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Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Good.

Fontana, London, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories ( The Swords; The Real Road to the Church; Niemandswasser; Pages from a Young Girl's Journal; The Hospice; The Same Dog; Meeting Mr Millar; The Clock Watcher ) First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 176 pages. a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges and reading creases on the spine. Marking pen stripe on bottom edge.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 094816459X. ISBN/EAN: 9780948164590. Inventory No: 0266848. . 9780948164590

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1975. Jacket tanning and rubbed with edgewear. Gray boards are tanning on edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Scribner's Sons. Unknown Binding. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Stamp FLEP, Pocket intact BLEP, else content appears as new, unopened, unread and unblemished with fine black boards in Fine DJ & vinyl cover displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown.
Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from a Young Girl's Journal won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection.
Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story (Pages from a Young Girl's Journal) but all the stories remain unconventional and… Read More

Scribner's Sons, 1975. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. New/As New.

The only condition fault we could find in the book is a tone like line on the first flyleaf page (see photos). The unclipped dj ($8.95) has miniscule wear at the spine edges and cornders. The book copyright page shows 1975 as the date of publication. The dj is dated 1977.

Scribner's Sons, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edward Gorey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 252. White illustrated paper dust jacket with black type. Black cloth boards with silver gilt type. With dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey. Edge wear, some creasing and toning to dust jacket. Two inch closed tear on bottom edge of back flap. Light edge wear, slight bumping on bottom edge of front board. Slight foxing on top of pages. Page 139/140 has some wrinkles on bottom portion. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. From the inside flap - "These eight stories draw the reader irresistibly into eight strange worlds - uncanny, enigmatic, unearthly. In each there is something chillingly wrong - a hint of diabolism or vampirism, of reincarnation or the living dead - all of which could be explained away as hallucination or hysteria. Or could it?...Robert Aickman's stories are the work of a master of the genre, subtle,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 252pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Bound in black cloth boards with spine titles in silver. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($8.95), has a touch of toning to jacket edges and a small, shallow dog-ear on the bottom of the front flap. Still fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. Publisher's promotional slip laid in. A very pretty collectable copy and surprisingly uncommon in such high-grade condition.

Victor Gollancz, London., 1975 [i.e. 1976]. First edition. Octavo. 252 pages.Fine in fine dustwrapper.