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Price: US$337.46 + shipping
Description: ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hard cover, a solid Very Good+ example, a bit of rubbing to the lower edges of the boards with a wee bit of loss to black cloth, age toning to the outer edges of the text block --- in an attractive Good dust jacket with light wear, browning to the spine as often seen on this title, browning to endpapers, some browning to pages, ---SIGNED by the author on the front blank endpaper "Sincerely Donald Wandrei" ---contents include: Introduction; the Lady in Gray; the Eye and the Finger; the Painted Mirror; It Will Grow On You; the Tree-Men of M'Bwa; the Lives of Alfred Kramer; the Monster from Nowhere; the Witch-Makers; the Nerveless Man; Black Fog; the Blinding Shadows; A Scientist Divides; Earth Minus; Finality Unlimited; the Crystal Bullet; A Fragment of a Dream; the Woman at the Window; the Messengers; the Pursuers; the Red Brain; On the Threshold of Eternity, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.25w x 7.5h Inches
Seller: Leonard Shoup, BURLINGTON, ON, Canada
Donald Wandrei. The Eye and the Finger. Arkam House, Sauk City, WI, 1944.
Price: US$520.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. First Edition/Printing black cloth Hardcover with DJ, xiii + 344 pp. The fifth Arkham House book; limited to 1617 copies. SIGNED "Sincerely, Donald Wandrei" by the co-founder of Arkham House on the ffep. Wandrei selected his best 21 eerie stories (horror, fantasy, SF) for this, his first fiction book. The price-clipped DJ is Brodart-protected. Very good to good DJ has mild patchy rubbing and toning to spine; 2 small chips missing: at top corner of DJ back (1/4"); and a narrow 1/8" strip at top of spine. Book has my name-stamp on front pastedown (beneath DJ flap) but otherwise a solid, unmarked, very good to near fine copy. Purchased from Richard Miller (San Diego, CA) in March, 1982.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.