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Presenting Moonshine
by Collier, John (1901-1980)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Some sections of mild browning to endpapers, slight fading to cloth along s
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 351 pages. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Some sections of mild browning to endpapers, slight fading to cloth along spine and top edges of boards, small bookseller tag at lower inner margin of front free endpaper. Jacket has a minor bit of staining to lower edge of rear panel, a rubbed hole along a 1/2" section of lower fore edge fold, and a few other minor rubs. Clean, sound, and bright overall.. Dust jacket art by Eric Fraser. A collection of short stories by John Collier, a master of the weird tale. Here are two dozen "astonishing and memorable accounts of the ways in which the normal individual may run afoul of the bizarre, the occult, and the openly fiendish." This British first edition sports the uncommon and striking dust jacket by Eric Fraser. <br /> <br /> John Collier was an English writer who spent much time in Hollywood writing for film and television. His stories are broadly fantasies but are really of their own kind. Some of them were written for or adapted as episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone.<br /> <br /> Collier's stories are so well crafted that he is considered by many to be "a writer's writer," particularly admired by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Burgess, and Michael Chabon. <br /> <br /> Ref. CURREY p. 121.
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- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1520
- Title
- Presenting Moonshine
- Author
- Collier, John (1901-1980)
- Illustrator
- Dust jacket art by Eric Fraser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 351 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Some sections of mild browning to endpapers, slight fading to cloth along s
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Fantasy, first editions, short stories, modern firsts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
Terms of Sale
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Annapolis, Maryland
About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
We buy and sell quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Americana, Military and Naval History, and Nautical material. But we have many good books in a variety of subjects. We are located in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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