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The Simak Family Bible went on to inspire the work of Clifford D. Simak, such as The Search for Heaven, The Fellowship of the Talisman, and his Hugo Award-winning novel, Way Station.
Large Victorian Family Holy Bible, dated 1884 (Owned by the Simak Family i.e. Clifford D. Simak). Parallel-Column Edition, The Holy Bible containing the King James and the Revised Version, arranged in parallel-columns. With Complete Concordance, embracing every passage of Scripture in the largest editions, the Psalms in Metre, 100,000 marginal references and readings, and Doctor WM. Smiths Standard Bible Dictionary. Includes marriage certificate between John Simak and Maggie Wiseman, dated October 31st, 1903.
Embossed pictorial leather with gilt edges; numerous engravings and chromolithograph plates. Exterior slightly worn; spine leather perished; joints cracked/starting. Text toned.
12″ x 10.25″ x 4–4.5″; ~12–15 lb.
Included:
The Goblin Reservation – En route to an interplanetary research mission, a scientist is abducted by a strange, shadowy race of aliens and taken to a previously uncharted planet, a storehouse of information that would be invaluable–even to an Earth so advanced that time travel allows goblins, dinosaurs, even Shakespeare to coexist. 1968, Berkley Medallion Paperback.
A Heritage of Stars – More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous technology, choosing to revert back to a primitive tribal state. In this society the rusting brain cases of long-inert robots are considered trophies, and the scant knowledge that has survived is doled out to an inquisitive few in monastery-like “universities.” It is at one such center of learning that young Tom Cushing first reads of the legendary “Place of Going to the Stars,” rumored to exist on a high butte somewhere in the western part of the land. Driven by enthusiasm and an insatiable need to track the myth to its source, Tom sets out on an amazing trek across what was once called “America,” teaming up with a witch, the world’s last remaining robot, and other odd companions. But all the astonishing discoveries and dangers they encounter along the way will pale before the revelations that await them at journey’s end. 1977, Berkley Medallion Paperback.
Worlds of Clifford Simak – Twelve stories by Clifford Simak. 1960, Simon & Schuster Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
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