Item #17147 BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN: TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. Richard Matheson.
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BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN: TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY...

Philadelphia: The Chamberlain Press, Inc., 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Matheson on the title page. The author's first book, a collection of seventeen stories with introduction by Robert Bloch. "...the best of this author's early work..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-119. Approximately 650 copies of this book were distributed prior to a flood that destroyed most of the unsold bound copies and later warehouse fire that destroyed the remaining unbound sheets. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-719. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1125. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A sharp, brilliant copy. (17147). Item #17147

Price: $1,500.00