ANGRY CANDY
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395483077
- ISBN 13
- 9780395483077
- Seller
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Santa Rosa, California, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Book. Illus. by Ellison, Harlan. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Full number line with "1" present. Collects 17 of Ellison's short fiction stories, several are award-winning stories (including "Soft Monkey" and "Palladin of the Lost Hour" that won the 1986 Hugo Award), with an Introduction by Ellison. Faint jacket wear at edges and head of spine panel, with faint age-related wear on page block (normal handling for a book this age). Jacket is complete without tears and $18.95 price intact. A straight, square copy in excellent condition for collectible title such as this one. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Award History: 1988 Bram Stoker Award Nominee (lost to Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont); 1989 Locus Poll Award Winner for Best Collection and 1989 World Fantasy Award Winner for Best Collection. .
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
- Top Shelf Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004573
- Title
- ANGRY CANDY
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Illustrator
- Ellison, Harlan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395483077
- ISBN 13
- 9780395483077
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Harlan Ellison, Fantasy, Award Winners
- Bookseller catalogs
- FANTASY;
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