Venus Half Shell, First Edition (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. #6149, Feb., First Printing. Paperback Original. 204pp. Kilgore Trout. Light wear, diagonal crease on front cover, bottom front corner a little wrnikled. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Wraps darkened and slightly rubbed, else very good with a flat, uncreased spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. The book is very good with edge wear and a reading crease along spine and a sticker scar at upper right corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Third Printing (April 1975). Published by Dell, 1975. 12mo. Paperback. Code of 6149 on cover and spine. Blue stained page ends. Book is very good. Covers have some light shelf wear and stamp on first page. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Paperback. first edition. 6149 near fine, unread PBO. paperback,

Enric (illustrator). New York: Dell:, 1975. First edition, PBO, Paperback, Near Fine, 178 pp. Cover artwork by: Enric Clean, straight, tight and virtually crease-free with modest toning to extremities of text block and lightly faded stained edges. First edition, PBO, Paperback, Near Fine,

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover shows moderate creasing and edgewear; This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. This copy is the First Edition THUS of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to covers and spine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover! (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 207 pages.>>"The Space Wanderer a pretty nice guy whose only fault is that he asks questions that no one can answer; primarily, Why are we creasted only to suffer & die?" >> Nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7 x 4", pict wraps, 204pp + ads, cover rubbed, extremities a bit worn, pp toned else a nice, clean copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Canadian printing of the first edition of Philip José Farmer's pseudonymous Vonnegut pastiche (published with Vonnegut's reluctant permission!). Stated first printing of the first edition. Copy is in very good condition. Some minor general wear to the pictorial card wraps. Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, square binding. A nicely preserved copy of an unusual and collectible book.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good(+). First printing (stated). Black duodecimo, smaller than octavo, 204 pages; 18 cm. Science Fiction. Kilgore Trout is a pseudonym of Philip Jos? Farmer. Venus picture to front pastedown. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, light crease to front hinge, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, extremely faint soiling to rear cover, very small and light crease to front-rear edge, else Very Good(+). No creasing to spine. Tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First thus; the first edition in hardback, preceded by paperback editions. No jacket, as issued. Beige cloth with red titling and decoration, good with light staining to bottom margins of front and back. Binding sound. Very faint staining to bottom margin of RFEP and preceding few pages. Interior else clean, text bright and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Paperback. Pbo. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 285 p. Istiridye kabugundaki Venüs. [= Venus on the half-shell]. Translated by Sönmez Güven. First Turkish Edition.

Paperback. Condition: near fine paperback. 1st printing. Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Mass market paperback. Remarkably well preserved. No creases, no stains, no internal markings. Cover still shiny. Written in the style of Vonnegut.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - As Published. First Edition. Both volumes (Volume 47, #6 and Volume 48, #1) are in very good + condition. Some toning to the back panel of the first volume, but tight and square. This is the first appearance of this novel, and a bit hard to find in this above average condition. Previous owner's mail label to back panel. Magazine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, (Laurel Edition) thus paperback original (preceded by the 1974 "The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction" printing in two parts) first printing of a fine softcover. This pseudonym used by the author was a recurring fictitious character created by Kurt Vonnegut and was present in many of his novels. This novel is the result of an expanded excerpt from chapter 9 of Vonnegut's novel "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" from 1965. The story of Earth's destruction by cosmic bureaucrats doing routine maintenance and the sole survivor on a quest to find the "Definitive Answer To The Ultimate Question". Later published under the author's real name.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. An uncommon paperback original. A pseudonym for Phillip Jose Farmer.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition/First Printing. Two square solid tight carefully read copies. The above novel appears here, in two parts, for the first time. Both copies have the usual pagedge browning, lightish rubbing wear, light cover soil, mailing labels. First appearance of the novel. Trout was a pigment of the imagination of Kurt Vonnegut, the novel was written by Philip Jose Farmer using the pseudonym. This edition also includes a short biographical sketch of Trout. This issue also features a new Zenna Henderson story about the People. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Novel by Farmer as by Kurt Vonnegut's character, Kilgore Trout (which leads to a mistaken belief that Vonnegut wrote this). Paperback Original. Near fine; very light corner crease upper right cover; tiny color flakes on back cover.

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 323 p. Audience: General/trade. No. 19 of 125 and 26 lettered copies signed by Philip Jose Farmer. Clean, tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket preserved in Mylar. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by illustrator.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Paperback original. Very good+ in pictorial printed wrappers. (Mild trace of damping at small segment of bottom edge . Not at all messy. Couple small soil spots on inside front cover. Hints of shelf-wear & creasing) ) Humorous parody of Kurt Vonnegut's early Sci-Fi style perpetrated by Philip Jose Farmer.

First Edition. VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL in the MAGAZINE OF FANTASY And SCIENCE FICTION for December, 1974 and January, 1975, Mercury Press, first edition, 2 volumes complete, just about fine in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains contributions by Larry Niven, Robert Aickman, Isaac Asimov, John Sladek, Zenna Henderson, L. Sprague De Camp, et.al. The true first appearance in print of this novel preceding the book publication by over a year.

Paperback. First Edition. Dell 6149. Barely a touch of wear to edges. A bright, near fine copy. ; Small octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Biscuit cloth with silver spine titling, upper board stamped and blocked with red foil. Issued without dust-jacket. A fine copy. This is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout", a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.With Vonnegut's permission, Farmer expanded a fragment by Vonnegut into an entire standalone novel (including, as an in-joke, a scene that incorporates all of Vonnegut's original text). The question of authorship became confused and later editions bear Farmer's name on the title-page.

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell Books 6149. Simon Wagstaff, the immortal "Space Wanderer," with his pet owl, his dog Anubis, and a sexy robot companion, travels throughout the multiverse on a 3,000-year quest for answers to questions that no one can seem to answer. "In this ribald space opera the essential differences between men and machines are viewed through the experience of the Space Wanderer." - Mowshowitz, p. 311. Touch of wear to corner tips, a nearly fine, unread copy. (#151952).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback Original (pbo). SIGNED "Kilgore Trout a.k.a Philip Jose Farmer". Fine unread copy. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Dell 6149. Simon Wagstaff, the immortal "Space Wanderer," with his pet owl, his dog Anubis, and a sexy robot companion, travels throughout the multiverse on a 3,000-year quest for answers to questions that no one can seem to answer. "In this ribald space opera the essential differences between men and machines are viewed through the experience of the Space Wanderer." - Mowshowitz, p. 311. A fine copy. Unread. Review slip laid in. (33339).