Published by Berkley Books, New York, 1955
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). First Berkley Edition. Spine slanted/creased, small chip at bottom corner, PO name inside. Text is yellowed, but clean and unmarked. "A star-flung civilization in the Greater Magellanic Cloud is the background for this astonishing story of the far-distant future. Eons in the future, a spaceship from Earth, mighty beyond all comprehension, is faced with the problem of locating a few inhabited planets lost in a wilderness of sun and star systems. The inhabitants of these planets know the ship is searching for them and refuse to reveal their location. But the captain of the Star Cluster is a very determined person, and so the almost impossible hunt begins."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Doubleday
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.15.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.15.
Published by Doubleday & Co, Garden City, NY, 1954
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Richard M Powers (illustrator). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated.
Published by Dell Publishing, New York, 1952
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). Dell # 760. Spine creased and slanted, covers a bit creased, corners bumped, 2 25 written on front cover in red. Some browning but text is clean and unmarked. "Mars was no paradise, but to Dr. Tony Hellman it meant a second chance for man-and to Hugo Brenner it meant a world to plunder. Tony was the leading member of Sun Lake Colony, a band of frontier-extending Earth people-intrepid space pioneers. Brenner was the planet's most powerful magnate, and operator whose vast wealth was based on Earthmen's tragic addiction to the vicious drug, marcaine. When Brenner accused the Sun Lakers of stealing a hundred kilograms of the Martian drug, the colony was threatened with extermination unless the thief was found and the marcaine returned. Tony and his fellow colonists saw their second chance fading. Brenner's success would mean the end of their better world."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1957
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). First Printing. Berkeley 200, 185 pp. Paperback original, first printing. Spine a bit rolled with some creasing and scuffing along edges. Binding intact but looks to be a bit fragile. Some edge wear and rubbing, long but light crease across upper corner of cover. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmaked. A decent copy. Hal Clement was a master at inventing alien races and then telling a tale from their viewpoint, starting with his classic novel Mission of Gravity. Here, as elsewhere, we come to find that humans are the aliens in his stories. "After his ship crashed, Nils Kurger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet . . . suffering from the blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer. And it was not human. "Nils had no way of knowing how helpless or how dangerous the alien might be. It looked helpless, in fact it looked just as out of place on this planet as Nils was himself, but it also looked like nothing Nils had ever seen before. Whatever it was, there was just a chance that together they might stay alive. "Through months Nils and the creature marched together, shared adventure and escape - and grew to know each other. Then Nils made a disturbing discovery. "This creature, this thing called Dar, possessed a mind more powerful than his own . . . a mind totally retentive of facts, interpretation, analysis . . . a mind capable of feelings and desires fully as keen as Nils's own. And to this mind, Nils Kruger was the alien. "; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.
Published by W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated, 1978
ISBN 10: 0396075177 ISBN 13: 9780396075172
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Powers, Richard M. (illustrator). Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Richard Powers (cover) (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1. Publisher's glossy wraps. 12mo. 125, (3) pp. Former owner's name on fep, paper tanning but supple, else fine. An original Ballantine Science Fiction Novel. [Ballantine F-647]. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Conde Nast Publications, NY, 1978
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Richard Powers (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First Printing. Cover by Richard Powers for "The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds" by Budrys. Includes "Mikal's Songbird" by Orson Scott Card; "Renewel" by Johns; "The Satyr" by Robinett; "University Medical Versus Diplococcus" by Cox; "Fixed Price War" by Sheffield. Light ring stain on front cover, corner slightly creased, else fine. NEAR FINE. . Analog Series. Vol. 98. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 178 pp.
Published by Permabooks, New York, 1955
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Paperback printing. 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 creatures from outer space was headed towards Earth. All eyes turned to Eldin Raigmore, President of the United States -- the one man to be trusted above all others. One by one the elite were dispatched on missions of last-minute strategy. They went weith confidence, inspired by the swift, sure mind of Raigmore. Civilization rested in his hands. And he was a secret member of the invader race!".
Published by Doubleday, New York, 1956
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Some chipping to the head of the dust jacket.
Published by Berkley Medallion, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0425035964 ISBN 13: 9780425035962
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Paperback printing. 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 deals in the corridors of Earth itself, where the stars are traded like coins. ".
Published by Avon, New York, 1958
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Paperback printing. 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 thrive. These young people - led by Rog Foley, a leader by inheritance and instinct - were loyal to their native Mundis, not to memories of an Earth they had never seen, but they were impatient with the stern rules of the elders that regulated their lives. The dissension among the Mundans brought on schism and threatened worse. It seemed likely that the whole nobly conceived experiment might fail.when suddenly, out of the void that separated Mundis from Secundis, there appeared a strange space ship, and the Mundans faced a threat far more deadly than any they had known.".
Published by Signet Books, New York, 1968
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
Mass Market paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (Cover) (illustrator). Fifth Printing. Corners bumped, a little edge wear, a little cover creasing and soiling. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Ex-library with usual markings. Boards somewhat worn, corners chipped. Loose, with covers pulling away from the book. Pages in very good condition. Introduction by Joe Haldeman for this Gregg Press edition. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 128 pages; This is one of Heinlein's classic novels from the 1950s. An out-of-work (and, truthfully, not so great) actor, Lorenzo Smythe, is hired to act as a double for one of the Solar System's leading politicians, Joseph Bonforte, who has been kidnapped and poisoned by his political opponents to sabotage relations with Mars. Heinlein details, in his usual entertaining style, the difficulties inherent in pulling off such a substitution (imagine hiring a double for FDR at Potsdam). When the worst happens and Bonforte dies, Smythe decides to continue in his stead. Heinlein chronicles his ongoing ethical and political growth as he struggles with not only the substitution, but the rigors of an interplanetary election campaign.
Published by Pocket Books, New York, NY, 1953
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). Minor edge wear esp. along spine, slightly shelf-cocked, corners bumped. Foxing, name on ffep marked out, ffep and title page loose. Ellery Queen solves a mystery a month in this collection of twelve short story thrillers stretching from January, "The Inner Circle," to December, "The Dauphin's Doll." These stories originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1946 and 1951.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Berkley Medallion, New York, 1963
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). First Printing. 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 Shield in collaboration with the Martians. From the moment of his return to earth he was in deadly danger. His own country sent men to kill him to prevent the Shield from falling into Chinese hands . . . "Soon the whole civilized world was searching for this one man - a man armed with the greatest potential military weapon mankind had ever seen . . . The only question was which power would possess the Shield as its very own? "; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co, 1978
ISBN 10: 0396075177 ISBN 13: 9780396075172
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Powers, Richard M. (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Very Good/Very Good Condition. Light foxing to the edge of the text block. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscription. First edition, first printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages.
Published by N.Y.: Daw Books, Inc. 1985, 1985
Seller: Gansevoort House Bookfinder, Little Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Fine/Fine. Hardcover.
Published by N.Y.: Daw Books, Inc. 1984, 1984
Seller: Gansevoort House Bookfinder, Little Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Fine/Fine. Hardcover.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1954
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers (illustrator). There is some rubbing and darkening to the covers of the book.
Published by McFadden-Bartell Books, New York, 1964
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
Mass Market paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (Cover) (illustrator). Early Reprint. 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 guided missiles and thermonuclear devices, but they had long since forgotten how to use the weapons necessary for hand-to-hand fighting. "So they were easy prey for a band of knights armed with battleaxes and broadswords. But it was a victory won by surprise, and only temporary. The invaders were thousands of years ahead of Earth in technical knowledge - and knew countless ways of blowing up the whole planet. ".
Published by Free Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0684824272 ISBN 13: 9780684824277
Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated B&W Photographs (illustrator). Pages are clean, tight and bright.
Published by NewYork: Doubleday and Co. 1956, NewYork, 1956
Seller: Offshore Antiques and Books, Harrison Township, MI, U.S.A.
Hard Bound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Richard M. Powers (illustrator). BCE. Hard Bound. Classic. 4t. Doubleday and Co., NY. 1956. Vol II. BCE. Very Good/Good. ill. jacket has tear to spine, edgewear and fading. Book is black cloth hardbound with gilt and blue print. Shows some corner wear and spine wear. Color ill. nice. Rough cut papers. Clean and tight.
Published by Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1980
ISBN 10: 0449900193 ISBN 13: 9780449900192
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard M. (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Spine creased, minor edge wear and rubbing, reading crease. A solid copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 511 pages; "When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, these two dynamic duos take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril. "In Gay Deceiver, their trusty space-time interstellar coupe, Zeb and Deety, Jake and Hilda attempt to search and avoid, evade and destroy the blue-skinned, green-blooded Black Hats who want them vaporized. ".
Published by Hanover House Publishers 1958 verso, NY, 1958
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, RICHARD M. ILUST (illustrator). Book Club Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(BOOK CLUB EDITION) DUST JACKET. clean, solid BRIGHT BOOK WITH DJ SHOWING 1" CHIPS & EDGETEARS. ; GOLD SPINE titles on GREEN & YELLOW hard covers. DJ COVER ART SHOWS CHINESE JUNK,LONDON STREET BRIDGE.Back panel dj shows author photo 2x3" & BIOG. includes original generic promotional flyer from "Family Reading Club" ; Line DRAWINGS; 544ps thick pages.
Published by Doubleday & Co. Pub 1892,1956 verso, NY, 1892
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Powers,richard M. Ilust (illustrator). Book Club Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(book club edition) COMPLETE DUST JACKET has 2 1/8" holes, minor chip along top edge dj. else very nice colorful dj.showing man on large elephant, man & woman in tall grass. ; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON Black Hardcovers.spine has turquoise "I" for this single volume (not the poetry volume) .Inner dj flap shows 2x3" photo of author. ; 531pg total pages; LINE DRAWINGS ILUST. .
Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1965
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers (illustrator). Reprint. Spine slightly darkened.; In slipcase (very slight wear). ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 474 pages.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1956
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Illustrated by Richard Powers (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 531 pages.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1956
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Illustrated by Richard Powers (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; 531 pages.
Published by Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City, NY, 1954
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers (illustrator). Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges. Previous owner's name spine weak; 352 pages.