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Daw Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. Book club edition. Hardcover is clean and intact, with light wear to spine end and a little corner bumping. Jacket has light edgewear and light ink rubbing, light staining to spine area and inside front bottom. Includes: A Song for Lya - George R. R. Martin, Deathsong by S. J. Van Scyoc, A Full Member of the Club by Bob Shaw, The Sun's Tears by B. M. Stableford, The Gift of Garigolli by Pohl & Kornbluth & several others. [378]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Daw Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. Book club edition. Hardcover is clean & tight, light wear to corners, bumping to spine ends. Jacket has light scuffing, a few very small edge tear & general light edgewear. There is some light staining/tanning to spine area. [378]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Daw Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. Hardcover clean & unmarked, light wear/bumping to corners. Jacket has light edgewear & a couple tiny edge tears. Light stain/age tanning affects mostly inside of jacket, can be seen a bit on rear & spine. [370]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Daw Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. Book club edition. Hardcover clean & tight, fine other than a little bumping to spine ends & a name marked out very small on endpage. Jacket has very light edgewear & light age tanning. Includes: The Picture Man - Dalmas; Cash Crop - Willis; We Remember Babylon - Watson; What Makes us Human - Donaldson & others. [349-noto]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Daw Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. Excellent condition. Book club edition. Hardcover clean & tight. Name marked out very small on corner of endpage. Jacket has very light edgewear and a small amount of rubbing. Includes: Permafrost by Roger Zelazny, Timerider by Doris Egan, Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan, R&R by Lucius Shepard, Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming by Suzette H. Elgin, Into Gold by Tanith Lee & others. [382] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Eos. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0380978989 . HC/DJ - fine/near fine. 2nd printing of first edition. Excellent condition. Hardcover is clean and tight, with no markings. Dustjacket has a little scuffing with slight wear/crinkling at flap corners, not clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; "Acorna's people, the Linyaari, are once more without a home. And though they survived the brutal attack from the cold-blooded Khleevi, the battle left their beloved planet, narhii-Vhiliinyar, horribly scarred. Yet all is not lost. While the damage is terrible, hope still lives deep within this gentle, spiritual people. Banding together, they will rebuild both narhii-Vhiliinyar and the original Linyaari homeworld, Vhiliinyar, restoring them to the natural beauty and vitality they enjoyed before the time of the Khleevi. Acorna, too, is eager to help reconstruct the homeworld of which she's long dreamed. Though she was abandoned in… Read More

Eos. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0380978997 . Excellent condition. HC/DJ - fine. Hardcover tight and unmarked. Jacket unmarked other than a little scuffing and slight crinkling to corners. [600]; Acorna Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; "A member of the Linyaari, a humanoid race with horns in the middle of their foreheads, Acorna continues to hunt for her beloved life-mate, Aari, who disappeared in Acorna's Search (2002). She travels aboard the starship Condor to the planet Makahomia, which she finds in the grip of a plague killing the sacred Temple cats. Acorna fights a desperate rearguard action against the plague with her horn's healing power, but the mystery clearly lies deeper. ..." .

Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 1568651929 . Doubleday 1988. HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Hardcover is clean and unmarked, fine other than bumping to spine ends and corners. Jacket has light scuffing, light wear to spine ends and corners, a little edge curling and a small tear on front edge. Two fast paced novels about a half-human telepath called Cat... [697]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Rapp & Whiting. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 0853910707 . Ex-library book - no library markings to jacket. Internal libary markings - removed back pocket with paper residue, tape marks to hardcover & inside covers, few small stamps, cut across inside back flap. Light edgewear, light soiling to jacket, not price clipped. Light soiling to hardcover & outer edge of pages, and what looks like a small coffee stain bottom edge of pages which also affects bottom edge inside back cover. Interior pages have some light edge soiling on first few pages and a couple tiny corner creases. Pages are otherwise clean. 8vo (8" tall) , 190 pages. Nice, solid copy albeit with a little staining as indicated. It is the spring of 1978 and a gigantic alien spaceship has entered the solar system and taken up an orbit some 60 million miles from the Sun. The ship neither signals nor replies in any detectable fashion to signals directed towards it.… Read More

New York: Nelson Doubleday. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Doubleday Book club edition 1972. HC/DJ - fine/VG+. Hardcover clean, tight and unmarked, a little bumping to spine ends. Jacket has age tanning, scuffing, light edgewear and a few tiny edge tears. Tale of the first male child born in 500 years to a completely female society. ALPH brilliantly portrays a world in which humanity's future centers on one child...a tribute to the creative skills of the author. [298-noto]; 8vo .

Coward - Mccann, Inc.. Good. 1946. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Library buckram binding with illustrated front, no jacket as issued. Very good cover with good minus interior. Cover has light soiling, few light ink markings, a little rubbing to title area. Pages have a rew earmarks and quite a few soiled pages, especially in first half of book. One page has a long taped tear and a bit of text is missing from the middle. Pages are otherwise intact. B/w illustrations. An authentic first-hand account of a journey to Mars in the space-ship Albatross, compiled from notes and records by various members of the expedition, and now assembled and edited for publication. From manuscripts made available by Stephen MacFarlane. (415noto) ; 8vo .

Doubleday Science Fiction. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Light wear to spine ends & light stain/tanning down spine area inside covers & bottom edge of pages - otherwise excellent. Jacket has age tanning, light soiling & a couple small edge tears. A strange, compelling collection of seven short stories about the Universe and some of its oddities. [290]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Walker & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. Book club edition. Hardcover is clean, tight & unmarked, a little bumping to spine ends. Jacket has light scuffing, light edgewear & a couple tiny edge tears, tanning to interior. "The fires that Ellison sets with these 11 stories range from the ultimate futuristic sexual experience to the terrible and oddly poetic fate that befalls a man who programs the deaths of entire worlds, to the apocryphal saga of the very last militant student...." [300-noto] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Nelson Doubleday. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. B000BNUCL8 . HC/DJ - VG+. Book club edition. Hardcover clean and tight. Light wear and bumping to spine ends. Jacket has light edgewear and small tears to spine bottom, light tanning. Edited and Intro by Frederik Pohl. Includes: The Rocket of 1955, The Words of Guru, The Only Thing we Learn, The Adventurer, The Little Black Bag, The Silly Season & others. [403-noto] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Nelson Doubleday. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Science Fiction book club. HC/DJ - fine/very good+. Hardcover fine other than some bumping to spine ends, one corner, clean, unmarked. Jacket has light edge & corner wear, one small tear, age tanning, scuffing to rear. "A flue epidemic leads to a protein mutation that causes humans to grow pelts....A seller of 'genuine' Indian souvenirs suddenly finds himself confronted by 8 genuine Indian spirits and other..." Introduction by Poul Anderson. (400-noto) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 8424142098 . Ballantine 1978 - Book club edition. Hardcover clean and unmarked, fine other than a little wear to corners and spine ends. Jacket has light scuffing/edgewear, minor edge rubbing, and age tanning to interior. "The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey, SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . ." [437-noto) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. Science Fiction book club. HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean and tight, with some bumping around edges. Interior unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, a little edge rubbing & bruising to corners, age tanning to spine & edges. "Includes 22 masterful tales by the sorcerer of science fiction! Fritz Leiber spun his dark and delicate webs of fantasy since 1939, when his tales first appeared in the now defunct publication, Unknown...." (400-noto) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Del Rey Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. B000FMIA7S . HC/DJ - near fine. Book club edition. Hardcover fine other than a tiny stain to top edge (affects top of a couple pages) and bumping to spine ends. Jacket has light scuffing, light edgewear, tiny tears to spine ends. "Someone had taken the body of Ishmael Forth. But thanks to modern medicine, his prerecorded personality tapes have been implanted in a new body....the Body of a woman, formerly Sally Cadmus..." [295-osl? ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Baen Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. Baen Books 1985 printing, book club edition. Pages are clean and intact other than minor soilig outer edge of pages, no markings. Jacket has minimal edgewear, light age tanning andone small edge tear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [325-notosl] .

Baen Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. Baen Books, 1986 printing, book club. Pages clean and intact, minor soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. Jacket has light age tanning, light scuffing, minimal edgewear and a couple tiny tears to rear. The conclusion to the author's Thieves' World trilogy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [315-notosl] .