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Being there... Jack Vance has long been F&SF's grand master of regional science fiction, creating living, breathing locales on distant worlds or on our own fabulously transformed, often magical future Earth that are second to none.But at the same time he was giving us these vivid, award-winning fantasy and science fictional settings, even as he was exploring the far corners of this world as a keen and inveterate traveller, Jack was vigorously pursuing an exciting and promising parallel career as a writer of mystery and suspense novels under his given name of John Holbrook Vance.The three JHV mysteries featured here, The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders and The Dark Ocean were produced during the mid-60s, in the same fertile years that Jack sent Cugel the Clever off exploring the Dying Earth in The Eyes of the Overworld, left Sklar Hast to face danger among the kragen in The Blue World and gave Kirth Gersen a third Demon Prince to track down in The Palace of Love.Even as Jack was hard at work producing high adventure in such interstellar “regional” locales as Sogdian, Sarkovy and Blue World, he found time to don his other hat and concoct always interesting, often life-changing, sometimes desperate, adventures for Sheriff Joe Bain in Central California's San Rodrigo County, a Vance setting as intricate, vividly rendered and closely observed as any of his SF and fantasy creations. So, too, he gave personable, wilful naïf Betty Haverhill all manner of life and death thrills aboard the Italian freighter Garda on its way to Europe.A follow-up volume to the widely acclaimed Dangerous Ways: Selected Mysteries, Subterranean Press is proud to present Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries 2, a book not just for the true connoisseur of the master's distinctive blend of intrigue and derring-do, but for anyone who relishes a good, well-told detective yarn set in an unforgettable time and place.
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Ken Laager (illustrator). Burton: Subterranean Press:, 2012. Uncorrected proof, Trade paperback, Fine, 564 pp. Cover artwork by: Ken Laager Mystery collection. Uncorrected proof, Trade paperback, Fine, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 73033
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. 2012, first edition thus. 564 pages. Grey cloth with gold spine titles, cloth fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket fine in Mylar. Pages clean and bright, unmarked. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-2010970
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Anbieter: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, USA
1st edition. HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Collects 3 of Vance's mystery novels, THE FOX VALLEY MURDERS, THE PLEASANT GROVE MURDERS, and THE DARK OCEAN. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 37935
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Ken Laager (illustrator). Burton: Subterranean Press:, 2012. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 564 pp. Cover artwork by: Ken Laager Mystery collection. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 49483
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Anbieter: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. 2012, first edition thus. 564 pages. Grey cloth hardcover with gold spine titles. Cloth fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket fine in Mylar. Pages bright, unmarked. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-2009793
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Excellent Copy - Sub Press Delux Hardcover. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 043764
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has tiny skew to binding, touch of wear to spine ends, and a hint of tiny wear to base of five pages in text block, otherwise a sharp, clean, tight VG+ copy in crisp Near Fine dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 96023
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1ST. Outstanding Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 044307
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