Boards attached upside down during binding. Corners bumped, minor edge wear, Spine faded. Back board has detached, webbing showing between fep and last page. Names on ffep and inside flap of jacket marked through with black marker. Jacket shows some edge wear/chipping/soiling, spine faded. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition.
The story of Wildwing, a wild colt rescued from the white men's cuel round-up by Bronze Feather, a young Arapahoe. Pen & ink illustrations by the author. Est level: 3rd - 6th grades; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
Slight shelf wear. "Ten years had passed since mankind had won the Great War. The dreaded Al'ar, loathsome aliens who killed by mere sight or touch, had been vanquished. Now they were gone, forgotten, and humanity was free to expand throughout the galaxy. But one man rememberred. Joshua Wolfe had been a hero of the Great War. He had lived with the Al'ar, first as a friend and then as a prisoner. He knew their ways, knew their disciplines, knew how to kill as they killed. And Joshua Wolfe was the only man who knew that the conflict was not over. Before the Great War, in a time of friend... View More...
"In the eyes of the inhabitants of Giri the scientific explorers from outer space were witlings. . . . Because on Giri a perculiarity of evolution had given a special talent to all living things -- and this talent made unnecessary most of the inventions associated with intelligent life elsewhere. Roads and planes, engines and doors . . . these were the products of witlings, not of 'normal' people. The problem was . . . to demonstrate that science was worthwhile and to keep the medieval masters of Giri from realizing their potential for cosmic mischief." Cover is somewhat scuffed and da... View More...
Spine somewhat creased and rolled, corners bumped including some pages, a little edge wear and rubbing. A little waviness, likely from dampness. A good reading copy. "When humans start cutting down trees and digging holes in peaceful Dunlath Valley, the wolves know that something is wrong. They send a messenger to the only human who will listen -- Daine, a fourteen-year-old girl with the unpredictable power of wild magic. Daine and her closest companions heed the wolves' cry for help. But the challenge they are about to face in the valley is great than they can possibly imagine . . . Set... View More...
Spine somewhat slanted/creased, cover creased, some edgewear/bumping, cracking at pp. 1 & 123. A clean, unmarked copy. "A hundred years in our future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centauri only to discover a vast human empire, long-established and sternly ruled by the aristocratic High-born. In a stroke Earth becomes merely another primitive outpost, its people dubbed ‘wolflings’ by the rulers of the Throne World. Painstakingly chosen and meticulously trained, Jim Keil was sent merely to observe conditions on the Throne World. The High-born would consider him no more ... View More...
Spine very slightly slanted, cover shows minor edgewear & scuffing & slight creasing. Text beginning to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "Ascelius was an academic world, whose primary business was teaching the knowledge of the thousands of worlds, and housing great universities and colleges, populated by students and scholars from all over the galaxy. Such a world was surely the place to learn of the legendary planet called Earth, Dumarest went to Ascelius, and , indeed, he found that there had once been a study group for Earth lore. To find the remnants of it, to seek out the discarded ... View More...
Slight edge wear, about a 2" cover lift along right edge, otherwise a very nice copy. ; Permabooks M-3027. First paperback printing of this book, which appears to be the author's first published novel, although he wrote short stories for various science fiction magazines starting in 1950. Also wrote under the name of J. T. McIntosh. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 166 pages; "They had conquered Mars! Earth was next. And in the council chambers at Washington, Earth's leaders gathered to face the peril. Mars had gone down to defeat in one hour and thiry-four minutes. And now a fleet of creat... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Glue apears sound, somewhat tight. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Avon T-249, first paperback printing. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 189 pages; "Two planets circled Brinsen’s Star - one was Mundis and the other was Secundis. On Mundis a tiny colony of refugees from a dying Earth were working to establish a new and hopeful - if closely regulated - society. And the seeds of destruction - far from those that had destroyed the Earth - were growing there already. The second generation of Mundans were beginning to t... View More...
Spine slightly creased, a little edge wear. A number of pages have some light damp-staining and a little rippling. Overall a nice copy. ; Omnibus edition featuring three of Le Guin's Hamish novels. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 370 pages; Rocannon's World: "Rocannon, a Terran scientist from the League of All Worlds, leads an ethnographic survey tothe half-known world of Fomalhaut II. But, only moments after his expedition arrives, it is viciously attacked by invaders from Faraday and Rocannon is the sole survivor. " Marooned for at least eight years among the humanoids of this alien planet - the cave-dwel... View More...
Spine rolled, minor edge wear, covers a bit creased with some soiling, reading crease. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A solid copy. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 133 pages; "A parallel-time-tracks story with van Vogtian wheels-within-wheels ramifications. Brion Bayard, of our own continuum, is snatched into one in which there never was a United States, in which Northern Europe, Britain, the Western Hemisphere and Australia form one huge empire, in which Hermann Goering is a useful ally. He learns that there is still a third continuum, in which nuclear war has nearly shattered civ... View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased, corners bumped. 1/2" tear to front cover at top left, slight chipping at top of spine. Some darkening. Back cover bowed out just a bit. "Once the gods forged twelve Swords of Power, but they forged too well: The Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone, the Swords are scattered across the land and Mark, Prince Consort of Tasavalta, must find Woundhealer, the Sword of Healing, to help his young son Adrian. But the evil wizard Burslam has joined with Mark's enemy, Baron Amintor, stealing Woundhealer and luring Mark's nephew Zoltan away-o... View More...
Spine shows some creases. Cover some light wear. #20 in the Deep Space Nine series. Battling plague on Deep Space Nine and the planet Bajor.; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall View More...
Spine very slightly creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear, binding fairly tight. A bright, attractive copy. Paperback original. "Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace. Into the bulge created by the sudden onslaught raced the Chinese armor, T-60 tanks with 85mm guns, and behind the T-60s over 90,000 PLA regular frontline troops rushed like ants upon the Americans who were bogged down in the typhoon. "The American A-10 Thunderbolts came in low, their cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tanks' ammunition and fuel tank... View More...
Reading crease, some edge wear and cover creasing. A solid copy. ; Based on the acclaimed computer game by Microprose. ; 6" - 7" Tall; 253 pages; "Alien forces will enslave humanity ... Unless X-COM can stop them! "Commander Jonelle Barrett is determined to win. Having moved from Morocco to a new base in Switzerland, she is well-placed to build a fortified base and defend Europe from the marauding aliens, who harvest humans as lab animals, for breeding stock ... And for their dinner tables! "Barrett soon finds that her new territory is already riddled with alien invaders. Her handpicked garris... View More...
Spine creased, minor edge wear, covers a bit creased. Overall a nice copy. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 451 pages; "It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world's population was decimated. " Now, in a world of survivors, where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits the... View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear. Some yellowing but a clean, attractive copy. Paperback original.
In this new Star Trek novel, "the Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever-the mysterious portal to the past. The Enterprise must protect the Guardian-or destroy it. But Spock has already used the portal to journey to the past. On the planet Sarpedion, 5,000 years ago, Spock knew a beautiful, primitive woman. Now he has gone to meet his son!"; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted, some edgewear/bumping, 1/4" chip at bottom of spine. Humorous black and white illustrations by Erwin Hoffmann. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.
A vintage collection of jokes for the elementary school age child. Age Level: Grades 2-6; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Black cloth over blue boards, red lettering, 208 pp. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. Inscribed by the author on title page. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 208 pages; "Dr. James Owen Mega, respected engineering professor turned sci-fi superstar 'Jay Omega,' and Dr. Marion Farley, respected English professor and self-confessed sci-fi fanatic (and Mega's significant other) , are on their way to a most unusual science fiction convention: the reunion of the Lanthanides - a group of fans from the 1950s who are gathering to open a time capsule the... View More...
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