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Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0575042710
- ISBN 13
- 9780575042711
- Seller
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Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gollancz. Very Good+. 1989. Paperback. 0575042710 . Clean, tight and square. Slight (ubiquitous) age toning ow fine. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 224 pages .
Synopsis
Big Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the other being Showboat World) which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Big Planet was serialized in 1952 in Startling Stories, then cut and reissued in 1957 by Avalon Books It was later issued as part of Ace double novel D-295, paired with Vance's Slaves of the Klau. It was further cut in 1958. The text was restored in 1978.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Last Century Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26900
- Title
- Big Planet
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0575042710
- ISBN 13
- 9780575042711
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0575042710
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.