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Angry Candy
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395483077
- ISBN 13
- 9780395483077
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. New and unread in a Brodart-protected, bright, shiny, Fine dust jacket (just a tiny touch of very mild shelfwear to the jacket (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Not price clipped ($18.95). NO chips, tears or creases. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. First printing of the First Trade Edition with full number line (10 987654321). Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Collection of 17 short stories including THE FUNCUION OF DREAM SLEEP; the 1986 Edgar-winning story SOFT MONKEY; and PALLADIN OF THE LOST HOUR for which Twilight Zone teleplay Ellison won his fourth Writers Guild of American award. Bound in the original black boards and black cloth spine, stamped in bright silver. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xxvi, 325pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026240
- Title
- Angry Candy
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of First Trade Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395483077
- ISBN 13
- 9780395483077
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
- Size
- 8vo. xxvi, 325pp
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