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Tales of Old Earth
by Swanwick, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1583940162
- ISBN 13
- 9781583940167
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd., 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 277pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Dashow. First edition with 1 in number line. Boards are lightly cocked. Includes the 1999 Hugo Award winning short story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine
Synopsis
Michael Swanwick has received the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards for his work. His books include In the Drift , Vacuum Flowers , Griffin's Egg , Stations of the Tide , The Iron Dragon's Wife , Gravity's Angels , and A Geography of Unknown Islands . He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73489
- Title
- Tales of Old Earth
- Author
- Swanwick, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1583940162
- ISBN 13
- 9781583940167
- Publisher
- Frog, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, California
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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