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Bangs and Whimpers Stories About the End of the World
by Frenkel, James, Ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0739411470
- ISBN 13
- 9780739411476
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Lowell House/ Roxbury Park Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. Bump to head of spine, else Fine. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has light wear to tips, rubbing to extremities and light creasing to head of spine. Bright and attractive, now in fresh mylar cover. A handsome copy. No date on jacket, so possibly book club edition, but no other indicator present. . A collection of nineteen great SF stories over a fifty-year period, all with the same general theme: the end of the world. Buy the book to see who best predicted what is actually happening to our Earth. All of the greats are represented here, from Asimov to Arthur C. Clarke. Scarce in this condition. . Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 219 pages. L2 .
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- Seller
- Sweet Beagle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24428
- Title
- Bangs and Whimpers Stories About the End of the World
- Author
- Frenkel, James, Ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0739411470
- ISBN 13
- 9780739411476
- Publisher
- Lowell House/ Roxbury Park Books
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- End Of The World, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Armageddon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction and Fantasy; Short Stories;
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About the Seller
Sweet Beagle Books
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