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Three De Camp - Pratt Science Fiction Classics

Currency:USD Category:Books / Fiction Books Start Price:225.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Three De Camp - Pratt Science Fiction Classics
<B>Three De Camp - Pratt Science Fiction Classics.</B></I> Each of these two authors wrote on a truly wide range of subjects. L. Sprague de Camp put the pro in prolific. He authored science fiction and fantasy novels, along with literary biographies, poetry, historical fiction, popular science, and popular history. He also edited numerous anthologies and wrote textbooks, attaining every major award available to a Grandmaster of science fiction. Fletcher Pratt was almost as busy. While writing for the <I>Buffalo Courier-Express,</B></I> Pratt sold science fiction fantasy stories to the pulp magazines. When a fire destroyed his apartment, he used the insurance money to study at the Sorbonne in Paris for an entire year. After Paris, he wrote full-time, in areas ranging from science fiction and fantasy to naval histories of the Napoleonic Wars to books about rockets and jets. This lot offers three collaborations between these two truly versatile authors. <B><I>The Carnelian Cube</B></I></B></I> <B>Signed by Both Authors.</B></I> (New York: Gnome Press, 1948), first edition, 230 pages, gray cloth with red lettering on the spine, 8vo (5.75" x 8"), dust jacket. Signed "<I>For my favorite reader, H.N. Syms - L. Sprague de Camp</B></I>" and "<I>11/6/48 H. Norman Syms qui je ne connais quere de part de le demiauteur Fletcher Pratt</B></I>" on the front free endpaper. This copy is about very good, with slight wear to the edges and corners. The dust jacket has some wear at the flap folds and corners, with minimal chipping on the spine.<BR><B><I>Land of Unreason</B></I>.</B></I> (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1942), first edition, 260 pages plus 18-page excerpt from <I>The Incomplete Enchanter,</B></I> brown cloth binding with black lettering on the spine and cover, 8vo (5.75" x 8.25"), dust jacket. Deckled fore-edge. Copy is about very good, with slight bumping of the corners. The dust jacket shows minor wear to the edges and is clipped on the flap corners.<BR><B><I>The Incomplete Enchanter</B></I>.</B></I> (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1941), first edition, 326 pages, beige cloth binding with violet lettering on the spine and cover, 8vo (5.75" x 8.25"), dust jacket. Deckled fore-edge. The book is very good, with light soiling on the boards and very slight wear at the corners and spine. The dust jacket is fair, with general wear on the edges and chipping on the spine. A noticeable piece of the back cover is missing (3.5" x 1.25"). This lot offers three of the more famous de Camp - Pratt collaborations in one bid.
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