Author: WELLMAN, MANLY WADE
Title: The Old Gods Waken
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385148070. This book is in almost Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light foxing / ground-in dirt to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, with some very light ground-in dirt. There is a small semi-closed edge tear to the bottom edge of the rear "Wellman wrote two science fiction novels in the sixties – Island in the Sky and also Candle of the Wicked (1960) ; which novelized the events leading up to the discovery of the Bender killings. His Captain Future novel The Solar Invasion was reprinted in paperback. However his best-known series dates from this period and comprises stories featuring the Appalachian woodsman and minstrel hero known as "John". These were first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The first stories of John were collected in Who Fears the Devil? (1963) , based on the personal enthusiasm of August Derleth. Although Wellman only ever called the character "John" or "John the guitar picker", his later publishers Doubleday and Dell labelled the series Silver John as they felt the name was a better way of marketing the books. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385148070 Science Fiction And Fantasy Manly Wade Wellman Silver John Occult
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Title: The Old Gods Waken
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385148070. This book is in almost Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light foxing / ground-in dirt to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, with some very light ground-in dirt. There is a small semi-closed edge tear to the bottom edge of the rear "Wellman wrote two science fiction novels in the sixties – Island in the Sky and also Candle of the Wicked (1960) ; which novelized the events leading up to the discovery of the Bender killings. His Captain Future novel The Solar Invasion was reprinted in paperback. However his best-known series dates from this period and comprises stories featuring the Appalachian woodsman and minstrel hero known as "John". These were first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The first stories of John were collected in Who Fears the Devil? (1963) , based on the personal enthusiasm of August Derleth. Although Wellman only ever called the character "John" or "John the guitar picker", his later publishers Doubleday and Dell labelled the series Silver John as they felt the name was a better way of marketing the books. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385148070 Science Fiction And Fantasy Manly Wade Wellman Silver John Occult
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43246
- Book number: 43246
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