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NINE PRINCES IN AMBER
by Zelazny, Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Glue bleed stain along gutter margins (not uncommon in Doubleday books of this period), a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, touc
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Glue bleed stain along gutter margins (not uncommon in Doubleday books of this period), a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, touch of edge rubbing to spine ends, thin rub along spine/rear panel fold, some age darkening to rear panel. A very collectible copy of this title. (10173). Octavo, illustration by Amelia S. Edwards, cloth. The first volume in the Amber series. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-388. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1143. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 29-35. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 180-82.
Synopsis
Nine Princes in Amber is a new wave fantasy novel and the first in the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny. It was first published in 1970. The book has also spawned a computer game of the same name. The first (Doubleday hardcover) edition of the novel is unusually rare; the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when the order went out to destroy remaining copies of the older book, Creatures of Light and Darkness.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10173
- Title
- NINE PRINCES IN AMBER
- Author
- Zelazny, Roger
- Book Condition
- Used - Glue bleed stain along gutter margins (not uncommon in Doubleday books of this period), a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, touc
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Fantasy
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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