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Poul Anderson. Three Novels, including:... (Total: 3 Items)
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Poul Anderson. Three Novels, including: Earthman's Burden. Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson. New York: Gnome Press Inc., [1957]. First edition. Octavo. 184 pages. A few full page illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's light blue weave textured board covers with the spine lettered in dark blue. Pink dust jacket illustrated and lettered in black, designed by Edd Cartier. Some minor rubbing to the covers and jacket, boards a very slightly bowing outwards, sunned jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson collaborated to produce this humorous collection focused upon the teddy-bear like Hokas, characters with an insatiable taste for adventure and enthusiastic curiosity. The works included are: The Sheriff of Canyon Gulch, Don Jones, In Hoka Signo Vinces, The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound, Yo Ho Hoka!, The Tiddlywink Warriors. First binding in light blue boards and dark blue lettering. [and:] A Midsummer Tempest. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First edition. Octavo. 207 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth covers with the spine lettered in black. Aqua dust jacket with illustrations in purple, black, and blue, designed by Tim Lewis. Very minor sunning to the jacket spine and the top edge of the covers, some very minor rubbing to the back of the jacket. Altogether a near fine copy. Written as an alternate history fantasy novel where William Shakespeare was a Great Historian, this work was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award, and won the Mythopoeic Award. [and:] Virgin Planet. New York: Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy and Company, [1959]. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Publisher's maroon cloth covers with the spine lettered in black. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Ed Emshwiller with Plasti-Kleer jacket cover. Some minor rubbing to the covers and the jacket, some wrinkling to the jacket, slight sunning to the jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. This work is part of Anderson's Psychotechnic League, a future history setting in which he set twenty-one novels, novellas, and short stories between 1949 and 1957, and the final twenty-second one in 1968.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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