Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone
by SAGGITTARUS [pseud. of Carl Shears]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); photo-illustrated wrappers; xiv,[2],198pp. Fine, unread copy. Novel set in the not-too-distant future, describing "The Rise to Power of America's Black Dictator General Hambone." Pseudonymously authored by the founder of the Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company. Uncommon utopian/dystopian Black Power novel; no others found in commerce (2015); 17 copies located in OCLC.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25723
- Title
- Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone
- Author
- SAGGITTARUS [pseud. of Carl Shears]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction; African-Americana; Utopian Literature; Black Arts Movement;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...