THE BLUE WORLD
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Ballantine Books (Ballantine SF Original, U2169, 50ó), 1966. Pictorial wrappers. first edition , near fine, unread. "Epic adventure in futuro-exotic setting. Effective presentation of ecology and resulting life-style from 'criminal' beginnings."- Barron AW, 3-378. "'His talent for extracting exotic flavours from commonplace terms has seldom been better used'- James Cawthorn, New Worlds."- Pringle Ultimate SF, 45 ***. "JV's talent for naming the people and places in his stories (a mixture of exotic invented terms and commonplace words with the right resonance) contributed to the sense that dream ethnographies were being carved, almost as a gardner would create topiary. Three novels .... show these talents at their fullest stretch: The Blue World"- CN SF Encyclo, pp 1264-6. paperback,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Graham Holroyd Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240846
- Title
- THE BLUE WORLD
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- NY: Ballantine Books (Ballantine SF Original, U2169, 50ó), 1966. Pictorial wrappers. first edition
- Date Published
- near fine, unread
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Graham Holroyd Books
Biblio member since 2015
Webster, New York
About Graham Holroyd Books
Established in 1972. 400,000 books. Rare paperbacks, pulp magazines, hardcovers, digest size paperbacks, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, detective, romance, etc
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