Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Paperback. Octavo. Wrappers. 176pp. Light wear (silverfishing) to faded spine. Interior nice.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small octavo in stiff paper covers. Condition: minor wear to binding; else VG. 176 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. The Eighth Stage of Fandom by Robert Bloch. Advent: Publishers Inc., Chicago, 1962.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Eighth Stage of Fandom by Robert Bloch Some staining to text block. Minor fade to spine. Minor wear to binding. First Edition, stated. Selections from 25 years of fan fiction.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NF in wraps, large trade pbk., an unread copy. Light edge wear. Collects a selection of Bloch's fan writing published specially for the 1962 World Science Fiction Convention. From the collection and estate of noted SF/F/H & comic collector Kennett Neily - owner of the White Mountain Comic Collection - with his date stamp of purchase as usual to ffep.
Seller: Dark Hollow Books®, Member NHABA, IOBA, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction by Wilson Tucker. A beautiful copy-clean, bright, and unmarked.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Eighth Stage of Fandom by Robert Bloch (First Edition) Firm square copy. Bright dust jacket with minor edge wear. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: book, cover and text all in "fine " condition, binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked, no names no stamps stated first edition
Seller: H&G Antiquarian Books, Sheboygan, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition [stated] in gray cloth boards, gilt stamped spine, jacket art by Jon Stopa. Limited to 725 copies, this is one of 600 unsigned. Edited by Earl Kemp and with an introduction by Wilson Tucker and an index. An inciteful and humorous collection of Bloch's fan writing. Advent: Publishers; Chicago, 1962, 176 pps. Unmarked Fine copy in unclipped ($5.00) VG jacket that has some sun toning to spine and a tiny chip and a small tear along top edge.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo.,176pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition bound in gray cloth with titles in blue on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a gentle bump to the top front tip. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($5.00), has a tiny, almost invisible, closed edge-tear and a touch of edge-wear. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, or creases. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, 1962 . A fine book in the original softcover wrappers. Early compilation of fan writings edited by Robert Bloch. This is the limited softcover issue and is Signed by Robert Bloch.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962, first edition. #35 of 125 signed, numbered, limited edition copies. Signed by author Robert Bloch on ffep. 176 pages. Red boards with gold spine titling, very good with only light wear. Spine square. Binding sound. Lacks dust jacket. Slight 'must' smell in pages. Interior bright and unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Bloch, Robert. The Eighth Stage of Fandom. Advent: Publishers, Chicago, 1962.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Earl Kemp. Introduction by Wilson Tucker. Collector's Edition limited to 125 copies, this being one of the 25 copies not offered for sale. Inscribed by Bloch to publisher Jon Stopa on the front endpaper. Very Good, no jacket. Red cloth, a stain on the front board, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges, clean internally. A collection of Bloch's science fiction and fantasy fan writing collected over twenty-five years.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 176 Pp Including Index At Rear. Red Cloth, #90 Of 125 Copies Of The Collector's Edition. Fine, No Wear, Spine Gilt Absolutely Brilliant, Inscribed To An Active La Area Sf Fan Don Corbett From Bloch.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Bloch. THE EIGHTH STAGE OF FANDOM. Advent, Chicago, 1962.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very fine hardcover copy issued without a jacket. LIMITED EDITION OF 125 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This copy no. 102. No bumped corners to book. Copy is very clean and tight. == WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. == WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 35 YEARS.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edited by Earl Kemp with an Introduction by Wilson Tucker. 176 pp. 8vo, original red cloth (without dust jacket as issued). First edition. A fine copy. Signed by Robert Bloch on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10 [11-12] 13-176, cloth. First edition. 725 copies printed of which this is one of 125 numbered copies signed by Bloch comprising the "Collector's Edition." A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#10734)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10 [11-12] 13-176, cloth. First edition. 725 copies printed of which this is one of 125 numbered copies signed by Bloch comprising the "Collector's Edition." Name and address stamp of new age writer and music critic Paul Williams on the limitation page. Small ink mark on front free endpaper, else a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#158802)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.