Spine slanted/creased, some edgewear, corners bumped, lower corner creased. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.
"'Earth is dead!' A planet murderer has struck at Earth and killed it. Fortunately, there are several space ships away from base at the time and when one returns and sees the Earth's remains, the crew begins a murder hunt for the killers which takes them to the outer galaxies where they meet many strange races before they eventually track down the murderers."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Black cloth over navy boards, blue lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear, a little chipping and closed tears along top edge of back panel. Overall, a nice copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 312 pages; To Manson Emmert Everard, 30-year-old veteran, engineer, bachelor, outdoorsman - and decidedly independent spirit - it sounds like an ideal opportunity. Especially the foreign travel. But, as he steps into the office, he has no idea how foreign. For Manse Everard is being recruited for the Time Patrol. "Once accepted, Manse is ferried by time shuttle ... View More...
"Send me your tired, your poor, your hopeless, yearning to be free. To them I raise the lamp beside the brazen door. . ." So reads the inscrip tion over the portal to the euthanasia center. From a common beginning -- William Bailey's death there -- five of today's top writers of science fiction create their separate visions of Bailey's fate. No two are even remotely alike."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Spine somewhat creased, corners bumped, some edge wear. Bookseller stamps inside cover, price stamped on ffep. "Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. His duty, as officially defined: to seek out threats to the Pax Terrestria, and to neutralize them-or, failing that, to call in His Majesty's military forces, who will end them in a more drastic and final way. As defined by Dominic Flandry: to stick his finger in the dike of civilization, to hold off for his lifetime the inevitable coming of the barbarians and the Long Night. To this end he battles gloriously, murders remorselessly, ... View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased, slight spine slant, corners bumped, minor edge wear/chipping. A little darkening. Text is clean and unmarked. "Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. His duty, as officially defined: to seek out threats to the Pax Terrestria, and to neutralize them-or, failing that, to call in His Majesty's military forces, who will end them in a more drastic and final way. As defined by Dominic Flandry: to stick his finger in the dike of civilization, to hold off for his lifetime the inevitable coming of the barbarians and the Long Night. To this end he battles glorio... View More...
Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Polesotechnic league; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 216 pages; "A star explodes ... And a billion years later, a galaxy explodes in war. When the heavymetal ruin of Mirkheim is discovered at the edge of Known Space, the gigantic planet becomes the center of a war that is fought in all the far reaches of Earth's dazzling and corrupt empire. This epic adventure of the end of a thousand-year civilization sweeps from hyperspace skirmishes in the radio glare of dark suns, to the bloody d... View More...
Spine a bit slanted and creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing. Upper right corners has been jabbed several times, resulting in some pinprick holes that extend to the first few pages. Some tanning but text is unmarked. Overall, a solid copy. ; Polesotechnic league; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 254 pages; "Star wanderer - Cast off from its fellow bits of condensing matter at the birth of the galaxy, the planet had never known a mother star. For all of time it swung free in the vastness of interstellar space. Now mere chance was bringing it close to the star Beta Crucis ... A chance... View More...
Berkley Medallion F743, 158 pp. Paperback original, first printing. Originally serialized in Fantastic Stories (1962). Spine a bit slanted with a ceep crease down the center, slight edge wear and rubbing, 1" chip to top corner of back cover. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Koskinen had returned to earth with a strange new 'Shield' - a device which enclosed the wearer in a force screen which absorbed all energies below a certain level. Light could come through the Shield, but no weapon known to man could penetrate it . . . "Koskinen had developed the Sh... View More...
Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing, light tanning. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 404 pages;
"There is us. There are the Others. "And through the shimmering gates they left for us, there are stars beyond stars: universes to be discovered on a voyage more awesome, an adventure more incredible, than anything humankind has dared to dream before! " View More...
Blue boards with black lettering. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear, a little soiling. Jacket in new Brodart, some sunning and soiling. A nice copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 209 pages; "It was only the beginning of a strange and tortuous mission when the beautiful and cunning Storm Dalloway rescued Malcolm Lockridge from the electric chair. Death was to become a small price to pay for a cause that spanned past centuries and went beyond tomorrow. Storm was a key leader of the Wardens, who were struggling for supremacy over the Rangers, and Brann their key figure. But the Wardens ... View More...
Spine very slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, light cover creasing and soiling. An attractive copy. ; This delightful novel was originally serialized in Astounding / Analog in 1960, and then published in hardcover by Doubleday. The first American paperback edition was also from Doubleday in 1962, to be followed by this edition from McFadden-Bartell in 1964. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 160 pages; "In the year 1345 AD (by Earth reckoning) the mighty Wersgorix, undisputed rulers of outer space, landed on Earth in their quest for new worlds to conquer. Their ship carried guide... View More...
Spine is slanted and creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Minor creasing and soiling to covers. 20c in red ink inside cover. Text shows yellowing but is clean and unmarked.
"No one will believe the truth about the Alerionia people's plot to claim the almost untouched planet of New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim, space-age patriot, will risk his own death and the destruction of interplanetary peace to bring freedom to this strange new world of surreal people, walking forests, slaughter machines--and the haunting memories of lost love."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
Pyramid R-994, 143 pp. Paperback original, first printing. Originally appeared as a serial in If, January - March, 1964. Slight edge wear, binding tight. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. "Three Worlds: "Jupiter - where no human could live - but where men had strange allies . . . and stranger enemies! "Ganymede - where human settler lay helpless under the guns of a spaceship directed by a madman! "Earth - freed from a planet-wide tyranny, but facing total destruction from space! "The destinies of three worlds were strangely linked - and i... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 159 pages; "For 300 years the planet of women awaited the coming of man. Then one arrives ... "He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods. "Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They are warlike, ambitious, ruthless. Unless Davis can convince them he is a man, they will kill him for blasphemy. But if he does convince them, the Doc... View More...
Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, reading crease. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; ACe G-697, 125 pp. Published in 1968 this appears to be the first American stand alone printing of this title. It was originally published in 1959 as an Ace Double with Robert Silverberg's The Planet Killers. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 125 pages; " All's fair in love and war - and with the galaxy split in conflict between two implacable confederations, anything ought to go. Still, how do you plan the ambush and capture of a tremendously capable telepath? "The inte... View More...
