Editore: Mentor/ New American Library, NY, 1973
Da: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 1973; #MW1236. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Introduction: To the Reader"; "Jamboree" & "Plotting "Jamboree" by Jack Williamson; "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" & "Thickening the Plot" by Samuel R. Delany; "Crazy Maro" & "How Much Does a Character Cost?" by Daniel Keyes; "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" & "the Whore with a Heart of Iton pyrites; or, Where Does a Writer Go to Find a Maggie?" by Harlan Ellison; "The Man Who Could Not See Devils" & "On Setting" by Joanna Russ; "Sundance" & "Introduction to "Sundance" by Robert Silverberg; "Nine Lives" & "On Theme" by Ursula K. Le Guin; "An Annoted "Masks" by Damon Knight; "The Planners" & "On Point of View" by Kate Wilhelm; "For a While There, Herbert marcuse, I Thought You Were Maybe Right About Alienation ad Eros" & "Point of View: The Quick-Change Artist in the Typewriter" by Robin Scott Wilson; "The Listeners" & "On Style" by James E. Gunn; "Day Million" & "On Velocity Exercises" by Frederik Pohl. Mild tanning; edge nicks and wear; minor bumps.
Editore: Signet / New American Library, New York, 1971
Da: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: ABAA
Prima edizione
First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (18cm); original pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [viii],ix-xi,12-239,[1]pp, with the publisher's folding ad leaf bound at center. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to extremities; Near Fine, with the edge-staining bright and even. An important anthology of speculative fiction, comprised of work by the faculty and students of Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm's Clarion Workshop for aspiring writers in the genre. Established in 1968, the contributors here were part of the third and final group during the period where the workshop was held at Clarion State College in Clarion, PA. Within a notable group of heavy-hitters Samuel Delany, Vonda McIntyre, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Robert Thurston, and Joanna Russ emerged a young Octavia Butler, whose story "Crossover" represents her first appearance in book form. A well-preserved copy of an important debut.