The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown. This item is unavailable.
Published by Ace Books, New York, 1956
- First Edition
- Used



Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 38.50
Item description from seller
First Printing, a paperback original novel, bound dos-a-dos with Margaret St. Clair's Agent of the Unknown. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; dark yellow edge-staining; 192; 128pp. Light wear to extremities, tanning to text edges, with a faint vertical crease to left edge of front wrapper on both sides; Very Good+. Dick's third book and second published novel. "Fed-gov is reconstructing the post-war world according to the precepts of relativism. Jones, a former carnival fortune-teller and preacher who can see a year into the future, says the alien drifters, origin unknown, are the greatest threat the world faces, a problem the Fed-gov refuses to deal with. Jones forms a fanatical organization to deal with the drifters and the Fed-gov" (Levack 48a).
Seller Inventory # 55902
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown
- Author
- DICK, Philip K. and Margaret St. Clair
- Publisher
- Ace Books, New York
- Publication year
- 1956
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction, Modern Fiction