Search Results: Science Fiction from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 6 inches. 271 pp. Very Good+ / Very Good. Quarter-bound cloth over paper on board. Deckled fore-edge. Interior text pristine. Binding solid. Mild edge wear to dust jacket with small closed tear at head of spine. Dust jacket now in protective archival sleeve.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 584 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Blue textured plastic-covered case, stamped white lettering on spine. Deckled fore edge and green top stain. Dust jacket intact. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Very slight rubbing to all tips. Half-inch tear at bottom of front hinge. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and chipped at spine ends; lightly rubbed at front and rear folds, as well as edges of spine; slightly sunned along folds of flaps. Now in archival protective cover.

New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1970. First Editions thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Very Good / Very Good. Nelson Doubleday Book Club Editions, the complete series in six volumes. Dust jacket art by Frank Frazetta and Richard Corben. Interior illustrations by Frank Frazetta. 1: A Princess of Mars (179 pp); 2: The Gods of Mars/Warlord of Mars (336 pp); 3: Thuvia, Maid of Mars/The Chessmen of Mars (341 pp); 4: The Master Mind of Mars/A Fighting Man of Mars (348 pp); 5: Swords of Mars/Synthetic Men of Mars (345 pp); and 6: Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars (314 pp). Volumes 1-5, textured vinyl on board. Volume 6, paper on board. Each book has minor shelfwear to upper and lower spines of dustjackets, some creasing and rubbing evident. A Princess of Mars canted. Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars slightly canted. Previous owner's name inked on fpep and some foxing along upper edge of Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars has 1cm chip to upper corner of dust jacket at spine.… Read More

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. First Hardcover Edition, First Hardcover Printing, published as Book Club Edition, of title previously issued as Paperback Original. Correct first hardcover edition, with requisite code 42P at in lower gutter of page 277. Issued upon first publication by the Science Fiction Book Club. Fine / Near Fine. Octavo. 8 1/2 x 5 ½ inches. Ochre paper over board. Lettering and ruling in dark green on spine. Deckle fore-edge. 278 pp. Two blank leaves at end. Clean, unworn boards; tight, square binding; bright, clean pages. Ever so slightly canted, else Fine. Near Fine dustjacket has light rubbing/edgewear, two short closed tears at head of spine, shallow wrinkle at upper left corner of front panel; dark scuff at lower left corner of rear panel. Now in removeable archival cover.