Garden City: Doubleday, Date: 1972. Hardcover. poor. Ed Emshwiller. Poor condition, missing dust jacket. Black boards with purple print on the spine. Illustrated end papers. Prior owner's name inside. Broken binding, webbing showing, Pg. 2-3. Doubleday / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover, Sept. 1972 edition but later printing (code 31R). 830 pages. Illustrations by Ed Emshwiller. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Winner, 1973 Locus Poll Award, Best Original Anthology. Many stories included won the Nebula, Hugo, or both; or were nominated for the Nebula or Hugo Awards. Contents: An Assault of New Dreamers, essay by Harlan Ellison. Stories: The Counterpoint of View, by John Heidenry; Ching Witch!, by Ross Rocklynne; The Word for World Is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin; For Value Received, by Andrew J. Offutt; Mathoms from the Time Closet, Robot's Story, Against the Lafayette Escadrille, and Loco Parentis, all by Gene Wolfe; Time Travel for Pedestrians, by Ray Nelson; Christ, Old Student in a New School, poem by Ray Bradbury; King of the Hill, by Chad Oliver; The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ..., by Edward Bryant; The Funeral, by Kate Wilhelm; Harry the Hare, by James B. Hemesath; When It Changed, by Joanna Russ; The Big Space Fuck, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Bounty, by T. L. Sherred; Still-Life, by by K. M. O'Donnell; Stoned Counsel, by H. H. Hollis; Monitored Dreams and Strategic Cremations, The Bisquit Position, and The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements, all by Bernard Wolfe; With a Finger ...

ISBN10: 0385079532, ISBN13: 9780385079532, [publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City] Hardcover First Edition Octavo, cloth. First edition. First printing with code "N7" on page 760. Signed on the title page by Ellison. Major original anthology with forty-six fictions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. Includes "Moth Race" by Richard Hill, "Soundless Evening" by Lee Hoffman, "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" by Richard A. Lupoff, "Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne, "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ, "The Big Space Fuck" by Kurt Vonnegut, and "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm. Also, Piers Anthony's unpleasant meat-is-murder story "In the Barn." A bigger and equally fine sequel to Ellison's groundbreaking original anthology DANGEROUS VISIONS (1967). ". these books [DANGEROUS VISIONS and AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS] were striking for the general excellence of their contents and for the extensive, deeply personal annotations supplied by HE." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 378. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1335. Lower spine end soft, lower front corner tips lightly bruised, a bright, very good or better copy in good or better dust jacket with wear to lower spine end and clipped price. (#17276 ...
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