The Eighth Stage of Fandom: Selections From 25 Years of Fan Writing

Overview:

• Title: The Eighth Stage of Fandom: Selections From 25 Years of Fan Writing
• Author: Robert Bloch
• Year: 1962
• Publisher: Advent: Publishers
• Price: $10.00
• Pages: 176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: The Eighth Stage of Fandom
• Notes:
  • "First Edition" on copyright page.
  • Signed on front FEP.
  • Edited by Earl Kemp (credited on title page).
  • Limitation notice is on the false title.
    A "Collector's Edition" of 125 copies of this book
    was issued to commemorate the 20th World Science
    Fiction Convention; Chicago -- 1962. The copies
    are numbered and signed by the author and only
    numbers 26 through 125 are offered for sale.
    This is Copy No.XXX
  • XXX indicates the number of the copy.
  • Bound in red buckram with gold stamping on the spine.
  • Issued without dustjacket (although some have been paired with jackets from the trade edition and offered for sale online).
  • Sold only at the 1962 World Science Fiction Convention.
  • Publication date based on convention dates (August 31 - September 3, 1962).
  • Pages 171 and 172 are acknowledgements of previous publications of these essays.
  • Pages 173 through 176 constitute an index.
  • In addition, various "filler ads" are sprinkled through various pages.
    These are usually one-line jokes:
    "WHY WEAR A TRUSS? Then again, on the other hand, what else can you possibly do with one?"
    ads for improbable businesses:
    "Loose dandruff tightened immediately, or your money refunded"
    or science fiction in-jokes:
    A booklet from the "Shaver Mystery Club" explaining John W. Campbell's editorials.
  • "The Past Recaptured or Down Memory Lane With Butterfly Net and Restraint-Jacket" appears in the TOC as simply "The Past Recaptured."
  • No LCCN.
  • The OCLC record refers to the trade edition most likely.