GNOME PRESS SHAMBLEAU & OTHERS by C L Moore( (Hardcover)

CONDITION GOOD, SMALL CHIPS & CREASES ON DUST JACKET, PRICE CUT FROM INSIDE FRONT COVER OF JACKET.
AUTHOR: CL MOORE

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER GNOME PRESS 1ST EDITION 1953, 4000 COPIES PRODUCED.

GNOME PRESS

AN AMERICAN SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY KNOWN FOR PUBLISHING MANY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS. GNOME WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT OF THE FAN PUBLISHERS OF SCIENCE FICTION PRODUCING 86 TITLES IN ITS LIFESPAN. GNOME HELPED TO TRANSITION SCIENCE FICTION FROM MAGAZINE PHENOMENON TO MASS MARKET PUBLISHING BUT PROVED TO BE TO UNDERFUNDED TO MAKE THE LEAP FROM FAN BASED PUBLISHING TO THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL. AFTER 10 YEARS IT FADED DUE TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH MAJOR PUBLISHERS.

SYNOPSIS

3 JIREL OF JOIRY PLUS 4 NORWEST SMITH STORIES. JIREL OF JOIRY INTRODUCES A FEMALE LEAD CHARACTER INTO THE SWORD & SORCERY SUB GENRE. THE NORWEST SMITH ARE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES SET IN THE FUTURE. SMITH IS A SPACE PILOT & OFT TIME SMUGGLER. ALL THE STORIES HERE WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN "WEIRD TALES" MAGAZINE.