The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde
by Norman Spinrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Nelson-Doubleday , 1970 Nelson-Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1970. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, and tips; light soiling to textblock top. DJ: Very Good; closed tears to top of rear panel; light wear to head tail, and tips; light rubbing to panels. Tan buckram over boards and spine with dark brown lettering on the spine. 215 pp 8vo. Ranging from the conventional to the "new wave", this collection of 18 short stories shows the author's mastery of the art. It provides evidence that he is the first writer to break into the big-time mainstream of science fiction since Bradbury and Clarke. The works in this volume are: Carcinoma Angels; The Age of Invention; Outward Bound; A Child of Mind; The Equalizer; The Last of the Romany; Technicality; The Rules of the Road; Dead End; A Night in Elf Hill; Deathwatch; The Ersatz Ego; Neutral Ground; Once More, With Feeling; It's a Bird! It's a Plane!; Subjectivity; The Entropic Gang Bang Caper; and The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015606
- Title
- The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde
- Author
- Norman Spinrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Nelson-Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, science fiction, writing, literature, short stories fiction short stories, Norman Spinrad,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...