DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE
de Powers, Tim
- Usado
- Firmado
- Estado
- A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875)
- Librería
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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London: Chatto & Windus, [1986]. First British and first trade hardcover edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875). Octavo, boards. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Powers on the title page: "For / Steve --- / Hoping you like / deviant books / ..." dated 19 April 1986. "A hard-boiled version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a post-holocaust California, with a bizarre alien presiding over an exotic hell. A fast-moving adventure with the author's usual gothic touches; a key example of the new post-holocaust romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-872. Winner of the 1985 John W. Campbell Award and 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. 1985 Nebula nominee. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 431.
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- Librería
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 29875
- Título
- DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE
- Autor
- Powers, Tim
- Estado del libro
- Usado - A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169201) (29875)
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First British and first trade hardcover edition
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- [1986]
- Palabras clave
- Signed . SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
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