Book Of The Dead: Friends of Yesteryear-Fictioneers and Others
by E. Hoffman Price
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 087054179X
- ISBN 13
- 9780870541797
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sauk City, Wis: Arkham House, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition stated, one of four thousand copies printed. Hardcover in black cloth. Introduction by Jack Williamson. A very fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. xi+423 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Over a span of some 60 years, E. Hoffman Price, a prolific writer during the great pulp magazine ficiton era, befriended many of the great and near-great colleagues of the profession---writed like Lovecraft, Derleth, Williamson, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and many more. Here he offers a series of 19 biographical essays based on his vast correcpondence, diaries, and records kept of his many cross-country motor trips. Alos mincluded are additional essays about Price, a bibliography of his fiction and a photo gallery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E25816
- Title
- Book Of The Dead: Friends of Yesteryear-Fictioneers and Others
- Author
- E. Hoffman Price
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 087054179X
- ISBN 13
- 9780870541797
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wis
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- scienec fiction, fantasy, authors, pulps, pulp magazines, lovecraft
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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