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SHATTERDAY
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corner tips and a few tiny rub spots to upper spine panel. (29085)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corner tips and a few tiny rub spots to upper spine panel. (29085). Octavo, cloth. A bookplate signed by Ellison limited to 1000 numbered copies is laid in. Collects sixteen stories. Includes "Jeffty is Five," Nebula Award winner, 1977 and Hugo Award winner, 1978 for best short story. The story also won the 1999 online Locus poll as best short story of all time. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-206.
Synopsis
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas. Harlan Ellison has, for exactly a quarter of a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for most outstanding teleplay. Though his contemporary fantasies have been compared favorably with the dark visions of Borges, Barthelme, Poe and Kafka, Ellison resists categorization with a vehemence that alienates critics and reviewers seeking easy pigeonholes for an extraordinary writer. The San Francisco Chronicle writes, "The categories are too small to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, purveyor of pure horror and black comedy; he is all these and more. In this, his thirty-seventh book, celebrating twenty-five years of setting down the mortal dreads we all share, Harlan Ellison has put together his best work to date: sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award-winners), totaling a marvel-filled 105,000 words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29085
- Title
- SHATTERDAY
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corner tips and a few tiny rub spots to upper spine panel. (29085)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- SF . Fantasy . SC
Terms of Sale
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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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