Search Results: Authors starting with V from Third Season Books

Wizards of the Coast, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Tony DiTerlizzi. Clean and bright with light edgewear and a couple spots where the color has rubbed off the cover. Excellent full color DiTerlizzi art.

Cornell University Library Digital Collections. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint of G. P. Putnam's Sons 1886 edition via scanning of the original edition, including the b/w plates. 453 pp.

Willem de Kooning Academy, 2016. Soft cover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, 150 pages. Clean and square with slight shelfwear only. A book about biodesign and the shifting role of the (product) designer. Biodesign is based on the principles of biofabrication, an emerging field of regenerative medicine technologies, incorporating living organisms such as bacteria, fungi, algae, or cells, into the design process.

New York: Joseph F Wagner, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. From The Philosophical Series of the Higher Institute of Philosophy, University of Louvain, Belgium. Clean pages with unmarked text. Solid binding with uncracked hinges. Some dustiness/soil to boards, but they don't feel grubby. In clean dust jacket with light wear and a few small tears and spot of loss near spine. With bibliography, topical index, index of proper names. 279 pp.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood Miller, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fabian, Stephen E.. First trade edition copy signed by Vance on the title page. Publisher's signature card by illustrator Stephen Fabian affixed to half-title page. Very sharp. Mylar protected dust jacket is bright with some rubbing and creasing at top and bottom of spine and flap folds, with one small closed tear to top of rear panel.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood Miller, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Clean bright copy with some bumps to corners of boards, in dust jacket free of tears, lightly crinkled in spots, attractive in mylar protector.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood Miller, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A square, sharp clean copy with a few spots to the page edges. Jacket is bright and shows some edgewear to lower flap folds and more edgewear with a few small closed tears and one chip at base of spine. NF/VG. This copy SIGNED by Vance on the half-title page.

Subterranean Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Deluxe hardcover edition. Clean, sharp copy in like dust jacket. Slight edgewear.

Underwood Books, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. About fine hardcover SIGNED by Vance on the title page. Very good dust jacket is free of tears with some crinkles at spine edges and edgewear/rubbing, including running up the flap folds. Still nice looking in mylar protector.

San Francisco, CA: Brandywyne Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Includes slipcase, which is square and shows some rubbing and age-toning. Signed by Vance on the publisher's limitations page. One of 1000 copies.

Hillman, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. About Very Good, some light edgewear and chipping, light lean. The first book by Vance, and the source of the Vancian magic used in Dungeons and Dragons. The Dying Earth was ranked number 16 of 33 "All Time Best Fantasy Novels" by Locus in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers. It was one of five finalists for the Best Novel "Retro Hugo" in 2001 when the World Science Fiction Society provided 50th anniversary recognition for a publication year without Hugo Awards.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood Miller, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First cloth edition of Vance's first novel. A clean and tight copy in a bright dust jacket free of tears with some rubbing at edges. This copy is of the trade edition and is SIGNED, inscribed actually, by Vance on the half-title page. A seminal fantasy work.

Visalia, CA: Optimum Training Systems, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean text and solid binding. Light edgewear only. 59 pp.

Borderland Sciences Research, 1997. Soft cover. Good. Clean text and solid binding; age-toning to pages and general edgewear. Some water got to the bottom near the spine, but it doesn't stop the pages from opening and turning as normal. There is just some waviness and evident water staining to that corner. Good copy overall of this uncommon book.

Pub Group, 1988. Soft cover. Good. Clean with no marks noted to text. SIGNED by the author. Age-toning, light edgewear, one dog-eared page.

New York: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Spine title faded, otherwise a very good copy with no dustjacket. Sound binding with uncracked hinges, with no marks noted to text. Raised ex libris stamp to first couple of pages. Bibliography, index, 204 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing of the author's splendid first novel, SIGNED by author on the title page. Clean and tight copy with small spots of discoloration to bottom of spine cloth - not to jacket, so probably from production. Dust jacket bright and free of tears, with minor edgewear and crinkles to extremities. Presentable in new archival dust jacket protector.

SUNY Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Clean, sharp copy with no marks noted to text. Solid binding, uncracked hinges. The boards are a bit bent as if weight was placed on the book during storage. The spine is square, however, and the book should sit on the shelf normally among other books, as the issue is not severe. 270 pp with index.

Tor Books, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. Trade paperback. First printing, SIGNED by Vernor Vinge AND editor James Frenkel on the title page. Near fine to fine with slight edgewear. Pages lightly age-toned.