West Side Books and Curios - Featured Items
 
 
Featured items that West Side Books and Curios plans to bring to RMBPF 2016.
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West Side Books and Curios, RMABA
Lois Harvey
3434 W. 32nd Ave. Denver CO 80211
www.westsidebooks.com
westsidebooks@qwestoffice.net
303-480-0220
Literature, Illustrated Books, Travel, Children's
Booth#: 73
 

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Perish by the Sword. Poul Anderson. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1959.

Description:
180 pages. Signed, inscribed first edition; Red cloth-covered boards with very light rubbing to corners and extremeties of spine; light tanning to page edges; Light rubbing to DJ corners and edges. A signed mystery novel by an author famed for his science fiction. VG/VG.
 

Genre: Signed, First Edition, Fiction

Price $300.00

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Guardians of Time. Poul Anderson. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961.

Description:
176 pages. First British Edition. Signed and inscribed by Anderson to fellow sci-fi writer Ray Nelson (author of the story that was later adapted to film by John Carpenter as "They Live") ; Ray Nelson's addressed personal stamp on front free end paper, above inscription, as well as his personalized International Science Fiction Society stamp below autograph. NF/VG+
 
Red cloth-covered boards with merest bumping to edges, slight ding to front fore-edge. Yellow DJ sunned at spine and edges, light bumping and rubbing to corners and edges.
 
Collects "Time Patrol," "Brave to Be a King," "The Only Game in Town," and "Delenda Est," four early Time Patrol stories.
 
 

Genre: Science Fiction; Signed Books; Association Copy

Price $400.00

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Collected Prose of Elinor Wylie. [Stephen Vincent Benet], Elinor Wylie. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.

Description:
879 pages. First Edition; Signed twice by Stephen Vincent Benet, once with inscription on front free end paper, and once on page 325, after his preface to The Orphan Angel, collected in this volume.
 
Green cloth-covered boards with gilt title and decorations on spine, merest rubbing to spine edges at very top, else Fine. DJ with light bumping and rubbing to corners and edges, light soiling to surfaces. Inner wrap-case in NF condition. Slipcase blue quarter-leather bound, with leather at spine lightly sunned, light surface rubbing to cloth, light bump to cloth at rear bottom edge. Overall an attractive volume with its multiple pieces. NF/VG+/NF/VG+.
 
 

Genre: Signed; First Edition; Poets

Price $150.00

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John Brown's Body. Stephen Vincent Benet. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1928

Description:
377 pages. First edition, signed and inscribed on front free end paper by Stephen Vincent Benet to fellow writer and playwright Dudley Nichols (here misspelled "Nicholls"), who included Benet in an anthology later on.
 
Black cloth-covered boards with merest dust speckling to surfaces, slightest waving to cloth at extremities of spine. DJ split at front joint (protected by mylar), sunned at spine and edges. NF/G-.
 

Price $300.00

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Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury. NY: The Limited Editions Club.

Description:
156 pages. Signed at rear by both Ray Bradbury and illustrator Joseph Mugnaini. Special frontis litho print. Reflective silver metallic paper over boards, light creasing to joints, else Fine. slipcase in reflective silver paper, light rubbing to surfaces. NF/VG+.
 

Genre: Signed Books; Limited Editions; Science Fiction; Modern Classics

Price $450.00