Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 0312336608 ISBN 13: 9780312336608
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Stephen Martiniere; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. (xl) 663 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and some rippling along the lower edges of the first few pages; not store stamped. Cover art by Stephen Martiniere. This anthology contains: Introduction; Inappropriate Behavior - a novelette by Pat Murphy; Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum; The Third Party - a novelette by David Moles; The Voluntary State - a novelette by Christopher Rowe; Shiva in Shadow - a novella by Nancy Kress; The People of Sand and Slag - a novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi; The Clapping Hands of God - a novelette by Michael F. Flynn; Tourism by M. John Harrison; Scout's Honor by Terry Bisson; Men Are Trouble - a novelette by James Patrick Kelly; Mother Aegypt - a novella by Kage Baker; Synthetic Serendipity by Vernor Vinge; Skin Deep by Mary Rosenblum; Delhi by Vandana Singh; The Tribes of Bela - a novella by Albert E. Cowdery; Sitka by Williams Saunders; Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham; The Defenders by Colin P. Davies; Mayflower II - a novella by Stephen Baxter; Riding the White Bull - a novelette by Caitlin R. Kiernan; Falling Star by Brendan DuBois; The Dragons of Summer Gulch - a novelette by Robert Reed; The Ocean of the Blind by James L. Cambias; The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance - a novelette by Eleanor Arnason; Footvote by Peter F. Hamilton; Sisyphus and the Stranger by Paul Di Filippo; Ten Sigmas by Paul Melko; and Investments - a novella by Walter Jon Williams. Size: 8vo. Book.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60108825: 1957. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. Plaquette de 43 pages. Page de garde annotée et passée. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
US$ 48.33
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 43. Opera in three acts, commissioned by the Sadler's Wells Trust. Opera based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. A few short closed tears and wear to oversize wrap edges and spine otherwise VG.
Published by London: Finden Brown, 1957., 1957
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
First Edition
[First edition]. "Libretto by Patrick Terry after the Novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Music by John Gardner . Commisioned by the Sadler's Wells Trust Ltd." Original black yapped-edge light card wrappers printed in yellow; edges now fragile and torn owing to poor quality card , some portions reattached with archival tape though, but for one small corner and 1/4" x 1/2" piece at head of spine, all present. Pages lightly age-toned; clean and tight. A very good copy of this unusual libretto for a Maughamian opera, first performed May 24, 1957.