A.E. van Vogt Weapon Shops Time Operas Two Paperback Book Lot, including: The Weapon Shops of Isher DOS Gateway to Elsewhere, and; The Weapon Makers

Two Weapon Shops paperbacks: Isher/Gateway (1954 Ace D-53) first U.S. paperback edition/printing for Isher DOS first edition/printing paperback original (PBO) for Gateway, and; Weapon Makers (1966 Ace M-153) first separate U.S. paperback edition/printing. Both books have new cover art for these editions and both are in Very Good Plus condition. ". it was in the two Weapon Shops Time Operas – The Weapon Shops of Isher (fixup 1951) and The Weapon Makers (February-April 1943 Astounding; 1946) [for vts and further details see Checklist below] – that van Vogt's mixture of hard-sf dreams, enormities of complication, and transcendent superheroes was most hypnotically presented. " [JC] Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Ed. Internet.