Joseph Lewis
Seller Rating: 4
Location: Berkeley, CA
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031294487X 1st Edition (NAE), 1st Printing (Stated) 1986 Bluejay Books (Publisher; NY) Trade [...]
031294487X 1st Edition (NAE), 1st Printing (Stated) 1986 Bluejay Books (Publisher; NY) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover mild surface rubbing w/very few minor scratches + 1 minimal crease/light edge wear w/corner bends; spine slightly bowed, single extremely light incomplete crease, remains strong; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 624 pages; edited w/introduction by Gardner Dozois; "Summation: 1985"; main text is 24 stories by 22 authors (including Karen Joy Fowler, Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, Lucius Shepard, Orson Scott Card, James Tiptree Jr, George R.R. Martin, James P. Blaylock, R.A. Lafferty, S.C. Sykes, among many others); "Honorable Mentions: 1985"; author biographies + story intros precede each story; color front cover art by Thomas Kidd w/wrap-around design by Joann Hill; "Dozois is the most imaginative anthologist in sf today--painstaking, unsentimental, gimlet-eyed, acerbic, yet adventurous + open-minded. His annual summation, which begins the volume, is a cogent precis of what's happening + what's moribund in sf publishing--complete + name-naming"--Village Voice; good plus to very good collectible copy of increasingly hard-to-find 24-year-old out-of-print important paperback.
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$84.38
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