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HIERO'S JOURNEY
by Lanier, Sterling
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, corners slightly bumped in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to extremities. (11047)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, [1973]. First edition. Fine, corners slightly bumped in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to extremities. (11047). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Lanier's second and most important novel, a quest tale set in a post-atomic-war wilderness in which the hero searches for a "mythical computer which might reconstruct things." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 690-691. "Boisterous picaresque adventure fiction, comparable to Piers Anthony's Xanth fantasy novels as well as SF post-holocaust romances like Zelazny's DAMNATION ALLEY."-Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-631.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11047
- Title
- HIERO'S JOURNEY
- Author
- Lanier, Sterling
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, corners slightly bumped in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to extremities. (11047)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chilton Book Company
- Place of Publication
- Radnor, PA
- Date Published
- [1973]
- Keywords
- SF
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.