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The Princess Bride AND The Silent Gondoliers (set of 2 books) by Goldman, William - New York 1973 and 1983

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The Princess Bride AND The Silent Gondoliers (set of 2 books) by Goldman, William - New York 1973 and 1983

The Princess Bride AND The Silent Gondoliers (set of 2 books)

by Goldman, William

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Del Rey, New York 1973 and 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Previous owner's name at the top of the front free endpaper, faint foxing to the top-edge otherwise an exceptionally clean copy. The dustjacket is rubbed and edgeworn and frayed at the spine ends but free of chipping or tears. SOLD WITH a First Edition, First Printing copy of "The Silent Gondoliers", Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket which is very lightly soiled but is free of chipping, tears or remainder marks. ***FREE tracking number on domestic shipments***
  • Bookseller Handee Books, LLC US (US)
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  • Book Condition Used - Near Fine
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  • Edition First Edition, First Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0151730857
  • ISBN 13 9780151730858
  • Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Del Rey
  • Date Published New York 1973 and 1983

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Skull-Face and Others, SKULLFACE, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok, Contains:...
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Skull-Face and Others, SKULLFACE, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok, Contains: "Foreword" by August Derleth, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft,

by Howard, Robert E.[rvin] 1906-1936. Born in Texas, son of Pioneer Physician, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok ,Inner DJ flap with chip at Top Margin,

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Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1946. Includes Appreciations by E. Hoffmann Price and H. P. Lovecraft. Barron (ed), Contains: "Foreword" by August Derleth, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft, and "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price.HBDJ, 1946, 1ST EDITION, Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg, VG/GOOD-, Limited to 3,000 Copies in back of book, 474 pgs, FOXING INTERIOR PGS, Black cloth over boards tiny nicks with gilt lettering and ornamental designs on the spine, Front of Dj Nice & Brigh with small Chips along Fold of Inner Flap & tiny chnips Wear Extremities, Back dJ soiling slightly & spine DJ end chips,, and A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price. A first Limited edition from an author noted for his Conan series, and his numerous fantastic adventure stories featured in Weird Tales. authors Posthumous first book published in the U.S. and his first collection of short fantasy fiction. An omnibus volume collecting stories featuring Conan, Solomon Kane,… Read More
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"ACE DOUBLE SCIENCE FICTION 'NUMERICAL' SERIES COMPLETE IN 56 VOLUMES" : Time...
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"ACE DOUBLE SCIENCE FICTION 'NUMERICAL' SERIES COMPLETE IN 56 VOLUMES" : Time Thieves, Soft Come Dragons, Dark of Woods, Fall Dream Machine, Fear That Man, Unteleported Man, Mad Goblin, Lord Trees, Yank at Valhalla, Technos, Winds Darkover, Others

by Dean R. Koontz, Philip K, Dick, Philip Jose Farmer, E.C. Tubb, A. Bertram Chandler, Mack Reynolds. Jack Vance, Ron Goulart, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Neal Barrett, John Jakes, Edmond Hamilton, Others

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New York: Ace Books Numerical Series 1st Editions and Later Printings 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 & 1973 ----------This heavy set will require NO additional shipping charges for standard shipping for a US or Canadian order, overseas orders will require a shipping charge DRAMATICALLY LESS than actual postage (inquire). 56 paperbacks, all Ace Science Fiction Doubles, also referred to as tete-beche or dos-a-dos, describing books which when flipped over reveal another cover and book. Ace issued their science fiction doubles from 1953 to 1973 (there were "doubles" beyond 1973, but they bore a single cover which listed both books). The books were issued in 5 letter-prefix series based on original cover price, and 1 numerical series. Offered here is the final series, the NUMERICAL series, also referred to as the 5-Number or 5-Digit series, consisting of 56 volumes issued from 1969 to 1973, and bearing original cover prices of $0.60, $0.75 or $0.95. It is the COMPLETE set of Ace SF doubles… Read More
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Between Planets
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Between Planets

by Heinlein, Robert A.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951 First printing of the first edition, with Scribner's 'A' on the copyright page, in first issue dust jacket with the 2.50 price on front flap, 222pp. Offsetting to endpapers, faint toning to spine and endpapers, a few pages faintly creased, and a few small stains to interior, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine, folds, and inside flaps, light rubbing to folds, and moderate edge wear to spine ends and corners, else fine.
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Time for the Stars
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Time for the Stars

by Robert A. Heinlein

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on front flap) Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (A little tear in the top left corner, see pic.)
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Escape on Venus
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Escape on Venus

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

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347 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition.
Escape on Venus is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"). It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantastic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fish Men", "Goddess of Fire", "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus". A collected edition of these stories was published in 1946.
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Skull-Face and Others, SKULLFACE, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok, Contains:...
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Skull-Face and Others, SKULLFACE, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok, Contains: "Foreword" by August Derleth, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft,

by Howard, Robert E.[rvin] 1906-1936. Born in Texas, son of Pioneer Physician, With the dust jacket, illustrated by Hannes Bok ,Inner DJ flap with chip at Top Margin,

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Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1946. Includes Appreciations by E. Hoffmann Price and H. P. Lovecraft. Barron (ed), Contains: "Foreword" by August Derleth, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft, and "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price.HBDJ, 1946, 1ST EDITION, Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg, VG/GOOD-, Limited to 3,000 Copies in back of book, 474 pgs, FOXING INTERIOR PGS, Black cloth over boards tiny nicks with gilt lettering and ornamental designs on the spine, Front of Dj Nice & Brigh with small Chips along Fold of Inner Flap & tiny chnips Wear Extremities, Back dJ soiling slightly & spine DJ end chips,, and A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price. A first Limited edition from an author noted for his Conan series, and his numerous fantastic adventure stories featured in Weird Tales. authors Posthumous first book published in the U.S. and his first collection of short fantasy fiction. An omnibus volume collecting stories featuring Conan, Solomon Kane,… Read More
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"ACE DOUBLE SCIENCE FICTION 'NUMERICAL' SERIES COMPLETE IN 56 VOLUMES" : Time...
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"ACE DOUBLE SCIENCE FICTION 'NUMERICAL' SERIES COMPLETE IN 56 VOLUMES" : Time Thieves, Soft Come Dragons, Dark of Woods, Fall Dream Machine, Fear That Man, Unteleported Man, Mad Goblin, Lord Trees, Yank at Valhalla, Technos, Winds Darkover, Others

by Dean R. Koontz, Philip K, Dick, Philip Jose Farmer, E.C. Tubb, A. Bertram Chandler, Mack Reynolds. Jack Vance, Ron Goulart, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Neal Barrett, John Jakes, Edmond Hamilton, Others

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New York: Ace Books Numerical Series 1st Editions and Later Printings 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 & 1973 ----------This heavy set will require NO additional shipping charges for standard shipping for a US or Canadian order, overseas orders will require a shipping charge DRAMATICALLY LESS than actual postage (inquire). 56 paperbacks, all Ace Science Fiction Doubles, also referred to as tete-beche or dos-a-dos, describing books which when flipped over reveal another cover and book. Ace issued their science fiction doubles from 1953 to 1973 (there were "doubles" beyond 1973, but they bore a single cover which listed both books). The books were issued in 5 letter-prefix series based on original cover price, and 1 numerical series. Offered here is the final series, the NUMERICAL series, also referred to as the 5-Number or 5-Digit series, consisting of 56 volumes issued from 1969 to 1973, and bearing original cover prices of $0.60, $0.75 or $0.95. It is the COMPLETE set of Ace SF doubles… Read More
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Time for the Stars
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Time for the Stars

by Robert A. Heinlein

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on front flap) Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (A little tear in the top left corner, see pic.)
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Escape on Venus
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Escape on Venus

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

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347 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition.
Escape on Venus is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"). It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantastic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fish Men", "Goddess of Fire", "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus". A collected edition of these stories was published in 1946.
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The Norton Book of Science Fiction [Signed by 22 Contributors]
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The Norton Book of Science Fiction [Signed by 22 Contributors]

by Le Guin, Ursula K. and Brian Attebery, eds.

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NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6 in.); 869pp., indexed; burgundy cloth boards, in dust jacket. Signed at their contributions by 22 of the 67 collected authors, in order: Frederik Pohl, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, John Varley, Edward Bryant, Gregory Benford, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler (who has also signed the title page beneath her "consultant" credit), John Crowley, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Orson Scott Card, Connie Willis, Eileen Gunn, Lisa Goldstein, and John Kessel. Light shelfwear, a tiny bit of fraying to cloth at bottom tips, a few minor spots of soiling to textblock edges. Unclipped ("$27.50") jacket lightly crumpled at spine ends and along top of rear panel, with a 1/2" closed tear at the top of the rear flap hinge. A very good (+) copy in like jacket of this ambitious… Read More
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

by Goldman, William

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First Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780151730858 / 0151730857
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean throughout. DJ bumped with a small tear on bottom edge. Not price clipped. In archival cover. First Printing 1973
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The Centaur

The Centaur

by Updike, John

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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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NY: Crest Books. F. 1964. 1st Printing. Paperback. Crest Book #R682, 1964. Stated first Crest printing. Fine condition. R ubs at the head of the spine. .
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Human Nature
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Human Nature: New Doctor Who Adventures

by Cornell, Paul

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A respectable used copy of one of the most-liked New Adventures -- slight rubbing, slight edge wear. See the photos, and ask if you need more info.
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The Brick Moon  : From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham
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The Brick Moon : From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham

by Hale, Edward Everett

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Limited/Numbered Edition
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Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The Near Fine slipcase has a faint mark at the tail of the spine edge. ; Early science fiction that imagines a human colonized brick and mortar satellite moon of the Earth. Satirical subtext throughout, based on personalities and society in Boston, MA. Originally serialized in The Atlantic in 1869 and 1870. Copy 712 of a limited edition of 1,950. Signed by the illustrator. Seventeen woodcuts printed in brown, directly from the blocks, by Michael McCurdy, prolific illustrator and founder of the Penmaen Press. Printed by Spiral Press on fine paper. Half dark linen with gilt image of a telescope, the remainder natural linen on boards. This is the later binding, the first being in quarter brown linen, no image, the remainder natural. Slipcase is clean, with sharp corners, and a clean, woodcut illustrated, title label that wraps around the spine edge. Signed by the illustrator. A clean… Read More
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THE WORLD OF STAR TREK
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THE WORLD OF STAR TREK

by Gerrold, David

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First Edition
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New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. Mass market paperback. 276 pages + 64 pages of photographs. First printing of this paperback original. An inside picture of the 3 worlds of Star Trek: 1) Gene Roddenberry" conception of the TV series; 2) the show itself--writers, stars and technicians; and 3) the world of the fans who kept the series alive after NBC cancelled it. The book is clean and bright, with just a hint of edgewear; a couple of reading crease on the spine, but still square and tightly bound. Bookstore stamp at top of page facing the front cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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Let's All Kill Constance SIGNED FIRST

Let's All Kill Constance SIGNED FIRST

by RAY BRADBURY

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A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED BY MR. BRADBURY ON TITLE PAGE.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

by Verne, Jules

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Book Club Edition
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
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THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

by RAY BRADBURY

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Signed by the author, Ray Bradbury. The later printing of this edition which contains a new introduction written by Ray Bradbury specifically for this edition. As new in dust jacket. remainder mark
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The Book of Philip Jose Farmer
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The Book of Philip Jose Farmer

by Philip Jose Farmer

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First Thus. First Printing
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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780705700672 / 0705700674
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SIGNED. First Hardcover Edition. First Printing. Elmfield Press/ London (1976). Wraparound jacket art by Josh Kirby. Very near fine, full cloth hardcover with fine, as new jacket. Spine head and heel edges very lightly pushed and two mildly bumped corners. Jacket is quite fine, as new, and bright in fresh, removable mylar sleeve. Signed (signature only) by Farmer on first blank page. Boxed for swift shipping. 11-b
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics―A Collection of...
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics―A Collection of Written Interviews

by Samuel Delany

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Hardcover
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9780819552761 / 0819552763
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First Edition. First Printing. Wesleyan (1994). Fine, as new, black full cloth hardcover, with vivid silver lettering. No jacket was issued by publisher. A fresh, sharp copy. Boxed for swift, safe shipping. 11(1b)
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The Sex Demon of Jangal

The Sex Demon of Jangal

by Brent, Lynton Wright

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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Hollywood, CA: Brentwood Publishing Co. / Crime-Adventure Series Book No. 101 1st Edition, 1964 ----------paperback. An erotic fantasy novel. Covers slightly rubbed, very modest shelfwear, a near fine copy.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by The Author (front cover). Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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