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The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy
by Harold Bloom
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374156441
- ISBN 13
- 9780374156442
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($9.95) with faint rubbing to the back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 240 pages. 5½ x 8" tall.
Based largely on David Lindsay's nightmarish classic, A Voyage to Arcturus, The Flight to Lucifer is a fantasy novel set in a distant world where time and space shift back and forth and where the conflicts of first-century religion are still being played out.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4533
- Title
- The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy
- Author
- Harold Bloom
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374156441
- ISBN 13
- 9780374156442
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 240
- Size
- 5.5 x 8
- Keywords
- fantasy, science fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Brodart
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- New
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- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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