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Shambleau and Others
by Moore, C.L
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/As New
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Shelton, Connecticut: The First Edition Library, 1987. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/As New. 224pp. Octavo [21cm] Pine green paper over boards with title stamped in red on spine. Small dent in head of spine. In a slipcase covered in illustrated paper. A fine facsimile edition of a modern science fiction classic.
Synopsis
Shambleau and Others is a 1953 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. The book was originally announced by Arkham House but never published by them. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
Reviews
On Nov 22 2011, LexEDReader said:
This book was one of the earliest hardback collections of science fiction from a woman who was a master of pulp fiction from the 1920's and later. Catherine Moore developed one of the earliest archetypes of the surly antihero of the spaceways-- his name was Northwest Smith, and we see his like today in the name of Han Solo. Moore also created another character, Jirel of Joiry, a woman sword fighter in a vaguely renaissance french landscape who travels into the underworld in search of vengenace. Both characters are represented in multiple stories from this venerable old collection from the 1950's classic publisher Gnome Press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65616
- Title
- Shambleau and Others
- Author
- Moore, C.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile edition
- Publisher
- The First Edition Library
- Place of Publication
- Shelton, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- facsimile; science fiction; modern classics; gift edition
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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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...
- Octavo
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- Facsimile
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- Fine
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- 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....
- New
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