Mission Interplanetary by Vogt a E, Signed (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Robert Schulz (illustrator). Mission: Interplanetary by A E Van Vogt, Signet 914, 1952, first printing. Cover art by Robert Schulz. SIGNED by the author and his wife, Lydea. Bright, square and tight; light edge wear; small stress crease to lower rear cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Uncredited cover art reportedly by Stanley Meltzoff (illustrator). Signet mass-market paperback 914, states "First Printing, January, 1952" shows uninterrupted gloss to its wraps, though there's a slim vertical crease to front panel 3/16ths-inch in from the spine where cover was lifted for book to be signed "Lydea & A.E. Van Vogt" in blue ink to the title page. "Mission Interplanetary / Space Beagle" is one of those Van Vogt novels "stitched together" out of similarly themed stories published earlier in the pulp magazines. Van Vogt famously sued 20th Century Fox in 1979, contending the screenplay of their Ridley Scott/Dan O'Bannon film "Alien" (Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt) was based on his famous story "Black Destroyer" (first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" in July 1939, the magazine issue which has been described as the dawn of the Golden Age of Science Fiction) -- featuring an intelligent cat-like creature who starts killing off visiting spacemen because he needs the phosphorus (or was it potassium?) from their bodies, and comprising the first six chapters of the volume in hand, and on his subsequent "Discord in Scarlet" (featuring an alien that comes aboard to lay eggs inside members of the crew, forming chapters 13 through 21 of the book in hand.) The evidence of purposeful plagiarism seems slim, but the studio settled with Van Vogt for $50,000 out of court, probably a sensible allocation to clear the decks for an $11 million production that ended up grossing more than $100 million world-wide. 175 pp. Reduced from $52. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Mass market paperback. Signet 914. Stated first printing. Inscribed/Signed by Van Vogt to the title page. Dampstain to top corner, joints rubbed. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Signed by Author.