Captives Moon by Moore Patrick (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Pages tanned. Creasing to spine. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with slight edge fading. Content is clean with even toning. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New Edition. Two science fiction adventure stories in one volume. Page edges tanned otherwise in very good condition with no inscriptions. The dust jacket is price-clipped, otherwise complete but with faint staining to edges of front cover.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Omnibus edition of two juvenile sf novels published separately earlier in 1960 - Moore's CAPTIVE OF THE MOON and MacVicar's PERIL ON THE LOST PLANET. Page edges browning else a fine copy in a VG+ price-clipped dustjacket with wear along the bottom spine edge and bottom corner tips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. First Thus Edition. Combined volume of two titles previously published separately. Sound tight and clean with some rubbing and chafes to fore-edge of rear board, minor shlf rubbing otherwise. Pages tanned,m free of inscr, no dj. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback in d/w; vg-/G; book has blue cloth covers; a couple of stickers on fep; light tanning and occasional mark to pages; d/w - child has written on cover; some chipping to edges; neverthe less nice to see a d/w present; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Good. First edition thus (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 160pp, 144pp. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Text pages tanned; overall, the book is in good condition. The dustwrapper is in good plus condition (some light chafing of the exttremities). This is an omnibus edition. consisting of two works (one by Patrick Moore, one by Angus MacVicar). The two works were both originally published in 1960; this edition was published in 1964.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., London in 1960. 8vo., black boards lettered in blue to spine; originally unclipped publisher's wrapper designed by 'Cullen' (8s 6d net); The BOOK is in near-Fine condition ; light bumping to the spine ends and mild offsetting to endpapers; internally clean ; The WRAPPER is in Very Good++ or better condition with minor shelf wear and marking; rubbed along spine and flap folds with tiny losses at the spine tips. No toning to the spine. A clean, bright copy in the unrestored wrapper. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Continuing on from Moore's previous novel, Wheel in Space, Captives of the Moon was written at the height of the Cold War - a fact which is evident in its subject matter in which a nuclear explosion close to the American lunar base is blamed on the Russians. Setting out on a rescue mission, the two protagonists arrive on the moon to discover that it was the Americans, and their nuclear testing, which caused the bomb to explode - and the Russians are quick to reciprocate. Patrick Moore was particularly revered for his expertise in Moon observation. Indeed, his first work on the subject Guide to the Moon (later retitled Patrick Moore on the Moon), was written in 1952, and his first work of Fiction, The Master of the Moon, appeared shortly after. The Moon remained his specialist subject throughout his life. A very elusive title more-so with the striking wrapper. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.