Vance Warlock (3 results)

Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. CD insert signed in silver ink by the author. Audio CD of G. Warlock Vance's The Missing Narrative of Neptune: Three people are dead. and this was supposed to be a simple case about a stolen book. I mean, really, how hard can it be to find a one-of-a-kind book in a city like Greensboro, NC. I figured the mook who snatched it would make my job easy and try to fence it. I shoulda known better. Now, I got three corpses, the cops don't have a clue and I'm being followed. Some days it just doesn't pay to get outta bed. Signed.

Condition: Fine. Artwork by G. Warlock Vance (illustrator). A dos-à-dos keepsake publication issued by the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, presenting two short stories bound back-to-back in deliberate homage to 1950s Ace paperback design. The Rose by Marjorie Weaver was the winner of NOBS's second writing competition, while Book Binding by G. Warlock Vance was the runner-up. The striking original cover artexecuted by Vancereinforces the mid-century pulp aesthetic while remaining unmistakably late-20th-century in execution. Octavo format. Saddle-stapled card-stock wraps. Clean, crisp, and well-preserved. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; no markings, creases, or losses. Gift quality. Laid in is the original publisher's letter dated December 30, 1995, addressed to NOBS members, explaining the conception of the volume and its place within the society's keepsake tradition. An appealing piece of late-20th-century bibliophilic ephemera combining small-press fiction, graphic design, and organized book-culture history. Subjects: Dos-à-dos Binding; Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS); Writing Competitions; 1950s Paperback Design Influence; Pulp Aesthetics; Book Culture; Literary Keepsakes; Graphic Design in Publishing, Book Arts; Short Fiction; Small Press Literature; Bibliophilic Society Publications; Literary Ephemera.

Condition: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.