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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Some fading to spine of unclipped (original price £4.95) dustwrapper, very slight bumping to cornersof black boards, foxing to outer pages and to inner flaps of dustwrappper, yellowing to the pages throughout. But otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book containing three connected stories by the author, namely: "The Eve of Rumoko" which originally apperared in the 1969 anthology "Three for Tomorrow"; the catchily-titled "Kjwall'kje'k'koothailll'kje'k", originally printed in "An Exaltation of Stars" in 1973; and "Home is the Hangman" which won the Hugo Award after appearing in "Analog". Originally published in paperback in the US in 1976, this is the first hardback edition, published by Faber and Faber, "First published in this edition in 1979" on rev of title page, with no other dates or printings mentioned. 206pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 012678
Book Description Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. 206 p. -(very) good.-(library stamps, The dj is sunned, but only at the spine, otherwise dj is excellent. Pages browned. Overall the book is in very good condition. Block square, binding tight.). ISBN 0571112900. Seller Inventory # 65519-A-49705
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Chris Quale dj art (illustrator). 1st UK & hardcover Edition. The dust jacket is unclipped (L 4.95). Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000331
Book Description Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects three novellas featuring an agent in the service of a vast global detective agency, including "Home is the Hangman," winner of the 1976 Hugo award for best novella, a suspenseful story about an enigmatic robot executioner which has returned to Earth to destroy its programmers. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-626. Some age-darkening to text paper, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#141548). Seller Inventory # 141548
Book Description Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Zelazny to David G. Hartwell, one of his editors. Collects three novellas featuring an agent in the service of a vast global detective agency, including "Home is the Hangman," winner of the 1976 Hugo award for best novella, a suspenseful story about an enigmatic robot executioner which has returned to Earth to destroy its programmers. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-626. Several minor bruises to edges of boards, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#111230). Seller Inventory # 111230