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The Best of Fritz Leiber
by Fritz Leiber
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974. first. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Larry Kresek. First edition. Dust jacket has light wear and a small closed tear; now in new removable protective cover. Yellow boards, red printing on spine. Remainder mark on the top edge of the textblock, and there are stray marker marks on the front free end paper, whited out. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of the Science Fiction Book Club) hardcover with dust jacket, first edition, first printing June 1974 (printing code E22); SFBC #6203, 301 pages, cover art by Larry Kresek. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") Book club original publication, reprinted by Ballantine / Del Rey as a mass market paperback in Nov. 1974. Winner, 1975 Locus Award, Best Single Author Collection. Contents: The Wizard of Nehwon, essay by Poul Anderson; Stories: Gonna Roll the Bones; Sanity; Wanted - An Enemy; The Man Who Never Grew Young; The Ship Sails at Midnight; The Enchanted Forest; Coming Attraction; Poor Superman; A Pail of Air; The Foxholes of Mars; The Big Holiday; The Night He Cried; The Big Trek; Space-Time for Springers; Try and Change the Past; A Deskful of Girls; Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee; Little Old Miss Macbeth; Mariana; The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity; The Good New Days; America the Beautiful; Afterword, essay by Fritz Leiber.
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- Seller
- Bujoldfan
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 06252101SFBC6203cgb
- Title
- The Best of Fritz Leiber
- Author
- Fritz Leiber
- Illustrator
- Larry Kresek
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 301
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Story Collection, Hugo Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy; First editions;
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