Rip Foster Rides The Grey Planet
Published by Publicity Products Limited, 1952
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Print Matters, London, United KingdomPrint Matters
AbeBooks seller since December 3, 2000
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 27.49
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Hard Cover. Publicity Products Limited 1952. 1st Edition. Book condition: VG - Very Good. Black & White illustrations. Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet is a young adult science fiction novel written by Harold L. Goodwin under the pseudonym Blake Savage. The novel was originally published by Whitman in hardcover in 1952 and reprinted in the United Kingdom later in the same year as "Rip Foster Rides the Grey Planet". Freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer (the space-going equivalent of a Marine) Lt. Richard Ingalls Peter ("Rip") Foster, already contending with inter-service rivalry with the Space Force (equivalent to Navy) crewmen with whom he serves, is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it to Earth for use as fissionable material. In this he is opposed by agents of the "Consolidation of Peoples Governments", who also seek control and use of the asteroid. 183 pages. Size: 5" x 7" (130mm x 190mm). (1.2).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Rip Foster Rides The Grey Planet
- Author
- Blake Savage illustrated by E. Deane Cate
- Publisher
- Publicity Products Limited
- Publication year
- 1952
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Illustrator
- E. Deane Cate
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Print Matters
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