Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Avalon Books, (1957). First Edition. Glossy pictorial cover. Very good/very good. 223p octavo, a very good to fine copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tear on the back panel and a short one on the front, nicked at one corner,and spine heads. Signed by Vance on the front fly leaf
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
- Old New York Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48832
- Title
- Big Planet
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Glossy pictorial cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Avalon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1957)
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY;
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About the Seller
Old New York Book Shop
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Atlanta, Georgia
About Old New York Book Shop
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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