Science Fiction
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Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Hardcover Edition. Ex school library copy with usual markings. Tape marks to boards, and e/p's. Pages are discoloured and there is some foxing throughout. Blue mark to author's name on title page. Binding is tight. Page edges are darkened. Dust jacket is not price clipped but it is faded and has chipping to edges and old tape stains. Contains three connected stories by the author, namely: "The Eve of Rumoko"; "Kjwall'kje'k'koothailll'kje'k" and "Home is the Hangman". Seller Inventory # 027226
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Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition hardcover. Spine ends faintly softened, textblock toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. Seller Inventory # 51149
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Some fading to spine of unclipped (original price £4.95) dustwrapper, very slight bumping to cornersof black boards, foxing to outer pages and to inner flaps of dustwrappper, yellowing to the pages throughout. But otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book containing three connected stories by the author, namely: "The Eve of Rumoko" which originally apperared in the 1969 anthology "Three for Tomorrow"; the catchily-titled "Kjwall'kje'k'koothailll'kje'k", originally printed in "An Exaltation of Stars" in 1973; and "Home is the Hangman" which won the Hugo Award after appearing in "Analog". Originally published in paperback in the US in 1976, this is the first hardback edition, published by Faber and Faber, "First published in this edition in 1979" on rev of title page, with no other dates or printings mentioned. 206pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 012678
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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects three novellas featuring an agent in the service of a vast global detective agency, including "Home is the Hangman," winner of the 1976 Hugo award for best novella, a suspenseful story about an enigmatic robot executioner which has returned to Earth to destroy its programmers. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-626. Some age-darkening to text paper, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#141548). Seller Inventory # 141548