Key out of Time

224 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial rocket ship to cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. Key Out of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, set on the world, Hawaika, that appears to be a tropical paradise. It is the fourth in Norton's series starts in The Time Traders, part of her Forerunner universe, and continues the series' premise: A hostile encounter between Western heroes, and the Russian Communists, and the Baldies – a mysterious alien race that used time travel to alter Earth. In the previous novel, The Defiant Agents, events are treated as a Time Agent failure – but re-read that novel for a different interpretation. Condition: Signed on title. Jacket with light rubbing to extremities especially spine ends else near fine in like jacket.