Arthur C. Clarke's Mysteries
by Fairley, John; Simon Welfare
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998. First edition in this format. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 256pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black paper over boards, with only gentle bumping to the spine ends. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the rear panel. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
A book which confronts the following issues:
Is it possible that there are monsters in the ocean?
Do certain people have the apparently effortless ability to endure intense pain?
Is time travel possible?
Could the Parthians have invented the first battery in 240 B.C.E.?
Can you will someone to die?
How did the ancient South Americans draw massive land pictures that can only be viewed from a great height?
A book which confronts the following issues:
Is it possible that there are monsters in the ocean?
Do certain people have the apparently effortless ability to endure intense pain?
Is time travel possible?
Could the Parthians have invented the first battery in 240 B.C.E.?
Can you will someone to die?
How did the ancient South Americans draw massive land pictures that can only be viewed from a great height?
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60933
- Title
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysteries
- Author
- Fairley, John; Simon Welfare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition in this format
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Place of Publication
- Amherst, NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- mysteries; occult; Arthur C. Clarke
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...