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Vance, Jack - Tschai: City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, the Dirdir, the Pnume (Four Volumes)

Title: Tschai: City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, the Dirdir, the Pnume (Four Volumes)
Description: San Francisco, CA, Underwood-Miller, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tetralogy of the Tschai series. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in. Illustrated with frontispieces and five to seven full-page drawings in each volume. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Very light rubbing to extremities. City of the Chasch (1979): pp. 218. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title to front and spine, and pasted pictorial to front. Servants of the Wankh (1980): pp. 211. Gray cloth-covered boards with light blue title to front and spine, and pasted pictorial to front. The Dirdir (1980): pp.199. Yellow cloth-covered boards with brown title to front and spine, and pasted pictorial to front. Light soiling to boards. The Pnume: (1981): pp. 193. Lavender cloth-covered boards with silver title to front and spine, and pasted pictorial to front. Stated first cloth editions. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the WorldCon in Orlando, Florida; and in 1997 he was named a SFWA Grand Master. A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as 'one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.'" (from Jack Vance FB site). Ill.: David Ireland, Ned Dameron. Very Good Plus .

Keywords: David Ireland, Ned Dameron

Price: US$ 225.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 86267