jack de vance jack pseudonym john holbrook (4 résultats)

First edition, first printing. Original pearlescent white cloth with light blue foil titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with some very light spotting to the top edge of the closed text-block, the contents are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($40 on the front flap). A memoir by the prolific science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance. Winner of the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Related Book. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Trade edition. Publisher's original grey cloth with metallic blue titles to the spine, in the Tom Kidd illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($45 to the front flap). A collection of eight stories including 'Nopalgarth', 'Telek', 'Four Hundred Blackbirds', 'Alfred's Ark', 'Meet Miss Universe', 'The World Between', 'Milton Hack From Zodiac' and 'Parapsyche'. This is the trade edition of volume four in 'The Early Jack Vance' series, there was also an edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Jack Vance, housed in a traycase. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Trade edition. Publisher's original grey cloth with gold titles to the spine, in the Tom Kidd illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean and bright. The contents, with a few spots to the top edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($45 to the front flap). 'Magic Highways' is the third volume in 'The Early Jack Vance' series and was issued in a trade edition (as here) and an edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Jack Vance, housed in a traycase. Comprising of 16 stories including 'Phalid's Fate', 'Planet of Black Dust', 'Dead Ahead', 'The Ten Books', 'The Uninhibited Robot', 'Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater', 'The Visitors', 'Sabotage on Sulfur Planet', 'The House Lords', 'Sanatoris Short-cut', 'The Unspeakable McInch', 'The Sub-Standard Sardines', 'The Howling Bounders', 'The King of Thieves', 'The Spa of the Stars' and 'To B or Not to C or to D'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original dark brown faux 'leather' with gilt titles to the spine, in the Gnemo illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black cloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($125 to the rear flap). Complete with the structurally sound slipcase. Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies of which this example is numbered 151 and signed by the author Jack Vance in black ink on the limitation page. There was also an edition of 26 lettered copies in a traycase. A collection of three of the multi-award winning author's very best planetary adventures: 'Emphyrio', 'The Domains of Koryphon' (originally published as 'The Grey Prince'), and 'The Languages of Pao'. With introductions by Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mike Resnick. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.