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The Resource The big book of adventure stories : the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume, edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Douglas Preston

The big book of adventure stories : the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume, edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Douglas Preston

Label
The big book of adventure stories : the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume
Title
The big book of adventure stories
Title remainder
the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume
Statement of responsibility
edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Douglas Preston
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
823/.08708
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR1309.A38
LC item number
B54 2011
Literary form
short stories
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Penzler, Otto
Series statement
Vintage crime/Black Lizard
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Adventure stories, English
  • Adventure stories, American
  • Short stories, English
  • Short stories, American
Label
The big book of adventure stories : the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume, edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Douglas Preston
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Golden snare / Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur -- Devil in Iron / Robert E. Howard -- Mighty manslayer / Harold Lamb -- Seven black priests / Fritz Leiber -- Master magician / Loring Brent -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Man who wold be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Wings of Kali / Grant Stockbridge -- White silence / Jack London -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Seed from the sepulcher / Clark Ashton Smith -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- Sea Raiders / H.G. Wells -- Hell Cay / Lester Dent -- Off the Mangrove Coast / Louis L' Amour -- Golden Anaconda / Elmer Brown Mason -- Shanghai Jim / Frank L. Packard -- Python pit / George F. Worts -- Soul of a turk / Achmed Abdullah -- Peace waits at Marokee / H. Bedford-Jones -- Nor idolatry blind the eye / Gabriel Hunt -- Soul of a regiment / Talbot Mundy -- Snake-head / Theodore Roscoe -- Suicide Patrol / Georges Surdez -- Gentleman of color / P.C. Wren -- After King Kong fell / Philip Jose Farmer -- Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott -- Caballero's way / O. Henry -- Zorro deals with treason / Johnston McCulley -- Hopalong's hop / Clarence E. Mulford -- Girl in the golden atom / Ray Cummings -- To serve man / Damon Knight -- Armageddon -- 2419 A.D. / Philip Francis Nowlan -- Woman in love / Geoffrey Household -- MacHinery and the Cauliflowers / Alistair MacLean -- Wheels within wheels / H.C. McNeile -- Question of passports / Baroness Orczy -- Intelligence / Rafael Sabatini -- Copper bowl / George Fielding Eliot -- Hand of the Mandarin Quong / Sax Rohmer -- Green wildebeest / John Buchan -- Slave brand of Slegman Bin Ali / James Anson Buck -- Fire / L. Patrick Greene -- Hunter Quatermain's Story / H. Rider Haggard -- Bosambo of Monrovia / Edgar Wallace -- Black cargo / Cornell Woolrich -- Tarzan the terrible / Edgar Rice Burroughs
Control code
cpl02500577
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvii, 874 pages
Isbn
9780307474506
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2011002226
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Specific material designation
regular print
Label
The big book of adventure stories : the most daring, dangerous, and death-defying collection of adventure tales ever captured in one mammoth volume, edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Douglas Preston
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Golden snare / Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur -- Devil in Iron / Robert E. Howard -- Mighty manslayer / Harold Lamb -- Seven black priests / Fritz Leiber -- Master magician / Loring Brent -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Man who wold be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Wings of Kali / Grant Stockbridge -- White silence / Jack London -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Seed from the sepulcher / Clark Ashton Smith -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- Sea Raiders / H.G. Wells -- Hell Cay / Lester Dent -- Off the Mangrove Coast / Louis L' Amour -- Golden Anaconda / Elmer Brown Mason -- Shanghai Jim / Frank L. Packard -- Python pit / George F. Worts -- Soul of a turk / Achmed Abdullah -- Peace waits at Marokee / H. Bedford-Jones -- Nor idolatry blind the eye / Gabriel Hunt -- Soul of a regiment / Talbot Mundy -- Snake-head / Theodore Roscoe -- Suicide Patrol / Georges Surdez -- Gentleman of color / P.C. Wren -- After King Kong fell / Philip Jose Farmer -- Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott -- Caballero's way / O. Henry -- Zorro deals with treason / Johnston McCulley -- Hopalong's hop / Clarence E. Mulford -- Girl in the golden atom / Ray Cummings -- To serve man / Damon Knight -- Armageddon -- 2419 A.D. / Philip Francis Nowlan -- Woman in love / Geoffrey Household -- MacHinery and the Cauliflowers / Alistair MacLean -- Wheels within wheels / H.C. McNeile -- Question of passports / Baroness Orczy -- Intelligence / Rafael Sabatini -- Copper bowl / George Fielding Eliot -- Hand of the Mandarin Quong / Sax Rohmer -- Green wildebeest / John Buchan -- Slave brand of Slegman Bin Ali / James Anson Buck -- Fire / L. Patrick Greene -- Hunter Quatermain's Story / H. Rider Haggard -- Bosambo of Monrovia / Edgar Wallace -- Black cargo / Cornell Woolrich -- Tarzan the terrible / Edgar Rice Burroughs
Control code
cpl02500577
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvii, 874 pages
Isbn
9780307474506
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2011002226
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Specific material designation
regular print

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