SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in fine dust jacket and paper slipcase. (16593)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and paper slipcase. (16593). Octavo, cloth. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay.
Synopsis
With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying...Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever."
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16593
- Title
- SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in fine dust jacket and paper slipcase. (16593)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Mark V. Ziesing Books
- Place of Publication
- [Shingletown, CA]
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- SF . SC . Signed
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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