Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries Volume Two by Vance, Jack - 2012

Subterranean, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 2012, first edition thus. 564 pages. Grey cloth with gold spine titles, cloth fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket fine in Mylar. Pages clean and bright, unmarked.

Subterranean, 2012-10-31. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 2012, first edition thus. 564 pages. Grey cloth hardcover with gold spine titles. Cloth fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket fine in Mylar. Pages bright, unmarked.

Subterranean Press, 2012. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Thick omnibus edition of three Vance mystery novels (The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders, The Dark Ocean), and a companion to Subterranean's earlier Dangerous Ways volume.

Subterranean Press. New. Subterranean, 2012. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New. Deluxe edition. First Edition 608 pages. Being there... Jack Vance has long been F&SF's grand master of regional science fiction, creating living, breathing locales on distant worlds or on our own fabulously transformed, often magical future Earth that are second to none. But at the same time he was giving us these vivid, award-winning fantasy and science fictional settings, even as he was exploring the far corners of this world as a keen and inveterate traveller, Jack was vigorously pursuing an exciting and promising parallel career as a writer of mystery and suspense novels under his given name of John Holbrook Vance. The three JHV mysteries featured here, The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders and The Dark Ocean were produced during the mid-60s, in the same fertile years that Jack sent Cugel the Clever off exploring the Dying Earth in The Eyes of the Overworld, left Sklar Hast to… Read More