The Wheels of If and Other Science-Fiction
by de Camp, L. Sprague
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. vii,[2],222,[1]pp. Octavo (approximately 20cm tall) in original tan cloth and pictorial dust jacket with slightly darkened spine and bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Inscribed and signed to previous owner on front free endpaper. very good A collection of seven early de Camp stories first published in Astounding Science- Fiction and Unknown between 1938 and 1942. 1948
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104637
- Title
- The Wheels of If and Other Science-Fiction
- Author
- de Camp, L. Sprague
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Shasta Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Signed|Western Canadiana
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