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The Anubis Gates
by Powers, Tim
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- first
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. First US hard cover edition and Winner of the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award. 361pp. with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, illustrated by Mark Bilokur. A delightful, complicated time travel historical fantasy. Their juggernaut plot spans continents and millennia, tying together the loose threads of events previously understood to be unrelated, but revealed to be otherwise by the interaction of actual historical figures and widely documented events Its startling range of imagination and clever tinkering is only party of this book's lasting attraction for so many readers. A fine copy bound in brown cloth spine lettering gilt, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
Synopsis
The Anubis Gates is a time travel fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It won the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award and 1984 Science Fiction Chronicle Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022608
- Title
- The Anubis Gates
- Author
- Powers, Tim
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mark V. Ziesing
- Place of Publication
- Shingletown, CA
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Fantasy Science Fiction Philip K. Dick Award First Edition 1st
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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