Gray Curme (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, bound in white cloth very good and wrapped in dust jacket. Dust jacket has some edge tears, missing a small piece along top edge of spine, in protective mylar. A good copy.

very good, chipping at the spine ends, corners, and one front bottom, jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mark Reinsberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Slight toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to spine, a short closed tear to upper back panel, two tears to mid spine, and rubbing/wear to extremities, else fine.

very good - fine edge wear, closed slits jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In beige cloth. Slight browning to cloth on spine. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in tan cloth. Book very good + with a bit of toning to endpapers. Dust jacket very good with a little edge wear. 249 pages tight and very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good plus. First edition. first printing. A science fiction mystery. A ghost of a penciled number written on the upper corner of the front free endpaper, else fine in very good plus dust jacket with a hint of edge wear and three tiny tears. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mark Reinsberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition in white cloth boards, spine titled in burgundy, jacket designed by Mark Reinsberg. Chicago: Shasta Publishers (1951), 249 pages. A Fine unmarked copy that appears unread; very slight bumped top corner. VG unclipped ($3.00) jacket has a dime sized piece almost detached along top edge of front panel, and a creasing/fold damage along bottom edge of rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price ($3.00); white c w/red spine titles, lite toning from sun; owner's stamp on flyleaf along with author's signature; 249 clean, unmarked pages; author's first book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine book fine jacket looks new.

12mo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. 249p. Signed and inscribed by Curme Gray on front endpaper. Stated first edition. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight with fully attached hinges. Dusting settled on top edge of text-block, as pictured. Jacket is protected in mylar and remains unclipped with minimal wear. Original price of $3.00 present.

first edition. 1951, very good -fine book with darker spine, in a very good -fine jacket, corner chips, fold rubbing, signed by melvin korshak.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 249pp, small octavo. Inscribed by author. cover wear/soiling, ring stain to front cover, stain to ffep, tight binding, clean throughout, Good +.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 249 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, dust staining along exposed edges, spotting to verso, now in mylar cover. Ivory cloth boards with spotting that has transferred from verso of dust jacket, foxing to endpapers, clean within. Slightly musty smell from being in storage.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 249 pages; Very minor wear to the dust jacket. 1st printing in 1st state binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. first printing. A science fiction mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. A superior copy. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated black dust jacket with original $3.00 price intact; bound in off-white cloth with reddish-brown lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few very shallow chips and tears at folds and spine ends and toning to verso. Boards are square with some nudging at spine ends and a few light smudges to cloth. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with very good unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age. Dust jacket has minor wear to the outer extremities, as well as a closed tear in top left corner of cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Shasta Publicaitons, Chicago, IL. 1951. 249 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Murder mystery of the 'Impossible crime' sort set in a matriarchy of people in the far future. Praised by Damon Knight as a successful effort towards depicting an alien society without explaining everything as one goes along. Today it is viewed with a degree of respect, one or two people suggesting that it was 20 years ahead of its time. E-209.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust Wrapper design by Mark Reinsberg (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. Chicago: 1951. First Edition First Printing A Subscriber's copy generically inscribed "Cordially," and signed by the author on the front free end paper. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 95 "Murder mystery of the 'Impossible crime' sort set in a matriarchy of people in the far future. Almost universally condemned as a poor, to say the least, book when it first appeared but praised by Damon Knight as a successful effort towards depicting an alien society without explaining everything as one goes along. Today it is viewed with a degree of respect, one or two people suggesting that it was 20 years ahead of its time"]. Reginald 06259. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 173]. 249 pages. A very good book with light wear, cloth on the rear board slightly wavey, in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear. See Photos LR 1/4E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition hardcover inscribed to the ffep by Gray: "Cordially, Curme Gray." Cloth somewhat foxed, textblock toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mark Reinsberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, IL, 1951. First Edition/Printing white cloth Hardcover, brown lettering on spine, with DJ, 249 pp. This copy is SIGNED "Cordially, Cyrme Gray" on the ffep. Offbeat first novel ("A Future Mystery") by a rather mysterious author who lived from 1910 to 1980). Damon Knight analyzed this complex work in "In Search of Wonder." The black DJ, decorated with white hieroglyphics, is unclipped ($3) has a bit of edgewear mainly at ends of spine. The white book boards have some foxing along the trough between the spine and the cover boards & scattered mild foxing on front board. Otherwise, the book is tight, clean, unmarked and in great shape. Nice copy of a most unusual, even unique novel. Signed by Author(s).

8vo, 249pp. Inscribed by Curme Gray on front free endpaper. Light to moderate foxing & stain to top edge & light foxing partially to cream cloth boards. A very good hardback copy in like shelf worn dust jacket with small chip to spine head.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of an undetermined number of subscriber's copies signed by Gray on front free endpaper. The author's first (only?) published novel. A "complex SF novel" in which "a homicide case shakes a matriarchal dystopia thousands of years hence into the near far future -- murder being inexplicable to the inhabitants of this world. The focus of interest in the novel is the gradual unveiling of the fact that a slow transition -- not back to patriarchy but to some synthesis -- is under way." - SFE (online). A "murder in matriarchal society that has 'forgotten' death provides mystery story to describe world of big, flat-chested women, small men, and food pills in fascinating scenario of alternate Earth." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-180. Discussed by Damon Knight (In Search of Wonder, pp. 121-125) who concludes: Gray's future world, where it's visible, is a masterly job -- and the picture carries conviction even where (perhaps because) it's incomplete." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985 (1988), p. 240. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear along overlapping top edges and 10 mm closed tear at upper front corner tip. (#75993). Signed.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 249. VG in some scuffed and chipped dj. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-180. A mystery set in the future.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mark Reinsberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Curme Gray on directly on the front-free endpaper (Gray also wrote "Cordially"). Toning to spine and board edge and light toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine, a couple short closed tears, and mild shelf wear, mostly to corners and spine ends. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. MURDER IN MILLENNIUM VI, Shasta, 1951 first edition, some foxing to the t.p.e.'s, else fine in near fine dust-wrapper. One of an unknown number of the subscribers copies SIGNED by the author.