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FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS
by Collier, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1953. Book. Illus. by Charles Binger;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. Bantam Giant A1106. Light edge and corner wear with a bindery ripple on an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Charles Binger. This story collection contains: Bottle Party; De Mortuis; Evening Primrose; Witch's Money; Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early?; Fallen Star; The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It; Three Bears Cottage; Pictures in the Fire; Wet Saturday; Squirrels Have Bright Eyes; Halfway to Hell; The Lady on the Grey; Incident on a Lake; Over Insurance; Old Acquaintance; The Frog Prince;Season of Mists; Great Possibilities; Without Benefit of Galsworthy; The Devil George and Rosie; Ah, the University; Back for Christmas; Another American Tragedy; Collaboration; Midnight Blue; Gavin O'Leary; If Youth Knew If Age Could; Thus I Refute Beelzy; Special Delivery; Rope Enough; Little Memento; Green Thoughts; Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives; Bird of Prey; Variation on a Theme; Night Youth Paris and the Moon; The Steel Cat; Sleeping Beauty; Interpretation of a Dream; Mary; Hell Hath No Fury; In the Cards; The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island; The Right Side; Spring Fever; Youth from Vienna; Possession of Angela Bradshaw; Cancel All I Said; and The Chaser. .
Synopsis
John Collier (1901-1980) was born in London. He began his writing career as a poet, first publishing in 1920. He turned to fiction in the early 1930s, producing the popular and controversial novel, His Monkey Wife , about a man who is married to a chimpanzee. In 1935 Collier left England for Hollywood, where he became an active and prolific writer for film and later television; he was particularly influential in developing the brilliantly creepy and subversive style of such television classics as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Twilight Zone.” An adaptation from Milton, Paradise Lost: Screenplay for Cinema of the Mind was published in 1973, but never produced as a film. Collier’s other works range from the poetry collection Gemini (1931) to the novels Tom’s A-Cold (1933) and Defy the Foul Fiend (1934), and the short story collections Presenting Moonshine (1941), Fancies and Goodnights (1951), Pictures in the Fire (1958), The John Collier Reader (1972), and The Best of John Collier (1975). Ray Bradbury started writing fiction at the age of twelve and published his first story when he was twenty. He has since written more than thirty books—novels, stories, essays, plays, and poems—including The Martian Chronicles (1950), the futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451 (1952), and a collection of short stories T he Illustrated Man (1951). He lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 232666
- Title
- FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS
- Author
- Collier, John
- Illustrator
- Charles Binger;
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Paperback Printing
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- supernatural literature; vintage paperback; speculative fiction; dark fantasy; terror; noir; lovecraft; arkham; cthulhu; ghost; haunting; gothic; suspense; occult; macabre; dark gods; halloween; magic; good; evil;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror; Fantasy;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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