De Camp 3000 Years Of Fantasy & Science and 12 similar items

3000 YEARS OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION Edited with an introduction by L. Sprague and Catherine Crook de Camp. New York: Lothrop, Lee Shepard Company, (1972). First edition, first printing. First printing number code sequence 1 through 5 to the copyright page. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Each story begins with a biographical and story concept introduction by the de Camps. Comprises three novelettes, and eight short stories, by a wide variety of timeless authors including Plato, Homer, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and etc. A hint of rubs to the lower spine edge, else fine, square, tight and probably unread in purple linen with orange embossed titles to the spine, bound with publisher's sturdy, deluxe, reinforced inner hinges; in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with 1970s style art by Emanuel Schongut, with a one-inch tear to the lower and a very short tear to the upper edges of the front panel, minute rubs to the lower spine edge, two tiny rubbed tears to the rear panel's shelf-edges, gold-tone special reinforced edition spine label missing a slender center piece, NO remainder mark. Octavo; 254 pages; plus 'Novels Worth Reading' to the rear. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!