Shadow magazine (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine sunned, corners very slightly bruised, slight lean. Not price clipped (£6.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 414pp. A saga of the Carlyon family, founders of Murranji Station in the Australian Outback. A sweeping novel of both the benefits and the harmful effects of the encroaching civilization they helped to establish in the wilderness. The pen name 'Maxwell Grant' was a pseudonym used by the authors of 'The Shadow' pulp magazine stories and for the novels they also wrote on the Australian outback. Street & Smith the publishers, asked Walter B. Gibson, a writer hired to chronicle the Shadow's adventures, to create a pen name for the Shadow's author for several reasons, primarily so that numerous authors could be used to write the stories without confusing the readers. Gibson, who was also a nonfiction writer, wanted to use a pen name for his fiction. He adopted the pen name Maxwell Grant, taking the name from two magic dealers he knew, Maxwell Holden and U.F. Grant. Quite a scarce book. Jacket by Neville Dear (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Facsimile/replica. Faint 2.5 inch crease at upper right of front. otherwise book is in great shape, very clean and very sharp, looking as new.

Magazine. Condición: Fine (as new) copy. First edition. Vol V1 no 1 (August 1995). Thunder Shadow started out purely as a new and o/p book catalogue (with maybe some articles and other pieces? I don't know I haven't seen them) but for it's final four issues it expanded (in both look and contents) to include substantial pieces of fiction as well, starting with Vol 1V no 1, +iction and art (with no pages of books for sale), and printed on better glossy paper. Then as so often the case, the magazine promptly folded. So it goes. This issue contains an excerpt from the novel Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale, original fiction from Nina Kiriki Hoffman (''War Zone'') and Elizabeth Massie (''Fisherman Joe'') plus the start (and end?) of a regular column by Rick Hautala.…

Magazine. Condición: Fine (as new) copy. First edition. Vol V no 1 (February 1994) Thunder Shadow started out purely as a new and o/p book catalogue (with maybe some articles and other pieces? I don't know I haven't seen them) but for it's final four issues it expanded (in both look and contents) to include substantial pieces of fiction as well, starting with Vol 1V no 1, Vol 1V no 11, Vol V no 1, and finally Vol V1 no 1 - by which point it was ALL new fiction and art (with no pages of books for sale), and printed on better glossy paper. Then as so often the case, the magazine promptly folded. So it goes. This issue contains original fiction from Charles de Lint (''The Pochade Box''), Norman Partridge (''The Entourage'') and Joseph A. Citro (''Penetration'').…

Magazine. Condición: Fine (as new) copy. First edition. Vol 1V no 11 (August 1993). Thunder Shadow started out purely as a new and o/p book catalogue (with maybe some articles and other pieces? I don't know I haven't seen them) but for it's final four issues it expanded (in both look and contents) to include substantial pieces of fiction as well, starting with Vol 1V no 1, Vol 1V no 11, Vol V no 1, and finally Vol V1 no 1 - by which point it was ALL new fiction and art (with no pages of books for sale), and printed on better glossy paper. Then as so often the case, the magazine promptly folded. So it goes. This issue contains original fiction from Ray Garton (''The Devil's Music''), Al Sarrantonio (''The Beat'') and Matthew J. Costello ('' The Man Who Knew Things''). …

Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Title novel, "Spoils of the Shadow" by Maxwell Grant. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573]. Edge wear with cover creases, several small closed tears, clear tape to upper left front cover, a good to very good copy. (21000).…

Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Title novel, "The Circle of Death" by Maxwell Grant. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573]. An about very good copy, page lightly tanned, supple, some edge wear, small tears and creases, small tear to front cover, spine complete. (10829).…

Condición: Good. Scanned image available on request. Pulp Magazine.

Condición: Very Good. Scanned image available on request. Pulp Magazine.