Essential Volume by Hal Clement (45 results)

Condition: Good. BOARDS ARE BENT A LITTLE, BUT OTHERWISE A NICE READING COPY. Hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in fine condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition with faint edge wear. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "FIRST EDITION, February 1999" on its copyright page. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by bumps on its spine ends. Its binding is tight and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright silver titles on its spine. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in fine condition: whole, bright, unmarked, and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Collects the novels Needle, Iceworld and Close to Critical. A new, unread copy.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 8 3/4? tall, 506 pages, green cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white with a gift stamp from NESFA on the front free end paper. In a near fine, clean dust jacket, with the original price.…

Framingham: NESFA (New England Science Fiction Association):, 2000. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 465 pp. Cover artwork by: Richard McKenna An as new copy. The Mesklin novels: MISSION OF GRAVITY and STAR LIGHT, the shorter fiction that relates to Mesklin and an essay. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Richard McKenna (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition. First edition.Ê Ex-library.Ê Dust jacket is in excellent condition, with no library markings; now in new removable protective cover.Ê Navy cloth covered boards with silver print on spine. Pages clean and unmarked, except for these library marks: Stamps on front free end paper; library stamp on top edge of closed pages; pencilled cataloging information on copyright page.Ê Acid free paper.Ê NESFA Press hard cover with dust jacket, first edition Feb. 1999 (stated), ISBN: 9781886778061, 518 pages.Ê Cover art by the author, using the name George Richard.Ê 8vo (5.75" x 8.75") Introduction by Poul Anderson.Ê Omnibus edition ofÊ three novels, originally published separately:Ê Needle (first in series, followed by Through the Eye of a Needle); Iceworld; and Close to Critical (second in series, preceded by Mission of Gravity, and followed by Star Light). George Richard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition. First edition.Ê Ex-library.Ê Dust jacket is in excellent condition, with no library markings; a couple of small scratches to rear; now in new removable protective cover.Ê Green cloth covered boards with silver print on spine. Pages clean and unmarked, except for these library marks: Stamps on front free end paper; library stamp on top edge of closed pages; pencilled cataloging information on copyright page.Ê Acid free paper.Ê NESFA Press hard cover with dust jacket, first edition Feb. 2000 (stated), ISBN: 9781886778078, 506 pages.Ê Cover art by the author, using the name George Richard.Ê 8vo (5.75" x 8.75") Introduction by Ben Bova.Ê Stories: Cold Front; Proof; Raindrop; Longline; Planetfall; Sunspot; The Mechanic; Attitude; Halo; Impediment; Technical Error; Bulge; Avenue of Escape; Status Symbol; The Logical Life; Stuck With It; Uncommon Sense (winner, 1996 Retro-Hugo for best short story of 1945).Ê Ê. George Richard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Collects the Mesklin novels plus the essay Whirligig World.

9780739432914. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. [528] pp. Printed dark blue cloth binding/boards. Dust jacket protected in archival sleeve.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 528 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Volume ONE only. Fine except for slight dust soil to outer edge of text block, in fine dust jacket. No jacket tears or chips. No prior owner markings or bookplate. No remainder mark. Contains three classic sf novels: NEEDLE, ICEWORLD, CLOSE TO CRITICAL. Suitable for gift-giving. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printings of first edition of the first two volumes of "The Essential Hal Clement" (Volumes 1 and 2). Unmarked, unclipped, extremely bright, exceedingly tight, crisp, unread copies in pristine condition.Admits no flaws. These copies are gorgeous! Archival mylar covered dust jackets. Carefully bubble wrapped and ships in one box. …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Editiion. first printing. Book.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories. Introduction by Ben Bova. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#163847).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Volume TWO only. Fine except for slight dust soil to outer edge of text block, in fine dust jacket with slight scuffing. No jacket tears or chips. No prior owner markings or bookplate. No remainder mark. Contains seventeen short stories. Suitable for gift-giving.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Richard McKenna. First Edition. 465 pages. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth. Tan pictorial dj. A bright clean copy which is a touch dusty. Cloth. Richard McKenna (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. George Richard. First Edition. 518, [1], pages. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with pictorial dust jacket. A bright clean copy noting one shallow scratch to the rear panel. Cloth. "Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard. In 1998, Clement was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He was named the 17th SFWA Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999." (Wikipedia) This volume (one of a series published by NESFA Press) contains three novels - Needle, Iceworld, and Close to Critical - his most important hard science fiction novels. With a new introduction by Poul Anderson. Hal was a fixture for many years at the Boskone and Readercon conventions we exhibited at in the Boston MA area. We could hear him coming by his whistling, and recognize him instantly by his Boyscout neck laynard. He is missed. George Richard (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. George Richard. First Edition. 506, [2] pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue/green cloth with pictorial dust jacket. A triffle dusty, otherwise a bright clean copy. Cloth. George Richard (illustrator).

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Third volume of three. 465 pages: edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. Lewis. Collects the Mesklin novels MISSION OF GRAVITY and STAR LIGHT (first hardcover edition of the latter), and the Mesklin stories ''Lecture Demonstration'' and ''Under'', plus the essay ''Whirligig World''. Four page introduction by Dave Langford, plus two afterwords by each of the editors. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Signed.…

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Second volume of three. 506 pages: edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. Lewis. Collects seventeeen stories plus a three page introduction by Ben Bova. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author. …

hardcover. Condition: Fair.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.