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Rapp & Whiting, 1970. British hardcover with dustjacket. First British, and first hardcover, edition. First published in 1969. This is a novel about the first human contact with aliens. There were two sequels (written with Jody Lynn Nye): "Crisis on Doona" (1992) and "Treaty at Doona" (1994).
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After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....
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Anne McCaffrey, one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.
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Decision at Doona
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Rapp & Whiting, London, 1970
ISBN 10: 0853911495
ISBN 13: 9780853911494
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1st ed. The 3rd sci-fi novel by Anne McCaffrey. A few spots of foxing on page fore-edge; top edge of first signature a little roughly cut; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, but slightly worn at edges; dust jacket protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS124564I
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Decision at Doona
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION. 1970 Rapp & Whiting UK first hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Seller Inventory # 7V-1RLB-WF5Q
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Decision at Doona
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Rapp & Whiting, London, 1970
ISBN 10: 0853911495
ISBN 13: 9780853911494
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. HB. Orange cloth boards, with silver gilt lettering to spine.Back bottom corner slightly bumped. Some slight and sparse foxing to page-edges, not impinging on the page margins. Unknown company stamp on f.fep. DJ unclipped, some slight wear to dj edges; price 28s £1.40; in protective sleeve. Book tight and clean. Seller Inventory # 005682
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DECISION AT DOONA
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ISBN 10: 0853911495
ISBN 13: 9780853911494
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boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Upper right front corner gently bumped, else a copy in fine dust jacket with mild matching bump. (#126331). Seller Inventory # 126331
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