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A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY
by Carr, Terry; Greenberg, Martin H. (editor) (H. P. Lovecraft; Clark Ashton Smith; Manly Wade Wellman; Zenna Henderson; Fredric BRown; John Collier; Anthony Boucher; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Shirley Jackson; A. Merritt; Fritz Leiber; Robert A. Heinlein)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380771152
- ISBN 13
- 9780380771158
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Avon Books, 1981. Book. Illus. by James Marsh;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvii) 588 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by James Marsh. This anthology contains: The Rats in the Walls - a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft; The Coming of the White Worm by Clark Ashton Smith; Nine Yards of Other Cloth by Manly Wade Wellman; Through a Glass - Darkly - a novelette by Zenna Henderson; Come and Go Mad - a novelette by Fredric Brown; Man Overboard - a novelette by John Collier; They Bite by Anthony Boucher; Call Him Demon - a novelette by Henry Kuttner; Daemon - a novelette by C. L. Moore; One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts by Shirley Jackson; The Woman of the Wood - a novelette by A. Merritt; Four Ghosts in Hamlet - a novelette by Fritz Leiber; Displaced Person by Eric Frank Russell; The Black Ferris by Ray Bradbury; Our Fair City by Robert A. Heinlein; Narrow Valley by R. A. Lafferty; That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch; There Shall Be No Darkness - a novella by James Blish; The Loom of Darkness by Jack Vance; Trouble with Water by H. L. Gold; Thriteen O'Clock - a novelette by C. M. Kornbluth; The Rag Thing by Donald A. Wollheim; Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison; Timothy by Keith Roberts; Piper at the Gates of Dawn - a novella by Richard Cowper; Yesterday Was Monday by Theodore Sturgeon; The Montavarde Camera by Avram Davidson; Within the Walls of Tyre - a novelette by Michael Bishop; My Dear Emily by Joanna Russ; Descending by Thomas M. Disch; Longtooth - a novelette by Edgar Pangborn; Divine Madness by Roger Zelazny; and Sail On Sail On by Philip Jose Farmer. That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1959; Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison won the Nebula Award for best short story in 1977 and the Hugo Award for best short story in 1978..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229813
- Title
- A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY
- Author
- Carr, Terry; Greenberg, Martin H. (editor) (H. P. Lovecraft; Clark Ashton Smith; Manly Wade Wellman; Zenna Henderson; Fredric BRown; John Collier; Anthony Boucher; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Shirley Jackson; A. Merritt; Fritz Leiber; Robert A. Heinlein)
- Illustrator
- James Marsh;
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0380771152
- ISBN 13
- 9780380771158
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- supernatural literature; lovecraft circle; speculative; dark fantasy; gothic; macabre; weird tales; terror; arkham; cthulhu; ghost; haunting; suspense; hallowe'en; halloween; killing; murder; magic; good; evil; heroic; epic; swords; sorcery; wizard; w
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy;
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W. Fraser Sandercombe
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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