Galactic Diplomat, Signed (1 results)

1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The printed dedication reads: To Frederik Pohl intrepid explorer of alien worlds. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, "to Fred Pohl, without whose generosity these epics would never have been recorded, Keith Laumer, San Antonio, May 6, 1965" Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was a prolific author of several interplanteray science fiction series, chief among them the "the adventures of interstellar diplomatic troubleshooter Jaime Retief on a variety of Alien worlds [] Retief's unchanging role is to mediate between the residents of Alien worlds, some of them nefarious, and his bumbling superiors in the Terran Diplomatic Corps, and to solve various sticky problems, almost all couched in comic terms, sometimes amusingly" (SFE). The stories in Galactic Diplomat, some of Laumer' finest, were published in IF under the editorship of Frederik Pohl. An outstanding association. Brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket by Ellen Baskin. Faint internal stain to spine panelm otherwise a fresh copy in superior condition.