DARWINIA
by Wilson, Robert Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312860382
- ISBN 13
- 9780312860387
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / TOR, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo, white cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with jacket art depicting ships below a waterfall by Jim Burns, 320 pages. Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) is an award-winning American-Canadian science fiction author. He has won a Hugo, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Theodore Sturgeohn Memorial Award, and others! Darwinia won the Prix Aurora Award and was nominated for the Hugo and Locus SF Awards for Best novel, 1999. <br /> <br /> "In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the Old World of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedeluvian monsters... Leaving an America now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe."<br /> <br /> EXEPTIONAL overall condition! No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
Cover illustration by Jim Burns. Cover design by blacksheep. Prices UK £5.99, AUS $14.95.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8425
- Title
- DARWINIA
- Author
- Wilson, Robert Charles
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312860382
- ISBN 13
- 9780312860387
- Publisher
- A Tom Doherty Associates Book / TOR
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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