Nine by Keith Laumer, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First UK edition hardcover signed by Laumer to the title page. Spine ends softened. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped with rub/soil to rear panel, slight edgewear/microtears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition hardcover signed by Laumer to the title page. Light rubbing to board edges, glue darkened at eps. Tight and square. The interior DJ is tape reinforced at edges. Collects nine stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

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.