Iceworld by Hal Clement, First Edition (30 results)

Paperback. first edition. 75128 very good, creases Cover art by Jim Steranko. paperback,

Paperback. first edition. 75128 very good -fine, spine crease Cover art by Jim Steranko. paperback,

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Jim Steranko (cover) (illustrator). Signed by the author. First paperback edition. Slight tanning inside covers. ku. Signed.

Paperback. first thus. unread paperback, near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Good copy in green cloth with spots along spine, loosely inserted cut up parts of the DJ in perfect condition, art by Binkley, 1st edn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows moderate wear and tear, chipping and creasing. Name and address of former owner on the top corner of the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor to Fair (in mylar). Ric Binkley Jacket Design (illustrator). First Edition. Former owner's ink signature and date along upper edge of ffep, age toned end pages; Textblock is clean and tight. Mint green cloth binding, rubbed/bumped head and foot of spine and to the corners. Boards worn along the bottom edge; Unclipped, shabby and worn dust jacket, moderate to heavy chips to corners of spine and the edges, age soiled and tape stained; Several closed tears along the underside of the front flap have been repaired using archival pva adhesive and Japanese mulberry mending tissue; 216p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardback. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. tape ghosts on front free endpaper and rear endpaper and wear at the spine tips of the dw. Pages toned. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Jim Steranko (illustrator). 1st Edition. A beautiful collectible signed by Clement first paperback edition/printing (1970 Lancer 75128). Very Fine, unread condition! Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. (1953), 216pp, jacket illus. by Ric Binkley, bkplt, corners bumped, some foxing to cover & pg edges, foxing & slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing in about very good condition. Some foxing and some staining to the jacket which has the original price of $2.50 on the flap. Moderate wear to the jacket at the corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition hardcover. Slight bumping to points and top edge. Textblock a bit toned. The DJ is slightly worn to spine ends, slightly toned to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Hubert Rogers, Miller, Paul Orban, H.R. Van Dongen & Chesley Bonestell (front covers) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------12 pulp magazines, digest size, all 12 issues for 1951. The only complete serial this year was the famous Iceworld by Clement (all 3 parts). Other important stories were Berom by John Berryman, .and Then There Were None by Russell, Dune Roller by May (her FIRST story), The Weapon by Fredric Brown. There was also a Dianetics (Scientology) article, Dianometry, by Hubbard. January is fine unread. February has tiny chips to spine extremities and is VG+ to near fine. March has a little spine wear and is VG+ to near fine. April is fine unread. May has faint cover creases, wear to spine bottom, and is VG to VG+. June has cover creases and is VG. July has wear to spine extremities and is VG+ to near fine. August has cover creases and is VG. September has cover creases, small split to spine bottom, pen on back cover, and is VG to VG+. October has a bump to spine bottom, and is near fine. November has cover creases, chips and small splits to spine extremities, and is good. December has cover creases, small split to spine bottom, and is VG.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, original green cloth over boards, brown stamped lettering on spine. From American science-fiction writer Harry Clement Stubbs, pen name Hal Clement, inscribed by author on the title page.

Gnome Press. 1953. First edition. Hardback in gorgeous DW by Ric Binkley. Pages lightly browned, head and tail of spine sunned and slightly frayed otherwise a clean and sound copy that is creased, chipped and worn along edges and lacks small portions along top edge and tail of spine.

First Edition. ICEWORLD, Gnome Press, 1953, first edition, irregular shaped stain along part of upper margin of rear cover extending down about 5mm maximum (mostly much, much less), another such stain along bottom of front covers and base of spine measuring 5mm to 15mm, else near fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some light rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Signed by the author using both his real name and nom-de-plume. Along with ICEWORLD in Astounding for October thru December, 1951, Street & Smith, 3 volumes, about very good in wraps. The true first edition of this novel.

Ric Bincley (illustrator). New York: Gnome Press:, 1953. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 216 pp. Cover artwork by: Ric Bincley A clean, straight and tight copy with lightly dusted head and with very modest toning to extremities in a complete bright and tidy jacket with small (one-half inch) closed tear at upper fold of spine panel. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Cover and unclipped dust jacket edgeworn.

First edition. Octavo, jacket art by Ric Binkley, boards. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-259]. Upper corners bruised, light offsetting to end papers, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at upper corner tips and head of spine panel. (28035).

8vo. [6], 216 pp. Blue-green tweed boards, burgundy-coloured lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Ric Binkley (slight rippling, creasing) still NF/NF copy. First edition of the author's second science fiction adventure mystery, featuring the alien schoolteacher attempting to staunch an interstellar drug trade spreading from savages on "Iceworld," better-known as Earth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition in book form, originally published as a three-part serial in 'Astounding Science'. Original pale green cloth boards, edges slightly rubbed in places, a few mild spots to the spine, some patches of staining to the fore-edge. With the fully intact dust-jacket, unclipped, depicting a spaceman in full space suit standing in front of his craft with two boys who appear to have come across him while out hiking. Jacket rubbed at fold joints and spine ends. Scarce, especially in the dust-jacket, here found in remarkably good condition. Jacket designed by Ric Binkley (1921-68), an American artist about whom little is known other than he began painting covers for books for Fantasy Press and Gnome Press in 1950, working steadily for several years for those publishers and for Avalon Books, and then became inactive. He was both born and died in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Harry Clement Stubbs (1922 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction sub-genre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard. In 1998 Clement was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and named the 17th SFWA Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (presented in 1999). Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this science fiction novel from Hal Clement, told primarily from an alien perspective. With the charming original dust wrapper. First edition.The novel was originally serialised in the magazine Astoundingin 1951.With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.Iceworld serves as a rare example in science fiction of story telling through the alien's point of view, here in the form of an interplanetary narcotics agent forced to work on (what he deems) an incredibly cold world. The planet is in factEarth, and he teams up with natives of the alien planet,humans, in his attempt to stop the smuggling of a dangerous drug (tobacco) toSirius.From Hal Clement, an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with dark spots to the boards and slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is chipped to the head and tail of the spine. Spotting to the wrap. Edge wear resulting in a few small open and closed tears to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the endpapers. Rubbed reference check-out card tipped-in to the rear free endpaper. Reference ink impressions to the pastedowns and free endpapers. Very Good. book.

Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-259. Early owner's signature dated 2 September 1953 on front free endpaper and his bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A fine copy in bright, very good or better dust jacket with small chip from lower spine end. An attractive copy. (#148612).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Iceworld" by Hal Clement 1953 - First Edition Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" 216 Pages The jacket is in good condition with mild edge wear and some tape residue on the inside flaps. The jacket is protected with a removable Mylar cover. The book is in good to good minus condition, free from rips, tears, bends, and writing. There are a few small stains and the previous owner's name is stamped on the front free end page. The boards are in good minus condition with tape residue on the front and back and mild edge wear. The binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very collectible copy of a Clement classic. Book is very good with wear to spine ends and corners (photo) and very light residue from previous owner's stamps on front end paper and inside rear cover. Book is signed "Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)" on the title page (photo). The facsimile copy dust jacket has a bright front cover with evidence of wear at spine ends from the original jacket and some darkening to rear cover (photo). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Mild slant to spine. A near fine copy in near fine dustjacket with light wear to the edges. Cover illustration by Ric Binkley. A nice copy. ; Octavo; 216 pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Signed by the author on title page with author's real name (Harry Stubbs). Stated first edition. Jacket shows edgewear with some short closed tears to bottom front edge, closed tear with creasing to top edge of front cover. Creasing to head and tail of spine and chip missing at top edge of back cover near spine. White background of back cover is soiled/rubbed. Jacket is not price-clipped and is mylar-protected. Green buckram boards showing some foxing/soiling, corner a bit bumped, some shelfwear to edges. Interior age-toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition hardcover inscribed by Clement to the title page. Mild spotting to the spine and gutters. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar has slight edgewear/rubbing, a tiny tear near spine head, and some spotting to spine verso. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

first edition. 1953, signed, very good darker spined book , in a near fine jacket, some repair at the top of the spine.

first edition. 1953, signed, very good -fine book in a near fine jacket, small rear chip.