter bound black cloth over gray paper on board. Silver lettering on spine. Text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Unclipped dust jacket shows very minor shelf wear at spine ends, as well as along front flap, else Fine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.
Synopsis
With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying...Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000012
- Title
- Slippage
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Format/Binding
- Quarter bound black cloth over gray paper on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York/Boston
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 303
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- association, Ellison
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About the Seller
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