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THE FALL OF THE TOWERS: A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION TRILOGY [THREE VOLUMES IN ONE] [OUT OF THE DEAD CITY + THE TOWERS OF TORON + CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS]
by Delany, Samuel R. [cover art by Kelly Freas]
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ace Books / Charter Communications Inc. Fair. 0000. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Later [2nd] printing thus. Ace 22641 with $1.25 cover price. 413 pages. Reading/filler copy only [spine creased and cocked with tearing to the front edges at the ends, cover creasing with a short tear to each fore-edge, binding cracked from the spine creasing, cheap paper tanning]. .
Synopsis
After his seventh novel Empire Star (1966), Samuel Delany began publishing short fiction professionally with “The Star Pit.” It appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, “Aye, and Gomorrah” and “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones,” won Nebula Awards as best SF short stories of, respectively, 1967 and 1969. Aye, and Gomorrah contains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to Nevèrÿon series. A native New Yorker, Delany teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In July of 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
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- biblioboy
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39192
- Title
- THE FALL OF THE TOWERS: A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION TRILOGY [THREE VOLUMES IN ONE] [OUT OF THE DEAD CITY + THE TOWERS OF TORON + CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS]
- Author
- Delany, Samuel R. [cover art by Kelly Freas]
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ace Books / Charter Communications Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 0000
- Keywords
- SCIENCE, FICTION
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
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