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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Galactic Effectuator. By Jack Vance. Underwood/Miller. San Francisco, CA + Columbia, PA. August, 1980. Signed by author, first edition. 171 p., 9.25 x 6.25", 8vo. ISBN: 0-934438-29-3. In good condition. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed & toned at edges. Otherwise, dust jacket is bright and clean. Tan cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Author's signature found on title page, in black ink. Light toning throughout text-block. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. John Holbrook Vance (1916 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984, and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 15th Grand Master in 1997, and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers. RAREA1980ADFL 08/24 - HK2062. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # RAREA1980ADFL
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Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David Russell (interior) (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. San Francisco / Columbia: Underwood / Miller. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo Hardcover. 0934438293 . Signed limited first edition #59/20 copies signed by the author. 171+ pages, illustrated. Fine copy in Fine jacket. See Photos LR1/2E. Seller Inventory # 864004
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited signed edition. 1/200. Sm. 4to. 171,[1]pp. Blue and yellow cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Signed by author on limitation page. Frontispiece. In Galactic Effectuator, Jack Vance "once again exhibits the ornate style and elaborate imagination that have earned him the praise of readers and critics throughout the world of science fiction." Illustrated with two (incl. frontis) full-page reproductions of drawings by David Russell. Minor scuffing on dj. Title-page slightly creased. Tight copy with dj in very good, book in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 23928
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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. Collects "The Dogtown Tourist Agency" and "Freitzke's Turn," two detective stories featuring effectuator Miro Hetzel. "Set in the same future as the 'Alastor Cluster' series, but each world has more diversity and detail than most writers pack into an entire imaginary galaxy" (Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition [1995], p. [150]). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#147920). Seller Inventory # 147920
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