Tales from Gavagan's Bar
Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1978.
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Hardcover. Expanded edition, adding six stories. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper.
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L. Sprague de Camp
birth name: Lyon Sprague de Camp
born: 11/27/1907
died: 11/06/2000
Biography
Prolific science-fiction and fantasy author, among whose numerous works were Lest Darkness Fall (an early and influential alternate history novel) and Rogue Queen (the third book in his Viagens Interplanetarias series, which was important in the history of science fiction for breaking the genre's taboo on sexual themes). During World War II, de Camp worked at the Philadelphia Naval Yard with fellow authors Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein.more