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Beggars and Choosers
by Kress, Nancy
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York; (1994): TOR/ Tom Daherty Associates. First Edition. Octavo. 315(1) pp. Signed by the author who has won several awards for her work. Gene Wolf called this book "hard-edged, realistic, near-future sf with all the attention to character the field is perpetually criticized for lacking. "Beggars and Choosers is a rich, morally complex novel of a future world eerily like our own tomorrow. It is a major work of sf. A near fine copy bound inn black paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt with small crimp to upper fore-edges, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022930
- Title
- Beggars and Choosers
- Author
- Kress, Nancy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- TOR/ Tom Daherty Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York; (1994)
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...