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DOWN IN THE BLACK GANG
by Philip Jose Farmer
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[PHILIP JOSE FARMER]. DOWN IN THE BLACK GANG. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, New York, 1971. First Edition, First printing. True first edition with first edition point gutter code "18M" indicating a first printing. Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, in original publisher's blue cloth boards, light shelf wear, pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. Dust jacket Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped with mild creases to extremities and faint smudges mostly to rear panel, previous book store sticker on first inner flap from the legendary 1970's Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror Los Angeles bookstore "Change Of Hobbit" visited by many of the world famous authors, protected in professional collector's Brodart archival plastic sleeve. Cover art by Gary Viskupic. A collection of novelettes and short stories including the novelette Riverworld. Modern science fiction from a major author, collectible. 215 pgs. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-892
- Title
- DOWN IN THE BLACK GANG
- Author
- Philip Jose Farmer
- Illustrator
- Gary Viskupic
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday / SFBC
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 215
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Philip José Farmer, Gary Viskupic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- Fine
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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