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Callahan's Key
by Robinson, Spider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Black spine / blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (23.95)
- ISBN 10
- 0553111639
- ISBN 13
- 9780553111637
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 2000. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No fading. No creases. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Beautiful Dust Jacket painting, including Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, by Don Maitz. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "The universe is in desperate peril. The United States' own defense system, orbiting above an unknowing populace, is more vulnerable than its creators could have envisioned… And only one man can stop the devastation this unholy weapon will wreak. Unfortunately, he's not available. So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender. And his wife, Zoey, and superintelligent toddler, Erin. Not to mention two dozen busloads of ex-hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, a whorehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius-inventor Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black spine / blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (23.95). Illus. by Maitz, Don (jacket art). 8vo. ix, 336pp.
Synopsis
Spider Robinson has won three Hugos, a Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award. He has written twenty books, sixteen of which have been printed in ten languages. Born in the Bronx, he holds a bachelor's degree in English from the State University of New York. In 1992 he was the toastmaster for the 50th World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. He lives in Vancouver with his wife, Jeanne Robinson, a Boston-born writer.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001768
- Title
- Callahan's Key
- Author
- Robinson, Spider
- Illustrator
- Maitz, Don (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Black spine / blue boards
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Not Price Clipped (23.95)
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0553111639
- ISBN 13
- 9780553111637
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
- Size
- 8vo. ix, 336pp
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About the Seller
About Books
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Henderson, Nevada
About About Books
About Books (Genny and Michael Winne, proprietors, formerly of Parsippany, New Jersey) has been selling rare and OP books since 1985. Besides book fairs and mail-order catalogues, long-time collectors and dealers will remember our lengthy For Sale ads in the Antiquarian Bookman and similar magazines. Our inventory of over 40,000 volumes is especially strong in the specialties listed, but contains fine books in a variety of other fields as well. Because most of our books are stored in protective boxes, rather than on shelves, they cannot be viewed as a whole. If you wish to visit us to examine specific titles, please provide 24 hours notice and we will make them available for your inspection. Phone calls to (702) 750-2722 are welcome, but please, only between the hours of 8am and 10pm (west coast time).
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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