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No Doors, No Windows (Signed)
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore, MD: Borderlands Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 239 pp. Fine / Fine in Fine slipcase. Association copy. Number 424 of 1000 signed by author on fly leaf. Post-It laid onto front free endpaper with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley and wife: "Joe, Char - You might want to check the dedication page on this new 1st H.C. edition. - he." Dedication page reads: "For years of friendship, For forcing open doors and, Busting out windows, This one, with love, for Joe L. and Charlotte Hensley." Blue cloth, silver stamped on front board and spine. Light blue endpapers. Text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Dust jacket unclipped. Includes 16 tales.
Synopsis
Tired of the everyday grind? Got a lousy tension headache? Having crazy thoughts about tossing your boss out a window, feeding your old man through the blender, bricking up your wife in the basement? Need an escape before you do something nasty? Here's a book that may help for a few minutes, long enough to catch your breath. Sixteen stories of mayhem and panic, fear and fantasy by the writer the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times says "is currently the leading craftsman in the literature of terror and dread": Harlan Ellison winner of the Mystery Writers of America award for Best Short Story (included here). This book will at least reassure you: even looneytune paranoids really have enemies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000011
- Title
- No Doors, No Windows (Signed)
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Borderlands Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 239
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- association, Ellison
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Fine
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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