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BIG PLANET
by JACK VANCE
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good /No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0340212519
- ISBN 13
- 9780340212516
- Seller
-
THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
LONDON: CORONET BOOKS. Moderate wear on cover edges. Peeling on bottom edge of back cover/cover spine. Tanned pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Robust copy. Science Fiction novel. Location: RT3 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Good. Mass Market Paperback. REPRINT.. 1977.
Synopsis
Big Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the other being Showboat World) which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Big Planet was serialized in 1952 in Startling Stories, then cut and reissued in 1957 by Avalon Books It was later issued as part of Ace double novel D-295, paired with Vance's Slaves of the Klau. It was further cut in 1958. The text was restored in 1978.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015577
- Title
- BIG PLANET
- Author
- JACK VANCE
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0340212519
- ISBN 13
- 9780340212516
- Publisher
- CORONET BOOKS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1977
Terms of Sale
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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About the Seller
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
Biblio member since 2005
THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...