----------trade paperback. Modest shelfwear, a near fine copy. "We are entirely surrounded by vugs", is one of science fiction's greatest lines, at least to this seller, because I broke out laughing while reading the passage while riding on the subway in Toronto, to the consternation of my fellow passengers.
First edition, Ace F-251; a paperback original. Cover price $0.40. Wraps have light toning and shelf-wear, very good. Spine square and uncreased. Binding sound. Pages toned to margins, text unmarked. With cover and title page art by Jack Gaughan.
Ace F-251. First Paperback edition. The spine is a little concave, the lower back cover has some shelf wear and a small brown spot. The interior pages are age-toned. Overall condition is Very Good. 191 pages.
Ace Book F-251. A Hugo Award nominee, but not winner. Cover art by Jack Gaughan. A good copy, spine rolled, reading crease a third-inch from spine on front cover, quarter-inch separation at base of front cover at spine, light browning of paper with age.
First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 191pp, [1] ad leaf. Light tanning to text edges, with some trivial rubbing and a few faint stress creases; Very Good+ or better. "The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population." LEVACK 18a.
ISBN . Mass Market Paperback First Printing from 1963 and the true First Edition of this book. Small previous owners name on the first page in, and Slight browning to the edges of the interior pages, Otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good to Near Fine condition. Flat spine and bright uncreased covers.Tight bright attractive copy in collectors grade condition. ACE Book F-251 with 40 cent cover price.
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books F251. The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population. The alien Vugs of Titan are horning in on the game and their radical faction wants to sterilize Earth entirely. "An odd, cranky, philosophical melodrama, full of good touches." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 151. Slight spine lean, inner surface of covers a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy. (#153142)
Paperback Original of elaborate contest between denizens of Saturn's moon and Earth's humanity. The book is in Very Good condition. The front cover has a reading crease and there is a store stamp on the FFp. Pages are lightly toned. Book is square and tight.
New York. 1963. Ace Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Paperback Original. 191 pages. paperback. F-251. Cover and title page art by Jack Gaughan. keywords: Literature America Science Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The creatures from Saturn's moon could appear human or inhuman, at will. And the elaborate contest they set up with the remnants of Earth's humanity was just as treacherous. For though the war had been fought to a stalemate, the unending series of gambles could upset that truce - and end the world. inventory #16169
The Game-Players of Titan ( Sphere Science Fiction )
Philip K. Dick
The Game-Players of Titan ( Sphere Science Fiction )
Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Sphere, London
Date published: 1969
Format: Softcover
First Sphere edition.Used,reading wear,page edges browned,spine creased,top edges have become wet at some point - no pages stuck together but pages wavy ,contents clean.
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uncorrected proof: Released prior to the general release, and prior to final editing, generally plainly bound and distributed for promotional purposes.