Banquets of the Black Widowers
by Isaac Asimov
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385195419
- ISBN 13
- 9780385195416
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£72.85£58.28
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1984. first. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Al Nagy. First edition. Very good book in good dust jacket. Jacket has small closed cut at spine and tiny rub on hinge, now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, with navy cloth covered spine with gilt printing. Pages are clean and unmarked. Doubleday hardcover with dust jacket, 1st edition, 1st printing (stated), August 1984, ISBN: 9780385195416, 212 pages. Cover art by Al Nagy. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"") 4th in series. 12 more Black Widower stories, 3 printed here for the first time. In the introduction, Asimov makes a passing reference to the illness which will eventually take his life. Stories: Neither Brute Nor Human, Sixty Million Trillion Combinations, The Woman in the Bar, The Driver, The Good Samaritan, The Year of the Action, Can You Prove It?, The Phoenician Bauble, A Monday in April, The Redhead, The Wrong House, The Intrusion. Asimov includes an introduction to the book, and an afterword to each story.
Synopsis
Banquets of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by science fiction author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1984, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in June 1986. This book is the fourth of the six books featuring the Black Widowers.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112521409780385195416cgr
- Title
- Banquets of the Black Widowers
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Illustrator
- Al Nagy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- ISBN 10
- 0385195419
- ISBN 13
- 9780385195416
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 212
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Roy Krenkel, Jr.
- Bookseller catalogs
- First editions; Mysteries;
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