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Viriconium Nights SIGNED
by Harrison, M. John
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0575036621
- ISBN 13
- 9780575036628
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1985. First Hardcover Edition. First Hardcover Edition. Signed by the author in ink at title page. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 158pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This new collection of stories returns us to the strange, haunting, mutable world of Viriconium and its citizens. Viriconium is a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change, even its name: in one story it is Vriko; in another Uroconium. Sometimes its inhabitants' pursuits are relatively conventional, as in "The Llama and Lord Cromis", where a hero must fulfill his destiny by destroying a Beast, re-enacting a conflict a hundred generations old. Other tales--such as "Strange Great Sins", in which a sin-eater must lift the burden of sin from a dead girl's soul--create their own, wholly original world. M. John Harrison is a writer of resonant and individual imagination, whose stories, written in prose of unusual beauty and precision, offer unique pleasures.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This new collection of stories returns us to the strange, haunting, mutable world of Viriconium and its citizens. Viriconium is a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change, even its name: in one story it is Vriko; in another Uroconium. Sometimes its inhabitants' pursuits are relatively conventional, as in "The Llama and Lord Cromis", where a hero must fulfill his destiny by destroying a Beast, re-enacting a conflict a hundred generations old. Other tales--such as "Strange Great Sins", in which a sin-eater must lift the burden of sin from a dead girl's soul--create their own, wholly original world. M. John Harrison is a writer of resonant and individual imagination, whose stories, written in prose of unusual beauty and precision, offer unique pleasures.(Publisher).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14791
- Title
- Viriconium Nights SIGNED
- Author
- Harrison, M. John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575036621
- ISBN 13
- 9780575036628
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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