DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE
by Powers, Tim
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, [1986]. First British and first trade hardcover edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875). Octavo, boards. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Powers on the title page: "For / Steve --- / Hoping you like / deviant books / ..." dated 19 April 1986. "A hard-boiled version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a post-holocaust California, with a bizarre alien presiding over an exotic hell. A fast-moving adventure with the author's usual gothic touches; a key example of the new post-holocaust romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-872. Winner of the 1985 John W. Campbell Award and 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. 1985 Nebula nominee. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 431.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29875
- Title
- DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE
- Author
- Powers, Tim
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British and first trade hardcover edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1986]
- Keywords
- Signed . SF
Terms of Sale
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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