ANGRY CANDY
by ELLISON, HARLAN
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. SIGNED by the author. All edges are gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. A copy of Collector's Noted laid-in. Color frontispiece and text illustrations by Kent Bash. Published in 1988 as a collection of short stories. One of them, :Eidolons" won the Locus award; another "Paladin of the Lost Hour" won the Hugo for best novelette; and "Soft Monkey" won the Edgar Award. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Won the World Fantasy Award for best collection of short stories thatyear. 326pp.. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition. Full dark Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
Synopsis
Angry Candy is a 1988 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison that is loosely organized around the theme of death. The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by e. e. cummings, "... the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy. " The collection contains the short story "Eidolons" which won the 1989 Locus poll award for best short story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014729
- Title
- ANGRY CANDY
- Author
- ELLISON, HARLAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Autograph, Fine Binding
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Gilt
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