Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Big Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the other being Showboat World) which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Big Planet was serialized in 1952 in Startling Stories, then cut and reissued in 1957 by Avalon Books It was later issued as part of Ace double novel D-295, paired with Vance's Slaves of the Klau. It was further cut in 1958. The text was restored in 1978.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mossback Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29260
- Title
- Big Planet
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition :
- Publisher
- Avalon Books
- Date Published
- 1957
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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