BLUE KANSAS SKY; Four Short Novels of Memory, Magic, Surmise and Estrangement.
by Bishop, Michael; introduction by James Morrow (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0965590100
- ISBN 13
- 9780965590105
- Seller
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About This Item
Urbana, IL:: Golden Gryphon Press,, 2000.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of four powerful novellas, one of only 4000 copies, by this award winning author. The title story is original to this volume, the others - "Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana" which examines South Africa's brutal institutionalized racism; "Cri de Coeur" about three Earthly starships which travel to star system, with disastrous results and "Death and Designation among the Asadi" where an anthropologist comes to the planet BoskVeld to study an inexplicable alien race - were all finalists for various awards. SIGNED by James Morrow on the final page of his introduction. xv, 263 pp plus colophon and 3 pp of publisher's ads. Wraparound dust jacket art by Ron Walotsky.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83688
- Title
- BLUE KANSAS SKY; Four Short Novels of Memory, Magic, Surmise and Estrangement.
- Author
- Bishop, Michael; introduction by James Morrow (signed)
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0965590100
- ISBN 13
- 9780965590105
- Publisher
- Golden Gryphon Press,
- Place of Publication
- Urbana, IL:
- Date Published
- 2000.
- Keywords
- novellas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
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