Search Results: Authors starting with V from Terence McVicker, Rare Books

London: Kinnell, 1988. [First Hardbound Edition]. Reprints the paperback published twenty-two years earlier under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen.The cheap paper has toned slightly in the outer margins. Two upper corner just nubbed.Else fine in d.j.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1975. [First Hardbound Edition]. Reprints the 1965 ACE paperback edition in it's first hardbound appearance. Tales include the title-story, The World Between, The On Salvation Bluff, and Brain of the Galaxy. Arresting cover illustration by Richard Weaver. An unclipped price on d.j. A fine copy in d.j.

Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1980. First Edition. Jack Vance was the Guest of Honor at the 1979, World Fantasy Convention, and his work is represented with a one-page sampler from THE BOOK OF DREAMS, an 6-page bibliographical checklist of the author by Daniel Levack, a six-page excerpt from THE AVATAR'S APPRENTICE, a 12-page portfolio of illustrations by Virgil Finlay, George Barr, Stephen Fabian, Jack Gaughan, and others. Photographs of the authors in attendance, such as Vance, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner, and many others. A fine copy, issued w/o d.j.

San Francisco/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1982. [First Hardbound Edition]. A suspense thriller, by John Holbrook Vance. Copy #21 of 200 numbered, signed copies. Fine in d.j.

San Francisco/Columbia, PA.: Underwood-Miller, 1977. Limited Edition. A series of linked stories forming this novel about Vance's most popular character, CUGEL the clever. Considered by many the author's best book. The first limited printed of 1500 copies, featuring the inspired artwork of Stephen Fabian. SIGNED by the author on the title-page. A fine copy in d.j.

New York, : Dial Press,, 1980. . [First Printing]. Joan Vinge was only the 4th woman to win the Hugo Award for best Novel, which she won in 1981, for THE SNOW QUEEN. Offered, is the author's signed, 662 holograph page manuscript of that Hugo Award winning novel, which was originally entitled, CARBUNCLE, then changed during its evolution. Also included is a holograph, signed cover letter, and a xerox copy drawing of the heroine, by the author. The pages include notes, thoughts, drawings, whimsey, and much material not included in the final draft.