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The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction
by Kate Wilhelm
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€23.30€16.31
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company , 1968 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1968. Stated First Edition. Doubleday Science Fiction Book. Retired small town library book. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked but for library stamps on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good; checkout pocket on RFFP; scrapes and tape residue on pastdowns from library taping of DJ to boards; dust staining to textblock top; staining to board top and bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); light suntoning to spine; index sticker on spine; moisture warp to bottom of rear panel. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 215 pp 8vo. This book is the author's first collection of short stories for Doubleday. Come into the special world of Kate Wilhelm where fear inhabits every unlit corner, unreality and madness are constantly shifting shadows just beyond the next doorway. Fourteen chilling short stores. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016619
- Title
- The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction
- Author
- Kate Wilhelm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- horror stories, horror short stories, Kate Wilhelm, horror fiction, terror fiction, science fiction
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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