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Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories From the Nightside of the World
by Harlan Ellison
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060111135
- ISBN 13
- 9780060111137
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Leo & Diane Dillon. A fine, signed (by author) first edition in an unclipped and very near fine dust jacket. Brown paper boards over russet buckram quarter cloth. Dust jacket showing wear at crown. 262 pp. Octavo. A remarkable compendium of diverse short fiction by the acclaimed author ranges from satire to horror in such tales as "Croatoan," "The New York Review of Birds," and "Working with the Little People," and features such unusual characters as Dr. D'arque Angel who brings death to her patients. Each story is prefaced with a personal essay by Mr. Ellison.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1269
- Title
- Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories From the Nightside of the World
- Author
- Harlan Ellison
- Illustrator
- Leo & Diane Dillon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060111135
- ISBN 13
- 9780060111137
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy & Science Fiction;
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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