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Black Easter; Or Faust Aleph-Null
by Blish, James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gutter Code J21. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally toned. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Blish's dark fantasy about demons summoned to earth to wreak havoc. Together with The Day After Judgment, this work forms the second part of Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy.
Synopsis
Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two very short novels form the third part of the thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy (title from T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion," "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?") with A Case of Conscience and Dr. Mirabilis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10108
- Title
- Black Easter; Or Faust Aleph-Null
- Author
- Blish, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Supernatural, Demon, God, Christianity, 20th Century Fiction, Reagan, Assassination, War, Crime
Terms of Sale
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All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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