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Click to view full description | 1. | Anderson, Poul & Dickson, Gordon EARTHMAN'S BURDEN
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., (1957). First edition: later state binding, full grey cloth, lettered in red to the spine. Expected tanning to textblock, darkening at the margins, else a clean, near fine copy in an age-toned, illustrated dust jacket--with Edd Cartier's ''Hoka'' portraits black against a pink background. Black-and-white frontis for each story also by Cartier.
Story collection about a race of Teddy Bear aliens whose vivid imaginations transport them into pastiche adventures--inviting the larking authors to spoof: TV space shows, the French Foreign Legion, Sherlock Holmes, Don Juan, pirates, and the Wild West!
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| 2. | Anderson, Poul and Dickson, Gordon EARTHMAN'S BURDEN
New York: Gnome Press Inc., (1957). First edition, second state binding. In red composition binding with black lettering; illustrated dust jacket with artwork by Edd Cartier. Pages tanned, offsetting and tape stains to front endsheets, offsetting to rear endsheets, wear at the shelf edges, thus very good; fair dust jacket: stained, torn in many places and repaired with cellotape, burnt, soiled, chipped, nicked.
Cartier's b&w artwork also adorns the interior of this loose collection of spoofy pastiche tales of the Hoka--an alien race of teddybear like creatures who turn into whatever genre characters they read about.
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| 3. | Anderson, Poul; Dickson, Gordon R.; Silverberg, Robert THE DAY THE SUN STOOD STILL: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction
Nashville/New York: Thomas Nelson, Inc., (1972). Book club edition. Fine, in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.
''A Chapter of Revelation'' by Anderson; ''Thomas the Proclaimer'' by Silverberg; ''Things Which Are Caesar's'' by Dickson. Foreword by Lester Del Rey.
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| 4. | Dickson, Gordon SOLDIER, ASK NOT
New York: Daw Books, Inc., (1975). First edition thus. Daw Books #172. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise a near fine copy in wraps. Originally published in shorter form as a Hugo-winning novella.
Cover art by Kelly Freas. A Dorsai novel.
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| 5. | Dickson, Gordon R. ANCIENT, MY ENEMY
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1974). Book club edition: issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. With the code E36 on page 214. Jacket code, 6310. An age-darkened, about near fine example, in yellow boards with black spine lettering; in an age-toned, lightly rubbed, mildy edgeworn, about near fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket by Peter Rauch.
Nine Dickson tales; comprises the title story, ''The Odd Ones''; ''The Monkey Wrench''; ''Tiger Green''; ''The Friendly Man''; ''Love Me True''; ''Our First Death''; ''In the Bone''; ''The Bleak and Barren Land.''
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| 6. | Dickson, Gordon R. DORSAI!
New York: Ace Books, (1980). First edition thus. Ace #16015-8. Small minor crease to rear cover, otherwise a fine copy in wraps. Originally published in a shorter version as ''The Genetic General.''
New afterword by Sandra Miesel.
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| 7. | Dickson, Gordon R. MASTERS OF EVERON
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1979). First edition, issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Printed with the code J32 on page 212. Near fine in an illustrated dust jacket that shows some minor rubbing to the spine panel, a short, light scratch to the front panel, and minor age-toning. Full-color, wraparound jacket art by Mike Hinge.
On a strange, distant world colonized by Earth, Jef Robini must solve the mystery of his brother's death and unlock the secrets of the planet Everon.
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| 8. | Dickson, Gordon R. THE CHANTRY GUILD
New York: Ace Books, (1988). First edition. A fine copy, in an illustrated dust jacket that shows minor age-toning and tiny nicks and corresponding tiny creases at spine ends. Jacket painting by Jim Burns.
A novel of the Childe Cycle of books by the author of DORSAI! and NECROMANCER. This is a return to the embattled Younger Worlds and the hero Hal Mayne who is beckoned to the planet Kultis to see the powerful Chantry Guild.
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| 9. | Dickson, Gordon R. THE DRAGON AND THE GEORGE
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1976). Book club reprint edition. Fine, in a fine, illustrated dust jacket that shows a hint of wear at the edges. Terrific Boris Vallejo jacket painting of a dragon, a girl, and a knight in shining armor.
Jim Eckert must follow his love into another dimension, a medieval world of knights, dragons and magicians. A popular fantasy from the author of the Dorsai trilogy.
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| 10. | Dickson, Gordon R. THE DRAGON AND THE GNARLY KING
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1997). First edition, first printing. Nearly fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Boris Vallejo.
Third book in the fantasy series begun with THE DRAGON AND THE GEORGE and continued with THE DRAGON KNIGHT.
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| 11. | Dickson, Gordon R. THREE TO DORSAI!: Three Novels from the Childe Cycle: NECROMANCER; TACTICS OF MISTAKE; DORSAI!
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1975). First edition thus, issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Printed with the code 39R on page 529. Near fine; in an illustrated dust jacket that shows general minor edge wear and mild age-toning. Jacket painting by Larry Kresek.
Hugo and Nebula-winner Dickson's Dorsai trilogy presented in one volume specially introduced and connected by the author.
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| 12. | Dickson, Gordon R. TIME STORM
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1977). Book club edition: issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. With the code I06 on page 440. Jacket code, 2222. Fine, as-new, in blue boards, with black spine titling; in a very nearly fine, mildly age-toned illustrated dust jacket. Artwork by Don Brautigan.
''SF novel of three survivors of a time storm that destroyed life on Earth and threatens the universe.''--LOCUS.
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| 13. | Dickson, Gordon R. WOLF AND IRON
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1990). First edition, first printing. Very nearly fine, in blue boards with silver spine lettering; in a very nearly fine, age-darkened, spine-faded, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Curcio.
After the economic collapse of civilization, scientist Jeeris Belamy Waltar makes his way across a violent and lawless America--he could never make it on his own, but with his new companion--a huge grey Wolf--he just may make it.
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| 14. | Dickson, Gordon R. WOLF AND IRON
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1990). First edition, first printing. Fine, in blue boards with silver spine lettering; in a fine, if mildly age-toned illustrated dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Curcio.
''Sf novel of the relationship between a scientist and a wolf in a near-future dark age.''--Locus.
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| 15. | Laumer, Keith & Dickson, Gordon R. PLANET RUN
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company , Inc., 1967. First edition. Fine in green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; in an age-toned illustrated dust jacket that shows some mild edgewear and a tiny spot of pale stain to the reverse of the spine panel.
PLANET RUN is ''actually a Western in disguise. Captain Henry is the old hand, blackmailed out of retirement for one more run. Larry Bartholomew, the son of the blackmailer, is the wet-behind-the-ears sidekick.''--Dani Zweig.
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