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ABOMINABLE EARTHMAN.
by Pohl, Frederick
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG+/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1963* Publisher: Ballantine Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used (in clear polythene cover). VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, considerable tanning particularly to page margins and edges. Some sellotape marks to inside of covers. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 159 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Science fiction:- Collection of short stories; The Abominable Earthman, We Never Mention Aunt Nora, A life and a Half, Punch, The Martian Star Gazers, Whatever Counts and Three Portraits & A Prayer. Published originally in various Science Fiction publications & magazines such as Galaxy, If and Playboy Magazine between 1958 and 1962.* This is a VG text copy of the 1st. thus (U.S.). with considerable age & minimal shelf wear.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32
- Title
- ABOMINABLE EARTHMAN.
- Author
- Pohl, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- P/B
- Place of Publication
- New York USA. 160
- Date Published
- 1963-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Edges
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- VG
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- Bumps
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- Crisp
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- A.N.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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