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Three Delacorte Press Books, including: Harry Harrison, editor. Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories. New York: Delacorte Press, [1970]. Book Club Edition. Octavo. ix, 240 pages. Publisher's red boards with lettering on the front cover and spine in black. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Johannes Regn. Top edge stained red. Some rubbing to the jacket, a tiny tear to the jacket spine, very slight discoloration to the jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. Harry Harrison was a prolific science fiction author, and in this work he served as editor to bring to light previously unpublished but inventive and noteworthy stories. Some works include A Happy Day in 2381 by Robert Silverberg, Swastika! By Brian W. Aldiss, Jean Dupres by Gordon R. Dickson, and Faces and Hands by James Sallis. Nova 1 was the first of four Nova collections edited by Harry Harrison. [and:] Robert Nathan. The Summer Meadows. New York: Delacorte Press, [1974]. Third printing. Octavo. 113 pages. Publisher's quarter green cloth and three-quarter blue cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Light green endpapers. Small bookseller's stamp affixed to the front pastedown endpaper. Some rubbing to the covers and jacket, one small tear to the bottom edge of the jacket front, sunning to the jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. Robert Gruntal Nathan (1894 - 1985) best explains the deeply thoughtful novel as he is quoted on the front flap of the dust jacket "...that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incompressible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same." [and:] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday! With Drawings by the Author. [New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1973]. Octavo. 303 pages. Some illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's tan cloth covers with the author's signature stamped in gilt on the front cover and the spine lettered in gilt and yellow. Black coated endpapers. Some very minor bumping to the corners and head and foot of the spine, else a near fine copy. Vonnegut focuses upon two elderly men, one a pulp science fiction writer and the other a man who is quickly going insane, but he also integrates many characters from his past works. Delacorte Press is an imprint of Dell Publishing which was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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