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The Alien Years
by Silverberg, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine-Collectible/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061050350
- ISBN 13
- 9780061050350
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
€18.95€17.06
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About This Item
NY: Harper Prism, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 428 pgs. First Printing. Black boards w/harper colophon stamped on front. Black card stock spine w/silver letters. DJ design by Carl D. Galian. Jacket illustration by Michael Herring. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-libary, unclipped (w/price) & unmarked. Dent to heel of spine. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The narrative opens seven years hence, with the arrival of alien spaceships on Earth, an event that has a devastating effect on the Carmichael family. Pilot Michael Carmichael is killed trying to fight the huge firestorms in Los Angeles that erupt when the alien ships land; his wife, Cindy, leaps at the chance to go aboard one of the UFOs and become an interpreter for the "Entities"; and his brother, Colonel Anson Carmichael, is summoned by Washington to help cope with the situation. Before there is time to react, however, the aliens' intent becomes known as they disrupt all electricity and plunge civilization back into the Dark Ages. Source: Publishers Weekly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15020
- Title
- The Alien Years
- Author
- Silverberg, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine-Collectible
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061050350
- ISBN 13
- 9780061050350
- Publisher
- Harper Prism
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1988
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
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