THE BEST OF HAL CLEMENT

by Hal [Harry] Clement [Stubbs]. Edited with an introduction by Lester Del Rey. New York: Del Rey, Ballantine Books, (1979). First edition, first printing, paperback original. "First edition June 1979" statement to the copyright page. A collection of two novellas, three short stories, an afterword, and five novelettes, including two Laird Cunninghams, all by Clement, with themes and styles of hard-science, problem solving, logic, rationalizing, biology, interstellar travel, exploration, action-adventure, and more. A well-preserved mass-market paperback original. Tight, square and probably unread, short rub-line to the upper front spine fold, minuscule rub to the spine edge corner tips, else near fine with still bright burgundy titles to an UN-faded blue spine, in glossy stiff-card wraps with wonderful retro alien helping human boy art scene by H. R. Van Dongen; printed code 27689 and $1.95 price still intact to the front cover.