About this title: This unusual anthology, purported to be first published in 1915, describes a series of bizarre and fantastic diseases (e.g. Ballistic Organ Syndrome) and provides information on the doctor who first discovered them. The book includes contributions from such science fiction/fantasy notables as Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: New in New jacket. First "published" in 1915, as World War I raged through Europe, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases was for thirty years disseminated to doctors around the world in the form of loose-leaf carbon copies and photocopies. In 1945, London's Chatto & Windus published the first formal edition of the Guide. Twenty editions later, the Guide was discontinued, but continued to be updated by Dr. Lambshead and his colleagues and privately printed ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade, San Francisco/Portland
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 1st edition, trade cloth state, Fine in Fine DJ. Stories by Gaiman, Moorcock, Mieville, Bishop, Calder, Di Filippo, Hughes, Lebbon, Tem and many others. read more
Edition: 1st edition. 1st Printing.
Binding: HC in dust jacket, 1/650 signed copies.
Publisher: Night Shade Books, Portland, OR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: Original anthology featuring over 50 writers including: Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, Kage Baker, Jeffrey Ford, China Mieville, Michael Bishop, Tim Lebbon, Rhys Huges, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Gahan Wilson and others. Signed by all... read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Excellent condition. First edition. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Free track! Satisfaction guarenteed! Fast ing. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: Illustrated. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 1892389541 Dust jacket unclipped. Brown cloth with black titling and decorations. Illustrated end papers. No ownership marks. 298 pages clean and tight. First "published" in 1921, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases was for several years disseminated to doctors around the world in the form of loose-leaf carbon copies and photocopies. During the 1930s, the cannery and medical publisher Trimble Fisheries, Ltd., ... read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Stated First Edition published by Night Shade Books as the 83rd Edition, a fine 297-page hardcover book in a nice dust jacket (as pictured), unread, unused, and with clean unmarked text and endpapers, this gift-quality copy is like new. (1141) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nightshade Book, San Francisco
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: As New in As New jacket. Hardcover. SIGNED Fine, new, clean, crisp and unread immaculate first printing signed by all twenty-eight contributors on four tipped-in sheets, pristine appropriately bizarre illustrated dust jacket protected in a new, clear Brodart cover. This wonderfully outlandish collection of shudderingly foolish and frightening diseases has been created by the inimitable imaginations of these brilliant fiction, science fiction, and fantasy writers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. A good ex-library copy. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. When you buy this item, you benefit the Timberland Regional Library. Support libraries! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781892389541ISBN:1892389541
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. A used ex-library copy. Library markings. Pages are somewhat worn. Cover worn. Worn edges and corners. Binding solid and tight. When you buy this item, you benefit the Timberland Regional Library. Support libraries! read more
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